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00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:09 >>THERE ARE FEW HUMANS WHOSE INTELLECT COULD MATCH THE GENIUS 00:12 OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, ONE OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS AND INVENTORS 00:16 OF ALL TIME. PROBABLY, HE'S MOST RENOWN 00:19 FOR HIS MONA LISA PAINTING. LEONARDO ALSO EXCELLED IN THE 00:24 FIELDS OF SCIENCE, OPTICS, ENGINEERING, ANATOMY, BOTANY, 00:30 ARCHITECTURE, GEOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, MECHANICS, AND MANY MORE. 00:35 IN MANY OF THESE AREAS HE WAS FAR AHEAD OF HIS TIME. 00:39 FOR EXAMPLE, HE DREW DESIGNS THAT WERE THE EQUIVALENT OF A 00:43 HELICOPTER, ONE FOR A PARACHUTE, A DIVING SUIT, AN ARMORED TANK, 00:48 AND MANY OTHER FASCINATING INVENTIONS OF OUR DAY. 00:51 HE EVEN BUILT A ROBOT CAPABLE OF WALKING, SITTING, AND MOVING ITS 00:55 JAW - AND SOME OF HIS ROBOTIC CONCEPTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING PUT 00:59 TO USE IN ROBOTS FOR SPACE EXPLORATION TODAY. 01:02 LOOKING BACK, IT ALMOST SEEMS LIKE LEONARDO COULD SEE INTO THE 01:06 FUTURE. WE MIGHT WONDER IF ANYONE 01:09 REALLY CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE. IN ANCIENT BABYLON, THE 01:13 PROPHET DANIEL INFORMED KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR ABOUT THE GOD OF 01:16 HEAVEN WHO REVEALED THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS OF THE FUTURE. 01:20 SO JOIN ME NOW, FRIENDS, AS WE DISCOVER WHAT GOD'S WORD REALLY 01:23 SAYS ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS BEASTS FROM THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL 01:28 AND REVELATION. 01:33 >>A LITTLE WHILE AGO - A FEW YEARS AGO - A TEENAGE GIRL IN 01:37 VIRGINIA WAS KIND OF SHOCKED WHEN SHE SAW, IN HER BACKYARD, A 01:42 TURTLE WITH TWO HEADS. >>WOW. 01:44 >>AND SHE FELT SORRY FOR THE POOR THING AND WAS A LITTLE 01:48 SHOCKED AND DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO REACT. 01:50 SHE TRIED TO FEED IT SOME LETTUCE AND BOTH HEADS WERE SORT 01:52 OF FIGHTING FOR THE LETTUCE. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, 01:55 TWO-HEADEDNESS IS NOT COMPLETELY UNHEARD OF IN THE 01:59 ANIMAL KINGDOM. USUALLY THOSE CREATURES DO NOT 02:01 LIVE VERY LONG BECAUSE THEY FEEL - THE TWO MINDS ARE TELLING THE 02:07 BODY TO DO TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY CAN NEVER SEEM TO AGREE 02:11 AND THEY JUST DON'T SEEM TO SURVIVE IN THE WILD. 02:14 BUT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING WITH FOUR HEADS AND YOU'VE NEVER 02:19 SEEN ANYTHING WITH SEVEN HEADS, BUT THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 02:23 CREATURES WITH FOUR HEADS AND SEVEN HEADS AND, IN PARTICULAR, 02:27 THERE'S A CREATURE THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN THE BOOK OF 02:31 REVELATION WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, AND YOU'LL FIND THE 02:35 TEN HORNS ON ANOTHER BEAST IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL. 02:38 AND, AS WE LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS IS 02:42 TYPICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE SAME POWER. 02:45 WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THAT POWER BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE MAIN 02:48 PLAYERS IN THE LAST DAYS. THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT IS 02:51 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT A WOMAN RIDES A BEAST . 02:55 AND THIS HEARKENS FROM A PROPHECY AND A PICTURE THAT 02:58 YOU'LL FIND IN REVELATION 17. 03:01 NOW, IN THIS PRESENTATION, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE GOING TO BE 03:03 TALKING ABOUT, 'WHAT IS THIS BEAST THAT KEEPS REAPPEARING IN 03:08 THE BOOKS OF REVELATION AND DANIEL?' 03:12 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES YOU'LL WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT 03:13 REVELATION CHAPTER 17 AND THERE IT SAYS, "SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY 03:18 IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS. 03:22 AND I SAW A WOMAN SITTING ON A SCARLET BEAST WHICH WAS FULL OF 03:26 NAMES OF BLASPHEMY, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS." 03:32 NOW, WE DISCUSSED THIS EARLIER AND WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME MORE 03:34 SCRIPTURES FOR IT, BUT IN THESE BIBLE SYMBOLS A WOMAN REPRESENTS 03:38 A CHURCH. 'HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES,' PAUL 03:41 SAYS, 'EVEN AS CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR IT. 03:45 I'VE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION TO A DELICATE AND COMELY 03:48 WOMAN.' ALL THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT 03:50 GOD COMPARES ISRAEL TO HIS BRIDE. 03:54 SO HIS PEOPLE - IT'S OFTEN IDENTIFIED WITH A WOMAN. 03:57 YOU'VE GOT TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF WOMAN THAT ARE THERE, BOTH IN 03:59 THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE FAITHFUL AND THE UNFAITHFUL, 04:04 AND THIS WOMAN IS, EVIDENTLY, NOT THE FAITHFUL ONE BECAUSE IT 04:08 SAYS SHE'S GOT A PARAGRAPH ON HER FOREHEAD THAT SAYS, 04:11 'MOTHER OF HARLOTS'. THAT WOULD SORT OF 04:12 BE A CLUE, RIGHT? SHE'S NOT THE FAITHFUL WIFE. 04:16 NOW, YOU SEE THESE TWO WOMEN IDENTIFIED THERE IN REVELATION - 04:19 REVELATION 12 YOU'VE GOT THE GOOD ONE. 04:22 SO, WHAT'S THE CONNECTION NOW BETWEEN THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 04:26 12 - THERE'S ANOTHER BEAST THAT APPEARS TO HER. 04:30 YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 12, VERSE 3, "AND THERE APPEARED ANOTHER 04:33 WONDER IN HEAVEN: AND BEHOLD A GREAT RED DRAGON - SAME AS THE 04:37 SCARLET THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 17 - "HAVING SEVEN 04:41 HEADS AND TEN HORNS," - SAME BEAST - "AND SEVEN CROWNS UPON 04:45 HIS HEADS." AND IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THIS BEAST IS TRYING TO 04:49 ATTACK THIS WOMAN. SO HERE IN REVELATION 17 YOU'VE 04:52 GOT THIS RED SEVEN-HEADED TEN-HORNED BEAST THE 04:55 WOMAN IS RIDING THE BEAST. THEY'RE IN COOPERATION. 04:59 AND THEN YOU GO TO REVELATION 12, THAT SAME BEAST IS TRYING TO 05:02 DESTROY THIS WOMAN. SHE'S CLOTHED WITH LIGHT - 05:05 THE SYMBOL OF GOD'S CHURCH. I HAVE ANOTHER STUDY 05:07 TALKING ABOUT THAT. NOW GO TO REVELATION 13 - YOU 05:11 KNOW REVELATION 13 - YOU'VE HEARD OF 6-6-6? 05:14 >>YEAH. >>MARK OF THE BEAST? 05:16 THAT'S REVELATION 13. AND YOU CAN READ THERE, IT SAYS, 05:20 "AND I SAW A BEAST RISING UP OUT OF THE SEA," - NOTICE THE SEA 05:24 - "HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS" - SOUND FAMILIAR? 05:30 - "AND ON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS, AND ON HIS HEADS A BLASPHEMOUS 05:34 NAME." BLASPHEMY IS WHEN SOMEONE 05:36 IS DEGRADING GOD BY PUTTING THEMSELVES IN THE PLACE OF GOD 05:40 OR CLAIMING THE PREROGATIVES OF GOD. AND SO, YOU NOTICE THAT THE 05:44 WOMAN, NAMES OF BLASPHEMY - DANIEL 7 TALKS ABOUT THIS BEAST 05:48 POWER AS BLASPHEMY AND HERE YOU SEE THAT CREATURE AGAIN. 05:53 NOW, I JUST NEED TO TELL EVERYBODY, STRAIGHT UP, AS 05:56 NICELY AS I CAN, THAT - YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, RIGHT? 06:01 >>YEAH. >>PAUL ASKS A QUESTION. 06:03 HE SAID, 'AM I YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH?' 06:07 I HOPE YOU DIDN'T COME BECAUSE YOU JUST WANT ME TO PREACH 06:09 SMOOTH THINGS. YOU WANT TO KNOW, 'WHAT 06:11 DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SAY?' IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD'S WORD 06:14 IS VERY FAITHFUL TO NOT ONLY TALK ABOUT THE WAY HE 06:17 WOULD BLESS HIS PEOPLE. AND THERE WERE MANY TIMES GOD'S 06:20 PEOPLE WERE FAITHFUL AND THERE WERE MIRACLES WROUGHT. 06:22 HE SAID, 'ONE OF YOU WILL CHASE A THOUSAND.' AND THEN HE SAID, 06:26 'YOU'LL TURN FROM ME. YOU'LL WORSHIP OTHER GODS.' 06:29 AND HE PROPHESIED THEIR UNFAITHFULNESS. 06:31 AND THE WORD THAT GOD USED, HE SAID, 'YOU WILL GO WHORING AFTER 06:35 OTHER GODS.' HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIS PEOPLE. 06:39 NOW, HE ALSO DOES THAT IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES. 06:43 EVEN PAUL SAID, 'I KNOW, AFTER MY DEPARTURE, GRIEVOUS WOLVES 06:46 WILL COME IN NOT SPARING THE FLOCK. 06:48 FROM AMONG YOUR OWN SELVES PEOPLE WILL ARISE SPEAKING 06:51 PERVERSE THINGS TO DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES AFTER THEMSELVES.' SO, 06:55 EVEN PAUL PREDICTED SOMETHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH. 06:57 THE DEVIL IS GOING TO COME AFTER THE CHURCH AND THERE'S GOING TO 07:00 BE MAJOR UNFAITHFULNESS. WELL, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 07:05 RIGHT NOW, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - IT'S NOT JUST ONE BEAST - 07:08 REVELATION CHAPTER 13, THERE ARE TWO BEASTS. DID YOU KNOW THAT? 07:12 WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST - CHAPTER ACTUALLY HAS 07:14 TWO BEASTS. YOU SEE IN CHAPTER 13, FIRST FEW 07:17 VERSES TALKS ABOUT THE FIRST BEAST. LATER ON, YOU GET TO 07:21 VERSE 11, IT SAYS, 'AND THEN I SAW A SECOND BEAST.' 07:24 I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE, I'M 07:27 TALKING ABOUT SYSTEMS AND AREAS WHERE CHURCHES HAVE BEEN 07:33 DISOBEDIENT. AND THIS HAS BEEN FORETOLD IN PROPHECY. 07:37 SO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP GOING? >>YES. 07:39 >>I JUST - I WANT TO BE FAITHFUL. 07:40 I WANT TO BE KIND, BUT I DON'T WANT TO MINCE WORDS WITH YOU. 07:43 SO WITH THAT BACKGROUND, YOU'VE GOT THIS BEAST THAT KEEPS 07:46 APPEARING - SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS. 07:49 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT 'WHO IS THIS BEAST?' 07:51 IT'S ALSO KNOW AS 'THE ANTICHRIST'. 07:53 NOW, THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' MEANS 'AGAINST CHRIST'. 07:57 HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' APPEAR IN 07:58 REVELATION? NOT AT ALL. I TOLD YOU THAT EARLIER - IT'S 08:03 ONLY IN THE LETTERS OF JOHN. AND JOHN SAYS THERE ALREADY WERE 08:08 MANY ANTICHRISTS, EVEN IN HIS DAY. SO THE WORD 'ANTICHRIST' 08:11 CAN BE USED BROADLY, BUT THE MAIN BEAST IS ALSO CALLED 08:14 'THE ANTICHRIST'. IT'S LIKE THE INDUSTRIAL 08:17 STRENGTH ANTICHRIST ON STEROIDS THAT YOU FIND THERE 08:19 THROUGH THE BOOK. ALRIGHT, SO LET'S FIND 08:22 OUT FIRST ABOUT BEASTS. QUESTION #1: WHAT DOES A 08:25 BEAST REPRESENT IN PROPHECY? WE'RE GOING TO LET THE 08:28 BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF. IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 08:32 DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSE 17, IT SAYS, "THOSE GREAT BEASTS, WHICH 08:36 ARE FOUR, ARE FOUR KINGS WHICH ARISE OUT OF THE EARTH." 08:40 NOT JUST KINGS, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES KINGDOMS - THOSE GREAT 08:44 BEASTS WHICH ARE FOUR - OR, "THE FOURTH BEAST" - RATHER - "SHALL 08:47 BE THE FOURTH KINGDOM" - SO YOU'VE GOT - IT'S KINGS - IT'S 08:50 KINGDOMS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT POWERS. 08:52 LOOK IN DANIEL 8, VERSE 20 AND YOU'LL SEE THERE WHERE THERE'S 08:56 THIS VISION OF SHEEP AND GOATS AND IT SAYS, 'THE RAM WHICH YOU 09:00 SAW, HAVING THE TWO HORNS - THEY ARE THE KINGS OF MEDIA AND 09:04 PERSIA, AND THE MALE GOAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GREECE." 09:09 SO HERE IT'S GOT A GOAT THAT REPRESENTS - AND IT SAYS THE 09:12 HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES IS THE FIRST KING. 09:16 LATER WE LEARN THAT'S ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 09:18 IT MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR. SO, YOU KNOW, IF - TODAY, DO 09:23 WE SOMETIMES USE COUNTRIES TO ILLUSTRATE - OR ANIMALS 09:26 TO ILLUSTRATE COUNTRIES? IF I SAY 'BEAR' WHAT 09:29 COUNTRY DO YOU THINK OF? >>RUSSIA. 09:30 >>RUSSIA. AND, IF I SAY EAGLE - >>UNITED STATES. 09:33 >>THE UNITED STATES. AND THE LION IS - 09:36 GREAT BRITAIN, EXACTLY. SO, IT'S NOT NEW OR UNUSUAL. 09:41 COUNTRIES HAVE DONE THAT AND SO GOD DOES THIS ALSO IN PROPHECY. 09:45 ALRIGHT, QUESTION 2: IS THERE A BEAST WITH TEN HORNS IN DANIEL 09:49 CHAPTER 7. NOW WE'RE JUMPING TO THE OLD 09:52 TESTAMENT AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE SET THE 09:54 FOUNDATION FOR REVELATION. YOU REMEMBER WHAT I SAID, OUT 09:57 OF 404 VERSES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 278 OF THEM ARE 10:02 FOUND ALMOST VERBATIM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 10:05 SO, TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION, IT'S ALL ROOTED IN THE OLD 10:09 TESTAMENT. YOU'VE GOT TO GO BACK. 10:12 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 10:15 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 10:17 BECAUSE OF ITS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLISM, MILLIONS FEEL THAT 10:21 THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND ITS PROPHECIES ARE CONFUSING. 10:24 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED, 'CAN ANYONE REALLY KNOW FOR CERTAIN 10:28 WHAT ALL THIS SYMBOLISM MEANS?' WELL, WE CAN KNOW. 10:32 WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING REVELATION AND 10:35 DECODING YOUR FUTURE IS IN UNDERSTANDING THE PAST, 10:39 BEGINNING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF DANIEL. 10:42 AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SEND YOU AN INCREDIBLE EYE-OPENING 10:45 MAGAZINE CALLED DANIEL & REVELATION: SECRETS OF PROPHECY 10:50 IT'S A FREE RESOURCE THAT WILL GUIDE YOU STEP BY STEP THROUGH 10:53 THE BOOKS OF DANIEL AND REVELATION. 10:55 FEATURING STUNNING ARTWORK AND HISTORICAL IMAGES AND FACTS, THE 10:59 TRUE MYSTERIES OF PROPHECY WILL BECOME CLEAR FOR YOU LIKE NEVER 11:03 BEFORE AND YOU'LL EXPERIENCE A PEACE AND ASSURANCE THAT YOU'VE 11:06 NEVER HAD BEFORE. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 11:09 PHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #604 OR VISIT 11:13 THE WEB ADDRESS. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 11:16 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, BE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 11:19 LET'S RETURN, NOW, TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 11:22 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 11:27 >>LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7, VERSES 2 AND 3 AND DANIEL SAYS, 11:31 "...IN MY VISION BY NIGHT, AND BEHOLD, THE FOUR WINDS OF 11:35 HEAVEN WERE STIRRING UP THE GREAT SEA." 11:38 - SO IT TALKS ABOUT THESE WINDS STRIVING - "AND FOUR GREAT 11:41 BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER." 11:45 MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO READ SEVERAL VERSES HERE IN 11:47 DANIEL CHAPTER 7 - IF YOU BROUGHT YOUR BIBLE WITH YOU, YOU 11:51 MAY WANT TO JOIN ME AND TURN THERE REAL QUICK. 11:53 LET'S JUST TAKE A LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, VERSE 3 - DANIEL 7:3 - 11:56 "AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA, EACH DIFFERENT 11:59 FROM THE OTHER. THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION." 12:02 - LIKE A WHAT? >>LION. 12:03 >>"FIRST WAS LIKE A LION AND IT HAD EAGLE'S WINGS AND I WATCHED 12:07 UNTIL THE WINGS WERE PLUCKED OFF: AND IT WAS LIFTED UP FROM 12:10 THE EARTH AND MADE TO STAND ON TWO FEET LIKE A MAN, AND A MAN'S 12:13 HEART WAS GIVEN TO IT. AND SUDDENLY ANOTHER BEAST, A 12:17 SECOND LIKE A BEAR IT WAS RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE, AND HAD THREE 12:21 RIBS IN ITS MOUTH BETWEEN ITS TEETH. 12:23 AND THEY SAID THUS TO IT: 'ARISE, DEVOUR MUCH FLESH.' AND 12:27 AFTER THIS I LOOKED AND THERE WAS ANOTHER LIKE A LEOPARD WHICH 12:30 HAD ON ITS BACK FOUR WINGS OF A BIRD AND THE BEAST ALSO HAD FOUR 12:34 HEADS" - I TOLD YOU, YOU CAN FIND A BEAST WITH FOUR HEADS IN 12:36 THE BIBLE - "AND DOMINION WAS GIVEN TO IT." 12:39 AND THEN, NOW THIS IS THE BEAST THAT IS THE ANTICHRIST - "AND 12:44 THEN, AFTER THIS, I SAW IN THE NIGHT VISIONS AND BEHOLD, A 12:47 FOURTH BEAST, DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE, EXCEEDINGLY STRONG. 12:53 IT HAD HUGE IRON TEETH: IT WAS DEVOURING, BREAKING IN PIECES, 12:57 AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH ITS FEET, IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM 13:00 ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT, AND IT HAD TEN HORNS." 13:05 THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? >>YEP. 13:07 >>I JUST WANT TO READ A LITTLE FURTHER. 13:08 LET'S GO TO VERSE 8, "I WAS CONSIDERING THE HORNS, AND THERE 13:12 WAS ANOTHER HORN, A LITTLE ONE, COMING UP AMONG THEM, BEFORE 13:16 WHOM THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS WERE PLUCKED OUT BY THE ROOTS." 13:20 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG AND A KID STARTS GETTING THEIR 13:21 GROWN-UP TEETH AND STARTS PUSHING OUT THE BABY TEETH, IT'S 13:24 ALMOST THAT KIND OF A PICTURE THAT THIS LITTLE HORN COMES UP, 13:27 BUT IT'S PUSHING OUT THREE HORNS AS IT MAKES ITS WAY. 13:30 AND SO - AND IT SAYS, 'IN THIS HORN' - DON'T MISS THIS - "WERE 13:35 EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN, AND A MOUTH SPEAKING POMPOUS WORDS." 13:39 OR THAT CAN BE INTERPRETED 'BLASPHEMOUS' WORDS. 13:43 ALRIGHT, AND THIS FINAL BEAST DANIEL IS REALLY WORRIED ABOUT 13:47 BECAUSE IT PERSECUTES GOD'S PEOPLE, YOU READ ON IN THE REST 13:50 OF THE CHAPTER THERE. BUT I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU 13:51 THE FOUNDATION ABOUT THE BEAST BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TRY 13:53 TO IDENTIFY THIS BEAST IN REVELATION - I SHOULD SAY THE 13:57 BEASTS IN REVELATION - THAT WILL HAVE A PROMINENT ROLE 14:02 IN THE LAST DAYS. AND SO, WE LEARNED THAT ONE OF 14:05 THOSE BEASTS IN DANIEL, THE FOURTH BEAST, ALSO 14:07 HAD TEN HORNS. "...DEVOURING, BREAKING IN 14:10 PIECES, AND TRAMPLING THE RESIDUE WITH ITS FEET. 14:13 IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT." 14:16 AND SO I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOME OF THESE POINTS. 14:19 ALRIGHT, FIRST OF ALL, THESE CREATURES IN DANIEL, THEY COME 14:21 UP OUT OF THE SEA. SO WHAT DOES THE WIND 14:25 AND THE SEA REPRESENT? WELL, WIND, WE TALKED ABOUT THE 14:29 WINDS OF STRIFE THERE, REMEMBER, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 7. 14:32 IT'S TALKING ABOUT TURMOIL AND STRIFE, DESTRUCTION, COMMOTION. 14:36 AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE WATERS, THE DEFINITION FOR THESE 14:39 SYMBOLS IS IN THE BIBLE. THE ANGEL TOLD JOHN, IN 14:42 REVELATION 17, VERSE 15, "THE WATERS...ARE PEOPLES, AND 14:47 MULTITUDES, AND NATIONS, AND TONGUES." 14:49 HE'S TALKING ABOUT VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE. 14:52 BY THE WAY, IF YOU READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 IT SAYS THAT 14:54 THE WICKED POWER WOULD COME LIKE A FLOOD - TALKING ABOUT A FLOOD 14:57 OF ARMY - A FLOOD OF PEOPLE. AND SO, THIS BEAST POWER RISES 15:01 UP OUT OF A DENSELY POPULATED PART OF CIVILIZATION 15:04 AND THE WORLD. ALRIGHT, NEXT, QUESTION 4: WHAT 15:08 KINGDOM DOES THE LION REPRESENT? I WANT TO MARCH THROUGH BECAUSE, 15:11 IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE FOURTH BEAST, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK 15:14 AT THE SEQUENCE OF HISTORY AND IT JUST BECOMES REALLY CLEAR. 15:17 WHAT KINGDOM DOES THE LION REPRESENT? 15:20 THE LION IS BABYLON. IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 2 OF 15:25 DANIEL, DANIEL MAKES IT PRETTY CLEAR TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 15:28 HE SAID, 'YOU ARE THAT FIRST PRIMARY KINGDOM. 15:30 YOU ARE THE HEAD OF GOLD.' IT JUST SAYS BABYLON IS THE LION. 15:34 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO TO SOME OF THE MUSEUMS, THEY HAVE 15:37 RECOVERED SOME OF THE ANCIENT GATES FROM BABYLON - I THINK 15:41 THEY CALL IT THE ISHTAR GATE - AND YOU CAN EVEN SEE THEY HAD 15:44 LIONS WITH WINGS THAT WERE ON - JUST LIKE IN DANIEL'S VISION, A 15:48 LION WITH TWO WINGS. WHY DID DANIEL SAY THE LION 15:51 WOULD STAND ON ITS FEET LIKE A MAN? 15:53 BECAUSE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR ENDED UP BEING CONVERTED. 15:56 INSTEAD OF BEING A BEAST, HE BECAME A SON OF GOD. 16:00 HE BECAME CONVERTED BEFORE THE END OF HIS LIFE AND HE GLORIFIED 16:02 GOD. IF YOU'VE READ DANIEL CHAPTER 16:04 4, THAT WOULD BE IN. WHAT KINGDOM DOES 16:09 THE BEAR REPRESENT? SO YOU'VE GOT BABYLON, THEN 16:12 YOU'VE GOT THE NEXT KINGDOM. HE REPRESENTS, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 16:15 7:5, AND WHAT DO THE THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH SYMBOLIZE? 16:19 THIS IS THE MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOM, LATER THE PERSIANS, 16:21 THEY WERE MORE POWERFUL AND THAT'S WHY IT SAYS THE BEAR WAS 16:24 RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE - HE'S STRONGER ON ONE SIDE - HE'S GOT 16:27 THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH. THIS REPRESENTS THE THREE 16:30 KINGDOMS THAT THE MEDO-PERSIANS CONQUERED WHEN THEY TOOK THE 16:34 EMPIRE AWAY - THIS WORLD POWER - FROM BABYLON. 16:37 AND THAT WAS, OF COURSE, BABYLON, LYDIA, AND EGYPT - 16:40 THAT'S THE THREE RIBS IN HIS MOUTH. 16:42 AND SO, ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED HISTORICALLY. 16:45 NOW, BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER, I JUST NEED TO INJECT A THOUGHT. 16:48 THESE BEASTS THAT ARE MENTIONED HERE IN DANIEL, THEY'RE NOT 16:52 SAYING THEY'RE THE ONLY KINGDOMS IN THE WORLD, I MEAN, AT THE 16:55 TIME THAT BABYLON RULED, IT WAS A VAST WORLD EMPIRE, AND SO WERE 16:59 THE GREEKS AND SO WERE THE PERSIANS. 17:02 IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THERE WERE GREAT EMPIRES - THE INCAS 17:06 IN SOUTH AMERICA, THE TOLTECS AND YOU HAD THE ROU - KHMER 17:12 EMPIRE AND YOU HAD THE CHINESE, THE MONGOLS, AND THERE WAS OTHER 17:15 GREAT EMPIRES. THESE EMPIRES ARE MENTIONED 17:18 BECAUSE THEY ALL OCCUPIED GOD'S PEOPLE. 17:21 THEY CONTROLLED THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 17:24 SO THE ONLY EMPIRES THAT ARE BEING MENTIONED IN THESE VISIONS 17:27 ARE THE ONES THAT HAD A REAL IMPACT ON THE POLICIES AND THE 17:31 LAND OF ISRAEL, LATER, GOD'S PEOPLE, OKAY? 17:34 SO THESE ARE THE NATIONS THAT IT'S DEALING WITH, AND THAT'S 17:37 THE REASON. SO WHAT KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED 17:39 BY THE LEOPARD WITH FOUR HEADS? WHAT FOLLOWED THE 17:44 PERSIAN KINGDOM? >>GREECE. 17:46 >>I THINK WE ALL KNOW, ALEXANDER THE GREAT DEFEATED DARIUS. 17:49 HE WAS THAT NOTABLE HORN THAT WAS IN THE RAM'S HEAD - OR IN 17:55 THE GOAT'S HEAD - AND THEN HE ALSO REPRESENTS THE FIRST KING 17:59 OF THE LEOPARD, BUT HE DIED AND THEN HIS KINGDOM WAS THEN SPREAD 18:03 AMONG HIS FOUR GENERALS. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT 18:08 THEY HAD A VAST EMPIRE. THE FOUR GENERALS WHO HEADED THE 18:12 DIVISIONS OF ALEXANDER'S KINGDOM WERE CASSANDER, LYSIMACHUS, 18:17 PTOLEMY, AND SELEUCUS. AND SO THESE ARE 18:20 THE FOUR EMPIRES. YOU CAN SEE THE SCOPE OF 18:23 ALEXANDER'S KINGDOM THERE. SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT IN JUST TEN 18:27 YEARS HE MARCHED HIS SOLDIERS 22,000 MILES. 18:32 NOBODY HAS EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN HISTORY, JUST 18:35 CONQUERING EVERYTHING EVERY WHERE HE WENT. 18:37 AND HIS APPROACH WAS VERY DIFFERENT. 18:38 HE DIDN'T JUST WANT TO CONQUER, HE WANTED TO SPREAD THEIR 18:41 PHILOSOPHY AND WAY OF LIFE. THEY CALL IT HELLENIZATION. 18:44 THAT'S WHY THE NEW TESTAMENT'S WRITTEN IN GREEK, BECAUSE THAT 18:46 INFLUENCE EVEN STAYED WITH THE NEXT EMPIRE THAT WE'RE GOING TO 18:50 GET TO, WHICH IS OUR NEXT QUESTION. 18:54 WHICH WORLD KINGDOM IS REPRESENTED BY THE FOURTH BEAST? 18:58 NOW, IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY, THE WORLD EMPIRE SURROUNDING THE 19:02 MEDITERRANEAN THAT OCCUPIED ISRAEL - YOU'VE GOT BABYLON, 19:07 YOU'VE GOT MEDO-PERSIA, YOU'VE GOT GREECE, THEN WHO CONQUERED 19:12 THE GREEKS? >>ROME. 19:14 >>ROME. AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S ALSO INTERESTING IS EACH KINGDOM 19:18 LASTED A LITTLE LONGER THAN THE ONE BEFORE IT. 19:22 SO THE DEVIL'S LEARNING SOMETHING ALONG THE WAY AND 19:24 THEY'RE GETTING STRONGER AND THEY'RE LASTING LONGER. 19:26 YOU CAN READ WHICH KINGDOM IT WAS, IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE NEW 19:29 TESTAMENT. LUKE 2, VERSE 1, "AND IT CAME TO 19:32 PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT A DECREE WENT OUT FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS." 19:36 - OCTAVIAN - AUGUSTUS CAESAR ISSUED THAT DECREE THAT ALL THE 19:39 WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED. HE WAS THE EMPEROR OF ROME. 19:43 AND SO, THAT'S - BY THE WAY, WHERE YOU GET THE MONTH AUGUST. 19:47 AND THE REASON FEBRUARY IS SHORT IS BECAUSE JULIUS CAESAR NAMED A 19:53 MONTH AFTER HIMSELF, THAT'S CALLED JULY, AND AUGUSTUS CAESAR 19:57 DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS FAIR THAT JULY WOULD HAVE MORE DAYS AND SO 20:00 HE TOOK SOME DAYS OFF FEBRUARY TO MAKE SURE AUGUST WAS THE SAME 20:04 LENGTH OF TIME. THAT'S CALLED TOO MUCH INFORMATION, ISN'T IT? 20:07 (LAUGHTER) OKAY, 'THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE REGISTERED'. 20:12 SO, WHY WOULD ROME BE COMPARED WITH THE TEN HORNS? 20:18 WHY IS IT THE FOURTH BEAST? WHO WAS RULING THE WORLD 20:21 WHEN JESUS IS BORN? >>ROME. 20:23 >>ROME. IT WAS ROMAN SOLDIERS THAT 20:26 CRUCIFIED HIM, A ROMAN SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE, THE ROMAN 20:30 NAILS PIERCED HIS HANDS, ROMAN GUARDS WERE AT THE TOMB. 20:33 ROME WAS THE PRINCIPLE POWER THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE AT THAT 20:36 TIME, AND ROME WAS VERY INVOLVED IN ESPECIALLY PERSECUTING THE 20:40 EARLY CHURCH, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW FROM JUST YOUR ELEMENTARY 20:44 SCHOOL. YOU ALL HEARD ABOUT HOW THEY 20:46 USED TO BURN THE CHRISTIANS IN THE COLOSSEUM. 20:49 SO "THE TEN HORNS WHICH YOU SAW" - YOU READ IN REVELATION 17:12 - 20:54 "ARE TEN KINGS." WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ROME, RULED 20:58 BY THE CAESARS, THAT'S BETTER KNOWN AS PAGAN ROME, WHEN IT 21:02 BEGAN TO FALL BECAUSE THE BARBARIAN HORDES WERE ATTACKING 21:05 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THEIR REALM, THEY STARTED LOSING CONTROL. 21:08 THEY HAD PLUNGED INTO SO MUCH DECADENCE THEY BECAME 21:11 PREOCCUPIED WITH ENTERTAINMENT - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT. 21:15 IT'S KIND OF HAPPENING TO US - BECAME SO PREOCCUPIED WITH 21:18 ENTERTAINMENT THAT THE BARBARIANS STARTED CONQUERING 21:22 THE EDGES OF THE KINGDOM AND PRETTY SOON ROME FELL. 21:26 IT WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY, BUT IT FELL PRETTY QUICK - 21:28 ABOUT 476 AD. WHAT WAS IN ITS PLACE WHEN IT FELL? 21:33 THE ROMAN EMPIRE - AND HERE'S A MAP THAT REPRESENTS THE VASTNESS 21:37 OF THAT EMPIRE AT ITS ZENITH - IT THEN DISINTEGRATED AND IT 21:42 LARGELY WAS IN THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORY. 21:46 IT FELL INTO TEN DIVISIONS, THE TEN BRANCHES OF THE ROMAN 21:51 EMPIRE. AND THIS IS A MAP WITH SOME 21:53 OF THE ANCIENT NAMES OF THOSE DIVISIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 21:57 YOU MIGHT KNOW THEM BY SOME OF THE MODERN NAMES. 22:00 YOU HAVE THE ALEMANNI, ANY OF YOU SPEAK SPANISH? 22:04 HOW DO YOU SAY 'GERMAN'? >>ALEMAN. 22:06 >>ALEMAN, YEAH. SO YOU'VE GOT THE ALEMANNI WERE THE GERMAN, 22:09 THE FRANKS WERE THE FRENCH, THE ANGLO-SAXONS WERE THE ENGLISH, 22:14 THE SUEVI WAS PORTUGAL, THE LOMBARDS - ITALY, THE VISIGOTHS 22:18 - SPAIN - AND THEN YOU'LL NOTICE THREE THAT YOU DON'T HEAR FROM 22:21 MUCH ANYMORE. WE'VE GOT ALL THE OTHERS ARE STILL THERE. 22:24 YOU'VE GOT THE VANDALS, THE HERULI, AND THE OSTRAGOTHS. 22:28 NOW THE VANDALS WERE IN NORTH AFRICA. 22:31 YOU EVER HEARD OF VANDALISM? THERE WERE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS 22:34 THAT SPREAD THROUGH THE ROMAN EMPIRE, BECAUSE EVEN BEFORE PAUL 22:37 WAS DEAD, HE SAID THE GOSPEL'S GONE TO EVERY CREATURE. 22:39 HE MEANT THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 22:41 THERE WERE CHRISTIANS ALL THROUGH NORTH AFRICA. 22:43 AND WHEN THE CHRISTIANS IN ROME BEGAN TO GET INVOLVED IN 22:47 IDOLATRY, THE CHRISTIANS IN NORTH AFRICA SAID, 'THAT'S 22:51 AGAINST THE LAW.' AND THEY WOULD DEFACE THE ROMAN GODS. 22:55 THEY CALLED IT 'VANDALISM'. SO WHENEVER ANYBODY IN ROME 22:59 BROKE THE ARMS OFF - YOU EVER SEE ROMAN STATUES AND THEY'RE 23:01 MISSING AN ARM AND THE NOSE IS GONE - A LOT OF THAT WAS DONE 23:04 BY VANDALS THAT SAID, 'THIS IS IDOLATRY. 23:06 YOU'RE WORSHIPING THESE ROMAN GODS.' BUT THOSE KINGDOMS WERE 23:10 LATER ATTACKED. ALRIGHT, SO BEFORE I LEAVE 23:13 DANIEL I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING. 23:15 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE BIBLE SCHOLARS, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 23:18 THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN DANIEL 2, WHERE THERE'S 23:23 THIS IMAGE OUTLINING THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD. 23:25 THAT PROPHECY IS GIVEN IN A GREAT IDOL THAT IS THE DES - 23:29 IT'S THEN DESTROYED. IT'S A GREAT IDOL WITH A HEAD OF 23:32 GOLD AND ARMS OF SILVER AND A BELLY OF BRONZE AND LEGS OF 23:35 IRON AND FEET OF IRON AND CLAY. IN THE FOURTH BEAST, WHAT 23:39 KIND OF TEETH DID IT HAVE? >>IRON. 23:41 >>IRON TEETH. AND IN THE TOES YOU'VE GOT IRON 23:47 AND CLAY AND THERE'S TEN TOES. AND SO, YOU'LL SEE THAT 23:49 THERE'S SIMILARITIES. RIGHT AWAY YOU'LL NOTICE, 23:52 BETWEEN DANIEL 2, DANIEL 7, REVELATION 13, REVELATION 12 - 23:58 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE TALKING ABOUT 24:01 THE SAME WORLD POWERS THAT WOULD IMPACT GOD'S KINGDOM 24:05 IN THE LAST DAYS. AND SO, IF YOU LOOK NOW IN - 24:11 QUESTION #9: IN THE DANIEL 7 PROPHECY, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 24:19 IT SAYS, "I CONSIDERED" - AND I STARTED READING THIS TO YOU - "I 24:22 CONSIDERED THE HORNS, AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP AMONG THEM 24:25 ANOTHER LITTLE HORN. BEFORE WHOM THERE WERE THREE OF 24:30 THE FIRST HORNS PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS:" - SO YOU'VE GOT 24:33 THESE TEN DIVISIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND IT INCLUDED THE 24:36 VANDALS, THE HERULI, AND THE OSTRAGOTHS. 24:39 BUT WHEN THIS LITTLE HORN POWER COMES UP THAT SPEAKS GREAT WORDS 24:42 AGAINST THE MOST HIGH AND WEARS OUT THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH 24:45 AND THINKS TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS, THAT POWER, WHEN IT COMES 24:50 UP, IT UPROOTS THREE. MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. I'M GOING TO SHOW 24:54 YOU, HISTORICALLY, HOW THAT WAS FULFILLED. 24:56 "AND, BEHOLD, IN THIS HORN WERE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF A MAN," - 24:59 SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS POWER - "AND A MOUTH SPEAKING" - 25:02 POMPOUS WORDS OR - "GREAT THINGS." 25:06 SO HOW IS THE BEAST IN REVELATION 13, NOW, SIMILAR TO 25:09 THE VISION IN DANIEL CHAPTER 7? IT SAYS, "NOW THE BEAST WHICH I 25:13 SAW WAS LIKE A LEOPARD, HIS FEET WERE LIKE THE FEET OF A BEAR. 25:17 AND HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF A LION." 25:20 NOW, DID YOU SEE, IN DANIEL 7, A LION, A BEAR, AND A LEOPARD? 25:26 THAT MEANS THIS BEAST IS ALL BUILT ON THE HISTORY OF THOSE 25:30 FOUR MAIN KINGDOMS. THERE'S A CONNECTION HERE. 25:32 YOU MIGHT NOTICE THAT, IN DANIEL, IT SAYS, 'LION, BEAR, 25:39 LEOPARD.' IN REVELATION IS SAYS, LEOPARD, BEAR, LION. 25:45 IT'S OPPOSITE. WHY? VERY SIMPLE, BECAUSE DANIEL IS 25:48 LOOKING FORWARD IN HIS PROPHECY. JOHN IS NOW LOOKING BACK. 25:52 SO YOU'VE GOT THE EXACT SAME SEQUENCE, TOO, FROM THEIR 25:54 PERSPECTIVE. AND SO, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THESE 25:58 POWERS THAT HAD OCCUPIED GOD'S PEOPLE AND PERSECUTED GOD'S 26:02 PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH HISTORY. AND THEN THERE'S A NEW POWER 26:05 THAT WAS HAPPENING IN REVELATION RIGHT DURING THE TIME 26:08 WHEN JOHN WROTE IT. ROME WAS IN POWER. 26:11 JOHN WAS A PRISONER ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS, BY THE KINGDOM OF 26:15 ROME, FOR HIS FAITH. AND IT SAYS - IN THIS BEAST, IT 26:20 SAYS, "HIS MOUTH LIKE THE MOUTH OF A LION. THE DRAGON GAVE HIM 26:24 HIS POWER, HIS THRONE, AND GREAT AUTHORITY." 26:28 NOW, WE ALL KNOW THAT THE DRAGON, OF COURSE, BEHIND THE 26:31 DRAGON YOU'VE GOT THE DEVIL - CALLS HIM THE OLD SERPENT, THE 26:34 DRAGON - BUT THE DRAGON WAS OPERATING THROUGH THE POWER OF 26:37 ROME. WHEN IT SAYS THE DRAGON TRIED TO 26:40 DEVOUR THE MAN CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN. 26:43 WELL, THE ROMAN POWER - THE DEVIL USED THE ROMAN POWER TO 26:46 DESTROY JESUS - OR TRY TO DESTROY HIM - WHEN HE WAS A 26:48 BABY. 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