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00:21 Hello, friends,
00:22 welcome to Wednesday night here at the 3ABN Worship Center. 00:26 It's time for A Sharper Focus 00:28 and we are starting a new topic tonight. 00:31 I'll tell you what that is in just a moment, 00:33 but thank you for taking the time to tune in. 00:36 All you need is a Bible, 00:37 and just about 57 minutes to walk with us 00:41 through a very important topic 00:43 that we gonna be sharing with you tonight. 00:45 In just a moment, 00:47 I'll tell you how to get a copy of that. 00:48 But before we do anything, 00:50 I'd like you to bow your heads with us 00:53 as we go to the Lord in prayer. 00:55 Loving Father in heaven, 00:57 thank You for the precious opportunity 00:59 that You present to us. 01:01 When we invite You to come in Lord, 01:03 we know that You'll speak to our hearts. 01:05 We invite Your Holy Spirit to be our teacher tonight, 01:07 teach us. 01:09 And we pray also for those 01:10 who are watching that are inquiring, 01:12 looking for the truth of God's Word, 01:14 may they find it as Your Spirit reaches out to them 01:17 and teaches them. 01:18 In Jesus' name I pray, amen. 01:22 Now to get a copy of the lesson, 01:24 go to the following website asf.3abn.org. 01:28 That's asf.3abn.org, and download lesson number 42. 01:34 What number did I say? 01:36 Number? 01:38 Forty two. Forty two. 01:39 Download lesson number 42, 01:41 and you'll be able to follow along with us. 01:43 And there are many other resources at that website 01:45 that you can take advantage of. 01:47 And we know, it'll be a blessing to you. 01:50 Now we always sing our theme song 01:52 and tonight, 01:54 our theme song is "Victory in Jesus." 01:57 Let's sing our theme song together. 02:07 I heard an old, old story 02:11 How the Savior came from glory 02:14 How He gave His life on Calvary 02:18 To save a wretch like me 02:22 I heard about His groaning 02:26 Of His precious blood's atoning 02:29 Then I repented of my sin 02:33 And won the victory 02:37 O victory in Jesus 02:41 My Savior, forever 02:45 He sought me and bought me 02:49 With His redeeming blood 02:52 He loved me ere I knew Him 02:56 And all my love is due Him 03:00 He plunged me to victory 03:04 Beneath the cleansing flood 03:07 I heard about a mansion 03:11 He has built for me in glory 03:15 And I heard about the streets of gold 03:19 Beyond the crystal sea 03:22 About the angels singing 03:26 And the old redemption story 03:30 And some sweet day I'll sing up there 03:34 The song of victory 03:36 Key change. 03:38 O victory in Jesus 03:41 My Savior, forever 03:45 He sought me and bought me 03:49 With His redeeming blood 03:53 He loved me ere I knew Him 03:57 And all my love is due Him 04:00 He plunged me to victory 04:04 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:08 He plunged me to victory 04:12 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:18 Amen? Amen. 04:20 Tonight our topic is, I'd like you to say it with me, 04:22 "The Truth about the Secret Rapture." 04:26 Tonight's topic is 04:27 "The Truth about the Secret Rapture." 04:31 Now, 04:32 you may or may not have heard 04:34 of the term secret rapture before. 04:37 Tonight we're gonna understand what the Bible says about it, 04:40 what the Bible doesn't say about it. 04:42 We're gonna find out how it got started 04:45 from its very beginning, 04:47 all the way through history up until the present, 04:49 and then we're gonna look at the scriptures 04:51 and see what the Bible says 04:52 about the second coming of Jesus. 04:54 But first, 04:55 open your Bibles to the Book of Acts 04:56 Chapter 1. 04:58 Want to lay some foundation about 05:00 the second coming of Jesus. 05:02 You know, when the Lord was resurrected, 05:06 and the Bible give record 05:07 that He appeared to more than 500, 05:10 He appeared to Cleopas and another disciple. 05:13 And it was very clear, 05:15 then He commissioned His disciples 05:16 as He met with them. 05:17 They were hiding for fear of the Jews. 05:19 And then He said to them, 05:21 He gave them some final words before He ascended to heaven. 05:25 And these words are found in the Book of Acts, 05:30 and it's in Chapter 1. 05:32 All right. 05:35 And I'm gonna actually start Acts 1:1, 05:41 I'll just read, right? 05:42 And I'm gonna go right, very quickly. 05:44 "The former account I made," this is Dr. Luke writing, 05:47 "O Theophilus, of all that Jesus 05:53 began both to do and to teach, 05:55 until the day in which He was," what? 05:57 Take up. 05:59 "Taken up, 06:00 after He through the Holy Spirit 06:03 had given commandments to the apostles 06:05 whom He had chosen." 06:07 So He was taken up 06:08 after He had given commandment to the apostles 06:11 whom He had chosen. 06:12 And verse 3 says, 06:13 "To whom He also presented Himself alive 06:16 after His suffering by many infallible proofs." 06:19 That mean, there's enough evidence 06:22 existing today 06:23 to prove that Jesus was seen by many 06:26 after His resurrection. 06:28 And it goes on, 06:31 "Being seen by them during 40 days 06:34 and speaking of the things 06:35 pertaining to the kingdom of God." 06:37 And now verse 4, 06:39 "And being assembled together with them, 06:40 he commanded them not to depart from," where? 06:43 "From Jerusalem, 06:45 but to wait for the promise of the Father, 06:48 'which,' He said, 'You have heard of Me, 06:51 for John truly baptized with water, 06:53 but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, 06:55 not many days from now.'" 06:58 But then he goes on 06:59 because they were asking the question, 07:01 verse 6, 07:02 "Therefore when they had come together, 07:04 they asked Him saying, 07:05 'Lord, will you at this time 07:07 restore the kingdom of Israel?'" 07:08 Very important question, 07:10 because what we're gonna talk about tonight 07:11 has to do with the restoration of the kingdom of Israel. 07:16 A philosophy, a doctrine, 07:18 a theory that has existed for many years, 07:23 for hundreds of years, that twists two things, 07:27 the restoration of Israel, 07:29 and the truth about the coming of Jesus. 07:31 Let's go on and see what the Lord says 07:33 in verse 7 and then verse 8. 07:35 "And He said to them, 07:38 'It is not for you to know times or seasons 07:41 which the Father has put in His own authority.' 07:43 " Let's read verse 8 together. 07:45 "But you shall receive power 07:47 when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, 07:49 and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, 07:52 and in all Judea and Samaria, 07:55 and to the end of the earth.'" 07:57 And now notice would happen, verse 9, 07:59 "Now, while He had spoken these things, 08:02 while they watched." 08:04 While they did, what? 08:05 So do they see Him? 08:07 Okay. Do they see? 08:08 Yes! Okay. 08:10 "While they watched, He was taken up, 08:13 and the cloud received Him out of their sight." 08:15 So Jesus is ascending, 08:17 a cloud is receiving Him out of their sight. 08:19 And the cloud that's talked about there are angels. 08:22 You'll see that in Luke, in Matthew, 08:24 the same way He left 08:26 is the same way He's coming back. 08:27 And you'll notice, verse 10. 08:29 "And while they look steadfastly toward heaven, 08:33 as He went up, behold, 08:34 two men stood by them in white apparel, 08:37 " those are angels. 08:39 And notice what they said, 08:41 "Who said, 'Men of Galilee, 08:43 why do you stand gazing up into heaven?'" 08:45 And this is the key. 08:48 "This same Jesus who was taken up 08:51 from you into," where? 08:53 "Heaven, 08:54 will so come in like manner 08:57 as you saw Him go into heaven." 09:00 So if they saw Him go, will they see Him come back? 09:04 Yes. 09:05 So the Lord, the angels right there 09:07 established this truth. 09:08 They watch steadfastly towards heaven. 09:11 They asked Him, are you gonna restore Israel now? 09:13 He said, it's not up to you to know that. 09:16 He was taken up. 09:17 They saw him and the angel said, 09:18 "The same way you saw Him go, 09:20 you're going to see Him come back," right? 09:23 Is that clear? 09:25 Now let's go to Revelation Chapter 1. 09:27 Let's go to Revelation Chapter 1, 09:29 laying some quick foundation 09:30 because we're gonna walk through some serious 09:33 history tonight. 09:34 And I would recommend, if you can do that right now 09:36 press record 09:37 because if you have friends 09:39 that believe in the secret rapture, 09:40 this topic is gonna give them clarity 09:44 about where that theory came from. 09:46 And I'd say at the very beginning, 09:48 it's not in the Bible. 09:50 Look at Revelation 1:7. 09:53 Notice the Bible said, you saw Him left, 09:56 you're gonna see Him come back. 09:57 Revelation 1:7, 09:59 "Behold, He is coming with," what? 10:01 "Clouds." 10:02 Same way He left, same way He is coming back. 10:05 "And every eye will," what? 10:07 "See Him, 10:09 and they also who pierced Him. 10:12 And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. 10:16 Even so," what's the next two word? 10:18 Amen. 10:19 That means, why the tribes of the earth mourning? 10:21 Because they're seeing Him. 10:23 When they see Him, there's gonna be a reaction. 10:25 I'm establishing some very important truths. 10:27 When they see Him, 10:28 there's gonna be a reaction to what they see. 10:31 Let's look at the reaction. Go to Revelation Chapter 6. 10:34 Let's see the reaction. 10:35 I'm establishing some very important truths 10:38 that He did not restore Israel then, 10:41 they saw Him leave, the angel said, 10:43 the same way He left, He is coming back. 10:44 The Bible says, "Behold, when He comes, 10:46 every eye will see Him, 10:48 even those that pierced Him 10:49 and all the tribes of the earth will mourn." 10:51 Let's see what the mourning is all about. 10:53 Revelation Chapter 6. 10:55 All right. 10:57 And the Bible says in verse 14. 11:01 Revelation 6:14, 11:03 "Then the sky receded as a scroll 11:06 when it is rolled up, 11:09 and every mountain and island was," what? 11:12 "Moved out of its place." 11:13 What a massive earthquake. 11:15 "And the kings of the earth, 11:17 the great men, the rich men, the commanders, 11:20 the mighty men, 11:21 every slave and every free man," 11:24 what did they do? 11:25 "Hid themselves in the caves, 11:28 and in the rocks of the mountains." 11:30 These are those that are mourning 11:31 because look at the next verse. 11:33 "And said to the mountains and rocks, 11:35 'Fall on us, 11:37 hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne 11:41 and from the wrath of the lamb! 11:43 For the great day of His wrath has come," 11:45 and what's the question? 11:46 "Who is able to stand?" 11:48 So right away we see a number of things. 11:50 He left with clouds. 11:52 The Bible says, behold, He cometh with clouds. 11:54 The same way He left they saw Him go, 11:56 people gonna see Him come back. 11:58 The tribes of the earth are gonna mourn. 12:00 They gonna be mourning 12:01 by running to the rocks in the mountains 12:02 and are looking for a place to hide, 12:04 because they see Him coming. 12:06 Very clear. 12:07 So this idea, 12:08 this idea that the coming of Jesus 12:11 is going to be secret, 12:13 some arch-enemy found a way 12:18 to create a false theory, 12:22 just like Darwin, the father of evolution, 12:25 just like a number of other people 12:29 that are the fathers of theories 12:30 that are existing today. 12:32 You'll see clearly that 12:33 we'll find out where the father of this theory came from, 12:37 and how it found its way into Christianity. 12:40 So let's begin with question number one. 12:43 And by the way, you're gonna be writing down 12:45 a lot of answers. 12:46 And hopefully all of them 12:47 and I'm gonna give you a lot of names 12:49 that you're gonna be able to follow through. 12:50 Once again, if you're just joining us, 12:52 go to asf.3abn.org 12:55 and download lesson number 42. 12:57 Question number one, here it is on the screen. 13:01 "What does the Bible teach about Rome, 13:03 the fourth kingdom of Daniel Chapter 7? 13:07 What does the Bible teach about Rome, 13:08 the fourth kingdom of Daniel Chapter 7? 13:10 Let's go to Daniel 7:23, 13:13 and see what the Bible teaches about the fourth kingdom 13:16 in Daniel Chapter 7. 13:19 Here's what the Bible says, 13:22 "Thus he said, 13:24 'The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom," where? 13:28 "On earth, 13:29 which shall be different from all other kingdoms, 13:32 and shall devour," how much of the earth? 13:35 "The whole earth, 13:37 trample it and," do what else? 13:39 "Break it in pieces.'" 13:41 So the Bible is telling us right now 13:43 that whatever Rome does, 13:45 it's gonna devour the whole earth, 13:48 it's gonna trample down the earth, 13:50 it's gonna break it into pieces. 13:52 There's a lot of havoc 13:53 that Rome is going to create on earth, 13:55 the whole earth is gonna be devoured. 13:57 So let's go to question number two. 13:58 So what does the Bible say 14:00 about the fourth kingdom of Daniel 7? 14:02 It shall devour the earth and trample the earth. 14:05 That's the answer to question number one. 14:07 Let's go to question number two. 14:09 Here it is. 14:11 "What was one method used by Rome, 14:14 to devour the whole earth?" 14:16 What was one method used by Rome, 14:19 to devour the whole earth? 14:21 And let me just make it clear. 14:22 We're not talking about Rome as far as the city. 14:24 We're talking about the Roman hierarchy. 14:27 Those who were leading, 14:29 the popes, the prelates, the priests, 14:31 the religious authorities of Rome, 14:33 what did they do. 14:34 Not the people living in the towns, 14:36 not the city of Rome, 14:38 but particularly what the Roman hierarchy do. 14:41 Daniel 8:14 describes this power once again, 14:44 and tells exactly what it did. 14:47 Here is Daniel 8:12. 14:49 The Bible says, "Because of transgression, 14:53 an army was given to the horn," 14:56 that's the little horn, 14:58 "to oppose the daily sacrifices, 15:02 and he did," what? 15:03 Say together. 15:05 "Cast truth down to the ground." 15:08 Let's try that again. 15:10 Because you guys together, what did he do? 15:12 "Cast truth down to the ground." 15:15 That's what he did. 15:17 And what did the Bible says, "He did all this and," what? 15:20 "Prospered." 15:22 He did all of that and he prospered. 15:24 The prosperity of the Roman Church 15:26 during the Dark Ages was unrivaled. 15:29 No one was able to stand up against it. 15:32 And everything it did, it prospered. 15:34 It created false doctrines 15:37 like purgatory, limbo, eternally burning hell, 15:42 a new day of worship, the first day of the week, 15:44 just to name a few. 15:45 It created the teaching that the pope was an infallible man, 15:48 he was God on earth, to teach infant baptism. 15:52 But it came up with something 15:54 because the reformers during that time, 15:57 they knew that there was something about the Bible 16:01 that began to reveal the conditions of Rome. 16:03 And the Bible began to point people clearly 16:06 to this fourth beast of Daniel Chapter 7, 16:10 and give clear indication 16:11 as to what role that beast would play. 16:14 But Rome was clever, because the power behind it. 16:17 Revelation 13:4, says, 16:19 "The dragon gave him his power, 16:22 his seat and his great authority." 16:24 So Satan was behind this fourth beast 16:26 because it was great, and dreadful, and terrible, 16:28 had great iron teeth, nothing could stand in his way. 16:30 It was a devouring power. 16:32 But let's look at question number three, 16:34 because it's very clever how Rome did this. 16:36 Question three. 16:40 "Who did Rome commission to attack 16:42 the '70 weeks' of Daniel 9?" 16:45 Okay, now what I want you to do before I answer the question, 16:47 go with me to Daniel 9. 16:49 Let's go to Daniel 9, very quickly, 16:50 so you can understand what I mean. 16:52 Because Rome and the reformers of the Dark Ages, 16:57 like Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Hus, Jerome, 17:01 Wycliffe, Melanchthon, 17:02 these men began to study the Bible. 17:05 And they began to see, "Wait a minute, 17:07 Daniel 7 is describing the power of Rome. 17:12 They began to proclaim that and the people, 17:14 the common man began to lose its attraction to Rome. 17:18 And Rome is saying, 17:20 while we're losing the power over the people, 17:22 what can we do to "convince" them 17:26 that we are not that beast of Daniel Chapter 7, 17:30 that we are not that beast. 17:31 We are not the beast the Bible is describing. 17:35 They came up with a theory 17:37 that the antichrist is not existing now. 17:43 But it's gonna come way down 17:45 in the distant future. 17:48 And they did this by going to Daniel, 17:50 let's go ahead and show you Daniel Chapter 9, 17:53 and I'm gonna give you just a snippet of the 70 weeks 17:55 because it's a long prophecy 17:57 and that's entire study all by itself. 18:00 But what I'm gonna give you is look at Daniel Chapter 9 18:04 and let's look at verse 24. 18:06 I'm gonna jump through it 18:08 only for a purpose of establishing 18:10 a particular cadence. 18:12 Daniel 9:24. 18:14 The Bible says, 18:15 "Seventy weeks are determined," how many weeks? 18:18 Seventy. Seventy. 18:19 Okay, look, so 70 weeks... 18:21 How many days in a week? 18:22 Seven. Seven times seven... 18:24 70 times 7 is 490. 18:27 So there was a 490 year period 18:31 that the Lord was telling Daniel, 18:33 70 weeks are determined, 18:35 the word determined there in the Hebrew is cut off. 18:39 Seventy weeks are cut off from this larger 2300 days. 18:44 Seventy of those weeks belong to just your people. 18:47 But let's look at the breakdown. 18:49 Now, let's go to verse 25. 18:53 It says, 18:54 "Know, therefore and understand that 18:56 from the going forth of the command 18:58 to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah, the Prince," 19:01 until Messiah the who? 19:03 The Messiah is talked about here. 19:05 This is about the Messiah. 19:07 The end of verse 24 is about the Most Holy. 19:10 Verse 25, it's about the Messiah. 19:12 Who's it about, tell me? 19:14 It's about Jesus. 19:15 Now, this whole prophecy is about Jesus. 19:18 It's about the Christ. 19:20 But you'll see how clever the twist was, all right? 19:23 It says, "There shall be," until the Messiah, 19:26 "there shall be 7 weeks and 62," 19:28 7 and 62 gives you what? 19:31 Sixty nine. 19:32 Okay, so you have 69 weeks. 19:35 So out of 70, how many weeks are left? 19:38 Come on, say it together? One. 19:39 How many days in a week? Seven. 19:41 So if seven weeks, so if the seven days, 19:45 a day for a year, how many years is that? 19:49 I'm trying to make it. 19:50 How many years is that? 19:52 Okay, just make it clear. 19:53 So, half of those years were occupied by Jesus. 19:57 Let's look at this again. 19:58 Verse 26 now, we're gonna come right back to the Messiah. 20:02 Verse 26, 20:03 "And after 62 weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, 20:07 but not for Himself." 20:09 Okay, who did Jesus die for? 20:12 He died for us, all right? 20:14 Now, so you find once again, 20:15 verse 24, 20:17 the Most Holy, that's Jesus. 20:18 Verse 25, Messiah, the Prince. 20:20 Verse 26, Messiah. 20:22 Who is it about, tell me? Jesus. 20:24 It's all about Jesus. 20:26 It's about the Christ, clear? 20:28 Now let's go to verse 27. 20:31 Speaking about Jesus again, 20:32 "Then He shall confirm a covenant with many for," 20:35 how long? 20:36 "One week, but in the middle of the week," 20:38 if you go to the middle of the week, 20:40 how many days is that? 20:41 Three and a half days? 20:43 So a day for a year, 20:44 three and a half years after Jesus began His ministry, 20:48 He was crucified in the middle of His ministry. 20:52 He was crucified three and a half years 20:54 after He was baptized, 20:57 and then He went to heaven. 20:58 So the question is, if He went to heaven, 21:01 and the Bible says, 21:02 He's gonna confirm His covenant for one week. 21:04 He only did it for three and a half. 21:06 How is it gonna happen from that point on? 21:08 A great question, right? 21:10 But look at what it goes on to say. 21:12 "Then he shall confirm," verse 27, 21:15 "a covenant with many for one week, 21:17 but in the middle of the week, 21:18 He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering." 21:21 When Jesus died, did the sacrificial system end? 21:26 You guys need some energy, ready? 21:27 Did it end, what? 21:29 Yes, it ended because He was the final lamb. 21:33 But I just asked the question. 21:35 If Jesus only had a ministry for three and a half years, 21:38 how will His covenant be confirmed? 21:41 Let's go to Hebrews Chapter 1. 21:43 Are you ready with me? Let's go there. 21:45 Because when the Bible says, He shall confirm, 21:47 He will confirm. 21:48 Amen? 21:50 So what we're gonna see now is... 21:53 I'm gonna ask you a very powerful question 21:55 in just a moment. 21:57 We're going to Hebrews Chapter 1. 22:00 Actually, Hebrews Chapter 2. 22:02 Hebrews Chapter 2. 22:03 Remember, He shall confirm His covenant with many 22:06 for how long? 22:07 One week. 22:09 Now, let's look at Hebrews Chapter 2... 22:14 verse 3. 22:17 And the Bible asked the question, 22:20 "How shall we escape, 22:22 if we neglect so great a salvation," 22:26 watch this, 22:27 "which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord," 22:33 that's verse 3, 22:34 "First began to be spoken by the Lord." 22:37 And look at the next, 22:39 "And was confirmed to us by those who," did what? 22:41 "Heard Him." 22:43 So was it confirmed? Yes. 22:44 The Bible said it was confirmed. 22:46 The first three and a half years 22:47 Jesus did it. 22:49 When He ascended, He said, 22:50 "Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 22:53 And for three and half more years, 22:55 they appealed to the Israelite leaders 22:57 to accept Jesus, when they didn't, 22:59 Stephen was stoned. 23:02 And the gospel went from the Jews to the Gentiles. 23:07 Paul was called the apostle to the Gentiles. 23:10 Now, here's the question, are you ready for it? 23:13 Was the covenant confirmed? Yes. 23:16 Okay, first three and a half years was, 23:18 for who? 23:19 Jesus. 23:21 The next three and a half years was confirmed through who? 23:23 Through the disciples. 23:24 So were all seven years could finished? 23:27 Yes. 23:28 This is huge. 23:29 This is huge. 23:31 If the last week happened, first for the Christ, 23:35 then the last three and a half years, 23:37 the work of Jesus was finished by His disciples, 23:39 then there is no more seven years. 23:42 So now, the secret rapture, and this is the key. 23:47 When I asked the question, go back, 23:48 bring question number three on the screen again. 23:51 When this question came up, 23:52 it was in reference to this very teaching. 23:55 And here's the question. 23:56 Who did Rome commission 23:58 to attack the '70 weeks' of Daniel 9? 24:01 So here's what Rome did. 24:03 They decided, 24:04 we got to find a way 24:06 to get the eyes of the common man off of us. 24:09 They know who we are. 24:11 So they attacked the 70 weeks, and they taught... 24:15 Wait a minute. 24:16 And remember, the only way 24:18 that the 70 weeks could be confirmed is this. 24:21 The only way the 70 weeks could be confirmed is this. 24:25 Either the 70 weeks, look at me, 24:28 either the 70 weeks referred to Christ 24:31 or it refers to the antichrist. 24:33 According to the Bible, who does it refer to? 24:37 Christ. 24:39 So here's the key. 24:40 If you accept the fact that the seven years 24:43 refers to the ministry of Jesus, 24:45 then the appeal to the Jews, all seven years are completed. 24:48 It was completed. 24:50 But if you reject Jesus, 24:52 that's the only way you can come up 24:54 with those seven weeks not happening. 24:57 And that's what Rome did. 24:59 They took that prophecy and said, it didn't happen. 25:02 So what they did? They created a diversion. 25:05 Let's go to Daniel 9 very quickly. 25:06 Let me show you the diversion. 25:08 I mean, the devil is clever. 25:11 And then we're gonna walk... 25:12 We're not gonna obviously finish this tonight 25:14 because we have like 65 slides, 25:16 but you are going to get some history 25:18 that you have never heard before. 25:19 And if you have, praise the Lord. 25:22 Let's go to Daniel 9 again. 25:25 And here's the key. 25:26 So they commissioned someone, 25:28 you'll find out his name in just a moment. 25:30 They commissioned someone to study, 25:32 they commissioned a theologian to study a place in the Bible 25:36 where they can chop off the antichrist 25:39 and put him in the future. 25:42 But the key was, 25:43 in order for this entire prophecy 25:45 to be fulfilled, 25:47 you had to start at a particular date. 25:49 Look at Daniel 9:25. 25:54 What does it say? 25:55 "Know, therefore and understand 25:57 that from the going forth of the command 26:00 to restore and build Jerusalem." 26:02 So watch this. 26:03 Are you ready? 26:05 The moment the command was given 26:07 to restore and build Jerusalem, 26:09 the clock started on the 70 weeks, 26:13 or the 490 years, 26:15 from then on, everything was supposed to fit. 26:17 So you had seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks. 26:19 Why did the Bible break it down that way? 26:21 Why seven weeks? 26:23 Because Jerusalem was restored in seven weeks. 26:26 How many days in a week? 26:27 Seven. Seven times seven is 49. 26:30 It only took 49 years to rebuild Jerusalem. 26:33 The first seven years was done. 26:34 And then it says, and after 62 weeks, 26:36 the Messiah is gonna be crucified. 26:38 But He could not be called the Messiah, 26:40 lest He was anointed, 26:41 and He was anointed, He was baptized. 26:43 And after the next 62 weeks, 26:45 that's when it led to the death of Jesus. 26:48 So here's what Rome did. 26:50 They said, we got to change the beginning date, 26:52 and there were two more dates. 26:54 I'm gonna ask a lot of... How many days did I say? 26:57 There was a date by Darius and Cyrus. 27:00 This decree was by Artrexerxes. 27:03 Spell that. 27:04 Okay, don't kill yourself. 27:06 A-R-T-R-E-X-E-R-X-E-S. 27:08 Okay, that's how you spell it. 27:10 Artrexerxes gave the decree to completely restore 27:12 the entire city of Jerusalem. 27:14 It's monetary system, it's government, 27:16 it's economy, it's houses, it's temple. 27:20 Darius said, build a wall. 27:26 Didn't mean to smile. 27:30 Cyrus says build a temple. 27:35 Behave yourself. 27:37 But only Atrexerxes says restore the whole thing. 27:42 That's the commission date that they started at. 27:44 So this Roman Jesuit 27:47 chose the decree of Darius 27:50 and when you follow the decree of Darius, 27:54 nothing happens 27:55 because you begin at the wrong date. 27:58 Okay, 27:59 so if this was January, which is not, 28:02 if this was January, and I said, 28:04 in seven months, my birthday is gonna be. 28:07 Seven months from January is what month? 28:09 July. 28:11 January, February, March, April, May, June, July. 28:14 We're talking about inclusive reckoning, including January. 28:17 So July is the seventh month. 28:19 But if I said seven months from now is my birthday 28:21 and I began in March, 28:24 would you find my birthday? 28:25 No, because my birthday is in July. 28:28 See, if I said, 28:30 my birthday is in the seventh month, 28:31 we began at March, you wouldn't find my birthday. 28:33 That's what they did. 28:34 They picked the wrong, they picked two other dates. 28:36 So when the people in the village 28:38 began to look at this, 28:39 they said, "You're right. 28:41 Nothing happened according to this last week." 28:45 So let's go to the answers now. 28:48 So who did wrong commission 28:49 to attack the 70 weeks of Daniel 9? 28:51 We're gonna see how they did it. 28:53 Here's the answer on the screen. 28:56 The man was named... 28:58 Please bring that up for me. 28:59 Francisco Ribera, that's a Spanish. 29:03 He in 1585, 29:05 he was a Jesuit theologian, 29:07 and he was from the city, VillacastÃn, Spain, 29:11 that's where he was born. 29:12 In 1585, 29:14 he wrote a commentary on Revelation, 29:17 and it was called "Futurists Eschatology." 29:20 Now the reason why his teaching was accepted, 29:24 there were two men, Francisco Ribera, 29:27 the other one was Luis De Alcazar. 29:30 His was not accepted because he taught Preterism. 29:34 Big term, simply means, 29:36 all of prophecy already happened. 29:39 Futurism says, 29:41 they believed that only a portion of Revelation 29:44 referred to Rome 29:47 and the rest of it had nothing to do with Rome. 29:50 They said the rest of it, push it all into the future. 29:53 You wanna see how they did that? 29:54 You want to get that? 29:55 Let's go to Revelation Chapter 4. 29:57 And they found clever ways. 30:00 I wanna tell you tonight 30:01 there's so many untruths existing in Christianity today 30:04 because they just accept these things 30:06 without knowing where it came from. 30:08 And I just saw recently into, just this past weekend, 30:11 I saw on Television, 30:12 a very well known speaker in Christianity, 30:14 a very wonderful preacher, very credible man, 30:17 wonderful individual. 30:18 He's not emotional. 30:20 He doesn't have loud church services. 30:21 He's not trying to get to your emotions. 30:23 But he made the statement he said, 30:24 how would you react if 144,000 evangelists 30:28 were unleashed on the world. 30:31 He said that's what's gonna happen, 30:32 when the rapture takes place, 30:34 and the Jews are converted, 30:35 and the gospel goes to the world. 30:36 And I said, "No, no, please, don't do that." 30:41 And you'll find out in this study, 30:43 where it came from. 30:45 So Revelation, that's what I said, right? 30:47 Revelation, according to futurism, 30:50 they said, that's why today and most of these churches, 30:52 they don't teach Revelation 30:54 because they don't believe that 30:56 in the futuristic ideology. 30:57 They don't believe Revelation has any credibility to now. 30:59 They believe it's a sealed book, 31:01 and we don't need it anyway 31:03 because we won't be here. 31:05 You get it. 31:07 The rapture is gonna happen. 31:08 We're not gonna be here, so why do we need it. 31:10 And the rest of is for the Jews. 31:12 That's what they believe. 31:14 Look at Revelation Chapter 4. 31:17 This is where they teach the rapture takes place. 31:20 Revelation 4:1. 31:21 So how many chapters are there in Revelation, 31:23 somebody tell me? 31:25 Twenty two. 31:26 If I teach you that, 31:27 we're gonna be leaving the world at Chapter 4, 31:30 I say to you, we don't care about the last 18 chapters. 31:33 Just like watching a movie, 31:35 watching a baseball game, 31:36 watching a sporting event, 31:38 and 18 minutes left and you cut it off. 31:40 Forget about it. 31:42 We don't really care what happens 31:43 at the end of the movie. 31:45 Let me say it slower, 31:46 we don't really care how the story ends. 31:48 Does the Lord want us know how the story ends? 31:50 Yes. 31:52 But the devil doesn't. 31:54 So he says, "Fine, I'm gonna use the power, I commission." 31:58 Revelation 13, "For the dragon gave him his power, 32:01 his seat and great authority." 32:03 I'm gonna use that power to twist the Bible 32:06 and get people to turn away from the truth. 32:08 And they are gonna say, "We don't even need to know 32:11 because we're gonna be leaving." 32:12 Here's the verse they use. 32:14 Look at Revelation 4:1, 32:16 "After these things I looked and behold, 32:19 a door standing open in heaven. 32:22 And the first voice, 32:24 which I heard was like a " what? 32:26 "Trumpet, speaking with me saying," what? 32:29 "Come up here, and I will show you things 32:31 which must take place after this." 32:33 They are saying that 32:35 that trumpet is the trumpet call of God, 32:38 and He's calling the church to come up here. 32:41 But that's not what that's happening. 32:42 The angels calling John 32:45 to come up in vision. 32:48 John is being told to come up in vision. 32:50 The angel is inviting John in vision 32:54 into the throne room of heaven, 32:57 not the church. 32:59 So from that verse on, 33:01 and notice what it says in verse 2 33:02 because John is showing you, this is not the church going. 33:04 Notice what he says in Revelation 4:2. 33:07 "Immediately," what's the next word? 33:10 "I was in the spirit, and behold, 33:12 a throne set in heaven and one set on the throne." 33:15 John is saying, I was envisioned, 33:18 but they're being taught that that's the verse 33:20 that calls the church out of the world. 33:22 Isn't that deceptive? 33:24 So from Revelation Chapter 4, 33:25 they don't care about the last 18 chapters. 33:29 And let me show you how they did it. 33:30 So in 1585, 33:33 Francisco Ribera was commissioned, 33:35 so write that down. 33:36 Who was the first man... 33:38 Question number three. 33:39 Who did Rome commission 33:40 to attack the 70 weeks of Daniel 9? 33:42 His name is Francisco Ribera, there it is on the screen, 33:45 Francisco Ribera in 1585. 33:47 And by the way, you can look this up. 33:49 On... 33:51 Go to any resource, you'll find this. 33:52 And by the way, 33:54 some people have been 33:55 wonderful enough to put this on. 33:57 You find this in encyclopedias. 33:58 You find this in Britannica. 33:59 You may even find this on Wikipedia sites, 34:01 but not everything on Wikipedia you take 34:04 because it's a contributory. 34:06 That's why it's called Wikipedia 34:08 contributed by many individuals. 34:09 But check it out whenever you read it. 34:11 But the person's name was Francisco Ribera. 34:13 Say that with me Francisco... 34:15 Ribera. Ribera. 34:16 He began this Futurist Eschatology. 34:19 Eschatology simply meaning 34:21 the teachings about the second coming. 34:22 That's what the word eschatology is all about. 34:25 Let's go to the very next question. 34:27 Okay, we're gonna see the track of this. 34:30 What did Ribera's futurism theology 34:33 teach about Revelation? 34:35 Here it is. 34:36 It's on the screen. 34:37 And it isn't in particular, so you read as, 34:40 follow as I read it on the screen. 34:41 Futurism, 34:43 it's a teaching of Christianity. 34:46 Let's go to that answer. 34:48 "Futurism, 34:49 which is a teaching in Christianity, 34:51 is the proposal 34:53 that the Book of Revelation does not bear 34:57 the application to the Middle Ages or papacy, 35:01 rather the future, 35:03 more particularly to a period, 35:07 prior to the Second Coming. 35:10 Futurism teaches that only the," what? 35:13 "Introductory chapters of Revelation 35:16 referred to ancient Rome, 35:18 and the remainder to a literal 35:21 three and a half years 35:23 at the end of time." 35:26 So watch this now. 35:27 How many years did I say? 35:28 Three and a half, 35:30 that last period of the seven years, 35:32 they said, the three and a half. 35:34 They put this in. 35:35 That's when the antichrist is gonna show up. 35:37 The tribulation is gonna begin when the church disappears, 35:41 the antichrist is going to show up. 35:43 The Jews are gonna convert the world, 35:45 I mean, preach to the world. 35:46 And then in the middle of that, there's gonna be a commission, 35:49 and the rest of it is theory. 35:51 I don't even say history, the rest of it is theory. 35:54 So you see, clearly, 35:55 this teaching is promulgating itself. 35:58 We don't have to know all of Revelation 35:59 because only the introductory part 36:01 refers to Rome. 36:02 Forget about the rest. 36:03 And I showed you how they cleverly did that. 36:05 Now, if it died there, we would have been fine, 36:09 but it didn't die there. 36:11 You know, there's a saying that goes this way. 36:14 "A lie would run all around the world 36:17 while truth is just lacing up his sneakers." 36:22 You ever see when something goes bad, 36:24 what do they call that? What do they call that? 36:26 The rumor, right? 36:28 A lie takes off like a jet and somebody tells the truth 36:33 and well it's just lacing up his shoes. 36:39 This thing took off. 36:40 Let's look at the next question. 36:42 So write that down. 36:43 So you gonna answer question four, 36:45 what does futurism theology teach about Revelation? 36:49 It's gonna be three and a half years 36:51 is in the future. 36:53 What does futurism theology teach 36:55 that Revelation applies to the future. 36:59 Revelation applies to the future. 37:03 Majority of Revelation applies to the future. 37:06 That's why today, 37:07 you go to most Christian churches, 37:08 you don't hear anything about Revelation. 37:10 Now many of them are making attempts. 37:12 But I would say the attempts are bad, 37:15 because they don't understand it. 37:16 And what I'm listening to and what I hear being taught 37:19 from Christianity today, it's just like, 37:22 "Where are they getting that from?" 37:23 I know where they're getting it. 37:25 But let's look at the track. 37:27 Question number five. 37:29 What was the aim of Francisco Ribera 37:32 as it relates to Rome? 37:34 What was the aim? 37:35 And by the way, 37:37 if you wanna put another term for Futurism Eschatology, 37:40 write this word down. 37:42 See that word if you could spell it. 37:43 Dispensationalism. 37:46 It was very sensational. 37:48 Dispensation taught that various times God dealt 37:53 with the church in various ways. 37:55 So today, 37:56 there's some Christians that will say, 37:57 "You ever heard the phrase, 37:59 we're no longer under law but under grace." 38:00 Have you heard that? Yes. 38:01 Because they taught 38:03 that there was a dispensation of law. 38:05 Now, that the dispensation of law is done, 38:07 we're now under grace. 38:09 In other words, they're saying, 38:10 "You don't have to keep the commandments anymore 38:11 because that was for then. 38:13 Now we're free from that." 38:14 They misunderstand it all together. 38:17 While we're free from the condemnation of the law, 38:20 God doesn't say, if you love Me, 38:21 don't keep My commandments. 38:23 Jesus said, "If you love Me," do what? 38:25 "Keep My commandments." 38:26 So what was Ribera's aim? 38:27 Here it is. 38:29 Jesuit Francisco Ribera purposed 38:32 to remove the focus from Rome as the system of antichrist, 38:36 and place it on the rise of a single person, 38:39 in the future, prior to the return of Jesus. 38:42 So they pick this. 38:43 So nowadays, when you see those movies like... 38:46 What's the name of the movie? 38:49 Rapture movies? 38:51 Left behind. Left behind. 38:54 They focus on the single characters 38:56 coming somewhere out of Europe. 38:58 A guy that looks ominous and he's wearing a black coat. 39:01 He's gonna be the one, that's gonna be the beast. 39:04 It started here. 39:06 It's gonna be a single person, 39:08 they say it's gonna be one single person 39:10 coming way down in the future. 39:13 So, in essence, effectively what they did was, 39:16 the pope could continue by saying, 39:17 "See, guys, it's not us. 39:20 It's not us. 39:22 It's not us." 39:23 So the eyes of Rome, 39:25 the eyes of the people were focused away from Rome 39:27 and the Rome follow that up with art, 39:30 and science, and music, and literature. 39:32 Just like today, 39:34 Christianity is going to the same route today. 39:36 We're looking more for entertainment 39:38 than for the Word of God. 39:40 That's what's happening to the church today. 39:41 They're going more towards entertainment. 39:43 They want to feel Christianity, 39:44 rather than understand the power of God's Word. 39:47 Remember this point, friends, 39:48 when Jesus was in the wilderness, 39:50 He didn't say to the devil, it is sung. 39:52 He said, it is written. 39:53 Can I get an amen there? Amen. 39:55 He didn't quote songs or lyrics, 39:57 He quoted the Word of God. 39:58 And if Jesus used the Word of God 40:00 in His hour of trial and test, 40:03 how much more do we need the Word of God? 40:06 You might think I'm excited. 40:07 I am. 40:08 Question number six, let's go on. 40:10 It's a powerful. Yes. 40:11 We're not going to cover all tonight and that's okay. 40:14 Here's the next question. 40:15 "Who followed Ribera 40:17 in advancing the teaching of Futurism?" 40:20 It's amazing to track. 40:21 And what I'm going to do in the next segment 40:24 which we're not going to cover all tonight. 40:25 I'm going to literally show you a chart, 40:27 a timeline of how a God toward us today? 40:29 We're going to see the timeline broken down 40:31 but I'll have a visible timeline 40:33 from its inception to the very present. 40:35 All right? Like a ruler. 40:37 The second person that embraced the teaching of Futurism 40:40 was a man by the name of Saint Robert Bellarmine, S.J. 40:45 Saint Robert Bellarmine. 40:48 And by the way he was an Italian Jesuit. 40:51 The city that he was from is Montepulciano 40:54 and that's in Italian. 40:56 Hope I didn't do injustice to that. 40:59 But he was one of the most important 41:01 Counter-Reformation contributors. 41:04 Now, Counter-Reformation, very powerful term. 41:07 Counter-Reformation means while there's a pushback 41:10 to the Bible, 41:11 these men arising up to push away from the Bible. 41:15 They're pushing to theories, and false ideas, 41:18 and false theology. 41:19 They're now pushing, 41:20 they're pushing in the opposite direction 41:22 of the reformers. 41:24 And the reason why he was not called saint 41:26 by the way, until he was sainted in 1930. 41:29 Back then he was Robert Bellarmine. 41:33 He was just an Italian Jesuit. 41:35 He was not made a saint until 1930. 41:37 And by the way, 41:38 there are only 36 people that were ever sainted 41:41 in the Roman Catholic Church. 41:42 Only 36, he's one of them. 41:44 But he contributed to the... 41:46 He embraced what Francisco Ribera taught 41:48 and began to propagate it himself. 41:51 He took that theory and embraced it 41:53 because it was perfect 41:55 to fight against the movement back to the Bible. 41:57 I'm teaching a lot tonight. 41:59 Are you ready for question number 7? 42:01 So the name of the man 42:02 for question number 6 is Robert Bellarmine. 42:07 Okay? 42:08 Question number 7. 42:09 "Who embraced Futurism and propagated 42:13 in the coming centuries?" 42:16 It's amazing how this happened? 42:17 This is very interesting. 42:19 This is question number 7. 42:20 And the answer of the person is Dr. S.R. Maitland. 42:25 And by the way, those of you watching this, 42:27 you can record it and play it back and pause, 42:29 and do your own homework 42:30 with all the names I'm giving to you. 42:32 You'll find that what I'm sharing with you 42:33 is legitimate history and the track. 42:36 And by the way, you'll notice in quote it says, 42:38 "The Keeper of the 1593 Manuscript." 42:42 Bring that upon the screen one more time. 42:44 This manuscript that was written by Francisco Ribera 42:48 was passed on from one individual to the other. 42:51 But the Keeper of the 1593 Manuscript 42:54 was kept in the Lambeth Palace in London, England. 42:57 And Dr. S. R. Maitland was the one that 43:01 had access to that manuscript. 43:04 He was the Keeper of the 1593 Manuscript. 43:07 So since he was the... 43:09 As you might refer to the person 43:11 who was in charge of all these artifacts, 43:13 all these pieces of literature. 43:15 He began to study it and he embraced it. 43:18 Listen to what he included in that. 43:20 And he added another component, 43:23 it was called Futurism Eschatology, 43:26 it was also called Dispensationalism. 43:29 But he gave it another term which meant the same thing. 43:31 Listen to the history books. 43:33 It says that it was called Futurism, 43:36 called the Gap Theory. 43:37 Why the gap? 43:40 Focus on me for a moment, here's the gap. 43:42 Here's the gap. 43:46 Seventy weeks. 43:47 One, two, three, four, five, all the way, sixty nine. 43:51 Big gap. 43:53 Nobody knows where the seventieth week came, 43:54 then all of a sudden, 43:56 seventieth week way down in the future. 43:58 Sixty nine... 43:59 What happen to the last one? 44:01 Oh, nothing. 44:02 Boom. 44:03 Hundreds of years later, it happens in the future. 44:05 In other words, they say... 44:07 Well, that's a last one and that's going to be the week 44:10 the antichrist is going to use in the end time. 44:12 That's why it's called a gap. 44:14 There was a gap. 44:15 Nobody knew what happened to that last week. 44:16 It was called the Gap Theory. 44:19 Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. S.R. Maitland, 44:22 republished the manuscript of Francisco Ribera, 44:26 on the Secret Rapture, 44:27 and he published it three times, 44:29 in 1826, 1829, and 1830. 44:33 Now, I must ask this, I must ask the question. 44:37 Why do you think that manuscript resurfaced 44:39 in the 1830s? 44:42 Come on, historians. 44:43 Come on, Adventist historians. 44:46 Because a man by the name of William Miller 44:49 was studying about the truth of the second coming 44:54 and the devil saw a perfect opportunity 44:56 to affect, 44:58 infect another generation with the secret. 45:02 So it began to be published, 45:03 but the problem was it was over in Europe. 45:06 It wasn't here yet. 45:07 The devil resurfaced it in Europe, 45:09 he had to find a way to get it to America. 45:11 While the preaching 45:13 of the second coming resurfaced, 45:14 William Miller began talking about 45:16 the coming of Jesus. 45:17 All the Protestant Churches once again began 45:19 preaching about the coming of Jesus. 45:21 Satan was in Europe getting ready to gift America 45:24 with the secret rapture. 45:26 It hadn't made its way here yet. 45:28 Are you following? Yes. 45:30 Let's go to question number 8. 45:33 Okay. 45:34 So the answer there to number 7 of who embraced Futurism 45:38 and propagated it? 45:40 Exactly. 45:42 And B is Futurism, the Gap Theory, 45:47 Futurism, the Gap Theory. 45:48 That's what he added to it. 45:50 Futurism, the Gap Theory. 45:52 There's a big gap. 45:53 We don't know what happened to that last week. 45:56 It's gonna be putted all the way to future, 45:58 that's the Gap Theory. 45:59 What happened to that last week? 46:02 So let's ask another question. 46:04 Here it is. Question number 8. 46:06 How did Ribera's Dispensationalism Theory 46:11 enter other countries? 46:15 "How did Ribera's Dispensationalism Theory 46:19 enter other countries?" 46:22 Let's see how it happened. 46:24 Let's see where it went next. 46:26 Remember, it was in Europe, 46:28 but has to take a trek around the world 46:30 and find its way to America. 46:31 Here is the next place it went, 46:34 Manual Lacunza. 46:36 Manual Lacunza, a Jesuit priest in Chile. 46:41 He was a Futurism and Dispensational believer. 46:45 And by the way, 46:46 he got a hold of the manuscripts 46:49 that were republished by Dr. Maitland, 46:52 began to study them, and he knew, 46:55 this is the amazing part, 46:56 he knew that this theory was not widely accepted. 47:02 So instead of giving his real name, 47:03 he published it under an alias, instead of giving his name, 47:07 Manual Lacunza. 47:08 He published it under an alias, Rabbi Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra. 47:13 So when you read it, 47:15 "Oh, Rabbi Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra." 47:18 Now, why did he do that? 47:20 Because it gave credibility to the future restoration 47:23 of Israel, and he said, "A Jew wrote this." 47:25 So people thought, 47:26 "Ah, it must be legitimate, 47:28 they're writing about their own future." 47:31 How clever the enemy is. 47:33 Manual Lacunza, a Jesuit priest in Chile, 47:37 a believer in Futurism and Dispensationalism. 47:39 And I want to add this component, 47:41 it wasn't widely embraced, 47:43 it's just the devil found from era to era somebody else 47:47 to take the torch of error and to light something else 47:50 to keep it going to the very next century, 47:52 and he found very amazing men. 47:53 And by the way, if you may noticed the trek, 47:56 almost all the men he found were Jesuits. 48:01 Let's go to the very next question. 48:04 Okay. 48:05 Question number 9. 48:07 "Who was the next to embrace 48:11 and convey Dispensationalism?" 48:14 Who was the next to embrace 48:16 and convey Dispensationalism? 48:20 His name is... 48:22 Are you ready? 48:23 Rev. Edward Irving. 48:26 And by the way, 48:27 his theory was so rejected by his contemporaries, 48:32 that he was removed 48:33 from the Church of Scotland in 1832 48:35 for preaching this teaching. 48:37 He refused to get rid of it. 48:39 And by the way, I want to say this today. 48:41 There are some people today that are being put out 48:43 of the church for teaching things 48:44 that are not based on the Bible. 48:46 But they refused to let it go. 48:49 I mean, Rev. Edward Irving, 48:51 he was removed from the Church of Scotland in 1832, 48:54 and he embraced the pre-tribulation rapture, 48:58 and notice what he did. 48:59 Look at the trek, this is amazing. 49:00 He founded the Catholic Apostolic Church 49:05 which was the beginning of the church 49:06 that will later become the Pentecostal movement. 49:11 Wouldn't you say, how clever the devil is? 49:13 He is slow and artistic. 49:15 He is slow and clever. 49:16 He began the Catholic Apostolic Church. 49:19 Once the church put him out, he started his own movement. 49:22 The Catholic Apostolic Church, 49:24 so you have Apostolic Catholics nowadays, 49:26 but you have an even more solidly, 49:29 you have the Pentecostal movement. 49:32 And that was in 1832, right around the time, 49:36 but it didn't get to America yet. 49:38 That what's missing right now. 49:39 It didn't get to America, it is going to get there. 49:42 It's going to get there. 49:43 So you got that? 49:44 That was number 8. 49:46 That was number 9, right? 49:47 Now let's go to number 10. 49:49 This is where it finds its way to America. 49:53 Okay. 49:56 "What was the name of the woman known 49:59 for her contribution to the promulgation 50:03 of the Secret Rapture?" 50:04 Promulgation meaning, simply sharing, 50:06 and conveying it, and passing it on. 50:08 What was the lady's name? 50:10 Okay. Are you ready for that? 50:12 Here is her name. 50:15 Margaret MacDonald, Margaret MacDonald. 50:19 Look her up, very interesting lady. 50:21 She was known as a visionary, she was known as a visionary. 50:25 That means, 50:28 she claimed in 1830. 50:31 This is how amazing the devil works. 50:34 See, this is around the time... 50:36 She was born in 1815. 50:37 This is around the time, when not long after this, 50:40 a young lady by the name of Ellen White 50:43 would legitimately get a vision from the Lord. 50:47 She claimed, Margaret claimed to receive a vision 50:50 about the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, 50:52 meaning, she claimed that the Lord showed her in vision 50:55 that the church is gonna disappear 50:57 just before the tribulation begins. 50:59 Now the reason why we deny 51:01 that is because the Bible doesn't teach it. 51:03 And why will the Lord show you in vision 51:04 what is countered to the Bible. 51:06 Can I get an amen? Amen. 51:08 He will never show you in vision, 51:09 that's why today you have phrases like this. 51:12 People say, "I know you believe that, 51:14 but the Lord hasn't revealed it to me yet." 51:18 And you have these churches nowadays, 51:19 they call them rhema word, "God just spoke to me, 51:23 He just told me to say this to you. 51:25 Wait, well, I'm receiving a message from God." 51:26 And they say things that are not in the Bible, 51:29 but they come from that kind of movement 51:31 that believes in impressions 51:33 and they believe in, "Okay, wait. 51:35 God has shown me something." 51:37 And it's not confirmed by God's Word. 51:39 Anytime God gives a vision, 51:40 it must be confirmed by God's Word. 51:43 Am I right? 51:44 God's Word must always confirm it. 51:46 So Margaret MacDonald, she was known as a visionary. 51:51 She said, "The Lord showed me, 51:53 the Lord showed me that there is going to be 51:55 a Pre-Tribulation Rapture." 51:57 And the amazing thing about it 51:58 is the Lord doesn't show anything 52:01 that doesn't have foundation 52:03 in the Scripture. 52:06 Are you ready for the big watermelon? 52:08 You're ready? 52:10 Okay. 52:11 Here is the next question. 52:12 "Who was the next key Contributor 52:15 to the Secret Rapture?" 52:16 Who was the next key Contributor? 52:19 Here it is. 52:22 John Nelson Darby. 52:25 J.N. Darby, also known as 52:27 "The Modern Father of Dispensationalism." 52:32 He was known as the Modern Father 52:34 of Dispensationalism. 52:36 John N. Darby's views was called Darbyism. 52:40 It was embraced by the Plymouth Brethren. 52:43 Now, somebody tell me 52:44 where were the Plymouth Brethren? 52:46 Where was Plymouth? 52:47 Okay. There you go. 52:49 Found a way in America, the Plymouth Brethren. 52:52 You heard of Plymouth Rock? 52:54 The Plymouth Brethren embraced this teaching 52:56 and it found its way into obscure growing America. 53:01 John N. Darby, 53:02 the father of modern Dispensationalism. 53:08 You know, the amazing thing about the devil, 53:10 he is patient, but he takes his time, 53:13 and by the way, how do I know that? 53:14 Because the very lie he told in the garden to Eve, 53:16 "You'll not surely die." 53:18 People still today believe that you don't really die." 53:21 That was told 6000 years ago. 53:23 People still believe that the dead really don't die. 53:26 Took a long time, but they still believe it. 53:28 Every time, you hear the news, they are in heaven now. 53:31 Took a long time to get that light of stick, 53:32 but it seems to stick, 53:34 no matter how you try to get people out of the fog, 53:36 they say, "Well, that's what I believe." 53:38 But now, let's look at the next one. 53:41 This is huge. I want to get this in. 53:44 "Who was the largest modern Contributor 53:47 to the Secret Rapture?" 53:49 Who was the largest modern Contributor 53:53 to the Secret Rapture? 53:54 Got to get this in before the program is done. 53:56 Here is his name, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield. 54:02 Look at the year, 1843. 54:08 What was happening? 54:09 There was a band of people called the Advent people 54:12 under William Miller, preaching about the second... 54:13 This is the year they were thinking that, 54:15 "Well, Jesus could be coming around this time. 54:17 And someone comes, He was an American theologian, 54:21 He popularized in America Futurism, 54:23 Dispensationalism, 54:25 and fundamentalist Christianity. 54:27 So when you say, are you a fundamental Christian? 54:30 You're embracing the teachings that 54:32 Cyrus I. Scofield embraced himself 54:35 and propagated in America. 54:38 He propagated them here, notice this, 54:40 as you're writing that down, 1843. 54:42 But look at this next screen. 54:44 The Secret Rapture. 54:46 Cyrus Ingerson Scofield embraced Darby's/Ribera's 54:52 teaching on the Secret Rapture and created the annotated 54:56 Scofield Reference Bible. 55:00 So many of you watching the program 55:02 might have a Scofield Reference Bible in your very library. 55:05 Here is a picture of the Scofield 55:06 Reference Bible. 55:08 These are three of the modern versions of it. 55:09 The Scofield Study Bible III, The Scofield Study Bible, 55:12 different New King James Version, 55:14 New International Version, and King James Version. 55:16 Three separate translations, King James Version, 55:18 New King James Version, and NIV. 55:20 Or King James, New King James, and NIV. 55:22 So what he did was now, 55:24 he took a Bible, the contents of the Bible is fine, 55:28 but he created his own study notes. 55:30 And so he would say, let me give you an example. 55:33 Have you heard the phrase, they use Acts 20:7, 55:38 to teach that Sunday is a holy day. 55:40 When they said, 55:41 they broke bread on the first day of the week, 55:42 have you heard that before? 55:44 Well, in the Scofield Bible, if you look at Acts 20:7, 55:48 they pointed that to try to prove that 55:50 that's a new day of worship. 55:52 And then they also try to point, I was in the... 55:55 Revelation 1:10, 55:56 "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day." 55:59 They try to make that phrase 56:00 point to the first day of the week. 56:03 And they take... 56:05 Revelation 1:10, 56:06 and point at the Acts 20:7 which is the day 56:10 that they broke bread on and they say, 56:11 "See, a new day of worship." 56:13 It's an amazing twisted way of distorting the Word of God. 56:16 But let's look at this before we go to the next one. 56:19 It says, The Scofield Bible and Study Notes: 56:23 Non-Biblical Teachings, The Gap Theory, 56:25 The Restoration of the Nation of Israel, 56:27 the Conversion of the Jews, the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, 56:31 and the Millennial Earthly Reign of Jesus. 56:35 All those were embraced in the Scofield Study Bible. 56:39 And I'm going to wind up on that note tonight 56:41 because we're going to take off. 56:43 So we have just about a little more than a minute. 56:46 So what we're seeing is, 56:47 we're seeing something started in the 1500s, 56:49 now we're in the 1840s, 56:54 and next study when we get together, 56:57 we're going to find out how it came into the 1900s, 57:01 and then into the 2000s, and where it is today. 57:05 And by the way, 57:06 if you have a Scofield reference study Bible, 57:09 if you have a Scofield reference study Bible, 57:11 I won't give you the other names 57:13 'cause there are so many more names 57:14 I'm going to release on the next study. 57:15 You'll see that what's being taught 57:17 on there is Dispensationalism, 57:20 Futurism, the Rapture theory, the Gap theory, 57:23 the Pre-Tribulation theory, and the Earthly 57:26 Millennial Reign of Jesus. 57:27 All started 500 years ago by the Roman Church 57:34 during the Dark Ages. 57:35 You see, friends, 57:37 today, God wants His people to be unlike. 57:38 Can I get an amen to that? Amen. 57:40 But so much of what sincere Christians 57:42 have swallowed today, 57:44 is not found in the Word of God. 57:47 But here at Sharper Focus, we say, 57:48 if it doesn't make sense, friends, keep praying, 57:51 keep studying God's Word, 57:53 keep trusting Him 57:54 because we know that if you're faithful, 57:56 one day all that's not clear will come into A Sharper Focus. 58:01 God bless you. |
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