Can you believe it?
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Can you build your faith on it?
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The promises of
God's Word are sure.
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They do not fail.
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This book has
stood the test of time.
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Tonight we're going to
continue our study of prophecy.
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The subject tonight is
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The Beast With the Number 666.
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Now let me mention... I
told you the other night
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that the Bible
repeats and enlarges.
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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, takes certain things
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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.
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And you'll see that
tonight as we look at this very
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important subject about
the beast with the number 666.
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You're going to begin to see
how the prophecy is fulfilled
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in your day - the time in
which you and I are living.
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We're very happy tonight
to have with us this weekend
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Joe Pearles.
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Joe has been singing with
us for probably 7-8 years.
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Comes in, does a weekend
for us and we're always blessed
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when he comes. 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 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 that
that individual that receives
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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 in 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 and over its mark
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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 1st 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.
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I have people who say to me:
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"Well, Brother Cox, how
can I know that God is real? "
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One way 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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It just all depends on
how you interpret it. "
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No, it does not!
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No, it does not!
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 if you and I will let it.
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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
this Bible study together.
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And we continued to
have the Bible study, and
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in the course of
the study he said:
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"I don't believe that. "
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And I said: "Well, that's OK.
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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 that's not
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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 to
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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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He said: "I don't go
by the Old Testament. "
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And I said: "Well, that's fair
enough. Let's turn over here
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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 all written
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about Jesus up
until the time He died. "
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And he said: "All I
go by is what was written
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after Jesus died. "
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I said: "Well, that's OK. "
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I said: "Let's turn over here
to the book of Revelation. "
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He said: "Just a minute. "
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He said: "That book
of Revelation, " he said,
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"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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And I said: "OK. Let's turn over
here to the book of Hebrews. "
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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. In fact,
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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.
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But we're going to see
how God reaches over here
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in one part of scripture
and pulls things out of it
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and puts it here in another
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:
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"Oh, those beasts scare me.
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You know, they look so
bad and 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 and it doesn't seem
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to scare them. And then
you put something on a handbill
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and it scares them. I have a
hard time putting that together.
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But what I'm here to tell
you tonight is God simply uses
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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 had 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 8
points, all 8 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, that's what it
tells us. Now watch carefully:
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we're to the first clue...
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first point that God is
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
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to the book of Daniel
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and took those beasts that
we studied in the book of Daniel
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and brought them over
here to the book of Revelation.
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And you remember, we had
the lion there that represented
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Babylon. We had the bear there
that represented Medo-Persia.
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We had the leopard
that represented Greece
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and we had the dragon
that represented pagan Rome.
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So God has taken those powers...
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put it all in one beast here
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to bring it down into
the book of Revelation
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so you and I will known
what it's talking about.
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That's the first clue.
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Watch as we continue on:
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That's that fourth beast...
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that was pagan Rome.
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So the scripture
says here that pagan Rome
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is going to give to
this beast its power,
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its seat, and its authority.
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So we're beginning to find out
what the scripture's telling us.
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It says that this beast
got its power from the dragon.
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Let's go on and see
what it says about it.
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Pagan Rome, if you
remember, went from 168 BC
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to 476 AD.
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Pagan Rome came to an end.
Watch what history tells us
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happened because pagan Rome
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is going to have to
give its power, its seat,
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and its authority
to a particular power.
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So let's see what it does.
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So he's saying that
this passed from the Caesars
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to the Pontiffs. All right...
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That's exactly what
history has to say about it.
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So we find in
fulfillment of God's Word
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we find that pagan
Rome passed to papal Rome
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its power, its
seat, its authority.
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OK? All right.
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Third clue.
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So it says that this beast
that we are looking at tonight
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that he's going to
last for forty-two months.
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OK? Now I gave you
Biblical principles
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when you come to Bible
prophecy and you come to time
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I gave you a principle
that lets you tell do that...
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tell what that
represents, you remember that?
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Told you that in Bible
prophecy a day represented
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one year. All right, let's watch
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and see what it has to tell us.
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Prophetic Faith of Our
Fathers, Le Roy Froom...
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this is what he has to say:
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I talked about
him Wednesday night.
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That was the bishop
of Rome... a godly man.
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So you find that one went down,
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Silverius did, and Justinian
- who was the emperor -
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put Vigilius in his place.
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From that point on...
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Now I read you a
statement on Wednesday night
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that said that it
was forced upon them...
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because the Roman
Empire was falling apart
00:18:48.33\00:18:51.30
and the only thing that
the people could turn to
00:18:51.50\00:18:54.62
that had stability and
that was there was the church.
00:18:54.82\00:18:58.99
And so it was forced upon
him and that's why it says
00:18:59.30\00:19:02.76
they moved more and
more in worldly events.
00:19:02.96\00:19:06.27
And thus you find
that Rome... pagan Rome
00:19:14.57\00:19:18.24
passed - not
necessarily voluntarily
00:19:18.44\00:19:21.90
but because of the
circumstances - it passed
00:19:22.10\00:19:24.97
to papal Rome its power,
its seat, and its authority.
00:19:25.17\00:19:29.44
And it says that it was going
to last for forty-two months.
00:19:29.74\00:19:35.57
Now folks, I told
you the other night
00:19:35.87\00:19:37.96
and I'll repeat
this a number of times:
00:19:38.16\00:19:39.74
God is consistent.
00:19:39.94\00:19:42.88
I mean, He is
consistent all the way through.
00:19:43.18\00:19:46.56
And you'll see this
over, and over, and over.
00:19:46.86\00:19:50.21
Watch... it says here:
00:19:50.31\00:19:52.71
So the papal
power came into power
00:20:01.93\00:20:04.97
538 AD.
00:20:05.17\00:20:08.60
So if we take that... 538 AD...
00:20:08.91\00:20:12.92
and we learned on Wednesday
night that it lasted for
00:20:13.22\00:20:16.04
1,260 years...
00:20:16.24\00:20:20.26
Let's see if
Revelation 13 will back that up.
00:20:20.56\00:20:25.23
Well, if I add
1,260 years to 538
00:20:25.53\00:20:29.93
we learned on
Wednesday it took me to where?
00:20:30.13\00:20:32.02
Takes me to 1798 AD.
00:20:32.99\00:20:35.32
Now we've got forty-two months.
00:20:35.63\00:20:37.41
In Biblical reckoning
of time there are 30 days
00:20:37.61\00:20:41.65
in a Biblical month.
00:20:41.85\00:20:43.51
So if you multiply 30
times 42 what do you get?
00:20:43.81\00:20:48.10
You get 1,260.
00:20:50.15\00:20:52.76
30 times 42 is 1,260.
00:20:53.06\00:20:57.28
That gives me 1,260...
and a day represents a year.
00:20:57.58\00:21:02.42
So if I simply take that
00:21:06.43\00:21:08.85
it takes me to 1798 AD.
00:21:09.15\00:21:11.85
And you remember
on Wednesday night,
00:21:12.05\00:21:13.36
that is as far as I
took you... remember that?
00:21:13.56\00:21:16.41
And I told you if you wanted
to know what happened in 1798 AD
00:21:16.71\00:21:20.30
you had to come back
tonight. And I see you did!
00:21:20.50\00:21:23.07
OK? So we're going to find
out what happened in 1798 AD.
00:21:23.37\00:21:27.47
Now, let's watch:
00:21:27.78\00:21:29.01
Fourth clue... Revelation 13:3:
00:21:30.74\00:21:33.89
This beast has seven heads.
00:21:39.24\00:21:41.26
And as the apostle John
is looking at that beast
00:21:41.57\00:21:44.53
he sees that one of his
heads received a mortal wound.
00:21:44.73\00:21:50.34
Been mortally wounded.
00:21:50.64\00:21:52.70
OK? Well, let's
see what happened.
00:21:53.00\00:21:56.19
At this time in history, folks,
00:21:56.49\00:21:58.44
at this time in history
a man has come to power.
00:21:58.64\00:22:02.47
I'm talking about 1798 AD.
00:22:02.67\00:22:05.43
This man's name is Napoleon.
00:22:05.73\00:22:08.37
Napoleon wants to
rule all of Europe
00:22:08.67\00:22:13.05
but he knows... he knows
that he cannot rule Europe
00:22:13.35\00:22:17.97
unless he can break the
back of the papal power.
00:22:18.00\00:22:21.82
OK?
00:22:22.12\00:22:24.29
So what happened?
00:22:24.59\00:22:25.85
Napoleon sent his
general - Berthier -
00:22:26.15\00:22:29.84
into Rome on February 15, 1798,
00:22:30.64\00:22:36.58
and overthrew the papal power.
00:22:36.78\00:22:39.57
Listen, this is what
history says about it.
00:22:39.87\00:22:42.40
And if you go to Rome today,
00:22:55.39\00:22:57.84
you can go downtown
and here is a facade
00:22:58.14\00:23:01.51
probably as long
as this whole hall
00:23:01.72\00:23:04.35
huge one - of that
very event that took place.
00:23:04.55\00:23:07.70
You can see it there...
February 15, 1798, when the
00:23:07.90\00:23:12.56
papal power came to an end,
00:23:12.76\00:23:14.39
folks, just exactly as
00:23:14.59\00:23:17.36
God's Word said.
00:23:17.48\00:23:18.78
Said it would last
for forty-two months.
00:23:18.99\00:23:21.56
When those forty-two
months came to an end
00:23:21.86\00:23:24.12
exactly that
power came to an end.
00:23:24.32\00:23:27.76
Now I don't know... what
do you do with that, folks?
00:23:27.96\00:23:30.81
Do you just pass that by?
00:23:31.11\00:23:33.45
Do you just say: "Well, so? "
00:23:33.75\00:23:37.35
I mean, John...
John's writing this.
00:23:37.65\00:23:42.36
You know when John lived?
00:23:42.66\00:23:44.08
90 AD.
00:23:44.39\00:23:46.74
We're talking about
something happening in 1798 AD!
00:23:47.04\00:23:50.15
John saw that vividly.
00:23:50.45\00:23:53.95
Said exactly what would happen.
00:23:54.15\00:23:57.11
What I'm trying to get across
to you tonight, dear friends,
00:23:57.41\00:23:59.78
you can build your
faith on this book.
00:23:59.98\00:24:03.33
It won't fail.
00:24:03.53\00:24:04.81
It'll never let you down.
00:24:05.11\00:24:06.72
Never. Absolute. It
will not let you down.
00:24:07.02\00:24:11.52
So the papal
power came to an end...
00:24:13.72\00:24:16.79
1798 AD.
00:24:17.10\00:24:19.55
This began something
that is called in history
00:24:20.87\00:24:26.27
the Roman question.
00:24:26.37\00:24:27.45
Now watch the
scripture very carefully.
00:24:27.48\00:24:29.35
Revelation 13 verse 5:
00:24:29.55\00:24:32.21
Says that this power is
going to speak great things
00:24:37.89\00:24:40.79
and blasphemy. Wednesday night
when we studied about this power
00:24:40.99\00:24:44.32
you remember it said
he would speak great words
00:24:44.53\00:24:47.58
against the Most
High. Remember that.
00:24:47.78\00:24:49.66
OK, see... it's the same power.
00:24:49.86\00:24:52.31
God's just
moving you from Daniel
00:24:52.52\00:24:55.02
to the book of Revelation.
00:24:55.22\00:24:56.63
Now when it says he would
speak great things and blasphemy
00:24:56.93\00:25:00.56
the Bible... the Bible
identifies blasphemy...
00:25:00.76\00:25:04.79
That's what the Bible
classifies as blasphemy:
00:25:08.66\00:25:12.27
when a person claims to be God
00:25:12.47\00:25:14.37
or he claims he has
the power to forgive sins.
00:25:14.57\00:25:19.07
Let me give you a couple
Biblical examples of that.
00:25:19.37\00:25:21.97
Both of them
happened with Jesus.
00:25:22.27\00:25:24.91
Watch what the
scripture has to say about this:
00:25:25.21\00:25:27.45
They said: "For good
work we're not stoning You"
00:25:36.62\00:25:39.39
They tried to stone Him
because He claimed to be God.
00:25:48.16\00:25:51.16
Of course He had
every right in the world
00:25:51.37\00:25:53.56
to claim to be
God because He IS God.
00:25:53.76\00:25:55.83
But they didn't
want to recognize that.
00:25:56.13\00:25:58.71
They said: "We're not stoning
You because You do good work,
00:25:59.01\00:26:01.73
we're stoning You
because You claim to be God. "
00:26:01.93\00:26:03.59
That's blasphemy in
the scripture definition.
00:26:03.79\00:26:06.68
Listen to one more:
00:26:06.88\00:26:07.88
Well, let me read
you some statements
00:26:09.09\00:26:11.50
because it said that would
speak great words and blasphemy.
00:26:11.70\00:26:14.41
This comes on the Authority of
the Councils, vol. 1, page 266.
00:26:14.61\00:26:18.90
So they say all the
names in the scripture
00:26:27.64\00:26:30.14
that apply to Jesus...
they apply to the pope.
00:26:30.35\00:26:32.00
The Great Encyclical Letter
of Pope Leo XIII, page 304:
00:26:33.70\00:26:38.32
So when it says blasphemy
is when they claim to be God.
00:26:41.48\00:26:45.36
Let's look at one more
in the scripture, though.
00:26:45.66\00:26:47.36
Luke 5 verse 21:
00:26:47.56\00:26:49.62
They said: "Who is this
that's speaking blasphemies? "
00:26:56.86\00:27:00.31
Now watch carefully:
00:27:00.61\00:27:01.63
They said: "Nobody else
can forgive sins except God...
00:27:07.35\00:27:10.79
God alone. " So the
scripture identifies
00:27:11.09\00:27:14.19
blasphemy when a person, an
individual, claims that he has
00:27:14.39\00:27:18.13
the power to forgive sin.
00:27:18.33\00:27:19.96
Well, does the
papal power claim that?
00:27:20.26\00:27:23.05
That's what we've got
to ask, and again, folks,
00:27:23.15\00:27:25.39
let me clarify something.
00:27:25.59\00:27:27.88
I am not talking about people.
00:27:28.19\00:27:31.23
Please do not take what I
say and apply it to individuals.
00:27:32.62\00:27:36.92
If you do that, you're not
making the right application
00:27:37.22\00:27:40.85
because that beast
represents a power.
00:27:41.05\00:27:43.42
It represents a system.
00:27:43.62\00:27:45.01
It does not
represent individuals.
00:27:45.21\00:27:47.76
And I told you, there are a lot
of people within this particular
00:27:49.03\00:27:51.97
religious persuasion that
are beautiful Christian people.
00:27:52.17\00:27:55.75
And when you and I
apply it outside of this
00:27:56.06\00:27:59.11
we are doing
jeopardy to the Word of God.
00:27:59.31\00:28:01.83
So don't do that, OK?
00:28:02.13\00:28:05.27
But does that power claim
00:28:05.77\00:28:07.70
that they have the
power to forgive sins?
00:28:07.90\00:28:10.62
Baltimore Catechism:
00:28:13.41\00:28:14.95
Says he has the power to
forgive that person his sins.
00:28:31.33\00:28:37.20
One more...
00:28:37.50\00:28:38.74
Revelation 13 verse 7:
00:28:39.04\00:28:42.99
this is the sixth clue.
00:28:43.29\00:28:45.00
So it says that this
power would actually make war
00:28:50.27\00:28:53.55
against the saints of God.
00:28:53.75\00:28:55.33
Now, I said this again
and I want to repeat it again
00:28:55.53\00:28:58.90
tonight... never,
never in history...
00:28:59.10\00:29:03.25
I don't know of one
case in history, folks,
00:29:03.55\00:29:06.69
where a church has
taken over state power
00:29:06.89\00:29:11.46
that it hasn't persecuted.
00:29:11.66\00:29:13.46
I don't care
what church that is.
00:29:13.77\00:29:15.60
If you go over to Israel today,
00:29:15.90\00:29:18.88
which is a church power,
00:29:19.08\00:29:22.01
you will find they
will not let you preach.
00:29:22.31\00:29:24.99
There's persecution there
because a church controls it.
00:29:25.29\00:29:29.81
So I don't care what
church it is, any time a church
00:29:30.11\00:29:33.61
has taken state
power it has persecuted.
00:29:33.91\00:29:38.54
This... back in the Dark Ages
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.74
they had supreme
power and they persecuted.
00:29:41.05\00:29:44.65
And I'll read you a statement
why... why they did it.
00:29:44.75\00:29:49.21
This is taken from a book
entitled The Penalty for Heresy
00:29:55.82\00:29:59.89
and this is what it says:
00:30:00.19\00:30:01.84
Now get the picture.
00:30:08.17\00:30:09.94
Morally they believe that they
were saving thousands of souls,
00:30:10.24\00:30:15.37
listen...
00:30:15.47\00:30:16.56
They believed that
these people were wrong.
00:30:33.35\00:30:35.57
They believed that they
were teaching them wrong.
00:30:35.77\00:30:37.61
They believed they
were leading them wrong,
00:30:37.91\00:30:39.37
and therefore they
believed that if they persecuted
00:30:39.67\00:30:42.52
or burned a heretic
00:30:42.72\00:30:43.94
then people
would not be deceived.
00:30:44.14\00:30:45.97
And so they persecuted.
00:30:46.07\00:30:47.87
And as I mentioned, all
you have to do is read...
00:30:48.17\00:30:51.42
read such books as
Fox's Book of Martyrs
00:30:51.62\00:30:55.12
or Short Short
Stories of the Reformation
00:30:55.42\00:30:58.24
or The History of
Europe by Quabbin.
00:30:58.44\00:31:01.23
Here I Stand by Bainton.
00:31:01.43\00:31:03.49
History of the
Reformation by d'Aubigné.
00:31:03.79\00:31:06.04
You can read about
some of the persecution
00:31:06.34\00:31:08.72
of the Spanish people
or you can read about the
00:31:08.92\00:31:12.21
persecution of
the Waldensian people.
00:31:12.41\00:31:14.74
Or you can read about the
persecution of the Huguenots...
00:31:14.94\00:31:17.74
Huguenots.
History is full of it...
00:31:17.94\00:31:21.09
tell you what
happened. Let's go on.
00:31:21.29\00:31:23.75
Now listen carefully.
00:31:32.63\00:31:34.06
He received a mortal wound
00:31:34.26\00:31:36.20
on February 15, 1798.
00:31:36.40\00:31:41.18
Watch:
00:31:41.48\00:31:42.76
So it says his
deadly wound was healed.
00:31:53.62\00:31:55.86
As I told you, this began
in history what was called
00:31:55.96\00:31:59.93
the Roman question.
00:32:00.13\00:32:02.20
You see, the pope
was taken prisoner.
00:32:02.60\00:32:06.97
Taken to France,
and he died in prison.
00:32:07.17\00:32:10.06
They elected another one, and
he moved back to the Vatican.
00:32:10.36\00:32:13.71
Moved in. Didn't show
his face for fifty years.
00:32:14.01\00:32:17.17
There were many, many efforts
to settle the Roman question.
00:32:17.47\00:32:21.93
Let me explain what happened.
00:32:22.13\00:32:23.53
When Napoleon came
in and he took over
00:32:23.83\00:32:26.63
and did away
with the papal power,
00:32:26.83\00:32:28.93
he took from them what
was called papal states.
00:32:29.13\00:32:33.27
Now folks, papal
states were like our states.
00:32:33.57\00:32:36.47
I'm not talking about
a little piece of ground.
00:32:36.67\00:32:38.52
I'm talking about pieces of
land as large as our states.
00:32:38.72\00:32:42.28
He had papal
states throughout Europe.
00:32:42.59\00:32:44.98
That was all taken
away from him by Napoleon.
00:32:45.28\00:32:49.56
So there were many,
many efforts made to try to
00:32:49.86\00:32:52.84
settle the Roman question.
00:32:53.04\00:32:54.50
Every time they
tried to settle it
00:32:54.70\00:32:57.53
it was always dependent
upon the Italian parliament
00:32:57.73\00:33:01.14
and the papal power
would not accept that.
00:33:01.44\00:33:04.11
That went back and forth, back
and forth for over 100 years
00:33:04.41\00:33:09.73
until we reach the 1900's.
00:33:10.03\00:33:13.40
And in the
1900's, along comes a man
00:33:13.43\00:33:16.56
who is not controlled
by the Italian parliament.
00:33:16.76\00:33:21.00
He is a dictator.
00:33:21.20\00:33:23.02
His name is Mussolini.
00:33:23.22\00:33:25.44
And Mussolini decides that he
will settle the Roman question.
00:33:25.74\00:33:30.50
He sets up conferences
with the papal power,
00:33:30.80\00:33:33.91
and finally on
February... excuse me, in 1929
00:33:34.11\00:33:39.60
they sign what was
known as the Lateran Pact.
00:33:39.80\00:33:44.36
I want you to listen as the
newspaper in the United States
00:33:44.56\00:33:47.98
reports that very event.
00:33:48.18\00:33:50.11
Signed it. Watch...
00:33:57.40\00:33:59.82
this is what it said:
00:34:00.12\00:34:01.46
Signed the Lateran Pact.
Let me explain what it did.
00:34:33.50\00:34:36.27
The Lateran Pact
paid to the papal power
00:34:36.57\00:34:41.07
twenty-one million dollars
00:34:41.27\00:34:44.74
for the spoliation
of the papal states.
00:34:44.94\00:34:47.65
That was in 1929.
00:34:47.95\00:34:49.73
It gave them the right...
00:34:50.03\00:34:54.08
gave them the
right to send ambassadors
00:34:54.38\00:34:59.00
to every country of the world.
00:34:59.20\00:35:01.63
It gave them the
right - listen to me -
00:35:01.93\00:35:04.69
to be a sovereign power.
00:35:04.89\00:35:08.01
It gave them the
right to receive ambassadors
00:35:08.31\00:35:12.94
from every country of the world.
00:35:13.15\00:35:14.85
If you listen to Who
Wants to be A Millionaire? -
00:35:16.14\00:35:20.38
which a lot of you do -
00:35:20.68\00:35:22.79
one of the questions
that came up on there
00:35:23.09\00:35:26.28
is: if you wanted to
find more ambassadors
00:35:26.48\00:35:31.90
in one local area,
where would you go?
00:35:32.10\00:35:34.38
Rome. They're all in
one building: the Vatican.
00:35:35.98\00:35:41.04
See? People have a hard
time understanding this.
00:35:41.34\00:35:45.56
This is a sovereign government.
00:35:45.66\00:35:47.33
I'm not talking
about a church, folks.
00:35:47.53\00:35:49.49
Don't misunderstand me.
00:35:49.69\00:35:50.97
I'm not talking
about church tonight...
00:35:51.27\00:35:53.31
I'm talking about a government.
00:35:53.52\00:35:55.42
There's a great,
great difference.
00:35:55.82\00:35:57.59
I have people say to me
00:35:57.89\00:35:59.83
for instance, when
the pope came over,
00:36:00.03\00:36:02.02
he addressed the United Nations.
00:36:02.32\00:36:05.71
Why would the pope
have the right to address
00:36:05.81\00:36:09.44
the United Nations?
00:36:09.64\00:36:11.26
Have you thought about that?
00:36:11.46\00:36:13.24
I mean, has any
other religious leader
00:36:14.91\00:36:19.78
addressed the United Nations?
00:36:19.98\00:36:21.19
Has any other
religious leader done that?
00:36:21.39\00:36:23.14
Yes. One other.
00:36:23.34\00:36:24.84
Do you know who?
00:36:25.05\00:36:26.39
The Dalai Lama.
00:36:26.70\00:36:28.50
Both of them are
heads of governments.
00:36:28.80\00:36:33.82
They have a right to
address the United Nations
00:36:34.12\00:36:37.67
as heads of government.
00:36:37.88\00:36:39.25
People say: "Oh, it's not right
for the pope to come over here
00:36:39.55\00:36:43.47
to the United States
and go across our country
00:36:43.67\00:36:46.73
and we spend millions
of dollars protecting him.
00:36:46.93\00:36:49.46
Yes it is right.
00:36:49.76\00:36:51.84
It is right
00:36:52.14\00:36:53.61
because our Constitution
says that we have to protect
00:36:53.91\00:36:58.21
heads of state.
00:36:58.41\00:37:00.69
And he's the head of a state.
00:37:00.99\00:37:02.89
That is what the
Lateran Pact gave them back:
00:37:03.29\00:37:07.57
the right to be a
sovereign government.
00:37:07.77\00:37:10.32
And thus you find the
deadly wound was healed.
00:37:10.52\00:37:14.91
And the scripture says
that all the world will wonder
00:37:15.11\00:37:18.15
and follow after the beast.
00:37:18.35\00:37:19.46
Look what's happening.
00:37:19.66\00:37:23.17
Rome has come
front and center today.
00:37:23.47\00:37:27.39
Gorbachev had this to say:
00:37:27.69\00:37:32.38
So just exactly as the scripture
has said, it's happening.
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It's being fulfilled
exactly as God's Word says.
00:38:21.31\00:38:25.61
All right.
00:38:46.46\00:38:48.50
You're going to have
to follow me carefully now
00:38:48.70\00:38:50.67
because you need to begin to see
some things that are happening.
00:38:50.87\00:38:54.03
We in our study... as we
have studied God's Word together
00:38:57.06\00:39:00.10
we found out that that image
that we studied the other night
00:39:00.30\00:39:04.61
had how many toes?
00:39:04.82\00:39:06.36
Ten toes.
00:39:06.66\00:39:08.09
Those ten toes
represented ten kings.
00:39:08.39\00:39:12.69
OK. We found out that
that dragon in Daniel 7-
00:39:12.99\00:39:18.98
the dragon in
Daniel 7- had ten horns.
00:39:19.01\00:39:22.73
Those ten horns
represented ten kings or toes.
00:39:22.93\00:39:28.74
OK. We found out tonight
that this beast in Revelation 13
00:39:28.94\00:39:34.26
had ten horns.
00:39:34.46\00:39:37.38
Those ten horns represent
00:39:37.59\00:39:39.63
ten kings.
00:39:39.83\00:39:41.66
We're going to be
taking a look at a beast
00:39:41.96\00:39:45.40
in Revelation 17 that
also has 7 heads and 10 horns.
00:39:45.70\00:39:51.64
And it says that
this particular power
00:39:51.84\00:39:54.50
had received no kingdom as yet.
00:39:54.70\00:39:57.16
OK?
00:40:07.52\00:40:08.57
Ah, we're beginning to
put some things together.
00:40:16.20\00:40:19.66
And folks, in the coming nights
00:40:19.86\00:40:21.62
we're going to put
more of it together.
00:40:21.82\00:40:23.69
It says that these
ten kings which were
00:40:23.99\00:40:27.76
the nations of western Europe:
00:40:27.96\00:40:29.68
the Anglo-Saxons, the
Franks, the Heruli, the Vandals,
00:40:29.88\00:40:32.08
the Ostrogoths. They became
the nations of western Europe.
00:40:32.29\00:40:35.52
They became Germany and
England and France and Portugal
00:40:35.72\00:40:38.35
and those nations. It says
that they will come to power,
00:40:38.56\00:40:43.35
and they'll give
their power and authority
00:40:43.65\00:40:47.30
to the beast.
00:40:47.50\00:40:50.27
So now folks, you need
to be able to look at it,
00:40:50.57\00:40:54.66
open your eyes, and you
ought to be able to know
00:40:54.86\00:40:57.38
what's going on over in Europe
and what's going to take place.
00:40:57.48\00:41:01.02
Now let me tell you...
Are you going to sit there
00:41:02.50\00:41:05.52
and tell me that if
God with absolute accuracy
00:41:05.72\00:41:09.79
lined all this up step by step
00:41:09.99\00:41:13.14
and we've gone
through it and every piece has
00:41:13.34\00:41:16.03
fit the puzzle... I mean,
every piece has fit the puzzle
00:41:16.23\00:41:19.37
and we get down here where two
pieces haven't been put in yet
00:41:19.57\00:41:23.54
and you're going to tell me
they're not going to be put in?
00:41:23.74\00:41:25.94
Is that what
you're going to tell me?
00:41:26.24\00:41:28.02
Not hardly.
00:41:29.35\00:41:30.93
If all those pieces
have been put in the puzzle
00:41:31.24\00:41:33.83
and they have fit perfectly,
00:41:34.03\00:41:35.86
you better believe the last two
pieces are going to go in there
00:41:36.06\00:41:40.01
perfectly. And the
scripture tells you and I
00:41:40.21\00:41:43.09
exactly where we're headed.
00:41:43.29\00:41:45.42
We don't have to be in
any doubt about it at all.
00:41:45.62\00:41:48.50
OK.
00:41:48.80\00:41:51.36
As we study God's Word,
00:41:52.92\00:41:54.98
we're going to take a
look at a great red dragon
00:41:55.28\00:41:58.69
in Revelation 12.
00:41:58.89\00:42:01.10
This great red
dragon in Revelation 12
00:42:01.20\00:42:04.76
has seven heads, ten horns.
00:42:04.96\00:42:08.54
OK?
00:42:08.84\00:42:10.54
This is what it says:
00:42:10.85\00:42:12.12
So this beast has
seven heads, ten horns.
00:42:25.37\00:42:27.92
Now, rest assured that
every time you come across
00:42:28.05\00:42:31.09
those ten horns in scripture
00:42:31.19\00:42:32.45
they represent
the same ten kings.
00:42:32.65\00:42:34.82
God is consistent.
00:42:35.22\00:42:37.80
But this beast has seven heads.
00:42:37.94\00:42:39.75
We have studied
tonight here in Revelation 13
00:42:39.95\00:42:43.14
a beast that has how many heads?
00:42:43.34\00:42:46.40
Seven heads.
00:42:46.70\00:42:48.96
All right?
00:42:49.16\00:42:50.26
So this beast also has ten horns
00:43:02.23\00:43:05.48
and he has ten... seven heads.
00:43:05.68\00:43:09.31
When we go to
Revelation 17 it says this:
00:43:09.61\00:43:15.54
So now we have found
there are three beasts
00:43:29.98\00:43:32.78
that we've looked
at... Revelation 12,
00:43:32.98\00:43:35.84
Revelation 13, Revelation 17...
00:43:36.05\00:43:38.73
and all of them
have seven heads.
00:43:38.93\00:43:42.43
OK?
00:43:42.73\00:43:44.70
Now I'm going to begin to
move you down through time.
00:43:45.10\00:43:49.98
You'll see with absolute clarity
00:43:50.29\00:43:53.20
how wonderful God
reveals things. Listen:
00:43:53.40\00:43:56.85
Now folks, if you
want to have wisdom,
00:44:25.34\00:44:28.79
then listen carefully
to what God has to say.
00:44:29.09\00:44:33.94
He says: "If you
want to be smart,
00:44:34.24\00:44:36.89
if you want to have wisdom,
00:44:37.19\00:44:38.76
listen carefully. "
00:44:39.06\00:44:40.85
"The seven heads are 7 mountains
on which the woman sits. "
00:44:42.55\00:44:48.32
So it tells us that
those seven heads represent
00:44:54.81\00:44:57.49
seven kingdoms or seven kings.
00:44:57.59\00:44:59.87
OK? Now, you're
going to see something here
00:45:00.07\00:45:03.25
that will help you
put all this together.
00:45:03.45\00:45:05.04
"Five have fallen,
00:45:05.34\00:45:10.91
one is,
00:45:11.21\00:45:12.27
the other has not yet come. "
00:45:12.57\00:45:15.24
So when he talks about
those seven heads that represent
00:45:15.54\00:45:18.32
seven kings, seven kingdoms,
00:45:18.52\00:45:20.02
he says: "five of
those have fallen,
00:45:20.22\00:45:24.23
one is, one is yet to come. "
00:45:24.33\00:45:27.92
Watch:
00:45:28.22\00:45:29.80
Oh, you have no idea
00:45:37.91\00:45:40.71
how meaningful that word is.
00:45:40.91\00:45:42.91
When he comes, he will
continue a "short" time.
00:45:43.12\00:45:46.69
You don't know how
much that affects you.
00:45:46.89\00:45:50.23
All right.
00:45:51.55\00:45:53.36
This is what we have found out.
00:45:53.66\00:45:57.24
The Bible starts and it talks
about these different kingdoms.
00:45:57.54\00:46:00.56
And you remember, we
studied this particular image
00:46:00.76\00:46:02.86
in Daniel. And as we studied it
we found that that head of gold
00:46:03.06\00:46:07.06
represented Babylon.
00:46:07.26\00:46:09.79
And we find that in the
scripture in the 7th chapter
00:46:10.09\00:46:13.01
it was represented as a lion.
00:46:13.21\00:46:17.14
One head... the head of a lion.
00:46:17.34\00:46:20.15
OK. The second power that's
coming on the scene of action
00:46:20.46\00:46:23.84
was that of Medo-Persia.
00:46:24.04\00:46:26.08
539 BC to 331 BC.
00:46:26.39\00:46:30.07
Arms and breast of silver.
00:46:30.37\00:46:32.18
And we found that God
used a beast there to represent
00:46:32.39\00:46:35.90
Medo-Persia which was a bear.
00:46:36.10\00:46:39.48
Head of a bear.
00:46:39.58\00:46:40.64
OK. And then we found
that we came down that image
00:46:40.84\00:46:44.73
and we got to that
belly and thighs of bronze.
00:46:44.83\00:46:47.57
And we found that
that represented the nation
00:46:47.77\00:46:49.94
of Greece: 331 BC to 168 BC.
00:46:50.15\00:46:55.65
And in Daniel 7 it
was pictured as a leopard.
00:46:55.95\00:47:01.06
OK? Pictured as a leopard.
00:47:01.36\00:47:03.47
And as we came down
that image step by step
00:47:03.77\00:47:06.87
we came to the legs of iron.
00:47:07.07\00:47:09.26
And we found that the
legs of iron represented Rome.
00:47:09.56\00:47:13.45
Pagan Rome going
from 168 BC to 476 AD.
00:47:13.65\00:47:18.52
And God used a dragon
00:47:18.82\00:47:22.72
to represent pagan Rome.
00:47:22.92\00:47:24.60
And then we looked at the
little horn on that dragon
00:47:24.90\00:47:29.82
in Daniel 7. And
tonight we studied a beast -
00:47:30.02\00:47:34.76
in Revelation 13, right? -
00:47:34.96\00:47:37.97
that represented papal Rome:
00:47:38.17\00:47:40.44
538 AD to 1798 AD.
00:47:42.20\00:47:44.72
Did you catch on?
00:47:45.22\00:47:48.38
Five have fallen.
00:47:48.68\00:47:54.53
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
00:47:54.63\00:47:57.42
Greece, pagan Rome, papal Rome.
00:47:57.62\00:48:01.48
Five have
fallen... there they are.
00:48:01.78\00:48:06.50
So we have how many beasts left?
00:48:23.73\00:48:26.53
Two.
00:48:26.83\00:48:30.02
Now as I told you,
prophecy can get heavy.
00:48:30.32\00:48:34.38
So tonight... or tomorrow
night... we're going to ease up
00:48:34.68\00:48:38.35
a little bit. But on
Sunday night we're going to look
00:48:38.45\00:48:42.63
at the one that is.
00:48:42.83\00:48:44.70
A beast that you
seldom hear anything about.
00:48:46.08\00:48:52.03
You hardly ever hear
anybody say anything about it.
00:48:52.43\00:48:55.98
In fact, most
people read the scripture
00:48:56.28\00:48:58.60
in the book of Revelation
00:48:58.71\00:48:59.72
and never know that
there's a beast there.
00:48:59.92\00:49:03.05
It's found in the
11th chapter of Revelation.
00:49:03.35\00:49:06.62
In the 11th chapter of
Revelation is the beast that is.
00:49:08.22\00:49:13.06
The other has not yet come.
00:49:13.26\00:49:16.06
"When he comes, he must
continue a short time. "
00:49:16.46\00:49:21.13
So folks, what I'm
trying to take you step by step
00:49:21.43\00:49:24.15
is I'm trying to take
you down through time.
00:49:24.35\00:49:27.73
I'm trying to show you
00:49:28.04\00:49:30.01
any way you want
to look at it, folks,
00:49:30.22\00:49:32.79
we're down at the end.
00:49:33.09\00:49:36.27
You have to recognize
that: we're at the end.
00:49:36.57\00:49:40.16
There's not a lot of time left.
00:49:40.46\00:49:42.81
I can tell you tonight
00:49:43.11\00:49:45.90
God's Word has not failed.
00:49:46.20\00:49:49.82
It's been fulfilled
with absolute accuracy.
00:49:50.12\00:49:54.71
It won't fail tonight.
00:49:54.91\00:49:56.90
And as we study God's
Word from night to night,
00:49:57.20\00:50:00.36
we're going to move right
on down and we're going to see
00:50:00.56\00:50:03.26
exactly where we are in history
00:50:03.46\00:50:06.20
and what's happening
and what's taking place.
00:50:06.40\00:50:08.96
The thing that you
and I want to make sure is
00:50:11.56\00:50:15.60
that our eyes are open.
00:50:15.90\00:50:18.64
That we aren't
shutting our eyes.
00:50:18.74\00:50:22.14
We aren't saying: "Oh,
I don't want to know that.
00:50:22.44\00:50:25.40
I don't want to see that. "
00:50:25.71\00:50:26.89
We want to say:
"Lord, open my eyes
00:50:27.19\00:50:31.62
that I may see. "
00:50:31.82\00:50:35.88
Open my eyes
00:50:37.69\00:50:41.74
that I may see
00:50:41.94\00:50:47.40
Glimpses of truth
00:50:47.70\00:50:51.71
Thou hast for me;
00:50:52.01\00:50:57.94
Place in my hands
00:50:58.24\00:51:02.59
the wonderful key
00:51:02.89\00:51:08.62
That shall unclasp
00:51:09.02\00:51:13.10
and set me free.
00:51:13.50\00:51:19.49
Silently now
00:51:20.84\00:51:24.86
I wait for Thee,
00:51:25.16\00:51:30.90
Ready, my God,
00:51:31.30\00:51:35.12
Thy will to see;
00:51:35.52\00:51:41.46
Open my eyes,
00:51:42.46\00:51:46.77
illumine me,
00:51:47.17\00:51:53.12
Spirit
00:51:54.33\00:51:59.51
divine!
00:51:59.91\00:52:05.83
Let us pray.
00:52:08.06\00:52:09.88
Father tonight,
00:52:10.18\00:52:12.06
as we have moved into
the book of Revelation
00:52:13.16\00:52:16.67
Lord help us
00:52:17.17\00:52:20.03
that we may
understand where we are.
00:52:21.04\00:52:23.73
But Lord, it's not enough.
00:52:24.74\00:52:27.81
We may know where we are
00:52:28.11\00:52:30.45
but if we don't know
Jesus we've missed everything.
00:52:31.61\00:52:36.74
May each of us not just
understand the scripture
00:52:36.84\00:52:42.35
and understand
what's taking place
00:52:42.66\00:52:45.42
but may we take
hold of Jesus Christ
00:52:46.53\00:52:49.63
and in Him find life eternal.
00:52:49.93\00:52:52.54
Bless each one here tonight.
00:52:53.04\00:52:54.91
Give them peace and
give them understanding.
00:52:56.25\00:53:01.55
We thank You for
hearing, for answering prayer.
00:53:02.49\00:53:08.33
In Christ's name, Amen.
00:53:08.63\00:53:11.11
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