What do the mysterious images of
Daniel and Revelation mean? When
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will the antichrist appear and
make his final move? How can I
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be ready for the final events
of earth's history? You'll be
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amazed and encouraged by what
the Bible reveals. Join us as
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Pastor Brian McMahon
leads out in Prophecy Unsealed.
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Welcome everyone to our Prophecy
Unsealed seminar. We are so glad
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again, you're joining us today.
Again, I want to welcome all
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those who are joining us at home
Thank you. We're delighted that
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you want to be part of our
study Our topic today is a very
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important one: The Mark of the
Beast and the Seal of God. Now
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I've been asking you to pray
and friends, we need to pray.
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This is one of the most
important subjects we could
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ever study in our entire life.
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The mark of the beast
has attracted millions of
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people down through the years.
It's truly a life and a death
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matter. When Jesus
comes, there's only going to be
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two groups of people:
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Those who are ready and
those who are not. And those
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who are ready will have the seal
of God in their forehead and
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will be saved for all eternity.
And those that are not will have
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the mark of the beast in their
forehead or in their hand and
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will be lost for all eternity.
So, when the Lord seals his law
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in our hearts, it has to include
the Sabbath. It demonstrates to
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him that we've accepted God as
our creator and our sanctifier.
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So the Sabbath is a weekly
reminder of our relationship
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with God. It shows that he
has the power and authority. Now
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what do you suppose is going
to happen folks when that same
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finger that wrote the ten
commandments in stone points to
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this world in the judgment day
and says what are you doing with
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my law? James 2:12: We'll be
judged by the law of liberty.
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Let me tell you what's going
to happen friends. All of those
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vain and superficial arguments
that are given today, all of
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those irrational reasons that
people give why they don't have
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to be obedient, it will collapse
like a house of cards. And
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people will come face to face
with the one who made heaven and
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earth, the sea, and all that
is in them is and that'll be a
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sobering moment, won't it?
So we're going now...Let me just
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say one more thing on that.
Isn't it just sensible that God?
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looking down through the
centuries spotlighted the fourth
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one with the word remember
because he knew that churches
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today would be saying it's the
one that's okay to forget. God
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in his wisdom told us that ahead
of time. So, when someone says
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to me, oh come on now,
pastor this society today,
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it's a jungle out there.
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How do we really know
what day the seventh day
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is, right? I mean calendars
and calendars have been mixed up
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and Adventists have, and we've
covered these things, but folks
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I'm going to share something
with you from 25 years of
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ministry and holding many
seminars. When the mind is open
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for truth it is as clear as
the nose on our face. But when
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someone doesn't want to follow
truth, when they're looking for
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reasons around it, when they
want to rationalize out of it
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all of a sudden there's a
hundred reasons the devil will
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give you why you don't have to
keep the Sabbath, right? So it's
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a matter not of the head so
much but of the heart. Are you
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wanting to do his will? Because
if you are folks, the Sabbath is
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as clear as the
other commandments are.
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They're all written in stone.
Now we know one thing for sure.
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And I think we need to say this.
That salvation is by grace, and
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we've all sinned and come short
of the glory of God, and can we
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be saved by the law? No. Can we
be saved by keeping the Sabbath?
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No, it is not the law that saves
us. God will not accept that
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system. Why was it necessary for
Jesus to die? Romans 3:23: For
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all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. But when he
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gives us that marvelous grace
grace always leads us back to
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what? Obedience and never to
disobedience. And when he leads
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us back to obedience that will
include all of the commandments
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right? Not just the fourth, but
all of them. He wants to write
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everything in our hearts. Psalm
19:7: The law of the Lord is
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what? Perfect, converting the
soul. So our only hope, friends
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is to put our trust in the one
that saved us. And when we put
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our trust in the one who saved
us, our love for him will grow.
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I hope daily because of what
he did and then he said, because
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you love me, he says,
then be obedient right? Keep my
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commandments. John 14:15. So now
that we know what the seal of
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God is, do you want to know what
the mark of the beast is? It's
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really not that difficult
friends. Let's go back to
Revelation 14. This time
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verse 12. We've looked at verses
9, 10, and 11, speaking of the
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mark of the beast, the
warning of it, but now verse 12
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contrasts that and says Here is
the patience of the saints: here
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are they that keep the
commandments of God, and the
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faith of Jesus. So, what are
we seeing here? God's seal is
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standing in opposition to the
mark of the beast. So if we are
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keeping the seal of God, if
we've been given the seal of
God, we will not be
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given the mark of the beast.
Or to put it another way: If we
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are honoring the commandments
of God, we will not be given the
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mark of the beast because
they're put in opposition to one
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another. So two things
are brought out: One group is
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worshipping the creator. One
group is worshipping the beast.
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Now we've studied the beast
power in a previous session.
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We found out that there was a
prophecy in Daniel 7 that said
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that he would think to change
times and what else? The laws.
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Has anything been done by the
beast power to affect God's law?
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We should be expecting it.
As Bible students, we should be
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expecting an attack on the
law of God. So in our previous
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session, we've learned about the
beast power, and we're not going
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to spend a lot of time on it,
but we did go back to our Daniel
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chapter 7, and we know that
many people fail to understand
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Revelation because they fail
to do their homework, as I say
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They fail to understand what the
Old Testament prophecies about
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the antichrist are and
then bring that information into
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Revelation. So because they
don't have the foundation, they
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don't have the knowledge that
they need. But we went to the
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Old Testament. We went to Daniel
We saw a metallic image there
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and then we found out
the principle that Daniel and
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Revelation are built on is
repetition and enlargement. So,
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there's two prophecies, one
in Daniel 2 and one in Daniel 7
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that are paralleling one another
They're showing Babylon by the
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head of gold and the lion
with the eagle's wings. They're
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showing Medo-Persia by the chest
and arms of silver and the bear
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that was humped up on one side.
They're showing Greece by the
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belly and thighs of brass and
the leopard with four heads and
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four wings. We see Rome with
the legs of iron and the great
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terrible dragon with 10
horns and of course the divided
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nations of Rome after Rome fell
shown by the feet on the image,
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the toes on the image and the
divided nations shown by the 10
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horns on that fourth beast.
So now that's the foundation and
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then God builds on that, or we
can say he enlarges on that in
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verse 8 of Daniel 7.
I considered the horns
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and behold, there came up among
them another little horn before
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whom there were three of the
first horns plucked up by the
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roots. And this little horn,
again, this is review for us,
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is the same power as the first
beast of Revelation chapter 13
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when we started here. So we
want to know, what is this power
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We went to Daniel 7, and
we found out there's a lot of
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identifying marks. There's a lot
of information that God gives us
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because he doesn't want us
to guess at it. He wants to
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eliminate every other
possibility in history except
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one. That's exactly what it does
There's only one that fits all
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of these things. And again, I
want to say friends, if you've
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ever had a connection with this
power, you or a relative or a
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friend, it doesn't mean that
they're bad people. It doesn't
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mean that God doesn't love them
and that they don't love God.
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It just means there's nothing
personal in the identification
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to this because God is
not talking about people. He's
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talking about systems of worship
and can deceive people. In love
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he reveals this to us because
God does not want his people
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fooled in the end time. Because
to be so, you may find yourself
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on the wrong side of the issues
that will divide the world. And
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we know from studying these
things on previous nights that
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this could be none other
than the Roman church, which is
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headed by what we call the
papacy. It's the one power, the
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only power, that fits all of the
identifying characteristics of
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scripture for the end time beast
power. Please understand again
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that anyone could take those
identifying marks, and you could
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go down to the library and look
it up in history, and you would
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know it for yourself. No single
man is the beast. The beast is a
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religious and political kingdom
that rises up in history. It
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does its work over time. Does
certain things that the Bible
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brings out. It received a death
wound when it's civil power is
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taken away. But then it ends up
getting it back and the result
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is all the world turns back to
this power. It doesn't mean that
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all who have followed power
by the way have been lost. It
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doesn't mean again that
they don't love the Lord, but it
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probably means that they don't
know these truths in scripture.
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So they're really not a matter
of argument, it's a matter of
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factual history. But let me give
you a couple of quotes here.
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From the Catholic Dictionary it
says: The Vicar of Christ...This
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is a title used almost
exclusively of the Bishop of
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Rome, as successor of Peter and,
therefore, the one in the Church
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who particularly ...which means
in a special way...takes the
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place of Christ. So they're
title means that they're in the
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place of Christ on earth. Pope
Boniface VIII, he said:
Furthermore, we declare,
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we proclaim, we define that
it is absolutely necessary for
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salvation that every human
creature be subject to the Roman
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Pontiff. Very interesting.
So they say that we have to come
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through that power, that system.
It received a death blow when
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Napoleon sent his general
Berthier into the heart of Rome
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and took the Pope captive.
He declares it to be at an end.
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They confiscated property. They
said nope, this is over now, and
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Encyclopedia Americana picked
up on this: In 1798, he, meaning
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Berthier...Napoleon's general...
made his entrance into Rome,
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abolished the papal Government
and established a secular one
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So they took it away. This was
the deadly wound that occurred
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at the end of the 1260 years
of the dark ages. But the Bible
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says it'll get power back,
and it was given a special power
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back when he could rule over
certain land as a state would.
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San Francisco Chronicle
newspaper wrote in February of
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1929: The Roman question tonight
was a thing of the past and the
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Vatican was at peace with Italy.
In affixing the autographs to
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the memorable document healing
the wound...here they used
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scripture, a scriptural term...
which has festered since 1870,
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extreme cordiality was displayed
on both sides. So here they're
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saying that was a wound that was
given was starting to be healed
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now because it got back
the property or at least some
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property that it had confiscated
and friends, people have turned
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to this power like never before.
But remember from our previous
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session that the image of Daniel
2 had legs of iron, right,
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representing pagan Rome.
But then that led into the feet
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which were of iron and clay. So
even though there was a change
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still, the presence of Rome was
there in some way and that of
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course is because it is now
papal Rome. Not pagan Rome. It
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gave place to papal Rome.
So that's why it is a different
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composite. Now, let's ask this
question. Why did God choose...
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I've been waiting to get to
this...why did God choose to
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represent this power in this
way? Revelation says he's got
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the body of a leopard, the feet
of the bear, mouth of the lion,
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10 horns. Why did he give it to
us in this fashion? The answer
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is because when the papacy was
formed it drew its doctrines or
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It's beliefs, not from scripture
but from the pagan nations that
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had gone before it. Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome
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they no longer survived as
political nations, but their
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religious practices did survive.
And they were incorporated into
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the papacy. And the papacy
became a persecuting power just
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as those nations had. But then
it also cloaked itself with a
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religious veneer, a kind of thin
covering and passed itself off
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to the world as Christianity.
So, this is the counterfeit
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friends. The devil counterfeited
the true gospel and the true
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beliefs of the church with a
false system that will draw the
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multitudes after it. For example
the Bible is the truth and the
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final definer of doctrine. It's
been counterfeited by the words
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of pope and tradition. The
sacrifice of Christ would be a
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one-time sacrifice. It's
counter- feited by the masses,
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which is said to be a continual
sacrificing of Jesus. God's
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truth is baptism by immersion
that shows the representation of
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dying to self and rising back
up to a brand new regenerated
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life and has been substituted
or counterfeited by sprinkling.
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Communion service that we
take of the emblems of Christ's
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broken body and spilled blood
and it is counterfeited by a
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long word here:
transubstantiation which means
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the priest, the catholic priest
claims to have the ability to
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change the bread into the actual
body of Jesus and the grape
juice into the actual
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blood of Jesus. So again, in
their own words, they claim to
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create their creator. Amazing.
Tithing, of course, is asked of
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God, and that's been substituted
by indulgences, the idea that
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you could pay for God's favor.
Death being a sleep till the
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resurrection. We've taken that
up in a previous session. That's
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substituted by purgatory
and the immortality of the soul.
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Righteousness by faith, of
course, we're saved by God's
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grace through faith. Substituted
or counterfeited by penance, the
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idea that you can do certain
works to earn forgiveness. We
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are to pray to God, and we can
be forgiven directly by God has
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been substituted by praying
to dead saints and confession to
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earthly priests. This was
the falling away from truth that
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Paul talked about in 2
Thessalonians chapter 2 verse
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3. So let's not kid ourselves.
The only faith that's going to
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lead us back to God is that
which comes from God. Would you
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agree. And let's be very
clear now. We know who the beast
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power is but our subject tonight
is not about the beast power.
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We've already covered that. Our
subject to night is the mark of
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the beast. So the beast itself
is not the mark of the beast.
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The mark of the beast has to be
something that the beast does.
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So listen carefully right now
friends because this is one of
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the most important points of
what I'm going to share tonight.
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Just as a beast in
Bible prophecy represents a
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kingdom or a nation, so the
mark of the beast represents the
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distinguishing characteristic
of that power, right? It's the
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mark of the beast is the mark
of that power. So what is the
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distinguishing characteristic
of the papal power? What does
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the papacy give them authority?
Could it be that they have
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counterfeited what God says
gives him authority. You know
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the devil's not too original.
He counterfeits what God does.
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Could it be a fulfilling of what
Daniel says? Let's go take a
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look here if we may. Remember
now Satan is a counterfeiter.
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So he counterfeits what God
does. We're going to let the
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papacy answer for itself. The
tower of Babel was a monument
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to disobedience. When Nimrod
died he was worshipped as the
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Sun god, and it wasn't very
long before the people began to
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worship the sun and the moon
and the stars and Satan deceived
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them into looking away from the
Creator to the creation. Here
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you see an Egyptian pharaoh who
claimed to be the embodiment of
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the sun god Horace on earth much
like the Pope claims to be the
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infallible vicar of Christ
on earth. He's holding up these
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golden goblets to sun showing
worship. Here you see it again
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another one. This was common
now They worshipped the sun and
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they're holding up their
offering to it. Here the priest
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he holds up a golden cup, too
above his head, which is his way
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of bowing before it as he
gives an offering. Now there's a
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communion lifted up by the
priest. It is to be adored much
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like the symbols of the sun were
lifted up and adored. There's
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nothing to say that the
Communion bread should be in the
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shape of a round wafer, like
a sun, but this is what they do.
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And the Catholic claims that
this wafer of bread turns into
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the actual body of Christ when
it's consecrated by the mass.
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Semiramis Nimrod's wife died.
She was worshipped afterward as
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the queen of the heavens
and since then, in different
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cultures and in different
languages female deities are
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worshipped. Here you see Mary
in the upper center there. She's
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lifted up. She's being adored
as the queen of the heavens. You
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see her in many other
nationalities in various places
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of the earth. She's again made
huge here because the crowd is
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worshipping Mary. Statues
of her, monstrous statues, huge
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ones, all over. They make her
very, very large because she is
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the one again taking the place
of this female deity of the
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past. Here's one I found when I
visited Florida. Mary, the Queen
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of the Universe. Now Mary
worship is found in none of the
writing of the early
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Christians. She would be
horrified if she saw her name
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used like that. The symbolism of
the mother-child worship, very,
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very prominent in Catholicism.
You see it in many different
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ways. I show you just a few
examples here. Mother and child.
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But look who's the larger one.
Look who's the small one, right?
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Who's prominent and who's made
very little. If it isn't Mary
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who do they make big, right? Now
it's not Jesus, right? Not that
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we should go around making
images, but nevertheless, when
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it it's not Mary made real big,
the Pope is made real big and
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where is Jesus found? He's found
dying in a wretched, you know
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position there on the cross.
So it's showing Jesus not in the
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risen glorious sense, not as our
great high priest, not as our
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soon coming king, but they
always having him in the dying
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sense there on the cross. So the
crucifix, which is Jesus hanging
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there is continually displayed.
It's really a blasphemous claim
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of a continual sacrificing of
Christ, rather than the one-time
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sacrifice that the Bible speaks
about. Now here's a pagan symbol
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representing male and
female union and the sun and the
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crescent moon for Egypt was a
symbol of Isis, the wife of the
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sun god and the mother of the
gods. The pagans displayed this
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sun and the crescent moon in
many different types of artwork
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sometimes it was the sun in
the horns of a bull, but you see
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this also in Islam. Here's
another shot of it here. Here's
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the Islam one, right? You see it
over and over again, all around.
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But now, by placing Mary, this
is a Catholic artwork in the
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crescent, it's really harkening
back to the fertility, the
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mother goddess tracing both
back to the Babylonian queen
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Semiramis, who was titled the
mother of god. Here you see...
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this is in a Catholic church
in Chicago, and this one really
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blew my mind. A nine-foot image
of Mary sitting atop a crescent
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moon as Isis did. Mary sits in
the position where God should be
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between the cherubim's and
over the ark of the covenant and
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she's offering herself now as
the host, or the bread of life,
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but she's got her hands out
as if she made the sacrifice and
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she's right over the top of the
mercy seat again, where God's
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present normally is. Again she's
got a sun right on her chest,
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you see the
beams going out there.
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Again, it's just putting
Mary in the place of God.
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So you can see even the
pagan deities, this disk
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of this halo is very prominent
in pagan history. Same as the
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symbolism of the wafer. It means
the same thing. You see it in
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other religions. Here's one from
the near East, right? Or the
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middle east. Here's one that
came from the far east, Japan,
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being the land of the rising
sun But notice the halo behind
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one of the Japanese gods.
This is the god of happiness. He
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still had the sun behind his
head. So this is where the halo
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came from friends. It's not
a sign of holiness originally.
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It's a sign of a sun god. It
shows up in Catholic carvings,
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it shows up in Catholic art work
paintings like this. You see it
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in all kinds of
places. Basically, it's a union
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of pagan and Christian belief.
Now the serpent with wings
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on it here. The winged serpent.
That shows up also in pagan
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religions. You see this
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Egyptian bowing down to a winged
serpent making an offering and
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the dragon on the papal crest,
this is from the Vatican museum.
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By the way, the word Vatican, in
case you didn't know that, the
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first part vatu's means diviner
and can means serpent. So,
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Vatican means the divining
serpent, just in case you didn't
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know what that actually means.
But the devil himself is a
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serpent, right? And he is a
cunning one isn't he? The Bible
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says that dragon, that old
serpent called the devil and
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Satan deceives the whole world.
So here's a door knob on St.
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Mary's cathedral in San
Francisco, California. It's hard
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to imagine that they would use
a symbol on a Christian church
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that represents Satan, right?
Right on the very door. You'd
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have to think that they
know what that means, but
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nevertheless King Tut identified
in death with Osiris, the son
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and the god of the dead, he
holds this crooked augur in his
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hand and it was the sign that he
was an official diviner of the
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future using omens, which was
carried by soothsayers and by
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fortune tellers, and here we see
in the Roman Catholic church the
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which represents the shepherd.
They say it represents the
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shepherd's crook but you can see
it has a serpent's tail on it.
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You can see the scales on it
there. And this is held by high
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officials of the Vatican.
It's traced back to the divining
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staff of those fortune tellers
they inherited from the priests
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of Babylon. Now here's an actual
artifact unearthed in a pagan
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temple in the Canaanite city
of Hazor, which was in northern
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Italy. On one of its sides, on
the right hand side, you see a
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circle with a cross in the
center. That's the divine symbol
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of the Canaanite storm god Baal,
a circle with a cross in the
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center. So it came right
from the temple. So you see this
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symbol of Baal all over in the
papacy. Here you see it right
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there on the altar. You can't
miss it there. It's got it right
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front and center.
That's a symbol of Baal.
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You see it here on a pagan altar
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, same thing, circle with
a cross. You see the waves
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coming out of it there, sun rays
Here it is, the symbol of Baal
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on the tapestry that's hung from
the balcony. This is when Pope
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John Paul II made his very first
appearance. But it represents
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pagan sun worship. Here you see
Pope John Paul II. Now several
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things are going on here. It's
got his miter; you see the same
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symbol right on the miter. Right
there, it's a symbol of Baal
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front and center, the circle
with that cross in it. Here you
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see it right on his miter here.
That's a symbol of Baal. You see
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it on the canopy here, on the
stole on his neck, see at the
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bottom there, same symbol,
symbol of Baal. Another form of
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sun images that are originated
from Babylon is the solar wheel.
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And it's in the form of a
chariot wheel, which is linked
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with astrology and the occult.
Here you see another kind of
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sun wheel or solar wheel
and the pagans they thought that
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this sun god traveled across
the sky in a great chariot and
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that's where you get the
sun wheel from. But it's a pagan
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wheel. This one here is from the
temple of Karnak in India. To
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show you the occult and
astrology. It kind of resembles
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a chariot wheel doesn't it? And
here you see again this woman
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she's got her solar wheel. She's
got the sun behind her head.
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What do you suppose the largest
solar wheel in the world is?
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Here you see a view of
the piazza or the plaza of the
00:22:55.40\00:22:58.04
Vatican, also known as St.
Peter's square. Circular court
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yard, but marked out plainly as
a solar wheel. This large eight
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rayed sun wheel or chariot wheel
design said to be symbolic of
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the God Ishtar. It's immediately
noticeable, isn't it? So the sun
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image, it originates from
Babylon, the solar wheel, it's
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filled with astrology and the
occult. Here you see another one
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here, but in this one it's got
the symbol of Baal in the middle
00:23:19.89\00:23:23.70
of it. You've got a solar wheel
that represents again false
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worship and the symbol of Baal
right in the center of it. And
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that's what they have here
at the Vatican also. You got the
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eight point sun wheel, the
smaller pointed symbol of Baal
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right? And then in the middle
which is...by the way these
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things are common in Babylonian
temples. But if you look closer
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at the very center, what do you
see? You see there an obelisk
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right? Genuine Egyptian obelisk
shipped over from Heliopolis to
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Rome by the Roman emperor
Caligula and he was an evil guy.
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But the obelisk was used in sun
worship. And so here right in
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St. Peter's square within the
symbol of Baal is the symbol of
00:24:00.74\00:24:03.47
Ishtar, which is this Pagan
sun worship. This obelisk is a
00:24:03.51\00:24:08.18
symbol at the entrance of a lot
of different temples. They use
00:24:08.21\00:24:11.21
it quite extensively, commonly
sighted at temples. No Pope here
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he's enthroned under a canopy
and notice above the canopy what
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you see. It's got the
astrological figures of the
00:24:19.75\00:24:22.12
zodiac. This one is from the
Vatican museum, with the sign of
00:24:22.16\00:24:25.76
Leo is directly above his head
again showing a mixture of the
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pagan with the church. Now
you probably know this guy, the
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Emperor Constantine. We
talked about him. Famous for his
00:24:31.83\00:24:34.37
attempts at combining pagan
worship with Christianity. Here
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is a quote from the life of
Constantine p.94: In order to
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attach to Christianity greater
attraction in the eyes of the
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nobility, the priests
adopted the outer garments and
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adornments which were used in
pagan cults. So, again, this was
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Constantine's practice. Here's
one more from An Essay on the
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Development of Christian
Doctrine, p.372: We are told in
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various ways by Eusebius,...
he was an historian...that
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Constantine, in order to
recommend the new religion to
00:25:01.23\00:25:02.56
to the heathen, transferred into
it...into Christianity...the
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outward ornaments to which
they had been accustomed in
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their own. So what did they do?
Well, here is one of the ancient
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priests for the Dagon, he's
the priest of Dagon or the fish
00:25:14.54\00:25:20.22
worship. We see them among
the Philistines, we've seen them
00:25:20.25\00:25:22.38
among the Babylonians. Sometimes
they wore the whole fish on
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their head, which seems kind
of strange.. Sometimes they just
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wore the fish cap on their head.
And on the right, there is the
00:25:28.19\00:25:30.89
mystery goddess of Asia Minor
Cybele. She's wearing the fish
00:25:30.93\00:25:33.83
cap on her head, right? So
the modern miter hat that the
00:25:33.86\00:25:41.30
priests wear, or the officials
of the Vatican, is the same
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thing. It's worn among the
bishops and the pope, and it
00:25:43.94\00:25:47.38
represents the head of Dagon,
but an open mouth. That's what
00:25:47.41\00:25:49.88
that miter is an open-mouthed
fish. You see it in various
00:25:49.91\00:25:52.91
priests here. You see it on the
pope here. That's just an open
00:25:52.95\00:25:56.02
fish right there. This is
Dionysus the great god with a
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pine cone on his staff. It's
a fertility symbol. Children are
00:26:01.82\00:26:04.53
always looked upon as extending
the life of the human species
00:26:04.56\00:26:08.40
and therefore, it was linked to
the conception of children. The
00:26:08.43\00:26:12.07
pine cone staff very, very
interesting here. It goes all
00:26:12.10\00:26:17.07
the way back to Tammuz of
Babylon, who is said to have
00:26:17.11\00:26:19.34
died for the good of his people.
Now notice how Satan sets up
00:26:19.37\00:26:21.94
counterfeits here. So he's got
this mother, who is said to be a
00:26:21.98\00:26:26.55
impregnated miraculously,
she was a virgin, but still
00:26:26.58\00:26:32.55
impregnated. This is a
counterfeit of course of the
00:26:32.59\00:26:35.99
virgin birth of Jesus. So this
is another picture here of the
00:26:36.02\00:26:40.66
Syrian winged god with a
pine cone representing again the
00:26:40.70\00:26:42.03
power of regeneration traceable
to Tammuz of Babylon. A lot of
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false worship can be traced
back to Tammuz. Most paganism in
00:26:46.20\00:26:48.60
history is. But his mother
Semiramis, again, she was the
00:26:48.64\00:26:52.87
first one that they claimed of
her to be a virgin even though
00:26:52.91\00:26:56.18
she gave birth. Do you know that
the Roman Catholic practice of
00:26:56.21\00:26:59.35
making the sign of the cross
goes all the way back to Tammuz.
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They made the sign of the T for
Tammuz, and that's been carried
00:27:01.78\00:27:04.85
on down into the church today.
Now here you see the Pope's
00:27:04.89\00:27:10.66
staff. He's got a pine cone
on it, the ultimate pagan symbol
00:27:10.69\00:27:12.29
really. But again, we would
be surprised that he's got the
00:27:12.33\00:27:15.70
symbol, the pagan symbol,
for extending eternal life right
00:27:15.73\00:27:21.07
there on his staff. Here he's
got it on his breast plate here.
00:27:21.10\00:27:23.51
He's got the miter on his head.
The crucifix in the other hand.
00:27:23.54\00:27:26.14
Interesting hand symbol, we'll
get to that in just a minute.
00:27:26.17\00:27:29.38
Where do you suppose the largest
pine cone in the world is? In
00:27:29.41\00:27:33.38
the court of the pine cone, here
is originally made in the time
00:27:33.42\00:27:38.42
of pagan Rome, right, the pagan
Roman empire, but it was moved
00:27:38.45\00:27:41.22
here in 1608 and right there
into the Vatican again. It's a
00:27:41.26\00:27:44.83
an ultimate symbol of pagan
worship. Now this old statue
00:27:44.86\00:27:50.50
with its occult blessing here
is supposedly a statue of Peter
00:27:50.53\00:27:51.87
enthroned here. But notice the
sun wheel above his head. The
00:27:51.90\00:27:56.60
statue is actually a
pagan statue of Jupiter. It was
00:27:56.64\00:28:01.38
removed from the pantheon in
Rome, which is a pagan temple,
00:28:01.41\00:28:03.95
moved into St. Peters, modified
a little bit and renamed Peter.
00:28:03.98\00:28:07.25
But notice the pattern on
the wall behind him. That's the
00:28:07.28\00:28:10.39
pattern of Baal, that's
the symbol of Baal, right there
00:28:10.42\00:28:14.09
behind the wall on the tapestry.
Now this extended right foot has
00:28:14.12\00:28:18.93
been worn away and replaced by
the many pilgrims who come and
00:28:18.96\00:28:22.26
in sincerity, kiss it in homage
not realizing they're kissing
00:28:22.30\00:28:24.90
the foot of an ancient pagan god
It's really sad when you think
00:28:24.93\00:28:28.17
about it. They don't understand
what the Bible teaches about
00:28:28.20\00:28:30.24
making images and bowing down
to them. But that's what happens
00:28:30.27\00:28:33.88
when the word of God is
withheld Now, here again,
00:28:33.91\00:28:36.04
you see the solar
wheel above his head.
00:28:37.28\00:28:38.71
You see the pagan
symbol of Baal behind
00:28:38.78\00:28:40.18
him. But notice the hand sign.
That's what I wanted you to see
00:28:40.22\00:28:42.72
there. See that hand sign he's
got. That is the occult symbol
00:28:42.75\00:28:48.32
called the trident hand. The
old statue of Jupiter with his
00:28:48.36\00:28:50.99
blessing hand is now St. Peter
but it's still got that same
00:28:51.03\00:28:54.60
occultic hand symbol with three
fingers. That's where they come
00:28:54.63\00:28:56.77
up with trident from. Now here
it is in the Hindu religion. The
00:28:56.80\00:29:00.90
Hindu deity with the thumb
and two fingers extended, same
00:29:00.94\00:29:03.67
trident sign. This is a Buddhist
a Buddha hand. Again same three
00:29:03.71\00:29:08.58
fingers of Buddha. Now these
Satanic hand signs, of course,
00:29:08.61\00:29:12.31
are symbols of occultic power.
00:29:12.35\00:29:13.68
They appear in
the Roman church on
00:29:13.72\00:29:15.18
statues, paintings throughout
the priesthood. Here you see it
00:29:15.22\00:29:19.95
with the Pope with the miter on
his head. He's got the trident
00:29:19.99\00:29:23.06
hand sign. See it here with Pope
John II. Again borrowed right
00:29:23.09\00:29:27.00
out of paganism right into the
church. You see it here. If you
00:29:27.03\00:29:30.87
put the statue of Jupiter right
next to the pope, here you can
00:29:30.90\00:29:34.70
see clearly how they have
adopted these symbols. Here's
00:29:34.74\00:29:37.54
one from my homeland that I'm
not too proud about, a postage
00:29:37.57\00:29:40.21
stamp. It's got a symbol of
a priest here. He's got the sun
00:29:40.24\00:29:43.24
behind his head, right, you got
the miter on his head, you got
00:29:43.28\00:29:48.22
the serpent's staff in one hand,
he's got the occult hand symbol
00:29:48.25\00:29:51.22
in the other. Four pagan signs
on one postage stamp. How much
00:29:51.25\00:29:54.16
more can they load onto it,
right? But there it is. Now this
00:29:54.19\00:30:00.20
is a sun face, this hideous,
horned, nature spirit is among
00:30:00.23\00:30:03.73
the most sacred items in the
Vatican treasury. It's located
00:30:03.77\00:30:05.63
beneath St. Peter's Basilica.
Nature spirits are common in
00:30:05.67\00:30:10.47
pagan cults throughout the world
In Roman paganism, they were
00:30:10.51\00:30:12.74
called fawns. In Greek they
were known as Seder, but the
00:30:12.77\00:30:16.95
reflections of this horned
hoofed god is traceable all the
00:30:16.98\00:30:19.15
was back to the sun god of
Babylon. Now these images, they
00:30:19.18\00:30:22.62
occur in church buildings. They
take on various forms. This one
00:30:22.65\00:30:25.45
is from an ancient Roman bath
house. It depicts the face of a
00:30:25.49\00:30:29.49
Roman sun god. All around it are
horns and rays emitting from the
00:30:29.52\00:30:33.36
sun face. You see it here on
this church. This one is from
00:30:33.40\00:30:38.20
Scandinavia. Same thing,
sun face a telltale sign of sun
00:30:38.23\00:30:40.67
worship. Again, another
one. This statue is a Romanized
00:30:40.70\00:30:46.74
statue of the Egyptian Isis.
Notice the globe in her hand.
00:30:46.78\00:30:50.31
What is the hand symbol that she
had? Small bronze of Hercules.
00:30:50.35\00:30:54.28
He's kind of an allegorical
figure of the solar deity, also
00:30:54.32\00:30:56.48
holding the globe in his hand.
This is a Persian sun god Mithra
00:30:56.52\00:31:01.49
holding the globe. The globe is
a symbol of the rulership of the
00:31:01.52\00:31:04.13
universe here. And now, of
course, they've just done the
00:31:04.16\00:31:06.66
same to Jesus. They've given
a globe in his hand. You've got
00:31:06.70\00:31:10.33
the trident hand symbol in the
other one holding that. So it's
00:31:10.37\00:31:12.57
simply making of Jesus, what the
pagans did of their god. And of
00:31:12.60\00:31:17.11
course here's one of the child
Jesus holding the pagan symbol
00:31:17.14\00:31:19.61
of the globe and the same hand
symbol too. So they use it in
00:31:19.64\00:31:21.71
different forms of Jesus. You
see the sun globe on the Pope's
00:31:21.74\00:31:25.21
tiara, you see it on churches.
Now this is the Roman god
00:31:25.25\00:31:28.65
Jupiter. Notice he's the
equivalent of the Greek god Zeus
00:31:28.68\00:31:32.05
He's holding the lightning bolt
right? Lightning bolt-symbol
00:31:32.09\00:31:36.12
of power. Now you've got
the statue of this female figure
00:31:36.16\00:31:40.00
representing the Roman church
found in the Jesuit church of
00:31:40.03\00:31:41.56
Rome. She's holding a lightning
bolt in her hand precisely the
00:31:41.60\00:31:45.13
same way it's carried by
the chief deities of the pagan
00:31:45.17\00:31:48.04
mysteries. It's really depicting
here, the church's authority
00:31:48.07\00:31:50.84
over kings and depicting
her destruction of what she
00:31:50.87\00:31:55.64
considers to be protestant
heresies. So she's driving away
00:31:55.68\00:31:59.08
from her two protestant
Reformers, one of them, Martin
00:31:59.11\00:32:01.52
Luther. And you see this little
cherub angel ripping pages out
00:32:01.55\00:32:05.35
the book showing the denial
of the protestant reformation,
00:32:05.39\00:32:07.06
which is based on the Bible,
right? So he's ripping the pages
00:32:07.76\00:32:10.23
out saying we don't want this.
Revelation 17:4: And the woman
00:32:10.26\00:32:14.66
was arrayed in purple and
scarlet color, and decked with
00:32:14.70\00:32:18.13
gold and precious stones
and pearls. And it says: And the
00:32:18.17\00:32:20.94
woman was clothed in two colors,
purple and what? Scarlet color.
00:32:20.97\00:32:25.77
So purple and scarlet,
purple and scarlet, purple, and
00:32:25.81\00:32:33.15
scarlet. Purple and scarlet,
purple and scarlet. It says she
00:32:33.18\00:32:42.72
had a golden cup in her
hand, full of abominations and
00:32:42.76\00:32:45.96
filthiness of her fornication.
The cup of wine that she held
00:32:45.99\00:32:49.76
that the harlot woman is
pictured with represents a
00:32:49.80\00:32:53.87
spiritual and a doctrinal
fornication, which is a mixing
of truth and error. So,
00:32:53.90\00:32:57.64
it says she made all nations
drink of that in Revelation 18.
00:32:57.67\00:33:01.64
So she's spreading these false
teachings around the world as
00:33:01.68\00:33:05.51
they imbibe in those things.
Here it is. This woman in
00:33:05.55\00:33:08.18
Revelation. She's holding
up a golden cup, right, so the
00:33:08.22\00:33:12.59
Revelation pictures her as
holding up this golden cup.
00:33:12.62\00:33:14.22
What is the only faith that
holds up at the climax of its
00:33:14.26\00:33:17.26
service the golden cup? Very
interesting. Now they also in
00:33:17.29\00:33:26.20
the Vatican have a mint and they
can mint their own coins. This
00:33:26.23\00:33:29.50
one is Pope Pius XII, who
reigned during the time of the
00:33:29.54\00:33:31.87
second world war. And on the
flip side of the coin, you see a
00:33:31.91\00:33:35.91
woman there. Incredibly enough,
it says the woman who represents
00:33:35.94\00:33:38.91
the Catholic church she holds a
cup in her right hand, in which
00:33:38.95\00:33:42.98
you see a pagan sunburst,
right. It recalls the verses of
00:33:43.02\00:33:45.85
Revelation but on their own
coin, they have the woman with a
00:33:45.89\00:33:49.02
cup and a sun. Amazing. Daniel
7:25: He shall speak great words
00:33:49.06\00:33:53.80
against the most High,...wear
out the saints of the most
00:33:53.83\00:33:57.37
High...think to change times
and laws. Since the final issue
00:33:57.40\00:33:59.47
revolved around worship what
earthly religious power claims
it has authority to
00:33:59.50\00:34:04.61
change God's law? This is
Catholic testimony, I'm about to
00:34:04.64\00:34:08.01
share with you. In their
catechism, they say: Which is
00:34:08.04\00:34:10.01
the Sabbath day? The answer's
Saturday is the Sabbath Day.
00:34:10.05\00:34:12.01
Why do we observe Sunday instead
of Sabbath? Because the Catholic
00:34:12.05\00:34:16.08
church transferred the solemnity
which means the sacredness from
00:34:16.12\00:34:20.32
Saturday to Sunday. What
specifically then, is the mark
00:34:20.36\00:34:27.00
of the beast? The mark of the
beast must be the sign of the
00:34:27.03\00:34:31.00
Roman church's authority. So
what does the Roman church claim
00:34:31.03\00:34:36.37
to have for its sign of
authority? That's a simple
00:34:36.40\00:34:41.21
question. Now this particular
bust is of James Cardinal
Gibbons, a very well
00:34:41.24\00:34:44.51
known cardinal in Catholic
history and his chancellor, who
00:34:44.55\00:34:48.98
was an official who acts kind
of like a secretary or handles
00:34:49.02\00:34:52.09
documents for a bishop or other
official, he said: Of course,
00:34:52.12\00:34:55.82
the Catholic Church claims that
the change was her act...Let me
00:34:55.86\00:34:58.73
pause there. He means the change
of the Sabbath from Saturday to
00:34:58.76\00:35:01.00
Sunday...He says: This act
is a mark of her ecclesiastical
00:35:01.03\00:35:05.17
power and authority in religious
matters. So he's saying of
00:35:05.20\00:35:09.10
course, she claims this.
She changed the Sabbath from
00:35:09.14\00:35:11.84
Saturday to Sunday. She says
that's a mark of our authority
00:35:11.87\00:35:13.71
in religious matters. From the
Catholic Record, 1923, they said
00:35:13.74\00:35:18.31
The Church is above the Bible,
and this transference of Sabbath
00:35:18.35\00:35:21.78
observance from Saturday to
Sunday is proof positive of that
00:35:21.82\00:35:25.02
fact. Deny the authority of the
Church and you have no adequate
00:35:25.05\00:35:28.46
or a reasonable explanation
or justification for the
00:35:28.49\00:35:34.66
substitution of Sunday
for Saturday in the Third -
00:35:34.70\00:35:36.33
or the Protestant Fourth-
Commandment of God. As the Rev.
00:35:36.36\00:35:38.93
Mr. Smith rightly points out:
The Jewish Sabbath is not Sunday
00:35:38.97\00:35:42.00
the Lord's Day. Christians
are all wrong in speaking of the
00:35:42.04\00:35:44.57
Sabbath as Sunday. Christians
who so speak are "Bible
00:35:44.61\00:35:47.74
Christians," those who make the
Bible the sole rule of Faith;
00:35:47.78\00:35:51.75
and the Bible is silent on
Sunday observance, it speaks
00:35:51.78\00:35:54.62
only of what? Sabbath
observance. Well, I've got to
00:35:54.65\00:35:58.92
give them credit for honesty
here, absolutely. Also in the
00:35:58.95\00:36:02.12
Catholic Record, it goes on: The
Church is above the Bible;...
00:36:02.16\00:36:04.79
we've read that, but that proof
is what they put out there as
00:36:04.83\00:36:07.40
saying that that's their mark.
They can change God's law. In
00:36:07.43\00:36:12.87
the Dictionary of the Liturgy,
p.604 it says: Sunday Mass
00:36:12.90\00:36:15.70
observance became a mark of a
practicing Catholic. If you're a
00:36:15.74\00:36:21.51
Catholic, then that is your
mark of authority. You are now
00:36:21.54\00:36:22.94
keeping Sunday. Here is one from
the Catechism Simply Explained,
00:36:22.98\00:36:25.55
p. 89: A word about Sunday. God
said, Remember that thou keep
00:36:25.58\00:36:29.28
holy the Sabbath Day. The
Sabbath was Saturday, not Sunday
00:36:29.32\00:36:31.92
why, then, do we keep Sunday
holy instead of Saturday? First
00:36:31.95\00:36:35.86
they admit that the Bible
Sabbath is Saturday. They say
00:36:35.89\00:36:39.56
the Church altered the
observance of the Sabbath to the
00:36:39.59\00:36:42.56
observance of Sunday in
commemoration of our Lord
00:36:42.60\00:36:44.07
have risen from the dead
on Easter Sunday, and the Holy
00:36:44.10\00:36:47.00
Ghost having descended upon the
apostles on Whit Sunday. Whit is
00:36:47.04\00:36:52.61
simply an older term for
Pentecost. Protestants who say
00:36:52.64\00:36:53.98
that they go by the Bible and
the Bible only, and they do not
00:36:54.01\00:36:56.61
believe anything that is
not in the Bible must be rather
00:36:56.64\00:36:59.31
puzzled by the keeping of Sunday
when God distinctly said, Keep
00:36:59.35\00:37:02.68
Holly the Sabbath Day. The word
Sunday does not come anywhere in
00:37:02.72\00:37:05.52
the Bible, so, without
knowing it, they are obeying the
00:37:05.55\00:37:08.62
authority of the Catholic Church
Notice how they keep coming back
00:37:08.66\00:37:11.63
to this over and over and over.
The change of the Sabbath from
00:37:11.66\00:37:14.66
Saturday to Sunday is a mark
of the authority of the Vatican.
00:37:14.70\00:37:18.90
It is by their words the mark of
their power or the beast. Now in
00:37:18.93\00:37:24.31
this particular letter...this
is one from Pope John Paul II.
00:37:24.34\00:37:28.08
So this is modern times.
00:37:28.14\00:37:29.64
It says: Sunday is a
day which is at the very
00:37:29.68\00:37:32.51
heart of the Christian life.
...St. Augustine notes in turn:
00:37:32.55\00:37:35.38
Therefore, the Lord too...now
notice this folks...has placed
00:37:35.42\00:37:37.95
his seal on his day,...the
identity of this day must be
00:37:37.99\00:37:42.29
protected. What have they
done here friends? They have
00:37:42.32\00:37:46.93
counterfeited not only the day
but the seal of God. And they
00:37:46.96\00:37:52.10
so, Oh, God put his seal on that
day. Does the Bible say anything
00:37:52.13\00:37:53.74
about the seal being on Sunday?
Not a bit friends. They're just
00:37:53.77\00:37:58.67
proclaiming that. But folks
the Bible doesn't say that. But
00:37:58.71\00:38:01.28
notice how the devil is even
trying to steal away the symbol
00:38:01.31\00:38:05.31
of the seal of God. What is
so amazing here, folks, is that
00:38:05.35\00:38:09.08
Daniel predicted it, and the
church readily admits it. Now I
00:38:09.12\00:38:13.22
showed you this one on a
previous session of Prophecy
00:38:13.25\00:38:15.69
Unsealed. Daniel 7 and
Revelation 13 parallel all the
00:38:15.72\00:38:17.76
way down. They both show the
progression of history by the
00:38:17.79\00:38:21.06
lion, the bear, the leopard, the
dragon, the 10 horns, which is
00:38:21.10\00:38:23.60
of course, the breaking up
of the Roman kingdom, the mouth
00:38:23.63\00:38:26.53
speaking great things, the
blasphemous words of this little
00:38:26.57\00:38:28.84
horn power. Warring on
the saints, both chapters,
00:38:28.87\00:38:31.47
overcoming them for a period of
time, both chapters. Daniel says
00:38:31.51\00:38:34.94
he rules three and a half years,
Revelation says 42 months or
00:38:34.98\00:38:37.45
1260 days, which means years.
They parallel all the way down.
00:38:37.48\00:38:41.22
So if Revelation says the beast,
which is called there, has a
00:38:41.25\00:38:46.55
mark, then Daniel will have to
have an equivalent to that and
00:38:46.59\00:38:49.29
it does friends. Revelation says
the beast has a mark. Daniel
00:38:49.32\00:38:54.33
says he changes times and laws.
An attack on the law of God is
00:38:54.36\00:39:01.47
the mark of the beast power.
God's truth is that he has a day
00:39:01.50\00:39:05.07
that honors his authority in
this world. And Satan knew that
00:39:05.11\00:39:08.78
if God had a day that was going
to honor his authority and draw
00:39:08.81\00:39:11.85
people's attention away
to the true God, he ought to
00:39:11.88\00:39:13.82
counterfeit that. And so in
Chambers College Dictionary:
Sunday the first day
00:39:13.85\00:39:18.02
of the week, called this because
in ancient times, it was a day
00:39:18.05\00:39:20.19
for worship of the sun. I give
you more than one to show you
00:39:20.22\00:39:22.36
this is common knowledge. In
Paganism in Our Christianity, it
00:39:22.39\00:39:26.19
says: The Catholic Church made
a sacred day of Sunday largely
00:39:26.23\00:39:28.73
because it was the weekly
festival of the sun:- for it was
00:39:28.76\00:39:31.90
a definite policy to take over
the pagan festivals endeared to
00:39:31.93\00:39:36.54
the people by tradition,
and give them a Christian
00:39:36.57\00:39:40.08
significance. Wow. So what does
he do? He takes the seventh day
00:39:42.04\00:39:45.75
Sabbath, and he says we are
going to put the capstone on it.
00:39:45.78\00:39:50.52
Why did I show you all of
those pagan symbols? They're
00:39:50.55\00:39:55.62
interesting, yes, you know. They
bring out certain aspects of
00:39:55.66\00:39:59.59
what's going on in that system?
Yes. But that's not why I showed
00:39:59.63\00:40:03.16
it to you. I showed it to you
because Satan has taken so much
00:40:03.20\00:40:06.50
paganism and swept it into
the church. The bringing in of
00:40:06.53\00:40:11.64
Sunday was just the capstone of
it. It's like the icing on the
00:40:11.67\00:40:13.98
cake. After bringing in all
these other things he says I'm
00:40:14.01\00:40:16.11
not going to stop there. I'm
even going to take the day that
00:40:16.14\00:40:19.48
God put aside for him and his
worship, and I will have my own
00:40:19.51\00:40:22.85
day. He said that's the day
of the sun. So what we're seeing
00:40:22.88\00:40:27.06
here, friends are true and false
worship colliding together. We
00:40:27.09\00:40:30.33
have to make a choice.
Revelation 13:8 said: All that
00:40:30.36\00:40:34.70
dwell upon the earth shall do
what to the beast? Worship the
00:40:34.73\00:40:38.33
beast. Keep that in mind. Don't
miss this. Romans 6:16 What does
00:40:38.37\00:40:41.87
Paul the apostle say? Know ye
that to whom ye yield yourselves
00:40:41.90\00:40:45.81
servants to obey, his servants
ye are to whom ye obey; whether
00:40:45.84\00:40:49.24
of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness?
00:40:49.28\00:40:51.55
He says if you are obedient to
that power, you are the servant
00:40:51.58\00:40:54.95
of that power. Bear that in mind
You go to Father T. Enright of
00:40:54.98\00:41:00.36
the Catholic church. He says:
I have repeatedly offered $1000
00:41:00.39\00:41:02.66
to anyone who can prove to me
from the Bible alone that I am
00:41:02.69\00:41:06.06
bound to keep Sunday holy. There
is no such law in the Bible. It
00:41:06.09\00:41:09.86
is a law of the Holy Catholic
Church alone. The Bible says
00:41:09.90\00:41:11.63
Remember that thou keep holy the
Sabbath day. The Catholic Church
00:41:11.67\00:41:14.90
says, No! By my divine power,
I abolish the Sabbath day, and
00:41:14.94\00:41:19.34
command you...what, do what...
command you to keep holy the
00:41:19.37\00:41:25.71
first day of the week.
Don't miss this friends. They're
00:41:25.75\00:41:28.65
saying we changed the Sabbath,
we took it out of the way, and
00:41:28.68\00:41:32.52
now we are commanding you, look
what it says next: And, lo, the
00:41:32.55\00:41:36.73
entire civilized world bows down
...does what?...bows down and
00:41:36.76\00:41:40.16
bowing down is a symbol of what?
Worship. In reverent obedience
00:41:40.20\00:41:43.80
to the command of the Holy
Catholic Church! They're saying
00:41:43.83\00:41:46.60
the world when we made that
change, we are commanding them
00:41:46.63\00:41:50.97
to accept that change, and they
are bowing down to us when they
00:41:51.01\00:41:55.74
keep our day. And Paul says:
To whom you yield yourselves
00:41:55.78\00:42:00.42
servants to obey his servant,
you are. So then they add this.
00:42:00.45\00:42:04.95
If that wasn't enough friends
Cardinal James Gibbons said in
00:42:04.99\00:42:09.39
the Catholic Mirror publication,
he said: Reason and sense demand
00:42:09.42\00:42:13.63
the acceptance of one or
the other of these alternatives:
00:42:13.66\00:42:15.56
either Protestantism and
the keeping holy of Saturday, or
00:42:15.60\00:42:18.53
Catholicity and the keeping
holy of Sunday. Compromise is
00:42:18.57\00:42:21.37
impossible. The
beast's power left it's mark
00:42:21.40\00:42:25.91
right on God's law.
00:42:25.97\00:42:27.31
When we accept a change in the
holy moral law of God, not on
00:42:27.34\00:42:33.45
the Bible, but on the tradition
of the church we've accepted
00:42:33.48\00:42:36.85
man's way in place of
God's commandment, haven't we?
00:42:36.89\00:42:38.99
When Protestants hold Sunday
as their day of worship, what
00:42:39.02\00:42:42.46
they're doing friends is they're
accepting the authority of the
00:42:42.49\00:42:45.46
beast power. Now any other
interpretation is like Snow
00:42:45.49\00:42:50.47
White and the seven dwarfs.
You can believe it, you can read
00:42:50.50\00:42:54.67
about it, but it's not the truth
friends. It's myth. Now millions
00:42:54.70\00:42:57.91
and millions of honest
conscientious Christians they
00:42:57.94\00:43:00.88
don't understand what we're
going over about the mark of the
00:43:00.91\00:43:03.08
beast, and many of them are
inhibited because they think the
00:43:03.11\00:43:05.21
mark of the beast is something
mystical, right? Something
00:43:05.25\00:43:08.15
hidden, something so difficult
that only a privileged few can
00:43:08.18\00:43:10.29
understand it. It's simply not
true. Look at this, folks. This
00:43:10.32\00:43:13.25
is taken from a Catholic
church in Michigan. You know how
00:43:13.29\00:43:17.43
churches often have a bulletin
of something that goes over the
00:43:17.46\00:43:20.00
order of service and gives some
announcements and things. I mean
00:43:20.03\00:43:22.16
this church does. Most all
churches do. Well this church
00:43:22.20\00:43:25.40
had a bulletin and on the front
of the bulletin, this is what it
00:43:25.43\00:43:28.10
said. This is a priest talking.
He says: Perhaps the boldest
00:43:28.14\00:43:31.57
thing, the most revolutionary
change the Church ever did...
00:43:31.61\00:43:34.71
speaking of the Catholic church
...happened in the first century
00:43:34.74\00:43:37.08
Now I would take issue with
the timing here, but that's not
00:43:37.11\00:43:39.91
germane to the point so we'll
just go by that...happened in
00:43:39.95\00:43:45.25
the first century. The holy day,
the Sabbath was changed from
00:43:45.29\00:43:48.19
Saturday to Sunday. The day of
the Lord was chosen not from any
00:43:48.22\00:43:51.59
direction noted in the
scriptures, but from the
00:43:51.63\00:43:54.63
Church's sense of its own power.
...People who think that the
00:43:54.66\00:43:57.63
Scriptures should be the sole
authority,...let me pause here
00:43:57.67\00:43:59.73
friends, Bible students. Do we
believe that scripture should be
00:43:59.77\00:44:03.94
our sole authority? Amen? The
Catholic priest said this to his
00:44:03.97\00:44:08.58
congregation: People who think
that the scriptures should be
00:44:08.61\00:44:12.08
the sole authority should
logically become Seventh-day
00:44:12.11\00:44:15.42
Adventists, and keep Saturday
holy. Isn't that amazing,
00:44:15.45\00:44:19.19
friends A Catholic priest says
what Protestant ministers know
00:44:19.22\00:44:24.73
but will not say, you see.
He says if you're going to go by
00:44:24.76\00:44:28.60
the Bible, then logic, reason,
sense would say you would go
00:44:28.63\00:44:33.60
with a church that keeps that
day, the biblical day. So it is
00:44:33.64\00:44:37.31
powerful friends, coming from
the words of a Catholic priest
00:44:37.34\00:44:39.71
because he doesn't have to
defend Sunday because he says we
00:44:39.74\00:44:42.04
go on tradition. What did Jesus
say though? He says in Matthew
00:44:42.08\00:44:45.25
15 But in vain do they worship
me, teaching for doctrines the
00:44:45.28\00:44:47.85
commandments of men. He says
when we put the traditions of
00:44:47.88\00:44:50.02
man in place of the commandments
of God, he says it is vain
00:44:50.05\00:44:52.95
not what God wants. And we've
examined that in the scripture.
00:44:52.99\00:44:55.59
God said to Cain and Abel bring
an offering right that shows
00:44:55.62\00:45:00.43
that the Messiah will come. So
it had to be a sacrificial one.
00:45:00.46\00:45:02.83
Abel did that, righteous Abel
did that. Did Cain do that? No,
00:45:02.86\00:45:06.53
he brought an offering of his
own making, right? The fruits
00:45:06.57\00:45:09.20
and vegetables that he grew.
Did God accept it? No. To put
00:45:09.24\00:45:12.41
something in the place of what
God asks is like the offering of
00:45:12.44\00:45:17.05
Cain. It's saying God, I'll
bring you an offering, but I'll
00:45:17.08\00:45:18.81
do it on my own terms,
right? It's a religion of my own
00:45:18.85\00:45:21.98
making. I'll do it the way I
want to do it. God didn't accept
00:45:22.02\00:45:25.49
Cain's, he won't accept it
today, friends. God does not
00:45:25.52\00:45:29.12
change. Now here's a question
that I want to bring to you
because I don't want
00:45:29.16\00:45:32.13
anyone misunderstanding this.
Does anyone have the mark of the
00:45:32.16\00:45:34.13
beast now? Can we get
that plain? No! No one has the
00:45:34.16\00:45:38.53
marking of the beast now. The
Bible says that the mark of the
00:45:38.57\00:45:41.44
beast comes when it is enforced
by law. We'll take that up in
00:45:41.47\00:45:43.74
our next session. The mark
of the beast is one of the final
00:45:43.77\00:45:45.97
developments of time when
the authorities will enforce, in
00:45:46.01\00:45:56.45
their best sincerity perhaps,
but they'll enforce the wrong
00:45:56.48\00:45:58.75
thing. They'll enforce the
counterfeit Sabbath and they're
going to ask people
00:45:58.79\00:46:02.59
to worship in a way that God
cannot accept. Now, please don't
00:46:02.62\00:46:06.43
leave here thinking that we're
teaching that everyone that goes
00:46:06.46\00:46:08.60
to church on Sunday has the mark
of the beast. We're not teaching
00:46:08.63\00:46:10.90
that at all. But when
legislation is enacted, and when
00:46:10.93\00:46:14.57
the issues are clearly drawn
between the true and the false,
00:46:14.60\00:46:17.01
then people will have to decide.
God will not force us to worship
00:46:17.04\00:46:21.94
him. But he does force us to
have to make a decision. So when
00:46:21.98\00:46:27.82
this country is under a church/
state influence once again this
00:46:27.85\00:46:30.89
is a night to come enacts
legislation, then this issue
00:46:30.92\00:46:33.09
comes before the world friends,
And people will lose their
00:46:33.12\00:46:35.36
freedom because they refuse to
go man's way. And when they do
00:46:35.39\00:46:41.30
that then there will be some
who will compromise and some who
00:46:41.33\00:46:44.57
won't and God will have his
faithful people, and that's good
00:46:44.60\00:46:47.74
news to know. Let me ask
you a question. Did it make a
00:46:47.77\00:46:50.47
difference to God whether
they went into the Ark of not.
00:46:50.51\00:46:52.14
Come on, answer.
00:46:52.17\00:46:53.68
Did it make a difference to
God whether Uzza touched the
00:46:53.71\00:46:57.55
Ark or not? Did it make a
difference to God, those of you
00:46:57.58\00:47:00.85
who know your Bibles, whether
David counted his army or not?
00:47:00.88\00:47:05.32
Yeah, God said don't you count
your army. Rely on me. Don't
00:47:05.35\00:47:07.96
rely on numbers. David counted
his army. Boy, he paid a high
00:47:07.99\00:47:10.33
price. Did it make a difference
to God whether Samson cut his
00:47:10.36\00:47:13.09
hair or not? Yeah? A haircut.
Is that a big deal, right?
00:47:13.13\00:47:18.00
Yeah, it was a big deal.
God told him not to do it.
00:47:18.03\00:47:20.37
So why then would
we think for a moment
00:47:20.40\00:47:23.87
that it doesn't make a
difference to God what day we
00:47:23.91\00:47:28.21
keep. If it makes a difference
to God, what piece of fruit Eve
00:47:28.24\00:47:30.75
ate, right? Why would
we think it doesn't make a
00:47:30.78\00:47:34.02
difference when God says keep
the seventh day, that's my day!
00:47:34.05\00:47:37.52
Right. So the reason the mark
of the beast is so deceptive is
00:47:37.55\00:47:41.22
that the beast comes along
within the Christian church or
00:47:41.26\00:47:45.23
supposedly. He does his work in
the name of Christ, and people
00:47:45.26\00:47:48.76
are taken in, and he is boasting
himself to be in the place of
00:47:48.80\00:47:52.50
God and he says, therefore I can
make religious law. So the mark
00:47:52.53\00:47:56.10
of the beast, so we understand
it now it is demonstrating to
00:47:56.14\00:48:00.11
all of us that we refuse to
allow God to write his law in
00:48:00.14\00:48:04.31
our hearts and our minds,
which he wants to do in the new
00:48:04.35\00:48:06.25
covenant, remember, Hebrews
10:16, Hebrews 8:10. He wants to
00:48:06.28\00:48:08.88
write his law in our hearts and
minds. So it's refusing God to
00:48:08.92\00:48:12.35
write his entire law because God
is preparing us for heaven would
00:48:12.39\00:48:15.06
you agree. And there he wants
loyal law-abiding citizens does
00:48:16.36\00:48:20.63
he not? He's saying this is
what heaven is. These are the
00:48:20.66\00:48:23.57
principles of heaven. You want
to go? Yes. Well, let me write
00:48:23.60\00:48:26.13
my law in your heart so you'll
be happy there. You'll be a law
00:48:26.17\00:48:29.94
keeper there. You won't be up
there saying I don't want that.
00:48:29.97\00:48:32.24
I don't think that's very good.
No, I don't want to do that
00:48:32.27\00:48:34.58
either. Do you remember how we
saw at the outset tonight, folks
00:48:34.61\00:48:38.08
that the devil was going to trip
us up in the area of the mark of
00:48:38.11\00:48:42.42
the beast, he's going to trip us
up in the area of the law. It's
00:48:42.45\00:48:44.42
the law that shows what sin is.
Sin is the breaking of the law.
00:48:44.45\00:48:46.76
So here it is very clearly
friends. Is it a law of God that
00:48:46.79\00:48:52.43
we do not steal. Is it a
commandment of God that we do
00:48:52.46\00:48:56.23
not steal? Should we keep
that? Yes. Is it a sin to commit
00:48:56.26\00:49:00.84
adultery? Yes. Is it a sin
to take God's name in vain? Yes.
00:49:00.87\00:49:05.47
Well, if it's a sin to do all
the others then, is it a sin to
00:49:05.51\00:49:09.51
willfully, knowingly break the
Sabbath? Yes. Now I know many
00:49:09.54\00:49:13.62
people don't know that yet.
I know there's a whole lot of
00:49:13.65\00:49:16.55
sincere Christians who haven't
learned that yet. But God is
00:49:16.58\00:49:18.45
going to bring them this issue
before the end, friends. So
00:49:18.49\00:49:22.16
again it's the law of heaven.
And the beast in the Bible is
00:49:22.19\00:49:24.83
called the lawless one. Wow!
He exalts himself above God by
00:49:24.86\00:49:32.17
putting his laws above God.
Matthew 7:14: Because strait is
00:49:32.20\00:49:37.71
the gate, and narrow is the way
that leads unto life, and few
00:49:37.74\00:49:40.68
there be that find it. Few find
it. Why don't they find it? Not
00:49:40.71\00:49:45.45
because it's hard, because this
is so difficult tonight, but
00:49:45.48\00:49:48.68
because to find it, we have to
humble our hearts and admit that
00:49:48.72\00:49:53.32
maybe we've got it the wrong
way. Maybe we didn't see it
00:49:53.36\00:49:55.99
clearly. Maybe we still can
learn something. Those who see
00:49:56.02\00:49:59.86
the straight and narrow, friends
have to humble and say Lord, I
00:49:59.89\00:50:02.40
want your way, even if it's not
the way I was raised. Amen. Even
00:50:02.43\00:50:06.87
if it's not the popular road.
I want your way. I want the
00:50:06.90\00:50:10.21
straight and narrow way, even if
it's not the way my church goes
00:50:10.24\00:50:13.27
yet I'll find a group of men and
women that want to go that way.
00:50:13.31\00:50:16.44
The road of error is well beaten
down by masses of people that
00:50:16.48\00:50:23.95
want an easy, popular religion.
William Penn that Pennsylvania's
00:50:23.99\00:50:28.66
named after said, Right is right
even if everyone is against it.
00:50:28.69\00:50:32.53
Wrong is wrong even if everyone
is for it. Well. So what has the
00:50:32.56\00:50:40.24
papacy done? It's gained world
wide influence, prestige, and
00:50:40.27\00:50:43.07
prominence. Everywhere you go
masses of people going after it.
00:50:43.10\00:50:46.68
But when you see these large,
large services of this power do
00:50:46.71\00:50:50.05
you see him holding up a Bible?
Right? When he goes round, do
00:50:50.08\00:50:53.92
you see him pointing to
scriptures and saying thus
00:50:53.95\00:50:56.15
sayeth the Lord? No. Because his
agenda is not that. His agenda
00:50:56.18\00:51:02.12
has political overtones to it
that we're going to get into in
00:51:02.16\00:51:05.06
our next session together. Now
folks as for me and my house, we
00:51:05.09\00:51:10.50
will follow the one who did
humble himself even to the death
00:51:10.53\00:51:15.30
of the cross. Say Amen. We
want to serve Jesus. We want to
00:51:15.34\00:51:19.74
follow the one who gave his life
for you and for me and who said
00:51:19.77\00:51:24.08
to us, If you love me keep my
commandments. Are there other
interpretations out
00:51:24.11\00:51:26.85
there? Yes, you're going to find
these things. But don't go after
00:51:26.88\00:51:30.25
those friends. It doesn't make
sense. It's not from scripture.
00:51:30.29\00:51:32.49
Now I need to just conclude this
before we finish here. It says:
00:51:32.52\00:51:37.03
Revelation 13:16: He causes all
both small and great, rich and
00:51:37.06\00:51:40.40
poor, free, and bond, to receive
a mark in their right hand, or
00:51:40.43\00:51:42.60
in their foreheads. Why is it
they received it in their right
00:51:42.63\00:51:46.80
hand or their forehead?
Their forehead because they're
00:51:46.84\00:51:49.40
thinking like the beast, right?
Some willingly but mistakenly
00:51:49.44\00:51:53.74
take the mark in their forehead
because they believe that it's
00:51:53.78\00:51:56.38
okay to change God's law. Their
character is such that they
00:51:56.41\00:51:59.91
agree that the beast power
can do that, Right? So their
00:51:59.95\00:52:05.39
character is such that they're
rebels, right? Now there are
00:52:05.42\00:52:09.09
many who don't care about those
issues. Many maybe have other
00:52:09.12\00:52:13.09
religious observances.
Maybe they're not even religious
00:52:13.13\00:52:15.30
people, but when the chips are
down, and the legislation comes
00:52:15.33\00:52:19.33
and they have to decide, and
you can't buy and sell, in other
00:52:19.37\00:52:22.87
words when the pressure is put
on they'll say ho-oh I gotta go
00:52:22.90\00:52:27.24
along with that. Right. I mean
I don't like it, I don't even
00:52:27.28\00:52:30.05
believe it, but I got to go
along with it, and I got to buy
00:52:30.08\00:52:32.51
and sell. They receive on the
hand, right? The hand is giving
00:52:32.55\00:52:36.62
their agreement to the
beast, right? They're willing to
00:52:36.65\00:52:39.99
conform even to a bad law for
the sake of convenience, not of
00:52:40.02\00:52:44.29
conviction. So why do they
get it in the forehead? Because
00:52:44.33\00:52:46.70
they're believing like the
beast. Some get it in the right
00:52:46.73\00:52:49.90
hand because they're complying
with the beast They're going
00:52:49.93\00:52:52.83
along with it. It might be a
forced compliance or it might be
a coerced compliance
00:52:52.87\00:52:56.84
but it's rebellion either way.
In other words, to say it this
00:52:56.87\00:52:59.47
way: The seal of God in the
mind-true worship. The mark of
00:52:59.51\00:53:03.85
the beast in the mind-false
worship. The mark of the beast
00:53:03.88\00:53:06.55
in the hand-obedience to false
worship. That's about as plain
00:53:06.58\00:53:10.32
as I can make it there. You
know a person's forehead may not
00:53:10.35\00:53:16.12
approve, but actions speak
louder than words. But you know
00:53:16.16\00:53:20.30
what the interesting thing
is friends when it comes to
00:53:20.33\00:53:25.50
compliance or forced compliance,
God can't take you that way. God
00:53:25.53\00:53:28.67
has to have our whole heart. You
can't say to God well, I don't
00:53:28.70\00:53:30.84
like it, but I'm going to go
along with it. God says, no, let
00:53:30.87\00:53:33.78
me change your life, so you'll
love what I want you to do,
00:53:33.81\00:53:36.68
right? Let me give you my heart,
let me convert you so that you
love what I'm asking
00:53:36.71\00:53:41.65
you to do. Many are looking for
a literal tattoo on the forehead
00:53:41.68\00:53:45.29
or something in their hand.
But again, the symbolism of
00:53:45.32\00:53:48.32
Revelation goes far deeper than
the surface, right? It goes into
00:53:48.36\00:53:51.73
the heart. God is more
interested in your heart
00:53:51.76\00:53:53.53
than he is a little bit of ink
on the skin. So as we begin to
00:53:53.56\00:53:56.56
wrap it up here tonight, the
beast represents what? A false
00:53:56.60\00:54:00.00
religious system with
human authority in place of the
00:54:00.04\00:54:03.84
authority of Christ. Man's
traditions for God's words.
00:54:03.87\00:54:05.71
Substitute law for the commands
of God. A counterfeit Sabbath
00:54:05.74\00:54:08.71
for the true Sabbath. With
the beast, the beast is going to
00:54:08.74\00:54:12.48
mark his people and Jesus will
mark his. The beast's mark will
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show that they are surrendered
to his authority and Jesus' mark
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will show they are surrendered
to his authority. And when they
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have the beast's mark,
they won't be protected when the
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plagues are poured out. That
is Saturday night's topic, our
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topic is just a couple of
sessions from now. And when
Jesus marks his people, they
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will be protected during the
time of the final tribulation.
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In Revelation chapter 14, it
says Saying with a loud voice,
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Fear God, and give glory to him;
worship him that made heaven
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and earth, the sea, and the
fountains of waters. The only
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commandment that deals with the
creator is the fourth one that
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says, Remember the Sabbath to
keep it holy. And then it says
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in Revelation 14: The third
angel followed them, saying
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don't worship the beast
and receive his mark. And the
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official of the Vatican said
the Catholic church changed the
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Sabbath, and that's our mark and
then they said we command you to
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keep that day, and then they
said when you do, you bow down
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to us. And there you have it.
So the issues are these: Worship
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the Creator, or we worship the
Beast. Five times in Revelation
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13 it ways worship. Worship,
worship, worship, worship,
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worship. Five times. I think God
wants to get it through to us
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what the issue is, right?
The first angel commands us to
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worship the Creator. He
quotes the fourth commandment.
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She made all nations drink of
her wine, false teachings. The
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third angel declares the
beast has a counterfeit worship
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that's opposed to God's seal.
It's not that difficult. And
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Peter said in Acts 5 and verse
29. He said we ought to obey God
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rather than man. What do you
say? We need to make a stand,
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too don't we? For many of you,
this is new. But if Jesus is in
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your heart you'd have to say
Lord I want to obey you. It's
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not that difficult friends. If
you had cancer, and you went to
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a doctor who was skilled enough
to take that cancer out, but
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instead he just patted you on
the back and said Ah, you'll be
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all right. Would he be faithful
to his duty? Right? No. Even if
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the doctor that skilled surgeon
had to apply a painful knife and
00:56:20.14\00:56:23.85
cut that terrible cancer out
by doing so, saving your life.
00:56:23.88\00:56:29.45
Later you'd thank the surgeon,
wouldn't you? In the same way
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the Holy Spirit takes that word
of God, and he applies it to our
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life, and he cuts out those
areas that are not in accordance
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with his will. And by doing so,
he brings us into conformity to
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God's will. And change is always
difficult folks. But afterward
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we thank God. Because Remember
as we said earlier, it's in the
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judgment, it's always safe to
follow Jesus. Don't you agree?
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Always safe. So we trust in
him. We thank him for that and
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tonight I'm going to hand out
a card. Every time Jesus shared
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truth, he asked people to make
a decision. I wouldn't be right
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with you if I didn't do the same
thing. Okay, let's go. It says I
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choose to be sealed by the
Holy Spirit and have God's law
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written in my heart. That's
the new covenant. Hebrews 10:16,
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Hebrews 8:10. It says Lord, I
want the new covenant experience
00:57:28.51\00:57:32.68
without which friends we will
not be saved. Number 2. I choose
00:57:32.71\00:57:36.28
not to worship the beast receive
it's mark of following any papal
00:57:36.32\00:57:39.69
traditions. It's talking about
traditions that go against the
00:57:39.72\00:57:41.19
commandments of God. Right? It's
talking about those kinds of
00:57:41.22\00:57:44.59
traditions. Let's go ahead
and check that. We're done with
00:57:44.63\00:57:45.96
those things. Number 3: I choose
to keep the seventh-day Sabbath
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and to worship him who made
heaven and earth. It's one of
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God's commandments. We love him,
we'll want to keep that one like
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we do all the others. It's
really, a matter of saying Lord
00:57:57.17\00:58:00.18
write your whole law and not
just part of it in my heart. The
00:58:00.21\00:58:03.81
Bible teaches us we're going to
keep that day even in eternity.
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Let's start practicing now.
Number 4: I choose to be among
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the saints who love Jesus and
keep his commandments. Again be
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praying that God will
write his law in your heart.
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