Participants: John Lomacang (Host), John Stanton
Series Code: HCL
Program Code: HCL100026
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00:01 Hello friends, grab your Bible and a friend
00:03 and sit back as we explore God's word together 00:05 on this edition of House Calls. 00:22 Welcome to House Calls, the most exciting program 00:24 we believed today happening at this very 00:27 moment. If we didn't think that we wouldn't 00:29 be here. What you say John? 00:30 That's right I here you. I tell you are here, 00:32 so we're glad that you've chosen to join us, 00:33 sit down put your sit belts on, this is going to 00:36 be quite a ride today. We're going to be not only 00:38 answering Bible questions, but we gonna go to that 00:41 often ignored topic especially, today about 00:45 what the Bible says about the Mark of the Beast. 00:47 Cool. And so that's a big one, isn't it John? 00:49 Lot of people is asking about that. 00:51 Lot of people asking about it, but lot of people 00:53 are not talking about it. So we're going to talk 00:54 about that today on this program and as you know 00:57 we always appreciate you are tuning in, 00:58 but you may gonna to hit the record button 01:00 so you don't miss anything and then now 01:03 also pause as we invite the presence of the Lord 01:06 to be with us, John. Let's do that, Dear Father 01:09 in Heaven Lord we need your grace here today 01:12 as we open your word to study an important topic, 01:16 one that is talked very little about, 01:18 but we pray Lord for your guidance, your leading, 01:20 and that should open not only our minds to your voice 01:24 but it open the hearts and minds of those who are 01:26 joining us today for the program. 01:28 We thank you for your presence and your blessing 01:30 in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. And friends as you know 01:34 your Bible questions are huge part of our program. 01:37 We always go to internet to see what you have ask us 01:40 about and sometimes what you have to say 01:42 and sometimes you just have comments about topics 01:45 we have already covered. So, if you have any of those 01:47 categories or question or comment or something 01:49 you like to submit to us, send that to 01:52 housecalls@3abn.org, that's housecalls@3abn.org 01:56 and we try to be faithful in keeping up with you so 01:59 try to make that as concise as you possibly can 02:02 so we don't have filter through too much, 02:04 but we appreciate it so much. 02:05 John what question do you have for us today. 02:08 I got a question from Kevin. Okay. 02:10 And he is asking about High Places in the Bible. 02:12 Alright. The use to the term, talks about watching 02:16 the show each day and each time it comes on 02:18 and thank you for that. He says before I left 02:22 and he mentions his former Church, I would open 02:26 my Bible and follow your discussions. 02:27 I was baptized this year and continue to grow 02:30 on the Lord. Amen. Praise the God, Kevin. 02:32 I have question regarding Paul's use of High Places 02:37 leading up to his defining the whole Armor of God 02:40 in the Ephesians 6. Okay. The question that I have 02:43 is whether the spiritual wickedness in High Places 02:46 deals with places of worship or is it refereeing 02:50 to the Heavenly realms. Okay. Okay 02:54 and then he said, Fair topic. Reading about the 02:56 high place in the realm Judah and some of their 02:59 kings what the kings built. And had uttered down 03:02 and so people are telling me though that High Places 03:04 to be first to battles in Heavenly Realms. 03:07 But I think there is a connection into the issue 03:11 of worship and places of worship, so anyway 03:13 this is his question. Alright. And should we read that 03:16 question first or the text first. Yeah, actually text 03:19 first! Ephesians chapter 6, Ephesians chapter 6, 03:29 alright now I am trying to find out here. 03:34 Okay verse 11 lets talk with that. 03:36 Okay Ephesians 6 verse 11. Put on the whole armor 03:39 of God that you may be able to stand against 03:43 the wiles of the devil, for we do not wrestle 03:46 against flesh and blood, but against principalities, 03:49 against powers, against the rulers of the darkness 03:51 of this age, against spiritual hosts of 03:55 wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up 03:59 the whole armor of God that you may be able to 04:01 withstand in the evil day, and having done all, 04:04 to stand. And I am looking here I haven't look 04:08 this in advance but I am looking here to see if 04:10 there is some mention of High Places even before 04:13 that I am not seeing it. Well, Just a real quick view 04:16 as for as in Ephesians 6 but there is a huge 04:20 there's lots of things about high place 04:22 in the Bible. Okay should I register in the Bible? 04:24 Well yeah go ahead. Well if you look at that term 04:26 in the New Testament in the King James Version 04:29 you find the word of Phrase High Places, 04:31 here it says Heavenly places. Now they could be 04:36 some toss up has to whether are not that 04:38 means in Heaven because we did talk about 04:40 the fact that. The fall of Lucifer was a connotation 04:46 of spiritual wickedness that was at one point in 04:49 High Places but he was cast to the earth. 04:51 But on the bigger picture you find in the 04:53 Old Testament the word High Places or the phrase 04:56 High Places often refers to the way that the each 04:58 realizes establish their worship. 05:00 They establish there places of worship in the mountains 05:03 and that altars on the mountains. 05:06 One of the places you find High Places talked 05:08 about quite a bit is when it comes to Jezebel 05:11 and Ahab where Jezebel led Ahab to establish altars 05:16 in the High Places he put bails altars right next 05:20 to God altars in the mountains. And you also 05:23 find many of the Kings of Israel they came in after 05:26 wicked king he tore down the High Places. 05:30 So it has a lot more to me to do with spiritual 05:34 wickedness in places of worship where today 05:38 Paul is saying that wickedness has even 05:40 taken on an address it can be found in many places 05:43 of worship because that's the greatest connotation 05:46 you have in the old testament as matter of 05:47 fact the numbers 22 verse 41, you find a reference 05:53 there in the story, a Balaam so it was the 05:56 next day that Balak took Balaam and brought him up 05:59 to the High Places of Baal that from there he might 06:03 observed the extent of the people you know Balak 06:06 try to seduce Balaam to curse those children 06:08 of Israel, but he wouldn't do it. But he for from the 06:11 High Places he was able to observe and as a matter 06:14 of fact even when the Lord sent Moses up to get 06:16 The 10 Commandments he was in one of the High Places 06:21 because unlike the depiction from there you 06:24 can see into the valley where the people had 06:27 gathered waiting for Moses to come down. 06:29 So it has more to do with places of spiritual worship 06:33 that have become corrupted as far as 06:35 spiritual wickedness in High Places and although 06:38 the old testaments you find reference after reference 06:40 here is the one in numbers 33 verse 52 06:44 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land 06:48 from before you, destroy all their in grave stones, 06:54 destroy all their molded images and demolish all 06:59 their High Places. So you find over and over gain. 07:04 Deuteronomy in other one, Deuteronomy 33:29 07:06 Happy are you O Israel who is like you, 07:10 a people saved by the Lord, the shield 07:12 of your help. And the sword of your majesty, 07:17 your enemies shall submit to you, and you shall 07:20 tread down their High Places. So you see the 07:24 connotation continually connected over 07:27 and over again and even Samuel prayed the prayer 07:31 make my feet like the feet of a dear and set me on 07:34 my High Places, although is a connotation to do 07:37 with worship. Yeah and I was noticing here in Micah 07:42 it talks about what the Lord will do in the last days 07:46 and that tells us it confirms right there that 07:49 there will be High Places even today. 07:52 Let me read that here from Micah chapter 1, alright, 07:56 and let's pick it up in verse, oh, let's see 08:02 Verse 2, okay, and although this is a 08:05 Judgment on scenario Samaria there is an 08:06 in-time application, hear all you people listen 08:11 O earth and all that is in it. So this is a prophecy 08:14 to not just the people but the whole earth. 08:16 Micah chapter what? Micah chapter 1! Okay. 08:19 Reading verse 2. Let the Lord be a witness 08:23 against you, the Lord from His holy temple. 08:25 For behold, the Lord is coming out of His place; 08:28 He will come down and tread on the High Places 08:30 of the earth. The mountains will melt 08:33 under Him, and the valleys will split like wax 08:35 before the fire, like waters poured down a 08:38 steep place. All this is for the transgression 08:41 of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. 08:44 What is the transgression of Jacob? 08:46 Is it not Samaria? And what is the 08:48 high place of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem? 08:51 And then he goes on to talk about some specific 08:53 prophecies with regard to Samaria and Jerusalem 08:57 but notice here the end time application to all 09:00 the earth when it will melts the God will come 09:02 down out of his temple and he will trample 09:05 he will destroy the High Places of the earth. 09:08 So you know it's very easy then to connect the 09:12 High Places as described in Ephesians chapter 6 09:16 with what the Lord is going to do with the 09:19 end of time, He trample down those High Places. 09:21 obviously this trampling them down there 09:22 is still exist. Right and that's has being the 09:25 battle throughout the old testament many High Places 09:28 there is a reference also with Solomon in first king 09:31 3 verse 2 and Solomon love the Lord Bible says 09:34 first king 3 verse 2 and Solomon love the Lord 09:37 walking into the statues of his father David except 09:40 that he is sacrifice and burned in sense at the 09:44 High Places and you see that clearly it also says 09:48 He made shrines on the High Places and made priest 09:51 from every class of people who are not of the sons 09:55 of Levi so when the Bible talks about spiritual 09:57 wickedness in high place you get the entire picture 10:00 fully developed when we look at the old testaments 10:03 but may have so in the last days so now lets 10:06 asked the question is this spiritual wickedness today 10:08 in High Places? Well of course those High Places 10:12 can be best couple together or clumped 10:15 together or grouped together as Babylon. 10:19 Absolutely! You see when you look at the 10:21 old testament you see the Babylon was the 10:23 greatest city of antiquity and now in the 10:26 new testament you find that the greatest symbol 10:28 of spiritual wickedness in High Places is Babylon 10:33 and, Oh, even our topic today talking about the 10:37 mark of the beast the image and then the 10:39 marked to those who worship the image is talking 10:43 about a high place setup within Christendom Babylon 10:49 so we will be talking about the High Places 10:51 here coming up in our topic today. Oh yeah. 10:53 So just you keep that in mind and as we set it out 10:57 of that they are all out of High Places that the Lord 10:59 will deal with and but in all of those High Places 11:03 as we've have seen in old testament the children 11:05 of Israel were the ones that God wanted to rescue, 11:07 so God's people will be once out to call out those 11:10 false places of worship. Here is another question 11:13 by General by the name of Alvin, I don't give his 11:17 last name because somebody may know him, 11:20 but he says why do, Adventist commonly 11:22 interpret first five out of 7 last plays as literal, 11:25 but then change and interpret this 6 1 11:27 as symbolic. Lets go and see that. Let's go 11:30 to Revelation chapter 16 and John I was studying 11:34 this and I found out there is some amazing paroles 11:36 and Revelation. There are some amazing parallels 11:40 in the book of Revelation, Revelation chapter 16 11:43 so why I am in Micah I was struck there from the 11:47 last reference. Thank you let me their John 11:50 you led me down the path Micah. Okay Revelation 16 11:55 let us look at the 6th play over the 6th ball 11:59 Revelation 16 verse 12 the Bible says when the sixth 12:03 Angel poured out his bowl on the great river 12:07 Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the 12:12 way of kings from the east might prepared. 12:16 Right away you begin to see symbolic language 12:19 because this is a through back to the great river 12:21 Euphrates in the Book of Daniel and there is a 12:24 another place in the book of Revelation where the 12:26 great river Euphrates is talked about here is 12:28 the reason why it's often to refer to a symbolic. 12:31 Yeah, read verse 13 for us John. 12:33 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming 12:36 out of the mouth of dragon, out of the mouth 12:38 of the beast and out of mouth of false Prophet. 12:41 Okay so you see there three unclean spirits like 12:45 frogs so when John uses a word like an essence 12:49 he is saying well when it appeared to him that's 12:52 what he saw that's what the Lord showed him 12:53 in vision. But the things that he has referring 12:57 to the unclean spirits the dragon the false Prophet 13:01 these have spiritual symbolic connotation also 13:05 and they goes on the verse 14 for they of the 13:09 spirits of Demons performing science which 13:11 go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole 13:15 world together them to the battle of great day 13:18 of God almighty, clearly here John is referring 13:23 back to the great river Euphrates the way 13:26 Babylon fell in the old testament you know 13:29 the story very well they were having a party 13:32 in Babylon and the strength Babylon 13:34 was defect that they had the moth that 13:37 surrounded the city of Babylon it was filled 13:39 with water and while they were partying 13:42 there is the Bible describes with 10,000 13:45 of his Lords and all these guests, the city was 13:50 being set up for it's fall a force destruction 13:54 as the water that was coming from the great 13:58 river Euphrates was literally dried up the 14:02 opposing army filled the mouth the entrance 14:05 of mouth with stones with rocks and it allow 14:08 the water instead of going to the mouth that 14:11 surrounded Babylon. Diverted it! It diverted it 14:15 and so in essence that great river Euphrates 14:18 as it pretense to Babylon was dried up 14:22 and the army that I talked about in the book of 14:24 Daniel these were representing kings 14:26 of east it made away for them they came right 14:29 under the walls of Babylon and Babylon down, 14:32 right, so you see clearly it saying the water 14:35 there that represents the strength of Babylon 14:37 are the people. The system of Babylon today 14:40 the spiritual system of Babylon that so 14:42 supported by denominations and people and multitude 14:46 and tongues that are all apart of false system of 14:50 worship and so Babylon is going to fall when that 14:53 great river is all dried up. As matter of fact, 14:57 He goes me to Revelation chapter 18 you will see 15:00 what happens when that river dries up, 15:02 notice what happens. Let's go to Revelation 18 15:06 and we are going to see that the support of the 15:11 city of Babylon, let's look at the Revelation 18 15:16 verse 9 and by the way you will notice a phrasing 15:18 in the Revelation 16 the spirits go out to the kings 15:22 of earth, you will not notice what happens in 15:25 Revelation 18 verse 9. Look it read verse 8 15:27 because they are talks about plagues there. 15:28 Okay. Is this therefore speaking of Babylon 15:32 her plagues will come in one day death 15:34 and mourning in famine and she will be utterly 15:39 burned with fire for strong as the Lord God 15:42 who judges her? And the notice the connotation 15:45 again the Kings of the earth talked about here 15:47 and the kings of earth who committed fornication 15:51 and lived luxurisiouly with her we'll weep and lament 15:54 for her when they see the smoke of her burning. 15:57 Standing at a distance for fear of her torment 16:00 saying a last, last that great city Babylon that 16:06 mighty city for in one hour your judgment has come 16:10 and notice I am going to back again it's says 16:12 she went out to the kings of earth enough the whole 16:14 world togathered to them to the battle 16:16 of the greatly of God almighty Revelation 16:14 16:19 but if you back now and you go back to 16:21 Revelation 18 and verse 11 he says and the merchants 16:26 of the earth will weep and mourned over her for 16:29 no one buys there merchandized any more. 16:33 Merchandized of gold and silver precious stone 16:35 and pearls, fine linen, and purple, silk, and scarlet 16:39 every kind of citron wood every kind of object 16:41 Ivory every kind of object of most precious wood, 16:44 bronze, iron, and marble and when you look at 16:48 this if we would couple this all together you will 16:50 say that the Babylon was the reason for 16:52 economic strength. But now that her system 16:55 is completely exposed people are not buying her 16:58 merchandized any more and the greatest 17:01 merchandized she sold was the false goods about 17:05 the Gospel. But all the things that kept the kings 17:08 of earth happy was all of her commerce, 17:16 all of her economic strength was what kept 17:18 the kings of earth leaders of nations supporting her 17:22 but now they are see of who she is and that 17:25 only even want her stuff any more no one buys 17:28 her merchandized any more, no one was going 17:30 to buy a lie about the Gospel, no one is going 17:33 to buy her false teachings that they don't to buy 17:35 it anymore. That it is necessary product. 17:36 No It's spiritually in the form of what she teaches 17:42 and what she yeah. And you look at the whole 17:45 thing one hour is mentioned quite a bit 17:46 through out the fall of Babylon and then let's go 17:50 down to the last part of it in verse 17:54 Let's talk about the spiritual part of it 17:56 verse 20 down to verse 24, you wanna to read 18:00 that for us John are you closed to that. 18:02 What is it again? Revelation 18 verse 20 down to 24 18:07 it talks about the spiritual specifically the spiritual 18:10 side of her. Rejoice over her, O Heaven, 18:13 and you holy Apostles and prophets; for God 18:16 has avenged you on her. Then a mighty angel 18:20 took up a stone like a great melt stone 18:22 and threw it into sea saint. Thus with violence 18:25 the great city Babylon shall be thrown down 18:27 and shall not be found any more. 18:29 The sound of Harpists, musicians, flutists, 18:32 and trumpeters shall not heard in here anymore 18:34 and you anymore. No craftsman of any craft 18:37 shall be found in you anymore, and the sound 18:40 of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. 18:43 The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, 18:46 and the voice of bridegroom and bride 18:48 shall not be heard in you anymore. 18:50 For your merchants where the great men of 18:52 the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations 18:55 were deceived. And in her was found the blood 18:58 of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain 19:01 on the earth. That's way you see Babylon when you 19:03 talked about there so when you talked about the 19:06 great river Euphrates being dried up that's an essence 19:09 and detailed what's happening all of the 19:11 support that Babylon looked to was now being 19:15 dried up so it's not literally water but 19:17 it was the people that multitude the kings 19:19 the nations that were apart of our a support 19:22 system that's the reason why is often interpreted 19:24 well that's the reason why it is always interpreted 19:26 as something that's symbolic when it comes 19:28 to the great river Euphrates the great city 19:32 the great river Euphrates the great fall that great 19:36 harlot and so great is her fall because great 19:40 is her boast. But what I was talked about John 19:42 is this some amazing comparison between 19:44 seven last plagues and the seven trumpets. 19:48 It's amazing you find let me just go down to the list 19:51 very quickly the plagues that falls upon the earth 19:55 also the first trumpets upon the earth, 19:56 the second trumpet upon the sea the second plague 19:59 upon the sea. The third trumpets Affects Rivers 20:02 and fountains the third plagues Affects Rivers 20:04 and fountains. The fourth trumpets affect the sun 20:06 fourth plague from to sun. The fifth trumpets about 20:10 darkness the fifth plague about darkness to sixth 20:12 trumpets about the great river Euphrates 20:14 the sixth plague about great river Euphrates. 20:17 And the seventh trumpet the mystery of 20:18 God has finished and the seventh plague it is done. 20:21 But the differences between these two 20:23 although the similarities are so amazing the 20:25 difference is the trumpets always talk about 20:28 1/3, 1/3, 1/3, and the seven last plagues talks 20:31 about complete wrath of God on mist with mercy. 20:34 The full measure of God's wrath is not there 20:37 in the trumpets. Exactly! Yeah. So but that's the 20:40 good question thank you so much, do you have 20:42 one more for us. Yes I do a question from Nora's, 20:47 he says weren't there many times were 20:52 Allen White was out of the body and present with 20:56 God because that was it mentions in the Bible, 20:58 about the experience of the someone, 21:00 who had a vision. Alright! So let's go to scripture 21:04 and we will come back to the specific question here 21:07 but let's go to scripture first and look at first 21:10 Corinthians 12 my writer is a second Corinthians 12 21:16 and may be I have got to think here. 21:19 It is second Corinthians 12. Okay let's go there. 21:24 Sometimes I generally know but not correct every time. 21:28 Alright, here we go verse 1 of second 21:31 Corinthians 12. It is doubtless not profitable 21:35 for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations 21:39 of the Lord. Now here one thing that the prophets 21:44 never did, they never boasted themselves about 21:47 the revolutions or visions giving to them from God 21:50 you will find very humble servants of God 21:53 who were given the message and proclaim that 21:56 message to the people there was no boasting about 21:58 the law policy firming that theory saying when 22:01 I received Visions or Revelations from God 22:04 I am not kind of boast about that. Okay. 22:06 It's not for me to boast about myself. Verse 2, 22:09 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago. 22:13 Whether in the body I do not know, whether out 22:16 of the body I do not know God knows. 22:18 Such a one was caught up to the third heaven 22:22 and I know such a man whether in the body or out 22:26 of the body I don't know God knows. 22:28 He was caught up in to paradise and heard 22:32 inexpressible words which it is not lawful for a man 22:39 to utter so Paul in fact in verse 5 as such when 22:44 I will boast so Paul is going to elevate or lift 22:48 this person not as being a valid receiving a valid 22:51 vision of Revelation from God and it does by 22:55 describing his experience and clearly this experience 22:59 encompass being caught up to the Heavenly realms 23:04 where God could show or revealed something 23:07 to him that was very, very special that was 23:10 something beyond what he could see in this world. 23:13 Right. So in that respect you could say he had 23:16 a out of body of experience but this the only context 23:21 within the Bible where it and out of body spirit 23:24 experience is described there is no out of body 23:27 experience described as pertaining to death 23:30 for instance, which some people say while when die 23:33 your soul or spirit departs you leave and you go 23:36 to heaven to be to appear before the presence of God. 23:40 Death is never describe as beginning out of body 23:42 experiences however visions here are, 23:45 and this man was caught up to third heaven 23:48 and so we find that a Prophet or messenger 23:51 from the Lord someone given a specific vision 23:54 or Revelations they will be by God's power caught up 23:58 to receive or to see those things as Revelations 24:01 from God for specific purpose. And though I am 24:05 glad you mention that out of body experience, 24:07 that's a good way to be able identify with it. 24:10 Yet they are in the body but what most specifically 24:13 instead of being out of the body they are 24:14 in the spirit. In a Revelations 4 24:17 a wonderful example of that when John was given 24:20 the vision in many people often refer to this 24:22 passage in the wrong way but what in fact it is, 24:25 is John being shown in a vision and notice the 24:28 language. Revelations 4 I am reading from the 24:31 New King James version, it says, After these things 24:33 I looked and behold, a door standing open 24:36 in heaven, how he going to see that how is it going 24:39 to see door standing open in Heaven, 24:41 lets go on, and the first voice which I had heard 24:45 was like the trumpet speaking with me, 24:46 saying, come up here, and I will show you things 24:51 which must take place after this. In verse 2 24:54 immediately I was in the Spirit: and, behold, 24:58 a throne was set in heaven, and one sat 25:01 on the throne. And so when we talked about being 25:04 caught up as promised be sin absent from the body 25:10 present with the Lord he was in vision absent 25:14 from the body he was in vision present with Lord 25:17 but he was in body physically on the earth. 25:20 And the same thing with John and you find 25:22 that reference often refer to in the old testament 25:25 they were in the spirit the Lord show them things 25:29 that were not present on the earth and that's 25:32 in fact so when you talk about out of body 25:34 experiences that's a term that's has a connotation 25:38 that's not necessarily supported by scripture 25:40 but if you wanna give it any kind of supported 25:43 all from Bible you simply say they were in their minds 25:47 God had a taken up hold to their mind to show them 25:51 things that are not visible in the human reality Paul, 25:57 John, Eliza, Daniel altar of the Bible you began 26:02 to see that these individuals were caught up 26:04 in vision, caught up to the throne of God and when 26:08 the vision is done as in the story of Daniel 26:11 he the Bible says he was sick and in felt faint 26:14 and that's were he really was in he was in earth 26:16 after that vision he was exhausted because he didn't 26:19 really know how long he had been in vision 26:22 and but it was not an out of body experience 26:26 as much as it was in the spirit experience. 26:29 It was out of body because his mind 26:31 was with the Lord. In that sense! 26:33 No one ever saw or experienced a prophet who 26:36 actually deported with his being from the earth. 26:39 Right! So this is a in mind it will brought up to 26:43 paradise of God to experience or receive 26:45 those things those Revelations given by God 26:47 himself now I want to connect something. 26:50 Okay. Because we need to connect this two second 26:53 Corinthians 5, same letter but this phrase is used 26:58 in second Corinthians 5. Okay let's go through. 27:01 Verses 6 and 8, it says here in verse 6, so we are 27:10 always confident knowing that while we are at home 27:13 in the body we are absent from the Lord for we walk 27:16 by faith not by sight, a key passage here to 27:19 understanding this. We are confident, yes, well pleased 27:22 rather to be absent from the body and to be present 27:25 with the Lord. Similar terms here being used 27:28 and here is why say that because what Paul 27:31 was saying here was that he had received and had being 27:36 given visions and Revelations from God. 27:38 And he had experience first hand from God the things 27:42 of Heaven and he would much rather has 27:45 stayed there. He would much rather had being in present 27:48 with the Lord and just remained but he knew that 27:52 he is make out vision he was back on earth 27:53 he was going to be absent in mind from being actively 27:57 present with God, God giving him Revelation communing 28:01 with him directly. Okay. And so what is doing here 28:03 in this passage is he is pointing out that 28:07 it some day in future at point in the future 28:09 we will be with God and we will always be with God 28:13 from that point on. But for now we are not from now 28:17 we cannot be there not even in death. 28:18 Death is not issue here. That's right exactly. 28:21 The issue is at some point we will go with our 28:24 immortal bodies to the presence of God and live 28:28 then exist with him forever to have a full Revelation 28:31 of his kingdom and his will and so when it says 28:35 in verse 7 for we walk by faith not by side what he is 28:37 saying here you have to believe by faith in what 28:41 you are told from God through his word because 28:44 you can see it actively, you cant see it and tell 28:47 Jesus comes and takes you there so be confident 28:52 live by faith here present in the body even when you 28:55 die you are still your bodies here on the this 28:57 earth resting when your resurrection happens 29:00 and you enter into kingdom above from then 29:02 on you will be present with God forever. 29:04 This is all he is saying. And I like the way 29:06 he said it. It's not the giving big thesis here 29:08 about when you die you go to heaven. 29:10 It's a total misconception and abusing actually 29:15 the words Paul uses elsewhere about the vision 29:18 Revelation experiences. Isn't that sad that people 29:20 make an entire doctrine over this phrase here, 29:22 when Paul is saying yes we are confident. 29:26 Yes we are pleased rather to be absent from the body 29:30 and to be present for the Lord. He is in essence 29:32 saying that's what I would rather be, 29:33 but if you look at the rights of apostle nowhere does 29:37 he support this idea that we fly away that we take up 29:40 with wings and fly up to heaven after we die 29:42 because he said, I beseech you there for brethren 29:46 that you are not ignorant concerning those who 29:49 are sleep and so when you look at the 29:52 1 Corinthians 15, where he dealt with the entire 29:54 topic of death, burial and resurrection, 29:57 new body being changed. If you look that entire chapter 30:01 you begin to see outline to clearly right now 30:03 we are mortal but before we get to heaven we have 30:06 to put on immortality and this is not immortality 30:09 is not put on a death, immortality is put on when 30:12 Jesus come. That's right and that's would with his 30:14 verse this whole passage is about receiving our 30:17 heavenly body. That's right. So absent from the body 30:22 really what it means is getting rid of this 30:26 mortal body and receiving the immortal body. 30:29 Which does not happened at death. Which Paul 30:31 is talking about, it doesn't happened a death 30:32 it happened says the first Corinthians 15 it happens 30:35 when Jesus come to the.. At last trump. 30:38 Last trump yeah. Well thank you for that we become 30:40 a quite a bit of good once today and friends 30:43 we are hopefully we stimulate something 30:45 in your mind to ask us another question 30:47 and if you have or if you have or if you like submit 30:49 a question that you will hope for us deal with here 30:51 at House Calls send that information to 30:53 housecalls@3abn.org, that's housecalls@3abn.org 30:59 and we really enjoy thank you so much for bearing 31:02 with us. Some times we get enthusiastic but yeah 31:05 that's was study in the Bible does if you can get 31:07 excited about studying the Bible then you know 31:10 just become the book of bottom but it's in fact 31:12 a book of life and light that continue to get brighter 31:15 even for us and every time we study thank you so much 31:18 for that. You know just a word here for some of our 31:21 viewers or listeners. There are many times you 31:25 and I will both confirm with we are sitting here talking 31:27 and sharing the word of God were all of a sudden 31:31 we see something we have never seeing before. 31:34 Divine Revelations. It is really it happens 31:36 and we will just get that's I really start to get 31:39 excited as we see the Lord doing something right here. 31:42 That's right. And that's just it's exciting. 31:46 And what better can you do as an occupation 31:49 as a part of your daily living to be dividing 31:54 and we say rightly divide into word of truth. 31:57 So many people that are out there that are watching 31:59 listening to this program we do appreciate it 32:01 and we would strongly encourage you to share 32:03 this with your friends your neighbors, people that 32:05 don't know these important truths that's 32:09 why we are excited about what we do and today 32:11 the excitement is even gonna go further because 32:14 we are going to deal with the topic that's almost 32:16 not talked about it all. And all of these Christians 32:19 counseling circles these mega movements 32:22 these Giga Church is nowadays that are 32:24 30,000 people are sitting down it is almost like 32:27 there is a great terrifying fear by clergymen today 32:31 to talk about the topics that are present 32:33 in the book of Revelation and John before we talk 32:36 about this before we got on the air you mention 32:38 one of the reasons why this topics is not often 32:40 dealt with tell me about that? Yeah you know 32:44 I think that it's not talk about it's not being 32:47 dealt with because, the teaching that's most 32:49 prevalent out there right today in 32:50 Churches is the secret rapture. Okay. 32:53 And basically the secret rapture says the Christ 32:57 is going to come back prior to a rain on earth 33:01 in fact in a recent program we talked about the 33:03 millennial reign. It's not on earth it's in heaven 33:06 but they teach that is on the earth but before that 33:09 happens and before the tribulation of seven years 33:12 they assigned to tribulation happens 33:14 there is going to be a secret rapture of the 33:16 Church Christ will call up his saints to heaven prior 33:20 to a seven year period of tribulation and they 33:24 will not have to experience the tribulation 33:26 as described in the book of Revelation from chapter 4 33:30 on, right, they basically eliminate chapter 4 on 33:33 for any Christians if you are believer don't worry 33:36 about it let me tell you this is a deadly piracy 33:41 it is deadly because over and over gain through 33:44 the word of god if you, you have to through out 33:48 hundreds of text that are telling God's people 33:51 to prepare for the time of trouble the day as Lord 33:54 to be able to except the secret rapture 30. 33:57 Right as a matter of fact, Jesus in his words he says, 34:01 be ready for such an hour without you think 34:03 not the son of man is coming and if he find 34:06 you on ready he is going to appoint you 34:09 your portion with the Hippocrates he is not 34:11 giving you a second chance you are going 34:13 to be cut off so he says watch and be ready 34:17 for he is gonna commit and our that you are not 34:19 even looking for him and if you come and if you 34:22 are not ready he is going to appoint you your portion 34:25 with Hippocrates you are not getting the 34:26 second chance. So when John talked about 34:28 Revelation 4, this is doctrine that's built 34:32 around this phrase, when Lord says the John come up 34:35 here they are many people that believed that 34:37 teaches that the church is called up to heaven. 34:41 It's simply about his vision. That's about 34:43 a vision, that's John specifically individually 34:46 personally being said, being invited by the Lord 34:50 to look at his vision, that's not the Church 34:52 being called up to heaven. No. But they try to 34:54 find all these flamboyant ways of dressing up Era 34:58 in the this beautiful role of light and that's a lie, 35:00 and that's why we are going to deal with this 35:01 topic today to go ahead and dissects some more 35:04 things because if you are not going to be here 35:09 as John was going to say let me go 35:11 and give you chance if you are not going to be here 35:13 then what about this topic it is important 35:15 or not important. If you are not going to be here 35:16 it's not important. If you are going to be here 35:18 it's absolutely essential which is why we are going 35:20 to talk about it. Let me share with you the words 35:23 of Jesus from Matthew 24 he says here then 35:27 there would be great tribulation such 35:30 as not been since the beginning of the world 35:33 and tell this time no nor shall ever being his 35:36 coding of course from Daniel so this is the worst 35:39 tribulation great greatest tribulation this world 35:41 is ever experienced and then notice what he says 35:44 to his disciples and to us as church about that 35:49 event unless those days were shortened, 35:53 no flesh would be saved but for the Elect's sake 35:56 those days will be shorten whose sake, 35:58 for the Elect's sake, the Elect sake. 36:00 The Elect Sake-wise for their sake because 36:02 the days are shorten because they are 36:03 in heaven enjoying bliss already, no because 36:06 they are on earth enough experiencing a great 36:07 tribulation with everyone else and if anyone says 36:11 to you look here is the Christ and they do not 36:13 believe it false Christ, false Prophets will come, 36:15 show great signs and wonders to deceive 36:18 if possible even the Elect. So the Elect are here 36:21 during the reign of the anti-Christ to cometh 36:24 to deceive. All these words of Christ clearly 36:27 point in a firm old testament scripture that 36:32 says of the day of Lord when it come the day 36:34 of Lord is a same description of this event 36:36 this great tribulation of the end of time. Okay. 36:38 The devil when it cometh the saint will be here 36:42 protected by God being passed or passing through 36:45 the tribulations not being delivered ahead a time 36:48 from it. So, I am sorry the secret rapture is just 36:53 not true, and so we are going to talk you know 36:56 John I think the best approach may to this topic 36:59 and you may have another comment before we get 37:01 to it, but I think the best approach might be 37:03 to just go through Revelation 13. Okay. 37:06 This is going to introduce or talk about the four 37:09 beast powers of Daniel anyway so we can tie 37:12 those in and kind of progress and pull other 37:15 things in as we as go long would do you think? 37:17 I think this is a fair question, just to cap off 37:19 what you just talk about how we are going 37:21 to be here. Psalms 91, which is a favorite chapter 37:24 of many people you know we have this family chapter 37:26 Psalms 91 verse 15, the Lord says, well actually 37:31 verse 17 says the thousands may fall out 37:33 of our side and 10,000 at your right hand but it will 37:37 not come near you only with your eyes with you 37:39 look and see the reward of wicked. 37:42 So we are going be seeing that it says 37:43 no evil shall be fall you nor shall any plague 37:47 come near your dwelling for he will give his angel 37:50 charge over you and then finally in verse 15 37:52 he says, I will be with him in trouble and will deliver 37:55 him and honor him he will be with us in trouble, 37:58 in trouble right not here any more 38:02 he is at the bizarre at the furnace, 38:04 he was within the furnace God doesn't 38:06 deliver you necessarily from the trouble but 38:09 he deliver you some times in the trouble 38:11 that's why Jesus praised in John 17:15 38:14 I do not pray he said that you should take 38:17 them out of the world but that you should keep 38:20 them from the evil one and then Revelation 38:22 he says that he should keep us from the hour 38:26 of trial that will come up on the whole world 38:30 so he will be with us in trouble not taken us 38:34 out of that trouble so this topic about the 38:37 Mark of the Beast is so significant so I John 38:39 I let you, you want to go ahead dive into it. 38:41 You want to lay foundation. 38:43 You will do. I don't do that. 38:44 Let's just dive in the Revelation 13. 38:45 Let's go ahead. We stop each other as we want 38:47 to make comment can I through here but 38:50 let's start with verse 1. Okay. It's says Then 38:52 I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast 38:56 rising up out of the sea, having seven heads 38:59 and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, 39:03 and on his heads a blasphemous name. 39:05 Okay. Now the beast which I saw was like 39:09 a Leopard his feet were likely to feet of a bear 39:12 and his mouth like the mouth of lion the dragon 39:16 and who is the dragon by the way. Satan. 39:18 Just read one chapter before you will find in 39:20 Revelation 12 that is Satan gave him his power 39:23 his throne and great authority so that dragon 39:27 set him up, he is setting up to be the authority 39:31 to be the beast power known as the sea beast 39:34 at the end of time and couple more verses 39:38 and I saw one of the heads as if it had being mortally 39:40 wounded and his deadly wound was healed 39:44 and all the world marveled and followed the beast. 39:47 So the context of Revelation 13 is really 39:51 about after its healing. This is kind of the key 39:55 factor because while we can place some of these 39:58 events and will talk about the history leading up 40:00 to where we going to be at here in the context 40:02 of Revelation 13. The real context is in time 40:06 after the wound has been healed. 40:07 That's right. And there is lot of discussions to 40:09 whether the wound has been healed or not today, 40:12 but suggested, so far to say that I think that 40:18 it's clear this is an end time really time up 40:21 trouble passage in its true context not a historical 40:25 passage although we can get a lot of history from 40:28 here which we will talk about here right now. 40:30 Okay. Because we need to identify this sea Beast 40:34 and to do that you have to go to the other book end 40:37 of prophecy, the book of Daniel. Daniel talks about 40:41 as verse 2 describes the leopard the bear 40:51 and the lion and then of course this other beast 40:54 the sea beast. So John may be lead us there 40:57 because you know it's in the same order. 40:59 It's find the interesting it's a same once but not 41:01 the same order. Why is that? As matter fact 41:04 John is showing your vision in the aftermath 41:10 of Daniel vision, Daniel showed the lion, 41:14 the bear, and the leopard. 41:18 Looking forward? Looking forward this 41:20 is how it's going to be but John existing in Rome 41:23 now this is beautiful context that have Daniel 41:26 was in Babylon he was living in the lion 41:29 so he showed the lion, the bear and the Leopard 41:33 because he was living in the Lion. Now John 41:36 is living in the non-descript beast. 41:39 Right. His fourth beast is dreadful iron one, 41:42 so John is looking back to the leopard right 41:45 before his, the bear and then a lion. 41:48 John is seeing it how it was. Daniel showing us 41:51 how it's going to be, so John is living in the time 41:56 of Rome he is a prisoner on the island of Patmos 41:59 and so he is seeing this non-descript beast, 42:02 he is, matter of fact what we call this beast 42:04 here in Revelation 13 the first part is the 42:07 composite beast. In other words what is an essence 42:10 is saying is the nation that Iron man is a compilation 42:14 of all of those powers of authority, is a compilation 42:18 of all of those military and spiritual powers that 42:22 came before me that comprised, or they are 42:26 coalesced. They have being assimilated into. 42:29 Yeah that's a good word. They have been assimilated 42:31 into the nation of Rome, into the fourth 42:36 beast of Daniel and in the present power 42:39 that John is writing this vision from. 42:42 And we need to identify why you just said Rome. 42:45 Okay Because in Daniel we are not going to do 42:48 an exhausted study by any means on Daniel, 42:50 Daniel describes these beasts and the first one 42:53 he says is a lion and if you read other chapters 42:59 of Daniel you will find specially chapter 2 43:00 that first power the time of Daniel's day the power 43:04 that existed was Babylon. That's right. 43:06 So Babylon is represented by the lion 43:09 then you have after the lion Babylon a bear. 43:14 Right And the bear is represented by the means 43:17 in the Persians some referred to be it's 43:19 Medo-Persian Empire that concurred Babylon 43:23 and in fact Daniel 8 actually describes the 43:29 Medes and the Persians verse 20 as the 43:33 concurring army of Babylon over Babylon the means 43:37 in Persians. The leopard is the next one 43:40 and Daniel 8 also describes who the leopard beast 43:44 is it's Greece that Daniel 8:21 what happens 43:50 is you get to the similar thing that John gets to 43:53 when you get to this other beast to comes 43:55 he doesn't describe it much he just kind of 43:58 he describes the other three and then he says 44:00 this will this next beast exist and the same thing 44:03 happens in Daniel the first three beasts 44:06 are described with his fourth one is simply 44:08 described as this non-descript it's this 44:13 dreadful terrible beast but it's not a specific animal 44:16 of any type but the description of the beast 44:19 is pretty extensive as far as what the beast does. 44:23 Right. And he clearly says in Daniel 7:23 44:26 that fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom 44:29 so now we know that after Babylon after 44:33 the Medes and the Persians. 44:34 The Medo-Persian Empire at Greece comes to Rome. 44:38 That's right. And that's why John said Rome. 44:42 And something else about this In Daniel, 44:45 Daniel deals with the ten horns three of the horns 44:49 being plucked out but John deals with the heads 44:53 the horns the heads. Seven heads ten horns 44:57 Daniel deal with horns they were ten horns 45:01 three were plucked up one came up in it's place 45:04 which represented the voice of the prophecy 45:06 as the other three nations that opposed they were 45:08 taken out of existing never to raise again. 45:11 But now John says okay now that you understand 45:14 that let's look at something else 45:16 about this beast, he has also seven heads. 45:20 He has seven heads and this something that has 45:23 to really jump out at you. Because when this beast 45:27 is introduced again in Revelation how much 45:29 you got the Revelation chapter 12 with me right 45:31 now very quickly because while we look at the 45:34 historical application which Daniel gives we have got 45:38 to look at the literal description that 45:41 Revelation gives this beast as it first 45:44 introduced on the scene. we're gonna be lay 45:46 in foundation today and in upcoming program gives 45:49 you specifically the mark of the beast but we have 45:51 to see what Revelation gives what description 45:54 Revelation gives to this beast now as it appears 45:57 on the same it doesn't just have the connotation 46:00 and the application to represent nations alone 46:03 but more specifically the great controversy 46:06 is between Christ, and who John? 46:07 And Satan. And Satan so you are going to see this 46:10 controversy clearly described as this beast 46:14 with seven heads and ten horns is introduced. 46:17 Look at the Revelation chapter 12, Revelation 46:20 Chapter 12 with verse 1 Now a great sign appeared 46:23 in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun 46:26 with the moon under her feet and on her head 46:28 a crown of twelve stars. Then being with child 46:32 she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth 46:35 and other sign appeared in heaven behold a great fiery 46:39 red dragon, having what John? Seven heads 46:41 and ten horns. Having seven head and ten horns 46:44 and seven diadems and seven crowns on his heads, 46:49 now you want to get that because verse 9 described 46:55 this great dragon as Satan, but remember 46:59 this great fiery red dragon that appears before 47:02 the women in the Church is Satan he is appearing 47:06 there and in the time of Rome Satan manifests 47:11 himself through various powers but we must 47:14 not forget that the one that is really on the centre 47:17 stage here is Satan. He is someone like 47:19 a ventriloquist. He is speak through Babylon, 47:22 he speaks through Medo-Persia, 47:23 he speaks through Greece, he speaks through Rome 47:25 in the future, he will speak through the powers 47:27 of the United States, he speaks through various 47:29 government and various false religious 47:31 movements, but he is the actual proprietor. 47:34 He is the driving force. He is the driving force. 47:37 So when you see this power talked about again, 47:39 let us not just be quick to just apply to a nation 47:42 and see what the great controversy between Christ 47:44 and Rome, or Christ and Babylon, it is not, 47:47 it is between Christ and Satan. Right. 47:49 So look at this now in verse 9 so the great 47:52 dragon Revelation 12 verse 9 so the great dragon 47:54 was cast out, that serpent of all call the devil 47:57 and Satan, he is described very clearly 48:00 and when you go back to Revelation 12 verse 3 48:02 that dragon is one that is one that has seven heads 48:04 ten horns so now the question you got to ashes 48:07 of John in the picture that's being describe 48:11 here this beast is said to have seven heads 48:14 and tens horns now in Daniel this beast is giving 48:18 greater description it's given the iron teeth 48:24 the iron clothes and in it stamps the residual breaks 48:28 every thing in his path the tramples are down 48:31 and that's what the power of Rome did. 48:34 The power of Rome was a ruthless power 48:37 and so as we continue to unfold his idea 48:39 about the Mark of the Beast you will began 48:41 to see that the mark and Satan applies through 48:45 the power of Rome is going to be quite 48:47 significant. Yes and so, yeah as we go 48:51 forward here I think it was very key that in your 48:54 own study to compare the description of this fourth 48:58 beast in Daniel 7. Right. With what you're finding 49:02 that this beast in Revelation 13, the sea 49:05 beast is doing, because the language is very, 49:08 very similar, you can't dismiss the connection 49:10 there. So if you defining the fourth beast as Rome 49:13 and an especially little horn power that comes up 49:17 the power of the papacy, it's a religious 49:18 and a political power, then you also must see this 49:22 in Revelation 13 as being the same entity 49:25 and that is the power of Rome in it's religious 49:28 and political form which we find today with the 49:32 Church of Rome. So lets take a look than as 49:36 we continue on, in verse 4 let me read verse 4 49:40 again in Revelation 13, they worship the dragon 49:44 so as a worshiping the following these beast 49:46 power who they are really worshiping, the dragon. 49:49 See, there he is. He is behind it as what you 49:51 were saying John who gave authority to the beast 49:53 and they worship the beast saying who was like 49:57 the beast who is able to make war with him. 49:59 And he was giving a mouth speaking great things 50:02 and blasphemies and he was given the authority 50:04 to continue for 42 months. Then he opened his 50:09 mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme 50:11 his name, his tabernacle, and those who dwell 50:13 in heaven. And he was granted to him to make war 50:16 with the saints and overcome them and 50:19 authority was given him over every tribe, tongue 50:22 and people. All who dwell in the earth will worship 50:26 him whose names have not be written in the Book 50:28 of Life of the lamb slain from the foundation 50:31 of the world. If anyone hasn't heard, let him hear. 50:36 Another words this is important to God 50:38 to listen up for this for details of what is going 50:41 to happen in the future. Now John we have been 50:46 talking about here this beast power again. 50:48 We have identified it is Rome, the Church of Rome. 50:51 We have identified then as being healing power. 50:54 There is history blended in here because we have 50:57 42 months 1260 years of persecution of the past 51:01 during the tribulation, not the great tribulation 51:03 with the tribulation period that lasted up 51:07 until 1798 which assured in them the time of the end, 51:11 persecution ends 1844, we find Christ transitioning 51:15 to the heavenly sanctuary most holy place and speaking 51:17 some language here if we don't understand 51:19 some of these terms we have covered them before 51:22 in previous programs, but I am sure we will get back 51:26 around to it again. But for those who have been 51:30 following along with us while you understand 51:31 what I am talking about. But now we get to a point 51:34 where in the context of Revelation 13, 51:38 there is being introduced another beast at the end 51:41 that will give a last push for what this beast, 51:45 this sea beast is trying to do and what Satan 51:48 is trying to do through this sea beast. 51:50 And so we find this other power in support 51:55 of the first beast coming up in Revelation 13 verse 11. 52:00 Right. You want to may be take us from there. 52:02 Okay let's go to the Revelation 13 and 52:04 Verse 11, what are the other things I want to 52:08 point out which will covered in upcoming study 52:10 don't have time to do today, we will see that 52:14 while these passages have historical relevance 52:20 they also have last day relevance that do not 52:24 disconnect them from their historical importance. 52:27 Right! You see that truly the nation the power 52:32 of Rome has existed both politically and religiously 52:36 and continues to this very day to be a 52:38 religio-political power. Amazingly but true in 52:43 scripture points that out would be the test. 52:45 The United States is the next power that is brought 52:49 into view here because around the time the papacy 52:51 was receiving it's wound a very, an infant power 52:55 was just getting its breath, because in 1776 52:59 we know that this nation a had the Declaration 53:02 Of Independence and when we go to 1798 you have, 53:07 just about 22 years later you have another nation 53:11 another power receiving a wound bring in it to its 53:14 knees stopping it from a tyrannical reign of 53:17 1260 years, so one power being broken, 53:21 while another power is coming up and so let's look 53:23 at that the second power coming up. 53:25 By the way 1798 is the date that the Pope 53:28 was talking captive in by General Berthier 53:33 in the battle that had ensued to really 53:38 destroy or, put down the strength and the power 53:42 of the papacy over the people and so you will 53:45 find that really 1798 was a major date in the history 53:51 of this Church and understanding 53:53 the breaking of that 1260 years of power 53:55 and then you find also in the year subsequent 53:58 to that how fully that power was really broken 54:01 in fact even the war of 1812 the people states 54:04 basically completely stops supporting the papacy 54:08 at all. So this is just some of historical events that 54:12 do apply in two scripture here go ahead takes 54:15 from here John. So it says, then I saw another beast 54:18 coming up out of the earth. Now if you think about 54:20 the earth, what application does the earth have here? 54:22 If you think about mass of the earth we have more 54:24 water than we have earth, so the earth will be 54:27 least populated area meaning this beast was 54:29 coming up out of a least populated area since the 54:32 other one was coming up out of the water. 54:33 In other words the other one was rising among people 54:36 and the Bibles Revelation 17:15 the water that you 54:40 saw are peoples in the multitudes a nations 54:42 in terms, so more densely populated area for the 54:45 first beast but sparsely populated area for the 54:48 second one and he had two horns like lamb 54:51 and spoke like a dragon. So this beast would have 54:54 would offer to people lamblike qualities. 54:58 He would give them the freedom of religion. 55:00 He will give them democracy, 55:02 and it would be by the people and for the people, 55:05 but as that power continues to go 55:08 on it develops into the place where it starts 55:10 to speak like dragon and we know the dragon 55:12 is Satan himself. Yeah and whenever you're speaking 55:15 you are exercising your authority, Yeah, 55:18 legislatively! And so, legislatively and with 55:21 it's military power as well yeah. So that nation 55:25 starts to; it starts to take on a different 55:28 context altogether, but notice something else. 55:31 There is a similarity with first peace of Revelation 55:33 chapter 13 and he exercise all the authority 55:37 of the first beast what ever that first beast 55:39 did he now does. They start joining hands 55:42 in the exercise of the authority, 55:44 but something else. And it says and causes 55:47 the earth and those who dwell in it to worship 55:49 the first beast who is deadly wound was healed 55:52 because of the healing of that first beast 55:54 now this second beast points the world to that 55:57 first beast and says this is the power that you need 56:01 to worship. We will find out how that's being pulled 56:05 together today and in our upcoming program 56:08 we are gonna talk about the two missiles, 56:10 in the book Great Controversy, 56:12 Ellen White refers them to as two missiles. 56:14 What are those two missiles that causes this 56:18 first beast to have such power that almost all 56:21 the other movements of the earth recognized them, 56:23 what kind of connection do they have that give 56:26 them the similarity and the power of and authority 56:29 that they all shared together. And so we are 56:31 not gonna to cover that all today, but let me just 56:33 end it by simply saying this, and it's says in 56:35 verse 13 and he performed signs so that even makes 56:40 fire come down from heaven on the earth 56:42 in the side of man and I am leaving it there 56:45 John because I want break that egg open Friday 56:47 even more completely in the upcoming program 56:50 rather than trying to stuff it into the ending 56:51 of this program right here. Yeah you have already 56:53 mentioned that Satan is behind the first beast 56:56 power and it says the second beast is introduced 56:59 this beast from the earth. It also exercises the same 57:02 authority. So the Satan is behind that beast as well. 57:06 Even though it claims to be a Christian nation, 57:09 it is going to speaking exercises authority in line 57:13 with what Satan is trying to exercise and do to setup 57:17 worship and worship predominantly of him. 57:19 So friends as you know here it House Calls we believe 57:22 in telling like it is and this is one topic we are not 57:24 going scour the issue, so stay tune for future 57:27 program will recover all of the other specifics 57:30 until then may God bless you 57:32 and have a great day in Christ. |
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