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Series Code: TDYL
Program Code: TDYL210017B
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00:10 Hello and welcome back to 3ABN Today.
00:12 Thank you for joining us. 00:14 If you just joined us, 00:16 you missed out on a good first hour. 00:19 It was kind of surprising for me some of it, 00:21 but they wished me a happy birthday. 00:24 So I appreciate all of that. 00:25 And thank you so much. 00:27 That was a good surprise on your part, 00:30 but now we're going to get down 00:31 to what we call the meat of the subject. 00:33 And so Greg and Jill have gone and, and Johnny Dinzey, 00:38 so it's Pastor Lomacang is all the way to the end. 00:41 We're social distancing. That's right. 00:42 He's all the way to the end of the table. 00:45 And, Pastor John, 00:46 we wanted to just give you this entire hour, 00:49 because I didn't know 00:50 all of this other stuff they had planned, 00:52 I had planned on giving you more time. 00:54 So we were going to have special music 00:56 and all that right now. 00:57 I think we just need to hear from the Word of God. 01:00 And what is the topic that you want the people? 01:03 What do you want them to have heard 01:05 when this program is over? 01:07 We're going to talk about the relevance 01:10 and the importance of understanding 01:12 what the mark of the beast is and what it isn't. 01:15 That's the key, 01:16 and we're not going to cover the entire topic, 01:18 obviously, the time it's not even allow to do that. 01:21 And I mentioned in the first hour 01:22 and I'll reiterate in the second hour, 01:24 how they could get the fuller picture, 01:26 but the mark of the beast has metamorphosized 01:28 into so many different things through the years. 01:31 And what I want to begin with, 01:33 I'm just going to have a short word of prayer. 01:34 I know we prayed in the first hour, 01:36 but I'm gonna have a short word of prayer. 01:37 Then I'm going to walk you through some slides 01:38 that will remind you of the cadence 01:41 of the different falls and rises 01:44 of what the mark of the beast could be. 01:45 Let's pray. 01:47 Father in heaven, thank You for Your Word, 01:49 which is a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path. 01:53 And as you said, the path of the just 01:55 is like a light that shineth more and more 01:58 unto the perfect day. 02:00 Give me wisdom, Lord, 02:01 because this is really about counteracting 02:05 the counterfeit 02:07 and recovering the minds of your people, 02:09 who in this day, 02:11 where the winds of doctrine are blowing 02:13 are being tossed about forgetting 02:15 the anchor of Your Word. 02:17 So guide us as we open Your Word 02:19 and it's an ocean, 02:21 we're not going to water-ski. 02:23 We're going to pray that by the power of Your Spirit, 02:26 those who are listening and watching 02:27 will be able to glean the relevance 02:30 to cause their minds, 02:31 to understand the truth of this message. 02:33 In Jesus' name, we pray. 02:35 Amen. Amen. 02:39 I'm going to begin with Revelation Chapter 14, 02:42 and I'm going to read verse 9, and I'm going to read this. 02:45 I'm going to read this in the King James Version 02:46 of the Bible intentionally. 02:49 Revelation 14:9, 02:51 because as we point, we point out 02:54 the three angels' messages, 02:55 and this is the third of the three angels' messages. 02:58 And we're going to talk about what the focal issue is. 03:00 And many people are 03:02 so theologically geared already. 03:03 They know what the issue is going to be 03:05 or what the issue is. 03:08 But Revelation 14:9, and it says, 03:11 "And the third angel followed them 03:13 saying with a loud voice, it's urgent, 03:17 "If any man worship the beast and his image 03:21 and receive his mark in his forehead 03:24 or in his hand, 03:27 the same shall drink 03:28 of the wine of the wrath of God, 03:29 which is poured out without mixture 03:33 into the cup of his indignation, 03:35 and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone 03:38 in the presence of the holy angels 03:40 and in the presence of the Lamb." 03:42 Now that's, that's a terrible, 03:44 that's a terrible scourge 03:45 to even hear that pronunciation. 03:48 That's a terrible thing 03:50 that something could be so magnificent 03:52 that life and death is the fulcrum point 03:55 on this third message, 03:57 if you worship the beast or his image. 04:00 So it's vitally important 04:01 to establish a couple of parameters, 04:03 but I wanna show you something because we just read, 04:06 you receive a mark in the forehead or in the hand. 04:09 And let me add this component. 04:12 What is, what has Satan been doing through the years? 04:15 He's been learning from what God has already done. 04:19 And that's why, Danny, when you said, 04:21 what's the focus 04:22 of Three Angels Broadcasting Network 04:24 to do what? 04:25 Counteract the counterfeit. 04:27 If there wasn't a counterfeit, 04:29 we wouldn't have to try to counteract that, 04:32 but a counterfeit could not exist 04:34 unless there was a true. 04:36 We don't have counterfeit money. 04:38 You'll never see a count of a $4 bill 04:40 because there's no real $4 bill. 04:43 So Satan has been spending his miserable existence, 04:47 trying to counterfeit everything God has established 04:50 because his number one aim is to overthrow God 04:54 and to destroy all of the people 04:56 that He love. 04:57 And I want to make it clear at the very beginning, 04:59 God doesn't hate any denomination. 05:03 God has no qualm with people that are in different places, 05:06 in different walks of life. 05:08 And as we pointed all the time, 05:10 people meet Jesus in various denominations, 05:12 various stages of His life. 05:15 But the words of Jesus, John 10:16, 05:18 "Other sheep I have that are not of this fold, 05:21 them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice 05:23 and there will be one fold and one shepherd." 05:26 So Revelation is the gathering message, 05:28 come out of her My people. 05:30 It's the gathering message. 05:31 So we say, while God has people in other denominations 05:34 around the world, 05:35 when you look at the Old Testament, 05:37 there was only two groups, 05:38 the followers of God, 05:40 and those who did not follow God. 05:42 And the very same thing in the New Testament, 05:44 the Jew and the Gentile 05:46 describing those who follow God and those who didn't. 05:48 But there's a cadence established in scripture. 05:51 We're going to go back to Genesis now, 05:52 and we're going to see some language 05:54 that we often overlook 05:55 because Revelation and Genesis mirror each other amazingly. 06:00 What'd you find in Genesis, 06:02 you'll find the counteracting of that in Revelation. 06:04 So we're going to see something in Genesis right now. 06:07 Let's go to Genesis Chapter 4. 06:10 I want you to see this, Genesis Chapter 4. 06:13 And we're going to look 06:14 at the establishment of two worshipers 06:18 because there are only two types of worshipers. 06:21 The Bible only talks about two types, 06:23 many denominations, 06:24 but only two types of worshipers. 06:26 Genesis Chapter 4, 06:28 and we're going to look 06:30 at verse... 06:36 Let's just start with verse 3. 06:41 "In the process of time, it came to pass 06:43 that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground 06:46 and offering, an offering unto the Lord. 06:49 And Abel, he also brought of the firstling of his flock 06:53 and of the fat thereof. 06:55 And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 06:59 But unto Cain and to his offering, 07:02 he had not respect. 07:04 And Cain was very wroth or angry, 07:07 and his countenance fell." 07:09 Right there you see the establishment 07:10 of two types of worshipers. 07:12 Those who give God what He requires 07:15 and those who give God what they want. 07:18 Immediately off the bat, 07:19 you see those two types of worshipers. 07:21 And all throughout history, 07:23 those two groups have existed from the fall of man 07:26 until the full restoration of humanity. 07:29 So Revelation is talking about just those two groups. 07:32 It's not talking about any other category. 07:35 If any man, we either worship the beast 07:36 and receive his mark, 07:38 or we received the seal of God. 07:39 And it's all about worship, but what did God do? 07:42 What did God do? 07:43 Because of Cain's decision 07:48 not to follow the Lord. 07:51 Let's look at Genesis. 07:52 We're in Genesis Chapter 4 now, 07:54 and we're going to see what God did 07:55 to differentiate between Cain and Abel. 08:00 Genesis 4:15. 08:02 Look at what the Lord did. 08:05 "And the Lord said unto him, 08:08 therefore, whosoever slayeth Cain, 08:11 vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. 08:15 And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, 08:21 lest any finding him should kill him." 08:24 The very first mark ever given in Scripture 08:29 was given by the Lord. 08:31 Now, we've got to ask this question. 08:33 Was Cain walking around with a tattoo on his forehead? 08:36 No. 08:38 Was Cain, who saw his mark? 08:40 God saw it 'cause God marked him, 08:44 but God didn't have a visible mark. 08:45 There was no blotch on Cain's forehead. 08:47 There was no 666 on his forehead. 08:50 He didn't walk around people, 08:52 when he passed by, people said, 08:54 there's that mark, that's Cain. 08:56 But let me use the language we have nowadays. 08:59 And I use this in one of my sermons 09:01 when we do the camp meeting, 09:02 sealed for life or marked for death. 09:05 And we've used the same terminology. 09:08 He's a marked man, 09:09 but we're not walking around with a mark on you, 09:11 but people say, what's his name? 09:13 Danny Shelton. He's a marked man. 09:14 That man, the devil hates him. 09:16 The devil has marked you Danny for 35 years. 09:19 And you've known that, he's been trying to topple 09:21 what God has been building through you. 09:23 But we saw in Revelation as we established 09:28 the mark of the beast 09:29 is in the forehead or in the hand. 09:33 Now let's go to Deuteronomy. 09:36 See how the devil learns. 09:37 As I mentioned, he learns from what God established 09:42 'cause we're going to go to Deuteronomy Chapter 6. 09:44 All right. Deuteronomy Chapter 6. 09:47 All right. 09:48 And let's go ahead and look down to verse... 09:52 I tell you where we're going to go. 09:55 Down to verse... 09:57 By the way, the Lord, let's start with verse 1, 10:00 and then I'm going to jump down to verse 7 and 8. 10:02 All right? 10:03 Deuteronomy 6:1, 10:05 "Now these are the commandments, 10:07 the statutes and the judgments, 10:10 which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, 10:13 that ye might do them 10:16 in the land whither ye go to possess it." 10:19 Now, verse 7. 10:22 Now, Yvonne, would you read verse 7? 10:23 Doesn't matter about the translation. 10:25 Okay. 10:26 "You shall teach them diligently to your children, 10:28 and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, 10:31 when you walk by the way, when you lie down, 10:33 and when you rise up." 10:34 And now let me read. 10:36 Let me read verse 8, 10:37 "And thou shalt bind them 10:39 for a sign upon thine hand." 10:42 Where's mark of the beast? 10:44 On the hand. 10:46 "And they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes." 10:49 In the forehead. In the forehead. 10:51 Now, let me ask you a question. 10:53 Were the Israelites walking around 10:55 with marks in their forehead and in their hand? 10:58 No. 10:59 So what is the purpose 11:01 of putting them in the hand and in the forehead? 11:04 Why was the Lord saying, 11:06 "I want you to put the commandments 11:08 in your forehead 11:09 and I want you by your works 11:12 to show that you stand behind the commandments." 11:15 So let me go ahead very fast forward 11:17 and come back in a moment. 11:18 If you look at the commandments today 11:20 and I want to make this very important point. 11:22 We know that the Bible makes it very clear 11:24 that we are to honor the Bible Sabbath, 11:26 but that's not the only commandment 11:28 that Satan is going to tear down. 11:29 We're going to find that out very carefully, 11:31 but that's a key element of it 11:33 because the only commandment that has the seal of God in it 11:37 is the fourth commandment, 11:39 His name, who He is, His territory of reign. 11:43 The Lord, that's who He is. 11:45 What is He? The creator of what? 11:47 Heaven and earth, that's His territory. 11:49 And those are the three aspects of what a seal contains. 11:52 Who is He? What does He do? 11:54 He's found in the fourth commandment. 11:56 The fourth commandment. 11:57 So all in the fourth commandment, 11:58 the seal is there. 12:00 And so you find that the Lord established, 12:02 and that's why one of the first things 12:03 the Lord did 12:05 when He brought the children of Israel 12:06 out of Egypt. 12:08 You ask yourself, 12:09 why would He establish the fourth commandment first? 12:13 Because He wanted to restore the seal 12:16 that had been lost in slavery. 12:19 He said, I need to establish because you are My people. 12:22 I brought you out of bondage. 12:24 And when you're brought out of bondage, 12:25 you become a special people unto the Lord. 12:28 As 1 Peter 2:9 says, 12:30 "You are a holy nation, a royal priesthood." 12:32 How did God establish that? 12:33 He restored the sealing among them. 12:36 And then He asked them the question, 12:38 how long would you refuse to keep My commandments, 12:40 My statutes and My laws? 12:42 He connected the Sabbath right to the commandments, 12:45 but we're going to see something else 12:46 because this is significant. 12:48 A lot of times people say, I keep the commandments. 12:50 Now I want to show you that 12:52 I'm going to show you how the commandments of God 12:57 is more than just something we say, 13:00 but as how we live. 13:02 Go to James 2:12, Danny, and look at that. 13:05 You're going to see the Bible establishes a cadence 13:08 all the way through. 13:10 It's not just what you say, but it's how you live. 13:12 And remember the reason why the Lord says 13:14 as frontlets between your eyes and bind them on your hand. 13:17 He wanted Israel to be known not only by their beliefs, 13:22 but how they live. 13:24 And these are continually connected to the Bible. 13:26 James 2:12. 13:28 Do you have that, Danny? 13:29 "So speak ye and so do 13:32 as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." 13:35 Okay. 13:36 So speak what's in your mind, you're going to say it, 13:40 but what's in your life, you're going to do it. 13:41 You're going to do action. 13:43 So the action is not just, 13:44 the Lord is not saying 13:46 what you believe is really important, 13:47 but are you going to do it? 13:49 So the commandments, he set in your mind, 13:51 and then, but are you gonna, 13:53 are you going to act it out in your life? 13:55 So don't just talk it, walk it. 13:58 Say it again. 13:59 So don't just talk it, walk it. Right. 14:01 And Christianity has become, I'll say this carefully. 14:06 Christianity has become a religion of talk, 14:11 but the walk is missing. 14:12 Wow. 14:13 The Lord is saying, don't just say it, do it. 14:16 And the mind has everything to do with 14:20 what we do in our lives. 14:22 Mark 12:30. 14:25 Look at what this talks about. 14:26 We're going to, we're establishing 14:28 the condition first of the mind, 14:29 before we go to now to the mark. 14:30 And I'm going to go to a few slides here in a moment. 14:33 Is it Mark 12? 14:34 Mark 12:30. 14:36 Mark 12:30, 14:42 "And you shall love the Lord your God 14:44 with all your heart, with all your soul, 14:46 with all your mind, and with all your strength. 14:49 This is the first commandment." 14:51 Okay. Look at mind and strength. 14:54 With strength acted out and you're doing. 14:57 Where's mind? In your thinking. 14:59 So you see there's a cadence established in Scripture that 15:02 if you believe it, do it, put your strength in it. 15:05 And the wise man Solomon says, 15:07 "Whatever your hands find to do, 15:09 do with all your might 15:10 for there's no work, no knowledge, 15:12 no wisdom in the grave where you're going." 15:13 Ecclesiastes 9:10. 15:14 So he said, don't just say it, do it. 15:18 And I got to add this right here. 15:19 That's why, what is sad to the Lord 15:23 is a religion of the people 15:25 draw near to me with their mouth, 15:27 honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 15:33 So we have today religion is mouth and lips. 15:36 I love you, Lord. I worship you, Lord. 15:37 I praise you, Lord. I honor you, Lord. 15:39 I extol you, Lord. 15:40 If you love Me, keep My commandments. 15:42 Do something to prove it. 15:43 That's why James 2:12 says so speak and so do 15:47 as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty. 15:49 So Satan seeing this says, 15:51 ah, my mark has to do 15:54 with what they think and what they do. 15:57 So speak and so do. 15:58 He has looked at God's parameters of worship 16:01 and said, this is what I want to establish. 16:03 I want to establish my own parameter of worship. 16:06 I'm going to get people to think like me 16:08 and do what I want them to do. 16:10 So speak and so do. 16:12 And that's why when you go to Revelation 13 and I wanna... 16:15 But I wanna bring up a series of slides 16:17 very quickly for those who are watching 16:19 to show you the metamorphosis of the mark of the beast, 16:22 because this is what's happened. 16:23 And we've been, been around long enough to know that. 16:25 Let's bring up the first one. 16:27 This one is about the Procter and Gamble. 16:30 Years ago, when Procter and Gamble, 16:32 remember this Proctor and Gamble 16:34 on the side of their soap bar, 16:35 they had this picture with 13 stars. 16:39 And years ago, when this first came out, 16:42 people were saying, 16:43 do not use Procter and Gamble soap, 16:46 because it has a symbol on the side 16:48 that shows an allegiance to a satanic power. 16:51 And then it metamorphosized into 16:53 that's the beginning of the mark of the beast. 16:55 So people were not bathing with that soap 17:00 because it was a beginning of this organization 17:03 standing behind the beast organization. 17:05 But then look at the next one. 17:07 And then what happened is we had the... 17:09 Bring it up for me and I'll discuss it. 17:12 When Ronald Reagan became our president, 17:13 the 40th president, 17:15 he had three names with six letters in each name, 17:17 666, 17:20 and people that were in the conspiracy theories 17:22 like they still are today 17:24 said he must be the one 17:25 who's going to head up the system of the beast. 17:27 Three names with six letters, 666, 17:30 surely until Mikhail Gorbachev. 17:34 Let's bring that picture up. 17:36 When Mikhail Gorbachev, he had a mark on his forehead 17:39 and they said, 17:41 he's got to be the head of the beast system 17:44 because he's got a mark on his forehead. 17:47 And that metamorphosized, 17:49 but then neither of these two presidents 17:50 are empowered any longer. 17:52 Matter of fact, I think they're both dead now. 17:53 So that like when, 17:55 and I have this book in my office at church, 17:57 this thick book written by some evangelical pastor, 18:00 trying to prove that 18:01 Mikhail Gorbachev is the beginning of the system 18:03 of the mark of the beast. 18:05 It's gone. 18:06 Hal Lindsey, all that foolishness has gone, 18:09 but it went to the next stage. Let's go to the next one. 18:11 And then the barcode came out. 18:14 And when the barcode came out, people said, 18:16 "Don't buy anything with a barcode 18:19 because if you have the barcode, 18:21 the next step is 18:22 they're going to take the barcode off of the packages 18:24 and put it on your forehead." 18:26 Bring up the next picture for me. 18:27 And they said, 18:28 "And then they're going to be scanning your forehead." 18:30 And this is going to be 18:32 how the mark of the beast is going to come. 18:33 And well, people started teaching. 18:35 There's going to be a tattoo on your forehead. 18:37 And we know 18:39 if you don't buy anything with a bar code nowadays, 18:41 you won't eat 18:42 because everything has a barcode. 18:45 So that came and left. 18:46 And then we went to the next stage. 18:47 Let's bring the next picture for us. 18:49 We went next to the, two, they thought that 18:51 you're going to have this barcode on your hand 18:53 and you stand in line 18:54 and you get scanned as you go by. 18:56 And when that approves that 18:57 you can enter, then you can go ahead. 18:59 And that was day with the invisible mark scanner. 19:02 And now you see people with a mask 19:04 and people are saying, 19:05 well, the mask has something to do with it. 19:07 Go to the next slide for me. 19:09 And then the QR code came out, the quick response code. 19:13 Now the barcode is synonymous to the QR code, 19:16 but this is the more updated version. 19:18 And people started freaking out about that one. 19:21 Well, the QR code is still around 19:24 and almost everything has a QR code or a barcode. 19:26 So we laid that aside, but go to the next slide. 19:29 And then when the mask came out, 19:33 even more recently, 19:35 I've even heard people use this term, 19:37 the mask of the beast. 19:40 They were saying by the, by these masks coming out, 19:43 we are being forced to wear a mask. 19:47 And if they can force us to wear a mask 19:49 and get the entire world to comply with wearing a mask, 19:53 they're training us in preparation 19:55 to follow the system of the beast. 19:58 Unbelievable. 20:00 We'll go to the next slide. 20:02 And then the next thing that came out was 20:04 the COVID-19 vaccine. 20:07 And they say, 20:08 this is in fact with the mask and the vaccine, 20:12 they're going to alter our DNA. 20:15 And they're going to start marking us in our DNA 20:19 by altering our DNA 20:20 through some kind of RNA vaccination. 20:23 I'm not a doctor, but go to the next slide. 20:25 And they said, when our vaccine, 20:27 when this digital injection comes into our system, 20:30 there'll be able to flip on some switch through the, 20:33 through the installation of 5G all over the world. 20:36 And we will be robotic 20:38 and we'll receive the mark of the beast. 20:41 And I thought to myself, 20:43 somebody give me a break. 20:47 And Danny and Yvonne, 20:48 what has been happening is the relevance of this topic 20:53 has been enshrouded 20:55 in one conspiracy after the other, 20:59 one terminology after the other, 21:01 one idea after the other. 21:03 Now 36 minutes, 21:06 how do you cover the mark of the beast 21:07 in 36 minutes? 21:09 Well, let's see. 21:10 And as I mentioned to you, 21:11 this is not a complete treatment 21:13 of the mark of the beast, 21:14 but I want to go to, 21:16 I wanna go now to the Book of Daniel. 21:18 Let's go to the Book of Daniel 21:21 because Daniel, 21:23 in order to understand what the mark of the beast is, 21:25 we have to first establish who is the beast, right? 21:28 Because Daniel now brings into view the beast 21:31 in Daniel Chapter 7. 21:33 All right. 21:34 We're going to go to Daniel Chapter 7. 21:36 I'm already, almost there. 21:37 Daniel brings into play four major world empires, 21:42 four major world empires. 21:44 Daniel Chapter 7, 21:45 and Daniel received this vision 21:48 in the first year of the reign of Belshazzar, 21:50 that was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. 21:52 Nebuchadnezzar also had a dream of the four metals, 21:55 the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, 21:57 the iron and the clay. 21:59 And the iron kingdom, 22:00 we know represents the kingdom of Rome. 22:02 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. 22:05 When you get down to John, 22:06 John now parlays to the vision of Daniel, 22:09 because Daniel saw the lion, the bear, the leopard, 22:13 and then the beast with seven heads and ten horns, 22:16 and with great iron teeth. 22:18 John now in, on the island of Patmos, 22:22 he starts by going to the... 22:25 He says, I saw a beast rise up out of the sea 22:28 having seven heads and ten horns. 22:30 We'll look at that next. 22:32 Okay. We're going to see that. 22:33 But Daniel Chapter 7, 22:35 let's look at making very clear. 22:37 How do we understand what's a beast 22:38 and what's not a beast? 22:40 Daniel Chapter 7. 22:42 And the Bible makes it clear as it begins to identify. 22:45 And it says 22:47 Daniel 7:6. 22:51 Wow. 22:52 And I'm not going to go through all of it, 22:54 but it's going to make it very, very clear. 22:55 Daniel 7:6, actually Daniel 7:4, 23:00 "The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings." 23:02 Okay. 23:04 I'm going to verse 5, 23:05 "And behold another beast, the second like a bear." 23:08 And verse 6 now, 23:10 "And lo the third like a leopard." 23:12 Okay. In verse 7 and verse. 23:15 "And I saw in the night vision, and behold a fourth beast 23:17 dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly, 23:21 and it had great iron teeth." 23:23 So Daniel made it very clear. 23:25 These four beasts are rising up, 23:27 but Daniel gave specific treatment 23:29 to the fourth beast. 23:30 He wanted it to be very, very clear 23:33 as to who the fourth beast is 23:35 because the iron now 23:38 is parallel to the iron in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. 23:42 The toes have iron and clay 23:46 until the stone 23:47 that represents the kingdom of God 23:49 strikes the toes of the image 23:51 and brings all these kingdoms to its end. 23:54 So the iron kingdom, as Daniel describes, 23:57 is dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly. 24:01 Now let's look at verse 17 of Daniel Chapter 7. 24:04 Read verse 17 for us, Yvonne? 24:06 "Those great beasts, which are four, 24:08 are four kings which arise out of the earth." 24:10 Okay. So these four kings are going to rise out of the earth. 24:13 They're going to all come up 24:14 one after the other, 24:16 after the other, after the other. 24:17 And verse 23, 24:18 and look what Daniel says about the fourth beast. 24:21 "Thus he said, 24:23 the fourth beast 24:24 shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, 24:26 which shall be diverse or different from all kingdoms, 24:29 shall devour the whole earth, 24:31 shall trample it down, and break it in pieces." 24:34 In verse 24, 24:35 "And the ten horns out of this kingdom 24:38 are ten kings that shall arise: 24:41 and another shall rise after them, 24:44 and he shall be diverse from the first, 24:47 and he shall subdue three kings." 24:49 All right. 24:51 So we see when Rome came into prominence, 24:53 there were 10 nations that existed, 24:55 but when papal Rome, and this is pagan Rome, 24:58 the metamorphosis to papal Rome. 25:01 It was first a secular power. 25:03 Then it became a religious power. 25:05 The little horn we know 25:07 to be the rise of the religious aspects 25:09 of the Roman Empire. 25:11 The little horn represents the rise of the papacy. 25:14 Now, historically, we know that the Vandals, 25:16 the Heruli and the Ostrogoths, 25:17 these three area nations opposed the rise. 25:20 And when Rome rose up on a religious platform, 25:23 it ruthfully, 25:24 it rooted all these powers out by the roots 25:28 and they never existed again. 25:31 But it describes that 25:34 the people of God 25:35 will be under the rulership of this power 25:37 at the end of verse 25. 25:38 Look at verse 25. 25:40 Yvonne, read that for us 25:41 because we want to establish 25:42 what the kingdom of Rome would seek to do. 25:44 Okay? Verse 25. 25:46 "He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, 25:48 shall persecute the saints of the Most High, 25:51 and shall intend to change times and law. 25:54 Then the saints shall be given into his hand 25:56 for a time and times and half a time." 25:59 Okay. 26:00 So we find some of the things that papal Rome did it. 26:03 First of all, blasphemed God, 26:06 because the papacy at that time 26:08 established himself as God on earth, all right, 26:11 still to this very day, 26:12 many people look at the papacy as God on earth. 26:15 The vicar of God, Vicarius Filii Dei, 26:18 meaning 666 in the Latin numbers. 26:21 Then also it says, 26:23 he shall persecute or wear out the saints of the Most High. 26:25 And for 1,260 years, 26:28 millions of Christians died 26:29 under the persecuting power of Rome, 26:32 but also shall intends to change times and laws. 26:34 And, Danny, we know based on your book, 26:36 Ten Commandments Twice Removed. 26:39 I also covered in the three angels' messages. 26:41 We know that one of the most significant things 26:43 done by papal Rome 26:44 was to transfer the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, 26:48 making Sunday a holy day. 26:50 They don't call it the Sabbath. 26:51 A lot of people think Sunday is the Sabbath, 26:53 but Rome knows it's not the Sabbath. 26:55 They call Sunday the Lord's Day, 26:58 but they thought to change times and laws. 27:00 Why? 27:01 Because as far as God is concerned, 27:02 you can't change. 27:04 Okay? 27:05 But the other thing is they shall, 27:07 and then the saints of God 27:08 shall be under the persecute power for times, 27:10 times and dividing of times. 27:12 And we know that's 1,260 years of papal persecution. 27:17 All right. 27:18 Now let's go to Revelation Chapter 13, 27:21 we're going to metamorphosize, we're going to go. 27:23 Now Revelation Chapter 13 27:24 and, Danny, what I'd like you to read is Revelation 12:17. 27:29 Revelation Chapter 13 27:30 takes us from the historical 27:32 to the eschatological pictures of Revelation. 27:36 Revelation 1:12 are the historical. 27:40 Revelation 13 introduces us to the eschatological. 27:45 Now why Revelation 12:17? 27:47 Read that for us, Danny. 27:48 And I'll tell you why I had you read that. 27:50 Revelation 12:17? 27:53 Mm-hmm. Okay. 27:55 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, 27:57 and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, 28:01 which keep the commandments of God, 28:02 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 28:04 Okay. 28:06 So Revelation Chapter 12 is Satan saying, 28:11 this is what I am going to do. 28:14 His initial claim in Isaiah 14:14 28:17 is I will be like the Most High. 28:19 I will be like the Most High, 28:21 but since he's not been able to accomplish that, 28:24 he says, okay, 28:26 he couldn't defeat Jesus in the first battle in heaven, 28:28 he was cast to the earth. 28:30 He could not defeat him at the garden. 28:31 Praise the Lord for that. 28:33 He couldn't defeat him at the cross, 28:35 Jesus left. 28:36 Satan turns his anger now on Jesus' bride, the woman. 28:41 The woman in Genesis, he was able to deceive, 28:43 but he comes to her now on the, in the end time, 28:47 "Hey, how you doing?" 28:49 I'm gonna get very function. 28:51 "How are you doing?" 28:52 And she says, "How are you doing?" 28:54 Like Yvonne, how you do. I do. 28:57 But this time she's not having it 29:00 'cause she says, wait a minute, 29:01 you deceived me once, but I have a new man now. 29:05 He's the Lord, Jesus Christ. 29:06 I am going to keep His commandments. 29:10 And I'm going to proclaim the testimony of Jesus, 29:12 which Revelation 19:10 says, which is a Spirit of Prophecy. 29:16 In other words, this woman not only stands firmly 29:18 on the commandments of God, 29:20 but she has an insight into prophecy that Satan hates 29:23 because Amos two verse... 29:26 Amos 3:7 says, 29:28 "Surely the Lord God does nothing, 29:30 except He reveals His secrets 29:32 unto His servants, the prophets." 29:34 So when you know God's secrets, 29:35 the servant starts saying to the world, 29:37 this is what's coming. 29:39 And Satan says, 29:40 "You know what? I don't like you." 29:41 Because he knows that if he could defeat the woman 29:44 who keeps the commandments of God, 29:46 his secret is secure and he could deceive. 29:50 From Revelation 13 on 29:51 you find a word 29:53 that you don't find from Revelation 12, 29:54 from Revelation 11 back. 29:56 And that's the word deceive, 29:58 but Revelation 12 on you find this word deceive. 30:02 Let's see where's his deception is. 30:03 Okay, Danny, now 30:05 Revelation 12:12. 30:10 Revelation 12:12. 30:13 Okay. 30:15 "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell in them! 30:18 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! 30:22 For the devil has come down unto you 30:24 having great wrath, 30:26 because he knoweth that he had but a short time." 30:29 Okay, this is powerful. 30:31 Now, where's the warning? 30:33 To the earth, 30:35 those who inhabit the earth and the sea. 30:38 Now for many years, people have said, 30:41 "Are there people that live in the sea? 30:43 How is that possible?" 30:45 I know about people that inhabit the earth, 30:47 but people that inhabit the sea. 30:50 People live in the sea. 30:52 Well, this is prophetic 30:54 because Revelation 12 is a preview 30:57 not only of what Satan is going to attempt to do 31:00 because of his hatred for the woman. 31:02 But the Lord is saying, watch out, 31:04 he's going to seek to affect that 31:05 in the earth and in the sea. 31:07 Now this is huge. Are you ready for it? 31:09 I'm ready. Ready for it. 31:11 Now, Revelation Chapter 13. 31:12 It's been a question in my mind too, 31:15 over the years. 31:16 And I know sea, we say represents people, 31:18 but you think the people on earth 31:20 that already says the earth, but then it says, and the sea. 31:24 That's right. Exactly. 31:26 The point is very well made 31:28 because we're going to see that 31:31 Satan is going to attempt to do something 31:34 in both of those vicinities, earth and sea. 31:37 He might say, okay, earth and see, 31:39 okay, well, what does that mean? 31:40 Well, Revelation 13 providentially, 31:43 it only treats two categories. 31:46 The first one, Revelation 13:1, look at this, 31:50 I'll read it. 31:52 "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, 31:56 and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, 32:00 having seven heads and ten horns, 32:02 and upon his horns ten crowns, 32:05 and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." 32:09 What beast is this talking about? 32:11 John is looking back. 32:13 He describes this beast with feet like unto a bear 32:16 which was like unto a leopard, 32:18 his feet like the feet of a beer, 32:19 his mouth like the mouth of the lion, 32:21 and the dragon gave him his power, 32:23 his seat and his great authority. 32:24 So John is right now saying, 32:26 this is Rome, the resurrected power of Rome. 32:30 This is Rome, 32:31 but where did he identify Rome is coming from? 32:36 The sea. Say it again. 32:38 The sea. Say it again. 32:39 The sea. One more time. 32:42 The sea. 32:43 So when Revelation 12 says the inhabitants of the sea, 32:49 I am suggesting that John is saying, 32:51 watch out those of you 32:53 who are under the influence of Rome, 32:56 but did you grab it. 33:00 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, 33:03 It's going to get deeper. 33:05 Those who are under the influence of the beast 33:07 that comes out of the sea, 33:09 that's the Roman power, the beast from the sea. 33:12 It's not talking about people living in the ocean, 33:14 the beast from the sea, 33:16 watch out, because those under that influence 33:21 are going to be under the sway of Satan 33:24 because the dragon gave him his power, 33:27 his seat and his great authority. 33:28 So what is being said here, 33:30 those who are under the influence of this power, 33:32 this papal power, 33:33 Satan is behind it. 33:34 Be careful. 33:36 Satan is behind it 33:37 because the Bible said in Revelation 12:12, 33:40 "The devil has come down having great wrath 33:42 because he knows he has, but a short time." 33:44 Right? Right. 33:45 So those under the auspices of the beast from the sea, 33:49 there's a woe, 33:50 woe to the inhabitants of the sea, 33:52 those under its influence as they're sinking in. 33:55 But that's not just the sea, 33:57 there's another beast in Revelation Chapter 13. 34:00 Danny, read Revelation 13:11? 34:05 Okay. 34:07 "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, 34:11 and he had two horns like a lamb, 34:14 and he spake as a dragon." 34:16 Okay. Now watch this. 34:17 Are you ready for it? I'm ready. 34:19 Now, this is, this is what you call Revelation, 34:21 the mark of the beast 101, 34:23 the shortest version you'll ever get. 34:26 Okay. 34:27 The Lord warns those 34:29 who are the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea. 34:32 According to Revelation 12:12 to 14, 34:35 verse 14 to 16. 34:38 The United States 34:39 when Rome was receiving a deadly wound in 1798, 34:43 in 1776, 34:44 the United States declared its independence, 34:46 22 years before Rome received the deadly wound. 34:48 Watch this, the sea beast was on his way down 34:51 and the earth beast was on its way up. 34:54 Earth and see. 34:56 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea. 35:00 Now why? 35:01 Because the sea beast has killed 35:03 millions of Christians, 35:05 but it's on its way down. 35:07 The earth beast is on its way up, 35:09 but be careful. 35:10 It has two horns, like a lamb, 35:11 but it's going to start talking 35:13 just like the dragon. 35:14 Okay. 35:16 So Rome got a seat 35:17 and great authority from the dragon. 35:19 So the earth beast, 35:21 which is none other than the United States, 35:23 because the Bible says the earth opened its mouth 35:25 and helped the woman. 35:26 Okay. 35:28 When the United States came into prominence, 35:30 it gave religious freedom to the church. 35:33 You can believe what you want, teach what you want, 35:35 worship how you want it. 35:37 What are the two horns? 35:38 It established a system 35:40 based on a Republican form of government, 35:43 by the people, for the people, 35:44 and a Protestant form of religion, right? 35:48 Why Protestant? 35:49 To protest anything that the sea beast stood for, 35:53 but something's going to happen. 35:56 The earth beast comes up, 35:57 and as long as the earth beast 35:59 maintains its allegiance to its founding principles, 36:03 the country is safe. 36:05 Okay. 36:07 As long as the United States 36:08 maintains a Protestant form of religion 36:11 and a Republic 36:13 by the people, for the people type of government, 36:15 it's safe from Rome. 36:18 I want you to hear this, 36:20 because Rome is the beast that came up out of the sea. 36:23 But look at what's going to happen. 36:24 Revelation 13 now. 36:26 Look at what's going to happen. 36:28 Okay, here it is. 36:30 I'm in Revelation 13 now. 36:33 So the beast comes up out of the sea in verse 11. 36:36 And this is the important aspect 36:38 that we have to connect here. 36:39 Rome receives its power 36:41 and its great authority from the dragon. 36:45 The earth beast comes up and says, 36:47 it has two horns like a lamb, 36:49 a lamblike power can represent nothing but a Christian nation. 36:53 And it gives you freedom 36:54 of all your basic political freedoms 36:57 which we're losing, 36:59 and your freedom of worship 37:02 which is going to be changing very quickly. 37:04 Right now we're seeing that 37:06 religion has become a litmus test 37:07 in the circles of politics. 37:10 What do you believe 37:11 if you believe this, we will vote for you. 37:14 Religion has never, 37:15 never been established by the country 37:17 to become a litmus test for political office. 37:20 But it's becoming that today. 37:21 It has become that from Reagan to now, 37:24 religion has become a litmus test to occupy office. 37:28 What's going to happen though? 37:30 So let's look now at the earth beast. 37:31 This is powerful. 37:33 I'm going to read Revelation Chapter 13, 37:35 and I'm gonna go ahead and read verse 12. 37:39 Speaking about the earth beast, that's the United States. 37:42 And verse 12, 37:43 "And he exercises 37:44 all the power of the first beast 37:47 before him or in his presence and causes the earth. 37:52 And then which dwell therein to do" what? 37:56 "Worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. 38:00 Okay, now this is powerful. 38:02 This is another epiphany. 38:03 Are you ready for it, Yvonne? Yes. 38:05 If the earth represents the United States 38:07 and the beast from the sea represents Rome, 38:11 it is saying here that in the United States, 38:15 through our political powers, 38:17 through religious enactments, 38:19 the first place that Rome is going to be influential 38:24 is here in the United States. 38:25 The worship to the sea beast is going to happen here first, 38:29 because look at what it says 38:32 and causes the earth and them which dwell therein 38:36 to worship the beast 38:38 whose deadly wound was healed. 38:42 Where does... 38:43 So do we see anything at all 38:45 in the historical cadence 38:47 of any kind of influence of Roman America? 38:51 Of course. we do. 38:52 I was invited Brad Walker went with me to 2015 38:55 to Washington DC. 38:57 When Pope Francis, I believe it was, 39:01 spoke out of the White House lawn. 39:05 He was there 39:06 and it was heard 39:07 all throughout the White House lawn, 39:10 and people that were of varying religions, 39:11 they said, 39:13 "This is our pope. This is our leader. 39:15 This is our papa." 39:18 So what is being said here is the first place 39:20 that these enactments are going to take place 39:22 is in America, 39:24 because the earth beast is going to make, 39:26 and let's go on. 39:27 Let's go on further. 39:28 And now you find, you find verse 15. 39:33 Read verse 15. 39:35 "He was granted power 39:36 to give breath to the image of the beast, 39:38 that the image of the beast 39:40 should both speak and cause 39:41 as many as would not worship the image of the beast 39:44 to be killed." 39:46 Okay, what's the issue 39:47 that's coming out to the forefront? 39:48 Worship. Worship. 39:50 So who has authority 39:53 to give life to the image of the beast? 39:55 The earth beast does, 39:57 because he is saying to those who dwell on the earth, 39:59 that they should make an image to the first beast 40:02 who was wounded and did live. 40:05 Now, I want to make a very important point here 40:06 because I said this at the top of the program, 40:09 the issue is not between Rome and God. 40:14 The issue is not in between the United States and God. 40:16 The issue is not between any religion and God. 40:19 The issue is between God and Satan. 40:22 Those are the two forces, but as God has an earth, 40:26 as God has a church on earth, 40:28 Satan has created a counterfeit. 40:30 He's identified as the beast with seven heads and ten horns, 40:34 correct? 40:35 Let's go to Revelation 17 very quickly. 40:38 And I'll tell you with 16 minutes left, 40:41 I want you guys to pay specific attention 40:43 to how this happens, 40:44 the metamorphosis that takes place. 40:46 Okay. All right. 40:48 Revelation Chapter 17 did I say? 40:51 Okay. Look at Revelation Chapter 17. 40:55 Okay. 40:56 Let's look at this. 41:01 Okay. 41:02 Revelation Chapter 17. 41:04 And we're going to see, I'll start with verse 1. 41:09 "And there came one of the seven angels, 41:11 which had seven vials, 41:12 and he talked with me, saying unto me, come hither, 41:15 I will show unto thee the judgment 41:17 of the great harlot 41:18 who sits upon many waters. 41:20 With whom the kings of the earth 41:21 have committed fornication, 41:22 and the inhabitants of the earth 41:24 had been made drunk 41:26 with the wine of her fornication." 41:27 And watch this. 41:29 Verse 3, 41:30 "So he carried me away 41:32 in the spirit into the wilderness: 41:33 and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, 41:37 full of names of blasphemy having," what? 41:40 "Seven heads and," what? 41:42 "Ten horns." 41:43 Now when Revelation 13 describes Rome 41:45 and it says having what? 41:47 Seven heads and what? 41:48 Ten horns. 41:51 Now, we got to make a very distinct point here. 41:53 While John is looking back, 41:55 making all the connections to the Rome of antiquity. 41:59 He's showing Rome in another setting 42:02 because Rome is not by itself now. 42:04 Rome is going to be, 42:06 Rome under the power of political enactments 42:10 and worship enactments 42:11 is going to pull other powers together. 42:14 Now, Danny, go to Revelation Chapter 16. 42:16 I'm going to give you the broader picture. 42:18 And then we're going to go down to the mark aspects of it. 42:21 Boy, I tell you, I wish I had nine more hours left, 42:24 but since you're not going to give it to me, 42:27 I'm gonna leave the audience thirsty. 42:28 And I'll give you the site 42:30 where you can go get the rest of it. 42:31 Revelation 16:13-14. 42:34 Now, before you read it, 42:35 let me go ahead and make a point. 42:36 Once again, I made the point clearly. 42:39 The dragon, 42:41 the battle has always been between Christ and Satan 42:44 unequivocally, 42:45 but the dragon has learned, Satan has learned, 42:48 that serpent of old called 42:49 the devil and Satan has learned, 42:51 Jesus did this, 42:52 I'm going to do that 42:54 to try to counteract what He's established. 42:56 So what we're going to see now 42:58 is the messages that warns the world 43:03 against worshiping the beast and his image 43:06 is from the three angels. 43:10 Okay? 43:11 Satan now has a counterfeit to the three angels, 43:15 Danny, Revelation 16:13-14? 43:18 "And I saw three unclean," three, there is that word, 43:21 "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs 43:25 come out of the mouth of the dragon, 43:28 and out of the mouth of the beast, 43:29 and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 43:32 For they are the spirits of devils, 43:34 working miracles, 43:36 which go forth unto the kings of the earth 43:39 and of the whole world, 43:40 to gather them to the battle 43:41 of that great day of God Almighty." 43:43 Okay. 43:44 Now, notice this, 43:46 three angels, three unclean spirits. 43:50 Satan is seeking to counteract the three angel messages 43:52 through the three unclean spirits, 43:54 but he's broadening his playing field now. 43:57 He began with Rome of antiquity. 44:00 Now he has contemporary Rome, papal Rome today. 44:03 The system that he's to go, 44:05 what the Bible is in essence saying is 44:07 everything that the system stands for, 44:09 its power and authority and seat comes from Satan, 44:12 because it's an antithesis, 44:13 it's antithetical 44:15 to the worship of the true God. 44:17 It changed God's law, 44:19 made Sunday the day of focal point. 44:21 It established teaching such as eternally burning. 44:23 And I'm so glad you're coming out with these booklets, Danny. 44:26 It established the idea, 44:27 the ideology that you burn forever and ever, and ever. 44:30 It established the idea that you die and you go to heaven, 44:32 purgatory, limbo. 44:34 It established an earthly priesthood, 44:35 which Jesus is our high priest. 44:38 It establishes that 44:39 you go to a man for forgiveness, 44:41 but there's only one mediator between God and man, 44:43 the man Christ Jesus 44:44 that established an antithetical earthly system 44:47 that is completely contrasting the system of Jesus. 44:52 It completely is a system of blasphemy, 44:55 not the people, but the system 44:57 and standing in complete opposition. 45:00 But Satan is saying, "That's not, I need more." 45:02 Satan is saying, 45:03 "I don't just want to use Rome in the United States, 45:05 I need more." 45:07 So these three unclean spirits 45:08 are going to the kings of the earth 45:12 and of the whole world. 45:15 Now, where does he start? This is huge once again. 45:17 I'm going to bring this out. 45:18 This is one of those Ivor Myer moments. 45:20 Ivor loves to pull out that. 45:23 The beast that came up out of the earth. 45:26 The earth beast represents what's country? 45:30 The earth beast? The earth beast. 45:31 That's America. America. 45:34 So these unclean spirits go to the kings of the earth 45:39 and then of the whole world 45:42 to gather them together. 45:45 And what is he gathering them for? 45:47 If you go to Revelation 16, the Bible says, 45:50 "And they gathered together in the place 45:52 in the Hebrew called Armageddon." 45:55 So Satan is getting ready for Armageddon, 45:58 but he's not just using Rome, 46:01 he's not just using the United States, 46:03 but he's using the dragon. 46:04 Now the three... 46:05 Now here's the next false Trinity, 46:07 not only the three unclean spirits, 46:09 but the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. 46:12 The dragon is Satan. 46:14 The beast that's being described there is Rome. 46:17 The false prophet 46:18 is represented as coming out of the earth beast. 46:22 Now why false prophet? 46:24 Because, Danny, if you look like a lamb, 46:26 but you speak like a dragon, you are not a true prophet. 46:31 What you say doesn't match what you claim. 46:33 Right. 46:35 So what's happening in America 46:36 is saying being established in America. 46:38 America was established on this principle 46:39 of believe God's word, live by God's word, 46:43 but a metamorphosis took place in religion. 46:45 And Paul said in to 2 Timothy 3, 46:48 a form of godliness. 46:50 And I'll tell you today, we have worship. 46:52 We have more worship centers on this, in this country 46:55 than any probably any anyplace in the world, 46:58 but what's missing. 47:00 The woman has on purple and scarlet, 47:02 but what color does she not have? 47:04 Blue. 47:06 The blue represents the commandments of God, 47:08 the law of God. 47:09 So this woman is sitting on a beast 47:11 that has seven heads and ten horns. 47:12 Now we have to ask ourselves the question, 47:14 what are the seven heads and ten horns? 47:16 And that's, let's go to Revelation Chapter 17. 47:18 You guys are squeezing me like an old tube of toothpaste. 47:23 Cut it out. Okay. 47:24 Revelation Chapter 17, 47:26 I wanna show you this very carefully. 47:27 Okay. 47:29 And Revelation 17:12, Yvonne. 47:35 Now I want you to grab this, seven heads and ten horns. 47:38 Now John is going to treat these ten horns. 47:40 He introduces a woman sitting on the beast 47:41 with seven heads and ten horns. 47:43 He's now going to treat the ten horns. 47:45 Go ahead in verse 12. 47:46 "The ten horns which you saw are ten kings 47:49 who have received no kingdom as yet, 47:50 but they receive authority for one hour 47:52 as kings with the beast." 47:54 Okay. 47:55 So the ten horns that John is talking about here 47:57 are not the same ten horns as Daniel, 47:59 because three of those were rooted out. 48:01 Right. 48:02 And it was replaced with the horn, the little horn. 48:05 Rome established its power by rooting out three of those. 48:08 So what we're seeing here, 48:10 these ten horns are ten kings 48:11 that have received no kingdom yet. 48:14 What John is forecasting is 48:15 there's going to be a world coalition 48:17 of powers that's gonna support the system of the beast 48:20 for a short time, for one hour. 48:22 Another term for one hour is 48:24 he knows he has, but a short time. 48:27 Now, why is this going to happen, Danny? 48:29 Read verse 17. 48:31 Verse 17. You're going to see this now. 48:35 "For God hath put in their hearts 48:37 to fulfill his will, 48:38 and to agree, 48:40 and give their kingdom unto the beast, 48:42 until the words of God shall be fulfilled." 48:45 And Danny, and Yvonne read that very same verse 48:47 in the New King James Version. 48:48 "For God has put it into their hearts 48:50 to fulfill His purpose, 48:52 to be of one mind, 48:53 and to give their kingdom to the beast, 48:55 until the words of God are fulfilled." 48:58 Why of one mind? 49:01 Hmm, Hmm. 49:03 You shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart, 49:05 with all your soul and with all your mind. 49:08 If I... What are they going to give to the beast? 49:11 What are they going to give to the beast? 49:13 You just read it in verse... Kingdom. 49:15 They're going to give their... 49:17 They're going to give their power and strength. 49:20 Why? Because they have one. 49:22 These have one mind, 49:23 boom power and the strength, boom, 49:27 mind and hand, 49:30 the condition of their mind will move them to give support. 49:35 So that's why the mark of the beast 49:38 is in the forehead and in the hand, 49:41 not on the hand, in. 49:44 Some translations have on. 49:46 I know. 49:48 And, but so if you go, 49:49 is it that when you go into the Aramaic 49:52 and the Greek it's in. 49:54 It is in. 49:55 But here's the thing 49:57 that doesn't really matter the translation 49:58 because you have to come down, 50:00 you have to come now to the point 50:01 where the forehead, 50:03 are they going to put something on your forehead? 50:05 You cannot ignore the fact 50:07 that when the Lord establishes Ten Commandments to the Jews, 50:10 to the Hebrews of all, 50:11 he says, make them as frontlets between your eyes 50:14 and bind them on your hand. 50:15 Same thing. 50:17 And what did he say? 50:19 I want these to be in your mind. 50:20 I want your life to be lived out the same way. 50:23 So we have to ask ourselves a very important question here 50:25 as we get down to the summarization of this. 50:29 Let's go to Ephesians Chapter 1. 50:33 Okay. 50:34 Because with the contrast, here's the seal of God 50:36 or the mark of the beast. 50:37 Let's look at Ephesians Chapter 1. 50:39 I'm going to have you read this, Yvonne. 50:41 Okay. 50:42 Ephesians Chapter 1... 50:44 And verse 13. Thirteen. 50:46 "In Him you also trusted, 50:49 after you heard the word of truth, 50:51 the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, having believed, 50:56 you were sealed 50:57 with the Holy Spirit of promise." 50:59 Okay. 51:00 So what was the evidence of the sealing? 51:02 Well, when you heard the truth and you heard the gospel, 51:06 what did you do? 51:08 You believed it, 51:09 and what happened as a result of that? 51:11 You were sealed. You were sealed. 51:12 Okay. Now let's go to Revelation 7:3. 51:20 And truly, I'll give you the website in just a moment. 51:22 So you can get the whole kit and caboodle. 51:25 Revelation 7:3. Read it. 51:28 "Saying, hurt not the earth, 51:29 neither the sea, nor the trees, 51:31 till we have sealed the servants of our God 51:34 in their foreheads." 51:35 Okay. 51:37 Don't hurt the earth, neither sea, nor the trees, 51:38 till we have sealed the servants of God, where? 51:41 In their foreheads. 51:43 Why are they being sealed in their foreheads? 51:45 Because they believed. 51:47 They believed, and who sealed them? 51:51 The Holy Spirit. 51:53 They believed. 51:54 Let me make the point very clear, 51:56 because I want to, I want to end with this question. 51:59 Is the seal of God in the forehead literal? 52:03 Answer that question. No. 52:06 Okay. Say it again. No. 52:07 No. No. 52:09 What is it saying? 52:10 I believe the gospel. 52:12 I believe the gospel. 52:14 So speak and so do 52:16 as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty. 52:18 And now, Danny, remember, remember the Bible says 52:22 two horns like a lamb, but speak as a dragon. 52:24 Go to Isaiah 8:24 for us very quickly. 52:27 Isaiah 8:20. 52:30 Okay. Okay. 52:31 Because we live in a land of where religion is abundant, 52:34 but amazingly the two horns like a lamb, 52:37 this lamblike power, it looks religious. 52:40 But listen to what it says, and this is powerful. 52:43 Isaiah 8:20. Go ahead, Danny. 52:44 "To law and to the testimony, 52:46 if they speak not according to this word, 52:49 there is no light in them." 52:50 If they do not what? Speak. 52:52 Listen to what they're saying. 52:56 Don't be distracted by what you see, 53:00 listen to what is being said. 53:03 If they don't speak according to this word. 53:06 Now, when you speak like a dragon, 53:08 are you speaking according to the law and testimony? 53:10 Absolutely not. 53:12 So the Lord is saying to those in, 53:13 to those who are locked up in religion, 53:16 watch out how they speak, 53:18 watch out how they speak. 53:19 That's why it says in vain do they worship me, 53:21 teaching for doctrines. 53:22 Doesn't mean everything that sounds good 53:24 is good or sounds of God 53:26 is of God, it's what is you're saying. 53:27 Powerful point, that's what's being said. 53:30 So Satan is counting on you to believe differently. 53:33 And when you begin to believe differently, 53:35 he wants you to act it out. 53:37 He wants you to live your beliefs, 53:38 and it's impossible to believe one way 53:40 and act another, 53:42 it's impossible, 53:43 because as a man thinketh, so is he. 53:45 Right? 53:46 So speak and so do, 53:48 as those who shall be judged by the law of liberty. 53:50 Now only have enough time to treat this. 53:53 So let's go to Revelation, 53:54 and I'm going to show you Revelation Chapter 13. 53:57 And this is showing you that 54:01 for those who say the mark of the beast 54:03 will be received in the forehead. 54:05 And if you receive that mark, then you will be lost. 54:08 What I want you to see very carefully is 54:10 the way it's treated. 54:12 Danny, read Revelation 13:16. 54:15 Okay. 54:18 And it says, 54:19 "And he causeth all, 54:21 both small and great, rich and poor, 54:24 free and bond 54:25 to receive a mark in their right hand, 54:28 or in their foreheads." 54:29 Now, you read verse 16. Read verse 17 now. 54:32 "And that no man might buy or sell, 54:35 save he that had the mark, 54:37 or the name of the beast, 54:39 or the number of his name." 54:41 Now, Danny, this is the other three 54:42 that was hidden in plain sight. 54:46 You don't have to receive the mark to be lost. 54:49 You could either have the mark 54:52 or the name or the number. 54:56 It's not just one. 54:58 So often we are focused on the mark of the beast, 55:01 but the Bible is saying, 55:02 you don't need the mark of the beast 55:04 to be lost. 55:05 You could either have the mark or the name or the number. 55:08 And I would give you the website in just a moment 55:11 to find out where you could get the full treatment of this 55:13 in the sermons. 55:15 But look at these four slides. 55:16 This is what Satan attacks. 55:18 Everything about God's authority is attacked. 55:20 Bring up the first slide for me. 55:21 The first thing that Satan does, 55:23 he blasphemes God. 55:25 Why? 55:26 "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God in vain." 55:29 He wants to be God, so he attacks his name. 55:31 Look at the next one. 55:33 He creates an image. Why? 55:34 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." 55:37 Exodus 20:4. Look at the third one. 55:40 He demands worship. Why? 55:42 Exodus 20:3, 55:43 "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." 55:46 And the fourth one, 55:48 the mark is an attack on the Sabbath. 55:50 Why? 55:52 Exodus 20:8, 55:53 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 55:54 Now, what did we just see? 55:56 And what did you not think we just saw? 55:58 Look at this. 55:59 Satan attacked the four commandments 56:02 that deals with God. 56:03 He eliminates God from the entire picture. 56:06 He does not just attack the Sabbath, 56:08 he creates an image. 56:09 Because God says, don't have any images. 56:11 He blasphemed His name because God says, 56:14 don't take My name in vain. 56:16 He says, I want to be worshiped 56:17 because God's remember the Sabbath day 56:19 to keep it holy. 56:20 And he establishes everything that's antithetical 56:22 to the only four commandments 56:24 that focus us on worshiping the true God. 56:27 Wow. John, we're out of time. 56:29 So give us the website one more time. 56:30 Where can people go get more information? 56:33 tvsdac.org 56:37 That's TV, there it is, sdac.org. 56:41 That's our church website. 56:42 Click on past sermons 56:44 and look mark of the beast part one 56:45 and mark of the beast part two, 56:47 and also get the three angels' messages booklet 56:49 the idea within that. 56:50 Yeah. 56:51 Well, that's really been great. It's a great start. 56:53 We'll continue very much so. 56:55 Yes, thank you, Pastor John. 56:57 So for those of you at home, 56:58 I hate to tell you this bad news, 57:00 but our time is all gone. 57:01 So till we see you next time, 57:03 may the Lord richly bless you abundantly more 57:06 than you could ever ask or think. |
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