Open your Bibles to
the Gospel of Luke 3:21.
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John the Baptist
was in the waters
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of the Jordon
River, baptizing people
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when suddenly he looked
up, pointed and said look
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the Lamb of God who takes
away the sins of the world.
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And he saw Jesus
walking down into the water
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asking John to baptize Him.
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Jesus was baptized in
verse 21 we can read about it.
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"When all the
people were being baptized,
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Jesus was baptized too.
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And as he was
praying, heaven opened
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and the Holy Spirit
descended on him like a dove.
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And then a voice
from heaven came and said,
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"You are my Son, whom I love
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with you I am well pleased."
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Now Jesus Himself
was about 30 years old,
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it says when He
began His ministry,
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a ministry that would
last three and one half years
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and at the end of that time,
Jesus suffered a deadly wound
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when He died on the cross.
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But that wasn't the
end of the story was it,
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because three days later
that deadly wound was healed
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and He rose
again, ascended to heaven
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and then He sent the Holy Spirit
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to perform miracles and wonders
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as the spirit gathered the world
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in to God's church in order
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to worship the Creator God.
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Jesus watch
this, get it emblazed
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in your conscious mind
Jesus himself was baptized
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came out of the
water, the Father gave him
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His authority as the Messiah
empowering and anointing Him
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with the Holy Spirit
to perform His ministry
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for three and half years at
the end of that time He died,
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received the deadly wood
then He was raised up again
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as that wound was
healed, He ascended to heaven,
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sent the Holy
Spirit to perform miracles.
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And by the power of the
miracles God gathered His people
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into His church to worship
the Creator of the heavens
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and the earth,
that's the kingdom of God.
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We're in Revelation
13, we see something else.
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Verse 1 the dragon
stood on the shore of the sea.
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The dragon is
the devil remember,
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And I saw a beast
coming up out of the sea.
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So, there is the
dragon, the devil looking out
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over the water
and he sees a beast
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coming up out of the water.
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And then watch
this in the verse 2
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"The dragon gave
the beast his power,
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his throne and great authority."
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So as the beast
comes up out of the water,
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the dragon gives
him his authority
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and he was given authority,
the Bible says in verse 5.
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"He was given
authority for forty-two months".
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Now, do the
math forty-two months
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divided by twelve
that's three and half years.
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Now, he says it in a
different way because
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the beast is a
counterfeit to the truth.
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Jesus' ministry
three and half years
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the beast ministry 42.
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The counterfeit has to
look like the real thing
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in order to deceive any one.
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So he has his
authority for 42 months
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that's three and half
years and then look at verse 3.
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"One of the heads of
the beast seemed to have had
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a fatal wound, but the
fatal wound had been healed."
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You're beginning to see
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a parallel here, it's not over.
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Verse 11, "Another beast,
comes up out of the earth.
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But he had two
horns like a lamb."
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But he spoke like the dragon,
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look like a lamb,
speaks like a dragon.
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And not only that verse 13 says,
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"He performed great
and miraculous signs,
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miracles," and verse 14,
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"Because of the
signs of the miracles,
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he was given power to do
on behalf of the first beast,
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he deceived the
inhabitants of the earth
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into worshiping the first beast.
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Verse 8, "All of the inhabitants
of the earth will worship
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the first beast except for
those whose names are written
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in the book of life
belonging to the Lamb."
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Now, follow what's
happening just as Jesus came out
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of the water, the
Father gave Him His authority
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as the Messiah for His
ministry three and half years.
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At the end of that time He
was crucified died on the cross,
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but He was raised up again,
ascended to heaven and sent
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the Holy Spirit to
do miracles to gather
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the world into His church.
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So the counterfeit,
the dragon watches his son
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the beast come up out
of the water and he gives
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the beast his power and
his authority and the authority
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that was to last
three and half years,
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42 months at the end of which
he receives a deadly wound.
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A deadly wood is healed
and he sends the false prophet
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to perform miracles
and gather the world
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into his church...
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to worship the beast.
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Dragon, the beast,
and the false prophet
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are the
counterfeit of the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit
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and it is a
counterfeit kingdom of God.
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He look like a lamb,
those who follow the beast
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think they are
following the lamb.
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They are
deceived by the miracles.
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They are deceived
by the power displayed.
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They are
deceived by what they see
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and they can't hear that
he speaks like the dragon.
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So the whole
purpose of the dragon,
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the beast and the false
prophet is to establish a people
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who will worship the dragon but
no one will worship the devil,
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that's why he gives
his authority to the beast.
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And those who worship the beast,
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think they are worshiping God
because he looks like a lamb,
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but he speaks like the dragon.
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The counterfeit kingdom of
God is a counterfeit system
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of worship which we commonly
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would call the church.
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You shouldn't be surprised.
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We learned the other
day in 2 Thessalonians 2:1,
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"Concerning the
coming of our Lord,
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Jesus Christ, Paul
writes to the church
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at Thessalonica and
our being gathered to him,
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so Paul is talking
about the time when the church
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that's them and us
are going to be gathered
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to Jesus Christ that's
the rapture of Jesus Christ,
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our of the church to Jesus,
our being gathered to Him.
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Look, we ask you, brothers,
not to become easily unsettled
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or alarmed by some prophecy,
report or letter supposing
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to have come from
us, saying the day
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of the Lord has already come.
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Oh, they thought that Jesus
already came and they missed it,
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so Paul said no, Don't let
anyone fool you in any way,
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for that day will not
come until a rebellion occurs
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and the man of lawlessness
that's the Antichrist
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is revealed, the man
doomed to destruction.
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Don't let anyone tell you
that Jesus has already come
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because that day will not
come until the antichrist,
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the man of
rebellion is revealed.
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This verse tells us that
before Jesus comes to gather
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His church to
Himself, the antichrist
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will be revealed
first, before he comes.
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And there must be a rebellion.
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Now the Greek
word for rebellion,
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apostasia means an apostasy
of falling away from the truth.
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So there would
be a great apostasy,
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a greater falling away
and then the antichrist
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would be revealed
and then Jesus comes.
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Now watch what happens.
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Verse 4, "He
that's the antichrist
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will oppose and exalt
himself over everything
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that is called
God or is worshiped,
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so that he sets
himself up in God's temple,
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proclaiming himself to be God."
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So the antichrist sets himself
up in God's temple and he says,
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I'm God and he establishes
himself as the one that should
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be worshiped by using
the power of the dragon
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and his authority
bestowed upon the beast.
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And the power of
the false prophet
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worshiping miracles, he
says, I'm God, worship me.
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Now he sets himself up
in God's temple everyplace
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in the New Testament that
uses the word God's temple
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or the temple of God,
it is always referring
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to the church of Jesus Christ.
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He is the cornerstone and we are
the living stones in the temple,
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so the antichrist then
sets himself up in God's church.
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And he says, I'm
God and practically
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the entire world including many
in God's church will worship
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the beast instead of the lamb,
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because he looks like a lamb.
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The word anti in Greek
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actually means
in place of Christ.
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Antichrist means
in place of Christ.
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He sets himself
up in Christ's place.
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He says, I'm Christ, worship me.
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And the Bible tells us
practically the whole world
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follows and today practically
the whole world following
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the lead of
popular book writers,
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novel writers like Dr.
Tim LaHaye's Left behind
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or waiting for the temple to be
rebuilt and for the antichrist
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to go in and to smash the temple
and the altar and desecrate
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it with his filthy
sacrifices, overlooking the fact
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that the true temple of God
is the church of Jesus Christ
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and antichrist is
doing his work in the church,
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so that while all the
world practically is looking
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to the Middle East and
looking for antichrist,
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one single man to come.
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Antichrist is
working in the church
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and they don't
even recognize him.
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I can show you one
verse that dismantles the idea
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that antichrist is one single
individual that will appear
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in the future and
destroy, rebuild the temple
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and destroy it, I
can show you one verse
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that this
assembles that whole idea.
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Do you want to see it?
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Well, I'll show you.
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1 John in the little book
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of 1 John 2:18, "Dear children,
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this is the last hour--"
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It was written 2000 years
ago, I mean it's the last hour
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and we think we are
living in the last hour,
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2000 years
later, how can that fit.
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Well, just keep
coming, you will see and that's
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an eye-opener but
look, "Dear children,
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this is the last
hour and as you have heard
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that antichrist
is coming," noticed?
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"You have heard
antichrist is coming,
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even now many
antichrists have come."
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That was written 2000
years ago and John said
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you heard antichrist is
coming, 2000 years ago even now
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many antichrists
have already come,
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I could say the
same thing to you today.
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You have heard that
antichrist is coming.
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Even now many
antichrists have already come.
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Hey, if they were
here 2000 years ago,
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then you better believe
they are here now, amen.
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Even more
remarkable this is how we know
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that it's the last
hour, they went out from us.
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Isn't that exactly what
Paul said was going to happen?
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There would be an
apostasy, apostasy means
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the falling away from the truth
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and antichrist
would be revealed.
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Now, John is saying all ready
they have gone out from us.
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There has been an apostasy
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and they are
falling away from the truth.
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This is how we know
that it's the last hour.
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2000 years ago, many antichrists
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had already come,
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we had to better believe
antichrist is at work right now.
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Who is he?
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What's he doing?
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That's what we are here for.
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Dig a little
deeper, find the answers.
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Look at Revelation 13:8.
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"All of the inhabitants
of the earth will worship
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the beast except for
those whose names have been
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written in the book of
life belonging to the Lamb."
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Now I want you to get a
picture of what's happening,
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the real battle with
antichrist, his real objective
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is to somehow
try to get your names
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out of the Lamb's book of life,
that's what it's all about.
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Folks, it's not about
territory in the Middle East.
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It's not about oil
wells in the Middle East.
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It's not about
boundaries and places to live.
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It's about the
cross of Jesus Christ.
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That's why he is antichrist,
he puts himself in Christ place,
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all the
inhabitance of the earth,
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that means that this is
a global system of worship,
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not just some little
church in some obscure place
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but it is a global
worldwide system of worship
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that practically the whole
world follows except for a few.
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A world wide global church
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that appears to
be the kingdom of God
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but it's a counterfeit.
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Not a perfect counterfeit.
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He makes some
mistakes along the way.
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Verse 7 says, "He was
given power to make war
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against the saints
and to conquer them."
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So the antichrist
is a religious power,
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a church that has some
kind of authority to persecute
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and make war against
those who refuse to go along
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with his
particular brand of worship.
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God doesn't force anyone.
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God woos us with His love.
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So who is the antichrist?
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Let's go back to the beginning
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and I want to start
in Revelation 12:17.
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"And then the dragon
was angry at the woman
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and he went off
to make war against
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the rest of the
remnant," King James says,
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"the last of her
offspring, the last of the seed
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of the woman," we
learned the seed of the woman
00:19:01.89\00:19:03.66
is God's people, the pure woman,
00:19:03.69\00:19:06.65
"so the last of
the seed of the woman,
00:19:06.68\00:19:09.11
the last of God's people
on this earth who are they,
00:19:09.14\00:19:13.07
those who obey
God's commandments
00:19:13.10\00:19:15.34
and hold to the
testimony of Jesus."
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Two points of attack.
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At the end of this
unfolding of the battle between
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the antichrist
and the people of God,
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he concludes in Chapter 14:12,
00:19:27.05\00:19:29.98
"This calls for
patient endurance
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on the part of the saints
who obey God's commandments
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and remain faithful to Jesus."
00:19:35.23\00:19:39.06
So the two points
of attack like bookends
00:19:39.09\00:19:42.22
on this passage of scripture
defining the antichrist
00:19:42.25\00:19:46.12
and his battle between himself
and God and the people of God,
00:19:46.15\00:19:50.70
the two points of attack
like bookends are obedient
00:19:50.73\00:19:54.62
to God's commands and
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Keep that in mind,
that's the battlefield.
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It's not the Middle East.
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The battlefield is
faith in Jesus Christ.
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So then 13, "The dragon stood
00:20:15.12\00:20:17.23
on the shore of
the sea and in verse 2,
00:20:17.26\00:20:19.53
"I saw a beast
coming out of the sea."
00:20:19.56\00:20:21.43
Who is that beast?
00:20:21.46\00:20:23.53
"He has ten horns, seven
heads, ten crowns on his horns,
00:20:23.56\00:20:27.68
and on each head
a blasphemous name.
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The beast I saw
resembled a leopard,
00:20:31.74\00:20:34.10
but he had feet
like those of a bear
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and a mouth like that of a lion.
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The dragon gave the beast his
authority and power and throne."
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So picture this.
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The dragon, that's
the devil looking out
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over the water, he sees
this beast with seven heads,
00:20:47.66\00:20:50.02
ten horns coming up out
of the water and this beast
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with seven heads, and ten horns,
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the Bible tells us
resembled a leopard,
00:20:56.01\00:20:58.41
but feet like a bear
and a mouth like a lion,
00:20:58.44\00:21:03.33
and the dragon
gave him his authority.
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Leopard, bear, lion and receives
00:21:07.31\00:21:12.73
his authority from the dragon.
00:21:12.76\00:21:16.43
Now, the dragon is
the devil, but remember
00:21:16.46\00:21:18.96
the devil never
works as the devil.
00:21:18.99\00:21:22.02
He doesn't go running
around that little red jumpsuit
00:21:22.05\00:21:24.04
two horns on his head,
long tail with an arrow on it.
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None of you would
ever worship anyone
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like that and he
is trying to get you.
00:21:27.72\00:21:31.76
He wants those
who want to obey God
00:21:31.79\00:21:33.82
and to cling for
the cross of Jesus.
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So he doesn't go as the devil,
00:21:35.84\00:21:37.34
he works as human instruments
trying to devour Christ.
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First we saw him as King
Herod, the pagan Roman emperor,
00:21:40.36\00:21:44.05
who tried to devour
Jesus, the moment he was born.
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So who does this pagan Roman
power give his authority to?
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If we can find out who
he gives his authority to,
00:21:51.26\00:21:54.17
then we can identify this beast.
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At this point John is saying,
Stop don't go any further
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until you have read the
seventh chapter of Daniel.
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Now keep that in mind.
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Look, the Leopard, the
bear, the lion and the dragon
00:22:10.76\00:22:16.37
gives his
authority to that beast
00:22:16.40\00:22:18.32
that looks like
leopard, bear, lion.
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Keep that in mind and
now we turn to Daniel 7.
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Remember you have to
understand the Old Testament
00:22:25.06\00:22:27.29
before you can
understand Revelation.
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Here is the place.
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In Daniel 7:3
Daniel had a vision he saw
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"Four great
beasts, each one different
00:22:36.84\00:22:39.24
from the others,
came up out of the water.
00:22:39.27\00:22:42.58
The first one was like
a lion, second one a bear,
00:22:42.61\00:22:45.92
third one, verse 6,
look like a leopard.
00:22:45.95\00:22:49.20
Sound familiar?
Lion, bear, leopard
00:22:49.23\00:22:54.38
and then the fourth one
terrifying and frightening,
00:22:54.41\00:22:59.03
so terrifying he
couldn't even name
00:22:59.06\00:23:01.71
what he was like or what
he was and while I was looking
00:23:01.74\00:23:06.58
at the horns, he had ten horns.
00:23:06.61\00:23:11.78
Now, we've already
identified these four beasts.
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Watch, verse 17 the
interpretation comes.
00:23:15.65\00:23:19.95
An angel came to
interpret it and he says
00:23:19.98\00:23:22.16
"The four great
beasts are four kingdoms
00:23:22.19\00:23:24.15
that will rise
up from the earth."
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So, if we let the
Bible interpret itself,
00:23:25.60\00:23:29.04
are you okay with that?
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If you let the
Bible interpret itself,
00:23:31.63\00:23:34.00
then a beast is a symbol
for a nation and so Daniel
00:23:34.03\00:23:39.74
is looking out over the
water and he sees four nations
00:23:39.77\00:23:42.71
rise and fall, one
symbolized by a lion,
00:23:42.74\00:23:45.50
the other one the bear,
the other one a leopard,
00:23:45.53\00:23:47.43
the fourth one oh he didn't
know what it was too terrifying.
00:23:47.46\00:23:52.19
We've already identified
those four nations in Daniel 2.
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Remember Nebuchadnezzar's image,
00:23:56.17\00:23:57.53
the head of gold,
breast and arms of silver,
00:23:57.56\00:23:59.09
body and thighs of bronze,
00:23:59.12\00:24:00.38
the legs of iron
and the ten toes.
00:24:00.41\00:24:04.99
This time beast,
the first beast was lion
00:24:05.02\00:24:08.42
at the Babylonian power
605 BC ruling over God's people
00:24:08.45\00:24:13.16
and most of the
civilized world overthrown
00:24:13.19\00:24:15.87
by the Medo-Persians in
538 BC ruling over God's people
00:24:15.90\00:24:20.39
and most of the civilized world
overthrown by the third kingdom,
00:24:20.42\00:24:24.02
this one symbolized
by the leopard with speed
00:24:24.05\00:24:27.09
in the year 331 BC
lead by Alexander the Great,
00:24:27.12\00:24:30.60
the Greek Macedonian Empire
and then in 169 AD 169 Greece
00:24:30.63\00:24:37.70
was overthrown
by Caesar's of Rome,
00:24:37.73\00:24:41.77
that Pagan Roman
Empire, the two legs of iron,
00:24:41.80\00:24:45.53
this time symbolized by
that beast with iron teeth
00:24:45.56\00:24:49.15
that devour the nations,
ruling over God's people
00:24:49.18\00:24:52.85
even during the time of Christ
when he was on this earth.
00:24:52.88\00:24:57.07
No wonder he was so
terrible and he had ten horns.
00:24:57.10\00:25:01.56
The ten horns same as the ten
toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image
00:25:01.59\00:25:05.75
when Rome was divided into
the nations forming Europe,
00:25:05.78\00:25:09.18
so we seen an exact
parallel of Daniel 2.
00:25:09.21\00:25:12.08
This is a historical platform.
00:25:12.11\00:25:14.47
This is so crucial
for us to understand
00:25:14.50\00:25:18.68
the ten toes and the ten horns.
00:25:18.71\00:25:21.10
Rome was divided.
00:25:21.13\00:25:23.25
There was Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome.
00:25:23.28\00:25:26.85
Rome was divided
into the ten toes,
00:25:26.88\00:25:30.10
the ten barbarian
states dividing Rome
00:25:30.13\00:25:33.07
into what we think of
as modern Europe today
00:25:33.10\00:25:36.95
and three of those
horns he said were uprooted
00:25:36.98\00:25:40.34
before this
little horn that came up.
00:25:40.37\00:25:43.28
Now follow me.
00:25:48.00\00:25:50.47
Daniel saw lion, bear,
00:25:50.50\00:25:54.59
leopard, terrifying beast.
00:25:54.62\00:26:00.71
John saw a beast
come up out of the water
00:26:00.74\00:26:04.32
in Revelation and he resembled
00:26:04.35\00:26:09.25
the leopard, the
bear and the lion.
00:26:09.28\00:26:15.29
Daniel saw lion, bear,
00:26:15.32\00:26:19.42
leopard, terrifying beast.
00:26:19.45\00:26:22.68
John lived during the time
of that terrifying beast Rome,
00:26:22.71\00:26:29.20
and he saw the beast leopard,
00:26:29.23\00:26:33.17
the bear and the lion
00:26:33.20\00:26:35.56
in the reverse
order that Daniel saw.
00:26:35.59\00:26:39.38
You see that's how we know
00:26:39.41\00:26:40.75
we are standing on solid ground.
00:26:40.78\00:26:42.74
Folks, you have to
have a historic platform
00:26:42.77\00:26:46.99
to truly understand the Bible.
00:26:47.02\00:26:49.09
When I was a
young boy in school,
00:26:49.12\00:26:51.26
I had to take history classes
and I didn't like history,
00:26:51.29\00:26:56.79
I didn't care about
the Persians or the Medes,
00:26:56.82\00:26:59.40
who cares about that.
00:26:59.43\00:27:00.66
I wanted to play baseball.
00:27:00.69\00:27:04.53
I am glad I learned a little
bit now because its important
00:27:04.56\00:27:08.41
for us to know we are standing
on solid ground. Babylon,
00:27:08.44\00:27:11.73
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
Rome was divided in the middle
00:27:11.76\00:27:14.80
of that division came
the little horn that would
00:27:14.83\00:27:17.02
be the beast of the antichrist.
00:27:17.05\00:27:18.92
Now, we have a solid platform
to base our interpretation on.
00:27:18.95\00:27:22.07
Let the Bible interpret itself
00:27:22.10\00:27:25.59
and you can't go wrong.
00:27:25.62\00:27:27.77
So Daniel
understood what was happening.
00:27:27.80\00:27:31.17
The four great beasts,
the four kingdoms the angels
00:27:31.20\00:27:33.52
said and in verse 19,
he continued and asked him,
00:27:33.55\00:27:36.67
I want to know
about the fourth beast,
00:27:36.70\00:27:38.76
the one that's different
from all the other ones.
00:27:38.79\00:27:41.33
In verse 20, I also want to know
about the ten horns on its head
00:27:41.36\00:27:44.47
and about the other one,
that little horn that came up.
00:27:44.50\00:27:47.63
He had a mouth
that spoke boastfully
00:27:47.66\00:27:50.01
but he had the eyes of a man.
00:27:50.04\00:27:53.05
He claimed to be God
but he was only a man,
00:27:53.08\00:27:58.20
and so Daniel says, I
want to know about that guy,
00:27:58.23\00:28:02.90
so the angel continues
with his interpretation.
00:28:02.93\00:28:06.79
Turn to verse 23, "He
gave me this explanation
00:28:06.82\00:28:11.72
'The fourth beast
is a fourth kingdom,
00:28:11.75\00:28:13.57
Babylon Medo-Persia, Greece,
00:28:13.60\00:28:15.28
Rome fourth beast
Rome, fourth kingdom.
00:28:15.31\00:28:19.33
Verse 24, "The ten
horns are ten kings
00:28:19.36\00:28:22.76
that will come
from this kingdom.
00:28:22.79\00:28:27.22
The ten horns have to
come from this kingdom,
00:28:27.25\00:28:30.34
what's this kingdom
Rome the fourth beast.
00:28:30.37\00:28:35.19
And then after them
another king will arise,
00:28:35.22\00:28:37.91
different from the earlier ones,
00:28:37.94\00:28:39.54
he will uproot or
subdue three kings.
00:28:39.57\00:28:42.77
He will speak
against the Most High,
00:28:42.80\00:28:45.44
he will oppress
the saints of God.
00:28:45.47\00:28:48.05
He will try to change
the set times and the laws.
00:28:48.08\00:28:51.93
And the saints will be
handed over to him for a time,
00:28:51.96\00:28:54.90
times and half a time
nine identifying marks
00:28:54.93\00:28:58.58
of that little horn that
are essential for us to identify
00:28:58.61\00:29:03.03
because almost all
Bibles scholars will agree
00:29:03.06\00:29:05.79
the little horn is
the sameas the beast
00:29:05.82\00:29:08.32
of Revelation 13
and the antichrist.
00:29:08.35\00:29:11.91
When we
identify the little horn,
00:29:11.94\00:29:13.87
then you know who the
beast is, So let's get to work,
00:29:13.90\00:29:17.15
nine identifying marks.
00:29:17.18\00:29:18.94
We want to look at
them quickly but thoroughly.
00:29:18.97\00:29:23.85
First of all 24, number 1
"The ten horns are ten kings
00:29:23.88\00:29:28.50
that will come
from this kingdom.
00:29:28.53\00:29:32.04
This kingdom is
the pagan Roman Empire
00:29:32.07\00:29:35.29
divided into the ten
toes or the ten horns,
00:29:35.32\00:29:38.34
so the ten horn
of the little horn,
00:29:38.37\00:29:41.09
that the little
horn oppose the ten horns
00:29:41.12\00:29:43.51
among which she came
from this Roman kingdom,
00:29:43.54\00:29:47.71
not some kingdom in the future.
00:29:47.74\00:29:52.83
But the same one that overthrew
00:29:52.86\00:29:55.13
the third kingdom the
Medes and the Persians.
00:29:55.16\00:29:58.58
That's important
for us to recognize.
00:29:58.61\00:30:01.34
And then after them second mark,
00:30:01.37\00:30:04.50
after them after the ten
horns divided the Roman Empire
00:30:04.53\00:30:09.97
after that
another king will arise
00:30:10.00\00:30:13.21
different from the earlier ones
00:30:13.24\00:30:15.32
and he would subdue three kings
00:30:15.35\00:30:19.04
and he would have authority
00:30:19.07\00:30:20.38
to persecute the saints and rule
00:30:20.41\00:30:23.89
for time times and half a time.
00:30:23.92\00:30:26.38
So this gives us a
bunch of identifying marks
00:30:26.41\00:30:29.18
after the division of Rome
sometimes after the year 476
00:30:29.21\00:30:35.14
that we learned the other night
was about when that division
00:30:35.17\00:30:38.34
was completed by
the barbarian invasion,
00:30:38.37\00:30:40.75
sometimes after that this little
horn would appear among them.
00:30:40.78\00:30:46.36
So we should be looking
for the little horn to arise
00:30:46.39\00:30:48.98
some time after the year
476 among those divisions
00:30:49.01\00:30:55.41
of the Roman Empire which
is essentially Europe today.
00:30:55.44\00:30:59.72
We should be looking
for the little horn to arise
00:30:59.75\00:31:01.80
somewhere in Europe
after the year 476 AD.
00:31:01.83\00:31:06.12
He would be
different from the earlier ones
00:31:06.15\00:31:09.05
and he would uproot
three of those ten horns.
00:31:09.08\00:31:13.49
And he would have power
for time times and half a time.
00:31:13.52\00:31:18.21
Now in order to understand this,
00:31:18.24\00:31:19.57
we need to go back into history
a little more once again.
00:31:19.60\00:31:24.83
Because in the 4th
century Constantine
00:31:24.86\00:31:28.35
was the emperor of
Rome, and he saw that out
00:31:28.38\00:31:34.23
on the eastern front
the barbarian nations
00:31:34.26\00:31:38.08
were beginning to nibble
away and weaken his empire
00:31:38.11\00:31:41.59
and he had to do
something to strengthen it.
00:31:41.62\00:31:46.41
So Constantine did
a couple of things.
00:31:46.44\00:31:51.11
At that time the church
was rapidly growing through
00:31:51.14\00:31:56.09
the Roman Empire, so
Constantine joined the church
00:31:56.12\00:32:02.88
and that would
give him credibility
00:32:02.91\00:32:05.28
with many of the
people in his empire,
00:32:05.31\00:32:08.69
so he became a
Christian nominally and name
00:32:08.72\00:32:11.25
only but he joined the church
but then he did something else.
00:32:11.28\00:32:16.88
He moved the capital
which for so many years
00:32:16.91\00:32:21.05
had been in Rome to Byzantium.
00:32:21.08\00:32:28.09
Out on the eastern
front and changed the name
00:32:28.12\00:32:32.69
from Byzantium to Constantinople
00:32:32.72\00:32:39.07
after himself, so
he could be right out
00:32:39.10\00:32:44.21
there where the
action was and help
00:32:44.24\00:32:46.79
to hold his empire together.
00:32:46.82\00:32:49.83
The problem was that practically
the whole civilized world
00:32:49.86\00:32:54.43
had become accustom to looking
00:32:54.46\00:32:55.92
at Rome for leadership.
00:32:55.95\00:33:01.52
And when he moved he left
the political vacuum in Rome
00:33:01.55\00:33:06.08
and he knew that if
he didn't do something,
00:33:06.11\00:33:09.35
that some military man
or some powerful person
00:33:09.38\00:33:12.74
would arise and perhaps
be a threat to the emperor
00:33:12.77\00:33:16.17
himself with the military coup.
00:33:16.20\00:33:20.22
So, he had to put
someone in charge at Rome,
00:33:20.25\00:33:23.29
couldn't be a military person.
00:33:23.32\00:33:25.15
No, that would be too risky.
00:33:25.18\00:33:28.21
But at that time
00:33:28.24\00:33:33.19
there was a very influential
00:33:33.22\00:33:36.98
and powerful
leader emerging in Rome
00:33:37.01\00:33:43.60
and that was the
bishop of the church at Rome.
00:33:43.63\00:33:50.78
So, Constantine
gave the bishop of Rome,
00:33:50.81\00:33:56.20
his power, his
throne and his authority.
00:33:56.23\00:34:01.33
Constantine, the
pagan Roman emperor
00:34:05.64\00:34:10.92
who would try to devour Christ
00:34:10.95\00:34:14.77
gives the bishop of Rome
00:34:14.80\00:34:17.10
the church his power,
his throne and authority
00:34:17.13\00:34:20.23
and now the bishop of Rome
has not only religious authority
00:34:20.26\00:34:25.35
but political power because
00:34:25.38\00:34:27.73
the Vatican became a nation.
00:34:27.76\00:34:32.02
And he would be different
from all of the other kings,
00:34:32.05\00:34:36.68
different because not only
did he have political power
00:34:36.71\00:34:40.87
but he ruled the
church of Jesus Christ
00:34:40.90\00:34:44.09
and for the first time since
Christ established his church,
00:34:44.12\00:34:47.64
the church would join together
with the political powers
00:34:47.67\00:34:51.74
of the state to
enforce her doctrines
00:34:51.77\00:34:54.75
and her
particular brand of worship.
00:34:54.78\00:34:57.69
Now the bishop of Rome
found himself bitterly opposed,
00:35:03.21\00:35:09.97
by three of
those barbarian states,
00:35:10.00\00:35:14.87
Vandals, the
Ostrogoths, the Heruli.
00:35:14.90\00:35:19.50
They were Arian tribes.
00:35:19.53\00:35:21.71
They thought that Jesus Christ,
00:35:21.74\00:35:23.95
they're following the-- the
teachings of Marcus Aurelius
00:35:23.99\00:35:27.25
that Jesus
Christ was not fully God
00:35:27.28\00:35:29.75
but he was
somewhere between man and God.
00:35:29.78\00:35:33.68
Rightly so, the church
apposed the Arian teachings
00:35:33.71\00:35:39.12
found in those three tribes
that followed Marcus Aurelius.
00:35:39.15\00:35:43.15
The church has the right
and the obligation to oppose
00:35:43.18\00:35:47.45
lives against God...
00:35:47.48\00:35:52.04
after all it's
the kingdom of God
00:35:52.07\00:35:55.72
but the church went
too far in its opposition
00:35:55.75\00:36:00.82
and fighting broke out
as the church used force
00:36:00.85\00:36:06.97
and finally the bishop
of Rome summon Justinian,
00:36:07.00\00:36:10.91
who was now the emperor
and Justinian's troops uprooted
00:36:10.94\00:36:14.86
and fought
against quieting those
00:36:14.89\00:36:18.40
three horns by the year 538.
00:36:18.43\00:36:23.93
Just the way the
prophecy said it would happen
00:36:23.96\00:36:26.24
and now the bishop of
Rome is virtually unopposed
00:36:26.27\00:36:28.87
in his quest for power.
00:36:28.90\00:36:34.27
Now, a lot of you
have already seen it.
00:36:34.30\00:36:38.25
I see your heads
nodding, I see the ah,
00:36:38.28\00:36:42.01
so I need to pause here for
a moment and do a disclaimer.
00:36:42.04\00:36:48.28
I think its obvious
that when Revelation
00:36:48.31\00:36:52.41
says the dragon gave
his throne his power,
00:36:52.44\00:36:55.06
his authority to the beast
00:36:55.09\00:36:59.19
and when
Constantine gave his throne,
00:36:59.22\00:37:01.79
his power and his
authority to the bishop of Rome
00:37:01.82\00:37:07.12
along with the
historical setting,
00:37:07.15\00:37:09.52
it becomes clear that
the medieval church at Rome
00:37:09.55\00:37:13.11
is the little horn, antichrist
and I have a lot more to go,
00:37:13.14\00:37:18.11
so don't think I'm jumping
to conclusions, not done yet.
00:37:18.14\00:37:23.04
But I think at this point, I
need to make something clear.
00:37:23.07\00:37:26.59
I'm not anti-catholic,
I'm not anti-pope,
00:37:26.62\00:37:31.51
I'm not anti anybody,
00:37:31.54\00:37:35.78
I'm anti-era.
00:37:35.81\00:37:42.72
I'm not talking
about anyone's faith,
00:37:42.75\00:37:45.66
there may be some
of you here tonight
00:37:45.69\00:37:47.05
that are a part of
the catholic faith.
00:37:47.08\00:37:50.91
No, I'm not talking about you.
00:37:50.94\00:37:53.34
I'm talking about a
church, so we are going to see
00:37:53.37\00:37:55.87
the medieval church
that made some serious,
00:37:55.90\00:37:59.44
serious mistakes in a time
period called the Dark Ages
00:37:59.47\00:38:05.73
and John Paul 2
himself officially
00:38:05.76\00:38:08.91
called a day of
apology fasting and asking
00:38:08.94\00:38:13.89
for forgiveness for the sins
of the church during that time.
00:38:13.92\00:38:20.10
Now, personally I think
it takes a big man to admit
00:38:20.13\00:38:26.53
that his church
has made mistakes.
00:38:26.56\00:38:29.67
And I respect him for that.
00:38:29.70\00:38:35.50
I don't agree with him
on everything obviously.
00:38:35.53\00:38:40.00
But we don't have to
agree on everything to love
00:38:40.03\00:38:43.77
and respect each other, do we?
00:38:43.80\00:38:47.76
Can't we love each
other even if we don't agree?
00:38:47.79\00:38:53.15
My wife and I don't
agree on everything.
00:38:53.18\00:38:56.95
She likes the Dallas Cowboys,
00:38:56.98\00:39:03.67
I still love her.
00:39:03.70\00:39:08.69
So I'm not
talking about your faith,
00:39:08.72\00:39:10.97
I'm not talking
about any individual.
00:39:11.00\00:39:13.59
I'm talking about a dark period
in the history of the church,
00:39:13.62\00:39:17.18
even acknowledge by John Paul 2,
00:39:17.21\00:39:19.52
the special day of
fasting and prayer.
00:39:19.55\00:39:22.70
Folks, if we don't go
back and look at the mistakes
00:39:22.73\00:39:25.24
that were made
then, how can we know
00:39:25.27\00:39:27.47
we will never repeat
those mistakes in the future.
00:39:27.50\00:39:31.33
And so I'm not
doing this to be hateful
00:39:31.36\00:39:35.81
and I know there are
some people out there
00:39:35.84\00:39:37.75
on the TV world and
the news commentators
00:39:37.78\00:39:40.22
that would consider what I
have just said to you hateful.
00:39:40.25\00:39:43.31
I'm not being
hateful, we can love each other
00:39:43.34\00:39:45.63
and disagree, but I
believe you are here because
00:39:45.66\00:39:48.57
you want to know
the truth, Jesus said,
00:39:48.60\00:39:50.14
"The truth will set to free."
00:39:50.17\00:39:53.59
So, I'm not talking
about any people per se,
00:39:55.22\00:39:58.05
I'm talking about a
system of worship developed
00:39:58.08\00:40:01.72
in medieval
church of the Dark Ages.
00:40:01.75\00:40:05.48
And it says that he
would have authority
00:40:05.51\00:40:08.79
for times time and half a time.
00:40:08.82\00:40:12.00
Now, that sounds like a riddle
but it's really not that hard
00:40:12.03\00:40:14.30
to understand what does it mean?
00:40:14.33\00:40:16.21
Time times and half a time.
00:40:16.24\00:40:18.37
I could tell you but I
don't want to tell you because
00:40:18.40\00:40:21.64
that's my
private interpretation,
00:40:21.67\00:40:23.43
I want you to get
it from scripture,
00:40:23.46\00:40:24.94
how do we do that?
00:40:24.97\00:40:27.68
Come on talk to me, compare
scripture with scripture,
00:40:27.71\00:40:32.19
so what is time,
times and half a time mean.
00:40:32.22\00:40:34.79
Go back to Revelation.
00:40:34.82\00:40:35.85
Remember Revelation quotes
00:40:35.88\00:40:36.95
the Old Testament
over how many times?
00:40:36.98\00:40:39.30
600 here is one of
those places, Revelation 12,
00:40:39.33\00:40:44.85
let's begin in verse 14.
00:40:44.88\00:40:48.29
"The woman was given the
two wings of a great eagle,
00:40:48.32\00:40:50.98
so that she might
fly to the place prepared
00:40:51.01\00:40:53.03
for her in the desert,
where she would be taken care
00:40:53.06\00:40:56.13
of for how long, time,
times and half a time."
00:40:56.16\00:41:01.03
The woman symbolizing
God's people would be hidden
00:41:01.06\00:41:04.12
in the desert while the
beast is doing his dirty work
00:41:04.15\00:41:08.02
against the
church, the woman is hidden
00:41:08.05\00:41:10.58
in the desert,
the same time times
00:41:10.61\00:41:12.81
and half a time, God will
always protect his people.
00:41:12.84\00:41:17.45
But what is this time,
times and half a time mean?
00:41:17.48\00:41:20.17
We'll compare it with scripture,
this time same chapter, verse 6.
00:41:20.20\00:41:24.44
"The woman fled into the
desert to a place prepared
00:41:24.47\00:41:26.88
for her by God, where she should
00:41:26.91\00:41:28.31
be taken care
of for 1,260 days."
00:41:28.34\00:41:33.44
So time, time and half a time
that's when God's protecting
00:41:33.47\00:41:36.76
the woman 1,260 days
that's when God's protecting
00:41:36.79\00:41:41.53
the woman in
the desert, so time,
00:41:41.56\00:41:43.39
time and half a
time equals 1,260 days.
00:41:43.42\00:41:46.37
Actually its not
that difficult to see
00:41:46.40\00:41:49.08
when you
understand a few things.
00:41:49.11\00:41:50.60
Time is symbolic for a
year, times would be two years,
00:41:50.63\00:41:55.44
half a time half a
year, time times half a time
00:41:55.47\00:41:59.50
three and half years 1,260 days.
00:41:59.53\00:42:04.00
Now this is the only
time at Revelation Now
00:42:04.03\00:42:08.23
that I'm ever going to ask you
to take my word for something
00:42:08.26\00:42:10.83
because I just don't have time
to prove everything tonight.
00:42:10.86\00:42:16.17
But, I'm going to
prove it to you without
00:42:16.20\00:42:17.71
a doubt on another
night coming that in prophecy
00:42:17.74\00:42:20.26
a day is symbolic for a
year, so 1,260 days of time,
00:42:20.29\00:42:28.12
times and half a time
1260 days would be 1260 years.
00:42:28.15\00:42:34.62
By the time the bishop
had pretty well squelched
00:42:34.65\00:42:39.10
the major
opposition to the church
00:42:39.13\00:42:41.39
in 538 uprooting
those three horns.
00:42:41.42\00:42:44.54
538 plus 1260 years after
that she would have authority
00:42:44.57\00:42:49.69
that takes us all
the way to the year 1798.
00:42:49.72\00:42:53.10
In 1798 Napoleon sent his
General Berthier into Rome
00:42:53.13\00:42:58.55
express orders
to capture the city.
00:42:58.58\00:43:00.79
He captured
Rome, captured the pope
00:43:00.82\00:43:03.37
brought him back to Paris
where the pope died 1260 years
00:43:03.40\00:43:09.91
after the three
horns were uprooted.
00:43:09.94\00:43:15.02
Just exactly
the way the prophecy
00:43:15.05\00:43:17.09
said it would happen.
00:43:17.12\00:43:18.99
There is some
other identifying marks
00:43:23.59\00:43:25.26
that we need to recognize.
00:43:25.29\00:43:27.61
He said he would
be a persecuting power
00:43:27.64\00:43:30.30
or he would
oppress the saints of God.
00:43:30.33\00:43:35.33
And then there is
another identifying mark.
00:43:35.36\00:43:40.35
This one would try to change
the set times and the laws.
00:43:40.38\00:43:47.89
He would try to change
the set times and the laws.
00:43:47.92\00:43:52.61
Now, you have to understand
this isn't talking about
00:43:52.64\00:43:55.83
man's laws, they
change all the time.
00:43:55.86\00:44:00.35
He's talking about God's laws.
00:44:00.38\00:44:02.95
He would try to change
God's laws and set times.
00:44:02.98\00:44:08.39
Or did the church ever
do that or try to do that?
00:44:08.42\00:44:12.46
This is a book it's fairly new,
00:44:12.49\00:44:15.18
Catechism of the Catholic Church
00:44:15.21\00:44:17.37
even included all the
teachings even yet today
00:44:17.40\00:44:20.57
endorsed by John Paul 2
00:44:20.60\00:44:22.34
has his imprimatur
and stamp in the cover.
00:44:22.37\00:44:25.32
Meaning there is no
false doctrine in this book.
00:44:25.35\00:44:29.22
And here is what it says,
00:44:29.25\00:44:33.62
"The church does not derive
00:44:33.65\00:44:35.93
her certainty about revealed
truth from the scripture alone.
00:44:35.96\00:44:40.20
Both the scripture and
traditions of the church
00:44:40.23\00:44:44.84
must be honored and
accepted with equal sentiments
00:44:44.87\00:44:48.27
of the devotion and reverence."
00:44:48.30\00:44:51.23
So what he is
saying is that the church
00:44:51.26\00:44:55.83
and her traditions are
equal to the scripture.
00:44:55.86\00:45:02.63
Now I'm going to show
you some things about that,
00:45:02.66\00:45:04.44
I'm just giving
you a quick peek.
00:45:04.47\00:45:06.96
I'm going to show you some
things that are going to make
00:45:06.99\00:45:08.74
your hair stand out
on end and straighten
00:45:08.77\00:45:12.04
and if it's already straight,
I'm going to curl it up for you.
00:45:12.07\00:45:15.44
We don't have time to do
all that yet they would try
00:45:15.47\00:45:19.18
to change God's laws,
putting tradition over scripture
00:45:19.21\00:45:24.96
and then we see another one.
00:45:24.99\00:45:27.73
He would speak
against the Most High.
00:45:27.76\00:45:30.54
Revelation said, he
would blaspheme God.
00:45:30.57\00:45:34.19
What does that mean?
00:45:34.22\00:45:36.21
When Jesus was
here on this earth,
00:45:36.24\00:45:41.40
He was to heal a
crippled man instead
00:45:41.43\00:45:46.15
of just saying I heal
you, He said, I forgive you.
00:45:46.18\00:45:53.25
Your sins are forgiven.
00:45:53.28\00:45:56.59
Well, the church leaders
weren't too happy about that,
00:45:56.62\00:45:59.36
they picked up
stones to stone Jesus.
00:45:59.39\00:46:01.69
And they said, that's blaspheme.
00:46:01.72\00:46:04.68
Only God can forgive sins,
that's blaspheme, stone Him.
00:46:04.71\00:46:10.44
Well, they were right,
only God can forgive sins.
00:46:10.47\00:46:13.46
But where they were
wrong is that Jesus was God.
00:46:13.49\00:46:18.88
Only God can
forgive sins, only Jesus
00:46:18.91\00:46:22.18
can forgive sins
because he is God.
00:46:22.21\00:46:25.70
But the church
teaches that there is a man
00:46:25.73\00:46:29.76
on earth who can forgive sins.
00:46:29.79\00:46:34.20
In Michael Muller
book, The Catholic Priest,
00:46:34.23\00:46:37.24
this is carried
over from the Dark Ages
00:46:37.27\00:46:40.37
Yes, beloved brethren,
the priest not only declares
00:46:40.40\00:46:43.23
that the sinner is forgiven,
but he really forgives him.
00:46:43.26\00:46:47.46
The priest raises his hand,
00:46:47.49\00:46:48.95
pronounces the
word of absolution,
00:46:48.98\00:46:50.36
and in an instant,
quick as a flash of light
00:46:50.39\00:46:52.50
the chains of
hell are burst asunder,
00:46:52.53\00:46:54.66
and the sinner
becomes a child of God.
00:46:54.69\00:46:57.27
So great is the power of
the priest that the judgments
00:46:57.30\00:47:00.73
of heaven itself is
subject to his decision.
00:47:00.76\00:47:06.86
Does the priest have the
authority to forgive sins
00:47:06.89\00:47:14.19
but it was the dragon who
gave the beast his authority.
00:47:14.22\00:47:20.59
You're beginning to see
how it all fits together.
00:47:20.62\00:47:23.78
Labbe and Cossart's
History of the Councils,
00:47:29.00\00:47:31.13
volume 14 page 109.
00:47:31.16\00:47:34.21
"For thou art the shepherd,
thou art the physician,
00:47:34.24\00:47:37.54
thou art the husbandman,
00:47:37.57\00:47:39.09
finally thou art
another God on earth."
00:47:39.12\00:47:43.17
He would set
himself up in God's temple
00:47:43.20\00:47:45.36
proclaiming himself to be God.
00:47:45.39\00:47:48.92
From the Catholic
National July 1895.
00:47:48.95\00:47:52.29
"The Pope is not
only the representative
00:47:52.32\00:47:54.73
of Jesus Christ, but he
is Jesus Christ himself,
00:47:54.76\00:47:59.21
hidden under the veil of flesh."
00:47:59.24\00:48:01.60
He would set himself up
in God's temple and say,
00:48:01.63\00:48:04.74
I am God and the whole world
is waiting for the antichrist
00:48:04.77\00:48:09.54
to come and rebuild
the temple over there?
00:48:09.57\00:48:15.73
St. Bernadine of Sienna said,
"Thus the priest in performing
00:48:15.76\00:48:19.85
the mass-the priest
may, in a certain manner
00:48:19.88\00:48:23.39
be called the
creator of his Creator
00:48:23.42\00:48:25.70
"The power of the priest is
the power of the Divine person
00:48:25.73\00:48:28.75
for the transubstantiation
of the bread requires
00:48:28.78\00:48:31.25
as much power as the
creation of the world."
00:48:31.28\00:48:34.88
Dignity and Duties of the
Priest, Alphonsus Liguori.
00:48:34.91\00:48:38.51
Now the mass is not
just a worship service
00:48:41.14\00:48:45.16
but the priest at the high point
of the mass would take the bread
00:48:45.19\00:48:49.39
and the wine and pray the
prayer of transubstantiation,
00:48:49.42\00:48:55.56
that means that he is
actually converting the bread
00:48:55.59\00:48:59.31
and the wine not as symbols
of the body and blood of Christ
00:48:59.34\00:49:02.81
but in the
actual body of Christ,
00:49:02.84\00:49:05.54
in the actual blood of Christ
00:49:05.57\00:49:07.75
so that the priest is offering
00:49:07.78\00:49:10.09
Jesus Christ
again as a sacrifice
00:49:10.12\00:49:13.22
with the sins of
many on his altar.
00:49:13.25\00:49:17.57
Watch the book
John O'Brien's book,
00:49:17.60\00:49:20.70
the Faith of
Millions is the book,
00:49:20.73\00:49:22.14
I'm just going to
read it from the printout
00:49:22.17\00:49:23.78
to save time, but
it's right in here.
00:49:23.81\00:49:26.23
He says, "The
power of the priest
00:49:26.26\00:49:27.92
is equal to that of Jesus Christ
because in this role the mass,
00:49:27.95\00:49:31.49
the priest speaks with the voice
and authority of God himself.
00:49:31.52\00:49:34.24
When the priest pronounces
the words of Consecration,
00:49:34.27\00:49:36.99
he reaches up into the
heavens, and brings Christ
00:49:37.02\00:49:40.38
down from His throne,
placing Him upon our altar
00:49:40.41\00:49:43.68
to be offered up again as
the victim for the sins of man
00:49:43.71\00:49:47.34
not once but a thousand times.
00:49:47.37\00:49:49.37
The priest speaks
and lo! the eternal,
00:49:49.40\00:49:51.26
omnipotent God, bows His head
00:49:51.29\00:49:52.90
in humble obedience
to the priest's command."
00:49:52.93\00:49:55.51
Now, my personal
feeling is, that's blasphemous,
00:49:59.98\00:50:05.81
that's my personal feelings.
00:50:05.84\00:50:07.81
You have to decide for yourself.
00:50:07.84\00:50:10.46
If you think that's
right you think that's true,
00:50:10.49\00:50:13.32
then that's fine with you
and you between you and God.
00:50:13.35\00:50:17.47
But I think that Jesus Christ
died once for all 2000 years ago
00:50:17.50\00:50:24.16
and there is no need
for Him to be offered
00:50:24.19\00:50:26.01
as a sacrifice again
and to me to offer Him
00:50:26.04\00:50:31.23
as a sacrifice again is to deny
00:50:31.26\00:50:33.82
the once for all sacrifice
of Christ 2000 years ago.
00:50:33.85\00:50:37.24
He would attack the
Gospel of Jesus Christ
00:50:37.27\00:50:40.55
and that's what
got the attention
00:50:40.58\00:50:42.21
of a Roman Catholic priest named
Martin Luther teaching a class
00:50:42.24\00:50:47.41
at the University of
Wittenberg on the book of Romans
00:50:47.44\00:50:50.23
and he discovered
in the Book of Romans
00:50:50.26\00:50:52.08
that we are saved by grace
00:50:52.11\00:50:54.42
through faith in
Jesus Christ alone.
00:50:54.45\00:50:58.06
And he began to teach
that in his seminary class,
00:50:58.09\00:51:00.67
Rome got when the
evidence said, oh!
00:51:00.70\00:51:02.70
Luther no more,
you can't teach that.
00:51:02.73\00:51:05.08
We are saved by faith and
works, not by faith alone.
00:51:05.11\00:51:08.56
And Luther said, but
the Bible says we are saved
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by grace through
faith in Jesus Christ alone.
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And Rome said,
Luther you don't understand,
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the Bible isn't the only
rule of faith in practice
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for the church,
it's the Bible plus
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the traditions of the church.
00:51:38.82\00:51:42.55
And Luther said, "Now I
know who the antichrist is."
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He would attack law of God
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and the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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put himself in God's place.
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Revelation 13:18,
"This calls for wisdom.
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If anyone has
insight, let him calculate
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the number of the
beast, for it is man's number.
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His number is 666."
00:52:24.20\00:52:29.51
Six is man's number because
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he was created on the sixth day,
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three is God's
number, the father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit.
00:52:38.66\00:52:41.76
Three sixes would be man
putting himself in God's place.
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In fact long
ago, one of the titles
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that some of the pope's claim
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for themselves in Latin
words was Vicarius Filii Dei.
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And it's interesting
when you add up the letters
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of Vicarius Filii Dei in
Roman number they equals 666.
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Now that alone is no proof.
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Lots of names can add up to
666 but when you look at all
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of the nine identifying
marks that we have seen
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that he would set himself
up in God's temple proclaiming
00:53:18.89\00:53:22.02
himself to be God attacking
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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not overtly but by subtly
introducing his own teachings,
00:53:26.29\00:53:30.63
so many people
began to leave Rome,
00:53:30.66\00:53:34.29
so many people began to protest
00:53:34.32\00:53:36.68
the doctrines of Rome
that the church had for me.
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So how we are going
to stop these protestors,
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they were called
Protestants, Lutherans.
00:53:43.79\00:53:49.52
If you're a
Lutheran your church started
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when Luther
understood this prophecy.
00:53:51.98\00:53:56.04
If you are
Methodist your church started
00:53:56.07\00:53:58.59
when the Wesley's
understood this prophecy.
00:53:58.62\00:54:02.08
Reform tradition your
church came into existence
00:54:02.11\00:54:05.44
when Calvin
understood this prophecy.
00:54:05.47\00:54:09.08
If you are
Baptist your church began
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when Roger Smith
understood this prophecy.
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Church says what
we are going to with
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these protestors
these Protestants.
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Protestant is nothing
more than one who believes
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in the world of God
only, scriptures alone.
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What are we going to
do with these Protestants,
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so they met at the
Council of Trent to discuss
00:54:33.14\00:54:35.66
this 18 years 1545
until 1563 one of the things
00:54:35.69\00:54:40.24
they taught
was, "If any one says
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that the man is
absolved from sins
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and saved through faith
alone, let him be accursed."
00:54:43.93\00:54:50.36
The Council of Trent, now
she has spoken like the dragon.
00:54:50.39\00:54:56.07
So why doesn't
everybody teach this today,
00:54:59.26\00:55:03.28
if all the Protestant
churches began this particular
00:55:03.31\00:55:06.59
interpretation
surprising answer.
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You see at the Council of Trent
they studied some other things
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and they were two
Jesuits, they came up
00:55:13.77\00:55:15.25
with two
interpretations of the prophecy
00:55:15.28\00:55:17.32
because all those Protestants
were pointing to Rome
00:55:17.35\00:55:19.58
saying you're the antichrist,
I already can feel about that.
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So Alcazar, Jesuit
scholars says, I got an idea.
00:55:24.23\00:55:28.21
I can show you how we can
prove that all the prophecies
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in the Book of Revelation
and the antichrist and the beast
00:55:31.40\00:55:34.68
are all dealing
with the past fulfilled
00:55:34.71\00:55:37.12
by Nero when it's all
ended, so we can't be the beast
00:55:37.15\00:55:41.13
that ended
hundreds of years ago.
00:55:41.16\00:55:46.33
It's called preterism.
00:55:46.36\00:55:48.36
Ribera said, I
got a better idea.
00:55:48.39\00:55:51.15
Looks like to me that
Jesus is coming in the future.
00:55:51.18\00:55:55.74
Antichrist is in the future,
00:55:55.77\00:55:57.28
so he put it all off
in the distant future.
00:55:57.31\00:56:01.56
We have been here 1500 years
00:56:01.59\00:56:03.16
so how can it be us,
we can't be antichrist.
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Most Protestants have
picked up that interpretation
00:56:09.75\00:56:15.15
followed by the left behind
series over 70 million copies
00:56:15.18\00:56:18.36
in print so which one is right?
00:56:18.39\00:56:23.10
Is it all in the
future, is it all in the past?
00:56:23.13\00:56:28.80
Or is it is I like
to call it interpreted
00:56:28.83\00:56:33.13
through the eyes of Christ.
00:56:33.16\00:56:35.36
We can know who the beast is.
00:56:42.65\00:56:48.23
Beast received the
deadly wound in 1798
00:56:48.26\00:56:51.77
but Revelation says the
deadly wound will be healed.
00:56:51.80\00:56:54.73
In a surprising way we are
going to see another world power
00:56:54.76\00:56:58.78
emerged based on the foundation
and the platform established
00:56:58.81\00:57:03.42
by the church of Dark Ages
in that evil church we are going
00:57:03.45\00:57:06.93
to see it again with more power
with more authority at the end
00:57:06.96\00:57:10.96
time when the deadly
wound is healed we can know
00:57:10.99\00:57:13.59
who the antichrist is, we
can know who the beast is,
00:57:13.62\00:57:16.85
but you better follow the Lamb
and you will never go astray.
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