What does the future hold?
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Where can we find certainly
in a world of uncertainty?
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The book of Revelation provides
helpful answers for today,
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tomorrow, and forever.
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Join Mark Finely, author
and world renowned speaker,
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on a journey
into the future with
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Revelation reveals
God's plan for the future,
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and unmasks the
Devil's deception.
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Down through the centuries
the Devil has tried to deceive
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people by introducing
into Christianity false ideas.
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False teachers have come
in, heretical ideas have been
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promoted, but yet God has
constantly had a people who
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have lived for,
and believed His truth.
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That truth is clearly revealed
in the book of Revelation.
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Revelation not only points
to the future, but it leads us
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to the past so we can understand
what's happened in Christianity,
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and how to live today in
the light of God's truth.
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This presentation is a powerful
presentation that will help you
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to understand how one of the
greatest heresies has entered
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into the Christian church,
and how God is appealing to us
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to be faithful to Him.
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So let's pray together.
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Father in Heaven, thank
You for Your love and grace.
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Thank You for the light
that shines on Scripture,
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revealing to us Your
truth for this end time
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of earth's history.
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Bless us in a mighty way.
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Open our minds, and our hearts,
and enable us to understand
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Your Word clearly, and give
us the courage to follow it.
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In Christ's name, Amen.
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Our topic during
this presentation is
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Would you agree with me
that merely because someone says
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something, doesn't mean
that the thing that they say
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is necessarily true.
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Would you also agree with me
that because we have worshipped
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a certain way down through
the centuries, doesn't mean that
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that form of worship is true.
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Would you also agree
that tradition and truth are
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two separate things?
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That human opinion,
and divine revelation are
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two separate things?
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That what man says,
and what God says are
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two separate things?
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Merely because something is
believed, and if you believe it
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hard enough doesn't mean
that the thing which you believe
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hard enough is truth.
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Let me give you
some examples of that.
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Let's go back to
the days of Copernicus.
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In Copernicus' time most people
believed that the earth was the
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center of our solar
system, or the universe.
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They believed that the earth
was stationary, and that the
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planets and the sun, in fact,
was revolving around the earth.
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But yet, a free thinking Pole
by the name of Copernicus began
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taking a look at that theory.
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He proved that it was not
true at all, and he demonstrated
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that the sun is the
center of the solar system,
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and our earth is
actually rotating on its axis,
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and revolving around the sun.
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Because people believed that the
earth was the center for years,
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they didn't make
the earth the center.
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Well, here's another example.
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Aristotle, brilliant
philosopher, scientist,
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Now insects have six legs.
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So evidentially
Aristotle must not have counted,
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because he said the
spider is an insect.
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It was Jean-Baptiste
Lemark who sensed that
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although insects have six
legs, spiders are arachnids,
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and they have eight legs.
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So a spider, not having
six legs like an insect,
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couldn't possibly be an insect.
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People said, Lemark is crazy!
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Look what Aristotle did.
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Just like they said Copernicus
is crazy, and they battled
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against his idea of
the sun being the center
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of the solar system.
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Both these men
experienced ridicule,
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they experienced taunting.
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Both of them experienced
persecution for their beliefs.
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But yet, merely because somebody
said something, and something
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was passed down through the
centuries, didn't necessarily
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make what they said
right. Could it be...
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Could it be that many are
guarding a tradition that does
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not have
foundation in the Scripture?
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Could it be that there are
thousands walking in the way of
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tradition rather than walking
in the way of God's Word,
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rather than walking
in the way of the cross,
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rather than walking in
the way of the law of God?
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Could it be that the
Devil has deceived millions,
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even millions of Christians,
in embracing a tradition
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that they think is true?
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Let's go to the
book of Revelation.
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We're going to journey
through the book of Revelation.
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We're going to notice a Titanic
struggle between good and evil,
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between Christ and Satan, and
see God's Word clearly revealing
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His truth for this end time.
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There's a great
battle in Heaven.
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Satan and his
angels are cast out,
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and they're cast
out into the earth.
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But what I want you to
notice is the Scripture says
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that Satan, who's
cast out of Heaven,
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this dragon is like the serpent.
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He's a dragon
because he destroys.
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He's a serpent
because he deceives.
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He deceives those
whom he's going to destroy,
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and destroys those
whom he has deceived.
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The Bible says he
deceives the whole world.
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Could it be that the
majority of the world,
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including Christianity,
has followed a tradition,
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a tradition that has to do with
worship, a tradition that's at
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the very heart of a conflict
in the book of Revelation
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between worshipping the Creator,
and worshipping the beast.
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Truth at times is
stranger than fiction.
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And isn't it logical that if the
Devil wanted to attack Jesus,
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the Devil would attack the
law of God, which is the very
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foundation of God's
throne, and the very
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foundation of His character?
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Wouldn't it be logical
that Christ, who is love,
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and the very foundation of love,
would have a loving law to guide
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all humanity to pathways
of happiness, because love is
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always manifest in obedience?
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Just like the Devil
wanted to lead Adam and Eve
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in the Garden of Eden, to
disobedience, so He has a plan
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to destroy the
authority of the Creator.
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Now isn't it also logical
that the Devil would attack the
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fourth commandment, and
the seventh day Sabbath?
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You say, Why? Because, you see,
the Sabbath commandment is the
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basis of the entire law of God.
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Because when you read,
Thou shalt have no other gods
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before Me, who says that?
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When you read, Thou shalt
not take the name of the Lord
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thy God in vain. Who says that?
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When you read, Thou
shalt not kill. Who says that?
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Thou shalt not commit
adultery. Who says that?
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The fourth commandment, the
bridge between the first four
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commands and the last
six, tells us that the Creator
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is the One that commands.
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The reason God has the
authority, through Christ,
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to command is
because He created.
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We as creatures created
by God did not choose life,
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He gave us life, so we're
responsible to our Creator
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for obedience, because He
gave us the breath of life.
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So the Devil attacks
Jesus by attacking Jesus' law.
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He attacks Jesus as Creator by
attacking the Sabbath command,
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the fourth commandment,
that is a sign of His
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creative authority.
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So the seventh day is the
sign of creative authority.
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God invites us to keep the
Sabbath as a symbol of loyalty
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and obedience to Him.
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Some people say, What
difference does a day make?
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But according to Revelation
1:10 the Lord has a day.
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And according to Mark 2:27, 28,
Luke 6:5, the Lord's day is the
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Sabbath day, because
the Son of man is Lord
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even of the Sabbath day.
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So if the Son of man is
Lord of the Sabbath day,
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the Lord's day
must be the Sabbath day.
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Three times that
passage is repeated:
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They all say that the
Sabbath is the Lord's day.
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Throughout the Old and the
New Testament God has a day,
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and the Lord's day is the symbol
of His creative authority.
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But why do so many keep Sunday?
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change the day that He
wrote with His own finger
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on tables of stone.
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So God didn't change the day.
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He says, I'm the
Lord, and I do not change.
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Because the Bible says,
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If He's the same yesterday,
today, and forever, He certainly
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didn't change the Sabbath.
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What about the Apostles?
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Did they change
the Bible Sabbath?
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They certainly didn't,
because the Bible says,
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So God didn't
change the Sabbath.
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Jesus didn't change it.
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The disciples didn't change it.
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Who changed the Bible Sabbath?
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Could it be that in the early
centuries tradition slipped
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into the Christian church?
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Could it be that the Devil
had a plan to attack and destroy
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the fourth commandment?
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I'm going to take you on a
journey, a journey into history,
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and a journey into prophecy.
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And we'll understand who did it,
who changed the Bible Sabbath.
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It was changed by man
in the days of compromise,
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not changed by God, or
Jesus, or the disciples.
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Let's go right into
the heart of the book of
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Revelation, Revelation 13.
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Revelation 13 describes a
beast coming up out of the sea.
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Verse 1 says this:
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Now notice there are four beast
like figures in those verses:
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a lion, a bear, a
leopard, and a dragon.
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The book of Revelation
takes the prophecies of Daniel
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and puts them together.
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So to understand
Revelation, one must
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understand first Daniel.
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So let's go back to
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because there we see
the exact same four beasts:
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a lion, a bear, a
leopard, and a dragon.
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Now we might think that it's
very hard, or very difficult,
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to understand Bible prophecy.
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But yet the same God
that gave us prophecy,
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explains the
meaning of that prophecy.
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In Bible prophecy, according
to Jeremiah 49, wind represents
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strife, it represents conflict,
devastation, or destruction,
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hurricanes, tornados,
cyclones, destruction.
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So the winds are
blowing on the great sea.
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According to Revelation 17:15,
the sea represents peoples,
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it represents nations.
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So you have conflict
among nations. The Bible says,
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In Bible prophecy what does a
beast represent? The Bible says,
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Look at it, do you
see it in Scripture?
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It's very plain.
The same God that gave
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prophecy explains prophecy.
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So a beast
represents a king, or...
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So what does a beast represent?
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A beast represents a
king, or a what? a kingdom.
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So these four beasts in Daniel
7 represent four kingdoms.
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The first kingdom
that rises is pictured as a
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lion with eagles wings.
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Now here's another
principle in prophecy.
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When God gives a time sequence
prophecy, He always begins
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where the prophet is.
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Daniel lived in
the days of Babylon.
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So hence God begins
describing these kingdoms
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with the nation of Babylon.
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The lion with eagles wings
is a fitting symbol of Babylon.
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You remember in Daniel 2,
we don't have four beasts,
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we have four metals.
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Daniel 2, there
was a great image.
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Now the great image of Daniel 2,
and the four beasts of Daniel 7,
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are closely aligned.
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In Daniel 2, four
metals: head of gold,
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breasts and arms of
silver, thighs of brass,
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legs of iron, and feet of iron
and clay; the toes. Four metals.
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In Daniel 2 the metals represent
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Now notice the
similarity in the four beasts.
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Again Babylon would be
represented by the lion,
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and we'll show you why.
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Now let's look at the evidence
for this in prophecy itself.
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A lion is the king of the
jungle; the king of the beasts.
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An eagle is the
king of the birds.
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So this first empire Babylon,
mighty Babylon that was the
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dominate nation in the world
at the time, that ruled a large
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expanse of the
world, is pictured as a
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lion in eagle's wings.
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Is there any evidence of that
outside of the Bible? there is.
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Come with me to the
Pergamom Museum in East Berlin.
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Not long ago I
was there with a group
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that we took on a tour.
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This is Precession Way that is
the wall lining the way into the
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Ishtar Gate in Babylon.
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The German archaeologist,
Robert Koldewey, went down and
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excavated Babylon, and as
he did, they pieced together
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what the wall would be like.
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And this is an original.
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These are not facsimiles,
these are not reproductions.
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But they took the tiles from the
wall of Babylon and pieced them
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together; put it back
there in the Pergamom Museum.
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So as you walk along Precession
Way, as it's recreated,
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and as you look at these
original walls, you see a lion,
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with what? eagles wings;
fitting symbol of Babylon.
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Incidentally, the
bricks in Precession Way,
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every one of
them had the name of
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Nebuchadnezzar
stamped upon them.
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So a lion with
eagle's wings actually was
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the symbol of Babylon.
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The nation of
Babylon did not rule forever.
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Another nation followed it.
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What nation was it
that overthrew Babylon?
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Babylon ruled from 605-539 B.C.
00:18:15.99\00:18:19.86
But it was the Persians
that overthrew the Babylonians.
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Notice, the Medo-Persian Empire.
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The bear lifts
itself up on one side.
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What does that represent?
Persia dominating over Medo.
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What about these three
ribs in the mouth of the bear?
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What do these
three ribs represent?
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The Persian Empire
raises itself up on one side;
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dominates over Medo.
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But when Medo-Persia attacked
Babylon, it also defeated two
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other nations: Lydia and
Egypt, to conquer the world.
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So the three ribs:
Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.
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History follows
prophecy like a blueprint.
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But the Bible says
there would be a third
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empire that would rise.
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You look there at the
leopard like beast with
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four heads and wings.
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What do you know about a
leopard? A leopard is fast!
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Now if you wanted to
describe rapid conquest,
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what animal do
you choose? a leopard.
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But if you want to describe
rapid, rapid, rapid, rapid
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conquest, what do you do?
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You put wings on the
back of your leopard.
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What do you know about Greece?
00:19:33.97\00:19:36.20
Alexander the Great, at
33 years old he conquered the
00:19:36.24\00:19:38.97
world in rapid conquest.
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But at 33 he died, likely
of malaria in a drunken stupor.
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But yet, what happened?
00:19:46.31\00:19:48.78
Four of his generals:
Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy,
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and Seleucus
then began to reign.
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So the four heads: the four
generals of Alexander the Great.
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Every one of these beast
figures clearly describes
00:20:00.06\00:20:05.10
that particular empire.
00:20:05.13\00:20:07.44
The empire of Alexander the
Great is fittingly symbolized
00:20:07.47\00:20:11.61
in the leopard that attacks so
rapidly, the wings that give it
00:20:11.64\00:20:16.31
even more rapid
conquest, and the four
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heads, his four generals.
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Because he would
have four generals.
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But then another
beast arises after Babylon,
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Medo- Persia, and Greece.
00:20:27.19\00:20:28.52
Just as the fourth medal
had iron legs, so likewise the
00:20:43.37\00:20:48.81
fourth beast has iron teeth.
00:20:48.84\00:20:51.11
How was it different?
00:20:54.85\00:20:56.18
It was not succeeded by a
fifth world ruling empire.
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It had ten horns just like
the legs of iron have ten toes.
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It was indeed divided.
00:21:03.49\00:21:06.16
Just as the Bible described:
head of gold, breast and arms
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of silver, thighs of brass, legs
of iron; four nations: lion,
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bear, leopard, dragon; Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
00:21:14.97\00:21:19.87
What do you know
about Rome? It was divided.
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The Roman Empire ruled
from 168 B.C. to 351 A.D.,
00:21:23.21\00:21:29.78
but then it was divided.
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The barbarian tribes
came down from the North.
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Just like we have toes
of the image in Daniel 2,
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of clay and iron, we
have the horns of the fourth
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beast, the ten horns.
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Then Daniel introduces something
new, something that we haven't
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seen in the prophecy
of Daniel 2. What is it?
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So he's looking among the
divisions of the Roman Empire.
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When was Rome divided? sometime
between A.D. 351 and A.D. 476.
00:21:59.45\00:22:05.92
So here is a horn
that comes up among the ten
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called the little horn.
00:22:14.96\00:22:16.50
So this little horn
comes up, he plucks up three
00:22:20.67\00:22:23.54
horns by the roots.
00:22:23.57\00:22:24.91
So this little horn
arises, and he eventually has
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He eventually
becomes strong and powerful.
00:22:41.19\00:22:43.49
Now notice some things
about this little horn.
00:22:43.53\00:22:47.23
So what are the ten
horns? the divisions of Europe.
00:22:51.10\00:22:54.00
So if we want to identify
this little horn we have to look
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at a European power.
00:22:58.11\00:22:59.67
We're not looking
at an American power.
00:22:59.71\00:23:01.58
We're not looking at
a South American power.
00:23:01.61\00:23:03.78
We're not
looking at Asia or China.
00:23:03.81\00:23:06.25
We are not looking at Africa.
00:23:06.28\00:23:07.88
We're not looking in Russia.
00:23:07.92\00:23:09.45
We're looking
deep within Europe.
00:23:09.48\00:23:11.75
He arises among the
ten, among the ten divisions
00:23:11.79\00:23:14.89
of the Roman Empire,
someplace in Western Europe.
00:23:14.92\00:23:17.99
There's a second thing
about this little horn.
00:23:18.03\00:23:20.76
He arises after the ten horns.
00:23:20.80\00:23:23.60
He doesn't rise in
the days of Babylon,
00:23:23.63\00:23:25.47
Medo Persia, Greece, or Rome.
00:23:25.50\00:23:27.20
He rises when the
Roman Empire is falling apart
00:23:27.24\00:23:30.51
among the ten horns.
00:23:30.54\00:23:31.97
So we've learned two things:
if we're going to identify the
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little horn we have to
look in Western Europe.
00:23:34.58\00:23:37.71
We have to look someplace
between 351 A.D. and 476 A.D.
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Now what does that mean?
00:23:45.65\00:23:47.06
What do eyes
symbolize in the Bible?
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Eyes in the
Bible symbolize wisdom.
00:23:50.39\00:23:53.60
Remember what a
prophet is called in the Bible?
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A prophet is
called what? a seer.
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Why is a prophet called a seer?
00:23:58.33\00:24:00.64
Because a prophet
sees with divine eyes.
00:24:00.67\00:24:03.17
A prophet sees
with a divine wisdom.
00:24:03.20\00:24:05.74
But this does not
have the eyes of God.
00:24:05.77\00:24:08.24
It has the eyes of what
everybody? the eyes of a man.
00:24:08.28\00:24:11.21
So here is a system
based on human tradition.
00:24:11.25\00:24:15.18
So we would expect to see a
human religious system rising
00:24:18.69\00:24:25.09
out of the old Roman
Empire in Western Europe
00:24:25.13\00:24:28.96
from A.D. 351 to A.D. 476.
00:24:29.00\00:24:32.87
Now according to the
Bible this power is diverse.
00:24:32.90\00:24:36.57
It's different than
all the other horns.
00:24:36.60\00:24:38.77
How would it be different?
00:24:38.81\00:24:40.94
The other horns
would be political powers.
00:24:40.98\00:24:45.38
This would be a religious power.
00:24:45.41\00:24:47.05
In other words, this little horn
that arises would be a religious
00:24:51.29\00:24:54.99
political power that would grow
out of the Roman Empire after
00:24:55.02\00:24:59.63
the breakup of the Roman
Empire in Western Europe.
00:24:59.66\00:25:03.67
It would be a
religio-political power.
00:25:03.73\00:25:07.44
What power was
rising as a religious power,
00:25:07.47\00:25:12.24
and a political power out
of Rome at the time the Roman
00:25:12.27\00:25:15.51
Empire was falling
apart, precisely in
00:25:15.54\00:25:18.68
those early centuries?
00:25:18.71\00:25:20.05
Of course, it was the
medieval of the Roman Church.
00:25:20.08\00:25:22.68
The Bible is very plain.
00:25:25.32\00:25:27.16
How do you speak great
words against the Most High,
00:25:33.46\00:25:35.76
if you're a religious power?
00:25:35.80\00:25:37.13
What does it mean, you'd wear
out the saints of the Most High?
00:25:37.17\00:25:39.37
In other words he'd
be a persecuting power,
00:25:39.43\00:25:41.07
and persecute those that
did not go along with its
00:25:41.10\00:25:43.81
religious ideology, and he would
00:25:43.84\00:25:45.77
Notice the Bible does
not say this power would
00:25:48.54\00:25:50.61
change the law of God.
00:25:50.65\00:25:51.98
Because no earthly power
can change the law written
00:25:52.01\00:25:55.02
with God's own
finger on tables of stone.
00:25:55.05\00:25:57.19
But he would think
00:25:57.22\00:25:58.55
Truth is stranger than fiction.
00:26:00.82\00:26:02.99
Down through the centuries
the saga is an amazing one as we
00:26:03.02\00:26:08.13
journey through prophecy.
00:26:08.16\00:26:09.50
He would think to
change the times and the laws.
00:26:14.64\00:26:18.11
According to Daniel
8:12, this same power would
00:26:18.14\00:26:21.58
The Devil would bring deceptions
unknowingly, unwittingly,
00:26:26.78\00:26:32.69
subtly, into the
Christian church.
00:26:32.72\00:26:35.52
The very law of
God would be changed,
00:26:35.56\00:26:39.76
changed not by God, but changed
by human religious teachings.
00:26:39.79\00:26:45.43
I wonder
00:26:45.47\00:26:46.80
How did the Devil
attack the very law of God,
00:26:51.21\00:26:54.78
the fourth commandment
that speaks of creation?
00:26:54.81\00:26:58.31
How did he attack
the Sabbath commandment?
00:26:58.35\00:27:00.85
How did he change
the very law of God?
00:27:00.88\00:27:04.82
What historical circumstance
is contributed to that change,
00:27:04.85\00:27:10.19
and how did church and state
unite to accomplish that goal?
00:27:10.23\00:27:13.43
and it was crystallized
in the fourth century.
00:27:19.37\00:27:24.07
So Sun day, dies
Solis, the day of sun worship.
00:27:41.92\00:27:48.56
Down through the
centuries pagans everywhere have
00:27:48.60\00:27:51.93
worshipped on
the day of the sun.
00:27:52.00\00:27:54.24
You take the center
image here and with...
00:27:54.27\00:27:59.97
It's an image out of Egypt.
00:28:00.01\00:28:01.34
You'll notice the Apis bull,
and he has the sun on his head.
00:28:01.38\00:28:05.85
Sun worship, the
Egyptians worshipped Amun-Ra.
00:28:05.88\00:28:09.38
Far left hand corner, you notice
the Babylonian god sitting
00:28:09.42\00:28:13.92
in his throne, but you
notice the sun shining upon him.
00:28:13.96\00:28:17.29
They worshipped Bel Marduk.
00:28:17.33\00:28:18.96
Each of the images: far
right you have the Persians,
00:28:18.99\00:28:24.13
and the Romans with
Mithraism, worshipping the sun.
00:28:24.17\00:28:27.40
So the Sabbath always was a
sign between God and His people.
00:28:27.44\00:28:32.21
Ezekiel 20:12, My Sabbaths
I've given you as a sign
00:28:32.24\00:28:37.11
between Me and you.
00:28:37.15\00:28:38.78
The Sabbath is a
sign that God created us.
00:28:38.81\00:28:41.28
The Sabbath is a sign
that God fashioned us.
00:28:41.35\00:28:43.79
The Sabbath is a sign that
we rest in His love and care.
00:28:43.82\00:28:47.02
It's a sign that He's sanctified
us, and a sign that He's coming
00:28:47.06\00:28:49.82
again for us to recreate a
new heavens and a new earth.
00:28:49.86\00:28:52.79
But Sunday; the largest luminous
body in the heavens was the sun,
00:28:52.83\00:28:57.73
and men seeing that they
noted when the sun didn't shine
00:28:57.77\00:29:01.14
for periods of time, that
their crops would be destroyed.
00:29:01.17\00:29:04.37
Or if the sun shone too much
the crops would be destroyed.
00:29:04.41\00:29:07.61
There would be a drought.
00:29:07.64\00:29:08.98
So they worshipped
the sun, or the sun god.
00:29:09.01\00:29:12.88
Constantine, the pagan Roman
Emperor, who became a Christian,
00:29:12.91\00:29:16.72
ruled from A.D. 306 to 337.
00:29:16.75\00:29:20.89
In that 31 year period saw an
empire that was falling apart.
00:29:20.92\00:29:24.66
The Roman armies
had stretched too thin.
00:29:24.69\00:29:28.16
Roman lavishness, and wealth,
and prosperity had eaten out
00:29:28.20\00:29:32.93
the heart of the
nation for useful work.
00:29:32.97\00:29:35.64
They were consumed
with entertainments, sports,
00:29:35.67\00:29:38.87
and pleasures, and immorality.
00:29:38.91\00:29:40.58
And the very heart of
Roman society was falling apart.
00:29:40.61\00:29:43.98
Constantine wanted
to unite his empire.
00:29:44.01\00:29:46.41
He also saw
something else happening.
00:29:46.45\00:29:48.78
The barbarian tribes were
approaching from the North.
00:29:48.82\00:29:51.55
They were on the borders
of the empire, and some of
00:29:51.59\00:29:54.29
his empire was falling.
00:29:54.32\00:29:55.66
Constantine believed that if he
could Christianize the heathen
00:29:55.69\00:29:59.86
that he then could have a
chance of saving the empire.
00:29:59.89\00:30:02.96
What could unify the
empire? possibly sun worship.
00:30:03.00\00:30:08.50
The pagans were worshipping
on the day of the sun.
00:30:08.54\00:30:11.01
Many Christians by this time had
drifted from their faithfulness
00:30:11.04\00:30:15.11
to Christ,
although many were still
00:30:15.14\00:30:16.61
worshipping the Bible Sabbath.
00:30:16.64\00:30:17.98
But they also were worshipping
on the day of the resurrection.
00:30:18.01\00:30:21.78
They were beginning to do that.
00:30:21.82\00:30:23.15
So Constantine thought to
himself, I can unite my empire.
00:30:23.18\00:30:27.36
I can do this by
passing a decree.
00:30:27.39\00:30:31.13
So here in A.D. 321
Constantine passed this decree.
00:30:31.19\00:30:35.30
Here you have the first Sunday
decree passed in a compromise
00:30:44.14\00:30:49.61
with an attempt to try to
unite the empire from the pagans
00:30:49.64\00:30:55.08
taking and overthrowing it.
00:30:55.15\00:30:57.29
Constantine, the pagan
Roman Emperor, eventually united
00:30:57.32\00:31:02.39
with the state powers.
00:31:02.42\00:31:04.03
It was in the Council
of Laodicea that this was
00:31:08.10\00:31:11.83
further established.
00:31:11.87\00:31:14.27
acknowledges how the change
of the Sabbath took place.
00:31:19.41\00:31:22.88
In the book, The Catholic World,
one of the most significant
00:31:22.94\00:31:26.18
statements ever made
regarding the change of
00:31:26.21\00:31:28.52
the Sabbath said this:
00:31:28.55\00:31:30.29
So you see what the
book, The Catholic World, says.
00:32:03.42\00:32:07.22
It says that the Bible Sabbath
that was indeed part of God's
00:32:07.26\00:32:14.73
Word; that the Bible Sabbath
was changed by the church,
00:32:14.76\00:32:19.07
that the pagan day, Sunday,
came into the church in an
00:32:19.13\00:32:23.41
error of compromise.
00:32:23.44\00:32:25.47
When we look
down through history,
00:32:25.54\00:32:28.14
the Devil hated
the Bible Sabbath.
00:32:28.18\00:32:30.55
Why? Because he
hated the Creator.
00:32:30.58\00:32:32.91
Because he hated God's law.
00:32:32.95\00:32:34.95
Because he led a third
of the angels to disobey,
00:32:34.98\00:32:37.25
and he led Adam
and Eve to disobey.
00:32:37.29\00:32:38.75
So he attacks the Sabbath
to do away with the basis,
00:32:38.79\00:32:42.69
or the significance of authority
of the very law of God.
00:32:42.72\00:32:47.16
now takes this a step further,
and it condemns those who are
00:32:48.73\00:32:53.10
worshipping on the Sabbath.
00:32:53.13\00:32:54.47
What did they mean?
they shall not worship on the
00:32:56.17\00:32:58.34
Sabbath and be idle.
00:32:58.37\00:33:00.04
And I'm quoting from the
Council of Laodicea on Saturday.
00:33:00.08\00:33:03.08
Now notice they're
changing the idea from
00:33:04.35\00:33:07.15
Sabbath, the seventh day.
00:33:07.18\00:33:08.52
They call Sunday, contrary
to Scripture, the Lord's day.
00:33:08.55\00:33:12.25
So what's happening?
two things simultaneously.
00:33:23.10\00:33:26.03
Historically the Roman
Empire is falling apart.
00:33:26.07\00:33:29.00
Constantine wants to unite it.
00:33:29.04\00:33:32.07
Secondly, there have
been Jewish revolts through
00:33:32.11\00:33:35.44
the empire, and
Christians want to disassociate
00:33:35.48\00:33:38.78
themselves from the Jews.
00:33:38.81\00:33:40.15
So they begin honoring first
once a year the resurrection,
00:33:40.18\00:33:43.45
then they begin honoring the
resurrection more frequently,
00:33:43.49\00:33:46.92
and by the days of Constantine,
you have many in the Christian
00:33:46.96\00:33:50.33
church honoring
the resurrection.
00:33:50.36\00:33:52.53
Constantine and church leaders
come together to unite the
00:33:52.56\00:33:55.76
empire, but there are
still those keeping the Sabbath,
00:33:55.80\00:33:58.67
so the Catholic Council
of Laodicea passes a decree
00:33:58.70\00:34:02.77
to condemn them, saying that
they are shut out from Christ.
00:34:02.80\00:34:05.74
How was the Sabbath
changed from the seventh day of
00:34:05.77\00:34:10.58
the week, written
with the finger of God,
00:34:10.61\00:34:12.45
to the first day of the week?
00:34:12.48\00:34:13.98
It was changed gradually down
through the centuries as church
00:34:14.02\00:34:18.25
and state had their own reasons:
the church to disassociate from
00:34:18.29\00:34:23.16
the Jews, the state
to unite with the pagans,
00:34:23.19\00:34:26.26
and together they
coalesced and came together.
00:34:26.29\00:34:29.56
Now remember what the
Bible predicted, Daniel 7:25,
00:34:29.60\00:34:33.34
that this would take place
in the days of the little horn
00:34:33.37\00:34:36.97
in the early centuries,
00:34:37.01\00:34:38.34
Now notice, it does
not simply say law of God.
00:34:41.38\00:34:44.98
You know, there's only one
commandment that has to do with
00:34:45.01\00:34:46.95
time, and that's
the Bible Sabbath.
00:34:46.98\00:34:49.15
But it says,
times and laws, plural.
00:34:49.18\00:34:51.99
Now in Convert's Catechism
we're going to come back to that
00:34:52.02\00:34:55.52
plural business shortly.
00:34:55.56\00:34:56.89
But let's look at how the church
is very open in its admission
00:34:56.93\00:35:01.43
of changing the Sabbath.
00:35:01.46\00:35:02.80
Here's Convert's Catechism.
00:35:02.83\00:35:04.47
The Convert's Catechism
is a Catechism issued by the
00:35:04.50\00:35:08.60
Catholic Church with the
Impro-motto in it that all
00:35:08.64\00:35:12.64
people converting to
Catholicism would study from.
00:35:12.67\00:35:16.08
And it says in the Catechism,
00:35:16.11\00:35:18.71
That's rather amazing
from the Catechism, isn't it?
00:35:24.55\00:35:27.82
But notice it goes on.
00:35:27.86\00:35:29.92
The Catechism is plain.
00:35:40.20\00:35:42.24
Our Catholic friends openly
acknowledge that the church
00:35:42.27\00:35:44.97
changed the day
from Sabbath to Sunday,
00:35:45.01\00:35:48.38
from the seventh
day to the first day.
00:35:48.41\00:35:50.71
Here's the basic question
though: did the church have
00:35:50.75\00:35:53.78
the authority to do that?
00:35:53.82\00:35:55.18
Would anybody have the
authority to change the Sabbath
00:35:55.22\00:35:58.22
written with God's own
finger on tables of stone?
00:35:58.25\00:36:02.22
Would anybody have the authority
to change a sacred day of
00:36:02.26\00:36:05.56
worship when the Bible clearly
predicted that a church state
00:36:05.59\00:36:10.53
power would rise and make an
attempt to change the Sabbath?
00:36:10.57\00:36:14.47
Let's go to the
Catholic Encyclopedia.
00:36:14.50\00:36:16.67
Does the Catholic Encyclopedia
acknowledge that the church
00:36:16.71\00:36:19.77
changed the Sabbath? it does.
00:36:19.81\00:36:22.31
Notice what it says:
00:36:22.34\00:36:23.68
Of course it's not
the Jewish Sabbath,
00:36:28.72\00:36:30.15
it's the Sabbath of the Lord.
00:36:30.19\00:36:31.52
It's the Sabbath
given at Creation.
00:36:31.55\00:36:32.89
But this is what they say:
00:36:32.92\00:36:34.26
It openly acknowledges that
the church changed the day from
00:36:44.63\00:36:48.64
the seventh to the
first, from Sabbath to Sunday.
00:36:48.67\00:36:50.81
It is a little confusing though.
00:36:50.84\00:36:52.61
Why does it say the third
commandment is the Sabbath
00:36:52.64\00:36:57.15
commandment when the fourth
commandment is the Sabbath
00:36:57.18\00:36:59.48
commandment on tables of stone?
00:36:59.51\00:37:00.85
Remember what Daniel said?
00:37:00.88\00:37:02.68
They shall
think to change times.
00:37:02.72\00:37:05.35
And it didn't say the
law, it said times and laws.
00:37:05.39\00:37:09.36
How were the laws of God,
the commandments of God changed?
00:37:09.39\00:37:13.76
Well, here on the left you
have the Ten Commandment law.
00:37:13.80\00:37:16.67
In that Ten Commandment law
you have the first commandment,
00:37:16.70\00:37:20.00
Thou shalt make no
other gods before Me.
00:37:20.04\00:37:21.94
The second, Don't
make any graven images.
00:37:21.97\00:37:23.77
The third is, Don't
take the name of the
00:37:23.81\00:37:26.11
Lord thy God in vain.
00:37:26.14\00:37:27.48
The fourth,
Remember the Sabbath,
00:37:27.51\00:37:28.84
and so forth down
through to the end.
00:37:28.88\00:37:30.91
Honor your father
and mother, fifth.
00:37:30.95\00:37:33.48
Thou shalt not kill, sixth.
00:37:33.52\00:37:35.38
Thou shalt not
commit adultery, seventh.
00:37:35.42\00:37:37.52
Thou shalt not steal, eighth.
00:37:37.55\00:37:39.22
Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor, 9.
00:37:39.25\00:37:42.89
And thou shalt not covet, ten.
00:37:42.92\00:37:44.53
The Catholic Church
dropped the second commandment.
00:37:45.33\00:37:48.46
That means there
would be only nine.
00:37:48.50\00:37:50.57
So what did they have to
do? divide the tenth into two.
00:37:50.60\00:37:55.00
You shall not covet
your neighbors wife.
00:37:55.04\00:37:57.71
And ten, You shall not
covet your neighbors goods.
00:37:57.74\00:38:00.51
So if you dropped the second
about images, so what happened?
00:38:00.54\00:38:04.48
The laws of
God, the commandments
00:38:04.51\00:38:07.82
of God were changed.
00:38:07.85\00:38:09.45
The Sabbath was changed
from Saturday to Sunday;
00:38:09.48\00:38:13.25
seventh day to the first
day by man in a compromise,
00:38:13.29\00:38:16.39
and the second commandment
regarding images was dropped out
00:38:16.42\00:38:20.53
of, indeed, that commandment;
dropped out of the whole
00:38:20.56\00:38:26.67
Ten Commandment law.
00:38:26.70\00:38:28.17
Now there is a very
famous writer by the name of
00:38:28.20\00:38:33.94
Karl Keating, and he's
written a recent book called
00:38:33.98\00:38:37.08
It's the attack on
Romanism by Bible Christians.
00:38:39.95\00:38:43.12
He is a leading Catholic
writer; very brilliant man.
00:38:43.15\00:38:47.49
And the whole intent of this
particular book is to show that
00:38:47.52\00:38:52.59
the Protestant argument of
the Bible, and the Bible only,
00:38:52.63\00:38:57.17
that that arguments invalid.
00:38:57.20\00:38:59.43
Because what he's really saying
is that the Protestants that go
00:38:59.47\00:39:03.91
by the Bible, and the Bible
only, really ought to go back
00:39:03.94\00:39:07.38
to the Bible Sabbath,
because there's no foundation
00:39:07.41\00:39:10.55
in the Bible for Sunday.
00:39:10.58\00:39:13.58
And so he's arguing that
you have to have an authority
00:39:13.62\00:39:17.02
outside of the Bible.
00:39:17.05\00:39:18.39
And the only authority
for the change of the Sabbath
00:39:18.42\00:39:21.22
is the Catholic Church.
00:39:21.26\00:39:22.59
So that's Keating's argument.
00:39:22.62\00:39:24.33
And let's take a
look at it. He says,
00:39:24.36\00:39:27.26
So here's what his argument is.
00:39:54.06\00:39:55.62
His argument is, Okay you
Baptists, okay Pentecostals,
00:39:55.89\00:39:59.29
okay Church of Christ, he said,
if you want to follow the Bible,
00:39:59.33\00:40:04.13
you ought to go back, like
the Seventh-day Adventists do,
00:40:04.17\00:40:07.27
he says, and keep
the Bible Sabbath.
00:40:07.30\00:40:09.84
But if you keep Sunday,
you don't have any authority
00:40:09.87\00:40:13.04
for that in the Bible,
and you're really doing that
00:40:13.07\00:40:15.74
in harmony with the Pope of
Rome who changed the Sabbath,
00:40:15.78\00:40:19.98
so you're acknowledging
the authority of the Papacy.
00:40:20.02\00:40:22.85
That's his argument.
00:40:22.88\00:40:24.39
Now if you follow the
logic of that argument,
00:40:24.42\00:40:27.22
it's pretty logical.
00:40:27.26\00:40:28.59
If you take the authority of the
Bible, there's only one thing
00:40:28.62\00:40:31.56
to do, and that's go back and
worship on the Bible Sabbath.
00:40:31.59\00:40:34.60
Because it was in Genesis 2 that
the Bible says, God blessed the
00:40:34.63\00:40:40.64
Sabbath, and God
sanctified the Sabbath,
00:40:40.67\00:40:43.20
and God rested upon it.
00:40:43.24\00:40:44.71
2300 years before the
Jewish nation, God set aside the
00:40:44.74\00:40:49.71
Sabbath at creation.
00:40:49.74\00:40:51.41
There were no Jews
around at creation.
00:40:51.45\00:40:53.28
It was in Exodus 16
that the manna fell before
00:40:53.31\00:40:56.22
the Ten Commandments.
00:40:56.25\00:40:57.59
And God said, Don't go
out on Sabbath and gather any,
00:40:57.62\00:41:01.02
but worship Me
and My commandments.
00:41:01.06\00:41:02.76
It was in the Ten Commandment
law that God wrote with His own
00:41:02.79\00:41:06.46
finger on tables
of stone: Remember the
00:41:06.49\00:41:09.13
Sabbath to keep it holy.
00:41:09.16\00:41:10.50
It was all
through the Old Testament.
00:41:10.53\00:41:12.30
You know, God says, Isaiah 8:20,
To the law and to the testimony;
00:41:12.33\00:41:16.34
if they speak not
according to this word,
00:41:16.37\00:41:18.31
there is what? no light in them.
00:41:18.34\00:41:20.01
In other words, live
in harmony, by His grace,
00:41:20.04\00:41:22.54
through His power, with His law.
00:41:22.58\00:41:23.91
Now I know somebody says,
We're not saved by the law!
00:41:23.95\00:41:26.05
Certainly we're
not saved by the law.
00:41:26.08\00:41:28.18
We're saved by grace!
00:41:28.22\00:41:29.55
But that grace that
pardons us empowers us to be
00:41:29.58\00:41:34.39
obedient Christians.
00:41:34.42\00:41:35.76
That's why Jesus said, If
you do what? love Me, you will
00:41:35.79\00:41:40.53
keep My commandments.
00:41:40.56\00:41:43.06
So here is the real question:
00:41:43.10\00:41:45.17
If you look around the world
you find that many, many are
00:41:50.47\00:41:55.58
following tradition.
00:41:55.61\00:41:57.71
They've stepped aside
from the Biblical teachings.
00:41:57.75\00:42:01.18
The question is, will we
follow the commandments of God,
00:42:01.22\00:42:05.55
written with His own
finger on tables of stone,
00:42:05.59\00:42:08.92
or will we follow
the teachings of man?
00:42:08.96\00:42:13.70
Down through the centuries
men and women have been willing
00:42:13.73\00:42:17.83
to stand for truth.
00:42:17.87\00:42:19.30
Proverbs 23:23 says, Buy
the truth and sell it not.
00:42:19.33\00:42:25.37
Jesus said, in John
8:32, You shall know the truth,
00:42:25.41\00:42:31.08
and the truth
shall make you free.
00:42:31.11\00:42:34.62
You know, even in the
middle ages in the Reformation,
00:42:34.65\00:42:37.79
there were those that were
discovering the Bible Sabbath.
00:42:37.82\00:42:41.26
Carlstedt, for example, a
very close colleague of Luther,
00:42:41.29\00:42:45.53
began to keep the Bible Sabbath.
00:42:45.56\00:42:49.13
Some of the
Waldenses, in fact many of them
00:42:49.16\00:42:51.80
kept the Bible Sabbath.
00:42:51.83\00:42:54.60
John James, in the 1600's in
England, was a Sabbath keeper.
00:42:54.64\00:43:00.14
As the result of that the
authorities broke into his
00:43:00.18\00:43:04.68
church while he was
preaching on the Bible
00:43:04.71\00:43:06.35
Sabbath, took him out.
00:43:06.38\00:43:07.72
He was dragged
through the streets of London.
00:43:07.75\00:43:11.79
He was whipped, he was
beaten, eventually beheaded.
00:43:11.82\00:43:15.72
And can you imagine it,
because of his faith in Christ,
00:43:15.76\00:43:18.93
because of his desire
to follow Christ he was,
00:43:18.96\00:43:21.86
this man of God was beheaded,
and his head was placed on what
00:43:21.90\00:43:26.50
they call a pale or a pole
in front of his church the next
00:43:26.53\00:43:29.97
Sabbath to warn anyone that
might come and worship there.
00:43:30.01\00:43:34.54
But yet, just as Tertullian
said, The blood of the martyrs
00:43:34.58\00:43:38.65
is the seed of the gospel.
00:43:38.68\00:43:40.02
Down through the centuries,
down through the centuries,
00:43:40.05\00:43:44.25
Jesus Christ has had faithful
men and women that would not
00:43:44.29\00:43:50.46
yield their
conscientious convictions.
00:43:50.49\00:43:53.29
You see, God says in
00:43:53.33\00:43:54.90
Jesus says that His Word would
echo, and re-echo down through
00:44:04.34\00:44:10.35
through the centuries.
00:44:10.38\00:44:11.71
His Word would speak to
hearts in every generation.
00:44:11.75\00:44:15.68
As I travel around the world,
whether I stand in the Kremlin
00:44:15.72\00:44:20.36
in Russia preaching the Word of
God, men and women whose hearts
00:44:20.39\00:44:24.89
are open respond, and follow
God's truth, and become Sabbath
00:44:24.93\00:44:28.23
keeping Christians.
00:44:28.26\00:44:29.60
Whether it's in China, or India,
or Inter and South America,
00:44:29.63\00:44:33.74
men and women
today are stepping out.
00:44:33.77\00:44:36.54
They're stepping out from
tradition, stepping out from the
00:44:36.57\00:44:40.68
teachings of men,
stepping out from human opinion.
00:44:40.71\00:44:44.15
They're making decisions
to follow the word of God.
00:44:44.18\00:44:47.78
Let me tell you the
story of five Russian sailors.
00:44:47.82\00:44:51.59
These five Russian sailors
were on a Russian submarine.
00:44:51.62\00:44:55.29
And there on that
submarine they had little to do.
00:44:55.32\00:44:59.36
They found a book. The
book happened to be called,
00:44:59.39\00:45:02.13
The Great Controversy.
00:45:02.16\00:45:03.87
It is the story
of good and evil,
00:45:03.90\00:45:06.00
the story of Christ and Satan,
the story of how the Sabbath
00:45:06.03\00:45:10.11
was changed by
man and not by God.
00:45:10.14\00:45:13.34
As they read the history of
Christianity, as they read about
00:45:13.38\00:45:16.31
the crisis that was coming in
our world, these Russian sailors
00:45:16.34\00:45:21.52
said, We must follow Christ.
00:45:21.55\00:45:24.05
They were under the water,
under the ice of the Arctic,
00:45:24.09\00:45:27.39
for six months
in that submarine,
00:45:27.42\00:45:29.32
reading that
book again and again.
00:45:29.36\00:45:31.26
One would read it and
pass it onto the next.
00:45:31.29\00:45:33.16
He would pass it onto the next.
00:45:33.19\00:45:36.06
As they surfaced and
came out, it was now Siberia.
00:45:36.10\00:45:42.14
It's now in the
month of January.
00:45:42.17\00:45:44.74
These men came to a
Sabbath keeping Adventist Church
00:45:44.77\00:45:49.54
and they said, Pastor,
we want to be baptized!
00:45:49.58\00:45:52.95
You want to be baptized?
00:45:52.98\00:45:54.32
Have you
accepted the Bible? Yes.
00:45:54.35\00:45:55.72
Have you accepted Jesus? Yes.
00:45:55.75\00:45:57.52
Have you accepted
His commandments? Yes.
00:45:57.55\00:45:58.99
We want to follow Christ!
00:45:59.02\00:46:00.36
We want to be
Sabbath keeping Christians!
00:46:00.39\00:46:01.92
The Pastor said, Well, we'll
wait until the Spring, you know,
00:46:01.96\00:46:04.49
because the ice was a
meter and a half in Siberia.
00:46:04.53\00:46:08.76
These Russian
sailors said, We can't wait!
00:46:08.80\00:46:11.57
They went out to the lake.
00:46:11.60\00:46:13.10
They took axes and
chopped about four and a half
00:46:13.13\00:46:17.51
to five feet of ice.
00:46:17.54\00:46:18.87
They cut steps in the ice, and
they said, Pastor, next Sabbath
00:46:18.91\00:46:23.31
on the memorial of Creation,
we want to be baptized.
00:46:23.35\00:46:26.51
They cut the ice
in about a Sunday.
00:46:26.55\00:46:28.42
And the Pastor had to come
and chop, because you know,
00:46:28.45\00:46:30.89
it gets so cold that
you have to chop and inch,
00:46:30.92\00:46:33.22
an inch and a
half off every night.
00:46:33.25\00:46:34.59
But the Pastor said, I'm
never going to be able to stand
00:46:34.62\00:46:36.96
in that water the whole time.
00:46:36.99\00:46:38.33
So every day he would walk
down those steps in Siberia,
00:46:38.36\00:46:41.60
dunk himself in the water to
get ready for the next Sabbath.
00:46:41.63\00:46:44.80
Those sailors were so committed
to Christ, so committed to the
00:46:44.83\00:46:50.81
Bible, so committed to truth,
that in the middle of the winter
00:46:50.84\00:46:54.84
in Siberia, they were
baptized following Jesus Christ.
00:46:54.88\00:46:58.45
You see, the question is not a
matter of days, the question is
00:46:58.48\00:47:03.82
The question is not a
matter of one day or the next,
00:47:05.05\00:47:09.92
the question is rather, Am I
going to follow the teachings
00:47:09.96\00:47:12.99
of man, or am I going to
follow the teachings of Jesus?
00:47:13.03\00:47:15.63
Am I going to
follow human tradition,
00:47:15.66\00:47:17.47
or am I going to
follow God's Word?
00:47:17.50\00:47:19.73
You see, the real issue is
00:47:19.77\00:47:22.07
Is it human
opinion or tradition?
00:47:28.61\00:47:31.08
You see, the question is
00:47:31.11\00:47:32.85
See, if the church is the basis
of authority, and if you believe
00:47:38.65\00:47:43.56
the church has the
authority to change the Sabbath,
00:47:43.59\00:47:47.16
then you can accept Sunday.
00:47:47.20\00:47:49.00
But if there's
only one authority,
00:47:49.03\00:47:51.63
and that is the Bible;
if there's only one supreme
00:47:51.67\00:47:54.90
authority, and
that's Jesus Christ,
00:47:54.94\00:47:56.67
if there's only one who can
write with His own finger on
00:47:56.71\00:48:00.81
tables of stone the
Ten Commandments and say,
00:48:00.84\00:48:03.91
Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:48:03.95\00:48:05.81
See, the church would have
to have huge, immense authority
00:48:05.85\00:48:09.92
to change the very law of God,
written with the finger of God,
00:48:09.95\00:48:13.62
and obviously the church
does not have that authority.
00:48:13.66\00:48:17.49
You see, in the
Garden of Eden God gave the
00:48:17.53\00:48:22.56
Sabbath to Adam and Eve.
00:48:22.60\00:48:23.93
The church would have to have
enormous authority to change
00:48:23.97\00:48:28.94
the eternal command of
God that to keep the Sabbath
00:48:28.97\00:48:33.38
the day that God sanctified,
and blessed, and rested upon.
00:48:33.41\00:48:36.98
It has to have
enormous authority to change
00:48:37.01\00:48:39.58
the law given to Moses.
00:48:39.61\00:48:41.65
Revelation 14:12 is an appeal.
00:48:41.68\00:48:45.65
It's an appeal to your
heart wherever you are today.
00:48:45.72\00:48:49.02
It's an appeal
to you in your home.
00:48:49.06\00:48:51.59
It's an appeal to
you in that hotel room.
00:48:51.63\00:48:54.30
It's an appeal to you wherever
you're watching this telecast.
00:48:54.33\00:48:57.93
It says, Here is the
patience of the saints;...
00:48:57.97\00:49:00.14
You say, Where are
God's people today?
00:49:00.17\00:49:02.20
Where can I find God's people?
00:49:02.24\00:49:04.11
Find a group of
people that love Jesus.
00:49:08.61\00:49:10.55
Find a group of people
that are keeping the seventh
00:49:10.58\00:49:13.31
day Sabbath, Saturday.
00:49:13.35\00:49:14.68
Find a group of people that
are believing that we're living
00:49:14.72\00:49:18.99
in end times based
on the prophecies of the
00:49:19.02\00:49:21.62
book of Revelation.
00:49:21.66\00:49:22.99
Satan came to the Garden
of Eden and he said to Eve,
00:49:23.02\00:49:27.56
Eve, what
difference does one tree make?
00:49:27.60\00:49:30.83
Eve, partake of that tree.
00:49:30.87\00:49:34.04
Eve, it doesn't make any
difference whether you eat
00:49:34.07\00:49:37.41
of that fruit or not.
00:49:37.44\00:49:38.77
She was deceived, and partook
of the fruit, and lost Eden.
00:49:38.81\00:49:44.25
The Devil comes to
people today and says,
00:49:44.28\00:49:47.75
What difference does a day make?
00:49:47.78\00:49:49.12
You see the
issue was not a tree,
00:49:49.15\00:49:52.19
and the issue is not a day.
00:49:52.25\00:49:55.72
Just like all
trees weren't alike.
00:49:58.19\00:49:59.79
The tree was a
symbol of obedience.
00:49:59.83\00:50:04.50
And when Eve did not
partake of that tree,
00:50:04.53\00:50:07.30
she was obeying God.
00:50:07.34\00:50:08.67
When she partook of the
tree, she was disobeying God.
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So when she listened
to the voice of the evil
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one, she disobeyed.
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It wasn't that
tree, because she...
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It wasn't simply that she took
of the tree, it was the fact
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that she disobeyed God.
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And so God
calls us to obedience.
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You see, here's what
our choice is really.
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Jesus reaches out to you
and He says to you, My child,
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I created you. I fashioned you.
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I set aside a day for you to
acknowledge, in a busy, hectic
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world that I'm your Creator.
00:50:59.85\00:51:02.32
I set aside a day for you to
rest on as a symbol of resting
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in My grace, in
My love and care.
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You see, Sabbath isn't a
symbol of salvation by works.
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It's rest, rest in
His grace and care.
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And God's saying to you,
Come, worship upon My Sabbath.
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I created the world, and
I can recreate your heart.
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And every Sabbath as you
rest, be reminded of Eden,
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be reminded of the day
that earth will be recreated,
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reminded of the day
that I will come again.
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Jesus says to you and me,
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You make that choice today.
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Will you make
that decision today?
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Jesus has His hands
stretched out for you.
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I know for some this is new.
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Why not pray right now, Oh
Jesus, I need You every hour.
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And I'm coming to You to
make this significant decision
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to follow You, to keep Your
Sabbath, to walk in Your ways.
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Listen: I Need Thee Every Hour.
00:52:23.51\00:52:25.91
I need Thee every
hour, most gracious Lord.
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No tender voice like
Thine can peace afford.
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I need Thee, Oh I need
Thee, every hour I need Thee.
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Oh bless me now my
Savior, I come to Thee.
00:53:16.86\00:53:33.38
I need Thee every
hour, in joy or pain.
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Come quickly and
abide or life is vain.
00:53:47.12\00:53:56.67
I need Thee, Oh I need
Thee, every hour I need Thee.
00:53:56.70\00:54:13.48
Oh bless me now my
Savior, I come to Thee.
00:54:13.52\00:54:30.77
I need Thee every
hour, teach me Thy will.
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And Thy rich
promises in me fulfill.
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I need Thee, Oh I need
Thee, every hour I need Thee.
00:54:52.85\00:55:09.14
Oh bless me now my
Savior, I come to Thee.
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Is that your prayer, my friend?
00:55:29.92\00:55:32.73
I need Thee every hour.
00:55:32.76\00:55:35.93
Jesus invites you to come.
00:55:35.96\00:55:39.10
The Sabbath may be a new
truth for you, but Jesus says,
00:55:40.07\00:55:44.17
I'll be by your side.
00:55:44.21\00:55:46.07
I'll strengthen you.
00:55:46.11\00:55:48.34
Jesus says, Step out.
00:55:48.38\00:55:50.55
I've been
convicting you by My Spirit.
00:55:50.58\00:55:54.02
I've been
moving upon your heart.
00:55:54.05\00:55:56.89
I've been revealing truth to you
in My Word, and you know deep
00:55:56.92\00:56:02.02
within your heart
that you've heard truth.
00:56:02.09\00:56:04.99
Jesus invites you to
come, to make that decision
00:56:05.03\00:56:10.53
that you'll follow Him.
00:56:10.57\00:56:12.20
Follow Him wherever He leads.
00:56:12.23\00:56:14.94
Jesus has not
called us to the easy path.
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He's not called us to the
common, or the conventional,
00:56:19.61\00:56:23.04
but He has
called us to obedience.
00:56:23.08\00:56:25.85
He has called us to follow Him.
00:56:25.88\00:56:28.58
He has called us that through
His grace, and by His power,
00:56:28.62\00:56:33.96
keep His commandments.
00:56:33.99\00:56:36.59
Let's pray together, and I want
to ask God especially for you
00:56:36.62\00:56:39.79
that it will touch your heart
right now, that it will bring
00:56:39.83\00:56:42.96
you deep conviction right now.
00:56:43.00\00:56:44.90
That He will
give you the strength,
00:56:44.93\00:56:47.04
and the courage to follow Him.
00:56:47.07\00:56:48.47
Let's pray. Father in Heaven,
thank You so much for Jesus.
00:56:48.50\00:56:53.01
Thank You that He
trod the way before us.
00:56:53.04\00:56:55.64
Thank You that He never leads us
in a way that He doesn't give us
00:56:55.68\00:56:58.85
the power to follow.
00:56:58.88\00:57:00.22
As we feel convicted
about the Bible Sabbath,
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help us to put it
into practice in our life.
00:57:02.92\00:57:05.52
Help us to have the joy,
and the blessing of Your day,
00:57:05.55\00:57:08.32
for we pray it in
Christ's name, Amen.
00:57:08.36\00:57:10.99
Thank you for
joining us for Revelation's
00:57:12.09\00:57:14.56
Ancient Discoveries.
00:57:14.60\00:57:16.56
We're delving deeply
into the book of Revelation.
00:57:16.60\00:57:19.03
We're unmasking the
plans of the evil one,
00:57:19.07\00:57:22.04
and revealing the plans of God.
00:57:22.10\00:57:24.34
So stay with us
through this entire series,
00:57:24.37\00:57:27.14
and you will be
abundantly blessed.
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