Can you believe it?
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Can you build your faith on it?
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The promises of
God' 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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Father up in heaven,
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tonight we want
to just come to You,
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open up our minds.
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We ask Lord that You would pare
away any pre-conceived ideas
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that we might have
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and that our
understanding may be quickened.
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That the Holy Spirit may
be able to lead and guide us.
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Bless us as we
study this prophecy
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that we may see
it, understand it,
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and by faith walk with You.
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For this we pray
in Your name, Amen.
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I've noticed rather
a strange phenomenon.
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You can talk to almost any
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child in school...
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almost anyone, even...
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 supersaurs
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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,
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they see them,
they talk about them.
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We even make toys
and they play with them.
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And this is all alright.
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And yet if I send you a brochure
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that has the
picture of the beasts
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that are mentioned in the Bible
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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
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yet they'll... don't mind their
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children 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.
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And you remember
we've 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 three 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 four heads
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and four wings.
You remember that?
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And that leopard represented
the kingdom of Greece.
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The four wings on its
back represented the swiftness
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with which he... Alexander
the Great... took everything
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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
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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
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kingdom 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
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we found in
Revelation the 13th chapter
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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. It had seven heads.
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And as we studied that
we found that that beast
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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 at the one that is
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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.
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So with that, 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 of Revelation
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and they never
pick up on this beast.
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But it says that this
beast would overcome them
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and kill them. Now,
what we've got to find out
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is who... who is this beast
going to 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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Does that ring
any bells with you?
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Huh? Are you with me? OK.
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It says they're going
to 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
the sackcloth represents?
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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
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1,260 days
mourning, in distress.
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All right. So what we
want to do tonight now
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is we want to 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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It says in
Revelation the 11th chapter
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and verse 1... we read:
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Telling them to rise, measure
the temple, and so forth.
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So it said: "Don't measure it,
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it's been given
to the Gentiles. "
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Now... now watch, because
it's going to tell you how long
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it has been
given to the Gentiles.
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All right?
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Now, I've got to make
sure you're with me...
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Now, when it says: "These
are the two 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
understand as we're reading
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God's Word. These two witnesses
are the two olive trees...
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OK?
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This beast now that rises
out of the bottomless pit...
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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 got to 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:
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.
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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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But when I was in school
I had a professor that said
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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 two olive trees
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and those two lampstands.
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And so we're going to
go to the book of Zechariah
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and see what it says here.
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So here it's talking
about this lampstand...
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Two what?
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Ok, here we are.
See, same phrase as used
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in the book 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
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what this is. " And he said:
"This is the Word of the Lord
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to Zerubbabel. "
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Watch:
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So when he asked him, said:
"Who are these two olive trees?
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Who are these two lampstands? "
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He said: "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?
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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
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oil 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?
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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 that
when the Holy... 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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that 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?
Flames of fire on their head.
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So you have those
two representations
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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 1st 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
revealed, it is revealed by
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what? 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...
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revealed to them
by the Holy Spirit.
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So when it talks
about those two olive trees
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and oil, that
represents the Holy Spirit.
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That oil went to what, folks?
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It went to lampstands.
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That was 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
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and it is giving
light through what?
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This is the what?
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
and verse 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 Testament.
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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
that this is talking about
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the Word of God.
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This is the two witnesses:
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the Old and New Testament.
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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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as Moses and Elijah.
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And you'll hear people
say that these two witnesses
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are Moses and Elijah.
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And they seem to
think that Moses and Elijah
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are going to
come back to the earth
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and that they're
going to be killed
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and they're going to lie
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
they... 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 about it
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and I'll tell you why they
think it's Moses and Elijah.
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Revelation 11 verse 5:
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OK. You remember Elijah is
the one that prayed for fire
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to come down out of
heaven. You remember that?
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So that's the
reason it's saying here
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that some people
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
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prayed that it
wouldn't rain and it didn't rain
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for a period of
time... 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.
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So these are the reasons people
take and say this represents
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Moses and Elijah.
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"And they have power over
waters to turn them to blood. "
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But let's take a look now and
see what the scripture tells us
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about these because it says:
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Now what I want to tell
you tonight is that Moses
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and Elijah did not do that
00:18:35.26\00:18:38.17
of their own strength.
00:18:38.47\00:18:41.18
Moses and Elijah did
that based on the Word of God.
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I can read you in
the book of Leviticus
00:18:45.46\00:18:47.97
where it says
very clearly that if...
00:18:48.17\00:18:51.48
if the people did not obey God
00:18:51.69\00:18:55.10
and did not follow
Him it would not rain.
00:18:55.31\00:18:58.42
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 was
say: "Lord, honor Your Word. "
00:19:07.39\00:19:12.00
And based on the Word
of God it didn't rain.
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OK. So that is the power.
00:19:16.54\00:19:18.89
That is what was used.
00:19:19.09\00:19:21.21
All right. Let's go
to Revelation 11 verse 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
00:19:51.04\00:19:53.24
because we have
read those in Daniel 7.
00:19:53.44\00:19:57.97
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
prophecy that length of time
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in sackcloth.
00:20:17.76\00:20:18.78
Now, as we have studied
God's Word together here
00:20:18.98\00:20:21.54
from night to night,
we found that in Daniel
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the 7th chapter
it talks about time,
00:20:24.62\00:20:27.92
times, and a half a time.
00:20:28.12\00:20:29.48
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
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Revelation 12 verse 6
talks about 1,260 days.
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Revelation 12 verse 14
00:20:44.61\00:20:46.83
talks about time,
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times, and a half a time,
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and Revelation 13:5 talks about
00:20:50.41\00:20:52.59
forty-two months.
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All those, folks,
and I have mentioned this
00:20:54.06\00:20:57.47
several times now...
I'll continue to mention it,
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God is consistent.
00:20:59.91\00:21:03.11
See, I've run onto people
that want to change these up.
00:21:04.54\00:21:08.01
If you change
them up, you never know
00:21:08.31\00:21:11.08
what... 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:
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So it will represent 1,260 years
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that began... and
if you add them up...
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Time represents
360 days... time does.
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Times represents 720.
00:21:40.35\00:21:42.59
A half a time represents 180.
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That gives you 1,260.
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Forty-two months, 30 days in a
Biblical month, you multiply it
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times 30 and it gives you 1,260.
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ALL THOSE represent the
period of time from 538 AD
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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 because it says
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that they would
prophesy in sackcloth
00:22:11.84\00:22:15.99
for 1,260 years.
00:22:16.19\00:22:20.80
Revelation the
11th chapter verse 3:
00:22:21.10\00:22:24.14
If you look at this
period of time from 538 AD
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to 1798 AD, folks,
00:22:41.80\00:22:44.01
that covers the period
of time known in history
00:22:44.04\00:22:47.80
as the Dark Ages.
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It's a time in which the Bible
was taken away from people.
00:22:51.28\00:22:56.87
It was chained to library walls.
00:22:57.37\00:23:00.41
The people were told that they
were too ignorant to read it.
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It's a time of great... go
back and read your history...
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time of great,
great persecution.
00:23:10.72\00:23:14.24
That's why it says they
witness in sackcloth and ashes
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because it was a time of hard
times, a time of persecution.
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A time of
suffering, a time of sorrow.
00:23:24.13\00:23:27.71
A time in which people
were burned at the stake.
00:23:29.08\00:23:32.65
All you have to do is
read about people such as Hus,
00:23:33.15\00:23:36.96
and Jerome, and Wycliffe.
00:23:37.16\00:23:40.26
Took them and
burned them at the stake.
00:23:40.56\00:23:43.15
They didn't burn
Wycliffe. He died on...
00:23:43.45\00:23:45.36
before they got to
the stake with him.
00:23:45.56\00:23:47.20
But it was a time in
which they were persecuted.
00:23:47.51\00:23:50.41
And because the Christians
were so terribly persecuted
00:23:50.61\00:23:54.34
they had to flee.
00:23:54.54\00:23:56.18
And they fled up
into northern Italy
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and southern France
00:24:01.56\00:24:03.30
where they... and that's
what you and I know as the Alps.
00:24:03.61\00:24:07.99
And they came into those areas
and they settled those areas.
00:24:08.29\00:24:11.71
And some of those people became
known as Waldensian people.
00:24:11.92\00:24:16.19
Others that worshiped and
followed the Lord became known
00:24:16.69\00:24:20.33
as Huguenots.
00:24:20.53\00:24:21.84
Others became
known as the Abigenses.
00:24:22.14\00:24:25.20
But these were people,
folks, that took God's Word
00:24:25.50\00:24:29.12
and they said: "We will
build our faith on scripture.
00:24:29.32\00:24:33.25
We will stand
on the Word of God.
00:24:33.55\00:24:35.61
This is where we will stand. "
00:24:35.91\00:24:37.63
And because they refused...
00:24:37.83\00:24:39.91
they refused to stand any other
place than on the Word of God...
00:24:40.11\00:24:44.12
they were hunted and
they were persecuted.
00:24:44.42\00:24:47.58
Greatly persecuted.
00:24:47.88\00:24:49.51
Hard times. Sorrow.
00:24:51.36\00:24:54.47
Time of great,
great persecution.
00:24:54.57\00:24:58.77
But as time passed, in
Revelation the 12th chapter -
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we'll look at this in
detail on another night -
00:25:04.97\00:25:07.36
but Revelation the 12th
chapter speaks of this, folks.
00:25:07.66\00:25:10.59
Listen to what it says here.
00:25:10.79\00:25:11.90
And by the way, let
me give you a principle.
00:25:12.10\00:25:13.62
I'll come back
to it another night.
00:25:13.82\00:25:15.40
But any time you're
studying Bible prophecy -
00:25:15.70\00:25:18.22
you're studying
God's Word here -
00:25:18.42\00:25:20.71
and you come across
a woman in prophecy...
00:25:21.01\00:25:24.68
Now don't apply it
outside of prophecy.
00:25:24.88\00:25:27.08
But any time you come
across a woman in Bible prophecy
00:25:27.28\00:25:30.10
a woman will always
represent God's church.
00:25:30.30\00:25:33.19
OK. If she's a good woman.
00:25:34.84\00:25:37.04
Put that down.
00:25:37.34\00:25:38.77
If she's a good one, OK?
00:25:39.07\00:25:41.13
It will always
represent God's church.
00:25:41.43\00:25:43.27
And so when you get to
Revelation the 12th chapter
00:25:43.57\00:25:46.22
you have a woman there, and
this is what it says about her:
00:25:46.42\00:25:49.66
Are you beginning to see
the consistency of scripture?
00:26:06.69\00:26:09.55
The church had to
flee into the wilderness
00:26:09.85\00:26:13.14
where she was
terribly persecuted.
00:26:13.34\00:26:15.75
God said He prepared a
special place just for her
00:26:16.85\00:26:22.33
and that she would witness
00:26:23.47\00:26:25.47
for 1,260 days.
00:26:25.77\00:26:30.43
I've been there. If
you've never been there,
00:26:32.34\00:26:34.86
if you want to
drive into northern Italy,
00:26:35.06\00:26:39.19
southern France,
there's a place there called
00:26:39.40\00:26:42.96
Torre Pellice.
00:26:43.16\00:26:46.10
All you've got to do is
walk back into the mountains
00:26:46.40\00:26:48.43
and this is where these
Waldensian people lived.
00:26:48.63\00:26:51.95
They persecuted them terribly.
00:26:53.49\00:26:55.27
They sent
soldiers up after them.
00:26:55.47\00:26:56.99
Interesting point.
00:26:58.70\00:27:00.30
Says in Revelation 11 verse 7:
00:27:00.60\00:27:05.04
When these people
finished their testimony, OK...
00:27:09.67\00:27:15.31
Like I said, this was a
terrible, terrible time.
00:27:22.89\00:27:26.51
But all of a
sudden across the country
00:27:26.81\00:27:30.17
men began to stand up and preach
00:27:30.38\00:27:32.81
and all of a sudden you have
the Reformation taking place.
00:27:33.02\00:27:36.20
Hus, Jerome -
who were Bohemians -
00:27:36.50\00:27:39.46
who forfeited their
life, were burned at the stake,
00:27:39.66\00:27:42.81
had stood up and said: "We
will stand on the Word of God
00:27:42.84\00:27:46.09
and the Word of God alone. "
00:27:46.29\00:27:47.42
Wycliffe, who had taken
and translated the Bible
00:27:47.72\00:27:51.80
into English so people
could read it and understand it,
00:27:52.00\00:27:55.27
and they were going to
burn him at the stake...
00:27:55.47\00:27:57.37
and he died before they did...
00:27:57.57\00:27:59.23
And then other men
began to come on like Luther.
00:27:59.53\00:28:02.51
And he began to preach and
he began to stand up and say:
00:28:02.81\00:28:06.09
"This is the Word of God
and everybody should be able
00:28:06.30\00:28:08.47
to read the Word of
God and to follow it. "
00:28:08.67\00:28:10.49
And over in
Switzerland, other individuals
00:28:10.79\00:28:14.15
like John Calvin
here in Geneva...
00:28:14.45\00:28:17.34
he began to stand up and preach.
00:28:17.55\00:28:19.37
And through the
preaching of John Calvin, folks,
00:28:19.67\00:28:23.21
400,00 people
accepted the Reformation.
00:28:23.62\00:28:29.52
They became known as Huguenots.
00:28:29.72\00:28:32.32
There were other
men like Zwingli.
00:28:32.72\00:28:35.63
These were great men, and they
began to preach the Word of God.
00:28:35.83\00:28:39.44
And because they
preached the Word of God
00:28:39.64\00:28:41.98
some of the princes of
Europe began to stand up
00:28:42.48\00:28:47.93
and they said: "Our conscience
will not be dictated to.
00:28:48.14\00:28:52.27
We will follow the Word of God.
00:28:52.58\00:28:54.90
We will believe the Word of God
00:28:55.11\00:28:56.83
as we read the Word of
God and understand it. "
00:28:57.03\00:28:59.55
And so they stood
up for the Word of God.
00:28:59.75\00:29:01.78
Great men!
00:29:02.08\00:29:03.80
And the persecution
began to come to an end.
00:29:04.10\00:29:08.66
Let me tell you what happened.
00:29:08.96\00:29:11.81
Countries like
Germany, Switzerland...
00:29:13.57\00:29:18.65
they accepted the Reformation.
00:29:19.62\00:29:22.35
France... France opened its
doors... threw them wide open
00:29:22.65\00:29:28.55
and accepted the Reformation.
00:29:28.85\00:29:31.29
And the Reformation
began to move across France
00:29:31.59\00:29:34.34
with great rapidity.
00:29:34.55\00:29:36.22
This went on for a few years.
00:29:38.68\00:29:40.98
Then one of the kings of France
00:29:41.28\00:29:46.13
got offended. And
because he was offended
00:29:46.33\00:29:50.57
he turned
against the Reformation
00:29:50.77\00:29:53.62
and they began to
persecute the reformers.
00:29:53.72\00:29:58.05
And France closed its doors
00:29:58.35\00:30:03.30
to the Reformation.
00:30:03.50\00:30:04.72
Just absolutely closed
the doors to the Reformation
00:30:05.02\00:30:07.65
and said: "No. "
00:30:07.95\00:30:09.16
Anybody that followed the
reformers, they were considered
00:30:09.36\00:30:12.78
heretics. And they were gathered
00:30:12.99\00:30:14.88
and they were
burned at the stake.
00:30:15.08\00:30:17.32
You have what was called
00:30:18.14\00:30:21.69
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
00:30:21.89\00:30:26.33
where they
gathered up 60,000 Huguenots
00:30:26.53\00:30:30.66
one Sunday
morning and killed them.
00:30:30.86\00:30:33.33
OK. At this time,
there's a struggle going on.
00:30:33.63\00:30:38.76
There's a struggle going
on politically in Europe.
00:30:39.95\00:30:42.62
And there's a man here
- little man right here -
00:30:42.82\00:30:46.35
that is trying to
gain control of Europe.
00:30:46.55\00:30:49.88
His name is Napoleon.
00:30:50.08\00:30:52.72
Napoleon wants to control Europe
00:30:53.02\00:30:56.10
but he knows... he knows
that he cannot control Europe
00:30:58.06\00:31:02.95
unless he can break the
back of the papal power.
00:31:03.15\00:31:08.24
And so we find that on
00:31:08.74\00:31:11.41
February the 15th, 1798
00:31:11.61\00:31:15.04
Napoleon's general, Berthier,
00:31:15.25\00:31:17.81
made his entrance into Rome...
00:31:18.01\00:31:21.10
Now folks, put a line
under that word secular.
00:31:25.94\00:31:30.96
Put a line under
that word SECULAR
00:31:31.26\00:31:33.82
because all of a sudden
00:31:34.02\00:31:35.63
it's going to start
meaning a whole lot more.
00:31:35.83\00:31:39.13
You see, when France
turned against the Reformation
00:31:39.43\00:31:44.18
through the
preaching of John Calvin,
00:31:44.38\00:31:46.55
thousands and thousands
and thousands of people
00:31:46.96\00:31:50.63
accepted it. And
the truth about it was
00:31:50.83\00:31:54.11
is those that accepted
the message of the Reformation
00:31:54.31\00:31:57.57
were the
intelligencie of the country.
00:31:57.77\00:32:00.79
They were teachers, professors,
businessmen, tradesmen.
00:32:01.09\00:32:05.26
And all of a sudden France
turned its wrath against them
00:32:05.46\00:32:10.38
and they had to flee France.
00:32:10.58\00:32:12.85
And when they fled France,
00:32:14.37\00:32:16.57
it did horrible things to
that country's leadership.
00:32:17.94\00:32:23.23
Things began to
change drastically,
00:32:23.54\00:32:27.03
and all of a sudden a beast
00:32:27.33\00:32:30.60
begins to rise up.
00:32:30.80\00:32:34.41
Remember it said
this beast would come up
00:32:34.82\00:32:37.83
and it would kill
the two witnesses?
00:32:38.03\00:32:41.33
Huh? OK, this is the
beast that's coming up
00:32:41.63\00:32:44.84
because what
happens is this. It says:
00:32:45.14\00:32:47.68
OK. Napoleon has
come to power 1798 AD.
00:32:59.05\00:33:02.68
He has established a...
00:33:02.88\00:33:06.59
secular... He has established
a secular government.
00:33:06.89\00:33:11.63
People...
turning against religion.
00:33:12.13\00:33:17.83
It says...
Revelation 11 verse 8:
00:33:18.13\00:33:21.87
So it says that
they would kill them.
00:33:33.82\00:33:36.45
They would lie in that street.
00:33:36.75\00:33:39.14
They're going to
lie there for 3-1/2 days
00:33:39.45\00:33:41.78
we're going to find out.
00:33:41.98\00:33:43.03
Great persecution took place.
00:33:43.33\00:33:45.55
The king of France, as
I told you, went through
00:33:46.05\00:33:50.75
and gathered up anybody
that followed the reformers
00:33:50.95\00:33:54.42
and they either
killed them with a sword
00:33:54.62\00:33:58.83
or they burned them at the stake
00:33:59.03\00:34:00.69
or they crucified them.
00:34:00.89\00:34:02.41
In fact, they took a man who
was a follower of the reformers
00:34:02.71\00:34:08.27
and got him to tell
who these people were.
00:34:08.47\00:34:11.33
And as they went down the
street he pointed out the houses
00:34:11.53\00:34:14.62
and they put marks on them.
00:34:14.82\00:34:16.43
And then the soldiers came back
and gathered these people up.
00:34:16.63\00:34:19.34
It was a
terrible time in history.
00:34:19.64\00:34:22.65
Even the papal power...
00:34:22.95\00:34:25.73
the papal power who
had been the favored one...
00:34:26.13\00:34:30.07
all of a sudden now found
itself in great, great trouble.
00:34:30.37\00:34:36.23
It found that the people
had turned against them also.
00:34:36.54\00:34:42.03
A man by the
name of Thomas Paine
00:34:43.31\00:34:47.08
has written a book. It's
called The Age of Reason.
00:34:47.38\00:34:52.07
That book has
circulated all across France.
00:34:52.37\00:34:56.67
And in the book The Age
of Reason by Thomas Paine
00:34:56.77\00:35:00.90
he tells them they are to
take religion and get rid of it.
00:35:01.10\00:35:05.12
To toss it
out... not to follow it.
00:35:05.42\00:35:08.31
That there is no God and
they're not to believe in God.
00:35:08.61\00:35:11.78
And that book now has
gone all across France
00:35:12.08\00:35:15.41
and France has turned against
God and they have established
00:35:15.61\00:35:21.10
what is known in
history as The Age of Reason.
00:35:21.30\00:35:26.72
They have kicked
religion out of France.
00:35:29.26\00:35:33.48
I want you to
listen. That took place
00:35:33.78\00:35:36.32
I want you to listen to a
couple historical statements.
00:35:46.83\00:35:50.39
This is from the Life of
Napoleon by Sir Walter Scott.
00:35:50.59\00:35:54.73
This is what he had to say:
00:35:55.03\00:35:56.56
The French Assembly
said: "We will not worship God;
00:36:25.89\00:36:31.55
we will establish
the Age of Reason. "
00:36:31.75\00:36:35.76
One more statement.
00:36:36.06\00:36:37.95
This is taken from a
book called The Midnight Cry
00:36:38.25\00:36:41.61
by George Storrs, and it says:
00:36:41.91\00:36:44.43
That's what the French
Assembly did. They said:
00:37:13.48\00:37:16.65
"Have nothing to
do with God anymore. "
00:37:16.85\00:37:18.97
They took this
woman. Put her on a cart
00:37:29.80\00:37:32.86
and pulled her
through the streets of Paris
00:37:33.06\00:37:36.11
and worshiped her as
the Goddess of Reason.
00:37:36.31\00:37:40.32
This began one of
the most horrible times
00:37:41.59\00:37:45.92
in the history of humanity
00:37:46.13\00:37:48.64
referred to by some historians
00:37:48.94\00:37:52.20
as the Reign of Terror.
00:37:52.40\00:37:55.38
Because now people no longer
have any kind of standard.
00:37:56.39\00:38:02.19
They've thrown out the book.
00:38:02.49\00:38:04.56
And when they threw out
the book they threw out morals.
00:38:04.86\00:38:08.10
They threw out
everything that they stood for
00:38:08.40\00:38:10.94
and therefore
everything went awry.
00:38:11.14\00:38:13.83
You could believe
anything you wanted to
00:38:14.13\00:38:16.22
as long as it wasn't religion.
00:38:16.52\00:38:19.15
You couldn't believe that.
If you did, you were in trouble.
00:38:19.45\00:38:24.52
Watch...
00:38:26.70\00:38:28.04
Revelation 11 verse 8:
00:38:28.34\00:38:30.35
You must read that text
very carefully because it says
00:38:40.14\00:38:44.71
"spiritually
called Sodom and Egypt
00:38:44.91\00:38:48.37
where our Lord was crucified. "
00:38:48.57\00:38:49.97
Please. That is
saying spiritually.
00:38:50.07\00:38:52.17
It's not saying literal.
00:38:52.37\00:38:54.05
Christ was not
crucified in Egypt, was He?
00:38:54.35\00:38:57.49
Wasn't crucified in Sodom.
00:38:57.89\00:39:00.53
So you've got to understand
when you read the Word of God
00:39:00.83\00:39:03.28
and it says spiritually
00:39:03.38\00:39:04.75
you've got to
make the application.
00:39:04.95\00:39:06.45
Why is it saying spiritually
00:39:06.65\00:39:10.10
"where our Lord was crucified"
00:39:10.30\00:39:12.41
and it refers
to Egypt and Sodom?
00:39:12.61\00:39:14.99
It refers to
Egypt for this reason:
00:39:15.20\00:39:17.23
because you remember God
called Moses and He said:
00:39:17.43\00:39:20.74
"You go down
and you tell Pharaoh
00:39:20.94\00:39:22.79
'let My people go. ' "
00:39:22.99\00:39:24.38
Moses went down and
told Pharaoh, he said:
00:39:24.68\00:39:28.88
"God has said
'let My people go. ' "
00:39:29.09\00:39:31.51
And pharaoh said this:
00:39:31.71\00:39:33.54
You see, Egypt
stood for atheism.
00:39:45.48\00:39:49.59
They had thrown out God.
00:39:49.89\00:39:52.29
France had. They said:
"We're not going to believe
00:39:52.49\00:39:54.15
in any Deity.
We're throwing out God. "
00:39:54.35\00:39:56.83
That's the reason God
referred to it as Egypt.
00:39:57.03\00:40:00.37
Why did it refer to Sodom?
00:40:00.67\00:40:02.64
Sodom and Gomorrah?
00:40:04.09\00:40:06.44
Those cities were
destroyed because of what?
00:40:06.74\00:40:09.32
Loss of morals.
00:40:09.62\00:40:13.56
And dear friend, any
time you take the Bible
00:40:13.86\00:40:16.73
and you throw out the Bible
00:40:16.93\00:40:18.72
all morality is gone.
00:40:19.02\00:40:20.88
And France lost its morals.
00:40:21.18\00:40:24.07
I mean there was nothing to
restrain the people in any way.
00:40:24.37\00:40:29.96
Fornication,
adultery was wide open.
00:40:30.26\00:40:32.34
Unbelievable during that time.
00:40:32.64\00:40:34.21
I can't... It was so bad I
can't even describe it to you
00:40:34.41\00:40:36.88
tonight. That's the reason
it referred to it as Sodom.
00:40:37.08\00:40:41.81
And it says: "Where
our Lord was crucified. "
00:40:42.12\00:40:46.57
Why would it say that?
00:40:46.87\00:40:49.43
Because if you believed in God
00:40:49.54\00:40:54.02
it didn't make any difference
what church you went to.
00:40:54.32\00:40:57.82
If you believed in
God, you were gathered up
00:40:59.13\00:41:01.51
and taken and guillotined.
00:41:01.71\00:41:05.18
Your head was cut off.
00:41:05.48\00:41:07.04
God said this:
00:41:07.34\00:41:10.41
This was known as
the Reign of Terror.
00:41:12.01\00:41:14.55
I mean, they
gathered up everybody
00:41:14.75\00:41:17.70
that just even looked
like they might be religious
00:41:17.90\00:41:20.99
and they cut their
heads off. In fact,
00:41:21.19\00:41:23.09
it went on so bad, folks,
that blood ran down the gutters
00:41:23.29\00:41:26.86
of the streets of Paris.
00:41:27.06\00:41:28.44
OK.
00:41:28.74\00:41:31.21
That's why it says:
"where My Lord was crucified. "
00:41:44.76\00:41:48.51
Now it says...
Revelation 11 verse 9:
00:41:48.81\00:41:54.08
Said: "their dead bodies
are going to lie in the street
00:42:07.25\00:42:10.65
for 3-1/2 days. "
00:42:10.96\00:42:12.12
Now, we found out in our
study that in Bible prophecy
00:42:12.42\00:42:18.06
a day represents
how much? One year.
00:42:18.26\00:42:20.61
"I have laid on
you a day for a year. "
00:42:20.81\00:42:24.31
OK.
00:42:24.61\00:42:27.28
The Age of Reason
00:42:27.58\00:42:29.03
began January 1, 1793.
00:42:29.34\00:42:35.28
OK?
00:42:35.58\00:42:37.39
Now I want to read you a
couple historical statements.
00:42:37.69\00:42:42.38
I want you to put it in place.
00:42:42.58\00:42:44.20
Back in the time when France
00:42:44.50\00:42:48.57
made the decision that
they were not going to go
00:42:48.77\00:42:52.54
with the Reformation, the king
turned against the Reformation
00:42:52.75\00:42:57.14
and they went out and
they gathered up the Huguenots
00:42:57.34\00:43:00.68
and they burned them at the
stake and they killed them all
00:43:00.89\00:43:03.87
history is recording
this statement about it.
00:43:04.17\00:43:06.47
Listen to this very carefully:
00:43:06.67\00:43:08.45
Looks like we
have lost a computer.
00:43:08.75\00:43:12.04
Maybe we can go back to
it... get some help there,
00:43:12.35\00:43:15.85
find out what the problem is.
00:43:16.15\00:43:17.30
But history says that that
king marched down the streets
00:43:17.50\00:43:21.64
and as he went down
the street they pointed out
00:43:21.84\00:43:24.72
the homes. And
they gathered the people
00:43:24.92\00:43:27.32
and they killed them
00:43:27.52\00:43:29.24
one right after another.
00:43:30.36\00:43:31.79
Now folks, we're 200 and about
00:43:32.50\00:43:37.09
56 years later to the very day.
00:43:37.12\00:43:41.97
And now they've gone
and they've got Louie XVI
00:43:42.17\00:43:47.14
and they're
leading him down the street
00:43:47.34\00:43:49.86
taking him to
have his head cut off.
00:43:50.17\00:43:52.79
The very thing that
the king of France did
00:43:53.09\00:43:56.37
256 years before
00:43:56.58\00:43:59.37
now is happening
to the king of France.
00:43:59.57\00:44:02.37
This was referred to
as the Age of Terror.
00:44:02.67\00:44:07.23
Terrible time that took place.
00:44:07.43\00:44:10.24
OK. Let's continue on. It says
00:44:10.44\00:44:13.35
that their dead bodies
will lie in the street how long?
00:44:13.65\00:44:16.71
three and a half days.
00:44:17.96\00:44:19.25
Now friends, if there's
any of you here tonight that
00:44:19.55\00:44:22.77
have some question
about the Word of God...
00:44:22.98\00:44:25.12
that you maybe don't believe
that it's exactly right...
00:44:26.61\00:44:32.14
That Age of Reason
began January the 21st, OK?
00:44:33.08\00:44:38.80
1893.
00:44:39.10\00:44:42.42
Excuse me, 1793.
00:44:43.53\00:44:45.97
France did away with religion.
00:44:47.26\00:44:50.30
Three and a half years later,
00:44:51.40\00:44:54.63
all right? June the 10th,
00:44:54.93\00:44:58.88
1796,
00:44:59.18\00:45:02.37
things had
gotten so bad in France
00:45:02.57\00:45:05.36
absolutely so horrible in France
00:45:05.56\00:45:08.73
that the whole
country was falling apart
00:45:08.94\00:45:11.42
that the French
Assembly decided to re-establish
00:45:11.72\00:45:15.24
religion in France.
00:45:15.44\00:45:17.26
Exactly three and a half years.
00:45:17.56\00:45:21.78
Said they would lie
dead in the street how long?
00:45:21.98\00:45:24.02
Three and a half days.
00:45:24.32\00:45:25.86
In Bible prophecy a
day represents how much?
00:45:26.06\00:45:28.07
One year. And it says
it would lie in the street
00:45:28.37\00:45:31.22
dead for 3-1/2 days...
00:45:31.43\00:45:33.23
or 3-1/2 years... and
it did it to the exact day.
00:45:33.53\00:45:37.73
You'd better believe that
when God's giving you prophecy
00:45:38.23\00:45:42.27
it's accurate.
00:45:42.47\00:45:43.63
Now it says
here in Revelation 11
00:45:43.93\00:45:48.38
and I'm going to
have to have some glasses.
00:45:48.58\00:45:51.95
I won't read this without them.
00:45:52.05\00:45:54.78
Revelation the 11th chapter...
they're laying right back there.
00:45:55.08\00:45:58.19
Folks, I don't know
what happened there.
00:45:58.49\00:46:02.58
Our screen's coming back.
00:46:02.78\00:46:04.01
OK, maybe we'll get to it,
00:46:04.31\00:46:06.56
take a look at it. But let
me just tell you right now...
00:46:06.86\00:46:11.24
If we lose it, well
you don't worry about it
00:46:11.44\00:46:13.55
because I can preach without it.
00:46:13.75\00:46:15.16
It's not... it's not required.
00:46:15.36\00:46:17.06
Thank you. It's not
required for me to have that
00:46:17.26\00:46:20.16
to preach by it,
00:46:20.36\00:46:21.52
but my glasses are
required to be able to see it.
00:46:21.82\00:46:25.10
OK? OK.
00:46:25.41\00:46:27.72
The 11th chapter, I
want... So anyhow, at the end
00:46:28.02\00:46:32.14
of 3-1/2 years it's reinstated.
00:46:32.34\00:46:35.51
It's put right back where it was
00:46:35.82\00:46:38.35
because they realize
that without religion
00:46:38.55\00:46:41.59
the whole country is falling
apart. They can't make it work.
00:46:41.79\00:46:45.14
So they re-establish religion.
00:46:45.54\00:46:48.04
But it says here in verse 12
00:46:48.24\00:46:51.84
"And they heard a loud
voice from heaven saying to them
00:46:52.04\00:46:55.36
'come up here, ' and they
ascended to heaven in a cloud
00:46:55.56\00:46:59.00
and their enemies saw them. "
00:46:59.20\00:47:00.85
In other words, those two
witnesses came back to life.
00:47:01.15\00:47:04.72
They were
resurrected after 3-1/2 days.
00:47:05.02\00:47:07.98
And He said: "Come up
here. " And it says they arose
00:47:08.18\00:47:11.71
and caught up into heaven.
00:47:11.91\00:47:13.96
Now, what I'm trying to
get across to you tonight,
00:47:14.26\00:47:17.11
folks, is this
Word will not fail.
00:47:17.31\00:47:20.47
Absolutely will
not fail under any way.
00:47:20.87\00:47:25.36
OK? So watch what happens here.
00:47:25.66\00:47:28.65
And I think we're...
well, we were almost there.
00:47:28.85\00:47:31.72
I think we're just about there.
00:47:32.02\00:47:33.72
We'll get there in a minute.
00:47:34.02\00:47:35.44
Maybe we can take
it a little farther.
00:47:35.64\00:47:37.52
A little bit more.
00:47:37.82\00:47:40.87
OK, I think that's good.
We'll take it from there.
00:47:41.17\00:47:44.98
OK. And it says...
Revelation 11 verse 10 says:
00:47:45.08\00:47:50.51
One of the
strangest things happen.
00:48:00.28\00:48:02.40
I don't understand.
When somebody does something
00:48:02.60\00:48:06.35
then everybody wants
to get on the bandwagon.
00:48:06.55\00:48:08.98
And when France
tossed religion out of France
00:48:09.28\00:48:12.99
other countries sent
them letters and gifts
00:48:13.29\00:48:16.21
and said how wise they were
and how smart that they were.
00:48:16.41\00:48:19.56
You know, this is
what it's talking about.
00:48:19.96\00:48:21.96
They sent gifts to
them, congratulated them
00:48:22.16\00:48:23.95
for what they did.
00:48:24.15\00:48:25.20
At the end of 3-1/2
years the breath of God...
00:48:31.35\00:48:33.60
Great fear fell on
those who saw them.
00:48:42.20\00:48:44.74
Now folks, think about it.
00:48:45.04\00:48:47.36
Think about it.
00:48:47.56\00:48:48.76
17... 1796:
00:48:49.06\00:48:54.00
the Word of God
hasn't gone anyplace
00:48:54.30\00:48:57.84
because there's no
way it could be published.
00:48:58.14\00:49:00.87
Very... very few
people had Bibles.
00:49:01.07\00:49:03.21
There wasn't much
of a chance for people
00:49:03.51\00:49:05.05
to read the Word of God.
00:49:05.25\00:49:06.67
This is 1796.
00:49:06.97\00:49:10.49
It says that when this came...
and they came back to life
00:49:10.79\00:49:13.67
they were caught up. Watch:
00:49:13.87\00:49:15.55
into heaven...
00:49:15.85\00:49:16.95
It says if there's
anything that is sure
00:49:27.21\00:49:29.54
it is the Word of
God. And I told you tonight
00:49:29.74\00:49:32.35
you can build your
faith on it. Watch:
00:49:32.55\00:49:34.31
January 21, 1793 they
did away with religion.
00:49:35.22\00:49:40.92
The French
Assembly on June 10, 1796
00:49:41.22\00:49:45.24
voted to put it back.
00:49:45.44\00:49:47.60
Exactly 3-1/2 years.
00:49:47.90\00:49:50.56
OK. Three and a half
years just as the Word of God
00:49:50.76\00:49:54.58
had prophesied.
00:49:54.78\00:49:55.87
OK, listen to what happened.
00:50:03.98\00:50:08.15
The British
Bible Society... 1804.
00:50:08.46\00:50:14.38
Are you getting the picture?
00:50:14.48\00:50:15.55
All of a sudden here the
Word of God is caught up.
00:50:15.75\00:50:18.75
The British
Bible Society is formed
00:50:18.95\00:50:22.18
and now the Word of God is being
circulated around the world!
00:50:22.21\00:50:25.70
1816... American Bible Society.
00:50:27.79\00:50:31.46
And all of a sudden the
Bible begins to be circulated
00:50:31.66\00:50:34.56
across the globe.
00:50:34.76\00:50:35.79
All of a sudden
foreign missions takes off.
00:50:35.99\00:50:39.68
Judson goes to Burma.
00:50:39.88\00:50:43.52
Carey goes to India.
00:50:43.82\00:50:45.62
Morrison goes to China.
00:50:46.12\00:50:48.36
Moffat and
Livingston go to Africa.
00:50:48.66\00:50:50.88
And all of a sudden the Word
of God begins to spread across
00:50:51.18\00:50:54.30
this whole world... just exactly
as the scripture said it would.
00:50:54.50\00:50:58.82
How does this affect you?
00:51:01.94\00:51:03.81
How does it affect me?
00:51:04.11\00:51:06.34
I want you to listen
very, very carefully:
00:51:06.64\00:51:10.14
That beast came up
out of the bottomless pit
00:51:21.07\00:51:24.66
on February 15, 1798,
00:51:24.86\00:51:28.28
when Napoleon
established a secular kingdom.
00:51:28.48\00:51:32.40
And all of a
sudden you find atheism
00:51:32.60\00:51:35.65
for the first
time raising its head.
00:51:35.85\00:51:39.30
All of a sudden atheism...
as France kicked religion
00:51:39.60\00:51:44.08
out of France and
established atheism... came in.
00:51:44.28\00:51:48.59
Now watch, because
something begins to happen.
00:51:48.89\00:51:52.48
Out of the
writing of Thomas Paine
00:51:52.78\00:51:56.14
The Age of Reason... there's
a man that has read that.
00:51:56.35\00:52:01.27
His name is George Hegel.
00:52:01.47\00:52:04.94
Look at the dates of
his birth: 1770 to 1831.
00:52:05.24\00:52:11.07
Folks, George Hegel is
the father... He is the father
00:52:11.37\00:52:16.32
of modern atheism in
philosophy and theology.
00:52:16.52\00:52:20.06
He's the one that
introduced all this stuff
00:52:20.36\00:52:23.49
that you find today across the
country in which he talks about
00:52:23.59\00:52:27.67
higher criticism and how that
all these things in the Bible
00:52:27.87\00:52:31.49
were not true.
00:52:31.69\00:52:32.72
George Hegel did that.
00:52:33.02\00:52:35.04
George Hegel had a student
00:52:36.50\00:52:40.29
that studied George Hegel...
00:52:40.59\00:52:42.77
studied under George
Hegel... that also studied
00:52:43.08\00:52:46.32
Thomas Paine.
00:52:46.52\00:52:48.51
And from their writings
00:52:48.61\00:52:51.14
he developed his philosophy.
00:52:51.34\00:52:53.49
And his name was Charles Darwin.
00:52:53.69\00:52:57.19
Look at the dates.
Charles Darwin said
00:52:57.59\00:53:02.60
The Origin of the
Species... evolution...
00:53:02.80\00:53:07.20
that you and I
came from a monkey
00:53:07.41\00:53:10.83
or we came from some
protozoa or something else...
00:53:11.03\00:53:15.35
And out of that Christianity
and religion was completely
00:53:15.55\00:53:19.45
moved out of it.
00:53:19.65\00:53:21.53
Charles Darwin...
Charles Darwin has a friend.
00:53:22.91\00:53:27.77
Charles Darwin has a
friend that they study together.
00:53:27.97\00:53:31.72
They study the
writings of George Hegel.
00:53:32.02\00:53:34.95
They study the
writings of Thomas Paine.
00:53:35.15\00:53:37.66
His name is Karl Marx.
00:53:37.96\00:53:41.73
And Karl Marx decides that
they need to set up a society,
00:53:42.03\00:53:47.33
a government, that
is built without God.
00:53:47.53\00:53:50.44
And on the basis of
the writings of Karl Marx
00:53:50.54\00:53:53.22
you have atheistic
communism coming up.
00:53:53.43\00:53:56.18
And it moves into Russia
and held them in its palm
00:53:56.48\00:54:00.30
and in its control for 70 years.
00:54:00.50\00:54:03.03
Oh, you want to
take it a step farther?
00:54:06.20\00:54:07.93
A man that
studied under Karl Marx,
00:54:08.43\00:54:12.96
studied under Charles Darwin...
00:54:13.16\00:54:16.25
his name: Sigmund Freud.
00:54:16.55\00:54:20.63
Sigmund Freud said: "Ah, we
are in a time of new morality.
00:54:21.23\00:54:27.22
Why you should do
it if it feels good.
00:54:27.42\00:54:31.14
No morals, no restrictions.
00:54:31.34\00:54:34.89
Just do it because why...
you came from some animal. "
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So you find that the whole
concept completely changed.
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Thus you find that atheistic
communism raised its head.
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Now folks, let me
tell you what bothers me.
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Russia suffered under communism
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for 70 years.
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Go over to Russia today...
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They invite you
into their universities
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to speak to their
students to tell them about God
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because they know...
they know that it didn't work.
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You come back to
the United States
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and they won't let you talk
about God in the universities.
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I wonder... I
wonder where we are, folks.
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I thought this was
supposed to be a country
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that was established
on religious principles.
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I thought we were supposed
to be God-fearing men and women.
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And yet we have schools
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all across this country
that teach that there is no God.
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That they teach evolution
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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,
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where we stand,
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. 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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Babylon. Babylon
fell to Medo-Persia.
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Medo-Persia fell to Greece.
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Greece fell to pagan Rome.
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Pagan Rome fell to papal Rome.
00:57:04.82\00:57:08.50
And papal Rome fell to atheism.
00:57:08.80\00:57:13.77
Napoleon came in and
established a secular kingdom.
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Just exactly as God's Word says
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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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Now, Wednesday night
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we're going to talk
about the seventh one
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and we're going to put that
piece of the puzzle in place.
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That's the last one.
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Are you getting the picture?
00:57:56.10\00:57:58.90
You see, we're approaching
the coming of Jesus Christ.
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There's no way, dear friends...
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I mean, I can't... I
can't take you any farther
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because there's not
any other prophecies.
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I mean, we're down to
the end of God's Word.
00:58:15.82\00:58:19.24
You've got to
understand that it's run out.
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You and I are at the end.
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We're living in the end time...
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the time in which
Jesus Christ will come back.
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What you and I
need to make sure of
00:58:33.81\00:58:37.14
is that we're ready, that we're
ready to meet Jesus Christ.
00:58:37.44\00:58:42.58
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