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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host. 00:42 I wanna thank you for joining us. 00:44 Today's message is entitled, 00:46 "Our March Back to the Vatican," part two. 00:49 If you were with us in part one, 00:50 you learned much of the Bible's depiction 00:53 of the Vatican. 00:54 How the persecuted Christian church fled 00:56 from the Vatican's clutches 00:58 and became known as Protestants. 01:01 You also learned the prophecy 01:02 that the Vatican would receive a deadly wound, 01:05 but that deadly wound would be healed, 01:08 and the whole world, including Protestants 01:12 would again wonder after this power. 01:15 Pastor Kenny also provided evidence 01:17 that the Vatican's authoritative agenda 01:20 is still the same as it was before her deadly wound. 01:24 And as she continues to gain worldly power, 01:27 she will once again push to legislate precepts 01:32 that she has instituted, 01:34 claiming that she has the right to change times and laws 01:38 that God Himself instituted. 01:42 Friends, there is still much to uncover, 01:45 so that in so much as possible, 01:47 the very elect shall not be deceived. 01:51 It is time that we continue to study 01:53 to show ourselves approved unto God. 01:55 But before we join 01:57 Pastor Kenny Shelton for part two 01:59 of this important message entitled 02:01 "Our March Back to the Vatican." 02:04 Let's visit 3ABN and be blessed 02:07 by an inspiring and appropriate song 02:09 entitled "In Christ Alone" 02:12 as sung by our dear sister, 02:14 Yvonne Lewis-Shelton. 02:33 In Christ alone my hope is found 02:39 He is my light, my strength, my song 02:44 This Cornerstone, this solid ground 02:50 Firm through the fiercest drought 02:53 And storm 02:54 What heights of love, what depths of peace 03:00 When fears are stilled, when strivings cease 03:05 My Comforter, my All in All 03:10 Here in the love of Christ I stand 03:23 In Christ alone, who took on flesh 03:29 Fullness of God in helpless babe 03:34 This gift of love and righteousness 03:39 Scorned by the ones He came to save 03:44 'Til on that cross as Jesus died 03:49 The wrath of God was satisfied 03:54 For every sin on Him was laid 04:00 Here in the death of Christ I live 04:26 There in the ground His body lay 04:31 Light of the world by darkness slain 04:36 Then bursting forth in glorious day 04:42 Up from the grave He rose again 04:46 And as He stands in victory 04:52 Sin's curse has lost its grip on me 04:57 For I am His and He is mine 05:03 Bought with the precious blood of Christ 05:15 No guilt in life, no fear in death 05:21 This is the power of Christ in me 05:26 From life's first cry to final breath 05:31 Jesus commands my destiny 05:36 No power of hell, no scheme of man 05:41 Can ever pluck me from His hand 05:49 Till He returns to take me home 05:55 Here in the power of Christ I'll stand 06:00 No power of hell, no scheme of man 06:05 Can ever pluck me from His hand 06:15 Here in the power of Christ 06:24 I'll stand 06:37 Praise the Lord. Good to have you here. 06:39 Welcome to Behold the Lamb. 06:40 You've already heard our message for today. 06:42 I think it's really exciting. 06:43 This is part two of Our March toward the Vatican. 06:47 Think about it, March toward the Vatican. 06:49 Is the world turning toward the Vatican? 06:52 Are we following in the footsteps 06:53 of the Vatican, 06:55 rather than following in the footsteps 06:56 of Jesus Christ? 06:57 That's what we're going to learn more 06:59 about here in part two. 07:00 First of all, we're going to pray 07:01 as we always do. 07:03 Again, we welcome, we're glad you're here 07:04 with pencil and paper. 07:06 I'm going to talk about moving fast. 07:07 I praise God. 07:08 And I ask Him that we can move fast today, 07:10 but yet we can understand 07:11 because there's so much material 07:12 just had to just get just little tidbits, 07:14 and I pray that it'll be exactly what 07:15 the Holy Spirit will need to get in your heart 07:17 and your mind and your life. 07:18 I'm gonna pray with you, 07:19 for if possible just kneel with me 07:21 and pray together. 07:22 Loving Father in heaven, 07:23 thank You for the privilege of prayer. 07:25 Thank You that we can call upon You. 07:27 Lord, we believe in You. 07:28 We believe in the power of prayer. 07:29 We believe the Holy Spirit can come 07:31 and make these little simple words 07:34 that man may say, 07:35 but you can put them in the hearts 07:36 in the lives of us to see the importance of the hour 07:39 in which we live that Jesus is coming. 07:41 We need to be ready for that coming. 07:43 The way has been prepared. 07:45 You have revealed what's going to take place 07:47 what is taking place so that we can be ready 07:49 so we don't miss 07:50 the grand coming of Jesus Christ. 07:51 Thank you, Lord, for hearing and answering prayer, 07:53 minds open, hearts open, 07:55 things of the world shut down now, 07:57 as we spend time with You in Jesus' name. 07:59 Amen. 08:01 You have your Bibles, turn with me 08:02 to Book of Revelation 13, if you will. 08:04 Just gonna read one verse, 08:06 love to read them all, every time. 08:07 This is a second part of the March to the Vatican. 08:11 So there's be lot of things that we won't cover again, 08:13 we covered in the first part, 08:15 and we did previous to that 08:16 about the events that are taking place 08:18 in the world that we can relate to the coming of Jesus 08:21 and what is happening and taking place. 08:23 I'll say it now if I don't get to it, 08:25 the pieces of the puzzle are in place right now 08:29 before the Sunday laws 08:31 and we need not be embarrassed, ashamed about it. 08:33 I'm gonna use as I told you last time, 08:35 I'm gonna talk about Protestants. 08:38 We're gonna talk about Catholics. 08:39 We're gonna talk about 08:40 maybe those who are not on fire, 08:42 maybe those who are on fire. 08:43 What we need to do to prepare what's happening in the world, 08:46 what's taking place with our leaders 08:47 in the government, 08:49 and maybe our spiritual leaders. 08:51 Have your Bible to Revelation Chapter 13. 08:53 I'm going to read just verse 14, 08:55 Revelation 13:14, 08:58 I always say, this is what the Bible says. 09:00 Do you like to hear that? 09:01 This is what the Bible says. 09:03 This is the rule of our faith right here. 09:07 We need not try to mince about it, 09:08 try to fuss about it. 09:10 Because the Bible said in verse 14 09:11 of Revelation 13, it say, 09:13 "And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth," 09:16 who is deceiving those who dwell on the earth? 09:19 The devil, the enemy, 09:20 "by the means of those miracles," 09:21 we're gonna see more and more of that. 09:23 We're seeing them now. 09:24 People saying, that's proof that is truth. 09:25 It's not the enemy is working. 09:27 We have tried everything, right, by the Spirit, 09:29 by the word of God. 09:30 Notice, "By the means of those miracles 09:32 which he had power to do in the sight of the beast," 09:34 who is the beast? 09:36 The papacy, somebody go ahead and say, 09:38 don't be ashamed, don't be embarrassed. 09:39 We'll look at it closer as we go along in here, 09:42 because over and over, you can see it 09:44 Revelation 13:1-10, 09:46 we can identify the papacy, the beast 09:48 without a shadow of a doubt, 09:49 and Revelation 13:11-18, 09:52 United States in Bible prophecy. 09:53 Boy, I wish we had time to go into all of that, 09:55 but notice what it says, saying to the beast, 09:57 saying to them that dwell on the earth 09:59 that they should make an what? 10:01 An image to the beast. 10:03 Now here, here's the key, 10:04 which had the wound by the sword and did live. 10:08 You notice how it said that in Revelation 13:3. 10:11 reminds us again 10:14 about that wound that was healed. 10:15 In Revelation 13, what is it? 10:17 14 I think it says the same thing 10:19 about the wound that was healed, 10:21 so that we need not make any mistakes 10:23 to know who and what we are talking about here to reveal. 10:27 It's time, it's past time. 10:30 Because we see a so-called religion 10:32 in the world today that is a false religion 10:35 because it is not based upon Scripture. 10:38 Not individuals, I say again, God knows every heart. 10:41 I'm no judge about anything. 10:42 I'm just looking at the Word of God. 10:44 The Word of God says, these are My people, 10:46 they hear My voice and then they what? 10:48 They follow, they hear and they follow. 10:50 But when you find out if a church 10:51 has all these doctrinal beliefs, 10:53 and they're not founded on the Word of God, 10:56 there's trouble. 10:57 You can't really say that's religious. 10:58 You can't say that's a Christianity, 11:00 because it's to be Christlike, isn't it? 11:02 Not trying to be difficult, 11:04 but isn't it time that sometime we wake up 11:05 to the fact to say, "Well, this is real." Is it? 11:09 Is it a real Christian faith, 11:10 we'll follow what the Word of God 11:12 has to say in His Word. 11:14 That's Revelation 13:14. 11:16 Keep that in mind as we move right on. 11:18 I'm gonna read something here 11:19 from the Review and Herald quickly, 11:21 December 18, 1888, 11:23 this was said, notice this, I like this. 11:25 "As the time is coming 11:27 when the law of God, in a special sense, 11:29 is to be made void," in where? 11:31 "In our land. 11:32 The rulers of our nation will, by legislative," what? 11:36 "Legislative enactments enforce the Sunday law, 11:40 and thus God's people 11:41 will be brought into great peril. 11:44 When our nation, in its legislative council..." 11:48 How's the Sunday law is gonna be? 11:49 It's gonna be passed what? 11:50 Legislatively, right? 11:52 By our government, notice this, 11:54 "Shall enact laws to bind the conscience of men 11:57 in regard to their religious privileges," 12:00 notice, "enforcing Sunday observance 12:02 bringing oppressive power to bear against those 12:05 who keep the seventh day Sabbath. 12:07 The law of God will," listen carefully, 12:09 "to all intents and purposes, 12:12 be made void in our land, 12:14 and then we have national," what? 12:16 "Apostasy which will be national apostasy 12:19 will lead to" what? 12:20 "By national, will lead to national ruin." 12:23 Once that sign into effect, we are in trouble plenty. 12:27 But changes you said, 12:28 well, I'll try to get on the ball 12:30 when I see this happening. 12:31 If you don't see it happening now, 12:32 more likely you're not going to get on the ball. 12:34 Please keep that in mind. 12:36 Notice something else right here, 12:37 history will be repeated. 12:39 This comes from the Signs of the Time, 12:41 May 6th, 1897. 12:44 Notice what it says, "History will be repeated. 12:46 The false religion will be exalted." 12:49 Did you get it? 12:51 "The first day of the week, a common working day, 12:53 possessing no sanctity whatsoever 12:56 will be set up as was the image at Babylon. 12:59 All nations and tongues and people will be commanded 13:02 to worship this spurious Sabbath." 13:04 Do you see how... 13:06 Oh, this is again very, very plain? 13:08 Now what do we do as a people? 13:10 Notice what we do as a people here 13:12 found in Review and Herald, 13:13 January 1st, 1889. 13:16 This just makes common sense. 13:18 This is what gets under my skin and maybe gets under yours 13:21 because I feel like we then as God's people 13:22 need to be in battle. 13:24 We need to fight this thing. 13:25 We're not gonna sit idly by 13:27 and let the man of sin do what he's doing 13:29 without that word in due season. 13:32 Spirit of Prophecy says this, 13:34 "Let not the commandment keepers, 13:37 keeping people of God be silent at this time, 13:40 as though they were gracefully accepted the situation." 13:44 Did you get it? 13:45 "There is a prospect before..." 13:46 Somebody is not gonna get this. 13:48 I want somebody to get this, please get this. 13:52 I'm saying, I can't do is just beg and plead, 13:54 somebody listen how this is going to get 13:57 because the Bible says so 13:59 and the Spirit of Prophecy says so. 14:01 We have two sources, 14:03 the main word source is the Word of God, 14:05 the great light. 14:06 The lesser light says the same thing. 14:08 Are you still there? 14:10 It said, "The prospect before us, is us, 14:13 of waging a continuous war. 14:16 We're doing what? We must wage a continuous war. 14:19 Notice this, at the risk of somebody, listen, 14:22 at the risk of imprisonment, of losing property, 14:26 and even life itself to defend the law of God 14:30 which is being made void by the laws of men. 14:33 That's pretty plain. 14:35 If we can't see that the law of God 14:36 is made void right now, 14:38 right by the law, by men today, something, 14:41 I'm just gonna say something's wrong with us. 14:43 We're not in the Word, we're not studying. 14:44 We're worrying in the world. We got our nose in the world. 14:46 We got our nose stuck in the world. 14:48 You see, and we need to have get it out of the world 14:51 because right now, 14:52 right this moment that we're living in, 14:54 the devil is working behind the scene 14:56 to make void the law of God, 14:58 which he's tried to do in heaven, did he not? 15:00 He came down this earth. 15:02 He's doing the very same thing right now. 15:04 We need to be aware of that. 15:05 Notice all the people of God, 15:07 this is found in Review and Herald, 15:08 August 9th, 1906." 15:11 All the people of God are now to stand 15:14 on the platform of," what? 15:16 "Truth, good, 15:17 as it has been given in the third angel's message." 15:21 When I say, I'm sickened by a group of people 15:23 who don't believe in giving three angels' message anymore. 15:26 For those who know, if you know what I'm talking, 15:27 I am not talking about people who don't understand. 15:29 I'm talking about, 15:30 I must say Seventh-day Adventist basically, 15:32 who understand we should be giving 15:34 the three angels' message. 15:36 We have to give that entirety. 15:37 We don't tone it down, we don't water it down, 15:39 we don't sugar it down. 15:41 Now's the time to give it with the most powerful and high 15:44 is that Revelation 18:1, 15:45 "Angel is coming down right now 15:48 to give power to the Word of God." 15:50 Listen, notice, I mean, how all the people of God 15:53 were to stand on the platform of truth 15:56 where you've got to know what truth is. 15:58 We've got to react to the truth. 15:59 We got to let the truth come in to convert us and to change us. 16:02 But we have to sense that in our hearts and in our life. 16:05 And it focuses around giving the third angel's message 16:08 or the three angels' message. 16:09 One of them is warning against the what? 16:11 The mark of the beast. 16:13 The mark of the beast will be, let's just get it out. 16:17 Let's just get it out, 16:19 the mark of the beast will be 16:20 when the Sunday law is passed will, 16:22 that mark of the beast is Sunday worship? 16:24 Did anybody get it? 16:26 It's not now 16:27 because it's not been passed as a law yet. 16:30 But it is for many 16:32 who understand the truth of the seventh day Sabbath. 16:34 Brother Mark, we don't, you don't have to worry 16:36 about a Sunday law. 16:38 If you are a Seventh-day Adventist 16:39 and you understood the truth 16:40 and you said okay, I stand for this truth 16:42 and then some reason you bowed out, 16:43 you went a different direction. 16:45 You're going to different things. 16:46 You are held accountable 16:48 because you knew, you see, you don't need a Sunday law. 16:50 Other people, Sunday law is gonna waken them up 16:53 to the event, the oh-oh. 16:54 And think about when we're saying this right now, 16:56 people are gonna say, we're talking about prophecy, 16:58 we're talking about things 16:59 that's going to happen in the future. 17:01 When you see it take place, 17:03 you need to go ask these people, right? 17:05 This is going to be our opportunity 17:07 to be awake as a church 17:08 and because people are going to come and say, 17:10 "How did you know that? 17:11 You preached that before it ever took place? 17:13 This is why it needs to be said right now. 17:15 So people will come and they will listen. 17:18 Oh, we've gotta be focused right now 17:21 because what is it? 17:22 The Sabbath is the great test, is it not? 17:25 The Sabbath is the great test of the people, notice this, 17:28 will have to take before they are sealed. 17:31 I know there's some little difference 17:33 you got to think about it here. 17:34 Spirit of Prophecy talks about here, 17:35 we're talking about written in Letter 11, written in 1890. 17:42 Notice this, 17:43 "This is the test that the people of God 17:45 must have before they are sealed." 17:47 What is it? It's a test on the Sabbath. 17:50 Did you get it? 17:51 "When after the law is passed, 17:52 all who proved their loyalty to God 17:54 by observing His law, 17:56 refusing to accept a spurious Sabbath, 17:58 that's Sunday, 18:00 will rank under the banner of the Lord God Jehovah, 18:03 and will receive the seal of the living God." 18:06 Listen, "Those who yield the truth..." 18:08 And there's many are yielding the truth every day. 18:11 You know what they understand this truth in Sabbath keeping. 18:13 They don't want to do it because of their job. 18:15 They don't want to do it because of their family. 18:16 They don't want to do it 18:18 because of various different reasons. 18:19 They want to live like the world 18:20 and in the world and have the world. 18:22 I'll tell you what? 18:23 The devil wants you to have it too. 18:25 So just keep it saying, I want it, you get it. 18:26 Let me read all my lines of love. 18:28 "Those who yield the truth of heavenly origin 18:31 and accept Sunday as Sabbath 18:33 will receive the mark of the beast." 18:35 Is that pretty simple? 18:37 That's simple. That's very simple. 18:39 Why people don't want to talk about it? 18:41 Because you have a lot of good people love Jesus 18:43 with all their heart. 18:45 We realize they go on that day, we realize it, 18:46 they've always thought, you know why? 18:48 I tell you why. 18:49 Because the papacy got involved. 18:50 And they did what? 18:52 They changed the Sabbath to the Sunday, 18:53 the first day of the week, for over 1000 years 18:57 before there ever was a Protestant. 19:00 Over 1000 years 19:01 before the Protestants could come up at you, 19:03 that's just the Baptist and Methodist Church of God, 19:07 all these other folks that we see weren't in being, 19:09 they weren't here. 19:10 And the papacy changed it while they could. 19:12 And naturally after 1000 years, 19:14 you think it's not covered in a bunch of, may I say trash? 19:17 Is that all right? 19:19 Garbage, we'll get more bold maybe if we need to. 19:23 And here we need to see what's... 19:24 That's why people don't know 19:25 and they haven't heard and their grandpa and grandma 19:28 and great grand and all and forth, 19:29 they never heard of it. 19:31 But God said in these last days, 19:33 there will be people those gonna bring it 19:34 to the forefront. 19:35 Praise God for that. 19:37 Amen. 19:39 I mean, this is the time, think about it. 19:41 We march to the Vatican, every delusion, 19:45 at least in my opinion, every delusion 19:47 that's now being brought in. 19:49 The plainest truths that can be taught 19:51 in Scripture and God's Word 19:54 is covered what I just talked about 19:56 is a bunch of manmade theories. 19:58 See, man has covered God's truth 20:01 and God says to His people uncover these truth. 20:05 And we must do that. 20:06 How do we think that we can go on 20:08 and not uncover these truths? 20:09 Because, well, do you know, 20:11 our sister may get mad at us 20:13 or our brother may get mad at us. 20:14 You know, 20:16 well, you don't force anything on anyone 20:17 but they'll come a time 20:19 God will give you that opportunity 20:20 to give that truth to them 20:21 if they're open and they want to hear that. 20:24 Be praying for that. 20:26 Deadly errors, 20:27 why are we talking about this subject? 20:29 Because there's deadly errors are presented as the truth. 20:33 Did you get it? 20:34 Deadly errors are being presented 20:36 by the dozens and the hundreds in most churches today, 20:39 let's be honest. 20:41 And there's a lot of, means in Adventism too. 20:43 I don't let Adventism get out. 20:44 People say well, because you're one you gonna. 20:46 No, I want to hit it on. 20:47 I'm gonna hit the nail on the head 20:48 if that's the way it is. 20:50 We've got to do it because the Bible said 20:51 call sin by its right name, 20:53 where they be in the church or outside, 20:54 did you get it? 20:56 One or the other we have to do that 20:57 because God asked us to do that. 21:00 Deadly errors presented as truth. 21:03 Oh, and you know why? 21:05 And then as they present these errors, 21:06 then they're going to pass laws 21:07 to try to make us to accept them. 21:10 What will you do? 21:11 Most of you, bless your heart, you know, 21:12 you can't come to church when there's no, you know, 21:14 no kind of pressure or anything applied. 21:16 You want to sleep in, 21:18 you want to do everything else to do, 21:19 besides come and fellowship and learn the hour 21:22 in which we are living right now. 21:24 Think about it, 21:25 you think that you're gonna get on the ball 21:26 when you see that it might cost you your life, 21:28 it might cost you some jail time. 21:30 You think you're gonna do a thing? 21:32 Not if you're not preparing right now. 21:33 That's gonna be my thought on that, okay. 21:35 You've got to be preparing right now. 21:37 We find the simplicity we talk about, 21:39 simplicity of true godliness. 21:42 Notice the simplicity of true godliness 21:45 is buried against, 21:47 we're talking about buried by beneath tradition. 21:50 Did you get it? And I call tradition trash. 21:53 Is that okay? Amen 21:56 Tradition is trash. Amen. 21:59 I need more than someday who want to per say amen. 22:02 Tradition is trash. 22:05 Millions will be lost 22:06 because they believed in trash tradition. 22:10 We know where tradition came from. 22:11 I'm just talking about we got to be frank about this 22:13 if it's all right. 22:15 Let me just read two passages right quick. 22:16 I made big statement. 22:17 What does the Bible say? 22:19 Matthew, verse 15, 22:21 Matthew 15:6, the Bible said, 22:24 "Thus you have made the," what? 22:26 "The commandments of God 22:28 of non effect by your tradition." 22:31 What have you done with the God's law, 22:33 but because of tradition you've made of non effect. 22:36 People don't think we have to keep it. 22:37 You don't need to do anything with it. 22:39 You don't need to worry about it. 22:40 It's what Jesus comes back and said, Matthew 15:9, 22:43 you know this well, 22:45 "But in vain do they worship Me, 22:47 teaching for," what? 22:48 "Doctrines the commandments of men." 22:51 Jesus says, "It's in vain that you worship Him, 22:54 teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." 22:56 So if men are saying this is truth, 22:58 and this is what we think now on this, 23:00 we've changed it to this now. 23:02 Jesus says, "I don't accept that kind of homage. 23:05 I don't accept that kind of worship. 23:08 It's made null and void by your tradition." 23:11 This is why we need to talk about it in my opinion. 23:14 This is why it needs to be going about, you know, 23:17 like a wildfire among Seventh-day Adventist too 23:20 as well as the whole world, we understand that. 23:23 These issues are and they will continue 23:25 to affect us and to affect the world 23:28 that we live in. 23:29 Joseph Mede, anyone familiar with Joseph Mede? 23:31 Yes. 23:32 An Anglican Puritan, wasn't he? 23:35 And you know what? 23:36 He gave some wonderful insight about not only in his day, 23:40 but he gave some insight about our day. 23:43 You know what he was talking about? 23:45 There's some years ago 23:46 we're talking with the colonies, 23:48 and America was just beginning, 23:49 he was seeing a lot of things and he wasn't quiet about it. 23:53 He continued, he was concerned 23:55 with the situation at that time. 23:57 We call him with the Turks or Muslim. 23:59 Did you get that? The Muslims. 24:01 He was concerned about it and he said, 24:03 he said that Muslim is a false religion. 24:06 And he spoke plainly about Islam. 24:08 It's a false. 24:10 And he said, you know what? 24:11 It is the enemy of Christianity. 24:13 See, that's pretty heavy duty back then 24:15 because you certainly lose your life 24:16 for making that kind of a statement. 24:18 Islam is an enemy of Christianity, 24:21 but then he got bold and he said, 24:22 now, wait a minute here. 24:24 Now look, notice this. 24:26 He said, there's something else here. 24:28 But the main battle he said of the church 24:31 was against the harlot system of Rome. 24:36 What happens to the church? 24:38 Does you what he said, "Man, Islam, that's bad news." 24:41 He said, right here, 24:42 "Man, it's gonna be enemy of the church, 24:43 but I'll tell you what's worse to the church." 24:45 He said, "It's the false harlot system of Rome." 24:49 Man, that was heavy duty. 24:51 So we today must be aware of what's going on. 24:55 We must be aware of what power 24:58 is surging up right to the front right now 25:01 and the world is wandering after 25:03 with glassy like eyes. 25:05 They can't see it for what it is. 25:08 Somebody needs to be telling them, 25:09 don't you think so, what's going on right now? 25:12 The Great Controversy on page 560 says this, 25:16 "Jesus before us in the hour of temptation," 25:19 notice it says, 25:20 "which shall come upon the world 25:21 to try them that dwell upon the earth." 25:23 So just before us is the hour of what? 25:26 Of temptation that shall come upon the world to try them 25:30 that dwell upon the earth." 25:33 Notice this, you can read that in Revelation 3:10. 25:36 Notice, "All whose faith is not firmly established 25:40 on the Word of God will be deceived and overcome." 25:44 How is your faith? 25:46 Think about it, yes, everybody. How's your faith today? 25:48 Is it really established upon the Word of God? 25:51 If not, we will be deceived and overcome. 25:54 Great Controversy again, page 580 says, 25:56 "History testifies 25:58 to her artful and persistent efforts 26:01 to insinuate herself..." 26:03 Who is this talking about? Talking about the papacy. 26:06 Notice it, "History testifies 26:08 to her artful, persistent efforts 26:10 to insinuate herself into the affairs of nations, 26:14 having gained a foothold, to further her own aim, 26:18 even at the ruin of princes and people." 26:21 Did you get it? Have you seen it today? 26:23 What's the papacy been doing? 26:24 What's Rome been doing? 26:25 Insinuate, pushing itself into the forefront in what? 26:28 Not only just church or religious 26:30 as it were activity, but in politics. 26:32 We're gonna prove that, 26:34 all kinds of things in here we have time to get into, 26:35 it'd be more to blow your mind wide open 26:38 of what's happening that we just don't, 26:39 we just say well, okay, we see it, we understand. 26:41 This is signs of the time. This is prophecy. 26:45 Great Controversy 581 says this, we're talking about here, 26:47 "She," which is Rome we're talking about here, 26:50 "is silently growing into power. 26:53 Her doctrines are exerting their influence 26:56 in legislative halls, 26:59 in the churches and in the hearts of men." 27:02 See, we realize they're infiltrating. 27:03 Do we get it? We're in the legislative hall. 27:06 You see that the Vatican is pushing 27:08 toward that legislative action? 27:10 Are they going to the highest sources of the world? 27:11 They're going to the government, the lawmakers? 27:13 Absolutely. 27:14 Are they pushing their power as it were 27:16 into the churches today to believe what they've set up 27:19 a tradition they say is the truth. 27:21 My-my, he is pushing himself in the hearts of men. 27:25 Because men's hearts you see, 27:27 they look and see the pope and they see different wonder, 27:29 saying, "Wow, this must be something to this." 27:33 We need to look closely at these issues. 27:37 Now we know, 27:38 more and more we see so called Protestant America 27:41 joining together with Roman Catholicism. 27:43 Have you seen America and Rome coming together? 27:47 I'm talking about life and death issue. 27:48 You miss all these things here and you can't put it together 27:50 when it comes to pass, 27:52 you might as well just wave goodbye. 27:55 I can't say it any plainer than that. 27:56 I'm not trying to be ugly about it, 27:58 but I'm telling you, it's serious issues 28:00 that we're talking about. 28:01 What? 28:03 Protestants and Catholics are coming together, 28:05 Rome knows how to do it. 28:06 Rome knows how to good, let's do this 28:09 for the common good of the world. 28:11 And then you feel like you're not very good 28:13 if you don't accept what they're a little common, 28:16 get you on the common things 28:17 and then they're gonna get you on the other. 28:20 Notice that they hawked that in, 28:21 joining together for this... 28:24 Save the world, have you heard that? 28:27 Protestants and Catholicism are joining together. 28:28 It sounds good on the surface, 28:30 but you need to know 28:31 what's underneath and what's behind it. 28:34 You know there's some houses 28:35 that look good on the surface. 28:38 But when you begin to crawl underneath that house 28:40 or somebody with me, 28:41 crawl underneath that house and you get look at 28:42 all the termite damage underneath it. 28:45 You look at the structural faults 28:47 of the footing and the foundation, 28:48 you don't have much of a house there. 28:52 They call it, they're coming together 28:53 to save the world. 28:55 We could call this if we want to, 28:56 a cultural battle if we want to do. 28:59 We can call it a coming together 29:01 for a common cause. 29:02 Are you still there? 29:04 Such as, we've mentioned it several times 29:06 the global warming thing, 29:08 the feeding of the hungry, inequality. 29:12 These are good on the surface, they may be, 29:14 even fighting communism, which a papacy has done. 29:18 These things I've mentioned here, 29:19 that's what they've been doing for a longer time 29:21 to get us feel that we all join together 29:23 for a common good 29:24 and but they call interesting in some of the writings 29:26 they call the common good is Sunday observance. 29:31 Yeah, coming together for the common good 29:35 part of represent is Sunday sacredness. 29:38 So a law needs to be passed. 29:39 We need to have our minds in tune 29:41 with what's going on here. 29:42 Hopefully we can discuss that a little more as we go. 29:46 Fighting these things seem good on the surface, 29:48 but we must not forget Rome. 29:52 We must not forget where Rome came from. 29:54 And we need not forget where Rome is headed 29:57 and for the whole world, remember that. 29:59 See, some of us don't get this 30:01 that the pope thinks that he is the religious head 30:04 of every church, 30:05 your church that you go to. 30:07 The church is that our church here? 30:09 He said, he's the head of all the pastors, 30:12 all the priests and all the elders, 30:14 he's the head over all of them. 30:17 We know he's not. 30:18 But he claims that and so he's trying to reclaim 30:21 his little prostitutes and his little harlots, 30:24 who have left the mother church, 30:26 and he's trying to draw us back. 30:29 The papacy is the one that tried 30:31 to squelch the reformation, as you well know, 30:34 because they were being exposed. 30:36 And today, we need to do more exposing. 30:40 Great Controversy 563 says this. 30:44 Now, how do we think about Rome today 30:46 in the Catholic Church 30:48 and I've seen TV specials on this and says what? 30:50 Well, Rome's not the way that it used to be. 30:52 It's different. It's changed, and we accept it. 30:55 How many of here, we accept it now more than 30:57 no matter what happened in the past, 30:59 I don't understand that. 31:00 Now, Great Controversy said this many years ago. 31:03 Listen, "Romanism is now regarded by Protestants 31:07 with far greater favor than in former years." 31:11 But my question comes back to you, 31:12 has Rome really changed? 31:15 See, we're looking at all these things 31:16 going on in the world right now. 31:17 Has Rome really changed? 31:19 Or does Rome have an agenda that's going to include you 31:22 and me and the world and those 31:23 who especially honor the seventh day Sabbath, 31:26 the God of creation? 31:28 It's going to do it as I stand here. 31:30 It's going to happen, it's going to take place. 31:33 Great Controversy 571 says, "The Roman Church now," 31:36 notice, "presents a fair front to the world, 31:40 covering with apologies, 31:41 her records of horrible cruelties." 31:43 Many years ago, 31:44 it would never admitted that their Dark Ages, 31:47 killing between 50 and 100 million Christians, 31:50 feeding them to the lions, tearing up their children, 31:53 doing all this here 31:54 just because they would not accept the Catholic Church, 31:57 is that simple enough. 31:59 You didn't accept their rules and their regulations, 32:01 this is what happened to you. 32:02 They want that power again, not only in the church, 32:05 they want it in the government, 32:07 and they're coming back to rule the world. 32:09 If you and I are gonna sit back 32:11 and let them do it, we've got to expose 32:14 what Bible said we got to do it. 32:15 We can't sit back right now. 32:17 Notice, covering with apologies reading 32:19 on her record of horrible cruelties. 32:21 "She was clothed herself with a Christlike garment, 32:26 but she is unchanged. 32:28 Every principle of the papacy 32:30 that existed in past ages will be" notice, 32:34 "exists today." 32:35 Did you get it? 32:36 Everything, now when you say, but why, what? 32:39 Let's prove it. 32:41 How can we say, 32:42 well, they have, they said they've changed 32:43 and they put documents out and we've changed. 32:45 We're sorry for what has happened, 32:46 what is taking place, 32:48 but the Bible is clear, they have not changed. 32:49 The Spirit of Prophecy is clear that they have not changed. 32:52 You know, how you'll find out. 32:54 You say, we not read not only from Spirit of Prophecy, 32:56 not only from the Bible, 32:57 but what, from their own writings. 32:59 Notice this, 33:00 how does the church apologize for her deeds, 33:02 her horrible deeds in times past 33:04 when she boasts of infallibility. 33:08 How can you apologize for something 33:10 when you say we're infallible, we don't make mistakes? 33:14 Something's crooked here. 33:17 Something's dirty. 33:19 Something's hidden underneath the rock here 33:20 needs to be brought out. 33:21 Great Controversy 50 says it, page 50, 33:24 "It is one of the leading doctrines of Romanism 33:26 that the pope is the visible head 33:28 of the universal church of Christ, 33:31 invested," notice it, 33:33 "he's supposed to be invested with supreme authority 33:35 over bishops and pastors." 33:36 You heard me saying that while ago, notice it, 33:38 "In all parts of the world. 33:41 More than this, 33:42 the pope has been given the very titles of Deity. 33:46 He has been styled 'Lord God the Pope' 33:50 and has been declared infallible. 33:54 He demands homage of all men." 33:57 Did you get, he demands what? 33:59 Homage of all men around the world, 34:02 this is what they've been working at. 34:04 Ever since they lost their power, 34:06 the deadly wound, 34:07 you remember us reading a passage, what was it? 34:08 Revelation 13:3, 12, 14, deadly wound was healed. 34:12 We are at the time, 34:13 I'm talking about the deadly wound was what? 34:15 Deadly wound is healed 34:16 and all the world wonders after the beast, 34:18 they follow after the beast in the footsteps 34:20 by accepting some of their dogmas, 34:22 their traditions, their falseness, that lies. 34:26 God doesn't teach that from the Word of God. 34:28 He said the seventh day is a Sabbath 34:29 of the Lord thy God. 34:30 Naturally, that's just one of them we understand. 34:32 Listen carefully please to this, 34:34 same claim, you say, 34:36 well, that sounds different to me. 34:37 The same claim was put on Jesus when He went to the wilderness. 34:42 Do you remember that? 34:43 Of temptation. 34:45 Remember what devil said, 34:47 "If you'll just bow down and worship me, 34:50 I'll give you the world." Remember? 34:52 That's what the devil says today. 34:53 I'll give you the world and everything in the world. 34:56 Because he says the world... 34:57 He said the world his is, but you know what? 35:00 Ever since Calvary I beg to differ with you. 35:03 Ever since Calvary, Jesus dying on the cross, 35:05 he won back the world for us. 35:08 Ain't that wonderful? 35:09 And certainly has salvation in mind 35:11 for each and every one of us, I wonder. 35:13 So the devil is lying again. Why? 35:14 'Cause he can't tell the truth. 35:16 And how's the devil work? 35:18 He works through organizations, he works through people. 35:20 He didn't come out with his ugly head down 35:22 and show you what he is really like. 35:24 Because you'll say, 35:25 "Well, I want nothing to do with that." 35:26 He put on what? We read while ago. 35:28 He puts on like an angelic garb, 35:29 he puts on like a robe of, you know, 35:31 of goodness and righteousness. 35:33 And therefore we say, well, I heard people say, 35:35 well, they're Christian, they're Christian. 35:37 If they're Christian, they do the things 35:38 that Christ would do. 35:39 If they do that not what Christ would do, 35:41 they're not Christian. 35:42 I'm not good. Okay. You got that? 35:44 But the Bible talks about it in this. 35:48 Great Controversy, 564 on infallibility. 35:51 Notice this, 35:53 "So far from being relinquished, 35:55 this claim was affirmed in the 19th century." 35:58 Oh, that long time ago, 36:00 "19th century with greater positiveness 36:02 than ever before. 36:04 As Rome asserts that the church never erred, 36:09 nor will it according to Scripture, ever err." 36:13 So how can you apologize for something 36:14 and say we never did err though? 36:20 You've got to think this thing through 36:22 because it means we'll have to make decisions. 36:27 We have to make decisions when we hear these things. 36:30 That comes from, now listen, 36:32 that comes from their own writings. 36:33 Did you get it? 36:34 We do not err nor have we ever erred. 36:38 That comes from the Institute of ecclesiastical history 36:41 book number three, interesting century two, 36:44 part two, chapter two, section nine, note 17. 36:47 Now, it's too much. 36:49 Nobody will get that 36:50 but that came from their own writings. 36:52 Did you get it? See, a change is taking place. 36:53 This is what concerned me. 36:54 There's a change that's taken place. 36:57 But now who's, but who changed? 36:59 Who has changed? 37:00 Great Controversy 571 says, notice this, 37:03 "It is not without reason that the claim 37:05 has been put forth in Protestant countries 37:08 that Catholicism differs less widely 37:12 from Protestantism than in former times." 37:16 Notice this, "They said there's a change." 37:18 So the Catholicism is what? 37:20 They say it's changed. 37:22 Has it really changed? 37:23 Who has changed? 37:25 "But the change, 37:26 we have to look at the change is not, 37:28 you know, in the papacy." 37:31 Think about it. 37:32 "Catholicism," notice this, 37:34 "indeed resembles Protestantism now." 37:39 Did you get that exists why? 37:41 "Because the Protestantism is so degraded, 37:44 it is so lowered since the days of the Reformers." 37:48 You see, it's not elevated up like we should be 37:51 elevating the truths of God's Word, 37:52 regardless of who it hits or who it hurts. 37:54 That's all of us. 37:56 Now we read it, 37:57 this isn't going to be a blessing, 37:58 praise God for, they'll say, oh, it hurt. 38:00 When we say, oh, it hurts, a truth that hurts 38:01 because you don't want it. 38:04 Does that make sense? Yes. 38:05 Whether they're telling the truth, oh, 38:07 my mother always said, man, 38:08 you stomped on my foot today, but praise God, it's the truth. 38:10 It's good. 38:11 It might hurt, 38:13 but we recognize that it's right 38:14 and we want to follow it. 38:15 You want heaven to be your home? 38:18 Yeah. 38:20 So we realized the purpose 38:21 of just going over some of these things 38:23 is see how Catholicism or Rome 38:26 is trying to take over America. 38:28 And we must be aware of this. Why? 38:31 Because the Catholicism has its roots 38:34 in just about everything that exists in this world. 38:37 Much more than you recognize, 38:39 maybe even realize 38:40 unless you've been reading a lot on it. 38:42 The papacy is exactly what prophecy said 38:44 that it would be. 38:46 The apostasy of the latter times, 38:48 did you get that? 38:49 The Bible says, I wish we had time to read it. 38:51 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 38:54 exactly the apostasy of the latter times. 38:58 See, we need to review, at least to me the positions 39:01 and the thoughts of those reformers 39:04 and those believers of old, the puritans, 39:07 get back to when it was pure. 39:08 Get back to when it was right. 39:10 Get it back when people love the truth. 39:13 Think about, there're people coming to this country, 39:15 they came to this country for what? 39:17 For religious freedoms, praise God. 39:20 And you know what? 39:21 They came here to escape and there's no doubt about it. 39:24 It's clear, it's not trying to talk 39:26 and they came to escape the papacy. 39:29 That's why they came from Europe to this country. 39:31 That's why God opened the doors of United States of America 39:33 and said, come on in because of the tremendous persecution, 39:36 because of the Dark Ages you see, 39:38 exactly the time that the papacy would exist, 39:40 we realized that. 39:42 I wish we had more time, we don't have the time. 39:44 I'd love to go into because it's so important 39:46 that God said this horrible power, 39:49 the one that the dragon gave him his power, 39:50 his seat and his authority would be set up 39:53 and when it came up, it would be, 39:55 we realized Rome was broke down right into... 39:58 Rome for ten kingdoms, ten toes of the Daniel 2. 40:01 Is that right? 40:02 And the Bible said, we need to be very careful 40:04 about that little horn that came up among the Ten. 40:06 You remember? 40:07 So it's easy in history to find out. 40:10 If there's only ten kingdoms in the whole world, 40:13 history would certainly bear a fact 40:14 to every one of us, and it does. 40:16 So we don't have to guess, 40:17 we just say, well what happened? 40:19 Bible say, when this little horn power came up, 40:20 he was different than the others. 40:22 He had eyes like the eyes of a man 40:23 and a mouth speaking blasphemies. 40:25 When he came, that man, he would be a political power 40:27 and he would be a religious power. 40:29 But when he came up, 40:30 he's gonna try to change things. 40:32 Did you get it? 40:33 And when he came up, it said, oh, there's ten kingdoms. 40:36 Oh, he's gonna, he's gonna up, 40:38 three of them are going to be uprooted. 40:39 History would bear a fact to those three. 40:41 History bear a fact the Ostrogoths, 40:43 the Heruli and the Vandals. 40:45 You say, well, and the Bible said, 40:46 oh, it's going to last 1,260 years, 40:48 the Dark Age period. 40:50 This is why we can talk freely about the papacy. 40:52 When it was this, 40:53 God gives identifying marks about this papacy. 40:55 What happened was three of Ostrogoths, 40:57 Heruli, Vandal came up, the last part. 40:59 Why did those three go down when the papacy came up? 41:03 Because they refused to accept the papal way. 41:05 What's the papacy always done in the ages? 41:07 They do away with you. 41:09 So you look at the prophets and say 41:10 when the last one of those, that third one went down, 41:13 that's when the prophecy began, 41:14 538 AD at 1260 years, at 42 months, 41:19 at a time and the times in the dividing of times. 41:21 Are we still there? 41:22 They're all the same period of time there, 41:24 1,260 years lead you to what? 41:26 1798. 41:27 The Bible said there be, we read it three times, 41:29 a deadly wound will be given to this power. 41:32 Exactly in 1798, 41:34 French General Berthier marched across Europe, 41:36 took the pope into captivity, he died in captivity, 41:38 he stripped him of his power, you see, 41:41 just exactly what they said a deadly wound. 41:43 But here's the problem, It said, but, oh, 41:45 the deadly wound was healed, 1929, 41:49 the deadly wound was healed on outward, 41:51 the Vatican was given back and the property 41:53 and so on and so forth by Mussolini. 41:55 And the papacy, 41:56 the wound was beginning to heal. 41:58 The pope himself said when he addressed Congress, 42:00 and right there he said, 42:02 we don't want the deadly wound to remain open. 42:04 How does he know that? 42:06 What has he been reading? 42:09 I'm glad he's reading something, 42:10 but you see what I'm saying? 42:12 If he knows this, he needs to know, 42:13 look at himself. 42:15 We need to look at the organization, 42:16 we need to find out what's going on here 42:17 because he knew. 42:19 The Bible said there's apostasy of the latter days. 42:22 Lord have mercy. 42:24 Who's going to continue to give this message 42:26 when the time comes that you're gonna have 42:28 to pay the piper? 42:34 How many will do it here in these last days, 42:37 deadly wound healed. 42:40 Every day, every day, 42:42 there's something new developing. 42:44 Is that true? 42:46 Every day, the world, isn't what we say, 42:49 the world is out of whack. 42:52 The world is out of place. 42:54 It's not like it used to be, you know that, it's different. 42:58 The enemy is trying to work tomake himself God 43:01 just like he said he was going to do 43:03 where everybody would what? 43:04 Everybody would worship him rather than God. 43:07 I've often said, remember, he said, 43:08 "I'm going to be as God." 43:10 Remember, God said, 43:11 "The seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 43:13 The devil says, "Well, I'll make my own day." 43:15 Are you still with me? 43:17 And I'll have people that will worship me on my day. 43:19 Well, it ain't the seventh day 43:20 if you don't mind me saying it that way. 43:23 So he chose what? 43:24 The first day of the week. 43:26 What do you think and all the encyclicals 43:27 and Laudato si' you know, 43:29 all that talks about in there that we need a day of rest 43:31 and we need Sunday as a national day, 43:33 legislative day of rest. 43:35 Man, he's talking about it right now. 43:36 He's talking to the presidents about it. 43:38 He's talking about the legislators with it. 43:40 He's addressing Congress whether what more do we need. 43:42 God help us to see where we are at. 43:45 Yes, it could go on for a little time 43:47 or it could be very, very short. 43:48 But the problem is now, we've got a job to do. 43:51 We need to understand that our time is short. 43:53 But again, probation is closing. 43:54 I want to say it, every meeting, 43:56 probation is closing. 43:57 It may close for you today. It may close for me today. 44:00 What are we gonna do? 44:01 The day you say you want the world, 44:03 the devil says I'll give it to you. 44:05 You want the world, I'll give it to you. 44:07 He's showing the man the world 44:09 and saying look how wonderful this world is. 44:11 And you know what? 44:12 When he shows man, 44:14 if he's not has eyes singled to the glory of God. 44:15 When he shows you the world, you'll say, I want it. 44:18 I want it. I want it. Why? 44:22 He makes it look so good on the outside, 44:23 you see, so we said we want the world. 44:26 If your spiritual, you're not gonna say that, 44:27 you don't want that world. 44:30 And then the devil then, when you say that, 44:31 he brings you under his dominion. 44:34 You are under his control when you say, 44:36 I want the world, he says, 44:37 "Good, you're mine, come on over here." 44:38 You're no longer God's because God said, 44:40 the world is enmity between... 44:42 The world's enmity between you know, the God and us. 44:45 We don't want that. Praise God. 44:48 Heaven sees this earth, I guarantee you today, 44:50 heaven sees this earth is filled with violence, 44:53 it's filled with crime. 44:55 Men are trying to pass laws to get things straightened up. 44:58 Talk about climate change all the time, 44:59 and all these things going on. 45:01 I wanna mention more about that as we go on 45:02 just few more minutes right here. 45:04 But if violence and crime feel the land 45:05 just like it did in Genesis Chapter 6, 45:08 you remember that? 45:09 Verses 11 through 13, 45:10 the Bible said 45:12 before the flood, you remember? 45:13 What was the earth? 45:14 Filled with violence and crime, 45:16 and the time for the last mourning 45:17 must be given right now. 45:21 I don't think that Noah was just sitting around saying, 45:24 well, you need to get ready. 45:25 And I think he was sounding an alarms what I think. 45:28 I think he took every opportunity 45:29 to tell somebody that things were happening in the world 45:32 and just open your eyes 45:33 and when you see these things happening, 45:35 you're gonna know that it's even at the door, 45:37 you're gonna know that 45:39 you have to take a positional stance, 45:40 you can't just stand around anymore 45:42 and look around your hands out, well, what am I gonna do? 45:44 What am I gonna do? 45:45 Get in the service of the Lord, that's what He wants you to do. 45:48 What do you mean we give a warning message? 45:50 You're warned against the power that we're talking about, 45:53 we're warned against the power 45:54 that the deadly wound was healed 45:55 and all the world wondered after the beast, 45:57 Revelation 13:8, and they are those whose names 45:59 are not written in the Lamb's book of life. 46:01 I can't say it any faster than that to try to get in. 46:03 That I'm interested in the world because what? 46:06 The majority of the world, 46:07 their names are not written in the Lamb's book of life. 46:09 That's a concern. 46:11 It's not just about right 46:12 and you're right and this group is wrong, blah, blah. 46:14 We've got a lot to learn. We've got a lot to grow on. 46:16 We understand that, we don't know everything. 46:18 But I guarantee you we know enough 46:19 based upon Bible prophecy that we understand this power 46:22 and what this power is trying to do to the world 46:25 and we've step back so many years 46:27 and have done nothing and deny 46:30 that it's even gonna happen in some sense. 46:33 How could we deny the prophecy like this? 46:37 I'm gonna tell you, my brothers and sisters, 46:38 their blood will be on your hands 46:40 and I don't want it on my hands. 46:41 I have enough to answer for, you know, 46:43 I thank God that He has a blood 46:44 that's able to cleanse us whiter than snow, aren't you? 46:47 6 Testimony 17, 6 Testimony 17 says, 46:51 the light we have received, here's direction for us. 46:53 "The light we have received upon the third angel's message 46:57 is the true light." 46:59 How can anybody in Adventism 47:00 who understand the commandments of God say, 47:02 Well, I think this light's changed now, 47:04 it's not like it was before. 47:05 Read these things. 47:07 Notice this, what am I talking about? 47:08 The light we've received upon the third angel's message 47:11 is the true light. 47:13 What incorporates into three angel's... 47:14 What wound up in the third angel's message? 47:17 The mark of the beast, 47:18 Sabbath Sunday issue, did you get it? 47:21 The mark of the beast 47:22 is exactly what it has been proclaimed to be. 47:25 Not all in regard to this matter 47:27 is yet understood, 47:28 nor will it be understood 47:30 until the unrolling of the scroll. 47:32 What does Rome say about the mark of the beast? 47:37 The mark of their authority, do they say anything? 47:39 Absolutely. Rome says this, notice this. 47:42 This comes from Thomas HF. 47:45 He's a chancellor of Cardinal Gibbon 47:47 in the letter to regarding the change of the Sabbath. 47:49 These are things 47:50 that the Catholic Church wrote themself. 47:52 People asking them, 47:53 what about this change of the Sabbath? 47:55 Here's what they said, 47:56 "The change of the seventh day Sabbath is Sunday, 47:57 the first day of the week. 47:59 It says, "Of course, the Catholic Church 48:01 claims the change was her act. 48:04 Is that bold? See, that's bold. 48:07 Why can't we be bold back? 48:10 It's not trying to get even, it's not trying to hurt anybody 48:13 but they're bold, they said we, of course, 48:16 the Catholic Church claims that change was her act, 48:18 because Daniel 7:25 said this Catholic power 48:21 would think to change times and laws. 48:24 It's right, all set up. 48:25 Would be nice to go into Babylon, Medo-Persia, 48:27 Greece and Rome and get down and break those things down. 48:30 Notice this, but here's the highlight of this article, 48:33 and the act of changing the Sabbath 48:35 to Sunday is a mark of her ecclesiastical power, 48:39 authority in religious matters. 48:41 It's what? 48:43 Yeah, we're talking about the mark of the beast 48:45 in here in their own writings, they say, that's a mark. 48:48 That's our mark. 48:50 This is what we're noted for. 48:52 This is what gives us power in the word, 48:54 world in religious matters. 48:55 Because we took God off of the throne, 48:57 we put ourselves on there. 49:00 We know what God wrote with His finger? 49:01 They know what God wrote with His own finger. 49:04 They know but yet they said no, 49:06 we're above God, we're above the Bible. 49:08 I wish we had time to read all of those quotes 49:10 from their own writing. 49:11 It'll blow your mind, you'll think what? 49:13 You won't sit idly by anymore. 49:14 You're gonna be on fire. 49:15 You're gonna have birds underneath your seat. 49:17 Are you still with me? 49:19 Again Rome says this, notice this right here. 49:21 This is given by Enwright, Father Enwright, 49:24 it says here from the Redemption College, 49:26 Kansas City, Missouri. 49:28 Again, he says, "It's changed. 49:30 Sunday changed for Saturday is the mark of our authority," 49:34 notice this, to overrule God's law." 49:38 Can you imagine the audacity? 49:40 They write it down in their own writing 49:42 they say this is what... 49:44 They say mark. 49:46 We're talking about the mark of the beast, 49:47 the mark's very simple, mark is that, 49:49 Mark has to do with what? 49:50 The image to the beast is Saturday, Sunday issue. 49:53 Let's say that's our mark, we did that. 49:57 No, we did it to overrule God's law 50:00 to show that we're higher than God, 50:02 that the pope is God on earth, did you get that? 50:05 Now you say, 50:06 "Well, I don't know about that." 50:07 Well, let me read from the Christian record, 50:09 September 1st. 50:10 I mean, the Catholic record, September 1st, 1923, 50:14 they wrote this, 50:15 "The church Rome is above the Bible 50:18 and the transference of Sabbath observance 50:20 is proof of the fact." 50:23 Remember, he shall think to change time. 50:24 Well, you can't change what God has set up. 50:26 But here it's where we're living in that hour, 50:28 living in that day, 50:30 we're living right now in this time 50:31 when the world is looking at this issue 50:33 through the economy and through 50:34 you know that we're talking about climate change rule, 50:37 you know, equality. 50:39 Yeah, environment, yeah, everything you can think of, 50:41 people are looking at it and saying man, 50:43 if we just change things now. 50:46 But we gotta have a day of rest. 50:47 We got to have one day shut off 50:48 in seven here or the country is not, 50:50 there's three or four different legislators that said. 50:52 One said, I read the other day, 50:53 we have 10 years before this is done. 50:55 If we don't do it, 50:56 the world is gonna be coming to an end. 50:58 Another said 11 years, another city 12 years. 51:00 They're looking at something setting a time, 51:02 I can guarantee you, 51:03 the devil would have you 51:05 to set a time that's in the future 51:06 and that will come sooner than that. 51:08 They can come very quickly. 51:12 Absolutely right now that's what it meant, 51:15 if you look at the Laudato si', you know, 51:18 from the papacy downer. 51:20 He just writes and there's so much 51:21 how we need that day of rest. 51:23 And the world needs to rest. 51:25 The environment needs to rest. 51:27 People need to rest. 51:29 The family needs to rest. Are you still there with me? 51:33 Another one here I thought from father Enwright said this 51:35 from the Catholic Church, He said, 51:37 "It was the Holy Catholic Church 51:38 that changed the day of rest from Saturday to Sunday, 51:40 the first day of the week, 51:42 and has compelled all to keep Sunday." 51:45 Man, if that's not bold, 51:47 my lands of love somebody help us. 51:49 That's about as bold as you can get here. 51:51 We're going to skip over a lot of different things here. 51:53 I won't go into four minutes or so left over. 51:55 Man, there's so much information 51:56 here that makes your head, they say makes your head swim. 52:00 Let's just boil down to just a few moments 52:02 here we're talking about, 52:04 look at things that what's really changed 52:05 between Protestants and Catholics, notice, 52:07 there's a little article in the USA Today. 52:10 Notice what it said, Special Edition. 52:12 It said, "Few relationships in the US political history 52:15 had changed more over time 52:17 than between the presidents and the popes." 52:19 The latest being September 23rd sit down at the White House, 52:23 President Obama and Pope Francis. 52:25 It's a vivid illustration 52:27 of how the church and the US have changed over the past, 52:30 notice, two plus centuries. 52:33 Obama is a eleventh consecutive president 52:35 to meet with the pope. 52:37 Going back to Dwight Eisenhower, 52:38 stay with me, meeting with the pope 52:40 John XXIII on December 6th, 1959. 52:44 Before then only one president had ever met with a pope 52:47 was Woodrow Wilson, you remember in 1919. 52:50 Why? 52:51 Because they begin to meet with him 52:52 because the papacy or the Catholic 52:54 many people were fleeing to this country, 52:56 and all of a sudden they became voters 52:58 and because they become voters, 52:59 there were big voter box in the Catholic area and what, 53:03 legislators want the votes. 53:05 Think about it. 53:06 Pope's meanwhile were losing what? 53:07 They were losing their political power 53:10 they had amassed for centuries. 53:12 Now, they wanted to rule, 53:14 when they ruled kingdoms literally 53:16 and they want to rule the world again 53:18 not only in religious, but in the political world. 53:20 This is prophecy for our very eyes, 53:22 my brothers and sister. 53:24 John F. Kennedy, you remember him? 53:26 First president, I think was the only Catholic president 53:28 that I know of, may be others 53:30 to be elected president of the United States. 53:32 He met with PopePaul VI in 1963. 53:36 Keep thinking about this 53:37 as a relationship between the White House, notice, 53:40 and the Vatican has evolved. 53:42 Popes have been increasingly, notice this, 53:44 seen as honest brokers in international diplomacy. 53:50 What is it? 53:51 We are supposed to be a church, 53:52 but they're getting involved in government 53:54 just like the Bible said, identifying mark. 53:56 They persecute and kill God's people, 53:57 they did there in the Dark Ages. 53:59 They'd last 1260 years. 54:00 You see all these things right here, we just, 54:01 we have to keep that all balanced in our mind. 54:03 Now notice again, 54:05 just a few more areas here we see. 54:06 USA Special Edition, September of 2015 said, 54:10 Popes have been involved and, notice this, 54:12 do you think they're not involved? 54:13 "Popes have been involved in the Middle East negotiations, 54:16 the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, they were involved. 54:20 The Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and 80 they were involved. 54:25 Under Polish born Pope John II, 54:27 especially the church aggressively confronted 54:30 communism in Poland and elsewhere. 54:32 Pope Francis supplied space in the Vatican City 54:35 for meeting between members of Obama, 54:38 notice, administration 54:39 and the Government of Cuba, you remember that? 54:41 Not long ago. 54:43 Listen, there's more. 54:45 The popes began to emerge in 1950s as mediators, my. 54:49 Obama, who spoke with Francis at the Vatican in 2014, 54:52 says he wants to discuss their mutual interest 54:55 in combating climate change. 54:57 The President has also praised Francis 55:01 for advocating effects, 55:02 fighting poverty, income equality. 55:05 All this adds up to the US Vatican alliance 55:08 and we are marching toward the Vatican. 55:12 Ronald Reagan said, you know, 55:13 "If you want him by on your side, 55:15 you need to have the Catholics on your side." 55:16 He fought the moral majority. 55:18 He fought the American Civil Liberty Union on that too 55:22 which said it was one of the greatest 55:23 secret alliances of all time. 55:26 1979, Pope John Paul II visited President Carter 55:30 to discuss Communist China and Middle East. 55:32 You see, little horn was different than other, right, 55:34 you see it? 55:36 George Bush holds the record for papal visits which was six. 55:38 President Trump met with him in 2017. 55:42 And you know what he said? 55:44 It was an honor of a lifetime. 55:46 It was an honor of the lifetime. 55:48 Pieces of the puzzle are in place. 55:51 The world is ready for national Sunday law. 55:54 Developing at the foundation is climate change, the economy, 55:58 morality, common good, families, day of rest, 56:02 natural disasters, human, 56:03 talking about hurricanes, and tornadoes, 56:06 and flooding, and fires by land and sea and air. 56:09 This is no time to be silent. This is no time to be silent. 56:12 These things are all talked about right now. 56:14 It's going to be passed. 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