Welcome again to our
program that we've titled
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"Revelation of the Coming King."
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I hope that you are excited
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about studying the
Book of Revelation.
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There is something,
there is something very special
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about when we started the Bible.
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It's when our hearts
are open to the word of God
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where the Holy
Spirit speaks to us
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through the pages of this Book.
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There is something
that happens inside.
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It cannot be
explained, it can only be felt.
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As you know that this program
is a part of that long series
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in which we try to cover
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all the chapters of
the Book of Revelation.
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Not every
detail, not every passage
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because it is
impossible but we try--
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we're trying to understand
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what is that so special
about the Book of Revelation?
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Once again, I am
Ranko Stefanovic,
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professor at the Seventh-day
Adventist Theological Seminary,
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Andrews University.
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I am professor of
the New Testament.
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But the most of
the class that I teach
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and more
presentations that I make
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as I travel are on the
topics of the Book of Revelation
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and the time of the end.
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I am so glad to be with you here
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and I hope that
you have in you hands
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our text book,
infallible text book.
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The best tool that we can have
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that can help us all
those difficult issues
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and text of the
Book of Revelation.
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But as we mentioned
it's almost impossible
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in the time that is
allotted to us to cover
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everything that is in
the Book of Revelation.
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And the purpose of
this program is not really
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to present everything what
is in the Book of Revelation,
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it's rather to stimulate our
appetite for the word of God.
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So once this program is over
that we can take different tools
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and I
recommended to you the tool
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titled
"Revelation of Jesus Christ"
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which is verse
by verse commentary
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on the Book of Revelation.
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I hope that you've
provided the copy for yourself.
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If you have done it, I'd
like one more time to remind you
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that we are still in the pages
that were indicated last time.
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We are from the page
409, 409 and going on.
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We are in Chapter 13
of the Book of Revelation.
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So from page 409, okay.
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You see all
these tools are great
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and somehow they really
present our limitations.
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By the way, they show
what at the present time
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we understand about
the Book of Revelation
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and believe me, tomorrow
I'll learn something new
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and day after tomorrow I
am learning something new
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and there is never end of that.
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And that's the reason why I
had to revise my commentary,
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and probably in few years
you'll see another revisions
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because there are
so many new e-sites
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there at Andrews University
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I am sharing several
doctoral dissertations
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of the Book of Revelation.
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So there will be new e-site
in few years that will come.
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But what is most important is
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that we always ask
God for His guidance.
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That we ask the Holy Spirit
to give us that discernment,
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to give us that
understanding, okay.
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And I know there are some things
from the Book of Revelation
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that probably we'll
never be able to understand
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until the events are fulfilled.
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We are doing our best to
understand with God's help.
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But there's one thing is that
the Holy Spirit is teaching us
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how those messages, they
can apply to our personal lives
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to make me to be
better Christian, okay,
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to be better husband,
to be a better friend,
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to be a better colleague, okay.
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But what is the most important
to come much closer to God.
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And one day that I see myself,
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my family and all of you
one day in God's Kingdom.
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That's what the purpose of the
Book of Revelation is all about.
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That's the reason why we would
like to ask God for His guidance
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as we are trying to understand
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Chapter 13 of the
Book of Revelation.
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Our heavenly father, here
we are again coming to You
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and humbly asking You
to give us Your Holy Spirit
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because You promised to us
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when we come with open
mind and sincere hearts
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that the Holy
Spirit will guide us
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and instruct us
into all the truth.
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So, Father, please be with us
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and help us if we can
understand these messages
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of the Book of Revelation
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and to apply them
to our daily lives.
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Father, we pray all of these
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in the precious name of
our Savior Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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Okay, as you know we are
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in Chapter 13 of
the Book of Revelation
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and let me remind you once again
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what we tried to
understand last time.
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We saw how the
Book of Revelation
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is amazingly structured.
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When you
understand how the structure
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of the Book of Revelation work
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you can observe many things
from the pages of this book.
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One of those things that
we tried to learn last time is
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that actually chapter
12, more particularly, okay.
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Revelation 11:19.
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Okay, divides the Book of
Revelation into two parts.
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We call it the historical part
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and the
eschatological part, okay.
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Eschatology is Greek.
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It comes from the word eschaton,
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which means the
last thing and logos,
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we have theology, astrology,
you know all those things.
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Logos, simply
means teaching doctrine
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but the basic meaning with
the word is the word, okay.
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So it simply means,
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eschatology means a
teaching about the last thing.
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So when you say
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the eschatological portion
of the Book of Revelation,
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we mean the section of
the Book of Revelation,
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the last 11 chapters.
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They talk and focus exclusively,
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exclusively on the
time of the end. Okay.
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And we saw how the Book
of Revelation is organized
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that shows that
actually it is in Chapter 12
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as he's preparing
himself for the final events.
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Satan switches,
okay, in his tactic
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from what he was doing
against God's faithful people
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throughout history by using
force and persecution, coercion.
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But the time of the end
there is one single word
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or maybe if you want two words
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that really
describes the activities
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end time activities of
Satan is the word "deception"
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or the word "counterfeit." Okay.
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This is very, very important
to help us to understand
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what we can find
in the last portion
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of the Book of Revelation.
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So we saw that
according to Revelation 13:1
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that if Satan decides to prepare
himself for that decisive event,
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final battle that is known
from the Book of Revelation,
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the Battle of Armageddon.
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He's there on the seashore.
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Please keep in mind
the symbolic language
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of the Book of Revelation.
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And He's calling out of the
sea the first of his associates,
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that we will refer
to as the sea beast
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because these beast,
these political power,
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the beast is the
symbol of political power
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actually comes out of the sea
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and steps, and
steps on the scene.
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There is one more thing I
would like us to pay attention
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as we are dealing
with Revelation 13 and 14.
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You see, in dealing with
first 11 chapters of the Book
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we really dealt
with the prophecies
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that were fulfilled in the past.
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Even though among the
interpreters of the Bible
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there are some
slight disagreements.
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You know, if that
event or that event, okay,
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fits the fulfillment
of certain prophecies
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of the Book of Revelation.
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Generally people agree, okay.
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Okay, who believe in
the Prophecy of Revelation
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they feel--so it was not
too much difficult really
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to find out how the prophecy
was fulfilled in the past.
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But the question
that is necessary now.
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You see, as we are dealing here
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with this section
of the Revelation,
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we are dealing with not
yet fulfilled prophecies.
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The prophecies, they
are not fulfilled yet.
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We are waiting for
their fulfillment,okay,
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to happen in the future.
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So do you understand
the difficulty is that?
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We have to keep in mind
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that we know exactly as we
mentioned already several times.
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According to the
Book of Revelation
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what will happen at
the time of the end?
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We will see that
the Book of Revelation
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seems to me very,
very clear about that.
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But what is the problem is
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that in dealing with
these future prophecies
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that sometimes people are
using too much imagination.
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Their personal opinions
in the way how they think
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that those
prophecies will be fulfilled.
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Friends, you have to understand,
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many of the
prophecies will be clear to us
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at the time of
their fulfillment.
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So we have to take,
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you remember,
there are some things
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that God did not disclose to us.
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Do you remember that,
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that small book in
the Revelation Chapter 10,
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John was not
allowed to write everything?
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Only what God found
for good to us to reveal,
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it was revealed to us
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and we know, we
know what will happen.
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But how the things will happen,
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we have to wait for the
time of their fulfillment.
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There is one thing
that I will like to--
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I want to all of us,
there are people in the past,
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were a great experts
in biblical prophecies.
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They knew
everything about the Messiah.
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They knew when the Messiah
would come, they knew the date.
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They knew where the
Messiah will be born.
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They knew how the
Messiah would be born.
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But you see so many
times their private agenda
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prevented them from
understanding really
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what the biblical
prophecies are meant.
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They put their
ideas in those prophecies,
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so the Messiah came, they
did not recognize Him. Why?
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Because they didn't follow
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the clear
instruction of the word of God.
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They follow their
instincts, their desires,
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their plans and their views
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how the
prophecies should look like.
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So I will like also
to speak to our viewers.
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This is the
warning to all of us.
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I would like to suggest
to you that we stick there
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to the clear text of the Bible.
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But those are things how the
prophecies will be fulfilled.
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Yeah, the Book of
Revelation telling us enough,
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how that they will be fulfilled,
but let's not go beyond that.
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Let's stay to the
clear indication there,
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there in the Book of Revelation.
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Keep in mind, keep in mind,
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that the future fulfillment
of biblical prophecies
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will bring us to
many, many surprises.
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So let's not repeat the
history of the Jewish people.
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Let's be faithful
to the word of God
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and try to find out what
the Bible teaches us clearly.
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One more time,
let's be reminded.
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We're dealing with the
first of Satan's associates.
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We call it, okay, the sea
beast, okay, the first one.
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But you have to
understand something
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about the biblical prophecies.
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The last time we wanted
to make the survey of that
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in order to prepare the ground
for what we are talking about,
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every time, every time,
when the Book of Revelation
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introduces a new
actor on the scene, okay.
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The 1 John wants to
identify that actor,
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to describe that actor.
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Once the actor is identified
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then he describes the activities
what the actor is doing,
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you'll notice, we saw it,
just to mention few things.
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In Revelation Chapter 5
and 6, John wants to tell us,
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that the
history will be unfolded
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because Jesus is doing that.
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But you need to tell
us why Jesus is qualified
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to unfold the future
by breaking the seals.
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First in Chapter 5, he
wants to identify Jesus.
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Okay, you see in this
section, who is a new actor here
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in the steps of the scene in
Revelation, its Satan himself.
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But before John is telling us
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what Satan will be
doing at the time of the end,
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what does he do in
Revelation Chapter 12.
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He wants to identify Satan,
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to tell us he is
the one who deceived
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the number of
angels there in heaven.
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He was the one who
was cast out from heaven.
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He was the one in the
history of the Christian church
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persecuted God's people
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and this is the power,
this is that arch enemy
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that you will be
involved in the final events
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and he will play
the key role there.
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Are you still with me?
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Now the same
principle must be applied
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with reference to the first
of two associates of Satan.
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We call it the sea beast.
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Please friends, this
is very, very important
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because there are some people
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who really do not
know this principle,
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they're sometimes confused.
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And I will tell you
where the confusion comes from,
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you have to keep in mind.
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This is the focus of the
first section of chapter 13.
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John wants to tell us about
the first of Satan's associates,
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the activities that characterize
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and these activities
will be repeated also
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at the time of the end.
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Are you still with me?
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But before explaining about
the activities of the sea beast,
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John first wants to
identify the sea beast.
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Why is this so
much important, please,
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I would like you to turn
to Revelation Chapter 13.
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I'm using more opportunity
that we get information
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how to interpreter
the Book of Revelation,
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once we know how to do it,
we can do the rest by ourselves.
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Are you there? Let me
now ask you a question.
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I want little
bit to confuse you.
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He says, in verse 3,
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"And I saw one of his
heads as if it had been slain,
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and his fatal wound was healed.
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And the whole earth was amazed
and followed after the beast."
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What do you have here?
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The beast received mortal wound.
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What happened next? The
mortal wound was healed.
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What happened next?
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It provoked the
admiration of the entire world.
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What happened to the beast?
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Because the beast was killed,
now the beast came back to life.
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Now please, would you
go with me to verse 5,
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"There was given to him a
mouth speaking arrogant words
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and blasphemies,
and authority to act
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for forty-two
months was given to him."
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Do you see the problem here?
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At these forty-two
months, before the mortal wound
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or after the
healing of the mortal wound.
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Are you with me? Are you lost?
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You see, if you do not know
these principles and by the way
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I'm explaining about these
principles in the very beginning
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of my commentary.
It's very important.
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If you don't
understand this principle
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then it appears
that forty-two months
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come after the
healing of their mortal wound.
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That's why many
people that we called them,
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futurists as we
explained it before.
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Without
understanding this principle,
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they speculate and they
believe that those forty months
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they come after the
healing of their mortal wound
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but it's not so.
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Keep in mind those
these first four verses,
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John first want to
identify the beast to tell us
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who actually this
political power is
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and what this
political power is.
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So what do we learn
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about this
political power, what is that?
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That this political power
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is the same as the
one portrayed where,
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in Daniel Chapter 7.
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That there is so
difference between the two.
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This power in the Book of Daniel
is identified as a little horn,
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you remember we talked about.
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It was not
really the little horn,
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it grew up, very
powerful, okay and great horn.
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In verse 2, we learn here,
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also reflecting in
the Book of the Daniel is,
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that actually this
beast is the successor
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of the previous political powers
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that appeared, that
appeared in history.
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Second thing John is wants
to tell us and what is that.
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That this political power
at the certain point in history
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will be killed and
we'll cease to be active.
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However eventually that
mortal wound will be healed
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that will provoke the
admiration of the entire world,
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please, can you
keep in mind something?
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We are dealing
with the eschatological.
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We are dealing
with the eschatological
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part of the Book of Revelation.
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Really, John is not interested
too much to tell us about
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what this political power
did during the prophetic period
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or 1260 days of
the medieval period.
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You see, he's providing
the background to tell us
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about the power that
will play a significant role
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and function at
the time of the end.
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But he's telling
us that this power
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that will really
works so powerfully
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at the time of the end,
is not really a new power.
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Is the power that
was active in history
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more than 1000 years
during the medieval period,
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that controlled the human
minds. Are you still with me?
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Imposing one
religion and controlling
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what people will
believe how it will believe.
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Are you still with me?
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This is the point
that he is trying to make
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that actually
this is not a new power
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that will appear at
the time of the end,
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that this power
has a long history,
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persecuting God's
people and fighting against God
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and trying to take the place
of Jesus Christ and His word.
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Are you still with me?
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Once he identified this
power, now he wants to tell us,
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what this power
was doing in the past
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and what this
power will be doing
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at the time of the end?
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That's why it's
so much important
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to understand the
principle of identification
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of a new actor and
then what comes in the next,
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the description of the
activities of this actor.
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If you don't understand that,
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then you can go
off the road completely
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and bring some interpretation
and finally you'll wonder
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that something
that only you believe
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but nobody can
see it in the text
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because that does
not fit in the context.
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So what are the
activities of this beast?
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Okay, let's see now
about the description of the,
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of the activities of this beast.
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It says verse 5,
"There was given to him
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a mouth speaking arrogant words
and blasphemies, and authority
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to act for forty-two
months was given to him."
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Let's stop here for a moment.
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I'd like to
mention to you one feature
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that is so frequently
found in the New Testament.
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You'll notice that this feature
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is not too much
represented in the Old Testament
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for one simple
reason. What is the feature?
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You'll notice here it
says that it was given to him,
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to this political power a mouth
and to do all these activities.
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Okay, it was given.
It was given. Who gave?
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By the way you
have to understand
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something where
the Jewish people
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came out off the
Babylonian exile,
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came to Palestine.
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They decided to be so
faithful to the law of God,
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so not to repeat the
mistakes of their fathers
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and go back to another exile.
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He said, we want now to be
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so faithful to
the, to the law of God.
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So they went to
the Ten Commandments,
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they came to the
Commandment of the Sabbath.
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They made about 413
commandments of that.
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So they wanted, they
prescribed every detail
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of the
observance of the Sabbath.
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They came to that
Second Commandment.
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And Second Commandment, no
sorry, the Third Commandment.
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The Third Commandment said,
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"you shall not take
the name of God in vain."
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But what else
they are doing in vain.
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They said, so any
taking the name of God
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in out of mouth is in
vain. We can be without that.
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So they would come
to statement God spoke.
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Now they would make statement
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it was spoken implying
that actually God spoke, okay.
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Or people who
were saved implying
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that actually God saved them.
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They used passive
instead of active.
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Are you still with me?
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Today we call it
the divine passive.
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So when you have a passive,
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it implies that
actually God did it.
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By the way in
English we use it so often,
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I'm saved. What does it mean?
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It means that God saved me.
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I'm forgiven. It
means God forgave me.
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We're using that
passive because it comes,
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it comes from the New Testament.
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It occurs very, very
often in the New Testament.
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So in the light
of this information
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when said, that the
beast was given a mouth.
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What does it actually mean?
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That it was actually God
who allowed this political power
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a certain period to
exercise the authority
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and to do all these
activities against God
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and to persecute God's people.
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You see, friends, these effect
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can really
provide us with assurance
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that nothing in this world
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happens without God's approval.
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Please, I cannot always explain
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why God allows
certain things to happen
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but I've the assurance is
that God is still in control.
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So many times we
don't understand,
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so many times we
have a question why?
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But we have a strong assurance
that actually it is God
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and He has the
final word in everything.
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He says, it was given to him
a mouth to speak arrogant words.
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By the way, the number
of biblical commentators
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who actually observed
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something that
has been overlooked
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by many as they read
the Book of Revelation
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that in the Old Testament
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when prophets were
given the mouth to speak.
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It always refers to
a speech that person,
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that person delivers.
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It's not simply that
person casually speaks.
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It's an order, the
person opens the mouth
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and gives
direction and everybody,
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everybody has to follow it.
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So talking here
about the political power,
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you remember what we saw that,
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that is political
power was enthroned by Satan,
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authorized by Satan
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and now this
power was given actually
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to exercise the authority--
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was given a mouth to speak
arrogant words and blasphemies
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and receive the
authority to act for 42 months.
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It was, it was,
it was given to him.
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Let me remind you one more time
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what we spoke last time
in our last presentations.
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How Revelation 13 actually
reflects Daniel Chapter 7.
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And I have here in front
of me, I have here a chart
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and you can see that
all these activities,
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okay, of the sea
beast actually mirrors
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the activities of little
horn of Daniel Chapter 7.
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Let me just point to few verses.
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In Daniel Chapter 7,
we have the little word,
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horn has the mouth
speaking great things.
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You go here to Revelation 13.
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The sea beast has the
mouth speaking great things.
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Going to Daniel Chapter 7.
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The little horn speaks
blasphemies against God.
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Here we heard the sea beasts
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speaks of
blasphemies against God.
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I'm referring to
Chapter 7 verse 25.
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All these
informations are found there.
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And then in verse 21 of
chapter 7 of Daniel we have,
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"That the little horn
wages war with the saints
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and overcomes them."
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And you have here in 37,
that the sea beasts wages war
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with the saints
and overcome them.
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You can see
actually that the little horn
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and this sea beast that is,
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that is mentioned
here actually refers to one
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in the same
historical reality of the power,
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okay, that control the
minds of people for long time.
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But we'd like really to find out
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what those
activities are all about, okay.
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Let's go back one
more, one more time.
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It says, "Mouth speaking
arrogant words and blasphemies."
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In Greek it can
mean that, that mouth
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was speaking arrogant
words, namely blasphemies.
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Why is that so?
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Because if you go
to the Old Testament
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there is only one entity
that was speaking great words
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and that's Lucifer himself.
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If you go to the
Book of Isaiah chapter 14,
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Ezekiel Chapter
28, great things,
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what, it's not great things
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that the person
make great speeches.
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It means great things
that pertain to God there.
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This power claims
the quality with God.
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By the way, it showed
here in this blasphemies.
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The question is,
what are the blasphemies?
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Of course today we
can use our imaginations
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and we can, each one of us
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can have
different interpretations
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but we have to go
to the New Testament
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and to find out really
what blasphemy meant at the time
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when the New
Testament was written.
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The similar text
I'd like to remind you.
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The first text is in
Gospel of John 10:33.
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Please, I'd like to
go and to read this text
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because this is very important
for the identification of this,
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of this political power, okay.
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So the Gospel of John 10:33,
let's read what we have there,
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let's see what
blasphemy meant, okay.
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Chapter 10 verse 33,
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and Jesus said, okay,
to the Jewish readers,
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okay, for a good
work. No, sorry, sorry.
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The Jews actually said to Jesus,
00:28:21.90\00:28:24.91
okay, who ask Him
why do you hate me?
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Why do you want to destroy me?
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And the Jews said to Jesus,
00:28:28.52\00:28:30.01
"For a good work
we do not stone You,
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but for blasphemy,
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because You, being a man
make yourself to be God."
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We're not dealing here
with the theology of this text.
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Was Jesus God?
Did He do blasphemy?
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He did not do blasphemy
00:28:47.75\00:28:49.43
but Jews, they considered
Jesus to be mere man, okay.
00:28:49.46\00:28:55.32
And they said, "You're a
man and you claim to be God,"
00:28:55.35\00:28:59.50
that's a blasphemy.
Are you still with me?
00:28:59.53\00:29:01.38
Let's go to another text
00:29:01.41\00:29:03.14
which is the Gospel
of Matthew Chapter 26.
00:29:03.17\00:29:07.58
The Gospel of
Matthew Chapter 26.
00:29:07.61\00:29:12.36
okay, The Gospel
of Matthew Chapter 26.
00:29:12.39\00:29:15.81
Let's read
verse, okay, 33 to 35.
00:29:15.84\00:29:21.35
Keep in mind that Jesus is there
00:29:21.38\00:29:23.09
on the trial before
His crucifixion, okay.
00:29:23.12\00:29:27.75
He's before the
high priest in the trial.
00:29:27.78\00:29:30.36
But Jesus kept silent and
the high priest said to Jesus,
00:29:30.39\00:29:34.43
"I adjure you by the
living God, that you tell us
00:29:34.46\00:29:37.60
whether you are the
Christ the Son of God."
00:29:37.63\00:29:40.19
Are you still with me?
00:29:40.22\00:29:41.59
Because Jesus
claimed so many times
00:29:41.62\00:29:42.99
to be Son of God
during His ministry.
00:29:43.02\00:29:45.48
And Jesus said, "You
have said it yourself.
00:29:45.51\00:29:48.18
Nevertheless, I'm telling
you, you will see the Son of Man
00:29:48.21\00:29:52.15
sitting at the
right hand of Power,
00:29:52.18\00:29:54.31
and coming on the
clouds of the heaven."
00:29:54.34\00:29:56.61
You don't see
anything significant here.
00:29:56.64\00:29:58.89
Actually in Greek
its identical quotation
00:29:58.92\00:30:02.47
from Daniel Chapter
7 about the Son of Man,
00:30:02.50\00:30:04.77
you remember that coming
before the ancient of the day.
00:30:04.80\00:30:07.66
It's their actuations
00:30:07.69\00:30:09.15
and for Jews this statement
was very, very important
00:30:09.18\00:30:12.22
with reference to the Messiah.
00:30:12.25\00:30:14.16
When the high priest heard that,
he tore his robes and he said,
00:30:14.19\00:30:18.11
he has blasphemed.
00:30:18.14\00:30:19.84
What further
need do we witnesses,
00:30:19.87\00:30:21.97
behold you have
heard though blasphemy.
00:30:22.00\00:30:24.42
What was the blasphemy?
00:30:24.45\00:30:25.82
That Jesus claimed to
be God, the Son of God.
00:30:25.85\00:30:28.77
So we, we get now the first key.
00:30:28.80\00:30:31.50
When this beast is
speaking blasphemies,
00:30:31.53\00:30:34.55
what does it mean?
00:30:34.58\00:30:37.19
Claiming to be God,
to take the place of God.
00:30:37.22\00:30:40.37
But there is also another aspect
00:30:40.40\00:30:42.10
of blasphemy in,
in the New Testament.
00:30:42.13\00:30:46.05
I'd like you to turn
to the Gospel of Mark 2:7.
00:30:46.08\00:30:50.18
The Gospel of Mark 2:7.
00:30:50.21\00:30:54.56
Again the Pharisees,
00:30:54.59\00:30:57.11
okay, they're talking
about the Jesus and they said,
00:30:57.14\00:31:00.52
"Why does this
men speak that way?
00:31:00.55\00:31:03.26
He's blaspheming!
00:31:03.29\00:31:04.66
Who can forgive
sins but God alone?"
00:31:04.69\00:31:08.77
What is another
aspect of blasphemy
00:31:08.80\00:31:10.92
in the New Testament?
00:31:10.95\00:31:12.35
When the person claims
the prerogatives of God
00:31:12.38\00:31:15.10
specially to forgive sins
that only God can forgive.
00:31:15.13\00:31:20.94
Do we get to know little
bit closer picture of what
00:31:20.97\00:31:24.38
or who this political power
or the sea beast is all about?
00:31:24.41\00:31:30.31
Okay, one more time.
00:31:30.34\00:31:33.13
This power is the
successor of the Roman Empire.
00:31:33.16\00:31:36.19
Are you still with me?
00:31:36.22\00:31:38.23
It's a political power.
00:31:38.26\00:31:40.79
At certain point of history,
this political power is killed.
00:31:40.82\00:31:47.25
Does not have a
power in the world.
00:31:47.28\00:31:49.47
But at the time of the end,
00:31:49.50\00:31:51.65
this political power
will comeback to life.
00:31:51.68\00:31:55.07
But in describing the
activities of this beast
00:31:55.10\00:31:57.24
is that this
political power has the same,
00:31:57.27\00:32:02.66
the same desire,
the same inspiration
00:32:02.69\00:32:05.79
as the Satan in
the Old Testament
00:32:05.82\00:32:07.30
to be equal to God.
00:32:07.33\00:32:08.94
And actually it is expressed,
00:32:08.97\00:32:10.85
it is expressed in
terms of the blasphemy
00:32:10.88\00:32:13.85
that this power
claimed to be God,
00:32:13.88\00:32:17.55
okay, and claim that it
was given to that power,
00:32:17.58\00:32:23.38
the prerogatives of
God like to forgive,
00:32:23.41\00:32:27.25
to forgive the sins.
00:32:27.28\00:32:28.78
But there is much more,
there is much more, okay.
00:32:28.81\00:32:32.46
Verse 6, verse 6,
"And he opened his mouth
00:32:32.49\00:32:36.46
in blasphemies
against God," against God.
00:32:36.49\00:32:40.23
We saw what is
blasphemy against God.
00:32:40.26\00:32:43.01
Okay, to claim
equality, equality to God.
00:32:43.04\00:32:47.17
But says, "To
blaspheme his name,
00:32:47.20\00:32:50.40
and his tabernacle."
00:32:50.43\00:32:52.55
So this power trying to take
00:32:52.58\00:32:55.61
the name of God
upon itself, okay.
00:32:55.64\00:32:59.48
But second thing
is that this power
00:32:59.51\00:33:01.57
somehow try to mess up
00:33:01.60\00:33:04.77
what Jesus Christ is
doing in the heavenly sanctuary.
00:33:04.80\00:33:07.61
What is Jesus doing here--
00:33:07.64\00:33:09.01
there in the heavenly sanctuary?
00:33:09.04\00:33:11.21
Providing for
him the sin for us,
00:33:11.24\00:33:13.24
but this power
says, I can forgive sins.
00:33:13.27\00:33:15.78
This is what
blasphemy is all about.
00:33:15.81\00:33:17.37
I can forgive sins.
00:33:17.40\00:33:18.79
You don't need that
sanctuary there in heaven.
00:33:18.82\00:33:21.39
And says also blasphemies
00:33:21.42\00:33:23.82
against those
who dwell in heaven.
00:33:23.85\00:33:27.05
Who are those
who dwell in heaven?
00:33:27.08\00:33:28.81
Let me remind you one more time,
00:33:28.84\00:33:30.52
in the Book of Revelation,
00:33:30.55\00:33:32.06
God's people are the
heaven dwellers. Amen.
00:33:32.09\00:33:36.62
That always goes who
dwell there in the heavenly,
00:33:36.65\00:33:40.10
in the heavenly places.
00:33:40.13\00:33:42.27
Actually in the Revelation
14:1, we'll see as this beast
00:33:42.30\00:33:48.39
is forcing the
inhabitants of this world
00:33:48.42\00:33:50.30
to accept the Mark of the Beast.
00:33:50.33\00:33:51.77
God's people are
on the Mount of Zion
00:33:51.80\00:33:55.24
there before the throne of God.
00:33:55.27\00:33:57.43
Apostle Paul talks
in Ephesians 2:6 and 19
00:33:57.46\00:34:01.21
that God's people because
they are redeemed by Christ.
00:34:01.24\00:34:04.09
They are already there
in the heavenly places,
00:34:04.12\00:34:08.18
that they're
reigning with Jesus Christ
00:34:08.21\00:34:11.72
there on His throne.
00:34:11.75\00:34:14.07
That salvation is
secured there before God.
00:34:14.10\00:34:17.66
So this beast,
this political power
00:34:17.69\00:34:21.78
also tries to mess
up with God's people.
00:34:21.81\00:34:25.49
By the way in the light of what,
00:34:25.52\00:34:28.18
we have the description there
of the power of the little horn.
00:34:28.21\00:34:31.50
It means, it
persecute God's people
00:34:31.53\00:34:34.31
because this people have chosen
00:34:34.34\00:34:36.42
to follow God
and His commandments.
00:34:36.45\00:34:38.52
And what God is
asking them actually to do.
00:34:38.55\00:34:41.86
By the way let me
remind you one more time.
00:34:41.89\00:34:45.11
If you really want
to understand little bit
00:34:45.14\00:34:47.08
about this power,
this is the same power.
00:34:47.11\00:34:49.38
And please I would
like to allow you to go back
00:34:49.41\00:34:51.35
one more time to 2
Thessalonians Chapter 2.
00:34:51.38\00:34:55.71
Apostle Paul, the
Book of Revelation
00:34:55.74\00:34:58.21
is not only a
book dealing with that.
00:34:58.24\00:35:00.84
Apostle Paul in 2
Thessalonians Chapter 2--
00:35:00.87\00:35:04.71
actually he talks
about the same power,
00:35:04.74\00:35:07.24
the same activities.
00:35:07.27\00:35:08.64
So please would you,
would you, would you go with me.
00:35:08.67\00:35:10.79
2 Thessalonians Chapter
2, Paul said in verse 3.
00:35:10.82\00:35:15.53
"Let no one in
any way deceive you,
00:35:15.56\00:35:18.38
for it will not come
unless the apostasy comes first,
00:35:18.41\00:35:21.82
and the man of
lawlessness is revealed,
00:35:21.85\00:35:24.34
the son of destruction,
who opposes and exalts himself
00:35:24.37\00:35:29.14
above every so-called
God or object of worship,
00:35:29.17\00:35:32.71
so that he takes his
seat in the temple of God,
00:35:32.74\00:35:36.41
displaying
himself as being God."
00:35:36.44\00:35:39.25
And then Paul
said, "Do not remember
00:35:39.28\00:35:41.38
that while I was still with you,
00:35:41.41\00:35:42.82
I was telling you these things."
00:35:42.85\00:35:44.84
And you know what
restrains him now,
00:35:44.87\00:35:46.85
so that in his time
he will be revealed.
00:35:46.88\00:35:50.03
What is that
that was restraining
00:35:50.06\00:35:52.36
this apostasy to
appear in the Christian church
00:35:52.39\00:35:54.77
is the Roman Empire.
00:35:54.80\00:35:57.82
It's actually the
fall of the Roman Empire
00:35:57.85\00:35:59.39
that opened the door
that this political power
00:35:59.42\00:36:03.56
that that is
mentioned here in Revelation 13
00:36:03.59\00:36:05.32
now could come to
that political power.
00:36:05.35\00:36:08.38
And then Paul says in verse 7,
00:36:08.41\00:36:09.94
"For the mystery of
lawlessness is already at work,
00:36:09.97\00:36:13.03
only he who now
restrains will do so
00:36:13.06\00:36:15.77
until he is
taken out of the way."
00:36:15.80\00:36:17.93
And then he says,
"Then the lawless one
00:36:17.96\00:36:20.32
will be revealed
whom the Lord will slay
00:36:20.35\00:36:22.89
with the breath of His
mouth and bring to an end
00:36:22.92\00:36:26.30
by the
appearance of His coming."
00:36:26.33\00:36:31.87
Okay friends, for we now comes
00:36:31.90\00:36:37.38
the most
difficult portion of this.
00:36:37.41\00:36:41.67
Because I know that there
are many faithful Christians
00:36:41.70\00:36:44.54
they're are
watching this program.
00:36:44.57\00:36:46.46
And we live
today in the 21 century
00:36:46.49\00:36:50.49
when people try
to forget the past.
00:36:50.52\00:36:55.14
And many bad things
have happened in the past
00:36:55.17\00:36:57.56
now to beautify
and nothing happened.
00:36:57.59\00:37:00.22
It happened so
with the Holocaust.
00:37:00.25\00:37:01.95
It happens with everything.
00:37:01.98\00:37:03.84
But I'm sorry this has nothing
to do with the good Christians
00:37:03.87\00:37:07.69
who really sincerely
and they want to server God.
00:37:07.72\00:37:10.04
But we really
simply want to find out
00:37:10.07\00:37:12.96
how this prophecy was
fulfilled in the past.
00:37:12.99\00:37:17.70
So there are few things
that we have to keep in mind.
00:37:17.73\00:37:19.76
We're dealing here with
the political power, okay,
00:37:19.79\00:37:23.92
that dominated the western world
00:37:23.95\00:37:26.83
after the fall
of the Roman Empire.
00:37:26.86\00:37:30.17
How long, how long
00:37:30.20\00:37:34.58
did this political
power exercise its authority?
00:37:34.61\00:37:39.22
By the way I have now
to mention something else.
00:37:39.25\00:37:43.15
This is the political power.
00:37:43.18\00:37:44.55
This is what the
beast is all about.
00:37:44.58\00:37:47.57
But when you read
the clear description
00:37:47.60\00:37:49.66
of these beasts
in the Revelation 13,
00:37:49.69\00:37:51.79
you'll see that this
political power is really--
00:37:51.82\00:37:56.49
also a religious power as much.
00:37:56.52\00:38:02.65
It tried to
take the place of God
00:38:02.68\00:38:06.50
to provide the
forgiveness of sin
00:38:06.53\00:38:08.26
that only God can do.
00:38:08.29\00:38:10.53
It wants to mess up with
heavenly sanctuary there.
00:38:10.56\00:38:13.05
Are you still with me?
00:38:13.08\00:38:14.45
And persecuted God's people.
00:38:14.48\00:38:16.31
For how long?
00:38:16.34\00:38:18.73
For the period of
42 months or 1260 days
00:38:18.76\00:38:24.05
or time to times
and half of time.
00:38:24.08\00:38:26.97
We already saw that
this three time designations
00:38:27.00\00:38:31.77
in the Book of Daniel
and in the Book of Revelation
00:38:31.80\00:38:34.91
are the only places
where they are mentioned
00:38:34.94\00:38:38.08
and always with reference
to one and the same thing is,
00:38:38.11\00:38:41.45
is the antichrist power
that dominated the secular world
00:38:41.48\00:38:48.02
during the medieval period
and persecuted God's people.
00:38:48.05\00:38:51.97
And please let
me deal a little bit
00:38:52.00\00:38:55.58
with the principles
of biblical prophecies.
00:38:55.61\00:38:59.05
Do remember when we started
the series at the very beginning
00:38:59.08\00:39:03.74
I think it was our
second or third presentations
00:39:03.77\00:39:06.73
please I forgot when it was.
00:39:06.76\00:39:08.62
Remember what we discovered
that in the Book of Revelation
00:39:08.65\00:39:11.87
the things that
John saw in the vision
00:39:11.90\00:39:14.15
all those things were
shown to him by means of symbol.
00:39:14.18\00:39:17.52
Do you remember that?
00:39:17.55\00:39:19.31
So we see here, please I
need now really your attentions.
00:39:19.34\00:39:23.56
We saw that the
beast is not the real beast
00:39:23.59\00:39:25.46
that will come
out of the real sea.
00:39:25.49\00:39:29.30
The sea signifies
the human society, okay.
00:39:29.33\00:39:34.19
The beast is the
symbol of the political power.
00:39:34.22\00:39:38.07
Even the
description of the beast,
00:39:38.10\00:39:39.66
everything is symbolic
based on the base of Daniel
00:39:39.69\00:39:42.59
and many Christians
they'll recognize it
00:39:42.62\00:39:45.05
except in one point.
00:39:45.08\00:39:47.11
When they come to this
time designation of 42 months
00:39:47.14\00:39:50.54
and they say this is literal.
00:39:50.57\00:39:52.76
Friends, you've to understand
that in the Book of Revelation
00:39:52.79\00:39:56.50
even that the time
designation is symbolic.
00:39:56.53\00:40:01.69
Let me explain
it in more details.
00:40:01.72\00:40:04.87
You know, today we
live in the modern world,
00:40:04.90\00:40:07.90
we try to be
literalistic as much as we can.
00:40:07.93\00:40:11.77
But in the Old Testament
when people spoke in symbol
00:40:11.80\00:40:16.86
very often they used one
day as a symbol for a year.
00:40:16.89\00:40:23.44
I know, I lived,
00:40:23.47\00:40:25.62
actually I was born and I
grew up eating some culture.
00:40:25.65\00:40:29.17
People never talk about how
many years they have to live.
00:40:29.20\00:40:32.00
They always talk about how
many days they have to live.
00:40:32.03\00:40:34.85
People move to
another place they ask
00:40:34.88\00:40:36.58
how many days do
you plan to spend there
00:40:36.61\00:40:38.95
and he said 20 years.
00:40:38.98\00:40:40.41
Are you still with me?
00:40:40.44\00:40:41.89
People always referred
to years in terms of days.
00:40:41.92\00:40:45.85
By the way now
there are many texts
00:40:45.88\00:40:48.94
in the Old
Testament that I can refer to.
00:40:48.97\00:40:50.79
If you go Psalms 90, David said,
00:40:50.82\00:40:55.32
"Our days are
counted before God."
00:40:55.35\00:40:58.54
He meant actually years.
00:40:58.57\00:41:00.92
So, especially in
biblical prophecy,
00:41:00.95\00:41:02.93
in biblical
prophecies a day is used
00:41:02.96\00:41:07.45
as the symbol for a year, okay.
00:41:07.48\00:41:12.32
This is very, very important
that we keep in mind here.
00:41:12.35\00:41:17.43
So when we're dealing here
00:41:17.46\00:41:20.32
with a power, okay,
00:41:20.35\00:41:25.77
that will do all this things,
messing up with God's plan.
00:41:25.80\00:41:29.80
We have a 42 months
00:41:29.83\00:41:33.30
or we have a period of 1260 days
00:41:33.33\00:41:39.19
and there is that
third expression, okay,
00:41:39.22\00:41:42.98
which goes in this way, okay,
00:41:43.01\00:41:46.09
One plus, two times
00:41:46.12\00:41:52.04
and plus in half, okay.
00:41:52.07\00:41:57.10
Okay, which
really means two years,
00:41:57.13\00:42:00.11
one year, two
years and half the year.
00:42:00.14\00:42:03.87
If you put it into days
00:42:03.90\00:42:05.57
you get the same
number of days, 1260 days.
00:42:05.60\00:42:10.69
So now there is questions.
00:42:10.72\00:42:12.54
This is very
important for understanding
00:42:12.57\00:42:14.48
of this, of this power.
00:42:14.51\00:42:16.35
So what are we
talking here about?
00:42:16.38\00:42:18.76
Prophet Daniel in Chapter 7.
00:42:18.79\00:42:20.55
He talks about the same thing,
00:42:20.58\00:42:22.14
talking about the same power,
00:42:22.17\00:42:23.71
the same time designation
what we're talking about.
00:42:23.74\00:42:28.25
Well, the
histories interpreters,
00:42:28.28\00:42:32.57
they concluded on the
base of all those informations
00:42:32.60\00:42:36.69
that we have here that after
the fall of the Roman Empire
00:42:36.72\00:42:40.72
there was only one
religious political power
00:42:40.75\00:42:43.56
that nominated
the western world.
00:42:43.59\00:42:45.58
It was the Christian church.
00:42:45.61\00:42:48.20
I call it in
my, in my commentary
00:42:48.23\00:42:51.26
the Ecclesiastical
Christianity. What do we mean?
00:42:51.29\00:42:54.06
The Christianity that
became an institution.
00:42:54.09\00:42:57.83
But that power,
okay, that dominated
00:42:57.86\00:43:01.44
the Christian world
had the leader, okay,
00:43:01.47\00:43:05.22
in the form of
the Roman papacy,okay
00:43:05.25\00:43:09.79
that dominated
the Christian world.
00:43:09.82\00:43:11.54
Friends, it is
not my purpose now
00:43:11.57\00:43:14.36
that I provide to you
all the evidences for that.
00:43:14.39\00:43:17.54
Actually any history
book, any history book
00:43:17.57\00:43:21.02
so clearly talks
about what was going on
00:43:21.05\00:43:23.51
during the medieval period.
00:43:23.54\00:43:24.91
Keep in mind I'm European.
You see my heavy accent.
00:43:24.94\00:43:27.99
If you go there it's still
so fresh in the minds of people
00:43:28.02\00:43:31.89
what was going on
during the medieval period.
00:43:31.92\00:43:34.96
You who live in Asia you don't
know about dark middle ages
00:43:34.99\00:43:39.53
because in Asia they
don't have dark middle ages,
00:43:39.56\00:43:42.15
they have the medieval period
00:43:42.18\00:43:44.07
when science flourished,
when civilization flourished.
00:43:44.10\00:43:47.21
But in Europe that was
the dark middle ages, okay.
00:43:47.24\00:43:50.97
So the
Christians they concluded,
00:43:51.00\00:43:52.70
they had hard time to
locate, okay, these days.
00:43:52.73\00:43:56.46
So they concluded
that this power came,
00:43:56.49\00:43:58.79
rightly they
concluded, in the year 1798
00:43:58.82\00:44:02.72
with Napoleons
commander in chief of that year
00:44:02.75\00:44:06.42
took the Pope from
Vatican and put him in the exile
00:44:06.45\00:44:09.65
and marking the end
of the dominion of these
00:44:09.68\00:44:13.15
religious political
power during medieval period.
00:44:13.18\00:44:15.85
So if you now take
this date deduct 1260 years
00:44:15.88\00:44:21.47
what date do you get?
00:44:21.50\00:44:22.95
The year 538.
00:44:22.98\00:44:25.14
And really people have a problem
00:44:25.17\00:44:26.54
what really
happened in the year 538.
00:44:26.57\00:44:28.34
I don't want to go, I'm
leaving that to historians
00:44:28.37\00:44:30.91
but we have at
Andrews University
00:44:30.94\00:44:33.26
a doctoral
dissertation written that shows
00:44:33.29\00:44:35.59
that by the year
538 the stage was set.
00:44:35.62\00:44:42.36
The Pope by that
time was fully established
00:44:42.39\00:44:45.96
and recognized as the
political leader in Europe.
00:44:45.99\00:44:49.64
Are you still with me?
00:44:49.67\00:44:51.34
So that the year 538
really can take rightly
00:44:51.37\00:44:55.03
and consider
rightly as the beginning
00:44:55.06\00:44:57.91
of this prophetic
period of 1260 days.
00:44:57.94\00:45:01.67
Are you still with me?
00:45:01.70\00:45:03.54
So we're dealing with the period
00:45:03.57\00:45:05.07
from the year 538 AD
to the year 1798, okay,
00:45:05.10\00:45:11.86
of the paper dominium
00:45:11.89\00:45:15.02
over the western
world there in Europe.
00:45:15.05\00:45:18.19
When this prophecy
from Revelation Chapter 13
00:45:18.22\00:45:21.96
was accurately fulfilled
almost in all, in all details.
00:45:21.99\00:45:26.30
So what happened in 1798,
00:45:26.33\00:45:29.94
actually this
religious political power
00:45:29.97\00:45:33.87
received the mortal
wound was killed, okay.
00:45:33.90\00:45:39.05
Actually the papacy did
not owned Vatican any longer.
00:45:39.08\00:45:44.09
There was no any
influence in the world.
00:45:44.12\00:45:47.60
By the way that
ancient tendency of the papacy
00:45:47.63\00:45:53.45
as the governing body
of the Christian church
00:45:53.48\00:45:55.61
during all those
centuries was the best expressed
00:45:55.64\00:45:59.37
in modern times
by the Pope Leo XIII
00:45:59.40\00:46:02.27
that's he understand
the Book of Revelation says,
00:46:02.30\00:46:04.26
"We the pope
hold up on this earth
00:46:04.29\00:46:07.17
the place of God, the almighty."
00:46:07.20\00:46:10.89
I believe, we don't need to go.
00:46:10.92\00:46:12.38
I don't want now to go about
negative things about anybody
00:46:12.41\00:46:15.47
but we cannot deny
00:46:15.50\00:46:16.87
the historical
reality what happened.
00:46:16.90\00:46:19.17
Are you still with me?
00:46:19.20\00:46:21.23
This is what, what
indeed happened, okay.
00:46:21.26\00:46:24.17
But, friends, this is
not the most important
00:46:24.20\00:46:26.46
in the Book of Revelation.
00:46:26.49\00:46:27.86
Why we're talking about this?
00:46:27.89\00:46:30.28
Is because what will
happen in the future.
00:46:30.31\00:46:33.94
And according to
the Book of Revelation
00:46:33.97\00:46:37.16
the time is coming.
00:46:37.19\00:46:39.86
That these beast that is
killed, it's still killed.
00:46:39.89\00:46:42.14
We live in the time
and this beast is killed.
00:46:42.17\00:46:43.96
We do not have
persecution by Roman papacy
00:46:43.99\00:46:47.01
or by the Christian
church in any Christian country.
00:46:47.04\00:46:48.88
We don't have it.
00:46:48.91\00:46:50.39
But according to
the Book of Revelation
00:46:50.42\00:46:52.40
the time is
coming when this system,
00:46:52.43\00:46:56.60
this institution will
comeback to life again
00:46:56.63\00:47:02.33
and what happened
during the medieval period,
00:47:02.36\00:47:05.59
it will happen again
at the time of the end.
00:47:05.62\00:47:09.78
But please I'd like you to pay
00:47:09.81\00:47:11.83
something now in
Revelation Chapter 13.
00:47:11.86\00:47:15.85
What will
happen, what will happen
00:47:15.88\00:47:19.29
when these oppressive
religious political rule, okay,
00:47:19.32\00:47:25.55
finally comes
back, back, back to life.
00:47:25.58\00:47:29.70
You see, this rule was killed
00:47:29.73\00:47:31.27
with events of
French Revolution.
00:47:31.30\00:47:33.64
When the traditional
God centered theology
00:47:33.67\00:47:35.82
that dominated the western
world for more than 1000 years
00:47:35.85\00:47:39.45
was replaced by the human center
00:47:39.48\00:47:41.42
and not the realistic outlook
00:47:41.45\00:47:42.84
that dominated the western
world for those centuries.
00:47:42.87\00:47:46.19
But the Book of
Revelation is telling us
00:47:46.22\00:47:48.56
something will happen
at the time of the end.
00:47:48.59\00:47:51.06
Please, will you
go with me to verse 8,
00:47:51.09\00:47:58.68
"And all those who dwell
on the earth will worship him,
00:47:58.71\00:48:04.66
everyone whose name
has not been written
00:48:04.69\00:48:07.95
from the foundation of the world
00:48:07.98\00:48:10.64
in the book of life of
the Lamb who has been slain."
00:48:10.67\00:48:17.15
I'd like you
that you pay attention
00:48:17.18\00:48:19.20
something here in the text.
00:48:19.23\00:48:22.02
Can you go with me?
00:48:22.05\00:48:23.59
Just to make a little
bit put into the fifth gear.
00:48:23.62\00:48:26.45
I'll travel
through Revelation 13,
00:48:26.48\00:48:28.57
I want you and I
hope that our viewers
00:48:28.60\00:48:31.07
who will also try to
observe something important.
00:48:31.10\00:48:35.24
I like you that you see
about the usage of the tenses.
00:48:35.27\00:48:39.47
You know tenses?
Past, present or future.
00:48:39.50\00:48:42.33
Let's go from
Revelation 13:2, it says,
00:48:42.36\00:48:47.28
"And the beast which I
saw was like the leopard.
00:48:47.31\00:48:52.32
The dragon gave him power
and the throne and authority.
00:48:52.35\00:48:55.77
Verse 3, "I saw one of the heads
00:48:55.80\00:48:58.15
as if they had
been slain," okay.
00:48:58.18\00:49:00.71
"And the mortal
wound was healed.
00:49:00.74\00:49:03.19
The whole earth was amazed.
00:49:03.22\00:49:05.63
They worshipped the dragon
00:49:05.66\00:49:07.72
that was given to him a
mouth speaking arrogant words."
00:49:07.75\00:49:10.92
He open mouth, verse 6
blasphemies against God.
00:49:10.95\00:49:14.99
Verse 7, "It was given to him
00:49:15.02\00:49:16.63
to make war with the
saints to overcome them,
00:49:16.66\00:49:19.09
and authority over every tribe
00:49:19.12\00:49:20.90
and people and tongue
and nation was given to him."
00:49:20.93\00:49:23.30
They're talking
about the medieval period
00:49:23.33\00:49:25.56
of the great
persecution of God's people.
00:49:25.59\00:49:27.59
What tense is used here?
00:49:27.62\00:49:29.70
It's always past.
00:49:29.73\00:49:31.23
They call it the prophetic past.
00:49:31.26\00:49:33.83
For John what he saw
it was still in the future
00:49:33.86\00:49:36.92
but when his in
the vision, okay,
00:49:36.95\00:49:39.28
because he is in the mood,
00:49:39.31\00:49:41.21
he's in the state
of the time of the end,
00:49:41.24\00:49:43.04
so all of these
activities are in the past.
00:49:43.07\00:49:45.25
Are you still with me?
00:49:45.28\00:49:46.65
But now I'll like
you to notice something
00:49:46.68\00:49:48.84
that happens in verse 8.
00:49:48.87\00:49:51.88
"And all those
could dwell on the earth"
00:49:51.91\00:49:55.01
what do you have there,
00:49:55.04\00:49:56.41
"Will worship him,
all those whose names
00:49:56.44\00:50:00.57
are not written in the
book of life of the Lamb slain
00:50:00.60\00:50:04.63
from the
foundation of the world."
00:50:04.66\00:50:06.07
Can you see the difference?
00:50:06.10\00:50:08.13
Suddenly from the past
John moves to the future.
00:50:08.16\00:50:14.44
He's telling us, do you see
that all this previous verses,
00:50:14.47\00:50:18.61
verse 7 are talking about
the activities of the beast
00:50:18.64\00:50:21.49
during which period.
00:50:21.52\00:50:22.89
By the way we'll try to
illustrate on the blackboard
00:50:22.92\00:50:25.09
in our, our next presentation.
00:50:25.12\00:50:27.32
The activities of the
beast that are presented
00:50:27.35\00:50:29.26
here in first seven
verses are activities
00:50:29.29\00:50:31.50
during the
prophetic 1260 day period.
00:50:31.53\00:50:35.59
Are you still with me?
00:50:35.62\00:50:37.20
At the end of this period
00:50:37.23\00:50:39.04
the beast will
receive the mortal wound.
00:50:39.07\00:50:40.78
Are you still with me?
00:50:40.81\00:50:43.23
The beast will be killed.
00:50:43.26\00:50:44.92
But then what will happen?
00:50:44.95\00:50:46.91
The mortal wound will be healed.
00:50:46.94\00:50:48.72
And the mortal wound
will be healed what happens?
00:50:48.75\00:50:52.23
It will provoke the admiration
of all the people on the earth.
00:50:52.26\00:50:56.77
Are you still with me?
00:50:56.80\00:50:58.87
Now at this
point the description
00:50:58.90\00:51:03.26
of these religious
political power is concluded,
00:51:03.29\00:51:05.75
so now people will
say, what's the big deal.
00:51:05.78\00:51:09.78
The mortal would will be healed.
00:51:09.81\00:51:12.11
But you know
what is the question
00:51:12.14\00:51:13.51
that our readers of the
Book of Revelation are asking?
00:51:13.54\00:51:19.15
How will the
mortal wound be healed?
00:51:19.18\00:51:24.89
What will cause the
healing of this mortal wound?
00:51:24.92\00:51:28.53
Why suddenly the
healing of the mortal wound
00:51:28.56\00:51:30.87
would provoke
such a great amazement,
00:51:30.90\00:51:33.35
admiration of
inhabitants of this world?
00:51:33.38\00:51:38.19
You see, friends, praise God
00:51:38.22\00:51:39.59
that we have the second
part of Revelation Chapter13.
00:51:39.62\00:51:44.12
Because without
that our understanding
00:51:44.15\00:51:47.84
of the biblical prophecies
would be very, very weak.
00:51:47.87\00:51:50.68
So there is a
question, let me go back
00:51:50.71\00:51:52.09
one more time to the question.
00:51:52.12\00:51:54.22
How will the
mortal wound be healed?
00:51:54.25\00:51:56.44
Now John is
using the future tense.
00:51:56.47\00:51:58.67
He's moving now
to the future, okay,
00:51:58.70\00:52:00.89
to the very time of the end.
00:52:00.92\00:52:02.81
How will the
mortal wound be healed?
00:52:02.84\00:52:05.07
What will provoke the
healing of the mortal wound?
00:52:05.10\00:52:09.25
What is that that will provoke
00:52:09.28\00:52:10.65
the amazement of
the entire world?
00:52:10.68\00:52:14.25
And John is giving us the
answer that the time of the end
00:52:14.28\00:52:20.71
there is
another political entity
00:52:20.74\00:52:24.09
that will appear on the scene.
00:52:24.12\00:52:28.02
You see, this
beast is powerless.
00:52:28.05\00:52:31.08
It received the
mortal wound. It's dead.
00:52:31.11\00:52:33.42
Does not have too much
influence in the world.
00:52:33.45\00:52:36.05
Yeah, it has big
mouth but short hands.
00:52:36.08\00:52:39.84
Are you still with me?
00:52:39.87\00:52:41.24
And no power and authority--
00:52:41.27\00:52:43.52
but the Book of
Revelation is telling us
00:52:43.55\00:52:46.27
that the time of the
end another political power
00:52:46.30\00:52:50.53
will step on the
scene and that power
00:52:50.56\00:52:53.20
will cause the
healing of that mortal wound.
00:52:53.23\00:52:57.48
That power will
make the sea beast
00:52:57.51\00:53:01.51
with the same
authority that the beast had
00:53:01.54\00:53:04.05
during the medieval period.
00:53:04.08\00:53:05.45
Are you still with me?
00:53:05.48\00:53:06.85
And that this new power
actually will be responsible
00:53:06.88\00:53:11.22
and we'll be the key
actor in the end time scenario.
00:53:11.25\00:53:16.19
So since we have
two, three minutes,
00:53:16.22\00:53:17.65
I'd like to make a
good introduction to that.
00:53:17.68\00:53:20.18
Please would you turn with
me to Revelation Chapter 13?
00:53:20.21\00:53:25.08
We're still in Chapter 13,
00:53:25.11\00:53:26.99
it's in verse 11,
okay. In verse 11.
00:53:27.02\00:53:32.66
"Then I saw another beast
coming up out of the earth,
00:53:32.69\00:53:38.74
and he had two horns like a
lamb and spoke as a dragon."
00:53:38.77\00:53:45.68
Hey, I now, I must find out
how good is my audience here.
00:53:45.71\00:53:53.23
Okay, do you remember we
already tried to understand
00:53:53.26\00:53:58.78
the meaning of the
symbol of the beast.
00:53:58.81\00:54:01.24
It's a political power.
00:54:01.27\00:54:02.64
We don't have a
problem with that.
00:54:02.67\00:54:04.74
But it says, did you notice,
00:54:04.77\00:54:06.76
that's why the first
beast came out of the sea
00:54:06.79\00:54:11.87
coming out of the disturbed
human society so, okay,
00:54:11.90\00:54:15.37
from the turmoil
of the human society.
00:54:15.40\00:54:18.11
You'll notice that this second
beast came out of the earth.
00:54:18.14\00:54:25.89
This is your final exam.
00:54:25.92\00:54:29.26
What is the fact,
the meaning of this fact
00:54:29.29\00:54:33.37
that this beast
arises, comes out of the earth.
00:54:33.40\00:54:38.97
Actually it's
definite article, the earth,
00:54:44.20\00:54:46.83
because John wants to tell us.
00:54:46.86\00:54:48.94
Do you remember in
the Revelation Chapter 12.
00:54:48.97\00:54:51.66
When Satan almost
destroyed the church
00:54:51.69\00:54:54.96
that the new entity
appear on the world stage.
00:54:54.99\00:54:59.30
A friendly earth that actually
provides a refuge to the church,
00:54:59.33\00:55:04.81
save the church from Satan's
effort to destroy it, okay.
00:55:04.84\00:55:12.21
That earth that is so
friendly from the church
00:55:12.24\00:55:14.66
and save the church from Satan.
00:55:14.69\00:55:16.75
It is actually out
of this friendly earth,
00:55:16.78\00:55:20.81
I mean the earth
friendly to the church.
00:55:20.84\00:55:22.76
Are you still with me?
00:55:22.79\00:55:24.45
Now this second beast comes out.
00:55:24.48\00:55:29.18
Can you say, wow?
00:55:33.67\00:55:36.97
That's something
that we did not expect.
00:55:37.00\00:55:40.44
But not only that how
they described this beast.
00:55:40.47\00:55:45.04
It says that this beast,
00:55:45.07\00:55:46.74
this beast has
two horns like a lamb.
00:55:46.77\00:55:51.87
In the Book of
Revelation the lamb,
00:55:51.90\00:55:54.42
are you still with me, lamb
00:55:54.45\00:55:56.25
is used
exclusively for Jesus Christ
00:55:56.28\00:55:59.28
except in this case.
00:55:59.31\00:56:00.79
Twenty seven times
the word lamb is used.
00:56:00.82\00:56:03.06
It's always with
reference to Jesus Christ.
00:56:03.09\00:56:06.97
So when John
says that this beast
00:56:07.00\00:56:09.04
had the two
little horns like a lamb.
00:56:09.07\00:56:13.89
It's another way is
that this political entity
00:56:13.92\00:56:17.59
is in the Christian robe.
00:56:17.62\00:56:19.60
Somehow it
resembles the authority
00:56:19.63\00:56:21.66
and power of Jesus Christ.
00:56:21.69\00:56:24.38
Are you still with me?
00:56:24.41\00:56:27.00
The question is
what entity in history
00:56:27.03\00:56:32.89
fits the
description of the earth beast?
00:56:32.92\00:56:35.79
There is one
thing you'll notice.
00:56:35.82\00:56:38.01
When we're talking
about the first beast,
00:56:38.04\00:56:40.48
this first beast has a
long history of activities.
00:56:40.51\00:56:45.76
Minimum 1260 days.
00:56:45.79\00:56:49.11
Are you still with me?
00:56:49.14\00:56:50.61
But about this second power,
00:56:50.64\00:56:54.31
this power does not
have any historical pedigree.
00:56:54.34\00:56:57.34
It's a brand new power
00:56:57.37\00:56:59.20
that appear at
the time of the end.
00:56:59.23\00:57:01.05
When, when?
00:57:01.08\00:57:03.29
At the time
after the first beast
00:57:03.32\00:57:08.24
received the mortal wound.
00:57:08.27\00:57:10.10
Oh, boy, we're now coming
to very interesting subject.
00:57:10.13\00:57:14.39
You see God knew what
will happen in the future
00:57:14.42\00:57:18.88
and that's why we're studying
these biblical prophecies.
00:57:18.91\00:57:21.82
The purpose of these
prophecies is to tell us
00:57:21.85\00:57:24.77
that we have to study
them, not to be surprised
00:57:24.80\00:57:27.62
because God in His care for us.
00:57:27.65\00:57:29.64
He wanted to reveal us, to us,
00:57:29.67\00:57:31.60
to bring us closer to Himself
00:57:31.63\00:57:34.62
and tell us don't be deceived.
00:57:34.65\00:57:37.02