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00:11 Welcome, it's good to see you here.
00:15 I want to invite you to bow your heads with me 00:17 as we asked the Lord's presence with us today. 00:20 Father in heaven, we thank You 00:22 for the privilege of being here. 00:24 We ask for divine wisdom to understand Your Word. 00:28 We're living in very, very turbulent times. 00:31 We want to know what Your will is, 00:34 and we want to abide in that will. 00:36 Thank you, Father, for hearing our prayer, 00:39 for we ask it in the precious name of Jesus. 00:41 Amen. 00:44 Well, what we want to do first is review 00:48 the two topics that we studied 00:51 in our last presentations. 00:54 The first presentation was on the historical method 00:58 of studying Bible prophecy. 01:01 And you remember that we noticed that 01:03 the historical method begins in the days 01:06 when the prophet wrote, 01:08 and ends with a setting up 01:10 of Christ's everlasting kingdom. 01:13 And basically, we took Daniel 7 as our model 01:18 for the historical method. 01:20 And I want to review the sequence of events 01:22 in Daniel 7 as well as in Revelation Chapter 13, 01:26 because it's important that we remember that sequence 01:31 the links in the chain, if you please. 01:34 We have, first of all, 01:36 in Daniel Chapter 7, which kingdom? 01:41 Babylon, very well, Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon. 01:44 What is the next kingdom after that? 01:47 Medo-Persia, very well. 01:48 Then afterwards, we have a third kingdom 01:50 which is Greece. 01:52 And then we have a fourth kingdom 01:53 which is the Roman Empire. 01:56 And then what happens to that fourth beast? 02:00 Oh, it sprouts what? 02:02 It sprouts 10 horns. That's right. 02:05 In other words, the Roman Empire is divided. 02:08 And then among the 10 rises 02:12 a little horn, 02:13 and the little horn rules for how long? 02:16 1260 days, 02:19 but days in prophecy are equivalent to what? 02:22 Are equivalent to years. 02:24 And, of course, 02:26 what power is represented by the little horn? 02:28 It represents the Roman Catholic papacy, 02:33 not the Roman Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic papacy, 02:37 which is a system that unites church 02:40 with the state. 02:42 And then we went to Revelation Chapter 13. 02:45 And we noticed that Revelation 13 02:48 provides links in the chain that Daniel 7 doesn't. 02:52 Do you remember that the beast in Revelation 13, 02:56 the first beast that rises from the sea 02:58 represents the same thing as the little horn, 03:01 because it rules 42 months, 03:03 and 42 months times 30 days, each month is 1260, 03:09 the same number of years that we found 03:12 that the little horn ruled. 03:14 And so basically Revelation 13:1-10 03:17 tells us that the beast 03:19 which is the same as the little horn 03:21 ruled for 1260 years, 03:24 but at the end of the 1260 years, 03:27 what happened to the beast? 03:30 It received what? It received the deadly wound. 03:34 What weapon gave the beast the deadly wound? 03:38 It was the sword, and who bears the sword? 03:42 The civil power, 03:44 the state is the power that bears the sword. 03:48 Was the papacy wounded by the civil power? 03:51 Yes, France withdrew its support from the papacy. 03:55 In other words that took away the sword 03:57 from the papacy, 03:59 and with the sword it gave the papacy a deadly wound, 04:03 where's the sword is symbolic. 04:06 So we're told that the papacy received the wound 04:09 with a sword, the civil powers 04:11 withdrew their support from the papacy. 04:13 But then we noticed in Revelation Chapter 13, 04:16 that something is going to happen to that deadly wound. 04:19 What's going to happen to the deadly wound? 04:22 The deadly wound is going to be healed. 04:25 And all of the world is going to wonder 04:28 after the beast or the little horn. 04:32 You see, Daniel 7 doesn't explicitly tell us 04:34 that the little horn is going to have another period, 04:37 because Daniel Chapter 7 simply speaks 04:40 of the dominion of 1260 years 04:43 of the little horn. 04:44 But Revelation Chapter 13 adds 04:46 that at the end of the 1260 years, 04:49 it was going to receive a deadly wound 04:51 and then its deadly wound would be healed. 04:53 Now, which is the power that heals the deadly wound 04:57 according to the Book of Revelation? 05:01 That's right, the United States. 05:02 Another beast that rises from where? 05:05 From the earth's, it has two horns like a lamb. 05:09 These two horns represents civil and religious liberty, 05:13 the separation of church and state. 05:15 The fancy terms are Republicanism 05:17 and Protestantism. 05:19 And so for a while, 05:22 the United States behaves very well. 05:25 It abides by these two principles, 05:27 but then eventually it ends up speaking like what? 05:31 It ends up speaking like a dragon. 05:33 And we notice in our study, 05:35 in our first study of this series, 05:38 that this beast that rises from the earth, 05:42 actually everything it does is to help the first beast 05:46 recover its power. 05:48 It exercises all the authority of the first beast. 05:51 It commands everyone to worship the first beast. 05:55 It does everything in the presence 05:57 or on behalf of the first beast. 06:01 It builds an image of the first beast, 06:04 and it imposes on pain of death, 06:07 the mark of the first beast. 06:09 You see, everything this second beast does 06:11 is to help the first beast recover its power. 06:15 Has the deadly wound yet been healed? 06:18 No, when the wound is healed, 06:21 the papacy will behave in the future 06:24 like it did in the past. 06:26 And that will lead to the greatest time of trouble 06:29 in the history of the world. 06:31 The Great Tribulation that Jesus spoke about 06:34 in Matthew Chapter 24, 06:36 and the tribulation will be cut short 06:38 by the second coming of Jesus Christ 06:40 to establish His kingdom. 06:42 So you see Daniel Chapter 7 and Revelation 13 06:46 take us from Babylon, 06:47 which is the kingdom that existed in Daniel's day. 06:51 It takes us all throughout the course of history, 06:54 link after link culminating with the setting up 06:58 of Christ's everlasting kingdom. 06:59 Isn't this a nice method of interpreting prophecy? 07:03 It's discipline. 07:04 In other words, it's not guesswork, 07:06 you don't have to guess who the little horn represents. 07:09 All you have to do is know where the series starts, 07:12 follow the sequence. 07:14 And then when you get to the little horn, 07:16 you know what the little horn represents. 07:20 Now, in our second study, the last time, 07:24 we also notice that the little horn 07:27 would do something during the 1260 years, 07:31 two things. 07:32 First of all, it would think that it could change what? 07:35 God's law. 07:37 Has the Roman Catholic papacy claimed to change God's law? 07:41 Absolutely. 07:42 Even though the second commandment 07:44 that says don't make images 07:46 and don't bow down to the images. 07:47 The Roman Catholic Bibles have that commandment, 07:50 the Catechisms don't. 07:52 And the Catechisms are used 07:54 for instructing Roman Catholics children to prepare them 07:58 for first communion or for conformation. 08:00 And so, you know, the Roman Catholic Church 08:02 doesn't encourage people 08:04 to read the Ten Commandments in the Bible. 08:05 They say, the interpretation of the church in the Catechism 08:09 is the true interpretation of the matter. 08:12 Another way in which the papacy 08:14 sought to change God's law 08:16 was establishing a counterfeit day of worship. 08:19 The Bible says that we're supposed to keep 08:21 the seventh day Sabbath, but the papacy says no, 08:24 we are supposed to keep what? 08:26 Sunday. 08:27 And they say the church, the Roman Catholic Church, 08:30 the papacy changed the day from Sabbath to Sunday. 08:35 But we also notice that the little horn 08:36 not only would think it could change God's law, 08:39 but the little horn also thought 08:41 it could change God's what? 08:43 God's times. 08:45 Do you remember that we studied the times? 08:47 What does the word times mean? 08:50 What does Daniel 7 mean 08:52 when it says that the little horn would think 08:53 to change God's times? 08:56 Well, you received a handout this evening 08:59 with these two words, one is Hebrew and the other, 09:02 well, actually, some are Hebrew and some are Aramaic, 09:06 the word iddan and the word zeman. 09:09 I hope that you'll take this home 09:11 and look up all of these verses. 09:13 And you will see that iddan and zeman 09:16 are pretty much synonymous. 09:18 When the Bible says that God changes the times 09:22 and the seasons, and the Apostle Paul says 09:24 about the times and the seasons, 09:26 I don't need to tell you 09:27 because we've already studied prophecy. 09:29 When Jesus said to the disciples, 09:31 it's not for you to know the times or the seasons. 09:35 Basically, what it means is 09:37 that God is in control of the flow of world history. 09:40 He reveals how events are going to take place. 09:44 Did Nebuchadnezzar tried to change God's scenario? 09:47 Yes. 09:49 Did King Darius in Chapter 6 09:51 also tried to change God's scenario? 09:53 Absolutely. 09:55 But who controls the times? God. 09:58 And who commanded to keep His law? 10:01 God. 10:03 So what the Roman Catholic papacy did was, 10:06 first of all, say that you're supposed to keep Sunday 10:09 as a day of rest, changing God's law. 10:12 But it also, we're going to notice, 10:14 claimed to change the sequence of prophetic events. 10:19 And in the next several presentations, 10:21 we are going to study 10:23 how the papacy attempted to change 10:26 God's prophetic calendar. 10:28 How the events in the chain of prophecy 10:31 were going to be fulfilled. 10:34 Now, when we think of the Protestant Reformation, 10:37 expression such as Sola Scriptura, 10:41 scripture alone, 10:43 Sola Fide, faith alone, 10:46 Sola Gratia, grace alone come to mind. 10:50 But really, 10:52 these solas as I call them 10:56 were all reaction of the reformers 10:58 to the Roman Catholic papacy. 11:01 They had come to believe 11:03 that the Roman Catholic papacy was the Antichrist. 11:07 And I'm going to read several statements 11:09 from the reformers this evening a little bit later on 11:12 to show you what they believed about the Antichrist. 11:15 They believe that the papacy 11:16 was the Antichrist of Scripture. 11:19 How did they know that? 11:21 Well, the reformers used the historical method, 11:24 the historical flow method. 11:25 They knew that Babylon had passed, 11:28 they knew that Medo-Persia had passed, 11:30 they knew that Greece had passed, 11:32 they knew that the Roman Empire had passed. 11:34 They knew that the Roman Empire 11:36 had been divided into ten kingdoms. 11:38 So they said the Roman Empire was divided in 10 kingdoms 11:42 in the fourth and fifth centuries. 11:44 So it must be that the little horn 11:46 appeared shortly thereafter. 11:48 And so they look, they said, 11:49 "Where would the little horn be?" 11:51 They say, "That's the Roman Catholic papacy." 11:53 So in other words, they lived 11:55 during the flow of Bible prophecy. 11:58 They lived at the time 11:59 when the little horn was ruling. 12:01 And so it wasn't difficult for them 12:04 to identify the fact 12:06 that the little horn represented 12:08 the Roman Catholic papacy. 12:10 You see, they could see the chronology. 12:12 And they also could see the activities 12:15 of the little horn, of the papacy. 12:17 So they said, "Hey, it comes right at the time 12:20 in the line of prophecy, 12:21 where it was supposed to come, and its activities 12:25 of picking blasphemies against the Most High 12:28 and persecuting the saints of the Most High 12:30 etcetera is what's taking place." 12:33 And so all they had to do was use the historical method, 12:37 the historicist method, and see where the papacy fit 12:41 within the sequence. 12:44 And this understanding of Bible prophecy 12:48 gave the reformers a mandate 12:51 to unmask the Roman Catholic papacy 12:55 as the Antichrist of Scripture. 12:59 Let's examine some of the writings 13:02 of the prominent reformers of Protestantism. 13:07 I've taken a lot of these statements 13:09 from a work that was written by Le Roy Edwin Froom. 13:14 It's called the Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers. 13:16 It has four volumes. 13:18 Basically Elder Froom, 13:20 who was the ministerial director 13:22 for the General Conference for several decades. 13:25 He went to Europe, he spoke several languages. 13:28 And he traveled for several years, 13:31 going through the libraries in Europe, 13:34 accumulating information 13:36 on how prophecy was interpreted 13:38 from apostolic times, 13:40 all the way till the middle of the 20th century. 13:43 You know, those books, unfortunately are out of print, 13:46 but they are a masterpiece. 13:48 In fact, not only in the Adventist Church, 13:51 but in the secular world. 13:54 In the other churches, 13:56 there were several scholars that said, 13:59 "Wow, this is a tremendous series 14:01 on Bible prophecy." 14:03 And so, I'm going to take these statements from here, 14:06 volume 2 of the Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers. 14:09 But, of course, Froom takes them 14:11 from the original sources. 14:13 Let's begin by noticing it. 14:16 Before we read these statements, 14:18 let's begin by noticing the summary 14:21 of what the Protestants believed 14:24 about Bible prophecy. 14:27 What method did they use? 14:29 I'm going to give you a list of non-negotiables 14:33 for the Protestant reformers. 14:35 Number one, they used the historical flow method 14:39 or historicism. 14:40 That's how they knew that the papacy 14:42 was the link in the chain at the time when they lived. 14:46 Secondly, they did not believe that the Antichrist 14:50 was a single individual. 14:53 They believe that the Antichrist 14:55 was a system composed 14:56 of a succession of popes 14:59 who taken together 15:02 are the Antichrist of Scripture. 15:05 They also believed that the Antichrist 15:08 actually would sit in the church, 15:10 he would claim to be the vicar 15:12 or the representative of Christ. 15:15 They didn't believe that the Antichrist 15:17 was going to be a blasphemous individual 15:19 that would arise and blaspheme the true God. 15:22 They believed that the Antichrist would be 15:25 a series of individuals 15:26 that would arise within the church 15:28 and corrupt the church from inside. 15:31 They also believed 15:33 that the fourth beast of Daniel 7 15:35 was the Roman Empire. 15:37 And they believed that the 10 horns 15:40 that came forth from the head of the fourth beast 15:42 represented the divisions of Western Europe, 15:45 the nations of Western Europe. 15:48 They also believed that the restrainer 15:50 that is mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2, 15:53 it speaks that we're going to have two presentations 15:56 just on 2 Thessalonians 2, 15:59 but they believe that the restrainer 16:00 that was restraining 16:02 the man of sin from manifesting himself 16:05 was the existence of the Roman Empire. 16:07 As long as the emperor was ruling, 16:10 they said, the man of sin, 16:12 the Antichrist cannot surface. 16:15 But as soon as the power that withholds or withstands, 16:20 as soon as the Roman Empire, the Roman Emperor is removed, 16:24 then the Antichrist will appear. 16:27 So they believed that the restrainer 16:29 of 2 Thessalonians 2 was the Roman Empire. 16:33 And when the Roman Empire would be taken away, 16:35 the restraint would be taken away 16:37 and the man of sin, the papacy would manifest itself. 16:40 They also believe that the temple 16:43 in which Antichrist would sit 16:46 because 2 Thessalonians 2 16:48 says that the Antichrist would sit in the temple of God. 16:51 The reformers believed that the temple of God 16:54 was not a temple of the Jews built in the Middle East, 16:58 but the temple was actually the Christian church. 17:01 And when you read 17:03 in the writings of the Apostle Paul, 17:04 every time he uses the word naos, 17:07 the word temple, he's referring to a spiritual temple. 17:10 He's referring to the church. 17:11 He never uses the word naos to refer 17:15 to the temple of the Jews. 17:19 They also believed 17:20 that the harlot of Revelation 17 17:24 was a Roman Catholic papacy. 17:26 They also believed that the abomination of desolation 17:30 of Matthew Chapter 24 represented the papacy. 17:33 And, of course, they believed that the man of sin 17:36 was the papacy. 17:37 And one of the reformers at least 17:39 believed that the king of the north 17:41 in Daniel 11 represents the papacy. 17:44 That's very interesting. 17:45 The reformers also believed 17:48 that the Israel of their day was the church. 17:52 They did not believe that literal Israel 17:54 were the people of God. 17:55 They believe that the people of God 17:57 were those who accepted Jesus Christ 17:59 as Savior and Lord. 18:00 They believe, in other words, 18:02 that Israel was spiritual Israel, 18:04 it was the church. 18:05 And finally, they believe that the time periods 18:09 in which the little horn and the beast would rule 18:13 were to be understood symbolically 18:16 and not literally. 18:17 I want you to remember all these details, 18:20 because we're gonna find that the Roman Catholic papacy 18:22 changed every single one of these things 18:25 that the reformers believed. 18:27 If Martin Luther resurrected today, 18:30 he would die of a heart attack, when he saw, 18:33 when he would see what has been done 18:37 to the Reformation that he spearheaded. 18:39 Now let's take a look, look at some of the reformers 18:43 and what they wrote about the Antichrist. 18:45 They were unanimous that the Antichrist 18:48 was the Roman Catholic papacy. 18:51 Let's begin with John Wycliffe, 18:54 he lived from 1324 to 1384 AD. 18:59 He wrote a book titled De Papa, which means about the pope. 19:05 In Chapter 2 of his book, he wrote, 19:08 "The pope is Antichrist here on earth." 19:14 Now, during the period that Wycliffe lived, 19:17 there were two popes that were competing 19:19 for the papal throne. 19:20 They both claimed to be the true pope. 19:23 And this is what Wycliffe had to say about them. 19:27 He said, "They are two halves of Antichrist, 19:33 making up the perfect Man of Sin between them." 19:38 Now, he also wrote the following on Daniel 7:25. 19:41 I want you to notice his interpretation 19:43 of Daniel 7:25. 19:46 He wrote, "Why is it necessary 19:50 in unbelief to look for another Antichrist? 19:54 He says, "Why should we be looking 19:55 for another Antichrist." 19:59 "In the seventh chapter of Daniel, 20:01 Antichrist is forcefully described by a horn 20:06 arising in the time of the fourth kingdom." 20:10 Are you with me? 20:13 Whom did Wycliffe believe the little horn was? 20:16 The papacy. That's right. 20:18 And by the way, he lived before Luther. 20:21 He lived perhaps 150... 20:23 He was born 150 years before Luther. 20:27 Now, notice what he continues writing. 20:30 "Therefore the 10 horns 20:33 are the whole of our temporal rulers." 20:37 What he's saying is the 10 horns 20:38 are the temporal rulers in Europe now. 20:42 "And the horn has arisen from the 10 horns, 20:47 having eyes and a mouth 20:49 speaking great things against the Lofty One, 20:52 and wearing out the saints of the most high 20:54 and thinking that he is able to change 20:57 times and laws." 21:00 Then he have the interpretation of Daniel 7:25 pretty clear. 21:05 He most certainly, crystal clear. 21:08 He understood that the fourth kingdom 21:09 is Roman Empire. 21:11 He understood that the 10 horns 21:12 were the nations of Europe in his time, 21:14 and he understood 21:16 that the little horn was the Antichrist 21:18 and represented the Roman Catholic papacy. 21:22 Now, let's talk about William Tyndale. 21:25 Perhaps you haven't heard about some of these individuals, 21:27 but they were very influential in the Protestant Reformation. 21:31 Tyndale studied at Oxford and Cambridge in Europe. 21:36 He was the first to translate the New Testament into English. 21:40 And the Roman Catholic Church, 21:43 the Roman Catholic papacy despised him 21:46 for translating the Bible into English. 21:49 He was burned at the stake, 21:51 in fact, for translating the Bible 21:54 into the language that people could understand. 21:59 He wrote the following about the Antichrist. 22:02 "The pope's forbidding matrimony, 22:06 and to eat of meats created of God for man's use, 22:11 which is devilish doctrine by Paul's prophecy, 22:14 are tokens good enough 22:17 that he is the right Antichrist, 22:20 and his doctrine sprung of the devil." 22:24 What do you think? Was he crystal clear? 22:28 How did he know this? 22:30 Because he was living 22:31 in the period of the little horn. 22:33 You see the reformers, they could see 22:36 the historical flow of prophecy. 22:40 They knew that Babylon had ruled, 22:42 Medo-Persia had ruled, 22:44 they knew that Greece had ruled, 22:46 they knew that Rome had ruled, 22:48 they knew that Rome had been divided into 10 kingdoms. 22:51 And they said, of course, 22:53 if Rome was divided in 10 kingdoms 22:54 in the fourth and fifth centuries, 22:56 then, and the little horn arises among them, 22:59 then we must be living 23:01 in the period of the little horn. 23:03 I mean, it's not rocket science, folks. 23:06 It's very simple when you study the prophetic chain, 23:08 when you use the historicist's method 23:11 or the historical method. 23:13 Martin Luther, 23:16 the founder of the Lutheran Church, 23:20 he's famous because he nailed the 95 theses 23:23 on the cathedral door in Wittenberg 23:26 on October 31, 1517. 23:29 And by the way, I don't know if you're aware, 23:32 but a year before this, 23:34 actually, it was in the year 23:39 2017. 23:41 The pope and the Lutherans got together 23:43 in Malmo in Sweden, 23:47 to begin a year celebration 23:50 of the Protestant Reformation. 23:53 Do you think Luther would have ever done that? 23:55 Not in your lifetime 23:58 would Luther have done something like that. 24:00 Now, notice what Luther had to say 24:02 about the Antichrist. 24:04 This is once again found in the resource 24:08 that was prepared by Le Roy Edwin Froom. 24:11 I quote, "I am practically cornered, 24:15 and can hardly doubt anymore, 24:18 that the pope is really the Antichrist, 24:22 whom the world expects according to a general belief." 24:26 And now notice why he believes, 24:28 believed that the papacy was the Antichrist. 24:30 He says, 24:32 "Because everything 24:34 so exactly corresponds 24:38 to the way of his life, action, 24:41 words and commandments." 24:44 Was he just guessing? 24:46 He said, "Well, you know, the pope is a nasty guy, 24:48 so he's the Antichrist." 24:50 That's the way Protestants these days 24:51 try to interpret Antichrist. 24:53 They say, "Oh, well, let's see, who could Antichrist be? 24:56 Will, maybe Hitler, because he's a nasty guy. 24:59 Maybe Saddam Hussein, 25:02 maybe it was the Ayatollah Khomeini." 25:04 You know, it's guesswork, because Protestantism, 25:08 as we're going to see has lost the method, 25:11 the proper method of studying Bible prophecy. 25:15 Martin Luther also wrote in the year 1540, 25:19 the following. 25:21 It's actually kind of like a prayer, 25:24 "Oh Christ, my Lord, 25:27 look down upon us 25:29 and bring upon us thy day of judgment, 25:32 and destroy the brood of Satan in Rome." 25:36 You know, this is pretty strong stuff. 25:39 You say, "Maybe he should have been nicer." 25:42 Well, maybe Jesus should have been nicer 25:44 when he called the apostate Jewish leaders in His day, 25:48 brood of vipers and serpents, 25:52 and said, "How will you escape the condemnation of hell." 25:55 No political correctness there. 25:58 You know, sometimes we have to tell the truth. 26:01 And it's understandable that it might hurt. 26:04 But in the long run, 26:06 a little hurt is better than being lost 26:09 at the end of the age. 26:10 So he continues writing the following. 26:13 There he's speaking about Rome, 26:16 "There sits the Man 26:20 in Rome, 26:22 of whom the apostle Paul wrote," 26:25 and then he puts in parentheses 26:27 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4, 26:30 where it speaks about the Man of Sin. 26:32 So he says, "There sits the Man, 26:34 of whom the apostle Paul wrote 26:36 that he will oppose and exalt himself 26:38 above all that is called God, 26:40 that Man of Sin, that Son of Perdition. 26:43 What else is the papal power, 26:46 but sin and corruption?" 26:52 Are you catching the picture? 26:54 Now, one of the very close collaborators of Martin Luther, 26:59 actually his right hand man, 27:01 if you please was Philip Melanchthon. 27:04 You know, God has a tendency to unite individuals 27:08 of two different types of personalities. 27:11 You know, like, for example, Paul and Barnabas. 27:13 Do you know what kind of man Paul was? 27:15 He was an explosive person. 27:17 You know, when John Mark, you know, he got discouraged 27:20 and didn't want to go, the Apostle Paul got mad. 27:22 He said, "Get rid of him." 27:23 And there was a fight between him and Barnabas, 27:25 and Paul went his way and Barnabas went his way. 27:28 Paul could be very abrasive. 27:32 But God called Barnabas 27:33 the kind of tame him a little bit. 27:36 So Martin Luther was that kind of person. 27:38 He was kind of like, like the Apostle Paul, 27:40 you know, very zealous for the truth. 27:42 And Melanchthon would say, "Well, let's speak the truth. 27:44 You know, let's be a little bit softer." 27:48 Now, notice what Philip Melanchthon 27:50 had to say. 27:51 By the way, he was born in 1497, 27:53 and he died in 1560. 27:56 This is what he wrote in a document 27:59 called the Disputation on Marriage. 28:03 It has a series of propositions. 28:05 I'm going to read number 18 through number 25. 28:09 Actually number 26. 28:11 This is what he wrote, 28:12 "since it is certain 28:14 that the pontiffs and the monks 28:17 have forbidden marriage, 28:20 it is most manifest, and true without any doubt, 28:23 that the Roman Pontiff," now, here's a very important point, 28:27 "that the Roman Pontiff, 28:29 with his whole order and kingdom, 28:32 is very Antichrist." 28:35 Did Luther believe that an individual pope 28:37 was the Antichrist? 28:39 No. Notice once again. 28:43 He states that the Roman Pontiff, 28:47 with his whole order and kingdom. 28:50 The Antichrist is not an individual, 28:51 it's a kingdom is very Antichrist. 28:55 That's proposition 18. 28:57 And proposition 19, he states, 28:59 "Likewise in 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul clearly says 29:03 that the man of sin will rule in the church." 29:07 So the temple is what? The church. 29:10 See, all the points that I mentioned, 29:12 all the summary of Protestant beliefs. 29:15 "Likewise in 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul clearly says 29:18 that the man of sin will rule in the church, 29:20 exalting himself above the worship of God, etc." 29:24 Proposition number 20, 29:25 "But it's certain 29:27 that the popes do rule in the church." 29:29 Notice the popes, plural. 29:32 The Antichrist is not an individual. 29:34 It is a succession of popes that lead a kingdom, 29:37 the kingdom of the papacy. 29:39 So therefore, he says, once again, 29:42 "But it is certain that the popes 29:44 do rule in the church, 29:45 and under the title of the church 29:48 in defending idols. 29:50 Therefore, I affirm that no heresy hath arisen, 29:54 nor indeed shall be, 29:56 with which these descriptions of Paul 29:59 can more truly and certainly accord and agree 30:03 than with this pontifical kingdom." 30:07 Notice, he is not saying an individual is Antichrist. 30:11 It's the whole pontifical kingdom. 30:14 It is the papacy and all of its history. 30:16 In proposition 25, and this is very interesting. 30:20 He's actually going to say that the king of the north 30:23 of Daniel 11 is the papacy. 30:26 Now, that's very, that's very interesting, 30:30 because there's a lot of debate these days 30:31 about the king of the north. 30:33 Some people say even in the Adventist church 30:34 that the king of the north is Turkey. 30:38 But Melanchthon was clear 30:40 on the identity of the king of the north. 30:42 Let me just read here, proposition number 25. 30:45 "The prophet Daniel also attributes 30:48 these two things to Antichrist, namely, 30:51 that he shall place an idol in the temple 30:55 and worship it with gold and silver, 30:57 and that he shall not honor women." 31:01 That is in Daniel 11, folks. 31:04 And then proposition 26. 31:06 He says, "That both of them, both of these, 31:09 gold and silver and not honoring women. 31:12 That both of them belong to the Roman Pontiff, 31:15 who does not clearly see? 31:18 The idols are clearly the impious masses, 31:22 the worship of the saints, and the statues 31:27 which are exhibited in gold and silver 31:30 that they may be worshiped." 31:32 So the king of the north 31:34 was also believed to be the papacy. 31:37 By the way, when you read 31:38 all of the statements of the reformers, 31:40 you discover that 31:41 they understood that in the Bible, 31:43 the papacy is referred to in different ways. 31:47 The papacy is the little horn. 31:50 The papacy is the beast. 31:52 The papacy is the Antichrist. 31:55 The papacy is the harlot. 31:57 The papacy is the man of sin. 32:00 All of these different references 32:04 refer to the same power. 32:07 Now let's talk about John Calvin, 32:10 the founder of the Presbyterian Church. 32:13 He lived from 1509 to 1564. 32:19 I read just one statement from John Calvin. 32:22 "Some persons think us too severe 32:26 and censorious 32:28 when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist." 32:32 Say and some people were saying, 32:34 "Hey, don't do that. 32:36 Don't be politically incorrect and say the papacy 32:37 is the Antichrist. 32:39 Don't be mean spirited." 32:40 It was happening back then. 32:43 He continues, "However, those who are of this opinion 32:48 do not consider that they bring the same charge of presumption 32:52 against Paul himself, 32:54 after whom we speak and whose language we adopt. 32:59 I shall briefly show that Paul's words 33:01 in 2 Thessalonians 2 are not capable..." 33:04 Now listen to this, 33:07 Paul's words in 2 Thessalonians 2. 33:09 We're going to have two presentations 33:11 on 2 Thessalonians 2 later on in this series, 33:15 "Are not capable of any other interpretation." 33:18 He says, "This chapter is not open 33:21 to any other interpretation 33:23 than that which applies them to the papacy." 33:31 You know, what's interesting is none of these 33:33 Protestant churches these days believe any of this. 33:37 They totally gone astray. 33:38 We're going to see from the prophetic roots. 33:41 They've adopted the two systems that the papacy established. 33:46 In this way they have changed God's times, 33:49 God's prophetic times. 33:51 It's going to be an exciting story 33:53 that we're going to study here. 33:54 By the way, I wrote a book 33:57 called Futurism's Incredible Journey, 34:01 where there're many, many other statements 34:03 and much more material than what I'm presenting here. 34:06 You can get this book from Secrets Unsealed. 34:09 Everything is documented with footnotes, etc. 34:12 Now, let's talk about Huldrych Zwingli. 34:17 He is the founder of the Reformed Church. 34:20 Notice what he wrote. 34:22 He was a little more diplomatic, 34:23 a little nicer, 34:25 but he didn't fail to identify the papacy 34:27 as the Antichrist. 34:30 This is what he wrote. 34:32 "I know that in the papacy works 34:36 the might and power of the Devil, 34:41 that is, of the Antichrist." 34:44 Once again, "I know that in the papacy works 34:47 the might and power of the Devil, 34:49 that is, of the Antichrist." 34:51 And then he says, "Yet I cannot approve 34:54 of the Anabaptists 34:58 proclaiming the Word of God 35:00 only because of their hatred against the pope." 35:03 Because the Anabaptists hated the pope. 35:04 And so, all of their emphasis was on pope, hating the pope. 35:10 He says, you know, that can't be your only copy. 35:14 He continued writing, "I desire much more 35:18 that the love of God would be their motive 35:21 in resisting Antichrist, 35:23 and to lessen the burdens of their neighbors." 35:27 So Zwingli, even though he's a little more diplomatic, 35:31 very clearly says that Antichrist is the papacy 35:36 that needs to be resisted. 35:39 Now, let me give you a quotation from John Knox. 35:42 He lived from 1505 to 1572 AD. 35:47 He was the great champion of the Reformation in Scotland. 35:51 And I want you to notice what he wrote. 35:55 Once again, he's going to tell us 35:56 that the papacy is not an individual 35:58 that is going to rise in the Middle East 36:00 after the rapture, 36:02 who's going to sit in a rebuild Jewish temple 36:04 for three and a half literal years, 36:07 like conservative Protestants are teaching today. 36:09 No, no, no, notice what he wrote, 36:11 "First, then, not only are all the impious traditions 36:16 and ceremonies of the papists taken away," 36:20 and as he's saying that we're taking them away 36:22 from Scotland, 36:24 "but also that tyranny which the pope himself 36:29 has for so many ages exercised over the church." 36:34 Now, let me ask you. 36:36 Did one pope exercised power in the church 36:39 over all of the ages? 36:41 One individual pope? Of course, not. 36:44 I read it again. 36:46 He's speaking of a succession of popes as the Antichrist. 36:49 Let me read it again. 36:51 "First, then, not only are all the impious traditions 36:54 and ceremonies of the papists taken away 36:56 in Scotland, but also that tyranny 36:58 which the pope himself has for so many ages 37:02 exercised over the church, and is altogether abolished, 37:06 that is in Scotland. 37:08 And it is provided that all persons 37:10 shall in the future acknowledge him 37:14 to be the very Antichrist, 37:17 and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks. 37:21 The mass is abolished..." 37:22 He's speaking about what is happening in Scotland, 37:24 "The mass is abolished, 37:26 as being an accursed abomination 37:28 and a diabolical profanation of the Lord's Supper, 37:31 and it is forbidden to all persons 37:33 in the whole kingdom of Scotland 37:35 either to celebrate it or to hear it." 37:40 What about John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. 37:43 These are all the founders 37:44 of the great Protestant churches, 37:46 the mainline churches today. 37:48 What did John Wesley have to say? 37:51 He wrote, 37:53 "He is in an emphatical sense... 38:00 the Man of Sin, 38:02 as he increases all manner of sin 38:06 above measure. 38:07 And he is, too properly styled the Son of Perdition, 38:13 as he has caused the death of numberless multitudes, 38:17 both of his opposers, and followers." 38:22 Did John Wesley believe 38:23 that the papacy was the Antichrist? 38:25 Absolutely. 38:27 All of the great reformers, without exception, 38:29 believe that the papacy was the Antichrist, 38:31 not the Catholic Church, the papacy. 38:34 They could see it 38:36 because they looked at the sequence of powers. 38:39 And they looked at the activities 38:41 and the attitude of the little horn, 38:43 and the harlot, 38:44 and the abomination of desolation, etc. 38:47 Now, we need to bear in mind, this is a very important point 38:51 that the Protestant reformers were no ignoramuses. 38:58 Most of the great reformers, 38:59 in fact, all of the great reformers 39:01 had actually probably gotten doctorates 39:05 in Roman Catholic institutions. 39:07 They were very highly educated. 39:09 Many of them were able to read Hebrew, 39:13 Greek and Latin. 39:15 These were not individuals that were, you know, 39:17 they just speculated, they were kind of dummies, 39:20 you know, illiterate, 39:21 so they didn't know what they were talking about. 39:23 These individuals studied in Roman Catholic institutions. 39:27 And not only that, they were highly educated 39:29 in these institutions, 39:31 so they knew what they were talking about. 39:33 And as I mentioned, for them, the little horn of Daniel 7, 39:38 the beast of Revelation 13, the harlot of Revelation 17, 39:42 the Antichrist of 1 John 2, 39:45 the man of sin of 2 Thessalonians 2, 39:47 the abomination of desolation 39:49 of Matthew 24, and the king of the north in Daniel 11, 39:53 all represented the same system 39:56 under different names. 40:01 Now what about the great confessions of faith 40:02 of the churches? 40:04 You know, the churches of the Reformation 40:06 wrote these great confessions of faith 40:09 of what their churches believed. 40:11 And in these great confessions of faith, 40:14 they clearly state 40:16 that the papacy is the Antichrist. 40:19 I'm going to read you now, 40:20 from actually four confessions of faith 40:24 of the Protestant churches 40:26 that arose as a result of the Reformation. 40:29 First of all, 40:31 the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, 40:34 is actually known 40:35 as the Westminster Confession of Faith. 40:39 This is what this confession says, 40:42 "There is no other head of the church, 40:45 but the Lord Jesus Christ, 40:47 nor can the pope of Rome 40:50 in any sense be head thereof, 40:53 but he is that Antichrist, 40:56 that man of sin and son of perdition 40:59 that exalteth himself in the church against Christ 41:04 and all that is called God." 41:07 That's the Presbyterian Confession of Faith. 41:10 But these days, the Presbyterian Church 41:13 believes in what we call preterism. 41:16 In our next presentation, we're going to see 41:18 what preterism is. 41:20 They basically say that the Antichrist, well, 41:23 you know, the little horn was Antiochus Epiphanes. 41:26 And that the beast of Revelation Chapter 13 41:29 was probably Nero 41:31 because there was this tradition 41:32 that Nero was wounded to death, 41:34 and then he recovered from his wound, 41:36 actually, he died, and then he reappeared again, 41:39 and his wound was healed. 41:41 So they said, "Nero is the Antichrist." 41:44 Let me read you from a homily of the Church of England, 41:47 the Anglican Church. 41:50 This is what it states. 41:51 He, that is the pope, 41:53 therefore rather be called Antichrist, 41:58 and the successor of the Scribes and Pharisees, 42:01 then Christ's vicar or St. Peter's successor." 42:06 So what the Church of England is saying that the pope, 42:10 the pope is the Antichrist, 42:12 and he's not the successor of Christ. 42:15 He is actually the successor of the scribes 42:18 and the Pharisees. 42:20 Now what about the Lutheran Confession of Faith? 42:23 This is in the Book of Concord, 42:25 which is a large book that contains 42:28 many of the confessions, 42:29 and many of the teachings of the Lutheran Church. 42:33 Now, this is what 42:34 the Lutheran Confession of Faith says, 42:36 "The Pope is the very Antichrist, 42:40 who exalteth himself above, 42:42 and opposeth himself against Christ, 42:45 because he will not permit Christians to be saved 42:48 without his power, which nevertheless, is nothing, 42:52 and is neither ordained nor commanded by God." 42:57 Very clear. 42:59 What about the Irish Articles of Religion 43:03 written in the year 1615? 43:06 This is a rather lengthy statement. 43:08 But once again, you're going to find 43:10 that unanimously the Protestant Reformers 43:13 believe that the papacy was the Antichrist, 43:15 and the confessions of faith of the great churches 43:19 agree with the teachings of the reformers. 43:22 This is what the Irish Articles of Religion had to say, 43:26 "Since the Bishop of Rome 43:29 has erected a monarchy in Christendom, 43:34 claiming for himself dominion over all churches and pastors, 43:38 exalting himself to be called God, 43:42 wishing to be adored, 43:44 boasting to have all power in heaven and upon earth, 43:49 to dispose of all ecclesiastical matters, 43:52 to decide upon articles of faith, 43:55 to authorize and interpret 43:58 at his pleasure the Scriptures, 44:00 to make a traffic of souls, to disregard vows and oaths, 44:04 to appoint new divine services, 44:06 and in respect to civil government, 44:08 to trample underfoot 44:10 the lawful authority of the magistrates, 44:14 by taking away, giving, and exchanging kingdoms, 44:18 we believe and maintain 44:20 that it is the very Antichrist, 44:23 and the son of perdition, predicted in the Word of God 44:27 under the emblem of a harlot clothed in scarlet, 44:32 seated upon the seven hills of the great city, 44:35 which has dominion over the kings of the earth. 44:38 And we expect that the Lord will consume it 44:41 with the spirit of his mouth, 44:42 and finally destroy it 44:44 with the brightness of his coming, 44:46 as he has promised, 44:48 and has already begun to do." 44:52 I think that's pretty clear, isn't it? 44:54 Crystal clear. 44:57 The feeling was unanimous. 44:59 And once, folks, 45:00 the way in which the Protestant reformers 45:03 identified the papacy as the Antichrist 45:05 was in two ways. 45:07 Number one, by using the historical flow method, 45:11 historicism, 45:12 they could follow the links on the chain. 45:15 They said, you know, the lion, clearly Babylon, the bear, 45:19 clearly Medo-Persia, the leopard, clearly Greece, 45:23 the dragon beast, clearly Rome, 45:25 the 10 horns, the divisions in Europe 45:29 that had come from the Roman Empire. 45:31 And they say, "Well, you know, 45:32 that happened in the fourth and fifth centuries. 45:34 And now, you know, 45:35 the little horn must have risen." 45:38 And so they looked over to Rome, they said, 45:41 "The behavior of the papacy 45:44 is predicted very clearly 45:47 in the prophecies of the little horn, 45:49 the beast, the harlot, etc." 45:52 You see, all they had to do was follow the trajectory 45:54 of Bible prophecy, 45:56 and also look at the activities of the papacy 46:00 to know that the papacy 46:01 was the Antichrist of Scripture. 46:03 Now, there were some things that the Protestant reformers 46:05 did not understand. 46:08 They didn't know about the deadly wound. 46:10 As far as I know, they don't say much 46:12 about the deadly wound, if at all. 46:14 They didn't know that another beast, 46:17 the United States of America 46:18 was going to rise from the earth. 46:21 And that this nation was going to be different 46:22 than any other nation before it was going 46:25 to separate church and state, 46:27 and it was going to guarantee civil and religious liberty. 46:31 The reformers didn't know that, that was still future. 46:34 They didn't know that the United States 46:36 when it first guarantee civil and religious liberty, 46:39 but then later would speak like a dragon 46:41 by helping the first beast recover the sword 46:44 or recover its power, 46:46 because all of this was still in the future. 46:49 But they understood everything 46:51 up to the point of the little horn, 46:53 because they were living during the period 46:56 of the little horn. 46:58 Now, it's interesting to notice 47:01 what Froom has to say in summary 47:04 of all that the Protestant Reformers 47:06 and the Confessions of Faith said. 47:09 I'm going to read now from his book, 47:11 the Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, volume 2, 47:15 and pages 484 and 485. 47:18 You see, the Protestant Reformers made 47:20 the Roman Catholic papacy tremble, 47:24 because the accusing finger was pointed at the papacy, 47:27 and their arguments were irrefutable. 47:31 Because people could see 47:33 that their interpretation of prophecy was correct. 47:36 And they could see 47:37 that the description giving of the Antichrist 47:39 was fulfilled in the papacy, they could see it. 47:44 And so what happened? 47:45 The papacy actually 47:47 not only lost thousands of members 47:49 through the Protestant Reformation, 47:52 the papacy also lost entire nations 47:56 to the Protestant Reformation. 47:58 Let me read you Froom's description 48:01 of the aftermath of the views of the Protestant Reformers. 48:06 "In Germany, Switzerland, 48:09 France, Denmark, Sweden, 48:14 England and Scotland, 48:18 there had been simultaneous 48:20 and impressive declarations 48:22 by voice and pen 48:24 that the papacy was the specified 48:27 Antichrist of prophecy." 48:29 All these nations, Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, 48:34 Sweden, England and Scotland. 48:37 He continues writing, "The symbols of Daniel, 48:41 Paul and John 48:43 were applied with tremendous effect. 48:46 Hundreds of books and tracks 48:50 impressed their contention 48:52 upon the consciousness of Europe. 48:55 Indeed, it gained so great a hold 48:58 upon the minds of men that Rome, in alarm, 49:03 saw that she must successfully counteract 49:06 this identification of the Antichrist 49:10 with the papacy 49:11 or lose the battle." 49:16 And so the papacy said, "We have to do something 49:19 about the accusing finger of prophecy 49:21 that's being pointed at us. 49:24 We need to have that finger pointed 49:27 in a different direction." 49:30 And so, we're going to notice in our next study, 49:33 that the Roman Catholic Church 49:36 called a church council, 49:38 the church Council of Trent, 49:41 the longest church council in history 49:43 of the Roman Catholic Church. 49:45 And we're going to see in our study 49:47 that the Roman Catholic Church and that Council 49:50 which lasted from 1545 to 1563, 49:54 18 years, 49:56 you know, Vatican II Council lasted from 1962 to 1965, 50:01 that was three years. 50:02 But this one lasted 18 years 50:04 because the purpose of the council 50:06 was to counteract the doctrines of Protestantism. 50:10 Now the Council of Trent did not actually deal 50:13 with how to deflect the finger of prophecy from the papacy. 50:18 It just reaffirmed its doctrines 50:20 and nugget its heels in doctrinally. 50:25 But we're going to find that after the Council of Trent, 50:29 two Roman Catholic scholars arose 50:34 and they said, we know how to deflect the finger 50:39 of Bible prophecy from the papacy 50:41 to point it elsewhere. 50:43 The first of these individuals, 50:46 I'm going to pronounce the name as it, 50:48 you know, usually we say Alcazar, 50:51 but we need to pronounce it properly, 50:53 Luis de Alcazar. 50:55 Actually in Spain it will be Luis de Alcazar. 51:00 He admitted it, 51:01 or actually He resurrected from the early church fathers 51:06 what is known as preterism, 51:09 the idea that the Antichrist prophecies 51:11 were fulfilled in the distant past. 51:15 And then another scholar arose. 51:17 This is shortly after the Protestant Reformation 51:19 and the Council of Trent 51:21 that disagreed with Alcazar. 51:25 And he said, "Well, you know, 51:27 Bible prophecy of the Antichrist 51:30 has not yet been fulfilled. 51:32 It is going to be fulfilled in the future." 51:36 So basically, one scholar, 51:39 Alcazar says, 51:41 the Antichrist prophecies were fulfilled in the past. 51:44 And Ribera says, "No, 51:46 the prophecies are going to be fulfilled in the future," 51:48 the prophecies about the Antichrist. 51:51 Now, if the Antichrist prophecies 51:53 were fulfilled in the past, 51:55 then they're not fulfilled in the papacy. 51:58 And if they were going to be fulfilled in the future, 52:02 they were not fulfilled in the papacy either. 52:05 And so the purpose of these scholars 52:06 was to deflect the accusing finger 52:10 that identified the papacy as the Antichrist. 52:12 These two individuals attempted to change 52:17 God's prophetic calendar. 52:20 They attempted to change 52:21 God's prophetic times, if you please. 52:24 Not only that the papacy think that it could change God's law, 52:28 but it also tampered with God's prophetic calendar. 52:33 It actually taught a different chain of events. 52:36 Let me ask you, was the papacy 52:38 doing something very similar 52:39 to what King Nebuchadnezzar wanted to do? 52:42 We studied this, right? 52:43 We studied this in our second presentation. 52:47 What did King Nebuchadnezzar do? 52:51 Well, God said, listen, prophetic history 52:53 is going to develop in this way. 52:55 There's gonna be a lion, a bear a leopard 52:59 and dragon beast, there's going to be 53:01 a head of gold, breast and hands of silver, 53:03 belly of bronze, legs of iron, and then 10 toes. 53:06 That's the way prophetic history 53:08 is going to develop. 53:10 And Nebuchadnezzar says, I don't like that scenario. 53:14 So in Chapter 3, what does Nebuchadnezzar do? 53:17 He builds an image like the one that he saw in his dream, 53:20 but it's totally of gold. 53:22 What is he saying when he builds this image 53:25 totally of gold? 53:26 What is his objective? 53:28 He's saying, prophecy is not going to be 53:31 fulfilled as God said. 53:34 In other words, there's not going to be 53:36 several kingdoms, 53:37 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and the divisions of Rome. 53:42 No, no, no, that's not the way 53:44 that history is going to develop. 53:47 Babylon is going to be an eternal kingdom, 53:50 which shall never be destroyed. 53:53 Babylon is not only the head of gold, 53:55 Babylon is the entire image of gold. 54:01 And he said, "Woe to whoever 54:03 has a different prophetic scenario in mind." 54:07 And there was a small remnant of three 54:10 that said, Nebuchadnezzar, 54:11 we do not accept your perspective of prophecy. 54:15 They're not, the issue is not only worship. 54:18 The issue is also that Nebuchadnezzar 54:21 is trying to counteract God's explanation of prophecy. 54:25 So they say, "We will not worship the image 54:29 that represents the eternity of Babylon." 54:31 We read from Ellen White last night, 54:33 the indestructibility of Babylon. 54:35 They said, "We don't accept that scenario." 54:38 So Nebuchadnezzar says, "I will show you 54:42 that my scenario is going to be true. 54:45 I'm going to throw you in a furnace 54:46 and then there will be no opposition." 54:50 So he throws the three young men 54:52 into the fiery furnace. 54:54 He says problem resolved, but what happened? 54:59 Oh, we know the story. 55:01 Jesus Himself, the Son of God, 55:05 by the way is called an angel, 55:08 in Daniel 3:25. 55:12 The person in the furnace was the angel, 55:16 Michael, the archangel, if you please, 55:20 which is a name that is given to Jesus Christ. 55:22 The name means who is like God. 55:27 And at the end, Michael is going to stand up 55:30 to defend his people. 55:31 Because the world 55:33 according to Revelation Chapter 13, 55:35 is going to say, who is like the beast? 55:39 And Michael is going to say, "Who is like God?" 55:42 It's going to be a battle between the beast and Christ. 55:46 And, of course, 55:47 Christ always wins that battle. 55:52 So did you understand what we studied? 55:54 Is this important? 55:57 Ellen White has told us 55:59 that if people don't know who the beast is, 56:03 they will end up worshiping the beast. 56:06 And so we need not only to understand this ourselves, 56:09 we need to become loyal followers of Jesus, 56:12 like those three young men in the fiery furnace. 56:16 We should love Jesus so much 56:18 that it's more important than our own life. 56:21 Only those who consider their link with Jesus 56:25 more important than life itself 56:27 will be able to remain firm in the final crisis. 56:31 That's the kind of person that God wants us to be. 56:34 He wants us to be like Daniel. 56:36 You know, there's this, 56:37 there's this song dare to be a Daniel, right? 56:39 You know that you've heard that song before? 56:41 You know, we need to be like Daniel, 56:43 who said, you know, 56:46 my God, whom I serve, 56:48 you know, he can deliver me from the lions, 56:51 but if he doesn't, I'll still serve the true God. 56:55 Didn't Jesus come into the lions' den? 56:59 It says, "The angel came into the lions' den." 57:02 I believe that angel is the same angel 57:04 that delivered the three young men 57:06 from the fiery furnace. 57:08 So, folks, in our next presentation, 57:10 we are going to take a look 57:13 at the Roman Catholic papacy's counter reformation, 57:20 their attempt to change God's prophetic calendar. 57:23 And we're going to introduce how Protestantism imbibed 57:29 the Roman Catholic methods of interpreting prophecy. 57:31 And we can see the result today. 57:34 Protestants have totally gone astray from their roots, 57:38 and therefore they see no danger in Rome. 57:40 They see danger by the Muslims or the Middle East. 57:44 They say that's where the battle is going to be. 57:46 They can't see 57:47 where the battle is going to take place, 57:49 because they are looking in the wrong place. 57:51 They have imbibed the prophetic methods 57:54 of the Roman Catholic papacy. 57:56 That's our next exciting study. |
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