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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, 00:42 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:44 Today, we will be concluding a four-part series entitled 00:47 "Trust in the Sheer Word of Prophecy." 00:50 During this series we have studied 00:52 why was Bible prophecy given, 00:55 who can show the dream, 00:56 the four beasts and a little horn. 00:58 And again today, 01:00 we're concluding with seven heads 01:01 and ten horns. 01:03 No doubt, Pastor Kenny Shelton 01:05 will be taking us to the Book of Daniel 01:07 and Revelation again, 01:08 we'll look at Daniel Chapter 7, Revelation Chapter 13, 01:11 where both Daniel and John were given visions 01:15 of a great and terrible beast that also spoke blasphemy. 01:19 This terrible beast would persecute 01:21 God's children while claiming to have 01:24 the attributes of God. 01:26 This terrible beast has been a terror 01:29 for God's people throughout the past, 01:31 especially during the Dark Ages of this world's history. 01:35 And it will, listen closely, 01:37 it will again be instrumental 01:39 in bringing about religious persecution 01:42 during the final time of trouble 01:44 right before the return 01:46 of Jesus Christ to get His bride 01:49 and to take us home. 01:50 Seven heads and ten horns, 01:52 I'm certain will contain pertinent information 01:55 that we all should know, we all should memorize, 01:59 so that we will be able to identify this beast 02:02 and to keep from being 02:03 a part of its religious propaganda. 02:06 I look forward and I hope you do as well 02:09 to what Pastor Kenny will be presenting today 02:12 under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, 02:15 seven heads and ten horns. 02:17 But first let's go back to 3ABN 02:20 and listen to an amazing rendition of a song entitled, 02:24 "People Need the Lord," played by Mary Grace. 05:58 Welcome to Behold the Lamb, 05:59 we're glad that you've joined us, 06:01 you know, it's an exciting study. 06:02 So, we want to make sure you get your Bible, 06:04 pencil and paper, jot down some of these things. 06:06 Now we're going to be moving rather quickly along. 06:09 So, if we want to make sure that 06:10 you have time to study for yourself, 06:12 the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God. 06:15 So, it's not just what an individual 06:17 might be saying, but you'd write, 06:19 you're writing these things down, 06:20 and then you're going to go study 06:22 these a little bit later on, because we're going to be 06:23 talking about seven heads and ten horns. 06:26 Revelation Chapter 13. This is the fourth part. 06:29 And before we have prayer, 06:31 I might mention it's still difficult 06:33 if you come in on the third or the fourth part of a series, 06:36 we're doing a four-part series. 06:38 And so sometimes, 06:39 I think lady wrote the other day, 06:40 said, well, just like you were talking 06:42 just to a certain little group of people here, 06:44 well, because you get in 06:45 on the third or the fourth part, 06:47 it's, you know, you missed first, 06:48 second, or maybe third. 06:50 And so, each one builds one up on the other. 06:53 So sometimes it's a little more difficult 06:55 and it seems like maybe 06:56 that people may not understand it 06:58 and, but anyway, as we do all four parts, 07:02 I think it'll come together and there's a reason for it. 07:03 But we're going to pray again, 07:05 the Holy Spirit will lead guide in our hearts, 07:07 in our lives, open our minds, right? 07:08 We want our minds open 07:10 to receive that which God has for us. 07:12 Revelation Chapter 13 07:13 is one of the most powerful chapters in the Bible 07:17 and gives so much information 07:18 that we need in the hour that we're living. 07:19 So, we need the power of the Holy Spirit. 07:21 Let's pray together, shall we? 07:24 Loving Father in heaven, 07:25 again we thank You for the privilege 07:26 that we have to be able to get into Your Word. 07:29 But, Lord, we realized as we look into ourselves, 07:31 we have nothing with good which to give Thy people, 07:34 so we rely upon the Holy Spirit 07:36 that You'll open hearts and minds and ears 07:38 and we'll be able to hear that which you have in store for us. 07:41 Help us to realize that 07:42 these things that we'll be talking about today 07:44 not only apply 07:45 before they apply today, especially 07:48 for the end time people. 07:49 Bless us now, we pray 07:51 with the power of Thy Holy Spirit. 07:52 Teach us, Lord, we pray, 07:53 in Jesus' name we pray and for His sake, amen. 07:58 You have your Bible, 07:59 make sure to turn to Revelation 13, 08:00 we'll be going that. 08:02 But now what I want to do is just kind of remind you 08:04 of what we've been essentially, 08:05 if you tuned in for the first time today, 08:07 you'll say, I don't understand where all this is going. 08:09 This is the fourth part of the series that we're doing. 08:12 We did the first part, 08:14 we did why was Bible prophecy given. 08:17 Now why would you... 08:19 We're going to go over there in just a minute, 08:20 why Bible prophecy was given. 08:22 We did number two, lesson number two, 08:24 who can show the dream 08:26 and we covered Daniel Chapter 2. 08:28 And then the third part 08:29 we've done was the four beasts and the little horn. 08:33 So, we pray that 08:34 we've established a little horn power 08:36 and who that little horn power is, 08:38 and what that little horn power is doing to the world 08:40 and will continue to do until Jesus comes. 08:44 It's very important that we put these things together, 08:47 because most people don't want to hear this message 08:49 that will be given today 08:51 or some of the things that we will go over, 08:52 because they'll say, well, we shouldn't be 08:54 talking about this thing, 08:55 we might hurt someone's feelings. 08:57 God has put it in His Word and if He's put it in His Word, 09:00 He wants us to give and to warn the world 09:03 who is being deceived by this man of sin. 09:06 Our fourth part today, 09:07 seven heads and ten horns, Revelation Chapter 13. 09:11 Now, if I'll just go over each one of these, 09:12 I just mentioned the first part. 09:14 Why was Bible prophecy given? 09:17 Simple answer, we could put on here. 09:18 Absolutely, as God wants us to know 09:20 what's coming upon this world. 09:23 He's going to warn the world before it takes place. 09:26 And you know, as it, we have a duty as a Christian, 09:29 as a follower of Jesus Christ 09:31 is to warn the world of what's taking place, 09:34 so we can open our eyes 09:35 and see what's happening right now, 09:37 and then look and say, 09:38 this is getting ready to happen. 09:40 That's Bible prophecy, isn't it? 09:41 We need to look 09:43 and say these things are about to happen. 09:45 They're happening now. 09:46 And they will continue to go right on just exactly the way 09:50 the Bible says whether we like it 09:51 or whether we don't. 09:53 This is what we're looking at today. 09:55 And it's very, some people say very, very hurtful. 09:57 Remember, for every truth that God has, 09:59 the devil has what? 10:01 He has a counterfeit. 10:02 So, God set up a true church 10:04 and the enemy came on and what did he do? 10:06 Somebody say it. He set up a false church. 10:10 And the Bible says the whole world 10:12 will end up wandering after the false church, 10:14 except for a little small group 10:16 that we will look at here in a moment. 10:18 So, remember, the devil is out to deceive, 10:20 kill and to destroy, and he's not going to be happy. 10:23 But what did he do? 10:24 While we realize that 10:26 he tried to during the Dark Ages to do what? 10:28 To kill out the Christians. 10:30 Anybody that said, I'm a Christian, 10:32 I love Jesus, he sought to kill him. 10:34 Fifty to hundred million Christians were killed 10:37 during the Dark Age 10:38 or the reign of this little horn power 10:41 that we've already established in here. 10:43 And God warns us about 10:44 in giving the three angels' message 10:45 of Revelation 14. 10:47 The last message of warning to go to the world 10:49 is to warn the world about this beast power. 10:53 So, should we be doing it or should we not? 10:55 We should be doing it. 10:56 Because God said the majority of the world will wander 10:59 after the beast and they are those, what? 11:02 Revelation 13:8. 11:04 We'll read it in a moment, 11:05 whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life. 11:08 Should that concern us today? 11:10 That concerns me because it says there are those 11:12 who names are not written in the Lamb's book of life. 11:15 That doesn't mean you're going to be saved 11:17 and does it. 11:18 If our name is not in the Lamb's book of life, 11:20 we will not be saved. 11:22 Profess what you want to profess. 11:24 Say I'm a Christian, I belong to this church 11:26 or that church or whatever it might be. 11:27 I go to church every week, I'm a Christian. 11:29 Jesus said, He's going to be 11:30 and you're going to be known by your fruits. 11:32 If you love Me, keep My commandments, 11:34 if you love Me, do as I have set the example. 11:37 And are we doing that today? Why Bible prophecy is given? 11:42 So, before it takes place, we are to warn the people. 11:46 Two, who can show the dream, you remember that 11:48 Daniel Chapter 2, Nebuchadnezzar, 11:50 God gave Nebuchadnezzar a, what? 11:52 A dream of a metal man, the history of this world. 11:56 What, I'm just like addled at different times 11:58 is why are we not hearing more about this, why aren't, 12:02 sure all churches thing about look, 12:04 there's a history of the world, 605 BC, 12:07 Nebuchadnezzar, until the coming of Jesus, 12:11 a simple history of the world. 12:13 God said, I'm going to set it up 12:14 and then, what? 12:16 As it comes to pass, 12:17 then your faith will be increased. 12:18 There's a little bit here 12:20 that has not come to fruition just yet, 12:22 but it will, but look at all the other, 12:25 just exactly the way God said, 12:26 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, 12:28 pagan Rome, and then what you have here, 12:30 the ten toes, Europe and then, what? 12:33 You got papal, naturally papal Rome. 12:35 And so we need to look at these issues 12:36 here that God gave this dream to Nebuchadnezzar, 12:39 to what, so that we would see the rise 12:41 and the fall of nations. 12:43 Think about it. 12:45 And then that will help us to say we are in the toes, 12:47 the toenails, of the coming of Jesus. 12:50 History has proven this to be true. 12:54 Not just say, don't say, well, that's some denomination, 12:56 that's some, history shows that 12:58 what I'm talking about is the gospel truth. 13:01 If more people would talk about 13:03 it in the pulpit or wherever it might be, 13:05 and they kept saying, we are in the toenails, 13:07 you see of this metal man, 13:09 we're right at the very end of time. 13:11 And the next thing we know the stones 13:13 are going to hit that image, ain't that right? 13:14 And boom. 13:16 And then God sets His kingdom up. 13:17 That should tell us, what? He's soon to come. 13:20 So, we and we need to be ready. 13:22 So that's why we're looking at this power here 13:24 that's taking the world captive right now. 13:27 It's working right now behind closed doors. 13:30 It's working in darkness right now 13:32 to continue to deceive. 13:34 And God says we need to open, put some light on this, 13:38 that the man of sin may be, what? 13:40 He may be revealed before Jesus shall come. 13:43 That's part of the job that God has given to last day people. 13:46 And anybody can be part of the last day people, 13:49 we just need to read the book. 13:51 And we need to be studying 13:52 the Book of Daniel and Revelation 13:54 like never before 13:56 and putting that together the way God said. 13:58 So, we did look at the third part. 14:00 We looked at was four beasts and the little horn 14:02 of Daniel Chapter 7, you remember that? 14:05 Four beasts came in, where? 14:07 Remember out of the earth, they represent the same 14:10 four world powers in Daniel Chapter 2. 14:13 Why is God repeating? 14:16 Do we ever need anything repeated? 14:18 Well, have mercy, so most of you forgot 14:20 we needed something repeated, 14:22 we need things repeat, right, things go over, 14:24 God gives them over. 14:25 So, and then in Daniel 8, He goes through 14:27 some of the same powers again, does He not? 14:29 Sure, He does. 14:30 So that we can comprehend 14:32 and then go into Revelation 13 and we will today, 14:35 God's going over some of these powers 14:37 combined together to say God's people 14:39 need to watch this power for what is getting ready 14:42 to do and He's doing, has done in times past, 14:45 will continue to do it and the whole world, you see, 14:48 will wander after and we don't want that, do we? 14:51 We don't want to, 14:52 we want to make, give a warning. 14:53 But listen, when you give a warning, 14:55 you get yourself in trouble. 14:56 You can get yourself in trouble 14:58 because in times in past history, 15:00 those who tried, 15:01 I was reading this week about a lot of our reformers. 15:04 Man our reformers in Wycliffe and Jerome and, you know, 15:07 Luther and all these men here. 15:08 Man, they just said exactly what they had on their heart 15:11 that the Holy Spirit impressed them to give. 15:14 I mean, they just let it out, 15:16 knowing that their life could be, 15:18 you know, cut close, just like that to an end, 15:20 come to an end real close. 15:21 Now, how many of us 15:23 would love Jesus enough to do that? 15:26 As we looked at Daniel Chapter 7, 15:28 notice these are quick identifying marks 15:29 of this little horn power. 15:31 The only reason I spent four time, 15:33 you try to come up with say now 15:34 why spend four different hours 15:36 on the subject here of why prophecy 15:39 or Daniel Chapter 2, Daniel Chapter 7, 15:42 Revelation 13. 15:43 It's so that once again, we can be reminded that 15:46 we have a job to do as God's people. 15:50 We have a job to do, 15:51 as I mentioned before Revelation Chapter 14, 15:54 is to give the three angels' message, 15:55 the warning to the world 15:57 and one of them is against the warning 15:58 against the mark of, what? 16:00 The mark of the beast. 16:02 We've established 16:03 who the beast is, is the papacy, 16:05 there's no doubt about it. 16:06 History proves that. 16:08 All we have to do is read a little bit, right? 16:10 And study the Word of God, so we understand. 16:12 So, we have to be careful and say, what? 16:14 We need to avoid the mark of this beast. 16:18 Something that this beast stands for that 16:21 the whole world will wander after in amazement that 16:24 this says this that notice this little horn power came up, 16:27 he was different from all the others, 16:29 you remember. 16:31 Identifying marks, remember? 16:33 When he came up, there was ten toes, right, 16:35 representing ten kingdoms. 16:36 When he came up, he uprooted three. 16:39 We're talking about the papacy. 16:41 Now you would know that 16:42 you would understand very easily 16:43 if when he uprooted three of those 16:45 who that little horn would be. 16:46 He was stouter than all the rest of them, 16:48 that mean he was very religious, 16:49 and a, what? 16:51 Political power. 16:52 Is the papacy, political and religious today? 16:55 They are in everything that's going on in the world, 16:58 whether it's political, whether it's religious, 17:00 they are involved with it, why, what cause? 17:02 He says, you know, 17:04 they need to be involved in these things. 17:05 Religious and political history tells us 17:09 this power is papal Rome, no doubt. 17:11 It even says how long? He says it will rise in 538. 17:14 That's when the last three went down. 17:16 He would last 1260 years and a deadly wound. 17:20 That was 1798. Was there a deadly wound? 17:23 Exactly. 17:25 Listen, this is important because again, 17:26 we have to make sure we identify, 17:28 we don't want to point the finger at some, 17:30 finger at somebody and say you're 17:31 and maybe they wouldn't be. 17:33 We want to make sure that 17:35 it's right based upon the Word of God 17:36 and then do what is right 17:38 that God says we are to do this, right? 17:41 It's talking about son of perdition here, 17:43 he's going to have to be revealed, right? 17:46 Before Jesus shall come, that means unmask. 17:48 Why? 17:49 Because the enemy has set up this power. 17:52 And the enemy, notice this, 17:53 gave him his power, his seat and great authority. 17:56 We need to make sure we have that really clear in our mind. 18:00 So, this power that came up, 18:01 the little horn, political and religious, 18:03 and lasted 1260 years, then there'd be a deadly wound. 18:07 What would he do? 18:09 He would persecute and kill God's people, 18:10 did he do that? Absolutely. 18:13 Said he would make war with the saints. 18:14 These are identifying marks that you can't miss. 18:18 He said he will speak great words 18:19 against the Most High. 18:21 I hope we have time to get into that, 18:22 the Most High. 18:23 He would think, listen to change times and, what? 18:27 The papacy would think to change times 18:29 and laws referring to the seventh day Sabbath 18:32 to the first day of the week. 18:34 And they boldly put it in print over and over and over. 18:38 No one can change God's law 18:40 but this man of sin says, I would ascend, 18:42 I will sit as it were, you see above God, 18:44 I'll be like the Most High and I'll prove that 18:47 I am because I will change God's Ten Commandment law. 18:50 I'll take Him out of the fourth commandment, 18:52 and I'll put myself in there, 18:54 then we'll change all the other, you remember. 18:56 They changed the Ten Commandments 18:57 with a second is you should not bow down 18:59 and worship, you know, the idols. 19:00 What did they do with that one? 19:02 Since they bow down 19:03 and worship idols, they took it out, 19:05 divided the tenth one and shoved them all up. 19:07 So, the seventh day Sabbath is the third one, 19:09 all the others are out of place. 19:11 He thinks he's God. 19:13 He's put himself in the place of God. 19:15 So, what God wants us to expose that 19:17 so people can look at it realistically 19:19 and not be fooled. 19:22 And another identifying mark, he claims to forgive, what? 19:26 This power that we're talking about 19:27 claims to forgive sin on earth. 19:29 Is there any other? 19:30 If you just had that one identify mark, 19:33 it's the only one, right? 19:34 It's only Christian, you call it Christian, 19:37 I have a hard time even doing that to be honest. 19:39 It's not that people we're talking about, 19:41 it's that organization that the enemy is behind. 19:44 They claim what? 19:45 That man claims to forgive sin on earth. 19:50 We ended with this statement. 19:51 Listen, we've got dozens and dozens of these statements. 19:55 And we realized if you are faithful to the end, 19:57 there is a price that you will pay. 20:00 I'm not ignorant, 20:01 may I use that word enough to realize 20:03 that what I say up here will not come back? 20:05 If I live long enough, it will come back. 20:09 Did you get it? Yeah. Has it through the ages. 20:13 It has, anyone that stood for truth. 20:15 I'm telling you, the devil is out to kill 20:17 and steal just like we read. 20:19 Here's what we end of the part three. 20:22 This is from a book called 20:23 Plain Talk about Protestantism of Today, page 213. 20:28 It says here, who do we reverence 20:30 by keeping Sunday? 20:32 Again, not trying to hurt anything or anybody. 20:34 Who do we reverence by keeping Sunday? 20:36 Here's what the Catholic Church says about themselves. 20:38 It was the Catholic Church, 20:40 which has transferred the rest of Sunday 20:42 in remembrance 20:44 of the resurrection of our Lord. 20:46 Therefore, the observance of Sunday by Protestant, 20:49 is anybody here Protestant? 20:53 Now, evidently there's not. 20:55 Do we even realize what Protestant even means? 21:00 That means you protest, yeah, protest what? 21:03 Not only err, you protest Catholicism. 21:07 What is all these reformers do during the Dark Ages? 21:09 They were reformers and they protested what? 21:12 Catholicism. 21:14 They were burned at the stake 21:16 for doing what I'm talking about today. 21:18 They were killed and fed to the lions. 21:22 For what exactly is going on right here right now. 21:26 Man, we need to get this, 21:27 this is life and death issue that we're talking about. 21:30 It's not a playground thing. 21:33 This is more than, Brother Mark, a band-aid. 21:37 I want to take the Holy Spirit, the power of the living God 21:40 in our hearts and our life to be able to stand. 21:42 Notice this, therefore, observance of Sunday by 21:45 Protestants is homage they pay in spite of themselves 21:50 to the authority of the Catholic Church. 21:53 See, most people have never heard that. 21:54 So, they don't know. 21:56 God doesn't hold you accountable 21:57 for what you don't know. 21:59 God loves you. 22:00 Yeah, you may be serving with best of your ability 22:02 all of your life, God understands that, 22:04 and you're in a good relationship with Him 22:06 until you hear what truth is 22:07 and then what are you going to do with it. 22:08 Does that make sense? 22:11 See, in my ignorance, not knowing God has... 22:14 I'm gonna say He put up with me because I didn't know. 22:17 But once I understand what truth is, 22:19 then all of a sudden I become, what? 22:21 Accountable to Him 22:23 that knoweth to do good and doeth not to Him. 22:25 To Him is what? 22:26 To Him is sin, to Him that knoweth to do good 22:30 and then you do it not, it's sin. 22:32 Don't give us this old business. 22:33 Well, this is the way my dad did 22:35 and my grandma, we all went through that, 22:36 we all have moms and dads and grannies, we love. 22:39 Is that right? Is that fair enough, 22:41 but God does not hold them accountable 22:43 for what they understood as truth. 22:46 Whatever, they may never heard 22:48 of a Sabbath keeping the commandments. 22:49 They may never have heard that, but they did the best they knew 22:52 how to do and that's good with God. 22:54 But now the day comes when that's changing. 22:57 God said He's going to reveal, 22:58 He's going to give us these beautiful truths. 23:01 And so, we're looking at it, 23:02 we don't want to pay homage in spite of ourselves, right? 23:06 To the Roman Church. We don't want to do that. 23:08 And you say how to do it? 23:09 If we're going to church on the day 23:10 that they made 23:12 and said it was holy and it's not. 23:13 Man can't make anything holy. 23:15 Revelation 13 quickly, 23:16 oh, I've just got so wound up on all this other stuff. 23:19 Somebody pray for me. 23:23 Yeah, we, I mean this, this is powerful. 23:26 Notice right here, 23:27 the scripture in Revelation 13 begin with 1. 23:30 It's like, we just have to read it. 23:33 And remember, Revelation Chapter 13, 23:36 you have the first 10 verses 23:38 that identifies that the papacy. 23:41 And then when verses 11 through 18 of Revelation 13 23:45 is the United States in Bible prophecy 23:48 because United States in Bible prophecy, 23:50 the United States makes an image to the beast. 23:53 That means there'll be a Sunday law. 23:55 I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna let it go. 23:57 Just let it go. 23:59 And that's what people will write in and say, 24:01 well, you just talk like 24:02 you're talking to a bunch of people. 24:03 Well, you haven't heard parts one, two and three. 24:07 You may need those. 24:08 But we see here that 24:09 the Bible is talking about here. 24:11 John said here, he said, 24:12 I stood up on the sand of the, what? 24:14 I stood on the sand to see, I'm putting my glasses on. 24:16 I have a hard time seeing. Somebody pray for me. 24:22 And I do mean that, right? It's important. 24:25 He said, "I stood upon the sand of the sea, 24:27 I saw a beast do," what? 24:30 "Rise up out of the sea, 24:32 having seven heads and ten horns." 24:33 What's the subject? Seven heads and ten horns. 24:36 Notice this, "And upon his head, 24:39 the name of blasphemy." 24:40 God is telling us already about this beast power. 24:42 We'll go in and we'll discuss them 24:44 as we have time, 24:45 but let's put this thing together, shall we? 24:47 Verse 2, notice this. 24:49 "And the beast which I saw," 24:51 notice this, "was unto a leopard, 24:55 his feet were like the feet of a bear, 24:57 his mouth as the mouth of a lion." 24:59 Is there some symbolism that we studied before? 25:02 Absolutely. 25:04 But notice what John says, I saw this here. 25:05 Now notice here's that, 25:07 "And the dragon gave him his power, 25:10 and his seat, his throne," 25:13 thank you, "and great authority." 25:15 Hope we have time to cover some more on that. 25:18 I mean, that's his power. Now, who did what here? 25:22 The dragon gave him his... 25:25 The dragon gave him his power, 25:28 and his seat, and the great authority. 25:30 Who is the dragon? How do we know that? 25:34 How do I, oh, yeah, you want better than that? 25:36 Revelation 12:9, 25:38 it talks about the dragon, right? 25:40 The old devil, Satan. 25:41 It makes it a fact, the Satan gave this power 25:44 its seat and its great authority. 25:47 Now, why would the world want to wander after that then? 25:51 Because they're not studying. 25:53 They don't want to know this, 25:54 because they're happy where they're at. 25:57 They don't want to make any changes. 25:58 Most people that I meet and talk to nowadays 26:00 they really don't want any changes in their life. 26:03 They don't want to hear about any, 26:04 and they don't want to hear 26:05 what you have to say about it either. 26:07 They don't have time to hear about 26:08 because they're busy in things of this world. 26:11 But one of these days they will beg and plead, 26:14 I say for the Word of God and it will not be, 26:16 that they'll not hear it anymore. 26:19 Yeah, gain the whole world he said here, 26:20 but lose your own soul. 26:22 It's not worth it. It's not worth it. 26:25 The Bible is very clear about this. 26:27 And again, if we have correctly 26:29 and we have because of the history, 26:31 and because of the Bible that says who this beast is, 26:35 and the devil gave him his power, 26:37 his seat, the dragon and great authority. 26:40 Again, true church, the false church, 26:43 true church follows Christ plan. 26:45 Isn't that right? 26:46 Whatever Jesus taught, how He lived. 26:48 That's what we do. You're safe. 26:51 But now the enemy has come by 26:52 and he's counterfeited every one of the truth. 26:55 Why? Because the Bible was what? 26:57 Bible was chained to the walls, you remember? 27:00 In fact, in the Dark Ages, they were not allowed. 27:02 Only the priest and the pope could read the Bible 27:04 and they told the people, what? 27:06 What they wanted them to hear. Yes, yeah. 27:11 When you went to school, grade school, different things, 27:13 you were taught what they wanted you. 27:15 They didn't want you reading for yourself. 27:17 And the Bible plainly says, 27:18 study to show thyself approved unto God. 27:22 So, we see the beast here, verse 3 quickly. 27:24 "I saw one of its," what? 27:27 "Heads as it were wounded to death, 27:30 the deadly wound was healed." 27:31 What did we just talk about in the beginning? 27:33 There'd be a deadly wound that would be given, why? 27:35 538, 1798, 1260 years, 27:39 same as 42 months, same as three and a half years. 27:42 All you have to do is take a year, 27:43 12 months and 30 days each one and every time 27:46 you'll see three and a half, 42 months, 1200, it's 1260. 27:52 They're all the same because God is repeating 27:54 in Revelation Chapter, I think it's what? 27:56 It's 11, you know, 27:58 you'll find two different applications there. 28:00 Revelation Chapter 12, you'll see Revelation 13. 28:02 You will see this application. 28:04 If you're jotting it down, jot down Revelation 11:2. 28:08 In Revelation 11:3, jot those down. 28:11 Revelation 12:6, 28:12 jot it down and see what it's talking about. 28:14 And then you look at Daniel Chapter, 28:17 I think it's 7:25, Revelation 12:14, 28:20 these things all come into play. 28:22 This is how you put line upon line, 28:24 precept upon precept, 28:25 here a little and there a little. 28:28 The deadly wound. 28:29 But here's, here's the thing, what? 28:30 The deadly wound was healed. Oh, my, listen to this. 28:34 John saw the deadly wound being healed. 28:38 And then the world wandered after the beast. 28:41 They were wandering 28:42 after something that the beast had instituted. 28:45 They may not realize they're wandering 28:46 as it were following after the beast 28:48 because they don't know, why? 28:50 Because Sunday instituted at least 1000 years, 28:53 1500 before there ever was a Protestant. 28:56 No one wants to protest. 28:58 And you go back in history, 29:00 and you can read all these things 29:01 for yourself and you can see it. 29:02 Notice it. 29:04 And here we get down to the nitty gritty. 29:05 Well, you say, well, I'm not sure, 29:06 Revelation 13:4 says this, "And they worshipped," what? 29:11 "The dragon." Oh, they worshipped what? 29:14 It didn't say they worship the beast 29:16 even though, first of all, 29:17 they said they worshipped the dragon. 29:19 Who's the dragon? It's Satan. 29:22 They worshipped Satan. 29:24 Remember, just before that 29:25 the Bible said there in verse 3, 29:28 the world wander after the... 29:30 In other words, they followed after the beast. 29:33 They accepted something 29:35 that they thought maybe was Christian. 29:37 They didn't know any difference. 29:40 Wow. 29:41 And so, they worship, see, this is something 29:43 we need to pay attention to, do we not? 29:45 I mean, how, you can read this to people. 29:48 And they don't, like it doesn't faze them 29:50 when it says, "They worshipped the dragon." 29:53 This has to do with who we give allegiance to 29:56 and who we worship, does it not? 29:58 "And they worshipped the devil," 29:59 that's what it says, 30:01 "which gave power to the beast," 30:03 once again, and they what? 30:07 "And they worshipped the beast, 30:08 saying, who is like unto the beast? 30:10 Who is able to make war with him? 30:13 And there was given unto him 30:14 a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy, 30:17 powers given to him to continue," how long? 30:20 "Forty two months." Is what it's talking. 30:21 See, God is going over the same thing again 30:23 and saying, look, here's this beast power, 30:25 here's what's going to happen, 30:27 it's going to last exactly this long, 30:28 the deadly wound is going to be good, 30:29 the deadly wound is going to be healed. 30:31 And all the world's going to wander 30:32 after this beastly power 30:34 or something that was instituted by them. 30:36 And remember, if the devil is a deceiver, 30:38 he's not bold enough to come out 30:40 and say, I did it. 30:41 He used his powers, nations, a church. 30:44 Where do you think the devil is working right now? 30:46 Can somebody help me? 30:47 Is he working outside? Well, you'd say, yeah, he is. 30:49 But what is he joined? He's joined the church. 30:54 He's joined the church. 30:57 Yeah, he joined the church. He's a member of the church. 30:59 Don't let him be a member of your church, kick him out. 31:02 Disfellowship him. Right? 31:05 He should have no place in your church where you go. 31:08 And when false doctrine and teaching comes in, 31:11 that's where that enemy comes right on in with that. 31:14 Remember, if it's not a true teaching of God, 31:16 then it is a teaching of the devil. 31:18 Man, can you look up all kinds of dozens 31:21 and dozens of false teaching. 31:22 Man, we need that, 31:24 we need to get in the Word of God. 31:25 Notice this, verse 6, 31:28 "He opened his mouth," to do what? 31:30 "To blaspheme against God, to blaspheme his name, 31:34 and his tabernacle, and them that dwell." 31:36 Notice this, we're reading just a moment about blasphemy. 31:40 But even more than that, 31:41 notice that the devil is going to set himself up 31:43 in the place of God in God's temple. 31:46 He's going to try to do it. 31:47 And the world's letting him do it 31:48 because we don't protest anymore. 31:50 We don't protest err. 31:52 It's a, well we, well, 31:53 if that's what you believe it's all right. 31:55 Well, everybody just believes what they want to believe. 31:57 No, we need to believe 31:59 what God has said in His Word, ain't that right? 32:01 Every one of us has that, 32:02 how many people are on the planet? 32:04 Close to seven billion, six and a half billion? 32:06 Can somebody help me? About that many? 32:08 You realize you put everybody together 32:09 if you could do that, billion, 32:11 everybody has a different thought 32:12 about everything. 32:14 Just about. 32:15 Isn't that a lot of different thoughts? 32:17 We don't need the thoughts of all of us, 32:18 we need the, what? 32:20 The mind of Christ. 32:21 And He reveals that to us in His Word. 32:24 Notice he blaspheme against God. 32:26 Now remember talking about forgiveness of sin, verse 7. 32:29 "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints." 32:32 We know that, we talked about it. 32:33 "He overcame them, 32:34 power was given him over all kindreds, and," what? 32:38 "Power was given to kindreds, and tongues, and nations." 32:41 The whole world did it. 32:43 And all of the world wandered after the beast, 32:45 we're getting ready to read it there in verse 8. 32:47 "And all that dwell on the earth," how many? 32:50 I know I'm going fast. I need to calm down. 32:52 I'm just gonna have to calm down, somebody. 32:56 Well, people can't understand when I get going jabbering. 33:00 You know why? 33:01 Because you're fighting against the clock all the time. 33:04 Because you've had plenty of time, 33:06 who could cover this, 33:07 each verse should be taken an hour 33:09 just to get a simple idea of what's going on, 33:11 let alone try to cover ten verses 33:13 that are critical to the people of God 33:15 here in these last days. 33:16 I really believe that. 33:18 They're critical to, if we understand it, why? 33:20 Here's the verse, because, 33:22 "All that dwell on the earth shall," what? 33:26 Follow after him, worship, what is the word again? 33:29 Worship, it has to do with who we worship. 33:34 We either worship the dragon. 33:35 Do you see this here? Or we worship God? 33:38 That's what he's talking about here. 33:39 "And whose names are not written," where? 33:42 "In the book of life of the Lamb slain 33:44 from the foundation of the world." 33:45 Verse 9. 33:46 "If any man has an ear," 33:48 I'm challenging you with it right now. 33:49 "If any man has an ear, let him, let him hear." 33:54 Verse 10. Now this is last verse. 33:55 "He that leadeth into captivity," shall what? 33:59 Talking about this power. 34:00 He's led a lot, he's led a lot into captivity. 34:02 And he's also going to be led in captivity, 34:05 he that killeth with a sword must be killed with a sword. 34:08 Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 34:12 The God saying, here's the patience, 34:13 there's going to be a small group. 34:16 They're not going to be loved in the world, 34:17 they're going to be blamed for everything 34:18 that's going on in the world, 34:20 that's going on even right now that as we're talking. 34:23 Eventually the finger will be pointed. 34:25 Was that, what happened with Jesus? 34:26 That what happened to disciples? 34:28 The true followers of Christ, the true followers of Christ, 34:31 everybody went like this. 34:35 If you're a true follower, but you know, 34:37 the sad part of most of this right here 34:39 is those who profess to be true followers of Christ, 34:41 when the hammer goes down, 34:43 when the going gets tough, right? 34:45 When the laws of the land are passed, 34:47 when people start to snicker and laugh at you and saying, 34:50 you're an oddball, you're a freak. 34:51 It's okay to say that one? Yeah, most will do. 34:55 Most will just tone it down and run off and hide somewhere. 34:59 Majority of those who profess to love the truth 35:03 and the Word of God, when the pressure is applied 35:06 or someone said today 35:08 you cannot come to this church again, 35:09 the doors are gonna be locked, 35:11 don't you dare come to this church again. 35:12 If you do, we're going to arrest you. 35:13 How many of us would show up? 35:16 All it has to do is rain a drop or two and most don't show up. 35:19 Well, is anybody following that thinking? 35:25 I thought it was going to. 35:29 I'm not trying to pick on anybody, 35:30 I'm just simply saying we thought it might storm, 35:32 we thought that. 35:34 If I'm feeling well, I'll show up. 35:38 Don't count on being sick. 35:41 John, did we get that? Okay. 35:45 All you have to do is to say something 35:47 that the enemy hears, right? 35:50 If my tires are up in the morning, 35:52 I'll go to church. 35:53 Well, you probably have a flat tire the next morning. 35:58 That's all you have to do is if I'm, 36:00 and I've tried to, 36:01 we've all been involved in that, 36:03 but we just don't need to be. 36:05 What we say is by the grace of God, 36:07 I will be there. 36:09 If I have to walk, I'll be there. 36:12 You see, there's a difference. 36:13 Rather than say, well, 36:14 if my car starts in the morning, 36:17 we probably all said, but just think about it. 36:18 That's just an excuse. 36:20 Your car will start if God wants you to be there, 36:22 He'll start the car for you. 36:24 The tires will be up, I'm just simply saying is, 36:26 well, we say by the grace of God, 36:27 I'm going to be there. 36:30 This is what God wants to hear from His people here today. 36:33 Now think about these things with me for just a moment. 36:36 What did John see here? 36:37 We got maybe less than 20 minutes. 36:39 Whoa, right. Revelation 13:1-10 is powerful. 36:43 He saw a beast rising out of, let's cover real quick. 36:45 He saw a beast rise out of the, what? 36:48 The sea. What does that mean? 36:50 A beast. Yeah, people. 36:52 A beast is symbolic, 36:55 we'll talk about in Bible prophecy 36:56 it means a power, it means a kingdom. 36:59 It means a political power, it can mean a nation. 37:02 So, we're looking here that John said, I saw this, 37:05 this power coming up out of the sea, 37:08 and the sea, Revelation 17:15. 37:11 There are peoples and multitudes and nation, 37:14 it's talking about over in Europe right now 37:15 because we're in that timeframe. 37:17 Talking about heavy populated area, 37:19 John saw this beast power coming up 37:22 in a heavy populated area. 37:23 United States was not 37:25 in the heavy populated area at that time. 37:26 Are you with me? 37:28 So, we know where it was at 37:30 and we know what was going on in Europe. 37:31 We know most over there 37:33 with the papacy what's going on. 37:34 And we know the reformers 37:36 and what took place during the Dark Ages, 37:37 it helps us to understand. 37:39 Now, if you're saying, 37:40 I'm not sure about these nation, 37:43 it means kings, it could mean a kingdom. 37:47 Daniel 7:17, write that one down 37:50 because it refers to this beast as a king. 37:53 And in Daniel 7:23, 37:56 it talks about I saw this kingdom. 37:59 So, we realize, we can be sure that 38:01 we understand this kingdom, 38:02 this power that came up in a heavy populated area. 38:06 John saw this beast, 38:09 and he was intrigued by this beast. 38:11 It came up out of a heavy multitude of people. 38:15 It had to be, as I mentioned, it had to be where? 38:17 It had to be in Europe, it had to come from Europe. 38:20 Now as we look on, the beast had seven heads. 38:23 What a freaky looking beast. 38:25 I've never seen one with two head, 38:26 let alone seven. 38:29 Now remember, we're talking in symbolism. 38:31 And so, people read that sometime they go, 38:32 oh, we could never figure that out. 38:34 Let's just let it go. 38:36 Beast power had seven heads like, 38:38 now notice this, like a dragon. 38:41 Now think about it. 38:42 In Revelation Chapter 12, let's just do 38:44 a little comparison here quickly. 38:45 Revelation 12:3. 38:47 I'll just read it for you, 38:49 you notice what Revelation 12:3 says. 38:51 "And there appeared another wonder in heaven." 38:54 Now remember, Revelation Chapter 12 38:56 identifies God's last day church. 38:59 Did you get it? His pure church. 39:02 The woman in white. 39:03 And then compares it to Revelation 17 39:05 of the harlot on this beast, 39:07 you remember scarlet colored red beast. 39:10 Here's what the Bible said. 39:12 He said there, 39:13 "And there appeared another wonder in heaven, 39:14 and behold a red," notice it, "great red dragon." 39:18 Notice this red dragon. Dragon represents whom? 39:21 The devil, symbolism here, we're looking here. 39:23 Notice, "And this dragon 39:25 had seven heads and had ten horns, 39:28 and he had seven crowns on this head." 39:31 Notice this, in Revelation 17:3 says, 39:34 John said, "I saw this woman..." 39:38 John said what? "I saw this woman..." 39:41 What is a woman in Bible prophecy? 39:44 It represents the church, is it not? 39:46 A lot of study, you can do on that. 39:47 But here I saw this, 39:49 "The woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, 39:52 full of the name of blasphemy, 39:54 it had seven heads and ten," what? 39:56 "Horns." 39:58 John said, I saw in Revelation 17 what? 40:02 He said, I saw the great whore. Did you get it? 40:04 I saw mystical Babylon here, the great. 40:08 Revelation 17:5, she has always been 40:11 against God's people. 40:12 Remember, the dragon is the devil. 40:15 And so, everything the devil has done, 40:16 he's done his very best to stamp out God's faithful. 40:21 Has he not? 40:23 From the very beginning of time with Adam and Eve, 40:25 didn't where he started? 40:26 Stamp him out. The world will be mine. 40:30 Praise God, you know, for Calvary, ain't that right? 40:32 Thank God for Jesus. 40:34 That goes another chance 40:36 because the world was lost because Adam and Eve chose. 40:39 She was deceived, he chose, they sinned against God. 40:43 Now, don't ever think for a moment, 40:45 and I'll just throw this in if you don't mind, 40:46 throw it back out if you want to. 40:49 Don't ever think that, well, 40:50 I've just got one little issue in life 40:52 and God understands it. 40:54 It's going to be all right. 40:56 Adam and Eve were taken from their home, were they not? 40:59 They were kicked out because of what? 41:02 Twenty five thousand sins or one? 41:07 Just one. Just one. 41:11 Moses. How about Moses? 41:13 Here faithful man of God. 41:15 I would have screamed and pulled out little hair 41:16 I've got out if I was in his shoes. 41:19 Are you still with me? 41:20 I had to put up with the people, you see, 41:23 and trying to be God's leader 41:24 and all the people was turned on him 41:26 and what you bring us out here 41:27 that we're gonna die and boom, boom, boom. 41:28 Moses just did what? 41:30 One time, God said speak to the rock 41:32 and Moses did something different, didn't he? 41:34 What he did? He struck the rock. 41:36 Who is the rock? You don't strike Jesus. 41:41 He struck the rock and then the Lord said, 41:42 okay, it's time for... 41:44 I told you to speak to rock. 41:46 See, it makes a difference with God, 41:47 a word makes a difference. 41:50 And so, He called Moses upon the mountain, 41:52 there he died. 41:55 But it seemed like to put up with all that he put up with, 41:57 it may just, almost make an excuse was okay 41:59 because he's frustrated. 42:01 Time and time again 42:02 they had been fed railroad cars of food every day. 42:07 Did you get it? Railroad cars. 42:09 Millions of gallons of water every day in the desert 42:12 where there was no water, 42:13 God supplied them, ain't that right? 42:16 Manna from heaven. Every day God was there, right? 42:20 Every day God was there 42:21 with that cloud to cover His people 42:23 because they're so hot. 42:24 Every night there was a pillar of fire around them 42:26 to keep them a little bit warmer. 42:28 God was with His people, 42:30 but He will not tolerate sin from you 42:33 or from me or anyone else. 42:34 And we think heaven is going to be our home. 42:36 It's a time we're living in is the hour of God's judgment. 42:39 It's a time to get right with whom? 42:41 With God. 42:42 It's time as it were, 42:44 so that our sins can be blotted out. 42:45 Send them into the most holy place 42:47 where Jesus is at right now, 42:48 mediating as our name comes up. 42:51 We can't make excuses to say, well, God, no, yeah, He knows 42:54 but He can't do anything about it 42:55 until we bring it to Him. 42:57 Man, we're looking at this power, this beast, 42:59 this seven heads and ten horns. 43:01 He saw this woman mystical Babylon, 43:03 always against God's people. 43:05 And notice what she does? 43:06 The Bible said here she sits, did you get it? 43:09 Here she sits, meaning, 43:11 if somebody, this woman is sitting on this beast 43:13 with the heads and the crowns, 43:15 she sits on that beast, mean she's in control. 43:19 The beast power, papacy, you're still with me? 43:21 Still, and the devil is using that right, 43:23 the dragon they said gave him power, 43:25 seat and authority, sits as a queen as it were, 43:28 she's in, she's a head of man, 43:30 she's a head of as it were religion, 43:32 the civil government, church and state together. 43:35 Verse 18, read that when you have an opportunity, 43:38 but she's full on these heads are written blasphemy. 43:41 So, we can identify, so we need not make a mistake. 43:44 We just read one verse quickly for, in Mark. 43:48 We know that Mark Chapter 2, I believe 27. 43:52 Now notice, your blasphemy covers a pretty broad area, 43:55 realize somebody, listen blasphemy is in a, 43:59 the principal is claiming their prerogatives 44:02 that belong to God. 44:04 Does that make sense? 44:05 Claiming the prerogatives that belong to God alone 44:07 so the beast power of the papacy claims 44:10 those same things even higher. 44:12 God is below them. Interesting. 44:15 But notice what the Bible said about blasphemy. 44:18 I assume verse 27, it's not the one? 44:21 No, 2:7. 44:23 Now remember, Jesus was, 44:25 Jesus was working here with some folks. 44:27 And he said, "There were certain scribes," 44:28 verse 6, "sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts." 44:32 Verse 7, Mark 2 says 44:34 and they looked at Jesus, as they said, 44:35 "Why does this man thus speak blasphemy? 44:39 Who can forgive sins but God only?" 44:42 So, this power then would be claiming to forgive, what? 44:45 Sins on this earth. 44:47 There's only one power 44:49 that I know of that claims to forgive sins on earth. 44:52 That's why they have their confessional. 44:53 That's how they have their masters 44:55 and all the stuff that they have. 45:00 No, absolutely not. 45:01 So, we don't go to a man to ask for forgiveness of sin. 45:04 God is identifying this power 45:06 again and again and again and again, 45:09 so that we're not deceived. 45:11 If man, if man goes to man, if I go to Brother Mark here, 45:14 and I'm confessing my sins to him, 45:15 man, I've still got him. 45:17 He can't forgive me, 45:18 I can't forgive him of anything. 45:20 There's only one that can do that. 45:22 There's only one mediator between God and man, 45:24 and that is Jesus Christ, isn't that right? 45:27 He's only one that we go to Him and we confess our sins. 45:30 And he's like, whoa, 45:31 He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins 45:33 and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 45:36 Here, this harlot as it were, this prostitute, what? 45:40 Prostituting the spirits 45:41 as well the Gospel of Jesus Christ, 45:43 coming up with all these false doctrines 45:45 and false teaching that people say, well, 45:47 we don't want to talk about 45:48 because we want everything to be in common. 45:52 God help us if that's our thinking. 45:55 We love to have things, we love to get along, 45:57 we like to thank you, 45:58 but what is, we said, well, we're all in unity now. 46:00 There's not a church in the world that's all, 46:02 everybody's all in unity, 46:03 they may say, they'll say what we agree on, right? 46:06 We'll talk about these, we agree. 46:08 The things that we disagree on, we don't make an issue, right? 46:13 This all, you know, common, everything in common. 46:17 The enemy wants to make you think along that line. 46:21 Let's read another verse that we got there in Mark 7, 46:24 turn over with me to Mark 7 quickly, 46:26 we read it again. 46:27 Mark 7:22. Mark 7:22. 46:31 The Bible said, it's talking about 46:34 "Thieves and covetousness, 46:35 wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness and evil eye 46:39 and blasphemy." 46:41 Did you get it? "Pride and foolishness. 46:44 All these evil things come from within, 46:47 and defile the man." 46:49 What defiles the man? 46:51 Blasphemy, thieving, written, 46:52 you know all this wickedness here. 46:54 God is just identifying 46:56 that somebody who's saying I can forgive your sin. 46:58 That's evil. That comes from the enemy. 47:01 It's all evil. 47:03 It's what the Bible says, the names of the seven heads. 47:06 Names indicate, remember, a character. 47:09 In the Bible, you know, 47:10 the name when somebody was, had a name, 47:12 it meant something back then, 47:14 we just pull one out of the sky 47:15 sometime now for our children. 47:17 But everybody had a name back that it meant something, 47:19 did it not? 47:20 It had a meaning to it. 47:21 And so now as we look at that indicates the character. 47:25 Verse 2 in Revelation 13, back quickly, Revelation 13, 47:28 we're not gonna be able to finish by any means, 47:30 but we'll do the best we can. 47:32 Revelation Chapter 13. I'm going back there. 47:35 You can go back there with me if you will. 47:38 Remember what verse 2, we read those, 47:39 now we're trying to go over them 47:41 and cover them a little bit here. 47:42 Verse 2, Revelation 13:2 says, 47:44 "And the beast 47:46 which I saw was like unto," what? 47:48 "I was like unto a leopard." 47:49 Now notice this, 47:50 "His feet were like the feet of a bear, 47:52 mouth of the mouth of a," what? 47:53 "Of a lion." 47:55 So, you had a leopard, 47:56 you had a bear and you had a, what? 47:57 Of a lion. 47:59 That takes us back to Daniel Chapter 7, 48:01 you notice where Daniel said. 48:03 First, he said it was like a lion 48:05 and then he said it's like a bear. 48:07 And the third was like a leopard. 48:09 So, we had Daniel was looking forward, 48:11 and John was looking, what? 48:12 Backward. 48:14 That's why he listed them as such. 48:15 But you notice, this power is going to have 48:16 the characteristics of three of these, Babylon, 48:20 Medo-Persia and Greece. 48:23 Think of all the paganism that was involved in this era. 48:25 But this power, this beast, 48:27 the papacy would get other teaching 48:29 and doctrine from this, this pagan, the pagan powers. 48:33 So, the beast had physical characteristics 48:37 from all three. 48:38 Notice, who gave the beast power once again? 48:42 The dragon is what it says. 48:44 Now remember, the dragon first represents Satan, 48:46 there's no doubt about it. 48:48 But secondarily, in secondary 48:50 it represents the Roman Emperor, 48:53 notice this, or empire. 48:55 Now what happened to the Roman Empire? 48:57 Remember, it was divided into, right, ten, 49:00 then the little horn came up and who took control. 49:02 Notice this, the power coming up after Roman Empire, 49:06 which received the power 49:07 from the dragon now receives his power, 49:11 his seat, and his great authority 49:14 is clearly papal Rome. 49:16 Did you get it? 49:17 It's clearly papal Rome because it says, 49:20 it receives his power from the same source here. 49:24 More you say, well, I'm not sure that 49:25 that the papacy is the one that followed it. 49:27 Let me just read something from history, 49:29 the rise of the Medieval Church in 1900, page 150 says this. 49:33 Out of the ruins of political Rome 49:36 arose the great moral empire in the giant 49:39 form of the Roman Church. 49:41 See, history even tells us 49:42 this is the power that came up that 49:44 we need to be aware of, I mean, really aware of. 49:48 Behind all of this, remember, 49:50 Satan is seeking to destroy God's Church. 49:54 He tried during, we talked about 49:55 the Dark Ages, has he not? 49:57 Persecuting and killing, that didn't work. 50:00 So, he changed his battle plan. 50:02 You think the devil doesn't have plan? 50:03 And we talked about that, 50:05 his battle plan was he changed his system 50:07 of thinking that I will join in with him. 50:09 I'm going to work, he's saying through paganism. 50:12 Now that didn't work very well, either enough. 50:15 So, he began to work in the church. 50:17 And he brought all of this and to disguise his identity. 50:22 See, I'm in the church now, 50:23 well, I go to church, I go to church. 50:25 The devil does, you know, I think he used to fear that 50:27 when you say you're a Christian or you talk about the cross. 50:31 He doesn't fear that anymore unless it changes your life, 50:34 did you get it? 50:35 If the cross of Calvary changes your life, the enemy is afraid. 50:40 He didn't like you if you didn't say Bible, 50:42 he didn't like for you to say Jesus. 50:44 But why, you can say Jesus all you want 50:46 as far as he's concerned, 50:47 he may get behind you and say Jesus himself 50:49 if it doesn't change you, but if it changes you, 50:52 he doesn't like it. 50:54 And the truth should change us. 50:56 Notice his seat, Revelation 13, 51:00 his seat and his throne is read in some Bibles, 51:02 the Pope's ascended to the throne of the Caesars. 51:07 So, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt. 51:09 Now another word for throne, 51:10 let's just look at it quickly before time runs out. 51:12 Another word for throne in the Greek is cathedra, 51:18 another what? 51:19 Cathedra. 51:21 The Latin siege, S-E-D-E-S in English is see, 51:26 the holy, what? 51:28 See, notice this. 51:29 The throne, the cathedra is located in the cathedral. 51:34 Is somebody with me? 51:36 The city which the throne is located is called the Sedes. 51:40 You get it? 51:42 The ultimate in the Sedes, notice this, in the, 51:44 we're talking about in Catholicism 51:47 is we know is the Holy Sedes, 51:49 the city where the Popes are seated 51:53 and is located were? 51:54 In the city of Rome. 51:56 The Bible tells us exactly what's going to happen, 51:58 who's going to take the place 51:59 and where they're going to sit and all about it here. 52:01 It becomes very clear 52:02 as we study and read these things, 52:04 the Holy Sedes. 52:05 He had great power and great authority over people 52:10 and nations and religion, 52:12 but they say the deadly wound would be given to this. 52:15 We went over the deadly wound, the political. 52:18 That was the political power of the papacy, 52:20 it came to an end in 1798. 52:23 And you know what? 52:25 When it was restored, this is history. 52:26 I wish I'd brought those pictures I had there, 52:28 I could show you the picture of the actual signing. 52:31 You see of the Lateran Treaty, you read that in 1929. 52:34 What happened? 52:36 The Lateran Treaty 1929, the papacy was restored, 52:38 you notice that, 52:40 restored the temporal power to the Pope, 52:42 and the rule of Vatican City was given back to him. 52:45 I get pictures of that. 52:46 It's there for history, we can look at, 52:48 just exactly what the Bible said that it would, 52:51 the deadly wound would be healed 52:52 and all the world would wander after the beast. 52:56 But you know what? 52:57 Before we end with this time, the prophet sees much more that 53:00 we talked about there in verse 8. 53:02 It sickens him because he sees all the world 53:05 wandering after this beast power, 53:08 except the faithful few, just a faithful few. 53:13 Because the Bible said he caused us, 53:14 you remember that, all, 53:16 them which dwell to worship the first beast, 53:18 whose deadly wound was healed in verse 12, 53:20 as Revelation 13:11, 12. 53:22 He causes all laws that are passed, 53:26 but there is a little group, 53:27 and I'm going to read you that group right now 53:29 and just kind of bust your bubble 53:30 maybe just a little bit, if you don't mind. 53:32 But it's very, very clear because there is a little group 53:36 because all the world's going to wander after him 53:38 but there's one group here. 53:39 It doesn't give a name of that necessarily, 53:41 but it says this, 53:42 Revelation 12:17, everybody knows it. 53:44 It says, "And the dragon," who's the dragon? 53:46 The devil was angry, 53:47 "wroth with the woman," the church, 53:50 "and went to make war with the remnant of her," 53:52 the remnant, the last little part 53:54 of the remnant of her seed, 53:56 "which keep the commandments of God, 53:58 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 54:01 Spirit of Prophecy in the church. 54:02 Two identify marks of God's last day church 54:05 that will stand victorious against the enemy. 54:08 To give, what? 54:09 Give the message of, certainly a warning 54:11 of Revelation Chapter 14 is very, very clear. 54:14 Remember the warning here 54:15 that we need to be reading and studying every day. 54:17 Right here I'm just going to give you the last one 54:19 here in Revelation 14:9, 10. 54:22 "And the third angel followed them, 54:24 saying with a loud voice, if any man worship," the what? 54:28 "The beast and his image, 54:30 receive the mark in his forehead, 54:31 or in his hand, the same shall drink 54:33 of the wine of the wrath of God, 54:35 that's poured out, what, in the cup of his indignation, 54:38 he shall be tormented with fire 54:39 and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, 54:41 and in the presence of the Lamb." 54:43 God gives a specific warning 54:46 about those who will follow after this power. 54:48 Our whole study has to deal with make sure that 54:50 we've identified beyond a shadow of a doubt 54:53 this beast power, 54:54 which is the papacy, the Roman Catholic Church, 54:57 again, not individuals, am I talking, talking about. 55:00 I'm talking about 55:02 the organization that the dragon gave him, what? 55:05 His power, his seat and great authority. 55:07 The enemy has raised it all up, and why all the false teachings 55:10 and doctrines has went on, you see, 55:12 and the world has been taken captive by this. 55:15 And God said there'll be a little group 55:17 in the last days that will expose this man of sin. 55:19 Will you be one of those today? 55:21 Will I be one by the grace of God? 55:23 I pray that I am. 55:24 I'm gonna have a quick prayer right now 55:26 before we close right now and ask God to bless 55:27 those who maybe this is the hit home to them. 55:29 Let's pray. 55:30 Father in heaven, we thank You for Your precious spirit. 55:33 We realize that message is very difficult, very hard, 55:36 and maybe hurtful for some, 55:37 Lord, we're not trying to be hurtful. 55:38 We want to present the truth 55:40 because You have commissioned us 55:41 to do that the last day people. 55:42 Bless us, we pray to this. 55:44 And thank You for those that made that decision. 55:45 In Jesus name, amen. 55:48 Remember, stay in the Word of God, 55:50 get into if you still have questions, 55:52 be sure and give us a call here at Behold the Lamb, 55:53 we'll do what we can. 55:55 We love you and appreciate you and thank you. 55:56 And we'll see you next time. 55:59 Hello and welcome back. 56:01 How wonderful that God left for us 56:03 in the Bible identifying marks 56:05 of a beast power that works deceptively, 56:08 against most all that is truth and righteousness. 56:12 We must do our part, however, friends, 56:15 to study to show ourselves approved unto God 56:17 just as we read in 2 Timothy 2:15. 56:22 Without the study of God's Word, 56:24 without making His word our absolute moral guide 56:27 and instruction book, we will be deceived. 56:31 I thank the Lord for people like Pastor Kenny Shelton 56:34 and others who have devoted literally hours upon hours 56:38 and years of study and prayer 56:40 in order to rightly divide the Word of God 56:43 and to present it in a fashion 56:45 that is easy for each of us to grasp and understand. 56:48 That's a calling answered and praise God 56:51 for the many watchmen on the walls 56:53 that continue to sound the warnings 56:55 for each of us to heed. 56:57 I believe that this four-part series 56:59 has warnings in there that we need to heed. 57:02 And I hope that 57:03 you'll want to order this series 57:04 that is entitled 57:06 "Trust in the Sure Word of Prophecy," 57:08 and have it for your own study library. 57:11 All you have to do is call us 57:13 here at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 57:15 We're offering it to you 57:16 for a love gift of just $29 or more. 57:19 Our phone number is 618-942-5044, 57:24 that Central Time or you may write 57:26 to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:28 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:33 You may also order this series on our website 57:37 at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 57:39 or email me 57:41 at BeholdTheLambMinistries @Yahoo.com. 57:44 Friends, we look forward to hearing from you. 57:47 And until next time, may our precious Lord 57:49 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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