It's a real
privilege for me tonight
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to have my son-in-law with me.
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Larry Becker,
married to my daughter.
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They have two grand
children, Roger and Erika,
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that I didn't realize this until
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they came along. But you know,
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my children weren't perfect
but my grandchildren are.
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You know? I'm delighted
that Larry's here because
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they've always been a
great great blessing to me,
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and I've appreciated their
ministry. He's going to bring
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to you a very beautiful
song entitled Feel The Nails.
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They tell me Jesus died
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for my transgressions
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and that He paid the price
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a long long time ago
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when He gave His life for me
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on a hill called Calvary.
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But there's
something else I really want
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to know:
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does He still feel the nails
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every time I fail?
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Can He hear the
crowd cry "Crucify! "
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again?
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Am I causing Him pain?
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I know I've got to change...
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I just can't bear the thought
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of hurting Him.
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It seems that I'm so good
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at breaking promises
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and I treat His precious grace
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so carelessly.
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But each time He forgives
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what if He relives
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the agony He felt
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on that tree?
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Does He still feel the nails
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every time I fail?
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Can He hear the crowd cry
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"Crucify! " again?
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Am I causing Him pain?
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I know I've got to change...
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I just can't bear the thought
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of hurting Him.
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Holy,
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holy,
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holy is
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the Lord!
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Holy,
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holy,
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holy is
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the Lord!
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Do You still feel the nails
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every time I fail?
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Have I crucified You, Jesus,
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with my sin?
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Oh, I'm tired of playing games;
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I really want to change.
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I never want to hurt
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You again.
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Holy,
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holy,
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holy is
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the Lord!
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Holy,
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holy,
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holy is
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the Lord!
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Tonight we're going to
continue our study of prophecy.
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Our subject tonight is
the beast with the number 666.
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Now let me mention
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that I told you the other
night that the Bible repeats
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and enlarges...
repeats and enlarges.
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And that's what
it's going to do tonight
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except we've been studying
out of the book of Daniel.
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Tonight we move to
the book of Revelation.
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So God, you're going to find,
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takes certain things
from the book of Daniel
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and brings it into
the book of Revelation
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so you can continue
through. And you'll see that
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tonight as we look at
this very important subject
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about the beast
with the number 666.
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You're going to begin
to see how the prophecy is
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fulfilled in your day...
the time in which you and I
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are living. We're
very happy tonight
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to have with us
this weekend Joe Pearles.
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Joe has been singing with
us for probably 7-8 years.
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Comes in and
does a weekend for us
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and we're always
blessed when he comes.
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We know that you'll
be blessed this evening.
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He's going to sing a
beautiful song entitled
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Call My Name Again.
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Lord, I want to do right
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though You know I've done wrong.
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I've been in places
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I did not belong.
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With promises broken
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and secrets I've kept
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I don't want to live
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with fear and regret.
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Whisper to me...
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call my name again
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back to the place
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where I should have been.
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Take my hand and guide me
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away from my sin.
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Have Your own way, Lord,
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call my name again.
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Lord, I want that sweet peace
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I had as a child.
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I paid a high price
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for my choice to be wild.
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The lights and the glamour...
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they blinded my eyes
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Lord, please forgive
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this fool and his pride.
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Whisper to me...
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call my name again
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back to the place
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where I should have been.
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Take my hand and guide me
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away from my sin.
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Have Your own way, Lord,
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call my name again.
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Have Your own way, Lord,
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call my name again.
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Father in heaven,
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tonight we just
want to come to You,
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open up our lives,
open up our hearts,
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invite the Holy Spirit in.
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Lord, as we look at prophecy
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we pray that You will help
us to have clearness of mind.
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We ask, Lord, that we might each
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understand where we
are, where we're headed,
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and by faith we might
take hold of Your hand
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and walk with You all the
way into the kingdom of heaven.
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For this we ask in
Christ's name, Amen.
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In Revelation the 14th chapter
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there are three angels.
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One of those angels
has a very special message
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concerning the beast.
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And I want you to
listen to what that message is:
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So it says very clearly
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that that individual that
receives the mark of the beast
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will receive the wrath of God.
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So it becomes
extremely important tonight
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that you and I
identify this beast.
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Now I know we live
in an age and a time
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in which a lot
of people are saying
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"Well, you don't really
need to know who the beast is. "
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And "You don't really need to
be concerned about the beast. "
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But dear friends, it
says those that got victory
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over the beast
and over its image
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and over its mark are those
that stood on the sea of glass.
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Therefore, it IS important
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that you and I understand
it and know who it is.
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God has given us prophecy
so that we can understand it.
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It says here, II Peter the
first chapter and verse 19:
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So God said if
there's anything that's sure,
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if there's anything
that you can count on,
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if there's anything that
you can build your faith on,
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it's prophecy. I have
people that say to me:
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"Well Bro. Cox, how can
I know that God is real? "
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One way that you can
know that God is real
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is He has foretold it thousands
of years before it happened
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with absolute accuracy.
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That takes more than human;
that takes something divine.
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But some people say:
"Well it just all depends on
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how you interpret it.
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One person may
interpret it one way;
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somebody else may
interpret it another way.
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Just all depends on
how you interpret it. "
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No it does not!
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No it does not
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because the Scripture says this:
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The Bible says: "No, it's not! "
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"No prophecy is of any
private interpretation... "
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No! The Bible
will interpret itself
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if you and I will let it.
That's what we've got to do
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is we've got to take
God's Word, open it up,
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get into it, and find
out what it has to say.
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Only that way can you
understand God's Word.
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You can't be like the folks
I was studying God's Word with.
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And this fellow
knocked on the door,
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and they went to the
door and they invited him in
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as we were having
the Bible study together.
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And we continued to
have the Bible study
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and in the course of the study
he said "I don't believe that. "
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And I said: "Well that's OK. You
don't have to believe that. "
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And he said: "Well, I just don't
believe that's in Scripture. "
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And I said: "Now, sir,
I hope by the grace of God
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I'm not showing
these people something
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that's not in the Word of God. "
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And he said: "Well, show me! "
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And I said: "OK, let's take
our Bible and turn over here
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to the book of Isaiah. "
And he said: "Just a minute. "
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He said: "I don't take anything
out of the Old Testament. "
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He said: "I only go
by the New Testament. "
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Said: "I don't go
by the Old Testament. "
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And I said: "Well,
that's fair enough.
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Let's turn over here
to the gospel of Luke. "
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He said: "Just a minute. "
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He said: "Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John... they were
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all written about Jesus
up until the time He died. "
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And he said: "All I go by
is is what was written after
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Jesus died. "
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I said: "Well, that's OK. "
I said: "Let's turn over here
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to the book of
Revelation. " He said:
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"Just a minute. " He said:
"That book of Revelation... "
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he said, "that's full of symbols
and all that kind of thing. "
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Said: "Nobody understands
the book of Revelation! "
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Then I said: "OK... let's
turn over here to the book
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of Hebrews. " He
said: "Just a minute. "
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Said: "That book of Hebrews
was written for the Hebrews. "
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And he said: "I'm a
Gentile; I'm not a Hebrew. "
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When he got through with
me that's all I had left!
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You can't understand
God's Word that way, folks.
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You've got to look
at the whole thing.
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In fact, the
Scripture says this:
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The WHOLE THING is given
by the inspiration of God...
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not just part of it.
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And so you and I must
look at the whole Scripture
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if we're going to understand
what it's talking about.
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You can't look at
just one little part of it.
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So tonight we're
going to go to Revelation
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the 13th chapter and
we're going to take a look
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at this particular
beast, but we're going to see
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how God reaches over
here in one part of Scripture
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and pulls things out of it
and puts it here in another
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so that you will understand it.
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That's what God does for us.
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Now in Bible prophecy, folks,
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a beast... We
sent out this brochure
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and I had some
people come and say: "Oh,
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those beasts scare me.
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They look so
bad... so ferocious. "
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I have a hard
time understanding that
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because they watch all
this stuff like Jurassic Park
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and all that.
And they watch that
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and it doesn't
seem to scare them.
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And then you put something on
a handbill and it scares them.
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I have a hard time
putting that together.
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But what I'm here
to tell you tonight
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is God simply uses a
beast to represent a nation.
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That's all. God just uses a
beast to represent a nation.
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Look at what it
says here in Daniel:
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So here God
used a goat and a ram
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to represent the
kings of Media and Persia.
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We do the same thing, don't we?
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Huh? We use an eagle to
represent the United States.
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We use a lion to
represent England.
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We use a bear to
represent Russia.
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We do that very same thing.
That's all God is doing, folks.
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So when we get to
this beast in Revelation
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it just represents
a power... that's all.
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So let's go to
Revelation the 13th chapter
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and let's take
a look at a beast.
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Different kind of beast
because it has seven heads
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and it has ten horns.
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So let's see what the
Scripture says about it.
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God gives you eight
points to identify this beast
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so you and I don't
have to be in any doubt.
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When we're through here tonight
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you don't have to be
in any doubt whatsoever
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as to who this beast is.
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Again, I want to
just simply tell you
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when God gives you eight points
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all eight points must fit.
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If four points fit
some nation and four don't,
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then you can rest assured you
haven't found the right power.
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OK... all eight points must fit.
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Now the other night I told
you that water represents what?
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People, nations, tongues.
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See? God will keep
that symbolism the same
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and out of the water
comes this great beast.
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All right? What it tells us.
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Now watch carefully...
we're to the first clue.
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First point that God's
going to help you understand.
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Does that ring any
bells with you tonight?
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Yes, if you were
here Wednesday night
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that should ring
some bells with you
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because all God has done is
He has gone back to the book
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of Daniel and took
those beasts that we studied
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in the book of Daniel
and brought them over here
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to the book of Revelation.
00:20:35.80\00:20:37.27
And you remember we had the
lion there that represented?
00:20:37.47\00:20:40.70
Babylon. We had the
bear there that represented?
00:20:41.10\00:20:44.61
Medo-Persia.
00:20:45.01\00:20:46.34
We had the leopard
that represented Greece
00:20:46.51\00:20:49.61
and we had the dragon
that represented pagan Rome.
00:20:49.81\00:20:53.11
So God has taken those powers,
00:20:53.72\00:20:56.18
put it all in one beast here
00:20:56.38\00:20:58.99
to bring it down into
the book of Revelation
00:20:59.19\00:21:01.22
so you and I will know
what it's talking about.
00:21:01.42\00:21:03.93
That's the first clue.
00:21:04.13\00:21:05.59
Watch as we continue on:
00:21:05.99\00:21:07.70
That's that fourth
beast; that was pagan Rome.
00:21:10.90\00:21:15.17
So the Scripture
says here that pagan Rome
00:21:21.94\00:21:25.05
is going to give to this beast
00:21:25.45\00:21:27.58
its power, its
seat, and its authority.
00:21:27.78\00:21:31.85
So we're beginning to find out
what the Scripture's telling us.
00:21:32.25\00:21:35.59
It says that this beast
got its power from the dragon.
00:21:35.99\00:21:39.96
Let's go on and see
what it says about it:
00:21:40.16\00:21:42.03
Pagan Rome if you remember
went from 168 BC to 476 AD.
00:21:43.03\00:21:48.97
Pagan Rome came to an end.
Watch what history tells us
00:21:49.17\00:21:54.28
happened because pagan Rome
is going to have to give its
00:21:54.48\00:21:57.55
power, its seat,
and its authority
00:21:57.75\00:22:00.78
to a particular power.
So let's see what it does:
00:22:00.98\00:22:03.95
So he's saying that
this passed from the Caesars
00:22:21.97\00:22:25.31
to the Pontiff. All right?
00:22:25.51\00:22:27.04
That's exactly what
history has to say about it.
00:22:33.21\00:22:36.35
So we find in
fulfillment of God's Word
00:22:36.75\00:22:39.59
we find that pagan
Rome passed to papal Rome
00:22:39.79\00:22:44.89
its power, its
seat, its authority.
00:22:45.09\00:22:48.50
OK? All right. Third clue:
00:22:48.90\00:22:51.87
So it says that this beast
that we're looking at tonight
00:23:01.61\00:23:04.81
that he's going to
last for 42 months.
00:23:05.01\00:23:09.38
OK? Now I gave you
Biblical principles
00:23:09.58\00:23:14.69
when you come to Bible
prophecy and you come to time
00:23:14.89\00:23:18.69
I gave you a principle that lets
you tell what that represents.
00:23:18.89\00:23:22.36
You remember that?
00:23:22.56\00:23:23.90
Told you that in Bible prophecy
a day represented? One year.
00:23:23.93\00:23:27.60
All right. Let's watch and
see what it has to tell us:
00:23:27.80\00:23:30.71
Prophetic Faith of
our Fathers, Le Roy Froom.
00:23:31.21\00:23:34.04
This is what he has to say:
00:23:34.34\00:23:36.01
So you find that one went down.
00:23:51.36\00:23:53.70
Silverius did, and Justinian
- who was the emperor -
00:23:54.20\00:23:57.57
put Vigilius in his place.
00:23:57.77\00:24:01.24
Now I read you a
statement on Wednesday night
00:24:12.18\00:24:14.58
that said that it
was forced upon them
00:24:14.78\00:24:17.79
because the Roman
Empire was falling apart
00:24:18.19\00:24:20.96
and the only thing that
the people could turn to
00:24:21.12\00:24:24.46
that had stability and
that was there was the church.
00:24:24.66\00:24:28.53
And so it was forced upon him
00:24:28.83\00:24:31.10
and that's why it says
they moved more and more
00:24:31.30\00:24:34.24
in worldly events.
00:24:34.44\00:24:36.30
And thus you find
that Rome - pagan Rome -
00:24:44.21\00:24:47.95
passed, not
necessarily voluntarily
00:24:48.15\00:24:51.62
but because of the
circumstances - it passed
00:24:51.82\00:24:54.69
to papal Rome its power,
its seat, and its authority.
00:24:54.89\00:24:59.03
And it says that it was
going to last for 42 months.
00:24:59.33\00:25:05.27
Now folks, I told
you the other night
00:25:05.57\00:25:07.74
and I'll repeat
this a number of times
00:25:07.94\00:25:09.37
God is consistent. I
mean, He is consistent
00:25:09.57\00:25:14.58
all the way through.
00:25:14.78\00:25:16.71
And you'll see this
over and over and over.
00:25:16.91\00:25:20.08
Watch. It says here:
00:25:20.28\00:25:22.22
So the papal
power came into power
00:25:31.86\00:25:34.76
538 AD.
00:25:34.96\00:25:38.50
So if we take that 538 AD
00:25:38.70\00:25:42.54
and we learned on
Wednesday night that it lasted
00:25:42.74\00:25:45.51
for 1,260 years.
00:25:45.71\00:25:50.01
Let's see if
Revelation 13 will back that up.
00:25:50.85\00:25:55.22
Well, if I add 1,260 years
00:25:55.72\00:25:58.25
to 538 we learned
on Wednesday it took me
00:25:58.45\00:26:01.06
to where? Takes me to 1798 AD.
00:26:01.26\00:26:05.13
Now we've got 42 months.
00:26:05.33\00:26:06.93
In Biblical reckoning
of time there are 30 days
00:26:07.33\00:26:11.30
in a Biblical month.
00:26:11.50\00:26:13.27
So if you multiply 30
times 42 what do you get?
00:26:13.67\00:26:17.57
You get 1,260.
00:26:19.37\00:26:22.54
30 times 42 is 1,260.
00:26:22.94\00:26:26.95
That gives me 1,260
00:26:27.35\00:26:29.92
and a day represents a year.
00:26:30.12\00:26:32.19
So if I simply take that
00:26:36.19\00:26:38.56
it takes me to 1798 AD.
00:26:38.76\00:26:41.53
And you remember
on Wednesday night
00:26:41.73\00:26:43.10
that is as far as I took
you. Do you remember that?
00:26:43.30\00:26:46.07
And I told you if you
wanted to know what happened
00:26:46.94\00:26:48.84
in 1798 AD you had
to come back tonight...
00:26:49.04\00:26:51.37
and I see you did. OK?
00:26:51.57\00:26:53.71
So we're going to find out
what happened in 1798 AD now.
00:26:53.91\00:26:57.65
Let's watch.
00:26:57.81\00:26:59.15
Fourth clue: Revelation 13:3.
00:27:00.95\00:27:03.62
This beast had seven heads!
00:27:08.82\00:27:10.93
And as the apostle John
is looking at that beast
00:27:11.33\00:27:14.26
he sees that one of his
heads receives a mortal wound.
00:27:14.46\00:27:20.07
Been mortally wounded.
00:27:20.37\00:27:22.44
OK? Well let's
see what happened.
00:27:22.84\00:27:25.64
At this time in history, folks,
00:27:26.04\00:27:28.14
at this time in history
a man has come to power.
00:27:28.54\00:27:32.35
I'm talking about 1798 AD.
00:27:32.75\00:27:35.18
This man's name is Napoleon.
00:27:35.58\00:27:38.09
Napoleon wants to
rule all of Europe
00:27:39.02\00:27:42.92
but he knows... he knows
that he cannot rule Europe
00:27:43.32\00:27:47.73
unless he can break the
back of the papal power.
00:27:47.93\00:27:51.60
OK? So what happened?
00:27:52.00\00:27:55.40
Napoleon sent
his general Berthier
00:27:55.60\00:27:59.81
into Rome on February 15, 1798,
00:28:00.21\00:28:06.11
and overthrew the papal power.
00:28:07.08\00:28:09.58
Listen... this is
what history says about it.
00:28:09.78\00:28:12.09
And if you go to Rome today,
00:28:25.07\00:28:27.54
you can go downtown
and here is a facade
00:28:27.74\00:28:31.71
probably as long
as this whole hall -
00:28:31.91\00:28:34.04
huge one - of that
very event that took place.
00:28:34.24\00:28:37.45
You can see it
there. February 15, 1798,
00:28:37.65\00:28:41.52
when the papal power
came to an end. Folks,
00:28:41.72\00:28:44.95
just exactly as God's Word said.
00:28:45.15\00:28:48.62
Said it would last
for forty-two months.
00:28:48.82\00:28:51.46
When those 42
months came to an end
00:28:51.66\00:28:53.93
exactly that
power came to an end.
00:28:54.13\00:28:57.33
Now I don't know... What
do you do with that, folks?
00:28:57.53\00:29:00.57
Do you just pass that by?
00:29:01.20\00:29:03.17
Do you just say: "Well, so? "
00:29:03.57\00:29:07.28
I mean, John...
John's writing this.
00:29:07.68\00:29:12.08
You know when John lived?
00:29:12.28\00:29:13.92
90 AD.
00:29:14.12\00:29:16.45
We're talking about
something happening in 1798 AD.
00:29:16.65\00:29:19.75
John saw that vividly!
00:29:21.39\00:29:23.53
Said exactly what would happen.
00:29:23.73\00:29:26.83
What I'm trying to get across
to you tonight, dear friends:
00:29:27.03\00:29:29.46
you can build your faith
on this Book... it won't fail!
00:29:29.66\00:29:34.40
It'll never let you down.
00:29:34.60\00:29:36.40
Never! It's absolute.
00:29:36.60\00:29:39.84
It will not let you down.
00:29:40.04\00:29:41.58
So the papal power
came to an end, 1798 AD.
00:29:43.65\00:29:49.58
This began something
that is called in history
00:29:50.72\00:29:55.96
the Roman Question.
00:29:56.16\00:29:57.49
Now watch the
Scripture very carefully.
00:29:57.53\00:29:59.09
Revelation 13 verse 5:
00:29:59.29\00:30:01.93
Says that this power is
going to speak great things
00:30:07.80\00:30:10.51
and blasphemies. Wednesday night
when we studied about this power
00:30:10.71\00:30:14.34
you remember it said that
he would "speak great words
00:30:14.54\00:30:17.25
against the Most
High. " You remember that.
00:30:17.45\00:30:19.25
OK... See, it's the same power.
00:30:19.45\00:30:22.15
God's just moving you
00:30:22.35\00:30:23.79
from Daniel to the
book of Revelation.
00:30:23.99\00:30:26.05
Now when it says he would speak
"great things and blasphemies"
00:30:26.89\00:30:30.23
the Bible... the
Bible identifies blasphemy
00:30:30.43\00:30:34.53
as claiming to be God and
claiming power to forgive sins.
00:30:34.73\00:30:38.40
That's what the Bible
classifies as blasphemy:
00:30:38.60\00:30:42.00
when a person claims to be God
00:30:42.20\00:30:43.94
or he claims he has
the power to forgive sins.
00:30:44.34\00:30:48.81
Let me give you a couple
of Biblical examples of that.
00:30:49.01\00:30:51.68
Both of them
happened with Jesus.
00:30:52.08\00:30:54.58
Watch what the
Scripture has to say about this.
00:30:54.78\00:30:57.19
They said: "For good
works we're not stoning You. "
00:31:06.49\00:31:09.13
They tried to stone Him
because He claimed to be God.
00:31:17.84\00:31:20.98
Of course, He had
every right in the world
00:31:21.14\00:31:23.38
to claim to be
God 'cause He IS God.
00:31:23.58\00:31:25.65
But they didn't
want to recognize that.
00:31:26.05\00:31:28.55
They said: "We're not stoning
You because You do good works;
00:31:29.15\00:31:31.55
we're stoning You
'cause you claim to be God. "
00:31:31.75\00:31:33.36
That's blasphemy
00:31:33.56\00:31:34.89
in the Scripture
definition. Listen to one more:
00:31:34.96\00:31:37.56
Well let me read
you some statements
00:31:39.43\00:31:40.90
'cause it says they would
speak great words and blasphemy.
00:31:41.26\00:31:44.17
So they say all the
names in the Scripture
00:31:57.48\00:31:59.95
that apply to Jesus
they apply to the pope.
00:32:00.15\00:32:01.88
So when it says blasphemy
is when they claim to be God.
00:32:11.39\00:32:15.13
Let's look at one more
in the Scripture, though.
00:32:15.33\00:32:17.27
They said: "Who is this
that's speaking blasphemies? "
00:32:26.64\00:32:30.01
Now watch carefully:
00:32:30.21\00:32:31.55
Said: "Nobody else can
forgive sins except God! "
00:32:37.19\00:32:40.56
God alone. So the
Scripture identifies blasphemy
00:32:40.76\00:32:44.73
when a person - an individual
- claims that he has the power
00:32:44.93\00:32:48.43
to forgive sin. Well, does
the papal power claim that?
00:32:48.63\00:32:52.73
That's what we've got
to ask, and again, folks,
00:32:52.93\00:32:54.94
let me clarify something.
00:32:55.67\00:32:57.51
I am not talking about people.
00:32:58.14\00:33:00.98
Please do not take what I
say and apply it to individuals.
00:33:02.18\00:33:06.68
If you do that, you're not
making the right application
00:33:07.28\00:33:10.65
because that beast
represents a power.
00:33:10.85\00:33:13.22
It represents a system. It
does not represent individuals.
00:33:13.42\00:33:17.46
And I told you there are
a lot of people within this
00:33:18.79\00:33:21.06
particular religious persuasion
00:33:21.26\00:33:23.06
that are
beautiful Christian people.
00:33:23.26\00:33:25.73
And when you and I
apply it outside of this
00:33:26.33\00:33:28.50
we are doing
jeopardy to the Word of God.
00:33:29.00\00:33:31.61
So don't do that. OK?
00:33:32.01\00:33:35.04
But does that power
claim that they have the power
00:33:35.64\00:33:38.88
to forgive sins?
00:33:39.08\00:33:40.55
Says he has the power to
forgive that person his sins.
00:34:01.57\00:34:06.64
One more.
00:34:07.14\00:34:08.48
Revelation 13 verse
7... this is the sixth clue:
00:34:09.84\00:34:14.68
So it says that this
power would actually make war
00:34:19.85\00:34:23.36
against the saints of God.
00:34:23.56\00:34:25.23
Now, I said this before and I
want to repeat it again tonight.
00:34:25.43\00:34:29.16
Never... never in history -
00:34:29.76\00:34:33.00
I don't know of one
case in history, folks -
00:34:33.50\00:34:36.57
where a church has
taken over state power
00:34:36.77\00:34:41.18
that it hasn't persecuted.
00:34:41.38\00:34:43.01
I don't care
what church that is.
00:34:43.61\00:34:45.28
If you go over to Israel today,
00:34:46.08\00:34:48.65
which is a church power,
00:34:49.05\00:34:51.72
you will find they
will not let you preach.
00:34:51.92\00:34:54.59
There's persecution there
because a church controls it.
00:34:54.99\00:34:59.46
So I don't care
what church it is
00:35:00.13\00:35:01.76
any time a church
has taken state power
00:35:01.96\00:35:06.84
it has persecuted.
00:35:07.04\00:35:08.37
This, back in the Dark
Ages, they had supreme power
00:35:08.57\00:35:12.44
and they persecuted.
00:35:12.64\00:35:14.34
And I'll read you a statement
why... why they did it.
00:35:14.74\00:35:18.75
Now get the picture:
00:35:38.03\00:35:39.77
morally they believe that they
were saving thousands of souls.
00:35:39.97\00:35:45.01
Listen:
00:35:45.21\00:35:46.54
They believed that
these people were wrong.
00:36:03.02\00:36:05.33
They believed that they
were teaching them wrong.
00:36:05.53\00:36:07.36
They believed they
were leading them wrong
00:36:07.56\00:36:09.20
and therefore they
believed that if they persecuted
00:36:09.40\00:36:12.23
or burned a heretic then
people would not be deceived.
00:36:12.43\00:36:15.70
And so they
persecuted. And as I mentioned
00:36:15.90\00:36:18.77
all you have to do is
read. Read such books as
00:36:18.97\00:36:23.35
Fox's Book of Martyrs.
00:36:23.55\00:36:25.05
Or Short Short
Stories of the Reformation,
00:36:25.45\00:36:27.82
or The History of
Europe by Quabbin.
00:36:28.12\00:36:30.42
Here I Stand by Bainton.
00:36:30.82\00:36:33.19
History of the
Reformation by d'Aubigne.
00:36:33.39\00:36:35.72
And you can read about
some of the persecution
00:36:36.22\00:36:38.46
of the Spanish people.
00:36:38.66\00:36:40.30
Or you can read about the
persecution of the Waldensian
00:36:40.50\00:36:43.60
people or you can read
about the persecution of
00:36:43.80\00:36:46.37
the Huguenots.
00:36:46.57\00:36:48.64
History is full of it.
00:36:48.84\00:36:50.87
It'll tell you what
happened. Let's go on.
00:36:51.27\00:36:53.48
Revelation 13:3.
00:36:54.61\00:36:56.81
Now listen carefully:
00:37:02.28\00:37:03.85
he received a mortal wound
00:37:04.35\00:37:05.75
on February 15, 1798.
00:37:05.95\00:37:11.16
Watch:
00:37:11.36\00:37:12.69
So it says his
deadly wound was healed.
00:37:23.37\00:37:25.64
As I told you, this began
in history what was called
00:37:25.84\00:37:29.64
The Roman Question.
00:37:29.84\00:37:31.98
You see, the pope
was taken prisoner.
00:37:32.61\00:37:36.65
Taken to France
and he died in prison.
00:37:37.15\00:37:39.72
They elected another one and
he moved back to the Vatican.
00:37:40.12\00:37:43.43
Moved in... didn't
show his face for 50 years.
00:37:43.83\00:37:46.83
There were many many efforts
to settle The Roman Question.
00:37:47.83\00:37:51.70
Let me explain what happened.
00:37:51.90\00:37:53.23
When Napoleon came
in and he took over
00:37:53.64\00:37:56.34
and did away
with the papal power
00:37:56.54\00:37:58.57
he took from them what
was called papal states.
00:37:58.77\00:38:02.94
Now folks, papal
states were like our states.
00:38:03.14\00:38:06.11
I'm not talking about
a little piece of ground.
00:38:06.31\00:38:08.22
I'm talking about pieces
of land as large as our state.
00:38:08.42\00:38:12.05
He had papal
states throughout Europe.
00:38:12.45\00:38:14.62
That was all taken
away from him by Napoleon.
00:38:15.22\00:38:19.33
So there were
many many efforts made
00:38:19.73\00:38:21.90
to try to settle
The Roman Question.
00:38:22.10\00:38:23.87
Every time they
tried to settle it
00:38:24.27\00:38:27.24
it was always dependent
upon the Italian Parliament
00:38:27.44\00:38:30.77
and the papal power
would not accept that.
00:38:31.27\00:38:33.74
That went back and
forth, back and forth
00:38:34.14\00:38:37.45
for over 100 years
00:38:37.65\00:38:39.61
until we reached the 1900's.
00:38:40.38\00:38:42.98
And in the
1900's along comes a man
00:38:43.39\00:38:46.35
who is not controlled
by the Italian Parliament.
00:38:47.06\00:38:50.83
He is a dictator...
his name is Mussolini.
00:38:50.99\00:38:54.86
And Mussolini decides that he
will settle The Roman Question.
00:38:55.26\00:39:00.44
He sets up
conferences with the papal power
00:39:00.84\00:39:03.81
and finally in 1929
00:39:04.21\00:39:09.41
they signed what was
known as the Lateran Pact.
00:39:10.18\00:39:14.12
I want you to listen as the
newspaper in the United States
00:39:14.32\00:39:17.72
reports that very event.
00:39:17.92\00:39:20.16
Signed it. Watch...
this is what it said:
00:39:27.76\00:39:30.90
Signed the Lateran Pact.
Let me explain what it did.
00:40:03.13\00:40:06.07
The Lateran Pact
paid to the papal power
00:40:07.00\00:40:10.94
$21,000,000
00:40:11.14\00:40:14.51
for the spoilation
of the papal states.
00:40:14.71\00:40:17.51
That was in 1929.
00:40:17.71\00:40:19.48
It gave them the right...
00:40:20.62\00:40:23.75
gave them the
right to send ambassadors
00:40:24.15\00:40:28.86
to every country of the world.
00:40:29.06\00:40:31.29
It gave them the
right - listen to me -
00:40:31.49\00:40:34.43
to be a sovereign power.
00:40:34.83\00:40:37.73
It gave them the
right to receive ambassadors
00:40:38.13\00:40:42.67
from every country of the world.
00:40:42.87\00:40:44.61
If you listen to Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire,
00:40:46.57\00:40:50.18
which a lot of you do,
00:40:50.58\00:40:52.41
one of the questions
that came up on there
00:40:53.62\00:40:55.95
is if you wanted to find
00:40:56.15\00:40:58.49
more ambassadors
in one local area,
00:40:58.89\00:41:03.12
where would you go?
00:41:03.32\00:41:04.66
Rome! They're all in
one building: the Vatican.
00:41:06.06\00:41:10.73
See? People have a hard
time understanding this.
00:41:11.13\00:41:15.20
This is a sovereign government.
I'm not talking about
00:41:15.40\00:41:18.34
a church, folks...
don't misunderstand me.
00:41:18.54\00:41:20.48
I'm not talking
about church tonight;
00:41:20.88\00:41:23.04
I'm talking about a government.
00:41:23.24\00:41:25.15
There's a great
great difference.
00:41:25.78\00:41:27.42
I have people say to me
00:41:27.92\00:41:29.52
for instance, when
the pope came over,
00:41:29.72\00:41:31.69
he addressed the United Nations.
00:41:32.09\00:41:35.32
Why would the pope have
the right to address the UN?
00:41:36.46\00:41:40.53
Have you thought about that?
00:41:41.56\00:41:42.90
I mean has any
other religious leader
00:41:45.30\00:41:49.44
addressed the United Nations?
00:41:49.64\00:41:50.97
Has any other
religious leader done that? Yes.
00:41:51.11\00:41:53.38
One other... do you know who?
00:41:53.78\00:41:55.84
The Dalai Lama.
00:41:56.44\00:41:58.21
Both of them are
heads of governments.
00:41:59.25\00:42:03.52
They have a right to
address the United Nations
00:42:03.92\00:42:07.39
as heads of government.
00:42:07.59\00:42:08.92
People say: "Oh, it's not right
for the pope to come over here
00:42:09.69\00:42:13.26
to the United States
and go across our country
00:42:13.46\00:42:16.40
and we spend millions of
dollars protecting him. "
00:42:16.60\00:42:19.27
Yes it is right... it IS right
00:42:19.67\00:42:23.20
because our Constitution
says that we have to protect
00:42:23.87\00:42:27.91
heads of state, and
he's the head of a state.
00:42:28.11\00:42:32.48
That is what the
Lateran Pact gave him back
00:42:33.75\00:42:37.29
the right to be a
sovereign government.
00:42:37.49\00:42:40.06
And thus you find the
deadly wound was healed.
00:42:40.26\00:42:44.66
And the Scripture says
that all the world will wonder
00:42:44.86\00:42:47.70
and follow after the beast.
00:42:47.90\00:42:49.30
Look what's happening:
00:42:49.50\00:42:51.67
Rome has come
front and center today.
00:42:53.64\00:42:57.01
Gorbachev had this to say:
00:42:58.17\00:43:02.04
So just exactly as
the Scripture has said
00:43:45.72\00:43:49.89
it's happening. It's
being fulfilled exactly
00:43:50.09\00:43:53.50
as God's Word says.
00:43:53.70\00:43:55.83
Eight:
00:43:58.67\00:44:00.57
All right. You're going to
have to follow me carefully now
00:44:16.89\00:44:20.06
because you need to begin to see
some things that are happening.
00:44:20.46\00:44:23.73
We in our study... as we
have studied God's Word together
00:44:26.83\00:44:29.83
we found out that that image
that we studied the other night
00:44:30.03\00:44:34.40
had how many toes? Ten toes.
00:44:34.60\00:44:37.64
Those ten toes
represented ten kings.
00:44:37.84\00:44:42.44
OK? We found out
00:44:42.64\00:44:45.35
that that dragon in Daniel 7...
00:44:45.75\00:44:48.88
dragon in Daniel 7...
00:44:49.38\00:44:50.89
had ten horns. Those
ten horns represented?
00:44:51.05\00:44:54.89
Ten kings or toes. OK?
00:44:55.92\00:44:59.26
We found out tonight that
this beast in Revelation 13
00:44:59.46\00:45:04.03
had ten horns.
Those ten horns represent
00:45:04.23\00:45:09.37
ten kings. We're
going to be taking a look
00:45:09.77\00:45:13.38
at a beast in Revelation 17
00:45:13.58\00:45:17.78
that also has seven
heads and ten horns.
00:45:17.98\00:45:21.55
And it says that
this particular power
00:45:21.75\00:45:24.25
had received no kingdom as yet.
00:45:24.65\00:45:26.96
OK?
00:45:37.13\00:45:38.50
Uh! We're beginning to
put some things together.
00:45:46.21\00:45:49.34
And folks, in the coming nights
we're going to put more of it
00:45:49.54\00:45:52.58
together. It says
that these ten kings
00:45:52.78\00:45:55.58
which were the
nations of Western Europe,
00:45:55.78\00:45:59.25
the Anglo-Saxons,
the Franks, the Heruli,
00:45:59.45\00:46:01.29
the Vandals, the Ostrogoths,
they became the nations
00:46:01.49\00:46:04.23
of Western Europe. They
became Germany and England
00:46:04.39\00:46:06.93
and France and
Portugal and those nations.
00:46:07.13\00:46:09.03
It says that they
will come to power
00:46:09.33\00:46:13.13
and they'll give their power
and authority to the beast.
00:46:13.84\00:46:19.81
So now, folks, you need
to be able to look at it,
00:46:20.71\00:46:24.31
open your eyes, and you
ought to be able to know
00:46:24.51\00:46:27.05
what's going on over in Europe
and what's going to take place.
00:46:27.25\00:46:31.02
Now let me tell you: are you
going to sit there and tell me
00:46:32.49\00:46:35.92
that if God with
absolute accuracy
00:46:36.42\00:46:39.69
lined all this up step by step
00:46:40.20\00:46:42.83
and we've gone through
it and every piece has fit
00:46:43.03\00:46:46.10
the puzzle... I mean,
every piece has fit the puzzle
00:46:46.30\00:46:49.04
and we get down here where two
pieces haven't been put in yet
00:46:49.24\00:46:53.17
and you're going to tell me
they're not going to be put in?
00:46:53.38\00:46:55.71
Is that what
you're going to tell me?
00:46:56.41\00:46:57.85
Not hardly.
00:46:58.85\00:47:00.42
If all those pieces
have been put in the puzzle
00:47:01.02\00:47:03.55
and they have fit perfectly,
00:47:03.75\00:47:05.59
you'd better believe the last 2
pieces are going to go in there
00:47:05.79\00:47:09.62
perfectly. And the
Scripture tells you and I
00:47:09.82\00:47:12.86
exactly where we're headed.
00:47:13.06\00:47:15.20
We don't have to be in
any doubt about it at all.
00:47:15.70\00:47:18.37
OK.
00:47:18.97\00:47:20.34
As we study God's Word
00:47:22.80\00:47:24.67
we're going to take a
look at a great red dragon
00:47:24.87\00:47:28.48
in Revelation 12.
00:47:28.68\00:47:31.05
This great red
dragon in Revelation 12
00:47:31.25\00:47:34.52
has seven heads, ten horns.
00:47:34.92\00:47:38.39
OK? That's what it says:
00:47:38.59\00:47:41.72
So this beast has
seven heads, ten horns. Now,
00:47:55.07\00:47:57.97
rest assured that every time
you come across those ten horns
00:47:58.17\00:48:01.64
in Scripture they
represent the same ten kings.
00:48:01.84\00:48:04.45
God is consistent.
00:48:05.45\00:48:07.32
But this beast has seven heads.
We have studied tonight here
00:48:07.52\00:48:11.22
in Revelation 13 a
beast that has how many heads?
00:48:11.42\00:48:15.92
Seven heads, right?
00:48:17.06\00:48:19.56
So this beast also has ten horns
00:48:31.91\00:48:35.18
and he has seven heads.
00:48:35.38\00:48:39.15
When we go to Revelation 17
00:48:39.55\00:48:42.18
it says this:
00:48:44.02\00:48:45.35
So now we have found there are
3 beasts that we've looked at -
00:48:59.77\00:49:03.41
Revelation 12,
Revelation 13, Revelation 17-
00:49:03.81\00:49:08.51
and all of them
have seven heads.
00:49:08.71\00:49:12.21
OK? Now I'm going
to begin to move you
00:49:12.98\00:49:17.99
down through time.
You'll see with absolute clarity
00:49:18.39\00:49:22.92
how wonderful God
reveals things. Listen:
00:49:23.12\00:49:26.63
Now folks, if you
want to have wisdom
00:49:54.99\00:49:58.23
then listen carefully
to what God has to say.
00:50:00.50\00:50:03.77
He says: "If you
want to be smart,
00:50:04.80\00:50:06.60
if you want to have wisdom,
00:50:06.80\00:50:08.74
listen carefully. "
00:50:08.94\00:50:11.27
"The seven heads are 7 mountains
on which the woman sits. "
00:50:12.47\00:50:18.28
So it tells us that those 7
heads represent seven kingdoms
00:50:24.52\00:50:28.06
or seven kings. OK? Now,
00:50:28.26\00:50:30.79
you're going to see something
here that will help you
00:50:31.19\00:50:33.63
put all this together.
00:50:33.83\00:50:35.16
So when he talks
about those seven heads
00:50:45.41\00:50:47.44
that represent seven
kings, seven kingdoms
00:50:47.64\00:50:49.74
he says: "Five of
those have fallen;
00:50:49.94\00:50:54.08
One is; one is yet to come. "
00:50:54.48\00:50:57.42
Watch:
00:50:58.22\00:50:59.62
Oh, you have no idea
00:51:07.66\00:51:10.53
how meaningful that
word is. "When he comes
00:51:10.73\00:51:14.14
he will continue a
short time. " You don't know
00:51:14.34\00:51:17.87
how much that affects you.
00:51:18.07\00:51:21.08
All right.
00:51:21.68\00:51:23.01
This is what we have found out:
00:51:24.95\00:51:26.58
the Bible starts and it talks
about these different kingdoms.
00:51:26.98\00:51:30.12
And you remember we studied
this particular image in Daniel.
00:51:30.32\00:51:33.89
And as we studied it we
found that that head of gold
00:51:34.09\00:51:36.76
represented Babylon.
00:51:36.96\00:51:39.63
And we find that in the
Scripture in the 7th chapter
00:51:39.83\00:51:42.66
it was represented as a lion.
00:51:42.86\00:51:46.70
One head... head of a lion.
00:51:46.90\00:51:49.70
OK? The second power that's
coming on the scene of action
00:51:50.11\00:51:53.58
was that of Medo-Persia.
00:51:53.78\00:51:56.01
539 BC to 331 BC.
00:51:56.41\00:51:59.88
Arms and breast of silver.
00:52:00.08\00:52:01.82
And we found that God
used a beast there to represent
00:52:02.02\00:52:05.62
Medo-Persia which was a bear.
00:52:05.82\00:52:09.16
Head of a bear. OK?
00:52:09.36\00:52:11.59
And then we found that
we came down that image
00:52:11.79\00:52:14.36
and we got to that
belly and thighs of bronze.
00:52:14.56\00:52:17.20
And we found that that rep-
resented the nation of Greece.
00:52:17.70\00:52:21.80
331 BC to 168 BC.
00:52:22.20\00:52:25.41
And in Daniel 7 it
was pictured as a leopard.
00:52:25.61\00:52:30.71
OK? Pictured as a leopard.
00:52:30.91\00:52:33.08
And as we came down
that image step by step
00:52:33.48\00:52:36.55
we came to the legs of iron.
00:52:36.75\00:52:39.05
And we found that the
legs of iron represented Rome.
00:52:39.25\00:52:43.12
Pagan Rome, going
from 168 BC to 476 AD.
00:52:43.32\00:52:48.23
And God used a dragon
to represent pagan Rome.
00:52:48.43\00:52:54.00
And then we looked at the
little horn on that dragon
00:52:54.40\00:53:00.38
in Daniel 7, and
tonight we studied a beast
00:53:00.58\00:53:04.41
in Revelation 13, right?
that represented papal Rome.
00:53:04.71\00:53:10.09
538 AD to 1798 AD.
00:53:11.52\00:53:14.22
Did you catch on?
00:53:16.73\00:53:18.13
"Five have fallen... "
00:53:19.29\00:53:23.90
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
00:53:24.30\00:53:28.44
pagan Rome, papal
Rome. "Five have fallen. "
00:53:28.84\00:53:34.78
There they are.
00:53:34.98\00:53:36.81
So we have how many beasts left?
00:53:53.46\00:53:56.33
Two. Now as I told you
00:53:56.73\00:54:01.74
prophecy can get heavy
00:54:02.14\00:54:04.34
so tomorrow night we're
going to ease up a little bit.
00:54:05.41\00:54:08.64
But on Sunday night
we're going to look at the one
00:54:09.54\00:54:13.08
that is...
00:54:13.28\00:54:15.22
a beast that you
seldom hear anything about.
00:54:16.18\00:54:22.12
You hardly ever hear
anybody say anything about it.
00:54:22.52\00:54:25.59
In fact, most people
read the Scripture in the book
00:54:25.99\00:54:28.73
of Revelation and never
know that there's a beast there.
00:54:28.93\00:54:32.53
It's found in the
11th chapter of Revelation.
00:54:32.73\00:54:36.71
In the 11th chapter of
Revelation is the beast that is.
00:54:37.77\00:54:42.71
The other has not yet come.
00:54:43.11\00:54:45.91
When he comes he must
continue a short time.
00:54:46.98\00:54:50.85
So folks, what I'm
trying to take you step by step
00:54:51.05\00:54:53.82
is I'm trying to take
you down through time.
00:54:54.02\00:54:57.46
I'm trying to show you any
way you want to look at it,
00:54:58.36\00:55:01.90
folks: we're down at the end.
00:55:02.10\00:55:05.93
You have to recognize
that we're at the end.
00:55:06.84\00:55:09.87
There's not a lot of time left.
00:55:10.27\00:55:12.47
I can tell you tonight:
God's Word has not failed.
00:55:13.58\00:55:19.55
It's been fulfilled
with absolute accuracy.
00:55:20.65\00:55:24.42
It won't fail tonight.
00:55:24.82\00:55:26.76
And as we study God's
Word from night to night
00:55:27.26\00:55:30.19
we're going to move right
on down and we're going to see
00:55:30.39\00:55:32.96
exactly where we are in history
00:55:33.16\00:55:36.10
and what's happening
and what's taking place.
00:55:36.30\00:55:38.63
The thing that you
and I want to make sure is
00:55:41.24\00:55:45.31
that our eyes are open. That
we aren't shutting our eyes.
00:55:46.47\00:55:51.81
We aren't saying: "Oh, I
don't want to know that. "
00:55:52.81\00:55:55.15
'I don't want to see that. "
00:55:55.35\00:55:56.69
We want to say:
"Lord, open my eyes
00:55:57.09\00:56:01.49
that I may see. "
00:56:01.89\00:56:04.69
Open my eyes
00:56:07.50\00:56:11.37
that I may see
00:56:11.57\00:56:17.14
glimpses of truth
00:56:17.67\00:56:21.44
Thou hast for me.
00:56:21.84\00:56:27.75
Place in my hand
00:56:28.38\00:56:32.39
the wonderful key
00:56:32.59\00:56:38.39
that shall unclasp
00:56:38.89\00:56:42.76
and set me free.
00:56:43.47\00:56:49.37
Silently now
00:56:50.87\00:56:54.68
I wait for Thee;
00:56:54.88\00:57:00.72
ready, my God,
00:57:01.18\00:57:04.82
Thy will to see.
00:57:05.32\00:57:11.26
Open my eyes,
00:57:11.89\00:57:16.43
illumine me...
00:57:17.33\00:57:23.24
Spirit
00:57:24.31\00:57:29.28
Divine.
00:57:29.78\00:57:35.68
Let us pray: Father, tonight
00:57:38.15\00:57:41.32
as we have moved into
the book of Revelation
00:57:43.66\00:57:46.23
Lord, help us that we
may understand where we are.
00:57:48.23\00:57:53.27
But, Lord, it's not enough.
00:57:54.64\00:57:56.87
We may know where we are
00:57:58.11\00:58:00.21
but if we don't know Jesus
00:58:01.24\00:58:03.31
we've missed everything.
00:58:04.08\00:58:05.85
May each of us not just
understand the Scripture
00:58:07.05\00:58:12.19
and understand
what's taking place
00:58:12.59\00:58:15.02
but may we take
hold of Jesus Christ
00:58:16.26\00:58:19.16
and in Him find life eternal.
00:58:19.76\00:58:22.13