As we study part 2 of,
The Abomination of Desolation:
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The End time Fulfillment,
let's ask the Lord's presence.
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Father in heaven, as we study
this very important subject,
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we ask for the
guidance of Your Holy Spirit.
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please remove from hearts
any obstacle that would keep
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them from hearing Your
voice and obeying Your word.
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We crave Your presence.
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And we ask that the
Holy Spirit will teach us.
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We ask it in the
precious name of Jesus, amen.
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In our last study together
we noticed that there was a
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connection between
the Roman eagle standard,
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sun standard, and the
great seal of the United States
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which contains an
eagle and a sunburst.
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We noticed that as the eagle
sun standards of the Romans
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were the sign that
God's faithful followers
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were to flee from Jerusalem,
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in the same way
when the United States,
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the country
represented by the eagle,
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imposes a national Sunday
law, or the day of the sun,
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it will be a sign
that we are nearing the end
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and for God's people to flee.
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Now some people might
wonder, is it the same
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to worship the sun as it is to
worship on the day of the sun?
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Because the legions
worshiped the sun god
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through their standards.
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Is it the same to
worship on Sunday?
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You say these are
two different things.
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But when we look at
it closely in principle,
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it's the same thing.
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Let me ask you,
who created the sun?
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Obviously God.
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Did He created it as
an object of worship?
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No.
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It's a secular
object to give us light.
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So what happens if you make
the sun an object of worship?
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That's what we call idolatry.
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So who created the
first day of the week?
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God.
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Did He create the first
day of the week for worship?
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No.
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It's a secular day of work.
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He created a day for
worship, which is the Sabbath,
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the seventh day Sabbath.
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So what happens if you
make the first day of the week
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a day of worship?
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It's idolatry.
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Because anything
that man makes for worship
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that God did not make
for worship is idolatry.
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It doesn't matter if it's
an object or if it's a day.
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If man makes it for
worship when God didn't,
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it involves idolatry.
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Now I can only provide
an outline of the historical
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process of the transmission
of Sunday as the day of worship
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from ancient Babylon
to apostate Protestantism
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in the world today.
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I'm going to go
through this very quickly.
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Ancient Babylon...
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And by the way, I have a
fuller presentation of this.
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If you want, you can
contact Secrets Unsealed
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and they'll tell you where
to get the fuller presentation.
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Ancient Babylon transferred
its worship of the sun
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to Pergamum, which
was a city in Asia Minor.
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And then Pompey, the
general of the Roman legions,
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in the year 63 had a crusade
that went into Asia Minor
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and he adopted the sun
god, Mithra, as the protector
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of the Roman legions.
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Thus, Mithra became the special
god of the Roman legions,
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of the Roman Empire.
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Then in spite of the
fact that the New Testament
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teaches that Jesus and the
apostles kept the seventh day
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Sabbath, the early church
fathers began to celebrate
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the resurrection
of Christ on Sunday.
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And this happened
early in the second century.
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Then we find Constantine,
who was a pagan and worshiped
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the sun-god under the
name, Deus Sol Invictus.
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That is, the invincible sun.
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Constantine merged
paganism with Christianity,
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and in this way the
observance of Sunday
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as the day to
celebrate Christ's resurrection
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infiltrated the
Christian church.
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You see, Constantine
was a shrewd politician.
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He knew that in order
to govern the Roman Empire,
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he had to gain the
support of Christians.
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Because Christians
had grown phenomenally.
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So he said, "I
know what I'll do.
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Pagans worship the sun.
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What I can do is convince
Christians to keep Sunday
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in honor of the
resurrection of Christ.
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And in this way, I can merge
paganism with Christianity."
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And thus, in the year 321
AD, Constantine proclaimed
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the first Sunday law.
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It was a civil Sunday law.
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This is how it reads.
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"On the venerable
day of the sun..."
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Notice how he refers to Sunday;
the venerable day of the sun.
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And this was given on
March 7th of the year 321.
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It didn't take long
for Constantine's civil law
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to become a
religious law by the church.
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In the Council of
Laodicea in the year 336,
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we find these words...
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So the church now is saying,
"We should not keep the Sabbath
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because that's of the Jews."
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In other words,
anybody keeping the Sabbath.
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The word, "anathema,"
means, accursed from Christ.
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So now in just a few years after
Constantine gives the civil law,
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now it becomes a
religious church law.
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Papal Rome then embraced
Sunday as the day of worship
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from the pagan Roman Empire.
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You look at the
Roman Catholic Church,
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you find all sorts of churches,
statues, works of art, chalices,
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vestments filled with images
of the sun, with sunbursts.
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So the papacy introduced
Sunday into the observance
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of the church.
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You know, this was actually
predicted in Daniel 7:25
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where it speaks of a little horn
which is a symbol of the papacy
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that thought it could
change God's times and law.
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Does the papacy claim
to have changed God's law?
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Absolutely.
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You look in the catechisms.
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The second
commandment doesn't appear.
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What does the
second commandment say?
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"You shall have no
other gods before Me."
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Don't worship images,
don't bow before images.
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The Roman Catholic
churches are filled with images.
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They couldn't leave that
commandment in the catechisms
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because people
would ask questions,
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"Well, why do you have
images in your churches then?
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In your cathedrals then?"
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And so we find in Roman
Catholicism that they actually
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eliminate in the catechisms
the second commandment.
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And of course, you end
up with nine commandments.
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So what they do is divide
the tenth commandment into two.
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However, it's
more serious than this.
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The papacy claims that
they changed the day of worship
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from Sabbath to Sunday.
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Actually, they inherited it
from the pagan Roman Empire.
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And the pagan Roman
Empire, through Pompey,
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inherited it
from ancient Babylon.
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Then Sunday as the day
of rest was transferred
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to the new world, to
the United States of America
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by the Puritans.
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In fact, the Puritans
had civil penalties for those
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who did not keep the
first day of the week
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in honor of the
resurrection of Christ.
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And in at least three
of the colonies there was a
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death sentence for those
who did not keep what they
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called, the Lord's day.
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So that's the way that
Sunday came into Protestantism.
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Protestantism did not
complete the reformation.
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Protestantism went a long ways
from the Roman Catholic Church,
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but they conserved
some of the information,
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some of the practices that
they were not able to discard.
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Prophecy tells us, as we
noticed in our last study,
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that the United States
will repudiate its constitution
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by council of
apostate Protestantism
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and once again
enforce a national Sunday law,
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as happened with blue laws
during the colonial period.
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You're probably saying,
"Pastor Bohr, you're crazy.
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This could never
happen in the land of the free
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and the home of the brave."
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If you don't
believe that it can happen,
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don't miss lecture number ten.
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Because I'm going to show you
that this happened once before
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in the United States.
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There was a push for
a national Sunday law;
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the ministers trying
to influence the state
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to establish a
national Sunday law.
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You say, "Well, you've
given us a lot of history.
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What evidence do we have
in the Bible of this transfer
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from pagan Rome to papal
Rome to apostate Protestantism?"
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Let's go to Revelation 13:1-2.
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Before I read those
versus, let me just mention
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that in chapter 12 we have
been introduced to the dragon.
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Now the dragon
primarily represents Satan.
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But the dragon that
stands next to the male child
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who is about to be born
represents Satan working
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through the civil
power of the Roman Empire.
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In other words, the dragon
yes is Satan, but Satan operates
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through civil
powers in the world.
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So this dragon that
tried to slay the male child,
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in chapter 12 of Revelation,
the child escapes from the
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dragon's hands and finally is
taken up to God into His throne.
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And then the dragon, which
represents the Roman Empire
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as an instrument of Satan, now
transfers its seat and its power
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to the beast.
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Let's read Revelation 13:1-2.
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And now notice what
the dragon is going to do.
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"The dragon gave him..."
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That is, the dragon that
tried to slay the male child,
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pagan Rome gave the
beast, papal Rome, it's what?
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"...his power, his
throne, and great authority."
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So the beast receives its
power, its throne, its authority
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from pagan Rome, from the dragon
beast of Revelation chapter 12.
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By the way, this beast
that rules for 42 months,
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according to Revelation 13:5-6,
rules for 42 months, is the same
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as the little horn
of Daniel 7 that rules
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for time, times, and
the dividing of time.
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And if you compare Daniel
chapter 7, we find that it says
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that the little horn,
which is the same as the beast
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that received the
power from the dragon,
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the little horn thought that
he could change times and law.
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You can read
that in Daniel 7:25.
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So you'll notice that the dragon
transfers its seat and its power
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to the beast, the papacy.
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Then the papacy, the
beast or the little horn,
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thinks it can change God's law.
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And the Catholic
church says, "We did it.
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We were the ones
that implemented Sunday
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as the day of rest."
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And then we find that another
stage in Revelation chapter 13
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is that this beast then gives
his power and his authority
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to a second beast that
rises in Revelation 13:11-18.
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And that beast that
rises from the earth represents
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the United States of America.
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It says it has two horns like
a lamb, but it ends up speaking
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like the dragon.
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So you have the dragon
which represents the pagan
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Roman Empire, it gives its
seat, its power, and authority
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to the beast, the papacy,
that rules for 1260 years
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and thinks that it
can change God's law
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by changing the day of worship.
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And then you have this
beast giving its authority
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and its power to the
beast that rises from the earth,
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the United States of America.
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There's been a transfer
of authority from pagan Rome
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to papal Rome to
apostate Protestantism
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in the United States.
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In Revelation
13:11, we find these words
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regarding the second
beast of Revelation chapter 13.
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So you'll notice that the dragon
is involved in all these stages.
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In pagan Rome,
it says the dragon
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tried to slay the male child.
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Then the dragon gives its
seat, its power, and authority
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to the beast.
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And the beast
rules for 1260 years.
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Incidentally, if you'll
notice in Revelation chapter 12,
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after the dragon, after
the child escapes the power of
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the dragon, it says
that the woman, the church,
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had to flee to the wilderness
where she was for 1260 years
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and the dragon
tried to slay the woman.
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So it's the dragon by using
the beast, by using papal Rome.
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And then the beast
that rises from the earth
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speaks like a dragon.
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So the dragon is in all stages.
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The dragon beast gives his
seat to the beast from the sea.
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That beast is also called the
dragon in Revelation chapter 12.
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And then that dragon beast gives
its power and its authority
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to the beast that
rises from the earth.
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You say, "Well, how do you
know that the beast that rises
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from the earth rules by
the power of the first beast?"
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In other words, how
do we know that the beast
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that speaks like a
dragon, all it does is to
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continue the work of the
beast that existed before?
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Well, in Revelation chapter
13 you have the evidence.
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Speaking about this beast
that rises from the earth,
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it says it "exercises
all the authority of the
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first beast in its presence."
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So in other words, everything
it does is for the first beast.
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So it says it "exercises all
the authority of the first beast
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in its presence."
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That's verse 12.
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Verse 12 also says that
this beast from the earth
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"causes the earth
and those who dwell in it
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to worship the first beast."
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So everything this
beast from the earth does,
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represented by the United
States, apostate Protestantism
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in the United States, it
does to honor the first beast,
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the beast that thought
it could change God's law.
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Everything that this beast does
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is in the sight
of the first beast.
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The NIV translates, "on
behalf of the first beast."
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This beast from the earth makes
an image of the first beast,
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according to verse 15.
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It's mentioned three times.
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It makes an image
to the first beast.
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The NIV translates, "in
honor of the first beast."
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And it imposes the
mark of the first beast.
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So this beast from
the earth is continuing
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the work of the previous
beast, and the previous beast
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is continuing the
work of pagan Rome.
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This is how Sunday was
transferred from pagan Rome
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to papal Rome to the
United States of America,
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to the Protestant denominations
in the United States of America.
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Let me read you an
interesting statement
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by an individual who
was a prolific writer.
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He actually wrote 45 books.
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For many years he was a teacher
at the University of Notre Dame.
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And he was very renowned
within Roman Catholic circles.
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In his book, The Faith
of Millions, pages 400-401,
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he explains how Sunday
came into Protestantism.
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It reads like this...
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You say that's
surprising. He continues...
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Then he speaks
about Protestants.
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And then comes the key portion.
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You see, Protestants
ran away from the mother;
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from the mother church.
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From Roman Catholicism.
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But they kept in their pocket,
so to speak, as it says here,
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"a lock of her hair or
a picture of the mother."
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Because Protestantism
never discarded everything
00:19:34.34\00:19:37.61
that was anti-biblical
in Roman Catholicism.
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Two great doctrines
that Protestants continued
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from Roman Catholicism:
one is the idea of the
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immortality of the soul.
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And the other is the idea
that Sunday is the day that
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you're supposed to keep.
00:19:53.52\00:19:54.86
You see, Sunday had
become so entrenched
00:19:54.99\00:19:57.46
that Protestants said,
"It's useless for us to try
00:19:57.56\00:20:00.83
and re-establish the Sabbath.
00:20:01.03\00:20:02.73
Let's just continue observing
Sunday as the day of rest
00:20:02.76\00:20:05.93
even though it is based
on no biblical authority."
00:20:05.97\00:20:09.80
Now Ellen White has a
vivid description of how
00:20:10.47\00:20:15.14
the observance of
Sunday came into Protestantism.
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There are several statements.
I'm going to read them now.
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The first is from, The Review
and Herald, April 15, 1890.
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"The man of sin..."
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Which is the same as the beast,
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it's the same
as the little horn,
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it's the same as the harlot,
00:20:42.70\00:20:44.27
it's the same as the
abomination of desolation,
00:20:44.31\00:20:46.98
it's the same as the antichrist.
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In other words,
these are different names.
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The king of the north.
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Different names for the
same Roman Catholic system.
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She continues...
00:20:55.02\00:20:56.35
What have Protestants done
with the child of the papacy?
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They've adopted it.
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They cradle it
and they nurture it.
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She continues...
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In another statement in, Signs
of the Times, June 12, 1893,
00:21:28.32\00:21:33.02
we find this
particular sad statement.
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You know, I'm
proud to be an American.
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This is the greatest
country that has ever existed
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in the history of the world.
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Not because it has
more beautiful scenery,
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not because it has more money,
00:21:46.40\00:21:48.00
or because it has a
more powerful military.
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It's because of the principles
upon which this nation
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originally was built.
00:21:53.51\00:21:55.21
And Ellen White
wrote, this is sad...
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This is the United States.
00:21:58.85\00:22:00.78
By the way, this will be
stamped with the great seal
00:22:25.87\00:22:29.14
of the United States as law.
00:22:29.18\00:22:31.38
What is a national act?
00:23:00.24\00:23:01.64
It's an act of Congress.
00:23:01.74\00:23:03.11
So in the fulfillment of
the abomination of desolation,
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the sign for God's people
to flee will be a national
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Sunday law imposing the day
of the sun by the nation that
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has an eagle as its sign.
00:23:37.68\00:23:40.88
And this law will be
stamped with the great seal
00:23:40.92\00:23:44.89
of the United States.
00:23:45.02\00:23:46.89
The nation whose
emblem is the eagle
00:23:47.42\00:23:50.23
and a sunburst above its head
will impose the day of worship
00:23:50.26\00:23:54.50
that it received from the
papacy, and the papacy received
00:23:54.53\00:23:58.20
from pagan Rome.
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This decree will
bear the great seal
00:24:00.14\00:24:03.20
of the United States of America.
00:24:03.24\00:24:05.34
When God's true
people see this sign,
00:24:05.61\00:24:08.88
not only Seventh-day Adventists,
but those in all the churches,
00:24:08.98\00:24:11.81
when they see this sign
and it is explained to them,
00:24:11.85\00:24:14.92
they will flee from the
cities, and the whole world
00:24:14.95\00:24:18.79
will choose to be in one of two
groups, just like in Jerusalem.
00:24:18.82\00:24:23.32
There were two groups.
00:24:23.63\00:24:24.96
When one group saw
the sign, they fled.
00:24:24.99\00:24:27.63
When the other group saw
the sign, they ignored it.
00:24:27.86\00:24:31.07
So there's going
to be two groups.
00:24:31.27\00:24:32.83
Sadly, most of the
people are going to go along
00:24:33.03\00:24:38.11
with ignoring the sign of God.
00:24:38.44\00:24:41.71
Ellen White referred to
Sunday as the idol sabbath.
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Now I touched on this at
the beginning of our study
00:24:46.88\00:24:49.38
this afternoon.
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How can you call
Sunday the idol sabbath?
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Well, let me read you one
statement from Ellen White.
00:24:55.52\00:24:59.16
It's found in volume 19 of
Manuscript Releases, page 244.
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This is what she wrote...
00:25:06.63\00:25:07.97
You say, "Among
Christians, idolaters?"
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Let's continue.
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So there are idolaters.
00:25:55.82\00:25:58.49
Now let me say,
there are many Christians
00:25:58.52\00:26:00.49
that don't
understand these issues.
00:26:00.52\00:26:02.19
If they don't understand
these issues, they did not have
00:26:02.92\00:26:04.89
opportunity of knowing,
well they might be practicing
00:26:04.93\00:26:08.03
idolatry without knowing it.
00:26:08.06\00:26:09.93
God only holds us accountable
for what we could have known
00:26:10.27\00:26:13.64
and chose to reject.
00:26:13.67\00:26:16.64
So I'm not saying that all
Christians in all the different
00:26:16.67\00:26:19.67
denominations are apostate.
00:26:19.71\00:26:21.81
No, there are many
faithful Christians
00:26:21.84\00:26:23.75
in all of the churches.
00:26:23.78\00:26:25.11
And when they heard
this, they will come out.
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You see, God is particular
about His day of worship.
00:26:28.18\00:26:31.35
Man cannot treat
with impunity what is holy
00:26:31.85\00:26:35.66
as if it were common,
and cannot take the common
00:26:35.69\00:26:39.23
and treat it as if it were holy.
00:26:39.26\00:26:41.26
When God says that the
seventh day is the Sabbath
00:26:41.86\00:26:44.67
and that we must keep it
holy, He means the seventh,
00:26:44.87\00:26:48.40
not the first.
00:26:48.60\00:26:49.94
Jesus said to the
religious leaders of His day,
00:26:50.34\00:26:53.11
"In vain do they worship
Me, teaching for doctrine
00:26:53.58\00:26:57.18
the commandments of men."
00:26:57.21\00:26:58.61
And some Christians say,
"Well, God isn't so particular.
00:26:58.65\00:27:01.15
You know, as long
as I give Him one day,
00:27:01.35\00:27:03.45
that's good enough."
00:27:03.49\00:27:04.82
You have several stories
in the Bible that show that
00:27:04.99\00:27:07.06
God is particular
about these things.
00:27:07.09\00:27:09.59
You have the story
of Nadab and Abihu.
00:27:09.62\00:27:12.03
The Bible tells us
that these sons of Aaron,
00:27:12.29\00:27:14.63
instead of taking the holy
fire from the altar to mix it
00:27:14.83\00:27:18.10
with the incense to take
into the presence of the Lord,
00:27:18.13\00:27:20.80
they took common ordinary fire.
00:27:20.84\00:27:23.27
What did God say?
00:27:23.94\00:27:25.27
"Oh, who cares?
Fire is fire, you know.
00:27:25.31\00:27:27.74
One fire will burn your
finger, and the other fire will.
00:27:27.84\00:27:30.45
The chemical
composition does the same thing.
00:27:30.48\00:27:32.11
They look alike."
00:27:32.15\00:27:33.48
No! When God said fire from
the altar, He meant that fire.
00:27:33.52\00:27:37.29
That fire was holy,
even though all other fires
00:27:37.32\00:27:39.65
looked similar or looked alike.
00:27:39.69\00:27:41.99
What happened
to those young men?
00:27:42.72\00:27:44.33
Fire came from the
presence of the Lord
00:27:44.79\00:27:46.76
and devoured them.
00:27:46.80\00:27:48.13
You have the story of Uzza.
00:27:48.20\00:27:49.60
God had told Israel,
the priests of Israel,
00:27:49.63\00:27:53.94
not to touch the ark.
00:27:53.97\00:27:55.70
He had told the
Levites, "Don't touch the ark."
00:27:55.90\00:27:58.01
But David was bringing
the ark back to Jerusalem.
00:27:58.51\00:28:01.58
It looked kind of shaky, it
looked like it was going to fall
00:28:01.78\00:28:04.25
off the cart
where it was coming.
00:28:04.28\00:28:05.81
And so Uzza reached
out and touched the ark.
00:28:05.85\00:28:09.48
You say, "Well, he
had good intentions."
00:28:09.98\00:28:12.02
Yes, many people who keep
Sunday have good intentions.
00:28:12.12\00:28:15.02
But what did the Bible say?
00:28:15.06\00:28:16.66
The Bible says that Uzza,
on the spot, dropped dead.
00:28:16.86\00:28:21.26
You have Ananias and Sapphira
that promised money to the Lord.
00:28:21.63\00:28:25.73
That was holy money.
00:28:25.77\00:28:27.10
But they kept part
of it for themselves.
00:28:27.47\00:28:29.54
The Bible says
that both of them died.
00:28:29.64\00:28:32.11
You have Korah who
wanted to be a priest.
00:28:32.31\00:28:35.81
He was a Levite.
00:28:36.01\00:28:37.38
He wanted to be a priest.
He wanted a different function.
00:28:37.58\00:28:40.18
You see, God had established
that the holy priesthood
00:28:40.28\00:28:43.82
had to be composed of Levites.
00:28:43.85\00:28:46.19
What happened to Korah
because he aspired to a
00:28:46.39\00:28:49.22
holy office that
did not belong to Him?
00:28:49.26\00:28:51.29
The Bible tells us the earth
opened and swallowed him up.
00:28:51.63\00:28:54.70
Jeroboam tried to
sanctify a priesthood
00:28:55.10\00:28:57.77
and a place of
worship other than Jerusalem.
00:28:57.80\00:29:00.10
He suffered dearly for
not doing things the way God
00:29:00.64\00:29:03.81
said he was supposed to do.
00:29:03.84\00:29:05.34
And then you have Belshazzar
00:29:05.64\00:29:07.28
on the last
fateful night of Babylon.
00:29:07.31\00:29:10.05
You find Belshazzar taking
holy vessels and treating them
00:29:10.51\00:29:14.88
as if they were
common, putting wine in them
00:29:14.92\00:29:18.59
for the princes
of Babylon to drink.
00:29:18.62\00:29:20.89
Did God ignore that
and say, "Oh, who cares?
00:29:21.32\00:29:23.79
The vessels were holy; who
cares whether he treats them
00:29:23.83\00:29:26.46
in a common way or not?"
00:29:26.49\00:29:27.83
No! God, according to
the Bible, is particular.
00:29:27.86\00:29:31.13
And some people think that God
has had a conversion experience
00:29:31.17\00:29:34.30
and that God, now,
He's not particular.
00:29:34.34\00:29:36.30
He doesn't really
care how you worship,
00:29:36.34\00:29:37.97
He doesn't care the kind of
music that you use in worship,
00:29:38.01\00:29:40.98
He doesn't care how you
come clothed in worship,
00:29:41.01\00:29:43.35
as long as your
heart is sincere,
00:29:43.38\00:29:45.21
as long as you give the Lord
00:29:45.25\00:29:46.58
what you think
you should give Him.
00:29:46.61\00:29:47.95
God is particular.
00:29:48.45\00:29:49.78
When God says that the
seventh day is the Sabbath,
00:29:49.88\00:29:52.45
He means the seventh day.
00:29:52.49\00:29:54.09
He doesn't mean any day.
00:29:54.19\00:29:56.29
Now I want to take the
rest of my presentation
00:29:56.86\00:29:59.96
to read some interesting
articles and paragraphs
00:30:00.00\00:30:06.60
that appeared recently during
the period of this pandemic
00:30:06.63\00:30:11.54
of the coronavirus.
00:30:11.57\00:30:13.11
And you say, "Why are you going
to read all these statements?"
00:30:13.44\00:30:15.74
Well, we've already noticed
the biblical and historical
00:30:15.78\00:30:18.05
foundation for this idea
of the transfer of Sunday
00:30:18.08\00:30:21.72
from Babylon to
pagan Rome to papal Rome
00:30:21.75\00:30:25.22
to apostate Protestantism.
00:30:25.25\00:30:27.02
We also noticed in
Scripture how this took place.
00:30:27.49\00:30:31.43
The dragon gave his seat
and authority to the beast.
00:30:31.46\00:30:35.16
Then the beast ruled 1260 years.
00:30:35.26\00:30:37.80
Then it gave its
power to the second beast
00:30:37.83\00:30:40.70
that rises in
Revelation chapter 13.
00:30:40.74\00:30:43.10
And that beast
imposes the mark of the beast,
00:30:43.30\00:30:46.84
which is the
first day of the week.
00:30:46.88\00:30:48.58
But now we want to
notice what is being said today.
00:30:49.08\00:30:51.45
You know, this
pandemic has been terrible.
00:30:52.08\00:30:54.35
Hundreds of
thousands of people have died.
00:30:55.08\00:30:57.99
Businesses have shut down.
00:30:59.02\00:31:01.06
We are 26 trillion dollars
in debt in the United States
00:31:01.59\00:31:05.99
because of the stimulus that
was given to all of the people
00:31:06.09\00:31:09.36
who had businesses who
had to close their businesses.
00:31:09.40\00:31:12.03
It's been a terrible experience.
00:31:12.07\00:31:14.07
So some people, some
Christians, Protestants,
00:31:14.47\00:31:18.71
have actually said that
this pandemic should teach us
00:31:18.91\00:31:23.41
that we need to take
one day a week off to rest
00:31:23.61\00:31:27.65
and to let the environment rest.
00:31:27.68\00:31:29.58
And of course, they
say that day is Sunday.
00:31:29.62\00:31:33.32
You know, Pope Francis I, in his
famous encyclical, Laudato si',
00:31:33.86\00:31:39.86
he says there that
the earth needs a rest,
00:31:40.40\00:31:43.40
families need a
rest, workers need a rest,
00:31:43.43\00:31:46.27
we need Sunday as a day of rest.
00:31:46.50\00:31:50.24
That is being said these days
in the midst of the coronavirus.
00:31:50.84\00:31:54.34
Now what's going to happen
when things get really bad?
00:31:54.38\00:31:57.91
You say, "Well, the
coronavirus, that's pretty bad."
00:31:58.11\00:32:00.55
Yeah, but you remember
that Matthew 24 speaks about
00:32:00.58\00:32:03.89
wars and rumors of wars,
nation rising against nation,
00:32:03.92\00:32:07.46
kingdom against kingdom,
00:32:07.49\00:32:08.82
and there's going
to be pestilences,
00:32:08.86\00:32:10.46
and there's going to be hunger,
00:32:10.49\00:32:11.83
and there's going
to be earthquakes.
00:32:11.86\00:32:13.33
And of course, we read a
statement from Ellen White
00:32:13.36\00:32:15.36
where there's
going to be tsunamis,
00:32:15.40\00:32:16.73
there's going to be tornadoes,
there's going to be typhoons,
00:32:16.77\00:32:19.27
there's going to be floods,
and there's going to be fires.
00:32:19.47\00:32:22.40
In other words, things
are going to get a lot worse.
00:32:22.50\00:32:24.81
If people are saying, you know,
the pandemic is a sign that
00:32:25.17\00:32:28.44
we need to make
Sunday the day of worship,
00:32:28.48\00:32:30.78
what's going to happen
when things get even worse?
00:32:30.81\00:32:33.82
Let me read you a
few statements here.
00:32:34.45\00:32:36.99
This appeared in a publication.
00:32:37.82\00:32:39.72
"Years ago, Sunday
was a different day
00:32:40.42\00:32:44.53
than the other
six days of the week.
00:32:44.66\00:32:46.93
Church parking lots were full.
00:32:47.60\00:32:49.40
Store parking lots were
empty and stores were closed.
00:32:50.03\00:32:54.20
Occasionally a gasoline station,
00:32:54.60\00:32:56.74
we called them
filling stations, was open,
00:32:57.11\00:33:00.04
but it was the
exception instead of the rule.
00:33:00.08\00:33:03.24
Even people who didn't
go to church used Sunday
00:33:03.75\00:33:08.02
for a day of
rest and relaxation.
00:33:08.05\00:33:10.79
Today, Sunday is not much
different than the work week
00:33:11.25\00:33:15.12
except many stores
don't open until noon."
00:33:15.16\00:33:18.03
And then we have this.
00:33:18.56\00:33:19.89
"Maybe this time of
enforced isolation..."
00:33:19.93\00:33:23.47
He's talking about
the isolation, you know,
00:33:23.57\00:33:26.57
the stay at home
orders during the pandemic.
00:33:26.60\00:33:29.00
"Maybe this time
of enforced isolation
00:33:29.80\00:33:32.94
will teach us something."
00:33:32.97\00:33:35.74
And of course, the idea it will
teach us that we need to take
00:33:35.94\00:33:38.91
Sunday as the day of rest.
00:33:38.95\00:33:41.32
Here's another one.
00:33:41.72\00:33:43.05
This is a Roman Catholic,
Brother Michael Valenzuela.
00:33:43.08\00:33:46.22
This is what he wrote.
00:33:46.62\00:33:47.96
So now comes his counsel.
00:34:26.86\00:34:28.46
So once again, the plant has
a desperate need for a Sabbath.
00:35:14.48\00:35:19.85
And as a Roman Catholic,
he's not saying that it's
00:35:20.05\00:35:23.15
the seventh day Sabbath,
he's saying it's Sunday.
00:35:23.18\00:35:25.92
Because Christians today
say that Sunday is the Sabbath.
00:35:25.95\00:35:29.82
Now try and explain that to me.
00:35:30.23\00:35:32.19
How can you say that
Sunday is the Sabbath?
00:35:32.23\00:35:34.60
No, no, no.
00:35:34.63\00:35:35.96
The Sabbath is the seventh day.
00:35:36.00\00:35:37.80
Sunday is the
first day of the week.
00:35:37.83\00:35:40.50
Here's another statement.
00:35:40.84\00:35:42.17
This was by Leah D.
Schade, assistant professor of
00:35:42.20\00:35:45.81
Preaching and Worship at
Lexington Theological Seminary
00:35:45.84\00:35:49.38
in Kentucky.
00:35:49.41\00:35:50.95
And I went to the website.
00:35:51.05\00:35:52.98
It says that this seminary
is a deeply ecumenical seminary.
00:35:53.01\00:35:57.45
She wrote an article titled,
When Earth Demands Sabbath;
00:35:57.59\00:36:01.76
Learning From the
Coronavirus Pandemic.
00:36:02.02\00:36:04.69
It's in, Eco
Preacher, April 1, 2020.
00:36:04.73\00:36:07.83
This is what she wrote.
00:36:08.83\00:36:11.07
And I'm only quoting in part.
00:36:11.67\00:36:13.40
But she's not talking
about the seventh day Sabbath.
00:37:11.49\00:37:14.30
She's talking about Sunday,
the first day of the week
00:37:14.50\00:37:17.50
as a solution to the global
problems that we have today
00:37:17.53\00:37:21.10
with the environment
and with the pandemic.
00:37:21.14\00:37:23.77
Mayor Cam Guthrie of Guelph,
Ontario wrote the following.
00:37:24.21\00:37:29.61
Once again, it's not
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:38:11.35\00:38:14.22
It is Sunday.
00:38:14.26\00:38:16.26
Ellen White wrote that
eventually those who observe
00:38:16.76\00:38:21.30
Sunday and push for a national
Sunday law will persecute those
00:38:21.33\00:38:26.74
who observe the Sabbath.
00:38:26.77\00:38:28.10
And you say, "Pastor
Bohr, that just doesn't
00:38:28.14\00:38:30.34
make any sense at all.
00:38:30.37\00:38:31.71
We have a first amendment in
our constitution that says that
00:38:31.87\00:38:35.38
'Congress shall
make no law respecting an
00:38:35.41\00:38:37.31
establishment of religion,
00:38:37.35\00:38:38.85
or forbidding the
free exercise thereof.'
00:38:38.88\00:38:41.08
So that's never going to
happen in the United States."
00:38:41.12\00:38:43.59
Believe me, it is going to
happen sooner than you think.
00:38:43.62\00:38:47.69
And when that happens,
you're going to remember
00:38:47.72\00:38:51.09
this particular
presentation today.
00:38:51.13\00:38:53.60
She wrote the following in,
Great Controversy, page 590.
00:38:53.63\00:38:57.20
"...the fourth commandment..."
00:39:29.36\00:39:30.70
That is, of the
seventh day Sabbath.
00:39:30.73\00:39:32.07
You say, "That would never
happen, Pastor Bohr, would it?"
00:39:44.71\00:39:47.18
We're seeing things in
society in the United States
00:39:48.25\00:39:50.75
today which are amazing.
00:39:50.79\00:39:53.05
I thought I
would never see them.
00:39:53.09\00:39:54.62
Such as groups taking
over the downtown of a city
00:39:54.82\00:39:58.39
in this country and declaring
that it's not part of the
00:39:58.43\00:40:00.90
United States of America.
00:40:00.93\00:40:02.26
Such as pleas for
there to be no police
00:40:02.66\00:40:06.50
in the United States.
00:40:06.53\00:40:07.87
Such as the idea that, you
know, we need to simply discard
00:40:08.07\00:40:14.71
the allowance for
freedom of speech,
00:40:14.91\00:40:19.21
and there are certain
kinds of freedom of speech
00:40:19.25\00:40:22.18
that need to be censored,
and people cannot listen
00:40:22.22\00:40:25.05
to what a person has to say.
00:40:25.09\00:40:26.82
We're seeing that
happen right before us.
00:40:26.86\00:40:28.96
Now let me read you an
article that was actually...
00:40:29.36\00:40:34.10
Actually it wasn't an
article, it was a sermon
00:40:34.13\00:40:36.70
by Pastor Robert Field who was
pastor or maybe is pastor still
00:40:36.73\00:40:41.47
of Bethel Baptist
Church in Montreal.
00:40:41.50\00:40:43.77
The title is, Why
God Took Sunday Away.
00:40:43.87\00:40:47.31
I'm going to read the entire
article because it's powerful.
00:40:47.98\00:40:51.05
Powerful in the sense
that what he's saying is that
00:40:51.55\00:40:54.95
God took away Sunday
because people were not keeping
00:40:55.15\00:40:59.05
Sunday the way it
was suppose to be,
00:40:59.09\00:41:01.06
and that the pandemic was sent
by God because people were not
00:41:01.09\00:41:05.09
respecting Sunday
as the day of worship.
00:41:05.13\00:41:07.06
Here's what he wrote, or spoke.
00:41:07.10\00:41:09.93
He's talking about people not
being able to meet in church.
00:42:13.53\00:42:15.90
Why did God take Sunday away
for people to meet in church?
00:42:15.93\00:42:19.23
He continues...
00:42:20.14\00:42:21.47
Interesting.
00:43:20.86\00:43:22.20
So this calamity
God sends because people
00:43:22.23\00:43:25.43
are not keeping Sunday.
00:43:25.47\00:43:26.94
You can't meet in
church because people have not
00:43:26.97\00:43:29.07
treated Sunday the way God
wants Sunday to be treated.
00:43:29.10\00:43:32.17
Could it be possible
that the reason why is because
00:43:32.21\00:43:34.84
people have not
treated the Sabbath
00:43:34.88\00:43:36.21
the way the Sabbath should be?
00:43:36.24\00:43:37.65
He continues...
00:43:38.25\00:43:39.58
Nowhere does the Bible
say we're supposed to keep
00:43:45.59\00:43:47.26
Sunday holy or we're
suppose to honor the Lord's Day.
00:43:47.29\00:43:49.99
This is an invention.
00:43:50.39\00:43:51.73
Now please, he's
applying the fourth commandment
00:44:02.37\00:44:05.61
to Sunday.
00:44:05.64\00:44:06.98
The Bible says that the
seventh day is the Sabbath
00:44:07.11\00:44:10.21
in the fourth commandment.
00:44:10.25\00:44:11.58
He continues...
00:44:11.61\00:44:12.95
No, the fourth commandment
doesn't deal with Sunday, folks.
00:44:16.62\00:44:19.45
He continues...
00:44:20.16\00:44:21.49
But he's saying that God
commands Sunday, not Sabbath.
00:44:24.89\00:44:28.16
This doesn't make any sense.
00:44:28.46\00:44:30.40
"Israel did this
to their Sabbath."
00:44:30.60\00:44:32.87
Wait a minute.
It's not their Sabbath.
00:44:33.37\00:44:35.37
Nowhere does the Bible say that.
00:44:35.40\00:44:37.17
The Bible says
it's God's Sabbath.
00:44:37.21\00:44:39.27
So once again...
00:44:39.31\00:44:40.64
I take issue with the
idea that it's He day.
00:45:02.46\00:45:04.77
Nowhere does the Bible
say you have to abstain
00:45:34.50\00:45:36.23
from work and play on Sunday.
00:45:36.26\00:45:37.80
But this is what he says.
00:45:37.90\00:45:39.23
Once again I take issue
with the idea that it's His day.
00:46:18.27\00:46:21.11
He continues...
00:46:22.21\00:46:23.55
Now there he gets it right.
00:47:12.39\00:47:13.93
It's his sabbath.
00:47:14.06\00:47:15.40
Once again, the idea
that the fourth commandment
00:47:19.37\00:47:21.37
is Sunday.
00:47:21.40\00:47:22.74
He's talking
about the coronavirus.
00:47:40.39\00:47:42.12
All kinds of inaccuracies here.
00:48:32.14\00:48:34.08
But the point that I want
you to see is that he's arguing
00:48:34.11\00:48:37.05
that this pandemic has taught us
that we need to observe Sunday
00:48:37.08\00:48:41.05
as the day of rest.
00:48:41.08\00:48:42.42
And when things get really bad,
there's going to be a clamor
00:48:42.62\00:48:46.32
by the clergy saying we need
to return to observing Sunday
00:48:46.52\00:48:51.39
as the day of rest so that
God will bless us once more.
00:48:51.43\00:48:55.20
I want to read
one last statement.
00:48:55.86\00:48:57.60
This is from Mary Healy.
00:48:58.30\00:49:00.17
She wrote, "Is the coronavirus
pandemic a judgment from God?"
00:49:00.20\00:49:04.17
It's in, The National Catholic
Register, April 8, 2020.
00:49:04.77\00:49:08.74
Now I have more that I could
read, but our time is flying by.
00:49:55.09\00:49:59.39
So let's bring
this to a conclusion.
00:49:59.83\00:50:02.10
Like Israel, God chose
the United States of America
00:50:02.53\00:50:07.17
to fulfill a plan in
protecting the truth of God
00:50:07.37\00:50:11.97
and spreading it, giving freedom
of speech to spread the truth.
00:50:12.01\00:50:16.75
It's a nation with worldwide
influence, capable of taking the
00:50:17.05\00:50:21.48
truth to every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people.
00:50:21.52\00:50:24.69
It has a constitution that
guarantees civil and religious
00:50:25.22\00:50:28.46
liberty and freedom of speech
00:50:28.49\00:50:30.59
to facilitate the preaching
of the gospel with full freedom.
00:50:30.99\00:50:35.30
However, when this nation
repudiates its constitution
00:50:35.93\00:50:39.33
and commits the
greatest abomination,
00:50:39.80\00:50:42.24
the enforcement of Sunday by
law as a national day of rest,
00:50:42.27\00:50:46.41
God will write national
apostasy in the heavenly books.
00:50:46.71\00:50:51.25
And national ruin will follow,
00:50:51.45\00:50:53.62
just as happened after
the abomination of desolation
00:50:53.82\00:50:56.99
outside
Jerusalem in the year 70.
00:50:57.02\00:50:59.69
Ellen White wrote
several statements about
00:50:59.89\00:51:03.16
national apostasy
leading to national ruin.
00:51:03.49\00:51:06.39
She wrote, this is, Review
and Herald, May 2, 1893...
00:51:06.70\00:51:10.67
What a solemn thought.
00:51:30.02\00:51:31.59
In the book, Last
Day Events, page 133-134,
00:51:31.99\00:51:34.82
we find these words...
00:51:34.86\00:51:36.19
Review and
Herald, June 15, 1897...
00:52:09.19\00:52:11.93
In other words, the religious
leaders of the United States
00:52:22.04\00:52:24.67
are going to pressure the state,
they're going to pressure the
00:52:24.71\00:52:27.84
government, the legislators
for a national Sunday law.
00:52:27.88\00:52:30.88
Counsels for the
Church, page 335...
00:52:31.51\00:52:34.12
In other words, what
Protestants are saying
00:52:52.37\00:52:53.94
appears to be mild
and apparently Christian.
00:52:54.14\00:52:56.91
And as I've mentioned before,
the sin that was committed
00:53:02.88\00:53:05.91
by the Jewish nation,
the abomination that led
00:53:05.95\00:53:08.18
to the desolation, was
that they rejected Jesus Christ.
00:53:08.22\00:53:11.85
The sin of the religious
world at the end of time
00:53:11.95\00:53:14.76
will be discarding
God's holy law, particularly
00:53:14.79\00:53:19.73
the commandment that speaks
about keeping the Sabbath.
00:53:19.76\00:53:22.80
Ellen White wrote in,
Great Controversy, page 22...
00:53:22.83\00:53:25.87
You say, "Pastor..."
00:53:38.51\00:53:39.85
And I've mentioned this before.
00:53:39.88\00:53:41.22
"...how can you say
that this is the same sin,
00:53:41.25\00:53:43.79
rejecting Christ
or rejecting the law?"
00:53:43.82\00:53:46.55
It is the same sin.
00:53:47.42\00:53:48.82
You say, "How is that?"
00:53:49.16\00:53:50.49
Well, the law is a
reflection of God's character.
00:53:50.79\00:53:54.13
In other words, the law is
a reflection of who Jesus is.
00:53:54.16\00:53:57.43
It's a mirror
reflection, if you please.
00:53:57.87\00:54:00.20
Selected Messages, volume 1,
page 240, Ellen White wrote...
00:54:00.40\00:54:04.41
So how can you say, "Oh,
I love Jesus Christ so much,
00:54:14.85\00:54:18.39
but I don't love His law,"
00:54:18.42\00:54:20.22
when the law is a
transcript of His character?
00:54:20.26\00:54:22.66
That's why David said,
"Oh, how I love Thy law.
00:54:23.22\00:54:26.39
It is my
meditation day and night."
00:54:26.43\00:54:28.50
Jesus said, "If you love Me,
you will keep My commandments."
00:54:28.90\00:54:32.37
Not nine, but ten.
00:54:32.40\00:54:34.24
Not a changed commandment,
but the commandment as God
00:54:34.54\00:54:37.57
gave it originally.
00:54:37.61\00:54:39.21
I want to end by reading a
statement in, Great Controversy,
00:54:39.97\00:54:43.28
page 614, where Ellen
White links what happened
00:54:43.31\00:54:47.12
with Jerusalem with what is
going to happen with the world
00:54:47.15\00:54:50.35
at the end of time.
00:54:50.39\00:54:51.72
After the close of
probation, this is.
00:54:52.39\00:54:54.59
"When He leaves
the sanctuary..."
00:54:54.62\00:54:56.76
When Jesus leaves the sanctuary.
00:54:56.79\00:54:58.56
And what's going to
happen in the world?
00:55:09.90\00:55:11.57
Because God has
withdrawn His Spirit.
00:55:11.61\00:55:13.34
God's people are
still going to be on earth.
00:55:13.38\00:55:15.58
They're going to have to
live without an intercessor
00:55:15.98\00:55:17.81
because Jesus is no
longer a priest that intercedes.
00:55:17.85\00:55:20.98
Jesus now has
changed His garments
00:55:21.02\00:55:22.95
to the garments of a king.
00:55:23.15\00:55:24.99
There's no intercessor.
00:55:25.02\00:55:26.45
And then she speaks about what's
going to happen with the world
00:55:26.49\00:55:29.29
at this time.
00:55:29.32\00:55:30.66
Can you imagine what the
world is going to be like
00:55:40.24\00:55:42.84
when Satan is in full
control of unbelievers?
00:55:43.14\00:55:47.11
You know, you think that
what's going on presently
00:55:47.74\00:55:50.05
in the United States with
this turmoil in the cities,
00:55:50.08\00:55:53.21
and burning businesses,
and you know, knocking down
00:55:53.25\00:55:57.02
statues and things like that,
00:55:57.05\00:55:58.82
you say, "That's
pretty terrible."
00:55:58.85\00:56:00.59
But what's going to
happen when the entire country
00:56:01.76\00:56:04.96
is under the control of
Satan except for the righteous
00:56:04.99\00:56:07.90
who have been sealed
with the seal of God?
00:56:07.93\00:56:09.80
She continues...
00:56:09.83\00:56:11.17
Just like when the
Christians left the city,
00:56:29.48\00:56:32.12
those in the city,
their probation closed.
00:56:32.15\00:56:35.06
And then she compares it
with what happened in Jerusalem.
00:57:06.99\00:57:10.19
She wrote, "The whole
world..." No longer Jerusalem.
00:57:10.39\00:57:14.13
This will be a global event.
00:57:14.16\00:57:15.93
If you want to read a
description of what happened
00:57:24.81\00:57:27.68
in Jerusalem of old, just go to
the first chapter of the book,
00:57:27.71\00:57:30.91
Great Controversy.
00:57:30.95\00:57:32.28
You say, "How could
things be worse than what
00:57:32.45\00:57:35.25
this chapter describes?"
00:57:35.28\00:57:36.65
And yet, Ellen White here
says that, "The whole world
00:57:36.69\00:57:40.39
will be involved in
ruin more terrible than that
00:57:40.42\00:57:43.19
which came upon
Jerusalem of old."
00:57:43.22\00:57:45.09
God calls us to be
obedient to His holy law.
00:57:45.23\00:57:49.36
He wants us to keep His
Sabbath, not as an obligation,
00:57:49.83\00:57:52.40
but because we love to spend the
entire day with Jesus Christ.
00:57:52.43\00:57:56.57
How dare we say, "No,
I'm going to meet with
00:57:56.91\00:57:59.41
Jesus on a different day."
00:57:59.44\00:58:01.14
So be with us for
our next presentation.
00:58:01.18\00:58:04.15