I've noticed rather
a strange phenomenon.
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You can talk to almost any child
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in school, almost anyone...
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even in grade school...
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and they can name
these beasts for you.
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They can tell you what they are.
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Doesn't make any difference
whether you're talking about
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barosaurus or whether
you're talking about supersaurus
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or whether you're
talking about T. rex
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or whether you're
talking about triceratops.
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They can name them
off... all the dinosaurs.
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And we have them in our books.
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I mean, in grade school
they have them, they see them.
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They talk about
them. We even make toys
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and they play with them.
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And this is all right.
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And yet if I send you a brochure
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that has the picture of
the beasts that are mentioned
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in the Bible
parents will say to me:
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"Why do you put those awful
beasts there on that brochure? "
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And they seem to object
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to understanding it, yet
they don't mind their children
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seeing beasts like this.
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And you can ask them
and they can name them.
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But if you mention
the beasts in the Bible
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they don't know
anything about them.
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And yet those
beasts in the Bible
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have a whole whole lot more
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meaning to you and to me
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than do the dinosaurs.
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As we have been
studying Bible prophecy
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we have looked at them.
And you remember we have
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looked at a lion.
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And we found out that this lion
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represented the
kingdom of Babylon
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that went from 606 BC to 539 BC.
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And then you
remember after the lion
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we took a look at a bear that
raised itself up on one side,
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had 3 ribs in its mouth.
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That bear
represented Medo-Persia
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going from 539 BC to 331 BC.
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And then you
remember after the bear
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we came to rather a
strange beast in the Bible.
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That was a leopard, but
that leopard had 4 heads
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and four wings.
You remember that?
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And that leopard rep-
resented the kingdom of Greece.
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The four wings on its
back represented the swiftness
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with which Alexander the Great
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took everything
that was before him.
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The four heads on the
beast represented Alexander's
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four generals that the
kingdom was turned over to.
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And Greece went
from 331 BC to 168 BC.
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And then we came to a dragon.
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And we found
out that that dragon
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represented the
kingdom of pagan Rome.
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Rome was the kingdom that ruled
longer than any other kingdom
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from 168 BC to 476 AD.
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So we've taken
those one after another
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and then as we studied
it we found in Revelation
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the 13th chapter we had
kind of a non-descript beast
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that was made up of a leopard,
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made up of a bear, a lion.
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It had seven heads, and
as we studied that we found
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that that beast represented
the kingdom of papal Rome.
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And so we have looked at those
beasts one right after another.
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Those five, and I read
you a text in God's Word
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that said: "Five
of these have fallen.
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One is, one is yet to come. "
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And tonight we're
going to take a look
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at the one that is in
Revelation the 11th chapter.
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So we're going to see
what that beast represents.
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How that all fits
together. So with that,
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let's go to
Revelation the 11th chapter
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and see what it has to
say. Revelation the 11th chapter
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and verse 7:
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So here it speaks
about this particular beast.
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I know lots of people
that read the 11th chapter
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of Revelation and they
never pick up on this beast.
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But it says that this beast
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would overcome
them and kill them.
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Now what we've gotta find out
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is who... who is this
beast gonna overcome and kill.
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Well, the Bible
speaks of two witnesses.
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And it says that this
beast would overcome them
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and kill those two witnesses.
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In fact, the
Scripture says this about it:
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Did that ring
any bells with you?
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Huh? Are you with me?
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OK. It says that they're
gonna prophesy 1,260 days.
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Watch what happens...
still in the same verse:
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So it says these two witnesses
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they're going to
prophesy for 1,260 days
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in sackcloth.
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What would you think
that sackcloth represents?
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What do you think
sackcloth represents?
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Well, sackcloth
represents mourning;
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it represents hard times.
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It represents distress.
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So it says that they're
going to prophesy 1,260 days
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mourning... in distress.
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All right. So what we want
to do tonight now is we want to
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go back and pick up
with the first verse
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and we're going to
look at verses 1 through 7
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and we're going to begin
to put this prophecy together.
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And it says in Revelation
the 11th chapter and verse 1...
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we read:
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Telling them to rise,
measure the temple and so forth.
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So he said: "Don't measure; it's
been given to the Gentiles. "
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Now watch because
it's going to tell you
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how long it has been
given to the Gentiles.
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Now when it says:
"These are the 2 olive trees, "
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who are the two olive trees?
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The two witnesses.
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OK. Make sure you're
under- standing as we're reading
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God's Word. These 2 witnesses
are the two olive trees.
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OK? So what we
want to find out tonight
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is what is this talking about?
Who are these two witnesses
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that the beast kills?
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Who do they represent?
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Folks, if you're going
to understand prophecy,
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you've gotta go to Scripture.
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You're not going to understand
it if you don't go to Scripture.
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And let me tell you something:
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when God puts something down
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He's not writing something
that you can't understand.
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Don't accept that.
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You can understand it; you can
know what He's talking about.
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God didn't reveal it in His Word
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so that you and I
couldn't understand it.
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May take a little study.
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When I was in
school I had a professor
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that said it wasn't
harmful nor fatal to think.
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And it's not. So you may
have to think a little bit
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but God will
bless you if you do.
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So if it's talking
about two olive trees
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and two lampstands,
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let's see what the Scripture
says about those 2 olive trees
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and those two lampstands.
And so we're going to go
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to the book of Zechariah
and see what it says here.
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So here it's talking
about this lampstand.
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OK... here we are. See,
same phrase as used in the book
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of Revelation here in Zechariah.
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He said: "What do
these represent? "
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All right... listen carefully:
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He asked him, he said: "No, I
don't understand what this is. "
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And he said: This is the Word
of the Lord to Zerubbabel. "
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Watch:
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So when he asked him he said:
"Who are these 2 olive trees?
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"Who are these two lampstands? "
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He says: "This is the Word
of the Lord to Zerubbabel. "
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"Not by might nor by power
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but by My Spirit
saith the Lord. "
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So what are they?
What do they represent?
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They represent the Word of God!
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That's what they represent.
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Stands for the Word of God.
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Now you remember
that in the Bible
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you'll find the Holy Spirit
is pictured many times as oil
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and it's also presented as fire.
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OK? You remember
when Samuel anointed David
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he used what? Oil.
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And you'll find in
many cases in Scripture
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oil is used to
represent the Holy Spirit.
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You also remember it says:
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So it says if
there's anybody sick
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they're to gather
the elders of the church,
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pray for that person,
anoint that person with oil.
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It represents the Holy Spirit.
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"And the prayer of faith, "
it says, "shall save the sick. "
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You also remember that
on the Day of Pentecost
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when the Holy
Spirit fell upon the people
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it fell as what?
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Flames of fire on their head.
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So you have those two repre-
sentations of the Holy Spirit.
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"Not by might nor by power
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but by My Spirit
saith the Lord. "
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That's' how it's to take place.
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So as we're studying God's Word
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it tells us here in II Peter
the first chapter and verse 21:
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So when we come
to the Word of God
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and the Word of God being re-
vealed, it is revealed by what?
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Huh? The Holy Spirit.
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They didn't speak
of their own will.
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It was given to them by the
Holy Spirit, revealed to them
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by the Holy Spirit.
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So when it talks about
those two olive trees and oil
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that represents the Holy Spirit.
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That oil went to what, folks?
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It went to lampstands
that were to give light.
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Are you with me?
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So He's picturing
what's going to happen here
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and that's the reason
it says this in Zechariah.
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That oil is flowing
through that to the lamps
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to give light. That is
the reason it tells us there
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in Zechariah:
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So when you get to
the book of Revelation
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and it talks about
these two witnesses
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it says this is the Holy Spirit.
And that it is giving light
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through what? This is the what?
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The Word of the Lord.
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It's giving light
through the Word of God.
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That's the reason
when you read God's Word
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such as in
Psalm 119:105 it says:
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So when the Scripture here talks
about these two witnesses...
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OK? The two witnesses there:
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you know who
those two witnesses are?
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Those two witnesses are
the Old and New Testaments.
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The Word of God.
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See, that's what
it's talking about there.
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And as we study
this prophecy tonight,
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dear friend, you're going to see
that with absolute clearness.
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It'll stand out vividly
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that this is talking
about the Word of God.
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These are the two witnesses:
the Old and New Testaments.
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It says the beast
would do what to them?
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Said it'd kill them.
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OK... let's watch as the
Scripture begins to reveal
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what's going to happen here.
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Some people want to
hold that these two witnesses
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are Moses and Elijah.
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And you'll hear people
say that the two witnesses are
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Moses and Elijah. And
they seem to think that
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Moses and Elijah are
going to come back to the earth
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and that they're going to be
killed and they're going to lie
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on the street for 3-1/2 days.
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They won't be buried.
And then Moses and Elijah
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are going to be resurrected.
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That's' what many people teach.
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That is not what
the Scripture is saying.
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I want you to listen
to what the Scripture says
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about it, and I'll tell
you why they think it's Moses
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and Elijah.
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OK... you remember
Elijah is the one that prayed
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for fire to come down out
of heaven. You remember that?
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So that's the reason it's
saying here that some people
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believe that it's Elijah.
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Goes on and says:
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And you remember Elijah
was the one who prayed that
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it wouldn't rain, and it didn't
rain for a period of time.
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3-1/2 years in Israel.
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And you remember
Moses is the one that prayed
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and the water turned to
blood. So these are the reasons
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people take and say this
represents Moses and Elijah.
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"And they have power over the
waters to turn them to blood. "
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But let's take a look now
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and see what the
Scripture tells us about these
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because it says:
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Now what I want
to tell you tonight
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is that Moses and
Elijah did not do that
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of their own strength.
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Moses and Elijah did
that based on the Word of God.
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I can read you in
the book of Leviticus
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where it says
very clearly that if...
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if the people did not obey God
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and did not follow
Him it would not rain.
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I can read that
to you in Leviticus.
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And the people of
Israel were not obeying God.
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They were not following Him;
they were not doing His will.
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And so all Elijah did is
said: "Lord, honor Your Word. "
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And based on the Word
of God it didn't rain.
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OK? So that is the
power; that is what was used.
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All right. Let's
go to Revelation 11:2.
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So here in
Revelation the 11th chapter
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it uses the term
forty-two months.
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It also uses
the term 1,260 days.
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Terms that you and
I are familiar with
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because we have
read those in Daniel 7.
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We've also read it
in Revelation 13, right?
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OK. So when it
talks about that it says:
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So they're going to
prophesy that length of time
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in sackcloth.
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Now as we have studied
God's Word together here
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from night to night
we found that in Daniel
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the 7th chapter it talks about
time, times, and 1/2 a time.
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It also talks
about it in Daniel 12.
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OK. I told you that in
Bible prophecy a day represented
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how much? One year.
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When we get to the book of
Revelation, Revelation 12:6
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talks about 1,260 days.
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Revelation 12:14 talks about
time, times, and 1/2 a time.
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And Revelation 13:5
talks about forty-two months.
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All those, folks -
and I have mentioned this
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several times now, I'll
continue to mention it -
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God is consistent.
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See, I run onto people
that want to change these up.
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If you change them
up, you never know what...
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when you get off of
one horse and on another.
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God is consistent
all the way through.
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That 1,260 years in every case
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will refer to that text
where it says: "I have given you
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a day for a year" so it
will represent 1,260 years
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that began - if
you add them up...
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Time represents
360 days... time does.
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Times represents 720.
00:20:34.66\00:20:36.90
1/2 time represents 180.
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That gives you 1,260.
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42 months, 30 days
in a Biblical month,
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you multiply it times
30 and it gives you 1,260.
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All those
represent the period of time
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from 538 AD to 1798 AD.
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In every case it represents
that same period of time.
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Now, let's see what
takes place 'cause it says
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that they would
prophesy in sackcloth
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for 1,260 years.
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Revelation the
11th chapter verse 3:
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If you look at
this period of time
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from 538 AD to 1798 AD,
00:21:33.89\00:21:37.79
folks, that
covers the period of time
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known in history
as the Dark Ages.
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It's a time in which
00:21:46.03\00:21:48.54
the Bible was
taken away from people.
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It was chained to library walls.
00:21:52.37\00:21:54.98
The people were told that they
were too ignorant to read it.
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It was a time of great... go
back and read your history...
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time of great,
great persecution.
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That's why it
says they witnessed
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in sackcloth and ashes
because it was a time -
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hard time - a
time of persecution.
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A time of
suffering; a time of sorrow.
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A time in which people
were burned at the stake.
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All you have to do is
read about people such as Hus
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and Jerome and Wycliffe.
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Took them and
burned them at the stake.
00:22:35.18\00:22:37.39
They didn't burn Wycliffe.
00:22:37.79\00:22:39.12
He died on them before
they got to the stake with him.
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But it was a time in
which they were persecuted.
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And because the Christians
were so terribly persecuted
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they had to flee.
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And they fled up
into northern Italy
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and southern France.
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And that's what you
and I know as the Alps.
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And they came into those areas
and they settled those areas
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and some of those people became
known as Waldensian people.
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Others that
worshiped and followed the Lord
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became known as Huguenots.
00:23:14.32\00:23:16.22
Others became
known as the Albigenses.
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But these were people,
folks, that took God's Word
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and they said: "We will
build our faith on Scripture. "
00:23:23.77\00:23:27.74
"We will stand
on the Word of God;
00:23:27.94\00:23:30.01
this is where we will stand. "
00:23:30.21\00:23:31.87
And because they
refused... they refused to stand
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any other place
than on the Word of God
00:23:36.38\00:23:38.55
they were hunted and
they were persecuted...
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greatly persecuted.
00:23:42.28\00:23:44.02
Hard time... sorrow...
00:23:45.72\00:23:49.36
time of great,
great persecution.
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But as time passed
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in Revelation
the 12th chapter...
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and we'll look at this in
detail on another night...
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but Revelation the 12th
chapter speaks of this, folks.
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Listen to what it
says here. And by the way,
00:24:05.14\00:24:06.98
let me give you a
principle. I'll come back to it
00:24:07.18\00:24:08.94
another night. But any time
you're studying Bible prophecy,
00:24:09.14\00:24:12.51
you're studying God's Word here,
00:24:12.91\00:24:15.08
and you come across
a woman in prophecy...
00:24:15.28\00:24:19.09
Now don't apply it
outside of prophecy...
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But any time you come
across a woman in Bible prophecy
00:24:21.52\00:24:24.49
a woman will always
represent God's church.
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OK. If she's a good woman.
00:24:29.36\00:24:31.23
Put that down.
00:24:32.07\00:24:33.40
If she's a good woman.
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OK. Always
represent God's church.
00:24:35.00\00:24:37.41
And so when you get to
Revelation the 12th chapter
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you have a woman there, and
this is what it says about her:
00:24:40.74\00:24:44.01
Are you beginning to see
the consistency of Scripture?
00:25:01.20\00:25:03.87
The church had to
flee into the wilderness
00:25:04.73\00:25:07.54
where she was
terribly persecuted.
00:25:07.74\00:25:09.97
God said He'd prepared a
special place just for her
00:25:10.97\00:25:16.91
and that she would
witness for 1,260 days.
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I've been there. If
you've never been there,
00:25:26.82\00:25:29.12
if you want to
drive into northern Italy,
00:25:30.16\00:25:33.56
southern France there's a place
there called Torre Pelicci.
00:25:34.76\00:25:39.57
And all you've gotta do is
walk back into the mountains
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and this is where these
Waldensian people lived.
00:25:42.97\00:25:46.34
They persecuted them terrible.
00:25:48.18\00:25:49.68
They sent
soldiers up after them.
00:25:49.88\00:25:51.58
An interesting point: these
people lived in the mountains.
00:25:52.65\00:25:56.55
If you've never been there,
folks, it's most gorgeous.
00:25:57.29\00:26:00.09
I mean, beautiful mountains!
00:26:00.29\00:26:01.66
But they're like
this... I mean, they're steep.
00:26:01.86\00:26:04.46
And these people walked
up and down those mountains
00:26:04.66\00:26:07.66
and did their farming
on the side of the mountain
00:26:07.86\00:26:09.53
and everything. So when
the soldiers came to get them
00:26:09.73\00:26:12.37
these men just ran off
00:26:13.80\00:26:15.47
and the soldiers just
couldn't run fast enough.
00:26:15.67\00:26:17.24
They just
couldn't keep up with them.
00:26:17.44\00:26:18.77
And so there was no way
they could catch these men.
00:26:18.81\00:26:21.18
And so these soldiers got
this bright idea in their head:
00:26:21.38\00:26:24.15
well if we can't catch
the men we'll catch the women.
00:26:24.55\00:26:26.72
Tried to catch the women. They
couldn't catch the women either!
00:26:27.78\00:26:30.29
Women ran up the mountains
and just ran off and left them.
00:26:30.49\00:26:32.95
And so they couldn't
catch either one of them.
00:26:33.46\00:26:35.16
But they did terrible things and
they persecuted them horribly.
00:26:35.36\00:26:38.96
They witnessed in
sackcloth and ashes.
00:26:39.16\00:26:43.20
Now folks, let me
share something with you.
00:26:43.40\00:26:46.43
It's because of these people
like the Waldensian people
00:26:46.84\00:26:50.54
that you've got your Bible
00:26:50.94\00:26:52.47
because they're the
ones that took care of it.
00:26:53.41\00:26:56.21
They're the ones...
There's no printing press.
00:26:56.95\00:26:59.75
The Bible has to
be written by hand.
00:27:00.58\00:27:02.88
And they wrote it down
- hand transcribed it -
00:27:03.08\00:27:07.42
put it in books there
and they cared for it.
00:27:07.62\00:27:10.43
So when the Reformation came
00:27:10.63\00:27:13.43
the Waldensian people
are the ones that presented
00:27:14.03\00:27:16.87
the reformers
with the Word of God.
00:27:17.07\00:27:18.77
That's one reason you have it.
00:27:18.97\00:27:20.94
They were the
people that cared for it
00:27:21.87\00:27:24.17
in a very, very special way.
00:27:24.57\00:27:27.04
It says in Revelation 11 verse 7
00:27:28.91\00:27:32.65
When these people
finished their testimony, OK?
00:27:37.45\00:27:43.09
Like I said, this was a
terrible, terrible time.
00:27:50.50\00:27:54.37
But all of a
sudden across the country
00:27:54.77\00:27:57.77
men began to
stand up and preach.
00:27:57.97\00:28:00.31
And all of a sudden you have
the Reformation taking place.
00:28:00.51\00:28:03.85
Hus, Jerome...
who were Bohemians...
00:28:04.05\00:28:07.18
who forfeited their
life, were burned at the stake,
00:28:07.38\00:28:10.45
had stood up and said: "We
will stand on the Word of God
00:28:10.65\00:28:13.79
and the Word of God alone. "
00:28:13.99\00:28:15.32
Wycliffe, who had taken
and translated the Bible
00:28:15.46\00:28:19.46
into English so people
could read it and understand it,
00:28:19.66\00:28:23.00
and they were going to burn
him at the stake. And he died
00:28:23.20\00:28:26.00
before they did. And then
other men began to come on
00:28:26.20\00:28:29.00
like Luther. And
he began to preach
00:28:29.20\00:28:31.91
and he began to stand up and
say: "This is the Word of God
00:28:32.11\00:28:34.84
and everybody should be
able to read the Word of God
00:28:35.04\00:28:37.28
and to follow it. "
And over in Switzerland
00:28:37.48\00:28:40.22
other individuals like
John Calvin here in Geneva:
00:28:40.72\00:28:45.12
he began to stand up and preach.
00:28:45.32\00:28:47.02
And through the
preaching of John Calvin, folks,
00:28:47.22\00:28:50.89
400,000 people
accepted the Reformation.
00:28:51.49\00:28:57.43
They became known as Huguenots.
00:28:57.63\00:29:00.30
There were other men like
Zwingli. These were great men
00:29:01.30\00:29:04.97
and they began to
preach the Word of God.
00:29:05.17\00:29:07.08
And because they
preached the Word of God
00:29:07.28\00:29:09.68
some of the princes of
Europe began to stand up and
00:29:11.11\00:29:15.72
they said: "Our conscience
will not be dictated to.
00:29:15.92\00:29:20.06
We will follow the Word of God.
00:29:20.26\00:29:22.59
We will believe the Word of God
00:29:22.79\00:29:24.39
as we read the Word of
God and understand it. "
00:29:24.59\00:29:27.23
And so they stood
up for the Word of God.
00:29:27.43\00:29:29.66
Great men! And the persecution
began to come to an end.
00:29:29.96\00:29:35.94
But let me tell
you what happened.
00:29:37.21\00:29:39.44
Countries like
Germany, Switzerland...
00:29:41.94\00:29:45.91
they accepted the Reformation.
00:29:46.31\00:29:49.92
France... France opened
its doors. Threw them wide open
00:29:50.89\00:29:56.12
and accepted the Reformation.
00:29:56.42\00:29:58.89
And the Reformation
began to move across France
00:29:59.09\00:30:01.96
with great rapidity.
00:30:02.16\00:30:03.77
This went on for a few years.
00:30:06.17\00:30:08.40
Then one of the kings of France
00:30:09.54\00:30:12.07
got offended. And
because he was offended
00:30:13.88\00:30:18.38
he turned
against the Reformation
00:30:18.58\00:30:21.32
and they began to
persecute the reformers
00:30:21.72\00:30:25.79
and France closed its
doors to the Reformation.
00:30:26.59\00:30:32.23
Just absolutely closed
the doors to the Reformation
00:30:32.43\00:30:35.36
and said: "No! " Anybody
that followed the reformers
00:30:35.56\00:30:39.13
they were considered heretics
00:30:39.33\00:30:41.44
and they were gathered and
they were burned at the stake.
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.64
You have what was called
00:30:46.27\00:30:49.18
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
00:30:49.91\00:30:53.82
where they
gathered up 60,000 Huguenots
00:30:54.12\00:30:58.39
one Sunday
morning and killed them.
00:30:58.59\00:31:01.06
OK? At this time
there's a struggle going on.
00:31:02.42\00:31:06.39
There's a struggle
going on politically in Europe
00:31:07.50\00:31:10.37
and there's a man here
- little man right here -
00:31:10.57\00:31:14.04
that is trying to
gain control of Europe.
00:31:14.24\00:31:17.44
His name is Napoleon.
00:31:17.64\00:31:20.28
Napoleon wants to control Europe
00:31:21.28\00:31:24.58
but he knows... he knows
that he cannot control Europe
00:31:26.45\00:31:31.39
unless he can break the
back of the papal power.
00:31:32.22\00:31:36.62
And so we find
00:31:37.23\00:31:38.76
that on February 15, 1798
00:31:39.16\00:31:43.50
Napoleon's general - Berthier -
00:31:43.70\00:31:46.43
made his entrance into Rome...
00:31:46.63\00:31:49.20
Now folks, put a line
under that word secular.
00:31:54.98\00:31:59.35
Put a line under that word
secular because all of a sudden
00:32:00.02\00:32:03.82
it's going to start
meaning a whole lot more.
00:32:04.02\00:32:07.26
You see, when France
turned against the Reformation
00:32:07.46\00:32:12.49
through the
preaching of John Calvin
00:32:12.69\00:32:14.86
thousands and thousands
and thousands of people
00:32:16.03\00:32:19.03
accepted it. And
the truth about it was
00:32:19.23\00:32:22.44
is those that accepted
the message of the Reformation
00:32:22.64\00:32:25.87
were the
"intelligenci" of the country.
00:32:26.07\00:32:29.11
They were teachers, professors,
businessmen, tradesmen.
00:32:29.51\00:32:33.65
And all of a sudden France
turned its wrath against them
00:32:33.85\00:32:38.92
and they had to flee France.
00:32:39.12\00:32:41.09
And when they fled France
00:32:42.82\00:32:44.83
it did horrible things to
that country's leadership.
00:32:45.99\00:32:51.60
Things began to
change drastically.
00:32:52.60\00:32:55.37
And all of a sudden
00:32:55.97\00:32:57.64
a beast begins to rise up.
00:32:57.84\00:33:02.28
Remember it said this beast
would come up and it would kill
00:33:03.91\00:33:07.62
the two witnesses? Huh?
00:33:07.82\00:33:11.02
OK. This is the
beast that's coming up
00:33:11.22\00:33:13.39
because what
happens is this. It says:
00:33:13.59\00:33:15.92
OK... Napoleon has
come to power: 1798.
00:33:27.37\00:33:31.01
He has established a secular...
00:33:31.21\00:33:35.78
he has established
a secular government.
00:33:36.18\00:33:40.12
People are
turning against religion.
00:33:41.58\00:33:46.25
It says, Revelation 11:8:
00:33:46.65\00:33:50.19
So it says that
they would kill them.
00:34:02.57\00:34:04.74
They would lie in that street.
00:34:04.94\00:34:07.31
They're going to lie there 3-1/2
days we're going to find out.
00:34:07.91\00:34:11.18
Great persecution took place.
00:34:12.05\00:34:13.85
The king of France as
I told you went through
00:34:15.05\00:34:19.05
and gathered up anybody
that followed the reformers
00:34:19.45\00:34:22.72
and they either
killed them with a sword
00:34:22.92\00:34:27.16
or they burned them at the
stake or they crucified them.
00:34:27.36\00:34:30.30
In fact, they took a man who
was a follower of the reformers
00:34:31.27\00:34:36.67
and got him to tell
who these people were.
00:34:36.87\00:34:39.74
And as they went down the
street he pointed out the houses
00:34:39.94\00:34:42.98
and they put marks on them.
And then the soldiers came back
00:34:43.18\00:34:46.21
and gathered these people up.
00:34:46.41\00:34:47.98
It was a
terrible time in history.
00:34:48.62\00:34:51.12
Even the papal power,
00:34:51.52\00:34:53.99
the papal power who
had been the favored one,
00:34:54.92\00:34:58.39
all of a sudden now found itself
00:34:58.59\00:35:02.46
in great great trouble.
00:35:02.86\00:35:04.80
It found that the people
had turned against them also.
00:35:05.00\00:35:10.44
A man by the
name of Thomas Paine
00:35:12.51\00:35:15.41
has written a book. It's
called The Age of Reason.
00:35:16.54\00:35:20.55
That book has
circulated all across France.
00:35:21.28\00:35:25.09
And in the book The Age
of Reason by Thomas Paine
00:35:25.29\00:35:29.29
he tells them there to
take religion and get rid of it.
00:35:29.49\00:35:33.66
To toss it out;
not to follow it.
00:35:33.86\00:35:36.77
That there is no God and
they're not to believe in God.
00:35:36.97\00:35:40.24
And that book now has
gone all across France
00:35:40.44\00:35:43.84
and France has turned against
God and they have established
00:35:44.04\00:35:49.48
what is known in
history as The Age of Reason.
00:35:49.68\00:35:54.95
They kicked
religion out of France.
00:35:57.45\00:36:01.92
I want you to
listen. That took place
00:36:02.32\00:36:04.83
I want you to listen to a
couple historical statements.
00:36:16.20\00:36:18.77
The French assembly
said: "We will not worship God.
00:36:54.38\00:37:00.08
We will establish
The Age of Reason. "
00:37:00.28\00:37:03.95
One more statement:
00:37:04.85\00:37:06.25
That's what the French
assembly did. They said:
00:37:41.82\00:37:44.79
"Have nothing to do
with God any more. "
00:37:44.99\00:37:47.46
They took this
woman, put her on a cart,
00:37:57.71\00:38:01.24
and pulled her
through the streets of Paris
00:38:01.44\00:38:04.65
and worshiped her as
the Goddess of Reason.
00:38:04.85\00:38:08.68
And this began one of
the most horrible times
00:38:10.05\00:38:14.16
in the history of humanity
00:38:14.36\00:38:17.09
referred to by some historians
as the Reign of Terror
00:38:17.69\00:38:23.57
because now the people no longer
have any kind of standard.
00:38:24.77\00:38:30.64
They've thrown out the Book.
00:38:30.94\00:38:33.11
And when they threw out
the Book they threw out morals.
00:38:33.51\00:38:36.48
They threw out
everything that they stood for
00:38:36.88\00:38:39.28
and therefore
everything went awry.
00:38:39.48\00:38:42.22
You could believe
anything you wanted to
00:38:42.42\00:38:44.75
as long as it wasn't religion.
00:38:45.62\00:38:47.49
You couldn't believe that.
If you did, you were in trouble.
00:38:48.19\00:38:52.86
Now watch...
Revelation 11 verse 8:
00:38:54.86\00:38:58.73
You must read that text
very carefully because it says
00:39:08.64\00:39:12.01
"spiritually called
Sodom and Egypt where our Lord
00:39:13.25\00:39:17.39
was crucified. " Please...
that's saying spiritually;
00:39:17.59\00:39:20.56
it's not saying literal.
00:39:20.76\00:39:22.32
Christ was not
crucified in Egypt, was He?
00:39:23.22\00:39:25.89
Wasn't crucified in Sodom.
00:39:26.76\00:39:28.63
So you've gotta understand
when you read the Word of God
00:39:29.03\00:39:31.67
and it says spiritually you've
gotta make the application.
00:39:31.87\00:39:34.80
Why is it saying spiritually
00:39:35.00\00:39:38.47
where our Lord was crucified
00:39:38.67\00:39:41.01
and it refers
to Egypt and Sodom?
00:39:41.21\00:39:43.38
It refers to Egypt for this
reason. Because you remember
00:39:43.58\00:39:46.48
God called Moses and
He said: "You go down
00:39:46.68\00:39:49.78
and you tell Pharaoh
'Let My people go. ' "
00:39:49.98\00:39:52.65
And Moses went down
and told Pharaoh. He said:
00:39:54.82\00:39:57.29
"God has said
'Let My people go. ' "
00:39:57.49\00:39:59.83
And Pharaoh said this:
00:40:00.03\00:40:02.06
You see, Egypt
stood for atheism.
00:40:13.81\00:40:18.08
They had thrown
out God... France had.
00:40:18.81\00:40:21.25
They said: "We're not
going to believe in any Deity. "
00:40:21.45\00:40:23.62
"We're throwing out God. "
00:40:23.82\00:40:25.15
That's the reason God
referred to it as Egypt.
00:40:25.25\00:40:28.66
Why did it refer to Sodom?
00:40:28.86\00:40:31.09
Sodom and Gomorrah?
00:40:32.59\00:40:34.56
Those cities were
destroyed because of what?
00:40:34.76\00:40:37.80
Loss of morals.
00:40:38.93\00:40:41.90
Dear friend, any
time you take the Bible
00:40:42.10\00:40:45.04
and you throw out the
Bible, all morality is gone.
00:40:45.24\00:40:49.11
And France lost its morals.
00:40:49.64\00:40:52.38
I mean, there was nothing to
restrain the people in any way.
00:40:52.58\00:40:58.02
Fornication,
adultery was wide open.
00:40:58.22\00:41:00.76
Unbelievable during that time.
00:41:00.96\00:41:02.62
It was so bad I can't even
describe it to you tonight.
00:41:02.82\00:41:05.76
That's the reason it
referred to it as Sodom.
00:41:06.16\00:41:09.83
And it says: "Where
our Lord was crucified. "
00:41:10.33\00:41:15.24
Why would it say that?
00:41:16.10\00:41:17.77
Because if you
believed in God...
00:41:18.17\00:41:22.31
It didn't make any difference
what church you went to
00:41:23.65\00:41:26.15
if you believed in
God you were gathered up
00:41:27.18\00:41:30.05
and taken and guillotined.
00:41:30.25\00:41:33.66
Your head was cut off.
00:41:33.86\00:41:35.32
God said this:
00:41:36.22\00:41:39.59
I mean, they
gathered up everybody
00:41:43.60\00:41:45.90
that just even looked
like they might be religious
00:41:46.10\00:41:49.20
and they cut their heads off.
00:41:49.40\00:41:50.74
In fact, it went on so bad,
00:41:50.77\00:41:53.17
folks, that blood ran down the
gutters of the streets of Paris.
00:41:53.38\00:41:56.68
OK.
00:41:56.88\00:41:58.21
See, that's why it says:
"Where My Lord was crucified. "
00:42:12.93\00:42:16.87
Now, it says
Revelation 11 verse 9:
00:42:17.70\00:42:22.50
Says their dead bodies
are going to lie in the street
00:42:35.72\00:42:38.85
for 3-1/2 days.
00:42:39.05\00:42:40.59
Now, we found out in our
study that in Bible prophecy
00:42:40.99\00:42:46.26
a day represents
how much? One year.
00:42:46.46\00:42:49.00
"I have laid on
you a day for a year. "
00:42:49.20\00:42:52.73
OK. The Age of Reason
00:42:52.93\00:42:57.07
began January 1, 1793.
00:42:58.07\00:43:03.88
OK? Now I want to read you
00:43:04.28\00:43:09.48
a couple historical statements.
I want you to put it in place.
00:43:09.68\00:43:12.32
Back in the time when
France made the decision
00:43:13.46\00:43:19.13
that they were not going
to go with the Reformation -
00:43:19.33\00:43:21.96
the king turned
against the Reformation -
00:43:22.96\00:43:25.53
and they went out and
they gathered up the Huguenots
00:43:25.73\00:43:29.10
and they burned them at the
stake and they killed them all
00:43:29.30\00:43:31.87
history is recording
this statement about it.
00:43:32.27\00:43:34.78
Listen to this very carefully:
00:43:34.98\00:43:36.68
Looks like we
have lost a computer.
00:43:36.88\00:43:40.32
Maybe we can go back
to it; get some help there
00:43:40.52\00:43:44.15
to find out what the problem is.
00:43:44.35\00:43:45.69
But history says that that
king marched down the streets
00:43:45.85\00:43:49.92
and as he went down the
streets they pointed out
00:43:50.33\00:43:52.96
the homes and they gathered
the people and they killed them
00:43:53.16\00:43:57.10
one right after another.
00:43:59.00\00:44:00.34
Now folks, we're
200 and about 56 years
00:44:01.10\00:44:07.04
later to the very day
00:44:07.24\00:44:10.35
and now they've gone
and they've gotten Louis XVI
00:44:10.55\00:44:15.38
and they're
leading him down the street
00:44:15.78\00:44:18.05
taking him to
have his head cut off.
00:44:18.65\00:44:20.96
The very thing that
the king of France did
00:44:21.56\00:44:24.79
256 years before
00:44:25.29\00:44:27.73
now is happening
to the king of France.
00:44:27.93\00:44:30.83
This was referred to
as The Age of Terror.
00:44:31.03\00:44:35.60
Terrible time that took place.
00:44:35.80\00:44:38.61
OK... let's continue on. It says
00:44:38.81\00:44:41.68
that their dead bodies
will lie in the street how long?
00:44:41.88\00:44:45.11
Three and a half days.
00:44:46.11\00:44:47.68
Now friends, if there's
any of you here tonight that
00:44:47.88\00:44:51.12
have some question
about the Word of God,
00:44:51.32\00:44:53.46
that you maybe don't
believe that it's exactly right,
00:44:54.69\00:44:59.93
that Age of Reason
began January the 21st, OK?
00:45:01.23\00:45:07.17
1893.
00:45:07.84\00:45:10.61
Excuse me... 1793.
00:45:11.21\00:45:14.28
France did away with religion.
00:45:16.54\00:45:18.58
Three and a half
years later... All right?
00:45:19.95\00:45:24.65
June the 10th, 1796,
00:45:24.85\00:45:30.63
things had gotten
so bad in France -
00:45:31.03\00:45:33.86
absolutely so
horrible in France -
00:45:34.76\00:45:37.13
that the whole
country was falling apart
00:45:37.53\00:45:39.77
that the French assembly
decided to re-establish religion
00:45:40.47\00:45:44.41
in France...
exactly 3-1/2 years.
00:45:44.61\00:45:50.01
Said they would lie
dead in the street how long?
00:45:50.21\00:45:52.31
Three and a half days.
00:45:53.08\00:45:54.42
In Bible prophecy a
day represents how much?
00:45:54.45\00:45:56.35
One year. And it says
they would lie in the street
00:45:56.75\00:45:59.55
dead for 3-1/2
days or 3-1/2 years.
00:45:59.75\00:46:02.92
And it did it to the exact day.
00:46:03.12\00:46:06.13
You'd better believe that
when God's giving you prophecy
00:46:07.10\00:46:10.57
it's accurate. Amen!
00:46:10.77\00:46:12.50
Now it says
here in Revelation 11
00:46:13.00\00:46:16.91
and I'm going to
have to have some glasses.
00:46:17.11\00:46:19.97
I won't read this without them.
00:46:20.48\00:46:22.98
Revelation the 11th chapter...
they're laying right back there.
00:46:23.38\00:46:26.58
Folks, I don't know
what happened there.
00:46:28.22\00:46:30.95
Our screen's coming back.
00:46:31.15\00:46:32.49
OK... maybe we'll get to it
00:46:32.62\00:46:34.89
and take a look at it, but
let me just tell you right now
00:46:35.09\00:46:39.59
if we lose it well
you don't worry about it
00:46:39.79\00:46:41.86
because I can preach without it.
00:46:42.06\00:46:43.53
It's not... it's
not required. Thank you.
00:46:43.73\00:46:46.53
It's not required for me
to have that to preach by.
00:46:46.74\00:46:49.37
But my glasses are required
to be able to see it. OK?
00:46:49.87\00:46:54.84
OK... the 11th
chapter. So anyhow
00:46:55.04\00:46:59.58
at the end of 3-1/2
years it's reinstated.
00:46:59.78\00:47:03.79
It's put right
back where it was.
00:47:03.99\00:47:06.76
Because they
realized that without religion
00:47:07.16\00:47:09.72
the whole country
is falling apart...
00:47:09.92\00:47:11.86
that they can't make it work.
00:47:12.06\00:47:13.70
And so they
re-established religion.
00:47:14.10\00:47:16.33
But it says here in verse 12
00:47:16.53\00:47:20.14
"And they heard a loud
voice from heaven saying
00:47:20.34\00:47:23.37
to them: 'Come up here. '
00:47:23.57\00:47:25.27
And they ascended
to heaven in a cloud
00:47:25.47\00:47:27.44
and their enemies saw them. "
00:47:27.64\00:47:29.14
In other words,
those two witnesses
00:47:29.98\00:47:31.91
came back to life.
00:47:32.11\00:47:33.88
They were
resurrected after 3-1/2 days
00:47:34.08\00:47:36.25
and He said: "Come up
here. " And it says they arose
00:47:36.45\00:47:39.65
and were caught up into heaven.
00:47:39.95\00:47:42.29
Now what I'm trying to
get across to you tonight,
00:47:42.69\00:47:45.43
folks, is this
Word will not fail.
00:47:45.63\00:47:48.83
Absolutely will not
fail... under any way.
00:47:49.76\00:47:53.74
OK? So watch
what happens here...
00:47:54.04\00:47:57.07
I think we're...
well, we were almost there.
00:47:57.27\00:48:00.04
I think we're just about there.
00:48:00.44\00:48:02.01
We'll get there in a minute.
00:48:02.21\00:48:03.78
Maybe we can take
it a little farther.
00:48:03.98\00:48:05.81
A little bit more.
00:48:06.21\00:48:09.05
OK... I think that's good.
00:48:09.25\00:48:11.95
We'll take it from there.
00:48:12.15\00:48:13.56
OK... and then it says
in Revelation 11 verse 10:
00:48:13.76\00:48:17.46
One of the strangest
things happened. You know,
00:48:28.54\00:48:30.94
I don't understand:
when somebody does something
00:48:31.14\00:48:34.84
then everybody wants
to get on the bandwagon.
00:48:35.04\00:48:37.31
And when France
tossed religion out of France
00:48:37.71\00:48:41.45
other countries sent them
letters and gifts and said
00:48:41.65\00:48:44.92
how wise they were
and how smart they were.
00:48:45.12\00:48:47.82
You know, this is
what it's talking about.
00:48:48.92\00:48:50.33
They sent gifts to
them, congratulated them
00:48:50.53\00:48:52.26
for what they did.
00:48:52.46\00:48:53.80
A great fear fell
on those who saw them.
00:49:10.51\00:49:13.01
Now folks, think
about it, think about it:
00:49:13.92\00:49:17.22
17... 1796...
00:49:17.62\00:49:22.19
the Word of God
hasn't gone any place
00:49:23.29\00:49:26.13
because there's no
way it could be published.
00:49:26.53\00:49:29.16
Very few people had Bibles.
00:49:29.36\00:49:31.20
There wasn't much of a
chance for people to read
00:49:31.40\00:49:33.84
the Word of God. This is 1796!
00:49:34.04\00:49:38.74
It says that when this
came and they came back to life
00:49:38.94\00:49:41.88
they were caught up
- watch - into heaven:
00:49:42.08\00:49:45.21
It says if there's anything that
is sure it is the Word of God.
00:49:55.52\00:49:59.29
And I told you tonight you
can build your faith on it.
00:49:59.69\00:50:01.96
Watch:
00:50:02.16\00:50:03.50
January 21, 1793, they
did away with religion.
00:50:03.87\00:50:08.97
The French
assembly on June 10, 1796,
00:50:09.17\00:50:13.48
voted to put it
back... exactly 3-1/2 years.
00:50:13.68\00:50:18.91
OK? Three and a half years
00:50:19.11\00:50:21.65
just as the Word
of God had prophesied.
00:50:21.85\00:50:24.15
OK? Listen: what happened?
00:50:33.03\00:50:36.83
The British Bible Society
00:50:37.03\00:50:40.00
1804... Are you
getting the picture?
00:50:40.20\00:50:43.87
All of a sudden
here the Word of God
00:50:44.27\00:50:46.44
is caught up. The
British Bible Society
00:50:46.64\00:50:49.78
is formed and now the
Word of God is being circulated
00:50:49.98\00:50:53.11
around the world.
00:50:53.31\00:50:55.08
And all of a sudden the
Bible begins to be circulated
00:51:00.36\00:51:02.82
across the globe. All of a sud-
den foreign missions take off.
00:51:03.02\00:51:08.16
And all of a sudden the
Word of God begins to spread
00:51:19.21\00:51:22.24
across this whole world
just exactly as the Scripture
00:51:22.44\00:51:26.41
said it would.
00:51:26.61\00:51:28.48
How does this affect you?
00:51:30.45\00:51:32.15
How does it affect me?
00:51:33.22\00:51:34.86
I want you to listen
very, very carefully.
00:51:35.26\00:51:38.23
That beast came up
out of the bottomless pit
00:51:49.17\00:51:53.11
on February 15, 1798,
when Napoleon established
00:51:53.31\00:51:58.78
a secular kingdom. And
all of a sudden you find
00:51:58.98\00:52:02.85
atheism for the first
time raising its head.
00:52:03.05\00:52:07.52
All of a sudden atheism
as France kicks religion
00:52:08.22\00:52:12.43
out of France and
established atheism...
00:52:12.63\00:52:15.83
came in. Now watch, because
something begins to happen.
00:52:16.03\00:52:20.74
Out of the
writing of Thomas Paine,
00:52:21.14\00:52:24.67
The Age of Reason... There's
a man that has read that.
00:52:25.07\00:52:29.51
His name is George Hegel.
00:52:29.91\00:52:33.35
Look at the dates of his birth:
00:52:33.55\00:52:36.08
1770 to 1831.
00:52:36.28\00:52:39.59
Folks, George Hegel is
the father... he is the father
00:52:39.79\00:52:44.49
of modern atheism in
philosophy and theology.
00:52:44.69\00:52:48.43
He's the one that
introduced all this stuff
00:52:48.63\00:52:51.80
that you find
today across the country
00:52:52.00\00:52:54.60
in which he talks
about higher criticism
00:52:54.80\00:52:57.84
and how that all these things
in the Bible were not true.
00:52:58.04\00:53:00.78
George Hegel did that.
00:53:01.68\00:53:03.35
George Hegel had a student
00:53:04.71\00:53:08.25
that studied George Hegel...
00:53:08.65\00:53:10.99
studied under George Hegel...
00:53:11.39\00:53:13.29
that also studied Thomas Paine.
00:53:13.49\00:53:16.73
And from their writings
he developed his philosophy,
00:53:17.26\00:53:21.66
and his name was Charles Darwin.
00:53:21.86\00:53:25.70
Look at the dates.
00:53:26.10\00:53:27.44
Charles Darwin said
the origin of the species,
00:53:28.10\00:53:34.08
evolution, that you
and I came from a monkey
00:53:34.28\00:53:39.28
or we came from some
protozoa or something else.
00:53:39.48\00:53:43.49
And out of that
Christianity and religion
00:53:43.69\00:53:46.82
was completely moved out of it.
00:53:47.02\00:53:49.89
Ah... Charles Darwin?
00:53:51.56\00:53:53.76
Charles Darwin has a friend...
00:53:53.96\00:53:56.46
Charles Darwin has a
friend that they study together.
00:53:56.67\00:54:00.10
They study the
writings of George Hegel.
00:54:01.04\00:54:03.30
They study the
writings of Thomas Paine.
00:54:03.51\00:54:06.04
His name is Karl Marx.
00:54:06.44\00:54:10.05
And Karl Marx decides that
they need to set up a society,
00:54:11.08\00:54:15.65
a government, that
is built without God.
00:54:15.85\00:54:18.79
And on the basis of
the writings of Karl Marx
00:54:18.99\00:54:21.69
you have atheistic
Communism coming up.
00:54:21.89\00:54:24.53
And it moved into Russia
and held them in its palm
00:54:24.73\00:54:28.60
and in its control for 70 years.
00:54:28.80\00:54:31.50
Oh? You want to
take it a step farther?
00:54:34.14\00:54:36.37
A man that
studied under Karl Marx,
00:54:37.47\00:54:41.34
studied under Charles Darwin,
00:54:41.74\00:54:44.51
his name: Sigmund Freud.
00:54:44.71\00:54:49.02
And Sigmund Freud said: "Ah, we
are in a time of new morality.
00:54:49.52\00:54:55.52
Why you should do
it if it feels good. "
00:54:56.02\00:54:59.59
No morals... no restrictions.
00:55:00.00\00:55:03.20
"Just do it. " Because... why?
00:55:03.40\00:55:05.90
"You came from some animal. "
00:55:06.10\00:55:08.04
And so you find that the whole
concept completely changed.
00:55:09.24\00:55:14.64
And thus you find
that atheistic Communism
00:55:15.58\00:55:18.98
raised its head. Now folks,
00:55:19.38\00:55:21.85
let me tell you what bothers me.
00:55:22.05\00:55:24.45
Russia suffered under Communism
00:55:25.95\00:55:30.66
for 70 years.
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.53
Go over to Russia today
00:55:35.16\00:55:36.77
they invite you into their
universities to speak to their
00:55:37.70\00:55:40.74
students to tell them about God
00:55:40.94\00:55:42.70
'cause they know... they
know that it didn't work.
00:55:43.34\00:55:46.61
You come back to
the United States
00:55:48.58\00:55:50.48
and they won't let you talk
about God in the universities.
00:55:50.88\00:55:53.95
I wonder... I
wonder where we are, folks.
00:55:57.45\00:56:01.79
I thought this was supposed
to be a country that was
00:56:02.46\00:56:05.59
established on
religious principles.
00:56:05.79\00:56:08.30
I thought we were supposed
to be God-fearing men and women.
00:56:09.66\00:56:13.10
And yet we have schools
00:56:14.60\00:56:17.24
all across this country
00:56:17.44\00:56:19.24
that teach that there is no God.
00:56:19.44\00:56:22.18
That they teach evolution
00:56:23.38\00:56:25.51
and tell the young people that
that's what they're to believe.
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I think you and I
need to very carefully
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re-assess where we
are, where we stand,
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and what we believe.
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Atheistic Communism,
ruled, came into power
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and ruled, from 1798 to 1991.
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The sixth beast.
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There's the other puzzle.
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Are you following me?
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You see, it just
goes together like that.
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OK... let's look at it.
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This is what we've learned.
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Napoleon came in and
established a secular kingdom.
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Just exactly as God's
Word says... there's the six.
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But it also says
that there's a seventh.
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Seven heads. Five
have fallen, one is,
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one is yet to come.
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You see, we're approaching
the coming of Jesus Christ.
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