Well, we are in the process
of studying the fourth trumpet.
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We're on a roll, aren't we?
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It's only the second day,
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and we're already
finishing the fourth trumpet.
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But don't be too confident,
because number five and six
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are going to take us
a long period of time.
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And then we have
several other things
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that we're going to
be dealing with as well.
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So we are on page 107.
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We read those
quotations on page 107.
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And we noticed that during
the period of papal supremacy
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there was darkness.
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It's called, the Dark Ages. Why?
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Because the sun was
eclipsed, the moon was eclipsed,
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and the stars
were also eclipsed.
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And of course, the
sun represents whom?
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Christ.
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The moon
represents the Scriptures.
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And the stars
represent God's people.
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And, you know, we were reading
statements from the chapter
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in, Great Controversy, An
Era of Spiritual Darkness.
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That title itself
of the chapter about
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papal supremacy says a lot.
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Now I'm not going to
read all of the statements
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under this section because we
have a lot of material to cover.
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But I want to
highlight certain words,
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beginning on page 107, the
words that I have underlined
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and in bold.
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Do you notice the
number of times that you have,
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"dark," "dark ages,"
"darkness," "deepened,"
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then a little bit further
down, "the prince of darkness,"
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and then the,
"suppression of the Scriptures."
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So the darkness comes
because the Scriptures
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are proscribed or suppressed.
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Then at the bottom of the page,
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"As times goes by,
darkness seemed to..." What?
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"...to grow more dense."
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On the next page,
"The advancing centuries
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witnessed a constant
increase of..." What?
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"...of error..."
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In the next statement,
which is describing the
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thirteenth century,
it uses the expression,
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"the prince of darkness."
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And let's read the one from,
Great Controversy, page 60.
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"But the noon of
the papacy was..." What?
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the midnight of the world."
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It gives a description of
the period of papal supremacy.
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Why was it the
midnight of the world?
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Ellen White states, "The Holy
Scriptures were almost..." What?
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"...unknown, not only to
the people, but to the priests.
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Like the Pharisees of
old, the papal leaders hated
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the light which
would reveal their sins."
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And then the next statement,
at the very bottom of the
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statement, you have, "the
banishing of the word of God."
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Great Controversy, page 586,
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"The iniquity and spiritual
darkness that prevailed under
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the supremacy of Rome
were the inevitable result
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of her suppression of..." What?
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"...of the Scriptures."
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And, you know, you can notice
at the top of the next page
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you have mention of
the Holy Scriptures,
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ignorance of
the Holy Scriptures.
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"The Bible would exalt
God and place finite men
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in their true position..."
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The Bible was
"concealed and suppressed."
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"...the circulation of
the Bible was prohibited."
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So in other
words, during this period
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people did not
catch a glimpse of Jesus
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because the lesser light
was hidden and was suppressed.
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The next statement
speaks about William Miller
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studying the Scriptures.
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It says "the Scriptures
were carefully searched."
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And what happened as a result?
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"...light poured in
upon the darkness..."
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And then the last statement
that we have on this page
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has to do with the end times.
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Let's read that.
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"Dear brethren and sisters:
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As error is fast progressing,
we should seek to be awake
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in the cause of
God, and realize the time
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in which we live.
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Darkness is to cover the earth,
and gross darkness the people.
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And as nearly all
around us are being enveloped
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in the thick darkness..."
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What is the thick darkness?
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"...of error and..."
What? "...delusion..."
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Is that the case during the
period of papal supremacy? Yes.
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"...it becomes us to shake off
stupidity and live near to God,
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where we can
draw divine..." What?
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"...rays of light and glory
from the countenance of Jesus.
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As darkness thickens
and error increases..."
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So notice, darkness
is related to error.
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"...we should obtain a more
thorough knowledge of the truth
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and be prepared to maintain
our position from..." Where?
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"...from the Scriptures."
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And then at the top of page 110,
Ellen White quotes Isaiah 8:20.
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"To the law and to the
testimony: if they speak not
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according to this
word, it is because
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there is no light in them."
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In other words,
they are in what?
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They're in darkness.
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"The people of God
are directed..." Where?
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"...to the Scriptures as their
safeguard against the influence
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of false teachers
and the delusive power
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of spirits of darkness."
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So how is the
darkness dispelled?
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The darkness is
dispelled by the Scriptures.
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By the lesser
light that leads to whom?
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That leads to
Jesus, the greater light.
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Now let's talk
about how the papacy
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darkened the sun and moon.
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We know that it was by the
suppression of the Scriptures.
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But let's be a
little bit more specific.
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In order to
understand the darkening of the
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sun and the moon
during the fourth trumpet,
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we need to study the
"daily" that the little horn
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took away from the
Prince of the host.
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And that should be fresh in your
minds because two Sabbaths ago
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we were studying Daniel 8
in our Sabbath School lessons.
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Remember that the little horn
attacked the Prince of the host,
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and he attacked the host,
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and he took away the "daily".
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Now let's pursue this.
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It is difficult to
interpret the word, "daily,"
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unless we go to
other places in the Bible
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to explain what this word means.
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The words is an adjective.
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And in Daniel 8 it
has no noun to qualify.
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So the question is, the little
horn took away the "daily" what?
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You know, the word,
"sacrifice," isn't there.
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The meaning of the
word, "tamiyd," in Hebrew
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is simply something
which goes on continuously
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without interruption.
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That's what the
word, "tamiyd," means.
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However, what is it
in Daniel 8 that goes on
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continuously
without interruption?
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Now you remember that
the little horn of Daniel 8
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represents what power?
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The papacy.
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The same power that's being
described in the fourth trumpet.
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Right?
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Now, it is important to keep
in mind that the word, "tamiyd,"
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"daily," has the
definite article.
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It is not simply, "daily".
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It is, "the daily".
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It is a specific "daily" that is
taken away by the little horn.
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As I mentioned
before, the King James Version
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translators added
the word, "sacrifice."
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But Ellen White has this
statement in, Early Writings,
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pages 74 and
75, where she wrote,
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"Then I saw in relation to
the 'daily'," of Daniel 8:12,
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"that the word, 'sacrifice,'
was supplied by man's wisdom,
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and does not belong to the
text, and that the Lord gave the
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correct view of it to those
who gave the judgment hour cry."
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Now Heidi Heiks,
whom I mentioned before,
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wrote an entire book on
this issue of the "daily".
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There are two views.
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One is that the
"daily" is paganism
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that was taken away.
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The other view is the
view that I'm going to share
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which I believe that
fits better with the context
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of what we're studying here.
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So at the bottom of page 110,
what then does this word mean?
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What does the
word, "daily," mean?
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We must allow other Old
Testament text to explain
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what the word means.
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The Old Testament, when
we examine other verses,
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clearly indicates that this word
refers to the daily ministration
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of the priest in the
court of the Sanctuary
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and in the Holy
Place of the Sanctuary.
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And by the way, you know,
because it's dealing with the
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Sanctuary, you have to
interpret the word, "daily,"
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in the context of the Sanctuary.
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Right?
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So this means that the
little horn was going to attempt
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to take away from the
Prince, that is, from Jesus,
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the Prince of the
host, His ministration where?
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In the court and in the
Holy Place of the Sanctuary.
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Now in order to comprehend
how the little horn did this,
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we need to answer two
fundamental questions.
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The first question
is, in which sanctuary
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did the Prince
minister in at this point in
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the vision of Daniel 8?
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And also during the
period of the fourth trumpet.
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In which
sanctuary was the Prince,
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who is Jesus, ministering?
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Some earthly sanctuary?
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No. There was no
earthly sanctuary.
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The second question
that we must answer is,
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What does each piece
of furniture in the court
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and in the Holy Place represent?
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What did the altar of
sacrifice, the candlestick,
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the table of showbread, and
the altar of incense represent?
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What did they
symbolize, in other words?
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Well, let's look for the
answer to the first question.
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Who is the Prince?
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Well, let's go
to Joshua 5:13-15.
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Joshua 5:13-15
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Here, Israel is
about to conquer Jericho.
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They have it surrounded.
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And Joshua is on
the outskirts of Jericho
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and this
majestic warrior shows up.
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And let's read
about it in verse 13.
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Now you don't catch the
connection with Daniel 8, but
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there are only two places
where you have the expression,
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"Prince of the host,"
which is translated here,
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"Commander of the Lord's army."
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It's the
identical Hebrew expression.
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So it's the same Prince
in Joshua as in Daniel 8.
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Was this warrior God?
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If he wasn't God, well Joshua is
practicing idolatry, isn't he?
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What other place in
Scripture do we find
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a command to
take off the sandals?
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In chapter 3 of Exodus
where Moses is commanded
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because he's in
the presence of God.
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So who is the
Prince of the host?
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The Prince of the host is
none other than Jesus Christ.
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Now the question is,
where was Jesus serving
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as Prince of the host during
the period of the little horn
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of Daniel 8 and
the fourth trumpet
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of the book of Revelation?
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Well, let's pursue this.
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Matthew 21:12-13 describes
the triumphal entry of Jesus
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into Jerusalem on what
Christians call, Palm Sunday.
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We're told there that He
entered the temple of God,
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and He called the temple what?
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"My Father's house."
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So when He enters, it's
called the temple of God,
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and it says that it
is, "My Father's house."
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However, a short
while later, in chapter 23
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the last two verses,
Jesus now leaves the temple,
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and as He's leaving He
says to the Jewish leaders,
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"Your house is
left unto you desolate."
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In other words,
the Shekinah had left
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and the temple was doomed.
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Now because the Jewish
nation rejected Christ,
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in AD 70, as we've
studied, the Romans destroyed
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the Jerusalem temple.
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And it has never been rebuilt.
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In other words, during the
period of the fourth trumpet
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there was no Jewish temple.
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That's very clear.
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For this reason, it is
not possible to conclude
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that the sanctuary that
the little horn trampled
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during the Christian
era was the Jerusalem temple
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because there was no
Jerusalem temple to trample.
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During the Christian
dispensation when the
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little horn did its
work, there was no earthly
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Jerusalem temple in existence.
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However, if the little
horn did not do its work
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in the Jerusalem temple,
then where did it do its work?
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The answer is two-fold.
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First, upon His ascension
Jesus began His ministry
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as High Priest where?
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In the literal
heavenly Sanctuary,
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personally, and what?
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Physically.
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He is the genuine High
Priest who ministers in the
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literal heavenly temple
on the literal Mount Zion
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in the literal
heavenly Jerusalem.
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Correct?
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He is the minister
of a better covenant
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because He presents before
His Father His own better blood
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that runs where?
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Does He literally
present His blood?
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You better believe it.
It runs through His veins.
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He says, "Father, My
blood, My blood, My blood."
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Second point, Jesus
is also minister in the
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spiritual temple on earth.
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The spiritual
temple is a reflection
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of the heavenly temple.
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On that temple on earth is what?
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The Christian church.
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This spiritual temple
has spiritual foundations,
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it has a spiritual cornerstone,
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it has
spiritual building stones,
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and a spiritual
Shekinah, which is what?
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The invisible Holy Spirit.
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Are you following me or not?
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Did the apostle Paul identify
the church as the temple
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on earth, a spiritual temple?
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All you have to do is
read Ephesians 2:19-22.
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He clearly identifies
the church as the temple.
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In other words, Jesus
ministers in two places
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at the same time.
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Physically in heaven,
and spiritually on earth
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through the
ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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His heavenly
hosts are the angels,
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and His earthly hosts
are His faithful followers.
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Is this making sense?
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So what does Daniel 8
mean when it states that
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the little horn took away
the "daily" from the Prince
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and killed His hosts?
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Obviously, it cannot mean
that the little horn literally
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and personally traveled
to heaven and deposed Jesus
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and that he
destroyed the heavenly hosts
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which are the angels.
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It certainly cannot mean that.
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What then does it mean?
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We find the
answer in Daniel 8:11
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where the text tells us that the
little horn, this is important,
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cast down the place of the
Prince's Sanctuary to the earth.
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In other words, instead
of the heavenly Sanctuary,
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the little horn transfers
it to the place on earth.
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We have already identified the
place as the Prince's Sanctuary
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in the literal heavenly temple
and in His church on earth.
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The word, "place,"
"makown," in Hebrew,
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is unusual.
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There are some very common
words in the Old Testament
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for, "place," that
are used multiple times,
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but this is not one
of those common words.
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This word is used 17
times in the Hebrew Bible.
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And in 16 of those 17 references
it denotes the heavenly
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Sanctuary as
God's dwelling place.
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Now, perhaps it
will be good to consider
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some of these references.
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Now this is a long passage,
but it's very important,
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so I'm going to
take the time to read it.
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1 Kings 8:37-50
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And I want you to catch
the relationship here between
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what is happening in heaven
and what is happening on earth.
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It says there, "When
there is famine in the land..."
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Speaking about the
literal earthly temple, right?
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Wait a minute now.
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So they prayed towards
the earthly temple, but what?
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"...then here in heaven,
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Your dwelling place..."
that's the word, "makown".
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And what does God do
when He hears the prayer
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in the heavenly
temple that is uttered
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toward the earthly temple?
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"...and..."
What? "...forgive..."
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Which temple?
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They pray toward the
earthly temple, right?
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But God hears where?
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"...hear in heaven,
Your dwelling place..."
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There's "makown" again.
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Notice, they're
praying toward the city.
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Where does God hear?
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"...then hear in
heaven, Your dwelling place..."
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There's "makown" the third time.
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And what happens?
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What does God do
from the heavenly temple?
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"...and forgive Your people..."
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What comes from
the heavenly temple?
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Forgiveness, and
what? Compassion.
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A long passage,
but very interesting.
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People pray to
the earthly temple,
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but they're really
receiving an answer from where?
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From the God who is in heaven.
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There's a
paradox in this passage.
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Although God's people
utter their prayers toward the
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earthly temple, God hears their
prayers and answers from heaven.
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Notice also 1 Kings 8:30.
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But where does God hear?
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Once again, "makown".
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Thus, the conclusion is
there is an intimate connection
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between the earthly
and heavenly temples.
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In a sense, God dwells in both.
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For our purposes here,
it is important to remember
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that when Nebuchadnezzar
came and destroyed
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the Jerusalem temple,
he was not able to touch
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the heavenly temple.
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Right?
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So the earthly antichrist,
is he able to interfere
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with the earthly functions?
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Yes. But is he able to
interfere with the ministry of
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Christ in the heavenly temple?
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Absolutely not.
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In a similar fashion,
the little horn was able
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to take over the Sanctuary
functions from the Prince
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and kill His hosts on earth.
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But he was not able to
take away the functions of
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the Priest in heaven,
nor destroy His angels.
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The act of casting down the
place of the Prince's Sanctuary
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does not mean that
the little horn demolished
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mortar and stones of
the heavenly Sanctuary.
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The meaning is that the
little horn usurped and placed
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on earth the daily or
continual ministration
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of the heavenly Prince.
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In other words, that which
belonged to the Prince in heaven
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the little horn
usurped, and what?
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And set up on earth.
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He changes the place of
the Sanctuary, in other words.
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Significantly at this point in
the flow of Christian history,
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the little horn, this
is an important point,
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attempted to
interfere mainly with what?
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With the daily ministry
of the Prince in the court
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and in the Holy Place.
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This is understandable
because during that period
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Jesus had not yet what?
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Jesus had not yet
entered the Most Holy Place.
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So the little horn
mainly interferes with the court
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and the Holy ministration.
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The central issue
then is, who will control
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the Sanctuary service in
the court and in the Holy Place?
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The Prince or the little horn?
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Why is control of the
Sanctuary such an important
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and vital issue?
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We find the answers to
these questions by considering
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the meaning of the altar
of sacrifice in the court,
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and the candlestick,
the table of showbread,
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and the altar of
incense in the Holy Place.
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So now we're going to
take a look at the furniture
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that was in the Sanctuary
to understand in what sense
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the place of the
Sanctuary is cast down
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and the earthly little
horn takes over the functions
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of the heavenly Prince.
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Morning and evening...
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Let's talk about
the altar of sacrifice.
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Morning and evening
the priest offered a lamb
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upon the altar of
sacrifice in the court
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for the sins of Israel.
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As long as the
Hebrew sanctuary stood,
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there was never a time
when the fire of the sacrifice
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was not burning.
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It burned continually.
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This was the
daily burnt offering.
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Notice as an
example Exodus 29:38.
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"Now this is what you
shall offer on the altar:
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two lambs of the first
year, day by day..." What?
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Same word as in
Daniel 8. "...continually."
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Tamiyd. Continually.
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"One lamb you shall
offer in the morning..."
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The sacrifice of the lamb,
of course, represented what?
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The sacrifice of Jesus
on the cross of Calvary.
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The priest offered
the sacrifice daily.
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Morning and evening.
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Thus indicating that the death
of Christ has enduring value.
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He died how many times?
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Once for all, and
never needs to die again.
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The book of
Hebrews makes this clear.
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Hebrews 7:26-27
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So the sacrifice
of Christ was what?
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The daily indicates He
was offered once for all
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and that sacrifice is of
value for everyone for all time.
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Notice Hebrews 9:25-26
from the King James Version.
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So how many times
was Jesus going to die?
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He was only going
to die once for all.
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Now how did the
little horn hide this fact
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that Jesus had
died once for all?
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Well, in the middle of
the page we have the answer.
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The Roman Catholic dogma
of the sacrifice of the mass
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counterfeits the
once for all sacrifice
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of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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According to
Roman Catholic theology,
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according to the dogma,
the priest sacrifices Jesus
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repeatedly in every mass.
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Instead of looking to the
Lamb of God who takes away
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the sin of the world
and presents His own blood
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before the Father, the
Roman Catholic church teaches
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believers to look
at the wafer host,
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and supposedly the real
body of Jesus is found there.
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It's called the ubiquity
of the presence of Christ.
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Instead of coming
boldly to Jesus at the throne
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of grace in heaven to
claim His once for all
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and sufficient sacrifice,
Roman Catholic priests
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teach the faithful
that the host nourishes them
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because they are feeding
on the literal body of Jesus
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and drinking His literal blood.
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In fact, the priests store the
host in a flower-like artifact
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called the tabernacle.
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At the center of the artifact
is the circular wafer host
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and coming forth
from the edges of the host
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are the rays of the sun.
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When the priest
brings the tabernacle
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before the
congregation, this is important,
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which contains the
host, he teaches the members
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to bow and worship the host.
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This is simply a
deceitful form of sun worship.
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Furthermore, the Roman
Catholic theology teaches
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that the priest on earth takes
over the power and prerogatives
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of Jesus Christ when the
priest pronounces the words of
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consecration,
"hoc est corpus meum,"
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"This is my body."
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The wafer, according
to Catholic theology,
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is no longer a
wafer, but it is rather
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the real physical body of Jesus.
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Roman Catholic theology
teaches that when these words
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are pronounced, the
earthly priest has the power to
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transubstantiate the wafer into
the real body of Jesus Christ.
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That is to say, the earthly
priest supposedly has the power
00:30:10.41\00:30:14.81
to create his Creator.
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This is blasphemy
to the fullest degree.
00:30:17.01\00:30:19.48
St. Alphonsus Liguori, one of
the thirty-three doctors of the
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Roman Catholic church, in
the history of the church,
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wrote about the
transubstantiating power
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that the Roman Catholic
church believes the priest has.
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This is in his book,
The Dignity and Duties
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of the Priest, or
Selva, page 33 and 34.
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"Thus, the priest
may in a certain manner
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be called the
creator of His Creator
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since by saying the
words of consecration
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he creates, as it
were, Jesus in the sacrament
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by giving Him a
sacramental existence
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and produces Him as
a victim to be offered
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to the eternal Father.
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As in creating the world,
it was sufficient for God to
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have said, 'Let it be
made,' and it was created,
00:31:04.99\00:31:07.83
He spoke, and they were made,
00:31:07.93\00:31:09.83
so it is sufficient
for the priest to say,
00:31:10.10\00:31:13.27
'hoc est corpus meum,'
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and behold the
bread is not longer bread,
00:31:15.70\00:31:18.04
but the body of Jesus Christ.
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The power of the priest,
says St. Bernardine of Siena,
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is the power of
the divine person,
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for the transubstantiation
of the bread requires
00:31:27.28\00:31:30.89
as much power as the
creation of the world."
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Is that blasphemy?
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Does it hide the once
for all sacrifice of Christ?
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Yes, because Jesus is
presenting Himself in heaven;
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His blood before the Father.
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And where are people looking?
00:31:46.63\00:31:47.97
They're not looking to heaven,
they're looking on earth.
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They're looking at a host.
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They think they'll be
nourished by the physical
00:31:52.61\00:31:56.71
body of Jesus.
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It totally hides
the work of Jesus,
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the greater light, in
the heavenly Sanctuary.
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Now what about the
table of showbread?
00:32:07.92\00:32:09.92
Well as you know,
the table of showbread
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contains two stacks of bread.
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Two stacks of six loaves
on each side of the table.
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And what did the
twelve loaves represent?
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Well, it represented that
there was sufficient bread
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to nourish all of
Israel which had twelve tribes.
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Now this bread is
called the tamiyd bread;
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the continual bread.
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Numbers 4:7, I'm reading
from the King James Version
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because it's
translated, "continual."
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It's the word, "tamiyd."
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Let's read there.
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Now what does
the bread represent?
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The bread represents
the word of God, right?
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So let's notice some texts.
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Isaiah 55:10-11
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So what does the bread
of the eater represent?
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"So shall My word be that
goes forth from My mouth."
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So what does
the bread represent?
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The word that comes
out of the mouth of God.
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Notice Matthew 4:4.
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"Man shall not
live by bread alone..."
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That is, by
physical bread alone.
00:33:58.00\00:33:59.70
So what did the bread on the
table of showbread represent?
00:34:06.07\00:34:09.71
It represents the word of God.
00:34:09.81\00:34:12.58
The number 12
indicates that it's sufficient
00:34:12.61\00:34:15.22
to feed all of God's people,
indicated by the number 12.
00:34:15.25\00:34:20.49
Now after Jesus fed the 5000
with only five loaves of bread
00:34:21.76\00:34:27.80
and two fishes, He made a
very controversial remark.
00:34:27.83\00:34:31.90
In John 6:53, Jesus said,
"Most assuredly I say to you..."
00:34:32.83\00:34:39.01
Roman Catholics use this
text to show that in each mass
00:34:47.52\00:34:52.85
people literally partake of the
body, and the priest of course,
00:34:52.89\00:34:57.39
of the blood of Jesus.
00:34:57.79\00:35:00.10
Is this what Jesus really meant?
00:35:00.40\00:35:02.66
That His literal
body and blood nourish
00:35:03.37\00:35:07.17
the members of the church?
00:35:07.20\00:35:08.64
Absolutely not.
00:35:08.74\00:35:10.07
In context, Jesus explained
what He meant in John 6:63.
00:35:10.51\00:35:14.94
That does profit you at
all to eat the flesh of Jesus.
00:35:20.38\00:35:24.05
So partaking of Christ
is not literally partaking
00:35:32.33\00:35:36.20
of His body and His blood.
00:35:36.23\00:35:37.70
It simply means that
we partake of His what?
00:35:37.87\00:35:40.47
Of His word.
00:35:40.64\00:35:41.97
What did the papacy
do with the Word of God
00:35:42.00\00:35:43.77
during the 1260 years?
00:35:43.81\00:35:45.71
Eclipsed it, right?
00:35:47.61\00:35:49.24
So we have to relate
Daniel 8 with the fourth trumpet
00:35:49.68\00:35:53.11
because they
cover the same period.
00:35:53.15\00:35:55.15
That is to say, the words
of Jesus have power to nourish
00:35:55.55\00:35:59.55
our spiritual life.
00:35:59.59\00:36:00.96
As literal bread
sustains physical life,
00:36:01.42\00:36:04.23
the word of God
sustains spiritual life.
00:36:04.59\00:36:07.76
Spiritually speaking,
when we study the Word,
00:36:07.96\00:36:11.10
we assimilate whom?
00:36:11.13\00:36:12.53
Jesus.
00:36:13.37\00:36:14.70
And He becomes flesh of our
flesh and bone of our bones,
00:36:14.90\00:36:18.11
spiritually speaking.
00:36:18.14\00:36:19.67
The ingested Word of
God cleanses our life
00:36:20.08\00:36:25.21
and gives us the
victory over sin.
00:36:25.25\00:36:27.32
David understood
this when he wrote,
00:36:28.12\00:36:30.29
in verses that
are very well known,
00:36:30.32\00:36:32.85
Psalm 119:9-11, "How can a
young man cleanse his way?"
00:36:32.89\00:36:38.29
When the Bible uses the word,
"way," symbolically it means
00:36:38.49\00:36:40.96
conduct or behavior.
00:36:41.00\00:36:42.36
See, in the Roman Catholic
church they believe that
00:37:02.15\00:37:04.15
just by partaking
of the little host,
00:37:04.19\00:37:06.39
you know, because that's
the real literal body of Jesus,
00:37:06.42\00:37:09.06
it nourishes you spiritually.
00:37:09.09\00:37:11.13
Is that what is being
taught by the showbread?
00:37:12.93\00:37:16.16
No, absolutely not.
00:37:16.26\00:37:17.80
What is it that nourishes us?
00:37:18.10\00:37:19.87
It's the Word of God.
00:37:19.97\00:37:21.30
Was the Word of
God scarce during the
00:37:21.40\00:37:23.24
period of papal dominion?
00:37:23.27\00:37:24.67
Absolutely.
00:37:24.71\00:37:26.04
Notice John 15:3.
00:37:26.21\00:37:28.91
It's the Word that cleanses.
00:37:28.94\00:37:30.75
Jesus says to His disciples,
"You are already..." What?
00:37:30.78\00:37:34.75
"...clean..." How
are they made clean?
00:37:34.78\00:37:37.19
It's the Word that cleanses.
00:37:42.69\00:37:44.39
The bread, the
spiritual bread; the Word.
00:37:44.79\00:37:47.06
Notice Ephesians 5:25-26.
00:37:47.36\00:37:51.23
So does the
little host nourish us?
00:38:09.72\00:38:12.02
No, the little
host doesn't nourish us.
00:38:12.49\00:38:14.22
What nourishes us?
00:38:14.26\00:38:15.72
It's the spiritual
bread, the Word of God.
00:38:15.86\00:38:18.83
And during the period
of the fourth trumpet,
00:38:19.06\00:38:21.16
the Word of God was eclipsed.
00:38:21.43\00:38:22.76
The two witnesses witnessed
in darkness or in obscurity.
00:38:22.80\00:38:29.14
Eating a literal wafer certainly
has no power to spiritually feed
00:38:30.01\00:38:34.11
and transform us.
00:38:34.14\00:38:35.54
The ingested Word of God
cleanses our lives from sin.
00:38:35.88\00:38:40.62
So what does the table
of the showbread teach us?
00:38:41.02\00:38:43.59
There are at
least three lessons.
00:38:44.05\00:38:46.02
One, the bread represents
Jesus as contained where?
00:38:46.32\00:38:50.63
In the written Word of God.
00:38:51.33\00:38:53.50
The bread is
continually available
00:38:54.16\00:38:57.27
for all of God's people.
00:38:57.47\00:38:59.40
And finally, if assimilated,
the Word will nourish
00:38:59.80\00:39:04.11
our spiritual life and
provide victory over sin.
00:39:04.14\00:39:08.91
In what sense did the little
horn cast down the meaning of
00:39:10.45\00:39:14.58
the table of the showbread?
00:39:14.62\00:39:16.08
That's the question.
00:39:16.12\00:39:17.45
The answer is not
difficult to find.
00:39:17.85\00:39:20.26
The Roman Catholic
church substituted what?
00:39:20.59\00:39:23.89
Traditions and
philosophies of men
00:39:24.73\00:39:28.10
in place of the Word of God.
00:39:28.13\00:39:30.47
The word of a supposedly
infallible magisterium
00:39:30.93\00:39:35.10
or teaching office
of men took the place
00:39:35.14\00:39:38.31
of a, "Thus saith the Lord."
00:39:38.64\00:39:41.31
The number of unbiblical
and anti-biblical traditions
00:39:41.98\00:39:47.22
in Roman Catholicism is legend.
00:39:47.25\00:39:49.78
Here are some of them that
are never found in the Bible.
00:39:50.02\00:39:52.75
Purgatory, limbo,
celibacy, auricular confession,
00:39:52.79\00:39:55.92
the immortality of the
soul, an eternally burning hell,
00:39:56.02\00:39:58.59
lint, processions, the mass,
relics, canonization of saints,
00:39:58.63\00:40:02.26
the rosary,
bowing before images,
00:40:02.30\00:40:04.33
the immaculate conception,
the assumption of Mary,
00:40:04.37\00:40:07.17
baptism of infants
by aspersion, novenas,
00:40:07.27\00:40:10.31
the observance of Sunday.
00:40:10.34\00:40:11.67
Do you want me to continue?
00:40:11.71\00:40:13.04
What did the papacy
do with the Word of God?
00:40:15.18\00:40:17.45
Totally
obscured the Word of God.
00:40:17.65\00:40:20.25
And because it
obscured the lesser light,
00:40:20.35\00:40:22.78
people could not see what?
00:40:22.82\00:40:24.65
They could not see the
work of the greater light
00:40:25.12\00:40:27.52
in the heavenly Sanctuary.
00:40:27.56\00:40:29.09
What was the
result of these traditions
00:40:29.46\00:40:31.56
replacing the Word of God?
00:40:31.59\00:40:33.06
Spiritual what?
00:40:33.23\00:40:34.63
Malnutrition and moral
laxity that made the pagan
00:40:34.83\00:40:39.37
Romans look like saints.
00:40:39.40\00:40:41.24
It is no coincidence that
the third and fourth seals
00:40:41.87\00:40:46.11
of Revelation
describe this period as famine
00:40:46.21\00:40:48.74
for the Word of God.
00:40:48.78\00:40:50.11
Now we're not studying
the seals, but in the seals
00:40:50.15\00:40:52.15
there's a
tremendous scarcity of bread.
00:40:52.18\00:40:54.55
Because wheat and barley
are exorbitantly expensive.
00:40:54.75\00:40:58.22
Eight to sixteen times
more expensive than before
00:40:58.25\00:41:01.66
under the third seal.
00:41:01.92\00:41:03.32
So let's continue here.
00:41:04.46\00:41:05.79
In effect, during the
period of the third horse,
00:41:05.83\00:41:08.33
that's the
period of Constantine,
00:41:08.36\00:41:09.90
the church assimilated
the unbiblical teachings
00:41:10.13\00:41:12.97
and practices of the
pagans, and as a result
00:41:13.00\00:41:15.80
under the fourth horse,
the period of papal dominion,
00:41:16.04\00:41:20.48
was a life
threatening scarcity of bread.
00:41:20.51\00:41:24.41
Now this is also
true of the period of the
00:41:25.31\00:41:28.18
fourth church of Revelation.
00:41:28.22\00:41:29.98
See, fourth
trumpet, fourth church.
00:41:30.19\00:41:34.62
Under this church, who
is mentioned as being in the
00:41:34.99\00:41:38.79
church and
influencing the church?
00:41:38.83\00:41:40.76
Jezebel.
00:41:41.03\00:41:42.36
What happened during the period
of Jezebel in the Old Testament?
00:41:42.46\00:41:45.77
It didn't rain.
00:41:46.70\00:41:48.04
It didn't rain for how long?
00:41:48.40\00:41:49.90
Three and a half years.
00:41:50.37\00:41:51.71
For how long did it not
rain when spiritual Jezebel
00:41:51.74\00:41:54.88
ruled during the
church of Thyatira?
00:41:54.91\00:41:56.88
Three and a half years.
00:41:57.65\00:41:58.98
But not literal years. What?
00:41:59.28\00:42:01.05
Symbolic years.
00:42:01.42\00:42:02.85
Time, times, and
the dividing of time.
00:42:02.88\00:42:05.62
So what was literal in
the Old Testament becomes
00:42:06.12\00:42:08.39
symbolic during the 1260 years.
00:42:08.42\00:42:12.13
So are you understanding this?
00:42:12.16\00:42:13.86
Now what about the candlestick?
00:42:14.50\00:42:16.13
We've talked about
the altar of sacrifice,
00:42:16.16\00:42:18.13
we've talked about the
table of the showbread.
00:42:18.40\00:42:21.67
What about the candlestick?
00:42:21.70\00:42:23.37
According to Leviticus
24:1-4, one of the roles of the
00:42:23.91\00:42:28.28
high priest was to trim the
wicks and to replenish the oil
00:42:28.31\00:42:33.72
in the seven branched
candlestick in the Holy Place.
00:42:33.88\00:42:38.79
Thus, he would make
sure that the light of the
00:42:38.95\00:42:41.02
candlestick burned, what?
00:42:41.06\00:42:42.89
Tamiyd. Continually.
00:42:43.63\00:42:45.79
Let's read Leviticus 24:1-4.
00:42:46.59\00:42:49.03
"Then the Lord
spoke to Moses saying..."
00:42:49.56\00:42:52.57
Tamiyd. "...continually."
00:43:02.54\00:43:04.28
What's the next word?
00:43:12.52\00:43:13.86
Tamiyd. "...continually."
00:43:13.89\00:43:15.62
Once again,
tamiyd. "...continually."
00:43:24.27\00:43:27.00
What did the seven
branch candlestick symbolize?
00:43:27.64\00:43:31.44
Well, let's
interpret the symbols.
00:43:31.47\00:43:33.17
The number
seven represents what?
00:43:33.58\00:43:35.81
Totality or fullness.
00:43:36.38\00:43:38.11
So the seven candlesticks
represent the totality of
00:43:38.45\00:43:41.18
the history of
the Christian church.
00:43:41.22\00:43:42.68
The oil is a symbol of what?
00:43:43.39\00:43:46.15
Of the Holy Spirit.
00:43:46.79\00:43:48.12
And the candlesticks
where the oil goes in
00:43:48.56\00:43:52.16
so that the candlesticks
give light represents what?
00:43:52.19\00:43:56.13
Represents the seven churches.
00:43:56.46\00:43:58.23
And the seven
churches are seven what?
00:43:58.33\00:44:00.64
Seven periods of church history.
00:44:00.90\00:44:03.71
Now let's notice Revelation
1:20 that makes this clear.
00:44:04.64\00:44:08.31
"The seven stars are the
angels of the seven churches,"
00:44:08.64\00:44:11.91
that is the messengers,
"and the seven lampstands
00:44:12.15\00:44:15.28
which you saw are..." What?
00:44:15.32\00:44:17.25
"...the seven churches."
00:44:17.45\00:44:18.95
Now notice Ellen White's
explanation of the seven lamps.
00:44:19.35\00:44:24.19
It says there in, Acts
of the Apostles, page 585,
00:44:24.59\00:44:29.36
"The names of the
seven churches are symbolic
00:44:29.63\00:44:32.67
of the church of the different
periods of the Christian era.
00:44:32.93\00:44:36.64
The number seven
indicates..." What?
00:44:37.07\00:44:39.57
"...completeness, and
is symbolic of the fact
00:44:39.81\00:44:43.14
that the messages
extend to the end of time..."
00:44:43.24\00:44:47.02
So they cover from the apostolic
period to the end of time.
00:44:47.12\00:44:49.82
The fullness of church
history, in other words.
00:44:49.85\00:44:51.89
She continues, "...while
the symbols used reveal the
00:44:52.29\00:44:56.66
condition of the
church at different periods
00:44:56.69\00:45:00.20
in the history of the world.
00:45:00.23\00:45:02.10
Thus, the candlestick represents
the witness of the church
00:45:02.76\00:45:07.74
to the world through
the power of the Holy Spirit
00:45:07.94\00:45:11.21
in different periods
of Christian history.
00:45:11.41\00:45:14.38
The period of papal
dominion was one of..." What?
00:45:14.88\00:45:17.68
"...darkness.
00:45:18.08\00:45:19.41
The light of the
church shone but dimly,
00:45:19.48\00:45:22.52
for it was the dark ages.
00:45:22.72\00:45:25.75
At times it looked
like the light of the church
00:45:26.02\00:45:28.02
was going to be extinguished.
00:45:28.12\00:45:30.49
Particularly during
the period of Thyatira
00:45:30.73\00:45:33.40
the light burned dim."
00:45:33.43\00:45:35.90
So are you following me?
00:45:37.37\00:45:38.70
Now, what about the
golden altar of incense?
00:45:39.87\00:45:43.04
Did the papacy also
blur and hide the meaning
00:45:43.41\00:45:47.74
of the altar of incense?
00:45:47.78\00:45:49.51
Especially, yes.
00:45:49.71\00:45:51.28
The altar of
incense is also called the
00:45:51.68\00:45:56.89
tamiyd altar of incense.
00:45:56.92\00:45:59.35
The incense was to
be presented continually
00:45:59.39\00:46:03.19
morning and evening.
00:46:03.22\00:46:04.89
Let's read Luke; and some
of this we covered before,
00:46:05.73\00:46:08.50
so we don't have to
cover all of the details.
00:46:08.53\00:46:10.67
In Luke 1:8-11 you have
Zacharias serving in the temple.
00:46:10.93\00:46:17.27
And it says...
00:46:17.61\00:46:18.94
So notice that the
people are praying,
00:46:44.17\00:46:46.70
and Zacharias is
offering the incense.
00:46:47.04\00:46:49.50
Now what does that represent?
00:46:49.87\00:46:51.44
That represents
the fact that we pray,
00:46:51.64\00:46:54.18
and who receives our
prayers and mingles them with
00:46:54.48\00:46:57.08
the merits of His perfect life?
00:46:57.11\00:47:00.12
Jesus does. Right?
00:47:00.42\00:47:02.52
Psalm 141:2 also
relates the incense
00:47:02.75\00:47:06.96
to the prayers of the saints.
00:47:06.99\00:47:08.69
We read the introductory
scene to the trumpets.
00:47:15.70\00:47:19.00
It says in Revelation 8:3-4...
00:47:19.20\00:47:21.74
I read this statement
before, but it's so beautiful
00:47:44.99\00:47:47.13
I've got to read it again.
00:47:47.16\00:47:48.50
Review and
Herald, October 30, 1900.
00:47:48.53\00:47:50.93
"There is an
inexhaustible fund of..." What?
00:47:51.13\00:47:54.80
"...of perfect obedience
accruing from His obedience."
00:47:55.10\00:48:00.71
So is there an
inexhaustible fund?
00:48:01.68\00:48:04.15
Yeah.
00:48:04.51\00:48:05.85
Based on what? On His obedience.
00:48:05.88\00:48:07.98
"In heaven His
merits, His self-denial and
00:48:08.32\00:48:12.25
self-sacrifice are
treasured up as incense
00:48:12.29\00:48:16.29
to be offered up with
the prayers of His people.
00:48:16.32\00:48:20.23
As the sinner's
sincere, humble prayers ascend
00:48:20.43\00:48:24.07
to the throne of
God..." What does Jesus do?
00:48:24.10\00:48:26.57
"...Christ mingles with
them the merits of His life
00:48:26.60\00:48:30.24
of perfect obedience.
00:48:30.27\00:48:31.81
Our prayers are made
fragrant by this incense.
00:48:32.01\00:48:35.08
Christ has pledged Himself
to intercede on our behalf,
00:48:35.34\00:48:39.71
and the Father
always hears the Son.
00:48:39.75\00:48:42.32
Pray then, pray without ceasing.
00:48:42.65\00:48:44.99
An answer is sure to come."
00:48:45.02\00:48:47.69
And then I spoke about the veil.
00:48:49.19\00:48:50.73
The veil was
embroidered with angels, right?
00:48:50.76\00:48:52.99
Ascending and
descending on the veil.
00:48:53.13\00:48:54.93
It represents the fact
that our prayers go up to the
00:48:55.50\00:48:57.77
presence of God and
the answers come back.
00:48:57.80\00:49:00.14
We talked about the ladder
that Jacob saw in his dream.
00:49:00.17\00:49:04.01
Not Jacob's ladder, but the
one that he saw in his dream.
00:49:04.04\00:49:06.57
Angels ascending and descending.
00:49:06.71\00:49:08.88
They take our prayers to
Christ, and then they bring back
00:49:08.91\00:49:12.31
the answers from Him.
00:49:12.35\00:49:13.98
So at the bottom of
page 123, in what sense then
00:49:14.32\00:49:17.65
did the little horn take away
this function from the Prince?
00:49:17.89\00:49:22.42
Roman Catholicism has
established a counterfeit
00:49:22.89\00:49:26.43
priesthood to whom the
faithful confess their sins.
00:49:26.46\00:49:30.87
Is that correct?
00:49:30.90\00:49:32.23
I know Don and Debbie
used to be, well at least Don
00:49:32.33\00:49:34.74
used to be a
Catholic, not Debbie.
00:49:34.77\00:49:36.44
Debbie kind of set him straight.
00:49:37.01\00:49:40.44
Roman Catholicism has
established a counterfeit
00:49:43.01\00:49:45.51
priesthood to whom the
faithful confess their sins.
00:49:45.55\00:49:48.88
That is to say, instead of the
faithful directing their prayers
00:49:49.25\00:49:52.52
to Jesus in
heaven for forgiveness,
00:49:52.55\00:49:55.42
they utter them to a
human priest on earth
00:49:55.46\00:50:00.13
who cannot forgive.
00:50:00.16\00:50:02.13
In this way, the little
horn cast down the intercessory
00:50:02.66\00:50:05.57
ministry of Jesus in
heaven and places it, where?
00:50:05.60\00:50:09.30
On earth.
00:50:09.34\00:50:10.67
Even the faithful
in Roman Catholicism
00:50:10.87\00:50:13.61
offer their prayers to whom?
00:50:13.64\00:50:15.41
Their petitions to Mary and
the saints instead of to Jesus.
00:50:15.44\00:50:20.42
In consequence, the attention
of the faithful shifts away
00:50:20.68\00:50:24.89
from Jesus who can
truly hear their petitions
00:50:24.92\00:50:28.26
and forgive their sins.
00:50:28.29\00:50:30.79
Are you catching the picture?
00:50:31.63\00:50:33.09
What did the papacy do?
00:50:33.96\00:50:36.10
It totally obscured
the work of Jesus Christ.
00:50:36.36\00:50:40.90
His sacrifice, His
word, His intercession,
00:50:41.14\00:50:46.37
the fact that He gives
the Holy Spirit for the church
00:50:47.24\00:50:49.74
to shed forth the light.
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Everything was
obscured by the papacy,
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darkened by the papacy.
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That's why the sun, the moon,
and the stars are eclipsed.
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Are you with me or not?
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The Bible is clear
that there is one mediator
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between God and men;
the man Christ Jesus.
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Jesus assured us that
He is "the way, the truth,
00:51:10.37\00:51:13.34
and the life, and no
man comes unto the Father,"
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no person comes unto
the Father except by Him.
00:51:16.67\00:51:20.64
The apostle Paul
wrote in Romans 8:34
00:51:21.01\00:51:23.75
that Jesus makes
intercession for us.
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Furthermore, in words that
are impossible to misunderstand,
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the book of
Hebrews tells us that Jesus
00:51:31.49\00:51:34.66
"is also able to
save to the uttermost
00:51:34.69\00:51:38.36
those who come
to God through Him,
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since He always lives to
make intercession for them."
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And 1 John 2:1 says that we have
an advocate with the Father;
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Jesus Christ the righteous,
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and that we have one
Mediator between God and man.
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Why do we need mere
human intermediaries
00:51:58.58\00:52:02.08
when we can come
boldly to the throne of grace
00:52:02.18\00:52:04.92
through Jesus, the God-Man?
00:52:04.95\00:52:07.02
The confessional in
Roman Catholicism focuses
00:52:07.42\00:52:10.76
the attention of the
people upon a man on earth
00:52:10.79\00:52:13.60
instead of directing
them to Christ in heaven.
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So in summary, two
princes are struggling
00:52:18.03\00:52:21.74
for the souls of human beings.
00:52:21.84\00:52:24.41
One Prince, Jesus,
performs a continual ministry of
00:52:24.57\00:52:28.41
salvation in the
heavenly Sanctuary
00:52:28.44\00:52:30.85
by pleading the blood of
His one and only sacrifice
00:52:31.08\00:52:35.85
before the Father.
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That's the altar of sacrifice.
00:52:37.25\00:52:38.59
That Prince feeds
His people with what?
00:52:38.79\00:52:41.62
With the Word of God,
the table of showbread,
00:52:41.82\00:52:44.63
keeps the light of the
church burning by the power
00:52:44.96\00:52:47.53
of the Holy
Spirit, the candlestick,
00:52:47.56\00:52:49.90
and forgives those who come
to Him in penitence and prayer,
00:52:50.10\00:52:53.40
the golden altar of incense.
00:52:53.44\00:52:55.47
The other prince,
Satan, unable to overthrow
00:52:55.74\00:53:00.41
the heavenly ministry
of the Prince, establishes
00:53:00.71\00:53:04.51
a counterfeit
continual ministry on earth;
00:53:04.55\00:53:08.68
the mass, tradition,
the confessional, the pope,
00:53:08.78\00:53:13.32
in the earthly
temple, the church, because
00:53:13.62\00:53:15.36
he can't do it with
the heavenly temple.
00:53:15.39\00:53:17.23
By shifting the
attention of the people from
00:53:17.69\00:53:20.53
heaven to earth, he
casts down the place
00:53:20.56\00:53:24.90
of the Sanctuary and
prevents human beings
00:53:24.93\00:53:28.10
from discerning, what?
00:53:28.14\00:53:30.01
The saving work
of Christ in heaven.
00:53:30.04\00:53:32.61
Not being able to discern the
saving work of Christ in heaven,
00:53:33.04\00:53:36.54
what happens with souls?
00:53:36.58\00:53:38.31
Souls perish, because in
no one is their salvation
00:53:38.41\00:53:43.28
other than in Jesus.
00:53:43.32\00:53:45.35
No other name
given to men on earth.
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Now let's talk briefly
in conclusion about the
00:53:49.39\00:53:52.06
darkening of the stars.
00:53:52.09\00:53:53.53
The vision of Daniel 8
portrays a ram with two horns,
00:53:54.03\00:53:57.60
a he-goat with a notable
horn, and then four horns that
00:53:58.17\00:54:02.30
come out when the
notable horn is broken.
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Then the little
horn attacks the host,
00:54:06.31\00:54:09.48
and finally the
Prince of heaven.
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So you have a
sequence of powers.
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You have the ram with two horns,
the he-goat with a notable horn,
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four horns that come up
when the notable horn is broken,
00:54:17.19\00:54:20.42
then you have the little
horn that extends, first of all,
00:54:20.66\00:54:23.63
geographically, and then it
extends to the host of heaven
00:54:23.73\00:54:28.00
and it attacks the
Prince of the host in heaven.
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Now who is the host that
this little horn attacks?
00:54:32.27\00:54:37.77
Well, the host that it
attacks, it can't be the angels
00:54:38.11\00:54:40.94
because these
angels are in heaven.
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You see, in Daniel 8 you have
an explanation of the vision.
00:54:43.04\00:54:46.82
What I just described is
in the first half of Daniel 8.
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The second half of chapter
8 tells us what is represented
00:54:51.29\00:54:56.42
by the host of heaven.
00:54:56.46\00:54:57.96
It's not the angels.
00:54:58.36\00:54:59.69
It's the host of Jesus
living on earth; the saints.
00:54:59.83\00:55:03.57
Notice the last paragraph, or
the next to the last paragraph.
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The angel interpreter at
the end of the vision explained
00:55:07.54\00:55:10.74
that the two-horned
ram represents what?
00:55:10.81\00:55:14.01
The Medes and Persians.
00:55:14.04\00:55:15.48
He then stated that the
he-goat represents Greece,
00:55:15.51\00:55:19.28
and its notable
horn is its first king.
00:55:19.38\00:55:22.48
Who is that?
00:55:22.52\00:55:23.85
Alexander the Great.
00:55:23.89\00:55:25.22
Next he informs us that
the four horns represent
00:55:25.39\00:55:28.62
the divisions of Greece after
the death of the first king.
00:55:28.66\00:55:32.39
Those are the four
generals of Alexander
00:55:33.09\00:55:35.83
that fight for the
territory that he left.
00:55:35.86\00:55:38.53
And finally, the
explanation portion of Daniel 8
00:55:38.93\00:55:42.54
tells us that a
king will arise...
00:55:42.57\00:55:45.87
Which is parallel to what?
00:55:46.17\00:55:47.91
The little horn.
00:55:48.14\00:55:49.48
...who will "destroy
the mighty and holy people."
00:55:49.54\00:55:52.51
That's in the same position
as casting down the stars
00:55:53.52\00:55:56.45
in the vision portion.
00:55:56.48\00:55:57.82
In the
explanation portion it says,
00:55:58.35\00:56:00.46
"destroy the
mighty and holy people."
00:56:00.49\00:56:02.49
So what do the stars represent?
00:56:02.69\00:56:04.43
The mighty and holy people.
00:56:04.76\00:56:06.39
And then do you
remember that also it said
00:56:06.70\00:56:08.76
in the vision part that he would
attack the Prince of the host?
00:56:08.80\00:56:12.60
The explanation
part says in verse 25,
00:56:13.00\00:56:16.00
"And he will stand
up against..." Whom?
00:56:16.04\00:56:19.51
"...the Prince of princes."
00:56:19.61\00:56:21.84
So what is represented
by trampling upon the host?
00:56:22.18\00:56:25.45
It represents
destroying God's people.
00:56:25.95\00:56:30.69
And by the way, in the
vision portion of the vision
00:56:31.02\00:56:33.32
it says that he takes the stars
and he casts them to the ground.
00:56:33.36\00:56:36.79
So the explanation
part tells us that the stars
00:56:37.09\00:56:40.10
that the little horn throws
to the ground represents what?
00:56:40.13\00:56:43.70
Represents, according to this,
"the mighty and holy people."
00:56:43.73\00:56:49.27
Even a passing glance of
Daniel 8 indicates that the
00:56:50.37\00:56:53.78
"the host and the stars
of heaven" in the vision
00:56:53.81\00:56:57.51
is found in the
same identical place
00:56:57.88\00:57:00.32
as "the mighty and holy people"
00:57:00.75\00:57:02.92
in the
explanation of the vision.
00:57:02.95\00:57:05.35
Thus, the stars represent what?
00:57:05.39\00:57:08.12
They represent God's people.
00:57:08.22\00:57:10.93
Are you
understanding this point?
00:57:11.33\00:57:12.86
So now we've studied
the first four trumpets.
00:57:13.16\00:57:15.70
The first trumpet is what?
00:57:15.90\00:57:17.27
The destruction of Jerusalem.
00:57:18.33\00:57:19.67
The second?
00:57:19.70\00:57:21.04
The fall of the Roman Empire.
00:57:21.17\00:57:22.97
The third?
00:57:23.00\00:57:24.34
Ah, apostasy
begins to enter the church
00:57:24.84\00:57:27.28
in the period of Constantine.
00:57:27.31\00:57:28.74
The fourth trumpet?
00:57:29.11\00:57:30.55
The period of papal dominion.
00:57:30.95\00:57:33.65
And this is going to
lead us to the fifth trumpet
00:57:34.22\00:57:36.72
which describes
the French Revolution
00:57:37.32\00:57:40.32
and the deadly wound that
is given to the papacy in 1798.
00:57:40.66\00:57:45.59
So tomorrow I'm
hoping that in two sessions
00:57:46.03\00:57:49.20
that we have in the
morning we will be able to cover
00:57:49.23\00:57:52.07
the fifth trumpet.
00:57:52.27\00:57:53.60
And then we'll get
into the most exciting part,
00:57:53.67\00:57:56.07
which is the sixth trumpet
of the book of Revelation.
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