Well, good morning.
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Another day. Day number three.
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We're on a roll.
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We've studied
eight lessons so far.
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And today we are
going to get into a study
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on the fifth trumpet.
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And basically, the fifth trumpet
is going to take all day.
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There are many, many
pages, and I think it will be a
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blessing to understand the
meaning of the fifth trumpet.
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And then in the session
tomorrow we'll probably dedicate
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most of the day,
if not all of the day,
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to a study of the sixth trumpet.
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So we want to begin
with a word of prayer.
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And so I invite you to bow
your heads with me as we ask
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the Lord to be with us today.
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Father in heaven, we thank
You for giving us life this day.
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We thank You for bringing
us together to study Your Word.
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We ask that You will
bless each session today.
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That you will also
bless all of those who are
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watching the live stream.
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Lord, we're living, we
believe, in the last days.
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And we need to understand
prophecy so that we might
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remain firm in the trials ahead.
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So give us divine
wisdom to understand.
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We pray in the
precious name of Jesus, amen.
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We're going to begin on
page 127 of our study notes.
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The fifth trumpet.
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This is chapter 6
of the study notes.
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Now in order to
understand the fifth trumpet,
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it is helpful for us
to review some elements
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of what we studied
in the fourth trumpet.
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So we're going to take a
look at the fourth trumpet,
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as well as the
first four churches
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of the book of Revelation.
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Now there's a foundational
principle of interpretation
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when we study the
book of Revelation.
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And that is, that the churches,
the seals, and the trumpets
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cover the same
basic historic periods,
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but from different perspectives.
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Each series adds details that
the other series doesn't have.
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And the churches
really are the skeleton
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of the book of Revelation.
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In other words, the churches
are like Daniel 2 to Daniel.
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Daniel is the foundational
prophecy in all of the
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additional prophecies in
the book built on Daniel 2.
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The seven churches are
the foundational prophecies
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that give you the structure of
the entire book of Revelation.
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And we're going to
notice an example of that
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as we study this morning.
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Now let's go to
the bottom of page 127
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and review the
first four churches.
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The first church,
seal, and trumpet describe
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the apostolic church.
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The second
church, seal, and trumpet
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describe the period
when the Roman emperors
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persecuted the church.
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The third church,
seal, and trumpet describe
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the time when
paganism penetrated the church
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in the days of Constantine.
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The fourth
church, seal, and trumpet
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describe the period when
the apostate papal church
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eclipse the Bible
and the work of Christ
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in the heavenly Sanctuary.
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Now let's notice Ellen White's
remark about the seven churches.
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In, Acts of the Apostles,
page 585, Ellen White wrote,
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"The names of the
seven churches are symbolic
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of the church in different
periods of the Christian Era.
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The number 7
indicates completeness,
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and is symbolic of the fact that
the messages extend to..." When?
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"...to the end of
time, while the symbols used
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reveal the condition of
the church at different periods
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in the history of the world."
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So the seven churches
represent seven periods.
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That's why you
have the number seven.
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It's the totality of the
history of the Christian church
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in consecutive stages;
beginning with Ephesus,
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the apostolic
church, and ending actually,
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Revelation says Laodicea,
but really the church is
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going to return to the
condition of Philadelphia.
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I won't get into that right now.
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Futurist expositors such
as Hal Lindsey and Dave Hunt
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who are not
Seventh-day Adventists...
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They believe in the
rapture of the church
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and all of this literal
interpretation of prophecy
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at the end of time.
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They agree that the
seven churches represent
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seven periods of
Christian history.
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So this is not a unique
Seventh-day Adventist view.
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This is a view that is
held also by non-Adventists.
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Now what we want to do is take
a look at the fourth church.
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Because we're going to
find that in the fourth church
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we have a summary of
the fourth, fifth, sixth,
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and seventh trumpet.
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So the paragraph just
before the title in yellow here
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on page 128 says,
the central protagonist
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of the fourth church is, whom?
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Jezebel.
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It is clear that Jezebel
cannot be a literal person.
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Because during the Dark Ages
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literal Jezebel
was already dead.
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Doesn't take much
intelligence to figure that out.
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It is obvious that
Old Testament Jezebel
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did not live 1260 years.
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Now the mention of Jezebel
in the church of Thyatira,
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the fourth church, makes
it necessary to study what?
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The Elijah story.
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Because Jezebel is the central
protagonist of the Elijah story.
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Let us compare the
Old Testament story
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with the period of the
fourth church, Thyatira.
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Because there's a striking
parallel between what happened
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in the days of Elijah
and what happened during the
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church of
Thyatira, the fourth church.
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Here is the
description of the fourth church
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with my
explanatory notes in brackets.
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So what you have in
brackets are my comments
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about the message to
the church of Thyatira.
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We will notice that the fourth
church actually summarizes
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the central events of
the fourth, fifth, sixth,
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and I will add the
seventh trumpet as well.
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You say, "Well, how is that?"
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Well, we're going to
notice that the fourth church
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describes the
1260 year persecution,
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it describes the
French Revolution,
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it describes the
period of judgment,
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and it also describes the
conclusion of the judgment
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when Jesus takes
over the kingdom.
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You say, "Well, how is that?
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All of that is in
the fourth church?"
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Yes.
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Do you remember Daniel 7?
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In Daniel 7 you
have these four beasts:
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you have a lion, you have
a bear, you have a leopard,
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you have a dragon beast.
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The dragon beast
sprouts ten horns.
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Then a little horn comes
up and rules for how long?
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Time, times, and
the dividing of time.
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Now at the end of the
time, times, diving of time
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there's a judgment scene, right?
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In other words, Jesus goes
into the presence of the Father.
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The Father sits,
the judgment begins.
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Jesus goes into the
presence of the Father
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to receive the kingdom.
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What is the kingdom?
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The kingdom are the
people that have been proved
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in the judgment to be followers,
true followers of Jesus.
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So are you with me?
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Now we're going to
see all of those elements
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here in the church of Thyatira.
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So let's go to
the bottom of page 128
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and take a look at
the church of Thyatira
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to see if we can
find all of these stages.
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The fourth trumpet, we
said yesterday that the fourth
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trumpet represents what?
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The period of papal
dominion during the 1260 years.
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We're going to find the fourth
trumpet, the fifth trumpet,
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the sixth trumpet,
and the seventh trumpet
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summarized in the
message to Thyatira.
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So let's go to Revelation 2:20.
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This is the church of Thyatira.
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So who is at work in
the church of Thyatira?
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It is Jezebel.
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Immediately that tells us,
if you want to understand this
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you have to go where?
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You have to go back
to the original story
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where Jezebel is mentioned.
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You have to go back
to the Elijah story.
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By the way, is Jezebel
also symbolized by the beast
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of Revelation 13 and
the harlot of Revelation 17?
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Is it the same power
that ruled 1260 years?
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Absolutely.
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So let's continue.
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"...you allow that woman
Jezebel, who calls herself..."
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And the New King James
says, "sexual immorality,"
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but really it is fornication.
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Let me ask you, whom
did Jezebel fornicate with?
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She fornicated
with the king of Israel.
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Did the papal church fornicate
with the kings of the earth?
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See, we're
dealing with symbols here.
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Jezebel is not literal, so
the fornication must be what?
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Must be symbolic with
the kings of the earth.
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So it says, "...who
calls herself a prophetess..."
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Fornication.
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That's the union
of church and state.
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Did that happen
during the 1260 years?
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Absolutely.
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Does that involve idolatry?
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Was the church idolatrous
during the 1260 years?
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Absolutely.
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How much time?
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Time, times, and
the dividing of time.
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Are you with me or not?
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Now let's continue.
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Did she repent?
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No. "...and she did not repent."
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So what does God say?
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Because she did not repent,
something is going to happen.
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"...sickbed..."
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What does that refer to?
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The deadly wound that
was given to the papacy.
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In other words, Revelation 13
tells us it's the deadly wound.
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So we have to look at
all of these things together.
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The story of Elijah, we
have to look at Revelation 13,
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we have to look at Daniel 7.
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Because they're all describing
the same period of history.
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So it says here, "Indeed I
will cast her into a sickbed,
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and those who commit
adultery with her..."
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Who would those be?
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The rulers, right?
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So the harlot is going
to be cast into a sickbed,
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and also the rulers
who fornicate with her
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are also going to
be cast into a sickbed.
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And they're going
to be cast into what?
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"...great tribulation..."
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What does the great
tribulation here refer to?
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It refers to the
French Revolution.
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Let me ask you, was the
French Revolution a huge
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upheaval against the harlot
that sent her to her sickbed?
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Was it also a traumatic
event for those who were
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ruling in France?
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Absolutely.
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So this is describing
the French Revolution.
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It says, "...unless
they repent of their deeds.
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And I will kill her children..."
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Oh, the harlot has children.
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Who are the
children of the harlot?
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Ah, the harlot is the mother.
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So she must have what?
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So she must have daughters.
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What do the daughters represent?
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They represent apostate what?
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Apostate Protestantism.
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So it says, "...I will
kill her children with death,
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and all the churches..."
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See, now all of the
churches, all of human history,
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all of the history of
the church is involved here.
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What is that a description of?
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The
investigative judgment. Right?
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Is that parallel to Daniel 7?
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Immediately after
speaking of the little horn
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that ruled time, times, and the
dividing of time, you have what?
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The investigative
judgment in heaven.
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And here, immediately
after speaking about Jezebel,
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which is the same power that
ruled during the 1260 years,
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it says that God searches
the minds and the hearts.
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And what is he going to do?
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He is going to what?
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The judgment is going
to determine the reward.
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Right?
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And so it says, "And
I will give to each one
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of you according
to your..." What?
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"...according to your works."
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That is describing
the time when Jesus comes
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to take His people home.
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The people that have
been shown to be His followers
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in the investigative judgment.
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Are you with me or not?
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So the church of
Thyatira, by the way, describes
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the fourth trumpet, which is
the period of papal dominion,
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it describes the fifth
trumpet, the French Revolution.
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It describes also the sixth
trumpet, we're going to notice,
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because she is going
to have a resurrection.
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And it describes
also the seventh trumpet
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when the judgment is
over and Jesus takes over
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the everlasting kingdom
with the subjects of His kingdom
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that have been determined
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during the
investigative judgment.
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Are you following me or not?
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This is an amazing passage.
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Now we're going to unpack
this in the next few minutes.
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I'm not going to read everything
we find in the Elijah story,
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all of the Bible verses, because
we have way too much to cover.
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But I'll pick and choose.
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Now let's go to page 129.
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In the Old Testament
story, that is parallel to the
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fourth trumpet, by the
way, Jezebel is shown to be a
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pagan priestess who introduced
a synchronistic hybrid religion.
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In other words, it
was not pure paganism.
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It was paganism mingled
with the worship of the Lord.
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That's the reason why
Elijah said on Mount Carmel,
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"Why do you live
between two opinions.
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If the Lord is God, follow
Him; and if Baal, follow him."
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But don't try to follow both.
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So she introduced a
synchronistic hybrid religion
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that lead God's
people Israel into what?
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Into apostasy.
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In Revelation,
Thyatira represents the period
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of history when the
Christian church blended
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paganism with what?
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With Christianity.
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Does the papacy claim
to be a Christian system?
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Did it embrace a whole
bunch of pagan practices?
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Absolutely.
There's the parallel.
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And this church
behaved like Jezebel.
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This period is the
same as the fourth trumpet.
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So let's compare the
story of the historical Jezebel
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with the story of
the prophetic Jezebel.
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And we're going to
draw eleven parallels
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between historical Jezebel,
the Old Testament Jezebel,
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and of course those who
accompany her in the story,
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and what happens during the
period of the fourth trumpet.
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The first parallel is
that historical Jezebel
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led Israel into what?
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False worship to what?
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To the sun-god, Baal.
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Now you can read
that in 1 Kings 16:30-31.
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It's right there.
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The last part of the
verse says that Jezebel joined
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with King Ahab, and Ahab
went and served Baal, and what?
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And worshiped him.
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So there's the
worship of the sun-god.
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Ellen White has a
very interesting statement,
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at the bottom of page 129.
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And by the way, you can
read also from secular sources.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary,
let's read that one first.
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"The sun-god, under
the general title of Baal,
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or 'lord,' was the chief object
of worship of the Canaanites.
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Each locality had its
special Baal, and the various
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local Baals were summed up under
the name of Baalim, or 'lords.'
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Each Baal had a
wife, who was a colorless
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reflection of himself."
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And that, of course, is
the moon goddess, Asherah.
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And by the way, that's
why they worshiped idols
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of silver and gold.
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Silver was in honor of the moon,
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and gold was in
honor of the sun.
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So what was Baal?
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The sun-god.
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Ellen White confirms this.
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In, Great Controversy,
page 583, she wrote,
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"Though in a different form,
idolatry exists in the Christian
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world today as verily as it
existed among ancient Israel
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in the days of Elijah.
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The god of many professedly
wise men, of philosophers,
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poets, politicians, journalists;
the god of polished fashionable
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circles of many
colleges and universities,
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even of some
theological institutions,"
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have mercy, "is little
better than Baal..." The what?
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"...the sun-god of Phoenicia."
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So what was Baal?
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The sun-god.
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So what worship did
Jezebel introduce into Israel?
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Sun worship.
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Did the church during
the 1260 years have anything
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do with the sun?
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Yeah, it's no
longer the literal sun,
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we're not dealing with
worshiping the literal sun.
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We're dealing
with worshiping when?
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On the day of the sun.
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Sun-day.
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And in a previous presentation
I showed that basically it's
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the same principle.
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You know, anything that man
makes for worship is idolatry.
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The first day of the
week is not a day of worship.
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So if you make it a day
of worship, that's idolatry.
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God did not create the
sun as an object of worship.
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So if you make it an object
of worship, that's idolatry.
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It's the same basic principle.
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Now prophetic Jezebel
also does the same thing.
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Does prophetic Jezebel introduce
idolatry into the church
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during the 1260 years?
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We're at the top of page 130.
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Absolutely.
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We're told here that the
Jezebel of the 1260 years
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introduced idolatry.
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It led people to eat
things sacrificed to idols.
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You have this
statement from Ellen White,
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"The spirit of concession
to paganism opened the way
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for a still further
disregard of Heaven's authority.
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Satan tampered with the
fourth commandment also,
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and essayed to set
aside the ancient Sabbath,
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the day which God had
blessed and sanctified,
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and in its stead to exalt
the festival observed by the
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heathen as 'the
venerable day of the sun.'"
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Do you see the connection
that Ellen White makes
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with the worship of the
sun with the worship on the
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day of the sun?
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Now the second parallel
that we have is that Jezebel
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is called the mother.
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And she is a harlot.
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And she is
involved in the occult.
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Interesting.
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Is that true also
of prophetic Jezebel,
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the Jezebel of the 1260 years?
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Absolutely.
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Notice Revelation 17:1-2, 5.
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I'm not reading
the historical part.
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You have it right there.
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Because we don't have
enough time to do everything
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that we have in
this study manual.
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It says in Revelation 17:1...
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So you have a
harlot in both stories.
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Is that true also
of Jezebel with Ahab?
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Absolutely.
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So the end time
harlot, who is also the harlot
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during the 1260 years,
is referred to as the what?
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As the mother, she's a harlot,
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and she's
involved in the occult.
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Is the papacy also
involved in the occult?
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Notice Revelation
18:23, speaking about Babylon.
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"For your merchants were
the great men of the earth..."
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What is at the
root of the occult?
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What is at the
root of spiritualism?
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The idea that the
dead are not dead.
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The immortality of the soul.
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Is Roman Catholic
theology based on the idea that
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the dead are not dead?
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You look at the entire theology
of the Roman Catholic Church,
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it is based on the idea of
the immortality of the soul.
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You pray to the
saints, you pray to Mary,
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you know, you do special
mass for people who are dead.
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You know, people go to hell
and to burn while they're alive,
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or they go to
purgatory to purge their sins.
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Everything is
based on spiritualism.
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And the idea, of
course, of spiritualism is based
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on the immortality of the soul.
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Let's notice the third parallel.
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The issues in the days of
Elijah are the same issues
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that involve the
papacy during the 1260 years
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as well as in the end time.
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What are the issues?
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The first issue is
concerning the law of God.
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The second issue
is concerning worship.
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And the third issue has
to do with the true gospel.
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Now were these the
three issues of controversy
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in the days of Elijah?
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Yes.
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1 Kings 16:30-31,
I'm not going to read it,
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but you'll find
that we are told there
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that Ahab, of course, and
all of Israel, went and served
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Baal and worshiped him.
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So worship is involved.
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Is the law involved?
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Absolutely.
00:23:59.47\00:24:00.80
When Elijah meets Ahab,
what does he say to Ahab?
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"...you have forsaken..." What?
00:24:05.01\00:24:07.61
"...the commandments of the
Lord and followed the Baals."
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So are the commandments
involved in the story of Elijah?
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Absolutely.
00:24:15.82\00:24:17.15
Is the gospel involved?
00:24:17.19\00:24:19.02
Absolutely.
00:24:19.52\00:24:20.86
You say, "How do we know that?"
00:24:21.09\00:24:22.66
Well, what did Elijah do
when he went to Mount Carmel?
00:24:22.82\00:24:27.10
The first thing that he did
was repair the altar of the Lord
00:24:27.13\00:24:31.50
that had been torn down.
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What is it that was
placed on the altar?
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Sacrifices.
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What did the
sacrifices represent?
00:24:38.21\00:24:40.44
They represented the
death of Christ for sinners.
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So was the gospel torn
down during the days of Elijah?
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Three issues: worship,
the commandments of God,
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and the pure gospel.
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By the way, yesterday we studied
that the Roman Catholic system,
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what did it do
with Jesus Christ?
00:25:00.70\00:25:03.87
It eclipsed the
work of Jesus Christ.
00:25:03.97\00:25:07.07
And it also eclipsed
the testimony of the church.
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And so this is parallel
to what we studied yesterday.
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Now let me ask you,
in the book of Revelation
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do we have the
same three issues?
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Absolutely.
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On page 132 you have the issues.
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Revelation 13:4.
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The beast is a
symbol of the papacy.
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So is worship involved
when it comes to the beast,
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which is the same as Jezebel?
00:25:41.77\00:25:43.30
Yes. Is the law
involved during the 1260 years
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and at the end of time?
00:25:48.08\00:25:49.41
Yes. You know Daniel 7:25.
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It says that the little horn,
which is the same as the beast
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or the harlot, thought
that is could change what?
00:25:55.42\00:25:58.22
It could change God's holy law.
00:25:58.42\00:26:00.79
Also, is the
true gospel involved?
00:26:01.46\00:26:03.96
Remember, we
studied Daniel 8 yesterday.
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What did the papacy do?
00:26:07.16\00:26:08.56
Instead of the
showbread, it gave what?
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.30
Tradition.
00:26:11.33\00:26:12.67
Instead of the
once for all sacrifice,
00:26:12.70\00:26:15.00
it established the mass.
00:26:15.10\00:26:16.71
Instead of the light of the
church enlightening the world,
00:26:17.04\00:26:23.01
it was the
period of the Dark Ages.
00:26:23.38\00:26:25.41
Instead of the
intercessory work of Christ,
00:26:25.61\00:26:28.15
a counterfeit priesthood
now was placed to intercede.
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Did the papacy
interfere with the true gospel?
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It most certainly did.
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Now, notice the fourth parallel.
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During the period
of historical Jezebel,
00:26:41.56\00:26:44.00
because of the
apostasy there was no what?
00:26:44.03\00:26:48.04
There was no rain.
00:26:48.44\00:26:50.01
Is that true also
of the 1260 years?
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Notice Revelation 11:16.
That's the top of page 133.
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"These..." That
is the two witnesses.
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What do the two
witnesses represent?
00:27:03.12\00:27:04.99
The Bible. The
Old and New Testament.
00:27:06.02\00:27:08.09
What do they have power to do?
00:27:08.59\00:27:10.13
"...to shut heaven
so that no rain falls
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in the days of their prophecy."
00:27:14.80\00:27:16.53
Are you catching the point?
00:27:17.33\00:27:18.67
So was there any rain
because of the apostasy
00:27:18.97\00:27:21.30
in the times of Jezebel?
00:27:21.34\00:27:22.67
No. Was there any rain during
the period of spiritual Jezebel?
00:27:22.84\00:27:27.08
Absolutely not.
00:27:27.11\00:27:28.58
And by the way,
why was there no rain
00:27:28.81\00:27:31.71
during the 1260 years?
00:27:31.81\00:27:33.98
Well, we find here in 2
Chronicles 7:13-14 the answer.
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God says, "When I
shut up the heaven
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and there is not
rain, or command the locusts
00:27:40.29\00:27:43.06
to devour the land, and
send pestilence among My people,
00:27:43.09\00:27:47.03
if My people that are
called by My name will..." What?
00:27:47.53\00:27:50.37
"...humble themselves,
and pray and seek My face..."
00:27:50.40\00:27:53.34
Ah, now comes the key portion
that most people don't quote.
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"...and turn from
their wicked ways,
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then I will hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin
00:27:59.74\00:28:02.94
and heal their land."
00:28:02.98\00:28:04.31
Why was there no literal
rain during the days of Elijah?
00:28:04.35\00:28:07.45
Because people were in apostasy.
00:28:07.98\00:28:09.75
Why was there no rain
during the 1260 years?
00:28:10.15\00:28:13.22
Because people were in apostasy.
00:28:13.76\00:28:15.49
And what does
the rain represent?
00:28:15.52\00:28:17.36
The rain represents
the absence of what?
00:28:17.66\00:28:20.50
Of the Holy Spirit.
00:28:21.26\00:28:22.60
And that's the reason why the
candlestick doesn't have the oil
00:28:22.96\00:28:26.37
and therefore
it's the Dark Ages.
00:28:26.40\00:28:27.84
Because the candlestick...
The church does not give light.
00:28:27.87\00:28:30.37
Now let's notice
the fifth parallel.
00:28:31.17\00:28:33.34
This is the bottom of page 133.
00:28:33.78\00:28:36.48
How long did it not rain in
the days of literal Jezebel?
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James 5:17 tells us.
00:28:42.28\00:28:44.99
How long is that?
00:28:57.57\00:28:58.90
Time, times, and
the dividing of time.
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Of course, all of
this is coincidence.
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You think?
00:29:06.44\00:29:07.78
No.
00:29:07.91\00:29:09.24
What is literal in
the Old Testament becomes
00:29:09.28\00:29:11.25
symbolic during
the church period.
00:29:11.28\00:29:13.68
Now let's notice
Revelation chapter...
00:29:13.95\00:29:17.95
I don't have the reference
here, but this is found in
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the story of the
church of Thyatira.
00:29:22.06\00:29:24.33
It says, "I gave her..." What?
00:29:24.53\00:29:26.49
"...time..."
The word is Chronos.
00:29:27.80\00:29:30.10
What word do we
get from chronos?
00:29:30.33\00:29:32.30
Chronology.
00:29:32.40\00:29:33.74
"I gave her chronological time."
00:29:33.94\00:29:35.64
That is 1260 years.
00:29:35.67\00:29:37.74
"...to repent of her sexual
immorality," or her fornication,
00:29:37.94\00:29:41.24
"and she did not repent."
00:29:41.28\00:29:43.24
How long did God give
Jezebel the harlot to repent?
00:29:43.55\00:29:47.62
Notice Revelation once again.
00:29:48.12\00:29:50.42
This is Revelation 11.
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"And I will give
power to my two witnesses,
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and they will
prophesy..." How long?
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"...one-thousand
two-hundred and sixty days,
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clothed in sackcloth."
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1260 days is equivalent to what?
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Time, times, and
the dividing of time.
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Notice Daniel 7:25.
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"He shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,
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shall persecute the
saints of the Most High,
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and shall intend to
change times and law.
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Then the saints shall
be given into his hand..."
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For how long?
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"...for a time, and
times, and half a time."
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Three and a half years.
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But here they
are symbolic years.
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In the Old Testament
they are literal years.
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Are you with me?
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Very important principle.
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Now let's go to the next
parallel, parallel number six.
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Was there a faithful
remnant in the days of Elijah?
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Yes. Not only
Elijah, but also what?
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Ooh.
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"I have reserved
seven thousand in Israel,
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all whose knees
have not bowed to Baal,
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and every mouth
that has not kissed him."
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So was there a faithful remnant?
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A minority? Yes there was.
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Was there also a remnant
in the church of Thyatira?
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Here's a very interesting word.
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Revelation 2:24-25
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"Now to you I say, and
to the rest in Thyatira..."
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Now that is not
a good translation.
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The expression, "the rest,"
is the Greek word, "loipos."
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It's the same word that
is used in Revelation 12:17
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where the dragon goes
against the remnant of her seed.
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"Loipos," should be
translated, remnant.
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Was there a remnant in Thyatira?
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Yes there was.
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So it says here, "Now
to you I say, and to the
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remnant in Thyatira..."
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What characterized the remnant?
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Oh, "...as many as do
not have this doctrine..."
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In other words,
those who did not follow
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the teachings of Jezebel.
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"...who have not known
the depths of Satan..."
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So is there a faithful
remnant during this period? Yes.
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"...I will put on
you no other burden.
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But hold fast what
you have until I come."
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Let's notice a seventh parallel.
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Who was blamed in the
days of Elijah for everything
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that was occurring?
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Elijah.
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Was he hunted by
the powers that be?
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Yes. Notice 1 Kings 18:17.
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"Then it happened,
when Ahab saw Elijah..."
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Who was blamed to be
the troubler of Israel?
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It was Elijah.
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And so now they hunt for him.
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Notice 1 Kings 18:10 and 17.
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"As the Lord God lives, there
is no nation or kingdom..."
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This is Ahab speaking.
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This is a messenger
sent by Ahab to Elijah.
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He's saying, "You
know, my master has sent me
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to look for you everywhere."
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So did they hunt for
Elijah, try to hunt him down
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to destroy him?
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Absolutely.
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Is that true also of
prophetic Jezebel's period?
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Notice here Revelation 12:6.
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Why is she fleeing?
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On vacation?
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No. She's fleeing because
Jezebel, spiritual Jezebel,
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wants to finish her off.
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So you have this parallel.
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Historical Jezebel
and Ahab persecute Elijah
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and blame him
for what's happening.
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The same happens
during the 1260 years.
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Let's notice
parallel number eight.
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Where did Elijah find refuge?
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He found refuge in
the wilderness, right?
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Where did prophetic Elijah
during the period of Jezebel
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find refuge?
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Ah, notice
Revelation 12:6 and 14.
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"Then the woman
fled into..." Where?
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"...the wilderness, where
she has a place prepared by God
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that they should
feed her there 1260 days."
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And verse 14, "However,
the woman was given two wings
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of a great eagle, that she
might fly into the wilderness
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to her place, where she is
nourished for a time, and times,
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and half a time from the
presence of the serpent."
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So Elijah is protected
when he flees to the wilderness.
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And the church during the
period of spiritual Jezebel
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also flees and
goes to the wilderness.
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What happened with
Elijah there in the wilderness?
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He starved to death, right?
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No. He was fed by God.
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He was nourished by God.
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Notice what we
find in 1 Kings 17:4.
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"And it will be that you
shall drink from the brook,
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and I have commanded
the ravens to..." What?
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"...to feed you there."
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So was the
historical Elijah fed?
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Yes.
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1 Kings 17:6 says, "The
ravens brought him bread
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and meat in the morning, and
bread and meat in the evening;
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and he drank from the brook."
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Is this true also of prophetic
Elijah during the 1260 years?
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Absolutely. Let's read
Revelation 12 again, verse 6.
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And then verse 14 says
that she would be what?
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Nourished there.
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Are you seeing the parallels?
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There's just too many parallels
for this to be a coincidence.
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You see, the key point is
that the church of Thyatira
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mentions Jezebel.
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And Jezebel never appears alone.
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Whenever Jezebel appears,
her bad company appears too.
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Her three enemies, which
are the prophets of Baal,
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Jezebel, and Ahab the king.
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Now let's go to
the next parallel.
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Parallel number ten.
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Was the harlot Jezebel a
murderer of God's people?
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Yes.
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You can read that in 1
Kings 18:4 where it says
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that Jezebel massacred
the prophets of the Lord.
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And in 2 Kings 9:7 it says...
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1 Kings 19:1-2
basically says the same thing,
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that Elijah had to run for his
life from the wrath of Jezebel.
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Let's notice the
parallel at the top of page 137.
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Did spiritual
Jezebel or symbolic Jezebel
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persecute God's faithful
people during the 1260 years?
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Notice Daniel 7:25.
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In Revelation 17 it
even speaks of the harlot.
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Jezebel was a harlot.
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So here you have a
harlot in Revelation 17,
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and what
characteristic does she have?
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Chapter 18 and verse
24 adds, "And in her,"
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that is, in
this harlot system...
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So very interesting
parallels, aren't they?
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Now let's notice
the last parallel,
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parallel number eleven.
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Jezebel had false prophets,
right, that did her bidding.
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But do you know that
she also had a daughter
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who did her bidding?
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Incidentally, I might
say that the false prophets
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and the daughter
are interchangeable.
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Let me ask you, in
Revelation chapter 13
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does the mother have daughters?
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It's called the
false prophet, right?
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But in Revelation 17
the harlot's followers
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are called her what?
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Her daughters.
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Now, what we have to do is
we have to compare two stories.
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The story of Elijah
in the Old Testament,
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and you have to
compare the story
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of the New Testament Elijah.
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Who is the New Testament Elijah?
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I'm not talking about this end
time Elijah of the 1260 years.
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I'm talking about the New
Testament Elijah who is whom?
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John the Baptist.
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How many enemies led to
the death of John the Baptist?
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Three.
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By the way, Jesus
identified John the Baptist
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as Elijah three times.
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Matthew 17, Matthew
11, and Luke chapter 1.
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He identified... He
said, "This is Elijah."
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Of course, not in person.
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He came to do
the work of Elijah.
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To prepare a people for
the first coming of Jesus.
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Now, have you ever
read the story of the deaths
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of John the Baptist?
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The Elijah of the New Testament.
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There is King Ahab.
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Is he the dangerous
figure in the story?
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No, he's not the
dangerous figure.
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You know, he would
have done nothing unless
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it was for whom?
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Aaah.
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For Jezebel. Right?
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But Jezebel used her
false prophets to what?
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To extend the
false religion of Baal,
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and to search for Elijah.
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So in the Old Testament,
Jezebel, the false prophets
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do what she says because
they eat at Jezebel's table.
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And you don't bite
the hand that feeds you.
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And so they want...
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You know, this
union in the Old Testament
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of Jezebel influencing the
king who had a weak character,
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and using the false
prophets, they try to seek out
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Elijah to kill him.
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Now in the story of
John the Baptist, the king,
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is he a wimp?
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Was Ahab a wimp?
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They had the same character.
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He's a wimp.
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Excuse the expression.
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But you
understand what I'm saying.
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You know, he actually
liked John the Baptist.
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You read the
story in Mark chapter 6.
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He enjoyed sitting
and listening to him.
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But there was a harlot
who hated John the Baptist.
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Who was it?
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Herodias.
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And by the way, she was
an adulterous woman because
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she was sleeping with someone
who was somebody else's husband.
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Right?
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And so, what did she want to do?
00:41:18.01\00:41:19.57
She wanted to
kill John the Baptist.
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But it's like she
had a deadly wound.
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She couldn't, it says
there in Mark chapter 6.
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And so what does she do?
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She says to her
daughter at a banquet,
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she says to the daughter,
"Hey, you know, ask the king
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to give you the head
of John the Baptist."
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And I'm shortening the story.
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And the daughter says, "Mother!
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What are you saying, mother?"
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No. The daughter,
it says, immediately...
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Like mother, like daughter.
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The daughter goes and
says, "Give me the head of
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John the Baptist
on a silver platter."
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And that's how
John the Baptist died.
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The end time
trilogy, or enemies,
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are the dragon, the
beast, and the false prophet.
00:42:10.19\00:42:12.59
The dragon represents
the kings of the earth.
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The beast is the
papacy, or the harlot.
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And the false
prophet are the daughters.
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Is the same going to
happen at the end of time?
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Are the kings of the earth the
primary danger for God's people?
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No. The kings are not.
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Who tries to influence
the civil powers of the world?
00:42:31.75\00:42:35.38
The papacy. But she has what?
00:42:36.02\00:42:37.85
A deadly wound.
00:42:38.32\00:42:39.65
So she needs whom?
00:42:40.02\00:42:41.52
Her daughters, or the false
prophet, to do her bidding.
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Are you with me?
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This is not speculation.
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This is what the
Bible calls typology.
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This is typology.
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Type and anti-type.
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Now did Jezebel...
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See, Jezebel not
only had false prophets,
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she had also an apostate
daughter that did her bidding.
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You say, "Now wait a minute."
00:43:03.45\00:43:04.78
Do you know who usurped
the throne after Jezebel?
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Her daughter called Athaliah.
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Let's read about Athaliah
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in, Bible
Commentary, volume 2, page 1038,
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Very interesting.
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"With her seductive arts,
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Jezebel made
Jehoshaphat her friend."
00:43:24.73\00:43:28.14
That was the king of Judah.
00:43:29.34\00:43:30.87
"She arranged a marriage
between her daughter Athaliah
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and Jehoram, the
son of Jehoshaphat.
00:43:34.31\00:43:37.35
She knew that her daughter,
brought up under her guidance
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and as unscrupulous as herself,
would carry out her designs."
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Are you seeing the parallel?
00:43:52.56\00:43:54.10
Now, let's unpack this.
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Who are the daughters
when it comes to the 1260 years
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and the end time?
00:44:03.10\00:44:04.87
Well, the daughters represent
the Protestant denominations
00:44:05.47\00:44:12.28
that were born from the
mother in the 16th century.
00:44:12.31\00:44:16.89
Let me ask you, did the
daughters totally sever their
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relationship with their mother?
00:44:20.99\00:44:22.46
You know why the
Protestant churches
00:44:23.46\00:44:25.03
are going to
return to the mother?
00:44:25.06\00:44:26.39
Because they never fully
broke away from the mother.
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They kept some of the
doctrines of the mother.
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Two of them primarily.
00:44:37.24\00:44:38.67
Well, actually three.
00:44:38.71\00:44:40.04
Sunday as the day of worship,
00:44:40.68\00:44:43.48
the immortality of the soul,
00:44:44.51\00:44:46.28
and an eternally burning hell.
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Those will be the
links, Ellen White says
00:44:50.42\00:44:52.72
that Sunday and the
immortality of the soul
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will be the glue that
will bring them together.
00:44:55.56\00:44:58.49
So the daughters were
never able to sever their
00:44:59.09\00:45:01.93
relationship with their mother,
00:45:01.96\00:45:03.30
and they will
come back to mother.
00:45:03.33\00:45:04.67
Let's read Revelation 17:5.
00:45:05.47\00:45:09.24
This is page 138.
00:45:09.94\00:45:11.77
And we notice in
Revelation 2, Thyatira,
00:45:19.65\00:45:22.35
"I will kill her..." What?
00:45:22.58\00:45:24.22
"...her children with death..."
00:45:24.25\00:45:26.05
So Jezebel has what? Children.
00:45:26.09\00:45:29.52
You know, at Vatican Council
II, the ice began to melt
00:45:29.96\00:45:35.86
in the relationship between the
Protestants and the Catholics.
00:45:35.90\00:45:40.07
And there were
actually Protestants that went
00:45:40.60\00:45:43.41
as observers to
Vatican II, which took place
00:45:43.44\00:45:46.98
between 1962 and 1965.
00:45:47.01\00:45:49.61
And I want you to
notice a couple of very
00:45:50.15\00:45:51.85
interesting statements here
00:45:51.88\00:45:53.52
that were made by Roman
Catholics at the council.
00:45:54.85\00:46:00.19
First of all, John
XXIII, who was the one who
00:46:00.22\00:46:03.26
called the council; the pope.
00:46:03.29\00:46:05.16
He addressed the Protestants
who were there observing
00:46:06.13\00:46:11.37
in the following way:
00:46:11.40\00:46:12.73
"The Roman Catholic Church,
she wants to be an affectionate,
00:46:12.97\00:46:19.17
kind, and
patient..." What? "...mother.
00:46:19.21\00:46:23.31
She is moved by
compassion and goodness toward
00:46:23.98\00:46:26.72
her alienated children."
00:46:26.75\00:46:29.12
Interesting, isn't it?
00:46:30.79\00:46:32.12
Pope Paul VI, who
followed John XXIII,
00:46:33.76\00:46:36.73
during Vatican Council II added,
"Because of their position,
00:46:37.79\00:46:43.40
separated brethren are
the object of deep and tender
00:46:43.97\00:46:47.80
affection on the
part of the mother church.
00:46:47.84\00:46:50.84
It is a love that
feels grief and sadness,
00:46:52.47\00:46:55.54
the love of a heart
wounded by estrangement,
00:46:55.74\00:46:58.58
because the estrangement
prevents our brethren
00:46:58.81\00:47:01.48
from enjoying so
many privileges and rights
00:47:01.52\00:47:04.09
makes them lose so much grace.
00:47:04.32\00:47:06.65
But perhaps for this very reason
its love is all the deeper
00:47:06.92\00:47:10.93
and more burning."
00:47:10.99\00:47:12.93
Very, very interesting.
00:47:14.10\00:47:15.96
The mother saying that
the Protestants are her what?
00:47:16.77\00:47:22.64
Children.
00:47:22.87\00:47:24.21
Notice, Great
Controversy, pages 382 and 383.
00:47:24.24\00:47:27.44
"Babylon is said to be
'the mother of harlots.'
00:47:28.01\00:47:31.88
By her, 'daughters,'
must be symbolized..." What?
00:47:32.51\00:47:35.32
"...churches that cling to
her doctrines and traditions,
00:47:35.58\00:47:39.85
and follow her example
of sacrificing the truth
00:47:39.89\00:47:44.03
and the approval of God
in order to form an unlawful
00:47:44.06\00:47:48.10
alliance with the world."
00:47:48.13\00:47:50.37
And in the, Spalding and
Magan Collection, page 1,
00:47:50.77\00:47:54.27
this is a significant statement.
00:47:54.60\00:47:56.37
I wish I had time to
unpack the entire statement.
00:47:56.40\00:47:59.31
This is just a portion.
00:47:59.34\00:48:00.68
"Then I saw the
mother of harlots;
00:48:01.01\00:48:03.18
that the mother
was not the daughters,
00:48:03.41\00:48:06.92
but separate and
distinct from them.
00:48:07.12\00:48:09.92
She," that is the
mother, "has had her day,
00:48:10.35\00:48:13.56
and it is past, and her
daughters, the Protestant sects,
00:48:13.96\00:48:19.16
were the next to come on the
stage and act out the same mind
00:48:19.19\00:48:24.43
that the mother had when
she persecuted the saints."
00:48:24.47\00:48:27.84
Are you catching the picture?
00:48:30.51\00:48:32.04
And Protestants today,
they think that this pope
00:48:32.87\00:48:38.85
is marvelous and magnificent
00:48:39.05\00:48:41.95
because he speaks
about helping the poor,
00:48:42.72\00:48:45.39
and taking care of creation,
00:48:45.42\00:48:47.36
and he washes the
feet of prisoners.
00:48:47.66\00:48:49.96
They say, you know, this
individual is the one who can
00:48:51.49\00:48:54.73
bring the world
together in love.
00:48:54.76\00:48:56.90
Why? Because they've cast
aside the shield of truth,
00:48:57.60\00:49:00.77
which is this Book.
00:49:01.30\00:49:02.64
Doctrine means nothing
to Protestants anymore.
00:49:03.74\00:49:06.47
It's just, "Oh, let's
just all agree to disagree.
00:49:06.88\00:49:11.21
Let's just all get together
and feel good together."
00:49:11.75\00:49:15.75
Doctrine and truth means
nothing anymore in this world.
00:49:16.45\00:49:19.49
Postmodern thinking
has destroyed the idea
00:49:19.89\00:49:22.82
that there's such a
thing as absolute truth.
00:49:22.86\00:49:25.09
But there is absolute
truth, and it's in this Book.
00:49:25.79\00:49:29.30
Now, we have one more
thing that we need to do.
00:49:30.67\00:49:34.44
Is there going to
be an end time Elijah?
00:49:35.64\00:49:37.67
Yes there is.
00:49:38.47\00:49:39.81
The Elijah of the 1260
years is not the final Elijah.
00:49:40.31\00:49:44.15
The conclusion of the
story is still in the future.
00:49:44.65\00:49:47.32
We know this
for several reasons.
00:49:47.98\00:49:49.92
At the end of the 1260
years, the civil powers
00:49:50.25\00:49:53.46
mortally wounded Jezebel,
but did not totally what?
00:49:53.56\00:49:58.29
Annihilate her.
00:49:58.69\00:50:00.06
Second, the daughters
of Jezebel are still what?
00:50:01.00\00:50:04.17
Alive and well.
00:50:04.80\00:50:06.57
So they haven't been
killed the way that we're told
00:50:06.77\00:50:10.14
in the message to
the church at Thyatira.
00:50:10.17\00:50:12.44
Third, the great and
terrible day of the Lord
00:50:13.51\00:50:15.94
has not yet what? Come.
00:50:15.98\00:50:18.21
And God promises to
send Elijah before the great
00:50:18.25\00:50:20.88
and terrible time of the Lord.
00:50:20.92\00:50:22.35
And finally, God did not yet
translate the church to heaven
00:50:23.15\00:50:27.62
like He did Elijah.
00:50:27.66\00:50:29.22
So are we to
expect another Elijah?
00:50:29.69\00:50:32.19
Yes.
00:50:32.49\00:50:33.83
By the way, does the
Old Testament tell us
00:50:34.10\00:50:37.93
that there is going
to be another Elijah?
00:50:37.97\00:50:40.57
Yes.
00:50:41.30\00:50:42.64
It says in Malachi 4,
and I'm not going to read
00:50:43.14\00:50:45.97
this entire
passage, Malachi 4:1-6,
00:50:46.01\00:50:50.41
"the day is coming,
burning like an oven,"
00:50:50.45\00:50:52.88
the wicked will be
stubble, they will be burned up,
00:50:53.75\00:50:56.65
neither root nor
branch will be left.
00:50:57.42\00:50:59.82
Is this describing the
coming of Christ in fire?
00:51:00.02\00:51:02.89
Yes. But what is He
going to do before He comes?
00:51:02.92\00:51:06.49
Ah, let's go
down here to verse 4.
00:51:06.90\00:51:10.50
There are two individuals
that are mentioned here.
00:51:10.53\00:51:12.73
"Remember the Law of Moses..."
00:51:14.04\00:51:15.97
So who is brought to view?
00:51:23.01\00:51:24.45
Moses.
00:51:24.48\00:51:25.81
Who else is brought to view?
00:51:26.35\00:51:27.82
"Behold, I will
send you..." Whom?
00:51:27.85\00:51:29.58
"...Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the
00:51:29.98\00:51:32.62
great and
dreadful day of the Lord.
00:51:32.65\00:51:34.16
And he will turn the hearts
of the fathers to the children,
00:51:34.39\00:51:36.62
and the hearts of the
children to their fathers,
00:51:36.83\00:51:38.96
lest I come and strike
the earth with a curse."
00:51:38.99\00:51:41.43
By the way, if you
go to Revelation 11,
00:51:41.63\00:51:45.13
the two witnesses
really are Moses and Elijah.
00:51:45.17\00:51:48.40
The work that
Moses and Elijah did.
00:51:49.04\00:51:51.27
Because the witnesses
turn water into blood.
00:51:52.01\00:51:55.31
We're going to
study this later on.
00:51:55.34\00:51:56.68
Who turned water into blood?
00:51:56.71\00:51:58.08
Moses.
00:51:58.98\00:52:00.32
And they make fire
come down from heaven.
00:52:00.42\00:52:02.62
Who brought fire
down from heaven?
00:52:02.65\00:52:04.35
Elijah.
00:52:04.39\00:52:05.72
So the mention of Moses has
to do with God's commandments.
00:52:05.89\00:52:10.16
The mention of Elijah
means bringing God's people back
00:52:10.99\00:52:15.13
to the roots to prepare
for the coming of the Lord.
00:52:15.33\00:52:18.67
Now why will there
be an end time Elijah?
00:52:19.30\00:52:21.90
Well, because
there's an end time Jezebel.
00:52:22.57\00:52:24.67
If you have Jezebel, you have
to have, you know, Elijah too.
00:52:26.27\00:52:31.61
Right?
00:52:31.65\00:52:32.98
And you have to have also
Ahab; the kings of the earth.
00:52:33.01\00:52:37.25
And you have to
have the daughters.
00:52:37.29\00:52:38.85
Because they all
are in the same story.
00:52:39.09\00:52:41.42
They all work together.
00:52:41.46\00:52:42.96
Now Revelation 6:9-11.
00:52:43.53\00:52:46.39
It doesn't look like
we're going to be able to
00:52:46.49\00:52:48.03
finish this in this time period.
00:52:48.06\00:52:49.40
We'll have to come back to it.
00:52:49.43\00:52:51.00
But Revelation
6:9-11 is the fifth seal.
00:52:51.13\00:52:55.34
The fourth seal
represents the period
00:52:56.57\00:52:58.77
of papal dominion.
00:52:58.81\00:53:00.81
What did the papacy
do with God's people?
00:53:01.54\00:53:03.75
Slew God's people.
00:53:04.91\00:53:06.31
So in the fifth seal,
the souls that were slain
00:53:06.55\00:53:10.09
under the fourth
trumpet, under the fourth seal,
00:53:10.12\00:53:12.82
what are they doing?
00:53:13.12\00:53:14.46
They're crying out,
"Lord, until..." When?
00:53:14.79\00:53:17.53
You can read this here.
00:53:17.69\00:53:19.06
"...until..." When?
00:53:19.09\00:53:20.43
"...do you not
judge and avenge our blood
00:53:20.46\00:53:24.73
on those who
dwell on the earth?"
00:53:24.77\00:53:26.13
"How long are You going to
allow our blood to be shed?"
00:53:26.60\00:53:29.64
What is God's answer to them?
00:53:30.41\00:53:32.94
Notice verse 11.
00:53:33.31\00:53:34.88
So this first group of
martyrs that were killed
00:53:42.12\00:53:44.19
during the 1260 years, they're
told, they cry out for justice,
00:53:44.22\00:53:49.39
and God says to them,
"You're going to..." What?
00:53:49.42\00:53:51.73
"You're going to rest
for a little while longer."
00:53:51.93\00:53:54.10
But let me ask you,
is there going to be
00:53:54.13\00:53:55.46
another group of martyrs?
00:53:55.50\00:53:56.83
Yes.
00:53:57.00\00:53:58.33
It says...
00:53:58.43\00:53:59.77
So is there going to be
a future group of martyrs?
00:54:07.48\00:54:09.68
Yes, because the past
group of martyrs cry out,
00:54:09.88\00:54:12.21
God gives them a
white robe, He says,
00:54:12.25\00:54:14.25
"You're safe, you're secure.
00:54:14.28\00:54:15.82
You know, you're
going to rest for a while
00:54:15.95\00:54:17.52
until the rest
of the martyrs die."
00:54:17.55\00:54:19.59
When is it that the rest of
the martyrs are going to die?
00:54:19.62\00:54:21.92
During that short time
of trouble right before
00:54:21.96\00:54:25.16
the close of probation.
00:54:25.19\00:54:26.53
And who is going
to be the protagonist
00:54:26.56\00:54:28.40
that is going to encourage that?
00:54:28.60\00:54:31.47
It is going to be a resurrected
Roman Catholic papacy.
00:54:31.97\00:54:36.64
And let's go here
to Revelation 2:22.
00:54:37.14\00:54:41.04
"Indeed I will cast
her into a sickbed..."
00:54:41.61\00:54:43.61
This is the fifth
trumpet, we're going to notice.
00:54:43.65\00:54:45.68
The fifth trumpet
is the deadly wound,
00:54:46.45\00:54:48.38
the French Revolution,
that makes the papacy inactive.
00:54:48.42\00:54:53.09
So it says, "Indeed I will
cast her into a sickbed..."
00:54:53.42\00:54:55.92
That is this harlot Jezebel that
worked during the 1260 years.
00:54:55.96\00:55:00.70
"...and those
who commit adultery,"
00:55:00.96\00:55:02.50
or fornication, "with her..."
00:55:02.53\00:55:04.17
That is the kings of the earth.
00:55:04.40\00:55:06.53
"...into great tribulation..."
That's the French Revolution.
00:55:06.94\00:55:09.94
"...unless they
repent of their deeds."
00:55:09.97\00:55:11.44
Now what does it mean to
cast her into the sickbed?
00:55:11.47\00:55:14.51
Well, notice what a
very reputable lexicon says.
00:55:15.14\00:55:21.18
Arndt and
Gingrich Lexicon, page 436,
00:55:21.22\00:55:24.22
explains that this means,
"To lay someone in a sickbed;
00:55:24.45\00:55:28.86
that is, to strike
her with an illness..."
00:55:29.19\00:55:32.89
It gives Revelation 2:22.
00:55:33.63\00:55:35.86
"...a lingering
illness as..." What?
00:55:35.90\00:55:38.73
"...as divine punishment."
00:55:39.33\00:55:41.24
Was the papacy
divinely punished?
00:55:41.60\00:55:43.74
You better believe it.
00:55:43.77\00:55:45.11
But what does
Revelation 13:3 have to say?
00:55:45.64\00:55:48.58
The deadly wound
is going to what?
00:55:49.14\00:55:51.48
Heal.
00:55:51.85\00:55:53.18
"And I saw one of his heads as
if it had been mortally wounded,
00:55:53.28\00:55:56.38
and his deadly wound was healed.
00:55:56.52\00:55:58.52
And all the world
marveled and followed..." What?
00:55:58.75\00:56:01.72
"...and followed the beast."
00:56:02.09\00:56:03.73
Do you notice that the
Elijah story broadens ever more?
00:56:05.06\00:56:08.56
It's like throwing
a pebble into a lake,
00:56:08.60\00:56:10.67
and then you have the
ripples that go wider and wider.
00:56:10.70\00:56:13.57
Where does the
first Elijah minister?
00:56:13.77\00:56:17.77
In Israel.
00:56:18.77\00:56:20.11
What about the second Elijah?
00:56:20.44\00:56:22.28
In western Europe.
00:56:22.91\00:56:24.58
What about the last Elijah?
00:56:25.51\00:56:27.42
In the world.
00:56:28.02\00:56:29.35
Are you with me or not?
00:56:30.29\00:56:31.62
Now, Revelation 12:17
describes end time Elijah.
00:56:32.19\00:56:37.53
"...offspring..." Or the remnant
of her seed, I like better.
00:56:41.86\00:56:44.63
And what do they do?
00:56:45.07\00:56:46.40
Which is the spirit of prophecy.
00:56:52.04\00:56:53.61
Let's read the paragraph
at the top of page 141.
00:56:54.08\00:56:58.45
After the three
and a half times,
00:56:58.48\00:57:00.35
God raises up a people who
keep the commandments of God,
00:57:00.62\00:57:04.65
have the gift of
prophecy, preach true worship
00:57:05.55\00:57:09.42
to the Creator
on His holy Sabbath,
00:57:09.46\00:57:11.19
restore and proclaim
the everlasting gospel,
00:57:11.79\00:57:14.63
denounce Babylon, and
lead the world to take a stand
00:57:15.13\00:57:19.33
for the seal of God
or the mark of the beast.
00:57:19.37\00:57:22.30
This end time Elijah
will enlighten the world
00:57:22.70\00:57:25.01
with a loud cry.
00:57:25.21\00:57:26.71
As Elijah brought
fire down from heaven,
00:57:27.01\00:57:28.84
the entire Mount
Carmel was illuminated
00:57:28.88\00:57:31.61
when he gave his message.
00:57:31.65\00:57:33.21
Who is that end time remnant?
00:57:33.35\00:57:35.05
That end time remnant is
the Seventh-day Adventist,
00:57:35.35\00:57:38.09
the faithful in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:57:38.39\00:57:41.09
I need to qualify that.
00:57:41.79\00:57:43.69
Because Ellen White states
that most of those who are
00:57:43.89\00:57:47.26
in the church
will eventually leave.
00:57:47.30\00:57:49.23
Sadly.
00:57:49.26\00:57:50.60
So did you
understand what we studied?
00:57:50.63\00:57:53.17
You really have a
summary of trumpet four,
00:57:53.70\00:57:56.87
five, six, and seven.
00:57:56.91\00:58:00.14