The Mark Of The Beast.
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What is it really?
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You're about to find out,
so put your seat belts on,
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on this edition
of His Voice Today.
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Welcome to
another His Voice Today
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with Steve Wohlberg.
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Out topic today is
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the Mark of the
Beast identified.
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And to be honest
I'm little bit nervous
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about this subject,
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because it is just so big
and it's so controversial,
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so I'm going to
share information with you
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and I hope that the Holy Spirit
will apply it to your heart.
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But first I want to tell
you just a little funny story.
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I have a little daughter,
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my wife is
Christian and her son is Seth
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and Abby is five
years old, our little girl.
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And not too long go
Abbey was in a living room
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and I was walking
by and she looked at me
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and she said, daddy.
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She said do you know
what the cookie monster does?
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And I looked at
her and I said what?
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And she said the
cookie monster takes cookies
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and he goes like this,
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and she was pretending to put
lots of cookies in her mouth.
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And I looked at her and I smiled
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and I thought about that night
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and then I said do
I said Abby, you know,
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if the cookie
monster eats too many cookies
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he's going to get too much sugar
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and he's going to get sick.
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Trying to put a little
plug-in there for a healthy life
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and Abby thought about that
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and then she said
something very funny.
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She looked at me
with the very serious look
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and she said, daddy.
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She said don't you know,
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that the cookie
monster is not real.
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Now obviously I knew that.
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And anyway I thought about
that little humorous comment
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and I thought it to myself.
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When it comes to the Bible
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and when it comes to topics
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that are very, very
important it is extremely,
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extremely important
that we get away from things
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that are fantasy and
that we stick to the truth.
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When it comes to
Mark of the Beast
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there is on subject that
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we need more truth
concerning than this topic.
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There is lots of ideas
about the mark of the beast
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that are out there
and to be honest with you
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a whole host of them
they're just not real.
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Just like the cookie
monster he's fantasy.
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What does the
Bible actually say?
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You are about to find out.
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So let's go to the
book of Revelation 14,
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we have been talking
about the mark in past
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his voice today program's
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building up to this
one and the next one.
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In Revelation 14:9- 12
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there is a warning
about the mark of the beast,
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I'm very clear
solemn life or death warning
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verse 9 talks about
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"The third angel
following other two,
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saying with the loud voice,
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"If anyone worships
the beast and his image,
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and receives his mark in
his forehead or in his hand,
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the same shall drink the
wine of the wrath of God,"
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and then what
follows is a description
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of what will happen to
those who get the mark,
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it's very serious
it's life or death.
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At the end of verse
11 the Bible warns about,
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"Whoever receives
the mark of his name."
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Now then notice in
verse 12, the very next verse,
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verse 12 says,
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"Here is the
patience of the saints,
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here are they that
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus."
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So at the end of verse 11,
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you've got one
group that gets the mark.
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And then in verse 12
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you have another group called
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the saints who
don't get the mark,
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and what they do is
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they keep the
commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus.
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The Bible is like a
jigsaw puzzle in many ways,
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and there is no topic
that is more like a puzzle
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than the mark of the beast.
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And I don't if
you when you were kid
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if you put
jigsaw puzzles together
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like I did or like my kids do,
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but let's put some
puzzle pieces together
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concerning the mark.
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Puzzle pieces
that are not fantasy,
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puzzle pieces that are real
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and let me just repeat
at the end of verse 11,
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one group gets the
mark, that's a puzzle piece.
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And then in the verse 12
another group has described
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as not getting the mark
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because they keep
the commandments of God
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and they have
the faith of Jesus.
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I have in my hand here one
of the two tables of stone.
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These are not
obviously the originals
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that Moses came down
from Mount Sinai with
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but still you get the idea,
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this is a rock solid stone
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and here are the
first four commandments,
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I have another table
that has five through ten.
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And when it comes to
The Ten Commandments,
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these
commandments are not fantasy.
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They're not
cookie monster fiction
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but this is very, very real.
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This is God's moral law.
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When you look at
the Old Testament,
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it's very clear
that God wrote this,
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these Ten Commandments
with this own finger on stone,
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showing that his
law is permanent,
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it can ever be changed.
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And he used his own finger,
He didn't use the pen or stylus
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or computer mouse,
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He used his own
finger showing that
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this that this
law comes from Him.
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And in Revelation 14:11
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it tells us that
one group gets the mark
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and in verse 12 it says,
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there's another group that
keep the commandments of god
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and they have
the faith of Jesus.
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They are
followers of Jesus Christ.
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Now if we go back
to chapter 14, verse 9
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we have another puzzle piece.
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In verse 9 it says that
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"Those who get the
mark worship the beast
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and get the mark.
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So worship is
involved in this whole topic.
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In verse 7, we have
the good group referred to
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and what God wants us
to do, in verse 7 it says,
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"Worship him that
made heaven and earth
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and the sea and
fountains of water."
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So here are two
more puzzle pieces
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we have in verse 9,
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those on the wrong
side worship the beast
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and then in verse 7
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we have those on the right side
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who worship the
maker of heaven and earth,
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so puzzle pieces again.
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At the end of verse 11
those who get the mark,
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verse 12 those who
don't keep the commandments
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and follow Jesus,
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verse 9 those that do get
the mark worship the beast,
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and in verse 7 those
that don't get the mark
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worship the maker
of heaven and earth.
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Now who is the
maker of heaven and earth
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according to the new testament,
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in John, this is my
favorite verse on this subject.
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In John 1:10
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we have an amazing revelation.
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In verse 10 the Bible
says, "He was in the world,
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referring to Jesus, and
the world was made by Him,
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and the world knew Him not."
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When Jesus
Christ walked this earth
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people look at
him and they thought
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that he would just a normal man,
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but they were wrong
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he was more than
just a normal man.
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He was God in human form
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and according to
first or according John 1:10
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Jesus is actually the
one that made this planet.
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Again, he was in the world
and the world was made by him,
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and the world knew him not.
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So when Revelation 14:7 says
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worship him that made
heaven and earth, and sea
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and the fountains of waters
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that is a specific
call to worship Jesus Christ
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as creator of heaven and earth.
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Now when you look
at the Ten Commandments
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and let me pickup,
the first table again.
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When you look at these
commandments very carefully
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there is only one of the big ten
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that
specifically refers to the one
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who made heaven and earth,
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and the sea and the
fountains of waters.
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And before I
identify that commandment
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and explain its significance,
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I want to show you another verse
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in the book of Daniel 12.
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Daniel 12:4 tells us
that in the time of the end,
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God is going to be
giving extra knowledge
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to his people to help them
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to get ready for
the final crisis.
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In Daniel 12:4
the Bible says that,
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"Many shall run to and
fro, or back and forth,
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and knowledge shall be increased
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in the time of the end."
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Knowledge is going to
be adorning on God's people
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that hasn't been given
to the saints of the past,
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but in the time of the
end it says in verse 4,
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knowledge will increase.
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Now I'm going to share
with you some very potent truths
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and as I do I want
to make it clear that
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just because you're
learning this doesn't mean that
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past generations
who have never known
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what you're about to discover
doesn't mean that they're lost,
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it doesn't mean that you know,
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your great, great grandfather
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who might have been a preacher
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who doesn't know
what you are about
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to discover
isn't going to heaven.
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It just means that
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knowledge hadn't
increased in his mind
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like it is increasing for you.
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My little girl back
to Abby, she's so cute,
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often I go into the bathroom
with her in the mornings
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when I'm getting ready to shave,
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and I'll ask her
Abby do you want to shave?
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Or do you want to, I'm sorry,
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do you want to
watch daddy shave.
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And she says, oh
yeah, I do, I do daddy.
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So I pick her up and
put her on the counter
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and then I shave
I put the lather on
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and I got my
razor and I do what I do
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and then when I'm done,
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she sitting right
next to me on the counter,
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my little tiny daughter
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and then I look
at her and I say,
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Abby feel, and see how I did.
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And so she reaches underneath,
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she reaches around my cheeks
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ad inevitably her little
hand will go underneath my chin
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and she'll feel some
little which she calls,
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"Pricklies" that I missed,
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and I often do
that right under here
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little hard to get spot.
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And she'll say
over and over again,
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she says daddy,
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you missed a
spot, you missed a spot.
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And that is why I tell you
that little story is because
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there is a big lesson for us
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when we take a closer
look at the Ten Commandments.
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And my conviction is that
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there is lot of sincere
Christians around the world
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and there have
been for long time
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and I'm putting you by faith
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in that category
if you're Christian,
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that you're a sincere Christian,
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as I'm too.
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And I strongly believe that
in their honesty and sincerity
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millions of Christians
have just missed a spot,
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just like Abby said to me,
daddy you've missed a spot.
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And the truth is that
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when you look closely
at the ten commandments
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there is big spot.
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There is one of the commandments
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that people have missed
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and here is that
very important point
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don't miss this when
you look at the big ten
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that the Bible says that
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those who don't get
the mark will be keeping,
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there is only one
of the Ten Commandments
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that specifically talks about
the maker of heaven and earth,
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the sea and all that is in them,
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and that's a Jesus,
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he's the maker of everything
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and when you look at
the ten there is only one
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that identifies the
maker of heaven and earth,
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and it is
commandment number four
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which talks about a special day
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that God wants
his people to keep.
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Let's go back to Exodus 20
and let's take a close look.
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Exodus 20:8,
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this is commandment number four.
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The Bible says, and
this is what God said,
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and this is what God wrote
with this own finger in stone.
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He said, Remember,
which means don't forget,
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and where do you remember?
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We remember in our fore heads.
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"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh
day is the Sabbath
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of the Lord your God.
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In it you shall do no
work, you, nor your son,
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your daughter, your man servant,
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your maid
servant, nor your cattle,
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nor your stranger
who is within your gates.
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For in six days the Lord
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made the heaven and
the earth, the sea."
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And based on John 1:10
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who is the Lord
that made this world?
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It's Jesus Christ.
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John 1:10 said,
"He was in the world,
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and the world was made by him,"
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and this verse says
in six days the Lord,
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which will be the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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"He made heaven and
the earth and the sea
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and all that is in them is,
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and he rested
on the seventh day.
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Therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day
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and hallowed it."
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And in Revelation 14:7
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we already read that
one of the puzzle pieces
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concerning those that
don't get the mark is that
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they worship him who
made heaven and earth
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and the sea and
everything in it.
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And John 1:10,
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these verses all point back
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to the forth
commandment in Exodus 20:8-11
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that points to the
seventh day Sabbath
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as the day of Jesus Christ,
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to reveal Him as the
maker of heaven and earth.
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Now let me share
with you just some facts
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about the seventh day Sabbath.
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Facts for you to consider,
when is the seventh day?
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If you ask just about
any Jew they'll tell you
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it's from Sunday on Friday night
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to Sunday on Saturday night.
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If you look up in a
dictionary or in encyclopedia
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just about any one
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it'll say that
Saturday is the seventh day
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and Sunday is the
first day of the week.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
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all report that Jesus
Christ rose from the dead
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on the first day of the week
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which was the day
after the Sabbath.
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Jesus kept the Sabbath
00:14:16.62\00:14:19.85
his resurrection
didn't change the Sabbath.
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In Luke 4:16 it says,
00:14:22.42\00:14:24.36
during his life the
Jesus regular custom
00:14:24.39\00:14:27.10
was to keep the Sabbath.
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He also taught many times
about the seventh day Sabbath.
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And significantly
00:14:32.93\00:14:34.34
when you look at
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
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although all of
the gospels record
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that Jesus Christ
rose from the dead
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on the first day of the week.
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You'll never find Jesus himself
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teaching anything about
the first day of the week.
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The words first day of the
week never came out of his lips
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even one time,
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and that's amazing.
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Jesus didn't change
the Sabbath himself.
00:15:00.76\00:15:03.83
he told his disciples
to go to all the world
00:15:05.73\00:15:08.47
and to teach
only what he commanded
00:15:08.50\00:15:12.17
and because he didn't
command anything about
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the first day of the week
00:15:13.71\00:15:15.04
the fact is
according to the new testament
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the church of Jesus Christ
really doesn't have a authority
00:15:17.68\00:15:21.68
to teach that that
day is now God's day,
00:15:21.72\00:15:24.69
because Jesus
himself didn't do that.
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We only have authority to teach
00:15:27.19\00:15:28.86
what Jesus Christ taught.
00:15:28.89\00:15:31.26
Now if all of
these things are true
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which they are
00:15:33.36\00:15:34.96
or you can just
do your own homework
00:15:35.00\00:15:36.73
and that's what I
encourage you to do
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don't take my word for it
just do your own homework.
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If this is all true
then who changed the Sabbath.
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I have in my
hand here a catechism
00:15:44.81\00:15:46.88
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:15:46.91\00:15:48.68
Convert's Catechism
of Catholic Doctrine
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published in 1946.
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And here on page 50,
the question is asked,
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what day is the Sabbath day?
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Answer, Saturday
is the Sabbath day.
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Question then why
then do we Catholics
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observe Sunday
instead of Saturday?
00:16:02.76\00:16:04.73
Answer, we observe
Sunday instead of Saturday
00:16:04.76\00:16:07.10
because the Catholic Church
00:16:07.13\00:16:09.60
substituted Saturday for Sunday.
00:16:09.63\00:16:16.20
So they come right
now here in the catechism
00:16:16.24\00:16:18.64
and say they changed it.
00:16:18.67\00:16:20.48
Now as I look at the
statement from the catechism
00:16:20.51\00:16:23.04
saying they changed
Sabbath in the Sunday
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and then I look at
00:16:25.11\00:16:26.68
what God wrote
with his own finger
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in the fourth commandment
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I have to ask
myself the question.
00:16:30.69\00:16:32.92
Which has more authority for me?
00:16:32.95\00:16:34.99
What man says or what God wrote
00:16:35.02\00:16:37.46
with his own finger on stone?
00:16:37.49\00:16:41.06
And I've already entered
that question for myself.
00:16:41.10\00:16:44.47
I know that there're lot people
00:16:44.50\00:16:45.83
that'll disagree
with what I'm saying here
00:16:45.87\00:16:47.84
and lot of
opinions will fly around
00:16:47.87\00:16:49.67
in different
views are everywhere
00:16:49.70\00:16:52.47
about the mark of the beast,
00:16:52.51\00:16:54.08
and the Sabbath and Sunday
00:16:54.11\00:16:56.08
and which day we should keep
00:16:56.11\00:16:57.45
and the controversy
00:16:57.48\00:16:58.81
and I'm not
trying to condemn you
00:16:58.85\00:17:00.85
or anyone in this message,
00:17:00.88\00:17:03.22
I'm trying to just
share information with you
00:17:03.25\00:17:05.72
and I trust that the holy spirit
00:17:05.75\00:17:07.46
will guide your heart
00:17:07.49\00:17:08.89
but as I've looked at the whole
issue of what people think,
00:17:08.92\00:17:12.06
I've decided that to me
00:17:12.09\00:17:14.10
I'm going to follow
not what man thinks or says
00:17:14.13\00:17:17.13
but what God wrote with
his own finger on solid stone.
00:17:17.17\00:17:22.57
Now let's go back to Revelation
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Revelation 14 warns
00:17:25.01\00:17:27.84
that the beast will have a mark.
00:17:27.88\00:17:32.61
It is a fact of history that
if you go back to the 1500's
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or if we could go
into a time machine
00:17:35.82\00:17:37.39
and go back in history
00:17:37.42\00:17:39.39
and look at the protestant
reformers like Martin Luther
00:17:39.42\00:17:42.36
and go down little bit
further too John Wesley
00:17:42.39\00:17:45.76
who founded the
Methodist Church,
00:17:45.79\00:17:47.20
Luther who founded
the Lutheran in church,
00:17:47.23\00:17:48.73
John Calvin who
founded the Presbyterian church
00:17:48.76\00:17:50.77
and if you would ask them all
who is the beast of prophecy?
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They would all give
you the same answer,
00:17:54.20\00:17:56.10
they all believed
that it was a symbol,
00:17:56.14\00:17:58.77
not of individuals
00:17:58.81\00:18:00.14
but of the Roman church system,
00:18:00.18\00:18:02.78
the Roman Catholic
system that's a fact of history.
00:18:02.81\00:18:04.88
I have here a copy
00:18:04.91\00:18:07.42
it's actually not a
copy this is a Bible,
00:18:07.45\00:18:09.92
it's an old
Bible, very old Bible
00:18:09.95\00:18:11.49
was given to me in
my travels my friend
00:18:11.52\00:18:15.02
and this is a
Presbyterian Bible.
00:18:15.06\00:18:17.26
It was given to a
Presbyterian lay preacher
00:18:17.29\00:18:20.66
this was his Bible
it's published in 1895,
00:18:20.70\00:18:23.83
and the significant
thing about this Bible,
00:18:23.87\00:18:25.43
this new testament
00:18:25.47\00:18:26.80
and you can see
it's falling apart
00:18:26.84\00:18:28.37
so I have to
handle it carefully.
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It says under
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concerning the enforcement
of the mark of the beast.
00:18:35.51\00:18:38.21
There is a footnote here,
00:18:38.25\00:18:39.98
there's a footnote in this Bible
00:18:40.02\00:18:42.45
and under verse 14 or verse 16,
00:18:42.48\00:18:45.35
Revelation 13:16 it says,
00:18:45.39\00:18:47.09
in mark means
submission to the rights
00:18:47.12\00:18:51.19
and ceremonies of
the people communion
00:18:51.23\00:18:54.60
in their right hand,
this means active obedience,
00:18:54.63\00:18:59.63
to the people power
or in their foreheads,
00:18:59.67\00:19:04.11
this means outward
profession of it's doctrines
00:19:04.14\00:19:08.18
and it's un or
infallible authority.
00:19:08.21\00:19:13.58
So this Bible from a
Presbyterian lay preacher
00:19:13.62\00:19:16.35
and it's foot notes identifies
00:19:16.38\00:19:18.69
the mark of the
beast in the forehead
00:19:18.72\00:19:20.22
and in the hand as having
something to do with believing
00:19:20.26\00:19:24.29
and doing things that come
from the Roman Catholic Church.
00:19:24.33\00:19:29.33
Now I didn't write this Bible,
00:19:29.36\00:19:30.93
I didn't write those footnotes.
00:19:30.97\00:19:34.30
That's what they believed.
00:19:34.34\00:19:38.04
And when you put the
pieces together the facts fit.
00:19:38.07\00:19:41.91
The Roman Church claims
00:19:41.94\00:19:43.95
that they changed
the seventh day Sabbath
00:19:43.98\00:19:46.21
which is really
the day of Jesus Christ
00:19:46.25\00:19:48.58
that day that
shows that he's the Lord,
00:19:48.62\00:19:50.09
he's the maker
of heaven and earth,
00:19:50.12\00:19:51.95
who made the world in six days
and who rested on the seventh
00:19:51.99\00:19:54.62
the Roman church change that day
00:19:54.66\00:19:57.79
into the first day of
the week in it's history
00:19:57.83\00:20:00.80
and they actually claim
00:20:00.83\00:20:02.60
that it is a mark
of their authority
00:20:02.63\00:20:06.23
as the true
church of Jesus Christ.
00:20:06.27\00:20:10.21
Now I want to make something
very clear I do not believe
00:20:10.24\00:20:14.31
than anyone has The
Mark Of The Beast Today,
00:20:14.34\00:20:18.88
I believe that there
will be a time in the future
00:20:18.91\00:20:22.25
which will come out
of the terrible crisis
00:20:22.28\00:20:25.75
and I'm going to
discuss this with you
00:20:25.79\00:20:27.36
in the next program,
00:20:27.39\00:20:28.72
the next program
of His Voice Today
00:20:28.76\00:20:30.36
is called The Mark
Of The Beast Enforced.
00:20:30.39\00:20:33.80
And I'm going to give
you shocking information
00:20:33.83\00:20:37.43
that is very, very
true and very, very real.
00:20:37.47\00:20:40.67
It's not fantasy, it's
not cookie monster fiction
00:20:40.70\00:20:43.37
but it's real that
00:20:43.41\00:20:46.41
there are forces
including the Roman church
00:20:46.44\00:20:49.68
in Europe and in America
00:20:49.71\00:20:51.85
that are working
toward the global enforcement
00:20:51.88\00:20:56.48
of Sunday observance
00:20:56.52\00:20:58.95
to try to bring the
world and America back to God.
00:20:58.99\00:21:04.33
And I'm going to talk about that
00:21:04.36\00:21:06.49
in that next program,
00:21:06.53\00:21:07.86
don't have time
to do it right now.
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What about 666?
00:21:09.26\00:21:11.20
The Bible says that 666
is the number of the beast
00:21:11.23\00:21:15.74
and lot of people
speculate they think well,
00:21:15.77\00:21:17.34
that's going to be 666
written on peoples foreheads
00:21:17.37\00:21:19.47
and on their hands
00:21:19.51\00:21:20.84
in the days ahead
there is movies about this,
00:21:20.88\00:21:23.21
there are novels,
pictures that depict this.
00:21:23.24\00:21:26.31
But the fact is that
00:21:26.35\00:21:27.68
when you read the
book of Revelation
00:21:27.72\00:21:29.25
a 666 is not in
The Mark of the Beast,
00:21:29.28\00:21:32.49
it's something separate.
00:21:32.52\00:21:33.86
Revelation 13:17 says that
00:21:33.89\00:21:37.49
eventually no man will
be able to buy or sell,
00:21:37.53\00:21:39.93
unless he has the
mark that's one thing,
00:21:39.96\00:21:43.13
or the name of the
beast that something else,
00:21:43.16\00:21:46.00
or the number of his
name, the number of his name.
00:21:46.03\00:21:49.77
And then when you
read verse 18, it says,
00:21:49.80\00:21:51.61
"We need wisdom
00:21:51.64\00:21:53.07
and that the number
of the beast is 666.
00:21:53.11\00:21:57.78
Now when you think about 666,
00:21:57.81\00:22:00.68
666 is almost what number?
00:22:00.72\00:22:03.99
It's almost seven
when you read Revelation
00:22:04.02\00:22:06.52
there are seven churches,
00:22:06.55\00:22:07.89
there are seven
seals, seven trumpets,
00:22:07.92\00:22:09.42
seven horns, seven eyes,
00:22:09.46\00:22:11.03
seven plagues,
seven is God's number,
00:22:11.06\00:22:14.93
it's over and
over and over again
00:22:14.96\00:22:16.30
in the book of Revelation,
00:22:16.33\00:22:17.67
seven points to Jesus
00:22:17.70\00:22:19.43
as the maker of heaven and earth
00:22:19.47\00:22:21.20
who made the world in six days
00:22:21.24\00:22:23.20
and rested on the seventh.
00:22:23.24\00:22:25.74
What day was man
created on in the beginning?
00:22:25.77\00:22:29.08
He was created
on day number six,
00:22:29.11\00:22:31.75
you can read that right
in your Bible in Genesis 1,
00:22:31.78\00:22:36.28
6 is mans number,
00:22:36.32\00:22:40.19
666 it's like a
triple number of man
00:22:40.22\00:22:46.49
in contrast to
the number of God,
00:22:46.53\00:22:49.76
666 is almost
seven but not quiet,
00:22:49.80\00:22:54.04
666 is the number of the beast.
00:22:54.07\00:22:56.30
And the book of
Revelation says that
00:22:56.34\00:22:57.91
one of these days
the mark of the beast
00:22:57.94\00:23:00.18
and submission to the beast
00:23:00.21\00:23:02.28
and people yealing their minds,
00:23:02.31\00:23:03.98
their foreheads
00:23:04.01\00:23:05.35
and their hands, their actions,
00:23:05.38\00:23:07.22
in support of the
doctrines and the teachings
00:23:07.25\00:23:11.65
and the authority of the
beast is going to be worldwide.
00:23:11.69\00:23:16.83
And eventually
what's going to happen
00:23:16.86\00:23:19.76
when the final crisis hits
00:23:19.79\00:23:22.16
in the mark of the beasts
authority is enforced by law
00:23:22.20\00:23:27.24
all over the world,
00:23:27.27\00:23:28.74
what's going to happen is that
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.91
people are going to
have to make a choice,
00:23:30.94\00:23:32.84
a choice in their
foreheads and in their actions
00:23:32.87\00:23:35.98
whether they are going
to follow God or the beast,
00:23:36.01\00:23:40.25
or they're going
to follow Jesus Christ
00:23:40.28\00:23:42.38
or get the mark
the puzzle pieces
00:23:42.42\00:23:45.15
are all going
to come to together
00:23:45.19\00:23:46.55
in the final crisis fantasy
is going to go out the window
00:23:46.59\00:23:50.19
although the devil
will be still pushing it
00:23:50.23\00:23:52.53
but truth is going
to be a major player,
00:23:52.56\00:23:57.17
during the final
crises in God's word,
00:23:57.20\00:23:59.63
God's voice, God's truth,
00:23:59.67\00:24:02.20
His Voice Today
is going to be heard
00:24:02.24\00:24:05.17
very, very clearly.
00:24:05.21\00:24:06.84
Revelation 14 puts the
puzzle pieces together.
00:24:06.88\00:24:09.64
In verse 9 it talks about
00:24:09.68\00:24:14.48
worshiping the
beast and His image
00:24:14.52\00:24:17.22
and getting the mark.
00:24:17.25\00:24:18.59
In verse 7 it tells
us, what we should do?
00:24:18.62\00:24:21.49
Verse 9 says, don't do that,
00:24:21.52\00:24:22.99
but verse 7 says do this,
00:24:23.02\00:24:24.83
worship him that made
heaven and earth, and the sea
00:24:24.86\00:24:28.90
and the fountains of waters,
00:24:28.93\00:24:30.57
at the end of verse 11 it says,
00:24:30.60\00:24:32.67
don't get the mark of his name
that's what we shouldn't do.
00:24:32.70\00:24:36.04
And then verse 12 says,
00:24:36.07\00:24:37.41
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:24:37.44\00:24:38.97
here are they that
keep the commandments of God
00:24:39.01\00:24:41.71
and the faith of Jesus."
00:24:41.74\00:24:43.24
And so bottom line
just a quick summary
00:24:43.28\00:24:45.88
Revelation tells us
00:24:45.91\00:24:49.12
don't worship the
beast, but worship the creator
00:24:49.15\00:24:51.45
who is Jesus Christ
00:24:51.49\00:24:53.12
the one who died on
the cross for our sins
00:24:53.15\00:24:54.99
and who rose from the
dead, he is our maker.
00:24:55.02\00:24:58.56
And Revelation 14 also tells us
00:24:58.59\00:25:01.20
don't get the mark,
00:25:01.23\00:25:03.06
but keep the commandments of God
00:25:03.10\00:25:05.27
and the faith of Jesus,
00:25:05.30\00:25:06.94
these are facts.
00:25:06.97\00:25:08.30
And when you look
at the ten commandments
00:25:08.34\00:25:09.67
there is only one of
the ten that identifies
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the maker of heaven and earth,
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Jesus Christ and
that is this one,
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commandment number four
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the seventh day Sabbath it says,
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remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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We all have to make a choice
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and when the final
crisis hits the whole world
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we'll have to
make a final choice
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between God and the beast,
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between his law and deception
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and tradition and
the doctrines of men
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as compare to
what he has written
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with his own finger on stone,
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I've made up my mind
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that no matter
what anybody says,
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I want to follow
Jesus in the Bible
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I want to follow
the ten commandments,
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I want to follow the truth,
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and I believe that you do to.
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I want to make
it again very clear
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I'm not condemning you
for whatever you believe
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or your practices
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but I'm sharing
information with you that
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I believe the Holy Spirit
is going to speak to your heart
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with and speak to your mind
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and direct you to the Bible,
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so that you can
see the real issues
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not cookie
monster fantasy issues,
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even though you
may have missed a spot,
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you will come back by
God's grace to the truth
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that is in the Bible
has knowledge increases
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I these last days.
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Revelation 14:12 says,
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"Here is the
patience of the saints,
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here are they that
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus."
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Let's be part of these people,
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you have just
heard His Voice Today.
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We hope you've
enjoyed this timely message
00:26:43.10\00:26:45.10
from Pastor Steve Wohlberg.
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What is the mark of the beast?
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a barcode or
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reveals the naked truth
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