Revelation Insights

The U. S. In Bible Prophecy

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Participants: Pr. Lyle Albrecht

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00:59 Good evening and welcome to each of you.
01:01 I thought it only fitting tonight, since we're
01:04 going to be talking about the United States in Bible prophecy,
01:07 that we take a journey to somewhere in the United States.
01:11 Won't that be fair enough?
01:13 Will you fasten your seatbelts, then, while the lights go down.
01:16 We're going to leave, ladies and gentlemen,
01:18 from the state of Washington, from northwest Washington.
01:23 And we're going to make our way across the border
01:25 to our friendly neighbors up in British Columbia, Canada.
01:30 And that is the city of Vancouver.
01:32 I think, by the way, that it's one of the most lovely cities
01:34 in all the world.
01:36 And I've been a lot of places, seen a lot of faces.
01:38 Sounds like a country song, doesn't it.
01:41 I think it is.
01:43 In any event, I just think that it's a beautiful,
01:46 beautiful city, the city of Vancouver
01:48 British Columbia, Canada.
01:50 And it happens to be the birthplace of my
01:52 daughter-in-law, Brenda.
01:54 So that makes it special to me as well.
01:56 We're going to get around the Fraser River
01:59 center downtown and see some of the sites.
02:03 And then we'll move across over toward Stanley Park,
02:07 Prospect Point.
02:08 And if you've never been there, ladies and gentlemen,
02:11 you're in for such a treat, in the summer time particularly.
02:14 It's just remarkably beautiful.
02:17 There is just a little touch of it.
02:19 Here, the mountains rise up out of the blue waters
02:23 of the inlets of the Fraser River, the various branches.
02:27 And they're snowcapped in the background.
02:30 It's just really one of my favorite cities
02:32 in all of the world.
02:34 But we're going to go beyond, you and I.
02:36 We're going to fly from Vancouver up over the
02:40 Chugach Mountains and down into Anchorage, Alaska.
02:44 And then we'll move around up toward Denali Park
02:47 and we'll see what it looks like up there.
02:51 I have spend a good amount of time in Alaska,
02:54 working like I'm doing here.
02:56 I've held meetings in Anchorage and in Palmer and in Fairbanks,
03:00 and other places.
03:01 And it's been my happy privilege to do a lot of driving, in fact,
03:05 I think I've driven most all of the roads that are available
03:08 to drive in Alaska with, perhaps, the exception
03:10 of the ice road up to the north of Prudhoe Bay.
03:14 I haven't done that one.
03:16 Maybe someday.
03:17 By at any event, I've discovered that the folks who go
03:21 to Alaska are unique.
03:22 I mean the folks that go over there to stay.
03:24 Not just the tourists who go for a day or two, or a week,
03:27 or maybe go up to hunt.
03:29 But the folks who go there to stay are rugged individualists.
03:33 I think that's the best way to describe them.
03:35 And if they stay more than just a year or two or three,
03:39 they learn to do a variety of things because you just can't
03:43 call on someone to come out and fix a leaky pipe,
03:46 or to do the carpenter work, or to patch the roof,
03:50 or to bandage up someone's wound or some such thing.
03:54 They become independent and they love it up there
03:59 because of its freedom.
04:00 And I'm going to be talking to you, ladies and gentlemen,
04:03 during the lecture in just a little bit about the tragic loss
04:06 of freedoms all across the United States.
04:09 And that includes Alaska as well.
04:12 Here, we see a meadow filled with their fireweed, and the
04:17 Chugach Mountains in the summertime back behind.
04:20 The first time I went to Alaska, I took my son Troy with me.
04:25 I believe Troy was about 18 or 19 years of age at the time.
04:29 And I promised him that we would see a grizzly bear.
04:32 He'd never seen a grizzly bear before.
04:34 I said, "Son, we'll stay until we see a grizzly bear. "
04:39 And so we drove all around.
04:40 We drove way up around Fairbanks and we did the circle
04:44 back down to Valdez and we drove down toward the Kenai.
04:49 We never did see a grizzly bear.
04:51 And our money was gone and I said, "Son, I hate to break...
04:55 Well, I won't break my promise. "
04:57 I took him to the zoo.
05:00 Over there on O'Malley Road, I took him to the zoo and
05:03 we saw a couple of grizzly bears and then we had to come home.
05:06 But since then, I've, on several occasions, had the privilege
05:10 to see the grizzly bears, young and old, and big and small.
05:15 The largest ones are out on the Kodiak Island.
05:21 They say the largest 4-footed carnivore in all the world
05:24 is the big brown or griz bear out on Kodiak Island.
05:28 For a long while, I thought is was the polar bear.
05:30 But no, they say the griz that's out on the Kodiak
05:33 is bigger in average and in pounds.
05:36 That is, the Kodiak bear.
05:40 Well, you're apt to see moose and caribou and just about
05:44 anything that is imaginable.
05:46 And you'll also even see in the back country, dog sleds.
05:50 Well if you're there at the time of the Iditarod,
05:52 you'll see them in main street down in the city of Anchorage.
05:55 In fact, that's where they leave from for that 1100 mile race
05:59 out to Nome, Alaska.
06:02 And you know, of course, what it commemorates.
06:04 There was a terrible illness out in Nome amongst the gold miners
06:08 who were finding gold there in the sands where the Yukon
06:11 dumps into the northern seas up there.
06:15 And there was a terrible outbreak of influenza
06:17 and they needed to get medicine up there.
06:20 And so a dog sled made the first run and they go through the
06:24 little village Iditarod, and so the name.
06:27 And the dog sled race the Iditarod.
06:31 A few years ago, and this by the way, really
06:33 made Peggy feel good.
06:35 A few years ago, amongst the mushers and the dogs,
06:40 there was a poodle.
06:41 So help me.
06:43 She said, "See there. "
06:47 Well, beautiful, beautiful mountains.
06:49 Including the highest of all of the mountains
06:52 on the North American continent.
06:54 And that is, of course, Denali.
06:56 That's the native name.
06:58 It means, the tall one or the big one.
07:01 For many, many years, of course, it was referred to
07:04 generally as Mount McKinley, and sometimes still is.
07:07 No matter what you call it, it's 20,320 feet high.
07:13 That is quite a climb.
07:15 And there are pilots up there, bush pilots, that will fly you
07:19 in and land you right on a glacier on the side of that
07:23 mountain if you should so choose.
07:25 I did not so choose.
07:29 But the mountains are majestic, they're awesome and it's just
07:34 breathtaking country and it is so huge, you know.
07:37 They can say they got the last laugh on Texas because
07:41 Texans, for so long, bragged about how large their state was.
07:45 They say, "We can put a lot of Texas here in Alaska. "
07:49 Well, this is kind of a typical little out of town shelter
07:53 or little home.
07:55 And over here on the side, you see the little building
07:58 where they keep their meat.
08:00 And that's for the protection, largely, from the griz bear.
08:04 They'll put their things up in there and take the ladder down.
08:07 If they left the ladder, of course, the ole bear
08:09 will get in there.
08:11 He'd find a way.
08:12 I thought I use to have a lot of snow where I lived in Idaho,
08:15 but look at this.
08:17 Many of the folks have to dig a tunnel to get out,
08:21 out into their driveway or out to town.
08:25 In the fall of the year, there are so many
08:27 wonderful, wonderful colors.
08:30 And there is so much freedom, but there's a loss of freedom
08:33 here, as so many other places in the United States of America.
08:38 There, recently, was a book written that was turned into
08:44 an Oscar winning movie, or Oscar nominated, I believe
08:46 at least I'm correct in saying.
08:48 And it was called, Into The Wild.
08:50 You remember that story about this young man that
08:53 came from the lower US and wanted to kind of get away.
08:57 And he crossed this river and found an old abandoned
08:59 school bus and moved into it.
09:03 And then things froze up and he ran out of food and all.
09:07 And he died in there, but he wrote message to his family
09:12 on the wall in there.
09:14 And if you remember the end of the story, had he
09:17 just gone down the river, 3/4 of a mile there was a bridge.
09:21 He could have easily gotten out, but he didn't
09:24 know that, of course.
09:25 Say, there's a friendly looking guy right there.
09:27 I want to tell you about that picture.
09:30 I had friends who'd flown in from Alabama and they'd never
09:34 seen Alaska and they'd certainly seen a grizzly bear.
09:36 Not even in the zoo.
09:39 And so I took them, I was holding meetings in Fairbanks
09:42 and Peggy and I took them back in to Denali Park.
09:45 And we got on the bus that would take us to the end of the road.
09:48 It's a whole days trip, quite a journey.
09:51 And you'll see all kinds of the wildlife of Alaska.
09:55 And we had seen a grizzly bear but he was, I suppose,
09:59 an 8th of a mile away, quite a distance, and he was
10:01 kind of loping along.
10:03 And they said, "Well, I wish we could see one up close.
10:05 Wish we could see one up close. "
10:06 As we came back, we rounded the curve and the bus said, "Look. "
10:11 And at a cut bank, where the road cut through a hill,
10:16 lying up above and on the cut there was this huge
10:21 old male grizzly.
10:23 And so our guide, who was the bus driver said,
10:26 "Be very, very quiet. Be very quiet.
10:29 I'll drive right up next to him. "
10:33 And everyone had their windows down.
10:36 And there was a group of tourists from way out in the
10:38 far east, that I remember so very well.
10:40 And they were all going, they were saying things that I
10:42 couldn't understand, but excited I could tell that, you know.
10:45 And they all had their expensive cameras up like this
10:48 and the bus driver went right up till I believe we could have
10:53 reached out and touched this old boy.
10:56 And I don't know if someone spoke too loudly or what, but
10:59 suddenly he got up like that.
11:01 Yeah.
11:03 And those folks with their expensive cameras did
11:05 just like you did.
11:06 They jumped and sat down and I'm laughing about it still.
11:10 But he didn't threaten us really at all.
11:12 He just, I suppose, thought someone might have a lunch
11:15 to share with him.
11:17 Well, someone told me that even here a few evenings ago,
11:21 they saw the Northern Lights.
11:23 Did any of you here recently?
11:25 Yea, two or three of you are saying you did.
11:27 Well, I had seen them down here in the lower 48 on occasion,
11:31 but say that this place with the display of Aurora Borealis
11:36 up in Alaska is something else in the world.
11:40 I was in Palmer on this occasion hoping to see a real display
11:45 of the Northern Lights.
11:47 But one of the natives said, "Lately they've been coming on
11:52 after midnight and that's when they've been really
11:55 displaying clearly. "
11:56 I said, "If you see it again, call me.
12:00 Call me. "
12:02 And so I got a phone call from this man and he said,
12:05 "They're really out tonight. "
12:07 It may have been 1:30 or 2:00 o'clock in the morning.
12:09 But he said, "To really see them properly, you need to
12:13 get in your car and go north, get out of the city lights
12:17 and go up to the hill out of town, out of the city lights,
12:21 and then you'll have a good view. "
12:24 And so Peggy and I got up and got dressed and got awake.
12:27 And we got in the car and we went up to
12:30 see the Northern Lights.
12:31 They're something magical, really they are.
12:34 It's a wonderful, wonderful place, Alaska.
12:37 And it's yours, isn't it?
12:39 I want to thank you for traveling with me.
12:43 And now to our subject.
12:45 The United States in Bible Prophecy.
12:49 If we were to give it a subtitle, it might well go
12:51 something like this.
12:53 The coming dictatorship in America.
12:57 Having said that, I must now say this and say it clearly enough
13:01 that all can understand.
13:03 Lyle is a loyal American.
13:07 I have been to about 60 other countries of the world.
13:10 Perhaps more than that now, yes.
13:12 I've been everywhere, as the song goes,
13:14 but I want to tell you, there is no place that I have ever found
13:18 that comes anywhere near to these United States of America.
13:23 We have our problems, we're not perfect.
13:27 We have a long ways yet to go in certain areas of
13:30 fairness and equality.
13:31 But we've made great progress,
13:35 and we continue to do that by God's grace.
13:39 And I've discovered that the folks who throw rocks at us,
13:42 all nearly want to come and live here.
13:46 There's no place that I know of like the
13:48 United States of America.
13:50 So be assured I'm a loyal American.
13:52 While I'm a loyal American, I'm at the same time
13:54 a concerned American.
13:56 I'm concerned about a number of things, but mostly
13:59 our gradual loss of freedom.
14:01 It was Benjamin Franklin who said, "Those who give up
14:04 essential liberties to purchase a little temporary safety
14:07 deserve neither liberty or safety. "
14:12 Daniel Webster said, "God grants liberty only to those
14:16 who love it and are always ready to guard it and defend it. "
14:20 And I want to say to you, ladies and gentlemen tonight,
14:23 that our Lord Jesus taught that liberty is the heart
14:26 of the gospel of Himself.
14:28 It is at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
14:30 For Jesus said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall
14:34 make you free. "
14:38 Patrick Henry, you remember, said, "Give me liberty
14:41 or give me death. "
14:45 To my hearts sorrow, it has come to my attention that
14:50 America is like a wheel, or a tire on a wheel,
14:54 upon my automobile that has got a lump in it.
14:57 We're a little out of balance.
15:00 And it seems that we're getting more out of balance nearly
15:02 every week, or every month for sure.
15:06 "The abuse of liberties," someone long ago said,
15:08 "causes the loss of liberty. "
15:10 And we have seen that become a reality before our very eyes.
15:13 We see folks break the law and abuse their liberties
15:16 and do this and this and this.
15:17 And pretty soon, there's a law that won't allow you to do
15:20 those kinds of things.
15:24 On the World News tonight, there were two items that I
15:27 want to bring to your attention.
15:29 Number one, there was the revelation that three
15:36 of our foremost politicians had their passport information
15:39 looked into illegally.
15:41 And then they went on to talk about easy it is to look into
15:44 anyone's passport information if someone chooses to
15:47 disobey the rules and the laws.
15:49 And then also in the World News tonight, there came the report
15:53 of what is now known as the REAL ID,
15:56 identity card or drivers license.
15:59 And I want to tell you something that happened to me
16:01 a few days ago.
16:03 I had a birthday, well that's not a big surprise.
16:06 Most old guys do from time to time
16:09 every two or three years.
16:12 And my driver's license expired and so I went in
16:16 to renew my license.
16:18 And I was not surprised when they said, "We need to take
16:21 your picture again. "
16:22 I know that I'm much better looking than I was
16:25 10 or 12 years ago when I got the last one.
16:28 But when I got the last one, they took my picture and then
16:30 in about 15 minutes, they handed me my driver's license
16:33 encased in a plastic container and ready to put in my wallet.
16:36 There was my permanent drivers license.
16:38 But not this time.
16:40 The lady in charge said, "We've taken your picture but your
16:43 license will be coming from Salem in just a few weeks.
16:47 It'll probably be there in about 6 weeks. "
16:49 And I said, "Really? What's happened?"
16:51 "Well," she said, "you're soon going to find out. "
16:53 Well I found out today, ladies and gentlemen.
16:55 By the end of May, every American is going to have
16:59 what is now called the REAL ID card.
17:03 And this has come about, of course, as a result of the treat
17:06 of terrorism and folks doing some naughty things
17:10 that might be prevented, or at least we hope to prevent
17:14 by having this ID card.
17:17 Now, I want to read you something.
17:19 This is back in the time of Ronald Reagan.
17:21 "As officials seek ways to account for possible
17:24 troublemakers, we're already hearing proposals for a
17:27 'national identity card. '
17:29 The idea was floated recently during the Reagan administration
17:33 but it was rejected as too invasive of privacy. "
17:36 And what had happened was that congress had voted against
17:39 the thing because they said it takes away too many
17:41 of our liberties.
17:43 It gives too many folks too much access to some
17:47 private information.
17:48 And then came the dropping of the buildings of 9/11
17:51 and the world changed and we have lost more liberties,
17:54 ladies and gentlemen, since the 9/11 tragedy
17:57 than in the prior 200 years.
18:00 And this is one example.
18:02 Now the national identity card is here for all Americans.
18:05 And there are, by the way, in the World News tonight,
18:07 a couple of states that are holding out.
18:09 They're saying, "Our people don't like this idea. "
18:12 And the states have their rights not to go along if they choose.
18:15 And the federal government has said, "Alright, if you want to
18:18 go down that path then we'll cut off all your federal funds
18:21 for highways and bridges and all of the rest. "
18:26 Interesting.
18:28 Most interesting.
18:31 I want you, ladies and gentlemen please, to open your Bibles
18:34 if you will to Revelation chapter 13.
18:37 This of course, you recall is our homework assignment.
18:42 And I'm going to begin to read at the 11th verse for I
18:44 asked you, if you'll remember, to pay particular attention
18:48 to the last half of Revelation 13.
18:51 I'm going to take up the reading, if you please,
18:53 at verse 11.
18:56 Revelation chapter 13, verses 11 and following.
19:02 "I looked and I saw another beast coming up
19:05 out of the earth.
19:06 He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.
19:10 And he exercised all of the power of the first beast
19:13 that had been before him.
19:14 And he causes the earth and those that dwell therein to
19:16 worship that first beast whose deadly wound was now healed.
19:19 He does great wonders... "
19:21 "Miracles," say some translations.
19:24 "He does great wonders so that he makes fire to come down
19:26 from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
19:28 He deceives those that dwell upon the earth by the means
19:31 or the miracles which he has the power to do in
19:32 the sight of the beast.
19:34 And he says to those that live upon the earth
19:35 that they ought make an image to the beast
19:37 that received the deadly wound and yet did live.
19:40 He had power to give life to this image of the beast,
19:42 that the image of the beast should both speak and
19:44 cause as many as would not worship this image
19:47 that they should be killed.
19:48 And then he causes all, small and great, rich and poor,
19:51 free and bond, to receive a mark either in their right hand
19:54 or in their forehead, and no man could buy or sell
19:58 unless he have the mark or the name of the beast
20:00 or the number of his name. "
20:02 And the final verse, the 18th says, "Here is wisdom.
20:05 Let him that understands count the number of the beast
20:07 for it is the number of a man and that number is 666."
20:13 Here we have a beast.
20:15 The second beast of Revelation chapter 13.
20:17 And yet, in many ways it's different from the other.
20:20 This one comes up out of the earth.
20:23 And additionally, it has two horns and these horns
20:27 are lamb-like.
20:28 Now this second beast of Revelation 13 has a close
20:31 collaboration with, in fact I think fair to say a
20:34 conspiracy with, the first beast of Revelation 13,
20:38 the one that received the deadly wound that was healed,
20:40 and would be healed before Jesus would come back.
20:44 And this second power of Revelation 13, the second beast
20:47 if you please, forces those who are finally upon the earth
20:50 to worship the first beast whose deadly wound has been healed.
20:54 Now we want, once again, to briefly cover the
20:58 symbolism of a beast as it's used in Bible prophecy.
21:02 God never called a power a beast to be naughty, nasty,
21:07 or disrespectful, but He did it only for the purposes
21:10 of identification in the same way that we, today, if we're
21:13 talking about Russia refer to the bear,
21:16 and if we're talking about Great Britain we refer to the lion,
21:20 and here, the buffalo or the American bald eagle.
21:24 And so we have a symbolism here in the last half of
21:26 Revelation 13 of a power, a nation.
21:29 It's political in its power, we can certainly see that.
21:33 Two horns lamb-like, the great power at the end of time,
21:39 compels folks to worship that first beast that
21:42 received the deadly wound but whose wound would be healed.
21:45 just before Jesus comes back.
21:47 Now please, please follow carefully this next idea
21:51 because it's vital to the rest of our information sharing.
21:56 Before we can appreciate and understand the second beast
21:59 of Revelation 13 beginning at the 11th verse,
22:01 we must have a basic understanding of the first beast
22:05 because of this collaboration, this conspiracy, this collusion,
22:10 between the two.
22:13 Revelation chapter 13 and the first verses.
22:16 Here in vision, John describes this first beast.
22:19 "And this one comes up out of the sea and it has
22:22 seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns it has crowns
22:26 and it has the names of blasphemy.
22:28 It was like a leopard, it had the feet of a bear,
22:31 and it had the mouth of a lion.
22:32 The dragon gave him his power and seat and great authority.
22:35 And then I saw a head wounded as it were to death,
22:37 but that wound was healed.
22:39 And the whole world then followed after the beast and
22:42 they worshipped also the dragon who'd given him the power.
22:44 And they worshipped the beast saying unto him,
22:46 'Who is like unto him, who is able to make war against him?'
22:50 And there given to him a mouth that spoke great things
22:53 Power was given to him to continue for 42 months. "
22:56 Or 1260 years, as you remember we have studied
22:58 on many prior occasions.
23:01 "He opened his mouth and blasphemed against God
23:03 and blasphemed God's name and His tabernacle,"
23:05 or His sanctuary service and all that went with it,
23:09 "and all those that dwell in heaven.
23:11 It was given unto him to make war against the saints
23:14 and to overcome them.
23:15 And power was given him over all kindred and
23:17 nations and tongues. "
23:20 This power claims to be God on earth, if you please,
23:23 and persecutes the saints and it blasphemes.
23:26 And the title of the pope in the Latin, Vicarius Filii Dei,
23:31 means the "Vicar of the Son of God" or
23:34 "one who sits in the place of the Son of God. "
23:37 Now, for those of you who have been coming quite regularly,
23:40 this will only just be a brief review.
23:43 But we've said on several prior occasions and have read from
23:45 many historians, this fact.
23:48 Every single reformer was unanimous in their belief
23:52 that the beast power of Revelation 13,
23:53 the little horn power of Daniel 7,
23:55 and the anti-christ spoken of by Jesus and Paul
23:58 was none other than the church of Rome.
24:00 It was this idea that caused Martin Luther to nail 95 theses
24:06 to the church door and begin to preach with great power.
24:10 All of the reformers were unanimous in this matter.
24:14 Now,
24:19 I want to talk to you about how the reformers
24:24 struck the first blow against this power.
24:28 They began to preach with great vigor;
24:31 Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, John Huss,
24:35 Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer, and a host of others,
24:39 that the church of Rome was the beast power,
24:41 it was the little horn power of Daniel 7:25,
24:44 and it was the anti-christ system.
24:46 And they were persuasive and they had Bible prophecy
24:48 to back them up.
24:50 The woman that sits upon the seven hills.
24:52 The woman that is dressed in purple and scarlet color.
24:54 And had we the opportunity here, which we didn't
24:57 on this occasion, I might have put on the screen
25:00 about a dozen pictures of the funeral service of
25:03 Pope John Paul II.
25:05 And there were the bishops and there were the cardinals,
25:07 and the bishops were all in purple color
25:09 and the cardinals were all in scarlet color.
25:12 And it reminded me of reading out of Revelation
25:14 chapters 13 and 14.
25:16 A woman or a church sits on seven hills.
25:18 The seven hills of the city of Rome, it's still today known
25:22 as the city of seven hills.
25:23 And a woman dressed in purple and scarlet color.
25:26 And so with this for background, these reformers;
25:29 Luther, Calvin, Knox, these Catholic priests
25:31 began to preach that the church of Rome, because of its
25:34 great movement away from God's word and God's truth
25:36 and God's gospel, was the beast power of Revelation
25:41 and the little horn power of Daniel.
25:42 And Catholic peoples began to leave the Catholic church
25:47 like rats disembarking a sinking ship.
25:51 This wound that was inflicted continued to grow and fester
25:56 and begin to bleed and hemorrhage.
26:01 And then there came the French Revolution.
26:04 And before the little dictator of all of the world
26:09 went over to take the pope captive, there was a decree
26:13 against every leader, in France I'm speaking now,
26:17 there was a decree against every leader of the
26:19 Roman Catholic church and 70% of the Roman Catholic
26:23 priests were martyred.
26:25 And by the way, I'm not suggesting this was right.
26:27 It was terrible and it was wrong.
26:29 And almost 100% of all of the nuns in the nation of France
26:34 were killed and the nation of France has never recovered.
26:37 The church of Rome which was prominent and prevalent
26:40 up until this time has never, never regained its power.
26:44 And the nation of France by and large, is, I suppose
26:50 to be kind, atheistic.
26:53 Now, Napoleon then sends Berthier over to Rome
26:59 inside the Vatican, takes the pope captive, and says
27:02 there will never be another pope.
27:04 And it looked for sure that the Catholic church
27:07 was going to die.
27:08 There, for 3 years, was no pope in Rome.
27:11 There was one over in Avignon who claimed to be the pope,
27:15 but there was no pope in Rome.
27:16 But the Bible prophecy said the deadly wound would be healed.
27:20 The United States of America, if you know any of our history,
27:24 was founded in order to escape the tyranny of Rome,
27:27 the influences of the church of Rome as it had spread across
27:31 the face of Europe.
27:32 Now, we're going to transition and I'm going to give you,
27:35 ladies and gentlemen, five reasons for believing
27:38 that the second beast of Revelation 13,
27:40 that one that's described in verses 11 and following,
27:44 is the United States of America.
27:46 I want you to notice verse 10, if you will please,
27:49 of Revelation 13.
27:51 Revelation 13, reading verse 10.
27:54 "He that leads into captivity shall go himself into captivity,
27:59 he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword.
28:02 Here is the patience of the saints. "
28:05 Now this is talking about the power described in the
28:07 first verses of Revelation 13, the power that we believe
28:10 rightly as Protestants to be the church of Rome.
28:14 He that has taken captives will himself go into captivity.
28:19 Let's review briefly then.
28:21 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte has the pope taken captive.
28:26 Now mark it down, if not in your Bibles certainly in your minds
28:29 and in your notes, 1798.
28:32 Now it says in the 11th verse, "Now I see another beast. "
28:37 And I want you to see the time connect here because
28:39 it is vital in its import.
28:41 At the time of the captivity, now John in vision, sees
28:45 another power rising up.
28:48 What do we give as the birth date of the Unites States?
28:50 What?
28:52 1776
28:54 This happened in 1798.
28:56 In 1798, ladies and gentlemen, the Unites States of America
28:59 was still in its infancy.
29:01 We were still in our birth pangs as a nation.
29:04 We had not yet arrived at the banks of the muddy Mississippi.
29:08 And so the time of arrival.
29:10 Clue number one, as we search for this second beast
29:13 of Revelation to believe that it's the United States.
29:15 Clue number one certainly fits the clue of the
29:18 time of the arrival.
29:20 "I saw another beast," another nation, "rising up. "
29:28 Clue number two, the clue of location.
29:32 When we look for the mark of the beast and the mystery of Babylon
29:36 we found their clues of location.
29:38 And as we look tonight for the United States in Bible prophecy,
29:43 we shall again find a clue of location.
29:46 So this is clue number two, the clue of location.
29:50 All of the other beasts of Revelation, or of Daniel largely
29:55 for that matter, the other nations symbolized by beasts,
29:59 came up out of the, out of the water, out of the sea.
30:04 This one does not, this one is different.
30:06 This one comes up out of the earth.
30:10 Now in Revelation chapter 17 and verse 15,
30:13 and I want you to mark it down.
30:14 We don't have time... well let's do, let's take the time.
30:17 It's really very important.
30:18 Let's go over to chapter 17 and we'll read the 15th verse.
30:21 Revelation chapter 17 and verse 15.
30:25 Here it is.
30:28 "He said to me, 'The waters which you saw where the
30:31 whore sitteth are peoples and multitudes and
30:34 nations and tongues. '"
30:36 And all of the other beasts of Revelation and Daniel
30:40 came up out of the sea.
30:41 That means they came up where there had been another
30:44 nation prior to them.
30:45 Maybe they threw over the one, the government
30:47 that was there ahead of them, had preceded them.
30:49 And this one then is very, very different.
30:53 This one comes up out of the earth where there was
30:56 not a prior nation.
30:57 Someone once said to me, "Well, I have kind of an objection
31:00 to that whole idea that the United States came up
31:02 where there was never another.
31:04 What about the Native American?"
31:05 Well, a couple of things very briefly.
31:08 There are far, far more Native Americans here now
31:11 than when Columbus came over here,
31:14 or when in 1776, we became a nation.
31:17 And more than that, the Native Americans were really not
31:21 organized into one nation, were they now.
31:23 Oh there was a Sioux tribe and there was this tribe
31:26 and that tribe and the Coosan tribe.
31:28 But they were not organized together.
31:31 And so, this one is unique.
31:33 It arises up out of the earth where there'd never been another
31:37 power or nation here prior to it.
31:40 Clue number three.
31:41 Clue number three really asks a question.
31:44 What kind of a power will this be?
31:46 This new nation, what kind of an organization is it
31:51 going to have?
31:52 Well, I want you to notice once more the symbolism.
31:55 It says about this new nation of Revelation 13, the last half,
31:59 that it has two horns.
32:02 Now the first verses that we read from Revelation 13,
32:06 the beast had seven heads and ten horns.
32:08 And each of those horns had something on it.
32:10 What was it, what did they have?
32:11 The same thing back in Daniel.
32:13 Each horn had a crown upon it.
32:15 Bu this one is different.
32:17 It has two horns but it does not have a crown
32:19 upon the Head of State.
32:22 In other words, this nation will not be ruled over by a king
32:25 or a queen.
32:27 There will be no crown upon the Head of State.
32:30 And then that brings us automatically to number 4
32:34 Clue number four.
32:35 Not only will it not have a crown on the Head of State,
32:37 it will not have a crown on the head of the church.
32:40 It will not be ruled over by the pope or any such thing.
32:43 There will be a separation of church and state.
32:46 And I believe, by the way, that it was that separation
32:49 of church and state that made this country the great country
32:52 that it was to become.
32:54 And so clue number three, there is no crown
32:58 on the Head of State.
32:59 And number four, there is no crown upon the head of church.
33:02 Not ruled over by a king or a queen, not ruled over by a pope
33:06 or any such thing as that.
33:08 Number five.
33:10 Number five, this new power says, "Let us make an image,
33:15 let us make a likeness, let us make a repeat. "
33:19 We've said on so many occasions when we've studied the book of
33:22 Revelation that it is written in symbols.
33:27 Not in most places to be taken literally, but certainly here
33:31 it's speaking of symbols.
33:33 Some have written and suggested that down in the southwest
33:37 deserts there is going to be erected a great monument
33:41 one day, perhaps in just a few months or years.
33:45 And that perhaps a special rail will be made there,
33:47 or perhaps there will be a special airport built
33:51 and the American peoples in groups will be flown there
33:55 or taken there by bus or by train.
33:57 And the trumpet blows and everyone has to bow down
34:00 before this great statue.
34:02 And then after they have bowed and after the blowing of the
34:05 trumpet, someone comes along and asks,
34:07 "Where do you want your mark now?
34:08 Do you want your computer chip embedded in your forehead
34:11 or in your hand?"
34:13 "Where do you want your laser beam tattoo?"
34:15 No, God is speaking here symbolically.
34:19 But this power that we believe to be the Unites States
34:22 is going to be a repeat, it's going to be a likeness of
34:27 that power that was here before it.
34:29 Now before we move further, let's make quickly a review
34:33 of the 5 reasons for believing that the Unites States
34:36 of America is the second beast of Revelation chapter 13.
34:39 Number one, the time of the arrival.
34:41 That when the pope was taken captive in 1798
34:44 the United States was still in it's birth pangs, number one.
34:46 Number two, the location.
34:48 This one comes up out of the earth, not out of the sea,
34:51 not where there'd been nations or peoples,
34:54 languages before it.
34:55 But comes up out of the earth where it was
34:59 new real estate, if you please.
35:00 And then number three, it will not be ruled over by a king.
35:03 And number four, it will not be ruled over by
35:06 the church or the pope.
35:07 And number five, it will make an image.
35:10 It will make a repeat.
35:12 Now I want to talk about the future of the
35:17 United States of America and our existence as a nation
35:23 and as a people.
35:24 Often, in the last few years particularly, folks have
35:28 come to me and asked, "Lyle, what do you think
35:30 is going to happen?
35:31 Does the Bible make any suggestion?
35:33 The Chinese are flexing their muscles and the
35:35 North Koreans have the bomb.
35:37 And maybe the Chinese are going to get together with
35:39 the Russians and they're going to knock us over
35:42 and plow us under and we're going to go down. "
35:46 Ladies and gentlemen, there's not the slightest hint
35:49 in any prophecy, certainly not this one that I believe
35:51 deals directly with the United States, not the slightest
35:54 hint that this nation is ever going to be taken
35:57 by an outside force.
35:59 It's going to be the great super power when Jesus comes back.
36:04 Now that may be another sign that He's going to
36:06 have to hurry back.
36:08 Huh, how about that?
36:09 25 years ago, I had to preach this passage by faith.
36:13 Why? Because there were two great world super powers.
36:16 There were two, the United States and the Soviet Union.
36:19 And we had hundreds and hundreds of missiles
36:21 pointed at one another.
36:22 And both had great armies.
36:24 And many said it would be a stand-off, it would be a
36:26 total annihilation of the United States.
36:29 But it was Mr. Gorbachev who, at the time of the gulf war
36:35 initiated by President George Herbert W. Bush,
36:39 it was Gorbachev who said, at the time we were dropping
36:43 guided missiles down chimneys into exact locations,
36:50 Mr. Gorbachev said, "Surely now the whole world can see
36:54 that there is only one super power,
36:59 and that's the United States. "
37:03 Now there comes a valid question at this juncture.
37:07 Why, why would God ever mention a nation in Bible prophecy?
37:14 Why?
37:16 Well I want to leave at least two ideas in your minds.
37:20 Number one, He would mention a nation in Bible prophecy
37:23 because of the world wide influence of that nation.
37:27 Not upon its own peoples only, but of the peoples of other
37:31 nations and tribes.
37:33 Would the United States count in that regard?
37:36 Have we had an influence over the rest of the world?
37:39 Look at the great world wars.
37:41 Look at the finances that the peoples of the United States
37:44 have sent here and there and all around the world to
37:47 rebuild and to remake and redo.
37:48 And look at how the American Bible Society has tried to
37:51 spread the gospel to the whole world and influence folks
37:54 in favor of Jesus and His truths.
37:57 And so the United States certainly qualifies
37:59 on this count, it's world wide influence.
38:01 And number two then, it's impact upon the people and
38:05 the work of God.
38:07 And again, the idea of sending Bibles.
38:10 But not only that, the United States has sent more
38:13 missionaries to the rest of the world than any one other
38:15 single country in all of the history of Christianity.
38:19 There has never been another quite like us.
38:23 And so the United States qualifies in these two areas,
38:25 it seems to me.
38:27 Its worldwide political influence, and its impact
38:29 upon the people of God and the work of God.
38:32 Now, let's talk about the power then of the
38:36 United States of America in the last days.
38:40 And I want us to go back for a little bit of review of that
38:43 first beast we believe to be the power of the church of Rome.
38:46 And we're going to read at verse 7.
38:48 Revelation 13 verse 7.
38:51 After this power has opened its mouth to blasphemy God
38:54 and to denigrate the tabernacle service,
38:57 where by the way Jesus was offered once for all, you know.
39:01 You read in the book of Hebrews, He shed His blood,
39:03 He spilled His blood once for all.
39:05 But the church of Rome says, "No, we sacrifice Him
39:07 in every Mass. "
39:09 And that's why it's called the Sacrifice of the Mass.
39:12 And that's why at every Mass celebration, when the chalice
39:17 which holds the host, or those little bits of bread
39:20 and water comingled together and baked,
39:23 called the Host in the Catholic church.
39:25 And as soon as those words are spoken, always primarily
39:30 in the Latin, "hoc est corpus meum,"
39:32 but now in the vernacular, the language of the people
39:35 wherever they are found, "this is my body. "
39:37 And in Roman Catholic theology, as soon as those words are
39:40 spoken, those little bits of bread and water are turned
39:43 into the very absolute real body of Jesus.
39:47 And folks are made holy and made worthy by eating Christ.
39:55 And that's a reference then to the desecration of
39:58 God's tabernacle where the symbolism, the little lamb
40:02 that would be sacrificed once for all.
40:05 But the church says, "No, we sacrifice Jesus
40:07 in every single Mass. "
40:15 It says then in verse 7, power was given to this institution,
40:20 we believe to be the church, to make war against the saints,
40:23 to overcome them.
40:25 Power was given them over all kindred and
40:27 tongues and nations.
40:30 The church of Rome ruled the world, largely, for 1260 years.
40:34 And we have said that over and over and over again.
40:36 Up until the time of King Henry VIII,
40:39 of Great Britain, and by the way, he didn't make his break
40:41 with the church over a disagreement regarding
40:44 theology, particularly.
40:46 But rather it was his desire, his relentless desire,
40:51 to have a male heir.
40:53 And the church said, "No, we're not going to allow you
40:55 to divorce that wife. "
40:56 "Alright, I'll kill her. "
40:57 And when the next wife couldn't produce one, then he went
41:00 a step further and a step further.
41:01 And finally, he broke with the Roman Catholic Church
41:04 and the Anglican Church was born with the king or queen
41:10 as the head of the church, not the pope.
41:12 But two crowns, the one on the Head of State
41:16 is the same as the one on the head of the church.
41:18 And so we see then this second beast power that we believe
41:22 to be the United States exercising all the power
41:25 of the first beast there before it.
41:27 We ought to read that from verse 12.
41:31 "He exercises all of the power of the first beast that was
41:33 before him and he causes the earth and those that dwell
41:35 therein to worship that first beast whose deadly wound
41:38 has been healed. "
41:40 Now please listen to this next idea very carefully because
41:44 it is so vitally important.
41:45 Every time, underline it, without exception every time
41:49 God has mentioned a nation in Bible prophecy,
41:52 whether it's here in Revelation or back in Daniel or elsewhere,
41:55 that nation has ultimately rejected the truths of God
41:58 and begun to persecute the people of God.
42:01 That's what happened in Babylon, that's what happened in Persia,
42:04 that's what happened in Egypt, that's what happened in Rome.
42:07 And the prophecy says, that's what's going to happen here.
42:10 The symbolism of this second beast of Revelation 13,
42:14 whom we believe to be the United States,
42:15 is that it is lamb-like.
42:17 And we refer to ourselves often, don't we,
42:20 as the Christian nation.
42:22 Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
42:26 The Christian nation.
42:28 It looks lamb-like on the outside, but on the inside
42:33 it has the voice and the command of the devil himself.
42:37 Speaks with the voice of a dragon and the dragon power.
42:40 Moreover then, it's clear that there is a conspiracy
42:43 between the United States and the church of Rome
42:45 and her Protestant daughters in a united effort
42:50 to control the world.
42:52 So I'm going to begin now to share with you some evidence
42:56 of the healing of the wound and of the mission of the
42:59 United States to reunite with the forces of Rome
43:03 to control the world and to bring an end to terrorism.
43:06 And again let me remind you that the world changed after 9/11.
43:11 We live now in a completely and totally different world.
43:14 I want to take your minds, firstly now, to a man by the
43:17 name of General Tommy Franks.
43:19 You remember Tommy Franks who led our soldiers against
43:23 Saddam Hussein in 2003?
43:28 Not very long ago, months only, he was interviewed by
43:33 the magazine called, "Cigar Aficionado. "
43:36 Now I'm not promoting the magazine, but I do want to
43:39 refer to the interview here.
43:40 If you want to go and look it up on the web, this is from
43:43 Volume 12 Number 1.
43:45 Volume 12 Number 1, Cigar Aficionado.
43:48 Now listen carefully.
43:51 Tommy Franks.
43:54 "In the event of a major terrorist attack,
43:57 we could lose the freedoms and the liberties of 200 years.
44:02 The potential of war, a war of mass destruction with
44:08 massive casualty producing events, either in the
44:11 United States or in the Western world, will cause
44:15 the population of the United States
44:17 to question our constitution, to militarize our country,
44:22 and undo and unravel the fabric of our constitution. "
44:31 Several years ago, a young man who I knew more than personally,
44:38 was attending a major military school.
44:43 He graduated from college with the highest of honors,
44:47 four point plus plus,
44:50 and was gladly accepted to this major military school.
44:56 I'm not going to give you the name of it.
44:58 And of course, not the name of the young man.
45:01 He finished a year there at the top of his class.
45:06 And then suddenly, without warning, he was home.
45:12 "What's going on," I asked.
45:15 He said, "I quit. "
45:16 "What? You had such a bright military future.
45:19 You would have gone right to the top.
45:22 You would have hardly had room on the uniform for the
45:23 ribbons and the metals. What?"
45:27 "Yes," he said, "I quit and I'll tell you why. "
45:31 He said, "All we students entering into the advanced
45:35 courses were commanded to take an oath, swear an oath,
45:40 that if necessary we would turn our guns and our mortars
45:46 upon the United States citizens. "
45:48 And he said, "I refused to do it and I had to quit. "
45:53 We think about freedoms here in the United States
45:55 and well, if we don't like it, we'll vote against it.
45:58 Look, back in the time of our then President Mr. Nixon,
46:02 there were given certain executive orders and
46:05 I want to read just 2 or 3 of them to you
46:07 passed by the government.
46:08 It says that at anytime of national emergency;
46:13 security, military, financial, or otherwise.
46:16 In other words, if the banks are about to fail,
46:18 or if there's a military threat, or if the buildings are blown up
46:22 our President can put these things in to order
46:25 without anyone's permission.
46:27 He just makes up his mind.
46:28 Number one, he seizes all communication media in
46:30 the United States.
46:32 Freedom of the press? No, no.
46:33 I was working in Oklahoma City when that thing was
46:35 going on in Waco, Texas.
46:37 And there were news folks from Oklahoma City
46:40 that were down there and they gave their report every night.
46:43 And they said, "They'll not allow us with our cameras
46:46 to get nearer than 2 miles. "
46:49 No freedom of the press.
46:51 The seizure of all electrical power and fuels and minerals
46:53 and other public services.
46:55 The seizure of all food supply and resources,
46:57 public and private, farms and farm equipment.
46:59 The seizure of all transportation, including
47:01 personal trucks and vehicles of every kind.
47:03 The seizure of all American peoples for workforces
47:05 under Federal supervision, including the splitting up of
47:07 families if the government finds it necessary.
47:10 The seizure of all health and education welfare,
47:13 both public and private.
47:14 Empowering the Postmaster General to register all
47:16 men, women, and children in the United States.
47:18 And of course, that has now happened.
47:26 For 150 years, ladies and gentlemen,
47:30 we had not in either house of our government,
47:34 a Roman Catholic.
47:36 Now I don't know if that was the result of prejudice,
47:38 I don't know if it was because... I don't know.
47:42 And that's really not my point tonight.
47:43 I hope it was not a result of prejudice.
47:46 But it was not until the 1930's that the United States elected
47:49 its Senator who was a Roman Catholic.
47:55 It took another 15 years before there was a second
47:58 Roman Catholic that was put into the halls of Congress.
48:04 Today, ladies and gentlemen, there are 127...
48:12 Wait a minute, I'm incorrect here and I want to be correct.
48:16 There are 157 Roman Catholics in both houses.
48:20 In addition, there are 5 Orthodox which are very similar.
48:24 And this is an article, by the way, from a church source.
48:26 Not mine or yours probably.
48:29 Amongst the Orthodox, and then it goes on to say
48:31 many Episcopalians who also have similar views
48:33 for a total of about 175 of the legislators.
48:38 157 are Roman Catholic.
48:41 Then we come to the Supreme Court.
48:44 In the Supreme Court, we now have 5 of the 9 justices
48:49 that are Roman Catholic.
48:50 We have the Speaker of the House.
48:52 And we go on and on and on and on.
48:56 Things have changed.
48:57 I'm going to read you, quickly, Rome's challenge.
48:59 This is a quotation from the church of Rome.
49:02 "When the time comes and men realize the social edifice
49:05 must be rebuilt, the Catholic church will make obligatory
49:08 the observance of Sunday on behalf of the whole of society
49:11 and for its own good, revoking the permit of free-thinkers
49:13 or Jews to celebrate Monday or Saturday
49:15 or any other day on their own account. "
49:21 Here's one.
49:25 Pope Benedict, that's the present pope,
49:26 ladies and gentlemen.
49:28 Pope Benedict.
49:30 By the way, he was the theological advisor of
49:32 Pope John Paul II.
49:34 And the dictums and the enforcements that
49:38 Pope John Paul II made and put out ex cathedra,
49:42 we understand now, were written, put together
49:45 by the present pope.
49:47 And so I want to read you this.
49:48 "Pope John Paul II issued a stern warning against Catholics
49:52 that they should set aside Sunday for worship and not
49:55 errands or other things involving just their free time.
49:59 He used his weekly address from his window above St. Peter's
50:02 to urge church members to make time to keep the 'Sabbath' holy.
50:06 And the Vatican is expected to issue an apostolic letter
50:10 from the pope further stressing the importance of keeping
50:13 this commandment. "
50:15 Now listen to this.
50:17 "Cardinal O'Conner, New York City, has stated in a political
50:20 address that Roman Catholics who are in public office
50:24 risk excommunication if they do not vote according to the
50:28 teachings of the Catholic church. "
50:30 Now a Protestant hears that and has no idea what it means.
50:33 What does that mean, excommunication?
50:35 "Well that just means they'll kick you out of the church. "
50:36 No, no, no.
50:39 Catholics are taught, and I studied Roman Catholic theology
50:42 as I've told you, at Notre Dame University.
50:44 Catholics are taught that salvation comes, largely,
50:47 by eating the Host.
50:48 And excommunication means cut off from eating from
50:52 the communion table.
50:53 And when they're cut off from that, they're damned
50:55 even beyond purgatory.
50:57 Not even allowed to go to the place of purging,
50:59 but damned to the fires of hell.
51:00 Now you take a serious Catholic and tell him,
51:03 "If you don't vote along with the church in regard to abortion
51:06 or Sunday observance, you're going to be cut off. "
51:09 And he's going to think very seriously.
51:11 And he's going to act according to the way he's been brought up
51:15 from a child.
51:17 Now let me read you something that happened during the time
51:20 of President Clinton.
51:21 Now this isn't ancient history, is it huh.
51:24 There was a lady by the name of Janet Reno, who was our
51:26 highest lawmaker in the United States.
51:29 And this is from 60 Minutes program, if you want
51:32 to look it up, from June 26, 1999.
51:35 Listen to this.
51:36 "Occultist," this is a quotation from Janet Reno.
51:40 "Occultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible,
51:44 in the second coming of Jesus Christ,
51:46 who frequently attends Bible studies,
51:48 who has a high level of financial giving
51:51 to a Christian cause, someone who often home schools
51:53 their own children, who's accumulated survival foods,
51:56 and has a strong belief in the second amendment,
51:58 and distrusts big government. "
52:01 humph
52:05 Well, say.
52:07 That may mean more than one or two.
52:11 Huh.
52:13 US News and World Report, M.G. Pat Robertson, 700 club.
52:16 Alright.
52:20 Talking about the sleeping American vote, he said,
52:27 "Born again Christians, of whom there are 30 million Protestants
52:30 and morally conservative Roman Catholics of whom there are
52:32 many, many other millions, together with a few million
52:35 Mormons and Orthodox Jews and others,
52:37 have a potential to come to a number of nearly 60 million. "
52:44 And then he goes onto say, "Counting Catholics and
52:48 Protestants, we have enough votes to run this country.
52:51 And when the people say, 'We've had enough,'
52:53 we're going to take it over. "
52:54 And this is one of the authors of that joining together
52:59 of Catholics and Protestants that we talked about
53:01 on another evening.
53:02 I was over in Salem and I read that report not very long ago,
53:05 and a man coming to my meetings who'd been sending
53:07 Pat Robertson a lot of money, wrote to him.
53:09 He said that he was shocked to hear this.
53:10 And he said, "I'm going to write to him, I'm going to complain. "
53:13 And he did.
53:14 And Pat Robertson wrote him back and I have the original
53:18 right here in my hand.
53:19 He says, "Thank you, sir. " I'll not give the name.
53:21 "Thank you for the opportunity to share with you concerning my
53:23 participation in the statement of evangelicals and Catholics
53:26 together, the Christian mission for the third millennium.
53:29 Obviously, there are very many differences within
53:32 Christian faiths, between Jews and Christians,
53:34 and Protestant and Catholics.
53:36 But, it is my heartfelt belief that our common enemies
53:39 are now so virulent that we must lay aside our certain
53:43 differences and join hands in support upon these things
53:48 upon which we do agree. "
53:49 My favorite writer outside the Bible, 150 years ago said that
53:52 Catholics and Protestants would reach across the
53:54 gulf to join hands.
53:57 That exact same phrase.
54:00 Here's one for you.
54:02 Urging the strict observance of Sunday, Pope Benedict
54:06 behind this letter and telling the Catholic leadership
54:09 that they have to observe Sunday and have to vote to enforce
54:12 others to do so.
54:13 My friend, and more than a friend, went down to
54:18 South America a while back to hold some meetings
54:21 very much like these.
54:22 And there were several thousand folks who were baptized
54:25 at the end of his meetings.
54:27 And I want to read to you a little bit about what
54:29 happened there.
54:31 At the 31st National Conference of Bishops in Brazil,
54:36 the bishops said, and I'm quoting,
54:39 "We will declare a holy war.
54:41 The Catholic church has a ponderous structure
54:44 and when we move, we'll smash everyone beneath us. "
54:47 They were talking about what was happening with folks
54:50 like my friend who were holding meetings, teaching folks
54:54 that the Sabbath is Saturday and Jesus is coming back.
54:57 Here's an apostolic letter, ladies and gentlemen.
54:59 It's also from South America.
55:01 And I want to read a verse or two, or a word or two,
55:05 from it to you because I feel the necessity of it.
55:11 A document, at the suggestion of the holy father
55:14 and his successor.
55:18 "We will not tolerate the keeping of any other day
55:21 by any other religion except Sunday.
55:24 We will not tolerate any belief in the keeping of another day
55:27 that is in accordance even with the Bible except it
55:31 goes by the holy tradition of liturgy.
55:33 We cannot and will not tolerate Jews, Sabbatizers, Adventist,
55:36 or any other sect that does not keep the Lord's Day, Sunday.
55:40 We will not tolerate those who seek to understand or accept
55:43 precepts that are not outlined by the holy father, the Pope,
55:47 in regards to the Lord's resurrection, Sunday. "
55:50 And on and on and on.
55:52 It goes on to mention by name some folks that you may know.
55:57 Well.
56:06 "Well when it all comes down, I'll do what's right.
56:08 If I see these things begin to happen, I'll get on board
56:10 and I'll do what's right. "
56:11 It's here folks. It's too late.
56:15 Choose you this day.
56:20 Someone said to the old prophet, Jeremiah,
56:23 "If you can't keep ahead of your enemies
56:26 when you're on horseback, what are you going to do
56:29 when they come after you and you are on foot?"
56:34 What makes us think that suddenly we're going to
56:36 have the spiritual strength to stand for God and keep
56:39 His commandments when someone has a gun at the head of our
56:43 children or our grandchildren?
56:45 I beg you once more, do what's right now
56:49 for the prophecies are almost all fulfilled.
56:52 We're going to see that further even tomorrow morning.
56:54 For now, thank you for your patience and let me pray.
56:58 Lord Jesus, tonight we see the urgency of the hour,
57:02 we see the times in which we live, we know we're in
57:04 the very last days.
57:07 And we see this prophecy of Revelation 13,
57:09 the joining together of Catholics and Protestants,
57:12 and governments enforcing the wishes of the church.
57:16 We want to stand true for You today and tomorrow
57:20 and in the future and always.
57:21 We want a part of Your kingdom.
57:22 By the way, dear hearts, tonight if your heart feels like mine,
57:26 if you feel a need for greater courage and greater strength
57:29 now to do what God asks, if you want a closer relationship
57:34 with Jesus, I wonder if you would like to join me in just
57:38 raising your hand to Jesus tonight.
57:40 He knows your hand, He knows your heart.
57:42 Of course, every hand is up. Every hand.
57:44 God bless all of you.
57:46 Lord, tonight give us what we need.
57:49 Grant to us more and better and we know how to
57:51 ask for ourselves.
57:53 And answer our prayers, because we always pray
57:56 in Jesus' holy name. Amen.


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