>> AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE, WE ARE LIVING IN UNPRECEDENTED 00:00:01.36\00:00:03.70 TIMES. JOIN US NOW FOR TODAY'S 00:00:03.70\00:00:06.00 SPECIAL PROGRAM. 00:00:06.00\00:00:22.18 >> HELLO, FRIENDS. WELCOME TO 3ABN LIVE. 00:01:15.44\00:01:23.21 WE THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO JOIN US. 00:01:23.21\00:01:27.15 YOU NEED TO HIT THE RECORD BUTTON RITE ILLINOIS. 00:01:27.15\00:01:29.92 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT ONLY RELEVANT, UP 00:01:29.92\00:01:33.09 TO DATE AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING BUT FORWARD LOOKING. 00:01:33.09\00:01:36.89 WE HAVE IN THE STUDIO A VERY GOOD FRIENDS OF OURS OF NOT 00:01:36.89\00:01:40.33 ONLY OF MINE BUT THE MINISTER. PASTOR JAMES RAFFERTY. 00:01:40.33\00:01:45.13 GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. >> ALWAYS A PLEASURE. 00:01:45.13\00:01:47.64 >> WHEN YOU HAVE THAT BIBLE. I'M LOOKING AT THE PAGES, THEY 00:01:47.64\00:01:51.44 ARE YELLOWED. YOU HAVE HAD THAT FOR A WHILE. 00:01:51.44\00:01:54.38 >> A LONG TIME. >> THE TOPIC, THE MASK OF THE 00:01:54.38\00:01:58.61 BEAST. THE MASK OF THE BEAST. 00:01:58.61\00:02:03.25 I'LL LET YOU TAKE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 00:02:03.25\00:02:05.72 OUR VIEWERS ARE THANKFUL TO TAKE THE TIME TO JOIN US. 00:02:05.72\00:02:11.23 WE THANK YOU FOR THE PRAYERS AND THE SUPPORT FINANCIAL OR 00:02:11.23\00:02:14.60 WHETHER YOU COME TO VOLUNTEER, OR WHETHER YOU PRAY FOR US AT 00:02:14.60\00:02:18.40 A DISTANCE OR UP CLOSE. WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO 00:02:18.40\00:02:21.34 TO KEEP THE NETWORK GROWING AS WE READY FOR THE COMING OF THE 00:02:21.34\00:02:25.81 LORD. TONIGHT WE'LL TAKE QUESTIONS. 00:02:25.81\00:02:27.54 WE'VE BEEN TEXTING QUESTIONS IN. 00:02:27.54\00:02:30.68 WE LIVE IN A DAY AND AGE WE HAVE THESE NEW DEVICES. 00:02:30.68\00:02:36.48 YOU DON'T JUST MAKE PHONE CALLS. 00:02:36.48\00:02:38.42 IF YOU WANT TO TEXT YOUR QUESTIONS IN THAT WE'LL TAKE 00:02:38.42\00:02:40.96 IN THE SECOND HOUR. 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TALK TO THOSE PEOPLE RIGHT 00:03:28.17\00:03:31.81 NOW. >> THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWN ME, 00:03:31.81\00:03:33.74 I'VE BEEN IN MINISTER 35, 36 YEARS. 00:03:33.74\00:03:36.64 I STARTED WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID. 00:03:36.64\00:03:39.71 NOW HERE I AM. 39.95. 00:03:39.71\00:03:46.35 >> PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING. >> I WORK IN FORTRESS NOR 00:03:46.35\00:03:51.09 CALIFORNIA WITH PASTOR STEVEN BOHR. 00:03:51.09\00:03:53.56 PIE WIFE AND I MOVED THERE, STILL IN THE PROCESS OF 00:03:53.56\00:03:57.13 SETTLING IN. LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING SOME 00:03:57.13\00:04:00.80 WORK, OUTREACH, EVANGELISM MINISTRY. 00:04:00.80\00:04:06.34 ALWAYS OPEN AND READY TO SHARE WITH OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY 00:04:06.34\00:04:09.21 HERE. ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. 00:04:09.21\00:04:11.28 >> YOU HAVE BEEN HERE QUITE A FEW YEARS. 00:04:11.28\00:04:13.21 HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? >> PROBABLY 25 -- BETWEEN 25 00:04:13.21\00:04:21.76 AND 30 YEARS. A LONG TIME. 00:04:21.76\00:04:23.93 >> YOU HAVE SEEN THE STUDIOS GROW. 00:04:23.93\00:04:26.66 YOU HAVE BEEN A PART OF THE PROGRAMMING, PREACHING FOR 00:04:26.66\00:04:30.03 CAMP MEETINGS. YOU ARE AN AUTHOR. 00:04:30.03\00:04:33.70 YOU HAVE HAD YOUR HANDS IN THE LORD'S BOOK A LONG TIME. 00:04:33.70\00:04:36.57 EVEN MORE THAN THAT, THE LORD HAS HAD HIS HANDS IN YOU FOR A 00:04:36.57\00:04:40.64 LONG TIME. >> AMEN. 00:04:40.64\00:04:42.34 >> LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. WHY DID YOU COME UP WITH THE 00:04:42.34\00:04:45.18 TITLE, HOW OR WHY, WHAT IS BEHIND "MASK OF THE BEAST?" 00:04:45.18\00:04:49.68 TEASE US A LITTLE BIT BEFORE WE GO TO THE MUSIC. 00:04:49.68\00:04:52.59 >> FOR YEARS WE'VE BEEN PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE 00:04:52.59\00:04:55.86 MARK OF THE BEAST, AS WE START GETTING INTO THE COVID-19 00:04:55.86\00:04:59.53 VIRUS AND IT BECAME CLASSIFIED AS A PANDEMIC ALL OVER THE 00:04:59.53\00:05:03.90 WORLD. I STARTED SEEING SOME OF THE 00:05:03.90\00:05:06.37 PRINCIPLES RELATED TO THAT, LEADING INTO BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:05:06.37\00:05:13.11 SPECIFICALLY REVELATION CHAPTER 13. 00:05:13.11\00:05:14.81 I FELT THIS WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO 00:05:14.81\00:05:18.05 EXAMINE THE PLAUSIBILITY OF THINGS THAT PEOPLE THOUGHT 00:05:18.05\00:05:20.62 COULD NEVER HAPPEN IN THIS COUNTRY AND NEVER HAPPEN IN 00:05:20.62\00:05:23.35 THE WORLD, BUT IT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. 00:05:23.35\00:05:25.65 SO WE COULD SEE HOW VIABLE BIBLE PROPHECY IS. 00:05:25.65\00:05:29.62 >> WE ARE IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLD IN LESS THAN A 00:05:29.62\00:05:34.76 WORLD. OUR WORLD HAS TURNED 00:05:34.76\00:05:37.43 TOPSY-TURVY. THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT AN 00:05:37.43\00:05:39.87 ALARMING RATE. I DEAL WITH THAT OWE A WEEKLY 00:05:39.87\00:05:43.27 BASIS. IT'S EXCITING TO KNOW WHAT 00:05:43.27\00:05:45.44 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IS COMING TOGETHER IN RAPID PACE 00:05:45.44\00:05:50.85 BEFORE OUR EYES. I KNOW YOU ARE PERCOLATING, 00:05:50.85\00:05:53.58 YOU ARE ON THE EDGE THERE READY TO TALK ABOUT THE MASK 00:05:53.58\00:05:56.22 OF THE BEAST. YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT MUCH THE 00:05:56.22\00:06:00.49 MASK OF THE BEAST. IT'S NOT A TYPO. 00:06:00.49\00:06:02.49 WHAT RELEVANCE DOES THAT HAVE TO BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:06:02.49\00:06:08.16 RIGHT IN THE GROOVE OF THAT PARTICULAR CHAPTER. 00:06:08.16\00:06:10.63 YOU DON'T WANT TO TURN AWAY. IF YOU HAVEN'T HIT RECORD YET, 00:06:10.63\00:06:14.54 DO THAT RIGHT NOW. YOU WILL SAY, I MISSED THAT 00:06:14.54\00:06:17.67 POINT. I WISH COY LOOK IT OVER. 00:06:17.67\00:06:19.67 IF YOU DON'T IS AN ABILITY TO RECORD, BECAUSE THIS IS LIVE. 00:06:19.67\00:06:23.58 IT SHOWS ON SUNDAY. THEN AGAIN ON TUESDAY. 00:06:23.58\00:06:25.78 YOU CAN GO TO OUR 3ABN.TV AND FIND TIMES AND LISTINGS. 00:06:25.78\00:06:32.69 ANOTHER GOOD FRIEND OF MINE, STEPHANIE DAWN, WILL SING A 00:06:32.69\00:06:36.52 SONG QUIUTLED "IN THIS OLD TROUBLED WORLD." 00:06:36.52\00:06:40.40 AFTER THAT, THE MASK OF THE BEAST. 00:06:40.40\00:06:49.64 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, STEPHANIE, FOR THAT SONG, IN 00:10:16.18\00:10:18.75 THIS OLD TROUBLED WORLD. THAT IS AN AMAZING SEGUE. 00:10:18.75\00:10:22.95 WE ARE LIVING IN THIS OLD TROUBLED WORLD. 00:10:22.95\00:10:25.15 AS MY GOOD FRIEND PASTOR T.D. BROOKS SAYS, THE WORLD IS LIKE 00:10:25.15\00:10:30.43 AN OLD PAIR OF JEANS. THEY KEEP ON RIPPING. 00:10:30.43\00:10:33.33 AFTER A WHILE YOU CANNOT SEW IT UP. 00:10:33.33\00:10:35.86 YOU HAVE TO DISCARD IT. THE LORD IS ABOUT TO DISCARD 00:10:35.86\00:10:41.74 IS AS HE RIGHT SIDE ANOTHER WORLD. 00:10:41.74\00:10:45.31 THIS OLD WORLD. DIVE WHEREVER YOU WANT TO 00:10:45.31\00:10:49.38 BEGIN ON THIS TOPIC, THE MASK OF THE BEAST. 00:10:49.38\00:10:52.58 I'M SALIVATING OVER WHAT YOU WILL SAY. 00:10:52.58\00:10:54.72 I KNOW IT WILL BE GOOD. >> I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GOOD 00:10:54.72\00:10:58.29 TO START WITH THE WORDS OF CHRIST. 00:10:58.29\00:11:01.46 MATTHEW CHAPTER 24. THAT PARALLELS MARK 31, LUKE 00:11:01.46\00:11:05.26 21. THREE CHAPTER IN THE GOSPEL 00:11:05.26\00:11:07.13 THAT ARE PROPHETIC. I THINK THE ONLY REASON WHY 00:11:07.13\00:11:10.33 JOHN DIDN'T HAVE ONE IN HIS GOSPEL IS BECAUSE GOD GAVE HIM 00:11:10.33\00:11:13.70 THE ENTIRE BOOK OF REVELATION. RELEVANTATION IS JOHN MATTHEW 00:11:13.70\00:11:20.44 24. THIS IS WHERE JESUS IS MAKING 00:11:20.44\00:11:22.64 SOME PREDICTIONS, NOT JUST ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF 00:11:22.64\00:11:25.98 JERUSALEM BUT HIS SECOND COMING AND THE END OF THE 00:11:25.98\00:11:28.35 WORLD. THE PREDICTIONS THAT HE MAKES 00:11:28.35\00:11:30.99 ARE JUST LIKE YOU READ IN THE NEWSPAPER TODAY. 00:11:30.99\00:11:34.12 IN A VERY REAL SENSE. WE WANT TO IS THAT RIGHT IN 00:11:34.12\00:11:37.83 MATTHEW 4. LOOK AT THE VERY FIRST WARNING 00:11:37.83\00:11:40.10 THAT HE GIVES US. I DON'T CALL IT A WARNING. 00:11:40.10\00:11:43.47 THE INDICATION HIS COMING IS GETTING CLOSER. 00:11:43.47\00:11:47.87 >> OKAY. >> MATTHEW CHAPTER 24. 00:11:47.87\00:11:49.94 THE SIGN SAYS TELL US WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? 00:11:49.94\00:11:54.14 VERSE 3. WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THE 00:11:54.14\00:11:56.28 COMING OF THE END OF THE WORLD. 00:11:56.28\00:11:58.41 >> JESUS SAYS ANSWERS, TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN IS SAVED. 00:11:58.41\00:12:03.55 DECEPTION IS NUMBER ONE ON CHRIST'S LIST. 00:12:03.55\00:12:07.42 DECEPTION IS REPEATED TWO MORE TIMES IN THAT MATTHEW 24. 00:12:07.42\00:12:11.19 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THAT MEANS IT'S REALLY 00:12:11.19\00:12:13.83 SIGNIFICANT. IT'S AS IF CHRIST IS SAYING 00:12:13.83\00:12:15.80 THERE BlackBerry A LOT OF DECEPTION. 00:12:15.80\00:12:20.30 JOHN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN RELATE TO THIS. 00:12:20.30\00:12:22.37 I CANNOT WATCH HARDLY ANY HE NEWS, LOOK AT HARDLY ANY MEDIA 00:12:22.37\00:12:27.38 REPORTS WITHOUT ASKING THE QUESTION "IS THAT RIGHT OR IS 00:12:27.38\00:12:30.48 THAT WRONG? IS THAT TRUE OR FALSE? 00:12:30.48\00:12:32.55 CAN I BELIEVE THAT OR NOT BELIEVE IT? 00:12:32.55\00:12:36.85 SOMETIMES YOU HEAR SOMETHING THAT EVERYONE BELIEVES AND 00:12:36.85\00:12:40.32 IT'S COMPLETELY THE OPPOSITE TOP ME WHAT JESUS IS SAYING 00:12:40.32\00:12:44.96 HERE MAKES -- APPLIES TO OUR TIME MORE THAN IT EVER HAS. 00:12:44.96\00:12:49.06 >> I'M AMAZED YOU WOULD SAY THAT. 00:12:49.06\00:12:50.70 WE ARE LIVING IN A MEDIA-SATURATED AGE. 00:12:50.70\00:12:53.60 IT'S LIKE A TENNIS MATCH. ONE SIDE OF THE COURT SENDS 00:12:53.60\00:12:56.34 THE BALL BACK TO THE OTHER. BOTH WANT TO WIN, BUT THEY ARE 00:12:56.34\00:13:00.91 ON OPPOSITE SIDES. STATEMENTS IN MANY CASES, 00:13:00.91\00:13:05.71 PEOPLE ARE JUST SWALLOWING WHAT THEY ARE HEARING WIHOUT 00:13:05.71\00:13:09.35 ANY VALIDATION. PEOPLE ARE FALLING INTO THE 00:13:09.35\00:13:13.05 CATEGORY OF BEING DECEIVED. >> I BELIEVE THAT'S WHY THE 00:13:13.05\00:13:15.56 BIBLE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER. 00:13:15.56\00:13:18.86 IT'S WORDS WE CAN TRUST. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:13:18.86\00:13:21.33 >> THERE IS TRUTH IN THE WORD OF GOD. 00:13:21.33\00:13:23.57 SATAN WANTS TO UNDERMINE CREDIBILITY IN THE WORD OF GOD 00:13:23.57\00:13:26.40 MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW. IF WE CAN SEE THE WORD OF GOD 00:13:26.40\00:13:29.97 AS SOMETHING THAT CAN HELP US NAVIGATE WHAT IS GOING ON. 00:13:29.97\00:13:33.34 AND I FEET LIKE AS TO HELPED -- I FEEL LIKE THAT'S 00:13:33.34\00:13:36.51 HELPED ME THE LAST 37 YEARS I'VE BEEN A CHRISTIAN. 00:13:36.51\00:13:39.71 IT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON. 00:13:39.71\00:13:42.22 THERE ARE MANY TIMES I LOOK AT CURRENT EVENTS, I SAY THAT 00:13:42.22\00:13:46.12 DOES NOT JIVE WITH WHAT I UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE TO BE 00:13:46.12\00:13:49.66 TEACHING. IT'S DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHAT TO 00:13:49.66\00:13:52.29 BIBLE. SHOULD I BELIEVE THE BIBLE OR 00:13:52.29\00:13:55.16 NOT. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, BOOM. 00:13:55.16\00:13:57.63 THE BIBLE GAINS CREDIBILITY BECAUSE THE EVENT THEY DON'T 00:13:57.63\00:14:02.94 MATERIALIZE. THE THINGS THAT EVERYONE IS 00:14:02.94\00:14:05.01 FOCUSING ON NEVER HAPPEN. SURE ENOUGH BECAUSE THEY ARE 00:14:05.01\00:14:08.51 NOT IN THE TIME LINE IN THE WORD OF GOD. 00:14:08.51\00:14:10.51 THEY ARE NOT THE PROPHETIC MARK OF THE WORD OF GOD. 00:14:10.51\00:14:14.08 SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HEED THE WORD OF JESUS MORE 00:14:14.08\00:14:17.75 THAN EVER. I DON'T THINK HE HAS BEEN 00:14:17.75\00:14:19.59 WRONG ABOUT ANY OF THIS. I THINK HE IS RIGHT ON TARGET. 00:14:19.59\00:14:23.99 >> I HAVE TO SAY, IT'S A CERTAINTY HE IS NEVER OFF 00:14:23.99\00:14:27.66 TARGET. BUT I LIKE THE WORD YOU USE 00:14:27.66\00:14:30.57 "MASK." A LOT OF WHAT THE BIBLE 00:14:30.57\00:14:32.13 TEACHES IS BEING MASKED BY THESE INTENSE EVENTS TAKING 00:14:32.13\00:14:36.91 PLACE AND PEOPLE ARE LIKE AT A TENNIS MATCH. 00:14:36.91\00:14:40.54 LOOKING LET AND RIGHT. DON'T FORGET CENTER COURT. 00:14:40.54\00:14:44.65 LIKE I SAID NOT TOO LONG AGO. I USED THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE 00:14:44.65\00:14:49.12 AS ANALOGY. WE HAVE THIS EXOABT NOW, THE 00:14:49.12\00:14:54.39 LEFT AND THE RIGHT. WHAT ABOUT THE MAN IN THE 00:14:54.39\00:14:56.96 MIDDLE. HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN 00:14:56.96\00:15:00.20 BRING SALVATION. >> THAT'S THE REALITY WHEN IT 00:15:00.20\00:15:04.57 COMES TO THE CROSS. PEOPLE ARE LOOKING BACK AND 00:15:04.57\00:15:07.24 FORTH. THE ISSUES AS I AM FOLLOWING 00:15:07.24\00:15:10.84 ALONG, A LOT OF THINGS ARE MASKED. 00:15:10.84\00:15:13.04 WHAT IS HAPPENING BEFORE US. THE DEVIL IS USING IT TO 00:15:13.04\00:15:17.35 DISTRACT. >> A LOT OF DECEPTION. 00:15:17.35\00:15:19.71 REVELATION BRINGS THIS OUT, ALSO. 00:15:19.71\00:15:21.42 WE COMPARE MATTHEW 24 WITH REVELATION, CHAPTER 13. 00:15:21.42\00:15:25.62 WE PICK UP THIS WORD, IF YOU WILL ON THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:15:25.62\00:15:30.86 I GET DOWN TO VERSE 6. YOU SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND 00:15:30.86\00:15:35.90 RUMORS OF WARS. BE THEE HE NOT TROUBLED. 00:15:35.90\00:15:39.60 ALL OF THESE THINGS MUST COME TO PAST BUT THE END IS NOT 00:15:39.60\00:15:43.44 YET. ONE NATION WILL RISE AGAINST 00:15:43.44\00:15:45.67 NATION AND KINGDOM AND THERE WILL BE FAMINE AND PEST LENS 00:15:45.67\00:15:50.71 AND EARTHQUAKES IN DIFFERENT PLACES. 00:15:50.71\00:15:53.11 I THINK IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT JESUS TELLS US ABOUT THESE 00:15:53.11\00:15:56.55 SIGNS. HE SAYS DON'T LET THEM TROUBLE 00:15:56.55\00:15:58.65 YOU. I THINK THE REASON HE SAYS 00:15:58.65\00:16:00.69 THAT IS BECAUSE THEY WOULD TEND TO TROUBLE US. 00:16:00.69\00:16:03.83 THAT WOULD BE THE NATURAL TENDENCY WHEN YOU SEE WARS AND 00:16:03.83\00:16:07.30 RUMORS OF WARS AND PEST LENS. YOU TEND TO BE TROUBLED. 00:16:07.30\00:16:12.13 HE SAYS DON'T BE TROUBLED. ALL OF THESE THINGS WILL TAKE 00:16:12.13\00:16:15.74 PLACE. THEY HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE. 00:16:15.74\00:16:17.57 HE SAYS IN VERSE 8, THAT THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF SOREOS, 00:16:17.57\00:16:25.41 OR BIRTH PAINS. BIRTH PAINS ARE THE THINGS 00:16:25.41\00:16:27.85 THAT HAPPEN WHEN A WOMAN IS PREGNANT, AS SHE IS ABOUT TO 00:16:27.85\00:16:31.15 DELIVER THE BIRTH PAINS COL. THEY START SLOWLY. 00:16:31.15\00:16:34.86 THEN BECOME MORE INTENSE AND MORE FREQUENT AND MORE INTENSE 00:16:34.86\00:16:38.06 AND MORE FREQUENT. UNTIL A BABY IS BORN. 00:16:38.06\00:16:41.76 JESUS IS PREDICTING THE BIRTH OUT OF THESE BIRTH PAINS. 00:16:41.76\00:16:45.57 HE IS PREDICTING THE BIRTH OF ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE 00:16:45.57\00:16:49.37 WORLD JOINING TOGETHER TO -- LET'S READ IT IN VERSE 9. 00:16:49.37\00:16:54.28 THEN IN THE CONTEXT OF ALL OF THESE NATURAL DISASTERS AND 00:16:54.28\00:16:56.81 WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS AND PEST LENSES, INCREASING IN 00:16:56.81\00:17:01.72 INTENSITY AND FREQUENCY. SHALL DELIVER YOU UP AND THEY 00:17:01.72\00:17:06.82 SHALL KILL YOU AND YOU WILL BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS FOR MY 00:17:06.82\00:17:13.26 NAMESAKE. HERE IS THE UNITY OF ALL 00:17:13.26\00:17:19.07 NATIONS. A UNITY OF ALL NATIONS AND 00:17:19.07\00:17:23.44 HATRED TOWARD A CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE. 00:17:23.44\00:17:25.97 WHAT I THINK IS SIGNIFICANT HERE. 00:17:25.97\00:17:27.64 WE HAVE MANY TIMES I WILL SAY THIS AS AN EVANGELIST. 00:17:27.64\00:17:33.08 WE HAVE SAID MANY TIMES THE HE WANTS OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND 00:17:33.08\00:17:39.42 PESTILENCE, WHICH IS CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS 00:17:39.42\00:17:41.62 DISEASE AND PANDEMIC, EARTHQUAKES, NATURAL 00:17:41.62\00:17:44.26 DISASTERS. THESE INCREASE WITH INTENSITY 00:17:44.26\00:17:46.39 AND FREQUENCY LEADING TO THE ALL NATION TO SEE HATE GOD'S 00:17:46.39\00:17:50.97 PEOPLE. I WANT TO THROW SOMETHING ELSE 00:17:50.97\00:17:52.77 IN HERE THAT I THINK APPLY. COULD IT ALSO BE, NOT THE 00:17:52.77\00:17:56.44 EVENT ITSELF, BUT THE RESPONSE TO THE EVENT, THAT INCREASES 00:17:56.44\00:18:00.48 WITH INTENSITY AND FREQUENCY. LET ME GIVE TWOW TWO EXAMPLES. 00:18:00.48\00:18:08.48 9/11 WAS A WAR ON TERROR. IGNITED A WAR ON TERROR. 00:18:08.48\00:18:13.62 IT WASN'T SO MUCH THE EVENT ITSELF, THE DOWNING OF THE TWO 00:18:13.62\00:18:18.33 BUILDINGS, PEOPLE DYING, THE WAR TO IRAQ, ETC., BAGHDAD. 00:18:18.33\00:18:23.33 THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT DIED THERE. 00:18:23.33\00:18:25.70 IT WAS THE IMPACT IT HAD ON OUR LIFE. 00:18:25.70\00:18:30.44 >> PARADIGM SHIFT. >> THE IMPACT IT IS HAVING TO 00:18:30.44\00:18:32.74 THIS DAY. SO THE INCREASE IS NOT JUST IN 00:18:32.74\00:18:36.18 THE EVENT ITSELF. WE COULD SAY THERE HAVE BEEN 00:18:36.18\00:18:38.91 WORSE WARS. WORLD WAR II WAS WORSE THAN 00:18:38.91\00:18:42.22 THAT. THIS ARE WORST WARS THAN THAT. 00:18:42.22\00:18:44.65 BUT THE IMPACT OF THAT WAR. WHEW. 00:18:44.65\00:18:48.42 WE LOST LIBERTIES WE'LL NEVER GET BACK. 00:18:48.42\00:18:50.56 WE ARE STILL GOING THROUGH SECURITY AT AIRPORTS. 00:18:50.56\00:18:53.33 THIS IS, WHAT, 20 YEARS LATER? >> 20 YEARS LATER. 00:18:53.33\00:18:56.56 I REMEMBER THAT EVENT SO WELL. PASTOR DOUG AND I WENT TO NEW 00:18:56.56\00:19:01.10 YORK AFTER THAT OCCURRED. TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 00:19:01.10\00:19:05.37 PASTOR DOUG, MAYBE LISTENERS KNOW WHO HE HE IS VERY WELL 00:19:05.37\00:19:10.01 KNOWN HERE. WE LIKE TO HAVE FUN TOGETHER. 00:19:10.01\00:19:13.01 I WAS WALKING THROUGH THE TERMINAL. 00:19:13.01\00:19:14.88 WE HAD DONE A MEMORIAL SERVICE IN NEW YORK. 00:19:14.88\00:19:17.95 I HAD ON MY BLACK LEATHER COAT. IT WAS A COLD PART OF 00:19:17.95\00:19:21.29 THE YEAR. BLACK TURTLENECK. 00:19:21.29\00:19:24.83 WE WERE WAITING TO GET SOMETHING HOT TO DRINK. 00:19:24.83\00:19:29.90 COFFEE, OBVIOUSLY. ON THE WAY COMING BACK IN, HE 00:19:29.90\00:19:32.93 WENT THROUGH FIRST, HE SAID HURRY UP, MUHAMMAD. 00:19:32.93\00:19:36.04 JUST JOKING. HEY, STOP. 00:19:36.04\00:19:41.28 I SAID YOU JUST SEARCHED ME. I JUST WENT TOE GET SOMETHING 00:19:41.28\00:19:44.68 TO DRINK. HE WAS DEAD SERIOUS. 00:19:44.68\00:19:47.45 HE WAS NOTE EVEN FLINCHING WITH A SMILE. 00:19:47.45\00:19:56.56 THAT PARE DIME SHIFT IMMEDIATELY, PEOPLE BECAME THE 00:19:56.56\00:20:01.50 FOCAL PART OF THE WORLD. THAT SHIFT WAS SO IMMEDIATE. 00:20:01.50\00:20:05.10 SO STARK IN CONTRAST. LIKE SEPTEMBER 10 TO SEPTEMBER 11. 00:20:05.10\00:20:10.47 I GOT ON THE PLANE IN LONDON IN THE MORNING AND GOT OFF THE 00:20:10.47\00:20:16.11 PLANE IN CANADA THAT EVENING. IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT 00:20:16.11\00:20:20.72 WORLD. THAT SHIFT WAS SO STARK. 00:20:20.72\00:20:22.68 THE SHIFT AND LIKE YOU SAID TOWARD A CERTAIN PEOPLE GROUP. 00:20:22.68\00:20:26.39 THE SHIFT BASED ON WHAT JESUS SAYS, DON'T BE TROUBLED. 00:20:26.39\00:20:29.99 IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T FEAR THESE THINGS. 00:20:29.99\00:20:33.56 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE FEAR IS WE GIVE UP LIBERTY AND GIVE UP 00:20:33.56\00:20:38.00 FREEDOM. WHEN WE ARE AFRAID OF THINGS, 00:20:38.00\00:20:40.07 WE MAKE CONFESSIONS WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY MAKE. 00:20:40.07\00:20:43.81 JESUS IS TRYING TO WARN US, AS A RACE, HUMAN BEINGS, AND THE 00:20:43.81\00:20:48.24 CHURCH IN PARTICULAR, DON'T LET THESE EVENTS CAUSE YOU TO 00:20:48.24\00:20:52.55 FEAR BECAUSE WHEN YOU COME IN TO FEAR, YOU WILL CONCEDE 00:20:52.55\00:20:56.92 LIBERTIES, FREEDOMS. WILL YOU CONCEDE YOUR WAY OF 00:20:56.92\00:20:59.35 LIFE. THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE. 00:20:59.35\00:21:01.12 SINCE 9/11, IN A SENSE, THIS WHOLE ATTITUDE TOWARD MUSLIMS 00:21:01.12\00:21:07.23 HAVE KIND OF GONE AWAY. BUT, THE FREEDOMS AND 00:21:07.23\00:21:11.77 LIBERTIES W ONCE HAD BEFORE 9/11. 00:21:11.77\00:21:14.57 THEY ARE NOT COMING BACK. THESE ARE THE IMPLICATIONS 00:21:14.57\00:21:17.17 THAT I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVEN'T READ INTO THESE TEXTS. 00:21:17.17\00:21:20.41 NOW WE'LL TAKE IT TO TODAY. >> OKAY. 00:21:20.41\00:21:23.48 >> WE KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE INFECTIOUS, CONTAGIOUS 00:21:23.48\00:21:28.35 DISEASES. JESUS TELLS US. 00:21:28.35\00:21:29.18 WE GO BACK TO THE SPANISH FLU WHICH KILLED MILLIONS AND 00:21:29.18\00:21:32.39 MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. 00:21:32.39\00:21:34.76 THEY CAN'T COMPUTE HOW MANY PEOPLE. 00:21:34.76\00:21:38.53 THEN YOU HAVE IS, OF COURSE, ALL OF THE N1 AND ALL OF THOSE 00:21:38.53\00:21:46.84 SINCE THEN. THERE ARE ALL OF THESE 00:21:46.84\00:21:49.54 INFECTIOUS, CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 00:21:49.54\00:21:51.27 NOW WE COME TO COVID-19. NEVER HAS THERE BEEN A 00:21:51.27\00:21:56.04 REACTION -- WHAT I'M SAYING? THE REACTION IS MORE INTENSE. 00:21:56.04\00:22:00.92 RIGHT? THAN WE'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE. 00:22:00.92\00:22:03.08 I THINK THAT IS PART OF WHAT THE TEXT IS TRYING TO TELL US. 00:22:03.08\00:22:06.99 THE HIDDEN MEANING OF THE TEXT. 00:22:06.99\00:22:09.72 IT'S THE REACTION THAT CAUSES NATION TO SEE COME TOGETHER. 00:22:09.72\00:22:12.73 GUESS WHAT. IF YOU ARE NOT COMPLYING, YOU 00:22:12.73\00:22:17.20 WILL BE HATED. YOU WILL BE HATED. 00:22:17.20\00:22:20.04 THE VERSE SAYS YOU WILL BE HATED FOR MY NAMESAKE. 00:22:20.04\00:22:23.61 I WANT TO NAIL THIS DOWN. GOD IS LOVE. 00:22:23.61\00:22:28.18 THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IS. GOD IS LOVE. 00:22:28.18\00:22:30.98 HIS NAME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH HIS CHARACTER. 00:22:30.98\00:22:33.31 HIS CHARACTER IS LOVE. THE LAW IS A TRANSCRIPT OF 00:22:33.31\00:22:36.79 THAT CHARACTER. JESUS SUMMARIZES THE LAW IN 00:22:36.79\00:22:41.86 MATTHEW 22. HE SAYS, THE LW IS SUMMARIZED 00:22:41.86\00:22:44.79 IN LOVING GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR 00:22:44.79\00:22:47.50 AS YOURSELF. PAUL SAYS THE SAME THING IN 00:22:47.50\00:22:50.90 OBLIGATIONS AND ROMAN -- GALATIANS AND ROMANS. 00:22:50.90\00:22:55.80 LOVE IN PRINCIPLE ABSOLUTELY MUST ALLOW FOR FREEDOM. 00:22:55.80\00:23:01.68 JOHN, TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME. 00:23:01.68\00:23:03.91 TELL ME THAT YOU'RE MY BROTHER AND YOU LOVE ME. 00:23:03.91\00:23:08.55 IT NECESSITATES FREEDOM. PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE NAME OF 00:23:08.55\00:23:13.05 GOD, THE CHARACTER OF GOD, THE LOVE OF GOD, WHO ARE 00:23:13.05\00:23:17.13 SYNONYMOUS WITH KEEPING THE LAW OF GOD, THESE PEOPLE WILL 00:23:17.13\00:23:20.60 BE HATED. WHY BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN 00:23:20.60\00:23:23.20 FREEDOM. GOD BELIEVES IN FREEDOM TO 00:23:23.20\00:23:25.13 SUCH A DEGREE THAT SCE IS GOING TO HONOR PEOPLE WHO 00:23:25.13\00:23:29.60 CHOOSE TO TURN AWAY FROM HIM. CHOOSE TO REJECT HIM. 00:23:29.60\00:23:34.34 WHO CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT CHRIST AND LOST FOR ALL 00:23:34.34\00:23:38.28 ETERNITY. GOD WILL HONOR THAT FREEDOM. 00:23:38.28\00:23:40.68 WE AS CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT 100%. 00:23:40.68\00:23:44.02 WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN MAKING PEOPLE CONFORM TO ANYTHING 00:23:44.02\00:23:48.09 WHEN IT COMES TO THIS PARTICULAR CONSCIOUS, AND THIS 00:23:48.09\00:23:53.16 PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD, RIGHT? 00:23:53.16\00:23:56.23 >> RIGHT. >> THIS IS PART OF WHAT I 00:23:56.23\00:23:57.97 THINK WE'LL LOSE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FULFILLMENT OF 00:23:57.97\00:24:02.97 MATTHEW 24. WE WILL SEE GOD'S PEOPLE HATED 00:24:02.97\00:24:05.34 BECAUSE GOD'S PEOPLE HONOR FREEDOM ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE. 00:24:05.34\00:24:09.48 IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING. WHY. 00:24:09.48\00:24:13.31 >> BECAUSE IT IS FROM THE LORD. 00:24:13.31\00:24:14.95 >> IT'S A PRINCIPLE OF LOVE. IT'S A PRINCIPLE OF LOVE. 00:24:14.95\00:24:18.22 GOD IS LOVE. WE ARE FOLLOWERS OF THE LORD. 00:24:18.22\00:24:20.66 WE ARE CHRISTIANS. SO WE BELIEVE THAT FREEDOM IS 00:24:20.66\00:24:24.83 PAIR MT. TO EVERYTHING ELSE. NOW WE WANT TO MOVE TO 00:24:24.83\00:24:29.33 REVELATION CHAPTER 13. >> REVELATION 13. 00:24:29.33\00:24:31.70 >> I WANT TO DO THIS CAREFULLY. 00:24:31.70\00:24:33.84 I KNOW THERE CAN BE MISUNDERSTANDING OUT THERE 00:24:33.84\00:24:36.40 BECAUSE OUR TITLE IS "THE MASK OF THE BEAST." 00:24:36.40\00:24:40.34 I'M NOT DISCUSSING WEARING A MASK OR NOT WEARING A MASK 00:24:40.34\00:24:44.28 TONIGHT. NOT MY POINT. 00:24:44.28\00:24:46.78 MY POINT TONIGHT IS -- LET ME ILLUSTRATE THIS WAY. 00:24:46.78\00:24:50.19 I'LL TELL YOU A STORY. THIS IS A TRUE STORY. 00:24:50.19\00:24:53.02 MANY, MANY YEARS AGO -- THIS WAS PROBABLY 1987, I WILL SAY. 00:24:53.02\00:24:59.36 I LIVED IN SPOKANE WASHINGTON. I WAS A NEW ADVENTIST AND 00:24:59.36\00:25:06.77 EAGER TO DO EVANGELISM. WE DECIDED THE WAY TO ATTEMPT 00:25:06.77\00:25:09.60 THE EVANGELISM, WE WOULD EVERY SUNDAY GO TO A SUNDAY KEEPING 00:25:09.60\00:25:16.28 CHURCH. I WAS CATHOLIC. 00:25:16.28\00:25:17.45 I HAD BEEN CONVERTED. I WAS GOING TO PENTECOSTAL 00:25:17.45\00:25:22.65 CHURCH FOR A WHILE. I WASN'T TOTALLY DISCONNECTED 00:25:22.65\00:25:26.09 FROM MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN OTHER CHURCHES. 00:25:26.09\00:25:29.06 THE WAY WE WOULD CHOOSE A CHURCH, WE WOULD OPEN THE 00:25:29.06\00:25:32.13 PHONE BOOK TO THE YELLOW PAGES AND CLOSE OUR EYES AND PUT OUR 00:25:32.13\00:25:36.80 FINGER DOWN AND THAT'S THE FINGER WE WENT TO. 00:25:36.80\00:25:39.00 WE WENT TO CHURCH OF NAZARENE, MORMONS, CHURCH OF CHRIST. 00:25:39.00\00:25:46.44 THAT WAS THE MOST INTERESTING EXPERIENCE. 00:25:46.44\00:25:48.68 WE WOULD BE IN THEIR SUNDAY SCHOOL. 00:25:48.68\00:25:50.51 WE WOULD ASK THE QUESTION, WE ARE PRETTY NEW CHRISTIANS. 00:25:50.51\00:25:55.42 I'D SAY THEE YEARS IN CHRISTIANITY. 00:25:55.42\00:25:59.19 WE ARE WANTING TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THE BIBLE 00:25:59.19\00:26:02.92 TEACHES CONCERNING SUNDAY. WE'RE HERE ON SUNDAY. 00:26:02.92\00:26:05.73 WE'RE AT SUNDAY SCHOOL. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO US THAT THE 00:26:05.73\00:26:09.33 BIBLE TEACHES WE SHOULD GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY. 00:26:09.33\00:26:11.80 IT SEEMS IT TEACHES TO YOU GO TO CHURCH ON SATURDAY. 00:26:11.80\00:26:15.14 THAT WAS THE QUESTION TO THEM. THAT WOULD PROMINENT A 00:26:15.14\00:26:19.47 RESPONSE FROM THE TEACHER OR THE PASTOR. 00:26:19.47\00:26:23.08 WE CAN EDUCATE YOU ON THAT. WE DON'T WANT TO DO THAT IN 00:26:23.08\00:26:27.58 CLASS. LET'S SET UP A TIME TO MEET. 00:26:27.58\00:26:30.29 WE WOULD MEET WITH THE PASTOR, IN THIS CASE IT WAS TWO 00:26:30.29\00:26:34.49 PASTORS IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. 00:26:34.49\00:26:36.12 WE WOULD START BIBLE STUDIES AND GET INTO THE MARK OF THE 00:26:36.12\00:26:42.10 BEAST. THE BIBLE STUDIES WOULDN'T 00:26:42.10\00:26:45.13 LAST LONGER THAN THAT. ONCE YOU ARE AT THE MARK OF 00:26:45.13\00:26:47.47 THE BEAST, YOU IDENTIFY THE WORSHIP ON SUNDAY IS CONTRARY 00:26:47.47\00:26:50.64 TO WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. GOD CALLS US TO WORSHIP ON THE 00:26:50.64\00:26:55.84 SECOND DAY, CREATION, SABBATH IN HARMONY WITH THE EXODUS AND 00:26:55.84\00:27:01.35 ALL WHAT JESUS DID BY EXAMPLE. HE WENT TO CHURCH ON THE 00:27:01.35\00:27:06.65 SABBATH DAY. WE GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE 00:27:06.65\00:27:10.96 BIBLE. THE SEVENTH DAY IS DECIDED BY 00:27:10.96\00:27:13.63 GOD. THEN WE HIT THE MARK OF THE 00:27:13.63\00:27:17.60 BEAST. LITERALLY WHEN WE HIT THE MARK 00:27:17.60\00:27:20.17 OF THE BEAST, THESE PASTORS LAUGH AT US. 00:27:20.17\00:27:24.04 THEY SAID, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. 00:27:24.04\00:27:27.54 NOT THAT YOU DON'T HAVE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE ESTABLISHED 00:27:27.54\00:27:31.91 FOR SUNDAY. BUT THE UNITED STATES OF 00:27:31.91\00:27:34.45 AMERICA WOULD EVER ENFORCE SUNDAY. 00:27:34.45\00:27:39.59 BY LAW. ON PEOPLE. 00:27:39.59\00:27:42.02 >> THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS A TRAVESTY. 00:27:42.02\00:27:45.19 >> SO LAUGHABLE. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. 00:27:45.19\00:27:47.13 WE SAID, WELL, IF IT DOES HAPPEN, WOULD YOU BE WILLING 00:27:47.13\00:27:50.73 TO RECONSIDER. THEY SAID, YEAH, WE'LL BE 00:27:50.73\00:27:54.27 WILLING TO RECONSIDER. THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SHARE, 00:27:54.27\00:27:59.41 BECAUSE I THINK IT'S TIME FOR THE PASTORS TO RECONSIDER. 00:27:59.41\00:28:02.51 I THINK IT'S TIME FOR ALL OF US TO RECONSIDER. 00:28:02.51\00:28:05.38 THE REASON I SAY THAT, WE ARE NOT AT THE MARK OF THE BEAST 00:28:05.38\00:28:09.75 YET. WE'RE AT THE MASK OF THE 00:28:09.75\00:28:13.56 BEAST. DANIEL 7, 17 AND 23, 00:28:13.56\00:28:17.06 REPRESENTS THE KINGDOM OF POWER. 00:28:17.06\00:28:18.83 IT'S NOT SOME TERRIBLE THING LOCKED UP IN A ZOO, ON A 00:28:18.83\00:28:22.86 CHAIN. IT'S A POWER. 00:28:22.86\00:28:23.87 WE USE THAT TERMINOLOGY TODAY, WHEN WE THINK OF COUNTRIES 00:28:23.87\00:28:28.04 LIKE AMERICA AS AN EAGLE AND RUSSIA IS A BEAR AND CHINA IS 00:28:28.04\00:28:31.27 A DIAGONAL ON, ENGLAND IS A LION. 00:28:31.27\00:28:33.78 WE USE THE SAME TERMINOLOGY. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE MARK 00:28:33.78\00:28:39.18 OF THE BEAST, IT'S THE MARK OF A KINGLY AUTHORITY OR KINGLY 00:28:39.18\00:28:43.82 POWER, OR EARTHLY AUTHORITY OR EARTHLY POWER. 00:28:43.82\00:28:47.79 THOSE WHO MAY BE NOVICES, THIS IS LOOK AT DANIEL 7:17. 00:28:47.79\00:28:58.27 17 TO 23. IT SAYS HERE, DANIEL 7 VERSE 00:28:58.27\00:29:02.77 17, THOSE GREAT BEASTS WHICH ARE FOUR KINGS WHICH ARISE OUT 00:29:02.77\00:29:07.68 OF THE EARTH. 23 SAYS, THE FOURTH BEAST 00:29:07.68\00:29:11.18 SHALL BE THE FOURTH KINGDOM ON THE EARTH WHICH SHALL BE 00:29:11.18\00:29:15.22 DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER KINGDOMS AND SHALL DEVOUR THE 00:29:15.22\00:29:19.65 HOLDER, TRAMPLE IT AND BREAK IT IN PIECES. 00:29:19.65\00:29:23.93 SOMEONE MAY NOT MAKE THAT CONNECTION AND THESE FOUR 00:29:23.93\00:29:30.17 KINGDOMS BEING THE FOUR BEASTS IN SYMBOLS AND SIGNS. 00:29:30.17\00:29:34.50 WE SEE HERE IN DANIEL, THE BASIC FOUNDATION FOR 00:29:34.50\00:29:38.77 UNDERSTANDING THE BEAST REPRESENTS AN EARTHLY KINGDOM. 00:29:38.77\00:29:44.18 THE MASK OF AN EARTHLY GOVERNMENT OR EARTHLY KINGDOM. 00:29:44.18\00:29:49.05 WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- 00:29:49.05\00:29:52.52 BEFORE WE GET THERE. IN REVELATION 13, IT GOES ON 00:29:52.52\00:29:58.06 TO DESCRIBE HOW WHEN THIS MARK IS ENFORCED. 00:29:58.06\00:30:00.73 I WANT TO READ THE VERSES. WE'LL GO TO REVELATION 13, 00:30:00.73\00:30:07.00 BEGINNING VERSE 15, HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNDER THE 00:30:07.00\00:30:10.04 IMAGE OF THE BEAST. THE IMAGE SHOULD BOTH SPEAK 00:30:10.04\00:30:12.47 AND CAUSE AS MANY WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE NEW JERSEY IMAGE 00:30:12.47\00:30:16.08 OF THE BEAST SHOULD BE KILLED. HE CALLED ATAL SMALL AND 00:30:16.08\00:30:20.28 GREAT, RICH AND POOR, FREE AND BORN TO RECEIVE A MARK THAT NO 00:30:20.28\00:30:27.26 MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, THAT HE WOULD HAVE THE MARK OR THE 00:30:27.26\00:30:30.89 NAME OF THE BEAST OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME. 00:30:30.89\00:30:34.83 WHAT WE ARE SEEING HERE WITH THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS THE 00:30:34.83\00:30:39.07 TIME WHEN NO ONE CAN BUY OR SELL WITHOUT THE MARK OF THE 00:30:39.07\00:30:43.30 BEAST. ALL I WANT TO COMMUNICATE IN 00:30:43.30\00:30:46.54 RELATIONSHIP TO EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS 00:30:46.54\00:30:49.18 PRESENTATION, WE HAVE COME TO A TIME IN AMERICA WHERE NO ONE 00:30:49.18\00:30:52.61 CAN BUY OR SELL UNLESS THEY HAVE THE MARK, THE MASK OF THE 00:30:52.61\00:30:56.18 BEAST. WHAT I MEAN BY THAT, THE MASK 00:30:56.18\00:30:59.42 THAT IS REQUIRED BY EARTHLY GOVERNMENTS. 00:30:59.42\00:31:03.59 NOT ONLY UNITED STATES BUT THE WORLD IN ORDER TO GO INTO 00:31:03.59\00:31:07.23 STORES TO PURCHASE, GO INTO RESTAURANTS TO EAT, ETC., ETC. 00:31:07.23\00:31:15.24 I'M NOT DISMISSING WEARING A MASK. 00:31:15.24\00:31:17.74 THE POINTS IS WE HAVE COME TO A PLACE WHERE BIBLE PROPHECY, 00:31:17.74\00:31:23.91 AS WE UNDERSTOOD IS INDICATED. WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS 00:31:23.91\00:31:28.75 RIDICULOUS, PEOPLE WON'T BE ABLE TO BUY OR SELL UNLESS 00:31:28.75\00:31:30.85 THEY HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST? 00:31:30.85\00:31:32.39 WE ARE SEEING THAT WITH THE MASK. 00:31:32.39\00:31:35.42 >> PASTOR RAFFERTY, THAT'S POWERFUL WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT 00:31:35.42\00:31:37.93 THAT. WE HAVE SEEN ON STORES "MASKS 00:31:37.93\00:31:41.53 REQUIRED TO ENTER." YOU'RE RIGHT. 00:31:41.53\00:31:43.73 IT'S A PREREQUISITE. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING IN 00:31:43.73\00:31:46.43 THERE, HERE ARE THE REQUIREMENTS YOU NEED TO 00:31:46.43\00:31:49.74 MEASURE UP TO. NO MASK, NO SERVICE. 00:31:49.74\00:31:54.31 ALL I WANT IS WATER. YOU NEED A MASK FIRST. 00:31:54.31\00:31:57.95 VERY GOOD CONNECTION. >> IN PRINCIPLE, WE ARE READY, 00:31:57.95\00:32:03.12 IN PRINCIPLE WE ARE READY TO TRANSITION TO NOT BUY OR SELL 00:32:03.12\00:32:08.12 IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:32:08.12\00:32:11.36 THIS ISN'T THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:32:11.36\00:32:14.30 WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:32:14.30\00:32:16.13 HERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS INTERESTING. 00:32:16.13\00:32:19.43 THE MARK OF THE BEAST CAN BE RECEIVED -- VERSE 16 -- IN THE 00:32:19.43\00:32:23.74 RIGHT HAND OR IN THE FOREHAND. WE HAVE ALWAYS TAUGHT THAT AS 00:32:23.74\00:32:28.08 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST THAT THE RIGHT HAND AND THE FOREHAND IS 00:32:28.08\00:32:32.65 A DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHAT YOU DO AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE. 00:32:32.65\00:32:37.55 IN CONTRAST, THE SEAL OF GOD CAN ONLY BE RECEIVED IN THE 00:32:37.55\00:32:43.39 FOREHEAD. IT HAS TO BE IN YOUR HEART. 00:32:43.39\00:32:45.76 YOU HAVE TO TAKE A HOLD OF THE SEAL OF GOD. 00:32:45.76\00:32:48.26 YOU CAN'T HAVE IT IN YOUR HAND AND GO ALONG WITH TEN THE MARK 00:32:48.26\00:32:51.37 OF THE BEAST IS SOMETHING YOU CAN BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE. 00:32:51.37\00:32:54.80 SOME PEOPLE RECEIVE IT IN THE FOREHEAD, OR IN THE HAND, JUST 00:32:54.80\00:32:58.61 GO ALONG WITH IT. WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS, WE LOOK 00:32:58.61\00:33:01.18 AT OUR COUNTRY AND REALIZE PEOPLE PUT ON A MASK BECAUSE 00:33:01.18\00:33:06.51 THEY GENUINELY BELIEVE THIS IS PROTECTING THEM FROM VIRUSES. 00:33:06.51\00:33:10.42 OR PROTECTING OTHER PEOPLE FROM BEING INFECTED IF THEY 00:33:10.42\00:33:13.12 HAVE THE VIRUS. THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE WHO 00:33:13.12\00:33:15.72 DON'T BELIEVE THAT ONE IOTA. THEY WOULDN'T PUT ON A MASK 00:33:15.72\00:33:20.46 UNLESS THEY HAD TO TO GO TO THE STORE. 00:33:20.46\00:33:23.10 BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PUT ON THE MASK, THEY PUT ON A MASK. 00:33:23.10\00:33:26.90 THEY WOULD BE RECEIVING THE MASK OF THE BEAST IN THE 00:33:26.90\00:33:29.80 HANDS. THE OTHERS RECEIVE IT IN THE 00:33:29.80\00:33:32.71 FOREHEAD, SO TO SPEAK. >> THE ONES COMMYING BECAUSE 00:33:32.71\00:33:36.01 THEY HAVE TO. >> I WANT TO EMPHASIZE. 00:33:36.01\00:33:41.75 THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE MASK OF THE BEAST. 00:33:41.75\00:33:43.45 THE MASK IS NOT THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:33:43.45\00:33:46.12 WHAT I REALLY FEEL IS SIGNIFICANT HERE, IS THAT WE 00:33:46.12\00:33:50.46 ARE SEEING THE STAGE SET. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:33:50.46\00:33:52.99 >> WE ARE READY RIGHT NOW IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE 00:33:52.99\00:33:56.80 FULFILLMENT OF BIBLE PROPHECY. AMERICANS -- I'M POINTING OUT 00:33:56.80\00:34:00.40 THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE WE ARE THE LIBERTY-LOVING COUNTRY OF 00:34:00.40\00:34:03.71 THE WORLD. WE ARE THE EPITOME OF FREEDOM 00:34:03.71\00:34:06.88 AND LIBERTY. WE ARE OVERNIGHT, WITHIN A 00:34:06.88\00:34:12.28 YEAR, TRANSITIONED COMPLETELY. 97 TRANSITIONED US TO SOME 00:34:12.28\00:34:16.18 DEGREE. WE LOST FREEDOM. 00:34:16.18\00:34:17.85 NOW WE IS COVID-19 TRANSITIONING US AGAIN. 00:34:17.85\00:34:20.96 LOSING FREEDOMS. SOME PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT 00:34:20.96\00:34:23.02 DOUBLE MASKING IS COMING. SOME PEOPLE SAY THIS WILL 00:34:23.02\00:34:25.99 NEVER GO AWAY. WE ARE BEING CONDITIONED TO, 00:34:25.99\00:34:28.50 WHAT I SEE AS BEING READY TO SEE BIBLE PROPHECY IN THIS 00:34:28.50\00:34:36.84 COUNTRY AND OVER THE WORLD. >> IT'S AMAZING, I KNOW MY 00:34:36.84\00:34:40.98 SISTER WORKS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 00:34:40.98\00:34:44.11 SHE'S RETIRED. EVEN IF YOU GET THE VACCINE, 00:34:44.11\00:34:46.41 YOU STILL HAVE TO GET THE COVID-19 TEST. 00:34:46.41\00:34:48.92 YOU STILL HAVE TO WEAR THE MASK. 00:34:48.92\00:34:53.12 NOTHING IS ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR THE OTHER. 00:34:53.12\00:34:55.99 THEY ALL HAVE TO GO TOGETHER. IF I TAKE BOTH SHOTS DOES THAT 00:34:55.99\00:35:01.06 REMOVE ME? NO, YOU COULD BE A CARRIER. 00:35:01.06\00:35:04.47 >> YES. >> I COULD SEE -- IT'S NOT 00:35:04.47\00:35:07.40 GOING AWAY. THE WORD MASK, I SEE WHAT YOU 00:35:07.40\00:35:10.71 ARE SAYING, WE ARE TAKING STEPS THAT MAY BE RELUCTANT 00:35:10.71\00:35:15.54 BUT ARE REQUIRED. SO YOU ASKED, DO I WANT TO 00:35:15.54\00:35:19.78 EAT, DO I WANT TO TRAVEL, DO I WANT TO BE ABLE TO BUY 00:35:19.78\00:35:23.89 SOMETHING, DO I WANT TO WORK, DO I WANTS TO BE IN A CROWDED 00:35:23.89\00:35:27.36 ENVIRONMENT. DO I WANT TO BE AROUND OTHER 00:35:27.36\00:35:29.42 PEOPLE. IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD, WE 00:35:29.42\00:35:31.36 HAVE A GOOD FRIENDS IN OR COUNTRY. 00:35:31.36\00:35:34.20 IN NEW ZEALAND. HE IS A CITIZEN OF THE COUNTRY 00:35:34.20\00:35:42.00 WITH NO VIRUS, BUT HE WAS PUT IN A HOTEL FOR TWO WEEKS. 00:35:42.00\00:35:46.24 NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE. >> STANDARD. 00:35:46.24\00:35:49.38 >> THAT'S STANDARD. THEN YOU STAY FO TWO WEEKS. 00:35:49.38\00:35:52.38 THEN AFTER THAT TIME, IF YOU ARE CHECKED AGAIN, THEN YOU 00:35:52.38\00:35:56.15 ARE ALLOWED IN GENERAL POPULATION. 00:35:56.15\00:35:59.69 BUT, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO COMPLY, THEY SAY WE'LL KEEP 00:35:59.69\00:36:04.76 YOU THERE UNTIL YOU DECIDE TO COMPLY WITH REGULATIONS. 00:36:04.76\00:36:10.63 YOU DECIDE YOU WANT TO COMPLY, FINE. 00:36:10.63\00:36:13.90 IF YOU DON'T, YOU HAVE TWO MORE WEEKS UNTIL YOU DECIDE TO 00:36:13.90\00:36:18.67 COMPLY. IT'S NOT EVEN A CHOICE. 00:36:18.67\00:36:20.31 THIS IS HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD. 00:36:20.31\00:36:24.11 WE MAY SAY SOCIETY, THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS RIDICULOUS. 00:36:24.11\00:36:28.28 WHO IS GOING TO FORCE PEOPLE TO DO ANYTHING. 00:36:28.28\00:36:31.79 WHO WILL GO ALONG WITH IT. WHAT ARE WE SEEING NOW. 00:36:31.79\00:36:35.79 BABY STEPS. >> I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR 00:36:35.79\00:36:37.49 TO US REALIZE, TOO, THAT WE ARE -- A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK 00:36:37.49\00:36:42.30 ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS IS A MICROCHIP OR TATTOO, EVEN 00:36:42.30\00:36:48.70 IF THEY FORCE IT IN. I DON'T THINK SO. 00:36:48.70\00:36:50.91 THE THINK THE MARK OF THE BEAST COMES WITH PRESSURE. 00:36:50.91\00:36:54.41 THAT WORK AFFLICTED MEANS PRESSURE, TO PRESSURE YOU. 00:36:54.41\00:36:58.78 THERE IS A LOT OF PEER PRESSURE. 00:36:58.78\00:37:00.92 I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I WORE A MASK, WE LIVED, 50% IT 00:37:00.92\00:37:07.49 WEABTSD MANDATORY AT FIRST. I REMEMBER FEELING THE 00:37:07.49\00:37:09.96 PRESSURE, NOT WEARING THE MASK, FEELING PRESSURE FROM 00:37:09.96\00:37:12.59 OTHER POOM. ESPECIALLY AROUND OLDER 00:37:12.59\00:37:14.73 PEOPLE, I COULD TELL SOMETIMES I WOULD SEE PEOPLE, THEIR EYES 00:37:14.73\00:37:18.67 WERE FILLED WITH FEAR. THEY WANTED TO AVOID ME. 00:37:18.67\00:37:24.21 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FEARFUL. THEY ARE FEARFUL OF THE IDEA 00:37:24.21\00:37:29.01 THIS COVID-19 VIRUS COULD KILL THEM. 00:37:29.01\00:37:30.98 I'M NOT SAYING IT COULDN'T. WE HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT 00:37:30.98\00:37:36.02 ARE DYING FROM COVID. AT LEAST ONE. 00:37:36.02\00:37:38.19 WE HAVE SEEN AND EXPERIENCED PEOPLE, FRIENDS AND CLOSE 00:37:38.19\00:37:43.79 RELATIVES, AFFLICTED, HEAVILY AFFLICTED BY THE VIRUS. 00:37:43.79\00:37:48.26 THE QUESTION I'M SUGGESTING HERE TONIGHT IS NOT SO MUCH 00:37:48.26\00:37:52.67 ABOUT THE COVID VIRUS OR THE MASK, BUT HOW IT RELATES TO 00:37:52.67\00:37:56.81 BIBLE PROPHECY AND SETS THE STAGE. 00:37:56.81\00:37:58.97 >> CONDITIONING. CONDITIONING, CONDITIONING. 00:37:58.97\00:38:00.61 I'M GLAD YOU POINT IT OUT. PRESSURE, THE WORD YOU READ IN 00:38:00.61\00:38:05.18 VERSE 16 OF RELEVANTATION 13, HE CAUSES. 00:38:05.18\00:38:07.88 THERE IS A CAUSE BEHIND WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO DO. 00:38:07.88\00:38:10.99 HE CAUSES ALL. THAT CAUSE IS WHAT MIGHT BE 00:38:10.99\00:38:15.76 REFERRED TO AS THE LEGITIMATE MIEDS PRESSURE. 00:38:15.76\00:38:20.73 WHY WOULD YOU NOT GO ALONG WITH. IT SMALL OR GREAT, RICH 00:38:20.73\00:38:24.60 OR POOR, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM. THAT CAUSE AND EFFECT. 00:38:24.60\00:38:31.64 THIS CAUSE IS NOW FOLLOWED BY THIS EFFECT. 00:38:31.64\00:38:35.24 PEOPLE ARE SAYING, WELL, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO BUY 00:38:35.24\00:38:38.45 SOMETHING OR TRAVEL OR GORE TO THE STORE. 00:38:38.45\00:38:41.68 -- OR GO TO THE STORE. I'LL WEAR A MASK. 00:38:41.68\00:38:46.35 I THINK WE'LL SEE, THERE WILL BE THOSE WHO WILL BE PROBABLY 00:38:46.35\00:38:51.76 BLAMED, IF THEY ARE NOT COMPLYING. 00:38:51.76\00:38:54.40 LET'S SAY WITH VACCINATIONS. WE ARE NOT THERE YET. 00:38:54.40\00:38:57.57 WE CAN EXPOSE SUPPOSE ABOUT THAT. LET'S SAY VACCINATIONS, 00:38:57.57\00:39:03.61 YOU DON'T WANT TO GET VACCINATED. YOU DON'T WANT TO DO 00:39:03.61\00:39:08.98 IT. THERE WILL BE PRESSURE AND BLAME TOWARD PEOPLE LIKE THAT. 00:39:08.98\00:39:12.75 SOME PEOPLE WILL ACQUIESCE TO THE PRESSURE AND TO THE BLAME. 00:39:12.75\00:39:17.22 THIS IS WHERE WE ARE IN BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:39:17.22\00:39:21.06 NOTICE THIS. IN MATTHEW 24, THE SAME BASIC 00:39:21.06\00:39:26.93 SCENARIO. JESUS IS TELLING US THAT WARS 00:39:26.93\00:39:30.60 AND RUMORS OF WAR. 9/11 WAS A WAR. 00:39:30.60\00:39:36.37 PESTILENCE. INFECTIOUS, CONTAGIOUS 00:39:36.37\00:39:39.14 DISEASE, COVID-19. AND EARTHQUAKES OR NATURAL 00:39:39.14\00:39:42.24 DISASTERS THAT LEAD INTO THIS UNITED OF ALL NATIONS TO HATE. 00:39:42.24\00:39:46.85 WE ARE RIGHT THERE. THE INTENSITY OF THESE EVENTS 00:39:46.85\00:39:49.75 IS ONE THING. WE'VE SEEN THAT. 00:39:49.75\00:39:52.05 THE INTENSITY OF THE REACTION. THE THING THAT I THINK IS 00:39:52.05\00:39:57.73 REALLY IMPORTANT TO GET BACK TO THIS PART. 00:39:57.73\00:40:01.26 DECEPTION, DECEPTION, DECEPTION. 00:40:01.26\00:40:04.73 FOR SOME REASON WE ARE NEGLECTING THE IMPACT, THE 00:40:04.73\00:40:14.41 INCREASE IN SUICIDE, THE SOCIAL NEGLECT, LEADING PEOPLE 00:40:14.41\00:40:18.31 IN DIRECTIONS. >> MORE INTROVERTED. 00:40:18.31\00:40:22.42 >> THEY MAY NOT RECOVER FROM, THE LOSS OF JOB, ECONOMIC 00:40:22.42\00:40:26.65 IMPACT. WE ARE NOT EVEN ANALYZING 00:40:26.65\00:40:28.82 THAT. THAT IS NOT EVEN IN THE 00:40:28.82\00:40:30.99 PICTURE. WE ARE OVERREACTING IN A 00:40:30.99\00:40:32.73 SENSE. THAT'S MY PERSONAL OPINION. 00:40:32.73\00:40:35.00 I DON'T WANT TO MIC MAKE THIS ABOUT WEARING A MASK. 00:40:35.00\00:40:39.10 I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REASSESS THE SCHOOLS, THE 00:40:39.10\00:40:43.87 OPENING OF SCHOOLS. THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOW THEY 00:40:43.87\00:40:46.17 ARE IMPACTED BY THIS. LOOK AT THE SCIENCE. 00:40:46.17\00:40:49.74 SCIENCE CAN BE DIFFERENT DEPENDING HOW YOU INTERPRET 00:40:49.74\00:40:52.98 IT. BUT THE BIBLE CAN BE TRUSTED. 00:40:52.98\00:40:55.58 THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, FOR ME. 00:40:55.58\00:40:57.65 IF I HAVE NOTHING TO GUIDE ME AND NAVIGATE PLEA THROUGH, I 00:40:57.65\00:41:03.29 WOULDN'T KNOW WHERE TO START OR FINISH. 00:41:03.29\00:41:05.83 I WOULD BE HOOKING FOR ORTSZ AND -- LOOKING FOR REPORTS, 00:41:05.83\00:41:10.40 BUT I HAVE THE WORD OF GOD. >> THAT IS POWERFUL. 00:41:10.40\00:41:15.50 IF I DIDN'T HAVE A GPS, GOD'S VISION OF THE SCRIPTURES, IF I 00:41:15.50\00:41:23.11 DIDN'T HAVE THAT, THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:41:23.11\00:41:27.45 SOMETHING THAT'S RELIABLE. TRUE. 00:41:27.45\00:41:31.09 IT WILL BE A TRAVESTY. IF YOU WAKE UP TRYING TO 00:41:31.09\00:41:34.89 GATHER INFORMATION TO LEARN SOMETHING TO CAUSE YOU TO BE 00:41:34.89\00:41:40.46 COMFORTABLE. RELAX, YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE NOW. 00:41:40.46\00:41:43.10 HONESTLY, I TRAVEL, MY WIFE AND I HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO 00:41:43.10\00:41:48.24 TRAVEL, JUST THE CARIBBEAN, WHICH IS STILL THE UNITED 00:41:48.24\00:41:50.81 STATES. I WENT TO VISIT FAMILY. 00:41:50.81\00:41:54.04 WE HAVEN'T GONE OUTSIDE SINCE MARCH, WE WON'T LET YOU IN. 00:41:54.04\00:41:59.05 AUNTIE, UNCLE, I'M FINE. THEY RELAX AND LET ME IN. 00:41:59.05\00:42:04.29 I'M FINE. I COULDN'T TRAVEL IF I WASN'T 00:42:04.29\00:42:07.36 CLEARED FROM COVID. OKAY. 00:42:07.36\00:42:09.66 THERE IS AN ANXIETY, BECAUSE IF WE DIDN'T HAVE GOD'S WORD 00:42:09.66\00:42:15.43 IT WOULD BE VERY STRESSFUL. I WANT TO REMIND OUR AWED JENS 00:42:15.43\00:42:18.80 EMPLOY THE FACT THAT WHILE YOU ARE STIRRING AND LAYING 00:42:18.80\00:42:23.54 FOUNDATION TO SHOW US WHERE YOU ARE HEADED. 00:42:23.54\00:42:26.74 TEXT YOUR QUESTIONS TO 618-228-3975. 00:42:26.74\00:42:32.71 CALL THE 618-674651. OR E-MAIL LIVE @3ABN T.V. 00:42:32.71\00:42:46.03 PASTOR RAFFERTY, WE ARE IN A DIFFERENT SOCIETY TODAY. 00:42:46.03\00:42:48.70 AS YOU SAID, I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE BIBLE. 00:42:48.70\00:42:51.87 LOOKING AT PROPHECY. LOOKING AT DANIEL AND 00:42:51.87\00:42:55.37 REVELATION. I SAID IF DANIEL OR JOHN WERE 00:42:55.37\00:42:59.31 ALIVE TODAY, THEY WOULD BE SHOUTING FROM THE MOUNTAIN 00:42:59.31\00:43:06.01 TOPS. GOD'S WORD CAN BE TRUSTED. 00:43:06.01\00:43:08.75 IT'S GOOD WE HAVE GOD'S WORD. >> AMEN. 00:43:08.75\00:43:14.92 >> CONTINUE. >> IF YOU CAN PUT YOUR MIND 00:43:14.92\00:43:16.89 AROUND THIS. SOMETIMES PEOPLE WILL SAY, YOU 00:43:16.89\00:43:20.96 GUYS HAVE BEEN PREACHING THIS 170 YEARS. 00:43:20.96\00:43:25.80 EVERY GENERATION. I NEVER THOUGHT -- MY DAD 00:43:25.80\00:43:29.00 NEVER THOUGHT THEY WOULD GET ME THROUGH COLLEGE. 00:43:29.00\00:43:31.44 MY DRAND PARENTS NEVER THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE HERE. 00:43:31.44\00:43:35.78 THE QUESTION ARISES, WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT THAN ALL 00:43:35.78\00:43:40.28 THESE OTHER TIMES, ALL THESE OTHER CRISES. 00:43:40.28\00:43:44.12 THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT. BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN CHANGES IN 00:43:44.12\00:43:47.96 THIS COUNTRY. WHICH IS A BEACON OF FREEDOM. 00:43:47.96\00:43:51.46 WE HAVE SEEN CHANGES THAT ARE UNPRECEDENTED. 00:43:51.46\00:43:54.30 IF WE WOULD HAVE SHARED WITH CHUN OF CHRIST PASTORS WHAT WE 00:43:54.30\00:43:59.77 CHAIRED 30 YEARS AGO TODAY. I WOULD POINT TO. 00:43:59.77\00:44:05.51 >> THE EXAMPLE OF NOT BEING ABLE TO BUY WITHOUT A MASK ON. 00:44:05.51\00:44:10.41 THE MASK IS NOT THE MARK. BUT IN PRINCIPLE WE ARE THERE. 00:44:10.41\00:44:14.48 I HOPE THEY ARE LISTENING. I HOPE THEY LISTEN TO THIS 00:44:14.48\00:44:20.32 BROADCAST. THEY COULD REASSESS. 00:44:20.32\00:44:22.62 I WISH PEOPLE WOULD REASSESS WHAT I'VE BEEN SHARING ABOUT 00:44:22.62\00:44:27.40 THE MARK OF THE BEAST. I THINK NOW MORE THAN EVER WE 00:44:27.40\00:44:30.87 ARE AT A PLACE WHERE THAT APPLICATION, THAT 00:44:30.87\00:44:33.97 INTERPRETATION OF PROPHECY IS VIABLE. 00:44:33.97\00:44:36.54 WE ARE SEEING IT IN OUR WORLD TODAY. 00:44:36.54\00:44:42.24 THE COMPLICIT NATURE, ALSO. THERE ARE THOSE WHO WOULD SAY 00:44:42.24\00:44:45.68 I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS TAKING PLACE. 00:44:45.68\00:44:49.05 I'M JUST SUPPORTING FROM A LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE. 00:44:49.05\00:44:53.99 LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE. 00:44:53.99\00:44:56.22 PEOPLE MAY SAY, I'M JUST DOING THIS BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS 00:44:56.22\00:44:59.39 DOING IT. LIKE THE MARCH OF THE WOODEN 00:44:59.39\00:45:04.10 SOLDIERS. WE DON'T WANT TO BE PEOPLE 00:45:04.10\00:45:09.84 NATURALLY -- REBELLIOUS AGAINST AUTHORITIES AND 00:45:09.84\00:45:14.31 CALLING EVERYTHING FROM BEHIND THE TREE. 00:45:14.31\00:45:16.75 BUT WE DON'T WANT TO IGNORE WHAT GOD HAS SAID TO US. 00:45:16.75\00:45:21.12 WE HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION. DO WE SEE INDICATORS THAT THIS 00:45:21.12\00:45:25.22 COULD HAPPEN? YOU KNOW THE PHRASE. 00:45:25.22\00:45:30.99 IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK AND QUAKS LIKE A DUCK, IT'S A 00:45:30.99\00:45:35.53 DUCK. WE CAN HEAR DUCKS AQUATICKING QUACKING AL 00:45:35.53\00:45:41.84 AROUND US. GOD IS SAYING OPEN YOUR EYES. 00:45:41.84\00:45:45.67 HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCHES. 00:45:45.67\00:45:49.21 ANOTHER IMPORTANT QUESTION WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES, IS IT 00:45:49.21\00:45:51.91 POSSIBLE FOR US TO CRY WOLF ONE TOO MANY TIMES. 00:45:51.91\00:45:56.22 >> VERY GOOD ONE. >> I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE OLD 00:45:56.22\00:46:01.39 STORY, WOLF. >> THE SKY IS FALLING. 00:46:01.39\00:46:04.89 >> NO ONE IS LISTENING BECAUSE THEY HAVE HEARD THIS OVER AND 00:46:04.89\00:46:07.76 OVER AGAIN. I THINK THE REASON FOR THAT IS 00:46:07.76\00:46:12.37 BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE CRY WOLF. 00:46:12.37\00:46:14.77 THE NATURE OF OUR CRY. THE FOCUS OF OUR CRY. 00:46:14.77\00:46:18.44 I'LL SEE IN I SEE IF I CAN DISSECT THIS. 00:46:18.44\00:46:24.78 IF OUR ALARM IS ABOUT THE EVENT AND FEAR IS IMPOSED UPON 00:46:24.78\00:46:29.62 THE EARS BECAUSE OF THE EVENT. TO THAT MOTIVATION THEY 00:46:29.62\00:46:33.89 PREPARE FOR THIS EVENT. THE EVENT DOESN'T HAPPEN. 00:46:33.89\00:46:38.29 AGAIN THAT CYCLE TAKES PLACE. DOESN'T HAPPEN, DOESN'T 00:46:38.29\00:46:41.10 HAPPEN, DOESN'T HAPPEN. THAT CAN TURN PEOPLE OFF. 00:46:41.10\00:46:44.27 >> TRUE. >> BUT, IF WHEN WE ARE CRYING 00:46:44.27\00:46:47.60 OUT A WARNING, IF WE LOOK AT BIBLE POFFCY, GET READY WITH 00:46:47.60\00:46:54.24 YOUR SPIRITUAL CHARACTERS. GET READY TO MEET THE LORD. 00:46:54.24\00:46:58.51 BE PREPARED TO BE LIKE CHRIST. STOP MESSING AROUND WITH THE 00:46:58.51\00:47:03.49 WORLD AND ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME IN YOUR LIFE 00:47:03.49\00:47:07.09 AND TRANSFORM YOU. THAT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT 00:47:07.09\00:47:11.23 PREPARATION. THAT PREPARATION NEVER GOES 00:47:11.23\00:47:12.79 OUT OF DATE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:47:12.79\00:47:14.30 YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE ALL OF THIS COME 00:47:14.30\00:47:18.60 TO PASS. AS JESUS SAID, I TOLD YOU 00:47:18.60\00:47:22.70 BEFOREHAND SO WHEN IT COMES TO PASS, YOU WILL BELIEVE. 00:47:22.70\00:47:25.74 THERE ARE PEOPLE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT LIVING IN THE 00:47:25.74\00:47:29.68 EGG CRACKING STAGES. THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS IN 00:47:29.68\00:47:32.65 THE EGG, NOW THE SEG CRACKED. -- NOW THE EGG IS CRACKED. 00:47:32.65\00:47:38.15 WAIT A MINUTE, IN LIGHT OF THIS, WHAT KIND OF PERSON 00:47:38.15\00:47:42.16 SHOULD YOU BE. WHAT PREPARATION SHOULD YOU 00:47:42.16\00:47:44.76 MAKE SPIRITUALLY. IF YOU DON'T LIVE TO SEE IT 00:47:44.76\00:47:47.60 ALL HAPPEN, YOU NEED TO BE PERSONALLY READY FOR THE 00:47:47.60\00:47:50.50 EVENTS WHEN THEY TRANSPIRE. YOU MAY BE LAID TO REST AND 00:47:50.50\00:47:56.24 YOU COULD BYPASS ALL OF THESE CRITICAL ASPECTS OF THIS 00:47:56.24\00:47:59.71 EVENT. YOU ARE CONNECTING THIS, NOT 00:47:59.71\00:48:03.75 TO SAY BUY FOUR YEARS' SUPPLY OF CANNED FOODS, BUY A BUNKER 00:48:03.75\00:48:09.65 UNDER GROUND. >> I HAD GASOLINE, I HAD ALL 00:48:09.65\00:48:13.86 OF THIS FOOD, Y 2K CAME AND WENT. 00:48:13.86\00:48:17.56 WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? WHENEVER SOMEONE CALLS AN 00:48:17.56\00:48:22.16 ALARM FOR THAT PREPARATION, I NEVER BUY INTO IT. 00:48:22.16\00:48:24.60 HERE IS WHY. ONE REASON WHY. 00:48:24.60\00:48:27.17 THE EARLY CHURCH WAS ALL ABOUT CHARACTER. 00:48:27.17\00:48:31.27 THEY WERE BEATEN, THY WERE STONED, THEY WENT HUNGRY, THEY 00:48:31.27\00:48:34.61 WENT NAKED, THEY WERE PERSECUTED WITH THE SWORD. 00:48:34.61\00:48:38.48 BECAUSE THEY WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, WATER OFF THE 00:48:38.48\00:48:42.75 DUCK'S BACK. THAT'S THE KIND OF PREPARATION 00:48:42.75\00:48:45.19 THAT NEVER GOES OUT OF DATE. LET'S SAY THE MASK OF THE 00:48:45.19\00:48:48.56 BEAST FADES AWAY. WE GET OVER THE PANDEMIC. 00:48:48.56\00:48:50.79 PEOPLE CALM DOWN. EVERYONE IS HEALTHY. 00:48:50.79\00:48:53.23 WE CAN GO INTO STORES. WHAT ABOUT THAT ADVENTIST GUY 00:48:53.23\00:49:01.30 TALKED ABOUT THE MASK OF THE BEAST. 00:49:01.30\00:49:04.04 THE FOCUS WE NEED IN RELATIONSHIP TO THIS IS NOT SO 00:49:04.04\00:49:06.94 MUCH THAT WE COMMY OR DON'T COMPLY. 00:49:06.94\00:49:11.61 THE FOCUS HOW DID WE BE CHRIST-LIKE IN RELATION TO THE 00:49:11.61\00:49:15.25 EVENTS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW. HOW CAN WE KNOW, BIBLE 00:49:15.25\00:49:21.12 PROPHECY CAN BE FULFILLED ANY TIME. 00:49:21.12\00:49:23.83 IT'S TIME TO STOP MESSING AROUND. 00:49:23.83\00:49:26.43 WHEN THESE CRISIS COMES, EVEN IF IT'S A FOCUS THAT IS WRONG, 00:49:26.43\00:49:30.20 THERE ARE PEOPLE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE WORK OF THE HOLY 00:49:30.20\00:49:33.23 SPIRIT. THEY START GETTING RIGHT WITH 00:49:33.23\00:49:35.54 JESUS. THEY START DEVELOPING THEIR 00:49:35.54\00:49:38.14 CHARACTERS. WELL THAT NEVER HAPPENED, I 00:49:38.14\00:49:40.24 GUESS I WILL BE A WICKED, BAD PERSON AGAIN. 00:49:40.24\00:49:44.91 HOPEFULLY YOU MAINTAINED THAT COURSE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. 00:49:44.91\00:49:48.42 REGARDLESS OF WHETHER PROPHECY IS FULFILLED. 00:49:48.42\00:49:52.49 >> WHEN THE LORD TALKS ABOUT SEEING THAT THE HELPS WILL BE 00:49:52.49\00:49:56.36 DISSOLVED, BAG FIRE. HE ASKED, WHAT MANNER OF 00:49:56.36\00:49:59.16 PERSON SHOULD YOU BE. SEEING THAT ALL OF THESE 00:49:59.16\00:50:03.43 THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED. WHAT KIND OF PERSON DO YOU 00:50:03.43\00:50:06.74 NEED TO BE. WE ARE ASKING OUR AUDIENCE 00:50:06.74\00:50:10.34 WHAT KIND OF PERSON SHOULD THEY BE. 00:50:10.34\00:50:12.87 PEOPLE ARE EVENT-DRIVEN. BUT THE BIBLE, AS YOU WERE 00:50:12.87\00:50:17.25 SAYING, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT BEING CHARACTER-DRIVEN. 00:50:17.25\00:50:21.62 WHAT PERSON SHOULD YOU BE IN LIGHT OF WHAT YOU ARE SEEING 00:50:21.62\00:50:24.55 AROUND YOU. IF THEY CAN'T FIND PEACE IN 00:50:24.55\00:50:26.82 THE HEART OF THOSE WHO ARE ADHERING TO WHAT THE BIBLE 00:50:26.82\00:50:32.63 REVEALED, WHERE WILL THEY FIND STABILITY. 00:50:32.63\00:50:35.50 SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE STABLE AND SAY LET NOT YOUR HEART BE 00:50:35.50\00:50:39.67 TROUBLED. THERE IS A LOT OF HEART 00:50:39.67\00:50:42.70 TROUBLE. HE SAYS PEACE I LEAVE WITH 00:50:42.70\00:50:44.54 YOU. DON'T LET YOUR HEART BE 00:50:44.54\00:50:47.84 TROUBLED. NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID. 00:50:47.84\00:50:50.05 WHAT FEAR DO YOU SEE IN OUR WORLD TODAY. 00:50:50.05\00:50:52.35 WHAT LEVEL OF INTENSITY? >> INTERESTING YOU ASK THAT 00:50:52.35\00:50:58.15 QUESTION. I WAS GOING TO OPEN TO 1 JOHN 00:50:58.15\00:51:02.32 4. I WANTED TO LOOK AT VERSE 18. 00:51:02.32\00:51:08.63 FIRST JOHN 4-18. THIS IS ABOUT GOD BEING LOVE. 00:51:08.63\00:51:14.44 WE UNDERSTAND GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, LOVE. 00:51:14.44\00:51:16.74 IN THE PREVIOUS VERSE, 16, GOD IS LOVE. 00:51:16.74\00:51:22.41 VERSE 18 IT SAYS, THERE IS NO LOVE IN FEAR. 00:51:22.41\00:51:26.72 >> NO FEAR IN LOVE. >> EXCUSE ME. 00:51:26.72\00:51:28.32 THANK YOU. PERFECT LOVE KAFTSZ OUT FEAR. 00:51:28.32\00:51:32.49 FEAR HAS TORMENT. HE THAT FEARS IS NOT PERFECT 00:51:32.49\00:51:36.49 IN LOVE. WHAT KIND OF FEAR DO YOU SEE 00:51:36.49\00:51:38.43 IN THE WORLD. I SAY A GODLESS FEAR. 00:51:38.43\00:51:42.06 WHAT I MEAN, WE BELIEVE AS SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST THAT IT 00:51:42.06\00:51:45.30 THE TIME IS COMING WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BE WITHDRAWN 00:51:45.30\00:51:48.64 FROM THE EARTH. HOW CAN WE KNOW IF THE HOLY 00:51:48.64\00:51:54.31 SPIRIT IS WITHDRAWN. THIS IS HAPPENING, THAT'S 00:51:54.31\00:51:58.05 HAPPENING, BUT WHAT I SAY, BASED ON THIS VERSE THAT THE 00:51:58.05\00:52:01.32 NUMBER ONE INDICATOR OF THE WITHDRAWING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:52:01.32\00:52:04.92 IS FEAR. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD. 00:52:04.92\00:52:08.62 GOD IS LOVE. WHERE LOVE IS, IT KAFTSZ OUT 00:52:08.62\00:52:13.26 FEAR. WHERE FEAR IS, LOVE ISN'T. 00:52:13.26\00:52:15.80 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THERE, FEAR IS BEING CAST OUT. 00:52:15.80\00:52:19.80 IF HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT THERE, THERE IS FEAR. 00:52:19.80\00:52:22.14 THE MORE FEAR WE SEE AMONG PEOPLE TODAY, THE MORE 00:52:22.14\00:52:25.41 INDICATION WE HAVE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS BEING 00:52:25.41\00:52:30.41 WITHDRAWN. >> PASTOR RAFFERTY, IN CHAPTER 00:52:30.41\00:52:36.42 21 -- A LOT OF THE TEMPERATURE IN OUR WORLD TODAY. 00:52:36.42\00:52:39.62 WHAT DO WE DO NOW, DO WE BUY, DO WE SELL, DO WE MOVE, DO WE 00:52:39.62\00:52:45.03 STOCK UP. PEOPLE ARE MAKING PHYSICAL 00:52:45.03\00:52:49.26 PREPARATION RATHER THAN SPIRITUAL PREPARATION. 00:52:49.26\00:52:51.63 >> THIS IS KEY BACK TO THE EARLY CHURCH. 00:52:51.63\00:52:54.77 THE EARLY CHURCH WITNESSED SOMETHING. 00:52:54.77\00:52:58.11 BELIEVED SOMETHING THAT TURNED THEIR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN. 00:52:58.11\00:53:00.58 OUTSIDE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH TOOK ALL OF THEIR FEAR 00:53:00.58\00:53:04.21 AWAY. THE EARLY CHURCH WITNESSED THE 00:53:04.21\00:53:07.32 RESURRECTION FROM THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:53:07.32\00:53:11.12 THEY REALIZED IN THAT REVELATION, THAT DEATH HAD 00:53:11.12\00:53:15.42 JUST BEEN CONQUERED. THE GREATEST FEAR HUMANKIND 00:53:15.42\00:53:20.63 HAS HAS JUST BEEN CONQUERED. THERE IS LIFION THE GRAVE. 00:53:20.63\00:53:24.37 THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR, CRUCIFIED AND DIED AND PUT IN 00:53:24.37\00:53:29.27 THE TOMB. HUNG OUT WITH THEM FOR 40 00:53:29.27\00:53:33.31 DAYS. HE WALKED ON THE ROAD TO HE 00:53:33.31\00:53:39.01 MAYIUS. HE TOLD THOMAS TO TOUCH MY 00:53:39.01\00:53:41.55 HANDS AND FEET. PUT YOUR HAND INTO MY WOUND. 00:53:41.55\00:53:44.59 JESUS CHRIST WAS MANIFEST AMONG THEM. 00:53:44.59\00:53:49.32 THEY WERE BRACED TO FACE ANYTHING. 00:53:49.32\00:53:51.99 PAUL EVEN SAYS, HE SAYS I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO DIE 00:53:51.99\00:53:56.20 AND BE WITH THE LORD OR IF I WANT TO CONTINUE TO LIVE IN 00:53:56.20\00:54:00.80 THIS BODY AND PREACH THE GOSPEL. 00:54:00.80\00:54:03.30 I'M TORN BETWEEN THESE THINGSEN HE UNDERSTOOD DEATH 00:54:03.30\00:54:07.81 TO BE A REST. IT WAS AN UNCONSCIOUS SLEEP. 00:54:07.81\00:54:11.11 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TOLD IN JOHN 11. 00:54:11.11\00:54:14.75 JESUS TURNS DEATH INTO A SLEEP. 00:54:14.75\00:54:16.85 YOU BELIEVE IN ME? YOU WILL NEVER DIE. 00:54:16.85\00:54:19.39 HE ASKED THE QUESTION, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 00:54:19.39\00:54:22.96 PAUL BELIEVED THAT. HE DIDN'T BELIEVE HE WAS GOING 00:54:22.96\00:54:25.56 TO DIE. HE BELIEVED HE WOULD REST IN 00:54:25.56\00:54:27.96 THE GRAVE. THE NEXT THING HE WOULD KNOW 00:54:27.96\00:54:31.23 AFTER BEING THAT, THE NEXT THING PAUL KNOWS IS THE SECOND 00:54:31.23\00:54:35.37 COMING OF JESUS CHRIST. WITH THAT MINDSET, YOU HAVE A 00:54:35.37\00:54:42.28 WHOLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. THIS WORLD, EVEN AT THE BEST 00:54:42.28\00:54:44.58 OF TIMES, THIS WORLD IS WORRISOME. 00:54:44.58\00:54:48.85 IT'S TIRING. GETTING OLD IS NOTE FOR 00:54:48.85\00:54:53.82 SISSIES. THE WHOLE PERSPECTIVE THAT 00:54:53.82\00:54:55.76 PAUL HAD DROVER HIM TO THE POINT -- DROVE HIM TO THE 00:54:55.76\00:54:59.59 POINT WHERE IT WAS THE GATEWAY TO ETERNAL LIFE. 00:54:59.59\00:55:03.33 THAT SHORT REST IN THE GRAVE. THE LORD HENCEFORTH THAT YOU 00:55:03.33\00:55:11.57 MAY REST AFTER LABORS. >> MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN 00:55:11.57\00:55:16.28 READING ACTS 4 AND 5. THEY TALK ABOUT THE ONE THAT 00:55:16.28\00:55:20.15 YOU KILLED, THE ONE THAT YOU CRUCIFIED, WE SAW HIM. 00:55:20.15\00:55:24.82 WE ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS. 00:55:24.82\00:55:27.76 WHEN YOU HAVE A WITNESS. YOU HAVE A CONNECTION WITH 00:55:27.76\00:55:30.63 CHRIST. THE THINGS HAPPENING AROUND 00:55:30.63\00:55:32.46 YOU, AS THEY DID WITH PAUL AND PETER AND JOHN, THEY SAID WE 00:55:32.46\00:55:37.30 COMMAND YOU NOT TO PREACH IN HIS NAME. 00:55:37.30\00:55:39.70 BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING TO THEM. 00:55:39.70\00:55:43.57 WE WILL BE GLAD TO TAKE THE STRIPES OF CHRIST. 00:55:43.57\00:55:47.31 WE'LL KEEP PREACHING FOR CHRIST. 00:55:47.31\00:55:49.31 THEY WERE NOT FEARING THE MEN. THEY HAD AN AWESOME TRANSFER 00:55:49.31\00:55:54.32 FROM FEARING MAN TO THIS CONVICTION THAT I NEED TO BE 00:55:54.32\00:55:58.85 LIKE CHRIST, REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS TO ME. 00:55:58.85\00:56:01.39 THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. YOU COME TO TH CLOSING OF THE 00:56:01.39\00:56:06.29 FIRST HOUR. TELL US ABOUT THE SECOND HOUR. 00:56:06.29\00:56:09.16 >> YOU HAVE THE WAKEUP CALL. LOOKING AT BIBLE PROPHECY. 00:56:09.16\00:56:13.44 WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT WILL BE FULFILLED. 00:56:13.44\00:56:16.00 WE KNOW IT'S VIABLE IS. ALL RIGHT? 00:56:16.00\00:56:18.31 NOW WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS INFORMATION? 00:56:18.31\00:56:21.18 OUR FOCUS NEEDS TOBACCO A CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- NEEDS 00:56:21.18\00:56:24.31 TO BE ON CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. 00:56:24.31\00:56:26.75 I WANT TO LOOK AT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BEAST, 00:56:26.75\00:56:30.05 THE POWER BEHIND THE BAST. SEE IF THOSE AREN'T 00:56:30.05\00:56:33.72 CHARACTERISTICS WE ARE SEEING IN HUMAN BEINGS IN THE WORLD 00:56:33.72\00:56:37.43 TODAY. SEE IF THOSE AREN'T 00:56:37.43\00:56:39.53 CHARACTERISTICS WE HAVE IN OUR HEART AS WE THINK EMPLOY THE 00:56:39.53\00:56:42.43 WAY WE REACT TO THE PANDEMIC OR OUR INTERACTION 00:56:42.43\00:56:59.15