Well, hello everybody.
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Welcome.
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We're glad you are here.
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Before we begin,
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I would like to mention that
the first seven presentations
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in this series are
contained in this book
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that I wrote a few years ago.
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It's called,
"Futurism's Incredible Journey."
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Now this evening, we
have session number five
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and also session number six,
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and then in our
next presentations,
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number seven will
conclude the material
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that is found in this book.
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In the book, there
is much more material
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than what I'm
able to present here.
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So I would encourage you
to obtain a copy of this book,
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"Futurism's Incredible Journey,"
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where there's a
lot of documentation
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and a lot of
additional material.
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At this time, we want to
have a word of prayer to ask
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the Lord to bless
our study together.
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So let's bow our
heads for prayer.
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Father in heaven,
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we thank You for this wonderful,
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beautiful day and we ask
that as we open Your Word,
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that Your Holy Spirit
will hover over this place,
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open our minds and
hearts, give us understanding
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and help us to
receive the message
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and to help others understand
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the prophetic times
that we're living in.
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We thank You for
hearing our prayer,
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for we ask it in
Jesus' name, amen.
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In our last study, we noticed
how the Roman Catholic papacy
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through two of its able scholars
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shifted the
interpretation of Bible prophecy
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from the papacy
as the Antichrist
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to Antiochus Epiphanes and Nero,
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or a future Antichrist
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that supposedly will
arrive at the end of the age.
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In this way, the
papacy as we've noticed,
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intended or attempted
to change God's times.
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Because the word times
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refers to God's
sequence of prophetic events,
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which we've already noticed
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the method is
the historical method
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or the historicist method,
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where you have prophecy
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beginning of the
days of the prophet
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and then prophecy
fulfilled step after step,
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culminating
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with the setting up of
Christ's everlasting kingdom.
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The papacy totally
shifted and changed
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that way of
understanding prophecy.
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And it was very successful
in getting rid of historicism
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among most
Protestants in the world.
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Now, for the 300
years after the Protestant
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Reformation began in 1517,
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when Luther nailed his 95 theses
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to the door of the
cathedral at Wittenberg,
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Protestants remained faithful
to their prophetic principles.
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But in the decade of the 1830s,
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and I want you
to mark that date,
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it's a very important date.
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In the decade of the
1830s, in Great Britain,
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there was a shift in
the Protestant understanding
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of Bible prophecy.
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The apostasy from historicism
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began around the year 1826,
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when an Anglican scholar
by the name of Samuel Maitland
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wrote a series of pamphlets
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and the title of
those pamphlets was,
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"Enquiries."
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In these pamphlets,
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this Protestant
Anglican scholar Samuel Maitland
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actually stated that
the papacy did not fulfill
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the specifications of
the Antichrist prophecies.
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He said that Antichrist
would be an individual
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that would rebuild the
literal Jerusalem temple.
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He would sit in
the literal temple
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for three and a
half literal years,
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and he would
persecute the literal Jews.
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And so basically he
was exonerating the papacy
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from fulfilling the prophecy
concerning the Antichrist.
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Very soon, other scholars
of the Anglican Communion
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joined Samuel Maitland
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in exonerating the
Roman Catholic papacy
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from fulfilling the
Antichrist prophecies.
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I'd like to mention two
of those Anglican scholars
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that in the 1830s
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shifted the
interpretation of Bible prophecy
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and its Antichrist
from the papacy to Nero
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and Antiochus or to
a future Antichrist.
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One of those
scholars was Robert Berg.
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And I'd like to
read three statements
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by Robert Berg,
who was an Anglican.
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You know, the Anglican
Church was a Protestant Church,
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it still is supposedly,
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although they've
gotten very close
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to the Roman Catholic papacy.
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But I want to read you
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three statements of Robert Berg,
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who joined Samuel Maitland,
in stating that the papacy
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did not fulfill the
Antichrist prophecies.
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Robert Berg wrote
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and by the way, he
lived from 1800 to 1866.
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His first statement says,
"First that 'the Man Of Sin'
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is not popery
appears from the necessity
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that this
chapter," That's Daniel 7,
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"be understood of an individual
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and not of a power or office
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vested in numbers
or held by succession."
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So basically
what he's saying is,
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the Man of Sin
of 2 Thessalonians 2
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and the little
horn of Daniel Chapter 7
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will be an individual.
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It is not a power or an office
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vested in numbers
or held by succession.
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In the second statement,
he wrote the following.
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And I quote, "I would say
that an individual is intended,
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one person
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whose pretensions
live and die with himself."
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So it's not a system.
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It's not the
Roman Catholic papacy
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that ruled for
hundreds of years,
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actually 1,260 years.
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He says, "No, the Antichrist
will be a single individual."
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And he stated,
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"Whose pretensions
live and die with himself."
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And in the third statement,
he wrote the following.
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"Secondly,
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the nature of these
same acts and pretensions
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prove that the 'man
of sin' is not the Pope."
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So he's saying the action
of the Roman Catholic system
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does not allow the
Pope to be the fulfillment
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of these Antichrist prophecies.
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Another notable scholar
from the Anglican Communion
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who followed Samuel Maitland
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as well as Robert
Berg was James Todd.
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He lived from 1805 to 1869.
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In 1838, he wrote a
very influential document.
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The title of it was,
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"Discourses on the Prophecies
Relating to Antichrist
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in the Writings of
Daniel and St. Paul."
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That's a long title.
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You know, when they
wrote books back then,
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they put long titles,
and even longer subtitles.
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So the name of the book was,
"Discourses on the Prophecies
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Relating to Antichrist
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in the Writings of
Daniel and St. Paul."
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So basically, he's
dealing with Paul's comments
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on 2 Thessalonians 2
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and on the
prophecies of Daniel 7.
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What did James Todd say?
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First, he said,
"Antichrist is an individual,
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who will appear shortly
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before the Second
Coming of Jesus Christ.
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Secondly, Antichrist will sit
in a rebuild Jerusalem temple."
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Then he said,
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"Antichrist will rule
for 1,260 literal days.
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And another thing which he said,
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which is very significant,
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"The fourth kingdom of Daniel
7 was not the Roman Empire."
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Do you remember that we
dealt with that and we noticed
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that Ribera had
that same argument
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that the fourth kingdom is not
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the Roman Empire
and also the preterist.
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He also stated that
the Roman Catholic Church
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was a true church, a
true Christian Church.
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So his argument was, if
the Roman Catholic Church
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does not fulfill the
Antichrist prophecies
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and it is a true
Christian church,
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then why shouldn't
the Anglican Church
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join with the Catholics?
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Let me just read
you three statements
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from the writings of James Todd.
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They're short statements,
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but they tell us his
concept of the Antichrist.
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The first
statement says, and I quote,
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"Romanism is not properly
an apostasy from the faith."
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So he's saying that
the Roman Catholic theology
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is not an
apostasy from the faith.
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In the second
statement, and I quote,
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he said and or wrote,
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"The errors of Romanism
do not amount to apostasy."
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And in the third
statement, he wrote,
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"The Church of Rome is
a true Christian Church."
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The reason why he could say this
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is because once
again he projected
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all of the Antichrist
prophecies to the future,
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to a single individual
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who was gonna
rebuild the Jewish temple.
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He was gonna rule
for 1,260 literal days,
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and he was gonna
persecute the literal Jews.
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So he said, "If the Antichrist
is gonna be an individual
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in the future right before
the Second Coming of Christ,
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then the papacy does not fulfill
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any of the
Antichrist prophecies.
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Well, around this same time,
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between the year 1833 and 1845,
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and I want you to mark the date.
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We're gonna talk in
our next presentation
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about something
that was happening
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at the same time
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in the United States of America,
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The Millwright Movement,
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that's very, very
significant we're going to see.
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But at the same time,
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a movement arose
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whose name was the
Oxford Tractarian Movement.
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Basically, it was
called a Tractarian Movement,
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because 90 tracks of the
times as they were called
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were published
during this period.
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Basically, these pamphlets
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made it clear that
it was their desire
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of the scholars of
the Anglican Communion
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to deprotestantize
the Church of England.
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And in these tracks,
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these influential men
such as Berg, and Todd,
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and Maitland, and others,
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wrote that the papacy
was a true Christian church,
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and that the
specifications of Antichrist
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did not fit the papacy.
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The arguments in these
tracks were literalistic.
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They dealt with
a single individual
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at the end of time,
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who would be the Antichrist.
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And so this track
said, "If this is true,
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that the papacy
doesn't fit the specifications
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of Antichrist,
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then why can't
the Anglican Communion
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simply joined forces with
the Roman Catholic Church?"
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You see, when they
forgot Bible prophecy,
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the result was that
they exonerate the papacy
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from fulfilling Bible prophecy
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and they say,
"Why not join them?"
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Now, one of the
notable individuals who wrote,
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actually he wrote 27 or 29
of these tracks for the times,
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was an individual
called John Henry Newman.
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Now, he was a prolific writer,
he was an Anglican minister,
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he was also a scholar
of the Anglican Communion.
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And in these 29 tracks of
the 90 tracks of the times,
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he said, "The
Protestant Reformation
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was a tragic mistake."
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And he openly advocated the need
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for the Anglican
Church to return to mother,
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to return to the
Roman Catholic Church.
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By the way, Henry Newman
later, we're gonna notice became
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a cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church.
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He forsook the Church of
England in the year 1843.
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In 1845,
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he was received into the
Roman Catholic Communion.
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In 1846, he was ordained
a Roman Catholic priest.
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And in 1879,
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he was named a cardinal
of the Roman Catholic Church.
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And for those of you
who are versed in history,
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John Henry Cardinal Newman
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is a very significant
and influential figure
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in England at this time.
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Now, we also need to
take a look at another event
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that was
happening in another place,
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and then we're going
to return to England.
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It just so happens
that there was an individual
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and this individual
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is actually
mentioned by Ellen White.
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His name, Emmanuel Lacunza.
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He was born in Chile
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and he was a member
of the Jesuit Order.
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Now, we're not in
England in the 1830s.
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Now, we're
dealing with an individual
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and you're gonna see
why I'm mentioning him now.
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Who was born in Chile,
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he was a member
of the Jesuit Order.
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And he wrote a very famous book.
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The name of the book was,
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"La Venida del Mesias
en Gloria y Majestad."
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Now for those of you are
not acquainted with Spanish
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that means,
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"The Coming of the
Messiah in Glory and Majesty."
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He wrote this book in Chile.
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However, his book
somehow arrived in England
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around the same time
that John Henry Newman,
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and James Todd, and
Robert Berg were shifting
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the Protestant interpretation
of the Antichrist.
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Now, this book
written by Emmanuel Lacunza
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had several basic views,
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and I want you to
remember that he's a Jesuit.
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You remember that Al Kassar,
the Preterist was a Jesuit.
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You will remember
that Ribera was a Jesuit.
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You'll remember that
Robert Bellarmine was a Jesuit.
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And now you have
Emmanuel Lacunza also a Jesuit.
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I think that the Jesuits
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are the ones that are behind
this shift in Bible prophecy.
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But basically, what
was taught by Lacunza was,
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first of all,
Revelation Chapter 4-22
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is still future from
the time that he wrote.
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In other words, nothing
that is in Revelation 4-22
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actually had been fulfilled
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when Lacunza lived in the 1830s.
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He also taught that the
three and one half times
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of Antichrist rule
were literal years.
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He also taught that Christ
will literally reign on earth
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during the millennium,
during the thousand years.
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He taught that the
144,000 would be literal Jews.
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The temple in which
the Antichrist would sit
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would be a literal
rebuilt Jewish temple.
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And in that
temple he stated that,
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"During the thousand years,
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literal animal
sacrifices would be offered."
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In other words,
the sacrificial system
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would be reestablished.
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And he also stated that
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the literal Jews
during this period
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would be
regathered and converted
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during the millennium,
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and that God would
literally fulfill His covenant
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with a literal Jewish nation.
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Does that sound like the
Protestant interpretation
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of Bible prophecy?
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Does that sound like
the Adventist interpretation
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of Bible prophecy?
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It's radically
different in every detail.
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The only thing that Lacunza
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got right is
that Jesus is coming
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before the
beginning of a millennium,
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that he got right.
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And Ellen White when
she writes about Lacunza,
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she says that he was
right on that specific point.
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By mentioning
Lacunza, she's not saying
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that everything
that Lacunza taught
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was kosher or was true.
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You know, Ellen White also had
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some things to say complimentary
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about Martin Luther.
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And Martin Luther
didn't keep the Sabbath
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and he believed that
the dead weren't dead,
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among other things.
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So, Ellen White when she
says that God used Luther
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and inspired
Luther to do his work,
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we're not to understand that
everything that Luther believed
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and everything
that he did was correct.
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She's mentioning
one specific point.
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Now, let's return to England.
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Remember the book
that was written by Lacunza
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with all these futurist ideas,
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this Jesuit made it to England
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at the same time
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that the Oxford Tractarian
Movement was taking place.
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Now in England
at this time also,
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the church was in
a terrible condition.
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The Anglican
Church had become dry,
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formal, and stagnant.
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And several men decided
that they wanted to bring
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revival to the
Anglican Communion.
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And so in 1825,
these men, several of them,
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established what is
known as the Plymouth Brethren.
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And the reason
why they're called
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Plymouth Brethren
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is because they actually
formed the movement in Plymouth,
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England.
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And their purpose was to bring
revival to the Anglican Church.
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Now, this organization
or this Plymouth Brethren
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had two notable figures
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that had a great
impact on the interpretation
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of the prophecies
regarding Antichrist.
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One of them was Edward Irving
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and the other one
was John Nelson Darby.
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They belonged to
the Plymouth Brethren.
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It's very
interesting that Edward Irving,
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who belonged to
the Plymouth Brethren,
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actually received a
copy of Lacunza's book,
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because he himself said so.
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And he translated
Lacunza's book into English,
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because it was
written in Spanish.
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And Lacunza's book
tremendously impacted
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Edward Irving and Edward Irving,
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of course,
impacted the other men
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that belonged to
the Plymouth Brethren.
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Now, as Irving
read Lacunza's book
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and was
translating Lacunza's book,
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he said, "There's
something very strange
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about the Book of Revelation."
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The first three
chapters mentioned the church,
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the Seven Churches.
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But, beginning in Chapter 4,
all the way through Chapter 19,
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there's not a single
reference to the church.
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He says, "It seems like
the church in Chapters 4-19
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is totally absent."
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So he said, "How can we explain
that the first three chapters
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are all about the church
age and yet Chapter 4-19,
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there's not even one
reference to the church.
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And so he struggled with that,
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until one day he was in church
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and he had an
ecstatic utterance.
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You know what an
ecstatic utterance is?
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It's like he's
making an utterance
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under the influence of a spirit.
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Now, there was an individual
who was present there,
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Samuel Prideaux Tregelles.
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He was present at that meeting,
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and he wrote the following about
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how Irving came to
his conclusions regarding
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why Revelation 4-9 did
not mention the church?
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I want to read now from
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles.
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He wrote the following.
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"I am not aware
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that there was
any definite teaching
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that there would be a
secret rapture of the Church
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at a secret coming,
until this was given forth
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as an utterance in
Mr. Irving's church.
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From what was there received
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as being the
Voice of the Spirit.
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But whether anyone ever asserted
00:21:16.84\00:21:18.77
such a thing or not,
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it was from that
supposed revelation
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that the modern doctrine
and modern phraseology arose."
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That is the phraseology
00:21:27.52\00:21:28.85
about the rapture of the church.
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He continues,
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"It came not
from Holy Scripture,
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but from that which
falsely pretended to be
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the Spirit of God."
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So now because
of this utterance,
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Irving says, "I
know why Revelation 4-9,
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doesn't make any
reference to the church,
00:21:47.04\00:21:48.97
because the church
is gone at that time.
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The church has gone
to heaven in the rapture.
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In fact, futurists,
00:21:55.68\00:21:57.78
they will go to Revelation
4:1 and we'll come back
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to this a little bit
later on in this series.
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And in Revelation 4:1,
00:22:04.12\00:22:05.92
God says to
John, "Come up hither."
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And so they say
when John was told,
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"Come up hither,"
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that is describing
the rapture of the church
00:22:14.00\00:22:16.77
in Revelation 4:1.
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And they say that
the rest of Revelation 4,
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all the way through Chapter 19,
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all of those
events are taking place
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while the church has gone.
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Well, the church went
in the rapture to heaven.
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So now, Edward Irving
00:22:29.84\00:22:32.08
had his explanation
as to why the church
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is not mentioned
in Chapters 4-19.
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It's because everything
in those chapters deals
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with what happens on earth
after the church is in heaven.
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Are you following me or not?
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Now, it's not a coincidence
00:22:47.23\00:22:50.30
that a writer that still
lives and has a TV program,
00:22:50.33\00:22:53.94
his name is Hal Lindsey.
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Any of you ever
heard of Hal Lindsey?"
00:22:56.17\00:22:59.17
He's written many books
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from a totally
futurist perspective.
00:23:00.58\00:23:03.14
And one book, which
is very interesting.
00:23:03.18\00:23:06.15
It's called,
"Vanished Into Thin Air."
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You can imagine what it's about.
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It's about the
rapture of the church.
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And basically what he says is
00:23:13.25\00:23:15.39
that while he was
writing that book,
00:23:15.42\00:23:17.43
which is riddled
with error with futurism,
00:23:17.46\00:23:21.10
he stated the
following that happened to him
00:23:21.13\00:23:23.16
while he was writing the book.
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"There were times
that I experienced
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the presence of the
Holy Spirit in such power
00:23:28.70\00:23:32.07
that I went into
an ecstatic state."
00:23:32.11\00:23:36.48
And so what he's
saying is that this book
00:23:36.51\00:23:38.58
is not based on a study
00:23:38.61\00:23:40.22
and interpretation of scripture,
00:23:40.25\00:23:42.35
this book is actually based on,
00:23:42.38\00:23:45.95
as he says, an
ecstatic state experience.
00:23:45.99\00:23:50.49
Similar to what Edward
Irving had in his church.
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You know, you
cannot go by impressions.
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He says that he had
prayed for the Spirit
00:23:58.37\00:24:00.54
and that in this
ecstatic utterance,
00:24:00.57\00:24:03.37
the Holy Spirit spoke to him.
00:24:03.41\00:24:05.54
Well, the fact is, folks,
00:24:05.57\00:24:07.31
that Pope John Paul II
also prayed many hours a day.
00:24:07.34\00:24:12.11
And he believed
that Sunday is the day
00:24:12.15\00:24:14.42
we're supposed to
keep as the day of rest.
00:24:14.45\00:24:17.15
And he also believed
that Mary was alive in heaven
00:24:17.19\00:24:20.52
and protecting Him.
00:24:20.56\00:24:22.16
A lot of prayer
does not necessarily mean
00:24:22.19\00:24:24.39
that what you write is true.
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We have to check
everything that we teach
00:24:26.63\00:24:28.90
based on what is
written in scripture.
00:24:28.93\00:24:32.37
Another individual
00:24:32.40\00:24:33.74
that was a member of
the Plymouth Brethren
00:24:33.77\00:24:36.17
was John Nelson Darby.
00:24:36.20\00:24:38.44
And this
individual we could consider
00:24:38.47\00:24:40.28
the Father of Futurism,
00:24:40.31\00:24:43.55
modern futurism
in Protestantism.
00:24:43.58\00:24:46.55
I'd like to describe how
Cardinal Newman's brother
00:24:46.58\00:24:52.82
described the
physical appearance
00:24:52.85\00:24:55.49
of John Nelson Darby.
00:24:55.52\00:24:57.89
This is how he described
00:24:57.93\00:24:59.26
the physical
appearance of Darby.
00:24:59.29\00:25:01.46
This is Newman's brother.
00:25:01.50\00:25:04.17
"A most remarkable man,
00:25:04.20\00:25:06.53
who rapidly gained
an immense sway over me.
00:25:06.57\00:25:11.27
His bodily
presence was indeed 'weak.'
00:25:11.31\00:25:15.58
A fallen cheek,
a blood-shot eye,
00:25:15.61\00:25:19.28
crippled limbs
resting on crutches,
00:25:19.31\00:25:21.98
a seldom shaven beard,
a shabby suit of clothes,
00:25:22.02\00:25:26.32
and a generally
neglected person,
00:25:26.35\00:25:28.92
drew at first pity,
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.69
with wonder to see
00:25:30.73\00:25:32.33
such a figure
in a drawing room."
00:25:32.36\00:25:35.50
Now, don't be fooled by
Darby's physical appearance.
00:25:35.53\00:25:39.80
He was tremendously influential
00:25:39.83\00:25:42.57
in futurism
penetrating into Protestantism.
00:25:42.60\00:25:47.01
Darby did not believe
00:25:47.04\00:25:48.81
that history is important
in the study of Bible prophecy.
00:25:48.84\00:25:53.31
He wrote the following.
00:25:53.35\00:25:55.08
"I do not admit
history to be, in any sense,
00:25:55.12\00:26:01.32
necessary to the
understanding of prophecy."
00:26:01.36\00:26:05.93
That's a remarkable statement.
00:26:05.96\00:26:07.93
In other words, we
don't need to know history
00:26:07.96\00:26:09.56
in order to interpret prophecy.
00:26:09.60\00:26:11.87
The historical method is
based on knowing history.
00:26:11.90\00:26:15.40
We begin with
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
00:26:15.44\00:26:18.74
Rome, Rome is divided,
then appears a little horn,
00:26:18.77\00:26:22.38
1,260 years, the
deadly wound is healed.
00:26:22.41\00:26:26.11
We follow the
historical trajectory.
00:26:26.15\00:26:28.38
History is vitally important.
00:26:28.42\00:26:30.79
But the problem is,
00:26:30.82\00:26:33.36
futurists have an
interesting way of dealing
00:26:33.39\00:26:36.06
with the Antichrist prophecies.
00:26:36.09\00:26:38.19
They say that all
prophecy was fulfilled.
00:26:38.23\00:26:41.10
All of Daniel 7 was fulfilled
until the fourth beast,
00:26:41.13\00:26:44.43
until the Roman Empire.
00:26:44.47\00:26:46.40
But they say
that the Roman Empire
00:26:46.43\00:26:47.87
was never divided
00:26:47.90\00:26:49.47
according to the
specifications of the prophecy.
00:26:49.50\00:26:52.41
And therefore because
it's not been divided,
00:26:52.44\00:26:54.61
in the future, a
10-nation Roman Federation,
00:26:54.64\00:26:58.55
a revived Roman
Empire is going to appear.
00:26:58.58\00:27:00.92
And then the
Antichrist is going to come up
00:27:00.95\00:27:03.22
among the 10-nation
federation in the future
00:27:03.25\00:27:06.45
after the church is in heaven.
00:27:06.49\00:27:08.42
So if you have a
gap of 2,000 years,
00:27:08.46\00:27:11.73
basically,
between the fourth empire
00:27:11.76\00:27:15.56
and the rise of the Antichrist,
00:27:15.60\00:27:18.33
during that time you
have historical vacuum.
00:27:18.37\00:27:21.40
There's nothing that
occurs during that period.
00:27:21.44\00:27:24.14
You have no
reference point to know
00:27:24.17\00:27:26.37
when the
Antichrist is going to appear.
00:27:26.41\00:27:28.28
Are you following me or not?
00:27:28.31\00:27:29.81
So he says, "History
is not important at all."
00:27:29.84\00:27:34.28
Darby also dichotomized
the church in Israel.
00:27:34.32\00:27:40.06
He said that, "God
has two different plans."
00:27:40.09\00:27:42.59
One plan for
Israel, for literal Israel
00:27:42.62\00:27:45.43
and the other plan
for the Christian Church.
00:27:45.46\00:27:48.40
I want to read once
again what Darby wrote.
00:27:48.43\00:27:52.20
"I believe that
God's purpose for Israel
00:27:52.23\00:27:56.14
and His purpose for the Church
00:27:56.17\00:27:58.47
are so distinct
and mutually exclusive
00:27:58.51\00:28:02.98
that they cannot
both be in force on earth
00:28:03.01\00:28:05.81
at the same time,
00:28:05.85\00:28:07.35
especially during the
seven year tribulation.
00:28:07.38\00:28:10.95
If this is so, then
the Church must be removed
00:28:10.99\00:28:15.59
before God can deal
specifically again with Israel
00:28:15.62\00:28:19.33
as defined in
Daniel's prophecy."
00:28:19.36\00:28:22.76
He's referring to the prophecy
of the 70 weeks in Daniel 9.
00:28:22.80\00:28:26.97
So basically what he's saying
in this quotation is that,
00:28:27.00\00:28:30.47
"God has one plan
for literally Israel,
00:28:30.51\00:28:32.97
and he has another
plan for the Church."
00:28:33.01\00:28:35.38
And when the
Jews rejected Christ
00:28:35.41\00:28:37.88
at the first coming,
00:28:37.91\00:28:39.48
God put His plans for
literal Israel on hold,
00:28:39.51\00:28:43.82
and they've been on hold
for the last 2,000 years.
00:28:43.85\00:28:47.29
And we've been living in
the times of the Gentiles.
00:28:47.32\00:28:50.73
And when the Church
is rapture to heaven,
00:28:50.76\00:28:54.86
then God will start His plan
00:28:54.90\00:28:57.73
once again for
literal Israel on earth.
00:28:57.77\00:29:01.47
And so he dichotomies,
00:29:01.50\00:29:03.44
he radically made a distinction
between Israel and the Church,
00:29:03.47\00:29:07.61
two different plans of God.
00:29:07.64\00:29:10.75
Now, Darby traveled
to the United States
00:29:10.78\00:29:13.92
from England six times,
00:29:13.95\00:29:16.65
between 1859 and 1874.
00:29:16.69\00:29:20.79
He had written several books,
00:29:20.82\00:29:22.76
which he brought
to the United States
00:29:22.79\00:29:24.76
as he visited those six times.
00:29:24.79\00:29:27.53
But Darby's books at
first had very little influence
00:29:27.56\00:29:30.97
in the United States.
00:29:31.00\00:29:32.77
They basically gathered dust
00:29:32.80\00:29:35.00
on the shelves of the libraries.
00:29:35.04\00:29:37.77
That is,
00:29:37.81\00:29:39.17
until a certain individual
discovered his books one day.
00:29:39.21\00:29:45.45
The name of that
individual was C.
00:29:45.48\00:29:47.92
I.
00:29:47.95\00:29:49.28
Scofield, Cyrus
Ingerson Scofield.
00:29:49.32\00:29:53.22
Has anybody ever heard of C.
00:29:53.25\00:29:54.89
I. Scofield?
00:29:54.92\00:29:56.76
You see, he discovered
in one of the book stands
00:29:56.79\00:30:01.63
a book that was
written by Darby,
00:30:01.66\00:30:03.63
and he read it.
00:30:03.67\00:30:05.00
And he said,
"Wow, this is the way
00:30:05.03\00:30:06.90
that we should be
interpreting prophecy."
00:30:06.94\00:30:09.57
Now, Schofield was
converted in the year 1879.
00:30:09.60\00:30:14.64
He pastored a large
congregational church
00:30:14.68\00:30:17.65
in Dallas, Texas.
00:30:17.68\00:30:19.81
He became an avid
believer of Darby's futurism.
00:30:19.85\00:30:24.82
In 1888, he published a
book that is still famous
00:30:24.85\00:30:27.92
among those who
believe the futurist scenario.
00:30:27.96\00:30:30.49
The name of the book was,
00:30:30.53\00:30:31.86
"Rightly Dividing
the Word of Truth."
00:30:31.89\00:30:34.33
He also began a
monthly publication,
00:30:34.36\00:30:36.46
which was published for
many, many years called,
00:30:36.50\00:30:40.74
"The Believer."
00:30:40.77\00:30:42.17
He also taught in
Dwight Moody's Bible School,
00:30:42.20\00:30:46.14
and thousands of
ministers, Protestant ministers,
00:30:46.17\00:30:49.91
went through Moody Bible School,
00:30:49.94\00:30:52.08
and were taught by him.
00:30:52.11\00:30:54.32
He also
organized Bible Conferences
00:30:54.35\00:30:57.42
all across the United States.
00:30:57.45\00:30:59.42
In other words, this was
not a lightweight individual.
00:30:59.45\00:31:03.06
He was the
evangelist, if you please,
00:31:03.09\00:31:06.13
for Darby's point of view.
00:31:06.16\00:31:08.73
But the most influential
thing that Scofield did,
00:31:08.76\00:31:12.03
was write actually compose
00:31:12.07\00:31:15.10
because he
didn't write the Bible,
00:31:15.14\00:31:16.71
but he added footnotes
00:31:16.74\00:31:18.44
in what is known as the,
"Scofield Reference Bible,"
00:31:18.47\00:31:23.71
which was published in 1909.
00:31:23.75\00:31:26.38
This Bible is still
00:31:26.41\00:31:28.98
the Bible of
choice of Protestants
00:31:29.02\00:31:31.59
that have a futurist
perspective of Bible prophecy.
00:31:31.62\00:31:35.12
It is a Bible
00:31:35.16\00:31:36.59
that in the prophetic
sections has footnotes,
00:31:36.62\00:31:39.83
explaining Bible texts
from a futurist perspective.
00:31:39.86\00:31:44.57
So when you go to Daniel 8,
00:31:44.60\00:31:46.97
the little horn is
Antiochus Epiphanes
00:31:47.00\00:31:49.20
and it goes into an explanation.
00:31:49.24\00:31:51.17
When you go to
Revelation Chapter 13,
00:31:51.21\00:31:53.88
well, the Antichrist, the
beast is gonna be an individual
00:31:53.91\00:31:58.01
who will rise at
the end of the age.
00:31:58.05\00:32:01.25
The texts that seem to indicate
00:32:01.28\00:32:02.92
that the temple will be rebuilt,
00:32:02.95\00:32:04.35
he says, "See the
temple will be rebuilt
00:32:04.39\00:32:06.45
after the
rapture of the Church."
00:32:06.49\00:32:08.22
And so this annotated
Bible had all sorts of notes
00:32:08.26\00:32:12.43
explaining the prophecies
from a futurist perspective.
00:32:12.46\00:32:15.66
And it became
the Bible of choice
00:32:15.70\00:32:18.57
for conservative Protestants,
00:32:18.60\00:32:19.93
Pentecostals,
Charismatics, and Evangelicals.
00:32:19.97\00:32:24.14
Now, I'd like to read a
statement by Richard Kyle.
00:32:24.17\00:32:28.18
He was once a futurist.
00:32:28.21\00:32:30.68
In fact, he belonged
to the Plymouth Brethren.
00:32:30.71\00:32:33.15
Because the Plymouth Brethren
did not only exist in England
00:32:33.18\00:32:36.12
and in the 1830s,
00:32:36.15\00:32:37.49
they continued even till
00:32:37.52\00:32:39.29
the time when
Richard Kyle wrote.
00:32:39.32\00:32:42.92
This is what he says about
the Scofield Reference Bible,
00:32:42.96\00:32:46.83
"Scofield's enduring legacy
00:32:46.86\00:32:49.76
rests in his Reference
Bible -published in 1909,
00:32:49.80\00:32:55.04
expanded in 1917,
and revised in 1967.
00:32:55.07\00:33:01.11
Sales of this Bible
total about 10 million."
00:33:01.14\00:33:04.55
When he's writing this...
00:33:04.58\00:33:06.08
He's writing this
about 20 years ago.
00:33:06.11\00:33:08.88
"The Scofield Bible
00:33:08.92\00:33:10.69
immediately became the
standard of dispensationalism,
00:33:10.72\00:33:15.29
and for 90 years has
been the major vehicle
00:33:15.32\00:33:19.19
for distributing
dispensational ideas."
00:33:19.23\00:33:23.67
Dispensational is the same as
futurist ideas, Ribera's ideas.
00:33:23.70\00:33:29.34
The idea of the
rapture of the church,
00:33:29.37\00:33:31.81
the rebuilding of
the Jewish temple,
00:33:31.84\00:33:33.71
the literal
three and a half years,
00:33:33.74\00:33:36.08
and a personal Antichrist
rising at the end of the age.
00:33:36.11\00:33:41.62
Now, there has been a
phenomenal growth of futurism
00:33:41.65\00:33:45.25
among Conservative Protestants
in the United States.
00:33:45.29\00:33:48.46
And that is due to five factors.
00:33:48.49\00:33:51.79
The first factor is
what I just mentioned.
00:33:51.83\00:33:54.60
The Scofield Reference Bible
00:33:54.63\00:33:58.10
has extended
futurism far and wide.
00:33:58.13\00:34:02.47
The second way
00:34:02.50\00:34:04.01
in which futurism has
expanded in the United States
00:34:04.04\00:34:07.58
is through
television evangelists.
00:34:07.61\00:34:10.31
You can turn on your
television any Sunday morning
00:34:10.35\00:34:13.65
in the United States.
00:34:13.68\00:34:15.12
I don't know if you...
00:34:15.15\00:34:16.48
I know Hawaii is
part of the United States,
00:34:16.52\00:34:18.45
but you're a long ways
00:34:18.49\00:34:19.82
from the mainland
of the United States.
00:34:19.85\00:34:22.12
I don't know if you
have those programs here.
00:34:22.16\00:34:23.79
But individuals like
John Hagee, for example.
00:34:23.83\00:34:26.96
They give series
on Bible prophecy
00:34:27.00\00:34:28.83
from a futurist perspective.
00:34:28.86\00:34:31.00
So television evangelists
00:34:31.03\00:34:32.60
in the United
States time and again,
00:34:32.63\00:34:35.34
they share in their
sermons this futurist scenario.
00:34:35.37\00:34:39.54
Also, fiction
and nonfiction books,
00:34:39.57\00:34:44.38
like the, "Left Behind" series
00:34:44.41\00:34:46.28
that was
published several years ago,
00:34:46.31\00:34:48.35
has proliferated tremendously
this futurist perspective.
00:34:48.38\00:34:53.69
The fourth factor
00:34:53.72\00:34:55.06
is the creation
of thriller movies,
00:34:55.09\00:34:58.43
such as Left
Behind, The Omega Code,
00:34:58.46\00:35:01.73
Armageddon,
Tribulation Force, etc.
00:35:01.76\00:35:04.93
These popular
Hollywood style movies,
00:35:04.97\00:35:07.64
they actually present
the theory of the rapture
00:35:07.67\00:35:10.17
and of course, people
don't take it as a theory,
00:35:10.21\00:35:12.57
they actually
consider it to be fact.
00:35:12.61\00:35:15.04
And of course, the final factor
00:35:15.08\00:35:17.15
is the forming of thousands
and thousands of ministers
00:35:17.18\00:35:22.28
in institutions such
as Moody Bible Institute
00:35:22.32\00:35:26.35
and Dallas Theological Seminary.
00:35:26.39\00:35:29.92
Probably you have heard
of the Left Behind series.
00:35:29.96\00:35:33.26
It was published in 12 volumes.
00:35:33.29\00:35:35.86
It's sold over
80 million copies.
00:35:35.90\00:35:38.87
And it was on the New York Times
00:35:38.90\00:35:41.17
bestseller list
00:35:41.20\00:35:43.64
for months and
months, if not years.
00:35:43.67\00:35:47.68
Let me read here
what Jerry Jenkins
00:35:47.71\00:35:51.21
had to say about the
Left Behind book series?
00:35:51.25\00:35:55.08
I think it had
something like 12 volumes.
00:35:55.12\00:35:57.59
And from a futurist perspective,
00:35:57.62\00:35:59.52
it was written like a novel,
00:35:59.55\00:36:01.49
but their purpose was
to give the impression
00:36:01.52\00:36:04.06
that it was gospel truth.
00:36:04.09\00:36:06.43
Jerry Jenkins, who
was one of the coauthors,
00:36:06.46\00:36:08.80
the other one was Tim
LaHaye, wrote the following.
00:36:08.83\00:36:12.73
"The purpose was to
encourage the church
00:36:12.77\00:36:16.91
and to persuade unbelievers.
00:36:16.94\00:36:20.44
We have found
00:36:20.48\00:36:22.21
that people are
reading the Bible again
00:36:22.24\00:36:25.28
because of it
00:36:25.31\00:36:26.65
and many have become believers."
00:36:26.68\00:36:29.42
Believers in what?
00:36:29.45\00:36:31.39
Believers in the
futurist perspective
00:36:31.42\00:36:33.49
through these series
00:36:33.52\00:36:35.36
that sold over
80 million copies.
00:36:35.39\00:36:37.93
And by the way, when
these books came out,
00:36:37.96\00:36:40.06
politicians in Washington
D.C. were reading these books
00:36:40.10\00:36:45.37
and assimilating the
content of these books.
00:36:45.40\00:36:48.57
Tim LaHaye,
00:36:48.60\00:36:50.14
who was one of the coauthors
of this series of books,
00:36:50.17\00:36:53.11
also wrote
concerning the purpose of them.
00:36:53.14\00:36:56.08
And I quote, "I'm
hearing from church pastors
00:36:56.11\00:37:00.82
all over the world."
00:37:00.85\00:37:03.62
By the way, at this
point when he wrote this,
00:37:03.65\00:37:07.22
the books have been
translated into 14 languages.
00:37:07.26\00:37:09.82
So this was not
only the United States,
00:37:09.86\00:37:11.76
the books had gone worldwide.
00:37:11.79\00:37:13.46
So once again, "I'm
hearing from church pastors
00:37:13.50\00:37:15.96
all over the world
00:37:16.00\00:37:17.70
and they're telling me
00:37:17.73\00:37:19.10
that the books are the
best evangelistic tools
00:37:19.13\00:37:21.97
they've ever seen.
00:37:22.00\00:37:23.77
It's gratifying to see so
much interest in this story
00:37:23.81\00:37:28.21
because, of any of
the major world religions,
00:37:28.24\00:37:31.85
Christianity has
the most exciting story
00:37:31.88\00:37:35.28
to tell about the future."
00:37:35.32\00:37:38.65
Are you catching the picture?
00:37:38.69\00:37:41.06
Futurism has
overwhelmed Protestantism,
00:37:41.09\00:37:44.86
due to all of these factors
that I've been mentioning.
00:37:44.89\00:37:48.50
Now, the number
of futurist ministers
00:37:48.53\00:37:51.13
and theologians is Legion.
00:37:51.17\00:37:54.70
Let me say something
about the television evangelists
00:37:54.74\00:37:57.54
and there are many of them.
00:37:57.57\00:37:58.91
Let me just mention
some, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye,
00:37:58.94\00:38:02.81
Grant Jeffrey, John Hagee,
Benny Hinn, Jack Van Impe,
00:38:02.84\00:38:06.82
who passed away by
the way, Jack LaLanne,
00:38:06.85\00:38:09.58
the late Dave Hunt,
David Jeremiah, Zola Levitt,
00:38:09.62\00:38:13.49
Pat Robertson, Randall
Price, Dwight Pentecost,
00:38:13.52\00:38:17.86
and even Jerry
Falwell while he was alive.
00:38:17.89\00:38:20.36
All of these individuals,
00:38:20.40\00:38:22.00
tremendously influential leaders
00:38:22.03\00:38:24.43
in the Evangelical Movement,
00:38:24.47\00:38:26.30
all have programs
where they were pushing
00:38:26.33\00:38:29.17
this futurist
scenario of Bible prophecy.
00:38:29.20\00:38:33.88
You know, some
of these individuals
00:38:33.91\00:38:36.75
have taken Bible prophecy
to a ridiculous extreme.
00:38:36.78\00:38:41.08
Let me mention one example.
00:38:41.12\00:38:43.02
Grant Jeffrey wrote a book
and the title of the book was,
00:38:43.05\00:38:46.92
"The Signature of
God/The Handwriting of God."
00:38:46.96\00:38:51.19
And basically what
he says in that book
00:38:51.23\00:38:54.53
is that the books of
Daniel and Revelation
00:38:54.56\00:38:57.40
and the whole
Bible have a secret code
00:38:57.43\00:39:00.20
and you can determine the code
00:39:00.24\00:39:01.97
by counting words
forwards and backwards.
00:39:02.00\00:39:06.07
And you can discover all
kinds of interesting details
00:39:06.11\00:39:09.58
about events that
have happened in history.
00:39:09.61\00:39:13.21
In that book, he says
that I have discovered a code
00:39:13.25\00:39:16.75
that reveals the
death of Princess Diana
00:39:16.79\00:39:19.72
from biblical times,
00:39:19.75\00:39:21.66
the plague of AIDS,
00:39:21.69\00:39:23.83
the assassination of
Franz Joseph I of Austria,
00:39:23.86\00:39:28.06
the peace process
between Israel and the PLO,
00:39:28.10\00:39:32.17
the assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin, the Gulf War.
00:39:32.20\00:39:36.87
And he said, "I even discovered
00:39:36.91\00:39:38.27
in this secret
code of the Bible,
00:39:38.31\00:39:40.51
the names America, George
Bush, General Schwarzkopf,
00:39:40.54\00:39:44.75
the Scud-B missile, and Russia."
00:39:44.78\00:39:47.48
Wow, isn't that interesting.
00:39:47.52\00:39:49.58
He also claims that
in that book anyway,
00:39:49.62\00:39:53.05
that he found the secret code
00:39:53.09\00:39:55.19
that revealed the
name Oklahoma City,
00:39:55.22\00:39:59.53
and the name
Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma,
00:39:59.56\00:40:03.73
and even the day and the hour
00:40:03.77\00:40:06.60
where that bomb exploded
there at the Oklahoma City
00:40:06.63\00:40:11.21
federal building.
00:40:11.24\00:40:12.71
He says that the
day 19 and 9th hour
00:40:12.74\00:40:15.04
he could discover
00:40:15.08\00:40:16.41
by just studying the
secret code that is find,
00:40:16.44\00:40:19.78
found behind the
surface of Scripture.
00:40:19.81\00:40:22.65
Needless to say,
00:40:22.68\00:40:24.02
the Bible does not
reveal trivia like this.
00:40:24.05\00:40:26.45
The Bible is concerned
00:40:26.49\00:40:27.82
with the large
events of human history,
00:40:27.86\00:40:29.62
not with curiosities.
00:40:29.66\00:40:31.59
And it's ironic to me
00:40:31.63\00:40:33.66
that an individual like
him can find hidden, cryptic,
00:40:33.70\00:40:38.10
secret veiled
subliminal messages,
00:40:38.13\00:40:41.90
and he cannot figure out
00:40:41.94\00:40:43.41
something as simple
as which is the right day
00:40:43.44\00:40:46.21
to go to church.
00:40:46.24\00:40:50.11
Now, let me say
something about Dave Hunt.
00:40:50.15\00:40:53.68
Dave Hunt was a
futurist, he died.
00:40:53.72\00:40:57.62
But he was not a
run-of-the-mill futurist.
00:40:57.65\00:41:00.66
He actually wrote
two books. Two very...
00:41:00.69\00:41:03.32
He wrote many books, but
two very influential books
00:41:03.36\00:41:05.76
when it comes to
this specific issue
00:41:05.79\00:41:07.20
we're talking about.
00:41:07.23\00:41:08.56
One was A Woman Rides the Beast
and the other was Global Peace.
00:41:08.60\00:41:14.17
And in these two books,
00:41:14.20\00:41:16.30
he openly states
without political correctness,
00:41:16.34\00:41:20.51
that the papacy
00:41:20.54\00:41:22.21
is the great harlot
of Revelation Chapter 17.
00:41:22.24\00:41:26.55
That's different
than the many futurists
00:41:26.58\00:41:29.05
to say something like that.
00:41:29.08\00:41:31.12
Now, I want to quote from him
00:41:31.15\00:41:33.66
about him identifying
the papacy as the harlot.
00:41:33.69\00:41:38.33
And I quote, He says,
00:41:38.36\00:41:40.66
"Some suggest that the Vatican
will move to Babylon in Iraq
00:41:40.70\00:41:46.03
when it is rebuilt.
00:41:46.07\00:41:48.07
But why should it?
00:41:48.10\00:41:49.74
The Vatican has been
fulfilling John's vision
00:41:49.77\00:41:52.07
from its location in Rome
for the past 15 centuries.
00:41:52.11\00:41:57.08
Moreover, we have
shown the connection
00:41:57.11\00:41:59.08
to ancient Babylon
00:41:59.11\00:42:00.85
which the Vatican
has maintained down
00:42:00.88\00:42:02.82
throughout history in
a paganized Christianity
00:42:02.85\00:42:05.95
it has promulgated...
00:42:05.99\00:42:07.89
As for ancient Babylon itself,
00:42:07.92\00:42:10.16
it wasn't even in existence
during the past 2,300 years
00:42:10.19\00:42:14.63
'to reign over the
kings of the earth.'
00:42:14.66\00:42:16.90
Babylon lay in ruins
00:42:16.93\00:42:19.07
while pagan Rome
and later Catholic Rome,
00:42:19.10\00:42:22.27
the new Babylon, was
indeed reigning over kings."
00:42:22.30\00:42:26.44
So he's saying Babylon
is not literal Babylon,
00:42:26.47\00:42:30.41
Babylon is the papacy.
00:42:30.45\00:42:33.82
So my question is this.
00:42:33.85\00:42:36.25
If Babylon is the papacy
00:42:36.28\00:42:38.82
and Babylon
00:42:38.85\00:42:40.19
was the deadly
enemy of God's people,
00:42:40.22\00:42:42.19
why would Babylon be
spiritual and Israel be literal?
00:42:42.22\00:42:46.83
Because he says,
"Israel is literal,
00:42:46.86\00:42:49.46
but Babylon is spiritual."
00:42:49.50\00:42:52.17
Let me read you
another statement that he made.
00:42:52.20\00:42:55.90
"God is
foretelling His final judgment
00:42:55.94\00:42:58.47
upon a great evil which
began at the Tower of Babel
00:42:58.51\00:43:02.31
and which has only
grown as politics, religion,
00:43:02.34\00:43:05.01
and science have become
more sophisticated-until
00:43:05.05\00:43:08.68
finally, the
whole world is united
00:43:08.72\00:43:11.15
in the pursuit of
Satan's ancient lie.
00:43:11.19\00:43:14.29
This is the Babylon,
00:43:14.32\00:43:16.16
revived and
headquartered in Rome,
00:43:16.19\00:43:19.19
that will be destroyed,
never to be inhabited again."
00:43:19.23\00:43:23.93
So he's saying
Babylon is centered in Rome.
00:43:23.97\00:43:25.90
Now, wait a minute, to say that,
00:43:25.93\00:43:27.77
you would have to say
that Babylon is not literal,
00:43:27.80\00:43:31.17
but it's symbolic.
00:43:31.21\00:43:32.94
So if Babylon is symbolic,
of a worldwide apostate system,
00:43:32.97\00:43:37.78
why would Israel,
00:43:37.81\00:43:39.51
the enemy of
Babylon be literal Israel
00:43:39.55\00:43:42.18
in the Middle East?
00:43:42.22\00:43:43.55
Are you
understanding what I'm saying?
00:43:43.59\00:43:44.92
He's inconsistent.
00:43:44.95\00:43:46.45
Now, Dave Hunt believed
00:43:46.49\00:43:48.49
that the four world
empires would be the empires
00:43:48.52\00:43:53.43
that we have
Seventh-day Adventist believe,
00:43:53.46\00:43:55.60
Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
00:43:55.63\00:43:58.37
Now, let's notice
00:43:58.40\00:43:59.73
when he had this say
about the four kingdoms
00:43:59.77\00:44:02.40
in Daniel Chapter 7.
00:44:02.44\00:44:04.31
"Daniel explained
that Nebuchadnezzar,
00:44:04.34\00:44:06.64
represented by the head of gold,
00:44:06.68\00:44:08.44
was the ruler of
the first world empire.
00:44:08.48\00:44:11.21
The three other
parts of the image,
00:44:11.25\00:44:12.95
made of silver, brass, and iron,
00:44:12.98\00:44:14.98
foreshadowed
three more world empires
00:44:15.02\00:44:17.59
that would follow
Babylon as its successors.
00:44:17.62\00:44:21.32
In a later vision
Daniel would be given
00:44:21.36\00:44:23.36
the name of the
second world empire,
00:44:23.39\00:44:25.46
Medo-Persia,
00:44:25.49\00:44:26.83
and details
concerning the third kingdom
00:44:26.86\00:44:29.36
which clearly identified
it as the Grecian Empire.
00:44:29.40\00:44:33.17
The fourth world empire,
of course, would be Rome.
00:44:33.20\00:44:36.00
That much is history."
00:44:36.04\00:44:38.47
And so you say good,
00:44:38.51\00:44:39.84
he believes just like Adventist.
00:44:39.87\00:44:41.68
But when you get
to the fourth kingdom,
00:44:41.71\00:44:43.91
Dave Hunt says,
00:44:43.95\00:44:45.91
"The prophecy of Daniel 7 was
only fulfilled to that point."
00:44:45.95\00:44:49.82
From that point on,
there have been 2,000 years,
00:44:49.85\00:44:54.12
almost 2,000 years
00:44:54.16\00:44:55.96
where prophecy
has been put on hold.
00:44:55.99\00:44:58.96
In other words,
Daniel 7 did not continue
00:44:58.99\00:45:03.03
fulfilling immediately
after the fourth empire,
00:45:03.06\00:45:06.60
but there's been a gap
between the fourth empire
00:45:06.63\00:45:09.90
and the 10 horns,
00:45:09.94\00:45:12.24
which he says is a
Roman 10-Nation Federation
00:45:12.27\00:45:15.28
at the end of time.
00:45:15.31\00:45:17.41
Now, let me read what he
has to say about this gap
00:45:17.45\00:45:20.18
of 1,900 to 2,000
years, he wrote this.
00:45:20.22\00:45:24.15
"Obviously, what
the toes represent
00:45:24.19\00:45:27.46
has not yet come to pass."
00:45:27.49\00:45:29.72
He says the toes of the image
that hasn't taken place yet.
00:45:29.76\00:45:33.19
"God's kingdom
was not established
00:45:33.23\00:45:35.76
'in the days of these 10 kings.
00:45:35.80\00:45:38.30
Furthermore,"
and this is amazing,
00:45:38.33\00:45:40.94
"the Antichrist never appeared
00:45:40.97\00:45:43.71
to take the reins of
the ancient Roman Empire."
00:45:43.74\00:45:47.71
It's amazing.
00:45:47.74\00:45:49.41
He's saying,
"There's no evidence
00:45:49.44\00:45:51.11
that a nasty individual
took the reins of the Empire
00:45:51.15\00:45:54.25
after the Empire was
divided in 10 kingdoms."
00:45:54.28\00:45:57.19
So he says
Antichrist has not yet appeared.
00:45:57.22\00:46:01.22
You know, it's sad
that Dave Hunt would say
00:46:01.26\00:46:03.19
something like this or
write something like this.
00:46:03.22\00:46:06.46
For the simple reason
that he describes Antichrist
00:46:06.49\00:46:09.50
and his description of
Antichrist is very accurate.
00:46:09.53\00:46:13.44
Why could he not see then
that the papacy had fulfilled
00:46:13.47\00:46:17.51
the Antichrist prophecies,
00:46:17.54\00:46:18.87
when he describes
the papacy in detail?
00:46:18.91\00:46:21.88
Let me read you that statement.
00:46:21.91\00:46:24.25
It's following
his book Global Peace,
00:46:24.28\00:46:25.71
pages seven and eight.
00:46:25.75\00:46:27.72
"While the prefix
'anti' generally means
00:46:27.75\00:46:32.05
'against' or 'opposed to.'
00:46:32.09\00:46:33.52
" You know, when we say
anti, we say it means against.
00:46:33.56\00:46:36.89
So he says,
"While the Greek prefix
00:46:36.93\00:46:39.09
'anti' generally means
'against' or 'opposed to,'
00:46:39.13\00:46:42.56
it can also mean
'in the place of'
00:46:42.60\00:46:44.93
or 'a substitute for.'
00:46:44.97\00:46:47.90
The Antichrist will
embody both meanings.
00:46:47.94\00:46:51.51
He will oppose Christ
while pretending to be Christ.
00:46:51.54\00:46:55.51
Instead of a frontal
assault against Christianity,
00:46:55.54\00:46:59.15
the evil one will
pervert the church from within
00:46:59.18\00:47:02.55
by posing as its founder.
00:47:02.58\00:47:04.69
He will cunningly
misrepresent Christ
00:47:04.72\00:47:07.52
while pretending to be Christ.
00:47:07.56\00:47:10.09
And right here is
where the plot thickens.
00:47:10.13\00:47:13.43
If the Antichrist will
indeed pretend to be Christ,
00:47:13.46\00:47:17.33
then his followers
must be 'Christians!'
00:47:17.37\00:47:21.87
" Are you
understanding what he's saying?
00:47:21.90\00:47:25.14
And yet he can't see
that the papacy fulfilled
00:47:25.17\00:47:28.14
the Antichrist prophecies.
00:47:28.18\00:47:30.28
Because he's all
caught up in this same idea
00:47:30.31\00:47:33.01
that we noticed that futurism,
the futurism of Ribera,
00:47:33.05\00:47:36.85
and Bellarmine,
00:47:36.89\00:47:38.22
and all of these individuals
that arose at England
00:47:38.25\00:47:40.46
in the 1830s,
00:47:40.49\00:47:41.82
the idea
00:47:41.86\00:47:43.19
that the fourth
kingdom was fulfilled,
00:47:43.22\00:47:45.36
but then the
10-nation federation never rose,
00:47:45.39\00:47:48.86
and therefore the
Antichrist never rose
00:47:48.90\00:47:50.77
for the next 2,000 years,
00:47:50.80\00:47:52.43
and therefore
Antichrist has not appeared.
00:47:52.47\00:47:54.57
And yet he describes perfectly
what the Antichrist is like.
00:47:54.60\00:47:59.57
In fact, Hunt
go so far as to say
00:47:59.61\00:48:02.48
that the reformers were wrong
00:48:02.51\00:48:05.01
about their
interpretation of Antichrist.
00:48:05.05\00:48:06.78
Let me read that statement.
00:48:06.82\00:48:08.15
It's in the book
Global Peace, page 47.
00:48:08.18\00:48:11.35
He admits what the
reformers believed.
00:48:11.39\00:48:13.12
He wrote, "The
Reformers and their creeds
00:48:13.15\00:48:18.06
were unanimous."
00:48:18.09\00:48:20.66
The reformers and
their creeds were what?
00:48:20.70\00:48:23.37
Unanimous.
00:48:23.40\00:48:24.90
"In identifying each
pope as the Antichrist.
00:48:24.93\00:48:29.17
Scripture, however,
does not support that claim.
00:48:29.20\00:48:33.24
The Antichrist is
a unique individual,
00:48:33.27\00:48:36.21
without
predecessors or successors."
00:48:36.24\00:48:42.15
So what he's saying
this Protestant evangelical
00:48:42.18\00:48:44.82
is saying that Martin
Luther and John Calvin,
00:48:44.85\00:48:48.26
and Ulrich
Zwingli, and Melanchthon,
00:48:48.29\00:48:50.96
and John Hus, and Wycliffe,
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.50
and Tyndale, they were all wrong
00:48:53.53\00:48:56.23
in their interpretation
of the Antichrist.
00:48:56.26\00:48:58.83
He's saying that the Antichrist
is a single individual
00:48:58.87\00:49:02.54
that will rise in the future.
00:49:02.57\00:49:04.51
What tremendous blindness.
00:49:04.54\00:49:06.47
And the reason why
is because Protestantism
00:49:06.51\00:49:09.38
has forsaken the method,
00:49:09.41\00:49:11.71
the proper method of
interpreting Bible prophecy,
00:49:11.75\00:49:14.58
the historicist method.
00:49:14.62\00:49:16.72
You see the historicist
method is very, very simple.
00:49:16.75\00:49:20.26
It's not complicated.
00:49:20.29\00:49:21.96
You just follow the chain
link by link of Bible prophecy
00:49:21.99\00:49:25.59
without gaps,
00:49:25.63\00:49:27.66
without any
parentheses, if you please.
00:49:27.70\00:49:31.00
You know, we've
studied it, you have Babylon,
00:49:31.03\00:49:33.74
then Medo-Persia
rises when Babylon falls,
00:49:33.77\00:49:36.27
then you have Greece
when Medo-Persia falls,
00:49:36.30\00:49:38.44
you have Rome when Greece falls,
00:49:38.47\00:49:40.64
and then Rome
00:49:40.68\00:49:42.48
without any gaps of 2,000 years,
00:49:42.51\00:49:45.08
Rome sprouts 10 horns,
00:49:45.11\00:49:47.08
the divisions of Western Europe.
00:49:47.12\00:49:48.92
And then when the 10 horns
are complete in the year 476,
00:49:48.95\00:49:52.82
then in the year 538,
the papacy rises to power,
00:49:52.85\00:49:56.32
it rules 1,260 years,
00:49:56.36\00:49:58.63
1798 the state turns against it
00:49:58.66\00:50:01.66
and it receives
this deadly wound,
00:50:01.70\00:50:03.57
for a while it is convalescing.
00:50:03.60\00:50:05.87
But at the same time that
it receives the deadly wound,
00:50:05.90\00:50:08.10
another beast is
rising from the earth,
00:50:08.14\00:50:10.07
the United States.
00:50:10.11\00:50:11.71
So when the
first beast is falling,
00:50:11.74\00:50:14.54
the second beast is rising
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.01
to fulfill the next
stage of Bible prophecy.
00:50:16.04\00:50:18.45
Are you with me or not?
00:50:18.48\00:50:20.08
And so you can follow
the trajectory of prophecy
00:50:20.12\00:50:23.45
all the way from the
times of Daniel from Babylon,
00:50:23.49\00:50:26.52
all the way till the end of time
00:50:26.55\00:50:28.99
when you use the
historicist method.
00:50:29.02\00:50:32.36
But when you use
the futurist method,
00:50:32.39\00:50:35.06
you are navigating a sea
00:50:35.10\00:50:37.67
without compass
and without anchor.
00:50:37.70\00:50:42.10
The bottom line is,
folks, that Hunt's view
00:50:42.14\00:50:46.57
as well as the view
of most futurists today,
00:50:46.61\00:50:51.35
harmonizes perfectly with
the Roman Catholic papacy's
00:50:51.38\00:50:54.68
view of Bible prophecy.
00:50:54.72\00:50:57.59
The church will be
removed at the rapture.
00:50:57.62\00:51:01.29
Of course, the
Roman Catholic Church,
00:51:01.32\00:51:03.12
they created this system,
but they're preterist now.
00:51:03.16\00:51:07.06
But they also created through
Bellarmine and through Ribera,
00:51:07.10\00:51:11.63
the futurist method.
00:51:11.67\00:51:13.00
But that's not the
method that they stuck with.
00:51:13.03\00:51:14.77
They stuck with preterism.
00:51:14.80\00:51:16.91
However, they were
the ones that created
00:51:16.94\00:51:18.84
this counterfeit
scenario of futurism.
00:51:18.87\00:51:22.38
So basically, the
church will be removed
00:51:22.41\00:51:24.78
from earth at the rapture.
00:51:24.81\00:51:27.02
Antichrist will
be an individual,
00:51:27.05\00:51:29.12
they're teaching,
00:51:29.15\00:51:30.49
who will rise
at the end of time.
00:51:30.52\00:51:32.45
He will sit in a
literal Jewish temple,
00:51:32.49\00:51:36.19
which has been rebuilt.
00:51:36.22\00:51:38.13
He will reign for a
literal three and a half years.
00:51:38.16\00:51:42.40
The fulfillment of
Revelation 4-9 is still future.
00:51:42.43\00:51:47.70
The millennium
will take place on earth
00:51:47.74\00:51:51.97
and literal
Israel will be on earth
00:51:52.01\00:51:54.64
and God will have His
plan for literal Israel
00:51:54.68\00:51:56.91
during that period.
00:51:56.95\00:51:58.51
And another thing
that futurism teaches
00:51:58.55\00:52:00.78
is that there's a gap between
Daniel's 69th and 70th week.
00:52:00.82\00:52:06.35
We're gonna have
two presentations
00:52:06.39\00:52:07.89
just on the
prophecy of the 70 weeks.
00:52:07.92\00:52:10.56
But basically,
what futurists teach.
00:52:10.59\00:52:12.93
They're all about gaps.
00:52:12.96\00:52:15.66
And in the gap of 2,000
years is hiding the Antichrist.
00:52:15.70\00:52:20.30
And in the gap that they put
00:52:20.34\00:52:22.14
between the 69th
and the 70th week
00:52:22.17\00:52:25.37
of Daniel Chapter 9,
00:52:25.41\00:52:27.41
there we find that they placed
Antichrist instead of Christ.
00:52:27.44\00:52:32.21
Are you
acquainted with the prophecy
00:52:32.25\00:52:33.58
of the 70 weeks?
00:52:33.62\00:52:35.52
You know, the 69th week comes
to an end, Messiah is anointed,
00:52:35.55\00:52:41.49
and then in the middle
of the week, Messiah dies.
00:52:41.52\00:52:44.99
And then at the end of the week,
00:52:45.03\00:52:46.36
you have the stoning of Stephen.
00:52:46.39\00:52:47.73
That's the biblical perspective,
00:52:47.76\00:52:49.10
the Seventh-day
Adventist perspective.
00:52:49.13\00:52:51.53
But what futurism teaches is
00:52:51.57\00:52:53.60
that you get the week number 69,
00:52:53.64\00:52:56.71
Jesus wanted the
Jews to accept Him,
00:52:56.74\00:52:58.77
but when they rejected Jesus,
00:52:58.81\00:53:00.74
God had to suspend
His plan for the Jews.
00:53:00.78\00:53:03.21
And he could not
fulfill week number 70,
00:53:03.24\00:53:06.01
the last seven years.
00:53:06.05\00:53:07.88
So during the last 1,900 years,
00:53:07.92\00:53:11.25
the prophecy of the 70 weeks
00:53:11.29\00:53:13.29
has a gap
00:53:13.32\00:53:15.12
between week number
69 and week number 70.
00:53:15.16\00:53:18.29
Let me ask you, what
does that do with the prophecy
00:53:18.33\00:53:20.70
of the 2,300 days?
00:53:20.73\00:53:22.43
Does the
prophecy of the 2,300 days
00:53:22.46\00:53:24.60
depend on the 70 weeks
being fulfilled consecutively
00:53:24.63\00:53:28.47
and then moving
on to the year 1844?
00:53:28.50\00:53:31.04
Absolutely.
00:53:31.07\00:53:32.41
But if there's a gap
of close to 2,000 years
00:53:32.44\00:53:35.41
between week 69
and week number 70,
00:53:35.44\00:53:38.98
the 1844 date is obliterated.
00:53:39.01\00:53:42.22
Boy, the devil really
knows how to work, doesn't he?
00:53:45.25\00:53:48.56
And so most of
Christendom has accepted either
00:53:48.59\00:53:52.49
preterist view or
the futurist view.
00:53:52.53\00:53:57.00
Liberal Protestants
from the mainline churches,
00:53:57.03\00:54:01.70
such as Lutherans,
and the Methodists,
00:54:01.74\00:54:06.51
the Presbyterians,
and to a certain degree,
00:54:06.54\00:54:10.11
some reformed
churches have accepted the view
00:54:10.15\00:54:14.05
that prophecy was
fulfilled in the past,
00:54:14.08\00:54:16.58
the Antichrist prophecies
were fulfilled in the past.
00:54:16.62\00:54:19.89
Futurism tells us
that these prophecies
00:54:19.92\00:54:22.52
will be fulfilled in the future.
00:54:22.56\00:54:25.39
You know, reading
Protestant books these days
00:54:25.43\00:54:28.86
on Bible prophecy
00:54:28.90\00:54:30.70
is like reading the
writings of Ribera, Bellarmine,
00:54:30.73\00:54:34.90
Newman, Lacunza, and company.
00:54:34.94\00:54:39.54
They have swallowed
00:54:39.57\00:54:41.94
the Roman Catholic
view of Bible prophecy,
00:54:41.98\00:54:45.48
one of the Roman Catholic
views that was established
00:54:45.51\00:54:49.02
immediately in the aftermath
of the Protestant Reformation.
00:54:49.05\00:54:53.82
We're gonna find in our study,
00:54:53.86\00:54:56.22
that the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:54:56.26\00:54:59.46
is historicism's last stand.
00:54:59.49\00:55:03.26
I don't know of any
other church in the world
00:55:03.30\00:55:06.90
that uses a historicist method
of interpreting Bible prophecy,
00:55:06.94\00:55:11.84
like the Protestant Reformers.
00:55:11.87\00:55:13.98
There's only one
church in the world
00:55:14.01\00:55:15.84
that upholds that view
00:55:15.88\00:55:17.35
and that is the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:55:17.38\00:55:19.28
the view that was
held by the reformers.
00:55:19.31\00:55:22.95
And it's sad,
folks, that even within
00:55:22.98\00:55:25.05
the Seventh-day
Adventist Church,
00:55:25.09\00:55:26.76
there are those
who are playing games
00:55:26.79\00:55:29.69
with this issue
of Bible prophecy.
00:55:29.72\00:55:33.56
Some people, for
example, are saying
00:55:33.60\00:55:35.66
that the seven
trumpets are all future.
00:55:35.70\00:55:39.97
They're saying that
the king of the north,
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you know, that
doesn't have anything to do
00:55:42.94\00:55:44.91
with the past of the papacy.
00:55:44.94\00:55:46.47
The king of the north, they say,
00:55:46.51\00:55:48.08
"Well, that represents Turkey
00:55:48.11\00:55:49.48
that has a very important role
to fulfill at the end of time."
00:55:49.51\00:55:53.55
They say, "Oh, the
king of the south,"
00:55:53.58\00:55:54.98
you know, some people
say, "That's the Muslims."
00:55:55.02\00:55:57.62
And so there's this
process of reinterpreting
00:55:57.65\00:55:59.95
Bible prophecy.
00:55:59.99\00:56:02.02
When really we know
what will be the last power,
00:56:02.06\00:56:05.69
you know, the
powers that are gonna play
00:56:05.73\00:56:07.13
a role at the end of time
are not the Muslims in Turkey.
00:56:07.16\00:56:11.03
The powers that are gonna
play a role in end time prophecy
00:56:11.07\00:56:13.74
are the papacy,
apostate Protestantism
00:56:13.77\00:56:17.61
joined with the
kings of the earth
00:56:17.64\00:56:20.74
that is the
scenario that is presented.
00:56:20.78\00:56:23.24
And yet, even within
00:56:23.28\00:56:24.61
the Seventh-day
Adventist Church,
00:56:24.65\00:56:25.98
there are individuals who
are reinterpreting prophecy
00:56:26.01\00:56:27.92
and projecting past
prophecies to the future
00:56:27.95\00:56:30.82
and taking future prophecies
00:56:30.85\00:56:32.55
and projecting them to the past.
00:56:32.59\00:56:34.96
And sadly,
00:56:34.99\00:56:36.36
in many
Seventh-day Adventist Churches,
00:56:36.39\00:56:38.66
we never even hear
00:56:38.69\00:56:40.03
the preaching of
prophecy anymore.
00:56:40.06\00:56:42.00
The prophecies that made us
00:56:42.03\00:56:43.47
what we are as
Seventh-day Adventists.
00:56:43.50\00:56:45.53
The prophecies that give us
our mission and our message,
00:56:45.57\00:56:50.61
have been almost
totally forgotten
00:56:50.64\00:56:52.34
in some circles
00:56:52.37\00:56:53.71
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:56:53.74\00:56:55.31
and the world
needs to know, folks.
00:56:55.34\00:56:58.01
The world needs to know
00:56:58.05\00:56:59.55
about these
dangerous interpretations,
00:56:59.58\00:57:01.85
about these dangerous systems
00:57:01.88\00:57:03.75
that are gonna play a
role at the end of time.
00:57:03.79\00:57:07.72
And it's our duty as
Seventh-day Adventist
00:57:07.76\00:57:10.36
to share this message with them.
00:57:10.39\00:57:12.93
And woe to us if we don't.
00:57:12.96\00:57:15.20
Because if we
don't, they will be lost
00:57:15.23\00:57:18.33
and God will hold us accountable
00:57:18.37\00:57:20.57
because of the wonderful message
00:57:20.60\00:57:22.27
that He has given us.
00:57:22.30\00:57:24.17
You see, we know exactly
how things are gonna conclude.
00:57:24.21\00:57:27.64
And so we can live
at peace, we can say,
00:57:27.68\00:57:29.01
"Oh, you know,
00:57:29.04\00:57:30.38
we're not concerned
and we're not worried.
00:57:30.41\00:57:31.75
We know where
everything is going.
00:57:31.78\00:57:33.58
"The world is saying,
00:57:33.62\00:57:34.95
"I don't know what's happening."
00:57:34.98\00:57:36.32
Their hearts are
failing them for fear.
00:57:36.35\00:57:37.69
We have a message
of assurance for them.
00:57:37.72\00:57:40.79
So let's share it.
00:57:40.82\00:57:42.82
Don't be mean.
00:57:42.86\00:57:44.39
Be nice, but be truthful.
00:57:44.43\00:57:47.33
This is not a time
for political correctness.
00:57:47.36\00:57:50.43
God is in the gathering time.
00:57:50.47\00:57:52.30
This is a time for us
to proclaim His message
00:57:52.33\00:57:55.17
to the world in these last
days and to prepare ourselves
00:57:55.20\00:57:59.57
for the awesome events
00:57:59.61\00:58:01.24
that will soon
transpire upon this planet.
00:58:01.28\00:58:04.78
May God bless us and
help us fulfill this mission.
00:58:04.81\00:58:08.25