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00:36 Welcome to Behold the Lamb Ministries.
00:37 We are glad that you've joined us today. 00:39 This is an exciting study. 00:41 I tell you it's one that it's life and death issue, 00:43 these are the ones that we leave. 00:44 We're doing a four part series 00:46 and again we talked about prophecy, 00:47 so if you missed that 00:49 you understand the importance of prophecy. 00:50 You know, number two, 00:51 we talked about Daniel Chapter 2, 00:53 which is certainly the beginning 00:54 of Nebuchadnezzar's time 00:55 till the coming of Jesus, 00:57 that stone is cut, you remember, 00:58 and hits the feet of the image and it's destroyed 00:59 and then today we're gonna be talking 01:01 about four beasts 01:02 and the little horn of Daniel Chapter 7. 01:04 Now remember, and then next time 01:05 we're gonna be talking Revelation Chapter 13. 01:07 This is very important to identify this power 01:10 that's out in the world right in front of our very eyes 01:12 that persecuted and has persecuted God's people 01:15 over the centuries and will continue to do so 01:17 until Jesus shall come. 01:19 Surely we would want to know, as hurtful as it might be, 01:22 and as maybe hard to digest as it might be, 01:25 we still need to know because God... 01:27 Why would God put it in the Word? 01:28 Why would He use symbolism 01:29 as we look in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7, 01:32 even in Daniel 8 01:33 and then we go on through in Revelation 13:17 and so on. 01:36 There's a reason for it, 01:37 so we're gonna get right into that study. 01:39 But first always, we certainly need prayer. 01:40 I'm going to kneel up here and have prayer. 01:42 You'd like to pray with me please do. 01:45 Merciful Father in heaven again, 01:46 we thank You for the privilege of prayer. 01:48 We thank You that we call You Father. 01:50 Oh, Lord, we need Your Holy Spirit today. 01:52 We need a clearness of mind, and heart, and tongue, 01:54 and ears that open to hear 01:55 and those who receive that love the truth 01:57 and want to know what truth is, 01:59 and not well, it's not popular, 02:00 I don't want to hear it or, 02:01 Lord, this is something you've put out there 02:03 and we will be accountable for that. 02:04 So bless us now we pray this in to the power of thy Spirit, 02:06 we give you praise 02:08 and thank You in Jesus name, amen. 02:09 I want to take some time 02:11 just to read a couple of things. 02:12 I know we don't have that time, but I'm gonna read it anyway. 02:13 2 Thessalonians, mark it down in your Bible. 02:16 2 Thessalonians 2. Why? 02:18 Because God says in the last days, 02:20 this power will be unmasked like never before. 02:23 Now, this is what scripture says. 02:24 It's not what I'm saying, this is not what a church says, 02:26 this is what God says in His Word. 02:28 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4, the Bible says, 02:31 "Let no man deceive you by any means: 02:34 for that day, " what day? 02:35 "Shall not come." What day He was talking about? 02:37 The coming of the last days, the coming of Jesus, 02:39 "Except there come a falling away first 02:41 and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." 02:46 We need to know who that man of sin is 02:47 and that son of perdition. 02:49 Now notice, it gives you some clues right here, man, 02:51 when we back it up in the Word of God 02:52 beyond a shadow of a doubt. 02:53 Verse 4. 02:55 Now here, this man is sin, the son of perdition, 02:56 he opposes and exalted himself above what? 03:00 All that is called God or that is worshipped," 03:03 and notice, it has to do with worship, 03:04 "so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God 03:07 showing Himself that He is God." 03:10 So this last day power is going to be such a power 03:13 that the world is going to say, 03:14 the whole world is familiar with it. 03:17 Think about it, the whole world is going to be involved here. 03:19 And this power says, 03:21 I'm going to show myself I'm god. 03:22 I'm going to sit on the throne and I'll show you why, 03:25 he goes, he's saying, 03:27 I'll show you why that I can sit upon the throne 03:28 and I can rule and after all, 03:30 He says I have a lot of following. 03:33 I have awful lot of following. 03:34 We have to look at this time 03:36 down for the truth to be proclaimed 03:38 against falsehood and err. 03:40 So it's way past time 03:42 because we realize Jesus is coming soon, 03:43 there's no doubt about it. 03:44 The man of sin said, 03:46 "I've exalted myself above God." 03:47 The man of sin said, 03:49 "I'm going to sit in the temple of God. 03:50 I'm going to show myself as God," 03:52 notice this, "I'm going to show myself 03:54 as a power that needs to be worshipped." 03:57 Notice, it's always about what? 03:59 Worship. 04:00 Who you give your allegiance to? 04:02 Remember, the world knows this power. 04:06 Because this power has attacked God 04:08 and God's what? 04:10 God's memorial of creation, 04:12 which had more to read, but I'm not gonna read that. 04:14 But I want to just go back and see how familiar this is. 04:17 You'll go with me to the Book of Isaiah, 04:19 Isaiah, very familiar to those of you 04:20 who studied this subject, 04:22 those who have not, we still need to read it. 04:23 Isaiah, we're going to read Chapter 14, 04:26 and we're going to read verses 12, 04:28 notice this, through 14. 04:29 Isaiah what? 04:31 Chapter 12. 04:32 Ain't that right or 14, 04:33 I'm sorry, verses 12 through 14. 04:35 Notice what we just read from scripture, 04:36 this power does what? 04:38 He's going to think himself as God, 04:39 he's going to speak as God, 04:41 he's gonna sit on God's throne. 04:42 Notice what here we're talking about. 04:44 God's speaking about Lucifer in verse 12. 04:48 God says to Lucifer, 04:49 "How are thou fallen from heaven, " 04:51 verse 12, "O, Lucifer," 04:52 we note right, 04:54 we understand that so far right? 04:55 "O, Lucifer, son of the morning! 04:57 How art thou cast down to the ground, 05:00 which did weaken the nations." 05:02 Verse 13, 05:03 "For thou has said in thine heart," 05:04 who said it? 05:06 Lucifer said in his heart, 05:07 "I will ascend into heaven, 05:09 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God," 05:12 notice, "I will sit 05:13 upon the mount of the congregation 05:15 in the sides of the north. 05:16 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, 05:19 I will be like the most High." 05:21 That's pretty bold, is it not? 05:23 Now do we need to understand about this, 05:25 we understand that's Lucifer, 05:26 right before he fell and became Satan. 05:28 Remember, Satan does not work out 05:29 in the view of the public, with everybody, 05:31 he works through kingdoms and powers and individuals. 05:35 So we need to find out God is exposing this power, 05:38 God's exposing the one the enemy has chosen 05:40 to use to deceive the world. 05:43 Because the Bible said in Revelation, 05:45 "All the world wandered after the beast, 05:46 and they are those whose names are not written 05:48 in the Lamb's book of life." 05:50 This is very powerful, the enemy can deceive, 05:53 he deceived the third of the angels, 05:54 and I'll tell you today and I know you from, 05:56 some of you who have been watching 05:58 and listening from Adam, 05:59 they say, but I'll tell you right this, 06:00 you don't have the mind and I don't have the mind, 06:02 there's no one here, 06:03 all of our mind's together 06:05 would be like that of Lucifer before his fall. 06:07 He deceived those angels that were sinless. 06:10 So I'll tell you, we're on the air, 06:12 we would be easy prey 06:13 if it was not for the spirit of the living God, 06:15 is that not true? 06:17 Prophecy of Daniel Chapter 7, 06:18 get your Bibles and go there quickly with me 06:20 Daniel Chapter 7. 06:21 Covers about the same time period 06:23 as that of Daniel chapter what? 06:25 Chapter 2. 06:26 So we're looking at Daniel Chapter... 06:28 See that, 06:29 when something's important in scripture, 06:31 what does God do? 06:32 He repeats it. 06:33 But He uses different symbols this time, 06:35 but if you're digging, you'll find out what? 06:36 God is trying to get to, 06:37 we're looking at the middleman, for instance, 06:39 the middleman is simply a history of the world, right? 06:42 From Nebuchadnezzar's time, 06:43 all the way down till Jesus comes, 06:45 there's no doubt about it. 06:47 And then, so we look at so God said, you know why? 06:49 Because Nebuchadnezzar had this dream, 06:50 did he not? 06:51 Nebuchadnezzar was interested 06:53 in the political aspect of things, 06:55 not the religious part of it 'cause he was a pagan, 06:58 he was a heathen to begin with, we understand that. 07:00 So begin, so now God begins now in Daniel Chapter 7. 07:03 Daniel has what? 07:05 Daniel has a dream, vision, God gives him this dream. 07:08 And notice what is that so, 07:09 Nebuchadnezzar saw world powers 07:11 represented by this metallic image. 07:14 Daniel, in his dream saw symbolic beasts and horns, 07:19 see this scares most people 07:20 say, "Well, these beasts coming up 07:21 out of the water, some coming out of the earth. 07:23 How can we know what it really represents?" 07:26 It's very clear because the Bible will tell you 07:28 what it represents. 07:29 But most don't want to know because they say, 07:30 well, beast and animals, we don't... 07:32 God's using remember, symbolism here. 07:34 We need to look at it when we go back in history, 07:36 and we'll be doing that today and how clearly it fits. 07:40 So Daniel Chapter 2 deals a large part with what? 07:43 Political matter, one world power what? 07:46 After the other. 07:47 Then we shift to Daniel Chapter what? 07:49 Seven, and onward, right? 07:53 And then we'll see Daniel here, 07:54 we say the last part Daniel 7 really goes right on 07:56 down to the end of the chapter, 07:58 deals with God's last day people. 08:00 Now remember, don't try to pin it and say, 08:02 "Well, I'm the last day people, 08:03 this group is the last day people, " 08:05 anybody can be a part of the last day people 08:06 that wants to be 08:08 that we have to follow the Lord. 08:09 We have to follow the teaching of scripture. 08:12 So it deals with the deliverance 08:13 of God's people from this nasty power. 08:17 Now remember, and see how God's people fit 08:19 in the plan of salvation, 08:21 and how God would have us to be dealing 08:23 with things that are going on in the world today. 08:25 So in Daniel's dream, we're going to turn, 08:26 we're going to read it right quick through 08:28 because of our time, Daniel 7:1, are you there yet? 08:32 Daniel 7:1. 08:33 Now we have to read eight verses, I'm sorry, 08:35 we just have to read these eight verses, 08:37 then we're going to go over and try to dissect them 08:38 and use scripture 08:40 so that we can understand it rather clearly. 08:42 Remember, if we go on after verse 8, 08:45 we get into the eternal reign that says a man of sin, 08:48 we get into the judgment. 08:49 We've got to be careful. 08:51 It's a whole different subject matter 08:52 and we don't want to get that. 08:53 So we'll skip through four verses 08:55 and then we'll go on 08:56 and let the Bible explain itself there. 08:58 Notice what it says, the Bible says this. 09:00 "We know the first year of Belshazzar 09:01 King of Babylon Daniel had a" what? 09:04 Notice this, "He had a dream." 09:05 And notice what it says, it said, 09:06 "Dream and then visions of his head upon his bed. 09:09 He wrote the dream," 09:10 notice this, why did he write it? 09:12 What was it for? 09:13 Was it for him? 09:14 Absolutely for him, but it was not for us, 09:16 maybe more for us 09:18 in the last days because it said, 09:19 "This will come to pass in the last days, 09:21 in the last days." 09:23 Anybody that wants to be a Christian, 09:24 I'll just be blown about if you're a Christian, 09:26 and we call ourselves a Christian, 09:27 we want to be a follower of Christ. 09:28 Surely we would want to know what's going on in these what? 09:32 In these last days. 09:33 It pertains to you and it pertains to me. 09:35 Notice verse 2, "Daniel spake and said, 09:37 'I saw in my vision by night.'" 09:39 Do we believe that Daniel was a prophet of God? 09:41 Do we believe that Daniel had visions? 09:42 When he said man of God, 09:44 we know he was telling the truth 09:45 right here. 09:46 "He saw in the night vision he beheld," 09:48 notice this, "four winds of heaven 09:49 strove upon the great sea." 09:50 We'll go back and talk about it. 09:52 He said, "I saw," verse 3, 09:53 "four great beasts come up from the sea 09:56 diverse from one another." 09:57 All of a sudden we want to "Oh, let's just give up." 09:59 No, don't do it too soon, this is important. 10:01 Verse 4, "The first was like a..." 10:03 Good, a what? 10:05 "A lion and had eagle's wings." 10:06 We've never seen anything like that 10:08 in this world, have we? 10:09 God again is using symbols here 10:11 and you'll notice how it fits to that world power 10:12 in just a moment. 10:14 He said, "I beheld to the wings thereof were plucked, 10:16 and it was lifted up from the earth 10:18 and made upon," what? 10:19 "Stand upon the feet as a man and a man's heart was," what? 10:21 "Given to it." 10:23 Verse 5, "And behold another beast, 10:25 a second, like a bear, 10:26 it raised itself on one side it had three," what? 10:29 "Three ribs in the mouth 10:30 and in between the teeth of it and they said thus to it, 10:33 'Arise, devour much flesh.'" 10:35 Verse 6, "After this, 10:36 I beheld and lo another like a leopard." 10:38 Here we go, a what? 10:40 Bible said there's a leopard here, 10:41 which had upon his back four wings of a fowl. 10:45 The beast had also four heads, dominion was given to it." 10:48 We've never seen anything like that, 10:50 there's probably no such thing that exists. 10:51 But what? 10:53 He's envisioned now, 10:54 God's giving him symbolism here. 10:55 Things that will pertain to powers 10:57 and nations and forces, 10:58 things that are going on in the world 10:59 and God expects us to get in and dig 11:01 and dissect these things. 11:02 Verse 7, "After this I saw in the night visions, " 11:04 notice this, "behold a," what beast? 11:06 "Fourth beast. 11:08 He's dreadful, he's terrible, 11:09 he's strong exceedingly and it had great iron," what? 11:12 Sounds scary to me, notice it, 11:14 "It devoured and brake in to pieces 11:16 and stamped the residue with the feet of it. 11:18 It was diverse from all the beasts 11:20 that were before it, 11:22 and it had ten horns." 11:24 Now notice what Daniel did in verse 8, 11:25 this is very powerful. 11:27 Notice, he said, "I considered the horns..." 11:28 All of these other things 11:29 you'd be considering all of them, would you not? 11:31 But the Holy Spirit impressed on Daniel's mind, 11:33 "Daniel, pay attention to this fourth kingdom 11:35 and what's going to come out of it." 11:36 Daniel said, "Whoo, 11:37 I considered the horns and behold, 11:39 there came up among them another little horn." 11:41 We're talking about four beasts 11:43 and we're talking about the little horn, 11:44 notice this, 11:45 "Before whom were three of the first horns 11:47 plucked up by the roots." 11:48 So evidently a power here we see there. 11:50 So when this little horn comes up, 11:51 we need not be, 11:53 "Well, we're not sure what it is." 11:54 When this little horn comes up 11:55 it's going to uproot three horns. 11:57 We know three powers, three nations, 11:58 and history will bear fact of all of this 11:59 we're talking about here. 12:01 "Behold, in the horns were the eyes 12:02 like eyes of a, good, of man, 12:05 and a mouth speaking great things." 12:07 Human, wisdom, 12:08 and this little horn that comes up, 12:10 he's stouter than the rest of them, 12:11 he's different than all the rest of them 12:13 and he speaks. 12:14 Notice, speaks blasphemy. 12:16 We need to pay attention to this 12:18 because God is telling us 12:19 that we need to pay attention to it. 12:20 It's very, very important here. 12:22 So again, if we read verses 9 through 15, 12:23 we're going to a different subject 12:24 altogether. 12:26 Now notice, let's go back. 12:27 Let's talk about these four beasts, 12:29 and what they represent. 12:30 Can we know what they represent? 12:31 Is it possible? 12:33 How can we know? 12:34 You're in Daniel 7, aren't you? 12:35 Let's just turn over there 12:37 and maybe on your Bible like mine in verse 16. 12:40 Notice what it says, 12:41 "I came near and to one of them that stood by," what? 12:44 It was an angel 12:45 or whoever was giving the vision, 12:47 you're standing by, so it said, notice this, 12:48 "I came near unto one of them that stood by 12:50 and asked him the truth of this. 12:52 So he told me and made me know 12:55 the interpretation of these things." 12:57 Now what does this say? 12:59 You can know it because the Bible just said 13:00 the angel that was there 13:01 made me understand these things, 13:03 so we can understand them. 13:05 So Daniel then is going to put these things down 13:07 so that we could understand. 13:09 And notice now in verse 2, let's go back there. 13:11 We're already in Daniel 7:2 again, 13:13 because we're going to look at these animals 13:15 and these things 13:16 and identify them by the grace of God. 13:18 Daniel Chapter 2 now, notice what the Bible said. 13:21 Bible said, Daniel said, 13:22 "I saw in the night vision 13:23 there were four winds of heaven," doing what? 13:26 "Four winds of heaven were blowing up on the sea," 13:28 say, when wind blows up on the sea all the time 13:30 but this means something. 13:31 "Four winds drove up on the great sea." 13:34 Four winds, notice this, 13:35 talking about here 13:36 really the four points of the compass, 13:38 no doubt about it. 13:39 There were things going on in the world. 13:41 And when the wind blows, things happen. 13:43 Now we know blowing on the sea. 13:44 What does it say? Air blowing on the sea. 13:46 What does the sea represent in Bible prophecy? 13:50 How do we know that? 13:51 Revelation 17:15 says, 13:53 "The people that thou sawest, " what? 13:55 The waters which thou sawest," are what? 13:57 "Peoples, nations, and multitudes." 13:59 The waters which thou sawest are what? 14:01 The people, 14:03 so it said there was a wind that was blowing, 14:05 there was a war going on, 14:07 there was shoving and pushing and things that were going on. 14:09 And then when the sea was going, 14:10 the water was going, 14:12 and notice something, Isaiah, jot down Isaiah 17:12. 14:16 Isaiah 17:12 will say the same thing here 14:19 let you know about the symbolic nature 14:21 of this vision. 14:22 We're talking about the winds 14:24 then the things that were happening 14:25 in the world. 14:26 Winds represent war and strife and blowing on the sea. 14:31 Now remember, when it blew on the sea, 14:33 it caused the four beasts to come up out of the sea. 14:37 Now how did they come up? Each one came up through what? 14:40 War and bloodshed 14:42 but because they conquered the other one, 14:44 nation's, history, it said it blew upon there. 14:46 Now we know winds is war and strife. 14:48 Jeremiah Chapter 25 talks about winds there 14:52 so you can look that up when you have time. 14:54 Jeremiah 25:31, 33 talks about that. 14:58 Jeremiah 49:36, 37, I wish we could read them all. 15:02 We can't do that. 15:04 Zachariah 7:14, 15:05 what I'm saying is 15:06 what we're talking about up here, 15:08 you can make sure we understand it 15:09 from line upon line, precept upon precept, 15:12 here a little and there a little 15:14 for the truth. 15:15 So there's four beasts and are coming up out of it. 15:18 Daniel 7:3, notice, 15:19 "Four beasts came up from the sea, 15:21 and they were different one from another." 15:24 So here we can apply verse 17, which helps us understand. 15:28 Again, you'll say, "Well, the beasts came up. 15:30 Well, what does that mean?" 15:31 We're there in Daniel Chapter 7, 15:33 let's just read verse 17. 15:34 This will help us to understand what we're talking about. 15:37 Are you there in 17? 15:38 It said, "These great beasts, 15:41 which are four, are four kings, 15:45 which shall arise out of the earth." 15:47 Now when it says the beast, what do we know? 15:49 It's a kingdom, it's a power, whatever it might be. 15:51 So we're noticing here that the Bible just simply said 15:54 those beasts are four kingdoms, four powers, 15:57 they represent symbolic of some nations that rose, 16:00 that history tells you exactly who they are. 16:03 We have to follow this all the way down through. 16:07 And it becomes very, very clear 16:09 based on the Word of God what we're talking about here. 16:11 It said 16:12 "Kings which shall arise out of the earth." 16:13 So these four beasts represents 16:15 the four world power 16:18 symbolized by the great image of Daniel Chapter 2. 16:22 So if you have that, 16:23 I have a little piece of paper up here. 16:24 I'm not gonna have time to go through all of it here, 16:26 but I passed out those who need it. 16:29 But when you do Daniel Chapter 2, 16:31 right here, you look right here, 16:33 we're talking about the same powers 16:34 in Daniel Chapter 7, or Chapter 2, 16:36 and then in Daniel Chapter 7. 16:38 This is Daniel Chapter 2 right here. 16:40 So we're going to go right down that just like we did, 16:42 'cause God is telling us again and again 16:44 so that we can understand it. 16:46 Notice, "Four beasts represents the four world powers there," 16:49 represented by what? 16:51 By this great image of Daniel Chapter 2 16:53 that we looked at right through here. 16:54 Now verse 4, quickly, and what did Daniel see? 16:58 Daniel saw something very interesting. 16:59 Verse 4. He saw a what? 17:02 He said I saw, "The first was like a lion. 17:05 It had eagle's wings 17:06 and I beheld the wings thereof plucked up, 17:07 and was lifted up and stood on his feet 17:09 and a man's heart was given to him." 17:10 What could that possibly mean? 17:13 Now remember, a lion with eagle's wings, 17:15 that sounds pretty sturdy to me. 17:17 A lion is considered as what? 17:19 He's the king of what? 17:20 Would he be the king of beasts? 17:22 Yeah, the lion is king, 17:23 we always know that and realize that in Babylon, 17:26 you go back and, you know, 17:28 the walls and different things 17:29 are always embellished with what? 17:30 With lions or lions' head 17:32 so we're starting to put it together in Daniel 2, 17:34 head of gold and in Daniel 7, 17:36 he said, "Oh, I see a lion." So 17:38 he says, a lion represents and then we... 17:40 What is it? Beast, eagle. 17:42 The eagle we would say 17:43 then it would be the king of what? 17:45 King of the beasts. 17:46 So it was king here 17:47 represents the empire of Babylon. 17:50 So Daniel Chapter 2 that we're looking at here, 17:52 Babylon is represented by the head of gold. 17:54 You remember that? Head of gold. 17:56 That was in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. 17:58 Now the wings were plucked off, what does that mean? 18:02 And it was made to stand on his feet like a man. 18:05 Notice this, 18:06 "And a man's heart was given unto it." 18:09 Do you remember there's time at Babylon 18:10 began to get weak as it went on? 18:13 Right? It began to be very weak. 18:14 But notice what happened. 18:16 What happened to Nebuchadnezzar, by the way? 18:20 Yeah, yeah, yeah, actually it's right in my head. 18:22 God kept trying to get his attention. 18:24 He didn't get it through Daniel Chapter 2. 18:25 And so God comes back to him 18:27 and finally Nebuchadnezzar loses his mind. 18:29 And he goes out in the field for seven years 18:30 and eats grass like an animal 18:32 until he comes to and then he praises the God, 18:34 you know, up heaven, praise the Lord for that. 18:36 But notice there, Nebuchadnezzar, 18:37 "The wings were plucked off 18:39 and he stood on his feet like a man 18:40 and a man's heart was given to it, " 18:42 What the Bible said. 18:44 Babylon then became what? 18:45 Weak in later years, 18:47 and through, it was through wealth, 18:48 and it was through luxury, 18:50 drinking, and carousing and carrying on, 18:52 they fell prey to Medo-Persia, the next power that came up. 18:57 So the second beast then was a bear. 18:59 So the first beast that came up, 19:00 he said, "Oh, man, look out." 19:02 Represented Babylon, Daniel Chapter 7. 19:04 Daniel Chapter 2, 19:05 that Babylon is the head of gold. 19:07 You remember that? So we have these two. 19:08 Now they're corresponding, and they will all the way down. 19:11 And I'm trying to hurry 19:12 to get down to those bottom ones, 19:13 because we need to look what interested Daniel. 19:16 And certainly all of it did, 19:18 but he was interested in this little horn 19:19 that came up, 19:21 and the identifying of that little horn 19:22 and what it would do 19:23 to God's people through history, 19:25 and in the very last days, 19:26 and then we have a job and a work to do. 19:28 Second beast, the Bible says what? 19:30 Daniel said he saw another one like what? 19:32 Beast, a second beast in verse 5, 19:35 "Behold another beast, a second like to a bear," 19:39 somebody say, "Bear, " I'll get typical. 19:40 All you do is open your Bible and there it is and read it. 19:43 Second beast bear represents Medo-Persian Empire. 19:45 Notice, same as the chest. 19:48 Remember the chest of what? 19:49 Chest of silver, this was Babylon, 19:52 the next world power was the Medes and the Persians 19:55 represented by silver. 19:57 And so we see here as we read. 19:59 "The bear raised itself up on one side, 20:02 and the bear had three," what? 20:04 "Three ribs in its mouth." 20:06 Now so this would help us in history 20:07 to understand what took place. 20:10 The Medes and the Persians, right? 20:13 Together were ruling, 20:14 and they conquered Babylon, the Persians. 20:16 But remember, the bear did what? 20:18 He raised himself upon one side 20:20 signifying that one of those powers 20:21 will be the dominant, 20:23 the Persian power became dominant over the Medes. 20:25 And then it said 20:26 "The bear had three ribs in its mouth." 20:28 Interesting. 20:30 What would that signify? 20:31 It would signify 20:33 at least in our thinking, wouldn't it? 20:34 And history bears fact 20:35 that it would have to conquer three major powers 20:37 in order to be a world power. 20:40 Because Babylon was in control, was it not? 20:42 Now what would it be? 20:44 Three powers, history's sure about that. 20:45 Number one would be, it had to conquer Babylon, 20:48 it had to conquer Egypt, and it had to conquer Lydia. 20:51 So three powers represented by three, 20:54 you know, ribs in the mouth, 20:56 there was the three powers 20:57 so it helps us to put together a lot of things 20:59 and all of a sudden it becomes clear and easy. 21:03 Now notice this, the third beast, it says, 21:05 the Bible say is like a leopard. 21:07 Like a what? 21:09 A leopard. Now it wasn't. 21:11 What is the leopard noted for? 21:14 Speed, speed and power, very swift. 21:17 But notice this one that Daniel saw, excuse me. 21:22 He had some wings. 21:24 So what would that mean? 21:26 That'd be faster, his movement would be faster. 21:28 So the third beast, now again, in Daniel Chapter 2, 21:30 it would be the thighs of what? 21:33 Of brass, right here, 21:35 representing the same one we know 21:36 certainly praise Alexander the Great 21:38 is what history tells us 21:39 that conquered the Medes and the Persians. 21:41 This is all history. 21:42 This is what the book, you know, in history, 21:44 it's written there that we can understand it. 21:45 Now remember, notice swiftness and movement. 21:47 Habakkuk, write down, Habakkuk 1:8, 21:50 it helps you to relate 21:51 to what it's talking about swiftness 21:53 and the movement. 21:54 Hosea 13:7, 21:56 just read those then you see how it gels together. 21:59 In Daniel 8:21, 22:01 this third power is identified as Grecia, 22:04 not the Greece we're talking about but Grecia, 22:06 notice, under Alexander the Great. 22:08 He conquered what? 22:09 Medo-Persians of Daniel Chapter 2, 22:11 the metal man, remember that, of brass. 22:14 This leopard had on his back four what? 22:17 Four wings of a fowl and then it had, 22:19 never seen anything like it, it had four heads. 22:21 What could that possibly represent? 22:24 Again, these wings would add speed like no other. 22:27 Steel represents Alexander the Great, 22:30 who died at an early age. 22:31 Now what happened to Alexander when he died? 22:34 Had a big empire here, 22:35 but after there was scribbling and squabbling and fighting, 22:38 internal fighting, 22:39 it was divided up into... 22:41 Interesting, we have a leopard 22:43 and all of a sudden it's divided, 22:44 has four heads. 22:46 Then what? 22:47 Four crowns, it had four key powers. 22:49 We realized that again, history tells us that. 22:51 We divided up four heads of the leopard, 22:52 and these were, history says 22:54 it was Ptolemy, Cassander, Lysimachus, and Seleucus, 22:59 these were the kingdom. 23:00 Ain't that wonderful that God puts in there for us 23:02 to understand the four became the head 23:04 after Alexander died at about 32 or 33 23:07 in a drunken debauchery, 23:09 got some kind of, I don't know, 23:10 malaria I think something like that and died. 23:13 Okay, so we understand 23:14 that we're going right down Daniel Chapter 2, 23:16 Daniel 7 is going right down with it. 23:18 One's a metal man and one is the beast, 23:20 same time period. 23:21 God wants us to know as His people. 23:24 Fourth beast, notice what the Bible said. 23:26 Same as the fourth kingdom of Daniel Chapter 2 23:29 symbolized by what? 23:30 Remember the legs of what? 23:32 The legs of iron. 23:33 You ever heard in history, took history classes, 23:35 Rome was considered what? 23:37 Iron monarchy, Rome. 23:39 So you say "Well, we're not sure." 23:41 All we have to look at history, 23:42 who conquered Alexander the Great 23:44 as we talk about here, 23:45 you know, we have Babylon, 23:47 Medo-Persia, Greece, and then what? 23:49 Rome, Rome conquered Greece. 23:51 History says that. 23:53 So we know it has to be, it represent Rome here. 23:56 Notice, the same power. 23:58 Fourth beast, fourth kingdom of Daniel 2. 24:00 "It had great..." 24:02 I think they're concerning it had great iron teeth. 24:04 You know, if anybody ever 24:06 kind of looks at you and growls, 24:07 or an animal or even a dog with big teeth sticking out, 24:09 it's kind of frightening, is it not? 24:10 What if you seen this nondescript beast 24:12 as it were something out there that had big steel teeth 24:14 and everything that came in its way it devoured 24:16 and break into pieces and destroyed, 24:17 would that not be scary? 24:19 Daniel's looking at things he doesn't understand 24:20 here in vision and say, 24:22 "Oh man, these great iron teeth." 24:23 What does it speak of? 24:24 It speaks of something that is cruel, 24:26 something that would be, something that strong, 24:28 something that kills. 24:30 All we have to do is look at the history of Rome. 24:33 It devoured other nations. 24:35 Rome surpassed all of the kingdoms 24:37 had previously ruled the world. 24:39 It had more because it did more fighting 24:40 and more killing. 24:42 This fourth beast was diverse, 24:44 remember, from all the other beasts. 24:47 Notice what the Bible said, it had 10 what? 24:50 Now it had 10 horns 24:52 and what did that possibly mean? 24:53 It was different from all of the other, 24:54 so Daniel's gonna say something is different 24:56 about this fourth beast 24:59 and what comes out of this thing? 25:00 We need to look at this horn, Daniel Chapter 2, remember, 25:03 legs of iron was eventually defeated. 25:06 Notice this, by what? 25:07 Remember, Rome lasted a long time 25:09 about 300 years or more, 25:11 368 years it lasted in dominance, 25:14 but all of a sudden the barbarian tribes, 25:16 the heathen tribes, 25:17 you know, they come from the north 25:19 and begin to attack all at once. 25:21 And it destroyed Rome, 25:22 Rome was getting weak in its last years of, 25:24 you know, in power anyway, like all nations do, 25:27 they become weak 25:28 before they're finally destroyed 25:29 or eliminated. 25:31 So it's very, very important. 25:32 Now you say, "Well, okay. 25:34 In Daniel, what happened?" 25:35 Rome then was defeated and it was broken up into what? 25:37 Ten, what? 25:39 Ten toes, good. 25:40 But notice, the feet were of iron and clay. 25:44 Iron and clay does not bond together, right? 25:46 But you notice the 10 toes interesting when Rome, right? 25:49 We're talking about here was devoured 25:52 as it were by the Vandals and the Suevi, Heruli, 25:55 and whoever, the Lombards and the Burgundians 25:58 and all of these other nations, 26:00 it said they divided up into 10 kingdoms. 26:02 Now what happened with the 10 kingdoms? 26:04 See, it's very important to know 26:05 there's, they are Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Franks, 26:10 the Vandals, the Suevi, the Illuminati. 26:13 Yeah. 26:14 Anglo Saxons, the Saxons, the Heruli, 26:18 I'm thinking they're the Lombards, 26:19 the Burgundians, right? 26:20 We look at them today in Europe, 26:22 there it's like England 26:23 and they always say Italy and who else? 26:26 Yeah, German and so on and so forth, France. 26:30 So but again it said 26:31 there's 10 kingdoms that are there. 26:33 But now when this little horn comes up, 26:34 it's interesting, very important verse 8. 26:36 There's another little horn 26:38 small at the beginning but it becomes great. 26:40 Notice. 26:43 This, the horn is described as more stout, verse 8, 26:47 he is more stout than those other ones 26:48 that were before him. 26:50 What does that possibly mean, he's stouter than the others? 26:55 Again, we not only have a Word of God, 26:57 but we have history. 26:58 I like that. 26:59 We have history as well, 27:01 so we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt 27:03 who this little horn power is. 27:05 Why is it that most people will not go past this? 27:08 They'll try to do maybe four powers, 27:09 they'll get down to 10 toes, then they quit. 27:12 Why would we quit when the Bible goes on? 27:15 Because this is a power that will persecute and deal 27:18 with God's last day people. 27:20 Remember, He tells Daniel when He gave these prophecies, 27:22 Daniel, He said, "Shut up the book until when?" 27:25 Until the time of the end. 27:27 So He said, "This is for the end time people, 27:29 need to pay attention." 27:30 I can see it happening today, 27:31 there's no doubt about what's going on here. 27:33 In the book called The Rise of the Mediaeval Church 27:36 page 150 says this, 27:37 if we're wanting to know what do we got 10, 27:39 10 kingdoms, 27:40 represented by the 10 toes in Daniel 2, right? 27:42 It's 10 kingdom. 27:43 And it says now 27:45 what is this little horn power that it comes with, 27:46 what's the next power that comes up among those 10? 27:49 Not one of the 10, 27:50 see, people try to get in 27:52 and they could get confused and say, 27:53 "Well, it was one of the ten toes, 27:54 it came up among the 10." 27:56 That's very, very important 27:58 'cause that's where people get off of the track 27:59 and then they go 28:00 into some other orbit somewhere. 28:02 We don't want to do that. 28:03 We'll do what the Bible has to say here. 28:04 Here's what church history has to say. 28:06 It says, "Out of the ruins of political Rome 28:09 arose the great moral empire 28:12 in a giant form of the Roman Church. 28:16 What came out next? 28:18 Yeah, we'll explain that little bit more as we go. 28:19 The next power that came up 28:21 and we got into the 10 kingdoms down here, 28:23 the little horn that came up among the ten that was there. 28:26 Remember, it's going to uproot three of those, 28:27 we'll discuss in a moment so you can identify it. 28:30 It says the next power that came up, 28:31 history says right here, 28:32 is a giant form of the Roman Church, 28:35 the Roman Church began to rule. 28:36 Remember, the still horn was stouter 28:38 than all the rest of them. 28:39 He was different, 28:40 all the other powers before were political powers. 28:42 Now we have a power that comes up 28:45 that's religious in nature and also political, 28:48 religious and political. 28:50 That fits, does it not? 28:51 If we're talking about the Church of Rome today 28:53 because it's a political leader as well as a religious leader 28:56 and what they say we need to look at this 28:57 a little closer to make sure. 28:59 Now notice this, 29:01 there's another one I want to read here. 29:02 Yeah. 29:04 It's written in 1937, 29:05 The Papacy in the World, notice this. 29:07 It says, "This well organized and unified 29:10 and centralized church with the pope 29:12 at its head was not only independent 29:14 in ecclesiastical affairs, 29:16 but also controlled civil affairs." 29:19 So we have a power that come up 29:21 that dealt not only in religious but what? 29:22 Civil, had civil power too here. 29:24 So we know for sure the little horn, 29:26 different from all the rest of them here, 29:29 because it is political, 29:30 this power is also a religious power. 29:33 And so when we see it come up, what happens? 29:36 When it comes up among the 10, it uproots how many? 29:38 So that we can know for sure about going on and saying, 29:40 "Well, we're not sure what it was." 29:42 History says that when this power came up, 29:43 the little horn as it were, the one that came up among. 29:46 If there were only 10 nations in the world, 29:47 couldn't you keep track of those? 29:49 You know, we've got a lot and what? 29:50 Two hundred and somewhat whatever, 29:51 there's only 10 29:53 at that point of time in history. 29:54 And certainly if one power came up 29:56 and uprooted three of those ten, 29:57 you'd say "I know what that power is." 29:58 Wouldn't you? 30:00 It'd be very simple to do that 30:01 and certainly history did that for us 30:03 and we can look. 30:04 And that Jesus already did that through the Holy Spirit 30:05 in the Word of God. 30:07 There were three of the ten kingdoms 30:09 that were against what? 30:10 The rise of papal Rome as a political power. 30:14 Three of the ten said, 30:16 "No, we don't want you to be a political power, 30:18 you're supposed to be a religious power." 30:20 Notice this, 30:21 these three were and history tells us, 30:23 Heruli, the Vandals, and the Ostrogoths. 30:26 These three detested 30:28 because they supported Arianism. 30:31 Now remember what they were against, 30:32 those three kingdoms were against Catholicism, 30:35 and they said, 30:37 "We're not going to let you rule like this. 30:38 We're going to stand against you. 30:40 And one by one, they were stamped out. 30:43 Why? 30:44 Because these were Ostrogoths, 30:46 the Herulis, and the Vandals were Arianism. 30:48 That means they believe that Christ was created being. 30:52 They believe that He was created being so 30:55 they denied the divinity. 30:56 Remember how Paul warns in scripture, 30:58 anybody that denies the divinity of Jesus Christ, 31:00 they did, they said "No, we deny that. 31:02 That's not, no such thing." 31:04 But anyway, they were against the Catholicism. 31:07 In order for the Roman church to be succeed 31:09 in what they were doing, they had to be defeated. 31:12 So this last power was the Arian Ostrogoths. 31:16 Remember when the first power went down, it doesn't mean, 31:18 so what I'm trying to get at here 31:19 is as we look at God said that this power, 31:21 this little horn that would come up 31:23 will rule for 1260 years. 31:25 Okay, we have to have find a power 31:27 that ruled for 1260 years during all of the Dark Ages, 31:30 very simple to find out, 31:31 it'd be 42 months, it'd be 3.5 years, 31:33 which everybody goes in different directions. 31:35 We should not do it. It's the same period of time. 31:37 It said that this little horn power 31:39 would rule, would dominate the world. 31:42 This last power was Arian Ostrogoths, 31:44 they were defeated. 31:46 Now we know this in history. 31:47 I looked it up even on my phone, 31:49 I took and just looked at it, 538 AD. 31:52 So I looked at 538 AD, right, the church then, 31:55 you know, what happened to the other seven, 31:57 three of them went down, they defeated them 31:58 and got rid of them. 32:00 So there's only seven kingdoms left. 32:01 Every one of those seven turned Catholic. 32:04 Are you still with me? 32:06 Yeah, that way they weren't defeated. 32:09 They all turned into Catholicism, sold out. 32:13 Yeah, one, if they hadn't, 32:15 they would have been eliminated. 32:16 One thousand two hundred sixty years 32:17 so we're talking about the Dark Age period, 32:20 the deadly, remember, so 1000, 32:22 Bible said 1260 years you look at in Bible prophecy. 32:25 So we start to prophecy at what, 538, 32:28 when the last one went down, 32:29 and the papacy was in full control. 32:31 That means church and state came together. 32:35 Yeah, what happened was, okay, you say, 32:36 and then the Bible said, 32:38 there we'll study more of that in Revelation 13, 32:39 there was a deadly wound given to this power. 32:42 Oh, a little horn power 32:43 then would suffer a deadly wound. 32:45 Oh, what does that mean? 32:47 Well, it says this 1260 years after it came in 32:50 so you take 538, you add 1260, you come to 17 what? 32:55 1798. 32:56 That's the time we can start relating to, 33:00 given to this, but what happened? 33:01 French General Berthier, right? 33:03 This is under Napoleon, right? 33:04 Now, Napoleon, they said they've had enough 33:06 of what was all going on with revolution, 33:07 different things happening on, 33:09 he sent General Berthier across to Europe, 33:10 he took the pope into captivity in that very year, 33:13 stripped him of his power, 33:14 took him to prison, he died in a year. 33:16 Now think about it. 33:17 That fulfilled Bible prophecy just like no other, 33:19 1260 years, 33:21 exactly what God said it's going to happen. 33:23 But the Bible said but what? 33:26 The deadly wound would be healed 33:28 and all the world would wander after this beast. 33:31 Beast is a power, 33:32 kingdom that the enemy is using. 33:34 So what does that mean 33:35 that most of the world would be following 33:36 after something that evidently that this power, 33:39 right has, yeah, 33:40 something that has come up with, 33:41 some of their teachings, whatever it might be. 33:44 Because but really, the Roman Church, 33:46 if you look at, not trying to put anybody, 33:47 there's good people everywhere, we understand that, 33:49 that's not the issue we're trying to criticize, 33:50 condemn any individual. 33:52 Said they love Jesus, whatever. But you know what? 33:53 When you love Jesus, 33:55 you want to tune in and tune in with the Word. 33:56 Ain't that right? 33:58 You want to tune in with Word, but if you don't you can say, 33:59 oh, you want. 34:00 You know, you can argue all you want, 34:02 but we have to tune in what the Word of God says, 34:03 as painful as it might be. 34:05 See, this is painful. 34:07 It's painful to Daniel, 34:08 he was sick after he saw all these things. 34:10 But he still had to write him down 34:11 because God said write him down, 34:13 because it's dealing with my people here 34:14 in these last days. 34:16 You need to be aware of what's going on in the world 34:17 when you see church and state 34:18 coming together like it is right now. 34:20 You need to be aware of what's soon to take place, 34:22 church and state come together, minorities always suffer, 34:24 it has through the history of this world. 34:26 That means those who just don't go along 34:27 with what the rest of the people are doing. 34:29 We need to pay attention, 34:31 especially what we're talking about here. 34:33 Now, let's know the truth of the little horn, 34:35 we want to know about, I don't know about time, 34:36 somebody shut my time down. 34:38 I have no idea of what I'm doing. 34:39 We just keep on going. Okay, a few more minutes. 34:41 Notice this. 34:43 Let's read Daniel 7:19. 34:46 This really kind of put some things on it 34:47 and a lot more to cover. 34:49 But notice verse 19, are we there? 34:51 Daniel 7:19. Notice this, Daniel said. 34:53 Then Daniel said, "This fourth power," 34:55 notice this, this little horn. 34:56 "I would know the truth of the fourth beast." 34:59 See how many is saying that in the world, 35:00 bless your heart, 35:02 how many are saying it, we need to be saying it, 35:04 I want to know, 35:05 I want to know the truth about this fourth beast 35:07 and this little horn power, 35:09 which was diverse from all of the others, 35:12 exceedingly dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, 35:15 his nails were of brass was devour 35:16 and break in pieces and stamped the residue 35:18 with his feet. 35:20 So if Daniel is just simply saying, 35:21 "I want to know what truth is, " 35:23 all you have to say in this world today is 35:24 I want to know what truth is, 35:26 and really mean it with your heart 35:28 and God will show you. 35:29 You think it's going to be popular, 35:30 you think it's going to be like the rest of the world, 35:32 the majority of the world? 35:33 Absolutely not. 35:35 Was Jesus like all of the rest of the world? 35:36 No, He was different. 35:37 Was He criticized for what He believed 35:39 and what He taught? 35:40 You better believe He was. 35:41 He was criticized, He was condemned, 35:43 He was nailed to a cross 35:44 because He gave a different gospel. 35:45 Are we there? 35:47 He gave a different gospel 35:48 than the rest of them were giving, 35:50 even among His own people. 35:51 And they didn't want to hear 35:53 so what people don't want here today, 35:54 they just don't come in here. 35:55 But you know what? 35:57 We're going to be accountable for that 35:58 which we could have heard and we didn't wanna hear. 36:00 That which we could have learned 36:01 we will be held accountable in the judgment. 36:03 So we're saying here, 36:04 "We felt we'll be accountable if we don't present that 36:06 which God has presented as very clear, " 36:08 about as clear as it can be here 36:10 from the Word of God. 36:11 Daniel said, "I would know, 36:12 I would know the truth of the fourth beast." 36:16 Daniel focused in on this great power 36:19 that persecutes like no other power ever has. 36:22 Let's look at some identifying marks 36:23 real just real quickly, shall we? 36:25 In verse 20. You read and just jot down. 36:26 He said he was what? 36:28 He was stout. 36:29 Did you get it? Verse 20. 36:30 He was what? 36:32 He was stout what the Bible said. 36:33 That means he was large, that means he was big, 36:35 that means he was power, had great power, 36:38 and he gained power over all the earth. 36:40 The little horn power, Daniel Chapter 7, welcome. 36:43 All right. 36:44 Bring your Bible and join right in, 36:46 we're just hitting it hard here. 36:47 All right. 36:48 Daniel 7:20, 21. 36:50 So we're looking at the stoutest, 36:51 meaty was different from the other, 36:53 he was big, he was powerful, 36:54 and eventually all the world would gain earthly power. 36:56 Verse 21, point number two, " He made war with the saints." 36:59 The little horn power made what? 37:02 When you want to know what... 37:04 You know, God help us, if we look and say, 37:06 here's the little horn power 37:07 that made war with God's saints 37:08 and killed Him and massacred Him 37:10 and did everything in the world and we don't want to know. 37:13 We must be out of our minds. 37:15 May I say that up here? 37:16 Something's wrong 37:17 if we don't want to know that it's gonna... 37:19 If you feel that you're God's saint 37:20 and I say that one as a Christian. 37:22 If we say that we're a Christian, 37:23 the follower of Jesus Christ, 37:24 I'd like to know about this power 37:26 that Daniel was so concerned about it 37:27 that it made him sick when he had this vision. 37:30 But he said, he wrote down remember, 37:32 we read in the beginning, he wrote down 37:33 that which he had a dream that in vision. 37:36 So that would be for him and also for us to this day. 37:39 It said that it would persecute the saints, 37:42 we're are the saints, 37:43 that means he would wage war against God's people 37:46 and try to exterminate them. 37:48 Does that make sense? 37:49 This power did prevail for many centuries, 37:52 as we will know 37:53 and seem to accomplish its mission 37:55 because the papacy ruled during the what? 37:57 The Dark Ages, 538, 1798, 1260 years, 38:02 over 50 to 100 million Christians 38:06 were fed to the lions, they were burned at the stake. 38:08 They were tortured, they were ripped apart. 38:11 That's not trying to say anything 38:12 and trying to make people, oh, what we've done. 38:14 This is the fact. 38:15 Look at the Foxe's Book of Martyrs, look it, 38:16 I mean, it's been to read history. 38:18 They even say it 38:19 from their own writings over and over. 38:21 "Yes, we did." 38:22 If you didn't go 38:23 along with the papacy of the Roman Church, 38:25 you were killed. 38:27 They even, now someone's apologized to it 38:28 like it's a little bit different now. 38:30 But you know what? 38:31 God will tell us in time, the Bible doesn't say that. 38:33 The Bible doesn't say 38:34 there's going to be a change at the end. 38:35 The Bible says, keep your eyes on this power 38:37 for when it comes back in that position, 38:38 it will do the very same things again, 38:40 because church and state will unite again and what? 38:43 Somebody help me. 38:44 What is the world doing right now? 38:46 They're uniting together. 38:48 Wherever the pope goes, 38:49 there's hundreds of thousands of people 38:51 that they're digging up the ground 38:53 that he's walking on, 38:54 saying it's holy, he's a man, he's a sinner, 38:57 because the Bible said we've all, 38:59 I'm not trying to put him down, I don't know him, 39:00 I'm not trying to judge him. 39:02 But my Bible said, "All have sinned 39:03 and come short of the glory of God." 39:04 I'm glad my dad taught me to be realistic about it, 39:07 about men in positions 39:08 and whatever they have 39:10 in front of their name or behind their name. 39:11 He said, everybody's human. 39:14 No one any better than anybody else. 39:16 But what does the world look like? 39:17 They look, they look at him and they said what? 39:20 They said, "Well, he's God on earth." 39:21 What did we just say? 39:22 We read in Isaiah 14, you remember, we read, 39:24 didn't we read 2 Thessalonians, 39:26 he would claim to be who? 39:28 He would claim to be God on earth. 39:29 God is putting in here through Daniel Chapter 2, 39:31 Daniel Chapter 7, 39:33 and talking about this power that will come. 39:34 God said, "Please look at it. 39:36 Consider it here. 39:37 I'm giving it over and over in different age, 39:40 metallic as it were, a metal man 39:41 and now I'm giving it to you in beasts that are coming up, 39:43 you know, that's out there in the earth, 39:45 and you're looking at the timeframes, 39:46 they all fit together. 39:47 And this little horn that came up, 39:49 it said right here, 39:50 he would try to wear out the saints, 39:51 persecute and kill. 39:53 He was stouter than all the rest of them. 39:54 He was given power. 39:56 He was not only a political power, 39:57 but he was a religious power too. 39:58 Is he not a religious power today, the papacy? 40:00 Absolutely it is, I know that's hard, 40:01 people don't want to hear it, but it's true. 40:04 All you have to do is read the papers. 40:07 Read your paper, 40:09 when the wall came down, right, 40:10 it was in Germany, right? 40:12 Who was involved with that? 40:13 Not only Reagan and some other, who was it? 40:15 The pope. 40:17 He's involved in all the things 40:18 that are going on around the world. 40:20 They go and who's the presidents go, 40:21 every one of our presidents goes 40:22 and has conversation with him. 40:25 I mean, how many other do they go to? 40:26 They go to the Baptist or the Church of God 40:28 or the whoever they are at Venice and talk? 40:30 No, but they go to the pope. 40:32 Because what? 40:33 He's supposed to be the head as it were, 40:35 religious head of the world. 40:36 It's the Mother Church, they say, 40:39 and the Protestants are their little harlots, 40:41 that's calling them back in before it's too late. 40:44 You don't have to believe as they believe in everything. 40:47 All you have to do is believe one point, 40:49 you believe one point, 40:50 which they are responsible for, as we look here, notice this. 40:53 Let's get some more here, 40:54 we got to go on and on about those same, 40:55 but notice, verse 22, Daniel 7:22, 40:57 it said "This little power would be an operation, 40:59 would rule the world 41:01 but until the Ancient of days came." 41:02 Right? 41:03 "And judgment would be in favor of the saints." 41:05 So in other words, 41:06 this power would last and be in there 41:08 until Jesus shall come. 41:10 So that means the saints in the last days 41:11 are going to have to deal with this power 41:13 that had the deadly wound for a while. 41:15 In 1929 Vatican City was given back to it 41:18 and the newspaper article said, 41:19 and I saw it and wandered 41:21 and didn't know anything about prophecy. 41:22 It said, "The deadly wound was healed." 41:23 I like to shivered in my boots. 41:26 Because I read it before it 41:27 because it said and the deadly wound was healed 41:29 and then all the world wandered after the beast. 41:31 People are wandering after the beast today, 41:34 this little horn power like never before. 41:37 Verse 24 says in point number three, 41:40 "From the first, " notice this, 41:41 the power represented by the horn 41:43 was a religious and a political kingdom 41:45 that we talked about, 41:46 but it was always ruled by the pontiff. 41:48 It was always ruled by the pope. 41:51 The other political powers just relied upon what? 41:54 They call himself a king, 41:55 but now this one has religious and political. 41:58 Point number four, Daniel 7:25, hang on with me. 42:01 Daniel 7:25, the Bible says, notice this, 42:03 we're going to read that one. 42:05 Here's what this little horn power does, 42:06 verse 25. 42:08 Now we have an argument, we need to argue with God, 42:10 a discussion we do it with God 42:11 'cause we won't do it right here, 42:13 we're just gonna read what it says. 42:14 "And this fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom 42:16 on the earth, 42:17 which shall be," what? 42:19 "Diverse from the other kingdoms." 42:20 Get down to verse 25. 42:21 "And he shall speak great words against," whom? 42:24 "The most High, 42:25 he shall wear out the saints of the most High, 42:28 he shall think to change times and..." 42:30 Oh, these are identifying marks 42:33 so that you cannot make a mistake 42:34 on who this little horn is. 42:36 This power shall think to change times and laws. 42:39 No one can change times and laws, 42:41 only the God of this universe has set everything up. 42:44 No one can do that. 42:45 You may think you can do it, no one can do it. 42:47 Only God can do it. 42:48 God set it up. Did He not? 42:50 We talked about in this 42:51 the children's story about time. 42:53 This is talking about 42:55 he shall think to change times and what? 42:57 Times and laws, and sees literally, 42:58 you know, what that literally means 43:00 in original language? 43:01 It means that he will oppose the most High. 43:04 This little horn power will oppose, 43:06 literally oppose the most High. 43:08 Little horn would set up itself, 43:10 claim to be equal with God. 43:12 You noticed it? 43:14 How many powers in the world claim to be equal with God? 43:16 There's only one that I know of. 43:18 There's the identifying mark, no doubt about it. 43:20 We read Isaiah 14:12-14. 43:23 What the enemy said he would do, you remember? 43:25 Over and over and over in their writings, 43:29 the papacy, there, you know, 43:31 they exhibit arrogance and pride 43:33 and blasphemous claims, blasphemy. 43:37 Now blasphemy in the Bible, you say, 43:38 "Well, there's a lot of things that's blasphemy." 43:40 But you read blasphemy in the Word of God, Mark, 43:42 it talks about what? 43:43 It said, but remember, 43:44 Jesus was forgiving sins, you remember, 43:46 and they looked and criticize it. 43:47 Who can forgive? 43:49 Who's speaking blasphemy, 43:50 pastor, against God, was he blaspheming? 43:51 No. 43:53 And they said, "Only God can forgive what?" 43:55 Why does this man does speak blasphemy? 43:58 Who can forgive sin but God only. 44:00 The little horn power will be a power, 44:02 religious power that will claim to forgive sin on earth. 44:04 Is there any other? 44:06 I have to let that case rest with that. 44:07 There is no other. 44:09 The mama says, if the shoes fit, 44:10 we have to wear it. 44:11 It's not individual. 44:13 It's the organization that the devil said, 44:14 "I'm going to use," 44:15 because if you look in Scripture, 44:17 you can't hardly find anything, oh, I hate to say it. 44:19 Hardly anything that they teach 44:20 and that they believe that's founded 44:22 on the rock of ages, Jesus Christ. 44:24 It's not founded in Scripture. 44:25 It's just not. 44:27 That's not trying to criticize or judge, 44:28 God knows the heart, 44:30 the heart may be better than any of ours, but and what? 44:31 It's still out in err. 44:33 You remember? 44:34 If it's not founded in here, it cannot be said. 44:37 Well, this is real Bible teaching. 44:39 We can't go to candles, John, we can't go to confession. 44:41 We can't go to all this stuff here 44:43 that you used to be a member of, 44:44 and you understand it well, why? 44:46 Because it's not founded in Scripture. 44:47 My Bible said there's only one mediator 44:49 between God and man and that's whom? 44:51 That's Jesus Christ. 44:52 You go to no man confessing your sins. 44:54 You do not do that ever. And yet they what? 44:56 We know that everybody comes 44:57 into confession all the time, right? 44:59 We're going to other way. 45:00 I feel bad about that, I'm not trying to make fun, 45:02 I'm not trying to say it's ugly. 45:03 People are probably doing 45:05 the very best they know how to do. 45:06 But I'm saying how can we 45:07 when we have the Word of God today, 45:09 it's because some people are not reading 45:10 the Word of God, that's why. 45:12 They're not studying the Word of God. 45:13 Because in the Roman Church, 45:14 you're taught not to read the Word of God, 45:16 the preacher would remind you to preach whatever. 45:17 He's going to tell you what you believe, 45:18 they've done that when they chained this Bible, 45:20 you know, to the prison walls down there, 45:22 and Luther had to go down in the prisons and open, 45:24 the Bible was chained down there 45:25 to learn what truth is, righteousness by faith. 45:28 Is somebody still with me? 45:30 I'm just getting wound up. 45:33 Man, I'm telling, this is... 45:34 I'm just telling, if the shoe fits wear it. 45:36 It's here. 45:38 And again, to give this message, 45:40 you can't look at precious souls. 45:42 I can't think of 45:43 when I'm talking about these things 45:44 as looking at individuals 45:46 because I have such good friends 45:47 who believe this. 45:48 And I know God loves him 45:50 as much as He loves me or anybody else. 45:51 But you know what? 45:53 He doesn't love err, He doesn't love sin, 45:54 He doesn't love... 45:55 but they're deceived. 45:57 We can be deceived. 45:58 Here we're trying to do line upon line 45:59 and precept upon precept 46:01 finding out what truth is 46:02 from the Word of God over and over. 46:03 Let me just read one of those thing. 46:05 I'll just read one quickly. 46:06 One of the quotes that they put out all the time 46:08 when you say, "Well, he's gonna claim to be God, 46:10 he's gonna sit in the throne of God." 46:11 Here's what it said. 46:12 It said, "The pope is of so great dignity, 46:14 and so exalted, that he is not a mere man, 46:17 but as he were God, the vicar of God. 46:21 He's ahead of God. 46:24 See, people are taught that, Brother Jacob. 46:27 People are taught that the pope is God on earth. 46:32 That's why they reverence and respect. 46:34 And my Bible said in Revelation, 46:36 the three angels' message, 46:37 if anybody ever wants to read those, 46:38 we should. 46:40 This is the time. 46:41 You know, "Fear God and give glory to Him." 46:43 Not to man, 46:44 not to someone who claims to be God on earth. 46:46 The devil said, "This is what I'm going to do 46:48 and I'm going to choose whom I'm going to use to do it. 46:51 And all the world basically, millions, billions, 46:56 are wandering after the beast, the papacy, 47:00 there's no doubt about it. 47:02 Maybe read just another one quickly, 47:03 the pope is crowned with a triple crown. 47:05 Why? 47:06 Because he's the king of heaven, 47:08 and of earth, and the lower regions. 47:10 This is in their own writings. 47:12 They're not ashamed of it. 47:14 Point number three, it says, this is where we said, 47:16 remember, he's going to attack, 47:18 he shall think to change times and what? 47:20 Times and law. 47:21 Here's where they get that in Roman writings, 47:22 they say this. 47:24 The pope can modify divine law. 47:26 Who can change, who has the audacity to say, 47:29 "I can change what God has wrote 47:30 with His own finger. 47:34 Pope. 47:35 See, I'm not trying to be ugly about it, 47:36 I'm just trying to get us to think, 47:38 somebody should get stirred up. 47:40 See, that stirred me up because he said, I can, 47:42 the pope can modify divine law. 47:44 That means you're above God, 47:45 the vicar of God, you're above God. 47:47 And if I want to change it, I can change it. 47:49 And then they turn around all kinds of writings, 47:50 we'll share with you in our next time 47:51 we come together, 47:53 it simply says this is exactly what we've done. 47:55 And you guys are paying us respect 47:56 and you act like you're different than we are. 47:59 To see how different we are you gotta open the Bible 48:00 and read what the Bible says. 48:02 This is our tradition. 48:03 Man, they're bold about it, 48:04 we got to be bolder to tell what is truth. 48:08 Notice, pope can modify divine law, 48:13 he acts as vice general of God upon earth. 48:17 Another little quick one, point number four. 48:19 Notice this, whatever the Lord God Himself, 48:24 and the Redeemer is said to do, 48:28 that this Vicar does or the pope does. 48:33 Did you get it? 48:35 Whatever God does, that's what the pope can do. 48:37 Whatever Jesus did, that's what the pope does. 48:40 He's equal with God, you see that? 48:41 This is right in their own... 48:43 Yeah, it's not. 48:44 Point number five, quickly. 48:46 He's going to wear out the saints. 48:47 Point number five, 48:48 he's going to wear out the saints, 48:50 there in verse 20. 48:52 How do you wear out the saints? 48:53 Relentless persecution over the years. 48:57 Papacy acknowledges it and it defends it. 49:00 From the Catholic encyclopedia says this, 49:02 "If anyone is found guilty of heresy, 49:05 turning over to the civil power, 49:07 would turn over to civil power, 49:09 notice church and state coming together." 49:10 The church says this 49:12 and then they turn you over to the state 49:13 and the state carries out, 49:14 "Must be executed within five days." 49:16 This is signed by several popes 49:18 and is the fundamental document of the Inquisition. 49:21 If the civil authorities, notice, 49:23 refuse to obey and carry out the execution, 49:26 they would be excommunicated from the church. 49:29 And at that point in time, I guess, John, 49:30 there was probably no worst thing 49:31 that could happen to a good Catholic individual 49:34 if you were excommunicated. 49:35 And so the civil authority said, 49:37 "We don't want to be excommunicated from the church. 49:38 So we're going to carry this thing out 49:40 because the church said to do it." 49:41 This is pretty heavy duty stuff, 49:42 I understand. 49:44 Point six, Daniel 7:25, "He shall think to change what? 49:46 Quickly. Times and laws. 49:48 When it says here he shall think, 49:51 it means he meant to, 49:53 he meant to mean to, 49:55 to intent to do, to endeavor to do, 49:58 to deliberately attempt to change God's law, 50:01 that's exactly what it means. 50:02 He shall think to do it. 50:04 Think to change what? 50:05 They make here in the original language there, 50:06 he's going to try to change, notice this, a fixed time, 50:09 is somebody with me? 50:11 He's going to try to change what? 50:12 A fixed time. 50:13 And the daily cycle is what? 50:15 A fixed time 50:16 that Brother Mark was talking about here, 50:18 daily week, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7. 50:20 A period of time. 50:22 Remember, only God 50:23 has that prerogative to do that. 50:26 So this little horn and power, papacy, to think to try to, 50:30 to intend to, 50:31 to deliberately attempt 50:32 to exercise the authority of God in what? 50:36 Shaping the course of human history, 50:39 blasphemy. 50:40 He attempts to change God's law, 50:42 both human and divine laws. 50:45 Here it's clear what? 50:46 It's talking about the divine law, 50:48 there's no doubt about it. 50:49 Has the Catholic Church 50:51 ever tried to change divine law? 50:52 We're talking about here, 50:53 we the Catholic people change Saturday, 50:55 the seventh day of the week to Sunday, 50:56 the first day of the week, 50:57 because we have the power and authority to do so. 50:59 The world pays homage to us 51:00 and inspired themselves by going to church 51:01 on a day that we made? 51:03 Now this stuff just comes right from their writing. 51:05 So I'm reading nothing or talking nothing 51:06 that they've said about themselves. 51:09 The apostate church freely admits 51:11 its responsibility for the introduction 51:14 and worship of Sunday. 51:15 There's no doubt about it, why? 51:16 Because this took place over 1000 years 51:18 before there ever was a Protestant. 51:20 Did you get it? 51:22 This did, that's why we don't know today. 51:23 That's why Protestant don't know that 51:24 'cause we don't study, 51:26 we don't go back over 1000 years 51:27 before there ever was a protester, 51:29 a Protestant. 51:30 This change had been made by the Roman Catholic Church. 51:33 Because remember what happened? What was it? 51:34 Broke down to the 10 toes, right, 10 kingdoms. 51:37 Three of them said, "No, we're not going that route." 51:39 They were uprooted and they were gone. 51:40 The little horn came up, it was church and state. 51:42 The papacy ruled the world. 51:45 It's just that simple. There's no doubt about it. 51:47 And God said, "Okay, so now you're still not clear." 51:49 He says, "Now I'm going to give you 51:50 some identifying marks. 51:52 I'm going to tell you about how it's going to persecute. 51:54 How did they do that, yeah? Did they last 1260 years? 51:56 Was deadly wound given to it? 51:57 Absolutely, there was. 51:59 Would it think to change time and laws? 52:00 Absolutely, it would. 52:02 We already talked about the power 52:04 lasting 1260 years, 52:06 and we praise God 52:08 that it's so clear that we can see that. 52:10 We're gonna have to close for today 52:11 I know but, you know, 52:13 let me just read one more here in foreclosure, 52:15 I wished I had a time on, 52:16 so I know if I had more time and I just keep on going. 52:19 I'm feeling it. 52:23 Why? 52:24 Because God's not at all just jumping 52:26 and shouts and all this. 52:28 My heart is sad 52:30 because I see the majority of the world, 52:31 number one, don't care. 52:33 That's my personal opinion. 52:36 No one wants to come together and to study the Word of God. 52:39 Book of Daniel, the Book of Revelation. 52:42 No one wants to do it. 52:44 It seems like only the honest heart, 52:46 only the ones who really want to, 52:48 but they realize 52:49 when they come together and study, 52:50 this is going to be different because, you know, 52:52 Jesus' message was different that we talked about. 52:57 God put it so clear 52:58 in the Book of Daniel and Revelation, 53:00 and we put those two books together. 53:02 And God warns us over, and over, and over, 53:06 about this power that we're talking about, 53:08 and what it would implement 53:09 and what it's implementing today, 53:11 how it's involved, right? 53:14 How many religious powers address, 53:16 you know, United Nations or Congress or only the papacy, 53:20 isn't that right? 53:24 Involved in what? 53:25 Political and religious things, just like God said. 53:32 Let me just leave you with this thought so we close, 53:34 but then we'll have a bunch more of them 53:36 in Revelation 13 next week or whenever we come together, 53:38 probably next week or so. 53:40 But anyway, this is in a little book, 53:44 Plain Talk about Protestantism of the Day, 53:47 page 213. 53:49 This is not that I know 53:50 of any certain denomination or anything. 53:52 Listen, there's so much history involved in this, 53:53 you could just read and go on, and on, and on. 53:56 And it's going to prove the same thing 53:57 over and over because God's Word doesn't lie. 54:00 We just followed from 605 BC till the coming of Jesus 54:04 that's why it's not quite here yet, 54:05 until the 10 toes in through there, 54:07 the history of this world, and God is still saying, 54:10 "Watch out," we'll identify it. 54:13 And we'll identify the things that it does 54:15 and how all the world will be keeping something 54:17 that the Roman Catholic Church has instituted, 54:20 which is Sunday. 54:21 There's no doubt about it. 54:23 They instituted it over and over and over 54:25 and they'll say it in their own words 54:27 over and over, "Yes, we did it." 54:29 But most people have no idea 'cause it goes back so far. 54:31 But who do we reverence when we keep, 54:36 and I'm not trying to be ugly about it. 54:38 A lot of good people keep Sunday, 54:39 I understand that. 54:42 But if it doesn't make any difference 54:43 then I'm wasting my breath. 54:46 It doesn't make any difference which day you go on. 54:49 It doesn't make a difference with God. 54:52 See, it makes it... 54:53 You say, "Different, I don't know about, " 54:55 it makes a difference with God 54:56 because He said 54:59 "I'm the creator of heavens and earth." 55:01 Go back and worship the one that made heaven and earth, 55:03 that way you go back to creation 55:04 here in Revelation 14, 55:05 the three angels' message. 55:07 Dear, God, glory to Him 55:08 for the hour of His judgment has come, 55:09 God's last day people would be preaching what? 55:11 A judgment hour message. 55:12 There'll be preaching it, 55:14 we're trying to lead people back 55:15 to keeping all the commandments, 55:16 not just nine. 55:18 You see, this is so, so, so, very important. 55:20 And remember, if you take the fourth one out, 55:22 you've taken God out of all 10. 55:23 You cannot identify who wrote the Ten Commandments. 55:26 Did you get it? 55:28 If you take the fourth, 55:29 you think the enemy didn't know that? 55:31 Three things 55:32 that have to be in that, isn't that right? 55:33 His title, and his dominion, and the area that of God. 55:36 Now He's Lord God of heaven and earth, He's the Creator. 55:40 That's like the seal the president puts on his... 55:42 When he seals something that shows it's authentic. 55:45 And the devil said, "I'm gonna take that out 55:46 and then the world won't know." 55:49 After 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years, 55:51 2000 years, people won't, we can stay, 55:53 they'll make what's convenient, what's easy. 55:56 So what do we reverence by keeping Sunday? 55:59 Just let me be so bold, please. 56:01 Plain Talk about Protestants today 56:02 says this. 56:04 "It was the Catholic Church 56:05 which has transferred the rest of Sunday 56:08 in remembrance of the resurrection 56:10 of our Lord. 56:12 Therefore, the observance of Sunday 56:13 by the Protestants 56:15 is a homage they pay in spite of themselves 56:18 to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. 56:22 See, most people have no idea 56:23 or they might make some changes. 56:25 But that's your job, that's my job. 56:28 As once we understand Bible prophecy, 56:31 to either believe that it's true, 56:32 it was written in the book, or it's not, 56:34 we either should do it or we shouldn't do it. 56:36 I'm under conviction, 56:38 this is God's last day message 56:40 to warn the world to wake them up 56:41 before He shall come back. 56:43 And I believe that's not too long from now. 56:46 I believe with all my heart, 56:48 we need to be ready for the coming of Jesus, 56:50 making things right with God. 56:52 Calling back to do those things 56:54 to the very beginning that God has set up 56:56 in Scripture to be. 56:58 Just to have a little simple information, 57:01 how do we dismiss it 57:02 when the Bible said the seventh day 57:04 is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God? 57:08 Seventh day is the Sabbath. 57:10 Oh, we start, all this is made for the Jews, 57:12 Mark 22:27, 28 57:14 Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. 57:17 Everything can be answered with the scripture, 57:20 not justification, not trying to tear it down, 57:22 not trying to do away with it, continue to lead our old life. 57:26 But when God reveals these things by His grace 57:28 and by His strength, 57:29 surely we would want to do them. 57:31 Surely with this kind of information 57:33 from two chapters, Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 only. 57:35 We could do Daniel 9, 10, 11, and 12, 57:38 and go on to Revelation 13, and 14, and 17, and 18, 57:41 it proves all these things over, and over, and over. 57:44 That God is calling His people back to His original faith. 57:48 And you can be a part of that if you want to be a part of it. 57:50 I can be a part of that if I want to be it. 57:52 Will it be popular? 57:53 Will people love you for it? 57:55 No, well, 57:56 a lot of people show up and want to hear about? 57:57 No. 57:59 They want to run out, you know why? 58:00 Because they love where they go, 58:01 they love what they do, they love their surroundings, 58:03 they don't want to change anything, 58:04 they don't want life to be any different. 58:06 But God says, 58:07 come apart and be separate, isn't that right? 58:08 Touch not the unclean. 58:10 Come apart and be separate. 58:11 Dare to be a Daniel. 58:12 Dare to be different. 58:14 After all, God, Jesus came down this world to what? 58:17 To show us the right way to be different. 58:19 And, man, was He ever different? 58:20 Did He ever give a different... 58:22 So if you're hearing a different message today 58:23 for the very first time maybe it's because what? 58:27 Jesus, when He came, He dared to be different. 58:29 He gave a different message, and it was not popular. 58:32 But you know what? 58:34 I'm not worried about being popular 58:35 in this life. 58:36 I'm concerned about what? 58:38 Matching up with what God says in His words, 58:39 so I don't miss heaven. 58:41 That means changes have to be made 58:42 so be it by the grace of God, certainly He can help us do it. 58:44 I want to pray with you 58:45 those who made that decision right now 58:46 that there's too much information 58:48 just to lay down and quit and bow down and say, 58:50 "I don't want to hear anymore." |
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