Participants: John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001714A
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00:01 The Carter Report presents "Living Victoriously",
00:06 Secrets of Success 00:07 from Prime Minister Daniel of Babylon City 00:10 with your host John Carter. 00:25 Welcome back. 00:27 Topic today is about the antichrist 00:29 but there's victory ahead. 00:31 We're talking about Living Victoriously. 00:33 We're so glad that you joined us today. 00:35 So this is a pick up from the previous program. 00:38 Going to turn to Daniel 7:9-10 00:41 because that's where we were talking last time. 00:44 Daniel 7:9-10. 00:46 The Bible says, 00:48 "I watched till thrones were put in place, 00:50 the Ancient of Days was seated," that's God, 00:53 "His garment was white as snow. 00:55 The hair of his head was like pure wool. 00:57 His throne was like a fiery flame, 00:59 its wheels a burning fire. 01:01 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. 01:04 A thousand thousands ministered to Him, 01:07 ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. 01:11 The court was seated, and the books were opened." 01:17 Seems to me that God is very much alive. 01:20 Don't you think? 01:22 Don't count Him out 01:23 because the Bible teaches that God is alive. 01:27 He's actively involved with every person, with you. 01:32 He knows all about us. 01:34 He is not surrendered. 01:36 He loves us with a passionate intensity. 01:40 He's on the throne of the universe. 01:43 God is alive and well on planet earth. 01:48 I guess the philosopher 01:49 who has had the greatest influence on Western thought 01:53 especially in America and Great Britain 01:55 is the German philosopher of the 19th century, 01:58 Friedrich Nietzsche. 02:00 He was a person gave up on God, you know. 02:03 Though he's quoting the Bible all the time 02:05 teaching in class, 02:06 "This is just a story, may be apocryphal." 02:08 But he wrote one day on the blackboard, 02:11 "God is dead, signed Nietzsche." 02:15 But after a while Nietzsche died. 02:17 And so somebody came and wrote, "Nietzsche is dead, 02:21 signed God." 02:23 It helps you to know 02:25 God is going to have the last word. 02:28 He spoke about the wilder power that made us right. 02:31 He was a hater of God and Christianity. 02:34 Hitler loved him. Hitler loved him. 02:36 When he was dying Nietzsche was cared forth 02:38 by his old Christian mother and sister, 02:42 nobody else wanted him. 02:43 As he was dying, 02:45 he was quoting the Bible incessantly. 02:48 Now, just want you to think of that text God on the throne. 02:52 This is the message of Daniel. 02:54 In spite of appearances, in spite of evil men, 02:58 in spite of the antichrist of demonic forces, 03:02 God is still on His throne 03:05 and God's gonna have the final word 03:07 so don't count Him out. 03:09 God is alive. 03:11 I've got a great little granddaughter, 03:14 her name is Armaley. 03:15 And Beverley and I took 03:17 Julie and the family, little Armaley, 03:20 she was I think four on this occasion. 03:22 We were eating out at Westlake Village 03:23 here in Southern California. 03:25 And a little bee came and crawl over the table 03:28 and her mother said, Julie said to her, 03:30 "Armaley, that bee is our friend. 03:32 He helps the flowers to grow. 03:34 So you be nice to the bee." 03:37 Armaley got a knife 03:39 and pushed him off on the floor. 03:41 And when the bee fell on the floor... 03:43 This is awful story, 03:45 I'm telling you this is not to condone it. 03:47 Armaley went up to the bee and stood on it. 03:51 Then she said, "Grandpa, he did now." 03:56 Now some people think God is like the bee. 04:00 They think they can stand on Him 04:02 and they can say, "He dead now." 04:05 But I want you to know, He's not dead. 04:08 Now, you can't get rid of God by standing on it. 04:12 Now look at verse 10 Daniel 7:10, 04:15 "A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. 04:18 A thousand thousands ministered to Him, 04:20 ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. 04:23 The court was seated, and the books were opened." 04:28 Did you know this 04:30 that in the Library of Congress, 04:31 Washington D.C 04:33 have these tremendous words from Tennyson? 04:37 "One God, one law, 04:41 one element, 04:43 one far-off event 04:45 to which the whole creation moves." 04:50 The Bible tells me, history confirms it 04:54 that everything is moving towards a tremendous climax 04:58 when Christ is going to come again to planet earth. 05:03 And look at Daniel 7:11-12. 05:06 "I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words 05:09 which the horn, this king, was speaking, 05:11 I watched till the beast was slain, 05:14 and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame. 05:18 As for the rest of the beasts, 05:20 they had their dominion taken away, 05:22 yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time." 05:27 The Bible teaches this 05:30 that the antichrist, all evil powers in the world 05:35 will finally be destroyed. 05:38 There will come a day which will be the end of evil. 05:43 That's what the Bible says. 05:45 You ought to be glad about that. 05:47 Look at Daniel 7:13-14, 05:50 "I watched in the night visions, 05:52 and behold, One like the Son of Man, 05:54 coming with the clouds of heaven! 05:56 He came to the Ancient of Days," 05:58 that's God, 05:59 "And they brought Him near before Him. 06:01 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, 06:06 that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. 06:10 His dominion is an everlasting dominion, 06:14 which shall not pass away, 06:17 and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed." 06:22 It talks here about a person called the Son of Man. 06:26 That person in the scriptures is called "The Divine logos." 06:33 The Word, in the beginning was the Word. 06:37 He was there a trillion years ago. 06:40 He was the creator of the cosmos. 06:44 And the Bible tells us 06:45 that in this vision the incarnate Son of God 06:51 comes to God the Father, 06:54 and God the Father gives to Him all the kingdoms of this world 06:59 and evil is destroyed. 07:02 Remember the words 07:05 Congress... Library of Congress, 07:08 "One God, one law, 07:11 one element 07:13 and one far-off event 07:16 to which the whole creation moves." 07:21 We are moving in the stream of prophetic time. 07:28 And the next great event in the history of this world 07:31 will be the great Judgment Day. 07:34 Look at verses 15 to 18 in this chapter. 07:38 "I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, 07:41 and the visions of my head troubled me. 07:43 I came near to one of those who stood by, 07:46 and asked him the truth of all this. 07:48 So he told me and made known to me 07:50 the interpretation of these things." 07:53 Look at it in the Bible, 07:54 "These great beasts, which are four, 07:58 are four kings that shall arise out of the earth. 08:02 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, 08:05 and possess the kingdom forever, 08:07 even forever and ever." 08:10 This means whatever happens in North Korea, 08:16 whatever happens in the Middle East, 08:19 whatever happens in Washington 08:22 there is victory ahead for the people of God. 08:27 That's what it tells us. 08:28 One great event. 08:31 One of my favorite characters in history, 08:33 of course, is Winston Churchill. 08:37 The black dark days when England was being bombed, 08:42 the great old man went around and gave this sign, victory. 08:48 "Even though it looks like we're getting beaten up, 08:51 I want you to know 08:52 there is victory that is coming." 08:55 That is why we can be optimistic and hopeful. 08:59 And that's why we can have victorious living 09:01 because there is victory 09:03 that is coming for the people of God. 09:06 When I was a boy, I went into the tropics in North Australia, 09:10 I drove a tractor. 09:14 And I can remember in the tropics, 09:17 in the afternoon at 3 o'clock it get intensely hot 09:22 and then a great storm would come. 09:25 You'd hear a muttering, somebody said, 09:29 "I like the sound of God moving the furniture upstairs." 09:33 So God is moving the furniture. 09:36 The thunder is rolling, the lightning is crashing, 09:40 then there would come tremendous tropical storm. 09:43 There is a tremendous storm coming, 09:46 I want you to know this. 09:48 Don't want to be a false prophet 09:50 and tell you everything's going to be just fine. 09:53 The Bible says there's victory ahead 09:55 but firstly there is a tremendous storm. 09:59 Then after the storm, 10:02 wonderful, sky would come out blue. 10:06 No humidity, it's cool, fresh, peace. 10:15 And it's going to be like that after the storm. 10:19 Look at Daniel 7:19 and onwards, 10:23 "Then I wished to know the truth 10:24 about the fourth beast," 10:26 that's Rome, "Which was different from all the others, 10:28 exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron 10:31 and its nails of bronze, 10:32 which devoured, broke in pieces, 10:34 and trampled the residue with its feet, 10:36 and the ten horns that were on its head, 10:39 and of the other horn which came up, 10:41 before which three fell, 10:43 namely, that horn that had eyes 10:46 and a mouth which spoke pompous words, 10:49 whose appearance was greater than his fellows." 10:53 Keep reading because the Bible tells us 10:56 some amazing things about this. 11:00 Verse 21, "I was watching, 11:03 and the same horn was making war against the saints, 11:07 and prevailing against them, 11:09 until the Ancient of Days came, 11:12 and a judgment was made 11:14 in favor of the saints of the Most High, 11:17 and the time came for the saints 11:20 to possess the kingdom." 11:22 Now the text is pretty plain, 11:26 I want you to think about this. 11:28 Got the fourth beast 11:29 and the fourth beast is the great Roman Empire. 11:34 That's true, that's history. 11:36 Every commentator worth its salt knows this. 11:39 Problem is today we live in an age of superficiality 11:43 especially in the Christian church 11:46 where people want three points in a poem. 11:50 You're not gonna get that here today, 11:51 three points in a poem. 11:53 You're gonna get the ten horns. 11:55 So you got the Roman beast 11:57 and then you got the ten horns 11:59 that represent the break up of the Roman Empire. 12:03 And then the Bible tells us, 12:05 "On the ruins of the Roman 12:08 Empire there arises another great world power." 12:15 And the question is, of course, did it happen? 12:22 Did it happen? 12:25 Who are the ten horns? 12:26 Well, that's Europe. 12:28 Who's the little horn? 12:30 Look at verse 23-25, 12:33 "Thus he said: 12:35 The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, 12:39 which shall be different from all the other kingdoms..." 12:43 That's the Roman power. 12:45 "And shall devour the whole earth, 12:47 trample it down and break it in pieces. 12:52 The ten horns are ten kings 12:55 who shall arise from this kingdom..." 12:57 Ten kings have come out of Pagan Rome. 13:02 "And another shall rise after them, 13:04 he shall be different from the first ones, 13:06 and shall subdue three kings. 13:08 He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, 13:14 shall persecute the saints of the Most High, 13:17 and shall intend to change times and law. 13:20 And the saints shall be given into his hand 13:23 for a time and times and half a time." 13:30 Now notice, 13:31 put your thinking caps on and concentrate. 13:36 Notice the identification marks of this power that arises 13:42 on the ruins of the Roman Empire. 13:45 Number one: 13:48 It comes out of the Roman Empire. 13:53 So we're not thinking about some power in America. 13:58 Number two: 13:59 It comes from among the kingdoms of Europe. 14:02 It comes up among the ten horns. 14:08 Number three: 14:09 It comes up after the kingdoms of Europe 14:12 and they were settled by about 500 A.D. 14:17 So he comes up into world prominence after 500 A.D. 14:20 And the Bible says, and you notice the words, 14:26 "He shall be different." 14:29 This is a power 14:31 that is different to any other power. 14:35 And when we turn to 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 14:40 we are told why he is different. 14:43 "Let no one deceive you by any means, 14:45 for that Day will not come 14:47 unless the falling away comes first, 14:49 and the man of sin is revealed, 14:51 the son of perdition, 14:52 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God 14:56 or that is worshiped, 14:58 so that he sits as God in the temple of God, 15:02 showing himself that he is God." 15:05 This is not atheism. 15:09 This is a power 15:12 that lives inside the church. 15:18 So this is a pseudo religious power. 15:22 Point number five: 15:25 The Bible says, he subdues three kings, 15:29 the Heruli, the Vandals and the Ostrogoths. 15:31 He speaks pompous words 15:33 and makes extraordinary claims. 15:38 He persecutes. 15:40 He is the power that believes 15:42 in the union of church and state 15:44 and believes in the efficacy of persecution 15:49 and torture. 15:51 And that is why every true American 15:55 is opposed to torture 15:59 because it comes from the antichrist. 16:03 Point number eight: 16:04 He tries to change God's law. 16:06 That's another talk. 16:09 And he rules for three and a half years. 16:12 The Bible says, "Time times and half a time." 16:16 And that means three and a half years 16:18 as proven by Revelation 12:6 and 13:5. 16:24 Revelation 12, "Then the woman, or the church, 16:27 fled into the wilderness, 16:28 where she has a place prepared by God, 16:30 that they should feed her there 16:31 one thousand two hundred and sixty days." 16:34 And so the true church is persecuted for 1260 days, 16:39 and in Bible prophecy a day symbolizes a year. 16:45 In the thinking of the Hebrews, 16:48 a day symbolized a year. 16:52 Revelation 13 says, 16:54 "And he was given a mouth speaking great things 16:56 and blasphemies, 16:58 and he was given authority 16:59 to continue for forty-two months." 17:02 And 30 days in a biblical month, 17:04 30 by 42 equals to 1260 days 17:08 or 1260 years. 17:12 Now you say, "I've never heard the like." 17:16 Well, my friend, this is what the founding fathers of America 17:20 taught and believed. 17:23 Let me tell you how it happened. 17:26 And point number 10: 17:28 The Bible says, "He endures to the end." 17:32 He'd last right through history and last to the very end. 17:36 How did it happen? 17:39 The Bible tells me 17:42 and we're going to put up some of it, 17:43 here, here it is, it's great. 17:45 I've got a really super team. 17:48 1260 years that is called by Bible scholars, 17:52 by Catholics and Protestants and Jews and Muslims, 17:56 "The dark ages". 18:00 1260 days, church and state joined together. 18:04 That is why I am so opposed 18:07 to the church getting involved in politics 18:10 and politics getting involved in the church. 18:14 That's the essence in the heart of antichrist. 18:18 May be popular in Washington but it's not popular with God. 18:24 1260 days, this was a time of bloodshed 18:28 and darkness. 18:31 When vast numbers of earnest Catholics and Protestants 18:36 and Jews were butchered 18:39 by a great religious system. 18:43 Man-made religion is generally a very bad thing. 18:47 And then you had at the end of this period, 18:50 The Protestant Reformation, 18:52 and remember they are all Roman Catholics 18:54 as Protestant Reformers. 18:57 You had Great Britain defeating the Spanish Armada 19:00 that was coming to England to set up the inquisition. 19:04 And then you had as a direct result of this, 19:07 my American friends, 19:09 you had the rise 19:13 of the United States of America. 19:20 Now, the boastful pompous king who persecutes represent... 19:26 and we're not talking about people today, 19:29 can you get that? 19:31 We're not criticizing people today, 19:34 we're talking history. 19:37 Man-made religion based on man-made traditions 19:40 that originated on the Roman Empire 19:45 that brought about the Dark Ages. 19:48 That's why the pilgrims, 19:50 God blessed them came to America. 19:54 Most Americans have forgotten their holy roots. 20:01 They think America ought to be like any other country, 20:06 you see. 20:11 They came to escape 20:12 the religious intolerance of the old world. 20:15 They wanted a state without a king. 20:18 They almost got that. 20:21 A state without a king and a church without a pope. 20:26 America became great 20:27 because of her faith in God and the Bible. 20:32 Not her faith in man-made religion. 20:36 With man-made religious laws 20:39 that stifle the spirit of liberty. 20:43 Every true American believes in liberty and freedom for all. 20:50 Now I have here 20:52 which we're going to make available to our partners. 20:56 I'll tell you some time later how we're going to do this. 20:59 This is the Geneva Bible. 21:02 That is America's Bible. 21:06 It came with the Pilgrim Fathers 21:10 on those little boats. 21:14 This, not this exact one... 21:18 That's the Geneva Bible that goes back to 1599, 21:24 America's Bible. 21:28 And that made America great 21:30 with all the seculars telling us today, 21:32 "Get rid of God, get rid of the Bible." 21:35 What they're going to do 21:37 if they succeed 21:38 is take us back to the Dark Ages, 21:45 and a time of hate and persecution. 21:51 Did you know people are ten times better 21:53 when they follow Christ and the Bible? 21:56 I have proof for this. 21:58 It's very controversial, the trouble is, it's true. 22:03 You can go and look this up, look up the corruption index. 22:06 Go and Google it. 22:09 The best countries for honesty, 22:12 the least corrupt countries for honesty 22:15 are those countries 22:18 that embraced the teachings of the Bible 22:22 and the Geneva Bible and the King James Version. 22:27 Got to talk about that more next week. 22:29 You say, "I can't believe that." 22:31 Well, just go and Google it, the corruption index. 22:35 The countries that accepted Christ, the Bible, 22:41 you know the book of freedom, it's the Bible. 22:45 "You shall know the truth 22:47 and the truth shall make you free," 22:49 said our blessed Lord. 22:50 Look at the verse 26, 22:53 "When all this is finished but the court shall be seated, 22:57 they shall take away his dominion, to consume 23:00 and destroy it forever." 23:03 It's going to come to an end, 23:05 a system of apostasy and a system of oppression 23:09 and a system of man-made religion 23:11 and a system of man-made rules 23:13 that take liberty from people. 23:16 I'm for freedom. 23:18 Verse 27, "Then the kingdom and dominion, 23:24 and the greatness of the kingdoms 23:27 under the whole heaven, 23:29 shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. 23:34 His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 23:38 and all dominions shall serve and obey Him." 23:43 So it ends up good. 23:45 God's people will be promoted to glory. 23:50 And if you believe that, 23:51 you can have a spring in your step, 23:55 you can be optimistic, you can be hopeful. 23:59 Did you know that the German soldiers 24:01 on the eastern front who received dreadful wounds 24:06 recovered far better than those who received little wounds. 24:10 You know why? 24:12 Because if you got a dreadful wound, 24:15 it was a ticket to home. 24:18 And they said, "Yeah my legs been blown off 24:20 but I'm going home." 24:23 And those who got little wound, they said, "I'm stuck here." 24:28 Hope saves. 24:32 The death of hope 24:34 always leads to the hope for death. 24:40 But if you believe this great prophecy, 24:42 you know what it tells you, 24:44 it tells you there is a God in heaven. 24:46 This is the evidence. 24:49 This is overwhelming evidence. 24:51 We don't say, "Oh, just believe, just trust." 24:54 No, no, no. 24:56 We say, "Believe in the truth and you've seen the truth." 25:02 You can argue with me, 25:04 but you can't argue with Babylon, 25:05 Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. 25:07 The break up of the Roman Empire, 25:09 the arise of a great system of church state. 25:13 You can't, and the rise of freedom, 25:16 you can't argue about this. 25:20 Verse 27, oh, we read that, verse 28. 25:24 "This is the end of the account. 25:26 As for me, Daniel, 25:27 my thoughts greatly troubled me, 25:31 and my countenance changed, 25:32 but I kept the matter in my heart." 25:35 Well, all matters will finally be made plain, Daniel, 25:38 so don't fret. 25:40 Here is the conclusion. 25:42 Here it is. Get it. 25:44 The historical fulfillment of prophecy 25:47 is powerful evidence for the honest soul 25:53 that God and the Bible are true. 25:57 Therefore I say in love, 26:01 if you are an unbeliever, 26:05 step out of the darkness, 26:08 step out now and step into the light. 26:13 Step out of the cold 26:16 and step into the sunshine. 26:20 Amen. 26:26 Today, we're starting the Washington DC Project. 26:31 We are going by the grace of God 26:34 to buy time on Washington television. 26:37 And we're going to have messages for our people 26:40 in the White House and on Capitol Hill. 26:44 There's a reason we're doing this. 26:47 And Time Magazine has been the reason 26:50 that we thought of doing this. 26:52 Notice this Time Magazine, 26:54 it says, "Is Truth dead?" 26:59 Apparently, many people in Washington would say, 27:02 "Yes, truth is dead." 27:05 And we can say anything we like 27:08 because truth is dead. 27:11 That's why we have so much fake news today in Washington. 27:17 We're going to be talking truth to power. 27:20 We're going to be talking about the great truths 27:22 that founded this great country. 27:24 We're going to be talking about 27:26 the great undergirding realities 27:30 that were the foundation stones 27:32 of the great American Republic. 27:35 And we want you to support this project. 27:37 If you believe that we should bring a message 27:39 to the leadership in Washington, 27:42 please support us. 27:43 We have no money to do this at this moment. 27:47 We're asking you to send your offerings 27:50 and your money to the Washington Project. 27:54 Write to me please, 27:56 John Carter, PO Box 1900, 27:58 Thousand Oaks, California 91358. 28:01 In Australia, you can write to us 28:04 at the address on the screen. 28:06 When you write to us, 28:07 for everybody who gives a $100 or more, 28:10 we're going to give you America's original Bible, 28:15 the Patriots Bible, the Geneva Bible. 28:19 Please write to me today. 28:28 For a copy of today's program, 28:30 please contact us at PO Box 1900, 28:33 Thousand Oaks, California 91358, 28:37 or in Australia, contact us at PO Box 861, 28:42 Terrigal, New South Wales 2260. 28:47 This program is made possible 28:49 through the generous support of viewers like you. 28:52 We thank you for your continued support. 28:55 May God richly bless you. |
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