Anchors of Truth

The King of the North

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Participants: Kenneth Cox

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00:22 Hello and welcome to the 3ABN Worship Center,
00:26 and happy Sabbath.
00:28 It is a great beautiful Sabbath morning here in
00:30 southern Illinois, isn't it?
00:31 Yes, it is.
00:32 And you and I have already been together this morning.
00:34 Well, we have.
00:35 We saw each other down at the barn.
00:38 The livestock have to be taken care of.
00:41 And my guinneas had a good night.
00:43 They did, your new ones too.
00:45 - They're big, big fat ones. - Right, that's right.
00:46 They look healthy.
00:47 And your horse had a good night.
00:49 Your horses.
00:50 Good. Alright, alright.
00:52 But we're just a couple of ole country boys,
00:56 but we're preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
00:59 from right out here in the corn fields of Illinois.
01:03 It's a beautiful place, it's a wonderful place.
01:06 And we've had the most fantastic weather this week
01:10 that I can ever remember.
01:11 Absolutely for July, for this time of year,
01:14 it's been absolutely wonderful.
01:16 And you know, I want to say that it's been almost 29 years
01:20 since I was impressed to build a television station
01:22 to reach the world.
01:23 And one of the names, when I was mulling this over
01:27 deciding, "Should I?
01:28 Is this of the Lord or is this the devil, or is this just
01:31 my own thoughts?" or what have you,
01:33 was the name Kenneth Cox.
01:34 And I didn't know very many evangelists.
01:36 This was pre Doug Batchelor and pre Mark Finley,
01:38 and pre all those guys.
01:40 But I knew It Is Written and Faith For Today,
01:43 and some of those.
01:44 But when I was thinking this over, Kenneth Cox was
01:47 one of the names that I was impressed that would be on
01:50 the network that we didn't even have a name for yet.
01:53 And so literally within a matter of a couple of months,
01:56 I heard he was in Texas, I was able to go to Texas and
01:59 talk to him about this idea of building a television station,
02:03 Adventist television station, to reach the world.
02:06 And you know he's one of the few people that didn't laugh at us.
02:09 My brother and I went there and he didn't laugh at us.
02:12 He said, "You know what? We need this.
02:14 I'm with you. I'm supportive."
02:16 And we've been working together all these years.
02:18 And that's the kind of person that Kenneth Cox is.
02:21 And I was living in Texas at the time.
02:24 And he shared that information with me.
02:27 And all of a sudden I realized, this is the dream that I believe
02:33 that God wants for His church.
02:37 That this is going to be something that is going to be
02:41 blessed of the Lord and it is going to grow.
02:43 And it's just amazing the things that God has done through 3ABN.
02:50 Well we praise the Lord.
02:51 And we praise the Lord that Elder Cox is here today.
02:53 He's going to be ministering to us.
02:56 But before he does that, we have some special music.
02:58 You know this lady. You want to introduce her?
03:00 Well, Yvonne Lewis is the director of Dare To Dream.
03:05 She is a person who loves the Lord Jesus Christ.
03:09 And she is a humble person.
03:13 We're going to keep talking about her
03:14 and she'll lose her humility.
03:15 But we really honestly believe this person loves the Lord.
03:21 We're around her, we work with her, she's easy.
03:24 There's not one ounce of prima donna in her.
03:27 And we all love her.
03:28 And by the world's standards, if you had a
03:30 right to do that, she would.
03:31 She's very well known not only in the religious world,
03:35 but secular world.
03:36 For many years she sang, but she has given all that up for Jesus.
03:40 And we're so thankful that you're here today.
03:43 What are you going to be singing?
03:44 - The Solid Rock. - Alright.
03:46 And right after we hear her sing, the next voice you'll hear
03:50 will be Pastor Kenneth Cox.
04:18 On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
04:25 all other ground is sinking sand,
04:31 all other ground is sinking sand.
04:44 My hope is built on nothing less
04:49 than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
04:56 I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
05:00 but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
05:06 On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
05:10 all other ground is sinking sand,
05:16 all other ground is sinking sand.
05:28 When darkness veils His lovely face,
05:32 I rest on His unchanging grace.
05:39 In every high and stormy gale,
05:44 my anchor holds within the veil.
05:49 On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
05:54 all other ground is sinking sand,
05:59 all other ground is sinking sand.
06:09 His oath, His word, His blood
06:12 support me in the flood.
06:15 When all around gives way,
06:18 He then is all my hope and stay.
06:25 When He shall come with trumpet sound,
06:32 oh may I then in Him be found.
06:37 Dressed in His righteousness alone,
06:44 faultless to stand before His throne.
06:53 All other ground is sinking sand,
06:59 all other ground is sinking sand.
07:05 On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand,
07:09 on Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
07:14 all other ground is sinking sand.
07:19 On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand.
07:44 Thank you very much, Yvonne.
07:46 I appreciate that.
07:47 And good morning to you.
07:50 Happy to welcome all of you this morning.
07:52 I appreciate you being here as we continue this series;
07:56 Anchors of Truth.
07:58 And we're looking at the subject of the antichrist;
08:01 The Rise of the Antichrist.
08:04 And we've had three presentations.
08:07 This is our fourth one on it.
08:09 And of course, they'll be one more.
08:11 And so we hope that it'll be a blessing to you
08:14 and be a help to you.
08:15 As my custom is, I'm going to kneel and have a word of prayer.
08:21 And if you would just join me in a word of prayer.
08:29 Heavenly Father, we thank You for this day.
08:35 Thankful for life.
08:37 Thankful that we can have the Rock that we can stand on
08:42 that doesn't move.
08:44 We pray that You will be with us as we look at Your Word today.
08:49 Give us understanding, give us enlightenment.
08:52 May our hearts be open, may they be receptive.
08:56 And may the Holy Spirit be here in a special way.
09:01 Draw us close to You, Lord.
09:03 And may we all understand and prepare our hearts
09:08 for the great day of Your coming.
09:10 For this we pray in Your name, amen.
09:16 And we'd like to say welcome to those that are joining us
09:19 by television or by radio.
09:22 We appreciate you tuning in and we hope that you've been able to
09:26 follow some of the other presentations also.
09:29 As I mentioned, we're looking at the question or the subject of
09:33 the rise of the antichrist.
09:36 And this particular one today is entitled, The King of the North.
09:46 And so we're taking a look at the 11th chapter of Daniel.
09:52 Now of all the chapters in the Bible on prophecy,
09:58 probably the 11th chapter of Daniel is the most difficult.
10:04 And it's not because it's... How should I put it?
10:07 It's not because it's so hard to understand,
10:12 it's the fact that it covers so much ground.
10:15 It covers a tremendous amount of ground
10:17 and it goes into great detail.
10:19 And people get lost in the minutia of all the detail
10:25 and all, and they have a hard time understanding it.
10:28 So I'm going to suggest, if you have pencil and paper,
10:32 that you write down some simple things here to start with
10:35 that I hope will help you in the understanding of
10:38 the 11th chapter of Daniel.
10:41 We must not depart from what Daniel has taught.
10:45 And in Daniel the 2nd chapter, the 7th chapter,
10:51 and the 8th chapter, in all those chapters
10:55 he's lined up the nations.
10:57 And he's talked about...
11:04 So when we come to the 11th chapter of Daniel,
11:07 don't expect Daniel to depart and go off some other way.
11:12 He's going to stick with exactly what he showed and revealed
11:16 in those three other chapters.
11:19 So as we go through it, watch for that
11:22 and it'll follow that same sequence all the way through.
11:26 So when we take a look at it and we come to
11:28 Daniel the 11th chapter, we find that it doesn't
11:31 start with Babylon.
11:34 It starts with Medo-Persia.
11:36 And the reason it starts with Medo-Persia
11:39 is because Babylon has already fallen.
11:42 And at this time the angel Gabriel, who is showing
11:46 Daniel this and is talking about it, he starts with Medo-Persia
11:50 because Babylon is no longer in existence.
11:53 It's already been overthrown.
11:55 So he begins that chapter with Medo-Persia.
11:59 And so if you want to just write this down,
12:01 the first part, Medo-Persia, is verses 1 and 2.
12:07 That's what verses 1 and 2 are talking about.
12:09 It's talking about the kings of Medo-Persia.
12:14 Medo-Persia was a wonderful kingdom
12:16 and did a lot for the cause of God.
12:21 And you remember in that realm or reign of Medo-Persia,
12:26 there are some very, very great people in there.
12:29 You remember, this is the time of Mordecai.
12:32 This is the time of Ester, this is the time of Zerubbabel.
12:35 This is the time of Nehemiah.
12:37 This is the time of all these great, great people.
12:43 So you need to understand that.
12:46 But it's talking about Medo-Persia, verses 1 and 2.
12:50 That's what it deals with.
12:52 Verses 3 through 13, Daniel 11:3-13,
12:58 is talking about Greece.
13:01 That's who it's dealing with.
13:03 And he'll start out with Alexander the Great and
13:05 he'll go through all these different kings,
13:08 and the four kings and all that.
13:11 And that's what is contained in verses 3 through 13.
13:15 It's about the kingdoms of Greece.
13:18 So these kings, how they rose, what they did.
13:21 And people get lost because Gabriel is not talking
13:26 in prophetic language.
13:28 He's talking more in literal language.
13:31 And he's giving these different kings that were going to rise.
13:34 He doesn't necessarily call them by name,
13:37 but he talks and he refers to some of them as the
13:40 kings of the North, some as the kings of the South,
13:42 and so forth.
13:43 And they get lost in that.
13:45 But it's really talking about the kings of Greece here
13:47 in verses 3 through 13.
13:50 And then chapter 11 verses 14 to 29 is talking about Rome.
14:00 You remember, Babylon fell to Medo-Persia.
14:04 Medo-Persia fell to Greece.
14:06 Greece fell to Rome.
14:09 And so verses 14 to 29 is dealing with pagan Rome.
14:16 Now remember, Daniel talked about four kingdoms;
14:19 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
14:23 This 11th chapter from this point on
14:27 talks totally about Rome.
14:30 That's what the chapter from the 11th verse on...
14:33 Excuse me, from the 14th verse on is talking about Rome.
14:39 Now different divisions of Rome, but it's talking about Rome.
14:44 And so you need to understand that as we're going through it.
14:48 And it talks about the different people that rose.
14:51 It talks about Caesar.
14:56 It talks about Tiberius.
14:59 It talks about Mark Anthony.
15:03 It talks about Cleopatra.
15:05 All those are in that chapter there
15:08 where it's dealing with it.
15:09 But then we come to the next part.
15:13 Daniel 11 verses 30 through 39.
15:20 30 through 39, and this is dealing with Papal Rome.
15:25 It's still Rome.
15:27 But it's dealing with papal Rome and what papal Rome would do.
15:32 And that's what those verses are describing and talking about,
15:36 is papal Rome and her rule.
15:40 And then after verse 39 you come to verse 40.
15:45 And that brings us down to today.
15:49 And it talks about the re-establishment
15:52 of the Roman power.
15:57 The Roman power and its rule in the last days.
16:01 And that's what verses 40 through 45 is about.
16:04 So if you just get that kind of an outline in your mind,
16:07 it will help you understand the 11th chapter of Daniel.
16:12 Now we're not going to go back and pick up
16:15 from verse 1 through.
16:18 And the reason we aren't is because there's no way
16:21 we've got enough time to do that and talk about all of them.
16:24 So we're going to talk about today.
16:27 We're going to talk about the king of the North today
16:31 so that you can understand what it's dealing with
16:34 and what it's talking about.
16:37 Let me try to explain the king of the North
16:39 and the king of the South to you.
16:41 If you look at this map I put on the screen,
16:44 you notice that I put an arrow that pinpoints
16:47 where Jerusalem is.
16:50 If you draw a ling east and west, as I have drawn there,
16:56 then everything above that line is North.
17:01 And all the countries and everything that went through
17:04 there was what was called the king of the North.
17:08 And everything below that line was the king of the South.
17:12 And so in the king of the South was such as Egypt, and so forth.
17:16 Above it was Syria and all the other different nations.
17:20 Now a little reason for this, folks, is because if you
17:25 notice where that line goes, that cuts right through
17:28 the Arabian desert.
17:31 And the only way you could really get to Israel
17:34 is you had to go and follow the river around
17:40 and come down to Jerusalem.
17:42 And so invasions were made upon Jerusalem out of the North.
17:47 And that's the reason it's referred to
17:49 as the king of the North.
17:51 Or if they came up the other way, it's referred to
17:54 as the king of the South.
17:57 Well that's how that simply works.
17:59 So let's take a look now.
18:01 And I'm going to drop back just a few verses
18:04 into the time of papal Rome and establish some things
18:10 about papal Rome.
18:12 So I'm going to start with verse 36
18:14 because it tells us some things about papal Rome.
18:31 So it's saying that this power will speak blasphemies
18:34 against the God of gods.
18:46 That text is very important there,
18:49 "What has been determined has been done."
18:53 And that's referring to the fact when the papal power
18:56 would go down.
18:59 What had been determined, he says is going to happen.
19:02 And as you know, I've talked about it I think every evening,
19:05 and that was, in 1798 when Napoleon, General Berthier,
19:12 went into Rome, overthrew the papal power,
19:15 took the pope prisoner, and took him back to France
19:18 where he died in France.
19:23 This began in history the time of the captivity of the popes.
19:33 But the Bible gives it another name.
19:37 And it says, in 1798 the time of the end began.
19:43 And you and I are living in the time of the end
19:45 because it goes from 1798 to the coming of Christ.
19:51 Okay in 1798, that's when that took place.
19:55 The Scripture speaks of certain things that happen.
19:57 And what we're talking about this morning
19:59 takes place during the time of the end.
20:02 But also I mentioned that the Scripture says that
20:05 the judgment takes place in the time of the end.
20:09 Okay?
20:11 But it says, after that the judgment.
20:13 That doesn't mean...
20:14 I need to clarify this.
20:16 That doesn't mean the judgment began in 1798.
20:20 It meant after 1798 the judgment would begin.
20:24 And if you will take your Bible and study it in detail,
20:27 you'll find the judgment began 46 years later.
20:31 So you know, when I say it took place after 1798,
20:36 or I said then the judgment, that's not saying
20:39 I'm saying it started in 1798.
20:42 Okay, so I want that to be real clear.
20:44 Alright, let's go on.
20:46 It says that would be the time determined.
21:01 This is talking about the papal power.
21:29 Okay, I want to just mention a couple of facts to establish
21:33 that this is talking about papal Rome.
21:36 Because it said one thing he would do is he would speak
21:39 blasphemies against the God of gods.
21:43 And we've read about this in other prophecies
21:46 about the papal power where the papal power said,
21:50 "We, the popes, hold upon this earth..."
21:59 This is what he did.
22:00 Another statement...
22:13 So he exalts himself above the God of gods.
22:20 Secondly, it makes a statement this way
22:22 in Daniel 11:37, it says...
22:29 Contrary to Scripture,
22:32 contrary to Scripture,
22:35 the papacy took the power, or it took the position
22:39 that the priests could not marry.
22:43 They would have to practice celibacy.
22:46 And this is contrary to what the Scripture says.
22:49 And secondly, by doing that they brought upon themselves
22:53 a curse, because homosexuality has run rampant
22:58 throughout the ranks of the priests because they have not
23:02 followed what the Scripture says.
23:04 And it said they would do this.
23:06 That they would not have any desire for women.
23:10 This was contrary to what God had placed there
23:14 and wanted them to do.
23:16 But it also says...
23:24 From the time that Napoleon took the pope prisoner,
23:33 they went into voluntary imprisonment.
23:39 But the church basically just was there.
23:43 There wasn't any power, it had no civil power.
23:47 It didn't grow, it couldn't do anything.
23:49 But with the signing of the Lateran Treaty in 1929,
23:55 from that time the church of Rome has continued
24:00 and done everything she could to collect wealth.
24:04 And dear friends, all I can say to you
24:07 is if you want to check me out, do.
24:09 Go on the internet and see if you can find out
24:13 what the wealth of the papal church is.
24:19 And it will tell you right there that it is beyond estimate
24:23 what they have, and no one knows.
24:25 A tremendous amount of wealth that is involved.
24:29 And that's what this is talking about.
24:31 That they have collected wealth over and over
24:34 down through the years until today.
24:38 It is extremely wealthy.
24:40 Okay, let's now move into the present day
24:46 and what it has to say about it.
24:48 A few months ago they elected a new pope.
24:54 The whole world turned out to watch.
24:59 The whole world was almost shocked because they elected
25:05 a pope from a South American country, from Argentina.
25:11 His name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
25:18 He took the name of Francis I.
25:22 The thing that was shocking to them was the fact that
25:28 for the first time they were electing a priest
25:32 that was a Jesuit.
25:36 Now I want to say that when we're talking
25:42 about the antichrist,
25:44 at least when I'm talking about the antichrist,
25:47 I am not talking about an individual.
25:51 I am talking about a system.
25:54 The antichrist does not change when the pope dies or anything.
25:59 That still continues on.
26:01 And so I'm not trying to apply this to an individual.
26:06 But I do think it is absolutely necessary
26:11 that you and I understand the background,
26:16 that we understand the history, that we understand the facts
26:21 concerning what is happening here.
26:25 I think that is vital, that is important,
26:28 that we understand that.
26:30 This man, Francis I, from all indications is a humble man.
26:37 From all indications I can tell from what we hear
26:40 from the press, he tries to follow what he believes.
26:45 So I'm not trying to place this on...
26:47 I am trying to share with you this morning
26:50 facts concerning that.
26:54 So let me introduce you to another individual.
26:58 This individual, his name is Adolpho Nicholás.
27:03 Now if you're not acquainted with Adolpho Nicholás,
27:06 Adolpho Nicholás is the head of the Jesuit Order.
27:12 He is what they call the Superior General.
27:17 He's the head of the Jesuit Order.
27:20 He also over the years, not just this man but any man
27:24 who is the head of the Jesuit Order, has been referred to
27:28 as the Black Pope.
27:32 And the reason he's been referred to as the Black Pope
27:36 is because of the tremendous influence they have had
27:39 upon the pope of Rome.
27:43 Adolpho Nicholás has his headquarters in Rome.
27:50 And he is a very, very good friend of the pope,
27:56 as you can see from this picture.
27:59 Now when they take the oath of becoming a Jesuit,
28:06 they commit obedience to the pope.
28:16 This, all of a sudden, put the shoe on another foot.
28:20 Let me explain what I mean by that.
28:22 Because when a person becomes a Jesuit,
28:27 he must give obedience to the head of the Jesuit Order.
28:34 He had to give obedience to the head of the Jesuit Order,
28:39 which was Adolpho Nicholás.
28:41 So when Pope Francis was cardinal in Argentina,
28:48 he had to give obedience to this man.
28:52 But when all of a sudden he became pope,
28:56 now Adolpho has to give obedience to him.
29:00 So the shoe, all of a sudden, changes feet there.
29:03 And so that is the situation there.
29:08 This is the College of Cardinals.
29:12 This is the Sistine Chapel.
29:15 This is where they elect the pope.
29:18 There are probably, I don't know exactly, folks,
29:23 150 cardinals.
29:28 Of that 150 cardinals, 109 of them, if I'm right,
29:34 have the right to vote.
29:36 And the reason the others don't vote is because there's
29:39 an age limit on voting.
29:41 When you reach 80 years of age, you can no longer vote.
29:45 So some of them couldn't vote simply because of age.
29:50 Interesting about it is that of that group of cardinals,
29:57 about 10% of them are Jesuits.
30:03 About 10% of them are Jesuits.
30:07 Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI
30:15 took ten of these Jesuit cardinals and moved them
30:22 into very high positions in the hierarchy of the church
30:31 and even into the curia.
30:33 And so there's no question in my mind that the election
30:37 of Pope Francis to that position was because these men
30:44 had moved into very, very high positions.
30:48 So they elected him as a pope.
30:51 Let me tell you a little bit about them.
30:55 There are 19,216 Jesuits
31:03 as of March in the world.
31:10 You do not have to be a priest to be a Jesuit.
31:15 A Jesuit is an order.
31:17 Do you understand what I mean by that?
31:19 Or maybe I should say, a society.
31:23 It's an order just like the Order of Franciscan,
31:29 or the Benedictine Order.
31:31 These are different orders.
31:33 This happens to be an all male order and they belong to
31:39 the Jesuit society.
31:42 Okay?
31:45 A man by the name of St. Ignatius of Loyola
31:54 is the one who founded the Jesuit Order,
31:58 as you can see there on the screen.
32:01 He founded it in the early 1500's.
32:06 That's when he put it in place.
32:08 The Jesuit Order was put in place for two primary things.
32:14 The primary things for the Jesuit Order was;
32:16 one, to defend the faith.
32:20 That's what they were to do, defend the faith.
32:22 And the second thing was to stop the reformation.
32:28 Those were the reasons it was brought into being,
32:33 to do those two things.
32:34 So when a person becomes a Jesuit, he takes a vow.
32:40 He takes a vow of poverty, he takes a vow of chastity,
32:47 and he takes a vow of obedience.
32:51 And as I mentioned, they also took a vow of obedience
32:54 to the pope concerning mission.
32:58 That was the vows that they took.
33:01 And from all indications, Pope Francis takes his vow
33:07 of poverty very serious.
33:11 He refuses to live in the palace or in the special place
33:15 they have for him and lives in a little apartment
33:18 because he takes that vow very serious.
33:21 And I take it since he takes that vow very serious,
33:24 I take it that he takes other vows very serious.
33:28 So this is the man who established it.
33:32 What had happened? And did this work?
33:36 Well the pope, at the time of the reformation
33:43 and when the reformation was expanding
33:47 and it was having tremendous affect upon the
33:53 Roman Catholic Church,
33:55 they called what was known as the Council of Trent.
34:01 The Council of Trent met for 17 years.
34:06 During that Council of Trent, the pope called in a theologian,
34:14 a Jesuit theologian by the name of Francisco Ribera.
34:28 Francisco Ribera was brought in and he was told,
34:34 "Take the finger off of us."
34:37 Now the preachers, like Luther and Knox and Zwingli and Calvin,
34:42 and all those men, were pointing the finger at the papal power
34:47 and saying, "This is the antichrist."
34:50 That's what they were saying.
34:51 They're saying, "This is the antichrist."
34:54 And he said, "Get the finger off of us."
34:58 Well, Ribera went out and he sat down and he developed
35:04 another concept of prophecy.
35:08 And today, that concept is called Futurism.
35:13 Did it work?
35:15 I should say it did.
35:18 It takes the finger off the papal power.
35:21 And unfortunately today, 96% of the Protestant churches
35:29 have turned their back on the teachings of the reformers
35:35 when it comes to prophecy.
35:37 They turned their back upon that and have accepted the teachings
35:41 of Francisco Ribera.
35:43 Which completely takes the finger off the papal power.
35:48 But how were they going to carry about what they wanted to do?
35:55 They decided to do two things.
35:57 They decided to be strong in education,
36:03 be strong in media, and be strong in politics.
36:09 And so you find the Jesuits move into that area
36:12 very, very strongly.
36:15 You may not have realized this, but the Jesuit Order
36:21 operates 28 colleges and universities in the
36:27 United States that are owned and operated by the Jesuit Order.
36:33 A couple of them; one of them is Boston College.
36:36 You can see the picture there.
36:38 Let me show you another one.
36:42 And we can name others.
36:43 These are universities that are operated by the Jesuit Order
36:47 here in the United States, training young people,
36:50 sending them out all across this country.
36:53 And your tax dollar is what funds them.
37:02 But they're very, very strong in that.
37:05 When it comes to media, many, many, many, folks,
37:10 of the people that are in the media are Roman Catholic.
37:17 All you have to do is look up the public officials,
37:21 and those in Congress, and Senate, and so forth.
37:23 And many of those are Roman Catholic also.
37:27 So they have great, great influence in what they're doing.
37:31 They have done just exactly what they said.
37:33 So those are some facts you can put down
37:37 that is taking place.
37:39 Now let's move on.
37:41 Let's go to verse 40.
37:47 Now be very clear, folks.
37:49 The Scripture right here tells you when he's talking about.
37:52 He's not talking about way back then.
37:53 He's talking about at the time of the end,
37:57 down at the end of time.
38:14 So it's now telling us what the king of the North
38:16 is going to do.
38:19 It's going to come against him, he's going to move and
38:22 go through the countries, overwhelm them,
38:24 and pass through.
38:30 Palestine, the Holy Land.
38:45 These are going to escape the hand of the king of the North.
38:59 The land of Egypt shall not escape.
39:15 Okay.
39:17 "But news from the east and from the north..."
39:37 So let's see what that's talking about.
39:40 When it says, "And he shall enter the countries,
39:42 overwhelm them, and pass through,"
39:44 that doesn't necessarily mean by war.
39:48 The Catholic Church, the papal power,
39:51 does not care how it gains membership.
39:55 It doesn't care if it's by birth, or if it's by coercion,
40:00 or how it takes place.
40:01 It just wants growth.
40:03 And of course, it has seen phenomenal growth.
40:06 In 80 years it has gone from a few to 1.4 billion people.
40:11 And so he's passed through, overcome, just exactly
40:15 as the Scripture says.
40:18 "He also shall enter the Glorious Land..."
40:30 Now if you look at that, I've tried to put them on the
40:33 map there for you.
40:34 Do you understand who these people were?
40:39 Ammon and Moab were descendents of who?
40:46 Of Lot. Okay?
40:48 Edom was a descendent of Esau.
40:53 Okay, that's who they are.
40:54 And I'm sure you've put it together.
40:56 They all settled in the area that today
41:00 we refer to as Jordon.
41:03 You have heard of Amman of Jordon.
41:05 See, it's the same thing.
41:07 That's where they settled.
41:09 And of course, these are Islamic countries.
41:35 So the Scripture is lining up for you and for me
41:39 telling us what is going to take place.
41:41 I wish that you could speak, or I could speak, with as much
41:46 definiteness about what is going to happen
41:51 as you can with something in the past.
41:54 But this is all future.
41:56 And human frailty does not give us the ability
42:00 to see the future.
42:02 But one thing we can do, folks, is that we can depend
42:06 on the Word of God.
42:08 And the Word of God can help us have an indication
42:11 of what is happening and what is going to take place.
42:14 We can see that and understand it.
42:18 So the countries of or the people of Ammon,
42:23 and Moab, and Edom, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia;
42:28 these are all Islamic countries.
42:33 Are you with me?
42:35 And they are where?
42:40 They're south of Jerusalem.
42:44 They're south of Jerusalem.
42:47 So it tells you that Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia,
42:54 Ammon, Moab, and Edom;
42:57 that Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia will go with
43:01 the king of the North.
43:03 They're going to go along with him.
43:05 Ammon, Moab, and Edom will escape out of his hand.
43:11 That's telling you what's going to happen,
43:13 what's going to take place.
43:15 So you and I need to look very carefully at
43:21 what is happening today and see if we can't begin to
43:25 put some things together.
43:28 The Middle East today; do you realize what has happened
43:32 in the last six years?
43:36 The whole Middle East is being realigned.
43:41 The whole Middle East is being realigned.
43:43 And as far as I'm concerned, it's being realigned
43:46 to fit into exactly what the Scripture says
43:49 is going to happen.
43:51 Because you remember it wasn't but a few years ago
43:55 until Saddam Hussein, Iraq; gone today.
44:05 You don't hear much about him.
44:06 He's gone.
44:09 Next after that, Gaddafi, head of the Palestinian movement.
44:16 Gone.
44:17 Do you hear anything about the Palestinian movement?
44:20 No.
44:22 Disappeared.
44:23 I'm just telling you what's happening today.
44:26 After Gaddafi, you have Mubarak; Egypt.
44:31 Gone, and even right now Egypt is in chaos
44:37 because the people are unhappy.
44:39 The Muslim Brotherhood has not done what they
44:43 thought should be done, and so you have revolt taking place
44:47 and a whole change taking place.
44:50 Not long after that, you have Gaddafi in Libya.
44:55 He's gone.
44:57 Not around anymore.
45:00 A little bit after that, you have Osama bin Laden
45:04 in Iran; gone.
45:07 And let me tell you, it's not but a few days
45:11 until Assad in Syria will be gone.
45:16 Now folks, this is what is happening
45:18 just in the last 6 years.
45:22 So you need to understand what is taking place
45:25 in this world as that whole Middle East is being realigned
45:30 and lining up, as best I can tell, for the last days.
45:38 "But news from the east..."
45:45 It's going to trouble the king of the North.
45:54 Why would news from the east and from the north trouble him?
46:02 Because he's the king of the North, right?
46:06 That means, when it says, "news from the east and the north
46:09 trouble him," it means that he has internal problems.
46:15 That's what it's saying, there's internal problems there.
46:19 So it troubles him greatly.
46:21 So if you take a look at where he comes out of,
46:30 and that is the countries of Europe,
46:36 there's something happening there that's
46:37 troubling him greatly that he doesn't know
46:40 exactly how to take care of.
46:43 It talks about ten kings, Revelation 17 verse 12.
46:50 "The ten horns which you saw are..."
47:04 Now we've studied and we found that this beast
47:07 in Revelation 13 was the papal power.
47:09 So it says that these ten kings are going to rule
47:15 with the beast.
47:18 They'll give their authority to the beast.
47:20 Are you putting anything together this morning?
47:24 Because last night we talked about the antichrist partner.
47:28 And it says he would do what?
47:32 He would give his support to the beast.
47:35 And so now you've got the US giving its support to the beast,
47:40 you've got these nations of western Europe
47:43 giving their support to the beast.
47:45 That's what the Scripture is telling you.
47:47 And there's problems there.
47:50 "These are of one mind..."
47:59 So there is a coalition here of governments around the world
48:05 who are coming together and they are giving their authority
48:09 and their support to that of the beast.
48:16 These ten kings, which are the same all the way
48:19 through Scripture, whether you're talking about
48:21 France and England, and all the different countries,
48:25 it says they will give their support to the beast.
48:29 Now it takes a turn because news from the north is troubling him.
48:34 And Revelation 17 kind of tells you what that is,
48:38 what that news is.
48:57 Now folks, when you have a beast in Bible prophecy,
49:02 that beast represents a civil power.
49:07 But when you have a woman riding on a beast,
49:13 that represents a spiritual power, a church.
49:18 And that represents a spiritual power that is
49:22 controlling the beast, because it is riding on the beast.
49:27 Okay.
49:29 And so you have a division here of civil power
49:33 and religious power.
49:35 And please notice, it says these ten kings will hate who?
49:40 They will hate the harlot.
49:41 It does not say, folks, it does not say
49:45 that they will hate the beast.
49:49 It doesn't say that.
49:51 It says they will hate the harlot.
49:54 In other words, they're going to turn against
49:58 what she is teaching and what she is
50:01 propagating the world with.
50:02 They're going to turn again that, they will hate it.
50:05 And they will turn against her.
50:06 It said they will make her desolate, naked,
50:10 eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
50:29 So it says that the king of the North,
50:32 and this is the civil power, it's going to come against
50:37 many things, even into the glorious mountain,
50:40 and he's going to come to his end, and no one will help him.
50:45 So you can see what is happening as all these things
50:48 are coming together and they're finishing up.
50:53 And one event after another is taking place
50:56 around the world that you and I need to have our eyes open,
51:02 we need to be hearing, we need to be understanding
51:06 what is happening in this world today.
51:09 Because, dear friend, from all indication in God's Word,
51:13 there's not a lot of great time left.
51:16 Just isn't.
51:18 Time is running out.
51:21 And you and I need every day to be drawing close to the Lord.
51:27 We need to be seeking Him.
51:29 We need to have our hearts open and surrendered to His will.
51:34 Daniel the second chapter verse 22 says,
51:41 I'm talking about those ten kings,
51:44 those ten kings that will hate the harlot.
51:47 They will turn against her, burn her with fire.
51:58 This means the time in which you and I are living.
52:17 So it says that God is going to come back.
52:19 He's going to His kingdom.
52:20 And His kingdom will last forever.
52:26 So as I have shared with you in the previous presentations,
52:32 it says over and over in these prophecies
52:35 that you should be wise.
52:39 It says, "He that hath wisdom, let him understand."
52:43 And dear friend, as I told you, in Hebrew that word
52:46 for "wise" is "maskilim."
52:49 That means a special group of people.
52:52 A people that are not only wise in the Scripture,
52:55 but they're wise in their deportment,
52:59 they're wise in the way they conduct themselves,
53:01 they're wise in how they live.
53:03 These are God's people in the last days.
53:08 And as best I can tell, God is looking, God is looking
53:16 for a group of people, He's looking for a group of people
53:20 that will prepare their hearts, and they'll open up their lives
53:24 and open up their hearts, and give them to the Lord
53:27 that He can take them, change them, make them His people.
53:32 That's what God's looking for.
53:34 And all I can say is we need to draw together.
53:40 We need to pray for one another.
53:43 We need to seek the Lord.
53:46 We need to put all differences aside.
53:50 You know, the Scripture says that you ought to think of
53:52 your brother better than yourself.
53:56 Do you do that?
53:59 Better than yourself?
54:02 That you and I should go out of our way
54:06 to lift up them, help them, and support them.
54:08 This is what God wants us to do.
54:11 We are to be children of God, and all.
54:15 And the time is near.
54:19 Jesus is coming back.
54:20 It's not going to be long, folks.
54:23 There's no way possible it could be.
54:25 I could sit here right now and share with you probably
54:29 ten different things right now that affects the life on this
54:36 planet around the whole world that in the next 25 years
54:43 will be gone.
54:46 So I can just tell you right now, there's no way
54:49 it's going to continue on.
54:50 It can't.
54:52 Jesus is going to come back.
54:55 And dear friend, you and I need to make sure our
54:58 hearts are right, they're surrendered.
55:01 That we put it all on the altar, that we've come to Jesus
55:06 and let Him have our lives totally and completely.
55:09 Let us pray.
55:10 Father in heaven, we thank You.
55:15 Thank You, Lord, for the privilege that's given to us
55:19 to be children of God, unworthy as we are.
55:25 But so, so thankful today for Jesus Christ,
55:32 for all that He has done for us.
55:35 May we ever always keep our eyes upon Him.
55:41 And may we be faithful.
55:43 Faithful to You, keep Your Word, walk in the light of it,
55:50 that our hearts might be open to the work of the Holy Spirit.
55:54 Take away, Lord, take away from us all jealousy,
56:01 all self-seeking, all selfishness.
56:06 And may our lives be totally and completely surrendered,
56:11 that You may make us into children of God;
56:16 what You want us to be.
56:18 Bless each one here today.
56:21 May they be drawn close into Your presence.
56:24 And may we all rejoice in Your kingdom.
56:29 For this we ask in Christ's name, amen.
56:34 Now our next presentation is entitled,
56:38 Babylon, The Mother of Harlots.
56:42 And we're going to be going to Revelation the 17th chapter
56:45 to see what it has to say.
56:47 Because it talks about some of these things that we've
56:50 just dealt with right down at the end of time,
56:53 and how that's all going to come together
56:55 and fit together.
56:57 So I hope it will be helpful to you as we finish up this series
57:01 on The Rise of the Antichrist, and you'll be able to see
57:05 exactly what's happening and where we stand today.
57:09 So stay close to the Lord, folks.
57:12 Spend time in His Word.
57:15 Don't let...
57:16 You remember, if you go back and remember what Jesus said,
57:19 the number one thing He said was be careful,
57:23 don't let the cares of this life separate you from the Lord.
57:29 God bless you.


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