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The Antichrist

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Participants: Jac Colon

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00:17 Open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke 3:21.
00:22 John the Baptist was in the waters
00:26 of the Jordon River, baptizing people
00:32 when suddenly he looked up, pointed and said look
00:38 the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
00:46 And he saw Jesus walking down into the water
00:50 asking John to baptize Him.
00:54 Jesus was baptized in verse 21 we can read about it.
00:59 "When all the people were being baptized,
01:03 Jesus was baptized too.
01:06 And as he was praying, heaven opened
01:10 and the Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove.
01:17 And then a voice from heaven came and said,
01:21 "You are my Son, whom I love
01:26 with you I am well pleased."
01:30 Now Jesus Himself was about 30 years old,
01:35 it says when He began His ministry,
01:39 a ministry that would last three and one half years
01:46 and at the end of that time, Jesus suffered a deadly wound
01:51 when He died on the cross.
01:55 But that wasn't the end of the story was it,
01:59 because three days later that deadly wound was healed
02:03 and He rose again, ascended to heaven
02:07 and then He sent the Holy Spirit
02:11 to perform miracles and wonders
02:16 as the spirit gathered the world
02:20 in to God's church in order
02:26 to worship the Creator God.
02:30 Jesus watch this, get it emblazed
02:33 in your conscious mind Jesus himself was baptized
02:38 came out of the water, the Father gave him
02:41 His authority as the Messiah empowering and anointing Him
02:47 with the Holy Spirit to perform His ministry
02:50 for three and half years at the end of that time He died,
02:54 received the deadly wood then He was raised up again
02:57 as that wound was healed, He ascended to heaven,
03:00 sent the Holy Spirit to perform miracles.
03:03 And by the power of the miracles God gathered His people
03:07 into His church to worship the Creator of the heavens
03:12 and the earth, that's the kingdom of God.
03:19 We're in Revelation 13, we see something else.
03:29 Verse 1 the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
03:34 The dragon is the devil remember,
03:37 And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea.
03:40 So, there is the dragon, the devil looking out
03:44 over the water and he sees a beast
03:49 coming up out of the water.
03:53 And then watch this in the verse 2
03:55 "The dragon gave the beast his power,
03:58 his throne and great authority."
04:02 So as the beast comes up out of the water,
04:06 the dragon gives him his authority
04:09 and he was given authority, the Bible says in verse 5.
04:15 "He was given authority for forty-two months".
04:17 Now, do the math forty-two months
04:19 divided by twelve that's three and half years.
04:24 Now, he says it in a different way because
04:25 the beast is a counterfeit to the truth.
04:28 Jesus' ministry three and half years
04:31 the beast ministry 42.
04:33 The counterfeit has to look like the real thing
04:37 in order to deceive any one.
04:40 So he has his authority for 42 months
04:43 that's three and half years and then look at verse 3.
04:48 "One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had
04:49 a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed."
04:57 You're beginning to see
05:00 a parallel here, it's not over.
05:07 Verse 11, "Another beast, comes up out of the earth.
05:10 But he had two horns like a lamb."
05:15 But he spoke like the dragon,
05:17 look like a lamb, speaks like a dragon.
05:20 And not only that verse 13 says,
05:23 "He performed great and miraculous signs,
05:25 miracles," and verse 14,
05:28 "Because of the signs of the miracles,
05:30 he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast,
05:33 he deceived the inhabitants of the earth
05:35 into worshiping the first beast.
05:38 Verse 8, "All of the inhabitants of the earth will worship
05:41 the first beast except for those whose names are written
05:44 in the book of life belonging to the Lamb."
05:48 Now, follow what's happening just as Jesus came out
05:51 of the water, the Father gave Him His authority
05:54 as the Messiah for His ministry three and half years.
05:57 At the end of that time He was crucified died on the cross,
06:01 but He was raised up again, ascended to heaven and sent
06:05 the Holy Spirit to do miracles to gather
06:08 the world into His church.
06:10 So the counterfeit, the dragon watches his son
06:15 the beast come up out of the water and he gives
06:18 the beast his power and his authority and the authority
06:21 that was to last three and half years,
06:23 42 months at the end of which he receives a deadly wound.
06:27 A deadly wood is healed and he sends the false prophet
06:31 to perform miracles and gather the world
06:34 into his church...
06:38 to worship the beast.
06:45 Dragon, the beast, and the false prophet
06:48 are the counterfeit of the Father,
06:50 the Son and the Holy Spirit
06:55 and it is a counterfeit kingdom of God.
07:00 He look like a lamb, those who follow the beast
07:03 think they are following the lamb.
07:08 They are deceived by the miracles.
07:10 They are deceived by the power displayed.
07:13 They are deceived by what they see
07:16 and they can't hear that he speaks like the dragon.
07:27 So the whole purpose of the dragon,
07:30 the beast and the false prophet is to establish a people
07:36 who will worship the dragon but no one will worship the devil,
07:42 that's why he gives his authority to the beast.
07:46 And those who worship the beast,
07:48 think they are worshiping God because he looks like a lamb,
07:54 but he speaks like the dragon.
07:59 The counterfeit kingdom of God is a counterfeit system
08:07 of worship which we commonly
08:12 would call the church.
08:18 You shouldn't be surprised.
08:21 We learned the other day in 2 Thessalonians 2:1,
08:29 "Concerning the coming of our Lord,
08:32 Jesus Christ, Paul writes to the church
08:35 at Thessalonica and our being gathered to him,
08:40 so Paul is talking about the time when the church
08:44 that's them and us are going to be gathered
08:48 to Jesus Christ that's the rapture of Jesus Christ,
08:52 our of the church to Jesus, our being gathered to Him.
08:55 Look, we ask you, brothers, not to become easily unsettled
08:58 or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposing
09:02 to have come from us, saying the day
09:04 of the Lord has already come.
09:06 Oh, they thought that Jesus already came and they missed it,
09:11 so Paul said no, Don't let anyone fool you in any way,
09:18 for that day will not come until a rebellion occurs
09:25 and the man of lawlessness that's the Antichrist
09:28 is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
09:31 Don't let anyone tell you that Jesus has already come
09:34 because that day will not come until the antichrist,
09:39 the man of rebellion is revealed.
09:42 This verse tells us that before Jesus comes to gather
09:48 His church to Himself, the antichrist
09:52 will be revealed first, before he comes.
09:59 And there must be a rebellion.
10:05 Now the Greek word for rebellion,
10:07 apostasia means an apostasy of falling away from the truth.
10:14 So there would be a great apostasy,
10:16 a greater falling away and then the antichrist
10:20 would be revealed and then Jesus comes.
10:24 Now watch what happens.
10:26 Verse 4, "He that's the antichrist
10:28 will oppose and exalt himself over everything
10:34 that is called God or is worshiped,
10:37 so that he sets himself up in God's temple,
10:40 proclaiming himself to be God."
10:45 So the antichrist sets himself up in God's temple and he says,
10:50 I'm God and he establishes himself as the one that should
10:56 be worshiped by using the power of the dragon
11:00 and his authority bestowed upon the beast.
11:03 And the power of the false prophet
11:06 worshiping miracles, he says, I'm God, worship me.
11:10 Now he sets himself up in God's temple everyplace
11:13 in the New Testament that uses the word God's temple
11:17 or the temple of God, it is always referring
11:20 to the church of Jesus Christ.
11:22 He is the cornerstone and we are the living stones in the temple,
11:29 so the antichrist then sets himself up in God's church.
11:34 And he says, I'm God and practically
11:38 the entire world including many in God's church will worship
11:43 the beast instead of the lamb,
11:48 because he looks like a lamb.
11:53 The word anti in Greek
11:57 actually means in place of Christ.
12:04 Antichrist means in place of Christ.
12:09 He sets himself up in Christ's place.
12:11 He says, I'm Christ, worship me.
12:16 And the Bible tells us practically the whole world
12:18 follows and today practically the whole world following
12:23 the lead of popular book writers,
12:26 novel writers like Dr. Tim LaHaye's Left behind
12:29 or waiting for the temple to be rebuilt and for the antichrist
12:35 to go in and to smash the temple and the altar and desecrate
12:41 it with his filthy sacrifices, overlooking the fact
12:48 that the true temple of God is the church of Jesus Christ
12:51 and antichrist is doing his work in the church,
12:54 so that while all the world practically is looking
12:58 to the Middle East and looking for antichrist,
13:02 one single man to come.
13:05 Antichrist is working in the church
13:07 and they don't even recognize him.
13:12 I can show you one verse that dismantles the idea
13:17 that antichrist is one single individual that will appear
13:20 in the future and destroy, rebuild the temple
13:25 and destroy it, I can show you one verse
13:28 that this assembles that whole idea.
13:30 Do you want to see it?
13:32 Well, I'll show you.
13:34 1 John in the little book
13:38 of 1 John 2:18, "Dear children,
13:44 this is the last hour--"
13:48 It was written 2000 years ago, I mean it's the last hour
13:55 and we think we are living in the last hour,
13:58 2000 years later, how can that fit.
14:01 Well, just keep coming, you will see and that's
14:04 an eye-opener but look, "Dear children,
14:07 this is the last hour and as you have heard
14:10 that antichrist is coming," noticed?
14:14 "You have heard antichrist is coming,
14:20 even now many antichrists have come."
14:26 That was written 2000 years ago and John said
14:31 you heard antichrist is coming, 2000 years ago even now
14:38 many antichrists have already come,
14:43 I could say the same thing to you today.
14:46 You have heard that antichrist is coming.
14:50 Even now many antichrists have already come.
14:53 Hey, if they were here 2000 years ago,
14:56 then you better believe they are here now, amen.
15:04 Even more remarkable this is how we know
15:10 that it's the last hour, they went out from us.
15:16 Isn't that exactly what Paul said was going to happen?
15:18 There would be an apostasy, apostasy means
15:21 the falling away from the truth
15:24 and antichrist would be revealed.
15:26 Now, John is saying all ready they have gone out from us.
15:30 There has been an apostasy
15:32 and they are falling away from the truth.
15:34 This is how we know that it's the last hour.
15:37 2000 years ago, many antichrists
15:40 had already come,
15:45 we had to better believe antichrist is at work right now.
15:59 Who is he?
16:01 What's he doing?
16:03 That's what we are here for.
16:06 Dig a little deeper, find the answers.
16:11 Look at Revelation 13:8.
16:14 "All of the inhabitants of the earth will worship
16:18 the beast except for those whose names have been
16:22 written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb."
16:27 Now I want you to get a picture of what's happening,
16:31 the real battle with antichrist, his real objective
16:36 is to somehow try to get your names
16:41 out of the Lamb's book of life, that's what it's all about.
16:46 Folks, it's not about territory in the Middle East.
16:50 It's not about oil wells in the Middle East.
16:52 It's not about boundaries and places to live.
16:55 It's about the cross of Jesus Christ.
17:00 That's why he is antichrist, he puts himself in Christ place,
17:05 all the inhabitance of the earth,
17:08 that means that this is a global system of worship,
17:14 not just some little church in some obscure place
17:20 but it is a global worldwide system of worship
17:26 that practically the whole world follows except for a few.
17:33 A world wide global church
17:39 that appears to be the kingdom of God
17:45 but it's a counterfeit.
17:54 Not a perfect counterfeit.
17:57 He makes some mistakes along the way.
18:00 Verse 7 says, "He was given power to make war
18:04 against the saints and to conquer them."
18:11 So the antichrist is a religious power,
18:14 a church that has some kind of authority to persecute
18:17 and make war against those who refuse to go along
18:20 with his particular brand of worship.
18:28 God doesn't force anyone.
18:34 God woos us with His love.
18:42 So who is the antichrist?
18:44 Let's go back to the beginning
18:45 and I want to start in Revelation 12:17.
18:49 "And then the dragon was angry at the woman
18:51 and he went off to make war against
18:53 the rest of the remnant," King James says,
18:57 "the last of her offspring, the last of the seed
19:01 of the woman," we learned the seed of the woman
19:03 is God's people, the pure woman,
19:06 "so the last of the seed of the woman,
19:09 the last of God's people on this earth who are they,
19:13 those who obey God's commandments
19:15 and hold to the testimony of Jesus."
19:18 Two points of attack.
19:21 At the end of this unfolding of the battle between
19:24 the antichrist and the people of God,
19:27 he concludes in Chapter 14:12,
19:30 "This calls for patient endurance
19:31 on the part of the saints who obey God's commandments
19:35 and remain faithful to Jesus."
19:39 So the two points of attack like bookends
19:42 on this passage of scripture defining the antichrist
19:46 and his battle between himself and God and the people of God,
19:50 the two points of attack like bookends are obedient
19:54 to God's commands and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
20:00 Keep that in mind, that's the battlefield.
20:04 It's not the Middle East.
20:06 The battlefield is faith in Jesus Christ.
20:15 So then 13, "The dragon stood
20:17 on the shore of the sea and in verse 2,
20:19 "I saw a beast coming out of the sea."
20:21 Who is that beast?
20:23 "He has ten horns, seven heads, ten crowns on his horns,
20:27 and on each head a blasphemous name.
20:31 The beast I saw resembled a leopard,
20:34 but he had feet like those of a bear
20:36 and a mouth like that of a lion.
20:38 The dragon gave the beast his authority and power and throne."
20:44 So picture this.
20:46 The dragon, that's the devil looking out
20:47 over the water, he sees this beast with seven heads,
20:50 ten horns coming up out of the water and this beast
20:54 with seven heads, and ten horns,
20:56 the Bible tells us resembled a leopard,
20:58 but feet like a bear and a mouth like a lion,
21:03 and the dragon gave him his authority.
21:07 Leopard, bear, lion and receives
21:12 his authority from the dragon.
21:16 Now, the dragon is the devil, but remember
21:18 the devil never works as the devil.
21:22 He doesn't go running around that little red jumpsuit
21:24 two horns on his head, long tail with an arrow on it.
21:26 None of you would ever worship anyone
21:27 like that and he is trying to get you.
21:31 He wants those who want to obey God
21:33 and to cling for the cross of Jesus.
21:35 So he doesn't go as the devil,
21:37 he works as human instruments trying to devour Christ.
21:40 First we saw him as King Herod, the pagan Roman emperor,
21:44 who tried to devour Jesus, the moment he was born.
21:46 So who does this pagan Roman power give his authority to?
21:51 If we can find out who he gives his authority to,
21:54 then we can identify this beast.
21:57 At this point John is saying, Stop don't go any further
22:03 until you have read the seventh chapter of Daniel.
22:09 Now keep that in mind.
22:10 Look, the Leopard, the bear, the lion and the dragon
22:16 gives his authority to that beast
22:18 that looks like leopard, bear, lion.
22:20 Keep that in mind and now we turn to Daniel 7.
22:25 Remember you have to understand the Old Testament
22:27 before you can understand Revelation.
22:31 Here is the place.
22:33 In Daniel 7:3 Daniel had a vision he saw
22:36 "Four great beasts, each one different
22:39 from the others, came up out of the water.
22:42 The first one was like a lion, second one a bear,
22:45 third one, verse 6, look like a leopard.
22:49 Sound familiar? Lion, bear, leopard
22:54 and then the fourth one terrifying and frightening,
22:59 so terrifying he couldn't even name
23:01 what he was like or what he was and while I was looking
23:06 at the horns, he had ten horns.
23:11 Now, we've already identified these four beasts.
23:15 Watch, verse 17 the interpretation comes.
23:19 An angel came to interpret it and he says
23:22 "The four great beasts are four kingdoms
23:24 that will rise up from the earth."
23:25 So, if we let the Bible interpret itself,
23:29 are you okay with that?
23:31 If you let the Bible interpret itself,
23:34 then a beast is a symbol for a nation and so Daniel
23:39 is looking out over the water and he sees four nations
23:42 rise and fall, one symbolized by a lion,
23:45 the other one the bear, the other one a leopard,
23:47 the fourth one oh he didn't know what it was too terrifying.
23:52 We've already identified those four nations in Daniel 2.
23:56 Remember Nebuchadnezzar's image,
23:57 the head of gold, breast and arms of silver,
23:59 body and thighs of bronze,
24:00 the legs of iron and the ten toes.
24:05 This time beast, the first beast was lion
24:08 at the Babylonian power 605 BC ruling over God's people
24:13 and most of the civilized world overthrown
24:15 by the Medo-Persians in 538 BC ruling over God's people
24:20 and most of the civilized world overthrown by the third kingdom,
24:24 this one symbolized by the leopard with speed
24:27 in the year 331 BC lead by Alexander the Great,
24:30 the Greek Macedonian Empire and then in 169 AD 169 Greece
24:37 was overthrown by Caesar's of Rome,
24:41 that Pagan Roman Empire, the two legs of iron,
24:45 this time symbolized by that beast with iron teeth
24:49 that devour the nations, ruling over God's people
24:52 even during the time of Christ when he was on this earth.
24:57 No wonder he was so terrible and he had ten horns.
25:01 The ten horns same as the ten toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image
25:05 when Rome was divided into the nations forming Europe,
25:09 so we seen an exact parallel of Daniel 2.
25:12 This is a historical platform.
25:14 This is so crucial for us to understand
25:18 the ten toes and the ten horns.
25:21 Rome was divided.
25:23 There was Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome.
25:26 Rome was divided into the ten toes,
25:30 the ten barbarian states dividing Rome
25:33 into what we think of as modern Europe today
25:36 and three of those horns he said were uprooted
25:40 before this little horn that came up.
25:48 Now follow me.
25:50 Daniel saw lion, bear,
25:54 leopard, terrifying beast.
26:00 John saw a beast come up out of the water
26:04 in Revelation and he resembled
26:09 the leopard, the bear and the lion.
26:15 Daniel saw lion, bear,
26:19 leopard, terrifying beast.
26:22 John lived during the time of that terrifying beast Rome,
26:29 and he saw the beast leopard,
26:33 the bear and the lion
26:35 in the reverse order that Daniel saw.
26:39 You see that's how we know
26:40 we are standing on solid ground.
26:42 Folks, you have to have a historic platform
26:47 to truly understand the Bible.
26:49 When I was a young boy in school,
26:51 I had to take history classes and I didn't like history,
26:56 I didn't care about the Persians or the Medes,
26:59 who cares about that.
27:00 I wanted to play baseball.
27:04 I am glad I learned a little bit now because its important
27:08 for us to know we are standing on solid ground. Babylon,
27:11 Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, Rome was divided in the middle
27:14 of that division came the little horn that would
27:17 be the beast of the antichrist.
27:18 Now, we have a solid platform to base our interpretation on.
27:22 Let the Bible interpret itself
27:25 and you can't go wrong.
27:27 So Daniel understood what was happening.
27:31 The four great beasts, the four kingdoms the angels
27:33 said and in verse 19, he continued and asked him,
27:36 I want to know about the fourth beast,
27:38 the one that's different from all the other ones.
27:41 In verse 20, I also want to know about the ten horns on its head
27:44 and about the other one, that little horn that came up.
27:47 He had a mouth that spoke boastfully
27:50 but he had the eyes of a man.
27:53 He claimed to be God but he was only a man,
27:58 and so Daniel says, I want to know about that guy,
28:02 so the angel continues with his interpretation.
28:06 Turn to verse 23, "He gave me this explanation
28:11 'The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom,
28:13 Babylon Medo-Persia, Greece,
28:15 Rome fourth beast Rome, fourth kingdom.
28:19 Verse 24, "The ten horns are ten kings
28:22 that will come from this kingdom.
28:27 The ten horns have to come from this kingdom,
28:30 what's this kingdom Rome the fourth beast.
28:35 And then after them another king will arise,
28:37 different from the earlier ones,
28:39 he will uproot or subdue three kings.
28:42 He will speak against the Most High,
28:45 he will oppress the saints of God.
28:48 He will try to change the set times and the laws.
28:51 And the saints will be handed over to him for a time,
28:54 times and half a time nine identifying marks
28:58 of that little horn that are essential for us to identify
29:03 because almost all Bibles scholars will agree
29:05 the little horn is the sameas the beast
29:08 of Revelation 13 and the antichrist.
29:11 When we identify the little horn,
29:13 then you know who the beast is, So let's get to work,
29:17 nine identifying marks.
29:18 We want to look at them quickly but thoroughly.
29:23 First of all 24, number 1 "The ten horns are ten kings
29:28 that will come from this kingdom.
29:32 This kingdom is the pagan Roman Empire
29:35 divided into the ten toes or the ten horns,
29:38 so the ten horn of the little horn,
29:41 that the little horn oppose the ten horns
29:43 among which she came from this Roman kingdom,
29:47 not some kingdom in the future.
29:52 But the same one that overthrew
29:55 the third kingdom the Medes and the Persians.
29:58 That's important for us to recognize.
30:01 And then after them second mark,
30:04 after them after the ten horns divided the Roman Empire
30:10 after that another king will arise
30:13 different from the earlier ones
30:15 and he would subdue three kings
30:19 and he would have authority
30:20 to persecute the saints and rule
30:23 for time times and half a time.
30:26 So this gives us a bunch of identifying marks
30:29 after the division of Rome sometimes after the year 476
30:35 that we learned the other night was about when that division
30:38 was completed by the barbarian invasion,
30:40 sometimes after that this little horn would appear among them.
30:46 So we should be looking for the little horn to arise
30:49 some time after the year 476 among those divisions
30:55 of the Roman Empire which is essentially Europe today.
30:59 We should be looking for the little horn to arise
31:01 somewhere in Europe after the year 476 AD.
31:06 He would be different from the earlier ones
31:09 and he would uproot three of those ten horns.
31:13 And he would have power for time times and half a time.
31:18 Now in order to understand this,
31:19 we need to go back into history a little more once again.
31:24 Because in the 4th century Constantine
31:28 was the emperor of Rome, and he saw that out
31:34 on the eastern front the barbarian nations
31:38 were beginning to nibble away and weaken his empire
31:41 and he had to do something to strengthen it.
31:46 So Constantine did a couple of things.
31:51 At that time the church was rapidly growing through
31:56 the Roman Empire, so Constantine joined the church
32:02 and that would give him credibility
32:05 with many of the people in his empire,
32:08 so he became a Christian nominally and name
32:11 only but he joined the church but then he did something else.
32:16 He moved the capital which for so many years
32:21 had been in Rome to Byzantium.
32:28 Out on the eastern front and changed the name
32:32 from Byzantium to Constantinople
32:39 after himself, so he could be right out
32:44 there where the action was and help
32:46 to hold his empire together.
32:49 The problem was that practically the whole civilized world
32:54 had become accustom to looking
32:55 at Rome for leadership.
33:01 And when he moved he left the political vacuum in Rome
33:06 and he knew that if he didn't do something,
33:09 that some military man or some powerful person
33:12 would arise and perhaps be a threat to the emperor
33:16 himself with the military coup.
33:20 So, he had to put someone in charge at Rome,
33:23 couldn't be a military person.
33:25 No, that would be too risky.
33:28 But at that time
33:33 there was a very influential
33:37 and powerful leader emerging in Rome
33:43 and that was the bishop of the church at Rome.
33:50 So, Constantine gave the bishop of Rome,
33:56 his power, his throne and his authority.
34:05 Constantine, the pagan Roman emperor
34:10 who would try to devour Christ
34:14 gives the bishop of Rome
34:17 the church his power, his throne and authority
34:20 and now the bishop of Rome has not only religious authority
34:25 but political power because
34:27 the Vatican became a nation.
34:32 And he would be different from all of the other kings,
34:36 different because not only did he have political power
34:40 but he ruled the church of Jesus Christ
34:44 and for the first time since Christ established his church,
34:47 the church would join together with the political powers
34:51 of the state to enforce her doctrines
34:54 and her particular brand of worship.
35:03 Now the bishop of Rome found himself bitterly opposed,
35:10 by three of those barbarian states,
35:14 Vandals, the Ostrogoths, the Heruli.
35:19 They were Arian tribes.
35:21 They thought that Jesus Christ,
35:23 they're following the-- the teachings of Marcus Aurelius
35:27 that Jesus Christ was not fully God
35:29 but he was somewhere between man and God.
35:33 Rightly so, the church apposed the Arian teachings
35:39 found in those three tribes that followed Marcus Aurelius.
35:43 The church has the right and the obligation to oppose
35:47 lives against God...
35:52 after all it's the kingdom of God
35:55 but the church went too far in its opposition
36:00 and fighting broke out as the church used force
36:07 and finally the bishop of Rome summon Justinian,
36:10 who was now the emperor and Justinian's troops uprooted
36:14 and fought against quieting those
36:18 three horns by the year 538.
36:23 Just the way the prophecy said it would happen
36:26 and now the bishop of Rome is virtually unopposed
36:28 in his quest for power.
36:34 Now, a lot of you have already seen it.
36:38 I see your heads nodding, I see the ah,
36:42 so I need to pause here for a moment and do a disclaimer.
36:48 I think its obvious that when Revelation
36:52 says the dragon gave his throne his power,
36:55 his authority to the beast
36:59 and when Constantine gave his throne,
37:01 his power and his authority to the bishop of Rome
37:07 along with the historical setting,
37:09 it becomes clear that the medieval church at Rome
37:13 is the little horn, antichrist and I have a lot more to go,
37:18 so don't think I'm jumping to conclusions, not done yet.
37:23 But I think at this point, I need to make something clear.
37:26 I'm not anti-catholic, I'm not anti-pope,
37:31 I'm not anti anybody,
37:35 I'm anti-era.
37:42 I'm not talking about anyone's faith,
37:45 there may be some of you here tonight
37:47 that are a part of the catholic faith.
37:50 No, I'm not talking about you.
37:53 I'm talking about a church, so we are going to see
37:55 the medieval church that made some serious,
37:59 serious mistakes in a time period called the Dark Ages
38:05 and John Paul 2 himself officially
38:08 called a day of apology fasting and asking
38:13 for forgiveness for the sins of the church during that time.
38:20 Now, personally I think it takes a big man to admit
38:26 that his church has made mistakes.
38:29 And I respect him for that.
38:35 I don't agree with him on everything obviously.
38:40 But we don't have to agree on everything to love
38:43 and respect each other, do we?
38:47 Can't we love each other even if we don't agree?
38:53 My wife and I don't agree on everything.
38:56 She likes the Dallas Cowboys,
39:03 I still love her.
39:08 So I'm not talking about your faith,
39:11 I'm not talking about any individual.
39:13 I'm talking about a dark period in the history of the church,
39:17 even acknowledge by John Paul 2,
39:19 the special day of fasting and prayer.
39:22 Folks, if we don't go back and look at the mistakes
39:25 that were made then, how can we know
39:27 we will never repeat those mistakes in the future.
39:31 And so I'm not doing this to be hateful
39:35 and I know there are some people out there
39:37 on the TV world and the news commentators
39:40 that would consider what I have just said to you hateful.
39:43 I'm not being hateful, we can love each other
39:45 and disagree, but I believe you are here because
39:48 you want to know the truth, Jesus said,
39:50 "The truth will set to free."
39:55 So, I'm not talking about any people per se,
39:58 I'm talking about a system of worship developed
40:01 in medieval church of the Dark Ages.
40:05 And it says that he would have authority
40:08 for times time and half a time.
40:12 Now, that sounds like a riddle but it's really not that hard
40:14 to understand what does it mean?
40:16 Time times and half a time.
40:18 I could tell you but I don't want to tell you because
40:21 that's my private interpretation,
40:23 I want you to get it from scripture,
40:24 how do we do that?
40:27 Come on talk to me, compare scripture with scripture,
40:32 so what is time, times and half a time mean.
40:34 Go back to Revelation.
40:35 Remember Revelation quotes
40:36 the Old Testament over how many times?
40:39 600 here is one of those places, Revelation 12,
40:44 let's begin in verse 14.
40:48 "The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle,
40:51 so that she might fly to the place prepared
40:53 for her in the desert, where she would be taken care
40:56 of for how long, time, times and half a time."
41:01 The woman symbolizing God's people would be hidden
41:04 in the desert while the beast is doing his dirty work
41:08 against the church, the woman is hidden
41:10 in the desert, the same time times
41:12 and half a time, God will always protect his people.
41:17 But what is this time, times and half a time mean?
41:20 We'll compare it with scripture, this time same chapter, verse 6.
41:24 "The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared
41:26 for her by God, where she should
41:28 be taken care of for 1,260 days."
41:33 So time, time and half a time that's when God's protecting
41:36 the woman 1,260 days that's when God's protecting
41:41 the woman in the desert, so time,
41:43 time and half a time equals 1,260 days.
41:46 Actually its not that difficult to see
41:49 when you understand a few things.
41:50 Time is symbolic for a year, times would be two years,
41:55 half a time half a year, time times half a time
41:59 three and half years 1,260 days.
42:04 Now this is the only time at Revelation Now
42:08 that I'm ever going to ask you to take my word for something
42:10 because I just don't have time to prove everything tonight.
42:16 But, I'm going to prove it to you without
42:17 a doubt on another night coming that in prophecy
42:20 a day is symbolic for a year, so 1,260 days of time,
42:28 times and half a time 1260 days would be 1260 years.
42:34 By the time the bishop had pretty well squelched
42:39 the major opposition to the church
42:41 in 538 uprooting those three horns.
42:44 538 plus 1260 years after that she would have authority
42:49 that takes us all the way to the year 1798.
42:53 In 1798 Napoleon sent his General Berthier into Rome
42:58 express orders to capture the city.
43:00 He captured Rome, captured the pope
43:03 brought him back to Paris where the pope died 1260 years
43:09 after the three horns were uprooted.
43:15 Just exactly the way the prophecy
43:17 said it would happen.
43:23 There is some other identifying marks
43:25 that we need to recognize.
43:27 He said he would be a persecuting power
43:30 or he would oppress the saints of God.
43:35 And then there is another identifying mark.
43:40 This one would try to change the set times and the laws.
43:47 He would try to change the set times and the laws.
43:52 Now, you have to understand this isn't talking about
43:55 man's laws, they change all the time.
44:00 He's talking about God's laws.
44:02 He would try to change God's laws and set times.
44:08 Or did the church ever do that or try to do that?
44:12 This is a book it's fairly new,
44:15 Catechism of the Catholic Church
44:17 even included all the teachings even yet today
44:20 endorsed by John Paul 2
44:22 has his imprimatur and stamp in the cover.
44:25 Meaning there is no false doctrine in this book.
44:29 And here is what it says,
44:33 "The church does not derive
44:35 her certainty about revealed truth from the scripture alone.
44:40 Both the scripture and traditions of the church
44:44 must be honored and accepted with equal sentiments
44:48 of the devotion and reverence."
44:51 So what he is saying is that the church
44:55 and her traditions are equal to the scripture.
45:02 Now I'm going to show you some things about that,
45:04 I'm just giving you a quick peek.
45:06 I'm going to show you some things that are going to make
45:08 your hair stand out on end and straighten
45:12 and if it's already straight, I'm going to curl it up for you.
45:15 We don't have time to do all that yet they would try
45:19 to change God's laws, putting tradition over scripture
45:24 and then we see another one.
45:27 He would speak against the Most High.
45:30 Revelation said, he would blaspheme God.
45:34 What does that mean?
45:36 When Jesus was here on this earth,
45:41 He was to heal a crippled man instead
45:46 of just saying I heal you, He said, I forgive you.
45:53 Your sins are forgiven.
45:56 Well, the church leaders weren't too happy about that,
45:59 they picked up stones to stone Jesus.
46:01 And they said, that's blaspheme.
46:04 Only God can forgive sins, that's blaspheme, stone Him.
46:10 Well, they were right, only God can forgive sins.
46:13 But where they were wrong is that Jesus was God.
46:18 Only God can forgive sins, only Jesus
46:22 can forgive sins because he is God.
46:25 But the church teaches that there is a man
46:29 on earth who can forgive sins.
46:34 In Michael Muller book, The Catholic Priest,
46:37 this is carried over from the Dark Ages
46:40 Yes, beloved brethren, the priest not only declares
46:43 that the sinner is forgiven, but he really forgives him.
46:47 The priest raises his hand,
46:48 pronounces the word of absolution,
46:50 and in an instant, quick as a flash of light
46:52 the chains of hell are burst asunder,
46:54 and the sinner becomes a child of God.
46:57 So great is the power of the priest that the judgments
47:00 of heaven itself is subject to his decision.
47:06 Does the priest have the authority to forgive sins
47:14 but it was the dragon who gave the beast his authority.
47:20 You're beginning to see how it all fits together.
47:29 Labbe and Cossart's History of the Councils,
47:31 volume 14 page 109.
47:34 "For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician,
47:37 thou art the husbandman,
47:39 finally thou art another God on earth."
47:43 He would set himself up in God's temple
47:45 proclaiming himself to be God.
47:48 From the Catholic National July 1895.
47:52 "The Pope is not only the representative
47:54 of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ himself,
47:59 hidden under the veil of flesh."
48:01 He would set himself up in God's temple and say,
48:04 I am God and the whole world is waiting for the antichrist
48:09 to come and rebuild the temple over there?
48:15 St. Bernadine of Sienna said, "Thus the priest in performing
48:19 the mass-the priest may, in a certain manner
48:23 be called the creator of his Creator
48:25 "The power of the priest is the power of the Divine person
48:28 for the transubstantiation of the bread requires
48:31 as much power as the creation of the world."
48:34 Dignity and Duties of the Priest, Alphonsus Liguori.
48:41 Now the mass is not just a worship service
48:45 but the priest at the high point of the mass would take the bread
48:49 and the wine and pray the prayer of transubstantiation,
48:55 that means that he is actually converting the bread
48:59 and the wine not as symbols of the body and blood of Christ
49:02 but in the actual body of Christ,
49:05 in the actual blood of Christ
49:07 so that the priest is offering
49:10 Jesus Christ again as a sacrifice
49:13 with the sins of many on his altar.
49:17 Watch the book John O'Brien's book,
49:20 the Faith of Millions is the book,
49:22 I'm just going to read it from the printout
49:23 to save time, but it's right in here.
49:26 He says, "The power of the priest
49:27 is equal to that of Jesus Christ because in this role the mass,
49:31 the priest speaks with the voice and authority of God himself.
49:34 When the priest pronounces the words of Consecration,
49:37 he reaches up into the heavens, and brings Christ
49:40 down from His throne, placing Him upon our altar
49:43 to be offered up again as the victim for the sins of man
49:47 not once but a thousand times.
49:49 The priest speaks and lo! the eternal,
49:51 omnipotent God, bows His head
49:52 in humble obedience to the priest's command."
49:59 Now, my personal feeling is, that's blasphemous,
50:05 that's my personal feelings.
50:07 You have to decide for yourself.
50:10 If you think that's right you think that's true,
50:13 then that's fine with you and you between you and God.
50:17 But I think that Jesus Christ died once for all 2000 years ago
50:24 and there is no need for Him to be offered
50:26 as a sacrifice again and to me to offer Him
50:31 as a sacrifice again is to deny
50:33 the once for all sacrifice of Christ 2000 years ago.
50:37 He would attack the Gospel of Jesus Christ
50:40 and that's what got the attention
50:42 of a Roman Catholic priest named Martin Luther teaching a class
50:47 at the University of Wittenberg on the book of Romans
50:50 and he discovered in the Book of Romans
50:52 that we are saved by grace
50:54 through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
50:58 And he began to teach that in his seminary class,
51:00 Rome got when the evidence said, oh!
51:02 Luther no more, you can't teach that.
51:05 We are saved by faith and works, not by faith alone.
51:12 And Luther said, but the Bible says we are saved
51:17 by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
51:25 And Rome said, Luther you don't understand,
51:30 the Bible isn't the only rule of faith in practice
51:33 for the church, it's the Bible plus
51:38 the traditions of the church.
51:47 And Luther said, "Now I know who the antichrist is."
51:57 He would attack law of God
52:00 and the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
52:05 put himself in God's place.
52:14 Revelation 13:18, "This calls for wisdom.
52:20 If anyone has insight, let him calculate
52:22 the number of the beast, for it is man's number.
52:24 His number is 666."
52:29 Six is man's number because
52:31 he was created on the sixth day,
52:35 three is God's number, the father,
52:38 the Son and the Holy Spirit.
52:41 Three sixes would be man putting himself in God's place.
52:49 In fact long ago, one of the titles
52:53 that some of the pope's claim
52:54 for themselves in Latin words was Vicarius Filii Dei.
52:59 And it's interesting when you add up the letters
53:02 of Vicarius Filii Dei in Roman number they equals 666.
53:08 Now that alone is no proof.
53:10 Lots of names can add up to 666 but when you look at all
53:16 of the nine identifying marks that we have seen
53:18 that he would set himself up in God's temple proclaiming
53:22 himself to be God attacking the Gospel of Jesus Christ
53:26 not overtly but by subtly introducing his own teachings,
53:30 so many people began to leave Rome,
53:34 so many people began to protest
53:36 the doctrines of Rome that the church had for me.
53:41 So how we are going to stop these protestors,
53:43 they were called Protestants, Lutherans.
53:49 If you're a Lutheran your church started
53:51 when Luther understood this prophecy.
53:56 If you are Methodist your church started
53:58 when the Wesley's understood this prophecy.
54:02 Reform tradition your church came into existence
54:05 when Calvin understood this prophecy.
54:09 If you are Baptist your church began
54:11 when Roger Smith understood this prophecy.
54:21 Church says what we are going to with
54:22 these protestors these Protestants.
54:24 Protestant is nothing more than one who believes
54:26 in the world of God only, scriptures alone.
54:31 What are we going to do with these Protestants,
54:33 so they met at the Council of Trent to discuss
54:35 this 18 years 1545 until 1563 one of the things
54:40 they taught was, "If any one says
54:42 that the man is absolved from sins
54:43 and saved through faith alone, let him be accursed."
54:50 The Council of Trent, now she has spoken like the dragon.
54:59 So why doesn't everybody teach this today,
55:03 if all the Protestant churches began this particular
55:06 interpretation surprising answer.
55:10 You see at the Council of Trent they studied some other things
55:13 and they were two Jesuits, they came up
55:15 with two interpretations of the prophecy
55:17 because all those Protestants were pointing to Rome
55:19 saying you're the antichrist, I already can feel about that.
55:24 So Alcazar, Jesuit scholars says, I got an idea.
55:28 I can show you how we can prove that all the prophecies
55:31 in the Book of Revelation and the antichrist and the beast
55:34 are all dealing with the past fulfilled
55:37 by Nero when it's all ended, so we can't be the beast
55:41 that ended hundreds of years ago.
55:46 It's called preterism.
55:48 Ribera said, I got a better idea.
55:51 Looks like to me that Jesus is coming in the future.
55:55 Antichrist is in the future,
55:57 so he put it all off in the distant future.
56:01 We have been here 1500 years
56:03 so how can it be us, we can't be antichrist.
56:09 Most Protestants have picked up that interpretation
56:15 followed by the left behind series over 70 million copies
56:18 in print so which one is right?
56:23 Is it all in the future, is it all in the past?
56:28 Or is it is I like to call it interpreted
56:33 through the eyes of Christ.
56:42 We can know who the beast is.
56:48 Beast received the deadly wound in 1798
56:51 but Revelation says the deadly wound will be healed.
56:54 In a surprising way we are going to see another world power
56:58 emerged based on the foundation and the platform established
57:03 by the church of Dark Ages in that evil church we are going
57:06 to see it again with more power with more authority at the end
57:10 time when the deadly wound is healed we can know
57:13 who the antichrist is, we can know who the beast is,
57:16 but you better follow the Lamb and you will never go astray.


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