Good evening and
welcome to each of you.
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I thought it only
fitting tonight, since we're
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going to be talking about the
United States in Bible prophecy,
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that we take a journey to
somewhere in the United States.
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Won't that be fair enough?
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Will you fasten your seatbelts,
then, while the lights go down.
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We're going to
leave, ladies and gentlemen,
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from the state of Washington,
from northwest Washington.
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And we're going to make
our way across the border
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to our friendly neighbors
up in British Columbia, Canada.
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And that is the
city of Vancouver.
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I think, by the way, that it's
one of the most lovely cities
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in all the world.
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And I've been a lot of
places, seen a lot of faces.
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Sounds like a
country song, doesn't it.
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I think it is.
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In any event, I just
think that it's a beautiful,
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beautiful city,
the city of Vancouver
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British Columbia, Canada.
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And it happens to
be the birthplace of my
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daughter-in-law, Brenda.
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So that makes it
special to me as well.
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We're going to get
around the Fraser River
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center downtown and
see some of the sites.
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And then we'll move
across over toward Stanley Park,
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Prospect Point.
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And if you've never been
there, ladies and gentlemen,
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you're in for such a treat,
in the summer time particularly.
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It's just remarkably beautiful.
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There is just a
little touch of it.
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Here, the mountains rise
up out of the blue waters
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of the inlets of the Fraser
River, the various branches.
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And they're
snowcapped in the background.
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It's just really one
of my favorite cities
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in all of the world.
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But we're going to
go beyond, you and I.
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We're going to fly
from Vancouver up over the
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Chugach Mountains and
down into Anchorage, Alaska.
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And then we'll move
around up toward Denali Park
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and we'll see what
it looks like up there.
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I have spend a good
amount of time in Alaska,
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working like I'm doing here.
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I've held meetings in Anchorage
and in Palmer and in Fairbanks,
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and other places.
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And it's been my happy privilege
to do a lot of driving, in fact,
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I think I've driven most all
of the roads that are available
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to drive in Alaska
with, perhaps, the exception
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of the ice road up to
the north of Prudhoe Bay.
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I haven't done that one.
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Maybe someday.
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By at any event, I've
discovered that the folks who go
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to Alaska are unique.
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I mean the folks that
go over there to stay.
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Not just the tourists who
go for a day or two, or a week,
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or maybe go up to hunt.
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But the folks who go there to
stay are rugged individualists.
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I think that's the
best way to describe them.
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And if they stay more than
just a year or two or three,
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they learn to do a variety
of things because you just can't
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call on someone to come
out and fix a leaky pipe,
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or to do the carpenter
work, or to patch the roof,
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or to bandage up someone's
wound or some such thing.
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They become independent
and they love it up there
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because of its freedom.
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And I'm going to be talking
to you, ladies and gentlemen,
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during the lecture in just a
little bit about the tragic loss
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of freedoms all
across the United States.
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And that
includes Alaska as well.
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Here, we see a meadow filled
with their fireweed, and the
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Chugach Mountains in
the summertime back behind.
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The first time I went to Alaska,
I took my son Troy with me.
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I believe Troy was about 18
or 19 years of age at the time.
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And I promised him that
we would see a grizzly bear.
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He'd never seen a
grizzly bear before.
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I said, "Son, we'll stay
until we see a grizzly bear. "
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And so we drove all around.
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We drove way up around
Fairbanks and we did the circle
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back down to Valdez and we
drove down toward the Kenai.
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We never did see a grizzly bear.
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And our money was gone and I
said, "Son, I hate to break...
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Well, I won't
break my promise. "
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I took him to the zoo.
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Over there on O'Malley
Road, I took him to the zoo and
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we saw a couple of grizzly bears
and then we had to come home.
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But since then, I've, on several
occasions, had the privilege
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to see the grizzly bears, young
and old, and big and small.
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The largest ones are
out on the Kodiak Island.
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They say the largest 4-footed
carnivore in all the world
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is the big brown or griz
bear out on Kodiak Island.
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For a long while, I
thought is was the polar bear.
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But no, they say the
griz that's out on the Kodiak
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is bigger in
average and in pounds.
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That is, the Kodiak bear.
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Well, you're apt to see
moose and caribou and just about
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anything that is imaginable.
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And you'll also even see in
the back country, dog sleds.
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Well if you're there at
the time of the Iditarod,
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you'll see them in main street
down in the city of Anchorage.
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In fact, that's where they leave
from for that 1100 mile race
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out to Nome, Alaska.
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And you know, of
course, what it commemorates.
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There was a terrible illness out
in Nome amongst the gold miners
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who were finding gold there
in the sands where the Yukon
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dumps into the
northern seas up there.
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And there was a
terrible outbreak of influenza
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and they needed to
get medicine up there.
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And so a dog sled made the first
run and they go through the
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little village
Iditarod, and so the name.
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And the dog sled
race the Iditarod.
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A few years ago, and
this by the way, really
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made Peggy feel good.
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A few years ago, amongst
the mushers and the dogs,
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there was a poodle.
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So help me.
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She said, "See there. "
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Well, beautiful,
beautiful mountains.
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Including the highest
of all of the mountains
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on the North American continent.
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And that is, of course, Denali.
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That's the native name.
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It means, the tall
one or the big one.
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For many, many years, of
course, it was referred to
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generally as Mount McKinley,
and sometimes still is.
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No matter what you call
it, it's 20,320 feet high.
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That is quite a climb.
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And there are pilots up there,
bush pilots, that will fly you
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in and land you right on a
glacier on the side of that
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mountain if you
should so choose.
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I did not so choose.
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But the mountains are majestic,
they're awesome and it's just
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breathtaking country
and it is so huge, you know.
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They can say they got the
last laugh on Texas because
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Texans, for so long, bragged
about how large their state was.
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They say, "We can put a
lot of Texas here in Alaska. "
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Well, this is kind of a typical
little out of town shelter
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or little home.
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And over here on the side,
you see the little building
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where they keep their meat.
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And that's for the protection,
largely, from the griz bear.
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They'll put their things up in
there and take the ladder down.
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If they left the
ladder, of course, the ole bear
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will get in there.
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He'd find a way.
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I thought I use to have a lot
of snow where I lived in Idaho,
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but look at this.
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Many of the folks have
to dig a tunnel to get out,
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out into their
driveway or out to town.
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In the fall of the
year, there are so many
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wonderful, wonderful colors.
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And there is so much freedom,
but there's a loss of freedom
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here, as so many other places
in the United States of America.
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There, recently, was a book
written that was turned into
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an Oscar winning movie,
or Oscar nominated, I believe
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at least I'm correct in saying.
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And it was
called, Into The Wild.
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You remember that story
about this young man that
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came from the lower US and
wanted to kind of get away.
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And he crossed this river
and found an old abandoned
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school bus and moved into it.
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And then things froze up
and he ran out of food and all.
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And he died in there, but
he wrote message to his family
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on the wall in there.
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And if you remember the
end of the story, had he
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just gone down the river, 3/4
of a mile there was a bridge.
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He could have easily
gotten out, but he didn't
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know that, of course.
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Say, there's a friendly
looking guy right there.
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I want to tell you
about that picture.
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I had friends who'd flown in
from Alabama and they'd never
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seen Alaska and they'd
certainly seen a grizzly bear.
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Not even in the zoo.
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And so I took them, I was
holding meetings in Fairbanks
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and Peggy and I took
them back in to Denali Park.
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And we got on the bus that would
take us to the end of the road.
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It's a whole days
trip, quite a journey.
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And you'll see all kinds
of the wildlife of Alaska.
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And we had seen a grizzly
bear but he was, I suppose,
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an 8th of a mile away,
quite a distance, and he was
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kind of loping along.
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And they said, "Well, I
wish we could see one up close.
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Wish we could
see one up close. "
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As we came back, we rounded the
curve and the bus said, "Look. "
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And at a cut bank, where
the road cut through a hill,
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lying up above and on
the cut there was this huge
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old male grizzly.
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And so our guide, who
was the bus driver said,
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"Be very, very
quiet. Be very quiet.
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I'll drive right
up next to him. "
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And everyone had
their windows down.
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And there was a group of
tourists from way out in the
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far east, that I
remember so very well.
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And they were all going,
they were saying things that I
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couldn't understand, but excited
I could tell that, you know.
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And they all had their
expensive cameras up like this
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and the bus driver went right
up till I believe we could have
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reached out and
touched this old boy.
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And I don't know if someone
spoke too loudly or what, but
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suddenly he got up like that.
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Yeah.
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And those folks with
their expensive cameras did
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just like you did.
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They jumped and sat down
and I'm laughing about it still.
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But he didn't
threaten us really at all.
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He just, I suppose, thought
someone might have a lunch
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to share with him.
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Well, someone told me that
even here a few evenings ago,
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they saw the Northern Lights.
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Did any of you here recently?
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Yea, two or three of
you are saying you did.
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Well, I had seen them down here
in the lower 48 on occasion,
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but say that this place with
the display of Aurora Borealis
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up in Alaska is
something else in the world.
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I was in Palmer on this occasion
hoping to see a real display
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of the Northern Lights.
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But one of the natives said,
"Lately they've been coming on
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after midnight and
that's when they've been really
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displaying clearly. "
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I said, "If you
see it again, call me.
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Call me. "
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And so I got a phone call
from this man and he said,
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"They're really out tonight. "
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It may have been 1:30 or
2:00 o'clock in the morning.
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But he said, "To really
see them properly, you need to
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get in your car and go north,
get out of the city lights
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and go up to the hill out of
town, out of the city lights,
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and then you'll
have a good view. "
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And so Peggy and I got up
and got dressed and got awake.
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And we got in the
car and we went up to
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see the Northern Lights.
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They're something
magical, really they are.
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It's a wonderful,
wonderful place, Alaska.
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And it's yours, isn't it?
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I want to thank you
for traveling with me.
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And now to our subject.
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The United States
in Bible Prophecy.
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If we were to give it a
subtitle, it might well go
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something like this.
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The coming
dictatorship in America.
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Having said that, I must now say
this and say it clearly enough
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that all can understand.
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Lyle is a loyal American.
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I have been to about 60
other countries of the world.
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Perhaps more than that now, yes.
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I've been
everywhere, as the song goes,
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but I want to tell you, there is
no place that I have ever found
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that comes anywhere near to
these United States of America.
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We have our
problems, we're not perfect.
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We have a long ways yet
to go in certain areas of
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fairness and equality.
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But we've made great progress,
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and we continue to
do that by God's grace.
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And I've discovered that
the folks who throw rocks at us,
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all nearly want to
come and live here.
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There's no place
that I know of like the
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United States of America.
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So be assured
I'm a loyal American.
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While I'm a loyal
American, I'm at the same time
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a concerned American.
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I'm concerned about a
number of things, but mostly
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our gradual loss of freedom.
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It was Benjamin Franklin
who said, "Those who give up
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essential liberties to purchase
a little temporary safety
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deserve neither
liberty or safety. "
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Daniel Webster said, "God
grants liberty only to those
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who love it and are always ready
to guard it and defend it. "
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And I want to say to you,
ladies and gentlemen tonight,
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that our Lord Jesus
taught that liberty is the heart
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of the gospel of Himself.
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It is at the heart of
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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For Jesus said, "You shall know
the truth and the truth shall
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make you free. "
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Patrick Henry, you
remember, said, "Give me liberty
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or give me death. "
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To my hearts sorrow, it
has come to my attention that
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America is like a
wheel, or a tire on a wheel,
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upon my automobile
that has got a lump in it.
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We're a little out of balance.
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And it seems that we're getting
more out of balance nearly
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every week, or
every month for sure.
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"The abuse of liberties,"
someone long ago said,
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"causes the loss of liberty. "
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And we have seen that become
a reality before our very eyes.
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We see folks break the
law and abuse their liberties
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and do this and this and this.
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And pretty soon, there's a
law that won't allow you to do
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those kinds of things.
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On the World News tonight,
there were two items that I
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want to bring to your attention.
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Number one, there was
the revelation that three
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of our foremost politicians
had their passport information
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looked into illegally.
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And then they went on to talk
about easy it is to look into
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anyone's passport information
if someone chooses to
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disobey the rules and the laws.
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And then also in the World News
tonight, there came the report
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of what is now
known as the REAL ID,
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identity card
or drivers license.
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And I want to tell you
something that happened to me
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a few days ago.
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I had a birthday, well
that's not a big surprise.
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Most old guys do
from time to time
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every two or three years.
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And my driver's license
expired and so I went in
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to renew my license.
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And I was not surprised
when they said, "We need to take
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your picture again. "
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I know that I'm much
better looking than I was
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10 or 12 years ago
when I got the last one.
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But when I got the last one,
they took my picture and then
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in about 15 minutes, they
handed me my driver's license
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encased in a plastic container
and ready to put in my wallet.
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There was my
permanent drivers license.
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But not this time.
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The lady in charge said, "We've
taken your picture but your
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license will be coming
from Salem in just a few weeks.
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It'll probably be
there in about 6 weeks. "
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And I said,
"Really? What's happened?"
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"Well," she said, "you're
soon going to find out. "
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Well I found out
today, ladies and gentlemen.
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By the end of May, every
American is going to have
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what is now
called the REAL ID card.
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And this has come about, of
course, as a result of the treat
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of terrorism and folks
doing some naughty things
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that might be prevented,
or at least we hope to prevent
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by having this ID card.
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Now, I want to
read you something.
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This is back in the
time of Ronald Reagan.
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"As officials seek
ways to account for possible
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troublemakers, we're
already hearing proposals for a
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'national identity card. '
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The idea was floated recently
during the Reagan administration
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but it was rejected as
too invasive of privacy. "
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And what had happened was
that congress had voted against
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the thing because they
said it takes away too many
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of our liberties.
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It gives too many
folks too much access to some
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private information.
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And then came the dropping
of the buildings of 9/11
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and the world changed and
we have lost more liberties,
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ladies and gentlemen,
since the 9/11 tragedy
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than in the prior 200 years.
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And this is one example.
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Now the national identity
card is here for all Americans.
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And there are, by the
way, in the World News tonight,
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a couple of states
that are holding out.
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They're saying, "Our
people don't like this idea. "
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And the states have their rights
not to go along if they choose.
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And the federal government has
said, "Alright, if you want to
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go down that path then we'll
cut off all your federal funds
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for highways and
bridges and all of the rest. "
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Interesting.
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Most interesting.
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I want you, ladies and gentlemen
please, to open your Bibles
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if you will to
Revelation chapter 13.
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This of course, you recall
is our homework assignment.
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And I'm going to begin to
read at the 11th verse for I
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asked you, if you'll remember,
to pay particular attention
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to the last half
of Revelation 13.
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I'm going to take up
the reading, if you please,
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at verse 11.
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Revelation chapter 13,
verses 11 and following.
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"I looked and I saw
another beast coming up
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out of the earth.
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He had two horns like a lamb,
but he spoke like a dragon.
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And he exercised all of
the power of the first beast
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that had been before him.
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And he causes the earth
and those that dwell therein to
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worship that first beast whose
deadly wound was now healed.
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He does great wonders... "
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"Miracles," say
some translations.
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"He does great wonders so
that he makes fire to come down
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from heaven on the
earth in the sight of men.
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He deceives those that dwell
upon the earth by the means
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or the miracles which
he has the power to do in
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the sight of the beast.
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And he says to those
that live upon the earth
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that they ought make
an image to the beast
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that received the
deadly wound and yet did live.
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He had power to give life
to this image of the beast,
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that the image of the
beast should both speak and
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cause as many as
would not worship this image
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that they should be killed.
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And then he causes all,
small and great, rich and poor,
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free and bond, to receive a
mark either in their right hand
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or in their forehead,
and no man could buy or sell
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unless he have the mark
or the name of the beast
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or the number of his name. "
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And the final verse, the
18th says, "Here is wisdom.
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Let him that understands
count the number of the beast
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for it is the number of a
man and that number is 666."
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Here we have a beast.
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The second beast of
Revelation chapter 13.
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And yet, in many ways
it's different from the other.
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This one comes
up out of the earth.
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And additionally, it has
two horns and these horns
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are lamb-like.
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Now this second beast of
Revelation 13 has a close
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collaboration with, in
fact I think fair to say a
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conspiracy with, the
first beast of Revelation 13,
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the one that received the
deadly wound that was healed,
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and would be healed
before Jesus would come back.
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And this second power of
Revelation 13, the second beast
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if you please, forces those
who are finally upon the earth
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to worship the first beast whose
deadly wound has been healed.
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Now we want, once
again, to briefly cover the
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symbolism of a beast as
it's used in Bible prophecy.
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God never called a power a
beast to be naughty, nasty,
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or disrespectful, but He
did it only for the purposes
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of identification in the same
way that we, today, if we're
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talking about
Russia refer to the bear,
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and if we're talking about Great
Britain we refer to the lion,
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and here, the buffalo
or the American bald eagle.
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And so we have a symbolism
here in the last half of
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Revelation 13 of
a power, a nation.
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It's political in its power,
we can certainly see that.
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Two horns lamb-like, the
great power at the end of time,
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compels folks to
worship that first beast that
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received the deadly wound
but whose wound would be healed.
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just before Jesus comes back.
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Now please, please
follow carefully this next idea
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because it's vital to the
rest of our information sharing.
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Before we can appreciate
and understand the second beast
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of Revelation 13
beginning at the 11th verse,
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we must have a basic
understanding of the first beast
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because of this collaboration,
this conspiracy, this collusion,
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between the two.
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Revelation chapter
13 and the first verses.
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Here in vision, John
describes this first beast.
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"And this one comes up
out of the sea and it has
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seven heads and ten horns
and upon his horns it has crowns
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and it has the
names of blasphemy.
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It was like a leopard,
it had the feet of a bear,
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and it had the mouth of a lion.
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The dragon gave him his power
and seat and great authority.
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And then I saw a head
wounded as it were to death,
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but that wound was healed.
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And the whole world then
followed after the beast and
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they worshipped also the dragon
who'd given him the power.
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And they worshipped
the beast saying unto him,
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'Who is like unto him, who is
able to make war against him?'
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And there given to him a
mouth that spoke great things
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Power was given to him
to continue for 42 months. "
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Or 1260 years, as you
remember we have studied
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on many prior occasions.
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"He opened his mouth
and blasphemed against God
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and blasphemed God's
name and His tabernacle,"
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or His sanctuary service
and all that went with it,
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"and all those
that dwell in heaven.
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It was given unto him to
make war against the saints
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and to overcome them.
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And power was given
him over all kindred and
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nations and tongues. "
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This power claims to be
God on earth, if you please,
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and persecutes the
saints and it blasphemes.
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And the title of the pope in
the Latin, Vicarius Filii Dei,
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means the "Vicar
of the Son of God" or
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"one who sits in the
place of the Son of God. "
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Now, for those of you who have
been coming quite regularly,
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this will only
just be a brief review.
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But we've said on several prior
occasions and have read from
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many historians, this fact.
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Every single reformer
was unanimous in their belief
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that the beast
power of Revelation 13,
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the little horn
power of Daniel 7,
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and the anti-christ
spoken of by Jesus and Paul
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was none other
than the church of Rome.
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It was this idea that caused
Martin Luther to nail 95 theses
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to the church door and begin
to preach with great power.
00:24:06.68\00:24:09.98
All of the reformers
were unanimous in this matter.
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Now,
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I want to talk to you
about how the reformers
00:24:19.05\00:24:23.32
struck the first
blow against this power.
00:24:24.16\00:24:27.13
They began to
preach with great vigor;
00:24:28.66\00:24:31.07
Martin Luther, John
Calvin, John Knox, John Huss,
00:24:31.10\00:24:35.64
Latimer, Ridley,
Cranmer, and a host of others,
00:24:35.67\00:24:39.47
that the church of
Rome was the beast power,
00:24:39.51\00:24:41.21
it was the little
horn power of Daniel 7:25,
00:24:41.24\00:24:44.18
and it was the
anti-christ system.
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.11
And they were persuasive
and they had Bible prophecy
00:24:46.15\00:24:48.82
to back them up.
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The woman that sits
upon the seven hills.
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The woman that is dressed
in purple and scarlet color.
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And had we the opportunity
here, which we didn't
00:24:54.79\00:24:57.46
on this occasion, I
might have put on the screen
00:24:57.49\00:25:00.20
about a dozen pictures
of the funeral service of
00:25:00.23\00:25:03.77
Pope John Paul II.
00:25:03.80\00:25:05.23
And there were the bishops
and there were the cardinals,
00:25:05.27\00:25:07.34
and the bishops
were all in purple color
00:25:07.37\00:25:09.50
and the cardinals
were all in scarlet color.
00:25:09.54\00:25:12.51
And it reminded me of
reading out of Revelation
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chapters 13 and 14.
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A woman or a church
sits on seven hills.
00:25:16.38\00:25:18.68
The seven hills of the city
of Rome, it's still today known
00:25:18.71\00:25:22.15
as the city of seven hills.
00:25:22.18\00:25:23.79
And a woman dressed in
purple and scarlet color.
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And so with this for
background, these reformers;
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Luther, Calvin, Knox,
these Catholic priests
00:25:29.36\00:25:31.46
began to preach that the
church of Rome, because of its
00:25:31.49\00:25:34.20
great movement away from
God's word and God's truth
00:25:34.20\00:25:36.90
and God's gospel, was
the beast power of Revelation
00:25:36.93\00:25:41.27
and the little
horn power of Daniel.
00:25:41.30\00:25:42.94
And Catholic peoples began
to leave the Catholic church
00:25:42.97\00:25:47.11
like rats
disembarking a sinking ship.
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This wound that was inflicted
continued to grow and fester
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and begin to
bleed and hemorrhage.
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And then there came
the French Revolution.
00:26:01.06\00:26:03.32
And before the little
dictator of all of the world
00:26:04.66\00:26:09.60
went over to take the pope
captive, there was a decree
00:26:09.63\00:26:13.90
against every leader,
in France I'm speaking now,
00:26:13.94\00:26:17.31
there was a decree
against every leader of the
00:26:17.34\00:26:19.41
Roman Catholic church
and 70% of the Roman Catholic
00:26:19.44\00:26:23.31
priests were martyred.
00:26:23.35\00:26:25.05
And by the way, I'm not
suggesting this was right.
00:26:25.08\00:26:27.15
It was terrible
and it was wrong.
00:26:27.18\00:26:29.48
And almost 100% of all of
the nuns in the nation of France
00:26:29.52\00:26:34.56
were killed and the nation
of France has never recovered.
00:26:34.59\00:26:37.93
The church of Rome which
was prominent and prevalent
00:26:37.96\00:26:40.93
up until this time has
never, never regained its power.
00:26:40.96\00:26:44.67
And the nation of France
by and large, is, I suppose
00:26:44.70\00:26:50.11
to be kind, atheistic.
00:26:50.14\00:26:52.24
Now, Napoleon then
sends Berthier over to Rome
00:26:53.07\00:26:59.18
inside the Vatican, takes
the pope captive, and says
00:26:59.21\00:27:02.15
there will
never be another pope.
00:27:02.18\00:27:04.42
And it looked for sure
that the Catholic church
00:27:04.45\00:27:07.46
was going to die.
00:27:07.49\00:27:08.82
There, for 3 years,
was no pope in Rome.
00:27:08.86\00:27:11.56
There was one over in Avignon
who claimed to be the pope,
00:27:11.59\00:27:14.96
but there was no pope in Rome.
00:27:15.00\00:27:16.60
But the Bible prophecy said the
deadly wound would be healed.
00:27:16.63\00:27:20.04
The United States of America,
if you know any of our history,
00:27:20.57\00:27:24.04
was founded in order to
escape the tyranny of Rome,
00:27:24.07\00:27:27.54
the influences of the church
of Rome as it had spread across
00:27:27.58\00:27:31.05
the face of Europe.
00:27:31.08\00:27:32.41
Now, we're going to transition
and I'm going to give you,
00:27:32.45\00:27:35.55
ladies and gentlemen,
five reasons for believing
00:27:35.58\00:27:38.39
that the second
beast of Revelation 13,
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.96
that one that's described
in verses 11 and following,
00:27:40.99\00:27:44.23
is the United States of America.
00:27:44.26\00:27:46.46
I want you to notice
verse 10, if you will please,
00:27:46.49\00:27:49.60
of Revelation 13.
00:27:49.63\00:27:51.13
Revelation 13, reading verse 10.
00:27:51.17\00:27:54.37
"He that leads into captivity
shall go himself into captivity,
00:27:54.40\00:27:59.74
he that kills with the sword
must be killed with the sword.
00:27:59.77\00:28:02.68
Here is the
patience of the saints. "
00:28:02.71\00:28:05.05
Now this is talking about
the power described in the
00:28:05.08\00:28:07.75
first verses of Revelation
13, the power that we believe
00:28:07.78\00:28:10.82
rightly as Protestants
to be the church of Rome.
00:28:10.85\00:28:14.22
He that has taken captives
will himself go into captivity.
00:28:14.32\00:28:19.33
Let's review briefly then.
00:28:19.36\00:28:21.20
1798, Napoleon Bonaparte
has the pope taken captive.
00:28:21.23\00:28:26.43
Now mark it down, if not in your
Bibles certainly in your minds
00:28:26.97\00:28:29.84
and in your notes, 1798.
00:28:29.87\00:28:32.17
Now it says in the 11th verse,
"Now I see another beast. "
00:28:32.21\00:28:37.21
And I want you to see
the time connect here because
00:28:37.25\00:28:39.28
it is vital in its import.
00:28:39.31\00:28:41.48
At the time of the captivity,
now John in vision, sees
00:28:41.98\00:28:45.35
another power rising up.
00:28:45.39\00:28:48.19
What do we give as the
birth date of the Unites States?
00:28:48.22\00:28:50.89
What?
00:28:50.93\00:28:52.26
1776
00:28:52.29\00:28:54.20
This happened in 1798.
00:28:54.23\00:28:56.36
In 1798, ladies and gentlemen,
the Unites States of America
00:28:56.40\00:28:59.70
was still in its infancy.
00:28:59.73\00:29:01.20
We were still in our
birth pangs as a nation.
00:29:01.24\00:29:04.57
We had not yet arrived at the
banks of the muddy Mississippi.
00:29:04.61\00:29:08.24
And so the time of arrival.
00:29:08.28\00:29:10.55
Clue number one, as we
search for this second beast
00:29:10.58\00:29:13.65
of Revelation to believe
that it's the United States.
00:29:13.68\00:29:15.88
Clue number one
certainly fits the clue of the
00:29:15.92\00:29:18.79
time of the arrival.
00:29:18.82\00:29:20.66
"I saw another beast,"
another nation, "rising up. "
00:29:20.69\00:29:24.29
Clue number two,
the clue of location.
00:29:28.50\00:29:31.93
When we look for the mark of the
beast and the mystery of Babylon
00:29:32.33\00:29:36.47
we found their
clues of location.
00:29:36.50\00:29:38.74
And as we look tonight for the
United States in Bible prophecy,
00:29:38.77\00:29:43.18
we shall again
find a clue of location.
00:29:43.21\00:29:46.35
So this is clue number
two, the clue of location.
00:29:46.38\00:29:49.58
All of the other beasts of
Revelation, or of Daniel largely
00:29:50.55\00:29:55.26
for that matter, the other
nations symbolized by beasts,
00:29:55.29\00:29:59.16
came up out of the, out
of the water, out of the sea.
00:29:59.19\00:30:04.60
This one does not,
this one is different.
00:30:04.63\00:30:06.80
This one comes
up out of the earth.
00:30:06.84\00:30:10.07
Now in Revelation
chapter 17 and verse 15,
00:30:10.11\00:30:13.14
and I want you to mark it down.
00:30:13.17\00:30:14.51
We don't have time... well
let's do, let's take the time.
00:30:14.54\00:30:17.31
It's really very important.
00:30:17.35\00:30:18.68
Let's go over to chapter 17
and we'll read the 15th verse.
00:30:18.71\00:30:21.85
Revelation
chapter 17 and verse 15.
00:30:21.88\00:30:25.35
Here it is.
00:30:25.39\00:30:27.09
"He said to me, 'The
waters which you saw where the
00:30:28.16\00:30:31.73
whore sitteth are
peoples and multitudes and
00:30:31.76\00:30:34.56
nations and tongues. '"
00:30:34.56\00:30:36.56
And all of the other
beasts of Revelation and Daniel
00:30:36.60\00:30:40.14
came up out of the sea.
00:30:40.17\00:30:41.74
That means they came up
where there had been another
00:30:41.77\00:30:44.24
nation prior to them.
00:30:44.27\00:30:45.61
Maybe they threw over
the one, the government
00:30:45.64\00:30:47.54
that was there ahead of
them, had preceded them.
00:30:47.58\00:30:49.91
And this one then is
very, very different.
00:30:49.94\00:30:53.18
This one comes up out of
the earth where there was
00:30:53.21\00:30:56.18
not a prior nation.
00:30:56.22\00:30:57.55
Someone once said to me, "Well,
I have kind of an objection
00:30:57.59\00:31:00.19
to that whole idea that
the United States came up
00:31:00.22\00:31:02.62
where there was never another.
00:31:02.66\00:31:03.99
What about the Native American?"
00:31:04.03\00:31:05.43
Well, a couple of
things very briefly.
00:31:05.93\00:31:08.26
There are far, far more
Native Americans here now
00:31:08.56\00:31:11.73
than when
Columbus came over here,
00:31:11.77\00:31:14.07
or when in 1776,
we became a nation.
00:31:14.10\00:31:17.64
And more than that, the
Native Americans were really not
00:31:17.67\00:31:21.31
organized into one
nation, were they now.
00:31:21.34\00:31:23.68
Oh there was a Sioux
tribe and there was this tribe
00:31:23.71\00:31:26.51
and that tribe
and the Coosan tribe.
00:31:26.55\00:31:28.08
But they were not
organized together.
00:31:28.12\00:31:31.22
And so, this one is unique.
00:31:31.25\00:31:33.29
It arises up out of the earth
where there'd never been another
00:31:33.32\00:31:37.26
power or nation
here prior to it.
00:31:37.29\00:31:40.23
Clue number three.
00:31:40.26\00:31:41.56
Clue number three
really asks a question.
00:31:41.60\00:31:44.63
What kind of a
power will this be?
00:31:44.67\00:31:46.77
This new nation, what
kind of an organization is it
00:31:46.80\00:31:50.97
going to have?
00:31:51.01\00:31:52.34
Well, I want you to
notice once more the symbolism.
00:31:52.37\00:31:54.91
It says about this new nation
of Revelation 13, the last half,
00:31:55.54\00:31:59.48
that it has two horns.
00:31:59.51\00:32:01.95
Now the first verses that
we read from Revelation 13,
00:32:02.48\00:32:06.02
the beast had seven
heads and ten horns.
00:32:06.05\00:32:08.16
And each of those
horns had something on it.
00:32:08.19\00:32:10.03
What was it, what did they have?
00:32:10.06\00:32:11.39
The same thing back in Daniel.
00:32:11.43\00:32:12.99
Each horn had a crown upon it.
00:32:13.03\00:32:15.20
Bu this one is different.
00:32:15.23\00:32:16.56
It has two horns but
it does not have a crown
00:32:17.23\00:32:19.93
upon the Head of State.
00:32:19.97\00:32:22.37
In other words, this nation
will not be ruled over by a king
00:32:22.40\00:32:25.94
or a queen.
00:32:25.97\00:32:27.31
There will be no crown
upon the Head of State.
00:32:27.34\00:32:30.15
And then that brings us
automatically to number 4
00:32:30.81\00:32:34.02
Clue number four.
00:32:34.05\00:32:35.38
Not only will it not have
a crown on the Head of State,
00:32:35.42\00:32:37.69
it will not have a crown
on the head of the church.
00:32:37.72\00:32:40.46
It will not be ruled over
by the pope or any such thing.
00:32:40.49\00:32:43.22
There will be a
separation of church and state.
00:32:43.26\00:32:45.99
And I believe, by the way,
that it was that separation
00:32:46.03\00:32:49.03
of church and state that made
this country the great country
00:32:49.06\00:32:52.63
that it was to become.
00:32:52.67\00:32:54.44
And so clue number
three, there is no crown
00:32:54.47\00:32:58.24
on the Head of State.
00:32:58.27\00:32:59.61
And number four, there is no
crown upon the head of church.
00:32:59.64\00:33:02.54
Not ruled over by a king or a
queen, not ruled over by a pope
00:33:02.58\00:33:06.38
or any such thing as that.
00:33:06.41\00:33:08.42
Number five.
00:33:08.45\00:33:10.05
Number five, this new power
says, "Let us make an image,
00:33:10.09\00:33:15.56
let us make a likeness,
let us make a repeat. "
00:33:15.59\00:33:19.83
We've said on so many occasions
when we've studied the book of
00:33:19.86\00:33:22.20
Revelation that it
is written in symbols.
00:33:22.23\00:33:26.43
Not in most places to be taken
literally, but certainly here
00:33:27.27\00:33:31.51
it's speaking of symbols.
00:33:31.54\00:33:33.88
Some have written and suggested
that down in the southwest
00:33:33.91\00:33:37.48
deserts there is going to
be erected a great monument
00:33:37.51\00:33:40.98
one day, perhaps in
just a few months or years.
00:33:41.02\00:33:44.52
And that perhaps a
special rail will be made there,
00:33:45.22\00:33:47.49
or perhaps there will
be a special airport built
00:33:47.52\00:33:51.83
and the American peoples
in groups will be flown there
00:33:51.86\00:33:55.33
or taken there
by bus or by train.
00:33:55.36\00:33:57.70
And the trumpet blows
and everyone has to bow down
00:33:57.73\00:34:00.50
before this great statue.
00:34:00.54\00:34:02.47
And then after they have bowed
and after the blowing of the
00:34:02.50\00:34:05.84
trumpet, someone
comes along and asks,
00:34:05.87\00:34:07.34
"Where do you
want your mark now?
00:34:07.38\00:34:08.84
Do you want your computer
chip embedded in your forehead
00:34:08.88\00:34:11.81
or in your hand?"
00:34:11.85\00:34:13.18
"Where do you want
your laser beam tattoo?"
00:34:13.21\00:34:15.18
No, God is
speaking here symbolically.
00:34:15.22\00:34:19.22
But this power that we
believe to be the Unites States
00:34:19.25\00:34:22.82
is going to be a repeat,
it's going to be a likeness of
00:34:22.86\00:34:27.13
that power that
was here before it.
00:34:27.13\00:34:29.36
Now before we move further,
let's make quickly a review
00:34:29.40\00:34:33.17
of the 5 reasons for
believing that the Unites States
00:34:33.20\00:34:36.24
of America is the second
beast of Revelation chapter 13.
00:34:36.27\00:34:39.31
Number one, the
time of the arrival.
00:34:39.34\00:34:41.31
That when the pope
was taken captive in 1798
00:34:41.34\00:34:44.11
the United States was still
in it's birth pangs, number one.
00:34:44.15\00:34:46.95
Number two, the location.
00:34:46.98\00:34:48.95
This one comes up out of
the earth, not out of the sea,
00:34:48.98\00:34:51.92
not where there'd
been nations or peoples,
00:34:51.95\00:34:54.09
languages before it.
00:34:54.12\00:34:55.46
But comes up out of
the earth where it was
00:34:55.49\00:34:59.06
new real estate, if you please.
00:34:59.09\00:35:00.50
And then number three, it will
not be ruled over by a king.
00:35:00.53\00:35:03.50
And number four, it
will not be ruled over by
00:35:03.53\00:35:05.87
the church or the pope.
00:35:06.07\00:35:07.54
And number five,
it will make an image.
00:35:07.57\00:35:10.04
It will make a repeat.
00:35:10.07\00:35:12.41
Now I want to talk
about the future of the
00:35:12.81\00:35:17.28
United States of America
and our existence as a nation
00:35:17.31\00:35:23.12
and as a people.
00:35:23.15\00:35:24.62
Often, in the last few
years particularly, folks have
00:35:24.65\00:35:28.22
come to me and asked,
"Lyle, what do you think
00:35:28.26\00:35:30.29
is going to happen?
00:35:30.33\00:35:31.66
Does the Bible
make any suggestion?
00:35:31.69\00:35:33.03
The Chinese are
flexing their muscles and the
00:35:33.06\00:35:35.30
North Koreans have the bomb.
00:35:35.33\00:35:37.10
And maybe the Chinese are
going to get together with
00:35:37.13\00:35:39.40
the Russians and
they're going to knock us over
00:35:39.43\00:35:42.54
and plow us under and
we're going to go down. "
00:35:42.57\00:35:46.34
Ladies and gentlemen,
there's not the slightest hint
00:35:46.37\00:35:49.28
in any prophecy, certainly
not this one that I believe
00:35:49.31\00:35:51.48
deals directly with the
United States, not the slightest
00:35:51.51\00:35:54.65
hint that this nation
is ever going to be taken
00:35:54.68\00:35:57.49
by an outside force.
00:35:57.52\00:35:59.02
It's going to be the great super
power when Jesus comes back.
00:35:59.05\00:36:04.33
Now that may be
another sign that He's going to
00:36:04.36\00:36:06.63
have to hurry back.
00:36:06.66\00:36:08.10
Huh, how about that?
00:36:08.13\00:36:09.50
25 years ago, I had to
preach this passage by faith.
00:36:09.53\00:36:13.64
Why? Because there were
two great world super powers.
00:36:13.67\00:36:16.81
There were two, the United
States and the Soviet Union.
00:36:16.84\00:36:19.17
And we had hundreds
and hundreds of missiles
00:36:19.21\00:36:21.08
pointed at one another.
00:36:21.11\00:36:22.44
And both had great armies.
00:36:22.48\00:36:24.51
And many said it would be
a stand-off, it would be a
00:36:24.55\00:36:26.61
total annihilation
of the United States.
00:36:26.65\00:36:28.72
But it was Mr. Gorbachev
who, at the time of the gulf war
00:36:29.28\00:36:35.36
initiated by President
George Herbert W. Bush,
00:36:35.39\00:36:39.73
it was Gorbachev who said,
at the time we were dropping
00:36:39.76\00:36:43.43
guided missiles down
chimneys into exact locations,
00:36:43.47\00:36:47.87
Mr. Gorbachev said, "Surely
now the whole world can see
00:36:50.21\00:36:54.18
that there is
only one super power,
00:36:54.21\00:36:59.28
and that's the United States. "
00:36:59.31\00:37:01.15
Now there comes a valid
question at this juncture.
00:37:03.39\00:37:06.55
Why, why would God ever mention
a nation in Bible prophecy?
00:37:07.46\00:37:13.96
Why?
00:37:14.86\00:37:16.33
Well I want to leave at
least two ideas in your minds.
00:37:16.80\00:37:20.10
Number one, He would mention
a nation in Bible prophecy
00:37:20.94\00:37:23.51
because of the world
wide influence of that nation.
00:37:23.54\00:37:27.01
Not upon its own peoples only,
but of the peoples of other
00:37:27.28\00:37:31.25
nations and tribes.
00:37:31.28\00:37:33.11
Would the United
States count in that regard?
00:37:33.31\00:37:36.38
Have we had an influence
over the rest of the world?
00:37:36.42\00:37:39.35
Look at the great world wars.
00:37:39.39\00:37:41.39
Look at the finances that
the peoples of the United States
00:37:41.42\00:37:44.49
have sent here and there
and all around the world to
00:37:44.53\00:37:47.03
rebuild and to remake and redo.
00:37:47.10\00:37:48.93
And look at how the American
Bible Society has tried to
00:37:48.96\00:37:51.77
spread the gospel to the
whole world and influence folks
00:37:51.80\00:37:54.50
in favor of
Jesus and His truths.
00:37:54.54\00:37:57.07
And so the United
States certainly qualifies
00:37:57.11\00:37:59.27
on this count, it's
world wide influence.
00:37:59.31\00:38:01.84
And number two then, it's
impact upon the people and
00:38:01.88\00:38:05.95
the work of God.
00:38:05.98\00:38:07.32
And again, the
idea of sending Bibles.
00:38:07.35\00:38:10.19
But not only that, the
United States has sent more
00:38:10.22\00:38:12.99
missionaries to the rest of
the world than any one other
00:38:13.02\00:38:15.79
single country in all of
the history of Christianity.
00:38:15.82\00:38:19.29
There has never been
another quite like us.
00:38:19.33\00:38:22.76
And so the United States
qualifies in these two areas,
00:38:23.06\00:38:25.60
it seems to me.
00:38:25.63\00:38:26.97
Its worldwide political
influence, and its impact
00:38:27.00\00:38:29.54
upon the people of
God and the work of God.
00:38:29.57\00:38:32.64
Now, let's talk
about the power then of the
00:38:32.67\00:38:36.95
United States of
America in the last days.
00:38:36.98\00:38:40.35
And I want us to go back for
a little bit of review of that
00:38:40.38\00:38:43.35
first beast we believe to be
the power of the church of Rome.
00:38:43.39\00:38:45.99
And we're going
to read at verse 7.
00:38:46.02\00:38:48.26
Revelation 13 verse 7.
00:38:48.29\00:38:50.69
After this power has opened
its mouth to blasphemy God
00:38:51.69\00:38:54.30
and to denigrate
the tabernacle service,
00:38:54.36\00:38:57.67
where by the way Jesus was
offered once for all, you know.
00:38:57.70\00:39:01.10
You read in the book of
Hebrews, He shed His blood,
00:39:01.64\00:39:03.87
He spilled His
blood once for all.
00:39:03.91\00:39:05.31
But the church of Rome
says, "No, we sacrifice Him
00:39:05.34\00:39:07.81
in every Mass. "
00:39:07.84\00:39:09.18
And that's why it's called
the Sacrifice of the Mass.
00:39:09.21\00:39:11.88
And that's why at every Mass
celebration, when the chalice
00:39:12.45\00:39:17.75
which holds the host, or
those little bits of bread
00:39:17.95\00:39:20.92
and water
comingled together and baked,
00:39:20.96\00:39:23.56
called the Host in
the Catholic church.
00:39:23.59\00:39:25.63
And as soon as those words
are spoken, always primarily
00:39:25.66\00:39:30.03
in the Latin,
"hoc est corpus meum,"
00:39:30.07\00:39:32.17
but now in the vernacular,
the language of the people
00:39:32.20\00:39:35.04
wherever they are
found, "this is my body. "
00:39:35.07\00:39:37.57
And in Roman Catholic theology,
as soon as those words are
00:39:37.61\00:39:40.08
spoken, those little bits
of bread and water are turned
00:39:40.11\00:39:43.68
into the very
absolute real body of Jesus.
00:39:43.71\00:39:47.38
And folks are made holy and
made worthy by eating Christ.
00:39:47.42\00:39:51.35
And that's a reference
then to the desecration of
00:39:55.66\00:39:58.96
God's tabernacle where
the symbolism, the little lamb
00:39:58.99\00:40:02.36
that would be
sacrificed once for all.
00:40:02.40\00:40:05.53
But the church says,
"No, we sacrifice Jesus
00:40:05.57\00:40:07.64
in every single Mass. "
00:40:07.67\00:40:09.04
It says then in verse 7, power
was given to this institution,
00:40:15.34\00:40:20.48
we believe to be the church,
to make war against the saints,
00:40:20.52\00:40:23.79
to overcome them.
00:40:23.82\00:40:25.15
Power was given
them over all kindred and
00:40:25.19\00:40:27.16
tongues and nations.
00:40:27.19\00:40:28.99
The church of Rome ruled the
world, largely, for 1260 years.
00:40:30.39\00:40:34.03
And we have said that
over and over and over again.
00:40:34.10\00:40:36.63
Up until the time
of King Henry VIII,
00:40:36.67\00:40:39.57
of Great Britain, and by the
way, he didn't make his break
00:40:39.60\00:40:41.87
with the church over
a disagreement regarding
00:40:41.90\00:40:44.61
theology, particularly.
00:40:44.64\00:40:46.17
But rather it was his
desire, his relentless desire,
00:40:46.21\00:40:51.28
to have a male heir.
00:40:51.31\00:40:53.21
And the church said, "No,
we're not going to allow you
00:40:53.25\00:40:55.15
to divorce that wife. "
00:40:55.18\00:40:56.52
"Alright, I'll kill her. "
00:40:56.55\00:40:57.89
And when the next wife couldn't
produce one, then he went
00:40:57.92\00:41:00.56
a step further
and a step further.
00:41:00.59\00:41:01.96
And finally, he broke
with the Roman Catholic Church
00:41:01.99\00:41:04.63
and the Anglican Church
was born with the king or queen
00:41:04.66\00:41:10.13
as the head of the
church, not the pope.
00:41:10.17\00:41:12.87
But two crowns, the
one on the Head of State
00:41:12.90\00:41:16.04
is the same as the one
on the head of the church.
00:41:16.07\00:41:18.57
And so we see then this second
beast power that we believe
00:41:18.61\00:41:22.44
to be the United States
exercising all the power
00:41:22.48\00:41:25.11
of the first
beast there before it.
00:41:25.15\00:41:27.08
We ought to read
that from verse 12.
00:41:27.12\00:41:29.95
"He exercises all of the power
of the first beast that was
00:41:31.09\00:41:33.46
before him and he causes
the earth and those that dwell
00:41:33.49\00:41:35.59
therein to worship that
first beast whose deadly wound
00:41:35.62\00:41:38.26
has been healed. "
00:41:38.29\00:41:40.86
Now please listen to this
next idea very carefully because
00:41:40.90\00:41:44.10
it is so vitally important.
00:41:44.13\00:41:45.90
Every time, underline it,
without exception every time
00:41:45.93\00:41:49.87
God has mentioned a
nation in Bible prophecy,
00:41:49.90\00:41:52.51
whether it's here in Revelation
or back in Daniel or elsewhere,
00:41:52.54\00:41:55.08
that nation has ultimately
rejected the truths of God
00:41:55.11\00:41:58.65
and begun to
persecute the people of God.
00:41:58.68\00:42:01.18
That's what happened in Babylon,
that's what happened in Persia,
00:42:01.22\00:42:04.39
that's what happened in Egypt,
that's what happened in Rome.
00:42:04.42\00:42:07.12
And the prophecy says, that's
what's going to happen here.
00:42:07.16\00:42:10.16
The symbolism of this
second beast of Revelation 13,
00:42:10.89\00:42:14.13
whom we believe to
be the United States,
00:42:14.20\00:42:15.80
is that it is lamb-like.
00:42:15.83\00:42:17.87
And we refer to
ourselves often, don't we,
00:42:17.90\00:42:20.30
as the Christian nation.
00:42:20.34\00:42:22.74
Jesus is the Lamb of God who
takes away the sin of the world.
00:42:22.77\00:42:26.47
The Christian nation.
00:42:26.51\00:42:28.38
It looks lamb-like on the
outside, but on the inside
00:42:28.78\00:42:33.35
it has the voice and the
command of the devil himself.
00:42:33.38\00:42:36.99
Speaks with the voice of a
dragon and the dragon power.
00:42:37.95\00:42:40.66
Moreover then, it's clear
that there is a conspiracy
00:42:40.69\00:42:43.76
between the United
States and the church of Rome
00:42:43.79\00:42:45.83
and her Protestant
daughters in a united effort
00:42:45.86\00:42:50.27
to control the world.
00:42:50.30\00:42:52.10
So I'm going to begin now
to share with you some evidence
00:42:52.87\00:42:56.57
of the healing of the
wound and of the mission of the
00:42:56.60\00:42:59.61
United States to
reunite with the forces of Rome
00:42:59.64\00:43:03.65
to control the world and
to bring an end to terrorism.
00:43:03.68\00:43:06.85
And again let me remind you that
the world changed after 9/11.
00:43:06.88\00:43:11.35
We live now in a completely
and totally different world.
00:43:11.59\00:43:14.62
I want to take your minds,
firstly now, to a man by the
00:43:14.66\00:43:17.56
name of General Tommy Franks.
00:43:17.59\00:43:19.53
You remember Tommy Franks
who led our soldiers against
00:43:19.56\00:43:23.50
Saddam Hussein in 2003?
00:43:23.53\00:43:28.10
Not very long ago, months
only, he was interviewed by
00:43:28.14\00:43:33.34
the magazine
called, "Cigar Aficionado. "
00:43:33.38\00:43:36.41
Now I'm not promoting the
magazine, but I do want to
00:43:36.44\00:43:39.05
refer to the interview here.
00:43:39.08\00:43:40.92
If you want to go and look
it up on the web, this is from
00:43:40.95\00:43:43.18
Volume 12 Number 1.
00:43:43.22\00:43:44.55
Volume 12 Number
1, Cigar Aficionado.
00:43:45.85\00:43:48.46
Now listen carefully.
00:43:48.49\00:43:49.82
Tommy Franks.
00:43:51.79\00:43:53.16
"In the event of a
major terrorist attack,
00:43:54.00\00:43:57.10
we could lose the freedoms
and the liberties of 200 years.
00:43:57.13\00:44:01.84
The potential of war, a
war of mass destruction with
00:44:02.94\00:44:08.34
massive casualty
producing events, either in the
00:44:08.38\00:44:11.41
United States or in the
Western world, will cause
00:44:11.45\00:44:15.28
the population
of the United States
00:44:15.32\00:44:17.79
to question our constitution,
to militarize our country,
00:44:17.82\00:44:22.96
and undo and unravel the
fabric of our constitution. "
00:44:22.99\00:44:29.30
Several years ago, a young man
who I knew more than personally,
00:44:31.70\00:44:37.31
was attending a
major military school.
00:44:38.54\00:44:43.24
He graduated from college
with the highest of honors,
00:44:43.28\00:44:46.65
four point plus plus,
00:44:47.18\00:44:48.98
and was gladly accepted to
this major military school.
00:44:50.39\00:44:56.96
I'm not going to
give you the name of it.
00:44:56.99\00:44:58.53
And of course, not
the name of the young man.
00:44:58.56\00:45:00.83
He finished a year
there at the top of his class.
00:45:01.56\00:45:04.07
And then suddenly,
without warning, he was home.
00:45:06.33\00:45:09.27
"What's going on," I asked.
00:45:12.51\00:45:14.21
He said, "I quit. "
00:45:15.14\00:45:16.48
"What? You had such a
bright military future.
00:45:16.51\00:45:19.75
You would have
gone right to the top.
00:45:19.78\00:45:21.52
You would have hardly had
room on the uniform for the
00:45:22.02\00:45:23.85
ribbons and the metals. What?"
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.92
"Yes," he said, "I quit
and I'll tell you why. "
00:45:27.66\00:45:31.29
He said, "All we students
entering into the advanced
00:45:31.33\00:45:35.26
courses were commanded to
take an oath, swear an oath,
00:45:35.30\00:45:40.14
that if necessary we would
turn our guns and our mortars
00:45:40.17\00:45:46.31
upon the United
States citizens. "
00:45:46.34\00:45:48.34
And he said, "I refused
to do it and I had to quit. "
00:45:48.38\00:45:52.51
We think about freedoms
here in the United States
00:45:53.35\00:45:55.88
and well, if we don't
like it, we'll vote against it.
00:45:55.92\00:45:58.55
Look, back in the time of
our then President Mr. Nixon,
00:45:58.59\00:46:02.96
there were given
certain executive orders and
00:46:02.99\00:46:05.16
I want to read just
2 or 3 of them to you
00:46:05.19\00:46:07.10
passed by the government.
00:46:07.13\00:46:08.90
It says that at
anytime of national emergency;
00:46:08.93\00:46:13.37
security, military,
financial, or otherwise.
00:46:13.40\00:46:16.07
In other words, if the
banks are about to fail,
00:46:16.10\00:46:18.57
or if there's a military threat,
or if the buildings are blown up
00:46:18.61\00:46:22.01
our President can put
these things in to order
00:46:22.04\00:46:25.05
without anyone's permission.
00:46:25.08\00:46:27.25
He just makes up his mind.
00:46:27.28\00:46:28.62
Number one, he seizes
all communication media in
00:46:28.65\00:46:30.65
the United States.
00:46:30.69\00:46:32.02
Freedom of the press? No, no.
00:46:32.05\00:46:33.62
I was working in Oklahoma
City when that thing was
00:46:33.66\00:46:35.79
going on in Waco, Texas.
00:46:35.82\00:46:37.23
And there were news
folks from Oklahoma City
00:46:37.26\00:46:40.83
that were down there and they
gave their report every night.
00:46:40.86\00:46:43.70
And they said, "They'll
not allow us with our cameras
00:46:43.73\00:46:46.20
to get nearer than 2 miles. "
00:46:46.23\00:46:47.90
No freedom of the press.
00:46:49.10\00:46:50.64
The seizure of all electrical
power and fuels and minerals
00:46:51.54\00:46:53.81
and other public services.
00:46:53.84\00:46:55.18
The seizure of all
food supply and resources,
00:46:55.21\00:46:57.01
public and private,
farms and farm equipment.
00:46:57.05\00:46:59.45
The seizure of all
transportation, including
00:46:59.48\00:47:01.08
personal trucks and
vehicles of every kind.
00:47:01.12\00:47:03.05
The seizure of all
American peoples for workforces
00:47:03.08\00:47:05.35
under Federal supervision,
including the splitting up of
00:47:05.39\00:47:07.69
families if the
government finds it necessary.
00:47:07.72\00:47:10.83
The seizure of all
health and education welfare,
00:47:10.86\00:47:13.19
both public and private.
00:47:13.23\00:47:14.56
Empowering the Postmaster
General to register all
00:47:14.60\00:47:16.93
men, women, and
children in the United States.
00:47:16.97\00:47:18.60
And of course,
that has now happened.
00:47:18.63\00:47:20.74
For 150 years,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:47:26.41\00:47:29.38
we had not in either
house of our government,
00:47:30.51\00:47:34.42
a Roman Catholic.
00:47:34.45\00:47:36.25
Now I don't know if that
was the result of prejudice,
00:47:36.82\00:47:38.85
I don't know if it was
because... I don't know.
00:47:38.89\00:47:42.29
And that's really
not my point tonight.
00:47:42.32\00:47:43.86
I hope it was not a
result of prejudice.
00:47:43.89\00:47:45.83
But it was not until the 1930's
that the United States elected
00:47:46.33\00:47:49.73
its Senator who
was a Roman Catholic.
00:47:49.76\00:47:53.87
It took another 15 years
before there was a second
00:47:55.10\00:47:58.27
Roman Catholic that was
put into the halls of Congress.
00:47:58.31\00:48:03.41
Today, ladies and
gentlemen, there are 127...
00:48:04.11\00:48:12.45
Wait a minute, I'm incorrect
here and I want to be correct.
00:48:12.49\00:48:15.29
There are 157 Roman
Catholics in both houses.
00:48:16.02\00:48:20.13
In addition, there are 5
Orthodox which are very similar.
00:48:20.16\00:48:24.10
And this is an article, by
the way, from a church source.
00:48:24.13\00:48:26.74
Not mine or yours probably.
00:48:26.77\00:48:28.34
Amongst the Orthodox,
and then it goes on to say
00:48:29.27\00:48:31.27
many Episcopalians who
also have similar views
00:48:31.31\00:48:33.88
for a total of about
175 of the legislators.
00:48:33.91\00:48:38.21
157 are Roman Catholic.
00:48:38.85\00:48:41.35
Then we come to
the Supreme Court.
00:48:41.75\00:48:43.85
In the Supreme Court, we
now have 5 of the 9 justices
00:48:44.32\00:48:49.09
that are Roman Catholic.
00:48:49.12\00:48:50.93
We have the
Speaker of the House.
00:48:50.96\00:48:52.79
And we go on and
on and on and on.
00:48:52.83\00:48:55.60
Things have changed.
00:48:56.30\00:48:57.87
I'm going to read you,
quickly, Rome's challenge.
00:48:57.90\00:48:59.90
This is a quotation
from the church of Rome.
00:48:59.93\00:49:02.10
"When the time comes and
men realize the social edifice
00:49:02.14\00:49:05.17
must be rebuilt, the Catholic
church will make obligatory
00:49:05.21\00:49:08.91
the observance of Sunday on
behalf of the whole of society
00:49:08.94\00:49:11.18
and for its own good, revoking
the permit of free-thinkers
00:49:11.21\00:49:13.95
or Jews to
celebrate Monday or Saturday
00:49:13.98\00:49:15.85
or any other day on
their own account. "
00:49:15.88\00:49:18.19
Here's one.
00:49:21.09\00:49:22.42
Pope Benedict,
that's the present pope,
00:49:25.16\00:49:26.86
ladies and gentlemen.
00:49:26.90\00:49:28.20
Pope Benedict.
00:49:28.96\00:49:30.30
By the way, he was
the theological advisor of
00:49:30.33\00:49:32.87
Pope John Paul II.
00:49:32.90\00:49:34.64
And the dictums and
the enforcements that
00:49:34.67\00:49:38.17
Pope John Paul II made
and put out ex cathedra,
00:49:38.21\00:49:42.88
we understand now,
were written, put together
00:49:42.91\00:49:45.18
by the present pope.
00:49:45.21\00:49:46.55
And so I want to read you this.
00:49:47.52\00:49:48.85
"Pope John Paul II issued a
stern warning against Catholics
00:49:48.88\00:49:52.69
that they should set
aside Sunday for worship and not
00:49:52.72\00:49:55.59
errands or other things
involving just their free time.
00:49:55.62\00:49:59.56
He used his weekly address from
his window above St. Peter's
00:49:59.59\00:50:02.50
to urge church members to make
time to keep the 'Sabbath' holy.
00:50:02.53\00:50:06.37
And the Vatican is expected
to issue an apostolic letter
00:50:06.40\00:50:10.57
from the pope further stressing
the importance of keeping
00:50:10.61\00:50:13.58
this commandment. "
00:50:13.61\00:50:15.08
Now listen to this.
00:50:15.11\00:50:16.44
"Cardinal O'Conner, New York
City, has stated in a political
00:50:17.38\00:50:20.28
address that Roman Catholics
who are in public office
00:50:20.32\00:50:24.89
risk excommunication if they
do not vote according to the
00:50:24.92\00:50:28.92
teachings of the
Catholic church. "
00:50:28.96\00:50:30.29
Now a Protestant hears that
and has no idea what it means.
00:50:30.33\00:50:32.99
What does that
mean, excommunication?
00:50:33.03\00:50:35.23
"Well that just means they'll
kick you out of the church. "
00:50:35.26\00:50:36.93
No, no, no.
00:50:36.97\00:50:39.13
Catholics are taught, and I
studied Roman Catholic theology
00:50:39.17\00:50:42.24
as I've told you, at
Notre Dame University.
00:50:42.27\00:50:44.04
Catholics are taught
that salvation comes, largely,
00:50:44.07\00:50:47.21
by eating the Host.
00:50:47.24\00:50:48.58
And excommunication
means cut off from eating from
00:50:48.61\00:50:52.18
the communion table.
00:50:52.21\00:50:53.55
And when they're cut off
from that, they're damned
00:50:53.58\00:50:55.65
even beyond purgatory.
00:50:55.68\00:50:57.02
Not even allowed to go
to the place of purging,
00:50:57.05\00:50:59.15
but damned to the fires of hell.
00:50:59.19\00:51:00.96
Now you take a
serious Catholic and tell him,
00:51:00.99\00:51:03.12
"If you don't vote along with
the church in regard to abortion
00:51:03.16\00:51:06.13
or Sunday observance,
you're going to be cut off. "
00:51:06.16\00:51:09.33
And he's going to
think very seriously.
00:51:09.36\00:51:11.80
And he's going to act according
to the way he's been brought up
00:51:11.83\00:51:15.60
from a child.
00:51:15.64\00:51:16.97
Now let me read you something
that happened during the time
00:51:17.01\00:51:20.31
of President Clinton.
00:51:20.34\00:51:21.91
Now this isn't
ancient history, is it huh.
00:51:21.94\00:51:24.21
There was a lady by the
name of Janet Reno, who was our
00:51:24.25\00:51:26.82
highest lawmaker
in the United States.
00:51:26.85\00:51:29.62
And this is from 60
Minutes program, if you want
00:51:29.65\00:51:32.09
to look it up,
from June 26, 1999.
00:51:32.12\00:51:35.22
Listen to this.
00:51:35.26\00:51:36.59
"Occultist," this is a
quotation from Janet Reno.
00:51:36.62\00:51:40.36
"Occultist is one who has
a strong belief in the Bible,
00:51:40.40\00:51:43.33
in the second
coming of Jesus Christ,
00:51:44.13\00:51:46.23
who frequently
attends Bible studies,
00:51:46.27\00:51:48.77
who has a high
level of financial giving
00:51:48.80\00:51:51.21
to a Christian cause,
someone who often home schools
00:51:51.24\00:51:53.91
their own children, who's
accumulated survival foods,
00:51:53.94\00:51:56.75
and has a strong belief
in the second amendment,
00:51:56.78\00:51:58.85
and distrusts big government. "
00:51:58.88\00:52:01.08
humph
00:52:01.48\00:52:02.98
Well, say.
00:52:05.05\00:52:06.55
That may mean
more than one or two.
00:52:07.62\00:52:10.19
Huh.
00:52:11.76\00:52:13.09
US News and World Report,
M.G. Pat Robertson, 700 club.
00:52:13.56\00:52:16.80
Alright.
00:52:16.83\00:52:18.17
Talking about the
sleeping American vote, he said,
00:52:20.07\00:52:23.61
"Born again Christians, of whom
there are 30 million Protestants
00:52:27.01\00:52:30.08
and morally conservative Roman
Catholics of whom there are
00:52:30.11\00:52:32.61
many, many other millions,
together with a few million
00:52:32.65\00:52:35.12
Mormons and
Orthodox Jews and others,
00:52:35.15\00:52:37.12
have a potential to come to a
number of nearly 60 million. "
00:52:37.15\00:52:43.86
And then he goes onto
say, "Counting Catholics and
00:52:44.86\00:52:48.23
Protestants, we have enough
votes to run this country.
00:52:48.26\00:52:51.13
And when the people
say, 'We've had enough,'
00:52:51.17\00:52:53.00
we're going to take it over. "
00:52:53.03\00:52:54.57
And this is one of the
authors of that joining together
00:52:54.60\00:52:59.01
of Catholics and
Protestants that we talked about
00:52:59.04\00:53:01.41
on another evening.
00:53:01.44\00:53:02.78
I was over in Salem and I read
that report not very long ago,
00:53:02.81\00:53:05.25
and a man coming to my
meetings who'd been sending
00:53:05.28\00:53:07.12
Pat Robertson a lot
of money, wrote to him.
00:53:07.15\00:53:09.48
He said that he was
shocked to hear this.
00:53:09.52\00:53:10.85
And he said, "I'm going to write
to him, I'm going to complain. "
00:53:10.89\00:53:12.99
And he did.
00:53:13.02\00:53:14.36
And Pat Robertson wrote him
back and I have the original
00:53:14.39\00:53:18.23
right here in my hand.
00:53:18.26\00:53:19.59
He says, "Thank you,
sir. " I'll not give the name.
00:53:19.63\00:53:21.53
"Thank you for the opportunity
to share with you concerning my
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participation in the statement
of evangelicals and Catholics
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together, the Christian mission
for the third millennium.
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Obviously, there are
very many differences within
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Christian faiths,
between Jews and Christians,
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and Protestant and Catholics.
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But, it is my heartfelt
belief that our common enemies
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are now so virulent that
we must lay aside our certain
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differences and join hands
in support upon these things
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upon which we do agree. "
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My favorite writer outside the
Bible, 150 years ago said that
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Catholics and Protestants
would reach across the
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gulf to join hands.
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That exact same phrase.
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Here's one for you.
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Urging the strict observance
of Sunday, Pope Benedict
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behind this letter and
telling the Catholic leadership
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that they have to observe Sunday
and have to vote to enforce
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others to do so.
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My friend, and more
than a friend, went down to
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South America a while
back to hold some meetings
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very much like these.
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And there were several
thousand folks who were baptized
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at the end of his meetings.
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And I want to read to
you a little bit about what
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happened there.
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At the 31st National
Conference of Bishops in Brazil,
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the bishops
said, and I'm quoting,
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"We will declare a holy war.
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The Catholic church
has a ponderous structure
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and when we move, we'll
smash everyone beneath us. "
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They were talking about
what was happening with folks
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like my friend who were
holding meetings, teaching folks
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that the Sabbath is Saturday
and Jesus is coming back.
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Here's an apostolic
letter, ladies and gentlemen.
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It's also from South America.
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And I want to read a
verse or two, or a word or two,
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from it to you because I
feel the necessity of it.
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A document, at the
suggestion of the holy father
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and his successor.
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"We will not tolerate
the keeping of any other day
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by any other
religion except Sunday.
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We will not tolerate any belief
in the keeping of another day
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that is in accordance
even with the Bible except it
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goes by the holy
tradition of liturgy.
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We cannot and will not tolerate
Jews, Sabbatizers, Adventist,
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or any other sect that does
not keep the Lord's Day, Sunday.
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We will not tolerate those
who seek to understand or accept
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precepts that are not outlined
by the holy father, the Pope,
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in regards to the
Lord's resurrection, Sunday. "
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And on and on and on.
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It goes on to mention by name
some folks that you may know.
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Well.
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"Well when it all comes
down, I'll do what's right.
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If I see these things begin
to happen, I'll get on board
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and I'll do what's right. "
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It's here folks. It's too late.
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Choose you this day.
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Someone said to the
old prophet, Jeremiah,
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"If you can't keep
ahead of your enemies
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when you're on horseback,
what are you going to do
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when they come after
you and you are on foot?"
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What makes us think
that suddenly we're going to
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have the spiritual strength
to stand for God and keep
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His commandments when someone
has a gun at the head of our
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children or our grandchildren?
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I beg you once
more, do what's right now
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for the prophecies
are almost all fulfilled.
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We're going to see that
further even tomorrow morning.
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For now, thank you for
your patience and let me pray.
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Lord Jesus, tonight we
see the urgency of the hour,
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we see the times in
which we live, we know we're in
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the very last days.
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And we see this
prophecy of Revelation 13,
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the joining together of
Catholics and Protestants,
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and governments enforcing
the wishes of the church.
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We want to stand true
for You today and tomorrow
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and in the future and always.
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We want a part of Your kingdom.
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By the way, dear hearts, tonight
if your heart feels like mine,
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if you feel a need for greater
courage and greater strength
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now to do what God asks, if
you want a closer relationship
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with Jesus, I wonder if you
would like to join me in just
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raising your
hand to Jesus tonight.
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He knows your hand,
He knows your heart.
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Of course, every
hand is up. Every hand.
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God bless all of you.
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Lord, tonight
give us what we need.
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Grant to us more and
better and we know how to
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ask for ourselves.
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And answer our
prayers, because we always pray
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in Jesus' holy name. Amen.
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