The escalation of global
terrorism, crime, immorality
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and natural disasters,
seems to indicate our world
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is spiraling towards its
ultimate hour with destiny.
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Who, if anyone, will
survive Earth's final events?
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Discover what Bible prophecy
reveals about the rapture,
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the mark of the
beast, and Armageddon.
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Though shrouded in
mystery for centuries,
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the book of Revelation
can be understood today.
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Peer into the future,
and see what wonderful things
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God has planned for His people.
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And now, Pastor Brian
McMahon presents the powerful
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Bible seminar
"Revelation Speaks Hope".
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Our subject for this evening
is: "The Mark of the Beast"
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"And the Seal of God".
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I've been asking you to
pray because we need to.
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This subject that we're
going to cover tonight is one
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of the most serious subjects
that we could ever cover
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in the word of God.
Inquiring minds are asking
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questions about it.
Literally millions and millions
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of people down through the
ages have wondered about it.
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And God helping us
tonight, we're going to get the
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answers from God's word,
in a simple and clear way.
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It's really a
life and a death issue.
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As God brings this world of
sin to an end, there will be
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a crisis hour and there
will be a deciding issue
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that will cause people to have
to make a choice on which side
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of the issue they will
stand. If people considered
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themselves to be undecided
before then, at that time
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they will have to decide.
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In this message I want
you to know ahead of time
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that there is absolutely,
positively, no intent
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on my part or on anyone
else's part to ridicule anyone,
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or any church, we are
just here sharing the subject
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because we feel an
immense responsibility under God
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to share truth with everybody.
So let's turn to Revelation 14:
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[text on screen]
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If you ask the average person
about the mark of the beast
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they say: "Oh yes, I understand
all about that, that has to do"
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"with a cashless
society, that has to do with"
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"a no money system. We're just
going to all use credit cards,"
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"or something like that,
and that's going to be the mark"
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"of the beast. " Or
they'll say: "That's going"
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"to have to do with social
security", there was a time
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when people actually
thought getting social security
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was the mark of the beast, well
it's not, so relax some of you
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out there.
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But they'll say: "It'll
have to do with some kind of"
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"government identification
number, maybe it has to do"
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"with getting something
stamped in your forehead. "
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No matter what, they
say it has to do with money.
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The real issue has to do
with worship, never forget,
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you're going to hear me
say that before we're through
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once again. It
says in James 2:10:
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[text on screen]
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We know that it's talking
about the 10 commandments
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because James goes on
and talks about some of
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the 10 commandments, he
quotes murder and adultery,
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and these kinds of things.
So what we're told is that
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the law of God is very precious,
and we can't put ourselves
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against any part of it,
lest God consider that we're
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in rebellion against
all. We find Adam and Eve
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in the Garden of Eden,
and there, God gives special
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instruction about which trees
they can eat and which trees
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they can't eat of. He
says: "I've given you"
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"all of these trees of the
garden, but there is 1 tree"
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"in the midst of the
garden, the tree of knowledge"
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"of good and evil, you
can't eat of that tree. "
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Eve was off from her husband's
side, and she might have
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started to rationalize:
"Why can't we eat of that tree?"
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"We can eat of all these
other trees, fruit is fruit."
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"Why can't we
eat of this fruit?"
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She takes a piece of
that fruit and she eats of it,
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and look at all the grief
that this world has inherited
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because of that one
act of disobedience.
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If God says: "Whosoever
shall keep the whole law"
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"and yet offend in 1
point, he is guilty of all."
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If God says that, then I
believe God says what He means,
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and means what He says.
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Revelation 14:9, it
tells us this: [text on screen]
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Do you see those
2 words "in" there?
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You can circle them if you
have those in your King James
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Bible, if you don't
have a King James Bible,
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it'll probably say: "on
the forehead or on the hand",
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but the King James Bible says:
"in the forehead", "in the hand"
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Do you think there just
might be a difference between
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the meaning of "on
the forehead, on the hand"
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or "in the
forehead, in the hand"?
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There is a big difference
in understanding here,
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and if you don't understand
this you might miss the whole
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understanding of
the mark of the beast.
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God is telling us that
there is a special significance
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about the forehead and the
hand. Do you think it's talking
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about a time when
some government agency
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is going to ask you to
march down into the middle
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of this city, and there
in some government building
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they're going to ask you
to brace your neck because
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they're going to stamp you with
some kind of government mark?
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Do you think that's
what it's talking about?
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The issue of the mark of
the beast and the seal of God
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goes right to the
heart of who you worship,
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and why you worship,
that's what the real issue is.
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So don't be fooled by this
understanding that some people
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have, that the mark of the
beast is simply going to be
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something branded on a
person's forehead, or branded
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on a person's hand.
Look at Revelation 22:4:
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[text on screen]
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The book of Revelation uses the
expression "forehead" more than
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1 time, in fact, several times.
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Remember from opening night,
we studied that if you see
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something in the book of
Revelation, remember that all
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the rest of the books of the
Bible meet and have their end
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in that book. So
the thing for the Bible
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student to do is say: "If
the Revelation is talking"
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"about it, where else in the
Bible do we see that mentioned?"
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"Where else in the Bible
do we see that discussed"
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"and talked
about?" Go back there, look
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at the issue and then you'll
understand why Revelation's
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bringing it up
again. So let's do that,
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let's go back in our Bibles
to the book of Deuteronomy 6:5,
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the Scripture
says: [text on screen]
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Moses is writing that
the words of God are to be
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in 2 places, he says they
are to be in the forehead,
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that is "between the
eyes", and on the hand.
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That's on instance,
but let's get another one;
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you're in Deuteronomy,
go to Deuteronomy 11:18:
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[text on screen]
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They were to take these
words of God, and put them
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on their forehead
and on their hand.
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Do you think the Israelites
were then supposed to take
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some kind of writing
utensil and write out the words
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of the book of Deuteronomy
right there on the forehead,
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do you think that's
what God's talking about?
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When God says that they
were to take these words
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of God and put them
in their mind and heart,
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what are they supposed to
do, they are supposed to know it
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and they are to love it.
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When God says to them: "I
want My words on your hand",
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now what do you
suppose He's talking about?
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He wants them to live it, the
hand is a symbol of the life.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10: "Whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do,"
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"do with all thy might. "
So He wants them to know it,
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their heart to love
it, their hand to live it,
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God wanted that in the
Old Testament, do you think
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He wants it also in the
New Testament, do you think
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He wants it for
us? Yes He does folks.
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Let's go and look at
it, go to Hebrews 10,
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it says: [text on screen]
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To know what the mark of
the beast is very important,
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but to know what God's
mark is even more important
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because if we get God's
seal, we will not receive
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the mark of the beast.
So it's just as important
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to know what God's mark
is, wouldn't you say so?
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So let's put this mark
of the beast issue on hold
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just for a moment, and let's
look and see what God's seal is,
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because once you know
the seal, it makes the mark
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of the beast very easy to see.
Turn with me to Revelation 7:1,
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it says: [text on screen]
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Let me pause there, obviously
it's symbolic language again,
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the earth being round, it
doesn't have 4 exact corners
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to it, it speaks about
these angels representing
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the power of God, and it
says they are holding back
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the winds. Winds represent war,
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strife, turmoil, chaos,
disasters that are going
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to happen on the earth,
and Revelation is saying
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God is holding this back.
Friends, if you think it's bad
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right now, well as the old
saying is: "You ain't seen"
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"nothing yet. " God
is saying: "I'm holding"
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"these things back
until my people are ready",
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I want to be ready, don't you?
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I know you do, so let's
go on to verse 2, it says:
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[text on screen]
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What do we have
in our foreheads?
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We have our reason,
and our judgment center,
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our conscience, our ability
to weigh and make decisions
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for God, and the Lord
is saying: "That is where"
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"I'm going to place my seal,
right there among My children. "
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Notice it says who
He's going to seal, He says
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He's going to seal the servants.
So the seal is symbolically
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placed in the forehead, but
according to the word of God,
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what else did we
find was in the forehead
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according to Hebrews
10:16? We found the law of God
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was placed in the forehead,
so is there a connection
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between the law of God in the
forehead, and the seal of God
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that is placed in the forehead?
Of course there is a connection.
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A seal, essentially,
is a stamp of authority
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that's placed on documents.
I don't know if some of you
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have ever had a document
notarized, when you have
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a document
notarized, you put a seal on it,
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something that shows that
there's authority to back up
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that document. Well,
seals denote authority,
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and God has a seal,
and God's seal will denote
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His authority. Well
what give God authority?
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Have you ever wondered
that? We covered it on an
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earlier night, some
of you weren't here,
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what is it that God
uses to show His authority.
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Seals denote
authority, God has a seal,
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so His seal would show Him
as an authority in this matter,
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let's find out again
from Revelation what gives
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God authority. Revelation
4:11: [text on screen]
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"for" - which really means
"because", [text on screen]
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So we know that seals
are placed on documents.
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Did God ever give
this world a document?
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Oh, He did. What did
He write with His own
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finger on stone?
The 10 commandments,
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God gave this world a
10 commandment document,
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and look what it says
in Isaiah 8:16, it says:
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[text on screen]
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Does God want the law
sealed among His people?
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Yes He does. So
let's take a look
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at God's document, and find
out where this seal is placed.
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We know God has a seal,
seals are placed on documents,
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let's go back to the document
that God wrote with His finger
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on stone. I told
you that these things
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are issues that will divide
the world, and that we weren't
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studying it in vain, we're
studying it because Revelation
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uses this and really
brings it to the forefront.
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So we go back to
Exodus 20:8: [text on screen]
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When God began the 4th
commandment, He wisely began it
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with what word? "Remember".
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And if God began the 4th
commandment with the word
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"remember", it's
probably because most people
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would do what
with it? Forget it,
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and God didn't
want us to forget it.
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All of the other 9 commandments
are rooted and grounded
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in the 4th commandment because
it is in the 4th commandment
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that we find out who the
authority of this universe is.
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Without the 4th commandment
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the 10 commandments
would be "The 10 suggestions",
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because they
wouldn't have authority to it.
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You wouldn't know who it
is that gave this document
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to the world, but in the 4th
commandment, you do find out,
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and it's very simple. It goes
on and says: [text on screen]
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Friends, a seal, in order
for it to be a proper seal,
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has to have 3 things.
What are those 3 things
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that a seal
has? [text on screen]
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By name we mean
the name of the sealer;
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by title we mean what
authority or what office
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does this person
hold; by territory we mean
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what kingdom or what
territory does he rule over?
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Unless you have all 3
of those things, you really
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don't have a complete
seal of the one who rules
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because if you don't
have a name you don't know
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who you're talking about.
If you don't have the title
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you don't know what power
he has, or what office he has,
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and if you don't have
the territory, you don't know
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what he's ruling over.
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But in the 4th commandment
you find all 3 of these things.
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In the 4th commandment you
find out that the Lord's name
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is "the Lord your
God". In Isaiah 42:8 it says:
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"I am the Lord, that
is my name", so He says
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His name is "the Lord".
His title is "The Creator"
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because He's the maker
of all things, He says:
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"I made heaven and earth",
and the territory is just that,
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heaven and earth, the
sea, and all that in them is.
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So in the 4th
commandment, we find God's name,
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we find God's title,
we find God's territory,
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God places a seal, as it
were, upon that commandment
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and he says: "In that
commandment I have authority"
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"to give you
commandments." Has God given us
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a special sign of
His work upon the earth?
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What is that special sign?
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We looked at it the
other night in Exodus 31,
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I'm going to review it in
case you missed that night,
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in verse 17, speaking
of the 4th commandment,
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speaking of the 7th day
Sabbath in Exodus 31:17 it says:
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[text on screen]
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We know that the Christian
is a spiritual Israelite,
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we've studied that
also in Scripture, it says:
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[text on screen]
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It goes on in Exodus
31:13: [text on screen]
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So the Sabbath is a
sign not just that God
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is the creator, but
that God is making us holy
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by His strength and
power. As we walk with Him
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and keep His
commandments, He will make us
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sons and daughters of God.
So why do we keep the Sabbath?
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We keep the Sabbath
because: [text on screen]
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A seventh day Sabbath
keeper should be the most
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Christ centered person
on the face of the earth.
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Every time you keep it
you say: "The Lord is my God"
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"and He is making me
like Him by His strength."
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What will happen when
the same finger of God
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that wrote those commandments
on stone so many years ago
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and revealed them to
the world will then turn
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to people in the judgment
who have been throwing it off?
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I'll tell you what happens.
All the vain and superficial
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arguments that are used today,
all of the silly exceptions
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people make as to why
they don't have to follow God,
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all of the things that are
said will crumble like a house
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of cards, and people
will come face to face
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with the One who made heaven,
and earth, the sea and all
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that in them is, it's
going to be a sobering moment.
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Yet there'll be some that'll
say "Oh, but I just don't see"
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"the significance of it. "
Friends, maybe we don't see
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the significance, but if
God sees the significance,
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that's what matters isn't it?
It's not what we think anyway,
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it's what God
thinks that matters.
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I want to share something
with you before we move on
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because I think
it's very important.
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If we have broken God's
commandments, God has a way
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of escape. Can
the Sabbath save us?
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No, we're not saved by
the Sabbath, we're not saved
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by the law of God, we're
saved by God's marvelous grace.
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We're saved through the blood
of Jesus, but when we realize
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that it is through the blood
of Jesus that we are saved,
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and when we realize that
when Jesus died on the cross
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for the sins of the
world, it wasn't just a man
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that died there, it was
the Son of God that died there.
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And knowing that God
gave everything through Jesus,
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knowing that heaven
poured out its all to save us,
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that should grab our
hearts, that's what God intends.
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Grace was never given
that we could continue to be
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disobedient, grace was
given because we're disobedient,
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and God desired through grace
to lead us back to obedience.
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So Jesus didn't die so
we could do as we please
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and cast off His commandments,
any of His commandments.
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Revelation 14:12 He
says: [text on screen]
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God is drawing a
contrast here for us, isn't He?
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Pay special attention to what
I'm about to share with you,
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God is contrasting that which
is the mark of the beast issue
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with those who are
keeping the commandments of God.
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So if you were keeping
the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus, which
is the only way we could be
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obedient to Him, is
through the faith of Jesus,
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we would not be
receiving the mark of the beast.
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Are we making
ourselves clear now?
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Therefore, there are
2 worships spoken of,
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there is the worship that gives
glory to God as our creator,
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and there is the worship
that's worshipping the beast,
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and going a false way, and
these 2 things are in contrast,
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one to the other.
Therefore, the mark of the beast
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issue must do something
to the commandments of God,
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because if we're
keeping the commandments of God
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we wouldn't be
receiving the mark of the beast,
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so we should be looking
again at the law of God,
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which is what we said
at the beginning tonight.
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Somewhere the mark of the beast
causes people to transgress
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the law of God.
Remember a prophecy
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that we looked at our
last night together in the book
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of Daniel 7:25, and it says
that there will come a power
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that will think to
change God's time and His laws.
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So it's already predicted,
therefore, for the Bible student
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it's not surprising to
us because God has told us
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it would happen,
and God is always right.
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On Wednesday night we studied
the issue of the Antichrist.
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After Rome fell and
divided up into various parts,
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then prophecy directed
us towards a certain power
00:20:29.90\00:20:32.76
called the "little
horn" in Daniel 7, and it's
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the same exact power
that's the first beast
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of Revelation 13.
So we looked at this
00:20:38.18\00:20:40.61
little horn power in
Daniel 7:8, and we found out
00:20:40.64\00:20:43.33
that Bible gives us
a lot of information,
00:20:43.36\00:20:46.28
and that information is
the same kind of information
00:20:46.31\00:20:49.59
that the beast of
Revelation 13 is described as,
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so we know it's
the same exact power,
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God didn't want us to miss it,
so He described it in 2 books
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of the Bible, 1 in
Daniel, 1 in Revelation.
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In Daniel it was the
little horn, in Revelation it's
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the first beast of
chapter 13. I have a question:
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why did God chose to
represent this power as He did
00:21:06.39\00:21:12.34
in Revelation
13:1? Why did God chose
00:21:12.37\00:21:15.60
to represent this power
as the body of the leopard,
00:21:15.63\00:21:18.30
the feet of the bear
- that's Medo-Persia,
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the leopard's
Greece; mouth of the lion,
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that's Babylon, 10 horns,
that's Rome, why did God choose
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to represent this
power, this church/state system
00:21:25.32\00:21:28.10
of worship as having these
features of the other kingdoms
00:21:28.13\00:21:30.74
that have gone before
it? The answer is this:
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because when the
papacy was being set up
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it derived its teachings,
it derived its doctrines,
00:21:37.72\00:21:42.41
it derived its practices
not from the word of God,
00:21:42.44\00:21:46.83
but from these false systems
of religion that had gone
00:21:46.86\00:21:50.59
before it. They
no longer survived
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as political powers, but
their systems of religion
00:21:53.16\00:21:55.65
did survive on, and many
of them were incorporated
00:21:55.68\00:21:58.36
into the papacy, and
then the thing was cloaked
00:21:58.39\00:22:02.33
with a veneer of Christian
terminology, and then passed off
00:22:02.36\00:22:06.78
to the world as Christianity.
Friends, this is the falling
00:22:06.81\00:22:11.97
away from truth that God
talked about through Paul
00:22:12.00\00:22:15.70
in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, and
let's not kid ourselves tonight,
00:22:15.73\00:22:19.14
the only religion that's
going to lead us back to God
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is that which comes
from God. [Audience] Amen.
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.11
We can't go another
way and expect ourselves
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to be united to God.
Listen very carefully to what
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I'm about to say: as a
beast in Bible prophecy
00:22:30.46\00:22:34.43
represents a
kingdom, the mark of the beast
00:22:34.46\00:22:38.85
would be the identifying
characteristic of that kingdom.
00:22:38.88\00:22:42.71
It can't just be a
mark of what someone happens
00:22:42.74\00:22:44.78
to call the beast,
it has to be the mark
00:22:44.81\00:22:47.15
of the Biblical beast, the
one the Scriptures give us,
00:22:47.18\00:22:50.71
that's the only one
we're interested in.
00:22:50.74\00:22:52.90
So what's the identifying
characteristic of the power
00:22:52.93\00:22:57.88
that the Bible calls the
beast? Remember that Satan
00:22:57.91\00:23:01.27
is a counterfeiter,
so if the God has a seal,
00:23:01.30\00:23:05.13
and we've looked at what
God's seal is, then Satan would
00:23:05.16\00:23:08.75
probably counterfeit
that somehow, and bring that
00:23:08.78\00:23:11.84
into his system of worship.
I'm going to direct your
00:23:11.87\00:23:14.83
attention to the screen
at this moment, and I'm going
00:23:14.86\00:23:17.40
to show you a series of
slides, you might call it
00:23:17.43\00:23:19.84
a slide show, and we're
going to traces some things
00:23:19.87\00:23:22.94
that maybe you haven't
seen before, and you're going
00:23:22.97\00:23:24.65
to be very interested in this.
After the time of the flood
00:23:24.68\00:23:29.67
it didn't take very long
before false worship began
00:23:29.70\00:23:31.92
to raise its ugly head
again at the tower of Babel,
00:23:31.95\00:23:36.52
and there, Nimrod set himself
up as the king of the world,
00:23:36.55\00:23:39.33
and false religion started
to spread out over the world
00:23:39.36\00:23:42.28
as God destroyed that tower,
and the languages of the earth
00:23:42.31\00:23:45.73
were scrambled, and
people started to go off
00:23:45.76\00:23:48.38
into different places, and
false worship began to multiply.
00:23:48.41\00:23:51.62
The Pagans directed
their attention to the sun,
00:23:51.65\00:23:55.10
the moon and the suns.
Satan wanted to get their
00:23:55.13\00:23:58.28
attention off of the true
God and onto the creation,
00:23:58.31\00:24:01.56
and it wasn't
very difficult to do.
00:24:01.59\00:24:03.42
Ancient civilizations have
always worshipped these things,
00:24:03.45\00:24:06.47
especially the sun.
Here you see the pharaoh
00:24:06.50\00:24:08.61
lifting up golden
goblets to the sun God
00:24:08.64\00:24:10.87
because they worshipped the
sun. Babylon worshipped the sun,
00:24:10.90\00:24:13.46
Rome had a form of sun worship.
00:24:13.49\00:24:15.79
Here you find this
ancient carving of Semiramis,
00:24:15.82\00:24:18.36
she was the wife of
Nimrod. Nimrod was worshipped
00:24:18.39\00:24:20.98
as the sun God after
he died, and Semiramis
00:24:21.01\00:24:23.63
was worshipped as
the queen of the heavens,
00:24:23.66\00:24:25.89
and you find these 2 things,
some form of sun worship,
00:24:25.92\00:24:30.72
or some form of the
queen of the heavens
00:24:30.75\00:24:32.91
in many different kinds of
false worship around the world.
00:24:32.94\00:24:36.89
You might find it in different
names because of the languages,
00:24:36.92\00:24:40.31
but still, it goes back to
Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis.
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This is a picture that's
coming out of an occult book,
00:24:43.45\00:24:46.76
you see this woman, and
she's standing with serpents
00:24:46.79\00:24:49.88
at her feet, that should tip
you off that there's something
00:24:49.91\00:24:52.17
Satanic going on here, she's got
various symbols of the occult
00:24:52.20\00:24:55.39
in her hand; She's got a
sun disk behind her head.
00:24:55.42\00:24:58.39
This next picture comes
from a Catholic Catechism,
00:24:58.42\00:25:00.87
it's very similar in that Mary
is pictured here as standing
00:25:00.90\00:25:03.78
on the earth, she's
got a serpent at her feet,
00:25:03.81\00:25:06.22
she's got a crescent moon
at her feet, which is a symbol
00:25:06.25\00:25:08.95
of the occult, and
she's got a sun disk behind
00:25:08.98\00:25:11.92
the baby Jesus. I
know what you're thinking,
00:25:11.95\00:25:14.50
you're think that's a
halo. We're going to look
00:25:14.53\00:25:17.18
at this a little
deeper as we go into this.
00:25:17.21\00:25:19.95
So you put these 2 things
side by side, and it's amazing
00:25:19.98\00:25:22.77
how many times things are
taken out of the Pagan world
00:25:22.80\00:25:25.28
and transferred into
this false system of worship,
00:25:25.31\00:25:27.79
and many people
don't even realize it.
00:25:27.82\00:25:30.24
This sun disk is not
just, as we have been told,
00:25:30.27\00:25:33.78
a halo, but rather it's
found in all kinds of religions
00:25:33.81\00:25:37.67
around the world.
This one comes from
00:25:37.70\00:25:39.69
the Far East, you see a
sun disk behind his head.
00:25:39.72\00:25:43.18
Japan has been called
the Land of the Rising Sun,
00:25:43.21\00:25:46.44
it has a sun right in its flag.
00:25:46.47\00:25:48.74
This next one is from
the Near East, you see again
00:25:48.77\00:25:51.70
this Madonna
figure, mother/child figure,
00:25:51.73\00:25:54.07
and then you see a sun
disk behind that child.
00:25:54.10\00:25:57.00
It's a form of sun worship.
You also see it's been brought
00:25:57.03\00:26:00.79
into various
paintings of the medieval time.
00:26:00.82\00:26:04.41
They've brought the same
idea of sun worship in the form
00:26:04.44\00:26:06.70
of a sun disk and put
it into the paintings.
00:26:06.73\00:26:08.63
It's a mixture of symbolism,
Christianity and symbols
00:26:08.66\00:26:11.90
of Pagan worship. You
see it in a lot of different
00:26:11.93\00:26:14.56
forms, but that's the origin
of it, it's simply been taken in
00:26:14.59\00:26:17.94
and brought into the
various kinds of art.
00:26:17.97\00:26:20.40
This one is also a
painting from a Catholic figure,
00:26:20.43\00:26:24.28
and there you see again,
the sun disk behind the heads.
00:26:24.31\00:26:27.44
This next particular slide shows
you a picture of something that
00:26:27.47\00:26:30.34
was taken out of King Tut's
tomb. I was given the privilege
00:26:30.37\00:26:32.87
of going to Egypt, it was one
of the most fascinating trips
00:26:32.90\00:26:35.74
of my entire life, and
there I saw the treasures
00:26:35.77\00:26:38.61
of King Tut's tomb, and this
is one of them that was found
00:26:38.64\00:26:41.17
in his tomb, and
it's a winged serpent.
00:26:41.20\00:26:43.95
Now, the winged serpent should
be familiar to a Bible reader
00:26:43.98\00:26:46.78
because Satan came to Eve in
the form of a winged serpent,
00:26:46.81\00:26:49.68
and you'll find the
winged serpent also represented
00:26:49.71\00:26:52.01
also in a lot
of Pagan art forms.
00:26:52.04\00:26:54.02
Here is this woman bowing
down and offering up things
00:26:54.05\00:26:57.01
to the winged serpent,
representing the evil one.
00:26:57.04\00:27:00.97
This next slide is a picture
of a door from a Catholic church
00:27:01.00\00:27:05.54
in San Francisco, and it's
got the winged serpent on it
00:27:05.57\00:27:08.41
because they borrow a lot
of the symbols of the occult
00:27:08.44\00:27:11.01
and mixed them in
with their worship.
00:27:11.04\00:27:12.96
This next one is a
dragon, or a winged serpent,
00:27:12.99\00:27:15.65
it's the papal crest
found in the Vatican.
00:27:15.68\00:27:18.05
Again, a form of the
occult, symbol of evil.
00:27:18.08\00:27:23.74
Here you find this Egyptian
mummy, or the casket of it,
00:27:23.77\00:27:29.30
and in his hand you see a staff,
that's different than a simple
00:27:29.33\00:27:33.44
shepherd's staff.
This is a serpent's staff.
00:27:33.47\00:27:36.25
You see the band representing
the snake, and it's different
00:27:36.28\00:27:39.83
than a shepherd's staff,
this serpent staff is also found
00:27:39.86\00:27:43.28
in symbols of the Medieval
church, the papacy today.
00:27:43.31\00:27:47.12
You've got a snake on
his staff, you'll find it
00:27:47.15\00:27:52.81
in a lot of different clothing
and things that they wear.
00:27:52.84\00:27:58.85
This next slide is
also from King Tut's tomb,
00:27:58.88\00:28:02.00
and in King Tut's tomb
they had a lot of cultic things
00:28:02.03\00:28:04.88
as you might imagine in
Egypt, and here they have
00:28:04.91\00:28:07.28
a sun disk cradled in a crescent
moon, this is going back
00:28:07.31\00:28:13.33
to a lot of the
sexuality and sexual symbols
00:28:13.36\00:28:15.94
that they had in these
Pagan cults, and this sun disk
00:28:15.97\00:28:20.11
is popping up in all kinds
of ways, and the crescent moon
00:28:20.14\00:28:23.36
pops up in all kinds of
ways. Rather than put the sun
00:28:23.39\00:28:26.21
also in the crescent
moon, sometimes they just have
00:28:26.24\00:28:28.87
pictures of Mary
sitting in the crescent moon
00:28:28.90\00:28:31.15
showing her to be
goddess of fertility.
00:28:31.18\00:28:33.23
It's a different way of
showing it, but it's been
00:28:33.26\00:28:36.05
brought into the church.
This next slide shows this woman
00:28:36.08\00:28:39.27
and she is cradling
something in her hands, it's not
00:28:39.30\00:28:41.90
the baby Jesus this time,
she's put her foot on the earth
00:28:41.93\00:28:44.81
showing that she's represented
as the queen of the heavens,
00:28:44.84\00:28:47.56
but here she's got something
else that's she's cradling,
00:28:47.59\00:28:50.23
and you can look close
and see that it's a sun disk.
00:28:50.26\00:28:52.76
This is showing the
embracing of sun worship,
00:28:52.79\00:28:57.35
portrayed in a very
vivid fashion you might think.
00:28:57.38\00:29:00.18
In Catholic churches they have
often done this in subtle ways,
00:29:00.21\00:29:04.52
and sometimes not so subtle.
This is one of the churches
00:29:04.55\00:29:07.74
over in Rome, and you
see Mary portrayed up in
00:29:07.77\00:29:09.99
the front center, and
she's being exalted as queen
00:29:10.02\00:29:12.46
of the heavens, it's
form of female worship.
00:29:12.49\00:29:15.94
It's taking Semiramis, who was
exalted as queen of the heavens
00:29:15.97\00:29:18.92
and now they've
substituted Mary in its place.
00:29:18.95\00:29:22.22
This next slide
shows you the solar wheel.
00:29:22.25\00:29:24.82
The Pagans looked up at the
sun, and the moon and the stars,
00:29:24.85\00:29:27.84
and they divided it up
in what they call the houses
00:29:27.87\00:29:29.44
of the zodiac, it's
a wheel within a wheel;
00:29:29.47\00:29:31.74
this is a form of religion.
This solar wheel is also
00:29:31.77\00:29:36.57
pictured in many different
kinds of Pagan worship.
00:29:36.60\00:29:40.50
Here you find an altar, a very
ancient altar going all the way
00:29:40.53\00:29:43.02
back to the times of Babylon,
and you find a solar wheel
00:29:43.05\00:29:46.05
on top of this altar,
shows a type of their worship.
00:29:46.08\00:29:49.34
This next one vividly
portrays what is to be Mary,
00:29:49.37\00:29:52.35
she's got the
solar wheel in her lap,
00:29:52.38\00:29:55.43
it's showing an embracing
of the occult, she's got
00:29:55.46\00:29:57.95
the sun disk behind her head.
Just another way of showing
00:29:57.98\00:30:01.20
the mixture of these 2
things. Where do you suppose
00:30:01.23\00:30:03.98
the largest solar
wheel in the world is?
00:30:04.01\00:30:07.24
Well, in case you haven't
really looked at it before,
00:30:07.27\00:30:10.32
it's found right
there in Saint Peter's.
00:30:10.35\00:30:12.95
Right there in Saint
Peter's in the Vatican
00:30:12.98\00:30:15.51
they have this solar
wheel. It's really showing in
00:30:15.54\00:30:18.13
an absolute marvelous way
how they've taken the occult
00:30:18.16\00:30:20.65
into its very system of
worship. In the center of this
00:30:20.68\00:30:23.76
solar wheel you find
an obelisk, this obelisk
00:30:23.79\00:30:26.47
is a phallic symbol, and
there it was taken from Egyptian
00:30:26.50\00:30:30.02
sun worship temples.
It was floated across
00:30:30.05\00:30:33.02
the Mediterranean and set
up right there in the middle
00:30:33.05\00:30:35.73
of the Vatican, and at the
top of it it has a little globe
00:30:35.76\00:30:38.66
of the sun, again
showing what's behind it all.
00:30:38.69\00:30:42.16
One of the things that
the Pagans did was they wanted
00:30:42.19\00:30:44.55
to honor the fish God,
Dagon, and they thought
00:30:44.58\00:30:48.51
that the God Dagon rose up
from the seas in the morning
00:30:48.54\00:30:51.85
and became the
sun god during the day
00:30:51.88\00:30:54.76
and it was a continuous
cycle. They wore this fish cap
00:30:54.79\00:30:57.85
in honor of Dagon, the fish
god. You will find also that
00:30:57.88\00:31:01.41
the fish cap was worn in various
pictures of the priests as you
00:31:01.44\00:31:04.35
see them in articles on
the occult. Well, this also was
00:31:04.38\00:31:08.77
taken into the Medieval church,
the very cap that the popes
00:31:08.80\00:31:15.42
and cardinals wear, and bishops
wear, is a form of the fish cap
00:31:15.45\00:31:20.87
which is in
honor of the fish god.
00:31:20.90\00:31:23.31
One of the tell tale
signs of sun worship.
00:31:23.34\00:31:26.33
They also worshipped a lot of
other things because they were
00:31:26.36\00:31:29.25
very sexually licentious,
they had a lot of symbols
00:31:29.28\00:31:31.90
of fertility; the
pine cone was one of them.
00:31:31.93\00:31:34.68
You'll find that the
pine cone was in a lot of this
00:31:34.71\00:31:37.50
ancient art work, and
where do you suppose the largest
00:31:37.53\00:31:40.09
pine cone in the world is?
Well it's found in the court
00:31:40.12\00:31:42.66
of the pine cone
over there in the Vatican.
00:31:42.69\00:31:45.61
They've taken one of
the Pagan's greatest symbols
00:31:45.64\00:31:49.00
and simply brought it
right into the church.
00:31:49.03\00:31:51.00
The pope has the pine cone
on his staff, he wears the pine
00:31:51.03\00:31:54.50
cone on his breast
plate, he has that same kind
00:31:54.53\00:31:59.02
of fish cap, you'I
see his hand there.
00:31:59.05\00:32:01.62
His hand is slightly crooked,
it's not as tell tale as some
00:32:01.65\00:32:07.43
of these next pictures will
be, but he's using a certain
00:32:07.46\00:32:09.58
hand symbol there, it's
called the trident hand symbol.
00:32:09.61\00:32:12.06
This also was taken from the
occult, it is one of the highest
00:32:12.09\00:32:15.53
symbols of cultic
worship, it's called the trident
00:32:15.56\00:32:18.04
hand symbol. This
picture that you see
00:32:18.07\00:32:19.89
on the screen is a picture that
was originally the God, Jupiter,
00:32:19.92\00:32:24.57
one of the Roman
gods. They took this statue,
00:32:24.60\00:32:27.25
they made a few alterations
on it, and they renamed it
00:32:27.28\00:32:30.01
St. Peter, and it's tragic
that many millions of people
00:32:30.04\00:32:33.34
have marched by this through
the years and have kissed
00:32:33.37\00:32:36.26
the toe of this statue
thinking it was St. Peter,
00:32:36.29\00:32:39.06
and that would be bad enough,
but it actually is the statue
00:32:39.09\00:32:41.60
of an ancient sun
god. This has been adopted
00:32:41.63\00:32:44.94
into the church as the
hand symbol that has been used
00:32:44.97\00:32:47.92
by many of the popes, and you
simply put these 2 side by side
00:32:47.95\00:32:50.63
and you can see that
they didn't vary very much
00:32:50.66\00:32:53.41
from what the Pagans were
doing, they simply took the same
00:32:53.44\00:32:55.94
symbols and they put them
side by side, and they can see
00:32:55.97\00:32:58.96
that they've adopted
them into the church.
00:32:58.99\00:33:01.18
This is one of the
popes of years gone by.
00:33:01.21\00:33:04.66
I come from Canada and I
was going to the post office
00:33:04.69\00:33:08.74
one day and I happened
to buy some postage stamps
00:33:08.77\00:33:11.79
and I saw this particular
postage stamp, and it really
00:33:11.82\00:33:13.96
caught my eye because of
what I'm sharing with you here.
00:33:13.99\00:33:16.86
It's stamp that has a
priest wearing the attire of
00:33:16.89\00:33:20.85
the priest, he's got
the fish cap on his head,
00:33:20.88\00:33:22.99
there's one Pagan symbol,
he's got the sun behind him,
00:33:23.02\00:33:25.55
again showing sun
worship, there's another one;
00:33:25.58\00:33:27.57
he's got the
serpent staff in his hand
00:33:27.60\00:33:29.57
and he's using the trident
cultic symbol on his other hand,
00:33:29.60\00:33:32.51
and 4 occulting
symbols in 1 postage stamp,
00:33:32.54\00:33:35.17
I think they overdid it a
little here, but nevertheless,
00:33:35.20\00:33:38.18
you see this, and people
don't often realize what it
00:33:38.21\00:33:40.86
goes back to, but it
goes back to Pagan worship,
00:33:40.89\00:33:43.81
you find it brought into a lot
of the literature and art work
00:33:43.84\00:33:46.58
on Jesus. Here you
find the sun behind
00:33:46.61\00:33:49.37
His head, and the
cultic sign in His hand,
00:33:49.40\00:33:52.31
and you also see the sacred
bleeding heart on His chest.
00:33:52.34\00:33:55.05
The sacred bleeding heart
was also a symbol of the Pagans
00:33:55.08\00:33:58.65
who thought the heart
was a very necessary thing
00:33:58.68\00:34:02.00
to offer up to
their gods in sacrifice,
00:34:02.03\00:34:03.94
and they did that, I
won't go into any more detail
00:34:03.97\00:34:06.15
on it, but it doesn't have
anything to do with Christianity
00:34:06.18\00:34:08.71
in symbolizing it
here. The Roman bath houses
00:34:08.74\00:34:11.98
had sun faces because
they worshipped the sun,
00:34:12.01\00:34:15.22
and the sun faces have
been brought into symbols of
00:34:15.25\00:34:17.33
the church. This
particular one is of
00:34:17.36\00:34:19.47
a Catholic
church in Scandinavia.
00:34:19.50\00:34:22.18
You find them in all
kinds of other churches in Rome,
00:34:22.21\00:34:25.87
you find them in various kinds
of forms, this one is a spirit
00:34:25.90\00:34:28.51
face, or a sun face, is
found in the Vatican treasury,
00:34:28.54\00:34:31.70
not very nice to look
at, but it's one of the most
00:34:31.73\00:34:34.37
treasured thing that they have.
This is another Catholic church,
00:34:34.40\00:34:37.17
a simple sun face
showing sun worship.
00:34:37.20\00:34:39.95
The various gods of the
Pagans used to hold the sun
00:34:39.98\00:34:42.94
in their hands, this is
Isis, she's using the cultic
00:34:42.97\00:34:47.49
symbol in the one hand, holding
the globe in her other hand.
00:34:47.52\00:34:50.67
This had been brought
into statues that have been
00:34:50.70\00:34:53.36
used in the Catholic church,
this one is of the baby Jesus
00:34:53.39\00:34:56.64
holding the globe in one
hand and using the same cultic
00:34:56.67\00:34:59.34
sign in the other. A
little bit older picture
00:34:59.37\00:35:01.90
of Jesus here, same
exact thing being portrayed,
00:35:01.93\00:35:04.72
even the pope's tiara,
and the pope has more than
00:35:04.75\00:35:07.78
1 tiara, and even the
pope's tiaras have the sun globe
00:35:07.81\00:35:10.67
on top of it, you'll
see it on the tops of a lot
00:35:10.70\00:35:13.40
of their steeples in
churches, showing the bring in
00:35:13.43\00:35:16.30
of sun worship.
This particular statue
00:35:16.33\00:35:19.27
is one that I really find
so amazing, and so remarkably
00:35:19.30\00:35:22.98
revealing in what it's
supposed to be portraying.
00:35:23.01\00:35:25.33
You see the Virgin
Mary, she's the main figure,
00:35:25.36\00:35:28.58
and she's driving away
from her 2 protestant reformers.
00:35:28.61\00:35:32.71
The Protestant reformation
was based on the Bible
00:35:32.74\00:35:34.93
and the Bible alone as the rule
and practice of the Christian,
00:35:34.96\00:35:38.44
and here she's driving
them away because the Catholic
00:35:38.47\00:35:41.44
church is rejecting the
reformation, and you see
00:35:41.47\00:35:44.06
a little angel in the bottom
corner, and the angel is ripping
00:35:44.09\00:35:47.57
pages out of a book, and
what book do you think that is?
00:35:47.60\00:35:50.84
The Bible, because
they're showing their contempt
00:35:50.87\00:35:52.88
for the word of God, because
they decided in the Council
00:35:52.91\00:35:55.28
of Trent that they were
going to take the words of popes
00:35:55.31\00:35:58.18
and traditions above the word
of God if the 2 should conflict,
00:35:58.21\00:36:00.79
so they're showing that
they didn't want the word of God
00:36:00.82\00:36:03.79
to be the basis of their faith.
This next quote is also one
00:36:03.82\00:36:06.55
that I find interesting, it's
taken from the "Development"
00:36:06.58\00:36:09.52
"of Christian Doctrine", page
372, it says: [text on screen]
00:36:09.55\00:36:14.35
This is one of the Catholic
cardinals that said this,
00:36:22.31\00:36:25.90
what were some of these outward
ornaments that the Pagans
00:36:25.93\00:36:28.75
were using that was taken
into the church in the time
00:36:28.78\00:36:31.40
of the Dark Ages, he
says: [text on screen]
00:36:31.43\00:36:34.99
So this Catholic Cardinal's
simply saying all of these
00:36:48.38\00:36:51.03
things began as Pagan
practices, but we brought them
00:36:51.06\00:36:53.61
into the church, and therefore
they're accepted because
00:36:53.64\00:36:56.74
we did so. You might
notice in that picture
00:36:56.77\00:36:59.58
2 colors being very portrayed,
one is purple and one is
00:36:59.61\00:37:04.94
scarlet, in this next
one perhaps we'll see it
00:37:04.97\00:37:07.93
a little more clearly, one
is purple and one is scarlet.
00:37:07.96\00:37:12.08
If you look in Revelation 17
you see a woman riding a beast,
00:37:12.11\00:37:15.63
and she's called the mother
of all harlots, and 2 colors
00:37:15.66\00:37:19.21
are used to describe her,
and those 2 colors are purple
00:37:19.24\00:37:22.97
and scarlet. It also
says she holds a golden
00:37:23.00\00:37:26.24
cup in her hand.
There is only 1 church
00:37:26.27\00:37:28.63
on the face of the
earth that uses the golden cup
00:37:28.66\00:37:31.28
as the very highlight of
its service, when it holds it up
00:37:31.31\00:37:34.15
it is the climax of that
particular mass, and that is
00:37:34.18\00:37:36.85
of course, the Catholic
faith. Very very vivid in what
00:37:36.88\00:37:40.58
Revelation describes it as.
It also tells us that there is
00:37:40.61\00:37:43.66
a mysterious number that is used
to help identify this power.
00:37:43.69\00:37:46.84
666 is not the mark of
the beast, but 666 is a number
00:37:46.87\00:37:50.09
that is to help us to
understand what the beast is.
00:37:50.12\00:37:52.48
It's found in Revelation
13:18: [text on screen]
00:37:52.51\00:37:57.28
In other words, 666.
The Catholic church was once
00:38:06.57\00:38:09.66
asked this
question: [text on screen]
00:38:09.69\00:38:12.68
This is when the pope had it
on his crown, it's since been
00:38:16.00\00:38:19.08
removed, and
you'll find out why.
00:38:19.11\00:38:21.56
They answered and they
said his: [text on screen]
00:38:21.59\00:38:25.57
That was taken from "Our
Sunday Visitor", April 18, 1915.
00:38:30.68\00:38:34.25
So one of the official titles
that they gave the pope was:
00:38:34.28\00:38:37.41
[text on screen]
00:38:37.44\00:38:39.74
Our last night we realized
that the word "Antichrist"
00:38:39.78\00:38:42.94
means "one who puts
himself in place of God",
00:38:42.97\00:38:45.64
that's the very meaning
of the phrase, and they use
00:38:45.67\00:38:48.71
this very term, which also
means "one who puts himself"
00:38:48.74\00:38:51.89
"in the place of God", and
let's look at this very title
00:38:51.92\00:38:54.79
that's used by the
Catholic church and offered up
00:38:54.82\00:38:56.86
as one of his official
titles. The official language
00:38:56.89\00:38:59.62
of the church is Latin, and
you've maybe studied in school
00:38:59.65\00:39:03.89
Roman numerals, I
understand it's probably been
00:39:03.92\00:39:05.75
a really long time since you've
ever used used Roman numerals,
00:39:05.78\00:39:08.40
but here's one reason why you
might just have learned them:
00:39:08.43\00:39:11.18
some Roman numerals
have numerical value to them,
00:39:11.21\00:39:15.66
so using this official Latin
title, let's put the values
00:39:15.69\00:39:20.21
to these letters in the pope's
title "Vicarius Filii Dei",
00:39:20.24\00:39:23.81
[text on screen]
00:39:23.84\00:39:25.88
When you add up those
letters and the numerical value
00:39:35.28\00:39:39.23
of those
letters, it comes to 666.
00:39:39.26\00:39:42.05
That's not by coincidence.
The Pagans would often use
00:39:42.08\00:39:46.89
titles that added up to 666
because their religion was so
00:39:46.92\00:39:50.85
saturated with the sun worship,
and the number 6 was very
00:39:50.88\00:39:57.08
important in sun worship,
it goes all the way back
00:39:57.11\00:39:59.70
to the time of Babylon.
Babylon used 6 as the root
00:39:59.73\00:40:02.65
of their mathematical
calculations, today we use 10,
00:40:02.68\00:40:05.82
but they used 6, so
that's why we have 60 seconds
00:40:05.85\00:40:08.31
to the minute, that goes
all the way back to Babylon.
00:40:08.34\00:40:10.70
60 minutes to the hour,
360 degrees to a circle,
00:40:10.73\00:40:13.84
we did get something things
from Babylon that were useful
00:40:13.87\00:40:17.02
I guess; but that's
because Babylonians used 6
00:40:17.05\00:40:20.41
as the root of the calculations,
so we find 666 being mentioned
00:40:20.44\00:40:24.58
because it directs us to
identify the beast power.
00:40:24.61\00:40:28.12
God has a number that's
often used in Revelation,
00:40:28.15\00:40:30.80
and that's the number
7. God's number's showing
00:40:30.83\00:40:34.33
His completeness, of His
perfect will, but Revelation
00:40:34.36\00:40:37.52
shows us that 666 is a number
of the beast, it's a falling
00:40:37.55\00:40:40.76
short of God's will,
falling short of that which is
00:40:40.79\00:40:43.79
the perfect thing of
God. So throughout Revelation
00:40:43.82\00:40:47.08
we see this number 7
representing perfection
00:40:47.11\00:40:49.92
or completeness of the
will of God, 6 is the opposite,
00:40:49.95\00:40:52.77
it's the number of man,
and that's why it's so perfect
00:40:52.80\00:40:55.05
for calculating out the
beast power, because it's
00:40:55.08\00:40:57.86
showing man's will
in place of God's will.
00:40:57.89\00:41:01.04
So what is the future of
this topic, in other words,
00:41:01.07\00:41:04.50
what are the issues
that are going to come?
00:41:04.53\00:41:06.70
It's about worship, it's
all about God's worship versus
00:41:06.73\00:41:11.04
man's worship. I
started going into this
00:41:11.07\00:41:13.80
slide presentation by
asking you the question:
00:41:13.83\00:41:17.50
which power was it that claimed
to be able to change God's law?
00:41:17.53\00:41:20.87
What is the actual
mark of that beast system?
00:41:20.90\00:41:24.07
I'm going to share
with you some testimony,
00:41:24.10\00:41:26.27
and I want to make it clear
that this is Catholic testimony,
00:41:26.30\00:41:29.05
this is not something
your speaker is making up,
00:41:29.08\00:41:31.70
this testimony comes from
the very church which we're
00:41:31.73\00:41:34.43
discussing tonight,
here's the first quote, it says:
00:41:34.46\00:41:37.48
[text on screen]
00:41:37.51\00:41:39.79
So it's saying the pope even
has control over those things,
00:41:46.17\00:41:48.65
this is taken from the
Catholic's own dictionary,
00:41:48.68\00:41:50.72
the article on the
pope. Let's go to another one,
00:41:50.75\00:41:54.16
it says: [text on screen]
00:41:54.19\00:41:56.72
So it says that because
the pope has all this power,
00:42:01.10\00:42:03.78
they can go on and they
say therefore he can even make
00:42:03.81\00:42:05.98
divine laws. The Catholic
Catechism has a question/answer
00:42:06.01\00:42:10.35
section where they
say: [text on screen]
00:42:10.38\00:42:13.63
Isn't it amazing how
the Catholic are so positive
00:42:15.87\00:42:18.24
about it because they
are right on this, and yet
00:42:18.27\00:42:20.94
the Protestant world has such
a hard time understanding it,
00:42:20.97\00:42:23.53
the Catholic church is
not fooled by this issue.
00:42:23.56\00:42:26.31
They go on and they ask
themselves the question:
00:42:26.34\00:42:28.44
why do we observe
Sunday instead of Saturday?
00:42:28.47\00:42:31.01
The answer they give
is this: [text on screen]
00:42:31.04\00:42:34.81
So they're saying "Yes,
we took the sacredness of it"
00:42:40.63\00:42:43.09
"and be brought it over to
the Sunday, and we declared"
00:42:43.12\00:42:46.16
"Sunday to now be
the Christian Sabbath."
00:42:46.19\00:42:48.71
One particular priest,
a very well known priest,
00:42:48.74\00:42:51.69
Father Enright, who wrote
largely on this subject said:
00:42:51.72\00:42:53.58
[text on screen]
00:42:53.61\00:42:55.72
There is no such law in the
Bible, it is the law of the holy
00:42:59.08\00:43:02.08
Catholic church
alone. The Bible says:
00:43:02.11\00:43:04.52
"Remember that thou
keep holy the Sabbath day",
00:43:04.55\00:43:08.09
the Catholic church
says: [text on screen]
00:43:08.12\00:43:11.51
Isn't that amazing that
they say by their power they can
00:43:16.52\00:43:20.05
abolish God's commandments
and command others to do so.
00:43:20.08\00:43:22.57
Okay, he says
this: [text on screen]
00:43:22.60\00:43:25.57
Don't you see, they
understand that this is an issue
00:43:33.86\00:43:37.06
of worship, they say "the
world bows down at our feet"
00:43:37.09\00:43:39.34
"because they are following
what we declared to be right."
00:43:39.37\00:43:44.35
What specifically then
is the mark of the beast?
00:43:44.38\00:43:46.42
The mark of the beast must be
the sign of the Roman church's
00:43:46.45\00:43:50.51
authority. What do
they say gives them
00:43:50.54\00:43:53.38
this authority?
They say they can make
00:43:53.41\00:43:56.34
laws, what do they say is
the sign of this authority
00:43:56.37\00:43:59.67
that they have, this next
quote will be amazing to you,
00:43:59.70\00:44:03.68
this is C.F. Thomas, Chancellor
of Cardinal Gibbons said:
00:44:03.71\00:44:07.41
[text on screen]
00:44:07.44\00:44:09.56
What change are
they talking about?
00:44:10.30\00:44:12.76
The change of the Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday, it goes on:
00:44:12.79\00:44:15.65
[text on screen]
00:44:15.68\00:44:17.73
"Ecclesiastical" means
church power, so they say
00:44:20.91\00:44:24.51
"the change of the Sabbath
is mark of our authority"
00:44:24.54\00:44:28.66
"in religious matters. "
One more, "Catholic Record",
00:44:28.69\00:44:32.51
they said: [text on screen]
00:44:32.54\00:44:35.28
Folks, that's about as
clear as you can make it,
00:44:40.98\00:44:43.68
[text on screen]
00:44:43.71\00:44:45.54
So what's the central
issue that we're talking about?
00:44:49.86\00:44:52.31
The central issue in the
book of Revelation is worship.
00:44:52.34\00:44:56.08
God says to worship His
way, and the beast power says:
00:44:56.11\00:44:59.85
"No, we can make divine
law, and you are to worship"
00:44:59.88\00:45:02.53
"in our way, and if you
follow what we're doing,"
00:45:02.56\00:45:04.86
"you're bowing down to
us. " In Daniel 7:25 it says
00:45:04.89\00:45:08.42
there will be a power to
think to change God's times
00:45:08.45\00:45:11.26
and laws, Daniel predicted it,
and the amazing thing is that
00:45:11.29\00:45:16.13
the church that we're talking
about tonight readily admits it.
00:45:16.16\00:45:19.76
I showed you this slide
on Wednesday night, and I'm
00:45:19.79\00:45:21.85
going to show it to you
again and fill in the blank...
00:45:21.88\00:45:23.23
In Daniel 7 and in Revelation
13 these 2 chapters parallel
00:45:23.26\00:45:28.75
each other, they both show
us the progression of history
00:45:28.78\00:45:33.28
through the Pagan kingdoms
of Babylon, Medo-Persia,
00:45:33.31\00:45:35.25
Greece and Rome, through
the lion, the bear, the leopard
00:45:35.28\00:45:36.97
and the dragon, then
they show us the 10 horns,
00:45:37.00\00:45:38.64
the divisions of Rome,
they show us the mouth speaking
00:45:38.67\00:45:40.92
great things, which is
the rise of the papacy.
00:45:40.95\00:45:43.22
They're giving us a history
lesson, they show us the warring
00:45:43.25\00:45:46.16
on the saints that was
about to occur, both of them
00:45:46.19\00:45:48.72
parallel each
other all the way down.
00:45:48.75\00:45:51.29
Then they show us the
overcoming of the saints,
00:45:51.32\00:45:53.84
in Revelation it says
he's going to rule 42 months,
00:45:53.87\00:45:56.77
Daniel again, has a parallel
to that, he says 3 and a half
00:45:56.80\00:45:59.77
years, so if these 2 chapters
parallel all the way down
00:45:59.80\00:46:02.67
and Revelation says that
the beast power, which is what
00:46:02.70\00:46:05.28
Revelation calls it, has a
mark, then Daniel, which uses
00:46:05.31\00:46:09.28
the sign of the little
horn, will have a parallel
00:46:09.31\00:46:11.36
to what Revelation
says. So yes, Revelation says
00:46:11.39\00:46:14.04
the beast has a mark,
Daniel says: "... he will seek"
00:46:14.07\00:46:17.50
"to change times and law".
It's the changing of the times
00:46:17.53\00:46:21.46
and the laws that's
the mark of the beast,
00:46:21.49\00:46:24.95
it's his show, or boasting of
authority, to be able to change
00:46:24.98\00:46:30.15
what God wrote with
His finger on stone.
00:46:30.18\00:46:33.68
In Webster's Dictionary we find
that Sunday is defined as this:
00:46:33.71\00:46:38.18
[text on screen]
00:46:38.21\00:46:40.32
So remember that God has
truths that we're to follow
00:46:44.81\00:46:47.23
as Jesus gives them to
us, the Bible is our word
00:46:47.26\00:46:50.76
of authority, the sacrifice
of Christ, we went through
00:46:50.79\00:46:53.32
all of these
things just a moment ago.
00:46:53.35\00:46:56.15
Everything that God gives
us is to be a beautiful part
00:46:56.18\00:46:58.45
of our faith, Satan comes up
with some kind of counterfeit
00:46:58.48\00:47:00.91
to take it all away,
and when we're told that God
00:47:00.94\00:47:04.22
has a special day that we
are to keep holy unto Him,
00:47:04.25\00:47:07.58
sacred, that is to
renew our communion with Him
00:47:07.61\00:47:11.02
in a very wonderful way, Satan
says: "I'm going to put myself"
00:47:11.05\00:47:13.52
"against it, I can't have that,
I've got to corrupt it too",
00:47:13.55\00:47:17.66
so what does he do? He
brings in the counterfeit,
00:47:17.69\00:47:20.02
and he says: "I'm going to
change that to a different day"
00:47:20.05\00:47:22.38
"and they will
lose the meaning of it."
00:47:22.41\00:47:24.87
That is why the
multitudes of people
00:47:24.90\00:47:28.31
that keep a different
day, and I'm saying this
00:47:28.34\00:47:30.60
with as much kindness
and love that I can express,
00:47:30.63\00:47:33.38
because I recognize many
of you have done this as I did
00:47:33.41\00:47:35.55
for many years, that's
why people that worship
00:47:35.58\00:47:39.43
on a different day lose the
significance behind the Sabbath.
00:47:39.46\00:47:45.59
Here's a quote also
from a Catholic authority,
00:47:45.62\00:47:48.70
and they said, this is Cardinal
Gibbons, a very high authority:
00:47:48.73\00:47:54.50
[text on screen]
00:47:54.53\00:47:56.71
He draws the line, he says:
"Either you will come over"
00:48:07.34\00:48:09.76
"on our side and keep Sunday,
or you'll go with the Bible"
00:48:09.79\00:48:12.72
"and you'll keep Saturday",
isn't that amazing that
00:48:12.75\00:48:15.44
they would mention
that? I was holding a meeting
00:48:15.47\00:48:18.35
in Michigan in 1995. In
1995 a Catholic priest in his
00:48:18.38\00:48:23.46
Sunday morning service published
a bulletin, as many churches
00:48:23.49\00:48:26.60
do publish bulletins, and
in their bulletin this is what
00:48:26.63\00:48:29.56
it said: [text on screen]
00:48:29.59\00:48:32.25
I'm going to ask you a question:
do you think along with me
00:48:54.09\00:48:57.69
that the Scriptures
should be our sole authority?
00:48:57.72\00:49:00.11
- [Audience] Amen. - In
other words, the Scriptures
00:49:00.14\00:49:02.62
are what all things must
be compared to, this Catholic
00:49:02.65\00:49:05.33
priest said
this: [text on screen]
00:49:05.36\00:49:08.14
- [Audience] Amen. -
Isn't it amazing that it takes
00:49:14.44\00:49:18.16
a Catholic priest to state
the obvious, that if you want
00:49:18.19\00:49:21.80
to go with the Bible
then keep the Sabbath.
00:49:21.83\00:49:25.91
I tell you folks,
this issue is clear.
00:49:25.94\00:49:29.55
It's so clear that a Catholic
priest could have stood up
00:49:29.58\00:49:32.37
and said what I just said,
and Jesus said in Matthew 15:9:
00:49:32.40\00:49:37.09
[text on screen]
00:49:37.12\00:49:39.19
When we put the
traditions of men in the place
00:49:42.71\00:49:47.60
of the commandments of
God, Jesus said that's a vain
00:49:47.63\00:49:50.39
worship because "you're doing
what I did not approve of".
00:49:50.42\00:49:52.92
Paul said it this way in
Romans 6:16: [text on screen]
00:49:52.95\00:49:57.43
And again, the Catholic church
said: "Lo, the entire civilized"
00:50:04.38\00:50:07.48
"world bows down in
reverence to the command"
00:50:07.51\00:50:11.43
"of the holy Catholic church.
" They know it, they say:
00:50:11.46\00:50:14.34
"They're obeying us, they're our
servants because they're doing"
00:50:14.37\00:50:17.48
"what we said".
Paul the apostle said
00:50:17.51\00:50:20.17
the same thing, if you
obey a power, you're the servant
00:50:20.20\00:50:22.98
of that power.
00:50:23.01\00:50:24.78
Friends, the Bible tells
us that this power that we're
00:50:24.81\00:50:27.68
talking about tonight, and
again, I want to remind us all
00:50:27.71\00:50:30.55
that there are many Godly and
loving, and God fearing people
00:50:30.58\00:50:33.39
in that faith, that
these people need to be aware
00:50:33.42\00:50:36.04
of what the Bible has to say,
and the Bible has some things
00:50:36.07\00:50:38.38
to say to Protestants
too, we're going to be talking
00:50:38.41\00:50:40.86
about that tomorrow morning,
I hope that you'll be here,
00:50:40.89\00:50:43.47
but the Bible does tell us that
this power is going to rise up
00:50:43.50\00:50:46.34
and be very prominent in the
last days, you're going to be
00:50:46.37\00:50:49.06
able to see people
wondering after it, you're going
00:50:49.09\00:50:51.58
to see masses of
people going out after it,
00:50:51.61\00:50:54.04
and when the hold these huge
services, do you see the person
00:50:54.07\00:50:57.66
leading out holding up a
Bible and directing people
00:50:57.69\00:51:00.45
towards the
Bible? You don't see it.
00:51:00.48\00:51:02.72
Why? Because their agenda is not
00:51:02.75\00:51:05.13
to have you following the
Bible, but to have you follow
00:51:05.16\00:51:07.83
this power because their
agenda is political as well as
00:51:07.86\00:51:10.41
religious. So
yes, you see people
00:51:10.44\00:51:13.28
following after the very power
that the Bible said they would,
00:51:13.31\00:51:16.23
and you see political
leaders doing the same
00:51:16.26\00:51:18.91
because the Bible also tells
us that the kings of the earth
00:51:18.94\00:51:21.71
would follow after that power
before things were through.
00:51:21.74\00:51:24.28
So the papacy has
gained back the prominence,
00:51:24.31\00:51:27.03
the deadly wound is being
healed, and it's coming back
00:51:27.06\00:51:29.53
to the place that it held before
where it could dictate its will
00:51:29.56\00:51:31.92
to the kings of the
earth, and they would follow it.
00:51:31.95\00:51:34.50
So here's the question to us as
Christians and Bible students:
00:51:34.53\00:51:37.65
do we follow a power that though
it is of man, boasts itself
00:51:37.68\00:51:40.51
to be in the place of
God, or do we follow the One
00:51:40.54\00:51:44.65
that though He was God,
put Himself in the place of man
00:51:44.68\00:51:48.60
to win us back to Him?
"As for me and my house,"
00:51:48.63\00:51:50.84
"we'll follow Jesus",
amen? [Audience] Amen.
00:51:50.87\00:51:53.58
Are other interpretations
given of the mark of the beast?
00:51:53.61\00:51:57.10
Yes, other
interpretations are given.
00:51:57.13\00:51:59.58
Are other
interpretations believed?
00:51:59.61\00:52:01.97
Yes, other interpretations are
believed, but that doesn't mean
00:52:02.00\00:52:04.99
that they're right.
Friends, other interpretations
00:52:05.02\00:52:07.68
other than what you've heard
tonight, because they don't
00:52:07.71\00:52:10.26
come from the Bible,
they might as well be like
00:52:10.29\00:52:12.81
Snow White and the 7
Dwarfs, they might as well be
00:52:12.84\00:52:15.78
like Alice in Wonderland,
they're not the truth.
00:52:15.81\00:52:18.64
People can tell me that
I'm wrong, people can tell me
00:52:18.67\00:52:21.28
I'm all wet behind
the ears, I don't care,
00:52:21.31\00:52:23.87
I'm going to go with what
the Bible because I want to go
00:52:23.90\00:52:26.38
to heaven. I'm
serious about following
00:52:26.41\00:52:28.98
Jesus, aren't
you? I know you are.
00:52:29.01\00:52:31.61
The Bible tells us that
the issue is very plain.
00:52:31.64\00:52:34.76
I've been speaking to you
for the better part of an hour
00:52:34.79\00:52:37.87
and a quarter, I'm
going to put these issues
00:52:37.90\00:52:40.38
in just 30 seconds,
a minute at the most.
00:52:40.41\00:52:44.54
Scripture tells us that
there is a call that goes out
00:52:44.57\00:52:52.09
in the last days, that
call is to fear God and give
00:52:52.12\00:52:56.62
glory to Him for the
hour of His judgment is come,
00:52:56.65\00:53:00.24
and worship Him that made heaven
and earth, the sea and fountains
00:53:00.27\00:53:03.71
of waters, there's only
1 commandment that tells us
00:53:03.74\00:53:06.38
how to do that, and
that's the 4th commandment.
00:53:06.41\00:53:09.07
The same passage in
Revelation says: "don't worship"
00:53:09.10\00:53:11.66
"the beast and don't worship
its image, and don't take"
00:53:11.69\00:53:15.40
"its mark", and beast power
says "We changed the Sabbath"
00:53:15.43\00:53:18.64
"and that's our mark", and
there you've got the 2 issues
00:53:18.67\00:53:21.79
right there:
God's way and man's way.
00:53:21.82\00:53:25.51
You remember when we
started out tonight and I said
00:53:25.54\00:53:27.99
the mark of the beast is
going somehow to transgress
00:53:28.02\00:53:30.58
the law of God because it's sin
that will keep us out of heaven?
00:53:30.61\00:53:34.08
Well here it is, it's the
one commandment where God said:
00:53:34.11\00:53:38.39
"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy".
00:53:38.42\00:53:41.85
I fully realize that I
stand before you tonight,
00:53:41.88\00:53:45.02
that everything that we
say here at the seminar,
00:53:45.05\00:53:47.55
or everything we do as
Christians is not always
00:53:47.58\00:53:50.20
going to be popular, but
we would be fools to think
00:53:50.23\00:53:52.99
it would be popular. Was
it popular to be a follower
00:53:53.02\00:53:55.75
of Jesus when He was
being nailed to the cross?
00:53:55.78\00:53:58.60
No, was it the right
thing to be a follower of Jesus?
00:53:58.63\00:54:01.22
Yes, it was. Was it
a popular thing to be
00:54:01.25\00:54:03.65
going into the ark
in the days of Noah?
00:54:03.68\00:54:06.08
Was it the right thing to
go in the ark? Absolutely.
00:54:06.11\00:54:08.88
Friends, Benjamin Franklin
once said: "Right is right,"
00:54:08.91\00:54:13.10
"even if everyone is
against it, and wrong is wrong"
00:54:13.13\00:54:15.33
"even if everyone is for it. "
He was a pretty astute thinker.
00:54:15.36\00:54:20.44
You see, the road of error
is well beaten down by masses
00:54:20.47\00:54:25.79
of people who want an
easy, popular religion,
00:54:25.82\00:54:30.05
but Christianity is not floating
down stream with the masses,
00:54:30.08\00:54:33.83
looking for the easy way,
Christianity is willing to stand
00:54:33.86\00:54:36.42
up and face the crowd if you
have to, if that's what Jesus
00:54:36.45\00:54:40.01
wants us to do. Now,
does anyone have the mark
00:54:40.04\00:54:42.61
of the beast now?
Friends don't miss this answer
00:54:42.64\00:54:44.97
right here on the screen because
I'm going to put it in a way
00:54:45.00\00:54:47.53
that you can't miss
it. [text on screen]
00:54:47.56\00:54:49.84
Did you get that?
00:54:49.87\00:54:52.10
Does anyone have the
mark of the beast now?
00:54:52.13\00:54:54.71
No, why? Because
the mark of the beast
00:54:54.74\00:54:57.19
is not received by people
until religious legislation
00:54:57.22\00:54:59.93
is enforced and then, when
people see an issue brought
00:54:59.96\00:55:04.34
before the land as
to who they will serve,
00:55:04.37\00:55:08.28
then they're going to
have to make their choice.
00:55:08.31\00:55:10.72
But even though it's a
future issue, which we're going
00:55:10.75\00:55:13.38
to be talking about both,
tomorrow morning and tomorrow
00:55:13.41\00:55:16.31
night, it doesn't matter
how long in the future it is,
00:55:16.34\00:55:18.83
when we know what is
truth, now is the time to take
00:55:18.86\00:55:21.35
our stand, because
it's taking our stand now
00:55:21.38\00:55:23.93
that can better
prepare us to stand later.
00:55:23.96\00:55:26.51
So the future does hold
that there will be a mark given,
00:55:26.54\00:55:29.26
because enforcement
will be there upon the people
00:55:29.29\00:55:32.24
to try to force them to go
man's way, and the Bible tells
00:55:32.27\00:55:34.80
us that there's going to be
a mark given in the forehead
00:55:34.83\00:55:36.78
or in the hand. Very
briefly, and I'm going
00:55:36.81\00:55:39.54
to cover it again tomorrow
morning, what does it mean
00:55:39.57\00:55:42.15
to get the mark in the
forehead or in the hand?
00:55:42.18\00:55:44.78
To get the mark in the
forehead means that you a person
00:55:44.81\00:55:47.43
has sold out their intellectual
understanding to the beast
00:55:47.46\00:55:50.40
power, it means they're
thinking like the beast,
00:55:50.43\00:55:53.06
they're thinking
rebellion, and they get the mark
00:55:53.09\00:55:55.76
in the forehead. To
get the mark in the hand,
00:55:55.79\00:55:58.49
that means that they have
given their hand to the beast,
00:55:58.52\00:56:01.34
they've given their allegiance
to the beast in the sense
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that they might not even
believe in it, they might not
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believe what the powers
that be are going to do,
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they might not even believe
in the Bible, they might not
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believe in the 10
commandments of Christianity,
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but they say: "I've got
to go along; I've got bills"
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"to pay, I've got to buy
and sell, I've got to do"
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"these things, I've
got to go along with it",
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and they get the mark on
the hand because the mark
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on the hand is a symbol
of compromise and compliance
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to the beast. You
see, Satan doesn't care
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how he gets us, does he?
He doesn't care if he can get
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you to believe it, or he
doesn't care if he can never
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get you to believe it,
as long as he can force you
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to do it anyway, and
God can't take us that way,
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God can only take us one way,
and that is with all our heart.
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God wants to take that law
that we are to love and seal it,
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[text on screen]
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Till we love to do
what God asks us to do,
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put His laws in our hearts
and put His laws in our minds.
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That's what I want, don't you?
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Make no mistake about it,
the mark of the beast is a mark
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of rebellion placed in
the forehead or in the hand
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of those that will knowingly
walk away from the will of God,
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it's in essence, a
mark of rebellion saying:
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"I know God's will, but
I will not do God's will. "
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"I might do 80%, I might do 90%,
but I will not let Him write"
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"all His law in my
heart", then the Lord says
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"He who breaks one
breaks all. " So in summary,
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we put up that the
beast represents a false
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religious
system: [text on screen]
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And why does God send a
clear message in the last days:
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[text on screen]
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And why does God
say: [text on screen]
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Because God wants all the
issues understood dear friends,
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so that everyone
can make a clear choice.
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