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often ignored topic
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what the Bible says
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Cool. And so that's a
big one, isn't it John?
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Lot of people is
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Lot of people asking
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are not talking about
it. So we're going to talk
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about that today on
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to be with us, John.
Let's do that, Dear Father
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in Heaven Lord we
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in Jesus name. Amen.
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John what question do
you have for us today.
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I got a question
from Kevin. Okay.
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And he is asking about
High Places in the Bible.
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Alright. The use to the
term, talks about watching
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the show each day
and each time it comes on
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and thank you for
that. He says before I left
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and he mentions his
former Church, I would open
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my Bible and
follow your discussions.
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I was baptized this
year and continue to grow
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on the Lord. Amen.
Praise the God, Kevin.
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I have question regarding
Paul's use of High Places
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leading up to his
defining the whole Armor of God
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in the Ephesians 6.
Okay. The question that I have
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is whether the spiritual
wickedness in High Places
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deals with places of
worship or is it refereeing
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to the Heavenly
realms. Okay. Okay
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and then he said, Fair
topic. Reading about the
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high place in the
realm Judah and some of their
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kings what the kings
built. And had uttered down
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and so people are telling
me though that High Places
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to be first to
battles in Heavenly Realms.
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But I think there is a
connection into the issue
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of worship and
places of worship, so anyway
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this is his question.
Alright. And should we read that
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question first or the
text first. Yeah, actually text
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first! Ephesians
chapter 6, Ephesians chapter 6,
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alright now I am
trying to find out here.
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Okay verse 11
lets talk with that.
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Okay Ephesians 6 verse
11. Put on the whole armor
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of God that you may
be able to stand against
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the wiles of the
devil, for we do not wrestle
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against flesh and blood,
but against principalities,
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against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness
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of this age,
against spiritual hosts of
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wickedness in the heavenly
places. Therefore take up
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the whole armor of God
that you may be able to
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withstand in the evil
day, and having done all,
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to stand. And I am
looking here I haven't look
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this in advance but I
am looking here to see if
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there is some mention
of High Places even before
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that I am not seeing it.
Well, Just a real quick view
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as for as in
Ephesians 6 but there is a huge
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there's lots of
things about high place
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in the Bible. Okay
should I register in the Bible?
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Well yeah go ahead.
Well if you look at that term
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in the New Testament
in the King James Version
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you find the word
of Phrase High Places,
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here it says Heavenly
places. Now they could be
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some toss up has to
whether are not that
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means in Heaven
because we did talk about
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the fact that. The fall
of Lucifer was a connotation
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of spiritual wickedness
that was at one point in
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High Places but he
was cast to the earth.
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But on the bigger
picture you find in the
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Old Testament the word
High Places or the phrase
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High Places often
refers to the way that the each
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realizes
establish their worship.
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They establish there places
of worship in the mountains
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and that altars
on the mountains.
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One of the places you
find High Places talked
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about quite a bit is
when it comes to Jezebel
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and Ahab where Jezebel
led Ahab to establish altars
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in the High Places he
put bails altars right next
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to God altars in the
mountains. And you also
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find many of the Kings
of Israel they came in after
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wicked king he tore
down the High Places.
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So it has a lot more
to me to do with spiritual
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wickedness in places
of worship where today
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Paul is saying
that wickedness has even
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taken on an address it
can be found in many places
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of worship because
that's the greatest connotation
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you have in the old
testament as matter of
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fact the numbers 22
verse 41, you find a reference
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there in the story,
a Balaam so it was the
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next day that Balak took
Balaam and brought him up
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to the High Places of
Baal that from there he might
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observed the extent of
the people you know Balak
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try to seduce Balaam
to curse those children
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of Israel, but he wouldn't
do it. But he for from the
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High Places he was able
to observe and as a matter
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of fact even when the
Lord sent Moses up to get
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The 10 Commandments he
was in one of the High Places
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because unlike the
depiction from there you
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can see into the
valley where the people had
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gathered waiting
for Moses to come down.
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So it has more to do with
places of spiritual worship
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that have become
corrupted as far as
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spiritual wickedness in
High Places and although
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the old testaments you
find reference after reference
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here is the one in
numbers 33 verse 52
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then you shall drive out
all the inhabitants of the land
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from before you, destroy
all their in grave stones,
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destroy all their
molded images and demolish all
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their High Places. So
you find over and over gain.
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Deuteronomy in other
one, Deuteronomy 33:29
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Happy are you O
Israel who is like you,
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a people saved by
the Lord, the shield
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of your help. And the
sword of your majesty,
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your enemies shall
submit to you, and you shall
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tread down their High
Places. So you see the
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connotation
continually connected over
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and over again and even
Samuel prayed the prayer
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make my feet like the
feet of a dear and set me on
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my High Places,
although is a connotation to do
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with worship. Yeah and I
was noticing here in Micah
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it talks about what the
Lord will do in the last days
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and that tells us it
confirms right there that
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there will be
High Places even today.
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Let me read that here
from Micah chapter 1, alright,
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and let's pick it up
in verse, oh, let's see
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Verse 2, okay,
and although this is a
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Judgment on
scenario Samaria there is an
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in-time application,
hear all you people listen
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O earth and all that is
in it. So this is a prophecy
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to not just the
people but the whole earth.
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Micah chapter what?
Micah chapter 1! Okay.
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Reading verse 2. Let
the Lord be a witness
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against you, the
Lord from His holy temple.
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For behold, the Lord is
coming out of His place;
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He will come down and
tread on the High Places
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of the earth. The
mountains will melt
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under Him, and the
valleys will split like wax
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before the fire,
like waters poured down a
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steep place. All this
is for the transgression
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of Jacob and for the
sins of the house of Israel.
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What is the
transgression of Jacob?
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Is it not
Samaria? And what is the
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high place of Judah?
Are they not Jerusalem?
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And then he goes on to
talk about some specific
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prophecies with regard
to Samaria and Jerusalem
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but notice here the
end time application to all
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the earth when it will
melts the God will come
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down out of his
temple and he will trample
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he will destroy the
High Places of the earth.
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So you know it's very
easy then to connect the
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High Places as
described in Ephesians chapter 6
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with what the Lord
is going to do with the
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end of time, He
trample down those High Places.
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obviously this
trampling them down there
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is still exist. Right
and that's has being the
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battle throughout the old
testament many High Places
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there is a reference also
with Solomon in first king
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3 verse 2 and Solomon
love the Lord Bible says
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first king 3 verse 2
and Solomon love the Lord
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walking into the statues
of his father David except
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that he is sacrifice
and burned in sense at the
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High Places and you see
that clearly it also says
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He made shrines on the
High Places and made priest
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from every class of
people who are not of the sons
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of Levi so when the
Bible talks about spiritual
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wickedness in high place
you get the entire picture
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fully developed when we
look at the old testaments
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but may have so in
the last days so now lets
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asked the question is
this spiritual wickedness today
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in High Places? Well of
course those High Places
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can be best couple
together or clumped
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together or grouped
together as Babylon.
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Absolutely! You see
when you look at the
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old testament you
see the Babylon was the
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greatest city of
antiquity and now in the
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new testament you find
that the greatest symbol
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of spiritual wickedness
in High Places is Babylon
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and, Oh, even our
topic today talking about the
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mark of the beast
the image and then the
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marked to those who
worship the image is talking
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about a high place setup
within Christendom Babylon
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so we will be
talking about the High Places
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here coming up in
our topic today. Oh yeah.
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So just you keep that in
mind and as we set it out
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of that they are all out
of High Places that the Lord
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will deal with and but
in all of those High Places
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as we've have seen in
old testament the children
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of Israel were the ones
that God wanted to rescue,
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so God's people will be
once out to call out those
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false places of worship.
Here is another question
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by General by the name
of Alvin, I don't give his
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last name because
somebody may know him,
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but he says why
do, Adventist commonly
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interpret first five out
of 7 last plays as literal,
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but then change
and interpret this 6 1
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as symbolic. Lets go
and see that. Let's go
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to Revelation chapter
16 and John I was studying
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this and I found out
there is some amazing paroles
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and Revelation. There
are some amazing parallels
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in the book of Revelation,
Revelation chapter 16
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so why I am in Micah I
was struck there from the
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last reference.
Thank you let me their John
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you led me down the path
Micah. Okay Revelation 16
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let us look at the
6th play over the 6th ball
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Revelation 16 verse 12
the Bible says when the sixth
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Angel poured out his
bowl on the great river
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Euphrates, and its water
was dried up, so that the
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way of kings from
the east might prepared.
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Right away you begin
to see symbolic language
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because this is a
through back to the great river
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Euphrates in the Book
of Daniel and there is a
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another place in the
book of Revelation where the
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great river Euphrates
is talked about here is
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the reason why it's
often to refer to a symbolic.
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Yeah, read verse 13 for us John.
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And I saw three unclean
spirits like frogs coming
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out of the mouth of
dragon, out of the mouth
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of the beast and out
of mouth of false Prophet.
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Okay so you see there
three unclean spirits like
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frogs so when John
uses a word like an essence
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he is saying well when
it appeared to him that's
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what he saw that's
what the Lord showed him
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in vision. But the
things that he has referring
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to the unclean spirits
the dragon the false Prophet
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these have spiritual
symbolic connotation also
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and they goes on the
verse 14 for they of the
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spirits of Demons
performing science which
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go out to the kings of
the earth and of the whole
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world together them to
the battle of great day
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of God almighty,
clearly here John is referring
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back to the great
river Euphrates the way
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Babylon fell in the
old testament you know
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the story very well
they were having a party
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in Babylon and
the strength Babylon
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was defect that
they had the moth that
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surrounded the city
of Babylon it was filled
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with water and
while they were partying
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there is the Bible
describes with 10,000
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of his Lords and all
these guests, the city was
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being set up for it's
fall a force destruction
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as the water that
was coming from the great
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river Euphrates was
literally dried up the
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opposing army filled
the mouth the entrance
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of mouth with stones
with rocks and it allow
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the water instead of
going to the mouth that
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surrounded Babylon.
Diverted it! It diverted it
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and so in essence
that great river Euphrates
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as it pretense to
Babylon was dried up
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and the army that I
talked about in the book of
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Daniel these were
representing kings
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of east it made away
for them they came right
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under the walls of
Babylon and Babylon down,
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right, so you see
clearly it saying the water
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there that represents
the strength of Babylon
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are the people. The
system of Babylon today
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the spiritual
system of Babylon that so
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supported by denominations
and people and multitude
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and tongues that are
all apart of false system of
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worship and so Babylon
is going to fall when that
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great river is all
dried up. As matter of fact,
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He goes me to Revelation
chapter 18 you will see
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what happens when
that river dries up,
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notice what happens.
Let's go to Revelation 18
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and we are going to
see that the support of the
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city of Babylon, let's
look at the Revelation 18
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verse 9 and by the way
you will notice a phrasing
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in the Revelation 16 the
spirits go out to the kings
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of earth, you will
not notice what happens in
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Revelation 18 verse
9. Look it read verse 8
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because they are
talks about plagues there.
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Okay. Is this
therefore speaking of Babylon
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her plagues will
come in one day death
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and mourning in famine
and she will be utterly
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burned with fire for
strong as the Lord God
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who judges her? And
the notice the connotation
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again the Kings of the
earth talked about here
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and the kings of earth
who committed fornication
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and lived luxurisiouly
with her we'll weep and lament
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for her when they see
the smoke of her burning.
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Standing at a distance
for fear of her torment
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saying a last, last
that great city Babylon that
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mighty city for in one
hour your judgment has come
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and notice I am going
to back again it's says
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she went out to the
kings of earth enough the whole
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world togathered
to them to the battle
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of the greatly of God
almighty Revelation 16:14
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but if you back
now and you go back to
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Revelation 18 and verse
11 he says and the merchants
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of the earth will weep
and mourned over her for
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no one buys there
merchandized any more.
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Merchandized of gold
and silver precious stone
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and pearls, fine linen,
and purple, silk, and scarlet
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every kind of citron
wood every kind of object
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Ivory every kind of
object of most precious wood,
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bronze, iron, and
marble and when you look at
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this if we would couple
this all together you will
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say that the
Babylon was the reason for
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economic strength.
But now that her system
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is completely exposed
people are not buying her
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merchandized any
more and the greatest
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merchandized she sold
was the false goods about
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the Gospel. But all the
things that kept the kings
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of earth happy was
all of her commerce,
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all of her economic
strength was what kept
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the kings of earth leaders
of nations supporting her
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but now they are see
of who she is and that
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only even want her
stuff any more no one buys
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her merchandized any
more, no one was going
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to buy a lie about the
Gospel, no one is going
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to buy her false
teachings that they don't to buy
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it anymore. That it
is necessary product.
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No It's spiritually in
the form of what she teaches
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and what she yeah.
And you look at the whole
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thing one hour is
mentioned quite a bit
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through out the fall of
Babylon and then let's go
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down to the last
part of it in verse
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Let's talk about
the spiritual part of it
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verse 20 down to
verse 24, you wanna to read
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that for us John
are you closed to that.
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What is it again? Revelation
18 verse 20 down to 24
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it talks about the spiritual
specifically the spiritual
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side of her.
Rejoice over her, O Heaven,
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and you holy
Apostles and prophets; for God
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has avenged you on
her. Then a mighty angel
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took up a stone
like a great melt stone
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and threw it into sea
saint. Thus with violence
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the great city
Babylon shall be thrown down
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and shall not be found any more.
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The sound of
Harpists, musicians, flutists,
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and trumpeters shall
not heard in here anymore
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and you anymore. No
craftsman of any craft
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shall be found in you
anymore, and the sound
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of a millstone shall
not be heard in you anymore.
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The light of a lamp
shall not shine in you anymore,
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and the voice of
bridegroom and bride
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shall not be
heard in you anymore.
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For your merchants
where the great men of
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the earth, for by your
sorcery all the nations
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were deceived. And in
her was found the blood
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of prophets and saints,
and of all who were slain
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on the earth. That's
way you see Babylon when you
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talked about there so
when you talked about the
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great river Euphrates
being dried up that's an essence
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and detailed what's
happening all of the
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support that Babylon
looked to was now being
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dried up so it's
not literally water but
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it was the people
that multitude the kings
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the nations that were
apart of our a support
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system that's the
reason why is often interpreted
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well that's the reason
why it is always interpreted
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as something that's
symbolic when it comes
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to the great river
Euphrates the great city
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the great river Euphrates
the great fall that great
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harlot and so great
is her fall because great
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is her boast. But what
I was talked about John
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is this some
amazing comparison between
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seven last plagues
and the seven trumpets.
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It's amazing you find let
me just go down to the list
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very quickly the plagues
that falls upon the earth
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also the first
trumpets upon the earth,
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the second trumpet upon
the sea the second plague
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upon the sea. The
third trumpets Affects Rivers
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and fountains the
third plagues Affects Rivers
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and fountains. The
fourth trumpets affect the sun
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fourth plague from to
sun. The fifth trumpets about
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darkness the fifth
plague about darkness to sixth
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trumpets about the
great river Euphrates
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the sixth plague
about great river Euphrates.
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And the seventh
trumpet the mystery of
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God has finished and the
seventh plague it is done.
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But the
differences between these two
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although the
similarities are so amazing the
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difference is the
trumpets always talk about
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1/3, 1/3, 1/3, and the
seven last plagues talks
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about complete wrath
of God on mist with mercy.
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The full measure of
God's wrath is not there
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in the trumpets.
Exactly! Yeah. So but that's the
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good question thank
you so much, do you have
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one more for us. Yes I
do a question from Nora's,
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he says weren't
there many times were
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Allen White was out of
the body and present with
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God because that was
it mentions in the Bible,
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about the
experience of the someone,
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who had a vision. Alright!
So let's go to scripture
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and we will come back to
the specific question here
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but let's go to scripture
first and look at first
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Corinthians 12 my writer
is a second Corinthians 12
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and may be I have
got to think here.
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It is second Corinthians
12. Okay let's go there.
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Sometimes I generally know
but not correct every time.
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Alright, here we
go verse 1 of second
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Corinthians 12. It is
doubtless not profitable
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for me to boast. I will
come to visions and revelations
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of the Lord. Now here
one thing that the prophets
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never did, they never
boasted themselves about
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the revolutions or
visions giving to them from God
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you will find very
humble servants of God
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who were given the
message and proclaim that
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message to the people
there was no boasting about
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the law policy firming
that theory saying when
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I received Visions
or Revelations from God
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I am not kind of
boast about that. Okay.
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It's not for me to
boast about myself. Verse 2,
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I know a man in Christ
who fourteen years ago.
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Whether in the body I
do not know, whether out
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of the body I do
not know God knows.
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Such a one was caught
up to the third heaven
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and I know such a man
whether in the body or out
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of the body I
don't know God knows.
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He was caught up in
to paradise and heard
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inexpressible words which
it is not lawful for a man
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to utter so Paul in
fact in verse 5 as such when
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I will boast so Paul is
going to elevate or lift
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this person not as being
a valid receiving a valid
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vision of Revelation
from God and it does by
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describing his experience
and clearly this experience
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encompass being caught
up to the Heavenly realms
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where God could show
or revealed something
00:23:04.94\00:23:07.24
to him that was
very, very special that was
00:23:07.27\00:23:10.77
something beyond what
he could see in this world.
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Right. So in that
respect you could say he had
00:23:13.03\00:23:16.74
a out of body of experience
but this the only context
00:23:16.77\00:23:20.42
within the Bible where
it and out of body spirit
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experience is described
there is no out of body
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experience described
as pertaining to death
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for instance, which some
people say while when die
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your soul or spirit
departs you leave and you go
00:23:33.05\00:23:36.57
to heaven to be to appear
before the presence of God.
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Death is never describe
as beginning out of body
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experiences
however visions here are,
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and this man was
caught up to third heaven
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and so we find that
a Prophet or messenger
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from the Lord someone
given a specific vision
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or Revelations they will
be by God's power caught up
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to receive or to see
those things as Revelations
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from God for specific
purpose. And though I am
00:24:01.42\00:24:05.05
glad you mention that
out of body experience,
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that's a good way to
be able identify with it.
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Yet they are in the body
but what most specifically
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instead of being
out of the body they are
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in the spirit.
In a Revelations 4
00:24:14.40\00:24:17.51
a wonderful example of
that when John was given
00:24:17.54\00:24:20.13
the vision in many
people often refer to this
00:24:20.16\00:24:22.43
passage in the wrong
way but what in fact it is,
00:24:22.46\00:24:25.48
is John being shown in
a vision and notice the
00:24:25.51\00:24:28.45
language. Revelations
4 I am reading from the
00:24:28.48\00:24:31.23
New King James version,
it says, After these things
00:24:31.26\00:24:33.40
I looked and
behold, a door standing open
00:24:33.43\00:24:36.73
in heaven, how he going
to see that how is it going
00:24:36.76\00:24:39.68
to see door
standing open in Heaven,
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lets go on, and the
first voice which I had heard
00:24:41.90\00:24:44.99
was like the
trumpet speaking with me,
00:24:45.02\00:24:46.83
saying, come up here,
and I will show you things
00:24:46.86\00:24:51.11
which must take place
after this. In verse 2
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immediately I was in
the Spirit: and, behold,
00:24:54.58\00:24:58.13
a throne was set
in heaven, and one sat
00:24:58.16\00:25:01.11
on the throne. And so
when we talked about being
00:25:01.53\00:25:04.27
caught up as promised
be sin absent from the body
00:25:04.30\00:25:09.85
present with the Lord
he was in vision absent
00:25:10.50\00:25:14.52
from the body he was in
vision present with Lord
00:25:14.55\00:25:17.66
but he was in body
physically on the earth.
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And the same thing
with John and you find
00:25:20.27\00:25:22.55
that reference often
refer to in the old testament
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they were in the spirit
the Lord show them things
00:25:25.69\00:25:29.37
that were not present
on the earth and that's
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in fact so when you
talk about out of body
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experiences that's a
term that's has a connotation
00:25:34.88\00:25:38.31
that's not necessarily
supported by scripture
00:25:38.34\00:25:40.37
but if you wanna give
it any kind of supported
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all from Bible you simply
say they were in their minds
00:25:43.11\00:25:47.59
God had a taken up hold
to their mind to show them
00:25:47.62\00:25:51.00
things that are not visible
in the human reality Paul,
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John, Eliza, Daniel
altar of the Bible you began
00:25:57.01\00:26:01.97
to see that these
individuals were caught up
00:26:02.00\00:26:04.30
in vision, caught up to
the throne of God and when
00:26:04.78\00:26:08.35
the vision is done as
in the story of Daniel
00:26:08.38\00:26:10.89
he the Bible says he
was sick and in felt faint
00:26:11.24\00:26:14.04
and that's were he
really was in he was in earth
00:26:14.68\00:26:16.77
after that vision he was
exhausted because he didn't
00:26:16.80\00:26:19.95
really know how long
he had been in vision
00:26:19.98\00:26:22.48
and but it was not an
out of body experience
00:26:22.98\00:26:26.05
as much as it was in
the spirit experience.
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It was out of
body because his mind
00:26:29.17\00:26:30.98
was with the
Lord. In that sense!
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No one ever saw or
experienced a prophet who
00:26:33.33\00:26:35.97
actually deported with
his being from the earth.
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Right! So this is a in
mind it will brought up to
00:26:39.21\00:26:43.40
paradise of God to
experience or receive
00:26:43.43\00:26:45.76
those things those
Revelations given by God
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himself now I want
to connect something.
00:26:47.81\00:26:50.55
Okay. Because we need
to connect this two second
00:26:50.58\00:26:53.80
Corinthians 5, same
letter but this phrase is used
00:26:53.83\00:26:58.18
in second Corinthians
5. Okay let's go through.
00:26:58.21\00:27:01.42
Verses 6 and 8, it says
here in verse 6, so we are
00:27:01.45\00:27:10.05
always confident knowing
that while we are at home
00:27:10.08\00:27:13.04
in the body we are
absent from the Lord for we walk
00:27:13.07\00:27:16.25
by faith not by
sight, a key passage here to
00:27:16.28\00:27:19.40
understanding this. We are
confident, yes, well pleased
00:27:19.43\00:27:22.71
rather to be absent from
the body and to be present
00:27:22.74\00:27:25.20
with the Lord.
Similar terms here being used
00:27:25.23\00:27:28.02
and here is why say
that because what Paul
00:27:28.05\00:27:31.66
was saying here was that
he had received and had being
00:27:31.69\00:27:36.89
given visions and
Revelations from God.
00:27:36.92\00:27:38.60
And he had experience
first hand from God the things
00:27:38.91\00:27:42.31
of Heaven and he
would much rather has
00:27:42.34\00:27:45.16
stayed there. He would
much rather had being in present
00:27:45.19\00:27:48.43
with the Lord and just
remained but he knew that
00:27:48.46\00:27:52.21
he is make out
vision he was back on earth
00:27:52.24\00:27:53.93
he was going to be absent
in mind from being actively
00:27:53.96\00:27:57.81
present with God, God
giving him Revelation communing
00:27:57.84\00:28:01.25
with him directly. Okay.
And so what is doing here
00:28:01.28\00:28:03.91
in this passage is
he is pointing out that
00:28:03.94\00:28:07.11
it some day in future
at point in the future
00:28:07.14\00:28:09.39
we will be with God and
we will always be with God
00:28:09.42\00:28:13.06
from that point on. But
for now we are not from now
00:28:13.09\00:28:17.02
we cannot be
there not even in death.
00:28:17.05\00:28:18.76
Death is not issue
here. That's right exactly.
00:28:18.79\00:28:21.86
The issue is at some
point we will go with our
00:28:21.89\00:28:24.48
immortal bodies to the
presence of God and live
00:28:24.89\00:28:28.30
then exist with him forever
to have a full Revelation
00:28:28.33\00:28:31.85
of his kingdom and his
will and so when it says
00:28:31.88\00:28:35.25
in verse 7 for we walk by
faith not by side what he is
00:28:35.28\00:28:37.84
saying here you have to
believe by faith in what
00:28:37.87\00:28:41.39
you are told from God
through his word because
00:28:41.42\00:28:44.42
you can see it actively,
you cant see it and tell
00:28:44.45\00:28:47.91
Jesus comes and takes
you there so be confident
00:28:47.94\00:28:52.02
live by faith here present
in the body even when you
00:28:52.05\00:28:55.53
die you are still your
bodies here on the this
00:28:55.64\00:28:57.94
earth resting when
your resurrection happens
00:28:57.97\00:29:00.28
and you enter into
kingdom above from then
00:29:00.31\00:29:02.27
on you will be
present with God forever.
00:29:02.30\00:29:04.45
This is all he is
saying. And I like the way
00:29:04.69\00:29:06.57
he said it. It's not
the giving big thesis here
00:29:06.60\00:29:08.30
about when you
die you go to heaven.
00:29:08.33\00:29:10.38
It's a total misconception
and abusing actually
00:29:10.69\00:29:15.01
the words Paul uses
elsewhere about the vision
00:29:15.39\00:29:18.31
Revelation experiences.
Isn't that sad that people
00:29:18.34\00:29:20.25
make an entire
doctrine over this phrase here,
00:29:20.28\00:29:22.37
when Paul is saying
yes we are confident.
00:29:22.40\00:29:26.52
Yes we are pleased rather
to be absent from the body
00:29:26.55\00:29:30.11
and to be present for
the Lord. He is in essence
00:29:30.14\00:29:32.03
saying that's
what I would rather be,
00:29:32.06\00:29:33.42
but if you look at the
rights of apostle nowhere does
00:29:33.99\00:29:37.00
he support this idea that
we fly away that we take up
00:29:37.03\00:29:40.42
with wings and fly up
to heaven after we die
00:29:40.45\00:29:42.61
because he said, I
beseech you there for brethren
00:29:42.85\00:29:46.94
that you are not
ignorant concerning those who
00:29:46.97\00:29:49.35
are sleep and so
when you look at the
00:29:49.38\00:29:52.39
1 Corinthians 15, where
he dealt with the entire
00:29:52.42\00:29:54.58
topic of death,
burial and resurrection,
00:29:54.61\00:29:57.40
new body being changed. If
you look that entire chapter
00:29:57.43\00:30:01.01
you begin to see
outline to clearly right now
00:30:01.04\00:30:03.37
we are mortal but
before we get to heaven we have
00:30:03.66\00:30:06.59
to put on immortality
and this is not immortality
00:30:06.62\00:30:09.49
is not put on a death,
immortality is put on when
00:30:09.52\00:30:12.52
Jesus come. That's right
and that's would with his
00:30:12.55\00:30:14.44
verse this whole
passage is about receiving our
00:30:14.47\00:30:17.48
heavenly body. That's
right. So absent from the body
00:30:17.51\00:30:22.07
really what it means
is getting rid of this
00:30:22.10\00:30:25.30
mortal body and
receiving the immortal body.
00:30:26.40\00:30:29.95
Which does not
happened at death. Which Paul
00:30:29.98\00:30:30.95
is talking about, it
doesn't happened a death
00:30:30.96\00:30:32.27
it happened says the
first Corinthians 15 it happens
00:30:32.30\00:30:35.54
when Jesus come to
the.. At last trump.
00:30:35.57\00:30:38.03
Last trump yeah. Well
thank you for that we become
00:30:38.06\00:30:40.73
a quite a bit of good
once today and friends
00:30:40.76\00:30:43.33
we are hopefully
we stimulate something
00:30:43.36\00:30:45.15
in your mind to
ask us another question
00:30:45.18\00:30:47.32
and if you have or if you
have or if you like submit
00:30:47.35\00:30:49.56
a question that you will
hope for us deal with here
00:30:49.59\00:30:51.67
at House Calls
send that information to
00:30:51.70\00:30:53.62
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00:30:53.65\00:30:59.50
and we really enjoy
thank you so much for bearing
00:30:59.89\00:31:02.44
with us. Some times we
get enthusiastic but yeah
00:31:02.47\00:31:05.24
that's was study in the
Bible does if you can get
00:31:05.27\00:31:07.86
excited about studying
the Bible then you know
00:31:07.89\00:31:10.46
just become the book
of bottom but it's in fact
00:31:10.49\00:31:12.32
a book of life and light
that continue to get brighter
00:31:12.35\00:31:15.24
even for us and every
time we study thank you so much
00:31:15.60\00:31:18.83
for that. You know just
a word here for some of our
00:31:18.86\00:31:21.80
viewers or listeners.
There are many times you
00:31:21.83\00:31:25.14
and I will both confirm
with we are sitting here talking
00:31:25.17\00:31:27.61
and sharing the word of
God were all of a sudden
00:31:27.64\00:31:31.77
we see something we
have never seeing before.
00:31:31.80\00:31:33.59
Divine Revelations.
It is really it happens
00:31:34.10\00:31:36.92
and we will just get
that's I really start to get
00:31:36.95\00:31:39.38
excited as we see the Lord
doing something right here.
00:31:39.41\00:31:41.83
That's right. And
that's just it's exciting.
00:31:42.18\00:31:44.85
And what better can
you do as an occupation
00:31:46.49\00:31:49.94
as a part of your
daily living to be dividing
00:31:49.97\00:31:54.72
and we say rightly
divide into word of truth.
00:31:54.95\00:31:57.42
So many people that are
out there that are watching
00:31:57.71\00:31:59.63
listening to this
program we do appreciate it
00:31:59.66\00:32:01.57
and we would strongly
encourage you to share
00:32:01.60\00:32:03.71
this with your friends
your neighbors, people that
00:32:03.74\00:32:05.63
don't know these
important truths that's
00:32:05.66\00:32:08.97
why we are excited
about what we do and today
00:32:09.00\00:32:11.43
the excitement is even
gonna go further because
00:32:11.93\00:32:14.51
we are going to deal
with the topic that's almost
00:32:14.54\00:32:16.38
not talked about it all.
And all of these Christians
00:32:16.71\00:32:19.69
counseling circles
these mega movements
00:32:19.72\00:32:22.11
these Giga Church
is nowadays that are
00:32:22.14\00:32:24.36
30,000 people are
sitting down it is almost like
00:32:24.39\00:32:27.40
there is a great terrifying
fear by clergymen today
00:32:27.43\00:32:31.66
to talk about the
topics that are present
00:32:31.69\00:32:33.55
in the book of Revelation
and John before we talk
00:32:33.58\00:32:36.81
about this before we
got on the air you mention
00:32:36.84\00:32:38.80
one of the reasons why
this topics is not often
00:32:38.83\00:32:40.56
dealt with tell me
about that? Yeah you know
00:32:40.59\00:32:44.19
I think that it's not
talk about it's not being
00:32:44.22\00:32:47.31
dealt with because,
the teaching that's most
00:32:47.34\00:32:49.13
prevalent out
there right today in
00:32:49.16\00:32:50.72
Churches is the
secret rapture. Okay.
00:32:50.75\00:32:53.04
And basically the
secret rapture says the Christ
00:32:53.61\00:32:57.11
is going to come back
prior to a rain on earth
00:32:57.14\00:33:01.95
in fact in a recent
program we talked about the
00:33:01.98\00:33:03.74
millennial reign. It's
not on earth it's in heaven
00:33:03.77\00:33:06.43
but they teach that is
on the earth but before that
00:33:06.46\00:33:08.97
happens and before the
tribulation of seven years
00:33:09.00\00:33:12.40
they assigned to
tribulation happens
00:33:12.43\00:33:13.86
there is going to be
a secret rapture of the
00:33:14.26\00:33:16.23
Church Christ will call
up his saints to heaven prior
00:33:16.26\00:33:20.72
to a seven year period
of tribulation and they
00:33:20.75\00:33:24.08
will not have to
experience the tribulation
00:33:24.11\00:33:25.84
as described in the book
of Revelation from chapter 4
00:33:26.33\00:33:30.37
on, right, they
basically eliminate chapter 4 on
00:33:30.40\00:33:33.76
for any Christians if
you are believer don't worry
00:33:33.79\00:33:36.35
about it let me tell
you this is a deadly piracy
00:33:36.38\00:33:39.84
it is deadly because
over and over gain through
00:33:41.53\00:33:44.48
the word of god if
you, you have to through out
00:33:44.51\00:33:47.89
hundreds of text that
are telling God's people
00:33:48.16\00:33:51.49
to prepare for the time
of trouble the day as Lord
00:33:51.52\00:33:53.91
to be able to except
the secret rapture 30.
00:33:54.64\00:33:57.30
Right as a matter of fact,
Jesus in his words he says,
00:33:57.77\00:34:01.15
be ready for such an
hour without you think
00:34:01.18\00:34:03.76
not the son of man
is coming and if he find
00:34:03.79\00:34:06.67
you on ready he is
going to appoint you
00:34:06.70\00:34:09.29
your portion with
the Hippocrates he is not
00:34:09.32\00:34:11.60
giving you a second
chance you are going
00:34:11.63\00:34:13.53
to be cut off so he
says watch and be ready
00:34:13.56\00:34:17.24
for he is gonna commit
and our that you are not
00:34:17.27\00:34:19.34
even looking for him
and if you come and if you
00:34:19.37\00:34:22.41
are not ready he is going
to appoint you your portion
00:34:22.44\00:34:25.00
with Hippocrates
you are not getting the
00:34:25.03\00:34:26.74
second chance. So
when John talked about
00:34:26.77\00:34:28.45
Revelation 4, this
is doctrine that's built
00:34:28.48\00:34:32.00
around this phrase, when
Lord says the John come up
00:34:32.03\00:34:35.00
here they are many
people that believed that
00:34:35.03\00:34:37.43
teaches that the
church is called up to heaven.
00:34:37.46\00:34:41.65
It's simply about
his vision. That's about
00:34:41.94\00:34:43.52
a vision, that's John
specifically individually
00:34:43.55\00:34:46.50
personally being said,
being invited by the Lord
00:34:46.53\00:34:50.04
to look at his
vision, that's not the Church
00:34:50.07\00:34:52.16
being called up to
heaven. No. But they try to
00:34:52.19\00:34:54.61
find all these flamboyant
ways of dressing up Era
00:34:54.64\00:34:58.30
in the this beautiful
role of light and that's a lie,
00:34:58.61\00:35:00.82
and that's why we are
going to deal with this
00:35:00.85\00:35:01.93
topic today to go
ahead and dissects some more
00:35:01.96\00:35:04.89
things because if you
are not going to be here
00:35:04.92\00:35:09.14
as John was
going to say let me go
00:35:09.44\00:35:11.80
and give you chance if
you are not going to be here
00:35:11.83\00:35:13.51
then what about this
topic it is important
00:35:13.54\00:35:15.22
or not important. If
you are not going to be here
00:35:15.25\00:35:16.81
it's not important. If
you are going to be here
00:35:16.84\00:35:18.54
it's absolutely essential
which is why we are going
00:35:18.57\00:35:20.83
to talk about it. Let
me share with you the words
00:35:20.86\00:35:23.72
of Jesus from
Matthew 24 he says here then
00:35:23.75\00:35:27.41
there would be
great tribulation such
00:35:27.44\00:35:30.84
as not been since the
beginning of the world
00:35:30.87\00:35:33.15
and tell this time no
nor shall ever being his
00:35:33.18\00:35:36.62
coding of course from
Daniel so this is the worst
00:35:36.65\00:35:39.36
tribulation great
greatest tribulation this world
00:35:39.39\00:35:41.55
is ever experienced and
then notice what he says
00:35:41.58\00:35:44.32
to his disciples and
to us as church about that
00:35:44.80\00:35:49.36
event unless those
days were shortened,
00:35:49.39\00:35:52.91
no flesh would be saved
but for the Elect's sake
00:35:53.99\00:35:56.60
those days will be
shorten whose sake,
00:35:56.63\00:35:58.54
for the Elect's
sake, the Elect sake.
00:35:58.81\00:36:00.43
The Elect Sake-wise
for their sake because
00:36:00.46\00:36:02.70
the days are
shorten because they are
00:36:02.73\00:36:03.70
in heaven enjoying
bliss already, no because
00:36:03.71\00:36:06.00
they are on earth
enough experiencing a great
00:36:06.03\00:36:07.50
tribulation with
everyone else and if anyone says
00:36:07.53\00:36:11.08
to you look here is
the Christ and they do not
00:36:11.11\00:36:13.12
believe it false Christ,
false Prophets will come,
00:36:13.15\00:36:15.40
show great signs
and wonders to deceive
00:36:15.43\00:36:18.25
if possible even the
Elect. So the Elect are here
00:36:18.28\00:36:20.91
during the reign of
the anti-Christ to cometh
00:36:21.53\00:36:24.33
to deceive. All these
words of Christ clearly
00:36:24.36\00:36:27.54
point in a firm old
testament scripture that
00:36:27.57\00:36:32.48
says of the day of
Lord when it come the day
00:36:32.51\00:36:34.94
of Lord is a same
description of this event
00:36:34.97\00:36:36.58
this great tribulation
of the end of time. Okay.
00:36:36.61\00:36:38.96
The devil when it
cometh the saint will be here
00:36:38.99\00:36:41.86
protected by God being
passed or passing through
00:36:42.22\00:36:45.83
the tribulations not
being delivered ahead a time
00:36:45.86\00:36:48.32
from it. So, I am sorry
the secret rapture is just
00:36:48.35\00:36:53.41
not true, and so we
are going to talk you know
00:36:53.44\00:36:55.98
John I think the best
approach may to this topic
00:36:56.01\00:36:58.26
and you may have
another comment before we get
00:36:59.80\00:37:01.35
to it, but I think
the best approach might be
00:37:01.38\00:37:03.33
to just go through
Revelation 13. Okay.
00:37:03.36\00:37:06.52
This is going to
introduce or talk about the four
00:37:06.55\00:37:09.12
beast powers of
Daniel anyway so we can tie
00:37:09.15\00:37:12.57
those in and kind of
progress and pull other
00:37:12.60\00:37:15.28
things in as we as go
long would do you think?
00:37:15.31\00:37:16.86
I think this is a fair
question, just to cap off
00:37:17.30\00:37:19.76
what you just talk
about how we are going
00:37:19.79\00:37:21.33
to be here. Psalms 91,
which is a favorite chapter
00:37:21.36\00:37:24.83
of many people you know
we have this family chapter
00:37:24.86\00:37:26.82
Psalms 91 verse 15, the
Lord says, well actually
00:37:26.85\00:37:31.62
verse 17 says the
thousands may fall out
00:37:31.65\00:37:33.58
of our side and 10,000 at
your right hand but it will
00:37:33.61\00:37:37.01
not come near you only
with your eyes with you
00:37:37.04\00:37:39.59
look and see the
reward of wicked.
00:37:39.62\00:37:41.72
So we are going be
seeing that it says
00:37:42.03\00:37:43.90
no evil shall be fall
you nor shall any plague
00:37:43.93\00:37:47.88
come near your dwelling
for he will give his angel
00:37:47.91\00:37:50.29
charge over you and
then finally in verse 15
00:37:50.32\00:37:52.53
he says, I will be with
him in trouble and will deliver
00:37:52.56\00:37:55.56
him and honor him he
will be with us in trouble,
00:37:55.59\00:37:58.21
in trouble right
not here any more
00:37:58.24\00:38:02.12
he is at the
bizarre at the furnace,
00:38:02.15\00:38:03.84
he was within the
furnace God doesn't
00:38:04.01\00:38:06.75
deliver you
necessarily from the trouble but
00:38:06.78\00:38:09.93
he deliver you some
times in the trouble
00:38:09.96\00:38:11.57
that's why Jesus
praised in John 17:15
00:38:11.60\00:38:13.94
I do not pray he
said that you should take
00:38:14.18\00:38:17.00
them out of the world
but that you should keep
00:38:17.03\00:38:20.42
them from the evil
one and then Revelation
00:38:20.45\00:38:22.90
he says that he
should keep us from the hour
00:38:22.93\00:38:26.06
of trial that will
come up on the whole world
00:38:26.09\00:38:28.47
so he will be with us
in trouble not taken us
00:38:30.09\00:38:33.95
out of that trouble
so this topic about the
00:38:34.22\00:38:37.95
Mark of the Beast is
so significant so I John
00:38:37.98\00:38:39.68
I let you, you want
to go ahead dive into it.
00:38:39.71\00:38:41.92
You want to lay foundation.
00:38:41.95\00:38:43.10
You will do. I don't do that.
00:38:43.25\00:38:44.37
Let's just dive
in the Revelation 13.
00:38:44.40\00:38:45.95
Let's go ahead. We
stop each other as we want
00:38:45.98\00:38:47.91
to make comment
can I through here but
00:38:47.94\00:38:49.72
let's start with verse
1. Okay. It's says Then
00:38:50.21\00:38:52.89
I stood on the sand of
the sea. And I saw a beast
00:38:52.92\00:38:56.24
rising up out of the
sea, having seven heads
00:38:56.27\00:38:59.77
and ten horns, and
on his horns ten crowns,
00:38:59.82\00:39:03.83
and on his heads
a blasphemous name.
00:39:03.86\00:39:05.95
Okay. Now the beast
which I saw was like
00:39:05.98\00:39:09.01
a Leopard his feet were
likely to feet of a bear
00:39:09.04\00:39:12.13
and his mouth like the
mouth of lion the dragon
00:39:12.54\00:39:16.03
and who is the
dragon by the way. Satan.
00:39:16.06\00:39:18.16
Just read one chapter
before you will find in
00:39:18.19\00:39:20.15
Revelation 12 that is
Satan gave him his power
00:39:20.18\00:39:23.95
his throne and great
authority so that dragon
00:39:23.98\00:39:27.47
set him up, he is
setting up to be the authority
00:39:27.50\00:39:31.35
to be the beast power
known as the sea beast
00:39:31.38\00:39:34.00
at the end of time
and couple more verses
00:39:34.29\00:39:38.01
and I saw one of the heads
as if it had being mortally
00:39:38.04\00:39:40.60
wounded and his
deadly wound was healed
00:39:40.63\00:39:43.41
and all the world
marveled and followed the beast.
00:39:44.82\00:39:47.07
So the context of
Revelation 13 is really
00:39:47.10\00:39:51.09
about after its
healing. This is kind of the key
00:39:51.12\00:39:55.59
factor because while
we can place some of these
00:39:55.70\00:39:58.07
events and will talk
about the history leading up
00:39:58.10\00:40:00.26
to where we going to
be at here in the context
00:40:00.29\00:40:02.67
of Revelation 13. The
real context is in time
00:40:02.70\00:40:06.11
after the wound has been healed.
00:40:06.14\00:40:07.74
That's right. And there
is lot of discussions to
00:40:07.77\00:40:09.55
whether the wound has
been healed or not today,
00:40:09.58\00:40:11.82
but suggested, so far
to say that I think that
00:40:12.12\00:40:16.98
it's clear this is an
end time really time up
00:40:18.27\00:40:21.91
trouble passage in its
true context not a historical
00:40:21.94\00:40:25.89
passage although we can
get a lot of history from
00:40:25.92\00:40:28.83
here which we will
talk about here right now.
00:40:28.95\00:40:30.77
Okay. Because we need
to identify this sea Beast
00:40:30.80\00:40:33.51
and to do that you have
to go to the other book end
00:40:34.07\00:40:37.06
of prophecy, the book of
Daniel. Daniel talks about
00:40:37.09\00:40:41.60
as verse 2
describes the leopard the bear
00:40:41.92\00:40:50.51
and the lion and then
of course this other beast
00:40:51.06\00:40:54.09
the sea beast. So
John may be lead us there
00:40:54.12\00:40:56.78
because you know
it's in the same order.
00:40:57.21\00:40:58.81
It's find the interesting
it's a same once but not
00:40:59.75\00:41:01.91
the same order. Why
is that? As matter fact
00:41:01.94\00:41:04.19
John is showing your
vision in the aftermath
00:41:04.22\00:41:09.69
of Daniel vision,
Daniel showed the lion,
00:41:10.05\00:41:14.75
the bear, and the leopard.
00:41:14.78\00:41:17.99
Looking forward?
Looking forward this
00:41:18.41\00:41:20.59
is how it's going to be
but John existing in Rome
00:41:20.62\00:41:23.53
now this is beautiful
context that have Daniel
00:41:23.56\00:41:26.47
was in Babylon he
was living in the lion
00:41:26.50\00:41:28.75
so he showed the lion,
the bear and the Leopard
00:41:29.61\00:41:33.08
because he was
living in the Lion. Now John
00:41:33.11\00:41:36.38
is living in the
non-descript beast.
00:41:36.58\00:41:39.64
Right. His fourth
beast is dreadful iron one,
00:41:39.67\00:41:42.12
so John is looking
back to the leopard right
00:41:42.15\00:41:45.24
before his, the
bear and then a lion.
00:41:45.27\00:41:48.09
John is seeing it how
it was. Daniel showing us
00:41:48.12\00:41:51.78
how it's going to be, so
John is living in the time
00:41:51.81\00:41:55.96
of Rome he is a
prisoner on the island of Patmos
00:41:56.04\00:41:59.32
and so he is seeing
this non-descript beast,
00:41:59.35\00:42:01.92
he is, matter of fact
what we call this beast
00:42:02.32\00:42:04.84
here in Revelation
13 the first part is the
00:42:04.87\00:42:07.15
composite beast. In
other words what is an essence
00:42:07.18\00:42:10.35
is saying is the nation
that Iron man is a compilation
00:42:10.38\00:42:14.02
of all of those powers of
authority, is a compilation
00:42:14.05\00:42:18.33
of all of those military
and spiritual powers that
00:42:18.36\00:42:22.73
came before me that
comprised, or they are
00:42:22.76\00:42:26.73
coalesced. They have
being assimilated into.
00:42:26.76\00:42:29.46
Yeah that's a good word.
They have been assimilated
00:42:29.78\00:42:31.85
into the nation of
Rome, into the fourth
00:42:31.88\00:42:35.69
beast of Daniel and
in the present power
00:42:36.17\00:42:39.53
that John is
writing this vision from.
00:42:39.56\00:42:41.86
And we need to
identify why you just said Rome.
00:42:42.01\00:42:45.10
Okay Because in
Daniel we are not going to do
00:42:45.68\00:42:48.67
an exhausted study
by any means on Daniel,
00:42:48.70\00:42:50.21
Daniel describes these
beasts and the first one
00:42:50.24\00:42:53.69
he says is a lion and
if you read other chapters
00:42:53.72\00:42:59.16
of Daniel you will
find specially chapter 2
00:42:59.19\00:43:00.88
that first power the
time of Daniel's day the power
00:43:00.91\00:43:04.43
that existed was
Babylon. That's right.
00:43:04.46\00:43:06.69
So Babylon is
represented by the lion
00:43:06.72\00:43:09.36
then you have after
the lion Babylon a bear.
00:43:09.87\00:43:14.00
Right And the bear is
represented by the means
00:43:14.55\00:43:17.79
in the Persians
some referred to be it's
00:43:17.82\00:43:19.15
Medo-Persian Empire
that concurred Babylon
00:43:19.18\00:43:23.60
and in fact Daniel 8
actually describes the
00:43:23.84\00:43:29.04
Medes and the
Persians verse 20 as the
00:43:29.07\00:43:33.14
concurring army of
Babylon over Babylon the means
00:43:33.17\00:43:37.80
in Persians. The
leopard is the next one
00:43:37.83\00:43:39.91
and Daniel 8 also
describes who the leopard beast
00:43:40.38\00:43:44.55
is it's Greece that
Daniel 8:21 what happens
00:43:44.58\00:43:50.32
is you get to the
similar thing that John gets to
00:43:50.35\00:43:53.26
when you get to
this other beast to comes
00:43:53.29\00:43:55.16
he doesn't describe
it much he just kind of
00:43:55.19\00:43:58.08
he describes the
other three and then he says
00:43:58.49\00:44:00.78
this will this next
beast exist and the same thing
00:44:00.81\00:44:03.61
happens in Daniel
the first three beasts
00:44:03.64\00:44:06.03
are described with
his fourth one is simply
00:44:06.06\00:44:08.66
described as this
non-descript it's this
00:44:08.69\00:44:13.46
dreadful terrible beast
but it's not a specific animal
00:44:13.49\00:44:16.43
of any type but the
description of the beast
00:44:16.46\00:44:19.25
is pretty extensive as
far as what the beast does.
00:44:19.28\00:44:22.64
Right. And he
clearly says in Daniel 7:23
00:44:23.07\00:44:26.87
that fourth beast
shall be a fourth kingdom
00:44:26.90\00:44:29.19
so now we know
that after Babylon after
00:44:29.56\00:44:33.28
the Medes and the Persians.
00:44:33.31\00:44:34.40
The Medo-Persian Empire
at Greece comes to Rome.
00:44:34.81\00:44:38.83
That's right. And
that's why John said Rome.
00:44:38.86\00:44:41.73
And something else
about this In Daniel,
00:44:42.05\00:44:45.77
Daniel deals with the
ten horns three of the horns
00:44:45.80\00:44:49.41
being plucked out but
John deals with the heads
00:44:49.44\00:44:52.99
the horns the heads.
Seven heads ten horns
00:44:53.20\00:44:57.89
Daniel deal with
horns they were ten horns
00:44:57.92\00:45:00.78
three were plucked up
one came up in it's place
00:45:01.08\00:45:04.16
which represented
the voice of the prophecy
00:45:04.19\00:45:05.85
as the other three
nations that opposed they were
00:45:06.26\00:45:08.89
taken out of
existing never to raise again.
00:45:08.92\00:45:11.31
But now John says okay
now that you understand
00:45:11.63\00:45:14.43
that let's look
at something else
00:45:14.46\00:45:16.78
about this beast, he
has also seven heads.
00:45:16.81\00:45:20.34
He has seven heads and
this something that has
00:45:20.98\00:45:23.93
to really jump out at
you. Because when this beast
00:45:23.96\00:45:27.72
is introduced again
in Revelation how much
00:45:27.75\00:45:29.72
you got the Revelation
chapter 12 with me right
00:45:29.75\00:45:31.22
now very quickly
because while we look at the
00:45:31.25\00:45:34.39
historical application
which Daniel gives we have got
00:45:34.42\00:45:38.86
to look at the
literal description that
00:45:38.89\00:45:41.22
Revelation gives
this beast as it first
00:45:41.25\00:45:44.36
introduced on the
scene. we're gonna be lay
00:45:44.39\00:45:46.63
in foundation today and
in upcoming program gives
00:45:46.66\00:45:49.42
you specifically the
mark of the beast but we have
00:45:49.45\00:45:51.70
to see what Revelation
gives what description
00:45:51.73\00:45:54.19
Revelation gives to
this beast now as it appears
00:45:54.22\00:45:57.83
on the same it doesn't
just have the connotation
00:45:57.86\00:46:00.47
and the application to
represent nations alone
00:46:00.50\00:46:02.64
but more specifically
the great controversy
00:46:03.35\00:46:06.15
is between Christ, and who John?
00:46:06.18\00:46:07.78
And Satan. And Satan so
you are going to see this
00:46:07.81\00:46:10.34
controversy clearly
described as this beast
00:46:10.37\00:46:14.67
with seven heads and
ten horns is introduced.
00:46:14.70\00:46:16.99
Look at the Revelation
chapter 12, Revelation
00:46:17.23\00:46:20.23
Chapter 12 with verse 1
Now a great sign appeared
00:46:20.26\00:46:23.51
in heaven: a woman
clothed with the sun
00:46:23.54\00:46:26.29
with the moon under
her feet and on her head
00:46:26.50\00:46:28.40
a crown of twelve
stars. Then being with child
00:46:28.56\00:46:32.48
she cried out in labor
and in pain to give birth
00:46:32.51\00:46:34.77
and other sign appeared in
heaven behold a great fiery
00:46:35.60\00:46:39.10
red dragon, having
what John? Seven heads
00:46:39.13\00:46:41.89
and ten horns. Having
seven head and ten horns
00:46:41.92\00:46:44.69
and seven diadems and
seven crowns on his heads,
00:46:44.72\00:46:48.92
now you want to get that
because verse 9 described
00:46:49.14\00:46:55.03
this great dragon
as Satan, but remember
00:46:55.06\00:46:58.39
this great fiery red
dragon that appears before
00:46:59.25\00:47:02.65
the women in the Church
is Satan he is appearing
00:47:02.68\00:47:06.89
there and in the time
of Rome Satan manifests
00:47:06.92\00:47:11.06
himself through
various powers but we must
00:47:11.09\00:47:14.07
not forget that the one
that is really on the centre
00:47:14.10\00:47:17.37
stage here is
Satan. He is someone like
00:47:17.40\00:47:19.66
a ventriloquist. He
is speak through Babylon,
00:47:19.69\00:47:22.09
he speaks through Medo-Persia,
00:47:22.12\00:47:23.47
he speaks through
Greece, he speaks through Rome
00:47:23.50\00:47:25.92
in the future, he will
speak through the powers
00:47:25.95\00:47:27.70
of the United States,
he speaks through various
00:47:27.73\00:47:29.80
government and
various false religious
00:47:29.83\00:47:31.82
movements, but he is
the actual proprietor.
00:47:31.85\00:47:34.82
He is the driving
force. He is the driving force.
00:47:34.85\00:47:37.06
So when you see this
power talked about again,
00:47:37.35\00:47:39.14
let us not just be quick
to just apply to a nation
00:47:39.63\00:47:42.11
and see what the great
controversy between Christ
00:47:42.39\00:47:44.60
and Rome, or Christ
and Babylon, it is not,
00:47:44.63\00:47:46.89
it is between
Christ and Satan. Right.
00:47:47.08\00:47:49.03
So look at this now
in verse 9 so the great
00:47:49.47\00:47:52.38
dragon Revelation 12
verse 9 so the great dragon
00:47:52.41\00:47:54.61
was cast out, that
serpent of all call the devil
00:47:54.64\00:47:57.78
and Satan, he is
described very clearly
00:47:57.81\00:48:00.42
and when you go back
to Revelation 12 verse 3
00:48:00.45\00:48:02.70
that dragon is one that
is one that has seven heads
00:48:02.99\00:48:04.78
ten horns so now the
question you got to ashes
00:48:04.81\00:48:07.57
of John in the
picture that's being describe
00:48:07.60\00:48:11.11
here this beast is
said to have seven heads
00:48:11.14\00:48:14.21
and tens horns now in
Daniel this beast is giving
00:48:14.24\00:48:18.73
greater description
it's given the iron teeth
00:48:18.76\00:48:23.78
the iron clothes and in
it stamps the residual breaks
00:48:24.09\00:48:28.95
every thing in his
path the tramples are down
00:48:28.98\00:48:31.07
and that's what
the power of Rome did.
00:48:31.38\00:48:33.47
The power of Rome
was a ruthless power
00:48:34.36\00:48:36.59
and so as we
continue to unfold his idea
00:48:37.08\00:48:39.64
about the Mark of
the Beast you will began
00:48:39.67\00:48:41.47
to see that the mark
and Satan applies through
00:48:41.50\00:48:45.37
the power of Rome
is going to be quite
00:48:45.40\00:48:47.84
significant. Yes
and so, yeah as we go
00:48:47.87\00:48:51.52
forward here I think it
was very key that in your
00:48:51.55\00:48:54.36
own study to compare the
description of this fourth
00:48:54.39\00:48:58.67
beast in Daniel 7.
Right. With what you're finding
00:48:58.70\00:49:02.44
that this beast in
Revelation 13, the sea
00:49:02.47\00:49:05.29
beast is doing,
because the language is very,
00:49:05.32\00:49:07.98
very similar, you
can't dismiss the connection
00:49:08.01\00:49:10.24
there. So if you defining
the fourth beast as Rome
00:49:10.27\00:49:13.62
and an especially
little horn power that comes up
00:49:13.95\00:49:17.07
the power of the
papacy, it's a religious
00:49:17.10\00:49:18.83
and a political power,
then you also must see this
00:49:18.86\00:49:22.13
in Revelation 13 as
being the same entity
00:49:22.16\00:49:25.73
and that is the power
of Rome in it's religious
00:49:25.76\00:49:28.91
and political form
which we find today with the
00:49:28.94\00:49:32.94
Church of Rome. So
lets take a look than as
00:49:32.97\00:49:36.76
we continue on, in
verse 4 let me read verse 4
00:49:36.79\00:49:39.99
again in Revelation
13, they worship the dragon
00:49:40.02\00:49:43.54
so as a worshiping
the following these beast
00:49:44.19\00:49:46.41
power who they are
really worshiping, the dragon.
00:49:46.44\00:49:49.06
See, there he is. He
is behind it as what you
00:49:49.09\00:49:51.00
were saying John who
gave authority to the beast
00:49:51.03\00:49:53.72
and they worship the
beast saying who was like
00:49:53.75\00:49:57.10
the beast who is
able to make war with him.
00:49:57.13\00:49:59.48
And he was giving a
mouth speaking great things
00:49:59.88\00:50:02.53
and blasphemies and he
was given the authority
00:50:02.56\00:50:04.61
to continue for 42
months. Then he opened his
00:50:04.64\00:50:09.22
mouth in blasphemy
against God, to blaspheme
00:50:09.25\00:50:11.70
his name, his
tabernacle, and those who dwell
00:50:11.73\00:50:13.88
in heaven. And he was
granted to him to make war
00:50:13.91\00:50:16.96
with the saints
and overcome them and
00:50:16.99\00:50:19.28
authority was given him
over every tribe, tongue
00:50:19.31\00:50:22.24
and people. All who
dwell in the earth will worship
00:50:22.27\00:50:26.32
him whose names have
not be written in the Book
00:50:26.35\00:50:28.74
of Life of the lamb
slain from the foundation
00:50:28.77\00:50:31.63
of the world. If anyone
hasn't heard, let him hear.
00:50:31.66\00:50:35.81
Another words this
is important to God
00:50:36.35\00:50:38.37
to listen up for this
for details of what is going
00:50:38.40\00:50:41.87
to happen in the
future. Now John we have been
00:50:41.90\00:50:46.42
talking about here
this beast power again.
00:50:46.45\00:50:48.80
We have identified it is
Rome, the Church of Rome.
00:50:48.83\00:50:50.86
We have identified
then as being healing power.
00:50:51.69\00:50:53.87
There is history
blended in here because we have
00:50:54.69\00:50:57.15
42 months 1260 years
of persecution of the past
00:50:57.18\00:51:01.57
during the tribulation,
not the great tribulation
00:51:01.60\00:51:03.48
with the tribulation
period that lasted up
00:51:03.51\00:51:07.21
until 1798 which assured
in them the time of the end,
00:51:07.24\00:51:10.34
persecution ends 1844,
we find Christ transitioning
00:51:11.10\00:51:15.06
to the heavenly sanctuary
most holy place and speaking
00:51:15.09\00:51:17.96
some language here
if we don't understand
00:51:17.99\00:51:19.35
some of these terms we
have covered them before
00:51:19.38\00:51:22.34
in previous programs, but
I am sure we will get back
00:51:22.37\00:51:26.65
around to it again.
But for those who have been
00:51:26.68\00:51:30.05
following along with
us while you understand
00:51:30.08\00:51:31.57
what I am talking about.
But now we get to a point
00:51:31.60\00:51:34.48
where in the
context of Revelation 13,
00:51:34.51\00:51:37.76
there is being introduced
another beast at the end
00:51:38.71\00:51:41.96
that will give a last
push for what this beast,
00:51:41.99\00:51:45.91
this sea beast is
trying to do and what Satan
00:51:45.95\00:51:48.20
is trying to do
through this sea beast.
00:51:48.23\00:51:50.23
And so we find this
other power in support
00:51:50.93\00:51:55.17
of the first beast coming
up in Revelation 13 verse 11.
00:51:55.20\00:52:00.00
Right. You want to
may be take us from there.
00:52:00.46\00:52:02.89
Okay let's go to
the Revelation 13 and
00:52:02.92\00:52:04.81
Verse 11, what are
the other things I want to
00:52:04.84\00:52:08.49
point out which will
covered in upcoming study
00:52:08.52\00:52:10.36
don't have time to do
today, we will see that
00:52:10.39\00:52:13.92
while these passages
have historical relevance
00:52:14.97\00:52:20.13
they also have last
day relevance that do not
00:52:20.99\00:52:24.42
disconnect them from
their historical importance.
00:52:24.45\00:52:27.23
Right! You see that
truly the nation the power
00:52:27.26\00:52:32.05
of Rome has existed both
politically and religiously
00:52:32.08\00:52:36.41
and continues to
this very day to be a
00:52:36.44\00:52:38.20
religio-political
power. Amazingly but true in
00:52:38.23\00:52:43.12
scripture points that
out would be the test.
00:52:43.15\00:52:45.19
The United States is the
next power that is brought
00:52:45.81\00:52:49.31
into view here because
around the time the papacy
00:52:49.34\00:52:51.79
was receiving it's
wound a very, an infant power
00:52:51.82\00:52:55.51
was just getting its
breath, because in 1776
00:52:55.54\00:52:59.29
we know that this
nation a had the Declaration
00:52:59.32\00:53:02.44
Of Independence and
when we go to 1798 you have,
00:53:02.47\00:53:06.89
just about 22 years
later you have another nation
00:53:07.14\00:53:10.50
another power receiving
a wound bring in it to its
00:53:11.05\00:53:14.22
knees stopping it
from a tyrannical reign of
00:53:14.25\00:53:17.79
1260 years, so one
power being broken,
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while another power is
coming up and so let's look
00:53:21.23\00:53:23.40
at that the
second power coming up.
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By the way 1798 is
the date that the Pope
00:53:25.05\00:53:28.81
was talking captive
in by General Berthier
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in the battle that
had ensued to really
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destroy or, put down
the strength and the power
00:53:38.56\00:53:42.50
of the papacy over
the people and so you will
00:53:42.53\00:53:45.66
find that really 1798 was
a major date in the history
00:53:45.69\00:53:51.00
of this Church and understanding
00:53:51.03\00:53:53.25
the breaking of
that 1260 years of power
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and then you find
also in the year subsequent
00:53:55.77\00:53:58.30
to that how fully that
power was really broken
00:53:58.33\00:54:01.66
in fact even the war
of 1812 the people states
00:54:01.69\00:54:04.64
basically completely
stops supporting the papacy
00:54:04.67\00:54:08.63
at all. So this is just
some of historical events that
00:54:08.66\00:54:12.57
do apply in two
scripture here go ahead takes
00:54:12.60\00:54:15.07
from here John. So it
says, then I saw another beast
00:54:15.10\00:54:18.16
coming up out of the
earth. Now if you think about
00:54:18.19\00:54:20.60
the earth, what application
does the earth have here?
00:54:20.63\00:54:22.71
If you think about mass
of the earth we have more
00:54:22.74\00:54:24.96
water than we have
earth, so the earth will be
00:54:24.99\00:54:27.30
least populated area
meaning this beast was
00:54:27.33\00:54:29.41
coming up out of a
least populated area since the
00:54:29.44\00:54:32.46
other one was
coming up out of the water.
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In other words the other
one was rising among people
00:54:33.97\00:54:36.30
and the Bibles Revelation
17:15 the water that you
00:54:36.33\00:54:40.18
saw are peoples in
the multitudes a nations
00:54:40.21\00:54:42.45
in terms, so more
densely populated area for the
00:54:42.48\00:54:45.89
first beast but
sparsely populated area for the
00:54:45.92\00:54:48.34
second one and he
had two horns like lamb
00:54:48.37\00:54:51.04
and spoke like a
dragon. So this beast would have
00:54:51.81\00:54:54.42
would offer to
people lamblike qualities.
00:54:54.69\00:54:58.05
He would give them
the freedom of religion.
00:54:58.55\00:55:00.91
He will give them democracy,
00:55:00.94\00:55:02.09
and it would be by the
people and for the people,
00:55:02.35\00:55:05.12
but as that
power continues to go
00:55:05.15\00:55:08.21
on it develops into
the place where it starts
00:55:08.24\00:55:10.46
to speak like dragon
and we know the dragon
00:55:10.49\00:55:12.73
is Satan himself. Yeah
and whenever you're speaking
00:55:12.76\00:55:15.75
you are exercising
your authority, Yeah,
00:55:15.78\00:55:18.32
legislatively! And
so, legislatively and with
00:55:18.35\00:55:21.86
it's military power as
well yeah. So that nation
00:55:21.89\00:55:25.87
starts to; it starts
to take on a different
00:55:25.90\00:55:28.46
context altogether,
but notice something else.
00:55:28.49\00:55:31.22
There is a similarity
with first peace of Revelation
00:55:31.25\00:55:33.30
chapter 13 and he
exercise all the authority
00:55:33.33\00:55:37.05
of the first beast
what ever that first beast
00:55:37.08\00:55:39.47
did he now does.
They start joining hands
00:55:39.50\00:55:42.88
in the exercise
of the authority,
00:55:42.91\00:55:44.30
but something else.
And it says and causes
00:55:44.54\00:55:47.76
the earth and those
who dwell in it to worship
00:55:47.79\00:55:49.92
the first beast who is
deadly wound was healed
00:55:49.95\00:55:52.29
because of the
healing of that first beast
00:55:52.32\00:55:54.39
now this second beast
points the world to that
00:55:54.60\00:55:57.62
first beast and says this
is the power that you need
00:55:57.65\00:56:01.67
to worship. We will find
out how that's being pulled
00:56:01.70\00:56:05.23
together today and
in our upcoming program
00:56:05.26\00:56:08.52
we are gonna talk
about the two missiles,
00:56:08.55\00:56:09.88
in the book Great Controversy,
00:56:10.68\00:56:12.02
Ellen White refers
them to as two missiles.
00:56:12.05\00:56:13.73
What are those two
missiles that causes this
00:56:14.04\00:56:17.51
first beast to have
such power that almost all
00:56:18.09\00:56:21.33
the other movements of
the earth recognized them,
00:56:21.36\00:56:23.85
what kind of connection
do they have that give
00:56:23.97\00:56:26.58
them the similarity and
the power of and authority
00:56:26.61\00:56:29.26
that they all shared
together. And so we are
00:56:29.29\00:56:31.49
not gonna to cover that
all today, but let me just
00:56:31.52\00:56:33.00
end it by simply
saying this, and it's says in
00:56:33.03\00:56:35.96
verse 13 and he performed
signs so that even makes
00:56:35.99\00:56:40.30
fire come down
from heaven on the earth
00:56:40.33\00:56:42.35
in the side of man
and I am leaving it there
00:56:42.61\00:56:45.49
John because I want
break that egg open Friday
00:56:45.52\00:56:47.66
even more completely
in the upcoming program
00:56:47.69\00:56:49.40
rather than trying to
stuff it into the ending
00:56:50.11\00:56:51.95
of this program right
here. Yeah you have already
00:56:51.98\00:56:53.81
mentioned that Satan
is behind the first beast
00:56:53.84\00:56:56.32
power and it says the
second beast is introduced
00:56:56.35\00:56:59.24
this beast from the earth.
It also exercises the same
00:56:59.27\00:57:02.80
authority. So the Satan
is behind that beast as well.
00:57:02.83\00:57:05.82
Even though it claims
to be a Christian nation,
00:57:06.35\00:57:09.16
it is going to speaking
exercises authority in line
00:57:09.76\00:57:13.17
with what Satan is trying
to exercise and do to setup
00:57:13.20\00:57:16.97
worship and worship
predominantly of him.
00:57:17.00\00:57:19.34
So friends as you know
here it House Calls we believe
00:57:19.56\00:57:22.05
in telling like it is and
this is one topic we are not
00:57:22.08\00:57:24.31
going scour the issue,
so stay tune for future
00:57:24.34\00:57:27.62
program will recover
all of the other specifics
00:57:27.65\00:57:30.50
until then may God bless you
00:57:30.53\00:57:32.27
and have a great day in Christ.
00:57:32.30\00:57:33.95