Let's bow our heads for prayer.
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Our Loving Heavenly Father,
once again we come into Your
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presence with humble hearts,
with the spirit of learners
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wanting to hear Your
voice speaking to us.
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Our thoughts can never reach
the height of Your thoughts,
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and therefore we
implore divine wisdom.
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We ask, Lord, that You will give
us tender hearts to receive the
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message that you
have for us today.
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And we thank You for hearing
our prayer, for we ask it in
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the precious
name of Jesus, Amen.
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In our topic today
we're going to study about the
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number of the beast.
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And I'd like to begin by
reading a text that we find in
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Revelation
13:1, Revelation 13:1.
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This is the passage
that begins the description
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of the sea beast, which
we have already identified as
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the Roman Catholic papacy; not
individuals within the system.
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We're talking about
a system; we're talking
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about an organization.
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And we've already clearly
identified, from the Bible,
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that this beast that
rises from the sea represents
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the Roman Catholic papacy.
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It says there in Revelation 13:
1, speaking about this beast:
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So as we begin our study we
want to notice that the name
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of the beast is
a blasphemous name.
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The blasphemous name is
found on the beast's heads.
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Now in order to understand
what this blasphemous name is,
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we must, first of all,
understand the Biblical
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definition of blasphemy.
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Do we have a clear
definition in the Bible of what
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blasphemy consists of?
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The answer to this
question is absolutely yes.
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In the Bible blasphemy is when
a mere man claims to be God,
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and when a mere man
claims to have the power to
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perform the works of God.
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And we're going to take
a look at several instances
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in Scripture where blasphemy
is described in this manner.
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Once again, blasphemy is the
Bible means a man, a mere man,
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who claims to be God, and
secondly, that mere man claims
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to be able to perform the works
of God, and exercise in his
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actions the power of God.
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One time Jesus said
something very controversial.
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It's found in John 10:30.
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This is what He said to the
Jews that were listening to Him.
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And we're told in the context
that the Jews immediately picked
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up stones to cast at Jesus.
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Because, you see,
Leviticus 24: 16 clearly said,
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and they knew this, that whoever
claimed to be one with the
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Father, in the sense
that Jesus was saying it,
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was claiming to be God.
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And the Levitical law said
that whoever claimed to be God
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needed to be stoned.
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And so when they
picked up stones,
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Jesus asked them a question.
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He said, Why do
you want to stone Me?
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What evil work have I done
that justifies you stoning Me?
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And notice what their response
was in John 10:33, John 10:33.
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What is blasphemy?
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It's when a mere man
claims to be what? God.
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Now Jesus was God.
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He had a right
to claim to be God.
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But according to them,
blasphemy is when a mere
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man claims to be God.
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Also blasphemy is when
someone claims to be able to
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perform the works of God.
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Immediately after Jesus
said, I and My Father are One.
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Jesus claimed also to
perform the works of His Father.
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Notice John 10:36-39,
John 10: 36-39. Jesus says:
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Do you say of Him,
whom the Father sanctified,
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and sent into the world, You
are blaspheming; because I said
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I am the Son of God?
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If I do not do the works of
My Father, do not believe Me.
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But if I do, though you do not
believe Me, believe the works:
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that you may know, and believe,
that the Father is in Me,
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and I am in Him. Therefore
they sought again to seize Him:
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but He escaped
out of their hand.
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So, notice, the definition that
Scripture gives of blasphemy
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is when a mere man claims to
be God, and claims to perform
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the works of God, or manifests
in his actions the power of God.
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Now it's interesting to notice
also that the Jews accused Jesus
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of blasphemy, because He
claimed to be the Son of God.
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Now all of the Jews believed
that they were Sons of God
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in a general sense of the word.
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But they knew that when
Jesus was saying that He was the
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Son of God, what He was
meaning is that He was the
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representative of God on earth;
that He was the authorized
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spokesman for God.
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If you please, Jesus was
claiming to be the Vicar of God.
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or the Vicarious Filii Dei, the
representative of God on earth.
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Now it's interesting to notice
also that blasphemy is defined
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in Scripture as when a
mere man claims to have
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the power to forgive sins.
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Not only when a mere man claims
to be God, but also when he
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claims to exercise the
power and prerogatives of God.
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Notice Mark 2:7. Jesus meets
a paralytic, and He says to the
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paralytic, Your
sins are forgiven.
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By the way, this took
place in the city of Capernaum.
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And the Jews immediately,
when Jesus said, Your sins are
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forgiven, they
thought in their hearts,
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according to Mark 2:7,
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You see, they were thinking,
If this man forgives sins,
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and only God can forgive sins,
this man is claiming to be God.
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So blasphemy is when a man
claims to be God, and claims to
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be able to perform the functions
and the prerogatives of God.
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Notice 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4.
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This is another passage that's
speaking about the antichrist.
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By the way, the man of sin in 2
Thessalonians 2, is the same as
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the beast from the sea, is
the same as the little horn,
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is the same as the abomination
of desolation, and the same
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as the harlot of Revelation 17.
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In other words, these are
different symbols that point
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to the same power.
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The man of sin is the
same as the little horn,
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the same as the beast.
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Notice 2 Thessalonians 2, 3,
and 4, what the antichrist does.
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It says there:
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Which is the coming of Christ.
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A better
translation is: the apostasy.
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In Greek it says, apostasia.
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So it should be translated:
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So is this a mere
man that is revealed?
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Yes, it's a mere man, right?
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What is one of the
main characteristics
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of the antichrist?
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He sits in the temple of
God, and he claims to be what?
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He claims to be God.
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And, by the way,
what is the temple of God?
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The temple of God is not the
Jewish temple, which supposedly
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is going to be
rebuilt in the Middle East.
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The temple of God, according
to every other passage in the
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writings of the apostle Paul,
represents the Christian church.
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Now I want you to notice
also that this antichrist of
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2 Thessalonians 2,
not only claims to be God,
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but he also claims to
have the power of God,
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to exercise the power of God.
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Notice in the same
passage, 2 Thessalonians 2:9,
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2 Thessalonians 2:9, speaking
about this same individual
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who sits in the temple of
God, showing himself to be God.
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It says there:
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Let me ask you, Is this
antichrist only going to claim
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to be God, or is he going
to apparently do the works,
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the powerful works of God?
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Evidentially he's also
performing the works of God,
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although he is a mere
man; he's the man of sin.
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By the way, the only other time
in the New Testament where these
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three words appear together
in one verse: power, signs,
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and wonders, is in Acts 2:22.
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I want to read that verse
because I'm going to show you
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that what the antichrist is
going to do is falsify the works
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that Jesus performed
while He was on this earth.
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Notice Acts 2:22: Men of
Israel. This is Peter speaking.
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Did Jesus perform the
power and the acts of God?
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He most certainly did.
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Is the antichrist going
to perform works that appear
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to be the works
of God? Absolutely!
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Because he
claims to be what? God.
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But these aren't
the only passages that
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describe blasphemy.
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You remember that little horn
of Daniel 7? We read verse 25.
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And one of the characteristics
of the little horn is that this
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horn speaks pompous
words against the Most High.
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Daniel 7:25, He speaks pompous
words against the Most High.
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The question is, What are
those pompous words that this
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little horn speaks?
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Revelation 13:5
defines what those words are.
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It says in Revelation 13:5 that
the beast that comes from the
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sea was given a
mouth that speaks...
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So what does the
little horn speak?
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He speaks blasphemies.
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What does the
beast speak? blasphemies.
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Must that mean then that
the little horn, and the beast
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claimed to have God on earth,
and claimed to have the power
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to forgive sins,
and also perform many of
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God's other
functions? Absolutely!
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But this isn't all.
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In Daniel 8 we have something
very, very interesting.
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And by the way, before we go
to Daniel 8, let me just mention
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that in Daniel 7 this little
horn also thinks that he can
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perform the works of God.
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Because it says that the little
horn not only speaks blasphemies
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against God, but he actually
thinks that he has power
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to change God's times, and
God's what? and God's Holy Law.
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In other words, he's
not only claiming to be God,
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he's claiming to exercise the
functions, and the power of God.
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Then, of course,
we have Daniel 8.
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Daniel 8 speaks
also about a little horn.
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This little horn
represents the same as the
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little horn of Daniel 7.
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But the interesting
thing is that in Daniel 8
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this little horn is
not mentioned as speaking
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blasphemies against God.
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Do you know what the
little horn does in Daniel 8?
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This is extremely interesting.
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What the little horn does
is he tries to supplant the
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prince of the host.
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Do you know who the
prince of the host is?
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The prince of the
host is Jesus Christ.
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You can read, for example,
Joshua 5:13-15 where the same
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expression, prince
of the host, is used.
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And you're going to find
that the prince of the host
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is none other than Jesus Christ.
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And so in Daniel 8 we're told
that the little horn was going
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to try and take away
the functions of Jesus,
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defined as the daily.
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Do you know what the daily is?
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I wish I had time to give
a whole lecture on the daily.
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The daily has to do with
the functions that the priest
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performed in the
court and in the holy place.
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The sacrifice in the
court was to be offered morning,
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and evening daily.
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The lamps in the holy
place were to burn daily.
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The bread was to be there daily.
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And the incense,
which represents the prayers
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of the saints, was to go
up daily, or continually.
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In other words, the little
horn was going to take away from
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Jesus these functions, and
he was going to appropriate
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these functions to himself.
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He was going to
think that he could occupy
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the place of Jesus Christ.
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Are you
understanding what blasphemy is
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according to Scripture?
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There's an abundant amount of
testimony in the Bible of what
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constitutes blasphemy.
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Now the question is, does
the Roman Catholic papacy claim,
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or has it claimed, in the past,
that the Pope is God on earth?
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Absolutely! Let me just read
you a sampling of statements.
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I could give you
more, but we don't have
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the time to read them all.
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This is from the prestigious
commentary, Roman Catholic
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Commentary, Lucius
Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca,
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in the article, Papa, or Pope.
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Notice what he has to say:
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His power is what?
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Now notice this:
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Notice that this Roman Catholic
Encyclopedia says that the Pope
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occupies the place of God.
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Pope Nicholas I, who
ruled from 858 to 867 A.D.,
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had this to say about the
power of the pope's. He says:
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Now listen to this.
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That's blasphemy, folks.
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It continues saying:
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Notice what Pope Leo XIII had
to say in an Encyclical Letter.
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The name of the Encyclical
Letter was on, The Chief Duties
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of Christians as Citizens.
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It's dated January 10, 1890.
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Notice what he said.
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This is more contemporary.
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By the way, that's
another name for the Pope.
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And Leo XIII also
said, in an Encyclical Letter
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dated June 20, 1894.
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He said unabashedly,
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Time and again you'll find in
the writings of Roman Catholics
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expressions that apply
to the Pope calling him
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Vicar of Christ,
Vice Regent of Christ,
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Representative of Christ, and
yes, Vicar of the Son of God.
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Do you know the Popes have
claimed throughout the course
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of history to
perform the functions of God?
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I don't have time to
get into all of this.
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You have these
texts on your sheets.
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But he claims to have
the power to forgive sins.
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He claims to have the
power to set up kings,
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and to remove kings.
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Daniel 2 says that that's God's
prerogative to place kings,
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and to remove kings.
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He claims to have
the prerogative of
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being bowed down to.
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He accepts the
title, Holy Father.
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He believes that he
can execute the death
00:19:03.44\00:19:05.67
penalty upon dissenters.
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He's said that he had power
to change the Sabbath to Sunday.
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He's felt that it's okay to
change God's prophetic calendar.
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They claim to be God's
supreme judges on earth.
00:19:14.72\00:19:18.02
And they also claim to
be infallible expositors of
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God's will in faith and morals.
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Now folks, all of
those things in the Bible are
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prerogatives of God.
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If the papacy claims
to have had this power,
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it's because they're usurping
the title, and they're usurping
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the power of God.
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Now let me read you some
blasphemous statements from
00:19:37.97\00:19:40.98
a book by St. Alphonsus Liguori.
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He is one of the few doctors
of the Roman Catholic Church.
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There are very few of those.
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Thomas Aquinas was another.
00:19:49.58\00:19:50.92
And there's a
handful of other ones.
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But he did a compendium of
all of the Roman Catholic wisdom
00:19:52.65\00:19:56.73
on what the
power of the priest is.
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And I want to read a
statement from his book,
00:20:00.23\00:20:03.67
Dignity and Duties
of the Priest or Selva.
00:20:03.73\00:20:06.84
This is Page 28. He says this:
00:20:06.90\00:20:11.31
You know what the
confessional is, right?
00:20:18.65\00:20:20.78
You know what that
means? those who haven't
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been Roman Catholics?
00:20:28.16\00:20:29.49
It means that you
go to the confessional.
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You confess your sin and
the priest says, Ego te absolvo,
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in other words, I
forgive you. So it says:
00:20:34.30\00:20:37.97
That means I forgive you.
00:20:54.48\00:20:55.88
Here's another
statement. It gets worse.
00:21:05.79\00:21:09.16
Listen, when the priest claims
to have the power to transform
00:21:09.20\00:21:14.47
the bread and the wine into the
real body and blood of Jesus,
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notice what St.
Alphonsus Liguori says:
00:21:18.34\00:21:21.41
That is, this is my body.
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Now listen to this:
00:22:07.46\00:22:08.79
That's blasphemy,
according to Scripture.
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By the way, that's on
Pages 33 and 34 of his book,
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The Dignity and Duties
of the Priest or Selva.
00:22:30.91\00:22:33.58
Let me read you one more
from the same book, Page 34.
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That means, I forgive you.
00:22:57.34\00:22:58.84
Or he forgives sins.
00:23:02.24\00:23:04.61
Is that blasphemy
according to Scripture?
00:23:04.65\00:23:06.58
That is absolutely blasphemy.
00:23:06.61\00:23:09.18
And this system claims
to have the power of God,
00:23:09.22\00:23:12.29
and claims to
be able to exercise
00:23:12.32\00:23:14.56
the prerogatives of God.
00:23:14.59\00:23:15.96
Now you notice when we began
this evening, that it says that
00:23:15.99\00:23:20.80
the beast has a
blasphemous name.
00:23:20.83\00:23:23.77
And some people have
said, Well, you know, that's not
00:23:23.83\00:23:27.20
saying that he had
a blasphemous title.
00:23:27.24\00:23:29.54
It's saying that he
had a blasphemous name,
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so it must be a proper name.
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Not so, because in the
book of Revelation name can
00:23:33.14\00:23:37.51
also refer to a title.
00:23:37.55\00:23:38.98
And you say, How is that?
00:23:39.01\00:23:40.78
Go with me to Revelation
19:16, Revelation 19:16.
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This is speaking about Jesus.
00:23:47.22\00:23:49.06
I just want to show you
that the name doesn't have
00:23:49.09\00:23:50.99
to be a proper name.
00:23:51.03\00:23:52.36
It doesn't have to be the name
of a specific pope; proper name.
00:23:52.39\00:23:57.57
It refers to a title.
00:23:57.60\00:23:59.20
Notice Revelation 19:16.
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Let me ask you, Is that a
proper name, or is that a title?
00:24:12.05\00:24:14.32
That is a title. So when it
says that the beast has a name,
00:24:14.35\00:24:17.72
the name is not a
proper name, it is a title.
00:24:17.75\00:24:21.52
Now did you notice
that the name has a number?
00:24:21.56\00:24:24.26
You say, the name has a number?
00:24:24.33\00:24:26.49
We didn't read that.
00:24:26.53\00:24:27.86
Well, let's go to
Revelation 13: 17.
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The name is a blasphemous name.
00:24:30.43\00:24:32.53
Are you clear on that point?
00:24:32.57\00:24:33.90
The name is a blasphemous name.
00:24:33.94\00:24:35.27
Now we're going to notice
that the name has a number.
00:24:35.30\00:24:37.41
So does the blasphemous
name of the beast have a number?
00:24:54.76\00:24:59.29
It most certainly has a number.
00:24:59.33\00:25:01.03
You say, Well, Pastor
Bohr, how do you get the
00:25:01.06\00:25:03.47
number from a name?
00:25:03.50\00:25:04.83
If this name has a
number, (which, by the way,
00:25:04.87\00:25:08.97
we're going to notice
is 666), how do you get
00:25:09.00\00:25:12.31
a number from a
name? Let me explain.
00:25:12.34\00:25:14.34
In Biblical times they
did not have Aerobic numerals
00:25:14.38\00:25:18.71
like we have today.
00:25:18.75\00:25:20.12
The way that they
wrote numbers was by using
00:25:20.15\00:25:23.05
letters of the alphabet.
00:25:23.08\00:25:24.42
That's true in
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
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And it's called gematria,
that's the method of using
00:25:28.92\00:25:33.26
letters of the
alphabet as numbers.
00:25:33.29\00:25:37.17
Let me give you an example.
00:25:37.23\00:25:38.57
The word for cross in
the New Testament is stauros.
00:25:38.60\00:25:43.67
If you add up the value
of the letters in Greek,
00:25:43.71\00:25:47.08
because it's a Greek word, the
value of the word cross is 777.
00:25:47.14\00:25:53.11
That's interesting.
00:25:53.15\00:25:54.62
Now if you add up the
number value of the letters
00:25:54.65\00:26:00.19
in the name Jesus,
Yesus, the value is 888.
00:26:00.22\00:26:05.09
And if you add up
the letters in Greek...
00:26:05.13\00:26:08.63
See, we're not cheating.
00:26:08.66\00:26:10.00
We're not applying Greek to
English, or Latin to Italian.
00:26:10.07\00:26:15.70
No, we're using the
name, in the language,
00:26:15.74\00:26:17.94
in the number
system of the language.
00:26:17.97\00:26:19.57
The word paradosis, which means
tradition, the number value
00:26:19.61\00:26:24.85
is 666, interestingly
enough, the word tradition.
00:26:24.88\00:26:30.89
Now how do we find the numerical
value of the name of the beast?
00:26:30.92\00:26:36.93
Well, allow me to read
from a few versions here
00:26:36.96\00:26:40.70
what we need to do in
order to determine the
00:26:40.73\00:26:44.37
number of his name.
00:26:44.40\00:26:45.73
I want to read
from the Living Bible.
00:26:45.77\00:26:47.44
I don't normally read from
paraphrases, but this paraphrase
00:26:47.50\00:26:52.14
I believe is very, very
faithful to the original text;
00:26:52.21\00:26:55.71
to the meaning of
the original text.
00:26:55.74\00:26:57.21
Notice what the Living
Bible says on Revelation 13:18,
00:26:57.25\00:27:01.12
where it speaks about
counting the name of the beast,
00:27:01.15\00:27:04.92
and the name has a number.
00:27:04.95\00:27:06.39
It says; this
is the translation.
00:27:06.42\00:27:08.82
Did you catch that?
00:27:25.21\00:27:26.54
The numerical value
of the letters in his
00:27:26.57\00:27:28.64
name adds up to 666.
00:27:28.68\00:27:31.48
Notice the way the New English
Bible, which is a kind of a
00:27:31.55\00:27:34.72
dynamic
translation of the Bible,
00:27:34.75\00:27:37.09
the New English Bible says:
00:27:37.12\00:27:38.89
Even the Roman
Catholic Douay version has a
00:27:49.00\00:27:53.07
footnote that says this:
00:27:53.10\00:27:54.50
So even the Roman Catholic
version says what you have to do
00:28:02.04\00:28:06.05
is find the number value
of the letters of his name,
00:28:06.08\00:28:09.62
and then you know what
the number of his name is.
00:28:09.65\00:28:13.12
Now I want you to notice another
characteristic that we find
00:28:13.15\00:28:17.36
of this beast with this number.
00:28:17.39\00:28:20.63
Notice Revelation 13:18.
00:28:20.66\00:28:24.50
Here is wisdom. Let him who
has understanding calculate the
00:28:24.53\00:28:30.91
number of the beast, for
it is the number of a man.
00:28:30.94\00:28:34.51
His number is 666.
00:28:34.54\00:28:36.41
Now let me tell you
something about that expression,
00:28:36.44\00:28:38.48
It is the number of a man.
00:28:38.51\00:28:40.32
Really, the word man has
the indefinite article A,
00:28:40.35\00:28:49.49
but it's not in
the original language.
00:28:49.52\00:28:50.96
It can be translated,
It is the number of man.
00:28:50.99\00:28:55.26
In other words, this is a
system that is centered in man.
00:28:55.30\00:28:58.87
By the way, isn't it interesting
that many of these antichrist
00:28:58.90\00:29:02.40
passages have the
emphasis upon man.
00:29:02.44\00:29:05.67
For example, the little
horn has eyes like a man.
00:29:05.71\00:29:08.94
This system has
the number of a man.
00:29:08.98\00:29:12.95
And the one who sits in the
temple of God is the man of sin.
00:29:12.98\00:29:18.82
In other words, this is a
system that centers on man;
00:29:18.85\00:29:22.32
that majors on man.
00:29:22.36\00:29:24.09
It claims the prerogatives
of God, but it brings honor
00:29:24.16\00:29:27.13
and glory to man.
00:29:27.13\00:29:28.86
Now we want to ask the question,
in what language should we use
00:29:28.90\00:29:33.44
to determine the value
of the letters of the name?
00:29:33.47\00:29:36.44
You say, Well, how do we
know which language to use?
00:29:36.47\00:29:39.14
Should we use the Greek
number system to determine
00:29:39.17\00:29:41.81
the meaning of the name?
00:29:41.84\00:29:43.18
Should we use the Hebrew
system value of the letters?
00:29:43.21\00:29:47.52
Should we use the Latin system
of the value of the letters?
00:29:47.55\00:29:51.15
How do you know which number
system to use to determine
00:29:51.19\00:29:54.76
the numerical value of the name?
00:29:54.79\00:29:57.23
Well, the fact is there's no
doubt whatsoever that we need
00:29:57.26\00:30:00.96
to use the Latin as the language
to determine the number,
00:30:01.00\00:30:07.40
and the name of this beast.
00:30:07.44\00:30:09.24
And you say, Why
Latin, Pastor Bohr?
00:30:09.27\00:30:11.97
Well, for a very simple reason.
00:30:12.01\00:30:14.78
You remember that there
was a dragon in Revelation 12
00:30:14.81\00:30:18.55
that tried to kill the child
as soon as the child was born?
00:30:18.61\00:30:21.88
Let me ask you, What
empire was ruling at that time?
00:30:21.92\00:30:25.29
It was Rome. Then you read
Revelation 13:2, and it says
00:30:25.32\00:30:28.66
that the dragon gave his seat,
and his power, and his authority
00:30:28.69\00:30:33.06
to whom? To the beast.
00:30:33.09\00:30:34.83
So let me ask you,
Where does the beast receive
00:30:34.86\00:30:37.40
it's authority from?
00:30:37.43\00:30:38.77
He receives it from the dragon,
and the dragon represents Satan,
00:30:38.80\00:30:41.57
but also what? Rome.
00:30:41.60\00:30:43.74
So, in other words, the
beast, and the little horn,
00:30:43.77\00:30:45.91
receive their power from Rome.
00:30:45.94\00:30:47.44
By the way, the little horn
also comes from the head of the
00:30:47.51\00:30:49.58
dragon beast, which is Rome.
00:30:49.61\00:30:50.95
In other words, this power,
the little horn, or the beast,
00:30:50.98\00:30:55.32
are from what nation?
00:30:55.35\00:30:57.32
They are Roman powers,
which means that we must use the
00:30:57.35\00:31:00.19
system of what? the system of
numbers that was used in Rome.
00:31:02.29\00:31:06.06
Now let me ask you, What
number system was used in Rome?
00:31:06.09\00:31:09.76
The system that is
known as Roman Numerals.
00:31:09.80\00:31:15.70
Now allow me to read a text
from the New Testament to prove
00:31:15.74\00:31:20.74
to you that Latin was
spoken in the days of Christ.
00:31:20.78\00:31:23.18
John 19:20 tells us
that Latin was spoken.
00:31:23.21\00:31:27.68
And don't you think that
I'm just saying, Well, you know,
00:31:27.72\00:31:29.92
they spoke Latin way back then.
00:31:29.95\00:31:32.79
No, I'm not saying that.
00:31:32.85\00:31:34.22
The Bible says that Latin was
the language of Rome back then.
00:31:34.26\00:31:36.99
Notice John 19:20. It says:
00:31:37.09\00:31:40.93
So did Latin exist in the
times of the Roman Empire?
00:31:58.18\00:32:02.32
Yes, it was the
official language of Rome.
00:32:02.35\00:32:04.65
Let me ask you, What is the
official language of Papal Rome?
00:32:04.69\00:32:08.19
Portuguese? No! The official
language of Papal Rome is Latin.
00:32:11.56\00:32:17.17
Which means that his name must
be a Latin name, because this is
00:32:17.23\00:32:20.60
a Roman power and we must use
Roman numerals to determine the
00:32:20.64\00:32:24.67
number of his name.
00:32:24.71\00:32:26.04
Are you
understanding what I'm saying?
00:32:26.07\00:32:27.44
Very, very important.
00:32:27.48\00:32:28.81
Okay, now let me just digress
a moment here, because I want
00:32:28.84\00:32:32.55
to show you that the number 666
is very closely related to Rome.
00:32:32.58\00:32:37.15
You know, in antiquity, as
I was mentioning, in Hebrew,
00:32:37.19\00:32:40.92
and in Greek, they use
letters to denote numbers.
00:32:40.96\00:32:47.46
And they did the
same thing in Latin,
00:32:47.50\00:32:49.66
but they things around.
00:32:49.70\00:32:51.07
Whereas in Greek, and in Hebrew,
there were many, many of the
00:32:51.10\00:32:57.87
letters of the alphabet
that were equivalent to numbers,
00:32:57.91\00:33:00.68
it wasn't so in Latin.
00:33:00.71\00:33:02.18
In Latin what they did
was choose six Roman numerals
00:33:02.21\00:33:09.35
to represent all numbers.
00:33:09.42\00:33:11.32
You say, No,
Pastor, there's seven.
00:33:11.35\00:33:13.09
There's the I, the V, the X,
00:33:13.12\00:33:17.23
Right? And the M, so
there's seven, there's not six.
00:33:20.20\00:33:24.37
But let me tell you
that the original system,
00:33:24.40\00:33:26.17
which was developed by the Latin
poets, did not include the M.
00:33:26.20\00:33:29.70
The M was added
in the Middle Ages.
00:33:29.74\00:33:31.71
The way that they used to write
a thousand was not with an M.
00:33:31.74\00:33:35.14
I have pictures of this.
00:33:35.18\00:33:36.91
They would write two D's side
by side to indicate a thousand.
00:33:36.95\00:33:41.22
And so the Latin poets
established a system where there
00:33:41.25\00:33:47.79
were six letters of the alphabet
that were equivalent to numbers.
00:33:47.86\00:33:52.29
And do you know
what's very interesting?
00:33:52.33\00:33:53.86
If you add the six Roman
numerals that were part of the
00:33:53.90\00:33:58.27
original system; if you
add 1 plus 5, plus 10, plus 50,
00:33:58.30\00:34:02.80
plus 100, plus 500 the total
of the Roman numerals is 666.
00:34:02.84\00:34:09.04
This would seem to indicate they
were supposed to look for the
00:34:09.08\00:34:14.15
number 666 somewhere in Rome.
00:34:14.22\00:34:18.15
Now a question that comes up
is what is the name that this
00:34:18.19\00:34:22.59
system has that this
system applies to its leader,
00:34:22.62\00:34:25.93
which is a blasphemous name?
00:34:25.96\00:34:27.96
I'm going to tell
you what the name is.
00:34:28.00\00:34:29.50
The name is Vicarious Filli Dei.
00:34:29.53\00:34:34.70
Do you know what that expression
means, that name means in Latin,
00:34:34.74\00:34:40.24
Vicarious Fillii Dei?
00:34:40.28\00:34:42.44
It means Vicar
of the Son of God.
00:34:42.48\00:34:45.85
See, in Latin when you have
an ending in I, Fellii, and Dei,
00:34:45.88\00:34:50.15
it's
degenitive, it's possessive.
00:34:50.19\00:34:52.32
So basically it means Vicar, or
representative, or one who takes
00:34:52.35\00:34:57.03
the place of the Son of God.
00:34:57.09\00:34:59.63
Now some people say, Well, you
know, this is just, this name
00:34:59.66\00:35:03.10
really is not a name
that was given to the popes.
00:35:03.13\00:35:05.40
It's not an
official name of the popes.
00:35:05.43\00:35:07.34
It's just Protestants
that say that that was
00:35:07.37\00:35:09.77
a name of the pope.
00:35:09.87\00:35:11.21
Well, I want to go through
some historical evidence to show
00:35:11.24\00:35:13.88
you that it's not so.
00:35:13.91\00:35:15.24
For example, in the
Donation of Constantine...
00:35:15.28\00:35:18.01
I'm going to go through some
history now, and you might not
00:35:18.08\00:35:21.08
know a lot of this
history, but I think
00:35:21.12\00:35:22.45
it's very, very important.
00:35:22.48\00:35:23.82
In the Donation of Constantine
we find the following words
00:35:23.89\00:35:27.36
written in this document,
which I'm going to talk to you
00:35:27.39\00:35:31.19
a little bit more
about in a few moments.
00:35:31.23\00:35:33.03
Blessed Peter was
what? constituted what?
00:35:41.17\00:35:45.44
By the way, this was written
in Latin, and the expression is:
00:35:46.61\00:35:49.18
Vicarious Filiii Dei
00:35:49.21\00:35:51.75
Let me tell you a
few things about the
00:36:08.80\00:36:10.70
Donation of Constantine.
00:36:10.77\00:36:12.10
It was actually, purportedly,
a letter that was written by
00:36:12.13\00:36:17.11
Constantine the Great, the
Emperor to Pope Silvester I.
00:36:17.14\00:36:20.78
And if you read the Donation
of Constantine, you'll see that
00:36:20.81\00:36:24.15
Constantine apparently
gave temporal power to the pope.
00:36:24.18\00:36:27.22
He practically gave the pope
unlimited temporal or political
00:36:27.25\00:36:31.12
power in the
Donation of Constantine.
00:36:31.15\00:36:33.39
Now it's interesting that
this document was known as early
00:36:33.46\00:36:37.93
as the 9th Century A.D.
00:36:37.96\00:36:40.40
But beginning with the
11th Century A.D. it began to be
00:36:40.43\00:36:44.97
used by the popes in order
to prove that they had a right
00:36:45.00\00:36:49.07
to govern not only in religious
affairs, but they had the right
00:36:49.10\00:36:53.48
to govern in political affairs
as well, because they used
00:36:53.54\00:36:56.48
the forgery that said
Constantine signed this as the
00:36:56.51\00:36:59.75
Emperor, and he told
us that we could govern,
00:36:59.78\00:37:03.92
not only in religious affairs,
but also in civil affairs.
00:37:03.95\00:37:08.39
Well, the
authenticity of the Donation of
00:37:08.42\00:37:11.23
Constantine was questioned.
00:37:11.26\00:37:13.29
Beginning in the 15th Century,
when literary criticism began
00:37:13.33\00:37:17.00
to grow, a man by the name of
Nicholas of Cusa was the first
00:37:17.07\00:37:21.44
to really say, You know, there's
some things in this that show
00:37:21.47\00:37:24.81
that this doesn't go all
the way back to Constantine.
00:37:24.84\00:37:27.84
This is a
forgery from much later.
00:37:27.88\00:37:30.78
And then a scholar by the
name of Laurentius Valla decided
00:37:30.85\00:37:35.85
that he would do a very
meticulous historical study
00:37:35.88\00:37:38.92
of the Donation of Constantine,
and he showed beyond any
00:37:38.95\00:37:42.59
reasonable doubt, that this
document was a total forgery
00:37:42.62\00:37:47.40
that was used to try and
sustain the temporal claims
00:37:47.50\00:37:51.63
of the Roman Catholic Papacy.
00:37:51.67\00:37:53.44
By the way, the Papacy
did not enjoy the work of
00:37:53.50\00:37:56.71
Laurentius Valla because
in 1559 the Roman Catholic
00:37:56.77\00:38:02.58
Inquisition put his book on
the index of forbidden books.
00:38:02.61\00:38:07.45
Now some Catholic
theologians say, Well, you know,
00:38:07.48\00:38:11.05
this was a forgery.
00:38:11.09\00:38:12.42
You can't say that because
this document used the name
00:38:12.45\00:38:15.36
Vicarius Filiii Dei, and it says
that this title was given to
00:38:15.39\00:38:19.96
Peter, and it was given to his
successors, you can't say that
00:38:20.03\00:38:23.47
that's an official title
of the Roman Catholic Papacy
00:38:23.50\00:38:27.04
when it's a forgery.
00:38:27.07\00:38:28.77
But the fact is, folks, that
this document, even though it
00:38:28.80\00:38:32.94
was a forgery, was used at least
by ten popes, and panned off as
00:38:32.97\00:38:38.71
authentic and authoritative
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:38:38.75\00:38:42.25
In other words, even though
it was a forgery they said
00:38:42.28\00:38:44.72
This is definitely true.
00:38:44.75\00:38:46.96
And for hundreds of years they
actually used the wording of
00:38:46.99\00:38:51.03
the Donation of Constantine
to defend the temporal power
00:38:51.06\00:38:55.60
of the Roman Catholic Papacy.
00:38:55.63\00:38:57.77
By the way, this title, Vicarius
Filiii Dei, was incorporated
00:38:57.80\00:39:04.41
into official Roman Catholic
Cannon Law in what is known as
00:39:04.44\00:39:08.78
Gratian's Decretals,
which was published in 1140.
00:39:08.81\00:39:13.01
And this is an official document
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:39:13.05\00:39:16.92
It's Cannon Law, it's the laws
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:39:16.95\00:39:20.22
And that language from
the Donation of Constantine
00:39:20.29\00:39:22.92
was incorporated into
the Decretals of Gratian,
00:39:22.96\00:39:27.03
which means that it became
official in Roman Catholicism.
00:39:27.03\00:39:31.50
In other words, it
is an official title.
00:39:31.53\00:39:34.67
By the way, the
title is also used by
00:39:34.70\00:39:37.97
Cardinal Henry
Edward Manning in his book,
00:39:38.01\00:39:42.38
The Temporal Power of
the Vicar of Jesus Christ,
00:39:42.41\00:39:45.45
which he wrote in the year 1862.
00:39:45.48\00:39:48.05
Actually, at his time none
of the nations of Europe wanted
00:39:48.08\00:39:53.46
anything to do with
the Roman Catholic Papacy.
00:39:53.49\00:39:55.76
And so Manning wrote his book
to scold the nations of Europe,
00:39:55.79\00:40:00.50
because they didn't support
the Papacy after the French
00:40:00.53\00:40:03.37
Revolution, when the Papacy
received the deadly wound.
00:40:03.43\00:40:05.87
And so I'd like to read this
statement where he's castigating
00:40:05.90\00:40:08.90
the nations of Europe
for abandoning the Papacy.
00:40:08.94\00:40:11.54
He said this:
00:40:11.57\00:40:12.91
In other words, they're giving
up this concept of Jesus Christ,
00:40:33.13\00:40:36.33
the Vicar of Jesus Christ.
00:40:36.36\00:40:38.33
And now notice this:
00:40:41.67\00:40:43.00
By the way, that's
Vicarius Filiii Dei.
00:40:45.27\00:40:47.34
He's saying, We're
turned our faces from the Vicar
00:40:57.92\00:41:01.19
of the Son of God, which was the
Pope that was ruling in his day.
00:41:01.22\00:41:04.96
He continues saying in his
book, speaking about the growing
00:41:04.99\00:41:10.13
temporal power of the Papacy
under the Popes': Gregory I,
00:41:10.17\00:41:15.50
Leo III, Gregory
VII, and Alexander III.
00:41:15.54\00:41:18.61
He says that at this
time the power of the Pope,
00:41:18.64\00:41:23.65
the temporal power of
the Pope became a dogma,
00:41:23.71\00:41:27.42
a law of conscience,
and action of the reason,
00:41:27.48\00:41:32.19
and theological certainty.
00:41:32.22\00:41:34.36
And then he says this:
00:41:34.39\00:41:35.72
There's the same title again.
00:41:44.23\00:41:45.93
By the way, the title is also in
the prestigious Roman Catholic
00:41:58.48\00:42:03.49
Dictionary, or Encyclopedia
called Prompta Bibliotheca,
00:42:03.52\00:42:08.42
written or
prepared by Lucius Ferraris.
00:42:08.46\00:42:11.86
I'd like to read you an
interesting statement also
00:42:11.89\00:42:15.00
from the book by John Paul II,
Crossing the Threshold of Hope,
00:42:15.03\00:42:19.83
a very, very popular book.
00:42:19.87\00:42:21.84
This is what he says on,
actually I think it's page 7
00:42:21.87\00:42:27.14
of his book, he says this,
actually it's page 3. He says:
00:42:27.18\00:42:30.91
And then John Paul II says this:
00:42:44.39\00:42:47.50
Is that what a Vicar is? someone
who represents someone else?
00:42:54.80\00:42:58.07
Yes.
00:42:58.11\00:42:59.44
And now notice, who what?
00:43:01.14\00:43:02.88
What is he saying?
00:43:10.52\00:43:11.85
The Pope what? The Pope occupies
the place of Jesus Christ,
00:43:11.89\00:43:17.03
and actually represents
Jesus Christ; taking his place.
00:43:17.06\00:43:23.10
By the way, one of the
greatest Patristic scholars,
00:43:23.13\00:43:26.84
an expert in the
writings of the church fathers
00:43:26.90\00:43:29.04
in the Roman Catholic
Church, was Johannes Quasten.
00:43:29.07\00:43:32.44
Even today if you ask a Roman
Catholic who the standard was,
00:43:32.47\00:43:36.95
when it comes to the
writings of the Church fathers,
00:43:37.01\00:43:39.38
the name of Johannes
Quasten will come up.
00:43:39.41\00:43:42.02
And notice what he had to say:
00:43:42.05\00:43:44.15
The title, Vicarius
Christi, that's Vicar of Christ,
00:43:44.19\00:43:47.79
as well as the
title Vicarius Filiii Dei,
00:43:47.82\00:43:52.63
is very common as the title of
what? as the title of the Pope.
00:43:52.66\00:43:59.07
Now for some time Adventists
were saying that this title,
00:43:59.10\00:44:05.04
Vicarius Filiii Dei,
was on the Papal tiara,
00:44:05.07\00:44:09.64
or on the Papal mitre.
00:44:09.68\00:44:11.75
But people today
they look at the mitre,
00:44:11.78\00:44:14.52
and they look at
the tiara, and they say,
00:44:14.55\00:44:16.02
the name Vicarius
Filiii Dei isn't on there.
00:44:16.05\00:44:19.09
And so the Roman Catholic Church
has said it was never on there.
00:44:19.12\00:44:22.89
I want to share a statement
from The Great Controversy,
00:44:22.92\00:44:26.80
Page 61, where Ellen
White explains what happened to
00:44:26.83\00:44:31.40
several of the records
that were kept during the period
00:44:31.43\00:44:35.34
of the Middle Ages.
00:44:35.37\00:44:36.71
Actually, they were not
preserved, they were destroyed.
00:44:36.77\00:44:39.74
Notice what she says:
00:44:39.77\00:44:41.11
Now I want to read you a
couple of statements from
00:45:10.01\00:45:13.17
Our Sunday Visitor.
00:45:13.21\00:45:14.64
It is actually a very
important publication.
00:45:14.68\00:45:18.31
It's the main publication of
the Archdiocese of Baltimore,
00:45:18.35\00:45:22.18
or at least it was.
00:45:22.22\00:45:24.22
In the addition of
November 15, 1914...
00:45:24.29\00:45:28.72
And, by the way, I have
copies of both of these that I'm
00:45:28.76\00:45:31.66
going to read now.
00:45:31.69\00:45:33.03
So this is something that I have
in my possession, in my files.
00:45:33.06\00:45:36.93
The question was
asked, November 15, 1914,
00:45:36.97\00:45:41.54
and this is the question:
00:45:41.57\00:45:44.27
Now here's the
answer that's given in this
00:45:51.75\00:45:54.08
Roman Catholic publication.
00:45:54.12\00:45:55.45
This is an official
Roman Catholic publication.
00:46:18.04\00:46:22.01
In another addition of Our
Sunday Visitor, April 18, 1915,
00:46:38.16\00:46:43.73
answer question
was asked. Here it is:
00:46:43.77\00:46:45.77
Here's the answer that's
given in this publication:
00:46:52.84\00:46:55.98
This is not some
Protestant saying this.
00:47:02.92\00:47:06.05
Vicar means, he who represents,
he who occupies the place,
00:47:15.63\00:47:19.37
as was defined by John Paul II.
00:47:19.40\00:47:21.50
It continues saying:
00:47:21.54\00:47:22.87
Now the interesting thing is
that a Roman Catholic apologist
00:47:51.13\00:47:55.04
by the name of Patrick Madrid
contacted Robert Lockwood,
00:47:55.07\00:47:58.91
who was the editor of Our Sunday
Visitor, and said that he wanted
00:47:58.94\00:48:04.31
to take a look at the 1915
issue of Our Sunday Visitor.
00:48:04.35\00:48:09.35
And when he contacted Robert
Lockwood he said, I'm sorry,
00:48:09.38\00:48:14.36
but that particular
issue is not available.
00:48:14.39\00:48:17.73
It has been
expunged from the archives.
00:48:17.76\00:48:20.96
Now let me tell you folks,
if they expunge an incriminating
00:48:21.03\00:48:25.10
article like that; a
whole issue, not an article,
00:48:25.17\00:48:27.84
but a whole issue of Our Sunday
Visitor from their archives,
00:48:27.87\00:48:31.51
would it just be very
possible to delete or take away
00:48:31.54\00:48:35.64
the title Vicarius
Filiii Dei from the tiara,
00:48:35.68\00:48:38.65
or from the mitre of the
Pope's crown? Absolutely!
00:48:38.68\00:48:42.15
By the way, there are witnesses
from the past who testify
00:48:42.18\00:48:46.69
that they saw the papal tiara,
or the mitre with the name
00:48:46.76\00:48:51.19
Vicarius Filiii Dei.
00:48:51.23\00:48:53.70
Now it's true that September
16, 1917, and this article was
00:48:53.73\00:48:59.10
repeated on August 3,
1941 of Our Sunday Visitor,
00:48:59.13\00:49:02.74
the Roman Catholic Church
disowned what they had said
00:49:02.80\00:49:06.27
in the first two issues.
00:49:06.34\00:49:07.68
This is what they said:
00:49:07.71\00:49:09.04
Now we've already noticed
historically that it is his
00:49:16.92\00:49:20.49
official title, and it's
officially incorporated and used
00:49:20.52\00:49:24.19
in the Donation of Constantine
in Gratian's Decretals.
00:49:24.26\00:49:27.83
It's also used by
Pope John Paul II.
00:49:27.86\00:49:30.87
It's used by
Cardinal Henry Edward Manning.
00:49:30.90\00:49:34.07
It's used in different
sources as an official title.
00:49:34.14\00:49:37.61
And, of course, Johannes
Quasten, the renowned patristics
00:49:37.64\00:49:41.51
scholar of the Roman
Catholic Church says that it
00:49:41.54\00:49:43.75
is an official title.
00:49:43.78\00:49:45.11
So let me ask you, Which
issue of Our Sunday Visitor
00:49:45.15\00:49:48.32
should we believe?
00:49:48.35\00:49:49.68
Now there are many people these
days who choose different names
00:49:49.72\00:49:55.32
to apply to the number 666.
00:49:55.36\00:49:58.39
For example, they say dux
cleric, which means the head of
00:49:58.43\00:50:02.00
the clergy, comes out to 666.
00:50:02.03\00:50:05.33
Another word,
lateinos, which means Latin man,
00:50:05.37\00:50:08.17
also comes out to 666.
00:50:08.20\00:50:10.47
Another name, ludovicus, means
chief of the court of Rome,
00:50:10.51\00:50:14.74
if you add up the
letters in Roman numerals,
00:50:14.78\00:50:18.25
it also comes out to 666.
00:50:18.28\00:50:20.58
Actually, the name of
John Paul II in Latin,
00:50:20.62\00:50:25.05
loannes Paulus
Secundo also comes out to 666.
00:50:25.09\00:50:29.49
And so they try
and find the number 666
00:50:29.56\00:50:33.03
in all of these names.
00:50:33.06\00:50:34.46
But let me tell you
the problem that I have
00:50:34.50\00:50:36.43
with all of these names.
00:50:36.46\00:50:37.80
None of these names are
particularly blasphemous.
00:50:37.83\00:50:40.80
Is it blasphemous to speak
of the head of the clergy? No.
00:50:40.87\00:50:47.98
Is it blasphemous to
speak of the Chief of
00:50:48.01\00:50:52.08
the Court of Rome? No.
00:50:52.11\00:50:53.75
Is the name
loannes Paulus Secundo
00:50:53.85\00:50:57.32
particularly blasphemous,
his proper name? Absolutely not.
00:50:57.35\00:51:00.86
Is the word Lati
inos, which means Latin man;
00:51:00.89\00:51:03.83
is that
particularly blasphemous? No.
00:51:03.86\00:51:05.93
The name which gives a number
must be what kind of a name?
00:51:05.96\00:51:09.76
It must be a blasphemous name;
a name that apparently gives him
00:51:09.80\00:51:15.37
the right to claim
the prerogatives of God,
00:51:15.40\00:51:18.57
and to claim the power of God.
00:51:18.61\00:51:21.01
By the way, do you know who
Jesus left on this earth as His
00:51:21.04\00:51:24.65
representative when He left?
00:51:24.68\00:51:26.31
It was not the Pope.
00:51:29.48\00:51:32.02
It was the Holy Spirit.
00:51:32.05\00:51:34.52
Notice what we
find in John 14: 16-18.
00:51:34.56\00:51:39.63
Here Jesus is speaking.
00:51:39.66\00:51:40.96
So who did Jesus send as
His representative on earth?
00:52:03.79\00:52:07.16
the Holy Spirit. Now
look how interesting this is.
00:52:07.19\00:52:10.53
Jesus said, I'm going
to be the visible head,
00:52:10.56\00:52:13.70
and I'm going to be in heaven.
00:52:13.73\00:52:15.03
The Holy Spirit is going
to be the invisible head,
00:52:15.06\00:52:19.10
and He's going to be on earth.
00:52:19.13\00:52:20.50
The Roman Catholic
Church has changed that around.
00:52:20.54\00:52:23.67
And they say the invisible
head of the church is in heaven:
00:52:23.71\00:52:27.28
Jesus Christ, and the
visible head of the church
00:52:27.34\00:52:30.11
is the Pope on earth.
00:52:30.15\00:52:31.55
In this way the Pope has usurped
not only the position of Jesus
00:52:31.58\00:52:37.19
Christ, but has usurped the
position of the Holy Spirit.
00:52:37.25\00:52:41.19
If that isn't the epitome of
blasphemy, I don't know what is.
00:52:41.22\00:52:47.03
By the way, did you know that
the word antichrist is almost
00:52:47.10\00:52:52.87
synonymous to the expression,
Vicar of the Son of God,
00:52:52.90\00:52:56.04
Vicarius Filiii Dei?
00:52:56.07\00:52:57.64
You say, now
wait a minute Pastor.
00:52:57.67\00:52:59.57
Antichrist means
somebody who is against Christ,
00:52:59.61\00:53:03.28
or who is opposed to Christ.
00:53:03.35\00:53:04.88
That's possible, but do you
know that the Greek preposition
00:53:04.91\00:53:10.09
anti also means
to take the place of,
00:53:10.12\00:53:15.02
or to substitute for someone.
00:53:15.06\00:53:17.56
Let me give you some examples.
00:53:17.63\00:53:20.03
In Greek the word antipastos
means one who takes the place
00:53:20.10\00:53:27.30
of the king
when the king leaves.
00:53:27.40\00:53:30.07
You are acquainted with
the name Antipas, right?
00:53:30.11\00:53:33.44
Antipas actually means one who
ruled in place of his father.
00:53:33.48\00:53:40.98
He didn't rule
against his father.
00:53:41.02\00:53:42.72
He ruled in place of his father.
00:53:42.75\00:53:44.42
We have the word antitype.
00:53:44.45\00:53:46.05
Do you know what
the word antitype means?
00:53:46.09\00:53:47.99
It means that which
takes the place of the type.
00:53:48.02\00:53:50.29
See when the antitype comes
you don't need the type anymore,
00:53:50.33\00:53:53.50
because the type is fulfilled.
00:53:53.56\00:53:55.40
So, in other words,
antitype means that which takes
00:53:55.43\00:53:58.60
the place of the type.
00:53:58.63\00:54:00.37
So the question
is, what is meant then
00:54:00.44\00:54:04.64
by the word antichrist?
00:54:04.67\00:54:07.84
The word antichrist does
not mean merely against Christ,
00:54:07.88\00:54:13.28
it means one who seeks to
occupy the place of Christ,
00:54:13.35\00:54:18.69
just like John Paul II said in
his book, The Threshold of Hope.
00:54:18.72\00:54:23.86
I'd like to finish by reading
a statement from the book of
00:54:23.93\00:54:28.60
Dave Hunt, Global Peace.
00:54:28.63\00:54:30.77
Now I disagree
with Dave Hunt almost on
00:54:30.83\00:54:33.50
everything that he writes.
00:54:33.54\00:54:34.87
In fact I disagree with his
identity of the antichrist here.
00:54:34.90\00:54:37.84
He says that this antichrist is
going to be a nasty individual
00:54:37.87\00:54:41.18
who's going to
rise in the Middle East
00:54:41.21\00:54:42.88
when the temple is rebuilt
after the church has been
00:54:42.91\00:54:45.78
raptured to heaven.
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.18
Now I don't believe any of that.
00:54:47.22\00:54:48.55
I believe the antichrist
arose in the Middle Ages,
00:54:48.58\00:54:50.55
and he ruled for a
long period of time.
00:54:50.59\00:54:52.35
It wasn't one person.
00:54:52.39\00:54:53.72
It was a
succession of individuals.
00:54:53.76\00:54:55.22
But I believe that the
portrait that Dave Hunt gives
00:54:55.26\00:54:58.53
of the antichrist is
accurate, and it applies to a T
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to the Roman Catholic Papacy.
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And notice what he
says. this is Pages 6-8
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This is Pages 6-8 of his
book, Global Peace. He says:
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Notice the word substitution.
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And now notice what he says:
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Do you understand a
little bit better now what
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the number of the beast is?
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The number of the beast is 666.
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But that number is
the number of his what?
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of his blasphemous name,
which is Vicarius Filiii Dei,
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where he claims to occupy
the position of God on earth;
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to occupy the position
of Jesus Christ on earth,
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and to exercise the
powers and prerogatives of Jesus
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of forgiving sins, of
interceding for sinners,
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of placing kings and deposing
kings, of speaking infallibly
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in faith and morals,
and receiving, you know,
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people bowing down to him,
and calling him Holy Father,
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when Jesus said no one on this
earth should be called Father,
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for one is your Father:
your God who is in heaven.
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Folks all of these
characteristics clearly show
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what this power is.
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And God has given us all
this so that we can escape
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from his power
in these last days.
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