The Mark of the Beast
and of course the question is
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when you come to
the Mark of the Beast
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who is beast or
what is the beast,
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and what is the
significance of his is mark?
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And specifically how
about that number 666,
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what is that all about?
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Now these are
some of the questions
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we want to answer tonight
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as we again turn our attention
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to that
apocalyptic Book of Revelation.
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You know, the Bible
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in contemning
this apostate power
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gives us one of
the strongest mornings
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anywhere in scriptures.
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We find it and it's
gonna be on the screen to night
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Revelation 14:9,10 where
it says "And another angel"
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that would angel translates
out to be messenger aggelos
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the Greek word
means actually messenger.
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"And another angel, a third one,
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followed them,
saying with a loud voice,
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'If anyone worships
the beast and his image,
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and receives a
mark on his forehead
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or upon his hand,
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he also will drink of
the wine of the wrath of God,
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which is mixed in full strength
in the cup of his anger."
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I mean, this eminently
is very strong language,
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isn't it?
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And then it goes on to say
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"And he will be tormented
with fire and brim-stone
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in the presence
of the holy angels
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and in the
presence of the Lamb."
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My friend, we do
serve a God of love
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but a God of
love that in the end
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is going to take action to
eliminate and destroy evil.
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It is a cancer and
it must be dealt with.
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But again we know that
He's gonna do everything
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that He possibly can
to say as many who will.
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But we all have the
choice in this, don't we?
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And when it comes down
to the issue of the mark
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we have a choice in all of this.
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And so if we
make the right choice
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and our love for Jesus Christ
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my friend, we have nothing
to fear about the end times,
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we have nothing
fear about the beast
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and the mark and
all of these issues.
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Again I remind you
the promise is that,
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you know, Jesus
said I am with you always
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even to the end of the
age or the end of the world.
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But the Lord
clearly as given us warning
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to keep us from being deceived
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and receiving the
terrible judgments
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and the final
destruction in the lake of fire
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for those who receive
the mark of the beast.
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And so tonight we're going to--
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our subjects
divided into two parts.
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We're going to first
of all identify the beast
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and we're going to do that
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by taking seven
identifying characteristic
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straight out of the Book
of Revelation Chapter 13.
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And then the later
part of the presentation
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we'll examine what the
Mark of the Beast is all about.
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And we will spend near
as much time on the mark
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it's very important of course.
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But we will not spend
as much time in the mark
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as we do in the
identity of the beast
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because that is
essential for us to be clear on.
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Won't you agree?
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And by the way for
those who thought there
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we're gonna get a presentation
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as we come to the Mark
on the issue of the mark
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whether it's a literal mark.
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I do not deny the possibility
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that they could
be a literal mark
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I believe however that
it represents a choice.
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He says Mark in the forehead,
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I think they are those
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who are gonna buy
into this last deception
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I think that's what
he's represented there.
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And then it says those--
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and those who are
received it in their hand
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and that is they
are going to go long
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not because
they are so convinced
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but you do understand,
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you know, unless we have
the Mark we can buy or sell.
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There's consequences that follow
if you don't have the mark.
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So some are
just gonna go a long.
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So let's look at
this matter the beast
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as we turn to
Revelation Chapter 13
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and we look at verses 1 and 2
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where it says "And I stood"
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John says "I stood
upon the sand of the sea,
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and I saw a beast
rise up out of the sea,
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having seven
heads and ten horns,
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and upon his horns ten crowns,
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and upon his heads
the name of blasphemy.
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And the beast which I
saw was like unto a leopard,
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and his feet were
as the feet of a bear,
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and his mouth as
the mouth of a lion,
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and the dragon
gave him his power,
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and his seat and
great authority."
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It's great composite beast
is what we have in Revelation 13
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and it's important
to take note of the fact
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that the dragon is
involved with the beast
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and the dragon it
says gave him his power,
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his seat and great authority.
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That's gonna be
important in our identity
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of the beast as we move into it.
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So anyway this idea beast,
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remember again in
the Book of Revelation
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as we noted on
numerous occasions
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this is a book that is filled
with prophetic symbolisms,
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right.
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It's coded but
we can as we study
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we can
understand the great things
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that we find in
the Book of Revelation.
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In fact as we talk
about the symbolisms
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these Prophetic symbolisms
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we're not unfamiliar
with this kind of symbolisms.
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In fact, when
you look at the bear
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what great countries
represent by the bear?
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Yeah, Russia you've got it.
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And let's go on
how about the Lion,
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what country is
represented by the lion?
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And my friend, the answer is
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that represents
Great Britain doesn't it?
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And now if you miss
this one you plunge a course
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because the bald eagle
represents what great country?
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It represents the United States.
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So again, we know
something about symbolisms
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and we have them
here and we can understand
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what is behind the symbolisms.
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But remember it said
there in those first verses
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"That the dragon
gave the beast his seat,
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his power and great authority."
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And of course, the question
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then naturally
follows who is the dragon?
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And we certainly had studied
this one out, haven't we?
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But less we be confuse about it.
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Let's go to the chapter
and verses its Revelation 12:9
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where it says
"And the great dragon
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was thrown down,
the serpent of old
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who is called
the devil and Satan,
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who deceives the whole world,
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he was thrown
down to the earth."
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And so the
dragon represents whom?
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It represent Satan,
it represents the devil.
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And I don't think if I--
well, let me ask you a question.
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Anybody surprised to find out
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that behind a
beast is the devil?
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No, I don't think
we'll be surprise at all
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but it's
exclusively explained here.
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And for the more
in that some context
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that is in Revelation
12 looking at verses 3-5
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we see the conflict and we
see the hatred of the evil one.
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In verse 3 it says "And
behold, a great red dragon
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having seven heads and ten hors,
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and on his heads
were seven diadems.
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And the dragon
stood before the woman
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who was about to give birth,
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so that when she gave birth
he might devour here child.
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And she gave birth to a son,
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a male child, who is to rule
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all the nations
with a rod of iron,
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and here child was caught
up to God and to His throne."
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Well, who is that talking about?
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It's talking
about Jesus, isn't it?
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And so we see the dragon,
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he is anticipating
the coming of Jesus.
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Again the
language here prophetic
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but he
certainly his anticipating
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the coming of Jesus.
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And what is his intention?
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Well, he is-- what
is rebelled it is evil.
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And my friend,
he knew everything
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depended on the outcome
of this conflict with Jesus.
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And He was determined
that word that is used here
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that he would devour Jesus
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when He came into the world.
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And so we're
going to trace this,
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we're gonna see how
this plate out historically
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which will help us
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again in identifying
who the beast really is.
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We need to take note
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that the devil
rarely operates in the open.
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I mean, he is the
great manipulator.
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He works behind the scenes
often manipulating individuals,
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and manipulating
powers and institutions
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that's what we know of him.
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And so he would seat
to devour the Christ child
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and we look at the historical
the biblical record of it
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and it takes us
right back to the wise men.
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Remember they've been
following the star for the east.
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They have been
studying the prophecies
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they predicted
the birth of a king.
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Unfortunately the people
of God had not really been
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keeping in touch
with those prophecies.
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But anyway they
came to Jerusalem
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following the star
and they were asking.
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They thought everybody
would be excited about the fact
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you know the
king was gonna be born
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and you know they again create
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a quite a bit of activity
within the city as they were
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you know asking the question.
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King Herod, King Herod, God word
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of the stir that was
happening in Jerusalem
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from these strangers
these mystic strangers
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from the east.
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And so he had to
brought into his presents
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and we've been
through this little bit before
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and he turn to
his Jewish counselors
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and he said you know do you
have any idea where the king,
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you know, the new
born king would be born?
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And they turned to the prophecy
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of Mike 5:2 said it
was gonna be Bethlehem.
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And remember he said to
the wise men, go find Him
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and when you
find Him send me word
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so I too can come and worship.
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Well, he didn't have
worship in mind at all.
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He perceived this is
threat to his position.
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He was the king, King Herod
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and he was gonna have none of it
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and remember when
the wise man were told
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to get out of Bethlehem
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do not return to King Herod
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and further more
Joseph received a dream
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and he said to take
the child at his mother
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and get out of town
and head down to Egypt.
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When that became
apparent to Herod
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he sent his
soldiers into Bethlehem
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and they destroyed
every child, every male child
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two years of age and under.
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That has to go down in history
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as one of the
most dastardly deeds
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in his attempts to
destroy the Christ child.
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And again the
prophecy is that the devil,
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the evil one would seek
to devour the Christ child.
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And again we see how he was
manipulating behind the scenes
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working in this
case through King Herod,
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but King Herod did not stand
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upon his own
authority is what we find.
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In fact, it goes
back to 37 B.C, 37 B.C.
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The practice of the Roman
Empire that period of time
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was to establish these-- we
will call them puppet states
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on the frontiers of the empire
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buffer states is what they were
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buffer states to well
lay beyond the empire.
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And so Octavian
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you know that word
from history don't you,
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Octavian and Mark Antony
interestingly again in 37 B.C
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sponsored Herod
to become the king
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of the state this buffer state.
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Now the emperor--
empire was setting up
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and the Roman senate
conferred on Herod his kingship.
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And so what was--
who is the power behind
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the authority of King Herod?
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My friend, it was Rome.
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And we're talking
about imperial or pagan Rome.
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And we will discover
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that imperial pagan
Rome played a role, a part
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it is not the
beast but it played part
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in this matter of seeking
to destroy the Christ child.
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I remind you that it
was before a Roman governor
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that Jesus was
tied and condemned
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that was by Roman soldiers
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that He was crucified
on the cross of Calvary
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and at the tomb there was
Roman God and Roman sealed
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that was put over the tomb.
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So imperial Rome
plays a major role
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in this matter
of the transparence
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of the dragon seat and
power and great authority.
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In fact, Constantine
played a major role in this.
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This is going into the
early 4th Century the 300s
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and it was Constantine
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who transferred
the seat of his power
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from Rome the City of
Rome to Constantinople.
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He established
the city in the east
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and part of the empire
and he named it after himself.
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He did that in 330
A.D is what the Bible
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as what history tells us.
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And in the
resulting vacuum in Rome--
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papal Rome
gradually became more dominate
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assuming both civil
and religious authority,
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again is what the
Bible indicates to us.
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Let me share a
couple of statements
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historically
that we bear this out
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Labianca from the
University of Rome
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may this observation he said
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"To the
succession of the Caesars
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came the successions
of the Pontiffs in Rome.
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When Constantine left Rome
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he gave his
seat to the Pontiff."
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And then we move on
to Abbots Roman History
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page, 236 where he says
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"the transference of
the emperor's residence
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to Constantinople was a sad
blow to the prestige of Rome,
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and at the time one might have
predicted her speedy decline.
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But the
development of the Church,
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and the growing
authority of the Bishop of Rome,
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or the pope, gave
her a new lease on life,
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and made here again the capital
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this time the religious
capital of the civilized world."
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Then it is a
historical fact, papal Rome.
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And my friend, key to
the immersions of papal Rome
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in this position of dominates
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was the
influence of Constantine.
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Constantine had a
dramatic influence on--
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in the immersions
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under development
of the papal system.
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So was through the
influence of Constantine
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coupled with the disintegration
of the empire over time
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these two factors
were major in the emergence
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and the
development of papal system.
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And so as we examine
the Biblical evidence
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it clearly points to papal Rome
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as the only
possible power or institution
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that immerge out of
disintegration of pagan Rome
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that fulfills the prophecy
here of Revelation Chapter 13.
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So papal Rome
in Herod it is seed
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and powerful imperial Rome
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another historically
event that is important
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in the emergence
of the papal system.
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Came in the 6th
Century the 6th Century,
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when the emperor Justinian,
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Justinian made a decree 538 AD
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in which he settle
the issue of the supremacy
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of the Bishop of Rome
over the church universal.
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But churches of the
east had been resisting
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the authority of
the Bishop of Rome.
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And so 538 was important.
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And so 538 is a key date
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in the establishment
of the papal system.
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And by the way that
decree went into effective 538,
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when the strangle
hold of the Ostrogoths
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with the city of Rome was
broken, was broken 538 A.D
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and that day we
will come back to.
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So again remember
we're gonna be looking
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at seven
identifying characteristics,
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so we have just started.
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Let me just put
the evidence together
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both biblically and
from the historical record.
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But we go on back
into Revelation 13
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and looking at verses 5and 6
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as we pick up another
identifying characteristic
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where it says "And
there was given unto him
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a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies.
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And he opened his mouth
in blasphemy against God,
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to blaspheme His
name, and his tabernacle,
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and them that dwell in heaven."
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I mean, this is quite an
outstanding passage isn't it.
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Blasphemy it
would guilty a blasphemy
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could that possibly be
true of the papal system.
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And what is blasphemy
anyway? How would you define it?
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Well, we have to do it
biblically, don't you think.
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Let's get a cup of biblical
definitions of blasphemy.
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In John 10:33 that chief priest
describes accuse Jesus of this
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it says "The Jews
answered Him, saying,
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'For a good work
we do not stone You,
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but for
blasphemy, and because You,
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being a man, make Yourself God."
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Now they were correct
on the principal of it.
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No human being as right
to take those purgatives
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and take those claims
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that belong to God
alone, to God alone.
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So they were
right in the principal
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they were wrong in
the application of it,
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to Jesus Christ,
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who clearly is God.
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We've studied that
haven't we? He is God.
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Look at some of the claims
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that are made
by the papal system
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this is from the,
Extracts from Ferraris,
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Ecclesiastical Dictionary
it's an Article on the Pope.
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"The Pope is of so great dignity
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and so exalted that
he is not a mere man,
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but as it were God,
and the vicar of God.
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He is likewise,
the divine monarch
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and supreme
emperor and king of kings."
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By the way does the Bible
tells is the king of kings.
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Jesus is the King of Kings.
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I mean really
fantastic extraordinary claims
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as you really study
out again the papal system.
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It goes on to say
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"So that if it were possible
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that the angels
might err in the faith,
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or might think
contrary to the faith,
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they could be judged and
excommunicated by the Pope."
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Even claims of the authority
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over the angels of God
in heaven, think of that.
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Truly as I said a
moment ago, extraordinary.
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Pope Leo XIII said very simply
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"We hold upon this earth
the place of God Almighty."
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And my friend, you can multiply
many of these kinds of claims
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but I think it's a sufficient
for our study this evening.
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I had privilege of
being there that is in Rome.
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It was kind of trip that
was kind of pull together
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at the last moment
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decided I want to
get to the holy land
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and I could get
three days in Rome.
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What do you do
with three days in Rome?
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Well, if you're me
and interested in history
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as I am you know
you've got compact
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a lot of you know sightseeing
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in three days and
I prepared for it.
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I knew the things
I want to see in Rome
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and I was not really
interested in the fountains
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of some of the typical
thing that many sightseers
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would have been interested in
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but I was
particularly interested
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in visiting the Vatican.
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And so the last
day that I was there,
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there was
general people audience
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and I determine I
was gonna be there.
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We were flying out
the very next morning.
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And so I came
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this is the entrance
to St. Peter's Square
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and let me tell you the
security was out in force.
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It was, they had this
they put up this fences
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and entrances
only at certain places
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where you could go
into St. Peter's Square.
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And they were
looking crowd over intently.
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In fact, as I
bring this picture up
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you will see
this man right here,
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you see with his arms up
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lifted like this
they're searching him.
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Again you believe
it they stopped me.
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They did.
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Well, you see I
was carrying this bag
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it was about this long
and about this bigger island
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and they just had
to see what was in it
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and so I open it up and
I said see its a tripod.
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You know, I
have my camera there.
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I have big camera
bag on one side of me
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with all the lenses and stuff
00:21:14.88\00:21:16.27
that we use to do
with 35 millimeter cameras
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and I had a tripod.
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I came two hours
early and this was as close
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as I could get, believe or not.
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And then you know
there was stirring
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and before we
knew what was happening
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the people in
front of us was guard
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we're all on
standing on top of their seats
00:21:36.74\00:21:40.74
and some of them
have brought banners
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you would have thought they--
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were you at a super bowl game.
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You know, and they
were just ecstatic.
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And we couldn't see anything
00:21:51.73\00:21:54.33
because they were
standing on their seats
00:21:54.36\00:21:56.22
and we wanted to see what
they were so excited about.
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And so, you know,
I don't speak Italian
00:22:00.13\00:22:02.55
but you know it wasn't really
we're going gregarine chant
00:22:02.58\00:22:05.50
but they began to pick
up this chant around me
00:22:05.53\00:22:08.53
I knew what they were saying,
00:22:08.56\00:22:09.86
so I added my English tongue.
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We were shouting
sit down, sit down.
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Yes, we did.
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And they were enough of us
00:22:18.01\00:22:19.22
that we got the
attention of some of them
00:22:19.25\00:22:21.77
on the back
seats, they looked back
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.38
but didn't make any
difference that all.
00:22:24.41\00:22:26.71
But finally they settled down
00:22:26.74\00:22:28.73
and when they did sure enough
he was there Pope John Paul II.
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And praise the
Lord for telephoto lens
00:22:34.33\00:22:36.28
when you are that far back.
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And he gave various greetings
in quite a few languages.
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You know, it's this cathedral,
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it's this temple
that was so fascinating.
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It is the largest
cathedral in Christendom.
00:22:48.98\00:22:52.08
And I want to tell
you it is magnificent.
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The architecture and the art
that went into this cathedral
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and it was huge.
00:22:59.81\00:23:03.49
You know, I am not
good estimating crowds
00:23:03.52\00:23:05.52
not crowds like that where
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in that
particular cathedral that day
00:23:06.78\00:23:08.80
but I wouldn't
be surprised to hear
00:23:08.83\00:23:10.78
there were 10,000 people
inside of that cathedral.
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It was just jammed paked full.
00:23:14.12\00:23:17.16
And so, you know,
I was with my group,
00:23:17.19\00:23:19.56
I was with my group
00:23:19.59\00:23:20.62
that I just been a
week with in the holy land
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and it was our first day.
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Now I'll take you
back a little bit.
00:23:25.54\00:23:27.56
It's the first
day I was there twice.
00:23:27.59\00:23:30.06
And so we have an
official tour of the Vatican.
00:23:30.09\00:23:33.27
And we had this tall
Italian he stood ahead
00:23:33.30\00:23:37.18
and almost shoulders
above the rest of the crowd
00:23:37.21\00:23:39.85
wearing a black hat
00:23:39.88\00:23:42.05
and he sometimes
put on his umbrella
00:23:42.08\00:23:43.94
so we wouldn't
get lost in the crowd
00:23:43.97\00:23:45.53
as we are trying to find
00:23:45.56\00:23:46.59
and he was explain this
and that and micro Angelo
00:23:46.62\00:23:49.43
and what he did here and there.
00:23:49.46\00:23:51.31
And eventually we got down
00:23:51.34\00:23:53.59
to the main altar there
in St. Peter's Cathedral.
00:23:53.62\00:24:00.64
And I want tell you
its pretty fantastic.
00:24:00.67\00:24:02.82
This is the seat of St. Peter
00:24:02.85\00:24:05.05
I guess it would be
the proper way to refer to
00:24:05.08\00:24:07.80
it is the official
thrown of the pope.
00:24:07.83\00:24:11.63
And the only time
did he ever sits on that
00:24:11.66\00:24:13.99
is when he speaks ex-cathedral
00:24:14.02\00:24:16.97
that is with the
final word of authority
00:24:17.00\00:24:19.69
for the papal system.
00:24:19.72\00:24:23.11
And to my
knowledge put John Paul II
00:24:23.14\00:24:25.12
never sat in that seat
00:24:25.15\00:24:27.02
and Pope Benedict
XVI has not either.
00:24:27.05\00:24:30.41
So it's a rare occasion.
00:24:30.44\00:24:32.70
But I mean, look at that.
00:24:32.73\00:24:34.66
I mean, that is
just pretty fantastic
00:24:34.69\00:24:37.62
when you take look at it.
00:24:37.65\00:24:38.68
Well, I saw that a
prophecy came to my mind
00:24:38.71\00:24:42.57
a prophecy that Paul
made in 2 Thessalonians 2
00:24:42.60\00:24:46.21
beginning with
verse 3 where he said
00:24:46.24\00:24:48.15
"Let no man
deceive you in any way,
00:24:48.18\00:24:50.77
for it will not come."
00:24:50.80\00:24:52.42
Remember that's talking
about the coming of Jesus.
00:24:52.45\00:24:54.30
"For it will not come
unless the apostasy comes first
00:24:54.33\00:24:59.34
and the man of
lawlessness is revealed,
00:24:59.37\00:25:02.79
the son of destruction
who opposes and exalts himself
00:25:02.82\00:25:06.05
above every so called
God or object of worship
00:25:06.08\00:25:08.87
so that he takes his
seat in the temple of God,
00:25:08.90\00:25:13.83
displaying
himself as being God."
00:25:13.86\00:25:18.20
Now you understand
why I made that connection
00:25:18.23\00:25:21.20
when you look at this
particular statements scripture
00:25:21.23\00:25:24.49
and I will take you back
00:25:24.52\00:25:25.60
to what we read
in Revelation 13:6.
00:25:25.63\00:25:29.33
I want to remind you
something we just read.
00:25:29.36\00:25:32.23
It said that "He
would open his mouth
00:25:32.26\00:25:35.39
in blasphemies against
God, and His tabernacle."
00:25:35.42\00:25:41.56
What is God's tabernacle?
What's another word for that?
00:25:41.59\00:25:46.26
God's temple and
remember we've been studying
00:25:46.29\00:25:49.24
about that Friday
night particularly
00:25:49.27\00:25:51.21
we're studying about
how the earthly temple
00:25:51.24\00:25:54.17
with symbolic of
the heavenly temple.
00:25:54.20\00:25:56.51
How the earthly temple
system was done away with
00:25:56.54\00:26:00.03
with the sacrifice of
Jesus and then his ascension
00:26:00.06\00:26:02.98
into the heavenly
temple as our intercessor.
00:26:03.01\00:26:06.17
And there is a connection here
00:26:06.20\00:26:08.15
when he talks about he
open his mouth in blasphemy
00:26:08.18\00:26:10.69
against his tabernacle
against the temple of God.
00:26:10.72\00:26:14.40
Remember Hebrew 8:1, 2
00:26:14.43\00:26:16.83
it says "We have
such a high priest,
00:26:16.86\00:26:18.84
who has taken His seat at
the right hand of the throne
00:26:18.87\00:26:21.84
of the Majesty in the heavens,
00:26:21.87\00:26:23.65
a minister in the sanctuary,
which the Lord pitch not man."
00:26:23.68\00:26:28.20
And so my friend,
we have two systems
00:26:28.23\00:26:31.72
one if Heavenly, one if Earthly.
00:26:31.75\00:26:34.67
And the earthly system here
is counterfeit of the heavenly.
00:26:34.70\00:26:38.87
In heavenly system
we have our high priest
00:26:38.90\00:26:42.39
the one that pay the
price of our redemption
00:26:42.42\00:26:45.05
split his blood on the
cross of Calvary for us
00:26:45.08\00:26:49.98
who has we noted
already ascended into heaven
00:26:50.01\00:26:53.19
and now functions as high
priest in the heavenly temple
00:26:53.22\00:26:57.84
that counterfeit has its temple.
00:26:57.87\00:27:00.32
I told you I was gonna
show that temple to you
00:27:00.35\00:27:02.49
and I just done it,
00:27:02.52\00:27:04.55
and we haven an earthly temple
00:27:04.58\00:27:06.16
in which operates or functions
a counterfeit high priest.
00:27:06.19\00:27:11.23
Now I know this is really
kind of laying it out, isn't it?
00:27:11.26\00:27:16.72
But I remind you
he spent three weeks
00:27:16.75\00:27:18.67
and there is lot of
things we've studied
00:27:18.70\00:27:20.52
that really
prepared the background
00:27:20.55\00:27:22.66
for our study to night.
00:27:22.69\00:27:25.04
And I just want to go on record
00:27:25.07\00:27:26.45
we're talking about
an institution tonight.
00:27:26.48\00:27:29.44
We're not here to
talk about the people.
00:27:29.47\00:27:32.49
I mean, undoubtedly.
00:27:32.52\00:27:35.31
You know there are probably
are more sincere Christians
00:27:35.34\00:27:40.36
in the Roman Catholic
Church than any other church.
00:27:40.39\00:27:44.85
Again we're not here
to talk about the people
00:27:44.88\00:27:48.41
because they are
many sincere people
00:27:48.44\00:27:51.39
in the Roman Catholic
communion that loved the Lord
00:27:51.42\00:27:55.08
and I believe many of
them are gonna be saved
00:27:55.11\00:27:57.14
as I believe in many,
00:27:57.17\00:27:59.05
you know, I think that's
true of all churches, don't you.
00:27:59.08\00:28:01.99
We're not to be
exclusive about this.
00:28:02.02\00:28:04.30
However the prophecy
does makes it pretty clear
00:28:04.33\00:28:07.98
that is talking about a system
00:28:08.01\00:28:09.95
and this is not new
novel interpretation,
00:28:09.98\00:28:12.57
this an
interpretation that goes back
00:28:12.60\00:28:14.35
to great reformers
beginning with Martin Luther.
00:28:14.38\00:28:17.26
Now listen, his
language was not always temper
00:28:17.29\00:28:19.50
when it came to this issue
but anyway this is what he said.
00:28:19.53\00:28:23.39
"Let the great day of God come
00:28:23.42\00:28:25.43
and destroy the
devil's nest at Rome."
00:28:25.46\00:28:27.45
I don't really like that
kind of language, do you?
00:28:27.48\00:28:30.50
But, you know, I
didn't live through
00:28:30.53\00:28:32.21
what Martin Luther live through.
00:28:32.24\00:28:34.56
He says "There sits the man
00:28:34.59\00:28:36.18
of whom Paul said
he shall act as God,
00:28:36.21\00:28:38.84
the man of sin and
the son of perdition."
00:28:38.87\00:28:42.21
Quoting 2
Thessalonians 2 as we just did.
00:28:42.24\00:28:45.73
Each of the
reformers without exception
00:28:45.76\00:28:49.31
may the
application of these prophecies
00:28:49.34\00:28:51.59
in reference to the antichrist
00:28:51.62\00:28:53.79
to the Church of
Rome to the papal system.
00:28:53.82\00:28:57.72
And we don't hear
this so often today.
00:28:57.75\00:29:01.34
But he said delicate
issue it is delicate to be sure.
00:29:01.37\00:29:06.12
John Calvin for those of us
00:29:06.15\00:29:08.25
who may be from
a reform background
00:29:08.28\00:29:10.16
and his
Institutes, volume 2 page, 410
00:29:10.19\00:29:13.26
said "Some people think
us too severe and censorious
00:29:13.29\00:29:17.80
when we call the
Roman Pontiff antichrist
00:29:17.83\00:29:21.03
His kingdom will
consist in speaking great words,
00:29:21.06\00:29:24.07
or blasphemies
against the Most High."
00:29:24.10\00:29:27.63
And in The Blessed
Hope page, 33 it observes
00:29:27.66\00:29:30.69
"Many of the great
Christians of Reformation
00:29:30.72\00:29:32.94
and post-Reformation times
00:29:32.97\00:29:34.94
shared this view
of prophetic truth
00:29:34.97\00:29:37.25
and identified the antichrist
with the Roman Papacy.
00:29:37.28\00:29:40.51
"Among adherents
of this interpretation
00:29:40.54\00:29:42.66
were the Wilderness,
the Hussites, Wyclif,
00:29:42.69\00:29:46.30
Luther, Calvin,
Zwingli, Melanchton"
00:29:46.33\00:29:49.41
an associate of Martin Luther
00:29:49.44\00:29:51.58
"the Baptist theologian
John Gill, the martyrs"
00:29:51.61\00:29:54.39
of course the
martyrs we would expect that
00:29:54.42\00:29:56.31
"Cranmer, Tyndale,
Latimer, and Ridley."
00:29:56.34\00:29:59.90
So my friend, this is not
a new or novel interpretation
00:29:59.93\00:30:04.48
it may be to us
if we never heard it
00:30:04.51\00:30:07.39
and we just really
have gotten started.
00:30:07.42\00:30:09.72
So let me just line them up.
00:30:09.75\00:30:11.64
You know, when you study the--
00:30:11.67\00:30:13.05
when you study Bible truth
00:30:13.08\00:30:14.58
its like have you
ever built a fence?
00:30:14.61\00:30:18.66
You know I did built a
fence once I had help with it
00:30:18.69\00:30:21.67
but you know your
laying down a post,
00:30:21.70\00:30:24.00
you are laying down the post,
00:30:24.03\00:30:25.31
and when you put
the first post in
00:30:25.34\00:30:27.37
you know, casual
observer may not have any idea
00:30:27.40\00:30:30.02
just really where
you are going with that
00:30:30.05\00:30:31.63
but, when you
put down the second
00:30:31.66\00:30:32.93
and third and fourth post
00:30:32.96\00:30:34.58
you began to get
a sense of the line
00:30:34.61\00:30:37.09
of direction
that you are heading.
00:30:37.12\00:30:38.89
And my friend, that's what we do
when we study the word of God.
00:30:38.92\00:30:41.26
We take a Bible text,
00:30:41.29\00:30:42.68
its like putting
a post in the ground
00:30:42.71\00:30:44.13
then you take
another relevant Bible text
00:30:44.16\00:30:46.09
and you put in
place and then another
00:30:46.12\00:30:48.46
and then you began
to see the line of truth
00:30:48.49\00:30:51.52
and that's what we were doing
00:30:51.55\00:30:52.58
as we're looking at the seven
identifying characteristics
00:30:52.61\00:30:55.60
as we get each one
into position, into place.
00:30:55.63\00:31:00.91
Now, there's another
definition of blasphemy
00:31:00.94\00:31:03.29
that we find in
Luke 5:21 where it says,
00:31:03.32\00:31:05.24
"And the scribes
and the Pharisees
00:31:05.27\00:31:06.56
began to reason, saying,
00:31:06.59\00:31:08.28
'Who is this man
which speaks blasphemies?
00:31:08.31\00:31:10.84
Who can forgive
sins, but God alone?'"
00:31:10.87\00:31:14.83
And again, they
write on the principal,
00:31:14.86\00:31:17.14
they were just wrong and making
it an application to Jesus.
00:31:17.17\00:31:22.36
No one has the
authority to forgive sins.
00:31:22.39\00:31:27.31
Notice this from the Dignity
and Duties of the Priest,
00:31:27.34\00:31:30.00
volume 12, page
27 where it says,
00:31:30.03\00:31:33.07
"God Himself is obliged to abide
by the judgment of His priest,
00:31:33.10\00:31:37.63
and either not to
pardon or to pardon,
00:31:37.66\00:31:40.06
according as they
refuse or give absolution.
00:31:40.09\00:31:43.41
The sentence of
the priest precedes,"
00:31:43.44\00:31:45.83
it goes first, "and
God subscribes to it."
00:31:45.86\00:31:48.27
That's secondary.
That's official teaching.
00:31:48.30\00:31:52.14
This is from The
Catholic Priest, pages 78, 79,
00:31:52.17\00:31:55.14
"Seek where you will,
through heaven and earth,
00:31:55.17\00:31:57.73
and you will find
but one created being
00:31:57.76\00:32:00.07
who can forgive the
sinner, that extraordinary being
00:32:00.10\00:32:02.67
is the priest,
the Catholic priest."
00:32:02.70\00:32:05.30
And my friends, I found them all
00:32:05.33\00:32:07.35
through Saint Peter's
Cathedral, the confessional.
00:32:07.38\00:32:10.58
Individuals, I don't know
what they had on their hearts
00:32:10.61\00:32:12.94
it wasn't my
business to know that
00:32:12.97\00:32:15.43
nor do I think it's
any other human's business
00:32:15.46\00:32:18.42
to know that outside of somebody
as I said, who has been wronged.
00:32:18.45\00:32:21.96
Let me share with you
00:32:21.99\00:32:23.19
what the Bible
teaches about this matter.
00:32:23.22\00:32:25.21
In 1 Timothy 2:5 it
says, "For there is one God,
00:32:25.24\00:32:28.89
and one Mediator"
what" mediator or intercessor
00:32:28.92\00:32:32.84
"between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus."
00:32:32.87\00:32:39.52
My friends, as
I already noted it
00:32:39.55\00:32:40.79
in our study the other night
00:32:40.82\00:32:42.93
temples came to an end
00:32:42.96\00:32:45.58
when Jesus ascended to heaven
and to the heavenly temple.
00:32:45.61\00:32:48.64
Earthly priest came to an end
00:32:48.67\00:32:51.49
with the heavenly
priesthood of Jesus Christ.
00:32:51.52\00:32:54.63
But my friend,
when we have sinned
00:32:54.66\00:32:56.95
we can go directly to Jesus
and we can confess our sins
00:32:56.98\00:33:02.34
and we know how
we will be received
00:33:02.37\00:33:05.66
because we know something
00:33:05.69\00:33:06.81
about he depths
of His love for us.
00:33:06.84\00:33:10.40
Forgiveness and
pardon is freely extended
00:33:10.43\00:33:13.92
to every one of us.
00:33:13.95\00:33:15.38
It's marvelous as you
look at the plan of salvation.
00:33:15.41\00:33:20.75
This one in
Revelation 13:7, it says,
00:33:20.78\00:33:23.76
"And it was given unto him
to make war with the saints,"
00:33:23.79\00:33:26.79
to make war with the
saints-- with the people of God,
00:33:26.82\00:33:29.18
"and to overcome them and power
was given him over all kindreds,
00:33:29.21\00:33:32.58
and tongues, and peoples."
00:33:32.61\00:33:35.34
Making war with the
saints, persecuting the saints,
00:33:35.37\00:33:38.56
could that be
true of papal system?
00:33:38.59\00:33:41.35
And my friends, sadly history
does bear testimony to that
00:33:41.38\00:33:45.99
and to his
credit Pope John Paul II
00:33:46.02\00:33:48.86
acknowledged that historically
00:33:48.89\00:33:50.60
the church have been
guilty of some of these things.
00:33:50.63\00:33:52.76
I mean, that took some crunch
on his part to acknowledge that.
00:33:52.79\00:33:56.59
Don't you think?
00:33:56.62\00:33:57.90
Now I'll give you
one or two examples
00:33:57.93\00:33:59.91
of what we are
talking about historically.
00:33:59.94\00:34:01.53
It was Pope Pius V
00:34:01.56\00:34:03.49
and this was
when the reformation
00:34:03.52\00:34:05.67
was really taking hold in Europe
00:34:05.70\00:34:07.99
and they were
shaking the church.
00:34:08.02\00:34:09.82
It shook the church
down to its very foundations
00:34:09.85\00:34:12.96
and Pope Pius V gave to
the king of France 100 crowns
00:34:12.99\00:34:18.83
if he would eliminate the
Protestants from his realm.
00:34:18.86\00:34:23.47
They were called Huguenots.
00:34:23.50\00:34:25.51
And the king of France agreed.
00:34:25.54\00:34:30.19
In Paris alone it is estimated
00:34:30.22\00:34:32.43
some 70,000
Huguenots were put to death
00:34:32.46\00:34:37.38
because of the insistence
of the Church of Rome.
00:34:37.41\00:34:41.80
And the general
persecution and martyrdom
00:34:41.83\00:34:46.19
of the reformation followers
00:34:46.22\00:34:49.74
proceeded for
the next two months.
00:34:49.77\00:34:52.47
I mean, I take no
pleasure in sharing this
00:34:52.50\00:34:55.98
but it is
historically what happened,
00:34:56.01\00:34:58.71
exactly what happened.
00:34:58.74\00:35:00.80
The church was guilty
of seeking to put society
00:35:00.83\00:35:03.96
to cleanse society of decadence.
00:35:03.99\00:35:07.73
It's estimated by historians
that between 1540 and 1580
00:35:07.76\00:35:11.42
some 900,000 people were put
to death by the Church of Roman.
00:35:11.45\00:35:15.21
I mean, that's just
00:35:15.24\00:35:16.32
kind of blows
your mind, doesn't it.
00:35:16.35\00:35:18.49
And during the 30 years
of the Spanish inquisition
00:35:18.52\00:35:21.68
it is estimated some
150,000 were put to death.
00:35:21.71\00:35:27.81
Now we have to be
balance about this,
00:35:27.84\00:35:29.18
there were occasions in which
00:35:29.21\00:35:31.17
the reformers also were
guilty of persecuting Catholics.
00:35:31.20\00:35:37.45
Let's be clear in that.
00:35:37.48\00:35:39.53
But my friend, it
was never to the extent
00:35:39.56\00:35:41.69
that it was by
the Church of Rome
00:35:41.72\00:35:43.95
who saw its authority
00:35:43.98\00:35:45.60
being undermined
by the reformation.
00:35:45.63\00:35:50.18
And then I take you
on Revelation 13:5, 6.
00:35:50.21\00:35:53.81
We have looked at this in part
00:35:53.84\00:35:55.17
but it says here,
"And he was given a mouth
00:35:55.20\00:35:57.92
speaking great
things and blasphemies;
00:35:57.95\00:36:00.15
and he was given authority
00:36:00.18\00:36:01.67
to continue for
forty-two months."
00:36:01.70\00:36:04.55
That's a prophetic
time period, 42 months.
00:36:04.58\00:36:07.94
And remember, we've been
looking at time prophecies
00:36:07.97\00:36:10.38
so this not to you know,
00:36:10.41\00:36:12.72
it's not gonna be
foreign territory to most of us.
00:36:12.75\00:36:15.68
So again as we done
00:36:15.71\00:36:17.01
when we looked at
the 70 week prophecy
00:36:17.04\00:36:20.17
just yesterday
00:36:20.20\00:36:22.14
we're gonna break it
down to prophetic days
00:36:22.17\00:36:23.84
and in a prophetic month
there are exactly 30 days.
00:36:23.87\00:36:27.80
So we multiply 42 by 30
00:36:27.83\00:36:30.82
and the
resulting number is 1,260
00:36:30.85\00:36:33.49
prophetic days or years, okay.
00:36:33.52\00:36:38.10
Is what we find,
that's based on the principles
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.42
of Ezekiel 4:6 where it says,
00:36:40.45\00:36:42.40
"I have given you
a day for a year."
00:36:42.43\00:36:47.02
1,260 years.
00:36:47.05\00:36:49.76
So when we'll begin that
prophetic period of time?
00:36:49.79\00:36:52.71
Well, my friend,
I gave you the date
00:36:52.74\00:36:54.51
of the decree made
by Justinian in 538.
00:36:54.54\00:36:59.66
And so it stretches from 538,
00:36:59.69\00:37:04.17
1,260 years down to 1798.
00:37:04.20\00:37:10.41
And if you look at
that period of time
00:37:10.44\00:37:12.25
and you thinking to yourself,
well, that's the Dark Ages.
00:37:12.28\00:37:17.86
My friend, it is largely
the period of the Dark Ages.
00:37:17.89\00:37:21.94
And the papal
system has to accept
00:37:21.97\00:37:25.12
some major responsibilities,
not exclusively
00:37:25.15\00:37:27.58
but some major responsibility
for that dark period
00:37:27.61\00:37:31.22
of superstition
than in developed Europe.
00:37:31.25\00:37:33.85
1,260 years.
00:37:36.25\00:37:39.07
Furthermore back
in verse 3 it says,
00:37:39.10\00:37:40.98
"And I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death,
00:37:41.01\00:37:43.58
and his deadly wound was healed
00:37:43.61\00:37:45.13
and all the world
wondered after the beast."
00:37:45.16\00:37:47.77
Interestingly, this
part of the prophecy
00:37:47.80\00:37:50.60
was fulfilled in 1798.
00:37:50.63\00:37:52.82
What was going on in 1798?
00:37:52.85\00:37:55.06
Well, my friend,
this is what was going on,
00:37:55.09\00:37:57.46
Napoleon was going on,
00:37:57.49\00:37:59.38
Alexandre Berthier has
in 1798 was sent by Napoleon
00:37:59.41\00:38:05.36
and he abolished
the papal government,
00:38:05.39\00:38:08.15
he abolished the
papacy standing army.
00:38:08.18\00:38:14.35
I mean, this is kind
of hard for us to grasp
00:38:14.38\00:38:17.45
that the church had at
that time a standing army.
00:38:17.48\00:38:21.28
They had to disarm them,
they had to dismiss the troops.
00:38:21.31\00:38:26.42
And out of it came the emergence
of the republic of Italy.
00:38:26.45\00:38:31.71
And this is what it
says in The Modern Papacy,
00:38:31.74\00:38:33.62
"Berthier entered Rome
on the 10th February, 1798,
00:38:33.65\00:38:37.44
and proclaimed a republic.
00:38:37.47\00:38:39.64
Half Europe thought
Napoleon's veto would be obeyed,
00:38:39.67\00:38:42.47
and that with the
Pope the Papacy was dead."
00:38:42.50\00:38:46.01
That's what they thought
00:38:46.04\00:38:48.25
would happen and in fact,
00:38:48.28\00:38:49.63
this is the copy
of the actual document
00:38:49.66\00:38:53.59
that was executed by Berthier in
00:38:53.62\00:38:57.60
and I get abolished
the papal government
00:38:57.63\00:39:00.11
in establishing a republic.
00:39:00.14\00:39:02.49
You will find
this on the website
00:39:02.52\00:39:03.84
if you look for it.
00:39:03.87\00:39:05.37
You will actually
be able to see it.
00:39:05.40\00:39:07.90
And so that's what happened
00:39:07.93\00:39:09.02
and it was Pope Pius VI
00:39:09.05\00:39:11.66
that was taken into
exile and died in exile.
00:39:11.69\00:39:15.70
And people really thought
00:39:15.73\00:39:17.19
that the church really
was pretty much done in.
00:39:17.22\00:39:21.43
They received a deadly wound.
00:39:21.46\00:39:23.16
But remember the prophesy said,
00:39:23.19\00:39:24.53
it would-- it would be healed.
00:39:24.56\00:39:27.83
And my friend as we look at it,
00:39:27.86\00:39:29.41
yeah, there it
is, Revelation 13:3,
00:39:29.44\00:39:31.35
"And his deadly
wound was healed."
00:39:31.38\00:39:33.19
And again, we can
trace this out historically.
00:39:33.22\00:39:37.12
This happened in the year 1929
00:39:37.15\00:39:39.75
as reported here in the
San Francisco Chronicle,
00:39:39.78\00:39:42.25
February 11, 1929.
00:39:42.28\00:39:44.63
This is what the
article said, the report said,
00:39:44.66\00:39:46.92
"The Roman question
tonight was a thing of the past,
00:39:46.95\00:39:49.27
and the Vatican was
at peace with Italy.
00:39:49.30\00:39:51.69
In affixing the autographs
00:39:51.72\00:39:53.14
to the memorable
document healing the wound,
00:39:53.17\00:39:55.93
extreme cordiality was
displayed on both sides."
00:39:55.96\00:40:00.22
And I have a photograph of
the signing of this agreement
00:40:00.25\00:40:04.88
between the Italian government
00:40:04.91\00:40:07.24
and
representatives of the Vatican.
00:40:07.27\00:40:09.43
On one hand is Cardinal
Gasparri and on the other,
00:40:09.46\00:40:14.41
do you recognize him?
00:40:14.44\00:40:16.27
It's Mussolini.
00:40:16.30\00:40:18.97
And he restored the church
and established the sovereignty.
00:40:19.00\00:40:23.12
Recognize the
sovereignty of the church.
00:40:23.15\00:40:24.71
I mean, on a very reduce scale,
00:40:24.74\00:40:28.78
you know, its not--
00:40:28.81\00:40:31.38
you know, it's not
a very large at all.
00:40:31.41\00:40:34.51
But then we move
on, Revelation 13:7,
00:40:34.54\00:40:36.78
it says, "An authority was
given him over every tribe,
00:40:36.81\00:40:39.41
and tongues and nations."
00:40:39.44\00:40:41.20
My friend,
Revelation 13 tells us
00:40:41.23\00:40:44.08
that what has
happened in the past
00:40:44.11\00:40:45.95
is going to be
repeated in the end time.
00:40:45.98\00:40:48.22
History is
going to repeat itself
00:40:48.25\00:40:50.98
under the papal system.
00:40:51.01\00:40:52.69
And can you imagine any deadlier
00:40:52.72\00:40:55.61
deception than
that, that comes--
00:40:55.64\00:40:57.71
than that which will come
to us in the name of Christ?
00:40:57.74\00:41:00.91
Well, there is, that says,
00:41:00.94\00:41:02.53
"The whole earth
would be amazed."
00:41:02.56\00:41:05.28
Would be amazed.
00:41:05.31\00:41:06.74
My friends, this
is in development.
00:41:06.77\00:41:10.05
And we can really talk
about the pope and circumstance
00:41:10.08\00:41:13.26
and I mean, you
know it's something else
00:41:13.29\00:41:16.63
when you consider it.
00:41:16.66\00:41:17.69
I mean, there we
see the representatives
00:41:17.72\00:41:19.78
of our government
and past presidents
00:41:19.81\00:41:22.23
who were there at
Pope John Paul II's burial.
00:41:22.26\00:41:27.70
Interesting as you look at it.
00:41:27.73\00:41:29.92
And the
tapestries of the position
00:41:29.95\00:41:34.41
representing the authority
00:41:34.44\00:41:36.95
is something to really behold.
00:41:36.98\00:41:39.50
And we remember
when Pope Benedict XVI
00:41:39.53\00:41:42.58
visited this country
just a year or two ago.
00:41:42.61\00:41:45.12
Remember?
00:41:45.15\00:41:46.56
And of all of the
world representatives
00:41:46.59\00:41:49.37
that have ever
come to this country
00:41:49.40\00:41:52.17
our President George Bush
00:41:52.20\00:41:54.21
gave the pope an
official red carpet
00:41:54.24\00:41:57.53
welcome at the airport.
00:41:57.56\00:42:00.86
He had never done
that for any other,
00:42:00.89\00:42:04.05
again, representative
of any other country.
00:42:04.08\00:42:08.22
And so you know,
you would be amazed,
00:42:08.25\00:42:10.08
he spoke before the
U.N. week ago, on and on.
00:42:10.11\00:42:12.52
Couldn't we?
00:42:12.55\00:42:14.25
But there's one other--
00:42:14.28\00:42:15.87
there's one other
identifying characteristic
00:42:15.90\00:42:18.28
and yes, it's that number.
00:42:18.31\00:42:19.51
We find it in Revelation 13:18
00:42:19.54\00:42:22.08
where it says, "Here is wisdom.
00:42:22.11\00:42:23.42
Let him who has understanding
00:42:23.45\00:42:25.54
calculate the
number of the beast,
00:42:25.57\00:42:27.02
for it is the number of a man,
00:42:27.05\00:42:32.03
His number is six
hundred and sixty-six."
00:42:32.06\00:42:35.94
Now notice this
from Our Sunday Visitor,
00:42:35.97\00:42:39.30
it asks the question,
00:42:39.33\00:42:40.40
"What are the letters inscribed
in the pope's crown or mitre?
00:42:40.43\00:42:44.10
And what do they
signify if anything?"
00:42:44.13\00:42:46.66
And here's the
answer, Vicarius Filii Dei,
00:42:46.69\00:42:49.66
which is Latin for
Vicar of the son of God.
00:42:49.69\00:42:51.85
And indeed this is
one of the official titles
00:42:51.88\00:42:55.90
of the head of
the Church of Rome
00:42:55.93\00:42:57.80
of the papal
system Vicarius Filii Dei.
00:42:57.83\00:43:00.96
And when you work it out
00:43:00.99\00:43:02.04
according to the
simple Roman numerals,
00:43:02.07\00:43:05.30
guess what, it's in your notes,
00:43:05.33\00:43:06.95
it comes out to exactly 666.
00:43:06.98\00:43:10.59
And my friends, the evidence
just lines up from the Bible.
00:43:10.62\00:43:13.43
One and-- you know,
it could be coincidental
00:43:13.46\00:43:16.17
but when you have all seven
00:43:16.20\00:43:18.57
clearly historically lining
up, this is not coincidental.
00:43:18.60\00:43:24.83
It's not.
00:43:24.86\00:43:26.88
And remember, this
comes out of the apostasy.
00:43:26.91\00:43:29.51
I've not really gotten into this
00:43:29.54\00:43:31.07
but the church
went through apostasy
00:43:31.10\00:43:33.94
and allowed the
counterfeit system.
00:43:33.97\00:43:37.37
So we come to what is the mark.
00:43:37.40\00:43:40.31
What's the Mark of the
Beast? Let's look at that.
00:43:40.34\00:43:42.30
Daniel 7:25 deals with the
same identifying characteristics
00:43:42.33\00:43:46.66
as it relates to the system.
00:43:46.69\00:43:48.01
But it adds one important one.
00:43:48.04\00:43:50.40
Daniel 7:25, it says,
00:43:50.43\00:43:51.86
"And he shall speak great
words against the most High,
00:43:51.89\00:43:54.87
and shall wear out the
saints of the most High,"
00:43:54.90\00:43:58.04
we saw that, didn't we
00:43:58.07\00:43:59.62
in little bit
different language.
00:43:59.65\00:44:00.83
And furthermore, "And
think to change times and laws."
00:44:00.86\00:44:05.08
He would think to
change times and laws.
00:44:05.11\00:44:07.86
Now I don't know Latin
00:44:07.89\00:44:09.38
so but here is where
the statement is taken from
00:44:09.41\00:44:12.32
and it's from the Episcop Cap,
00:44:12.35\00:44:16.36
I can read that.
00:44:16.39\00:44:17.85
It's from the
church, a formal declaration.
00:44:17.88\00:44:21.59
It says, "The Pope has
the power to change times,
00:44:21.62\00:44:24.86
to abrogate laws, and to
dispense with all things,
00:44:24.89\00:44:28.23
even the precepts of Christ."
00:44:28.26\00:44:32.07
I tell you, the papal system
has some extraordinary claims
00:44:32.10\00:44:36.06
and there's a totally
different authority base
00:44:36.09\00:44:39.38
in the papal system
00:44:39.41\00:44:40.67
than there is in
any other church.
00:44:40.70\00:44:43.34
Most other
churches would profess
00:44:43.37\00:44:47.00
that the authority of
faith comes from the Bible.
00:44:47.03\00:44:52.63
The papal system
does not feel bound at all
00:44:52.66\00:44:55.74
to the authority of the Bible.
00:44:55.77\00:44:57.24
They believe their authority
stands above that of the Bible.
00:44:57.27\00:45:01.38
And so the decleration
of the church to the pope
00:45:01.41\00:45:05.98
and the decleration
of the church councils
00:45:06.01\00:45:09.00
and as it embodied in cannon law
00:45:09.03\00:45:13.36
is the final authority.
00:45:13.39\00:45:15.63
And yet I find
most Roman Catholics,
00:45:15.66\00:45:17.89
I mean in this country
00:45:17.92\00:45:19.72
yet have a high
regard for the Bible
00:45:19.75\00:45:22.45
and believe that really
we ought to take the Bible
00:45:22.48\00:45:25.12
very seriously in
the matters of faith.
00:45:25.15\00:45:28.16
So they think to
change times and laws.
00:45:28.19\00:45:30.23
What laws? Human
laws come and go.
00:45:30.26\00:45:33.25
Devine Law?
00:45:33.28\00:45:34.72
There's only one what
that would be of significance
00:45:34.75\00:45:37.75
and when we think
of the commandments,
00:45:37.78\00:45:39.47
when we think of the law of God,
00:45:39.50\00:45:40.69
which commandment
deals with the issue of time?
00:45:40.72\00:45:43.82
Do you think they
change times and laws.
00:45:43.85\00:45:45.34
There's only one,
00:45:45.37\00:45:46.58
and it's the one that
deals with the Sabbath.
00:45:46.61\00:45:48.95
This is from The
Convert's Catechism,
00:45:48.98\00:45:51.18
the question is,
"Which is the Sabbath day?"
00:45:51.21\00:45:53.36
The answers is
"Saturday is the Sabbath day."
00:45:53.39\00:45:56.17
Question, "Why do we observe
Sunday instead of Saturday?"
00:45:56.20\00:46:00.08
Answer, "We observe Sunday
00:46:00.11\00:46:02.01
instead of Saturday
because the Catholic Church
00:46:02.04\00:46:06.10
transferred the solemnity
from Saturday to Sunday."
00:46:06.13\00:46:12.05
And my friends, the
Church of Rome admittedly,
00:46:12.08\00:46:14.89
and the documentation
historically is absolutely clear
00:46:14.92\00:46:20.68
was involved in
tampering with the commandments.
00:46:20.71\00:46:23.29
Father Enright in
a lecture declared,
00:46:23.32\00:46:25.42
"It was the holy Catholic Church
00:46:25.45\00:46:27.10
that changed the day of rest
00:46:27.13\00:46:28.44
from Saturday to Sunday,
the first day of the week.
00:46:28.47\00:46:31.15
And it not only
compelled all to keep Sunday,
00:46:31.18\00:46:33.33
but at the Council of Laodicea,
00:46:33.36\00:46:35.90
in 364 AD, anathematized
00:46:35.93\00:46:38.71
all who kept the Sabbath
and urged all persons to labor
00:46:38.74\00:46:42.15
on the seventh day
under the pain of anathema."
00:46:42.18\00:46:45.51
Which is one step short
of being excommunicated.
00:46:45.54\00:46:52.10
Why did the church
feel it was necessary
00:46:52.13\00:46:53.86
to declare an anathema
00:46:53.89\00:46:56.78
except that it bears testimony,
00:46:56.81\00:46:58.25
there was a
significant number of Christians
00:46:58.28\00:47:00.60
who did not embrace Sunday
but still honor the Sabbath.
00:47:00.63\00:47:04.91
Another saying from
The Catholic Mirror,
00:47:04.94\00:47:06.55
"The Catholic Church
for over one thousand years
00:47:06.58\00:47:09.50
before the
existence of a Protestant
00:47:09.53\00:47:13.09
changed the day
from Saturday to Sunday.
00:47:13.12\00:47:16.18
The Christian Sabbath"
00:47:16.21\00:47:17.44
and they are
talking about Sunday
00:47:17.47\00:47:19.13
"is therefore to this day,
00:47:19.16\00:47:20.57
the acknowledged
offspring of the Catholic Church
00:47:20.60\00:47:22.97
without a word of remonstrance
from the Protestant world."
00:47:23.00\00:47:26.03
That's not quite true,
there are 15 million of us
00:47:26.06\00:47:28.70
Sabbath keeping
Christians that are saying,
00:47:28.73\00:47:31.39
this is not what
the Bible teaches.
00:47:31.42\00:47:34.62
Something is wrong here.
00:47:34.65\00:47:37.10
Again, from the Catholic
Record, "Sunday is founded,
00:47:37.13\00:47:39.59
not on
scripture, but on tradition,
00:47:39.62\00:47:41.68
and is distinctly a
Catholic institution."
00:47:41.71\00:47:45.76
And my friends, if the change
00:47:45.79\00:47:48.34
is not
documented in the scriptures
00:47:48.37\00:47:51.24
and it is not, nobody
has come to me with that text
00:47:51.27\00:47:56.53
and I've been
preaching this a long time.
00:47:56.56\00:47:58.09
They never come with a
text because it's not there.
00:47:58.12\00:48:01.80
And my friend, if it is
not in the Bible the change
00:48:01.83\00:48:04.12
then we have to turn
to the historical record.
00:48:04.15\00:48:06.75
And this is what the
historical record tells us.
00:48:06.78\00:48:09.71
It's the church that assumed
00:48:09.74\00:48:11.51
the authority to make the change
00:48:11.54\00:48:15.51
contrary to what the
Bible actually teaches.
00:48:15.54\00:48:18.27
You know, there's a
lot of documentations,
00:48:18.30\00:48:19.70
I was-- I just a year
ago in Modesto, California.
00:48:19.73\00:48:23.19
I had a very devout
young woman that was attending,
00:48:23.22\00:48:26.29
very devout woman, catholic.
00:48:26.32\00:48:28.14
She's sitting in the very
back, she was there every night
00:48:28.17\00:48:30.51
and when she heard this
presentation of the Sabbath
00:48:30.54\00:48:34.10
the next day she was
at her-- she was at mass
00:48:34.13\00:48:38.08
and after the mass
she took her priest aside
00:48:38.11\00:48:41.80
and she said, "Father,
is it true that the church
00:48:41.83\00:48:45.29
changed the Sabbath
from Saturday to Sunday?"
00:48:45.32\00:48:48.13
She came back and told me,
00:48:48.16\00:48:49.19
she said, "I was
shocked, he told me,
00:48:49.22\00:48:51.15
'Yes, the church changed it.'"
00:48:51.18\00:48:54.71
I will tell you
after a few conversations
00:48:54.74\00:48:57.29
of that nature with her priest
00:48:57.32\00:48:59.18
and she had known
him for a long time,
00:48:59.21\00:49:01.49
she made a decision to become
a Sabbath keeping Christian.
00:49:01.52\00:49:05.82
And she was in a baptism.
00:49:05.85\00:49:08.08
I mean, that is
really sincerity of faith.
00:49:08.11\00:49:11.60
Don't you
think, 26 years of age,
00:49:11.63\00:49:13.90
bless her heart.
00:49:13.93\00:49:15.49
Young people, I can share
a lot of statements with you
00:49:15.52\00:49:19.09
and you have a lot
of them in your notes.
00:49:19.12\00:49:22.03
But I take you to
our Catholic Records,
00:49:22.06\00:49:23.43
it says, "Sunday is
our mark of authority.
00:49:23.46\00:49:26.41
The church is above the Bible,
00:49:26.44\00:49:27.75
and this transference
of Sabbath observance
00:49:27.78\00:49:30.48
is proof of that fact."
00:49:30.51\00:49:34.89
Sunday keeping is
the Mark of the Beast.
00:49:34.92\00:49:40.53
These things have
not come into focus yet,
00:49:40.56\00:49:43.85
this is our future.
00:49:43.88\00:49:46.22
And my friends,
to be clear about it
00:49:46.25\00:49:48.74
I mean, there are so many
00:49:48.77\00:49:50.33
sincere Sunday
keeping Christians
00:49:50.36\00:49:52.40
that love the Lord,
they are born again,
00:49:52.43\00:49:55.08
the issue of their
salvation is not in question.
00:49:55.11\00:49:59.49
You know, most Christians
don't really understand
00:49:59.52\00:50:01.83
why they keep Sunday
it's just the established
00:50:01.86\00:50:04.27
and traditional practice.
00:50:04.30\00:50:05.72
That's' all they know.
00:50:05.75\00:50:07.77
And so we're not condemning
00:50:07.80\00:50:10.37
you know, those who are
doing it without knowing.
00:50:10.40\00:50:12.92
But my friend, there
is an issue of truth here
00:50:12.95\00:50:16.50
and that's what I
am trying to get at.
00:50:16.53\00:50:18.36
It's just like that,
you know, it can't be a day,
00:50:18.39\00:50:21.88
it can't be the issue
00:50:21.91\00:50:22.94
the Sabbath or Sunday the Mark.
00:50:22.97\00:50:25.98
Oh, my friend,
think this over again.
00:50:26.01\00:50:27.04
Think about the
tree of the knowledge
00:50:27.07\00:50:28.32
of good and evil.
00:50:28.35\00:50:29.39
You can say of that fruit,
it's just a piece of fruit.
00:50:29.42\00:50:32.80
And as I said a number of times,
00:50:32.83\00:50:34.47
it was not just a piece of fruit
00:50:34.50\00:50:36.50
it is what it represented.
00:50:36.53\00:50:39.23
And my friends, so
it is with the Sabbath
00:50:39.26\00:50:41.67
and this issue of Sunday,
it is what it represents.
00:50:41.70\00:50:45.34
Sabbath represents
loyalty to God and to His word
00:50:45.37\00:50:48.50
and to the
commandments and to Jesus.
00:50:48.53\00:50:52.54
Sunday represents apostasy.
00:50:52.57\00:50:56.64
It carries with it
the marks of the apostasy
00:50:56.67\00:50:59.25
for it was out of the apostasy
00:50:59.28\00:51:01.19
of the church
that this pagan day
00:51:01.22\00:51:04.78
that dedicated
to sun was embraced.
00:51:04.81\00:51:08.45
Are we just gonna go by
that which is convenient?
00:51:08.48\00:51:11.46
I like this, sounds
good to me over here,
00:51:11.49\00:51:13.67
I embrace this, I like--
00:51:13.70\00:51:15.97
I don't know about this,
00:51:16.00\00:51:18.08
because again,
something's go against
00:51:18.11\00:51:19.90
the natural inclination
of our natural hearts.
00:51:19.93\00:51:25.83
Is that true? It does.
00:51:25.86\00:51:28.97
We say, we
believe that the Bible
00:51:29.00\00:51:32.29
is the only rule of
our faith and practice.
00:51:32.32\00:51:35.05
But my friend,
are we consistent?
00:51:35.08\00:51:37.86
So on one hand we have the
declarations of the church,
00:51:37.89\00:51:41.78
on the other we have the
declarations of scripture.
00:51:41.81\00:51:45.23
And my friend, where
is our first loyalty?
00:51:45.26\00:51:48.19
Is our first
loyalty to the church?
00:51:48.22\00:51:51.77
You think so or is our
first loyalty to Jesus,
00:51:51.80\00:51:55.62
who is the head of the church
00:51:55.65\00:51:57.71
and to the
teachings of His word?
00:51:57.74\00:52:02.36
And I remind you it is
one of the commandments.
00:52:02.39\00:52:04.82
Exodus 20 says,
"Remember the Sabbath day,
00:52:04.85\00:52:07.27
to keep it holy.
00:52:07.30\00:52:08.53
Six days you shall
labor, and do all your work,
00:52:08.56\00:52:10.64
but the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord
00:52:10.67\00:52:13.25
your God in it you
shall not do any work,
00:52:13.28\00:52:16.25
you, nor your
son, nor your daughter,
00:52:16.28\00:52:18.43
now your male
servant, nor your maidservant,
00:52:18.46\00:52:20.65
nor your cattle,
nor your stranger
00:52:20.68\00:52:22.84
who is within your gates.
00:52:22.87\00:52:24.66
For in six days" I mean,
it's a long one, isn't it.
00:52:24.69\00:52:27.77
"For in six days the
Lord made heavens and earth,
00:52:27.80\00:52:30.67
the sea, and
all that in them is,
00:52:30.70\00:52:32.36
and rested the seventh day.
00:52:32.39\00:52:34.09
Therefore the Lord blessed
00:52:34.12\00:52:35.46
the Sabbath day,
and hallowed it."
00:52:35.49\00:52:37.65
Again I can
imagine somebody saying,
00:52:37.68\00:52:39.62
well, it can't really be
this, it can't really be this.
00:52:39.65\00:52:42.59
I am gonna show you in context,
00:52:42.62\00:52:45.09
in reference to the warning
about the Mark of the Beast
00:52:45.12\00:52:47.64
that it is this issue
and I am gonna read it again
00:52:47.67\00:52:50.69
going back to Revelation 14.
00:52:50.72\00:52:52.02
Remember what we
read at the beginning,
00:52:52.05\00:52:53.78
"And another angel, a third one,
00:52:53.81\00:52:55.21
followed them,
saying with a loud voice,
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'If anyone worships
the beast and his image,
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and receives a mark on
his forehead or on his hand,
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he also will drink of
the wine of the wrath of God,
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which is mixed in full
strength in the cup of His anger
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and he will be
tormented with fire"
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this language is
really pretty tough, isn't it?
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"With fire and brimstone
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in the presence
of the holy angels
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and in the presence of the Lamb.
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And the smoke of their tormen
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goes up forever and ever,
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and they have no
rest day and night,
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those who worship
the beast and his image,
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and whoever receives
the mark of his name.'"
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Next verse,
right in the context,
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in contrast to
those at the end time,
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this is all future,
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who sell
themselves out to the apostasy
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of which this is represented
by this pagan holiday.
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Notice in contrast to
those who receive the mark,
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God's people are identified.
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Verse 12 says, Here "Here is
the perseverance of the saints
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who keep the commandments of God
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and their faith in Jesus."
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So in contrast of
those who receive the mark,
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what are God's people noted for?
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And there are two
significant things
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and the most significant
of them is the last one.
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There will be noted
for their faith in whom?
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Their faith in Jesus.
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And as I said early, it
takes a lot of faith in Jesus
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sometimes to make
some of the changes
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in our lifestyle to
bring ourselves into harmony.
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By His grace we
do this in harmony
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with the teachings of
principles of scripture.
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Does it take faith
in Jesus to do that?
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Absolutely.
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And the other
identifying characteristic here
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is that they keep
the Commandments of God.
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How many do you think
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that by their
faith in Jesus they keep?
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What do you think?
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All by the grace of Jesus
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which leads us
to the conclusion,
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that they are
keeping all by His grace
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they are seeking to enter
into the rest of the Sabbath.
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And Jesus said
it, "If you love me,
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you will keep My commandments."
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