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00:38 Hello and welcome again
00:40 to another episode of Behold the Lamb Presents. 00:43 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, 00:44 and I look forward to spending this hour with you. 00:48 Today's message has somewhat of a long title, 00:51 Pope Leo XIII, 00:53 we hold upon the earth the place of God Almighty. 00:58 The last portion of today's title 01:00 may surprise some of you. 01:02 But I'm sure that many of you 01:03 realize that this is a quote 01:05 from Pope Leo XIII 01:07 from his encyclical letter of June 20th back in 1894. 01:13 And should you be curious 01:15 enough to research this statement or this title, 01:19 you will find that Pope Leo XIII was 01:22 and or is not the only one 01:25 that has this very same thought. 01:28 So is it any wonder that 01:29 this self exaltation to that of God on earth 01:33 has brought about major laws 01:35 and traditions that affect all of us 01:39 in one form or another? 01:40 And what other church leader 01:43 that you know of gets 01:45 the same homage as is shown to the pope? 01:48 I don't know of any myself. 01:50 With such world dominance for so many years, 01:54 it should not surprise anyone 01:56 that this religiopolitical power 01:58 is described in the Word of God, 02:01 God, the true God of heaven, 02:04 whom in Isaiah 44:6 states that, 02:08 "I am the first and I am the last, 02:12 and besides me there is no God." 02:15 He saw fit to warn us about this power in His Word. 02:20 So today, Pastor Kenny Shelton 02:22 will be delving specifically into the prophecies of Daniel 7 02:26 to share with each of us what the Holy Spirit of God 02:29 has laid upon his heart about this power 02:32 that claims to be God Almighty on earth, 02:37 and how this power will continue to affect 02:40 God's people until they are all sealed. 02:43 Again, the title of the message today 02:46 is Pope Leo XIII, 02:49 we hold upon the earth the place of God Almighty. 02:54 But first, let's visit 3ABN 02:56 and listen to a song 02:57 entitled Rock of Ages as sung by Pam Lister. 03:16 Rock of Ages, cleft for me 03:21 Le me hide myself in thee 03:27 Let the water and the blood 03:32 From thy wounded side which flowed 03:37 Be of sin the double cure 03:42 Save from wrath and make me pure 03:50 Not the labor of my hands 03:56 Can fulfill thy law's demands 04:01 Could my zeal no respite know 04:06 Could my tears forever flow 04:12 All for sin could not atone 04:17 Thou must save, and thou alone 04:25 While I draw this fleeting breath 04:30 When mine eyes shall close in death 04:35 When I soar to worlds unknown 04:41 See thee on thy judgment throne 04:46 Rock of Ages, cleft for me 04:51 Let me hide myself in thee 05:02 Let me hide myself in thee 05:14 Praise the Lord. 05:16 Welcome to Behold the Lamb Ministries. 05:17 We're very grateful and thankful 05:19 that you've decided to join us today. 05:20 And to me one of the most exciting subjects, 05:24 because it points to the last days. 05:27 There are very many, many, many people in the world say, 05:29 "Oh, why would you choose something like this?" 05:31 Why? 05:32 Because the Bible has spoken it first. 05:35 The Bible has warned God's last day people, 05:38 that can be anybody that wants to be 05:40 a part of His family, the church. 05:42 You know, I don't look at it, oh, this is Adventist message, 05:46 this is Baptist message, this is Church of God message. 05:48 It's the message of the Bible of Jesus Christ. 05:52 We have every right, 05:54 every right to go to God's Word and read what He says there. 05:58 And I feel, like I say sorry, 06:01 I feel sorry for those who have been told 06:03 by their pastors and their teachers 06:05 to stay out of the Book of Daniel and Revelation. 06:09 Now, you may have been part of that, 06:11 I'm not trying to hurt you in any form or fashion, 06:13 things that I will speak today 06:14 is not just trying to point you out, 06:16 or trying to point somebody is just all wrong, 06:18 but point out what God has pointed in His Word. 06:22 And it's going to be distasteful 06:25 by the majority of the world, 06:27 because the Bible says so, I'm not happy about that. 06:31 But I didn't write the Word, right? 06:33 And God only entails us to give the Word 06:36 as He's given it to us, truthfully, 06:38 and we want to do that today. 06:40 Again, our subject title, my wife mentioned 06:43 before in the beginning, what you did not see here, 06:45 but what will go on the air and around the world. 06:48 She mentioned the Pope Leo XIII. 06:51 Most people know that and they go back in history. 06:54 He simply made this statement, 06:55 "We hold upon the earth the place of God Almighty." 07:01 That is just a big statement that most of us read, 07:05 and we let it go off our back like water off a duck's back. 07:10 Are we there? 07:11 Really, we read that, how many of us really read that 07:13 and really thought anything about other than, 07:15 well, they said. 07:17 No, I'm taking issue with it today 07:19 based on God's Word. 07:21 And naturally, how can we do it? 07:23 I can't do it without the power of the Holy Spirit. 07:26 Usually all I do is mess things up. 07:27 And I know the Holy Spirit 07:29 can straighten out the messes that, 07:30 that the Lord has impressed my heart and mind 07:32 to bring forward today. 07:33 I'm going to pray about it. 07:35 I pray that you will pray along with me just as I kneel here. 07:38 Merciful God in heaven, truly, 07:40 we want to commit ourselves into Thy care and Thy keeping. 07:43 I ask forgiveness of any sin, anything in my heart 07:45 and life that needs not be there. 07:47 Lord, we need the power of Thy Holy Spirit. 07:49 We need You to come into our hearts 07:51 and our lives and the minds, 07:52 and not look at something as personal 07:54 or like a hate crime 07:56 or we're against this group or that. 07:58 We are against err. 07:59 We are against the enemy of err, 08:02 and that needs to be exposed. 08:03 And we pray that Word of God, you already have exposed it. 08:06 And we pray that will be brought home 08:07 by Your power 08:09 and Your strength and Your might. 08:10 Lord, grace us 08:11 with Your presence in Jesus' name. 08:13 Amen. 08:17 Notice, we read, again, the subject title, 08:19 it's pretty heavy duty, Pope Leo XIII. 08:22 We hold... That's interesting. 08:24 We hold upon the earth the place of God Almighty. 08:27 I have and I hope it's okay with you, 08:30 I have an issue with that. 08:32 I pray that you have an issue with that. 08:35 Now, again, as we've got to look beyond the family. 08:40 We've got to look beyond our friends. 08:42 It may be our companion, you see? 08:46 That whole certain things up, then we look in the Word of God 08:49 and say, "Oh, I don't see it there. 08:51 I don't see it there." 08:52 And we must be willing to be able to talk about those things 08:55 and see whether God says amen to it. 08:57 If this is what God has said in His Word 08:59 or if it's something we need to back away from. 09:02 Remember, for every truth that the Bible has, what is it? 09:06 The enemy has what? Okay, we all know. 09:09 Okay, every truth the devil has a counterfeit for it. 09:14 Now remember, the devil is a counterfeiter. 09:17 He doesn't want truth. 09:18 He doesn't know truth. 09:20 He's thrown truth out. 09:22 He was thrown out of heaven. 09:24 He came down to this earth to counteract everything 09:28 that God put into operation. 09:30 So don't think that your church, 09:32 don't think that this church is an exception 09:35 to the rule that 09:37 the devil can't come through the door. 09:39 The only way I know he can get through that door 09:41 is to come through me or you. 09:44 And you know what? 09:45 This morning by the grace of God, 09:47 I didn't open the door for him. 09:49 I didn't open the door for him. 09:51 So I pray that none of you have opened the door 09:53 and allowing the enemy to come in 09:55 because when he comes in, I'll tell you this. 09:57 I found that he takes over. He takes over. 10:01 He's not one just to set back in the choir 10:03 and be one of the boys. 10:05 He's going to try to lead everybody astray. 10:08 And you know, he usually starts with the leadership. 10:12 That could be you, me in whatever class 10:13 or what have you too. 10:14 I understand that well, and I ask for God's guidance 10:17 and His direction in this study. 10:20 You know, if your turn to the Book of Daniel, 10:22 I just want to read a couple of quick verses here. 10:24 Didn't know exactly how the Lord would, 10:26 would lead and guide an opening of this, 10:29 but I wanted to come right straight 10:31 from the Word of God. 10:33 Why? 10:34 Not that you haven't heard this before, but you know what. 10:36 There will be millions 10:38 that have not heard some of the things that 10:40 we will mention here today. 10:41 And the many who have heard it will say, 10:43 it doesn't make any difference. 10:45 Listen, everything that said 10:46 from this pulpit makes a difference, 10:48 because I'm going to read it from the Word of God 10:50 or from their own lips of those, 10:52 you see who have made these statements. 10:54 Remember, if it's against the Word of God, 10:56 you and I have a right to stand up and say, 10:58 "That's not what God said." 11:01 Then I think as mentioned here, 11:02 maybe in our, even our children's story, 11:04 then if I say something, 11:06 and then you can come back later and say, 11:08 "Well, I found out different." 11:09 Well, go ahead. Let's discuss it. 11:13 Let's bring it down. It's nothing wrong with it. 11:14 Well, I disagree with you, then tell me why you disagree. 11:19 But when you do, 11:20 you need to have some good information. 11:23 Good information. 11:24 Daniel Chapter 7, 11:26 we're going to be looking something very... 11:28 To me it's fantastic, 11:30 because we study 11:31 the Books of Daniel and Revelation. 11:33 Remember, the Book of Daniel was what? 11:36 When it was given, it was closed, right, 11:38 for a while, until what? 11:39 Until the time of the end. 11:41 The Book of Daniel was closed until what? 11:44 The time of the end. 11:45 We believe that we are in the time of the end. 11:49 Friends, if we go through them in studies, 11:50 we had time today and we won't 11:52 because I'll go on and on about certain things 11:53 here that's really gets under my skin. 11:56 And we won't have time, but we'd have time other, 11:58 you know, we can get together 11:59 and maybe spend more time on it. 12:01 God has just warned us over and over and over 12:03 and in timeframes and prophecies, 12:06 you know, the 2300 day prophecy 12:08 and so on that we are in the time of the end. 12:10 He talks about a beast power. 12:12 He talks about a power that would say certain things, 12:16 and they would claim certain things. 12:18 And we look and say, yeah, 12:19 well, they, maybe somebody is doing it, 12:21 maybe somebody is not. 12:22 But notice in the Book of Daniel Chapter 7, 12:25 just read verse 1. 12:26 And then we will turn 12:28 and try to discuss Daniel Chapter 7. 12:31 Remember, the Book of Revelation 12:32 has always been what? 12:35 Can somebody say open book. 12:37 It's been an open book, because it reveals what? 12:39 Reveals Jesus Christ, right, and things, verse 1, 12:43 that are shortly to come to pass. 12:45 That's why many times preachers say, 12:47 stay out of the Book of Revelation, don't study. 12:49 But don't you want a revelation of Jesus Christ? 12:53 Revelation Chapter... 12:54 Remember, Revelation Chapter 1 says, 12:56 it's a revealing of Jesus Christ. 12:58 The devil says, "Oh, no, I'm in trouble 13:02 because it reveals Jesus Christ, 13:04 and then it reveals my plan to hoodwink the world. 13:07 And so, somehow, 13:09 I'm gonna try to keep them out of the book." 13:11 Because there'll be some symbols, 13:12 there'll be some things in there 13:13 that's little bit difficult to understand. 13:15 And then I'll have some leaders who say, stay out of that book. 13:18 Don't be studying it. 13:20 And I ask you, why would God 13:23 have penned in His Holy Word things 13:26 that we could not understand. 13:29 Yes, and that reveals to His people 13:32 what's getting ready to take place in the world. 13:35 See, we should be known as a prophetic people. 13:38 We should be able to know prophecy 13:39 and say this and this, and this is on the horizon. 13:42 Why? Because God has said so. 13:45 You see, the world has no idea which way it's going. 13:48 And many of our leaders don't know 13:49 which way they're going either. 13:50 They need some help. 13:52 But notice there in Daniel 7:1 13:54 The Bible says, 13:55 "In the first year of Belshazzar, 13:58 king of," what? 13:59 "Babylon, Daniel had a..." 14:01 Come on with me, he had a what? 14:02 "He had a dream and the visions." 14:05 So his dream was what? 14:06 We say, "Well, it was just a dream, 14:07 it really a vision that's what it said, 14:10 "A vision of his head upon his bed: 14:12 then he wrote the dream, told the sum of the matter." 14:15 So what happened? 14:17 God gave Daniel a vision of something 14:20 that was to take place, notice this. 14:22 Now we read all those a little bit later on as we go, 14:25 because it identifies this power 14:27 that would come up 14:28 that would claim to basically be God on earth 14:31 that would do things out of the ordinary 14:33 and the world doesn't seem to mind. 14:36 Let's get to verse 8, notice, 14:38 Daniel was concerned here, He said, I considered the what? 14:42 What do you... What does that really mean? 14:43 I considered what the horn? 14:45 "I considered the horn and behold, 14:47 there came up among them a little horn." 14:49 How many have heard 14:50 whether you can identify it or not have heard 14:53 as you read Bible prophecy about a little horn. 14:56 Some of you have, if you haven't, it's all right. 14:59 We're coming to the fact. 15:00 The Bible reveals 15:02 there's going to come up a little horn. 15:03 Remember Book of Daniel and Revelation is in symbols, 15:05 right? 15:07 And what we have to do is dig for hidden treasure. 15:09 Find out what horn, what this little horn is doing. 15:13 Why is it look like it's do and what is it doing, you know, 15:16 in prophecy? 15:17 And how is it deal with God's people? 15:19 So Daniel says, oh, 15:21 first of all we consider Daniel 15:23 was in vision so we say, 15:24 what he was saying would be truth. 15:26 Are we in agreement so far? Right? 15:28 What Daniel was revealing is the truth. 15:31 But he was even confused about it. 15:33 He said, "I consider or I thought about this horn 15:35 and behold, there came up another little one," 15:38 notice, "a little horn 15:39 before whom there were three horns plucked up." 15:42 Guess we don't have time to look at, 15:44 we realize this was the breakdown 15:45 of the Roman Empire when it broke down into 15:47 Daniel Chapter 2, where they had the, 15:49 you know, had Babylon, 15:51 Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, 15:52 pagan Rome, papal Rome, 15:54 and iron Rome broke up into what? 15:55 The 10 toes, the 10 nations, 15:57 which some of the nations are still, you know, 15:59 10 over there now, still some of the names, 16:01 so you can look at those. 16:02 But, here's the point, you notice it, 16:04 he said there came up another that many has said 11. 16:08 He said, "Up among 16:09 there came up another little horn." 16:10 And when he came up, he uprooted what? 16:13 He uprooted three of the known kingdoms. 16:16 If there are only 10 nations in the world, 16:18 surely history would bear fact to that and was true. 16:21 May say, when it come up, it just wasn't an addition to, 16:23 but it would tear up, uproot three of the known 10. 16:28 Interesting why? 16:30 Because the three did not go along with the belief 16:32 or the teachings of this power, this little horn power. 16:36 "They were plucked up by the roots. 16:38 When something's plucked up by the roots, 16:39 will it grow again? 16:40 And behold, in this horn, 16:42 were eyes like the eyes of," what? 16:44 Man, and a mouth speaking great things." 16:47 We can spend a lot of time on that, we will not. 16:50 Pope Leo wrote what? 16:52 We hold up on this earth the place of what? 16:55 God all mighty. 16:59 What a strange statement, 17:02 we hold the place of God Almighty. 17:05 Now, some people will take that, 17:07 and some of the people who want to defend 17:09 this kind of stuff that 17:11 has written will make all kinds of excuses 17:14 why it was written in with over and over. 17:16 I can give you a lot of different quotes 17:19 on this same purpose here. 17:21 In fact, in Pope Pius V, 17:23 Pope Pius V quoted in the Barclay Chapter 27, 17:28 page 218 says this, listen carefully. 17:31 He said, "The pope and God are the same." 17:35 The pope and God. 17:36 See, that doesn't surprise most people. 17:38 No one's going to get shocked out of your seat. 17:40 I guess maybe I should have my little shockers 17:42 underneath your seat. 17:44 And if I think you should jump, 17:45 I should push the button and then you will jump. 17:50 Yeah. 17:51 You see what I'm saying? 17:52 That should make us jump. 17:55 Because that's blasphemy in the worst scenario, 17:58 there's no doubt about it. 17:59 Now, we've just left it alone for so long, 18:02 not to criticize the present one, 18:04 not to, you know, criticize all the past one. 18:06 That's not it at all. 18:08 But God speaks about this power as we will identify, notice. 18:13 The pope and God are the same. 18:15 So he has all the power of heaven and earth. 18:20 Well, let's just give you one more, 18:21 there's plenty of them. 18:23 Notice this, this comes... 18:24 This comes from the Catholic National July, 18:26 and this is written in 1895. 18:29 The Pope is not only... 18:30 Ooh, "The pope is not only 18:32 the representative of Jesus Christ, 18:34 but he is Jesus Christ himself, 18:38 hidden under the veil of the flesh." 18:45 Yeah, there you go. 18:46 See, that's what I'm talking about. 18:48 No, really seriously, you think about, 18:51 who else in the world 18:54 would say that about themselves? 18:57 Notice that, 18:58 he's not only the representative 19:00 of Jesus Christ, 19:02 he is Jesus Christ himself. 19:05 Blasphemy again. 19:06 There is no way, he's a sinner just like all the rest of us. 19:11 If he's going to be saved, he'll be saved by grace, 19:13 just like all the rest of us. 19:16 My Bible says God is love, 1 John 4:16. 19:19 God is what? 19:20 God is love. 19:21 His nature is love. 19:23 His law is love, right? 19:24 He is love. 19:27 He's always been. 19:29 Everything that He's ever said, 19:30 ever done, ever had penned down, 19:32 cannot change. 19:34 That cannot be altered in any form or fashion. 19:37 He's the high, He's the holy. 19:39 He's the one that is lifted up. 19:41 He's the one that inhabit eternity 19:43 is what my Bible tells me. 19:45 He says, "He's from everlasting to everlasting. 19:48 There is no God beside Me." 19:50 Time and time in Scripture, right? 19:51 You read the Word of God, 19:53 and all of a sudden somebody's saying their God 19:54 or their part or something. 19:56 God said, hmm, it's interesting. 19:57 I don't know if there's any other. 19:59 Listen, if God doesn't know 20:00 if there's any other God, there is no other God. 20:03 But yet we have a power on earth that says, I am. 20:08 And I said, "Well, what would this? 20:10 Where this come? 20:11 They said there is no variableness, right? 20:14 He doesn't change, there's no verb. 20:16 People say, "Well, God changed." 20:17 Well, this is no like, we today, 20:19 we believe this and this and this because, 20:20 well, God has changed. 20:22 God has not changed. 20:23 He has not changed one iota, right? 20:25 He's consistent with the crossing of the T 20:28 and the dotting of the eye, God does not change. 20:32 Like, how can you change truth? 20:34 You just can't do it. 20:35 This is what excites me really 20:37 and gives me encouragement in my Christian walk, 20:40 is to know that God doesn't change. 20:43 He still looks at me the very same way. 20:45 He's not influenced by this group. 20:46 He's not influenced by that group. 20:49 He's not worrying about what the world is doing. 20:51 He's not worrying about 20:52 what you're thinking and what I'm thinking in that 20:54 sense that he's gonna hold just and justice 20:56 and mercy to each and every one of us. 20:58 I'm thankful for that. 21:00 He's the high, He's the Holy One. 21:02 In Him, there is no shadow, whoa, no shadow of turnings, 21:07 what the Bible said. 21:09 Some of you want to jot down and say, 21:11 "Well, where's that found?" 21:12 Well, good for you. I'm glad you asked that. 21:15 Aren't you glad somebody is asking you? 21:18 Praise God. 21:19 Isaiah 57, just jot it down, Isaiah 57:15. 21:23 Habakkuk 3:6. 21:26 And certainly James 1:17, there is no shadow of turning. 21:30 See, we can go to the Word of God, 21:32 that's where we get it. 21:33 Somebody else may say, "Well, now He's changed." 21:35 You know, preacher that gets up front and say, God has changed, 21:38 he ought to go out and get himself a real job. 21:41 You know, he... 21:42 I don't know where he could, 21:43 I'm serious, I don't know where he can hold a job. 21:45 The Bible is so clear, 21:47 when you read it that God does not what? 21:49 He does not change, He will not change. 21:51 He doesn't have to change. 21:53 He knows the beginning and from the end, right? 21:55 He knows everything in your life, 21:56 every word that you'll say, every action, 21:58 everything you've ever thought, 21:59 everything you've ever done, God has it. 22:02 Every decision He's made is the right decision. 22:05 That's good. 22:08 That gives me encouragement. 22:11 The word this business come from, 22:15 certainly didn't start with Pope Leo XIII. 22:18 Many popes said it before and people will say, 22:20 "Well, you know, he didn't really, 22:23 he didn't really mean that." 22:25 Well, you know, pope when they talk, 22:28 they say it's the voice of God 22:30 is not to be changed, it's infallible. 22:32 They claim infallibility. 22:34 So we have to look at that point too, right? 22:36 You can't go back and say, well, we didn't mean that. 22:38 No, mean, all of them said infallible. 22:41 So it's very interesting. 22:43 Who... 22:45 Can I say who in the world? 22:47 I guess I already did, Brother Terry. 22:50 I guess already, sometime I just say it, 22:51 then I ask if I can say it. 22:54 So who would it be that would hold upon this earth 22:59 the place of God Almighty? 23:01 Where would it? Where would it start? 23:04 Can I just read a couple of verses 23:06 please with it, and see if you... 23:08 See maybe if you agree, if you don't, it's good. 23:10 I spend as much time with you 23:11 after this as I need to, 23:14 because this is imperative. 23:15 This is life and death issue. 23:17 And most people have no idea. 23:18 And I don't understand why. 23:20 But I need to see about this power. 23:22 And what this power is planning to do with God's people. 23:25 Hmm. 23:26 Ezekiel Chapter 28. 23:28 Some of you know exactly where I'm going, 23:30 and what I'm going to read because it needs to be read. 23:34 It needs to be read. 23:36 Ezekiel Chapter 28, are we there? 23:38 I'm getting hot and sweaty already. 23:42 And usually once get ready to go, 23:44 I go for a long time. 23:47 Terry might remember that from years ago, 23:49 especially when I was young. 23:53 The Bible says, don't you like that? 23:55 The Bible says, notice, 23:58 and then you tell me who it's talking about here? 24:00 Ezekiel 28:13. 24:03 It says, "Thou hast been in Eden, 24:05 in the garden of God." 24:07 That's a hint, notice. 24:08 "This power was in Eden," right?" 24:11 Every precious stone was 24:13 I covering, sardius, topaz, 24:16 and the diamond, the beryl, 24:17 and the onyx, and the jasper and sardine, you know, 24:19 it goes on, the sapphire, emerald, 24:21 carbuncle, gold, workmanship, now notice, 24:24 talking about the pipes, 24:25 notice this, and in the day that thou was created." 24:30 So it was a created being, right? 24:33 Had all this stuff. 24:35 Verse 14, "And thou art the anointed 24:38 cherub of the covenant, 24:39 notice this, covereth, I have set thee so: 24:42 thou wast upon the holy mountain of God, 24:44 thou has walked in and down 24:46 in the midst of the stones of fire." 24:48 Notice, "Thou wast perfect, 24:50 this created was perfect in the ways from the day 24:54 when thou wast created, 24:56 till iniquity was found in thee." 24:57 So who was this? 25:00 It was Satan. 25:02 Notice, he was what? 25:03 People want to know how sin get here? 25:06 Well the devil, he was perfect the Bible said. 25:09 Now why would we want to argue with that, and many people do. 25:12 He was perfect in the day that he was created. 25:16 And then what it says? 25:18 Until iniquity or sin was found in him, 25:23 until he chose another way. 25:25 You go a lot of different directions 25:27 if you want to, he was perfect, huh, 25:29 till iniquity was found in him. 25:32 Now interesting, we see there the enemy, 25:35 perfect, then we see he made a choice 25:38 that was the wrong choice. 25:40 And he started doing the wrong things 25:42 and impressing other people to do the wrong things. 25:45 And then we realized, 25:46 I think it would behoove us if we read Isaiah 14, 25:51 as many of you have read before, 25:52 or maybe you haven't read it, 25:54 if you haven't, maybe this will help to make sense. 25:58 This is talking about the devil. 26:00 Are we there? 26:01 Now remember, we're looking 26:03 for this power that says, "I'm God." 26:06 This power that says, "I'm ahead of everything. 26:08 I'm God on earth. 26:09 I can forgive sins. 26:11 I can do all kinds of things." 26:12 And Bible said in Isaiah 14, people need to be very careful 26:16 and study this, like they may be, 26:18 may never studied before because they tried to say, 26:20 well, that deals with Babylon, 26:21 it deals with, just notice what it says, 26:23 verse 12, Isaiah 14, 26:26 "How art thou fallen from heaven." 26:27 Jesus said what? 26:29 He was cast out, the old serpent, 26:31 the devil, Satan was cast out of where? 26:32 Of heaven. 26:33 Then he says, he tells the name, 26:35 "How arts thou cast out of heaven, 26:37 O Lucifer, son of the morning! 26:40 How art thou cut down to the ground, 26:43 which didst weaken the nations!" 26:45 Notice this, here's what devil, 26:47 is what Satan said, 26:49 "For thou hast said in thine heart, 26:51 I will ascend into heaven, 26:53 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: 26:55 I will sit upon the mount of congregation 26:58 in the sides of the north. 27:00 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, 27:02 I will be like," what? 27:04 Come on, church, wake up. 27:06 I will be what? 27:07 Satan said, "I'm cast out, 27:08 but I will be like the Most High. 27:11 I will be like the Most High." 27:12 Well, he couldn't possibly show himself 27:15 for what he really is. 27:16 So therefore, he makes choices. 27:18 He chooses someone to represent him, 27:21 powers, nations, even me and you at times, 27:24 when we do the work of the enemy. 27:26 We have to be very careful, we're not in. 27:27 The Bible says, 27:29 "He who is not with me is against me." 27:31 The devil will use anything, 27:32 everybody that he can to accomplish His purpose. 27:37 But he said, "I will be like the Most High God." 27:42 Other words, I'm going to hold upon the earth, 27:44 the place of God Almighty. 27:46 Man, that's pretty heavy duty, wouldn't you say? 27:51 Isn't that heavy duty, is that maybe a little, 27:53 maybe too much for us today. 27:56 So what is the purpose? 27:59 Many purposes in this study, but to show from Scripture. 28:04 Now remember, there's good people 28:06 everywhere in every denomination, 28:09 would never apologize for presenting what is truth. 28:13 You can never apologize, you don't want to hurt anybody, 28:15 you're not trying to. 28:17 But what you're doing is you're looking at, 28:18 we're saying here, there's a power on the scene, 28:20 and there's power on the scene it's saying here, 28:22 they're going to fulfill what Satan has said 28:25 when he came down to this earth. 28:27 I'm going to take over. 28:29 I'm going to take over. 28:32 We're going to hold the place of God Almighty on this place. 28:35 Man didn't say that within himself, 28:37 the enemy's coming in. 28:39 So the purpose really of this study 28:41 is really to show from 28:42 Scripture, that what 28:47 we believe is an unauthorized. 28:52 We can go so far as to say an unjust, it's groundless, 28:57 it's absurd, a bold attempted change. 29:02 Now I'm going to go through 29:03 this point here because people say, 29:04 "Well, you folks are a little bit out of touch. 29:06 You go on the seventh day Sabbath." 29:09 Well, maybe somebody is out of touch. 29:12 Is it just a matter of choice? 29:13 Is it a matter of what God's said in His Word? 29:15 But I think there's unjust, this groundless, 29:17 this bold attempt to change of the seventh day Sabbath 29:21 was prophesied by Daniel the prophet. 29:24 In Daniel 7:25. 29:26 Mark that down, Daniel 7:25. 29:29 Notice Daniel 7:25. 29:32 Notice, "And he would speak 29:34 great words against the Most High." 29:36 Who is it? Who is the he? 29:38 It would be Satan, would it not? 29:40 The enemy would speak great words 29:42 against the Most High. 29:44 You realize this word here translated when you look at it, 29:46 great words, in the Hebrew is domineering words. 29:51 He would speak great, huge words. 29:54 He would speak stout words against what? 29:57 Against the Most High. 29:59 Other words, he would challenge God's position. 30:03 He would try to take God's position, 30:06 we say by hook or crook. 30:09 And he couldn't do it by just coming out in the open, 30:11 he had to deceive just like he deceived in heaven. 30:14 So the world is what? 30:16 The world is deceived and they say, 30:18 "Well, this is all we know. 30:19 This is what we've been taught." 30:21 Absolutely, he's been good at it. 30:22 He's been at it for many long years. 30:26 He's gonna speak words against the Most High. 30:28 Listen, and each of these are identifying marks, 30:30 we'll go over each one in a minute 30:32 time that we have. 30:34 And he, notice this, 30:35 speak words against the Most High, 30:37 he shall wear out the saints. 30:39 Listen, if you feel like you're a saint today, 30:41 and again, not that you're so good, 30:43 but you belong to the family of God. 30:44 Right? 30:46 Okay, you belong to 30:47 the family of God, I know Jesus. 30:49 This is talking about you. 30:51 This is talking about me. 30:54 If you believe that 30:55 you're part of the family of God, you know Jesus, 30:57 and you think I want to go to heaven. 31:00 This power was going to think 31:02 because we realize the enemy is behind it. 31:04 He's going to do what? 31:05 "He's going to wear out the saints of the Most High, 31:09 and he shall think to change times and laws." 31:13 Man, these are such clear identifying marks 31:16 of the enemy and his plan. 31:18 And you know what we do? 31:20 Most of us just sleep through it. 31:22 Most of just taken, no, it doesn't really matter. 31:25 You think not? You think not. 31:29 If you think that's what's going on 31:31 in the world today is messed up. 31:34 It's all heading in the direction 31:36 that we're talking about right now. 31:38 It's heading in the direction. 31:41 You talk about communism, you talk about socialism. 31:44 You talk about the change of this world 31:47 where your rights and your freedoms 31:48 and your Constitution, your Bill of Right, all gone. 31:52 You have none. That's right, fascism. 31:54 All of these things are headed in that direction 31:56 to where the government takes care of you, 31:58 basically gives you little stipends here and there, 32:00 and you just be a good boy and girl. 32:03 Is that okay to say that? 32:06 Look at the history. 32:07 Look at all that's happened in the past, 32:08 is exactly the way it's operated. 32:10 It happened in France, didn't that way too? 32:12 You may look what happened to them, and they gave it up. 32:14 They just banned God. 32:15 They just banned religion, the Bibles burned, everything, 32:17 killed thousands. 32:19 Pretty soon after about three years, 32:20 they came back to their senses. 32:23 But what a mess. 32:26 The Bible says, but notice this, 32:30 this power then God would allow it to prosper, 32:34 listen, 1260 years. 32:39 What can happen in 1260 years? 32:44 You and I forget yesterday. 32:48 Is that true? 32:51 Think about 1260 years of... 32:56 I almost said baloney. 32:57 Can I say baloney up here? 32:59 Lies of the devil, baloney. 33:01 Terry, I said baloney. I'm sorry, just the way it is. 33:05 Of lies of the devil stacked on the other, 33:07 stacked on the other. 33:08 And this generation dies off, that generation dies, 33:10 this generation, this generation, 33:12 and it comes down to our time. 33:14 We don't know what truth is. 33:16 It's been covered, but God said, Isaiah 58. 33:19 He said, "He's going to uncover the truths 33:21 before He shall come." 33:22 'Cause we have people that will rise up 33:24 and begin to proclaim a message 33:25 that has not been proclaimed before, 33:28 because it's been covered 33:29 with traditions of men and lies of the devil. 33:34 He wants you to think you're a Christian, 33:35 he wants you to believe in the cross of Calvary, 33:38 but doesn't want it to change you. 33:41 He said to be given until time, 33:44 and a times and a dividing of times. 33:47 This, most people have no idea. 33:49 You let the Bible interpret itself. 33:51 When you talk about a time, people say, "I know what time, 33:54 and times, dividing of times." 33:55 We'll read that in just a moment 33:56 when we have time to do that. 33:58 So we're seeing a power 33:59 that's pointed out here in Scripture. 34:01 Listen, this, this power challenges God 34:05 and it should challenge you as God's children. 34:09 It challenges His people, it challenges His law. 34:12 Why should I be concerned about it? 34:14 Why don't I just go on something smooth and talk about 34:16 whatever the world wants to hear. 34:17 Man, we'll fill this place up. Man, let's get the excavator. 34:21 Let's just start building on. 34:24 Let's increase the parking lots. 34:26 Let's build up two stories. You see what I mean? 34:28 Just preach those things that people go, I feel good. 34:31 Oh, I feel good. Right? 34:35 Give $10, you get 30 back, 34:36 everybody comes through the door. 34:38 I'm not gonna preach no little mickey mouse $30. 34:41 I'm gonna say 100 full. 34:42 I'm gonna say 200 bucks. Okay. 34:46 You see what I'm talking about? 34:48 People just go for that. 34:50 Instead of saying we better get it right. 34:52 We better get it right because time is almost gone. 34:55 Jesus has made it clear in His Word. 34:58 If we take Daniel 7:25, 35:01 which we just read and examine few of the points, 35:04 I believe it will help us understand the whys 35:07 this power would speak great words, 35:11 challenge God against the Most High. 35:14 Against there simply means that's what it means 35:17 against the Most High 35:18 means to the side of over against, 35:21 it would be an opposition. 35:22 So this power then would be an opposition of God. 35:25 So we're going to identify 35:27 who this power is as we go along. 35:30 It says, "I want to be equal with God." 35:33 So we'd have to look at a power that's claiming 35:36 or wanting to be equal with God, 35:38 and working toward that. 35:40 Hmm. 35:41 If anyone in the Bible we ever... 35:45 Oh, 2 Thessalonians, you say, well, good for you. 35:49 2 Thessalonians 2:4. 35:52 In the New Testament, 35:54 the Bible said, here's the power, 35:55 notice what it does? 35:57 2 Thessalonians what? 35:59 Two verse. 36:00 Yeah, most of you are going to go out here 36:01 and you're going to say, 36:03 "Oh, boy, we're having haystacks for lunch." 36:05 Oh, boy, having haystacks for lunch, man. 36:08 Somebody put the tomato and the onions on. 36:11 Listen, we need little fire 36:13 underneath our bellies right now, 36:15 underneath our seats, 36:16 because again, this is not what God... 36:19 I'll tell you, God is saying right now, 36:20 His people will rise up in opposition, 36:23 because it says here. 36:24 He warns us through 36:25 His Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:4. 36:29 He said, "Here's the power that's going to rise up 36:31 that's going to oppose 36:32 and exalt himself above all that is called God." 36:37 Did you get it? 36:38 The power would do what? 36:39 Oppose God. 36:41 Or, now notice this, 36:43 here's the key, "Or that is worshiped." 36:45 So this power then 36:46 would have to be a power that what? 36:49 Demands worship, a religious political power. 36:53 Come on, stay with me. These are identifying marks. 36:56 Yeah. That's what it says. 36:58 He opposes and he's exalted. 36:59 He said in Isaiah 14, "I will rise above," what? 37:02 "The throne of God. 37:04 I will sit on the throne of God." 37:06 Whoa! 37:09 And so that he as God setteth in the temple of God 37:13 showing himself, notice, that he is God. 37:17 And then you write a little article and say, 37:18 "Well, we really didn't mean that. 37:20 Well, that's not really what he meant. 37:21 Well, he just took part of it. 37:23 He took part of it out of context." 37:24 Don't kid yourself, the Bible is clear. 37:27 This bold power, whoa, 37:30 if I can just say it nice as I can. 37:32 This bold, this power is Satan's right hand man. 37:38 He's ready to carry on the work that Satan started in heaven, 37:42 and he's going to continue it. 37:44 It's a fight against the law of God. 37:48 Didn't he in heaven, he challenges, right, 37:50 God's authority, God's government? 37:53 He challenged it, it should be different. 37:56 The world today 37:57 in lot of religious circles, they say, 37:59 "Well, it should be different. 38:01 We don't have to worry about being obedient. 38:02 We kind of do as we please. 38:04 Just believe it's going to be all right." 38:06 Don't you kid yourself. 38:08 The Bible said, the devils believe and tremble. 38:10 But you know what? That hasn't changed them. 38:13 Belief is not enough. Praise God for belief. 38:15 It's not enough. There has to be a change. 38:20 This power according to Daniel 7:25. 38:23 Notice this, again, 38:25 we're going to identify little bit more. 38:27 Oh-oh, oh-oh, I said, oh, boy. 38:29 He's going to wear out the saints. 38:31 You know what that simply mean wear out the word, 38:33 he's going to kill. 38:35 He's going to make war with the saints. 38:40 And he's going to do it verse through verse 21 38:42 there through persecution. 38:45 And you seen it through the ages, 38:46 we'll see it more as we come down 38:47 to the end of time. 38:50 He would think, he would intend, 38:53 he would endeavor, 38:56 deliberately try to change the law of God. 39:02 He would deliberately try to change 39:04 the law of God, change times and laws. 39:09 Isn't that very interesting? 39:11 So he would make a deliberate attempt to exercise, 39:15 notice this, the prerogatives of God. 39:19 This is the power it's talking about here. 39:23 And these changes would help him to direct 39:26 the course of human history. 39:30 Well, who could do that? 39:32 Who could just jump in and say, "God, you're out, now I'm in." 39:35 Prerogatives of God. 39:37 Let me just give you one example, 39:38 there's many. 39:39 Somebody mentioned at the beginning. 39:41 Remember it said, this power would speak 39:43 blasphemies against God. 39:46 You know, a lot of things in Christian 39:47 we call blasphemy, well, that's blasphemy. 39:49 But really, when you look at scripture, 39:52 study Matthew Chapter 9, 39:55 and you can read verses 3 through 5, 39:57 very, very, very interesting 39:59 because Jesus was having a confrontation, you remember? 40:02 Something was going on and he heals someone, 40:06 and on the hell he can't do that. 40:09 Jesus said, thy sins be what? 40:11 He does heal, then He said, thy sins be forgiven thee. 40:15 Oh, he said, oh, no you can't, that's blasphemy. 40:20 You remember, 40:22 who can forgive sin but God only. 40:24 The power that would rise would be a power 40:27 that would claim to forgive sin on earth. 40:29 That's what the Bible says. 40:32 Does that make sense? 40:33 That's what blasphemy. 40:35 And I compared to a lot of different things, but blasphemy 40:37 is that earthly power that claims to forgive sin on earth. 40:41 You have to look around and say, 40:42 what religion, who claims this? 40:48 Wow! 40:51 I say this, it is God who determines the times. 40:55 It is God who what? 40:56 Who deserve, you know, determines the time. 40:59 God sets up kings and he takes them down. 41:04 Listen, throughout all the New Testament 41:06 and you think quickly with me. 41:09 Time's really going down. 41:10 The New Testament times, 41:12 Christians observe the seventh day of the week 41:15 as the Sabbath, is that right? 41:18 Yeah. Take Acts Chapter 17. 41:20 Had a man study with me one time, very interesting. 41:22 I love to study the Bible with you. 41:23 He said us, "Okay, good." 41:25 He said, "But we will only study 41:26 in the Book of Acts." 41:28 Well, was there 66 books, is that right? 41:30 So we're gonna throw out 65. 41:33 I said, "Why, the Book of Acts? 41:35 I love that too. 41:36 But no, there's the whole Bible there." 41:38 No, it's only Acts. 41:39 Well, here in Acts 17:2, 41:42 it says, and Paul, listen, and Paul, 41:44 was Paul a prophet of God? 41:45 Was he God's Messenger? 41:47 Was he called of God to get the message to the Gentiles? 41:49 Absolutely, a changed man he got. 41:51 Paul was a Sabbath keeper. 41:55 Paul was a seventh day keeper. 41:58 I'll be real bold, 41:59 not trying to offend anybody, but he was... 42:03 He was Seventh-day Adventist. 42:06 And reason I say that is because when you say 42:09 Seventh-day Adventist, seventh day 42:11 means you go to church on the seventh day of the week. 42:13 That's what the Bible says. 42:15 Adventist means you believe in the Second Coming. 42:18 Every church ought to have 42:20 Advent somewhere in it, every denomination. 42:22 That just simply means you believe 42:24 in the Second Coming. 42:25 If you don't believe in the Second Coming, 42:27 you can't be God's people. 42:29 Okay, you got enough of that, right? 42:31 Don't wanna hear any more than I was. 42:32 But just think, listen, think free, as his matter was, 42:36 he says he went into them 42:38 three Sabbath days reasoned with them 42:40 out of the Scripture. 42:43 We see this power has attempted to do what? 42:48 It's attempted to do some changing here. 42:50 I thought was very, very, very interesting the changes. 42:54 It's attempted to change the seventh day 42:57 of the week to Sunday, the first day of the week. 43:00 Now remember what did prophecy say? 43:03 Daniel 7:25, "He shall think to change times and law." 43:06 This power will try to kill, persecute God's people. 43:09 Man, if we get all through this, 43:11 you'll see as we go. 43:12 How can you do in 10 minutes? I don't know. 43:16 But these are identifying marks. 43:18 No other power in the whole world 43:20 can match up to what we're going out here. 43:22 None. It has to be this power. 43:27 Because this attempted change 43:29 is almost universal now around the world. 43:33 But how? Just bear with me. 43:37 Because we believe that the seven days continues on 43:42 as the changeless memorial of God's original creation. 43:47 It started back in the beginning of creation. 43:50 Plus, it's a sign of His recreative power 43:53 to recreate us. 43:56 So taking the Bible and just the Bible on only, 43:59 we are unable, I am unable. 44:01 Maybe you can, 44:03 I'm unable to find any scripture 44:05 that would warrant any kind of a change. 44:09 Therefore we, you know, follow what we believe. 44:13 Now, the world is falling traditions 44:15 and commandments of men. 44:18 Are you still with me? 44:20 So today, you're either following 44:21 what the Bible said, or the traditions of men. 44:25 Jesus made it very, very clear in Matthew 15:3. 44:31 Remember, this is the identifying 44:32 mark of this devil, 44:34 the demon, Lucifer before he fell, 44:36 came down, said, "This is what I'm going to do." 44:38 And I'll give his identifying 44:39 marks of what he's trying to do. 44:41 Jesus was speaking, He said, 44:42 "But he answered and said unto them." 44:44 Jesus talking about the religious leaders. 44:46 He said, "Why do you also transgress 44:49 the commandments of God by your tradition?" 44:53 Can you imagine the King of the universe 44:55 and look all the stuff that you're doing, 44:57 your traditions in, notice this, 44:59 you're canceling out. 45:00 You're transgressing the commandments of God. 45:03 And then he makes it clear in verse 6, 45:05 "Thus have you made the commandments of God 45:09 none effect by your tradition." 45:12 It either is a tradition, 45:14 the change that came about 45:16 or it is from directly from the hand of God? 45:19 Interesting, Jesus knew about nothing, right? 45:22 And the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, 45:24 40 years after His death, Jesus said, 45:27 "I pray that your flight be 45:29 nut in the winter nor on the Sabbath day. 45:31 The King of the universe didn't know about 45:34 any kind of change as it were 45:36 because almost 40 years in the future, 45:38 He was still calling to seventh day Sabbath. 45:41 What has happened? 45:43 Boy, I mean, there's a lot of stuff 45:44 that we need to look at as God's people 45:45 because the devil said here's the plan. 45:47 Here's what I'm going to do. 45:48 And God said, "I'm going to list it out 45:50 in the Word to expose you." 45:51 But devil said, "I'm not worried about, 45:52 too many people they're not going 45:54 to study it anyway." 45:55 So verse 9 really hits it hard right here, 45:57 notice this, it says, "But in vain they do what? 45:59 Worship me, teaching for doctrines 46:01 the commandments of men." 46:02 What did Jesus say? 46:04 He said, "In vain do they worship me, 46:05 teaching for doctrines the commandments of," what? 46:08 "Of men." 46:09 So you can claim it all you want. 46:11 No, I love God, I'm doing it. 46:12 He said, "It's in vain that you worship me, 46:14 teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." 46:16 This is what we have to look at. 46:19 How does the enemy come in? 46:22 False doctrine and this Sabbath begins to, you know, the enemy 46:25 begins to throw these things out into the church 46:27 and people grab on to them and say, 46:29 "Oh, this seems like this is what it is." 46:32 And we grab sometime things 46:33 that have no foundation whatsoever. 46:35 We didn't know it. 46:36 We were not accountable because we didn't know it. 46:39 But God said in the last days, 46:40 He will raise a group of people that would proclaim 46:42 the three angels' message that will warn the world. 46:45 I wish we had time to get into, we will not. 46:48 But James 4:17, the Bible is very clear. 46:50 Listen, brothers and sisters, 46:52 still being, "Oh, I wish I'd known all this time. 46:53 I wish I'd known." 46:55 This is only touching the edges of the information. 46:57 But Jesus said, "To him that knoweth to do good, 47:02 and doeth it not, to him it is sin." 47:06 Did you get it? 47:07 Many can say, "Well, how about mom? 47:09 And how about dad?" 47:10 Oh, if they did not know they are not accountable. 47:12 You do what you can do. 47:14 But now God said, He's bringing light forward. 47:17 Because it's very clear there in 1 John 3:4. 47:21 The Bible said, 47:22 "Whosoever committeth sin transgresses 47:25 also the law: for sin is." 47:27 what? Okay. 47:29 Just simply say this. 47:30 If the law of God is done away with 47:32 and that's what you proclaim, 47:33 then there's no sin, do what you want. 47:35 Sin is the transgression of God's law. 47:38 When we say the law of God is no longer binding, 47:41 then there's no sin. 47:43 Does that make sense? 47:45 No, not to us we're saying, 47:47 but that's what it means, 47:48 for sin is the transgression of the law. 47:50 But here, Romans 4:15 says this, 47:53 "For where no law is, 47:55 there is no transgression." 47:57 Where there's no law, what? 47:59 I'm not trying to hoodwink you. 48:01 I'm not trying to fool you, the Bible is clear here. 48:04 The law must be an operation. 48:07 James 2:10, 2:12 talk about 48:09 "Every man will be judged by the perfect law of liberty." 48:12 There has to be a standard 48:14 in the judgment that's equal for everybody 48:17 in every part of the world. 48:19 Sin is the transgression of the law. 48:21 To say, well, no, no, we won't. 48:23 Most of us don't have the nerve to say, 48:24 well, the law of God is done away. 48:26 We'll see, nine of them is. 48:27 James 2:10, "Where you offend in one point, 48:30 we're guilty of all." 48:32 You see a Sabbath, 48:33 at least in my opinion, in my study, 48:35 you may have something different, 48:36 was not a test in the medieval times. 48:40 Are you still with me? 48:42 It was not a test, even in the 16th century, 48:44 the Reformation period, the time of Wesley, 48:48 and some of the great reformers. 48:50 It was not a test at that point in time. 48:52 But in these last days, it becomes a test. 48:57 Because God said, "He will raise the people 48:58 to bring attention to all the command, all 10." 49:03 None of us would have, you know, the audacity to say, 49:05 "Well, we don't have to worry about that." 49:08 In fact, He said, "all truth is going to be restored 49:10 before Jesus comes." 49:12 Isaiah 58:12, 49:14 "He's the restorer of the paths to dwell in." 49:17 All of this is just simply said to go, 49:18 we're not even gonna get even we're close to it. 49:22 But it's saying that this power said, 49:24 this is what we're going to be doing. 49:26 And again, it's all laid out 49:28 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and then what? 49:31 Many times we just will not accept it 49:33 because of our pride. 49:35 We do not accept it because you say, 49:36 oh, my lands, I was wrong all this time. 49:40 God say, we got to say praise the Lord. 49:42 It's all right. 49:43 You said you wouldn't, now what are we going to? 49:44 Let's redeem the time. Let's keep going. 49:47 We all agree that God knows the future, do we not? 49:51 He knows the future. 49:52 Isaiah 46:10. 49:53 He says, "He declares the end from the beginning." 49:57 Amos 3:7, the Bible said, 49:59 "He revealeth secrets unto his," what? 50:01 "The servants, the prophets. 50:03 God is going to reveal. 50:04 Listen, there's not... 50:06 You think there's 10,000 ways in a Word, 50:07 way to get to heaven, we better think again. 50:10 There's only one way that's through Jesus Christ. 50:12 How you say? Oh, it's not by obeying. 50:15 It's not by keeping as it were. 50:16 It's not by, oh, you live unto... 50:18 By grace are you saved through faith? 50:21 It's a gift of God. 50:24 But there's no use to throw out the part of obedience. 50:26 Christ was obedient unto death. 50:28 Praise God for that. 50:30 If He was not, none of us would make it to the kingdom of God. 50:33 There's nothing wrong to say obedient. 50:34 How is it? 50:36 We can say, "Oh, well, 50:37 I'm gonna play the football game, 50:38 but I'm not gonna go by the rules." 50:40 Get out. I play basketball. 50:42 There's some rule. Get out. 50:44 None of us say that, right? 50:45 First thing we say when it goes haywire, 50:47 what's the rules? Right. 50:49 What are the rules? The rule says... 50:53 Rule just simply said what? 50:55 God's safety forces. Thou shall not, why? 50:58 Because if you do, Kenny, it'll hurt you. 51:00 It'll hurt you, and I don't want you to get hurt. 51:03 I think today will be very simple. 51:05 If we had take Catholic folk, 51:07 we take the Protestant folks today, 51:09 all the historians you can gather up 51:11 that's written so much and studied so hard. 51:15 They follow the breaking up 51:18 of the Roman Empire and the papacy and papal Rome. 51:23 Why? 51:25 They will come down to say, you know, 51:26 when that broke up the Roman Empire, 51:28 there was 10 kingdoms. 51:31 And people said, "Well, what are those 10 kingdoms?" 51:33 I wish we had time more to talk about them. 51:35 We'll examine those, 51:37 I think we will take time to do that 51:38 next time we come together 51:40 about the little horn and his plan to hoodwink you, 51:44 his plan to make sure 51:46 you're not in the kingdom of God. 51:47 Until then I guarantee 51:49 the devil will come against you. 51:50 He will do everything in his power 51:52 to make sure you say, "Well, I don't agree with it." 51:55 You haven't heard enough to maybe agree 51:56 or disagree at this point. 51:58 But we have heard plenty enough, right, 52:00 that we can read to say there is a power that says 52:03 we are God upon this earth. 52:05 We claim the prerogatives of God. 52:09 The enemy said, right? 52:10 We read it there in Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14, that he said, 52:14 when he came down here, 52:15 that he's going to sit in the throne room of God. 52:17 He's going to be as God on earth, 52:19 and this is what he's going to do. 52:21 And one of them, he claims to forgive sin. 52:25 Man, we need to fit this thing together. 52:27 Because he's persecuting, 52:28 he's going to kill God's people and get rid of him. 52:31 He has a plan. 52:32 When he comes up, he would uproot three, 52:34 you remember that? 52:36 Yeah, of the ten. 52:37 We need to know this power beyond a shadow of a doubt. 52:39 And we need to put forth a fight, 52:41 because we have a message to give 52:42 called the three angels' message 52:44 to give to the world. 52:45 I want to be a part of that, don't you? 52:47 Because it's God's plan. 52:49 No one said it would be easy. 52:51 It's going to be a test. It's going to be a trial. 52:54 It'd be a decision I know that you want to make. 52:57 Let me just have a short prayer for you right now 52:59 and pray for me as we close. 53:01 Shall we pray together? 53:03 Loving Father in heaven, again, we thank You for Your Word. 53:05 Thank You that You're warning us that 53:07 You're soon to come in the clouds of glory. 53:09 Oh, Lord, help us to be ready. 53:11 Help us to swallow anything that we need to swallow. 53:13 Simply put our eyes upon You. 53:14 We may be ready for Your coming. 53:16 In Jesus' name, amen. 53:19 Thank You for joining us here at Behold the Lamb. 53:20 We look forward to spending time with you next time. 53:24 Hello and welcome back. Time is of the essence. 53:28 We must wake up and tell others 53:30 what God has left in His Word for us 53:33 to give us all hope and direction. 53:35 So often, I've thought about 53:38 what the last days on this earth would be like. 53:40 I've wondered how I would... 53:42 How I could personally survive 53:45 during the time of trouble that the Bible predicts 53:47 right before the coming of our Lord. 53:50 And like many others, I realize, I realize 53:54 it's very possible that the Lord may see fit, 53:57 that I sleep in the grave before His return. 54:00 I'm sure that many of you Christians, 54:02 many of you, like believers, 54:04 have had these same thoughts and these same questions. 54:07 However, as I was pondering one day before, 54:11 we were preparing for this message, 54:13 the thought came vividly to my mind, 54:15 that I was born here that 54:17 we're all here for such a time as this. 54:20 And it gave me hope, 54:21 because I thought if we're here, 54:23 God put us here right now, 54:25 therefore, he can strengthen us. 54:27 He can enable us to face whatever it is, 54:30 as long as we are 100% hid in Christ. 54:35 That reminder gave me such hope and a renewed sense of purpose, 54:40 as I hope it will you as well. 54:43 As we realize that this beast power 54:45 that Pastor Kenny 54:47 just spoke about today will continue 54:49 to exercise power 54:50 over the inhabitants of the world 54:52 before Christ's return. 54:54 This power has joined hands across the gulf 54:57 with what she calls her daughters. 55:00 And like many of our own children, 55:03 her daughters will be working 55:04 with her as her image to pass laws that 55:09 will sorely try the true children of God. 55:13 This final war is before us. 55:15 We are no doubt beginning to see 55:18 how the whole world can, 55:20 has and will come together 55:22 just as foretold in biblical prophecy 55:26 to bring the final events 55:27 to a worldwide crescendo as it were. 55:31 We are witnessing this coming together 55:34 under global initiatives 55:36 such as the pandemic, climate crisis, 55:39 and the teetering economic collapse. 55:43 Today's message again, Pope Leo XIII, 55:47 we hold upon the earth the place of God Almighty 55:52 with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 55:54 This is a message 55:55 that we want to make available to you 55:57 as always for a love gift of just $8 or more. 56:02 Please don't forget that or more. 56:03 I know time is getting tough financially 56:07 and it's getting tough financially here, 56:09 but we can only bring these messages to you 56:12 as we have your support. 56:13 We're just a supporting ministry. 56:16 We're also wanting to offer once again a free book 56:20 which is entitled The Mark of the Beast. 56:22 The Mark of the Beast, 56:24 you should see that your screen. 56:26 What a blessing that 56:27 we have access to so many messages 56:30 that will enable us to learn 56:32 so much information very, very quickly. 56:35 So to get your copy of today's message 56:38 or your free book or both, 56:40 simply contact us here 56:42 at the United States 56:43 at (618) 942-5044, that's Central Time. 56:49 To donate or to order, either the book of the DVD, 56:52 again entitled Pope Leo XIII, 56:55 we hold upon the earth the place of God Almighty. 56:59 You may also mail in your request 57:02 to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:03 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:08 You may also email us at 57:10 Contat@Behold TheLambMinistries.com 57:13 or visit us on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 57:18 Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel 57:20 and become our friend on Facebook. 57:23 Until next time, friends, may our precious Lord 57:26 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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