YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, WE WELCOME YOU. 00:00:22.15\00:00:24.05 AND WE WANT TO MENTION THAT WE WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR 00:00:24.05\00:00:27.09 YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR LOVE AND YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND 00:00:27.09\00:00:30.99 PARTICULARLY, WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE JOINED 00:00:30.99\00:00:34.46 THE GO EVANGELISTIC TEAM. >> AMEN. 00:00:34.46\00:00:37.33 >> BUT I'M SHELLEY QUINN. >> AND THIS IS. 00:00:37.33\00:00:41.07 >> J.D. >> I'M THE WIFE OF J.D. QUINN. 00:00:41.07\00:00:44.17 WE GOT THAT RIGHT THIS TIME. >> WE KNOW WHO WE ARE. 00:00:44.17\00:00:46.47 >> AND OUR SPECIAL GUEST IS JAMES RAFFERTY WHO IS LEADING US 00:00:46.47\00:00:49.68 IN A FASCINATING STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAMB AND 00:00:49.68\00:00:53.38 THE DRAGON FROM REVELATION 12. SO YOU MIGHT GRAB YOUR BIBLE AND 00:00:53.38\00:00:57.89 OPEN UP TO REVELATION 12 AND JAMES, BEFORE WE GET GOING ONE 00:00:57.89\00:01:02.16 MORE TIME, WE DO HAVE A SONG WITH PASTOR JOHN, BUT WOULD YOU 00:01:02.16\00:01:07.03 JUST SUMMARIZE VERY BRIEFLY WHAT THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS WE 00:01:07.03\00:01:11.37 HAVE LOOKED AT, OF THE LAMB, THE CHRIST -- THE CHRISTIANS AND THE 00:01:11.37\00:01:16.00 THREE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DRAGON REPRESENTING SATAN. 00:01:16.00\00:01:20.91 >> ABSOLUTELY. REVELATION 12:1 TELLS US THE 00:01:20.91\00:01:23.71 CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ARE FIRST OF ALL THAT THEY ARE 00:01:23.71\00:01:25.81 COVERED IN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:01:25.81\00:01:28.08 NUMBER TWO, THAT THEY ARE STANDING ON THE WORD OF GOD. 00:01:28.08\00:01:31.32 AND NUMBER THREE, THAT THEY ARE ORGANIZED FOR SERVICE. 00:01:31.32\00:01:33.89 AND THEN IN REVELATION 12:3 OF THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT WE HAVE 00:01:33.89\00:01:39.23 IDENTIFIED OF THE DRAGON, NUMBER ONE, HE'S A DECEIVER, VERSE 4. 00:01:39.23\00:01:42.86 NUMBER TWO, HE HATES BECAUSE HE HATES THE WOMAN AND THE CHILD 00:01:42.86\00:01:46.33 THAT BRINGS HER FORTH -- THAT IS BROUGHT FORTH FROM HER. 00:01:46.33\00:01:50.57 AND NUMBER THREE, VERSE 10, THAT HE'S AN ACCUSER. 00:01:50.57\00:01:53.24 SO HE'S FILLED WITH DECEPTION, HATRED AND ACCUSATIONS. 00:01:53.24\00:01:57.21 THESE ARE THINGS, CHARACTERISTICS WE DON'T WANT. 00:01:57.21\00:02:02.35 WE WANT TO BE FILLED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS AND THE 00:02:02.35\00:02:05.45 WORD OF GOD AND BE READY TORE SERVICE. 00:02:05.45\00:02:08.26 >> THAT'S A GREAT BRIEF SUMMARY. >> BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR 00:02:08.26\00:02:10.99 FURTHER STORY. WE HAVE OUR VERY OWN PASTOR JOHN 00:02:10.99\00:02:17.43 LOMACANG WHO WILL BE SINGING "I GIVE ALL OF MY LIFE TO YOU." 00:02:17.43\00:02:23.81 ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY SERVICE TO YOU ¤ 00:02:25.34\00:02:44.86 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY SERVICE TO YOU ¤ ¤ NO MATTER THE COST OR WHAT I 00:02:44.86\00:03:00.88 DO ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY SERVICE TO YOU ¤ 00:03:00.88\00:03:09.45 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY PROBLEMS TO YOU ¤ 00:03:09.45\00:03:17.16 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY PROBLEMS TO YOU ¤ 00:03:17.16\00:03:27.74 ¤ NO MATTER THE COST OR WHAT I DO, ¤ 00:03:27.74\00:03:36.64 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY PROBLEMS TO YOU ¤ 00:03:36.64\00:03:41.55 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY FAMILY TO YOU ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY FAMILY, LORD, TO 00:03:41.55\00:03:55.63 YOU ¤ ¤ NO MATTER THE COST OR WHAT 00:03:55.63\00:04:06.44 OTHERS DO ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY FAMILY TO YOU ¤ 00:04:06.44\00:04:18.82 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY FUTURE TO YOU ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY FUTURE, LORD, TO 00:04:18.82\00:04:34.14 YOU ¤ ¤ NO MATTER THE COST OR WHAT 00:04:34.14\00:04:44.15 OTHERS DO ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY FUTURE TO YOU ¤ 00:04:44.15\00:04:55.06 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY WORSHIP TO YOU ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY WORSHIP TO YOU ¤ 00:04:55.06\00:05:14.21 ¤ NO MATTER THE COST OR WHAT OTHERS DO ¤ 00:05:14.21\00:05:24.42 ¤ I GIVE ALL MY WORSHIP TO YOU ¤ ¤ I GIVE ALL MY WORSHIP TO 00:05:24.42\00:05:45.17 YOU ¤ >> THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL SONG AND 00:05:45.17\00:06:06.83 WE SO RESPECT AND ADMIRE OUR PASTOR JOHN LOMACANG. 00:06:06.83\00:06:11.20 >> HE JUST MAKES IT LOOK SO EASY. 00:06:11.20\00:06:13.10 >> IT IS EASY FOR HIM. AND ONCE AGAIN TONIGHT, WE ARE 00:06:13.10\00:06:16.30 STUDYING THE -- HOW PEOPLE ARE EITHER DEVELOPING THE CHARACTER 00:06:16.30\00:06:20.31 OF THE LAMB, JESUS CHRIST, OR WE ARE REFLECTING THE CHARACTER OF 00:06:20.31\00:06:25.18 SATAN. AND WE ARE JUST GOING TO TURN IT 00:06:25.18\00:06:27.52 RIGHT OVER TO YOU, BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW A LOT 00:06:27.52\00:06:32.12 ABOUT, AND WE'RE LEARNING A LOT. >> AMEN. 00:06:32.12\00:06:34.22 REVELATION 12, AS I SAID EARLIER WHEN WE STARTED, THIS IS 00:06:34.22\00:06:36.69 PROBABLY THE ONE CHAPTER I MIGHT CHOOSE OVER EVERY OTHER IN THE 00:06:36.69\00:06:39.59 BOOK OF REVELATION TO HELP ME AND GUIDE ME IN UNDERSTANDING 00:06:39.59\00:06:43.63 THE GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT WE ARE INVOLVED IN BETWEEN GOOD AND 00:06:43.63\00:06:46.17 EVIL. AND THE BIG STORY, THE BIG 00:06:46.17\00:06:48.07 PICTURE, AND THEN WHAT OUR GOAL IS, WHAT OUR DESTINY IS, AND WE 00:06:48.07\00:06:52.14 HAVE TALKED ABOUT REVELATION 12:1 A NUMBER OF TIMES BUT I 00:06:52.14\00:06:55.58 WANT TO EMPHASIZE ONE MORE TIME, THIS IS OUR DESTINY. 00:06:55.58\00:07:00.35 >> AMEN. >> GOD WANTS TO GET US TO THE 00:07:00.35\00:07:02.75 PLACE WHERE WE ARE CLOTHED IN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS 00:07:02.75\00:07:05.05 CHRIST. WE ARE TRUSTING IN HIS PERFECT 00:07:05.05\00:07:06.22 LIFE AND HIS PERFECT DEATH HIS RESURRECTION. 00:07:06.22\00:07:09.59 WHEN WE GET TO THIS PLACE AND WE ARE STANDING ON THE WORD OF GOD 00:07:09.59\00:07:11.86 AND WE ARE PART OF HIS ORGANIZED CHURCH, WE WILL KEEP THE 00:07:11.86\00:07:15.30 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. IN FACT, THINK ABOUT THIS. 00:07:15.30\00:07:17.23 PREVIOUS TO REVELATION 12:1, THERE IS NO MENTION OF A CHURCH, 00:07:17.23\00:07:21.07 OR A PEOPLE OR INDIVIDUALS WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD IN 00:07:21.07\00:07:23.84 THE BOOK OF REVELATION. NEVER MENTIONED. 00:07:23.84\00:07:25.51 NOT IN REVELATION 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. 00:07:25.51\00:07:30.31 IT'S NOT UNTIL GOD BRINGS US THIS PICTURE OF A WOMAN WHO IS 00:07:30.31\00:07:33.21 CLOTHED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST THAT HE THEN POINTS US 00:07:33.21\00:07:36.32 TO THE REMNANT OF THE WOMAN WHO KEEPS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 00:07:36.32\00:07:39.72 WHAT IS THAT TELLING US? >> AMEN. 00:07:39.72\00:07:42.12 >> THAT ONLY IF WE ARE CLOTHED WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS 00:07:42.12\00:07:45.13 CHRIST, THAT'S WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WORKING IN US AND 00:07:45.13\00:07:49.10 WILLING TO DO GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE. 00:07:49.10\00:07:51.33 SO WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS BY HIS POWER. 00:07:51.33\00:07:53.87 >> YES. >> BY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:07:53.87\00:07:57.27 YES. >> AND INFLUENCE. 00:07:57.27\00:07:58.41 >> IT'S ONLY AS WE SEE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS OUR FULL AND 00:07:58.41\00:08:00.34 COMPLETE SAVIOR THAT WE FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM. 00:08:00.34\00:08:02.18 AND WHEN WE FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM, WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. 00:08:02.18\00:08:05.31 >> AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY WHICH SIDE WE ARE ON 00:08:05.31\00:08:08.45 HERE. >> MM-HMM. 00:08:08.45\00:08:09.35 >> AND HERE'S THE POINT, I THINK IT'S A BEAUTIFUL ONE, THE POINT 00:08:09.35\00:08:12.69 IS IN REVELATION 12:11 THAT THEY, GOD'S PEOPLE OVERCOME HIM 00:08:12.69\00:08:17.86 BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTAMENT AND THEY 00:08:17.86\00:08:20.80 LOVE NOT THEIR LIVES UNDER THE DEATH. 00:08:20.80\00:08:22.73 THE POINT IS, IS THAT WE NEED TO IDENTIFY NOT SO MUCH THAT WE 00:08:22.73\00:08:28.04 AREN'T ACCUSERS, DECEIVERS, AND ANGRY, AND FILLED WITH HATE. 00:08:28.04\00:08:33.84 WE ARE. THE POINT WE NEED TO IDENTIFY IS 00:08:33.84\00:08:36.54 THAT WE CAN OVERCOME THAT. >> AMEN. 00:08:36.54\00:08:38.81 >> WE CAN OVERCOME THE CHARACTERISTICS OF DRAGON. 00:08:38.81\00:08:41.18 WE CAN OVERCOME THE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE 00:08:41.18\00:08:43.75 ACCUSATIONS OF SATAN. SATAN IS BASICALLY -- EVEN IF 00:08:43.75\00:08:46.42 YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO ADMIT, IT SATAN WILL TELL YOU, YOU DON'T 00:08:46.42\00:08:49.36 DESERVE HEAVEN. YOU DON'T DESERVE CHURCH. 00:08:49.36\00:08:51.49 YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE WITH ANYONE OTHER THAN IN PRISON 00:08:51.49\00:08:54.00 SOMEWHERE OR, YOU KNOW -- YOU DON'T DESERVE ANY OF THAT. 00:08:54.00\00:08:57.00 HE WAN WANTS TO LOAD US WITH GUILT. HE WANTS TO PRESS US 00:08:57.00\00:09:03.87 DOWN. HE'S ACCUSING US DAY AND NIGHT. THIS IS HIS FULL-TIME 00:09:03.87\00:09:07.58 JOB. HE DOESN'T TAKE HOLIDAYS OR VACATIONS AND HE DOESN'T SLEEP. 00:09:07.58\00:09:10.75 >> YOU KNOW WHAT THOUGHT JUST STRUCK ME. 00:09:10.75\00:09:13.55 HE'S ACCUSING BUT THERE'S ALMOST -- THE JUXTAPOSITION OF 00:09:13.55\00:09:17.19 THAT IS THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE SO WONDERFUL BUT 00:09:17.19\00:09:20.39 SATAN IS USIN ACCUSING GOD. HE'S EITHER ACCUSING US OR 00:09:20.39\00:09:25.86 ACCUSING GOD. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO THINK 00:09:25.86\00:09:27.30 THEY ARE TOO GOOD, TOO COOL AND DON'T NEED GOD BECAUSE THEY 00:09:27.30\00:09:30.13 DON'T THINK THAT GOD IS ON THEIR SIDE. 00:09:30.13\00:09:31.67 >> AND HOW DO WE OVERCOME THAT? HOW DO WE OVERCOME -- 00:09:31.67\00:09:35.27 >> BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. >> BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. 00:09:35.27\00:09:38.17 >> AND BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY AND THEY LOVE NOT 00:09:38.17\00:09:41.34 THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH. >> YES. 00:09:41.34\00:09:43.71 >> NOW HERE'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT IN 00:09:43.71\00:09:46.55 THIS LAST PHRASE BECAUSE THIS IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF GOD'S 00:09:46.55\00:09:48.82 PEOPLE. THEY ARE SELFLESS. 00:09:48.82\00:09:50.85 THEY ARE OTHER SENT. THEY DON'T LOVE THEIR LIVES. 00:09:50.85\00:09:52.59 THEY ARE NOT THINKING OF THEMSELVES. 00:09:52.59\00:09:54.06 THEY ARE THINKING OF OTHERS. ADVERTISEADVERTISE VITAL FOR 00:09:54.06\00:09:59.76 MARRIAGE -- IT'S VITAL FOREIGN MARRIAGES AND OUR RELATIONSHIPS 00:09:59.76\00:10:02.23 IN COMMUNITIES AND TOWNS. IT'S VITAL WITH OUR 00:10:02.23\00:10:04.40 RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PEOPLE AND NATIONS. 00:10:04.40\00:10:05.97 IT'S VITAL FOR THE CHARACTER OF GOD TO BE FULLY REPRODUCED. 00:10:05.97\00:10:09.64 GOD IS RELATING A PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE JESUS SO MUCH THAT THEY 00:10:09.64\00:10:15.21 DON'T EVEN LIVE -- AND I'M GOING TO SAY THIS CAREFULLY. 00:10:15.21\00:10:17.51 THEY DON'T LIVE BY A CODE OF COMMANDMENTS. 00:10:17.51\00:10:20.42 THEY DO, BUT THE -- THE ESSENCE OF THAT CODE OF COMMANDMENTS IS 00:10:20.42\00:10:25.75 SELFLESS OTHER CENTERED LIVING. THE JEWS COULD TAKE OFF THE 00:10:25.75\00:10:31.06 COMMANDMENTS BUT THEY WEREN'T LIVING OTHER SINNER LIVES. 00:10:31.06\00:10:35.26 JESUS LIVED A SELFLESS LIFE. WHEN HE LIVED A SELFLESS LIFE, 00:10:35.26\00:10:39.23 HE KEPT THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. THAT'S WAS THE OUTWARD 00:10:39.23\00:10:44.14 MANIFESTATION. >> CAN I GIVE YOU A LITTLE 00:10:44.14\00:10:46.74 NUGGETS. >> YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. 00:10:46.74\00:10:49.21 >> ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCRIPTURES HAS BECOME 1 THESSALONIANS 00:10:49.21\00:10:59.12 3:12-13 MAY THE LORD ALLOW TO INCREASE IN LOVE THAT HE MAY 00:10:59.12\00:11:02.79 ESTABLISH YOUR HEART BLAMELESS IN HOLINESS. 00:11:02.79\00:11:06.09 SO AS WE GROW IN LOVE, WE GROW IN HOLINESS. 00:11:06.09\00:11:08.66 >> YES. >> AS I WAS STUDYING THIS 00:11:08.66\00:11:10.47 RECENTLY, YOU KNOW, ROMANS 5:5 SAID GOD POURS HIS LOVE INTO OUR 00:11:10.47\00:11:14.37 HEARTS BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:11:14.37\00:11:17.41 IT OCCURRED TO ME, GOD IS LOVE. HIS PERFECTION, HIS HOLINESS IS 00:11:17.41\00:11:26.48 ESTABLISHED BY THAT LOVE. >> MM-HMM. 00:11:26.48\00:11:28.28 >> AND THEN WHEN HE POURED HIS LOVE INTO OUR HEART, THAT'S HOW 00:11:28.28\00:11:32.35 HE ESTABLISHES OUR PERFECTION. HE MAKES US PERFECT AND IT'S 00:11:32.35\00:11:36.89 ONLY WHEN WE HAVE GOT THAT LOVE THAT -- LIKE YOU SAID, THEN 00:11:36.89\00:11:43.73 OBEDIENCE -- YOU WANT TO OBEY. YOU WANT TO PLEASE YOUR FATHER. 00:11:43.73\00:11:48.04 >> MM-HMM. >> YOU HAVE THE SELF-SACRIFICING 00:11:48.04\00:11:51.94 LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE LORD IN YOUR HEART, AND SO I SEE THE 00:11:51.94\00:11:59.65 GREAT CONTROVERSY KIND OF AS A CONTEST BETWEEN THE 00:11:59.65\00:12:03.92 SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE OF GOD, AND THE SELFISH SELF LOVE OF THE 00:12:03.92\00:12:10.93 DEVIL. >> YOU JUST SUMMARIZED, IT'S 00:12:10.93\00:12:17.40 SELFISHNESS VERSUS SELFLESSNESS. OTHER CENTERED LOVE VERSUS 00:12:17.40\00:12:22.40 SELFISHNESS, I, I, I. WE HAVE iPHONES AND iPADS 00:12:22.40\00:12:24.97 AND WE HAVE IMAX AND WE HAVE I EVERYTHING. 00:12:24.97\00:12:28.18 THAT'S NOT A NEGATIVE. I HAVE AN iPHONE, BUT IT'S THE 00:12:28.18\00:12:31.78 POINT IS, IS THAT OUR SOCIETY IS FOCUSED ON SELF. 00:12:31.78\00:12:34.92 IT ALL COMES TO SELF AND WE LOVE OTHER PEOPLE AND WE WORSHIP 00:12:34.92\00:12:38.49 OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE WE WORSHIP SELF. 00:12:38.49\00:12:40.59 AND WE SEE IN THEM SOMETHING THAT WE WANT OR SOMETHING THAT 00:12:40.59\00:12:43.09 WE ADMIRE THAT WE AT ATTAIN TO THAT GLORIFIES THEM AND THEIR 00:12:43.09\00:12:49.70 SENSE, AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE FANS OF ALL OF THAT. 00:12:49.70\00:12:52.33 IT'S COUNTERFEIT. THE BIBLE, DANIEL 12 00:12:52.33\00:12:55.74 SPECIFICALLY VERSE 3 SAYS THAT WE ARE TO BE STARS. 00:12:55.74\00:12:58.37 EVERYONE IS BORN TO BE A STAR. THERE'S NO SPECIAL PEOPLE THAT 00:12:58.37\00:13:00.44 ARE STARS ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE. BUT ALL OF US IN GOD'S SIGHT ARE 00:13:00.44\00:13:04.55 STARS. TO SHINE AS THE BRIGHTNESS OF 00:13:04.55\00:13:07.32 AFFIRMMENT FOREVER AND EVER AND SO IN REVELATION 12, WE HAVE 00:13:07.32\00:13:11.72 THESE THREE ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S CHURCH, 00:13:11.72\00:13:16.09 OF GOD'S PEOPLE, THEY ARE OVERCOME BY THE BLOOD OF THE 00:13:16.09\00:13:18.73 LAMB. THEY RELY ON JESUS, ON HIS BLOOD 00:13:18.73\00:13:21.33 AND HIS DEATH AND THEY RELY ON WHAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED AND IT 00:13:21.33\00:13:25.00 SAYS THEY HAVE A TESTIMONY. THIS IS IMPORTANT AND 00:13:25.00\00:13:27.70 SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS FOR US TO BE ORGANIZED 00:13:27.70\00:13:30.31 FOR SERVICE, THE CHURCH AND BEING PART OF THE CHURCH DOES 00:13:30.31\00:13:33.01 NOT SAVE US. WE ARE NOT SAVED. 00:13:33.01\00:13:36.01 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> BY BEING PART OF THE CHURCH. 00:13:36.01\00:13:37.85 WE ARE SAVED BY A PERSON NAMED JESUS CHRIST. 00:13:37.85\00:13:40.42 >> AMEN. >> AND A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS 00:13:40.42\00:13:42.28 CHRIST. I DIDN'T KNOW YOU. 00:13:42.28\00:13:43.52 BUT WAIT A MINUTE, WE PROPHESIED. 00:13:43.52\00:13:45.59 WE DID LOTS OF WONDERFUL WORKS IN YOUR NAME. 00:13:45.59\00:13:47.82 WE WERE CHRISTIANS. I DIDN'T KNOW YOU. 00:13:47.82\00:13:49.72 >> WE DID ALL KINDS OF HEALTH FAIRS. 00:13:49.72\00:13:52.39 >> THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS RAISED 00:13:52.39\00:13:55.23 IN A CHURCH, A CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT THAT GO TO CHURCH, 00:13:55.23\00:13:58.53 YOU WERE PART OF A CHURCH THAT DID ALL OF THOSE THINGS. 00:13:58.53\00:14:01.00 THEY HAVE PRAY EVERY NIGHT, AND I DID THAT EVERY NIGHT WHETHER I 00:14:01.00\00:14:04.27 WAS DRUNK OR SOBER, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW CHURCH. 00:14:04.27\00:14:06.31 I DIDN'T HAVE ANY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. 00:14:06.31\00:14:08.58 AND I WASN'T TAUGHT TO I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. 00:14:08.58\00:14:12.71 THAT CHURCH I WAS RAISED IN TEACHES THAT YOU HAVING A 00:14:12.71\00:14:15.65 PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS IS NOT THE IMPORTANT THING BUT 00:14:15.65\00:14:19.15 BEING PART OF THE CHURCH IS IMPORTANT TO. 00:14:19.15\00:14:20.49 ME, THIS IS VITAL BECAUSE THEY HAVE A TESTIMONY, WORLD OF THEIR 00:14:20.49\00:14:23.76 TESTIMONY, WHAT IS THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY? 00:14:23.76\00:14:25.86 IT IS WHAT JESUS HAS DONE IN THEIR LIVES. 00:14:25.86\00:14:27.46 IT'S HOW JESUS HAS WORKED IN THEIR LIVES AND HE'S WORKING IN 00:14:27.46\00:14:29.86 OUR LIVES EVERY SINGLE DAY BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE DAY, YOU 00:14:29.86\00:14:32.20 KNOW, WE ARE FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT AND EVERY SINGLE DAY THEY 00:14:32.20\00:14:35.50 ARE MOVING FORWARD AND YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT PAUL'S TESTIMONY 00:14:35.50\00:14:38.94 WAS. HE WROTE A LOT OF NEW TEST. 00:14:38.94\00:14:42.71 THE PERSON WHO WROTE A GOOD PORTION OF IT WAS LUKE, A GREEK. 00:14:42.71\00:14:46.82 AND PAUL WROTE IT TOO. A LOT OF WHAT HE WROTE WAS HIS 00:14:46.82\00:14:50.52 PERSONAL TESTIMONY AND WHAT HE WAS GOING THROUGH AND HOW GOD 00:14:50.52\00:14:53.22 DELIVERED HIM AND HOW GRACE WAS SUFFICIENT FOR HIM AND WHAT GOD 00:14:53.22\00:14:57.53 DID IN HIS LIFE AND THAT'S POWERFUL. 00:14:57.53\00:14:59.89 YOU HAVE SEE, IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR US TO KNOW THE WORD 00:14:59.89\00:15:02.80 AND TO EXHORT AND TALK ABOUT THE WORD. 00:15:02.80\00:15:04.67 WE NEED TO KNOW THE AUTHOR OF THE WORD. 00:15:04.67\00:15:06.97 WE HAVE NEED TO KNOW THE SAVIOR IN THE WORD AND WE NEED TO KNOW 00:15:06.97\00:15:11.44 HOWL HE'S WORKING IN OUR LIFE AND BE ABLE TO SHARE THAT WITH 00:15:11.44\00:15:14.04 PEOPLE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE. 00:15:14.04\00:15:15.48 THEY ARE LIKE, REALLY? WHAT? 00:15:15.48\00:15:17.15 YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST NOT -- IT'S NOT JUST HERE. 00:15:17.15\00:15:19.88 IT'S HERE. OUR PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. 00:15:19.88\00:15:23.55 >> BY OVERCOMING BY THE WORD OF YOUR TESTIMONY. 00:15:23.55\00:15:27.46 THE PROVERBS SAYS THE POWER OF DEATH AND LIFE IS IN THE TONGUE. 00:15:27.46\00:15:30.53 AND PAUL SAYS IN 2 CORINTHIANS 4:13, HE SAYS, WE BELIEVE -- WE 00:15:30.53\00:15:35.86 SPEAK WITH THE SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH AS IT IS WRITTEN, 00:15:35.86\00:15:41.20 THEREFORE I BELIEVE. -- I BELIEVED AND THEREFORE I 00:15:41.20\00:15:42.94 SPOKE. SO WE ALSO BELIEVE AND THEREFORE 00:15:42.94\00:15:45.24 SPEAK. I THINK SPEAKING IN THE SPIRIT 00:15:45.24\00:15:48.24 OF FAITH IS SOMETHING THAT'S PART OF OUR TESTIMONY. 00:15:48.24\00:15:50.55 WHEN WE ACCEPT THE PROMISES OF GOD, WHEN WE SPEAK THESE 00:15:50.55\00:15:53.92 PROMISES OF GOD, AND SPEAK WITH THAT SPIRIT OF FAITH, THAT'S ONE 00:15:53.92\00:15:56.55 OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK HELPS US OVERCOME. 00:15:56.55\00:15:58.72 >> AND THAT'S PART OF OUR EXPERIENCE. 00:15:58.72\00:16:00.99 >> YES. >> BECAUSE OUR EXPERIENCE IS 00:16:00.99\00:16:02.29 SPEAKING TOWARDS THE FAITH, AND THE SPEAKING -- 00:16:02.29\00:16:05.39 >> EVERYBODY -- EVERYBODY HANDLES THAT DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE 00:16:05.39\00:16:08.26 EVERYBODY HAS DIFFERENT DNA. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE 00:16:08.26\00:16:11.10 THAT CAN'T REMEMBER EVERYTHING, BUT YET THEY CAN TESTIFY. 00:16:11.10\00:16:13.64 YOU KNOW, THEY CAN SAY WHAT JESUS DOES IN THEIR LIFE. 00:16:13.64\00:16:16.77 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> AND A LOT OF PEOPLE BEAT 00:16:16.77\00:16:18.47 THEMSELVES UP, OH, I DON'T -- I CAN'T -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT 00:16:18.47\00:16:24.48 THAT -- I CAN'T REMEMBER, AND I KNOW I USED TO BEAT MYSELF UP ON 00:16:24.48\00:16:27.05 IT. BOY, I KEPT REMEMBERING. 00:16:27.05\00:16:29.28 LORD, I WILL COME WHEN I HAVE TO STAND AND I HAVE TO BE ABLE TO 00:16:29.28\00:16:31.89 TESTIFY FOR YOU. I'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO SAY THE 00:16:31.89\00:16:34.26 SAME WORDS AND THEN IT CAME -- IT CAME AND HE SAID, THAT'S A 00:16:34.26\00:16:38.96 OKAY J.D. I WILL BRING TO YOUR 00:16:38.96\00:16:41.03 REMEMBRANCE. YOU NEED TO GET IN AND STUDY AND 00:16:41.03\00:16:43.43 BRING THAT UP TO ME. THAT'S HELPED A LOT OF PEOPLE 00:16:43.43\00:16:46.13 BECAUSE OTHERWISE -- MAYBE THAT'S THE WORKS. 00:16:46.13\00:16:48.84 BUT YOU DON'T MEAN FOR THIS TO BE THE WORKS IT. 00:16:48.84\00:16:51.04 KIND OF GETS COMPLICATED. >> IT'S NOT. 00:16:51.04\00:16:53.24 SEE, WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING J.D., WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING, 00:16:53.24\00:16:56.64 SHELLEY, ARE A TESTIMONY. >> YEAH. 00:16:56.64\00:16:58.01 >> YOU ARE DESCRIBING HOW GOD HAS LED YOU TO CLAIM HIS 00:16:58.01\00:17:00.42 PROMISES. >> RIGHT. 00:17:00.42\00:17:01.28 >> YOU ARE DESCRIBING HOW GOD HAS LED YOU IN YOUR OWN PERSONAL 00:17:01.28\00:17:04.59 EXPERIENCE AND PEOPLE ARE LISTENING AND PEOPLE THAT CAN'T 00:17:04.59\00:17:07.42 RELATE TO ANYTHING I SAID TONIGHT ARE GOING TO RELATE TO 00:17:07.42\00:17:09.59 WHAT YOU HAVE SAID OR RELATE TO WHAT YOU SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M 00:17:09.59\00:17:12.43 SAYING? BECAUSE WE ARE ALL HUMANS THAT 00:17:12.43\00:17:13.80 HAVE A TESTIMONY AND AN EXPERIENCE AND THE TESTIMONY 00:17:13.80\00:17:16.73 EXPERIENCE OF ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE NEED TO BE HEARD. 00:17:16.73\00:17:21.04 SOME OF US ARE TONGUES AND SOME OF US OR EARS AND SOME OF US ARE 00:17:21.04\00:17:24.17 THUMBS AND SOME OF US ARE FEET AND TOES, RIGHT? 00:17:24.17\00:17:26.98 >> AMEN. >> AND AS THE BODY COMMUNICATES 00:17:26.98\00:17:29.11 THIS TESTIMONY, THE WORLD LISTENS AND THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT 00:17:29.11\00:17:33.78 THERE WHOSE CONSCIENCE IS PRICKED AND THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:17:33.78\00:17:36.18 CONVICTS THEM. THEY SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, I CAN 00:17:36.18\00:17:37.99 REALLY RELATE TO THAT. AND THAT DRAWS THEM, EACH ONE 00:17:37.99\00:17:40.36 WHO IS LISTENING HERE. AND SO THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE. 00:17:40.36\00:17:43.79 >> AMEN. >> TONIGHT. 00:17:43.79\00:17:44.76 WE ARE READING THESE BIBLE VERSES. 00:17:44.76\00:17:46.46 WE ARE READING A MIXTURE EVER PROPHECY AND SPIRITUAL CHARACTER 00:17:46.46\00:17:50.27 DEVELOPMENT. WE ARE READING ABOUT OUR 00:17:50.27\00:17:52.13 FAILURES AND WEAKNESSES AND OUR INCLINATION TO BE FILLED WITH 00:17:52.13\00:17:55.97 HATE AND ANGER AND DECEPTION AND ACCUSATION AND THE DESIRE THAT 00:17:55.97\00:17:59.94 JESUS HAS AND THE POWER THAT HE HAS TO HELP US TO OVERCOME THIS 00:17:59.94\00:18:03.31 BY HIS BLOOD AND BY HIS TESTIMONY, AND BY THE SELFLESS 00:18:03.31\00:18:08.08 LOVE THAT HE WANTS TO PUT IN OUR HEARTS. 00:18:08.08\00:18:09.45 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE READING ABOUT, BUT WE ARE ALSO READING 00:18:09.45\00:18:11.82 ABOUT PROPHECY. WE ARE READING ABOUT GOD'S 00:18:11.82\00:18:13.36 CHURCH AND THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT JESUS WAS BORN INTO AS A 00:18:13.36\00:18:16.93 JEW. AND HOW THAT TRANSITION TOOK 00:18:16.93\00:18:18.53 PLACE FROM THAT OLD TESTAMENT, LITERAL JEWISH CHURCH TO THE NEW 00:18:18.53\00:18:22.40 CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND HOW GOD DELIVERED THEM INTO A GLORIOUS 00:18:22.40\00:18:26.10 LAND OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THEN IN 00:18:26.10\00:18:29.60 THE NEW TESTAMENT, GOD TOOK HIS CHURCH THAT WAS PERSECUTED AND 00:18:29.60\00:18:33.71 IT BROUGHT THEM THROUGH THIS DARK PERIOD AND OUT INTO A PLACE 00:18:33.71\00:18:37.78 CALLED THE EARTH THAT SWALLOWED UP THE FLOOD OF PERSECUTION AND 00:18:37.78\00:18:41.58 HE BROUGHT HIM WITH EAGLE'S WINGS JUST LIKE DID HE IN THE 00:18:41.58\00:18:44.59 OLD TESTAMENT AND GAVE THEM ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND 00:18:44.59\00:18:47.29 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. AND HOW IN THIS PLACE THIS 00:18:47.29\00:18:49.59 EARTH, THAT THIS POWER, THIS GOVERNMENT, THIS EARTHLY KINGDOM 00:18:49.59\00:18:54.46 WOULD RISE UP THAT HAD THE PRINCIPLES THAT WERE LAMB-LIKE 00:18:54.46\00:18:56.73 AT FIRST, OUR CONSTITUTION AND THE AMENDMENTS AND ALL THE 00:18:56.73\00:18:59.63 PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL FREEDOM, THAT A 00:18:59.63\00:19:05.11 RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL FREEDOM, THAT IS GOING TO TRANSITION INTO 00:19:05.11\00:19:07.64 THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DRAGON. >> MM-HMM. 00:19:07.64\00:19:10.21 >> AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DRAGON NOW ARE WHAT WE WANT TO 00:19:10.21\00:19:13.31 LOOK AT AS WE MOVE PAST REVELATION CHAPTER 12. 00:19:13.31\00:19:16.79 WE WILL CLOSE OUT REVELATION 12:17 THE DRAGON WAS BROTH WITH 00:19:16.79\00:19:22.82 THE WOMAN AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED TO 00:19:22.82\00:19:26.90 KEACH THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS. 00:19:26.90\00:19:28.73 WE TALKED ABOUT THE COMMANDMENTS AND THAT'S ANOTHER 00:19:28.73\00:19:33.90 CHARACTERISTIC OF GOD'S PEOPLE. WE RECOGNIZE IN REVELATION 00:19:33.90\00:19:41.91 19:10, IT'S A GIFT THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO HIS CHURCH TO 00:19:41.91\00:19:45.21 UNDERSTAND PROPHECY. JAMES, YOU UNDERSTAND PROPHECY. 00:19:45.21\00:19:47.18 I UNDERSTAND PROPHECY BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN THIS CHURCH THE 00:19:47.18\00:19:49.52 GIFT OF PROPHECY AND I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THAT GIFT OF 00:19:49.52\00:19:52.79 PROPHECY AND I HOLD THAT GIFT OF PROPHECY AND THAT GIFT. 00:19:52.79\00:19:56.19 PROPHECY HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND BIBLE PROPHECY AND I'M TALKING 00:19:56.19\00:19:59.59 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE WRITINGS. AND THEN IT SAYS HERE 17 STILL, 00:19:59.59\00:20:05.43 THE DRAGON IS WROTH AND HE GOES TO MAKE WAR. 00:20:05.43\00:20:08.77 SO YOU SEE THE DRAGON WARS AND IN REVELATION 13:1, JOHN STANDS 00:20:08.77\00:20:15.44 UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA AND HE SEES ANOTHER BEAST. 00:20:15.44\00:20:18.21 I SAW A BEAST RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA, A BEAST REPRESENTS AN 00:20:18.21\00:20:21.48 EARTHLY HUMAN POWER ACCORDING TO DANIEL 17:23 AND HE HAS SEVEN 00:20:21.48\00:20:28.16 HEADS AND 10 HORNS AND UPON HIS HEAD IS 10 HORNS AND BLASPHEMY 00:20:28.16\00:20:36.97 OR SLANDER. AND THE MOUTH WAS THE MOUTH OF A 00:20:36.97\00:20:41.64 LION AND THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER, HIS SEAT AND GREAT 00:20:41.64\00:20:44.94 AUTHORITY. SO THIS IS ALSO AN EARTHLY POWER 00:20:44.94\00:20:50.08 THAT HAS THESE DRAGON-LIKE POWERS. 00:20:50.08\00:20:54.38 I DON'T WANT TO GET OFF, THE DRAGON AND YOU ARE IDENTIFYING 00:20:54.38\00:20:56.79 THESE. NO, WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE 00:20:56.79\00:20:59.45 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DRAGON. WE ARE LOOKING AT EARTHLY 00:20:59.45\00:21:01.82 POWERS, POLITICAL POWERS, RELIGIOUS POWERS THAT ARE 00:21:01.82\00:21:05.89 DECEPTIVE, THAT ARE ACCUSETORY, THAT ARE ANGRY AND FILLED WITH 00:21:05.89\00:21:11.60 HATE. THAT HAS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT. 00:21:11.60\00:21:13.97 DO WE THESE THOSE KIND OF RELIGIOUS POWERS IN THE WORLD 00:21:13.97\00:21:17.37 TODAY? YES. 00:21:17.37\00:21:17.84 ARE WE LIKE THAT? >> HMM. 00:21:17.84\00:21:21.58 >> YES. >> SELF-EXAMINATION. 00:21:21.58\00:21:24.38 >> NATURALLY WE TEND IN THAT DIRECTION. 00:21:24.38\00:21:27.05 GOD WANTS TO FILL US WITH THE LAMB-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS 00:21:27.05\00:21:29.98 SON JESUS. THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS TO US DO. 00:21:29.98\00:21:31.79 WE ARE IN THIS CONTROVERSY. AND WE ARE POINT TO RELIGIOUS 00:21:31.79\00:21:35.29 ENTITIES AND WE CAN POINT TO GRAND CATHEDRALS AND WE CAN 00:21:35.29\00:21:37.99 POINT TO THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING THESE TERRIBLE 00:21:37.99\00:21:40.30 THINGS, BUT WHERE DO WE STAND? DON'T MASK OUR OWN HEARTS BY 00:21:40.30\00:21:45.07 POINTING AT ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, FAULTS OF OTHER PEOPLE. 00:21:45.07\00:21:47.60 WE ARE JUST BECOMING THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 00:21:47.60\00:21:53.24 WE WANT TO IDENTIFY THE SYSTEMS THAT WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN 00:21:53.24\00:21:57.85 HARMONY WITH BUT WE WANT TO EXAMINE OUR OWN HEARTS THAT WE 00:21:57.85\00:22:00.68 ARE NOT DEVELOPING THESE SYMBOLS. 00:22:00.68\00:22:02.25 IT SAYS THAT THE DRAGON GIVES POWER TO THIS EARTHLY POWER, 00:22:02.25\00:22:10.33 THIS BEAST. THINK ABOUT THIS, THE WHOLE 00:22:10.33\00:22:11.76 WORLD IS WONDERING AFTER THIS EARTHLY POWER, WHICH IS A 00:22:11.76\00:22:14.73 RELIGIOUS POWER, BECAUSE IN VERSE 4, IT TALKS ABOUT HOW THEY 00:22:14.73\00:22:18.70 WORSHIPED THE DRAGON WHEN GAVE POWER TO THE BEAST AND WHO IS 00:22:18.70\00:22:22.30 LIKE UNDER THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WORE WITH 00:22:22.30\00:22:24.51 HIM? -- WAR WITH HIM. 00:22:24.51\00:22:26.71 SOMETIMES WE THINK ABOUT SATAN COMING IN THAT DRAGON-LIKE FORM 00:22:26.71\00:22:31.05 AND THE DRAGON IS A SYMBOL. THIS' NOWHERE WHERE SATAN IS RED 00:22:31.05\00:22:35.92 AND WITH A HORN. >> IT SAYS THAT HE MASQUERADES 00:22:35.92\00:22:41.32 AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. >> YES IN 2 CORINTHIANS 13, 14 00:22:41.32\00:22:47.96 AND 15. HE'S GIVING IF FALSE PICTURE OF 00:22:47.96\00:22:49.70 WHAT HE REALLY LOOKS LIKE. THERE'S NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE 00:22:49.70\00:22:51.80 THAT PICTURES HIM LIKE THAT. HE'S PICTURES AS AN ANGEL OF 00:22:51.80\00:22:55.37 LIGHT AND THE MINISTERS ARE THE MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:22:55.37\00:22:58.37 AND WE DON'T WANT TO EMPHASIZE NECESSARILY WHO IS BECAUSE WE 00:22:58.37\00:23:02.18 CAN IDENTIFY THIS. WE CAN'T IDENTIFY IT THROUGH 00:23:02.18\00:23:04.45 HISTORY. IT IS VERY EASY TO IDENTIFY THIS 00:23:04.45\00:23:06.25 RELIGIOUS SYSTEM AND TO IDENTIFY THE NEXT POWER THAT COMES UP OUT 00:23:06.25\00:23:08.65 OF THE EARTH. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED AS THE UNITED 00:23:08.65\00:23:10.85 STATES. BUT THAT WON'T DO US ANY GOOD 00:23:10.85\00:23:12.75 WHATSOEVER IF WE MISS THE CHARACTERISTICS AND WE ARE 00:23:12.75\00:23:15.26 DEVELOPING THOSE CHARACTERISTICS. 00:23:15.26\00:23:16.42 SO WHAT ARE THEY? WELL, IT SAYS HERE IN VERSE 5, 00:23:16.42\00:23:18.83 AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS IN 00:23:18.83\00:23:23.23 BLASPHEMIES OR SLANDERS DO. WE SPEAK GREAT THINGS ABOUT 00:23:23.23\00:23:27.50 OURSELVES DO WE FILL OURSELVES UP? 00:23:27.50\00:23:29.24 DO WE SLANDER O OTHER PEOPLE? DO WE PUT OTHER PEOPLE DOWN TO 00:23:29.24\00:23:33.21 BENEFIT OURSELVES? YOU SEE, THESE ARE THE THINGS 00:23:33.21\00:23:35.51 THAT -- THESE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF DRAGON. 00:23:35.51\00:23:38.78 HE SPEAKS GREAT THINGS ABOUT HIMSELF. 00:23:38.78\00:23:40.75 HE LIFTS HIMSELF UP. AND THE BIBLE SAYS LET ANOTHER 00:23:40.75\00:23:44.89 MAN PRAISE YOU AND NOT YOUR OWN WORDS. 00:23:44.89\00:23:48.76 AND HE SLANDERS OTHER. YOU KNOW HOW IT IS WHEN YOU WANT 00:23:48.76\00:23:50.53 TO MAKE YOURSELF LOOK BETTER THAN SOMEONE ELSE, YOU CAN DO IT 00:23:50.53\00:23:56.10 SUBTLY, OR OPENLY. LOOK OUT FOR THEM, BECAUSE THEY 00:23:56.10\00:23:59.80 ARE... AND THEN IT GOES ON HERE. 00:23:59.80\00:24:01.30 HE OPENED HIS MOUTH AGAINST BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD AND 00:24:01.30\00:24:06.44 TABERNACLE AND HIS WILL IN HEAVEN. 00:24:06.44\00:24:07.71 I THINK IS DONE THROUGH DOCTRINES PRIMARILY. 00:24:07.71\00:24:11.08 THERE ARE DOCTRINES TAUGHT FROM THE BIBLE THAT SLANDER GOD'S 00:24:11.08\00:24:18.25 CHARACTER. >> I AGREE 100%. 00:24:18.25\00:24:19.69 >> AND WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS IN THAT CONTEST, AS WELL AS 00:24:19.69\00:24:22.32 MAKING IT PERSONAL. AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO 00:24:22.32\00:24:26.66 MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AGAIN THE SAME PRINCIPLE AND POWERS 00:24:26.66\00:24:31.03 GIVEN UNTO HIM AMONG ALL KINDRED NATIONS AND ALL THAT DWELL IN 00:24:31.03\00:24:38.61 EARTH WHAT IS THAT DOING IN REVELATION 13? 00:24:38.61\00:24:42.04 YOU SEE, THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE GOSPEL. 00:24:42.04\00:24:44.28 AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS REPLETE WITH THESE BEAUTIFUL 00:24:44.28\00:24:48.65 OASIS OF THE GOSPEL. THESE ISLANDS OF GOSPEL TRUTHS. 00:24:48.65\00:24:51.39 YOU JUST CAN'T GO TOO FAR. WE HAVE CAN'T SWIM AN OCEAN 00:24:51.39\00:24:55.16 BEFORE WE COME TO THIS ISLAND, THIS OASIS. 00:24:55.16\00:24:57.59 WE HAVE CAN'T WALK THROUGH THIS DESERT LAND OF BEASTS AND 00:24:57.59\00:25:01.50 DRAGONS AND JUDGMENTS AND PLAGUES WITHOUT COMING THIS OWE 00:25:01.50\00:25:07.94 OASIS, THIS WATER OF LIFE AND YOU HAVE THIS LAMB SLAIN FROM 00:25:07.94\00:25:10.71 THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF TIME, GOD 00:25:10.71\00:25:14.28 ORCHESTRATED A PLAN TO RESCUE US IF WE SHOULD CHOOSE TO GO INTO 00:25:14.28\00:25:16.78 THE WRONG DIRECTION. >> RIGHT. 00:25:16.78\00:25:18.28 >> AND SO HERE IS THE MIND THAT HAS WISDOM. 00:25:18.28\00:25:22.48 OKAY? IF ANY MAN HAS AN EAR LET HIM 00:25:22.48\00:25:26.09 HEAR. HE WHO LEADS INTO CAPTIVITY 00:25:26.09\00:25:27.86 SHOULD GO INTO CAPTIVITY. HE WHO KILLS WITH THE SWORD MUST 00:25:27.86\00:25:31.29 BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD. HERE IS THE PATIENCE AND THE 00:25:31.29\00:25:34.20 FAYE FAITH OF THE SAINTS, RETALIATION, REVENGE. 00:25:34.20\00:25:39.83 IT'S SO NATURAL. YOU JUST DRIVE DOWN THAT FREEWAY 00:25:39.83\00:25:44.31 AND DON'T TELL ME THAT YOU ARE NOT INCLINED TO RETALIATION WHEN 00:25:44.31\00:25:48.14 THAT GUY PULLS OUT IN FRONT OF. >> YOU NOT ME. 00:25:48.14\00:25:50.45 >> YEAH. >> NO. 00:25:50.45\00:25:51.15 NO. NO. 00:25:51.15\00:25:51.71 [ LAUGHTER ] >> NO ROAD RAGE HERE. 00:25:51.71\00:25:54.55 I'M WANTING TO GET AS FAR AWAY FROM HIM AS I CAN. 00:25:54.55\00:25:56.95 >> GOOD FOR YOU! AND I'M TELLING YOU THIS IS PART 00:25:56.95\00:26:00.42 OF THE CYCLE OF A HUMAN NATURE. THIS IS WHAT WE STRUGGLE WITH ON 00:26:00.42\00:26:06.73 THAT RUBBER MEET THE ROAD LEVEL IN OUR LIVES. 00:26:06.73\00:26:10.50 RETALIATION. AND SO RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE 00:26:10.50\00:26:11.93 OF THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY, GOD SAYS NO. 00:26:11.93\00:26:15.80 VENGEANCE IS MINE. IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, WHAT DO 00:26:15.80\00:26:19.07 YOU DO? >> FEED. 00:26:19.07\00:26:20.44 >> IF HE'S THIRSTY, WHAT DO YOU DO? 00:26:20.44\00:26:22.54 >> GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK. >> REALLY? 00:26:22.54\00:26:24.28 ARE YOU SERIOUS? [ LAUGHTER ] 00:26:24.28\00:26:27.02 THIS IS THE FAITH AND THE PATIENCE OF SAINTS. 00:26:27.02\00:26:29.85 >> AND I HAVE TO SAY, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO SET MYSELF UP JUST 00:26:29.85\00:26:32.19 BECAUSE I'M NOT ONE WHO SUFFERS FROM ROAD RAGE, WHERE MY 00:26:32.19\00:26:39.39 RETALIATORY TENDENCIES COME IN IS IF SOMEONE IS FUSSING AT ME, 00:26:39.39\00:26:44.57 I'M -- I'M NOT GOOD AT TAKING UP FOR MYSELF. 00:26:44.57\00:26:47.90 I WILL KIND OF SIT THERE BUT THEN I GO HOME AND I'M THINKING 00:26:47.90\00:26:51.24 OF ALL OF THESE THINGS I WISHED I HAD SAID. 00:26:51.24\00:26:54.48 >> MM-HMM. >> THAT IS A SPIRIT OF 00:26:54.48\00:26:56.54 RETALIATION. >> YES, IT IS. 00:26:56.54\00:26:57.25 >> AND SO IT'S NOT -- IT'S NOT -- NONE OF US ARE EXEMPT 00:26:57.25\00:27:03.65 FROM THAT. >> RIGHT. 00:27:03.65\00:27:04.55 AND LET ME SAY THIS, SOMETIMES RETALIATION IS NOT TOO MUCH WHAT 00:27:04.55\00:27:08.92 WHAT -- SO MUCH WHAT WE DO, IT'S WHAT WE NEGLECT TO DO. 00:27:08.92\00:27:11.93 I'M NOT PRAYING FOR THAT GUY. THAT'S THE PERSON I WILL BE 00:27:11.93\00:27:15.50 PRAYING FOR. I WILL BE PRAYING FOR MY WIFE 00:27:15.50\00:27:18.60 AND MY KIDS AND FAMILY BUT NOT THAT GUY. 00:27:18.60\00:27:20.70 I'M NOT PRAYING FOR TERRORISTS. I'M NOT PRAYING FOR A DEMOCRATIC 00:27:20.70\00:27:24.64 PRESIDENT. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 00:27:24.64\00:27:27.28 THESE ARE THE PRINCIPLES. THESE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS. 00:27:27.28\00:27:30.51 WHO DID JESUS PRAY FOR? >> OH,. 00:27:30.51\00:27:33.31 >> ON THE CHRIST WHO DID HE PRAY FOR? 00:27:33.31\00:27:35.18 >> HE PRAYED FOR THOSE WHO WERE KILLING HIM, PERSECUTING HIM. 00:27:35.18\00:27:38.52 >> THESE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAMB. 00:27:38.52\00:27:40.69 >> YEAH. >> AND IF YOU THINK THAT OUR 00:27:40.69\00:27:43.69 TEST IS KNOWING WHAT DAY IS THE RIGHT DAY TO GO TO CHURCH AND 00:27:43.69\00:27:45.99 KNOWING WHAT DAY IS THE WRONG DAY OR KNOWING WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 00:27:45.99\00:27:48.20 YOU DIE A AND WHETHER YOU GO TO HEAVEN IMMEDIATELY OR NOT OR 00:27:48.20\00:28:00.74 KNOWING 2200 DAY PROPHECY. THOSE ARE DOCTRINES AND TRUTHS 00:28:00.74\00:28:03.58 THAT ARE FOUNDATION BUT WE NEED TO SETTLE INTO THE TRUTH BOTH 00:28:03.58\00:28:07.05 INTELLECTUALLY AND SPIRITUAL SO THAT WE CANNOT BE MOVED. 00:28:07.05\00:28:09.08 >> I THINK THAT'S INTERESTING, I'M JUST LOOKING AT -- YOU KNOW, 00:28:09.08\00:28:12.65 EXAMINING MYSELF AS WE ARE GOING THROUGH THIS, MAN, WOW! 00:28:12.65\00:28:16.93 >> MM-HMM. >> YOU KNOW, I'M PAYING MORE 00:28:16.93\00:28:18.66 ATTENTION TO HOW IT'S AFFECTED ME PERSONALLY, KIND OF GETTING 00:28:18.66\00:28:23.10 OFF OF THE, QUOTE, THE SYMBOLS AND I THINK THAT JESUS -- 00:28:23.10\00:28:27.50 >> PRAISE GOD. THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO BE. 00:28:27.50\00:28:29.04 BECAUSE WE FEED NEED TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF BOOKS OF 00:28:29.04\00:28:34.21 REVELATION AND DANIEL, AND DEVELOP OUR HEARTS WITH 00:28:34.21\00:28:37.51 CHARACTER, TO REALIZE 9 REWARD WHICH IS TO BE THE PURE OF THE 00:28:37.51\00:28:41.12 HEART. >> WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE MANY 00:28:41.12\00:28:43.15 QUESTIONS RIGHT NOVEL. NOW. 00:28:43.15\00:28:45.52 WE WILL FINISH OUR STUDY BUT THERE IS SOMEONE WHO IS WRITING 00:28:45.52\00:28:51.03 IN WHO SAYS WHAT IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST? 00:28:51.03\00:28:53.56 COULD YOU MENTION THAT? >> I WILL MENTION IT AGAIN. 00:28:53.56\00:28:55.03 SO IT'S ATHEOLOGICAL TERM AND SOMETIMES WE DON'T ALWAYS 00:28:55.03\00:28:58.50 UNDERSTAND IT BUST THE RIGHTEOUS N OF JESUS CHRIST IS HIS PERFECT 00:28:58.50\00:29:00.94 LIFE. HE LED A PERFECT LIGHT OF 00:29:00.94\00:29:02.97 OBEDIENCE. HE RIGHTEOUS -- RIGHTEOUSNESS 00:29:02.97\00:29:04.81 MEANS RIGHT DOING. HE DID RIGHT ALL THE TIME. 00:29:04.81\00:29:07.98 AND HIS PERFECT DEATH. HE TOOK THE SINS OF THE ENTIRE 00:29:07.98\00:29:11.21 WORLD UPON HIMSELF AND HE BORE THE WEIGHT OF ALL OF THOSE SINS 00:29:11.21\00:29:14.85 ON THE CROSS. HIS PERFECT LIFE, HIS PERFECT 00:29:14.85\00:29:17.85 DEATH, AND RESURRECTION FROM THAT DEATH IS HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:29:17.85\00:29:21.52 AND SO IT IS OUR TITLE AND OUR FITNESS FOR HEAVEN. 00:29:21.52\00:29:24.13 IT'S OUR JUSTIFICATION. IT'S OUR SANCTIFICATION. 00:29:24.13\00:29:27.50 IT'S OUR GLORIFICATION. AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF VERSES I 00:29:27.50\00:29:29.10 CAN GIVE YOU ON THAT. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:29, 30 AND 31. 00:29:29.10\00:29:34.94 HE'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE'S OUR GLORIFICATION. 00:29:34.94\00:29:40.04 HE'S OUR SANCTIFICATION. AND EPHESIANS 2. 00:29:40.04\00:29:46.11 WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS ON TWO GOOD 00:29:46.11\00:29:50.52 WORKS WHICH GOD HAS ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM. 00:29:50.52\00:29:57.36 >> AND THE POINT WE WALK HOME, WHEN YOU ACCEPT CHRIST AS YOUR 00:29:57.36\00:30:00.53 SAVIOR, YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY HIS ACTS. 00:30:00.53\00:30:04.30 YOU ARE SANCTIFIED THEN. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST IS 00:30:04.30\00:30:08.00 CREDITED TO YOUR ACCOUNT AND IT IS BOTH, I BELIEVE, IMPARTED TO 00:30:08.00\00:30:13.41 YOU, OR IMPUTED TO YOU, JUST PUT INTO YOUR ACCOUNT AND IMPARTED 00:30:13.41\00:30:17.68 TO YOU BECAUSE THEN HE'S WORKING IN YOU TO HELP SATISFY. 00:30:17.68\00:30:21.02 >> ABSOLUTELY. I WANT TO CLARIFY THIS BECAUSE 00:30:21.02\00:30:24.35 PEOPLE GET CONFUSED ABOUT THIS. WE LIVE A SANCTIFIED LIFE BUT 00:30:24.35\00:30:29.82 OUR OBEDIENCE WILL NEVER REPLACE HIS OBEDIENCE. 00:30:29.82\00:30:32.99 WE WILL NEVER COME TO A PLACE WHERE WELL, I HAVE GOT TO YOU TO 00:30:32.99\00:30:35.93 THE PLACE WHERE YOU ARE ABLE TO BE SAVED NOW, AND YOU NO LONGER 00:30:35.93\00:30:40.60 NEED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST. 00:30:40.60\00:30:43.00 >> NEVER. >> THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS 00:30:43.00\00:30:44.04 CHRIST IS WHAT MOTIVATES US TO OBEY AND IT IS THE GIFT OF OUR 00:30:44.04\00:30:46.98 SALVATION, AND WHEN WE REALIZE THAT, IT MOTIVATES US TO WANT TO 00:30:46.98\00:30:50.38 LIVE FOR JESUS. AND WE DO THESE WORKS. 00:30:50.38\00:30:53.48 OBEDIWE ARE OBEDIENT TO HIM. AND JESUS IS SO BLESSED AND 00:30:53.48\00:30:59.59 THANKFUL THAT WE WANT TO OBEY HIM. 00:30:59.59\00:31:04.79 >> I THINK WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WE ARE A WORK IN PROGRESS. 00:31:04.79\00:31:07.03 WE ARE ALWAYS A WORK IN PROGRESS. 00:31:07.03\00:31:09.53 >> AMEN. OKAY. 00:31:09.53\00:31:10.23 SO WE'LL CONTINUE ON. >> OKAY. 00:31:10.23\00:31:12.47 >> INTERPOSE WITH QUESTIONS WHENEVER YOU WANT TO, BUT -- SO 00:31:12.47\00:31:14.70 AS WE MOVE THROUGH THESE NEXT VERSES NOW, AND WE RECOGNIZE 00:31:14.70\00:31:18.61 THIS PRINCIPLE OF RETALIATION, I WANT YOU TO LOOK HERE IN VERSES 00:31:18.61\00:31:21.94 11 AND ONWARD, HERE'S WHERE IT GETS REALLY INTENSE. 00:31:21.94\00:31:26.11 OKAY? AND I BEHOLD ANOTHER BEAST 00:31:26.11\00:31:27.62 COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH. THAT'S THE PLACE WHERE THE WOMAN 00:31:27.62\00:31:29.85 WAS GIVEN TO ESCAPE THE PERSECUTION, THE GLORIOUS LAND 00:31:29.85\00:31:33.82 OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB. 00:31:33.82\00:31:36.22 THIS COUNTRY WAS BORN ON THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY 00:31:36.22\00:31:40.46 AND CIVIL LIBERTY BUT SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON. 00:31:40.46\00:31:43.83 A CHANGE. TAKE PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY. 00:31:43.83\00:31:45.47 A CHANGE WILL TAKE PLACE. WE ARE GOING TO GO CONTRARY TO 00:31:45.47\00:31:48.70 THE CONSTITUTION, CONTRARY TO THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS 00:31:48.70\00:31:51.37 FREEDOM AND CIVIL FREEDOM. AND HE EXERCISED ALL THE POWER 00:31:51.37\00:31:56.11 OF THE FIRST BEAST EARTHLY POWER FOR HIM AND DWELL TO WORSHIP THE 00:31:56.11\00:32:04.15 FIRST BEAST. >> CONTROLLING. 00:32:04.15\00:32:06.15 >> CONTROLLING. HE'S GOING TO FORCE THEM. 00:32:06.15\00:32:08.06 HE'S GOING TO FORCE THEM. >> MM-HMM. 00:32:08.06\00:32:10.26 >> DID YOU EVER FORCE NI ANYONE TO DO SOMETHING? 00:32:10.26\00:32:14.73 >> YOU CERTAINLY CAN'T FORCE -- MANY PARENTS TRY TO FORCE THEIR 00:32:14.73\00:32:17.47 CHILDREN AND THAT'S WHEN YOU SEE ALL THE REBELLIONS. 00:32:17.47\00:32:20.54 >> HOW ABOUT ADULTS. HAVE YOU EVER FORCED AN ADULT TO 00:32:20.54\00:32:22.74 DO SOMETHING FOR YOU? >> I DON'T THINK SO. 00:32:22.74\00:32:26.14 >> NOW DON'T THINK ABOUT THIS IN THE LIGHT OF PHYSICAL FORCE. 00:32:26.14\00:32:31.05 >> YEAH. >> MANIPULATE? 00:32:31.05\00:32:32.81 MANIPULATION. THAT'S KEY WORD. 00:32:32.81\00:32:34.45 >> I DON'T THINK I HAVE DONE THAT EITHER. 00:32:34.45\00:32:38.72 >> MANIPULATION. I DO THAT ON A REGULAR BASIS SO 00:32:38.72\00:32:41.22 SUBTLY IN THE WAY THAT I TREAT MY WIFE OR NEGLECT TO TREAT HER 00:32:41.22\00:32:44.83 OR THE LOOKS I G HER GIVE HER. >> SHE'S WATCHING, YOU ARE IN 00:32:44.83\00:32:51.60 TROUBLE. >> MANIPULATION IS A BIG WORD IN 00:32:51.60\00:32:53.10 OUR FAMILY AND WE TALK ABOUT IT. WE WANT TO BE RID OF THESE 00:32:53.10\00:32:57.21 PRINCIPLES. WE WANT TO OPENLY TALK ABOUT 00:32:57.21\00:33:00.04 THIS OR FEEL -- I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING MANIPULATED RIGHT NOW. 00:33:00.04\00:33:05.58 REALLY WHY? SOMETIMES IT'S SO SUBTLE. 00:33:05.58\00:33:07.02 REMEMBER WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER. SOME PEOPLE LOOK SO GOOD TO 00:33:07.02\00:33:10.19 THEMSELVES THEY HAVE NO IDEA THAT THIS IS -- THAT THEY ARE 00:33:10.19\00:33:11.95 ACTUALLY DOING THIS. THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE 00:33:11.95\00:33:13.96 SURPRISED IN MATTHEW 7:21, LORD, LORD, LOOK AT US. 00:33:13.96\00:33:17.86 WAIT A MINUTE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT, WHAT, WHAT? 00:33:17.86\00:33:20.30 >> I REMEMBER THAT? >> AND WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT 00:33:20.30\00:33:22.16 THESE PRINCIPLES OF BEAST, UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE WORLD IS 00:33:22.16\00:33:26.23 FOLLOWING THIS POWER. THE WHOLE WORLD IS GOING ALONG 00:33:26.23\00:33:29.10 WITH THIS. WHY? 00:33:29.10\00:33:30.64 BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEVELOPED THE SAME PRINCIPLES. 00:33:30.64\00:33:33.34 >> MM-HMM. >> THEY HAVE DEVELOPED THE SAME 00:33:33.34\00:33:35.64 PRINCIPLES. SO THE REASON WHY PEOPLE ARE 00:33:35.64\00:33:37.65 GOING TO ESCAPE AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT IN REVELATION 00:33:37.65\00:33:40.85 14, THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB, THE REASON WHY THEY ESCAPE THE BEAST 00:33:40.85\00:33:44.65 AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF HIS POWER IS BECAUSE IT'S CONTRARY TO THE 00:33:44.65\00:33:49.06 CHARACTER THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING. 00:33:49.06\00:33:50.53 THEY HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING JESUS AND THEY CAN'T GO ALONG WITH 00:33:50.53\00:33:52.76 THAT BECAUSE JESUS HAS LED THEM IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION AND IT 00:33:52.76\00:33:55.16 HAS LED THEM TO DEVELOP PRINCIPLES THAT ARE NOT IN 00:33:55.16\00:33:59.80 HARMONY WITH THOSE PRINCIPLES. YOU CAN'T BUY YOURSELF, DON'T 00:33:59.80\00:34:03.17 CARE. DON'T CARE. 00:34:03.17\00:34:03.91 THEY ARE NOT DECEIVED ABOUT THIS THIS. 00:34:03.91\00:34:06.07 THEY SEE IT PAINLY AND THEY LOOK AND THEY HAVE VISION AND THEY 00:34:06.07\00:34:09.78 HAVE DISCERNMENT TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES. 00:34:09.78\00:34:12.38 AND SO IT SAYS HERE, VERSE 13, HE DOES GREAT WONDERS SO THAT HE 00:34:12.38\00:34:16.58 MAKES FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN IN THE SIDE -- IN THE EARTH IN 00:34:16.58\00:34:20.16 THE SIGHT OF MAN AND DECEIVES. THE FIRE HAS GOT TO BE CONNECTED 00:34:20.16\00:34:23.86 WITH DECEPTION. I BELIEVE THIS FIRE IS A SYMBOL 00:34:23.86\00:34:27.03 AGAIN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE FIRE REPRESENTS THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:34:27.03\00:34:30.20 AND SO YOU'VE GOT THIS HOLY SPIRIT POWER THAT'S CAUSING 00:34:30.20\00:34:33.20 PEOPLE TO BE DECEIVED. >> WELL, IT'S NOT THE HOLY 00:34:33.20\00:34:36.94 SPIRIT POWER, BUT WE HAVE GOT A FALSE -- 00:34:36.94\00:34:42.44 >> SPIRIT. >> A FALSE SPIRIT. 00:34:42.44\00:34:43.81 >> I CAN PROVE THAT. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:2, THEY COME 00:34:43.81\00:34:48.95 PREACHING ANOTHER JESUS, ANOTHER GOSPEL AND ANOTHER SPIRIT. 00:34:48.95\00:34:53.86 SO WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS DECEPTION THAT'S TAKING PLACE 00:34:53.86\00:34:56.69 THROUGH THE SPIRIT MANIFESTATION THAT IS NOT THE TRUE HOLY SPIRIT 00:34:56.69\00:34:59.66 BUT IT SEEMS LIKE A RELIGIOUS SPIRIT. 00:34:59.66\00:35:02.03 IT STILL SEEMS LIKE A JESUS SPIRIT. 00:35:02.03\00:35:04.03 IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A GOSPEL SPIRIT. 00:35:04.03\00:35:06.33 BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT STANDING ON THE WORD OF GOD. 00:35:06.33\00:35:09.30 >> COUNTERFEIT. >> BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALLOWED THE 00:35:09.30\00:35:10.71 PRINCIPLES OF DRAGON, RATHER THAN THE PRINCIPLES OF JESUS, 00:35:10.71\00:35:12.91 THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO DISCERN AND IT GOES ON AND IT SAYS DECEIVE 00:35:12.91\00:35:16.58 THEM, AND DWELL IN THE EARTH BY MEANS OF THOSE MIRACLES WHICH 00:35:16.58\00:35:19.91 THEY HAVE POWER AND THEREFORE THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE THE POWER 00:35:19.91\00:35:22.82 IS THE FAKE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE THERE'S MIRACLES WHICH HE HAD 00:35:22.82\00:35:25.89 POWER TO DO IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST THAT THEY SHOULD MAKE AN 00:35:25.89\00:35:29.79 IMAGE TO THE BEAST WHICH THEY DID A WOUND TO THE SWORD AND 00:35:29.79\00:35:33.70 THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK AND CAUSE AS 00:35:33.70\00:35:36.77 MANY WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, SHOULD BE WHAT? 00:35:36.77\00:35:40.67 KILLED. THERE'S FORCE AGAIN. 00:35:40.67\00:35:42.20 AND HE CALLS ALL TO RECEIVE A MARK IN RIGHT HAND OR THE 00:35:42.20\00:35:50.05 FOREHEAD. HE THAT HAVE THE MARK OR THE 00:35:50.05\00:35:51.01 NAME OF THE BEAST OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME. 00:35:51.01\00:35:53.25 CONTROL. WE ARE GOING TO FORCE. 00:35:53.25\00:35:54.42 WE ARE GOING TO CONTROL. WE ARE GOING TO KILL. 00:35:54.42\00:35:56.18 WE ARE GOING TO COERCE. WE ARE GOING TO MANIPULATE AND 00:35:56.18\00:36:01.02 DECEIVE. THESE ARE ALL THE 00:36:01.02\00:36:02.22 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BEAST. ARE THEY OUR CHARACTERISTICS? 00:36:02.22\00:36:04.83 >> YES. >> DO WE CONTROL AND MANIPULATE. 00:36:04.83\00:36:09.43 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HEAD, THE MARK IN THE HEAD OR THE HAND 00:36:09.43\00:36:12.00 BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A 00:36:12.00\00:36:14.20 COMPUTER CHIP OR SOMETHING THAT IS A LITERAL MARK WHEREAS THE 00:36:14.20\00:36:18.31 BIBLE SYMBOLICALLY, WHAT THE -- WHAT THE MARK IN THE FOREHEAD 00:36:18.31\00:36:22.51 SIGNIFIES IS THE MIND AND WHAT THE MARK IN THE HAND IS 00:36:22.51\00:36:25.08 SIGNIFIES IS THE ACTIONS. SO IT'S YOUR THOUGHT AND YOUR 00:36:25.08\00:36:27.92 ACTIONS. >> WHICH I THINK IS REALLY 00:36:27.92\00:36:29.22 SIGNIFICANT, BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE SEAL OF GOD, YOU 00:36:29.22\00:36:31.89 REALIZE THE BIBLE TELLS US YOU CAN ONLY RECEIVE THE SEAL OF GOD 00:36:31.89\00:36:35.02 IN THE FOREHEAD. YOU CAN'T RECEIVE THE SEAL OF 00:36:35.02\00:36:37.39 GOD IN THE HAND. >> RIGHT. 00:36:37.39\00:36:39.29 RIGHT. >> THE SEAL OF GOD IN THE 00:36:39.29\00:36:40.70 FOREHEAD REPRESENTS WHAT YOU BELIEVE, AND YOU CAN ONLY BE 00:36:40.70\00:36:43.16 SAVED IF YOU BELIEVE WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART, MIND AND SOUL THAT 00:36:43.16\00:36:51.01 JESUS CHRIST IS MESSIAH. THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE DECEIVED 00:36:51.01\00:36:54.38 WHO DO NOT BELIEVE AND RECEIVE THE SEAL OF GOD BUT MANY OF THEM 00:36:54.38\00:36:57.45 ARE NOT GOING TO BE DECEIVED INTO THINKING THAT THE MARK OF 00:36:57.45\00:37:02.15 THE BEAST IS THE WAY WE NEED TO WORSHIP GOD. 00:37:02.15\00:37:04.95 THEY ARE SIMPLY GOING TO GO ALONG WITH IT. 00:37:04.95\00:37:07.12 >> THAT'S THEIR ACTIONS. THE HAND. 00:37:07.12\00:37:09.76 >> I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN THE COUNTRY OF PAKISTAN, I WAS DOING 00:37:09.76\00:37:13.16 A SERIES OF REVELATION STUDIES THERE FOR ABOUT 300 PASTORS FROM 00:37:13.16\00:37:17.60 EVERY DENOMINATION. AND I WAS MOVING THROUGH THE 00:37:17.60\00:37:19.70 BOOK OF DANIEL AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND I REMEMBER WE GOT 00:37:19.70\00:37:22.80 TO THE PLACE WHERE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MARK OF THE 00:37:22.80\00:37:25.34 BEAST IN THE HAND OR IN THE FOREHEAD AND I HAD ALREADY 00:37:25.34\00:37:29.18 BROUGHT UP THE CHANGE OF THE SABBATH IN DANIEL 7 FROM 00:37:29.18\00:37:33.42 SATURDAY TO SUNDAY. >> MM-HMM. 00:37:33.42\00:37:35.42 >> AND THEY WERE GETTING A LITTLE BY NERVOUS AND TENSE. 00:37:35.42\00:37:37.55 THEY HAVE DIDN'T NECESSARILY APPRECIATE 9 IDEA OF SATURDAY 00:37:37.55\00:37:42.12 BEING THE SABBATH BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL SUNDAY KEEPING PASTORS. 00:37:42.12\00:37:45.93 ALL OF THEM WERE. SO THEY ASKED ME TO MENTION 00:37:45.93\00:37:50.80 SUNDAY AGAIN. I WAS IN PAKISTAN TWO TIMES 00:37:50.80\00:37:53.50 BEFORE THIS. I WAS EAGER TO UNDERSTAND HOW 00:37:53.50\00:37:55.00 THE COUNTRY OPERATED. IT WAS AN ISLAMIC STATE. 00:37:55.00\00:37:57.81 IT IS AN ISLAMIC STATE. AND I WAS WAKING UP IN THE 00:37:57.81\00:38:00.38 MORNING TO THE NATIONAL... AND THE MORNING PRAYERS, THE 00:38:00.38\00:38:06.31 AFTERNOON PRAYERS, FIVE TIMES A GAY. 00:38:06.31\00:38:08.35 THE PRAYERS WOULD COME OUT AND AS I REMEMBER, ACT WAKENED BY 00:38:08.35\00:38:13.36 THESE PRAYERS, I WOULD LOOK OUT THE WINDOW AND SEE IF PEOPLE 00:38:13.36\00:38:17.26 WERE OUT THERE WITH THE PRAYER MATS. 00:38:17.26\00:38:18.96 I ASKED ABOUT IT, THEY SAID ONLY THE VERY RELIGIOUS, ONLY THE 00:38:18.96\00:38:22.93 VERY DEVOUT GO TO THE MOSQUE. I REMEMBER WHEN THE DAY OF 00:38:22.93\00:38:25.90 PRAYER CAME, I WAS EAGER TO SEE HOW THEY WOULD OBSERVE THAT. 00:38:25.90\00:38:28.27 I THOUGHT IN THIS COUNTRY, THEY PROBABLY CLOSE BUSINESS ON 00:38:28.27\00:38:31.64 FRIDAYS. BUT ON THAT FRIDAY, AND EVERY 00:38:31.64\00:38:33.44 FRIDAY THAT I WAS THERE, BUSINESSES WERE OPEN. 00:38:33.44\00:38:35.64 I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY STRANGE. SO I CANA I ASKED ABOUT IT, ONLY 00:38:35.64\00:38:42.65 THE DEVOUT TO THE MOSQUE FOR PRAYER ON FRIDAY. 00:38:42.65\00:38:47.92 AND ON SUNDAY MORNING, I WAS IN KARACHI. 00:38:47.92\00:38:50.06 I BOOKED OUT AND THIS WAS NOBODY. 00:38:50.06\00:38:52.76 >> HMM. >> AND THAT DAY THERE WERE NO 00:38:52.76\00:38:54.10 BUSINESSES OPENED. THERE WAS TO TRAFFIC. 00:38:54.10\00:38:56.36 THERE WERE NO PEOPLE ANYWHERE ON SUNDAY. 00:38:56.36\00:38:58.23 >> HOW FASCINATING! >> IN A COUNTRY THAT IS AN 00:38:58.23\00:39:01.17 ISLAMIC STATE. NOW THIS WAS IN 1997, '98, AND 00:39:01.17\00:39:04.37 '99 AND I ASKED SOMEONE ABOUT IT. 00:39:04.37\00:39:05.74 I SAID I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. 00:39:05.74\00:39:07.74 THIS IS AN ISLAMIC STATE. THIS IS A VERY RECENT 00:39:07.74\00:39:11.58 OCCURRENCE. PAKISTAN CHANGED THE DAY THAT 00:39:11.58\00:39:13.98 ALL BUSINESSES ARE CLOSED FROM FRIDAY TO SUNDAY BECAUSE THEY 00:39:13.98\00:39:17.65 WERE FALLING TOO FAR BEHIND ON THE ECONOMIC WORLDWIDE LEVEL 00:39:17.65\00:39:22.26 WITH THE REST OF THE COUNTRIES WHO WERE OPEN FOR BUSINESS ON 00:39:22.26\00:39:25.29 FRIDAYS AND CLOSED ON SUNDAYS. AND I SAID, HOW DID THE -- YOU 00:39:25.29\00:39:30.03 KNOW, THE FUNDAMENTALISTS MUSE IMS FEEL ABOUT THIS. 00:39:30.03\00:39:35.14 OH, THEY -- MUSE MUSLIMS FEEL ABOUT THIS? 00:39:35.14\00:39:40.21 THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT FOR 00:39:40.21\00:39:42.44 ECONOMIC REASONS. FAST FORWARD TO THE MEETING AND 00:39:42.44\00:39:44.11 THEY ARE TELLING ME NOT TO TALK ABOUT SUNDAY AND I'M TALKING 00:39:44.11\00:39:46.78 ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND I BRING UP THE QUESTION AND THE 00:39:46.78\00:39:50.79 QUESQUESTION I BRING UP, IF THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD CHOOSE A DAY 00:39:50.79\00:39:56.16 THAT THEY WOULD SET ASIDE THAT THERE WOULD BE NO BUYING OR 00:39:56.16\00:39:59.83 SELLING, WHAT DAY WOULD THEY CHOOSE? 00:39:59.83\00:40:01.13 AND BEFORE THEY COULD ANSWER. I SAID WHAT DAY AS THE ISLAMIC 00:40:01.13\00:40:06.47 REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN HAS CHOSEN TO CLOSE ALL BUSINESSES AND THE 00:40:06.47\00:40:10.94 PASTORS LOOKED AT EACH OTHER WITH BIG EYES AND THEY ALL SAID 00:40:10.94\00:40:15.11 IN UNISON, SUNDAY. I SAID, I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT. 00:40:15.11\00:40:18.95 I THINK YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED THIS PROPHECY AND WHAT IT'S 00:40:18.95\00:40:23.32 PREDICTING PERFECTLY. >> THE MARK AND THE HAND. 00:40:23.32\00:40:25.85 >> THE MARK AND THE HAND. MUSLIMS IN PAKISTAN, THEY DON'T 00:40:25.85\00:40:30.46 BELIEVE THAT SUNDAY IS A SACRED DAY OR A HOLY DAY BUT THEY GO 00:40:30.46\00:40:35.00 AHEAD AND WITHDRAW FROM BUSINESS. 00:40:35.00\00:40:37.70 THEY WITHHOLD THEIR HANDS FROM DOING THE LABOR ON THAT DAY 00:40:37.70\00:40:40.47 BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC PRESSURE THAT'S COMING UPON THEM FROM THE 00:40:40.47\00:40:42.47 REST OF THE WORLD. NOW, WHAT GOD IS DOING -- 00:40:42.47\00:40:44.87 >> AND PLEASE CLARIFY FOR SOMEONE WHO MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR 00:40:44.87\00:40:47.91 WITH YOU OR THE STATION OR FOR WASN'T WITH US FOR THE FIRST 00:40:47.91\00:40:53.58 HOUR. SUNDAY IS -- HAS BEEN A -- IS A 00:40:53.58\00:40:57.49 SUBSTITUTED DAY. THE BIBLE DOES NOT MAKE SUNDAY 00:40:57.49\00:41:01.16 SACRED IN ANY SCRIPTURE. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:41:01.16\00:41:03.22 YOU JUST CLARIFIED THAT. SO THE BIBLE TEACHES THE SEVENTH 00:41:03.22\00:41:08.63 DAY SABBATH IS SATURDAY AND I STRUGGLED WITH THIS, BECAUSE I 00:41:08.63\00:41:10.87 WAS RAISED IN A CHRISTIAN HOME. I WENT TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY. 00:41:10.87\00:41:13.67 I WAS AN ALTAR BOY AND WHEN MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT SHE GOES TO 00:41:13.67\00:41:17.24 CHURCH ON SATURDAY, I THOUGHT SHE WAS LOONY. 00:41:17.24\00:41:19.04 AND SO I SAID, I'M GOING TO PROVE HER WRONG AND I WENT AND 00:41:19.04\00:41:21.94 GOT, YOU KNOW, A BIBLE AND I -- >> YOU AND I HAVE BEEN DOWN THE 00:41:21.94\00:41:26.01 SAME ROAD! [ LAUGHTER ] 00:41:26.01\00:41:27.12 AND SO THIS WAS A REAL REVELATION IN MY MIND. 00:41:27.12\00:41:31.55 I REMEMBER SHARING IT WITH MY FAMILY AND MY AUNT SAID NO, NO, 00:41:31.55\00:41:34.62 NO THERE'S -- JUST, YOU KNOW -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE 00:41:34.62\00:41:37.13 TALKING ABOUT. SUNDAY IS THE SABBATH AND I WENT 00:41:37.13\00:41:39.36 AND GOT HER A CALENDAR. NOW THE CALENDARS ARE CHANGING 00:41:39.36\00:41:43.70 NOW. THE CALENDAR , THE SUNDAY IS THE 00:41:43.70\00:41:49.00 SEVENTH. LOOK UP SUNDAY, FIRST DAY OF THE 00:41:49.00\00:41:51.01 WEEK. AND SATURDAY IS THE SEVENTH DAY 00:41:51.01\00:41:52.64 OF THE WEEK. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW 00:41:52.64\00:41:54.71 THIS. GOD IS GIVING US AN 00:41:54.71\00:41:56.48 UNDERSTANDING OF THIS. HE'S NOT SEEKING TO CONDEMN OR 00:41:56.48\00:42:01.45 CRITICIZE ANYONE. HE'S GIVING US THE FACTS. 00:42:01.45\00:42:03.22 HERE ARE THE FACTS. THE WHOLE WORLD WILL COME 00:42:03.22\00:42:05.55 TOGETHER AND SET ASIDE A DAY OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AND ECONOMIC 00:42:05.55\00:42:09.56 BOYCOTT IS GOING TO GO AGAINST THOSE AND ECONOMIC SANCTIONS 00:42:09.56\00:42:12.66 WILL GO AGAINST THOSE. IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING. 00:42:12.66\00:42:17.43 IT'S HAPPENED IN PAKISTAN AND A LOT OF IS ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. 00:42:17.43\00:42:23.47 GO ON THE INTERNET AND FIND THE BUSINESS HOURS. 00:42:23.47\00:42:26.04 THE ONLY ONE THAT I FOUND THAT DID NOT CLOSE ON SUNDAY WAS 00:42:26.04\00:42:29.14 SAUDI ARABIA, INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY AND ABLE TO DO THAT. 00:42:29.14\00:42:31.95 BUT WE ARE ALREADY SEEING THE IMPACT OF THIS PROPHECY TAKING 00:42:31.95\00:42:35.15 PLACE. IT IS THE MARK OF THE POWER, 00:42:35.15\00:42:38.09 THIS EARTHLY RELIGIOUS POWER THAT'S CHANGED THE DAY FROM 00:42:38.09\00:42:41.22 SATURDAY, FROM THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH TO SUNDAY. 00:42:41.22\00:42:44.29 THESE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS. WE PRETTY MUCH COVERED MOST OF 00:42:44.29\00:42:47.50 THEM. THE POINT IS THIS IT DOESN'T 00:42:47.50\00:42:49.23 MATTER IF YOU ARE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST OR A CATHOLIC OR A 00:42:49.23\00:42:52.10 BAPTIST OR A MUSLIM OR AN ATHEIST. 00:42:52.10\00:42:55.14 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU ARE, THESE ARE THE 00:42:55.14\00:42:57.51 CHARACTERISTICS THAT WILL DETERMINE OUR DESTINY FOR THE 00:42:57.51\00:43:02.58 FUTURE. ARE WE DEVELOPING THE 00:43:02.58\00:43:03.98 CHARACTERISTICS OF DRAGON OR THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LAMB IN THE 00:43:03.98\00:43:06.68 CHARACTERISTICS OF LAMB ARE FURTHER TALKED ABOUT IN 00:43:06.68\00:43:09.08 REVELATION 14. WE HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO LOOK AT 00:43:09.08\00:43:10.65 ALL OF THEM HERE BUT JUST QUICKLY, THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB 00:43:10.65\00:43:12.92 WHEREVER HE GOES. THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB. 00:43:12.92\00:43:15.49 THEY ARE LAMB-LIKE. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY GOW IN THEIR 00:43:15.49\00:43:21.86 MOUTHS. THEY ARE NOT SLANDERING PEOPLE 00:43:21.86\00:43:23.77 AND NOT PUTTING PEOPLE DOWN. AND THEIR FIRST FRUITS IN JAMES 00:43:23.77\00:43:27.67 1:18, FIRST FRUITS MEAN TO BE BORN AGAIN, BORN AGAIN OF THE 00:43:27.67\00:43:30.74 WORD OF GOD AND THEY GIVE THE THREE ANGELS MESSAGES. 00:43:30.74\00:43:35.34 AND THAT SUMMARIZES THEM AS HAVING THE FAITH OF JESUS AND 00:43:35.34\00:43:38.65 HAVING THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. THESE ARE THE PRINCIPLES. 00:43:38.65\00:43:40.68 THESE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT GOD WANTS US TO SEE 00:43:40.68\00:43:46.25 INCONTRAST WITH EACH OTHER AND BY HIS GRACE HE WANTS US TO 00:43:46.25\00:43:48.59 DEVELOP THESE. >> AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN 00:43:48.59\00:43:51.36 DEVELOP THOSE IS BY DYING TO SELF AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DIE 00:43:51.36\00:43:54.23 TO SELF IS BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:43:54.23\00:43:56.10 >> YES. >> I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ROMANS 8:13 00:43:56.10\00:43:58.53 SAYS THAT IF WE LIVE FOR THE FLESH, WE WILL DIE BUT IF WE 00:43:58.53\00:44:03.77 LIVE BY THE SPIRIT -- IF BY THE SPIRIT WE PUT TO DEATH THE 00:44:03.77\00:44:08.28 MISDEEDS OF OUR FLESH, WE LIVE. >> AND WE HAVE TO BE WILLING TO 00:44:08.28\00:44:11.08 RECOGNIZE AND ADMIT THAT WE ARE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST BY GRACE. 00:44:11.08\00:44:14.78 >> ABSOLUTELY! >> NO EXCUSES. 00:44:14.78\00:44:15.65 WE HAVE TO ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT TO CONVICT US OF THE 00:44:15.65\00:44:21.69 WRETCHEDNESS OF OUR OWN HEARTS. PAUL SAID HE WAS THE CHIEF OF 00:44:21.69\00:44:24.59 SINNERS. HE KNEW HOW DESPERATE HIS HEART 00:44:24.59\00:44:26.29 WAS AND HOW WICKED HIS HEART WAS. 00:44:26.29\00:44:28.33 ENVIRHE KNEW HOW HOW MUCH HE DIED. >> IT SEEMS LIKE WHEN YOU 00:44:28.33\00:44:37.57 ARE TALKING ABOUT CHARACTERISTICS, YOU ARE ON A 00:44:37.57\00:44:40.38 LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. EVERYBODY'S SCORECARD IS 00:44:40.38\00:44:41.68 DIFFERENT. WE ARE ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD 00:44:41.68\00:44:43.75 BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING AT CHARACTERISTICS AS WE TURN IT 00:44:43.75\00:44:45.85 OVER TO THE LORD, THEN IS THROUGH THE WORD THAT YOU ARE 00:44:45.85\00:44:50.89 CONVICTED. >> J.D., THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO 00:44:50.89\00:44:53.15 SUMMARIZE EVERYTHING WE TALKED ABOUT. 00:44:53.15\00:44:55.06 CHARACTERISTICS PUT US ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. 00:44:55.06\00:44:57.06 >> YEAH. >> THE GROUND IS LEVEL AT THE 00:44:57.06\00:44:58.36 FOOT OF THE CROSS. >> YEAH. 00:44:58.36\00:45:00.53 >> AMEN. >> PRAISE GOD. 00:45:00.53\00:45:01.60 >> DOKAY. LET ME ASK YOU A FEW OF THESE 00:45:01.60\00:45:05.00 QUESTIONS. WE HAVE JUST ABOUT TEN MINUTES 00:45:05.00\00:45:07.27 LEFT HERE TO DO THIS. THIS IS FROM CHARLES IN 00:45:07.27\00:45:09.40 PENNSYLVANIA. THEY ARE CALLING FROM 00:45:09.40\00:45:10.31 PHILADELPHIA, ACTUALLY. HE SAID IF YOU EQUATE THE EARTH 00:45:10.31\00:45:13.98 IN REVELATION 12:16 TO THE UNITED STATES, ARE YOU SAYING 00:45:13.98\00:45:17.85 THAT DURING THE 1260 DAYS YEARS OF PERSECUTION GOD'S PEOPLE WERE 00:45:17.85\00:45:25.89 EUROPEANS? >> NO. 00:45:25.89\00:45:26.39 WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT DURING THE PERIOD OF THE 1260 YEARS, 00:45:26.39\00:45:29.82 DURING THAT TIME, GOD'S PEOPLE FLED TO DESOLATED PLACES IN 00:45:29.82\00:45:34.66 EUROPE AND GOD'S PEOPLE ALSO FLED TO THE UNITED STATES OF 00:45:34.66\00:45:37.47 AMERICA. NOT FOR THE WHOLE TIME. 00:45:37.47\00:45:40.37 EVEN -- NOT FOR THE WHOLE TIME DID THEY FLEE TO PLACES IN 00:45:40.37\00:45:44.27 EUROPE. IT WAS DURING THAT TIME, AT 00:45:44.27\00:45:45.57 DIFFERENT POINTS IN THIS TIME THEY FLED TO THESE DIFFERENT 00:45:45.57\00:45:48.68 PLACES. SO BEFORE 1798, BEFORE THAT 00:45:48.68\00:45:50.71 PERIOD WAS OVER, GOD'S CHURCH WAS TAKEN TO AMERICA. 00:45:50.71\00:45:54.65 >> AND THE REASON YOU KEEP SAYING DESOLATE PLACE IS BECAUSE 00:45:54.65\00:45:59.45 IN REVELATION -- A C SIGNIFIES A MULTITUDE OF PEOPLES. 00:45:59.45\00:46:05.13 >> MULTITUDE AND TONGUES BUT THE EARTH WOULD SIGNIFY A LESS 00:46:05.13\00:46:10.60 POPULATED AREA. >> THIS IS FROM AARONSON IN 00:46:10.60\00:46:15.00 HYATTSVILLE, MARYLAND -- >> LET ME FINISH WITH THAT 00:46:15.00\00:46:17.31 QUESTION. AND WHAT WAS THE GUY'S NAME? 00:46:17.31\00:46:20.21 >> THAT WAS CHARLES IN PHILADELPHIA. 00:46:20.21\00:46:22.94 >> SO CHARLES, AND THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12 00:46:22.94\00:46:27.42 THE WOMAN IS IDENTIFIED AS FLEEING TWICE DURING THE 1260 00:46:27.42\00:46:31.89 YEAR PERIOD. IN THE VERSE 6 SHE FLEES TO THE 00:46:31.89\00:46:35.92 WILLERNESS, I BELIEVE THAT'S EUROPE AND IN 13, 14, 15, SHE 00:46:35.92\00:46:39.93 FLEES TO ANOTHER PLACE BUT IN THAT FLEEING SHE'S GIVEN TWO 00:46:39.93\00:46:42.76 WINGS OF AN EAGLE TO COME INTO HER PLACE AND THEN THE EARTH 00:46:42.76\00:46:46.77 MENTIONS THAT SWALLOWS UP THE FLOOD OF PERSECUTION. 00:46:46.77\00:46:53.17 >> 1260 YEARS IS A LONG TIME. >> YES. 00:46:53.17\00:46:55.61 >> IT'S DURING THAT TIME THAT SHE KN FLEES. 00:46:55.61\00:47:00.52 >> 70 YEARS, THAT'S A LONG TIME BACK THEN. 00:47:00.52\00:47:03.12 THAT'S A LOT OF GENERATIONS. >> OKAY. 00:47:03.12\00:47:05.92 WHEN YOU SAY 70 YEARS BACK THEN, THAT WAS 70 YEARS FOR A 00:47:05.92\00:47:09.49 GENERATION. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:47:09.49\00:47:10.36 >> OKAY. HARRISON STEVEN SAYS WHEN WE 00:47:10.36\00:47:19.67 CRITICIZE EACH OTHER, IS THAT THE WORK OF THE DEVIL. 00:47:19.67\00:47:21.90 >> IT IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL. IT IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL. 00:47:21.90\00:47:24.11 IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO NATURALLY BECAUSE ADAM, FROM THE 00:47:24.11\00:47:27.48 FALL, CRITICIZED EVE, WHO TURNED AROUND AND CRITICIZED THE 00:47:27.48\00:47:30.98 SERPENT AND BOTH OF THEM IN A SENSE WERE CRITICIZING GOD AND 00:47:30.98\00:47:33.68 POINTING A FINGER. IT WAS THE WOMAN. 00:47:33.68\00:47:35.02 IT WAS THE CER SERPENT. GOD, WHY DID YOU MAKE A SERPENT? 00:47:35.02\00:47:44.36 THAT I THINK THAT'S THE LAST FRONTIER FOR ALL OF US. 00:47:44.36\00:47:46.76 ALL OF US TEND TO BE NATURALLY CRITICAL OF SOMETHING, EVEN OF 00:47:46.76\00:47:50.83 OURSELVES. EVEN OF OURSELVES. 00:47:50.83\00:47:52.23 >> YEP. YEP. 00:47:52.23\00:47:52.93 >> AND SO GOD WANTS TO RID THAT FROM US COMPLETELY. 00:47:52.93\00:47:56.17 HE WANTS TO FILL US WITH HIS FAITH, THE WAY HE LOOKS AT US: 00:47:56.17\00:47:59.64 IN FACT, HEBREWS CHAPTER 11. THINK ABOUT IT THIS WAY. 00:47:59.64\00:48:03.11 IT'S FAITH CHAPTER. YOU READ ABOUT MOSES. 00:48:03.11\00:48:06.21 YOU READ ABOUT ABRAHAM AND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT FAITHFUL, AND 00:48:06.21\00:48:12.62 EVEN SAMPSON IS THERE, AMAZINGLY ENOUGH. 00:48:12.62\00:48:14.76 NOT ONE CRITICAL WORD IN HEBREWS 11. 00:48:14.76\00:48:17.69 WHEN GOD SUMMARIZES HIS PEOPLE FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT WHO MADE 00:48:17.69\00:48:20.83 LOTS OF MISTAKE, ABRAHAM LIED AND SAID SARAH WAS HIS SISTER 00:48:20.83\00:48:24.83 AND MOSES KILLED AN EGYPTIAN. NONE OF THAT IS IN THE RECORD. 00:48:24.83\00:48:29.97 HEBREWS 11 IS HOW GOD LOOKS AT US WHEN WE PUT FAITH IN JESUS 00:48:29.97\00:48:33.51 AND HEBREWS 11 IS ALSO AN OUTLINE OF THE INVESTIGATIVE 00:48:33.51\00:48:36.75 JUDGMENT. THAT'S WHAT WE WILL LOOK ABOUT 00:48:36.75\00:48:37.71 IN THE INVESTIGATOR JUDGMENT. WE WILL LOOK AT ALL THE GOOD 00:48:37.71\00:48:43.28 STUFF AND THE BAD STUFF. >> PRAISE THE LORD. 00:48:43.28\00:48:45.49 IT REMINDS ME WHEN THE LORD IS SPEAKING ABOUT DAVID AND HE'S 00:48:45.49\00:48:49.89 TALKING TO KING JERABO AND YOU HAVE NOT BEEN LIKE MY SERVANT 00:48:49.89\00:48:55.86 DAVID WHO FOLLOWED ME WITH ALL OF HIS HEART AND KEPT ALL OF MY 00:48:55.86\00:48:59.67 COMMANDMENTS. AND YOU'RE THINKING, REALLY? 00:48:59.67\00:49:01.17 THAT SHOWS YOU WHEN GOD FORGIVES, HE FORGETS. 00:49:01.17\00:49:04.51 SO THAT'S POWERFUL! >> AMEN. 00:49:04.51\00:49:06.57 >> ALL RIGHT. THIS IS GLENNA IN MICHIGAN, AND 00:49:06.57\00:49:08.31 SHE SAYS, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST 00:49:08.31\00:49:13.48 AND THE FAITH OF JESUS, REVELATION 12:17 AND REVELATION 00:49:13.48\00:49:18.12 14 RESPECTIVELY. >> THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST IS 00:49:18.12\00:49:21.72 IDENTIFIED IN THE BIBLE AS HIS FAITH IN US. 00:49:21.72\00:49:25.73 HIS FAITH IN HUMANITY. JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS DIED 00:49:25.73\00:49:31.50 IN FAITH, BELIEVING THAT THIS DEATH WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON 00:49:31.50\00:49:35.30 OUR HEARTS. WHEN WE HAVE THE FAITH OF JESUS, 00:49:35.30\00:49:36.84 WE HAVE THAT SAME OUTLOOK TOWARDS HUMANITY THAT JESUS HAD. 00:49:36.84\00:49:41.31 THE FAITH OF JESUS IS WHAT CAUSES US TO HAVE HOPE FOR 00:49:41.31\00:49:44.41 OTHERS AND FOR OURSELVES. THE FAITH OF JESUS IS A POWER 00:49:44.41\00:49:49.12 AND AN INFLUENCE THAT IS THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE GOSPEL. 00:49:49.12\00:49:52.89 SO WHEN IT SAYS THAT GOD'S PEOPLE IN REVELATION 12:14 AND 00:49:52.89\00:49:55.99 REALLY IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE FINAL VERSE, YOU KNOW, THAT 00:49:55.99\00:50:00.10 ENCAPSULATES. WHEN IT SAYS THAT THEY HAVE THE 00:50:00.10\00:50:01.06 FAITH OF JESUS AND THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, IT'S LIKE A 00:50:01.06\00:50:05.27 DICHOTOMY, A TENSION BETWEEN THE TWO COMMANDMENT KEEPERS. 00:50:05.27\00:50:07.74 THOSE WHO KEPT THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, OLD TESTAMENT, GOD'S 00:50:07.74\00:50:11.57 PEOPLE KEPT THE COMMANDMENTS, BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE FAITH 00:50:11.57\00:50:13.54 OF JESUS. AND WHEN JESUS CAME, THEY 00:50:13.54\00:50:16.08 REJECTED HIM, THE MAJORITY OF THE JEWISH NATION CRUCIFIED AND 00:50:16.08\00:50:20.08 REJECTED HIM. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, A LOT OF 00:50:20.08\00:50:22.48 CHRISTIANS FROM THE FAITH OF JESUS, RIGHT, BUT THEY DON'T 00:50:22.48\00:50:25.19 NECESSARILY KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 00:50:25.19\00:50:26.69 NOT ALL TEN OF THEM. >> MM-HMM. 00:50:26.69\00:50:28.56 >> SO WHAT HAVE YOU IN REVELATION 12, YOU HAVE A PEOPLE 00:50:28.56\00:50:30.76 WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, THEY KEEP THE LAW OF GOD 00:50:30.76\00:50:33.16 BUT THEY ALSO KEEP THE FAITH OF JESUS. 00:50:33.16\00:50:35.53 THEIR WHOLE DEPENDENCY IS ON THE FAITH OF JESUS, ON HIS FAITH IN 00:50:35.53\00:50:38.73 THEM AND HIS GIFT TO THEM FOR SALVATION. 00:50:38.73\00:50:40.64 THAT'S THE GOSPEL. BUT THEY ALSO EVEN THOUGH THEY 00:50:40.64\00:50:43.84 ARE THEIR COMPLETE RELIANCE IS ON THEM, THEY KEEP THEIR 00:50:43.84\00:50:51.15 COMMANDMENTS. THEY KEEP THE TENSION. 00:50:51.15\00:50:53.11 IT'S A TENSION. NOW THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS 00:50:53.11\00:50:55.85 IDENTIFIED IN REVELATION 19:10 A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE 00:50:55.85\00:50:59.75 FAITH OF JESUS. THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS 00:50:59.75\00:51:02.12 IDENTIFIED AS THE SPIRIT OF PRO EPROPHECY. 00:51:02.12\00:51:05.99 THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, WE RECOGNIZE AS A GIFT THAT GOD 00:51:05.99\00:51:08.60 GIVES TO HIS CHURCH IN 1 CORINTHIANS 12:14. 00:51:08.60\00:51:15.90 INSIGHTS WE SEE INTO THE BIBLE AND THE WORD OF GOD THAT ARE 00:51:15.90\00:51:18.37 CLEARLY MANIFEST IN WHAT WE CALL THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, WHICH WE 00:51:18.37\00:51:22.58 UNDERSTAND AS ADVENTISTS TO BE PARTLY THE WRITINGS OF ALLEN G. 00:51:22.58\00:51:26.88 WHITE. HE WAS A GIFTED PROPHET THAT GOD 00:51:26.88\00:51:31.29 GAVE TO HIS CHURCH. ALLEN WHITE IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE 00:51:31.29\00:51:34.26 OF THE TOP 100 AMERICANS THAT HAS IMPACTED THE HISTORY OF 00:51:34.26\00:51:38.79 AMERICA. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW OF 00:51:38.79\00:51:40.16 THAT. >> YES. 00:51:40.16\00:51:41.76 >> AND HER HEALTH, INSIGHTS HAVE BEEN LAUDED BY MANY DIFFERENT 00:51:41.76\00:51:46.13 MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. 00:51:46.13\00:51:48.24 SO GOD GAVE US THIS GIFT TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD, NOT TO BE 00:51:48.24\00:51:52.27 ASHAMED OF OR SCARED, BUT TO HELP US HAVE INSIGHTS FOOT 00:51:52.27\00:51:58.61 SIGHTS INTO THEBIBLE AND THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. >> AND WHAT I 00:51:58.61\00:52:01.85 APPRECIATE SO MUCH ABOUT HER, SHE WAS SAYING, I'M A LESSER 00:52:01.85\00:52:04.85 LIGHT. >> YES. >> I'M JUST POINTING -- YOU 00:52:04.85\00:52:06.42 KNOW, AND SHE EVEN SAID, IF YOU WOULD REALLY STUDY YOUR BIBLES, 00:52:06.42\00:52:10.69 YOU WOULDN'T NEED MY WRITINGS BUT I LIKE THE FACT THAT SHE WAS 00:52:10.69\00:52:13.13 SO HUMBLE AND NEVER TRIED TO PUT HERSELF -- 00:52:13.13\00:52:19.17 >> ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE BIBLE. 00:52:19.17\00:52:21.10 >> ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE BIBLE. 00:52:21.10\00:52:22.40 >> THE BIBLE IS TO BE OUR FOUNDATION. 00:52:22.40\00:52:24.97 >> OUR SUPREME. >> CAN I MENTION THE FREE OFFER? 00:52:24.97\00:52:26.54 I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THE FREE OFFER. 00:52:26.54\00:52:29.81 >> QUICKLY. WE HAVE A QUESTION. 00:52:29.81\00:52:31.18 >> THIS IS A DVD THAT PASTOR JAMES DID ON THE BEAST AND THE 00:52:31.18\00:52:34.58 DRAGON, AND YOU CAN GET THIS FREE DVD BY CALLING 00:52:34.58\00:52:43.22 618-627-4651. AND,O BEING FREE O FREEOFFER@3ABN.TV. 00:52:43.22\00:52:56.20 >> THIS IS RICHARD FROM ZIMBABWE AND RICHARD, WE ARE GLAD THAT 00:52:56.20\00:52:59.04 YOU ARE WATCHING TONIGHT. AND HE SAYS, INTERESTING STUDY, 00:52:59.04\00:53:03.14 PASTOR JAMES. SO WHAT DOES THE COMING OF THE 00:53:03.14\00:53:06.65 POPE THERE MEAN? >> WELL, I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS 00:53:06.65\00:53:11.95 OUTLINED AND JAMES WHITE BELIEVED THIS ALSO THAT THE LAST 00:53:11.95\00:53:14.66 SIX VERSES OF DANIEL 11 APPLY PARALLEL OR PARALLEL TO 00:53:14.66\00:53:19.83 REVELATION 13. DANIEL 11:40-45 ARE OUTLINING 00:53:19.83\00:53:23.50 THE SAME POWERS OF REVELATION 13 AND PART OF WHAT IS GOING TO 00:53:23.50\00:53:27.40 HAPPEN IN DANIEL 11:41 IS THE KING OF THE NORTH, THE PAPAL 00:53:27.40\00:53:32.21 POWER IS GOING TO ENTER INTO THE GLORIOUS LAND. 00:53:32.21\00:53:34.91 THAT IS WHERE I BELIEVE BIBLE PROPHECY IS BEING FULFILLED, THE 00:53:34.91\00:53:39.01 ENTERING OF THE POPE -- NOT JUST COMING TO AMERICA, BUT 9 00:53:39.01\00:53:42.45 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FACT THAT HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY SPOKE TO 00:53:42.45\00:53:48.19 CONGRESS, CAME TO THE WHITE HOUSE, SPOKE TO THE UNITED 00:53:48.19\00:53:51.36 NATIONS AND WENT TO THE PHILADELPHIA SQUARE AND HAD MASS 00:53:51.36\00:53:53.19 IN ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT PLACES AND WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET 00:53:53.19\00:53:55.86 INTO THE ALL THE PROPHETIC DETAILS. 00:53:55.86\00:53:57.60 THE POINT IS THIS, THIS COUNTRY WAS, ALWAYS HAS BEEN UNDERSTOOD 00:53:57.60\00:54:02.34 TO BE A PROTESTANT NATION. NOW WE ARE SEEING A TRANSITION 00:54:02.34\00:54:05.24 TAKE PLACE. >> TOTALLY. 00:54:05.24\00:54:06.57 >> AND THE PRINCIPLES -- AND THERE'S A GREAT BLOG ON OUR 00:54:06.57\00:54:09.74 WEBSITE, WHAT ABOUT THE POPE THAT TY GIBSON WROTE AND I WOULD 00:54:09.74\00:54:12.95 RECOMMEND OUR VIEWERS TO WATCH IT. 00:54:12.95\00:54:14.65 IT'S AT LIGHTBEARERS.ORG. OUR VIEWERS CAN GO AND READ IT, 00:54:14.65\00:54:18.55 I SHOULD SAY. WHAT ABOUT THE POPE THAT 00:54:18.55\00:54:22.16 BASICALLY IDENTIFIES -- IT'S NOT ABOUT A PERSON. 00:54:22.16\00:54:23.63 IT'S NOT ABOUT AN INDIVIDUAL. THIS GUY IS FANTASTIC IN THE WAY 00:54:23.63\00:54:26.76 THAT HE COMMUNICATES AND IS HUMBLE AND THE WAY THAT HE COMES 00:54:26.76\00:54:31.53 ACROSS BUT WHAT HE REPRESENTS, THE SYSTEM HE REPRESENTS, THE 00:54:31.53\00:54:35.54 DOCTRINES THAT HE REPRESENTS, THAT IS WHERE WE HAVE GOT TO BE 00:54:35.54\00:54:39.81 REALLY CAREFUL. BECAUSE WE CAN LOOK AT AN 00:54:39.81\00:54:42.31 INDIVIDUAL AND NOT REALIZE THAT WHAT THEY ARE REPRESENTING IS 00:54:42.31\00:54:45.41 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN THE LOVABLE WAY THAT HE'S COMING 00:54:45.41\00:54:48.45 ACROSS WITH FORGIVENESS AND WITH HUMILITY. 00:54:48.45\00:54:53.49 ALL OF US CAN DO THE SAME THING. WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THESE 00:54:53.49\00:54:58.43 CHARACTERISTICS. >> YOU KNOW WE HAVE JUST LEARNED 00:54:58.43\00:54:59.89 SO MUCH TONIGHT. IT'S BEEN SUCH A GOOD STUDY BUT 00:54:59.89\00:55:01.90 WE WANT TO GIVE YOU AT HOME THE OPPORTUNITY, IF WOULD YOU LIKE 00:55:01.90\00:55:04.67 TO GET IN TOUCH WITH JAMES OR CONTACT HIM AT LIGHT BEARERS, 00:55:04.67\00:55:09.14 HERE'S HIS INFORMATION. 00:55:09.14\00:55:11.24 >> IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO INVITE JAMES RAFFERTY TO SPEAK IN YOUR 00:55:15.18\00:55:20.38 AREA OR LEARN MORE ABOUT LIGHT BEARERS MINISTRY, YOU CAN DO SO 00:55:20.38\00:55:23.15 IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, YOU CAN WRITE: 00:55:23.15\00:55:30.36 YOU CAN CALL 541-988-3333. THAT'S 541-988-3333. 00:55:41.04\00:55:48.74 OR VISIT THEM ONLINE AT LIGHTBEARERS.ORG. 00:55:48.74\00:55:51.85 THAT'S LIGHTBEARERS.ORG. >> I HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS 00:55:51.85\00:55:58.55 AS MUCH AS WE HAVE TONIGHT. JAMES, GIVE US JUST A VERY BRIEF 00:55:58.55\00:56:03.59 SUMMARY IN THE FEW SECONDS WE HAVE LEFT. 00:56:03.59\00:56:05.53 >> EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET EARTH IS TODAY EITHER DEVELOPING 00:56:05.53\00:56:09.16 THE CHARACTER OF LAMB OR THE CHARACTER OF THE DRAGON. 00:56:09.16\00:56:12.63 ALL OF US ARE INVOLVED IN THIS GREAT CONTROVERSY. 00:56:12.63\00:56:18.71 WE ARE DEVELOPING THE DECEPTION LIES, THE PRIDE, ACCUSING, 00:56:18.71\00:56:22.98 CONTROL, FORCE, HYPOCRISY OR WE ARE DEVELOPING THE PRINCIPLES OF 00:56:22.98\00:56:27.78 LAMB, DEPENDING ON HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, STANDING HIS 00:56:27.78\00:56:30.49 WORD, AND HAVING SELFLESS OTHER CENTERED LIVES AND OVERCOMING BY 00:56:30.49\00:56:35.46 HIS BLOOD AND FOLLOWING HIM WHEREVER HE GOES AND HAVING NO 00:56:35.46\00:56:39.26 GILE IN OUR MOUTHS. THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE OF 00:56:39.26\00:56:40.66 EVERYTHING THAT WE STUDIED TONIGHT. 00:56:40.66\00:56:42.16 >> AMEN AND IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL STUDY AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE 00:56:42.16\00:56:44.67 ALL NEED TO DO SELF-EXAMINATION AND REALIZE WE CANNOT CHANGE 00:56:44.67\00:56:49.54 OURSELF. ONLY GOD CAN CHANGE US. 00:56:49.54\00:56:51.44 SO WE NEED TO SURRENDER CONTROL OF OUR LIFE TO HIM AND LET HIM 00:56:51.44\00:56:54.74 DO THAT. JAMES, I'M GLAD YOU KNOW OUR 00:56:54.74\00:56:56.95 ADDRESS. I'M GLAD YOU KNOW YOUR WAY BACK 00:56:56.95\00:56:58.95 HERE BECAUSE WE ARE SURELY LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR RETURN. 00:56:58.95\00:57:02.72 HONEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AND OUR 00:57:02.72\00:57:04.52 PRAYER FOR YOU IS THAT THE GRACE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS 00:57:04.52\00:57:08.36 CHRIST, THE LOVE OF THE FAST FATHER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 00:57:08.36\00:57:14.30 BE WITH YOU ALWAYS. >> AMEN. 00:57:14.30\00:57:17.57