Welcome back.
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Have you been
enjoying our study together?
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Praise the Lord.
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Well, we're gonna do part two
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of the subject "A
Judas in the church."
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Sounds kind of
strange doesn't it,
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Judas in the church?
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This presentation is quite long.
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I'm gonna do my best
to cover all the material.
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We might have to
synthesize some things.
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But let's attempt to
do as much as we can.
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But before we do, we wanna pray.
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Father in heaven,
as we study part two
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of this very important
subject, A Judas in the Church,
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we ask for the
guidance of Your Holy Spirit
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and the willingness
to embrace the truth
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as you express it in Your Word.
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Thank You Father
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for the promise
of Your presence,
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we claim that promise in
the precious name of Jesus,
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amen.
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In our first study together,
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we discussed the
emergence of the man of sin.
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We noticed that the
spirit of the Antichrist
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was already manifesting itself
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in the days of the Apostle Paul.
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It was already operational,
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but it was under the radar.
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It could not be openly seen.
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But the Apostle Paul was
saying that the time would come
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when that which was concealed
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even in his day
would be revealed.
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Now the question is,
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why didn't this man
of sin manifest himself
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openly in the days
of the Apostle Paul?
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Well, 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7
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tell us why this man of sin
did not manifest himself openly
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but his spirit was already
wanting to manifest itself
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in the days of the Apostle Paul.
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2 Thessalonians 2:6-7
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tells us that something
was restraining the man of sin.
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Someone was
restraining this man of sin
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from being able to
openly reveal himself.
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It says in 2
Thessalonians 2:6-7,
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the Apostle Paul
says to Thessalonians,
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"And now you know
what is restraining",
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by the way that
is neuter in Greek.
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It's something not
someone at this point.
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So it says now you know
what is restraining that he,
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now this is masculine,
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masculine, he, individual,
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"That he may be
revealed in his own time."
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So you notice there's
something that was restraining,
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what?
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And there was
someone that was restraining,
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who?
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It continues saying in
verse 7, the Apostle Paul,
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"For the mystery of
lawlessness is already at work."
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See, it was
already at work in his day.
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Only he who now restraints,
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which we notice
that it's a what as well,
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it's a he and a
what, that's important.
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He who now restrains
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will do so until he is what?
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Is taken out of the way.
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So in other words,
there was something
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in the days of the Apostle Paul
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that was
restraining this man of sin
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from openly manifesting himself.
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It was a what,
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and it was a he
and the question is,
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what was it?
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The bottom line
folks is that at this time,
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the Roman emperors,
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this is the he,
ruled over the Roman empire
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and the man of sin
could not occupy the throne
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of the empire
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unless the one who
occupied the throne at that time
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would be removed first.
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So that he is the emperor
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and the what was
restraining was what?
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Was the empire over
which the emperor ruled.
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Romans 13:4 is a
very important verse,
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it speaks about who
was ruling at that time.
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Here the Apostle Paul says,
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for he, speaking
about the Roman empire,
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he's speaking about the emperor
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but he's not talking
about one specific emperor,
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he's talking about a
succession of emperors.
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He says, "For he
is God's minister
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to you for good.
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But if you do
evil, be afraid for he,"
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that is the civil authority,
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"does not bear
the sword in vain.
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For he", the civil
authority, "is God's minister,
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an avenger to
execute wrath on him
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who practices evil."
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Now when it says
that he executes,
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you know, wrath on
him who practices evil.
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Is the word him they're
referring to one individual?
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No, it means to
whoever practices evil.
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So when it says here
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that he is God's
minister for your good,
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he does not bear
the sword in vain,
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It's not talking
about specific individual,
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it's talking about all
of the emperor's of Rome
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that bear the sword to
preserve the civil order.
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Now the question is,
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what is it that
release the man of sin?
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What is it that
took away the restraint
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from the man of sin,
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so the man of sin
could openly reveal himself,
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come from under the radar,
and openly proclaim himself?
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The answer is
found in Daniel 7:23-24,
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the prophecy to which the
Apostle Paul is referring.
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Daniel 7:23-24,
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"Thus he said,
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'The fourth beast shall
be a fourth kingdom on earth,
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which shall be different
from all other kingdoms,
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and shall devour the
whole earth trample it,
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and break it in pieces.'"
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Which kingdom is that?
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The Roman empire.
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Was that the empire that
was ruling in Paul's day?
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Yes.
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So is Daniel
7:23 on the same page
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as 2 Thessalonians
Chapter 2, same time frame?
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Absolutely.
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But now notice what was
gonna happen to the empire.
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It says in verse 24,
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"The ten horns are
ten kings or kingdoms
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that shall arise
from this kingdom."
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In other words,
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the fourth empire
was going to be what?
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Was going to be divided
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and when the empire was divided,
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it says, "And another
shall rise after them."
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So in other words, a little horn
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does not specifically
exist in the days of Paul
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but it's going to rise
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after the Roman
empire is dismembered.
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Are you with me or not?
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So it says, "Another
will rise after them,
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he shall be
different from the first ones
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and shall subdue three kings."
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So you have the Roman empire,
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which was the empire that
ruled in the days of Paul,
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later than that,
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ten kingdoms would
come from this empire.
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In other words, the
empire would be divided
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and then after the
division of the empire,
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you would have the
rise of the little horn,
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which is the man of
sin, or the Antichrist.
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Now I wanna read an
interesting statement
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that we find here
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in the Catechetical
lectures of the Nicene
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and Post-Nicene Fathers.
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This is a
comment by an individual
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called Cyril of Jerusalem.
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He was an early church Father.
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He lived from 318 to 386 A.D.
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He understood this prophecy
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because he was
living in the time
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of the fragmentation
of the Roman empire.
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Notice how precise he was,
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"But this aforesaid
Antichrist is to come
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when the times
of the Roman empire
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shall have been fulfilled,
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and the end of the
world is drawing near."
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So he didn't know that
history was gonna go on
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for 2000 years
like we already noticed.
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"There shall rise up together
ten kings of the Romans,
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reigning in
different parts perhaps,
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but all about the same time
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and after those an
eleventh, the Antichrist,
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who by his magical craft
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shall seize
upon the Roman power,
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and of the kings
who reigned before him,
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three shall he humble
and the remaining seven,
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he shall keep in
subjection to himself.'"
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Did he have it straight?
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You better
believe he had a straight
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and he was living
during that period.
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By the way, the
Book of Revelation
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describes this transfer of power
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from the dragon
which is the fourth beast
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to the beast,
which is Papal Rome.
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Let's read roman chapter
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Revelation 13:2,
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now the beast which is
a symbol of the papacy,
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that ruled 42 months,
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"Now the beast which I
saw was like a leopard,
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his feet were like
the feet of a bear,
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his mouth like
the mouth of a lion.
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The dragon, which
has been identified
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in the previous
chapter as the Roman empire
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that tried to kill
the child, remember?
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That's the Roman empire.
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So it says here,
the dragon gave him,
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that is the beast, the papacy,
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his what?
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His power, what else?
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His throne and what else?
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Great authority.
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So was the beast
that came from the sea
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going to receive power
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from the dragon
or the Roman empire?
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Absolutely.
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Notice Ellen
White's comment on this,
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Great Controversy page 54,
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Great Controversy page
54, Ellen White states,
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"In the sixth century
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the papacy had
become firmly established.
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Its seat of power was
fixed in the imperial city,
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and the bishop of Rome
was declared to be the head
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over the entire church.
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Paganism had given
place to the papacy.
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When she's
speaking about paganism,
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she's talking
about the Roman empire.
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Paganism had given
place to the papacy
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and then she
quotes Revelation 13:2,
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"The dragon had
given to the beast,
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his power and his
seat and great authority,"
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and now began the 1260
years of papal oppression
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foretold in the prophecies
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of Daniel and the Revelation.
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So the question is,
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who was it that was
restraining the manifestation
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of the papacy as the Antichrist?
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It was the Roman empire.
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As long as the empire stood,
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the man of sin could not rule
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but once the empire and
the emperor would remove,
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were removed,
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then this man of sin
could rise to rule himself.
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Now, let me give you
a little bit of history.
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In the year 330 A.D.,
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Emperor Constantine moved
the seat of the Roman empire
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to Constantinople.
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Today, it's Istanbul.
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And thus, the
political power of the west
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was greatly weakened.
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In fact, around
the end of the fourth
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and early fifth centuries,
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not only that Constantine
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had Constantine
removed the empire,
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the seat of the empire to
Constantinople in the east,
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but also at the
end of the fourth
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and early fifth centuries,
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hordes of barbarian
tribes from the north
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invaded what had
been the Roman empire
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and carved it up into pieces.
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In the year 476,
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the last Roman
emperor was deposed from Rome.
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His name was Romulus Augustulus.
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Thus there was
no longer an emperor
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in the Western Roman empire.
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The man of sin could now
rise to occupy the throne.
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I wanna read you
from a historian.
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This is a historian
that describes this period.
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You can find the
reference when we do the DVDs,
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you're gonna find
all of these quotations
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on the screen even
though we don't have them here.
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This is what this
historian has to say.
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"When the insignificant Romulus
Augustulus was deposed in 476,
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there was no
longer a titular emperor.
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In other words, there
was no longer an emperor.
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Now what happened as a result?
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As a result without an emperor,
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the Roman empire became a mess.
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Civil society fell apart,
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the abandonment of Rome
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by Constantine to Constantinople
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and the deposition of
the emperor in the West
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turned the empire upside down
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because it no
longer had a civil ruler.
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In this chaotic situation,
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the Bishop of Rome
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was enticed by
the barbarian tribes,
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to not only rule over
them in religious affairs
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but to rule over them in
spiritual affairs as well.
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And thus the Bishop of Rome,
which today we call the pope
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now is not only the civil ruler
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to bring order in what
had been the Roman empire,
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but it also is the
ruler in religious affairs.
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Let me read you the description
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that is given by a
Roman Catholic Cardinal,
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one of those Cardinals
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that abandon
the Catholic Church.
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They were Anglicans
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and they became Roman Catholics
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and they were
given the Cardinal's hat.
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One of them was
John Henry Newman.
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You remember we mentioned him,
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the other one was
John Henry Manning,
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and I want you to
notice what he had to say.
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This is not a
Protestant scholar,
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this is not me, it's
him about what happened
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when the
barbarians invaded the empire
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and how the
barbarians asked the pope
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to take over
the civil ruler ship
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and not only the
religious ruler ship.
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This is what he wrote,
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"But from the
hour when Constantine,
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in the language
of the Roman law,
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'Deo jubente,' by
the command of God,"
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listen carefully,
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"translated the seat of
power to Constantinople,
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from that moment,
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there never reigned in Rome,
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a temporal prince to
whom the Bishops of Rome
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owed a permanent allegiance.
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James P. Conroy,
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another historian
describes it this way,
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"Long ages ago,
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when Rome through the
neglect of the Western emperors
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was left to the mercy
of the barbarous hordes,
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the Romans turned to one
figure for aid and protection,
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and asked him to rule,"
asked him to rule over them.
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"And thus, in
this simple matter,
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the best title of
all to kingly right,
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commenced the temporal
sovereignty of the popes."
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See, the barbarians
asked him to rule over them.
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He continues
saying, listen carefully,
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"And meekly stepping
to the throne of Caesar,
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the vicar of Christ,
or the vicar of Christ
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took up the scepter
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to which the
emperors and kings of Europe
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were to bow in
reverence through so many ages.
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Here's another one
from another historian,
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Carl Conrad Eckhardt,
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he wrote,
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and he's recognizing the
three stages of Rome here,
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"Under the popes,
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the popes had no
temporal powers,"
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is what he says,
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"But when the Roman
empire had disintegrated,"
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that's the second stage,
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"and its place had been
taken by a number of rude,
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barbarous kingdoms,
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the Roman Catholic
Church," stage number three,
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"the Roman Catholic Church
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not only became
independent of the states
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in religious affairs,
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but dominated
secular affairs as well."
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These are not
Adventist historians.
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Let me read you
another statement,
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R.W. Southern,
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Western Society in the
church in the Middle ages.
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This is very
interesting, he says,
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"During the
whole medieval period
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there was in Rome,
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a single spiritual
and temporal authority,
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exercising
powers which in the end
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exceeded those that had
ever lain within the grasp
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of the Roman emperor."
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Here's another one
from John N. Figgis.
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This is an
interesting statement.
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He says, "In the Middle
Ages the church was not a state,
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it was the state or
rather, the civil authority
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was merely the police
department of the Church."
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Are you catching the picture?
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Who had risen to the throne
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to rule not only
in religious affairs
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but in political affairs?
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The Bishop of Rome, who
is called the pope today.
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In 1302, Pope Boniface VII
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wrote a very interesting bull.
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By the way, the word bull,
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means a personal
letter of the pope.
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So in 1302, Pope
Boniface VIII writes a letter,
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a bull and the title of the bull
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is Unam Sanctam, in Latin,
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and this is what he wrote,
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"We are informed by
the texts of the gospels
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that in this
Roman Catholic Church
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and in its
power are two swords."
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So the Catholic Church, he says,
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has how many swords?
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Two swords,
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"Namely, the
spiritual and the temporal.
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Both, therefore, are in
the power of the church,
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that is to say, the spiritual
and the material sword,
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but the former,
that is the spiritual,
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by the way, it's the Bible,
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but the former is to be
administered for the church.
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But the latter
that is the temporal,
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the civil Bible Church,
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the former that is the spiritual
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in the hands of the priest,
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the latter by the hands
of the kings and soldiers,
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but at the will and
sufferance of the priest.
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Are you catching the picture?
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Cardinal Manning, you got
to listen to this statement.
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You remember
that the Antichrist,
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the man of sin
was restrained right?
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He was, in other
words, he was bound
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by the Roman empire.
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Now listen to this statement
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by this Roman Catholic Cardinal,
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"Now the abandonment of Rome
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was the
liberation of the pontiffs."
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He doesn't know he's
commenting on 2 Thessalonians 2.
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The abandonment of Rome
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was the
liberation of the pontiffs.
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Whatsoever claims to obedience
the emperors may have made
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and whatsoever compliance
the pontiff may have yielded,
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the whole previous relation,
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anomalous and
anulled again and again
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by the vices and
outrages of the emperors,
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was finally
dissolved by a higher power.
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The providence of
God, listen carefully,
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the providence of God permitted
a succession of eruptions,
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Gothic, Lombard, and
Hungarian, to desolate Italy,
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and to efface from it
every remnant of the empire."
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Now listen carefully,
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"The pontiffs
found themselves alone,
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the soul or the only fountains
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of order,
peace, law, and safety.
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And from the hour of
this providential Liberation",
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liberation from what?
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From the Roman empire.
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"From this
providential liberation,
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when, by divine intervention
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that chains fell off
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from the hands of
the successor of Peter."
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Are you catching the picture?
00:20:58.89\00:21:01.46
So what happens when
the emperor is removed?
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The barbarians carve up,
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you know,
society, it becomes a mess.
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And so now the pope
steps to the throne of Caesar.
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How does he describe this?
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He says the chains fell off.
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What to chains do?
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They restrain.
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And he speaks of
providential liberation.
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So it says, "When, by
a divine intervention,
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the chains fell off
00:21:23.78\00:21:25.11
from the hands of
the successor of Peter,
00:21:25.15\00:21:26.98
as once before
his own, from his own,
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no sovereign has
ever reigned in Rome
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except the Vicar
of Jesus Christ."
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Here's another
statement by Manning,
00:21:37.43\00:21:40.06
"The papacy waited
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until such a time as God
should break its bonds asunder,
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and should liberate it
00:21:47.47\00:21:48.87
from subjection to civil powers,
00:21:48.90\00:21:51.27
and then enthrone
it in the possession
00:21:51.31\00:21:53.68
of a temporal
sovereignty of its own."
00:21:53.71\00:21:57.68
Notice once
again, the terminology,
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break its bonds,
00:22:00.38\00:22:02.82
liberated from
subjection to civil powers
00:22:02.85\00:22:06.25
and enthrone it
00:22:06.29\00:22:07.79
with a temporal
sovereignty of its own.
00:22:07.82\00:22:11.03
He's commenting
on the restrainer
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and the man of sin,
00:22:14.76\00:22:16.10
who when the chains fall off,
00:22:16.13\00:22:18.17
he openly manifest himself.
00:22:18.20\00:22:20.94
Now Manning is saying
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.80
that when the
emperor Constantine
00:22:22.84\00:22:24.67
moved the seat of the
empire to Constantinople
00:22:24.71\00:22:28.68
and the barbarians
carved up the Roman empire,
00:22:28.71\00:22:32.65
there was a vacuum
in the civil authority.
00:22:32.68\00:22:37.09
And so the barbarians
asked the Bishop of Rome,
00:22:37.12\00:22:39.99
not only to rule
in religious affairs,
00:22:40.02\00:22:42.29
but to rule also
in civil affairs.
00:22:42.32\00:22:46.63
And Manning describes this
00:22:46.66\00:22:48.60
as breaking bonds asunder
00:22:48.63\00:22:52.93
and the chains falling off.
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Let me read you a
comment by Albert Barnes.
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Albert Barnes was
a Bible Commentary,
00:22:59.57\00:23:02.58
commentator, a very famous
Bible Commentary commentator,
00:23:02.61\00:23:07.15
and he wrote the
following about this restrainer
00:23:07.18\00:23:10.15
and the
manifestation of the man of sin.
00:23:10.19\00:23:13.49
He says, "The supposition
00:23:13.52\00:23:15.32
which will best
suit this language is,
00:23:15.36\00:23:18.79
that there was then
some civil restraint,
00:23:18.83\00:23:22.33
preventing the development
of existing corruptions,
00:23:22.36\00:23:26.30
but that there
would be a removal
00:23:26.33\00:23:28.37
or withdrawal of that restraint
00:23:28.40\00:23:31.54
and that then,
00:23:31.57\00:23:33.21
the tendency of the existing
corruptions will be seen.
00:23:33.24\00:23:37.05
It is evident as
Oldshausen remarks,
00:23:37.08\00:23:41.15
that this resisting
or restraining power
00:23:41.18\00:23:44.25
must be
something out of the church
00:23:44.29\00:23:47.62
and distinguished
00:23:47.66\00:23:48.99
from the
anti-Christian tendency itself.
00:23:49.02\00:23:52.49
It is necessary
therefore, to understand this,
00:23:52.53\00:23:55.20
of the
restraints of civil power.
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Was there, then,
any fact in history
00:23:58.30\00:24:00.94
which will accord
with this interpretation?"
00:24:00.97\00:24:02.90
He asks,
00:24:02.94\00:24:04.47
"The belief among
primitive Christians
00:24:04.51\00:24:06.37
was that what hindered
the rise of the man of sin
00:24:06.41\00:24:10.71
was the Roman empire,
00:24:10.75\00:24:12.75
and therefore 'they
prayed for its peace and welfare
00:24:12.78\00:24:16.82
as knowing that
when the Roman empire
00:24:16.85\00:24:19.02
should be dissolved
and broken in pieces,
00:24:19.05\00:24:21.52
the empire of the man of sin
will be raised on its ruins.'"
00:24:21.56\00:24:26.36
So they prayed to Lord,
preserve the Roman empire
00:24:26.39\00:24:29.36
because when it falls apart,
00:24:29.40\00:24:31.47
the man of sin is
gonna be revealed.
00:24:31.50\00:24:33.87
The early Fathers believed that.
00:24:33.90\00:24:35.37
Now let me read you
00:24:35.40\00:24:36.91
what Ellen White has to say
00:24:36.94\00:24:39.01
about the
removal of the restraint.
00:24:39.04\00:24:42.28
In Great
Controversy page 49, she wrote,
00:24:42.31\00:24:45.91
"The spirit of
compromise and conformity,"
00:24:45.95\00:24:48.98
she's speaking
about the early church,
00:24:49.02\00:24:51.55
"was restrained,"
00:24:51.59\00:24:54.86
was what?
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.46
"Restrained for a time
by the fierce persecutions
00:24:56.49\00:25:00.70
which the church
endured under paganism."
00:25:00.73\00:25:02.80
When she says
paganism, it's the Roman empire.
00:25:02.83\00:25:05.93
Then she says, "But
as persecution ceased,
00:25:05.97\00:25:09.54
and Christianity
entered the courts
00:25:09.57\00:25:11.71
and palaces of kings,"
00:25:11.74\00:25:14.04
see, involved in the
civil ruler ship of the nation,
00:25:14.08\00:25:17.25
she says, "She laid aside
the humble simplicity of Christ
00:25:17.28\00:25:19.88
and His apostles
for the pomp and pride
00:25:19.91\00:25:22.62
of pagan priests and rulers,
00:25:22.65\00:25:24.35
and in place of the
requirements of God,
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.42
she substituted human
theories and traditions."
00:25:26.45\00:25:31.26
She also wrote in Manuscript
Releases Volume 1, page 50,
00:25:31.29\00:25:35.20
"The vast empire of
Rome crumbled to pieces,
00:25:35.23\00:25:39.27
and from its ruins
rose that mighty power,
00:25:39.30\00:25:42.87
the Roman Catholic Church.
00:25:42.90\00:25:44.97
This church boasts
of her infallibility
00:25:45.01\00:25:48.04
and her hereditary religion.
00:25:48.08\00:25:52.05
Now let's read once
again, 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7
00:25:52.08\00:25:56.02
and try and make
some sense out of this
00:25:56.05\00:25:58.02
in the light of
what we've already read.
00:25:58.05\00:26:02.16
The Apostle Paul says,
00:26:02.19\00:26:04.23
"And now you know
what is restraining,"
00:26:04.26\00:26:08.96
according to
what we're studying,
00:26:09.00\00:26:10.33
what is it that
was restraining?"
00:26:10.37\00:26:13.20
The empire, what?
00:26:13.23\00:26:16.87
And then he says,
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.24
"That he may be
revealed in his own time."
00:26:18.27\00:26:21.44
That's the Antichrist,
00:26:21.48\00:26:23.55
"For the mystery of
lawlessness is already at work,
00:26:23.58\00:26:26.25
only he, which
would be the emperor,
00:26:26.28\00:26:29.82
but it's not one emperor,
it's a succession of emperor's
00:26:29.85\00:26:32.39
as we've noticed the
meaning of the word he,
00:26:32.42\00:26:34.82
but only he who now restrains
00:26:34.86\00:26:38.23
will do so until when?
00:26:38.26\00:26:40.93
Until he is
taken out of the away.
00:26:40.96\00:26:42.70
So was the papacy
taken out of the away?
00:26:42.73\00:26:45.57
Was the Roman empire
taken out of the away
00:26:45.60\00:26:47.24
by the barbarians?
00:26:47.27\00:26:48.60
Absolutely.
00:26:48.64\00:26:50.01
Now, some people say, "Well,
00:26:50.04\00:26:51.37
why didn't the Apostle Paul
just come right out and say,
00:26:51.41\00:26:54.11
you know, the Roman
empire is gonna be removed
00:26:54.14\00:26:56.44
and that the
Antichrist will be manifested.
00:26:56.48\00:27:00.12
Well, it's quite
obvious that if Paul had told
00:27:00.15\00:27:04.25
the church members
00:27:04.29\00:27:05.72
that the Roman
empire was gonna be removed
00:27:05.75\00:27:08.32
and replaced by the papacy,
00:27:08.36\00:27:10.06
he would be accused of sedition
against the Roman empire.
00:27:10.09\00:27:14.50
The Roman emperors
would say, What do you mean
00:27:14.53\00:27:16.46
that we kind of be removed,
00:27:16.50\00:27:18.37
and somebody else is
gonna rule the empire.
00:27:18.40\00:27:20.80
And so he had to
speak in an indirect way.
00:27:20.84\00:27:24.87
He says, "You know
what is restraining,
00:27:24.91\00:27:28.21
you know, who is restraining
00:27:28.24\00:27:30.95
and you know, that when
that restraint was removed,
00:27:30.98\00:27:33.62
the man of sin
will manifest himself,
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.92
but it doesn't
come right out and say
00:27:35.95\00:27:38.12
that Rome is
going to be removed,
00:27:38.15\00:27:40.42
because if he said that,
00:27:40.46\00:27:41.79
he would be accused of sedition.
00:27:41.82\00:27:44.99
Incidentally, the
way futurists interpret
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this restrainer is they say
00:27:50.30\00:27:53.10
that the
restrainer is the Holy Spirit.
00:27:53.13\00:27:56.67
And when the Holy
Spirit is removed,
00:27:56.71\00:27:59.77
then the man of sin
can manifest himself.
00:27:59.81\00:28:02.58
Even the Andrews
University study Bible
00:28:02.61\00:28:04.51
says that the
restrainer is the Holy Spirit.
00:28:04.55\00:28:07.65
I believe that what the
early church Fathers believed
00:28:07.68\00:28:10.99
was much more accurate.
00:28:11.02\00:28:13.15
In fact, let's
read some statements
00:28:13.19\00:28:14.96
from the early church Fathers
00:28:14.99\00:28:16.62
who lived slightly before
the Roman empire fell apart,
00:28:16.66\00:28:21.46
and some of them at the time
00:28:21.50\00:28:23.03
that the Roman
empire was falling apart.
00:28:23.06\00:28:25.67
Let's begin with Tertullian.
00:28:25.70\00:28:28.07
He lived it from the year
160 to the year to 240 A.D.
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This is what he wrote,
00:28:33.38\00:28:35.28
"For the mystery of
iniquity doth already work.
00:28:35.31\00:28:39.18
Only he who now
hinders must hinder,
00:28:39.21\00:28:43.39
until he be
taken out of the way."
00:28:43.42\00:28:45.95
And now comes
his interpretation.
00:28:45.99\00:28:48.42
What obstacle is
there but the Roman state,
00:28:48.46\00:28:52.93
the falling away of which,
00:28:52.96\00:28:55.06
by being
scattered into ten kingdoms,
00:28:55.10\00:28:57.57
shall introduce
Antichrist upon its own ruins?'
00:28:57.60\00:29:02.80
And then shall be
revealed the wicked one.'"
00:29:02.84\00:29:05.87
Did you have it clear,
00:29:05.91\00:29:07.64
the meaning of his prophecy?
00:29:07.68\00:29:09.28
He most certainly did.
00:29:09.31\00:29:10.78
Tertullian also
wrote the following,
00:29:10.81\00:29:13.72
"The end of all things
00:29:13.75\00:29:16.08
threatening dreadful woes
00:29:16.12\00:29:19.45
is only retarded by
the continued existence
00:29:19.49\00:29:23.66
of the Roman empire."
00:29:23.69\00:29:26.39
Lactantius,
00:29:26.43\00:29:28.80
one of the Church Fathers
wrote in the fourth century,
00:29:28.83\00:29:31.53
the following words,
00:29:31.57\00:29:33.34
"The subject itself declares
00:29:33.37\00:29:35.94
that the fall
and ruin of the world
00:29:35.97\00:29:38.84
will certainly take place,
00:29:38.87\00:29:41.18
except that while
the city of Rome remains,
00:29:41.21\00:29:45.55
it appears that nothing of
this kind is to be feared."
00:29:45.58\00:29:50.15
You understand that?
00:29:50.19\00:29:52.09
Continues writing,
00:29:52.12\00:29:53.56
"But when the capital of
the world shall have fallen,
00:29:53.59\00:29:58.49
and shall have
begun to be a street,
00:29:58.53\00:30:00.66
which the Sibyls
say shall come to pass,
00:30:00.70\00:30:03.67
who can doubt that
the end has now arrived
00:30:03.70\00:30:05.90
to the affairs of
men and the whole world?
00:30:05.93\00:30:08.80
It is that city,
00:30:08.84\00:30:10.51
that only,
00:30:10.54\00:30:12.11
which still
sustains all things."
00:30:12.14\00:30:16.38
Let me read what
Ambrose had to say,
00:30:16.41\00:30:18.21
another early church father.
00:30:18.25\00:30:19.58
He died in the year 398A.D.
00:30:19.61\00:30:22.58
This is near the time
00:30:22.62\00:30:23.95
when the barbarians
are invading the empire
00:30:23.99\00:30:26.62
and carving it up.
00:30:26.65\00:30:28.22
He wrote the following,
00:30:28.26\00:30:29.79
"After the falling or
decay of the Roman empire,
00:30:29.82\00:30:35.03
Antichrist will appear."
00:30:35.06\00:30:38.33
Let me read you what
Chrysostom had to say.
00:30:38.37\00:30:40.94
He died in the year 407A.D,
00:30:40.97\00:30:43.87
this is what he wrote,
00:30:43.91\00:30:45.44
"When the Roman empire
is taken out of the way,
00:30:45.47\00:30:48.98
then he shall come."
00:30:49.01\00:30:51.55
That is the Antichrist.
00:30:51.58\00:30:52.95
"And naturally,
00:30:52.98\00:30:54.58
for as long as the
fear of this empire lasts,
00:30:54.62\00:30:58.22
no one will
willingly exalt himself."
00:30:58.25\00:31:01.99
That's why Paul didn't
say it's the Roman empire
00:31:02.02\00:31:04.73
because if he says that
he's accused of sedition,
00:31:04.76\00:31:08.36
and it shortens his ministry.
00:31:08.40\00:31:10.87
He continues writing,
00:31:10.90\00:31:14.17
"And naturally,
00:31:14.20\00:31:15.54
for as long as the
fear of this empire lasts,
00:31:15.57\00:31:17.84
no one will
willingly exalt himself,
00:31:17.87\00:31:20.38
but when that is dissolved,
00:31:20.41\00:31:21.74
in other words, when
the empire is dissolved,
00:31:21.78\00:31:24.01
he will attack the anarchy,
00:31:24.05\00:31:25.88
and endeavor to
seize upon the government
00:31:25.91\00:31:28.22
both of man and of God.
00:31:28.25\00:31:31.29
Is that what
happened with the papacy?
00:31:31.32\00:31:33.39
Did they take over
the government of man
00:31:33.42\00:31:34.89
besides the government of God?
00:31:34.92\00:31:36.99
Absolutely.
00:31:37.03\00:31:38.36
Notice what Jerome had to say.
00:31:38.39\00:31:40.40
He's the one who translated
00:31:40.43\00:31:41.76
the vulgate
version of the Bible,
00:31:41.80\00:31:43.97
which is the official
Roman Catholic version
00:31:44.00\00:31:46.03
of the Bible for the vulgate.
00:31:46.07\00:31:48.00
He died in the year
420 A.D, he wrote this,
00:31:48.04\00:31:51.21
"He that
letteth," that's the word
00:31:51.24\00:31:53.17
that's used in the
King James for restrain.
00:31:53.21\00:31:56.21
"He that letteth is
taken out of the way,
00:31:56.24\00:32:00.52
and yet we do not realize
that Antichrist is near."
00:32:00.55\00:32:03.65
He lived when the barbarians
were invading the empire.
00:32:03.69\00:32:06.19
He's said it's happening.
00:32:06.22\00:32:08.72
He's saying that you
know, the empire is falling,
00:32:08.76\00:32:12.73
and we do not realize
00:32:12.76\00:32:14.96
that the Antichrist has come
00:32:15.00\00:32:18.90
or in the process of coming.
00:32:18.93\00:32:20.27
Are you understanding
00:32:20.30\00:32:21.64
what the early
church Fathers are saying?
00:32:21.67\00:32:24.27
They're saying
that what restrains
00:32:24.31\00:32:26.71
is the emperor and the empire
00:32:26.74\00:32:30.58
but when the last
emperor is deposed,
00:32:30.61\00:32:32.98
when the seat of the empire
is moved to Constantinople,
00:32:33.01\00:32:36.62
and society is a disaster,
00:32:36.65\00:32:39.95
they need a civil ruler
and not only religious ruler.
00:32:39.99\00:32:43.49
And so now,
00:32:43.53\00:32:44.86
the restrainer haven't
been taken out of the way,
00:32:44.89\00:32:48.70
the Bishop of Rome can come
00:32:48.73\00:32:50.33
and occupy the
throne that was left vacant.
00:32:50.37\00:32:53.67
Now let's go to 2
Thessalonians 2:6,
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is this making sense?
00:32:56.10\00:32:58.57
Yes?
00:32:58.61\00:32:59.94
Is it historical?
00:32:59.97\00:33:01.91
You can go to the
history books and read it.
00:33:01.94\00:33:04.05
2 Thessalonians 2:6,
00:33:04.08\00:33:07.18
the Apostle Paul says,
00:33:07.22\00:33:08.55
"And now you know
what is restraining,
00:33:08.58\00:33:11.22
that he may be revealed
00:33:11.25\00:33:13.46
in his own time."
00:33:13.49\00:33:18.06
Was there a
specific point of time
00:33:18.09\00:33:20.16
when this antichrist
was going to begin his rule?
00:33:20.20\00:33:23.60
Yes.
00:33:23.63\00:33:24.97
What time would
be referred to here?
00:33:25.00\00:33:28.40
The 1260 years.
00:33:28.44\00:33:31.27
Is that a specific time prophecy
00:33:31.31\00:33:33.34
of the period in
which this power would rule?
00:33:33.38\00:33:37.25
538 to 1798.
00:33:37.28\00:33:39.85
In other words,
what Paul is saying
00:33:39.88\00:33:41.48
is this Antichrist system
00:33:41.52\00:33:44.35
is gonna rise at
the specific time
00:33:44.39\00:33:46.72
in which God
placed on his calendar,
00:33:46.76\00:33:50.53
not before and not after,
00:33:50.56\00:33:52.56
he will rise in his own time.
00:33:52.59\00:33:55.86
And then in Chapter 2, verse 7,
00:33:55.90\00:33:58.70
he says, "For the
mystery of lawlessness
00:33:58.73\00:34:00.74
is already at work."
00:34:00.77\00:34:02.94
So in his day,
00:34:02.97\00:34:04.31
the Antichrist
spirit was already at work.
00:34:04.34\00:34:07.28
Only He, this is the emperor
or the succession of emperors,
00:34:07.31\00:34:11.61
"Who now restrains
will do so until he,"
00:34:11.65\00:34:15.95
that is a
succession of emperors,
00:34:15.98\00:34:17.92
"is taken out of the way."
00:34:17.95\00:34:19.65
However 2 Thessalonians 2
is not the end of the story.
00:34:23.96\00:34:29.30
We now need to go
beyond 2 Thessalonians 2.
00:34:29.33\00:34:33.80
You see, the
Apostle Paul only describes
00:34:33.84\00:34:37.64
the first stage of
the Antichrist system.
00:34:37.67\00:34:41.88
The stage where the Roman empire
00:34:41.91\00:34:44.15
is taken out of the way,
00:34:44.18\00:34:45.51
the emperor was
taken out of the way,
00:34:45.55\00:34:47.65
the emperor that was ruling
00:34:47.68\00:34:49.78
goes to the east
against to Constantinople,
00:34:49.82\00:34:52.35
the barbarians
carve up the empire,
00:34:52.39\00:34:54.86
the Bishop of Rome
steps to the throne.
00:34:54.89\00:34:57.23
He becomes Caesar
as many writers say,
00:34:57.26\00:35:00.30
he occupies the
throne of Caesar.
00:35:00.33\00:35:03.60
He rises in his own time
and rules for 1260 years.
00:35:03.63\00:35:08.80
That is the perspective
that the Apostle Paul gives.
00:35:08.84\00:35:10.91
But he hints at the fact
00:35:10.94\00:35:13.01
that there's gonna be
another stage to this power.
00:35:13.04\00:35:16.78
Because this power is destroyed
00:35:16.81\00:35:18.71
by the brightness
of Christ's coming,
00:35:18.75\00:35:22.08
which means that this
power is going not only to exist
00:35:22.12\00:35:25.32
in the days when it
rises to the throne in 538,
00:35:25.35\00:35:29.36
but it is going to rule
till the very end of time.
00:35:29.39\00:35:34.83
Now, Paul does not
specifically discuss
00:35:34.86\00:35:37.53
the second stage
of this Antichrist.
00:35:37.57\00:35:42.77
So we need to go beyond this.
00:35:42.80\00:35:47.38
As far as we know,
00:35:47.41\00:35:50.58
the papacy and this is,
00:35:50.61\00:35:53.55
I shouldn't say
as far as we know,
00:35:53.58\00:35:55.98
we know that the
papacy ruled from 538 to 1798.
00:35:56.02\00:36:01.39
In 1798, the papacy
received a deadly wound.
00:36:01.42\00:36:06.19
Many people misunderstand
what the deadly wound is.
00:36:06.23\00:36:09.96
They say, well, the deadly wound
00:36:10.00\00:36:11.33
is that the papacy was,
00:36:11.37\00:36:13.67
you know, the
Roman Catholic Church
00:36:13.70\00:36:15.04
was going to cease to exist.
00:36:15.07\00:36:17.07
Well, the Roman Catholic Church
didn't cease to exist in 1798.
00:36:17.11\00:36:21.54
Did people still take
their children to mosque?
00:36:21.58\00:36:24.81
Did they still baptize them?
00:36:24.85\00:36:26.88
Did they still go
to the confession room?
00:36:26.92\00:36:29.38
Did they still
participate in the Eucharist?
00:36:29.42\00:36:31.92
Absolutely.
00:36:31.95\00:36:33.56
The Catholic Church
didn't disappear in 1798.
00:36:33.59\00:36:37.49
What the deadly wound
00:36:37.53\00:36:38.86
was that the civil
authority of the papacy
00:36:38.89\00:36:42.36
was removed by France.
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.53
France said
"You're not going to rule
00:36:44.57\00:36:47.67
civilly anymore.
00:36:47.70\00:36:50.07
You can be a spiritual
ruler but not a civil ruler.
00:36:50.11\00:36:54.24
In other words,
that deadly wound
00:36:54.28\00:36:55.61
the Bible says was given
to the papacy with the sword
00:36:55.64\00:36:59.15
that the papacy
used to kill with.
00:36:59.18\00:37:01.72
He who kills with the sword
must be killed with the sword.
00:37:01.75\00:37:06.22
Now, what does
the sword represent?
00:37:06.25\00:37:08.69
Well, people say this
sword represents the Bible.
00:37:08.72\00:37:11.93
But in this case, that
can't represent the Bible.
00:37:11.96\00:37:15.30
Because the papacy didn't
use the Bible to kill people.
00:37:15.33\00:37:18.73
And the very sword
that the papacy used to kill
00:37:18.77\00:37:21.80
was the sword
00:37:21.84\00:37:23.17
that was gonna give the
papacy its deadly would.
00:37:23.20\00:37:24.94
So the sword must represent
something else in this context.
00:37:24.97\00:37:29.11
In Romans Chapter 13,
00:37:29.14\00:37:30.51
we see that it's the civil power
00:37:30.55\00:37:32.45
that has the sword.
00:37:32.48\00:37:34.18
In other words, in 1798,
00:37:34.22\00:37:35.85
France took away the
sword from the papacy,
00:37:35.88\00:37:37.82
they said, "You're not
gonna use the civil powers
00:37:37.85\00:37:39.79
of the world anymore.
00:37:39.82\00:37:43.19
You can be a
ruler of the church,
00:37:43.22\00:37:45.59
but you're not gonna
be able to use the states
00:37:45.63\00:37:47.86
to accomplish your purposes."
00:37:47.90\00:37:49.40
That is the deadly wound.
00:37:49.43\00:37:51.97
So let me ask you.
00:37:52.00\00:37:53.87
Was the papacy
00:37:53.90\00:37:55.94
put under
restraint again in 1798?
00:37:55.97\00:38:01.14
Do you know what
Revelation calls that?
00:38:01.18\00:38:03.88
The deadly wound.
00:38:03.91\00:38:05.25
Was the papacy restrained
00:38:08.28\00:38:10.32
from using the
civil power in 1798?
00:38:10.35\00:38:13.39
Absolutely.
00:38:13.42\00:38:14.76
Has the papacy
been under restraint
00:38:14.79\00:38:17.73
ever since then?
00:38:17.76\00:38:21.16
Pretty much so.
00:38:21.20\00:38:22.93
Let me read you some statements
00:38:22.96\00:38:24.60
from the writings of Ellen White
00:38:24.63\00:38:26.80
where we are told that
the papacy now is inactive
00:38:26.84\00:38:32.67
and when you say inactive,
00:38:32.71\00:38:34.04
well, the pope is traveling
here, there and everywhere.
00:38:34.08\00:38:36.14
Yes, but the papacy
is not able to persecute
00:38:36.18\00:38:38.45
like it did in the past.
00:38:38.48\00:38:40.45
Why?
00:38:40.48\00:38:41.85
Because in the past, they used
the civil powers to persecute,
00:38:41.88\00:38:46.25
but in 1798 the civil
power was removed from it,
00:38:46.29\00:38:49.09
the sword was removed from it.
00:38:49.12\00:38:51.79
And not until it
recovers a sword,
00:38:51.83\00:38:53.90
will it be able to
behave as it did in the past?
00:38:53.93\00:38:56.56
Are you understanding me?
00:38:56.60\00:38:58.17
Let me read you some statements
from the Spirit of Prophecy,
00:38:58.20\00:39:02.20
"The influence of Rome
00:39:02.24\00:39:04.77
in the countries that once
acknowledged her dominion."
00:39:04.81\00:39:10.05
There in the 1260 years,
00:39:10.08\00:39:12.15
is still far
from being destroyed
00:39:12.18\00:39:15.22
and prophecy foretells a
restoration of her power."
00:39:15.25\00:39:20.79
Then she quotes,
00:39:20.82\00:39:22.16
I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death,
00:39:22.19\00:39:25.09
and his deadly wound was healed:
00:39:25.13\00:39:26.80
and all the world
wondered after the beast."
00:39:26.83\00:39:30.97
So does the beast have
two stages of dominion?
00:39:31.00\00:39:34.10
Yes, 1260 years
00:39:34.14\00:39:36.40
when the civil
power is taken away,
00:39:36.44\00:39:38.81
and now it can use the
civil power to persecute
00:39:38.84\00:39:41.94
and to do what it wants.
00:39:41.98\00:39:44.85
The power is removed in 1798.
00:39:44.88\00:39:48.18
In other words, the
shackles are put back on.
00:39:48.22\00:39:51.29
The papacy is thrown
into prison so to speak.
00:39:51.32\00:39:55.26
And as a result,
00:39:55.29\00:39:56.62
the papacy cannot use the
civil powers of the world.
00:39:56.66\00:40:00.63
But Revelation and Ellen White
00:40:00.66\00:40:02.80
tells us that the
papacy will recover
00:40:02.83\00:40:06.27
the power they lost.
00:40:06.30\00:40:08.44
Who is gonna return
the sword to the papacy?
00:40:08.47\00:40:12.21
The United States of America.
00:40:12.24\00:40:14.64
Has the deadly
wound been healed yet?
00:40:14.68\00:40:17.38
No, the deadly wound is healed
00:40:17.41\00:40:19.21
when the papacy
has the sword again,
00:40:19.25\00:40:22.42
the sword of civil power.
00:40:22.45\00:40:23.99
And the Bible tells
us that the United States
00:40:24.02\00:40:26.12
is gonna be the nation
00:40:26.15\00:40:27.49
that will first return
the sword to the papacy,
00:40:27.52\00:40:30.56
and Ellen White states
that every country on the globe
00:40:30.59\00:40:33.80
will follow the
example of the United States.
00:40:33.83\00:40:36.77
That's why Pope
Francis is so intent
00:40:36.80\00:40:39.33
on getting the support
of the rulers of the world
00:40:39.37\00:40:41.84
by using the talking
points that they like.
00:40:41.87\00:40:45.94
Climate change,
poverty, immigration,
00:40:45.97\00:40:51.58
those are the topics
that the civil rulers enjoy.
00:40:51.61\00:40:55.88
This pope doesn't
talk about euthanasia,
00:40:55.92\00:40:58.45
and about abortion,
and about gay marriage.
00:40:58.49\00:41:02.49
In fact, when they
asked him about gay marriage,
00:41:02.52\00:41:04.16
he says, "Who am I to judge?"
00:41:04.19\00:41:07.03
You remember that?
00:41:07.06\00:41:08.73
Those talking points,
civil rulers don't like those.
00:41:08.76\00:41:12.83
But they love it when
you talk about poverty,
00:41:12.87\00:41:15.04
when you talk about immigration
and about climate change.
00:41:15.07\00:41:19.14
He wants to earn the support
00:41:19.17\00:41:21.44
of the civil
powers of the world,
00:41:21.48\00:41:23.18
beginning with
the United States.
00:41:23.21\00:41:24.55
The only problem is Donald Trump
00:41:24.58\00:41:26.48
was a bump in the road
00:41:26.51\00:41:29.22
because he's totally opposite
00:41:29.25\00:41:30.89
of the pope in every particular.
00:41:30.92\00:41:33.92
I believe God has given us time.
00:41:33.96\00:41:36.66
God is saying,
"Get down to business
00:41:36.69\00:41:38.03
and tell people about this."
00:41:38.06\00:41:42.16
Another
statement by Ellen White,
00:41:42.20\00:41:44.83
volume five of the
Testimonies, page 712.
00:41:44.87\00:41:48.10
She says, "When our nation
00:41:48.14\00:41:49.84
shall so abjure the
principles of its government
00:41:49.87\00:41:53.44
as to enact a Sunday law,
00:41:53.48\00:41:56.21
Protestantism will in this act
00:41:56.24\00:42:00.25
join hands with popery,"
00:42:00.28\00:42:02.82
and listen carefully now,
00:42:02.85\00:42:04.82
"it will be nothing else
00:42:04.85\00:42:07.26
than giving
life to the tyranny."
00:42:07.29\00:42:11.49
Why would you have to
give life to the tyranny?
00:42:11.53\00:42:15.46
You only give life to
that which is dead, hello.
00:42:15.50\00:42:19.90
That's talking of the
dead, healing of the wound.
00:42:19.93\00:42:22.87
"Giving life to the tyranny
00:42:22.90\00:42:25.27
which has long
been eagerly watching
00:42:25.31\00:42:28.14
its opportunity to spring
again into active despotism."
00:42:28.18\00:42:33.42
Spring again means
00:42:33.45\00:42:34.78
the deadly wound will be healed.
00:42:34.82\00:42:36.99
In another statement,
Signs of the Times, page,
00:42:37.02\00:42:40.29
actually June 12, 1893.
00:42:40.32\00:42:42.59
She wrote,
"Protestants will throw
00:42:42.62\00:42:44.79
their whole influence
00:42:44.83\00:42:46.16
and strength on
the side of the papacy
00:42:46.19\00:42:48.50
by a national act," by the
way, that's an act of Congress,
00:42:48.53\00:42:52.07
"by a national act
enforcing the false Sabbath,
00:42:52.10\00:42:55.10
they will give life and vigor."
00:42:55.14\00:42:57.81
There you have again,
the healing of the wound.
00:42:57.84\00:42:59.24
"They will give life and vigor
to the corrupt faith of Rome,
00:42:59.27\00:43:03.21
reviving," there's the
healing of the deadly wound,
00:43:03.24\00:43:07.02
"reviving her tyranny
and oppression of conscience.
00:43:07.05\00:43:11.15
Then it will be time for
God to work in mighty power
00:43:11.19\00:43:13.82
for the
vindication of his truth."
00:43:13.86\00:43:19.29
Now,
00:43:19.33\00:43:21.20
I wanna read you a
very interesting statement.
00:43:21.23\00:43:24.43
This statement was written
by a Roman Catholic Jesuit,
00:43:24.47\00:43:29.94
who died a few years ago,
00:43:29.97\00:43:31.31
you're gonna recognize
his name, Malachi Martin.
00:43:31.34\00:43:34.74
He wrote the book,
"The Keys of This Blood."
00:43:34.78\00:43:37.05
He was an
intimate personal friend
00:43:37.08\00:43:38.91
of Pope John Paul II.
00:43:38.95\00:43:41.52
In 1986, he wrote a
very significant statement,
00:43:41.55\00:43:45.02
which he didn't even realize
what he was commenting on,
00:43:45.05\00:43:49.12
but it's a powerful statement.
00:43:49.16\00:43:52.86
He's speaking
about the deadly wound
00:43:52.89\00:43:54.23
that was given to the papacy
and the healing of the wound,
00:43:54.26\00:43:56.26
although he doesn't realize it.
00:43:56.30\00:43:58.83
This is how it reads,
00:43:58.87\00:44:00.97
"For 1500 years and more,
00:44:01.00\00:44:04.87
papal Rome had kept as
strong a hand as possible
00:44:04.91\00:44:10.58
in each local community
around the wide world."
00:44:10.61\00:44:15.18
So how long had
papal Rome kept stronghold
00:44:15.22\00:44:18.49
on every community in the world?
00:44:18.52\00:44:20.92
Every local community,
00:44:20.96\00:44:22.72
he says for 1500 years.
00:44:22.76\00:44:24.33
Now notice what he says,
00:44:24.36\00:44:26.53
"By and large, and
admitting some exceptions."
00:44:26.56\00:44:30.27
He's writing this in 1986.
00:44:30.30\00:44:33.03
That has been the Roman view,
00:44:33.07\00:44:35.97
what had been the Roman view?
00:44:36.00\00:44:38.87
"Keeping a strong
a hand as possible
00:44:38.91\00:44:40.78
in each local
community around the wide world.
00:44:40.81\00:44:45.21
That had been the Roman view
00:44:45.25\00:44:47.48
until 200 years of inactivity
00:44:47.52\00:44:53.92
had been imposed upon the papacy
00:44:53.96\00:44:56.46
by the major secular
powers of the world."
00:44:56.49\00:45:00.76
Are you understanding
00:45:00.80\00:45:02.13
the significance
of that statement?
00:45:02.16\00:45:04.50
What he's saying is
that for the last 200 years,
00:45:04.53\00:45:06.74
he's writing in 1986,
00:45:06.77\00:45:08.60
the papacy has been inactive.
00:45:08.64\00:45:10.07
Now talking about
the Catholic Church,
00:45:13.24\00:45:15.64
talk about the papacy,
00:45:15.68\00:45:18.78
why is it been inactive?
00:45:18.81\00:45:20.85
He explains it,
00:45:20.88\00:45:22.38
200 years of inactivity
00:45:22.42\00:45:24.62
has been imposed upon the papacy
00:45:24.65\00:45:26.79
by the major
secular powers of the world.
00:45:26.82\00:45:29.59
They put the handcuffs back on.
00:45:29.62\00:45:33.43
Incidentally, you
know, what's interesting
00:45:33.46\00:45:35.00
about this
statement of Malachi Martin
00:45:35.03\00:45:39.23
is if you go back from 1986,
00:45:39.27\00:45:43.67
200 years,
00:45:43.71\00:45:45.34
you're at the French Revolution.
00:45:45.37\00:45:49.11
What he's saying
without realizing it
00:45:49.14\00:45:51.58
is that the French Revolution
00:45:51.61\00:45:53.95
actually imposed
200 years of inactivity
00:45:53.98\00:45:59.02
upon the papacy,
00:45:59.05\00:46:00.39
the major secular
powers of the world.
00:46:00.42\00:46:04.73
So how will the
handcuffs come off?
00:46:04.76\00:46:09.60
How are the
handcuffs gonna come off?
00:46:09.63\00:46:13.47
Listen, folks,
00:46:13.50\00:46:15.47
not only did France withdraw
its support of the papacy,
00:46:15.50\00:46:19.71
after France
00:46:19.74\00:46:21.08
withdrew its civil
support of the papacy,
00:46:21.11\00:46:24.55
every nation in Europe
00:46:24.58\00:46:26.35
began establishing
democratic governments
00:46:26.38\00:46:28.65
independent of the papacy.
00:46:28.68\00:46:30.09
Let me read you a statement
here from Cardinal Manning.
00:46:30.12\00:46:33.79
He wrote this in 1862.
00:46:33.82\00:46:36.42
And he's lamenting the fact
00:46:36.46\00:46:39.26
that the countries in Europe
00:46:39.29\00:46:40.96
have forsaken
the papacy in 1862.
00:46:41.00\00:46:44.60
This is what he wrote,
00:46:44.63\00:46:46.77
"See this Catholic Church,
00:46:46.80\00:46:49.27
this church of God,
00:46:49.30\00:46:51.64
feeble and weak,
00:46:51.67\00:46:53.91
rejected even by the
very nations called Catholic.
00:46:53.94\00:46:59.21
There is Catholic France,
00:46:59.25\00:47:01.68
and Catholic Germany,
00:47:01.72\00:47:03.92
and Catholic Italy,
00:47:03.95\00:47:06.19
giving up this exploded
figment of a temporal power
00:47:06.22\00:47:09.66
of the Vicar of Jesus Christ."
00:47:09.69\00:47:11.79
Those have given up the idea
00:47:11.83\00:47:13.40
that the Vicar of
Christ has temporal power.
00:47:13.43\00:47:16.73
"And so because the
church seems weak," why?
00:47:16.77\00:47:21.27
Because it has a
deadly wound, of course,
00:47:21.30\00:47:22.64
he doesn't know
he's commenting on this.
00:47:22.67\00:47:25.11
"And so, because
the church seems weak
00:47:25.14\00:47:28.04
and the Vicar of the Son of God
00:47:28.08\00:47:29.84
is renewing the passion
of his master upon earth,"
00:47:29.88\00:47:32.45
because he's being persecuted,
00:47:32.48\00:47:34.55
"therefore, we are scandalized,
00:47:34.58\00:47:36.82
therefore we turn
our faces from him."
00:47:36.85\00:47:42.29
Not only was the
papacy forsaken by France,
00:47:42.32\00:47:47.66
all of the
civil powers of Europe
00:47:47.70\00:47:49.66
and the United States
withdrew their support
00:47:49.70\00:47:55.50
and chained the
papacy once again.
00:47:55.54\00:47:59.37
Now, what about the
healing of the deadly wound?
00:47:59.41\00:48:03.18
The history of the
papacy in order to complete,
00:48:03.21\00:48:05.01
the man of sin will manifest
himself in a second stage.
00:48:05.05\00:48:07.78
You have to go beyond 2
Thessalonians Chapter 2,
00:48:07.82\00:48:10.42
to understand this.
00:48:10.45\00:48:12.49
Revelation Chapter
17 presents the scenario
00:48:12.52\00:48:15.19
how it's going to happen.
00:48:15.22\00:48:17.76
Revelation 17
speaks about a harlot,
00:48:17.79\00:48:21.96
that's the papacy.
00:48:22.00\00:48:24.00
Her name is Babylon,
00:48:24.03\00:48:27.67
worldwide system even according
to Dave Hunt the futurist.
00:48:27.70\00:48:31.57
She sits on many
waters, what does that mean?
00:48:31.61\00:48:35.11
Oh, she rules over
nations, tongues and people.
00:48:35.14\00:48:40.25
She has an adulterous
spiritual relationship
00:48:40.28\00:48:42.82
with the kings of the earth.
00:48:42.85\00:48:44.19
She fornicates with
the kings of the earth,
00:48:44.22\00:48:46.45
it says there.
00:48:46.49\00:48:48.39
She has in her hand,
00:48:48.42\00:48:50.26
a golden cup full
of her abominations,
00:48:50.29\00:48:55.16
wine, fermented wine,
00:48:55.20\00:48:57.30
which represents false doctrine.
00:48:57.33\00:48:59.57
She's adorned with
purple and scarlet,
00:48:59.60\00:49:01.24
have you ever noticed the colors
00:49:01.27\00:49:02.60
that the papacy uses,
00:49:02.64\00:49:03.97
they never use blue
00:49:04.01\00:49:06.64
because blue
represents the law of God.
00:49:06.68\00:49:10.25
It's always purple and scarlet.
00:49:10.28\00:49:13.88
So it says, she's
clothed in purple and scarlet
00:49:13.92\00:49:16.65
filled with gold
and precious stones.
00:49:16.69\00:49:19.65
And by the way,
she has daughters,
00:49:19.69\00:49:21.36
because she is
the mother of harlots.
00:49:21.39\00:49:25.33
So you have this trilogy,
00:49:25.36\00:49:27.00
the kings of the earth,
00:49:27.03\00:49:29.06
she fornicates with
the kings of the earth,
00:49:29.10\00:49:31.53
and she has
daughters that do her bidding,
00:49:31.57\00:49:37.11
and she's gonna be filled
with the blood of the saints
00:49:37.14\00:49:39.17
and the martyrs of Jesus
according to Revelation 17:6,
00:49:39.21\00:49:42.11
she's gonna do what
she did in the past.
00:49:42.14\00:49:45.71
Let me read you a
statement from Ellen White.
00:49:45.75\00:49:49.18
Great Controversy 564,
00:49:49.22\00:49:50.59
Ellen White tells us
00:49:50.62\00:49:51.95
how the
restraint will be removed,
00:49:51.99\00:49:53.52
how the papacy will
receive its power again.
00:49:53.56\00:49:56.12
If the deadly wound means
00:49:56.16\00:49:58.16
that the civil power
withdrew its support,
00:49:58.19\00:50:00.70
the healing of a wound
means that the secular power
00:50:00.73\00:50:03.20
is gonna give the support again.
00:50:03.23\00:50:05.77
Listen to this statement,
Great Controversy, page 564.
00:50:05.80\00:50:09.77
"Let the restraints
00:50:09.80\00:50:12.41
now imposed by
secular governments
00:50:12.44\00:50:15.21
be removed."
00:50:15.24\00:50:18.65
What?
00:50:18.68\00:50:20.15
Let the What?
00:50:20.18\00:50:21.82
The restraints imposed by whom?
00:50:21.85\00:50:26.29
By the secular
governments upon whom?
00:50:26.32\00:50:29.59
Upon the papacy.
00:50:29.62\00:50:32.13
"And Rome be reinstated."
00:50:32.16\00:50:36.10
What does reinstated mean?
00:50:36.13\00:50:37.53
Once again occupy the
position that she had.
00:50:40.74\00:50:44.21
Let the restraints now imposed
00:50:44.24\00:50:46.24
by secular
governments be removed
00:50:46.27\00:50:49.51
and Rome be
reinstated in her former power,
00:50:49.54\00:50:53.21
and there would
speedily be a revival
00:50:53.25\00:50:56.65
of her tyranny and persecution."
00:50:56.69\00:50:59.75
What is that that
restraints the papacy today?
00:50:59.79\00:51:03.22
The secular government,
00:51:03.26\00:51:05.23
but if the secular governments
remove that restraint,
00:51:05.26\00:51:10.00
it will be a revival of
her tyranny and persecution
00:51:10.03\00:51:13.47
because she will
use the civil powers
00:51:13.50\00:51:15.27
like she used them in the past
00:51:15.30\00:51:18.07
and that is the
ultimate goal of the papacy,
00:51:18.11\00:51:23.24
even though it's not overt,
00:51:23.28\00:51:25.21
you can't see it on the surface
00:51:25.25\00:51:27.22
but that is
ultimately the purpose.
00:51:27.25\00:51:31.62
Now, the best way in the
Bible to understand this binding
00:51:31.65\00:51:36.56
and unbinding of the papacy
00:51:36.59\00:51:40.23
is by going to the Bible itself.
00:51:40.26\00:51:43.30
You know, we read
statements from historians,
00:51:43.33\00:51:45.10
the early church fathers.
00:51:45.13\00:51:47.00
We read this
statement from Ellen White
00:51:47.04\00:51:48.60
where she says
that the civil powers
00:51:48.64\00:51:50.57
were the ones that restraint
00:51:50.61\00:51:51.94
and if the
restraint is taken away,
00:51:51.97\00:51:53.74
in other words
as the civil power
00:51:53.78\00:51:55.11
support the system again,
00:51:55.14\00:51:56.48
she's going to act
like she did in the past.
00:51:56.51\00:51:58.08
So we've read from
historians and from Ellen White.
00:51:58.11\00:52:00.45
How do we get this
from the Bible though?
00:52:00.48\00:52:03.49
The best way is by
going to Revelation Chapter 20
00:52:03.52\00:52:07.86
where you have a
mention of chains and prison.
00:52:07.89\00:52:13.46
By the way does
Revelation 13 say that he
00:52:13.50\00:52:15.93
who leads into captivity
will be taken into captivity?
00:52:15.96\00:52:20.44
He who wounds with a sword
will be wounded with the sword.
00:52:20.47\00:52:23.47
So it's
speaking about the papacy
00:52:23.51\00:52:24.84
going into what?
00:52:24.87\00:52:26.31
Into captivity in 1798.
00:52:26.34\00:52:30.41
What does that mean?
00:52:30.45\00:52:31.81
It's gonna be thrown into what?
00:52:31.85\00:52:33.82
Prison.
00:52:33.85\00:52:35.28
Why was the papacy
thrown into prison in 1798?
00:52:35.32\00:52:38.42
Because she lost
in support of what?
00:52:38.45\00:52:41.09
Of the civil powers.
00:52:41.12\00:52:43.19
Now, Revelation 20 is
the key to understand this.
00:52:43.22\00:52:47.03
Let me ask you, does the devil
have a lot of power these days?
00:52:47.06\00:52:50.93
Does he have a lot of power?
00:52:50.97\00:52:52.63
He's got plenty of power.
00:52:52.67\00:52:54.37
Where does the
power of the devil reside?
00:52:54.40\00:52:57.64
In the fact
that he's able to use
00:52:57.67\00:52:59.64
the civil powers of the
world to accomplish his purpose.
00:52:59.67\00:53:04.58
How did he accomplish
the intent to kill Moses?
00:53:04.61\00:53:09.45
By using Pharaoh.
00:53:09.48\00:53:11.59
How did he attempt to
kill Jesus when He was born?
00:53:11.62\00:53:15.02
By using Rome.
00:53:15.06\00:53:17.03
So as long as
Satan has the support
00:53:17.06\00:53:21.03
of the kings of
the world, he's free.
00:53:21.06\00:53:26.40
Are you with me?
00:53:26.43\00:53:29.47
But in Revelation 20, it says
00:53:29.50\00:53:31.27
that he is gonna
be thrown in prison
00:53:31.31\00:53:33.21
and he's gonna be chained.
00:53:33.24\00:53:35.74
What does that mean,
00:53:35.78\00:53:37.11
he's gonna be thrown in prison
and he's gonna be chained?
00:53:37.15\00:53:40.98
We already
studied the millennium.
00:53:41.02\00:53:43.99
It means that
all of his power base
00:53:44.02\00:53:47.16
is going to be what?
00:53:47.19\00:53:50.03
Is gonna be
killed when Jesus comes.
00:53:50.06\00:53:53.06
Is he going to have
any kings to deceive?
00:53:53.09\00:53:56.67
What is the power
base of the devil?
00:53:56.70\00:53:59.73
The power base of the
devil is using the civil powers
00:53:59.77\00:54:02.97
to accomplish His purpose.
00:54:03.00\00:54:05.41
But when Jesus comes, all
of the nations of the earth
00:54:05.44\00:54:09.61
will be destroyed
00:54:09.64\00:54:12.01
and therefore
Satan, will be what?
00:54:12.05\00:54:14.48
Bound.
00:54:14.52\00:54:16.62
What does the losing of
Satan mean after the millennium?
00:54:16.65\00:54:21.39
After the
millennium, what happens
00:54:21.42\00:54:23.09
with his power base?
00:54:23.12\00:54:24.46
All of those
that he was deprived
00:54:24.49\00:54:25.83
of at the second coming?
00:54:25.86\00:54:27.96
Oh, now they all resurrect.
00:54:28.00\00:54:31.73
And he says, "Hey,
I got my kings back.
00:54:31.77\00:54:35.97
I got the civil power back."
00:54:36.00\00:54:39.77
So for the devil to be bound
00:54:39.81\00:54:41.61
means that he
loses his power base.
00:54:41.64\00:54:45.15
To be loosed means
00:54:45.18\00:54:47.52
that he has the power base back.
00:54:47.55\00:54:51.15
Revelation itself explains
what the deadly wound is
00:54:51.19\00:54:54.56
and how the
deadly would is healed.
00:54:54.59\00:54:56.99
It has to do with
whether the papacy
00:54:57.03\00:54:58.73
is able to use civil
powers of the world or not.
00:54:58.76\00:55:04.57
So this is the second stage
00:55:04.60\00:55:08.00
which the Apostle Paul
doesn't directly describe,
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but we can understand
that he's also including
00:55:11.67\00:55:13.88
that because the Bible tells
us that this system, this power,
00:55:13.91\00:55:18.21
this man of sin
will be destroyed
00:55:18.25\00:55:19.68
by the brightness
of Christ's coming
00:55:19.71\00:55:21.05
so he must be ruling
at the Second Coming.
00:55:21.08\00:55:23.92
But Revelation tells
us that he has two stages
00:55:23.95\00:55:26.25
and in between there's
a period of inactivity.
00:55:26.29\00:55:30.49
Is this making sense?
00:55:30.53\00:55:32.26
It's biblical.
00:55:32.29\00:55:33.63
The Adventist view
is rock solid, folks.
00:55:33.66\00:55:37.43
The world needs to know it.
00:55:37.47\00:55:38.80
It's historicism.
00:55:38.83\00:55:41.74
It's not futurism,
futurism, you know,
00:55:41.77\00:55:44.61
it's like sitting on
a limb and sign it up
00:55:44.64\00:55:49.44
because you have
no place to begin.
00:55:49.48\00:55:51.61
You say, okay, you know,
00:55:51.65\00:55:53.52
it carries you
to the Roman Empire.
00:55:53.55\00:55:55.68
And then the
prophecy is suspended
00:55:55.72\00:55:57.55
How do you know
when it begins again?
00:55:57.59\00:56:01.76
History is irrelevant
00:56:01.79\00:56:03.66
because you don't
have any reference point
00:56:03.69\00:56:06.66
but when you have historicism,
00:56:06.70\00:56:09.10
it makes all the
sense in the world,
00:56:09.13\00:56:10.53
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, the Roman Empire,
00:56:10.57\00:56:13.84
the ten divisions of Rome,
00:56:13.87\00:56:16.10
the little horn, 1260 years,
00:56:16.14\00:56:19.27
1798, the civil powers
withdraw their support,
00:56:19.31\00:56:23.14
the deadly wound is
imposed for the last 200 years
00:56:23.18\00:56:27.42
plus there's been
peace because the papacy
00:56:27.45\00:56:31.19
is not been able to use
its civil powers of the world,
00:56:31.22\00:56:33.96
but the United States
00:56:33.99\00:56:35.32
will return the
sword to the papacy
00:56:35.36\00:56:37.23
and the papacy will act
the way she did in the past.
00:56:37.26\00:56:42.76
Is it making sense?
00:56:42.80\00:56:45.43
And then will come
the time of trouble
00:56:45.47\00:56:47.24
such as never has been
seen in the history of the world
00:56:47.27\00:56:52.37
and when it
appears that God's people
00:56:52.41\00:56:53.81
are gonna be wiped out,
00:56:53.84\00:56:56.85
Michael is gonna stand up.
00:56:56.88\00:56:58.21
When the king of the north
comes to seek to annihilate
00:56:58.25\00:57:01.02
and destroy many,
according to Daniel 11,
00:57:01.05\00:57:03.49
the last few verses,
00:57:03.52\00:57:04.85
Michael is gonna
stand up and say,
00:57:04.89\00:57:06.22
"Hey, those are my
people, don't touch him.
00:57:06.25\00:57:10.39
If you touch them, you
touched the apple of my eye."
00:57:10.43\00:57:14.86
And so Jesus now
rises to defend His people.
00:57:14.90\00:57:18.03
That doesn't
mean that God's people
00:57:18.07\00:57:19.40
are not gonna go
through the time of trouble.
00:57:19.43\00:57:21.04
The prophecy
says that God's people
00:57:21.07\00:57:22.47
will go through
a time of trouble.
00:57:22.50\00:57:23.84
Jesus will not
allow them to die,
00:57:23.87\00:57:25.84
but their faith will be tried
00:57:25.87\00:57:29.34
but then finally
at the end of trouble,
00:57:29.38\00:57:31.41
of the time of trouble,
00:57:31.45\00:57:33.95
Jesus will deliver His people.
00:57:33.98\00:57:36.28
And by the way,
the final deadly wound
00:57:36.32\00:57:40.52
is when the kings of the earth
according o Revelation 17:16,
00:57:40.56\00:57:43.89
when they discover that
the harlot has deceived them,
00:57:43.93\00:57:47.00
the Bible says that they
will turn against the harlot
00:57:47.03\00:57:49.60
and they will make
her naked and desolate,
00:57:49.63\00:57:52.97
and they will eat her
flesh and burn her with fire.
00:57:53.00\00:57:55.84
That means that
they're going to be really mad.
00:57:55.87\00:57:59.27
She will lose the support
of the civil powers once again.
00:57:59.31\00:58:02.51