My name is Diana Dixon.
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I'm a professional truck driver.
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In August of 4th, 2011,
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I stopped to
help in an accident.
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Diana Dixon also tried to help.
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She parked her semi,
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jumped out and
headed toward the pickup.
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That's when she saw
vehicles barreling toward her
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so she reacted
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by jumping off
475 to a road below.
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Well, pickup,
it's clipped a semi
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and I stopped to help
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and I saw in the
mirror so I walked back.
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Gentleman told me, he says hey,
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you know, everything's
okay, they called 911.
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And I looked over at the pickup
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and there was a
black pickup over there.
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And he was okay.
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At about that time I
don't know how far I walked
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but I walked far
enough and a semi hit him
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and it imploded.
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I knew it was gonna hit me.
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I had 30 seconds to
decide and I decided to jump.
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Yeah, I jumped off the bridge.
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My back is broke.
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Where are you at?
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I don't know.
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Fractured my
pelvis in 24 places.
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Five broken
ribs, C5 neck fracture.
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I had a collapsed lung,
I had a lacerated bladder,
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I was bleeding internally,
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I had no marks on
the outside of me at all,
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but a scrape on my arm
and scraped the concrete.
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From the chest
down, I was on fire.
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I was a dispatcher for
a year after the accident,
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and I went back,
finished my degree.
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And I went to Pittsburgh.
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Threw a backpack over my back.
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Walked like all
the other students.
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I ran a marathon
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and since then
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I've been back to truck driving.
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There was a
gentleman I worked with,
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and one day he was walking
in and he walked up to my desk
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and I was reading my Bible
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and he says,
"Are you a believer?"
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And I said, "Yes."
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And he gave me some
Amazing Facts study guides
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and it just,
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it was an eye
opening experience for me.
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I mean, I started reading them
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and I had a bunch of
questions to ask him,
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so I got online,
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and I got on
Amazing Facts web page,
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and I just founded information
just that I'd never know.
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I went back to
work as a truck driver,
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because that was my ministry.
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It was my ministry
before the accident,
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and I was driving down the road,
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and I just needed a connection
and I was flipping through
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and somehow I
ended up on YouTube.
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And next thing I
know, Amazing Facts,
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one of those
things would come up there
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and I listened to it.
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I'm driving down the
road, I got 11 hours of driving.
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So I listened to one, I
listened to another one,
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and the more I listened to him
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everything that I
thought in my heart...
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I just click on
one of these YouTube's
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and there he was
giving me the answer.
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I walked in a
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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for the first time
and I felt at home.
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I was baptized
in the Seventh-day
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Adventist Church,
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because I found the truth
that I just was searching for
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and I've been praying about.
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Amazing Facts
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has been such an
inspiration and important
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for my coming
back into ministry,
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that I want to be
able to give back to anyone
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that I can,
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and Amazing Facts is
the backbone of my ministry.
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My name is Diana Dixon.
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Thank you for changing my life.
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Good morning, friends.
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Welcome again to
Sabbath School Study Hour,
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here at the Granite bay
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in Sacramento, California.
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We'd like to welcome
those who are joining us online,
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our online members
and also the friends
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who are joining
us across the country
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and around the world.
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And glad that you've
tuned in to continue our study
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in the Book of Revelation.
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I like to welcome our
regular church members
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and our visitors here in person
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that have come
to study together.
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Very important
lesson, as you know,
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our whole quarter is focused
on the Book of Revelation.
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Today, our study
is lesson number nine,
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that's entitled
"Satan and His Allies,"
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and we're gonna be
getting to that here
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in just a few moments,
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principally, looking
at Revelation Chapter 13.
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But before we get to that,
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It's entitled "The Beast,
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"The Beast, the
Dragon and the Woman."
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But before we get to our study,
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let's bow our heads
for a word of prayer.
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Dear Father, once again,
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we are grateful
for the opportunity
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to open up Your Word and study
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this very important passage
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in Revelation Chapter 13.
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Father, we want to
ask in a special way
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that You would send Your Spirit
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to guide our
hearts and our minds,
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bring us into a
clear understanding
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of this very important subject
relevant for the last days.
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So we ask Your
blessing upon our time today
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Our lesson today is
gonna be brought to us
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by Pastor Doug.
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Thank you, Pastor Ross,
and good morning, everybody.
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Want to welcome again,
our friends that are watching,
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via satellite or
live on the internet,
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and we have some online members
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from different
parts of the world.
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We welcome you as well.
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I also listened to your
prayers as I embark on teaching
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our subject
today because normally
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we're covering in Revelation 13.
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Most evangelists,
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they take one hour to
talk about the first beast.
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Then they take another hour
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to talk about
America and prophecy,
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the second beast.
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Then they take a
third hour to talk about
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the mark of the beast.
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But our lesson
writers have asked us to do it
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in one 45 minutes section.
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So what I've done
today is a little different
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from what I normally do,
I've never done this before,
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but I've taken everything
I've got on Revelation 13,
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I've put it into one
PowerPoint presentation
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from all the
different evangelistic programs.
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I had to cut a few slides out
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and so I'm gonna talk quickly.
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Because I'm afraid
that I won't be getting
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all the way through the lesson,
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I thought it would be
good for us to at least
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open our Bibles
to Revelation 13,
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and we're gonna be
reading that chapter together.
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Now we have a
memory verse in the lesson.
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And the memory verse comes to us
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from Revelation 12:17.
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I know the
lesson is on Chapter 13,
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but memory verse is
from Revelation 12:17,
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I think most of us
know that and it says,
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"The dragon was
enraged with the woman,
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and he went to make war
with the rest of her offspring,
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who keep the commandments of God
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and have the
testimony of Jesus."
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That is the New
King James Version.
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Now, go with me
to Revelation 13.
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It's interesting, there's
17 verses in Revelation 12.
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There's 18
verses in Revelation 13.
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We're going to
just read them all.
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So stay with me.
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I'll do my best to
read this without comment.
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"Then I stood upon
the sand of the sea.
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And I saw a beast
rising up out of the sea
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having seven
heads and ten horns,
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and on his horns, ten crowns,
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and on his heads
names of blasphemy.
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Now the beast that I
saw was like a leopard,
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and his feet were
like the feet of a bear,
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and his mouth was
like the mouth of a lion.
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The dragon gave him his power,
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his throne, and great authority.
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And I saw one of the heads
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as it had been mortally wounded,
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and its deadly wound was healed,
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and all the world
marveled and followed the beast.
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So they worshiped the dragon,
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who gave authority to the beast,
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and they
worshiped the beast, saying,
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'Who is like the beast?
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And who is able to
make war with him?'
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And he was given a
mouth speaking great things
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and blasphemies,
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and he was given authority
to continue for 42 months.
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And then he opened his
mouth in blasphemy against God
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to blaspheme His
name, His tabernacle,
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and those who dwell in heaven.
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And it was granted to him
to make war with the saints
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and to overcome them.
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And authority was
given him over every tribe,
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tongue, and nation.
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And all who dwell upon the earth
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will worship him,
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whose names
have not been written
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in the Book of Life of the Lamb
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slain from the
foundation of the world.
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If anyone has an
ear, let him hear.
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He who leads into captivity
shall go into captivity,
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and he who kills with the sword
must be killed with the sword.
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Here is the patience
and the faith of the saints.
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Then I saw another beast
come up from out of the earth,
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and he had two
horns like a lamb,
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and he spoke like a dragon.
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And he exercises
all the authority
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of the first
beast in his presence,
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and causes the earth
and those who dwell in it
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to worship the first beast
whose deadly wound was healed.
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He performs great signs,
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so that he even
makes fire come down
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from heaven on the
earth in the sight of men.
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And he deceives those
who dwell on the earth
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by those signs
which he was granted to do
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in the sight of the beast,
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telling those who
dwell on the earth
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to make an image to the beast
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who was wounded by
the sword and lived.
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And he was granted
power to give breath
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to the image of the beast,
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that the image of the
beast should both speak
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and cause as many as would not
worship the image of the beast
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to be killed.
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And he causes all,
both small and great,
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rich and poor, free and slave,
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to receive a mark
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on their right hand
or on their foreheads,
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and that no one
might buy or sell
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except the one who has the
mark or the name of the beast,
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or the number of his name.
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Here is wisdom.
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Let him who has
understanding calculate
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the number of the beast,
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for it is the number of a
man: And his number is 666."
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So I've got a presentation,
I only have 120 slides,
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and we're gonna try to cover
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the beast from the sea,
this is what's in your lesson,
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the activities of the sea beast,
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the beast
arising out of the earth,
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the image of the beast
and the mark of the beast.
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So let's pray that God
will make the sun stand still
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and let's see
how far we can get.
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Okay, so Satan and his allies
is the title of our lesson.
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First, we're gonna
address our attention
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to the beast from the sea.
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Now, I'm gonna
tell you right away.
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If you don't already know what,
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all of the great
reformers and Protestants
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believed about this,
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I thought, I'll go ahead
and tell you what they believe.
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Then we'll back up
and share the reasons.
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Now, if this is the
first time you're hearing this,
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I hope you put on your seatbelt.
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But I thought I
should let you know
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that many of the reformers
beginning with John Wycliffe,
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by the way, who
was a Catholic priest.
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He said, "We
suppose that the Antichrist,
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the head of all these
evil men is the Pope of Rome."
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Foxes Book of Martyrs.
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John Huss, also a
Catholic priest said,
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"The pope is
the true Antichrist,
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of whom it is written,
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that he sits in
the temple of God,
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among the people
where Christ is worshiped."
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And you got Martin Luther,
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another
Catholic priest who said,
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"The vicar is in the
place of an absent chief,
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what is such a
vicar but Antichrist.
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I know, and am
certain that the papacy
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is the kingdom of Babylon."
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Same power that
we're talking about here.
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And I should probably pause here
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and just mention that
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in Daniel 7, you got
a beast with ten horns.
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In Revelation 12,
you get the ten horns,
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Revelation 13, Revelation 17,
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we're all talking
about the same beast,
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Antichrist power here.
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They recognize
that he just referred
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to Revelation 17,
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but it's the same beast.
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John Knox, Catholic priest,
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he said "Yea, we
doubt not to prove
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the kingdom of the pope
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to be the kingdom
and power of Antichrist."
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So I just wanted to show you
that through Catholic history,
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they saw that
their own institution
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was fulfilling the prophecies
of Revelation and Daniel.
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Here's Charles
Spurgeon, more modern preacher,
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"Behold upon her
forehead the name,
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Mystery, Babylon the Great,
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the Mother of Harlots and
Abominations of the Earth.
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The Church of
Rome and her teachings
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are a vast mountain of rubbish
covering the Truth of God!"
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That's pretty strong.
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From the book, A
Great Cloud Of Witnesses.
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They write, "Wycliffe,
Tyndale, Luther, Calvin,
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Cranmer, it's Thomas Cranmer,
in the 17th century, Bunyan,
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who wrote pilgrim's progress,
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the translators of
the King James Bible,
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the men who
published the Westminster
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and Baptist confession of faith,
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Sir Isaac Newton, John Wesley,
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George
Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards,
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and more recently Spurgeon,
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Bishop J.C. Ryle,
Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones,
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these men among
countless others,
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all saw the office of the Papacy
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as the Antichrist."
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So as you study Revelation 13,
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all of these
scholars I just mentioned,
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unanimously
believed the first beast
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in Revelation 13 was the papacy.
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So don't say, Pastor Doug,
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why are you
doing hate speech here?
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You'll have to accuse
all of the Protestant leaders
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and many Catholics
leaders, of the same thing.
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So that's what they believe.
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Now let's look and
find out if it fits.
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Revelation 13:1,
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"And I stood upon
the sand of the sea,
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and I saw a beast
rise up out of the sea."
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So he has seven
heads and ten horns,
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and upon his horns ten crowns,
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and upon his heads
the names of blasphemy."
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So there's some blasphemy,
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disrespect of God
that's happening here.
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It says, "This
beast arises from the sea.
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What does the sea
or the water symbolize?
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You go to the Bible
to get the explanation.
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Revelation 17:15,
the angel told John,"
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The waters that
you saw are peoples,
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and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues."
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So this beast power comes up
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from the midst of
densely populated area,
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the center of
civilization, and indeed, Rome,
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which was ruling
the world at the time
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Revelation was written,
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was stationed
literally in a peninsula
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in the middle of the seas,
00:14:55.46\00:14:57.33
literally as
well as figuratively
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in the middle of
an empire of people,
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densely populated for the time.
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I'll say more on
that in a moment.
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You go to verse 2,
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"Now the beast I
saw was like a leopard,
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his feet were like
the feet of a bear,
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his mouth like
the mouth of a lion."
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So what does the beast represent
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in Bible prophecy?
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You know, people say,
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"That's not very nice to call
the Catholic Church a beast."
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Well, all the
nations were called in,
00:15:23.35\00:15:25.39
the powers were called beast,
it's not being derogatory.
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We think of America, we
think of the American eagle.
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China's typically the
dragon and Russia is the what?
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The bear.
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Countries have always
used mascots and beasts
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to identify them.
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Starts with the Bible.
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So you can look here,
it says in Daniel 7:17,
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"These great
beasts which are four,
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are four kings.
00:15:47.61\00:15:49.24
The fourth beast shall
be the fourth kingdom."
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So when it talks about beasts,
00:15:52.05\00:15:53.08
we're not
talking about a monster.
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We're talking about
00:15:54.78\00:15:56.15
religious
political powers that rule."
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The ram," Daniel 8:20,
00:16:00.49\00:16:02.46
"which you saw
having the two horns,
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they are the kings
of Media and Persia.
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And the male goat
is the king of Greece."
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And so they
represented different kingdoms.
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This is
established early in the Bible.
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Now, you'll notice
if you read Daniel 7,
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it talks about a lion,
and a bear, and a leopard,
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and a dragon.
00:16:19.54\00:16:21.61
Now, what do we
find in Revelation 13?
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This beast is a conglomerate
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of a leopard, a lion, a bear,
00:16:26.72\00:16:30.12
and the dragon is
giving him his seat,
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his power and great authority.
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So what happens
here with the Roman power
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that rises up out of the sea
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is sort of got pieces
of all these other empires.
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So who is the first beast?
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Right, one that
rises from the sea.
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Rome fits that definition.
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It gets its power seat
and authority from the dragon.
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It's a worldwide power,
it's guilty of blasphemy,
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rules for 42 months, gets
a deadly wound that heals,
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persecutes God's
saints and left one out,
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has a mysterious number 666.
00:17:01.48\00:17:03.59
So I already showed
you the papacy arose
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from the center of civilization.
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Who gives the beast
his power and position?
00:17:08.46\00:17:11.23
Revelation 13:2,
00:17:11.26\00:17:12.43
"The dragon gave
him his power, his seat,
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and great authority."
00:17:14.63\00:17:16.20
Now if you look
in Revelation 12,
00:17:16.23\00:17:17.97
the devil is the dragon,
00:17:18.00\00:17:20.47
trying to kill Jesus
as a baby when He's born,
00:17:20.50\00:17:22.80
through the Roman
power, through the crucifixion,
00:17:22.84\00:17:25.54
it's the Roman
kingdom ruled by Caesars,
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what you'd call pagan Rome,
but pagan Rome began to fail.
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First pagan Rome tried
to destroy Christianity
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but instead it grew,
00:17:35.98\00:17:37.22
was ultimately
legalized by Constantine
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and
Constantinople was later set up
00:17:40.46\00:17:42.79
in honor of Constantine.
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Between the time of
Constantine about 500 years AD,
00:17:45.63\00:17:50.13
Constantine was 320 AD,
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the church suddenly
became a political institution
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and it went through
a great deal of change
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and you can
read here in history,
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"The transfer of
the emperor's residents
00:18:00.78\00:18:03.35
to Constantinople."
00:18:03.38\00:18:04.98
The reason they did
that as the barbarians
00:18:05.01\00:18:06.75
were beginning around 446,
00:18:06.78\00:18:09.72
they're coming
down from the north
00:18:09.75\00:18:10.75
and attacking Rome.
00:18:10.79\00:18:12.09
They said, we're
gonna move our capital
00:18:12.12\00:18:14.02
of the Roman Empire
from Rome to Constantinople.
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"The transfer of
the emperor's residence
00:18:17.63\00:18:19.19
to Constantinople was a sad blow
00:18:19.23\00:18:21.30
to the prestige of Rome,
00:18:21.33\00:18:23.16
and at the time one
might have predicted
00:18:23.20\00:18:24.77
her speedy decline.
00:18:24.80\00:18:26.47
But the
development of the church,
00:18:26.50\00:18:28.80
and the growing authority
00:18:28.84\00:18:29.87
of the Bishop of
Rome or the pope,
00:18:29.90\00:18:32.64
gave her a new lease on life,
00:18:32.67\00:18:34.48
and made her again the capital,
00:18:34.51\00:18:35.81
this time the religious capital
00:18:35.84\00:18:37.68
of the civilized world."
00:18:37.71\00:18:39.78
"To the
succession of the Caesars
00:18:39.81\00:18:41.52
came the succession
of the pontiffs in Rome.
00:18:41.55\00:18:44.19
When Constantine left Rome,
00:18:44.22\00:18:45.85
he gave his
seat to the pontiff."
00:18:45.89\00:18:48.92
And so what happened
was, they quite literally,
00:18:48.96\00:18:51.76
pagan Rome gave its seat,
00:18:51.79\00:18:53.13
power, and
authority to papal Rome.
00:18:53.16\00:18:55.60
Even gave the pope an army.
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We'll talk more about that.
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So he receives
his power, his seat,
00:18:59.43\00:19:01.57
and authority
from the Roman Empire.
00:19:01.60\00:19:04.24
Fits this definition exactly.
00:19:04.27\00:19:08.01
How far reaching is
the influence of the beast?
00:19:08.04\00:19:11.31
It says in Revelation 13:3,
"And all the world wondered."
00:19:11.35\00:19:14.52
It's a universal influence.
00:19:14.55\00:19:16.92
"Authority is given
him over every tribe,
00:19:16.95\00:19:19.85
tongue, and nation."
00:19:19.89\00:19:21.79
The word
Catholic means universal,
00:19:21.82\00:19:23.63
nothing wrong
with the word Catholic.
00:19:23.66\00:19:25.56
Did you know that
00:19:25.59\00:19:26.66
the Seventh-day Adventist
Church is a Catholic Church?
00:19:26.70\00:19:30.53
That just means...
00:19:30.57\00:19:31.60
Oh, that's gonna
get some letters.
00:19:31.63\00:19:34.40
That just means that
it is a global church.
00:19:34.44\00:19:38.64
But what makes the
Catholic Church different,
00:19:38.67\00:19:40.51
is it's not just a
church or denomination,
00:19:40.54\00:19:43.08
it is a
religious, a political power.
00:19:43.11\00:19:46.28
The Vatican is an
independent country
00:19:46.31\00:19:48.65
on about 109 acres
00:19:48.68\00:19:50.65
where ambassadors go
from around the world.
00:19:50.69\00:19:53.99
And the pope certainly
has international influence.
00:19:54.02\00:19:57.43
And everywhere he goes,
00:19:57.46\00:19:58.86
he's able to get
into play governments.
00:19:58.89\00:20:01.06
He just came back from
meeting with government leaders
00:20:01.10\00:20:03.26
in Dubai.
00:20:03.30\00:20:05.17
The United Nations
has never assembled
00:20:05.20\00:20:07.47
and met to talk to the
leader of the Methodist
00:20:07.50\00:20:10.47
or the
Episcopalians Church of England,
00:20:10.51\00:20:13.88
they wouldn't assemble
to listen to Billy Graham.
00:20:13.91\00:20:16.41
But they do assemble
to listen to the pope
00:20:16.44\00:20:18.08
because he is a political power.
00:20:18.11\00:20:20.82
And power was given unto
him to continue 42 months.
00:20:20.85\00:20:23.65
So there's a time period
here where it would have almost
00:20:23.69\00:20:26.49
uninterrupted authority.
00:20:26.52\00:20:28.66
Now when does
this time period begin?
00:20:28.69\00:20:30.56
Forty-two months.
00:20:30.59\00:20:31.59
A day in prophecy is what?
00:20:31.63\00:20:34.63
A year and that's of
course from Ezekiel 4:6
00:20:34.66\00:20:36.87
and other versus
00:20:36.90\00:20:38.03
tells us when interpreting
these large Bible prophecies,
00:20:38.07\00:20:41.20
it's typically a day for a year.
00:20:41.24\00:20:43.47
So if you go 42
months Jewish calendar,
00:20:43.51\00:20:47.48
that's 42 times 30
which is 1260 years,
00:20:47.51\00:20:52.45
it's the same thing
as three and a half years
00:20:52.48\00:20:54.38
or 40 or yeah, 42 months,
00:20:54.42\00:20:57.19
three and a
half years 1260 days,
00:20:57.22\00:20:59.12
a time, a time of
the dividing of time.
00:20:59.15\00:21:01.66
It's the same, same time period.
00:21:01.69\00:21:04.36
538 is when this
time period begins
00:21:04.39\00:21:06.39
and the reason is,
00:21:06.43\00:21:07.50
that's when the pope
really got his political power.
00:21:07.50\00:21:12.07
"The legally
recognized supremacy of the pope
00:21:12.10\00:21:14.60
began in 538 AD
00:21:14.64\00:21:17.04
when there went into effect
a decree of Emperor Justinian,
00:21:17.07\00:21:19.87
making the bishop of Rome
the head over all the churches,
00:21:19.91\00:21:23.65
and the definer of doctrines
and corrector of heretics."
00:21:23.68\00:21:26.82
This is not
written by our church.
00:21:26.85\00:21:28.52
"Vigilius ascended
the papal chair in 538 AD
00:21:28.55\00:21:31.79
under the military
protection of Belisarius."
00:21:31.82\00:21:34.82
And that's history
of the Christian Church.
00:21:34.86\00:21:36.19
538 is when basically,
the emperor left Rome,
00:21:36.22\00:21:40.76
he gave the pope an army said,
00:21:40.80\00:21:43.80
you're large in charge
and they began to exercise
00:21:43.83\00:21:47.10
not just religious
but political authority.
00:21:47.14\00:21:50.87
And they were able
to correct heretics
00:21:50.91\00:21:52.11
and use force to
make people believe.
00:21:52.14\00:21:54.74
That started in 538,
00:21:54.78\00:21:56.81
for then 1260 years they have,
00:21:56.85\00:22:01.38
that's way over Europe.
00:22:01.42\00:22:03.55
That's why
whenever you play chess,
00:22:03.59\00:22:05.79
if you play chess there
by the king and the queen
00:22:05.82\00:22:08.22
on either side is the bishop
00:22:08.26\00:22:09.46
because in every court of Europe
00:22:09.49\00:22:11.79
there were representatives
of the church approving
00:22:11.83\00:22:14.56
or disapproving
of the enactments
00:22:14.56\00:22:16.93
and pronouncements of the king.
00:22:16.97\00:22:18.87
They had an
emissary from the Vatican,
00:22:18.90\00:22:21.20
telling them what
they could and couldn't do.
00:22:21.24\00:22:23.51
But then that came to an end.
00:22:23.54\00:22:25.31
Now we're in Revelation 13:3,
00:22:25.34\00:22:27.71
"I saw one of his heads
as it was wounded to death,
00:22:27.74\00:22:30.88
and his deadly wound was healed,
00:22:30.91\00:22:33.45
and all the world
wondered after the beast."
00:22:33.48\00:22:36.89
So you go down 1260
years and exactly 1260 years
00:22:36.92\00:22:41.82
after 538 in 1798
00:22:41.86\00:22:44.66
Napoleon was now
storming across Europe,
00:22:44.69\00:22:47.76
and the murder of
a Frenchman in Rome
00:22:47.83\00:22:50.47
gave the French
an excuse to occupy
00:22:50.50\00:22:54.24
what they call the Eternal City.
00:22:54.27\00:22:56.07
"In 1798 he Berthier,
made his entrance into Rome,
00:22:56.10\00:23:00.04
he abolished the
papal government."
00:23:00.08\00:23:02.24
Again this is not written,
this is Encyclopedia Americana.
00:23:02.28\00:23:05.18
"Abolished the papal government
00:23:05.21\00:23:06.51
and established a secular one."
00:23:06.55\00:23:08.62
That remained that
way for over 100 years.
00:23:08.65\00:23:11.82
And Revelation 13:10 says,
00:23:11.85\00:23:13.99
"He that leads into captivity
will go into captivity:
00:23:14.02\00:23:17.19
he that kills with a sword
must be killed with the sword."
00:23:17.23\00:23:19.63
Berthier arrested the pope,
00:23:19.66\00:23:21.36
carried him into
captivity in Valence,
00:23:21.40\00:23:23.80
and he died there.
00:23:23.83\00:23:26.50
So now we've established
who the sea beast is,
00:23:26.53\00:23:29.17
what were some of the activities
00:23:29.20\00:23:30.67
of the sea beast.
00:23:30.71\00:23:32.21
Well, what comes out
of the mouth of the beast?
00:23:32.24\00:23:34.74
Revelation 13:6,
00:23:34.78\00:23:36.11
"He opens his mouth in," what?
00:23:36.14\00:23:38.85
"Blasphemy against
God to blaspheme His name,
00:23:38.88\00:23:42.15
his tabernacle, and
then they dwell in heaven."
00:23:42.18\00:23:44.99
Blasphemy, there are
two biblical definitions.
00:23:45.02\00:23:47.16
One is claiming the
power to forgive sins.
00:23:47.19\00:23:49.59
When Jesus said,
He could forgive sins,
00:23:49.62\00:23:51.49
they said, "You
speak blasphemy."
00:23:51.53\00:23:54.10
Claiming to be God,
when Jesus said, "I am God."
00:23:54.10\00:23:56.06
They said, "You are
speaking blasphemy."
00:23:56.10\00:23:58.70
Does the Catholic
Church claim to have the power
00:23:58.73\00:24:01.17
to forgive sins
and do they claim
00:24:01.20\00:24:02.74
the prerogatives of God?
00:24:02.77\00:24:04.81
Here's a quote
from Pope Leo XIII,
00:24:04.84\00:24:07.14
"We hold upon this earth
the place of God Almighty."
00:24:07.18\00:24:12.11
That, most Protestants
would see as blasphemy.
00:24:12.15\00:24:16.69
Again, Pope Leo XIII
in his encyclical letter,
00:24:16.72\00:24:19.89
"The supreme
teacher in the church
00:24:19.92\00:24:21.56
is the Roman pontiff.
00:24:21.59\00:24:23.16
Union of minds, therefore
requires complete submission
00:24:23.19\00:24:26.39
and obedience to
the Roman pontiff,
00:24:26.43\00:24:28.50
as to God Himself."
00:24:28.53\00:24:30.70
Bible says, the
apostle said, we are not God.
00:24:30.73\00:24:33.64
On April 30,
1922, Pope Pius XI said,
00:24:33.67\00:24:37.24
"You know that I
am the Holy Father,
00:24:37.27\00:24:38.74
the representative
of God on the earth,
00:24:38.77\00:24:40.91
the Vicar of Christ,
00:24:40.94\00:24:42.01
which means I am
God on the earth."
00:24:42.04\00:24:45.05
That's a man.
00:24:45.08\00:24:46.11
Does that kind of
make you gasp a little?
00:24:46.15\00:24:48.38
It's a man putting
himself in the place of God.
00:24:48.42\00:24:50.39
And what about
forgiveness of sins,
00:24:50.42\00:24:51.79
do that they claim that?
00:24:51.82\00:24:53.79
According to the
book of the priests,
00:24:53.82\00:24:55.82
"God Himself is obliged
to abide by the judgment
00:24:55.86\00:24:58.36
of His priests,
00:24:58.39\00:24:59.46
and either not to
pardon or to pardon,
00:24:59.49\00:25:01.60
according as they
refuse or give absolution."
00:25:01.63\00:25:03.97
God has to abide
by what they say.
00:25:04.00\00:25:05.77
The sentence of
the priest's proceeds,
00:25:05.80\00:25:07.27
it goes first and
God subscribes to it.
00:25:07.30\00:25:10.11
God must forgive or not forgive,
00:25:10.14\00:25:11.87
the priest has the power,
and God goes along with it.
00:25:11.91\00:25:15.71
The Bible says God and
God only can forgive sin.
00:25:15.74\00:25:19.31
2 Thessalonians 2:4,
00:25:19.35\00:25:21.25
it tells us
that "He would oppose
00:25:21.28\00:25:22.68
and exalt himself above all
00:25:22.72\00:25:24.32
that is called God
or that is worshiped,
00:25:24.35\00:25:26.29
so that he sits in as
God in the temple of God,
00:25:26.32\00:25:29.36
showing himself that he is God."
00:25:29.39\00:25:30.93
There's actually a photograph
00:25:30.96\00:25:32.03
were pope sit
on a special throne
00:25:32.06\00:25:34.13
in the Vatican.
00:25:34.20\00:25:35.53
And they're flanked by angels
like the Ark of the Covenant.
00:25:35.56\00:25:38.30
You know what's
between the angels
00:25:38.33\00:25:39.57
and the Ark of the Covenant?
00:25:39.60\00:25:41.27
As in the holy place
00:25:41.30\00:25:43.54
and that's supposed
to be the mercy seat,
00:25:43.57\00:25:45.14
the Shekinah presence of God,
00:25:45.17\00:25:47.21
so here the pope is sitting
00:25:47.24\00:25:48.51
right where the
Shekinah presence of God
00:25:48.54\00:25:50.25
is supposed to be
00:25:50.28\00:25:51.68
and in the
temple, in the holy place.
00:25:51.71\00:25:53.35
So the Holy of
holy is actually so,
00:25:53.38\00:25:55.22
I always thought that was
sort of an outrageous picture
00:25:55.25\00:25:59.29
for a man to be
in that position.
00:25:59.32\00:26:01.46
What does the
beast do to the saints?
00:26:01.49\00:26:03.93
Talking about the
activities of the sea beast,
00:26:03.96\00:26:06.66
"It was given him to
make war with the saints
00:26:06.70\00:26:08.56
and to overcome them."
00:26:08.60\00:26:10.13
I think we all know that
the Roman Catholic Church
00:26:10.17\00:26:12.77
was a persecuting power,
00:26:12.80\00:26:14.14
other churches
have persecuted too.
00:26:14.17\00:26:16.04
Even here in America,
00:26:16.07\00:26:17.14
we did a little bit
of our own persecuting,
00:26:17.17\00:26:19.71
but nobody really has matched
00:26:19.74\00:26:21.78
what happened
during the Inquisition
00:26:21.81\00:26:23.85
and the time
period of the 1260 years.
00:26:23.88\00:26:27.25
It's estimated
between 20 and 50 million
00:26:27.28\00:26:30.15
Christians and Jews
were killed during that time.
00:26:30.19\00:26:34.99
British historian
William Edward Lecky wrote,
00:26:35.02\00:26:37.66
"That the Church of Rome
has shed more innocent blood
00:26:37.69\00:26:40.40
than any other institution
00:26:40.43\00:26:41.66
that has ever
existed among mankind,
00:26:41.70\00:26:44.40
will be
questioned by no Protestant
00:26:44.43\00:26:45.90
who has a competent
knowledge of history."
00:26:45.93\00:26:48.37
That's History of Rise
of the Spirit of Rationalism
00:26:48.40\00:26:50.61
in Europe.
00:26:50.64\00:26:51.61
What happened to the
beast after the 42 months?
00:26:51.64\00:26:54.78
"I saw one of his heads
as it was wounded to death,
00:26:54.81\00:26:57.85
but the deadly wound is healed."
00:26:57.88\00:26:59.48
We saw when
they received a wound
00:26:59.51\00:27:01.22
when the Napoleon's
general arrested the pope,
00:27:01.25\00:27:04.59
they lost their secular power.
00:27:04.62\00:27:07.52
But it says,
"That wound would heal."
00:27:07.56\00:27:09.86
And this is
something that happened.
00:27:09.89\00:27:11.66
These are actual photograph
of the paper from 1928.
00:27:11.69\00:27:15.26
"The Roman question
tonight was a thing of the past,
00:27:15.30\00:27:18.17
the Vatican was
at peace with Italy
00:27:18.20\00:27:20.30
in affixing the autographs
to the Memorable document
00:27:20.34\00:27:23.30
healing the wound."
00:27:23.34\00:27:25.11
San Francisco Chronicle,
I'm sorry, I said 1928.
00:27:25.14\00:27:28.18
1929 is when this happened.
00:27:28.21\00:27:31.01
And so that was the
beginning of the healing.
00:27:31.05\00:27:33.18
But, you know,
it's continuing to heal
00:27:33.21\00:27:35.75
because some of the
language Pope Francis
00:27:35.78\00:27:37.99
often uses now
00:27:38.02\00:27:39.45
is there has been a
wound in the church.
00:27:39.49\00:27:41.62
He says it frequently,
00:27:41.66\00:27:42.69
I've got quotes assembled
00:27:42.72\00:27:44.66
between
Protestants and Catholics
00:27:44.69\00:27:46.09
that needs to be healed.
00:27:46.13\00:27:47.20
He always actually
incorporates that very language.
00:27:47.23\00:27:50.10
So now we're
going to the section
00:27:50.13\00:27:52.40
on the beast rising
up out of the earth,
00:27:52.43\00:27:55.07
under Tuesday in your lesson.
00:27:55.10\00:27:57.57
Most believe this
represents United States.
00:27:57.61\00:28:00.34
"Another beast
coming up out of the earth,
00:28:00.38\00:28:02.11
he had two horns like a lamb,"
00:28:02.14\00:28:04.15
In Revelation, a
lamb, good or bad?
00:28:04.18\00:28:06.82
A lamb is Christ, good.
00:28:06.85\00:28:08.68
Remember we see a
Lamb slain in Chapter 4,
00:28:08.72\00:28:10.79
it's Jesus.
00:28:10.82\00:28:12.79
Dragon, good or bad?
00:28:12.82\00:28:14.62
And so here you got something,
it starts out like a lamb,
00:28:14.66\00:28:17.96
ends up speaking like a dragon.
00:28:17.99\00:28:20.20
America began with
great religious freedom
00:28:20.23\00:28:23.00
and Christianity grew,
00:28:23.03\00:28:24.80
more missionaries were
sent from the United States
00:28:24.83\00:28:26.87
than any other
place in the world
00:28:26.90\00:28:29.04
and became a haven
for people to come.
00:28:29.07\00:28:32.21
Why is the US
00:28:32.24\00:28:33.81
and North America
more specifically,
00:28:33.84\00:28:36.11
"If waters
represent a populated area,
00:28:36.14\00:28:39.38
the earth must represent
00:28:39.41\00:28:40.62
a comparatively
unpopulated area.
00:28:40.65\00:28:43.45
In 1650..."
00:28:43.49\00:28:44.59
I'm picking a date
00:28:44.62\00:28:45.62
where there was a
census before 1798.
00:28:45.65\00:28:48.26
"In 1650, there
were about 6 million
00:28:48.29\00:28:50.29
native Americans living
in the entire North America,
00:28:50.33\00:28:52.79
Canada and the US."
00:28:52.83\00:28:54.46
Very, very few
people per square mile.
00:28:54.50\00:28:57.00
While at the same
time just in Europe,
00:28:57.03\00:28:59.50
there were 90 million people
00:28:59.53\00:29:01.57
to help you see the
disparity that's out.
00:29:01.60\00:29:03.87
That's not even counting
the Middle East, and Turkey,
00:29:03.91\00:29:06.94
just Europe, 90 million people.
00:29:06.98\00:29:08.34
So well over 100
million people in Europe,
00:29:08.38\00:29:10.58
6 million
00:29:10.61\00:29:11.78
in the whole North
American continent.
00:29:11.81\00:29:13.85
And so it was
relatively unpopulated.
00:29:13.88\00:29:18.49
And look at how
quickly that changed,
00:29:18.52\00:29:19.99
you know, there was
like 130 million people
00:29:20.02\00:29:22.49
living in North America by 1850.
00:29:22.52\00:29:25.53
It just exploded.
00:29:25.56\00:29:27.50
"And he exerciseth all the power
00:29:27.50\00:29:29.03
of the first beast before him,
00:29:29.06\00:29:30.90
and he caused the earth
and them to dwell therein
00:29:30.93\00:29:33.34
to worship the first beast,
00:29:33.37\00:29:35.04
whose deadly wound was healed."
00:29:35.07\00:29:37.31
So something's gonna
happen where the US now,
00:29:37.34\00:29:41.11
who was formed,
00:29:41.14\00:29:43.14
fleeing the
religious persecution
00:29:43.18\00:29:44.98
in Europe is now
gonna turn around
00:29:45.01\00:29:47.72
and there's gonna
be some friendship
00:29:47.75\00:29:50.22
and coming together again.
00:29:50.25\00:29:52.52
Some of you
remember this historic report
00:29:52.55\00:29:57.09
that was given on
how behind the scenes
00:29:57.13\00:29:59.33
Ronald Reagan,
President of the United States
00:29:59.36\00:30:01.23
work with Pope John Paul II,
00:30:01.26\00:30:03.23
my father actually met him once,
00:30:03.26\00:30:06.00
to assist Poland
00:30:06.03\00:30:08.27
in overthrowing communism.
00:30:08.30\00:30:09.90
That's what really
started the domino effect
00:30:09.94\00:30:12.47
until Yeltsin
got up on the tank,
00:30:12.51\00:30:14.11
and he declared
that communism was over.
00:30:14.14\00:30:17.01
And everything
changed after that.
00:30:17.05\00:30:19.31
They've even got
a statue of Reagan
00:30:19.35\00:30:21.35
and the pope walking together
there in Poland of bronze
00:30:21.38\00:30:25.35
because they know that
was a historic confederacy
00:30:25.39\00:30:28.02
of the US and Catholicism
00:30:28.06\00:30:30.29
really helping to lead out
00:30:30.33\00:30:31.73
in setting up a
new form of the world
00:30:31.76\00:30:36.26
or new world
order, you might say.
00:30:36.30\00:30:38.60
And this is a
classic photograph.
00:30:38.63\00:30:40.04
Here's Pope John
Paul II at his funeral.
00:30:40.07\00:30:42.44
But what's really scary is,
00:30:42.47\00:30:44.17
here you've got
three US presidents
00:30:44.21\00:30:47.61
who all were
technically Protestants
00:30:47.64\00:30:49.94
kneeling before the
Pope in the Vatican.
00:30:49.98\00:30:52.51
I thought, wow.
00:30:52.55\00:30:54.18
Anyway, and every
president since then has,
00:30:54.22\00:30:57.12
you know, they
visit with the pope.
00:30:57.15\00:30:58.69
And you'll notice the president
00:30:58.72\00:30:59.89
usually will
first go see the pope,
00:30:59.92\00:31:01.59
then the pope will come
00:31:01.62\00:31:03.43
and visit the
President of the United States.
00:31:03.46\00:31:05.96
It really was remarkable
00:31:05.99\00:31:07.23
just near the end
of Obama's presidency
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.70
when the pope
came to United States,
00:31:09.73\00:31:13.27
and he went to all
the historic places
00:31:13.30\00:31:16.47
that where our
government has its office.
00:31:16.50\00:31:20.01
You know, the first
capital for US was in New York.
00:31:20.04\00:31:22.74
Pope went there, went to
do, had a unified service.
00:31:22.78\00:31:25.25
Went to the 911 Memorial,
00:31:25.28\00:31:27.05
Philadelphia is where
government was formed,
00:31:27.08\00:31:28.62
he went there.
00:31:28.65\00:31:29.65
Washington D.C. he went there,
00:31:29.68\00:31:32.09
and just said, you know,
00:31:32.12\00:31:33.15
record crowds met with Congress,
00:31:33.19\00:31:35.59
all met with the pope
00:31:35.62\00:31:36.62
went to the United
Nations in one visit
00:31:36.66\00:31:39.53
and there's nothing left out.
00:31:39.56\00:31:41.43
And that was a rather,
I think historic meeting.
00:31:41.46\00:31:44.37
"His deadly wound was
healed." And what happens?
00:31:44.40\00:31:47.04
"All the world wonders."
00:31:47.07\00:31:49.40
And people have
thought well, but, you know,
00:31:49.44\00:31:53.64
Islam is the second
largest religion in the world,
00:31:53.68\00:31:55.44
how are you
going to get over that?
00:31:55.48\00:31:56.51
Well, just this
week, for the first time,
00:31:56.54\00:31:58.11
he did a mass in
an Islamic country,
00:31:58.15\00:32:01.35
last week in Dubai.
00:32:01.38\00:32:05.19
"The papacy has
gained worldwide influence,
00:32:05.22\00:32:07.86
prestige and prominence."
00:32:07.89\00:32:09.52
Now we're going
to jump to the part
00:32:09.56\00:32:10.63
about an image of the
beast in Revelation Chapter 13.
00:32:10.66\00:32:14.30
According to the prophecy,
00:32:14.30\00:32:15.43
what dramatic change
will take place in America?
00:32:15.46\00:32:19.27
It says, "He
starts out like a lamb,
00:32:19.30\00:32:20.84
but he ends up
speaking like a dragon."
00:32:20.87\00:32:23.87
America has had the
two horns of the lamb,
00:32:23.91\00:32:28.61
where we have a
government without a king,
00:32:28.64\00:32:31.81
and a church without a pope.
00:32:31.85\00:32:33.55
We are a very religious country,
00:32:33.58\00:32:35.18
but there's no
head of the church,
00:32:35.22\00:32:37.15
and we have political freedom
00:32:37.19\00:32:39.09
but our presidents
have limited terms.
00:32:39.12\00:32:41.66
We have no king,
00:32:41.69\00:32:43.12
and it's made us a
very unique government.
00:32:43.16\00:32:44.96
And, you know, since
the formation of America,
00:32:44.99\00:32:47.73
which largely was
due to Roger Williams,
00:32:47.76\00:32:50.87
under the leading of the Lord
00:32:50.90\00:32:52.33
separating the
church and the state.
00:32:52.37\00:32:54.40
Doesn't mean that
you have a government
00:32:54.44\00:32:55.84
that is separate from religion,
which is what's happening.
00:32:55.87\00:32:58.31
Now they're pushing
morality of the government
00:32:58.34\00:33:01.31
but it means that you don't have
00:33:01.34\00:33:02.61
a state government.
00:33:02.64\00:33:05.75
Since that time,
00:33:05.78\00:33:06.85
most of the
governments of the world
00:33:06.88\00:33:08.32
have adopted the
same form of government.
00:33:08.35\00:33:10.85
Isn't that interesting?
00:33:10.89\00:33:13.19
So how does the nation speak?
00:33:13.22\00:33:15.46
It speaks through its
laws or its legislative body.
00:33:15.49\00:33:20.03
For over 100 years,
00:33:20.06\00:33:21.90
the Supreme Court
of the United States
00:33:21.93\00:33:24.33
was all Protestant.
00:33:24.37\00:33:25.83
Our founding fathers,
00:33:25.87\00:33:26.90
some were deist,
most were Christians.
00:33:26.94\00:33:29.20
They believe we should have
00:33:29.24\00:33:30.31
a separation of
church and state,
00:33:30.34\00:33:31.41
but they were very religious,
mostly Protestant people
00:33:31.44\00:33:35.04
who embraced the
Protestant values.
00:33:35.08\00:33:37.75
Today on our Supreme Court
00:33:37.78\00:33:40.68
there's not a single Protestant,
00:33:40.72\00:33:42.78
even with the most
recent last two appointments.
00:33:42.82\00:33:45.99
This is just something
00:33:46.02\00:33:47.09
you can find online the
makeup of the Supreme Court,
00:33:47.12\00:33:50.69
you have all Roman Catholics,
00:33:50.73\00:33:54.86
one Episcopalian, Gorsuch
who was raised Roman Catholic
00:33:54.93\00:33:59.43
but Episcopalian is really
the English version of that.
00:33:59.47\00:34:02.57
And three were Jews,
00:34:02.60\00:34:05.21
there are no
more Protestants now.
00:34:05.24\00:34:06.98
This is the body that
will legislate and speak
00:34:07.01\00:34:10.28
for the laws of the country.
00:34:10.31\00:34:11.78
May all be wonderful people.
00:34:11.81\00:34:13.58
I'm just saying, I think that's
an interesting development.
00:34:13.62\00:34:17.12
"It causeth the earth and them
00:34:17.15\00:34:18.45
that dwell therein to
worship the first beast,
00:34:18.49\00:34:20.96
whose deadly wound was healed."
00:34:20.99\00:34:23.39
So something is going to
be a catalyst in the world.
00:34:23.43\00:34:26.33
I also think
it's interesting that
00:34:26.36\00:34:27.40
now we have the first
Jesuit pope in the history,
00:34:27.40\00:34:30.87
and the Jesuits
perform specifically
00:34:30.90\00:34:33.37
to fight against Protestantism.
00:34:33.40\00:34:36.64
And I don't know
00:34:36.67\00:34:38.04
what the
catalyst is going to be.
00:34:38.07\00:34:39.24
It could be a
natural disaster, a war,
00:34:39.27\00:34:41.21
it could be a
financial disaster,
00:34:41.24\00:34:42.74
all three at one time.
00:34:42.78\00:34:43.81
One could lead to the other,
00:34:43.85\00:34:45.38
it's going to have
people become very religious
00:34:45.41\00:34:46.95
very quickly.
00:34:46.98\00:34:48.72
Then you see that during 911,
00:34:48.75\00:34:50.35
how many remember how
full the churches were,
00:34:50.39\00:34:52.95
right after that.
00:34:52.99\00:34:53.99
People can
become very religious.
00:34:54.02\00:34:55.76
People are willing to
sacrifice their freedoms
00:34:55.79\00:34:58.69
when they're frightened.
00:34:58.73\00:35:00.76
And I think you're
going to see something
00:35:00.80\00:35:02.50
that will be the
catalyst to America saying,
00:35:02.53\00:35:05.70
we need a religious leader
00:35:05.73\00:35:07.27
who is going to be
the most likely candidate.
00:35:07.30\00:35:10.24
Even with all of the problems
the Catholic Church has,
00:35:10.27\00:35:13.31
they've got very
low ratings right now
00:35:13.34\00:35:17.91
with some of the sexual scandals
00:35:17.95\00:35:19.51
but the Pope
Francis as an individual
00:35:19.55\00:35:21.35
has a very high rating.
00:35:21.38\00:35:24.42
He's actually dealing
with some of these things.
00:35:24.45\00:35:27.12
It says, "Telling
those who dwell on the earth
00:35:27.16\00:35:28.86
to make an image to the beast
00:35:28.89\00:35:30.39
who was wounded by
the sword and lived."
00:35:30.43\00:35:32.19
Now, I just always
thought this was interesting.
00:35:32.23\00:35:34.10
Here you've got the US Capitol
then you get the Vatican.
00:35:34.13\00:35:37.47
An image is a likeness
00:35:37.50\00:35:39.53
and you know, right
in front of the Vatican,
00:35:39.57\00:35:41.34
you've got a very
large Egyptian obelisk,
00:35:41.37\00:35:45.51
sort of a pagan sundial.
00:35:45.54\00:35:47.21
What do you have right in
front of the Capitol building?
00:35:47.24\00:35:49.51
The largest Egyptian
obelisk in the world,
00:35:49.54\00:35:52.15
it's the Washington Monument.
00:35:52.18\00:35:54.38
I remember when you could
still go to the top of that.
00:35:54.42\00:35:57.09
Now we're going
to go to the section
00:35:57.12\00:35:58.15
on the mark of the beast.
00:35:58.19\00:35:59.22
So, on the last thing
00:35:59.25\00:36:00.96
about making an
image to the beast,
00:36:00.99\00:36:03.66
it's telling us that
something is going to happen
00:36:03.69\00:36:06.59
that the United States
00:36:06.63\00:36:08.43
is going to set up a government
00:36:08.46\00:36:11.67
that will
actually be a persecuting,
00:36:11.70\00:36:14.37
a religious political
power that will persecute,
00:36:14.40\00:36:17.47
tell people how to worship.
00:36:17.51\00:36:19.51
Now, right now,
00:36:19.54\00:36:20.54
it might be hard to
see how could that develop?
00:36:20.58\00:36:22.48
It seems like we're
becoming so secular.
00:36:22.51\00:36:25.55
But what you see
happening historically,
00:36:25.58\00:36:27.58
is there are
great swings that happen
00:36:27.62\00:36:30.02
when a pendulum goes
too far in one direction,
00:36:30.05\00:36:33.05
it seldom comes
back to the center,
00:36:33.09\00:36:35.19
and then swings
00:36:35.22\00:36:36.32
almost all the way
the other direction.
00:36:36.36\00:36:39.09
Right now America is
becoming so very secular,
00:36:39.13\00:36:42.80
where the government is,
you know, just absurd laws,
00:36:42.83\00:36:47.70
everything from the
same sex restrooms to,
00:36:47.74\00:36:50.97
you know, just taking
God out of everything,
00:36:51.01\00:36:54.64
that I think, there's
going to be an uprising.
00:36:54.68\00:36:56.54
Even though 65, 70%
of America is Christian.
00:36:56.58\00:37:00.92
85% of America is religious.
00:37:00.95\00:37:05.42
People are getting tired of God
00:37:05.45\00:37:07.46
being pushed out
of our daily lives,
00:37:07.49\00:37:09.92
and I think when
there's a crisis,
00:37:09.96\00:37:12.49
there's going to be a swing
00:37:12.53\00:37:13.83
that will go
the other direction,
00:37:13.86\00:37:15.93
and you're going to see
legislation that is religious.
00:37:15.96\00:37:18.03
Now, what did we
just see about the court?
00:37:18.07\00:37:20.20
Do we have a religious court?
00:37:20.24\00:37:21.30
Every member of
the Supreme Court
00:37:21.34\00:37:22.37
is religious.
00:37:22.40\00:37:23.94
There's no atheist
on the Supreme Court.
00:37:23.97\00:37:26.47
So I can see how
these things can happen.
00:37:26.51\00:37:29.91
Mark of the beast, number 10.
00:37:29.94\00:37:31.91
What does the second
beast of Revelation 13
00:37:31.95\00:37:34.38
force all to receive?
00:37:34.42\00:37:37.19
It says, "He causes
all, both small and great,
00:37:37.22\00:37:39.85
rich and poor, free and bond
00:37:39.89\00:37:42.19
to receive a mark
in the right hand,
00:37:42.22\00:37:44.23
or in their foreheads,
00:37:44.26\00:37:45.83
that no one might buy or sell,
00:37:45.86\00:37:47.86
unless he receives the
mark with the name of the beast
00:37:47.93\00:37:51.33
or the number of his name."
00:37:51.37\00:37:52.37
The first thing I
want to establish is,
00:37:52.40\00:37:55.34
people think when they
think mark of the beast,
00:37:55.37\00:37:57.11
they're thinking
barcode in the hand,
00:37:57.14\00:37:59.27
tattoo in the forehead.
00:37:59.31\00:38:01.88
Does the Bible say
the mark of the beast
00:38:01.91\00:38:03.38
is that kind of mark?
00:38:03.41\00:38:05.31
As soon as it says in
the forehead and in the hand
00:38:05.35\00:38:08.02
if you're a Jew,
your mind should go back
00:38:08.05\00:38:10.42
to the verses in Deuteronomy.
00:38:10.45\00:38:11.89
If you have your Bible,
00:38:11.92\00:38:12.95
you might go to Deuteronomy
Chapter 6 for example,
00:38:12.99\00:38:16.66
and there are three places
00:38:16.69\00:38:20.50
that I know in
Deuteronomy and Exodus
00:38:20.53\00:38:23.23
where it tells us
that that mark is a symbol.
00:38:23.26\00:38:27.00
Deuteronomy 6:6,
00:38:27.04\00:38:29.87
now keep in mind,
00:38:29.90\00:38:31.07
if you have your Bibles open,
you'll notice Deuteronomy 5,
00:38:31.11\00:38:33.78
God repeats the
Ten Commandments.
00:38:33.81\00:38:35.51
In fact, the word Deuteronomy
means a repeating of the law.
00:38:35.54\00:38:38.58
Chapter 5 is where He
repeats the Ten Commandments
00:38:38.61\00:38:41.42
that you find in Exodus 20.
00:38:41.45\00:38:43.32
After he repeats
the Ten Commandments,
00:38:43.35\00:38:45.12
there's no change
in the narrative here,
00:38:45.15\00:38:47.32
it's a continuing
discussion by Moses.
00:38:47.36\00:38:49.62
You go to Chapter 6, verse 6,
00:38:49.66\00:38:51.73
"These words I
command you today,
00:38:51.76\00:38:53.73
shall be in your heart."
00:38:53.76\00:38:54.76
And I just want to pause.
00:38:54.83\00:38:56.43
When he said the words
00:38:56.46\00:38:57.50
Ten Commandments
shall be in your heart,
00:38:57.53\00:38:58.90
did He mean you are to
make an incision in the chest
00:38:58.93\00:39:01.07
and put the words in there?
00:39:01.10\00:39:02.54
Or is he using metaphors?
00:39:02.57\00:39:04.97
These words
shall be in your heart,
00:39:05.01\00:39:07.24
you shall teach them
diligently to your children,
00:39:07.28\00:39:10.11
talk of them, when
you sit in your house,
00:39:10.15\00:39:11.88
when you walk by the
way, when you lay down,
00:39:11.91\00:39:14.02
when you rise up,
00:39:14.05\00:39:15.48
you shall bind them
as a sign on your hand.
00:39:15.52\00:39:19.49
Did He
literally want them to tie
00:39:19.52\00:39:21.39
the Ten
Commandments on their hand?
00:39:21.42\00:39:23.86
And He says, "They shall be
frontlets between your eyes."
00:39:23.89\00:39:26.63
That's the forehead.
00:39:26.66\00:39:28.63
Did He
literally want them to tie
00:39:28.66\00:39:30.67
the Ten
Commandments on their forehead?
00:39:30.70\00:39:31.93
There are some
Jews who believe that.
00:39:31.97\00:39:33.07
You've probably
seen Orthodox Jews
00:39:33.10\00:39:35.10
that put their phylacteries on,
00:39:35.14\00:39:36.47
they get little
box on their forehead,
00:39:36.50\00:39:38.24
they get a little
red leather strap,
00:39:38.27\00:39:39.81
and they take
sections of scripture there
00:39:39.84\00:39:42.44
and they even staple them
to the door of their house
00:39:42.48\00:39:45.31
so they touch it
when they come in.
00:39:45.35\00:39:46.75
Some take it very
literally and you know,
00:39:46.78\00:39:48.55
I guess there's no sin in that.
00:39:48.58\00:39:49.82
But what does he mean
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.82
tie it to your hand,
00:39:51.85\00:39:53.52
put it between your own eyes?
00:39:53.56\00:39:54.86
First of all, if you put it
00:39:54.89\00:39:55.92
between your
eyes, you can't read it.
00:39:55.96\00:39:57.06
Can you read your forehead?
00:39:57.09\00:39:58.96
So obviously it's a symbol.
00:39:58.99\00:40:00.93
The forehead
meant your thoughts.
00:40:00.96\00:40:03.13
Bible says, as a
man thinks in his heart.
00:40:03.16\00:40:05.67
Put it on your
hand meant your actions.
00:40:05.70\00:40:07.70
It meant the law of God
00:40:07.74\00:40:08.87
must be in your
actions or in your forehead.
00:40:08.90\00:40:11.34
So when Revelation says that
00:40:11.37\00:40:14.14
God's people will have the
seal of God on their forehead.
00:40:14.18\00:40:17.18
Are all of the saved
gonna around having a big stamp
00:40:17.21\00:40:19.48
in their
forehead in the last days?
00:40:19.51\00:40:21.28
No,
00:40:21.32\00:40:22.38
mine would be easy to read,
00:40:22.42\00:40:23.75
because I've got a
good billboard space but...
00:40:23.79\00:40:26.86
And when it
says in Revelation 17
00:40:26.89\00:40:28.82
that the woman's got a
paragraph in her forehead,
00:40:28.86\00:40:30.79
Babylon, Mystery Babylon,
00:40:30.83\00:40:32.36
Mother of
Harlots and abomination,
00:40:32.39\00:40:33.96
all that written.
00:40:34.00\00:40:35.00
You gonna really
see someone like that
00:40:35.03\00:40:36.50
with that in their
forehead in the last days?
00:40:36.53\00:40:38.57
No.
00:40:38.60\00:40:40.50
Thy word I've
hidden in my heart.
00:40:40.54\00:40:42.70
It's talking about in
our actions in your hand.
00:40:42.74\00:40:46.51
Bible says whatever
your hand finds to do,
00:40:46.54\00:40:48.18
do it with all your might.
00:40:48.21\00:40:49.58
Your hand doesn't
go around by itself,
00:40:49.61\00:40:51.28
finding things to do.
00:40:51.31\00:40:52.31
It's talking about
whatever work you do.
00:40:52.35\00:40:54.52
So the mark of the beast
00:40:54.55\00:40:55.75
in the hand and in the forehead,
00:40:55.78\00:40:57.22
these churches
that are saying that
00:40:57.25\00:40:58.45
they're going to tap to us,
00:40:58.49\00:40:59.59
and they're gonna
inject a computer chip,
00:40:59.62\00:41:01.29
or they're going
to put a barcode on,
00:41:01.32\00:41:03.36
it's not what
it's talking about.
00:41:03.39\00:41:05.59
Might the
political religious power
00:41:05.63\00:41:07.93
use credit cards, and chips,
00:41:07.96\00:41:10.13
and things to
control buying and selling?
00:41:10.17\00:41:11.60
Sure, but credit
cards are not a sin.
00:41:11.63\00:41:15.44
And if your dog
has one of those,
00:41:15.47\00:41:17.47
what do they call
them, IFD's under his skin
00:41:17.51\00:41:20.04
so he can be
found when he's lost,
00:41:20.08\00:41:21.68
he doesn't have
the mark of the beast.
00:41:21.71\00:41:24.41
So people often get
hung up on the technology,
00:41:24.45\00:41:26.82
and they miss the spirit
of what it's talking about.
00:41:26.85\00:41:29.32
So what is the
mark of the beast?
00:41:29.35\00:41:31.69
It's something in the law,
00:41:31.72\00:41:34.22
has something
to do with the law.
00:41:34.26\00:41:35.26
The seal of God
00:41:35.29\00:41:36.93
is where you find the
word holy and the law of God,
00:41:36.96\00:41:39.56
which is in the
fourth commandment
00:41:39.59\00:41:41.53
that has the name of
God, the title of God,
00:41:41.56\00:41:43.50
the territory of God,
00:41:43.53\00:41:44.50
that's what's in a
seal, name, title, territory.
00:41:44.53\00:41:47.20
The mark of the beast is
taking away the seal of God
00:41:47.24\00:41:49.97
and putting a law of the beast
in place of the law of God.
00:41:50.01\00:41:54.84
Revelation, well, I'm
getting ahead of myself.
00:41:54.88\00:41:58.45
In Daniel Chapter 3,
00:41:58.48\00:42:00.78
when
Nebuchadnezzar tells everyone
00:42:00.82\00:42:01.88
to worship the beast,
00:42:01.92\00:42:03.08
to worship the
image or be killed.
00:42:03.12\00:42:04.82
Doesn't that sound a lot like
what's happening in Revelation,
00:42:04.85\00:42:07.66
those who do not worship
the image will be killed?
00:42:07.69\00:42:10.56
The people of God
had to make a decision,
00:42:10.59\00:42:12.36
do I obey the law of God
00:42:12.39\00:42:14.10
that says, do not pray to images
00:42:14.13\00:42:15.73
or the law of the
religious government Babylon.
00:42:15.76\00:42:19.70
And I'm gonna be
killed if I obey the law.
00:42:19.73\00:42:22.07
They were willing to die
00:42:22.10\00:42:23.57
Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego rather than disobey,
00:42:23.61\00:42:26.37
God delivered them.
00:42:26.41\00:42:28.54
Daniel Chapter 6,
00:42:28.58\00:42:30.21
government, religious law,
king of Persia makes a law,
00:42:30.25\00:42:32.65
you can't pray to
anyone but him for 30 days.
00:42:32.68\00:42:35.38
That's a
religious, political law.
00:42:35.42\00:42:37.79
The king made a religious law.
00:42:37.82\00:42:40.49
Daniel has to decide,
00:42:40.52\00:42:41.59
do I keep the first commandment
00:42:41.62\00:42:42.99
that says, do
not have other gods
00:42:43.02\00:42:45.56
and keep my job, or
do I go to the lions
00:42:45.59\00:42:48.53
and stand up for God?
00:42:48.56\00:42:50.10
Daniel chose to
obey, God delivered him,
00:42:50.13\00:42:52.63
and his enemies were destroyed.
00:42:52.67\00:42:53.74
Both cases,
00:42:53.77\00:42:54.90
when they threw them
in the fiery furnace,
00:42:54.94\00:42:56.57
the soldiers died.
00:42:56.60\00:42:58.17
The ones who put Daniel
in the lion's den, they died.
00:42:58.21\00:43:02.11
This is what's going to
happen in the last days,
00:43:02.14\00:43:03.88
there's going to be a law
00:43:03.91\00:43:06.15
that is going to
require every believer to decide
00:43:06.18\00:43:08.95
law of God or law of man,
00:43:08.98\00:43:10.95
it's going to be one
of the Ten Commandments.
00:43:10.99\00:43:12.95
So what is this mysterious mark?
00:43:12.99\00:43:15.82
Says, "His number is six
hundred threescore and six."
00:43:15.86\00:43:19.19
Let's identify
who this power is.
00:43:19.23\00:43:22.63
In Prompta Bibliotheca,
00:43:22.66\00:43:24.03
according to 1913
Catholic Encyclopedia,
00:43:24.07\00:43:26.87
it's a veritable Encyclopedia
of religious knowledge,
00:43:26.90\00:43:29.67
and it will ever remain a
precious mine of information.
00:43:29.70\00:43:32.41
This book is quoted frequently
00:43:32.44\00:43:34.38
as an
authoritative Catholic source.
00:43:34.41\00:43:36.64
Under the heading PAPA
00:43:36.68\00:43:38.58
his name title there
is Vicarius Filii Dei,
00:43:38.61\00:43:43.22
this is in the
Catholic Encyclopedia.
00:43:43.25\00:43:47.49
Again, the title
and this is a letter,
00:43:47.52\00:43:49.39
you're gonna
have trouble reading
00:43:49.42\00:43:50.46
so I've got it
written out for you.
00:43:50.49\00:43:52.13
The title of Vicarius Filii Dei,
00:43:52.16\00:43:55.10
as well as the
title of Vicarius Christi
00:43:55.13\00:43:57.60
is very common as
the title of the pope.
00:43:57.63\00:44:00.94
This is a professor of history
and Christian archaeology
00:44:00.97\00:44:04.24
at the Catholic
University in Washington DC.
00:44:04.27\00:44:07.61
Someone wrote a
letter to the Sunday Visitor,
00:44:07.64\00:44:09.31
Catholic magazine,
00:44:09.34\00:44:10.55
what are the
letters on the pope's crown?
00:44:10.58\00:44:12.41
Now the pope's got
many crowns he wears.
00:44:12.45\00:44:14.92
And what do they signify?
00:44:14.95\00:44:16.25
The letter on the pope's crown
00:44:16.28\00:44:17.65
are these: Vicarius Filii Dei:
00:44:17.69\00:44:19.89
Which is Latin for
"Vicar, Son of God."
00:44:19.92\00:44:22.86
Now, if you take the
official title of the pope,
00:44:22.89\00:44:26.16
you know, how the Jewish priests
00:44:26.19\00:44:28.93
would wear a crown
00:44:28.96\00:44:30.50
and on that crown
there's a little miter,
00:44:30.53\00:44:32.10
little placard and it
said holiness to the Lord,
00:44:32.13\00:44:35.04
that's what he had.
00:44:35.07\00:44:36.24
The Catholic pope
on some of his miters,
00:44:36.27\00:44:39.01
it said Vicarius Filii Dei,
00:44:39.04\00:44:40.88
Vicar for Christ,
00:44:40.91\00:44:41.98
meaning in the place of Christ.
00:44:42.01\00:44:44.05
You take the Roman numerals,
00:44:44.08\00:44:45.88
says the number of his name.
00:44:45.91\00:44:47.88
Now we can't do this
with the English alphabet
00:44:47.92\00:44:49.78
because our letters don't
have a real numeric value.
00:44:49.82\00:44:53.05
But if you know
your Roman numerals,
00:44:53.09\00:44:54.42
you know that they wrote
00:44:54.46\00:44:55.62
with Latin letters,
00:44:55.66\00:44:57.06
and each letter had a value,
00:44:57.09\00:44:58.63
it's very common for them.
00:44:58.66\00:45:00.43
You add up that
title, it comes to 666.
00:45:00.46\00:45:04.07
And I see some,
00:45:04.10\00:45:05.03
you can take the
picture of that off your screen,
00:45:05.07\00:45:06.77
you can do the math.
00:45:06.80\00:45:07.80
You can look this up
online. It's pretty common.
00:45:07.84\00:45:11.11
Now, Pope Francis
never wears the miter.
00:45:11.14\00:45:14.01
Here Pope Benedict,
00:45:14.04\00:45:15.08
they say that he liked
to dress up in the regalia.
00:45:15.11\00:45:17.21
Here he is with
four different miters
00:45:17.25\00:45:19.48
and they've got some
that are very expensive,
00:45:19.51\00:45:21.75
and some of the older
ones had a placard here.
00:45:21.78\00:45:23.65
You don't see it
on the newer ones
00:45:23.69\00:45:25.12
because when the
Protestant started saying,
00:45:25.15\00:45:27.19
you know, your
placard adds up to 666,
00:45:27.22\00:45:29.26
they stopped wearing that.
00:45:29.29\00:45:31.53
But that's what they
used to have on there.
00:45:31.56\00:45:34.36
But in case you question,
00:45:34.36\00:45:36.06
is that really
the title of the pope?
00:45:36.10\00:45:37.87
Here's a book by John Paul II,
00:45:37.90\00:45:40.37
and this is page three.
00:45:40.40\00:45:41.44
"Confronted with the
pope, one must make the choice.
00:45:41.47\00:45:43.81
The leader of
the Catholic Church
00:45:43.84\00:45:45.07
is defined by the faith
as the Vicar of Jesus Christ,
00:45:45.11\00:45:47.91
it's Vicarius Filii Dei.
00:45:47.94\00:45:49.84
And is accepted
as such by believers.
00:45:49.88\00:45:52.11
The pope is
considered the man on earth
00:45:52.15\00:45:54.02
who represents the Son of God,
00:45:54.05\00:45:56.02
who 'takes the
place' of the second person
00:45:56.05\00:45:58.55
of the omnipotent
God of the Trinity.
00:45:58.59\00:46:02.36
Taking the place
of Christ on earth.
00:46:02.39\00:46:07.36
So understanding 666
throughout Revelation,
00:46:07.40\00:46:09.90
the number seven represents
00:46:09.93\00:46:11.37
perfection or completeness.
00:46:11.40\00:46:13.47
The number six
represents imperfection.
00:46:13.50\00:46:15.57
It's the number for man,
00:46:15.60\00:46:17.11
in Revelation, sorry,
00:46:17.14\00:46:18.14
in Daniel Chapter 3.
00:46:18.17\00:46:19.57
When
Nebuchadnezzar builds the image
00:46:19.61\00:46:21.48
it says, it's 60
cubits by six cubits,
00:46:21.51\00:46:25.75
and one scholar
00:46:25.78\00:46:27.05
Leslie Hardin said,
00:46:27.08\00:46:28.28
"If they don't
give you the depth,
00:46:28.32\00:46:29.55
it's going to be
the same as the width."
00:46:29.58\00:46:31.95
Which means it was 60 by 6 by 6,
00:46:31.99\00:46:36.19
and they were
told to worship that.
00:46:36.22\00:46:37.83
It's the number of man.
Man was made on what day?
00:46:37.86\00:46:40.66
Sixth day.
00:46:40.70\00:46:42.20
First time you find
seven three times in the Bible.
00:46:42.23\00:46:44.80
Genesis Chapter 2,
00:46:44.83\00:46:46.27
the seventh
day, the seventh day,
00:46:46.30\00:46:48.04
the seventh day,
00:46:48.07\00:46:49.70
which leads us to the next part.
00:46:49.74\00:46:51.41
666 symbolizes
the union of error,
00:46:51.44\00:46:54.21
the union of the
dragon, the beast
00:46:54.24\00:46:55.61
and the false prophet.
00:46:55.64\00:46:56.91
What is the
beast's mark of authority?
00:46:56.95\00:47:00.08
The Catholic
Catechism says, Question:
00:47:00.12\00:47:02.32
Which is the Sabbath day?
00:47:02.35\00:47:04.19
Answer: Saturday
is the Sabbath day.
00:47:04.22\00:47:06.99
This is in the
Catholic Catechism.
00:47:07.02\00:47:08.59
Question: Why do we observe
Sunday instead of Saturday?
00:47:08.62\00:47:11.93
Answer:
00:47:11.96\00:47:13.33
We observe Sunday
instead of Saturday
00:47:13.36\00:47:15.16
because the Catholic
Church transferred the solemnity
00:47:15.20\00:47:18.77
from Saturday to Sunday.
00:47:18.80\00:47:21.50
Have you any other way
00:47:21.54\00:47:22.54
approving that church has power
00:47:22.57\00:47:23.84
to institute
festivals of precept?
00:47:23.87\00:47:25.74
Notice the answer.
00:47:25.77\00:47:27.58
Had she not such power,
00:47:27.61\00:47:29.31
she could not have done that
which all modern religionists,
00:47:29.34\00:47:32.15
most of them, agree with her.
00:47:32.18\00:47:34.62
She could not have substituted
the observance of Sunday
00:47:34.65\00:47:36.95
the first day of the week,
00:47:36.99\00:47:38.12
for the observance of Saturday
the seventh day of a week,
00:47:38.15\00:47:41.26
a change for which
00:47:41.29\00:47:42.52
there is no
Scriptural authority."
00:47:42.56\00:47:44.79
Daniel Chapter 7 said,
00:47:44.83\00:47:45.89
"The beast power
would think to change
00:47:45.93\00:47:48.46
times and laws."
00:47:48.50\00:47:49.93
It's exactly what happened.
00:47:49.96\00:47:51.17
That's why in this
church we want to be consistent
00:47:51.20\00:47:53.10
Christians keep
the day Jesus kept,
00:47:53.13\00:47:55.30
the apostles kept, Moses kept,
00:47:55.34\00:47:57.67
which is the seventh day.
00:47:57.71\00:47:59.37
Man cannot
change the law of God.
00:47:59.41\00:48:01.54
The beast power
would think to change
00:48:01.58\00:48:03.91
the laws and times.
00:48:03.95\00:48:05.55
By the way, only
commandment that is a law
00:48:05.58\00:48:07.28
and the time is the Sabbath.
00:48:07.32\00:48:10.32
So this chapter has got
a lot of information there.
00:48:10.35\00:48:13.49
Is the beast a
government or a religious power?
00:48:13.52\00:48:16.59
It says, "He causes
as many as would not,"
00:48:16.62\00:48:18.76
what?
00:48:18.79\00:48:19.89
"Worship," it's
involved with worship.
00:48:19.93\00:48:22.63
"The image of the
beast should be killed."
00:48:22.66\00:48:24.20
You notice there in
Revelation, I'm sorry, Genesis,
00:48:24.23\00:48:27.40
Cain and Abel.
00:48:27.44\00:48:28.77
There at the beginning,
00:48:28.80\00:48:29.97
they're both told to
worship the same God,
00:48:30.01\00:48:31.84
they claim to
worship the same God.
00:48:31.87\00:48:34.21
Abel does it the
way that God said.
00:48:34.24\00:48:37.81
Cain says, "I'm
going to alter it
00:48:37.85\00:48:39.61
because I can
worship however I want."
00:48:39.65\00:48:42.45
God does not
accept Cain's worship.
00:48:42.48\00:48:44.42
Cain then
persecutes his brother.
00:48:44.45\00:48:46.79
That same story now repeats
itself in the end of time,
00:48:46.82\00:48:50.49
in Revelation 13,
00:48:50.53\00:48:52.36
both claiming to
worship the same God,
00:48:52.39\00:48:54.46
one does it his way,
00:48:54.50\00:48:55.76
one does it God's way
00:48:55.80\00:48:57.60
and the wrong one
persecutes the right one.
00:48:57.63\00:49:00.10
That's why Jesus died.
00:49:00.14\00:49:02.10
He worshiped God
according to truth
00:49:02.14\00:49:04.24
and the religious leaders
00:49:04.27\00:49:05.44
became aggravated
by that and killed Him.
00:49:05.47\00:49:08.81
What effective methods will
00:49:08.84\00:49:10.01
this end-time coalition utilize?
00:49:10.05\00:49:13.05
It says in
Revelation 13:13, 14, 13 and 14.
00:49:13.08\00:49:17.05
"He does great wonders,
00:49:17.09\00:49:18.19
so that he makes fire come down
00:49:18.22\00:49:19.65
from heaven on the
earth in the sight of men,
00:49:19.69\00:49:22.12
and he deceives them
that dwell on the earth
00:49:22.16\00:49:24.13
by the means of those miracles
that he has power to do."
00:49:24.16\00:49:27.73
Revelation 16:14 says,
00:49:27.76\00:49:29.26
"They are the spirits of
devils working miracles."
00:49:29.30\00:49:31.87
Christ said, "We need to
be careful in the last days
00:49:31.90\00:49:34.44
for there'll be many false
christs and false prophets, "
00:49:34.47\00:49:36.67
and in particular
00:49:36.71\00:49:38.27
Satan is going to
impersonate Christ.
00:49:38.31\00:49:41.71
The devil himself
can be transformed
00:49:41.74\00:49:43.65
into an angel of light,
00:49:43.68\00:49:45.21
as he came to
Christ as an angel of light
00:49:45.25\00:49:47.52
in the wilderness,
00:49:47.55\00:49:48.58
he will appear in the last days,
00:49:48.62\00:49:50.02
there'll be signs and wonders,
00:49:50.05\00:49:51.89
some of these
counterfeit denominations,
00:49:51.92\00:49:53.72
and churches are
going to be doing things
00:49:53.76\00:49:55.76
that are going
to deceive people.
00:49:55.79\00:49:57.79
What will prevent
God's end-time people
00:49:57.83\00:50:00.10
from being
deceived during this time?
00:50:00.13\00:50:03.16
Isaiah 8:20,
00:50:03.20\00:50:04.73
"To the law and the testimony:
00:50:04.77\00:50:07.17
if they speak not
according to this word,
00:50:07.20\00:50:09.94
there's no light in them."
00:50:09.97\00:50:11.04
Amen.
00:50:11.07\00:50:12.14
So what's going to keep us safe?
00:50:12.17\00:50:14.01
We've got to make sure
we're going by the word of God,
00:50:14.04\00:50:16.54
that we know our Bibles.
00:50:16.58\00:50:18.15
So what is your response today?
00:50:18.18\00:50:20.95
God is calling
people out of Babylon
00:50:20.98\00:50:22.78
into the safety of
His remnant church.
00:50:22.82\00:50:25.25
He says, those
who remain in Babylon,
00:50:25.29\00:50:26.96
this is Revelation 17,
00:50:26.99\00:50:28.72
will partake of her sins.
00:50:28.76\00:50:29.92
The most fearful curses
00:50:29.96\00:50:31.83
in the Bible are
found in Revelation,
00:50:31.86\00:50:33.70
on those who worship
the beast and its image
00:50:33.73\00:50:36.63
and receive the
mark of the beast.
00:50:36.67\00:50:38.47
That's in Revelation Chapter 14.
00:50:38.50\00:50:40.54
So this is a
very important subject
00:50:40.57\00:50:42.24
because in the last
days, there's only two choices.
00:50:42.27\00:50:45.17
You have the seal of God,
00:50:45.21\00:50:47.51
or you worship the beast
00:50:47.54\00:50:49.21
and have the mark of the beast.
00:50:49.24\00:50:50.35
You either worship
God and have his seal,
00:50:50.38\00:50:52.05
or you worship the beast.
00:50:52.08\00:50:53.08
There's no middle ground.
00:50:53.11\00:50:54.42
There's going to be a shaking,
00:50:54.45\00:50:55.48
and everyone will
polarize into one of two groups,
00:50:55.52\00:50:57.95
both claim to worship God.
00:50:57.99\00:51:00.49
"I saw as it were
a sea of glass..."
00:51:00.52\00:51:02.39
Revelation 15,
00:51:02.42\00:51:03.53
I just wanted to end by
giving a little encouragement.
00:51:03.56\00:51:05.86
"Mingled with fire:
00:51:05.89\00:51:07.23
and them that had
gotten the victory
00:51:07.30\00:51:09.50
over the beast,
00:51:09.53\00:51:10.70
and over his
image, and over his mark,
00:51:10.73\00:51:12.93
and over his number,
00:51:12.97\00:51:14.24
stand on the sea of glass,
00:51:14.27\00:51:16.07
having the harps of God."
00:51:16.10\00:51:17.11
How many of you believe that
00:51:17.14\00:51:18.14
we can get the
victory over the beast?
00:51:18.17\00:51:19.51
Amen.
00:51:19.54\00:51:20.84
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We're here on
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00:52:50.40\00:52:52.07
of the island of Puerto Rico.
00:52:52.10\00:52:54.04
And if you were to travel east
00:52:54.07\00:52:55.77
about 2000 miles, of course,
00:52:55.80\00:52:57.17
you would be out in
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00:52:57.21\00:52:59.04
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00:52:59.07\00:53:01.44
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00:53:01.48\00:53:03.58
It gets its name
00:53:03.61\00:53:04.61
because of this
common brown seaweed
00:53:04.65\00:53:07.68
that can be found
floating in vast mass.
00:53:07.72\00:53:10.95
The area of the Sargasso Sea
00:53:10.99\00:53:13.02
is about 700 miles wide
00:53:13.05\00:53:15.06
and 2000 miles long.
00:53:15.09\00:53:17.36
Now the seaweed
itself is fascinating stuff.
00:53:17.39\00:53:20.10
It was first observed and called
00:53:20.13\00:53:21.60
Gulfweed by
Christopher Columbus.
00:53:21.63\00:53:23.60
It gets the name
Sargon from the Portuguese.
00:53:23.63\00:53:26.07
Some people use it
as herbal remedies.
00:53:26.10\00:53:28.07
But out in the
middle of the Sargasso Sea,
00:53:28.10\00:53:30.51
the water is some of
the bluest in the world.
00:53:30.54\00:53:33.07
It's there you can see
200 feet deep in places.
00:53:33.11\00:53:36.64
It also has a great
biodiversity and ecosystem
00:53:36.68\00:53:39.45
that surrounds the Sargasso Sea.
00:53:39.48\00:53:41.82
For years, scientists wondered
00:53:41.85\00:53:43.28
where the American
and the Atlantic eels
00:53:43.32\00:53:45.45
were breeding.
00:53:45.49\00:53:46.65
They knew the adult
eel swam down the rivers
00:53:46.69\00:53:48.86
out into the Atlantic,
00:53:48.89\00:53:50.03
but they never could find a
place where they reproduced.
00:53:50.06\00:53:52.59
Finally, they discovered it
00:53:52.63\00:53:53.73
was out in the
middle of the Sargasso Sea.
00:53:53.76\00:53:56.53
So it's a fascinating place.
00:53:56.56\00:53:58.23
But if you are
an ancient sailor,
00:53:58.27\00:53:59.83
you did not want
to get stuck there.
00:53:59.87\00:54:04.51
Being caught in the doldrums
00:54:04.54\00:54:05.94
was extremely difficult
for the ancient sailors.
00:54:05.97\00:54:09.34
Of course, their boats
were driven by wind and sail,
00:54:09.38\00:54:12.08
and they'd be caught in
the vast mass of the seaweed
00:54:12.11\00:54:14.82
that would wrap
around the rudder,
00:54:14.85\00:54:16.35
barnacles would begin to grow,
00:54:16.38\00:54:18.22
it's an area that is notorious
for light and baffling winds,
00:54:18.25\00:54:21.86
and so they'd make no progress.
00:54:21.89\00:54:23.76
They get stuck.
00:54:23.79\00:54:24.86
The men would become
extremely dispirited.
00:54:24.89\00:54:27.46
Sometimes violence and
even insanity would break out
00:54:27.50\00:54:30.63
as people were
trapped in the doldrums.
00:54:30.67\00:54:33.67
But, friends, perhaps sometimes
00:54:33.70\00:54:34.84
you felt that you're
trapped in the doldrums.
00:54:34.87\00:54:37.41
You've gone through
episodes of depression.
00:54:37.44\00:54:39.54
You feel like
you're going in circles,
00:54:39.57\00:54:41.38
life seems stifling.
00:54:41.41\00:54:43.04
You know, the
Bible offers good news.
00:54:43.08\00:54:44.85
There is a way out.
00:54:44.88\00:54:46.48
Bible talks about
a famous character
00:54:46.51\00:54:48.72
that was trapped in
a cycle of depression.
00:54:48.75\00:54:51.02
He was low as you could be.
00:54:51.05\00:54:52.82
Matter of fact,
he even had seaweed
00:54:52.85\00:54:54.22
wrapped around his head.
00:54:54.26\00:54:55.69
His name was Jonah.
00:54:55.72\00:54:57.16
But God gave
him a way of escape.
00:54:57.19\00:54:59.69
In Jonah 2:3-7,
00:54:59.73\00:55:02.53
we read,
00:55:02.56\00:55:03.60
"For you cast
me into the depths,
00:55:03.63\00:55:05.47
into the heart of the seas,
00:55:05.50\00:55:07.17
and the flood surrounded me,
00:55:07.20\00:55:09.17
all of Your
billows and Your waves
00:55:09.20\00:55:10.94
passed over me.
00:55:10.97\00:55:12.31
Then I said,
00:55:12.34\00:55:13.34
'I have been cast
out of your sight,
00:55:13.38\00:55:15.48
yet I will look again
00:55:15.51\00:55:16.54
towards Your holy temple.'
00:55:16.58\00:55:18.18
The waters surrounded me,
00:55:18.21\00:55:19.61
even to my soul,
00:55:19.65\00:55:21.05
the deep closed around me,
00:55:21.08\00:55:22.82
weeds were
wrapped around my head.
00:55:22.85\00:55:25.19
I went down to the
moorings of the mountains,
00:55:25.22\00:55:27.92
the earth with its bars closed
00:55:27.96\00:55:29.62
behind me forever,
00:55:29.66\00:55:31.29
yet you brought my life up
00:55:31.33\00:55:32.86
from the pit.
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O Lord, my God.
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'When my soul fainted within me,
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I remember the Lord,
00:55:37.60\00:55:39.17
and my prayer went up to You,
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into Your holy temple.'
00:55:40.87\00:55:43.20
" You know, friends,
the way that Jonah got
00:55:43.24\00:55:44.77
out of his
discouraging circumstances,
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he turned to God and he prayed.
00:55:47.01\00:55:49.21
And if God could
hear Jonah's prayers,
00:55:49.24\00:55:50.85
just think about it.
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He was as far away from
God as anybody could be.
00:55:51.91\00:55:54.52
He was in the
belly of a sea monster
00:55:54.55\00:55:56.22
in the bottom of
the ocean in the dark.
00:55:56.25\00:55:58.39
Yet he turned to God
and God heard his prayer.
00:55:58.42\00:56:01.22
You know, these ancient sailors,
00:56:01.26\00:56:02.36
when they were trapped on
the deck of a ship for weeks,
00:56:02.39\00:56:05.06
stuck in the
doldrums discouraged,
00:56:05.09\00:56:07.10
sometimes they would
have a prayer meeting,
00:56:07.13\00:56:09.03
and pray that God
would send a breeze
00:56:09.06\00:56:11.33
that would set them free,
and get their boats moving.
00:56:11.37\00:56:14.27
They turn to God in prayer
00:56:14.30\00:56:15.37
and often miracles would happen,
00:56:15.40\00:56:17.21
and the wind would
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and bring them out
of their seaweed prison.
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Friends, maybe you have
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Maybe you've been caught
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If God can do it for Jonah,
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if He can do it for
the ancient sailors,
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He can do it for you.
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Turn to the Lord in prayer.
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Trust His Spirit to
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