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00:41 Welcome to the 3ABN Spring Camp Meeting:
00:44 The Three Angels' Messages.
00:48 Hello! I just want to welcome you to 3ABN Spring Camp Meeting
00:52 2018. I'm Jill Morikone and we are so glad
00:55 that you have joined us at home. Haven't we been having
00:58 an incredible Camp Meeting experience?
01:00 Amen! Amen. I know my own heart has
01:03 been blessed by the anointed messages
01:06 from the Word of God. We are in the middle of our
01:09 journey through Revelation chapter 14:
01:12 the three angels' messages.
01:15 And tonight's message is the third angel's message:
01:18 the mark of the beast.
01:20 Our speaker this evening is Elder Jay Gallimore.
01:24 He has been president of the Michigan Conference
01:27 for 27 years.
01:30 He recently retired from that position.
01:33 It seems like almost my whole life
01:36 I remember Elder Gallimore being president
01:38 of the Michigan Conference.
01:40 Before that he was executive secretary
01:43 and he also served as ministerial director.
01:46 And then prior to that he was a pastor for 18 years.
01:51 The thing I love the most about Elder Gallimore
01:54 is he is a man of God.
01:55 He's a man of principle.
01:58 A man who stands by conviction.
02:00 A man of the Word.
02:02 And he's a servant leader.
02:04 And so we are so blessed to have him with us this evening.
02:08 Before he comes Brother Tim Parton
02:10 will be ministering to us on the piano.
02:12 And we are invited to join him in worship this evening.
02:17 The song he will be bringing, leading us in,
02:19 is His Name Is Wonderful.
02:21 Tim Parton, of course, is general manager of
02:24 3ABN's Praise Him! music channel.
02:26 And we're so blessed by his ministry - music ministry -
02:30 here. And Greg and I just count you as a wonderful friend
02:32 in the Lord and we're so thankful you're part of the
02:34 3ABN team. After Tim Parton leads us in worship
02:38 the next voice you will hear is that of our pastor
02:41 and friend Elder Jay Gallimore.
02:44 The prophet Isaiah declared that His name would be called
02:48 Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God,
02:52 Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
02:53 And if ever anyone has lived up to their name
02:57 my Savior and Lord Jesus Christ
03:00 has lived up to those names.
03:04 So I encourage you to worship the Lord
03:06 as we sing this song.
06:22 Amen!
06:27 Thank you, Tim. Thank you so very much
06:30 for that beautiful beautiful number.
06:32 Didn't you love that?
06:33 My! I was blessed by that just being able to sit back there...
06:36 not sit back there... stand back there and listen
06:38 to that. It's a perfect lead-in tonight.
06:43 The topic tonight is the mark of the beast.
06:46 For many people it's a scary thing.
06:50 People know about this everywhere by the way.
06:52 You can't go hardly anywhere unless you mention the words
06:56 666 or the mark of the beast and people...
06:59 I was going through a cash register one time
07:01 and my total - I'm not saying this to be funny -
07:03 just the way it was. My total came up to $6.66.
07:07 And the lady looked at me and she said:
07:12 "Don't you want to buy something else? "
07:17 I said: No, because I'm not superstitious. "
07:23 We have a wonderful Lord. Amen!
07:26 I tell you: this is a really serious subject.
07:29 It is a sobering subject.
07:33 In fact, I don't know of another subject more sobering
07:36 than this.
07:42 In my own series I take almost three nights
07:48 to do this, so I'm not going to do three nights,
07:51 of course, so I'm not going to be able to cover every nuance.
07:57 You have to understand that. Viewing audience as well.
08:02 But the mark of the beast... You don't have to be a rocket
08:06 scientist to get this.
08:07 This is not all that hard.
08:11 There's some key points, and I hope that when you leave
08:15 you'll be able to share it with somebody. 'Cause the whole world
08:16 needs to know about this. The Lord is coming,
08:22 and He gave us this in order to prepare us for the coming
08:26 of the Lord. And this is a message not just for Adventists.
08:32 It's for Muslims; it's for Catholics; it's for Jews.
08:35 It's for Protestants; it's for Evangelicals.
08:38 It's for all of us... because Jesus is King and Lord of all
08:43 of us. It's for the atheist, too.
08:46 For the evolutionist... it's for everybody.
08:50 So if you have your Bibles tonight and you don't mind
08:53 taking them with me, we're going to get right into the Word.
08:56 And I want to go to II Thessalonians
09:00 and that's where we're going to start.
09:02 Chapter 2. And the Apostle Paul
09:08 verse 3: "Let no one deceive you by any means,
09:13 for that day... " meaning the coming of the Lord...
09:15 "will not come unless the falling away comes first
09:19 and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition
09:22 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God
09:27 or that is worshiped so that he sits in the temple of God
09:31 showing himself that he is God. "
09:32 Paul is saying that there is... within the Christian church
09:36 there is coming a falling away.
09:38 Something within the Christian church - a man of sin - is going
09:42 to rise up, and when he does
09:47 he's going to be as it were sitting in the temple of God
09:50 and taking on characteristics that only belong to God.
09:57 That's a prophecy at that point
10:00 but that prophecy would be fulfilled.
10:03 Now I want to go over to the book of Revelation
10:07 and I'd like to go to chapter 5. And while you're going there
10:11 to chapter 5 I want to give you a picture
10:16 of this. The Bible says that this is a revelation
10:20 of Jesus Christ so it can't be secret
10:23 or it can't be something you can't understand.
10:27 In the first chapter we get a picture of Jesus
10:30 moving through the heavenly sanctuary.
10:36 In fact, the whole book of Revelation is a picture
10:40 of Jesus moving through the heavenly sanctuary.
10:42 Now I don't have time tonight to talk about the sanctuary
10:44 except that the Jewish sanctuary is a reflection
10:47 of the heavenly. And the first place that you see Jesus
10:50 is at the candlesticks.
10:53 And the next place that you see Jesus in chapter 4
10:56 is at I think it's the table of Shewbread.
10:59 Doesn't actually say that, and I don't have time
11:01 to give you the scriptural evidence on it
11:03 but the table of Shewbread represents the throne of God.
11:07 And by the way, that throne can move.
11:12 Remember these are symbolic pictures.
11:14 There's a reality of the heavenly sanctuary
11:16 but we want to keep in mind that the book of Revelation
11:20 is filled with symbols. And they're not hard to understand
11:23 really. And then the next time we see Him at the
11:27 altar of incense. So He's moving through the...
11:33 Then... then... watch this. In chapter 11
11:38 and I need to go... I was going to go to 5 first
11:40 so before I get to 11 let's go to 5...
11:42 chapter 5... 'cause I want you to see this.
11:46 And I want you to look at verse 6.
11:51 "And I looked and behold in the midst of the throne
11:53 of the four living creatures and the midst of the elders
11:56 stood a Lamb as though it had been slain
12:02 having seven horns, seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of
12:06 God which go throughout all the earth. "
12:09 This picture of Jesus... He's the symbol
12:13 of this animal, a Lamb...
12:17 but the Lamb has been slain.
12:20 But He's not dead. Isn't that good news?
12:23 So He's a resurrected Lamb if you please.
12:27 He's a living Lamb; we serve a living Christ!
12:31 Amen! Not a dead Christ.
12:35 And He had seven horns.
12:39 And those horns - this Lamb with seven horns -
12:44 that's been slain and resurrected
12:46 is going to take on the great red fiery dragon.
12:51 How about that?
12:54 And He wins!
12:56 And that's the good news. Amen!
12:58 I want that Lamb to win in my heart
13:04 and I want Him to win in your heart. Amen!
13:09 Now if you go to chapter 11
13:14 almost it's kind of the introduction to chapter 12
13:18 verse 19: "Then the temple of God was open in heaven
13:23 and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple
13:26 and there were lightning's, noises, thunders,
13:30 and an earthquake and great hail. "
13:31 So now we're out of that first compartment of the sanctuary
13:35 and we are moving through time in the heavenly sanctuary
13:41 and now we're introduced to the Holy of Holies.
13:43 In the Holy of Holies is the ark of the covenant.
13:46 It has two major points and it has a mercy seat.
13:50 Aren't you glad for that tonight?
13:52 AND it has the Ten Commandments. That's right!
13:56 So when you talk about the Ten Commandments
14:00 and those that keep the commandments of God
14:03 it is in the context of the heavenly sanctuary
14:05 and it can be none other than the Ten Commandments that God
14:08 wrote with His own finger.
14:10 By the way, people ought not to mess with the Ten Commandments.
14:12 I don't care if you're an Adventist;
14:14 I don't care if you're a Baptist or a Protestant
14:17 or a Catholic... I don't care who you are.
14:20 Don't mess with God's Ten Commandments
14:22 'cause I think the Ten Commandments matter.
14:25 Amen! I think they matter a lot
14:27 or they wouldn't be in this place underneath the mercy seat.
14:30 The whole issue is to get everybody back in harmony
14:33 with the Ten Commandments. And let me just take a real side
14:35 quick - real quick - here.
14:38 Those Ten Commandments are not something that God just came up
14:41 with arbitrary and said: "I just kind of like this one,
14:43 I like this one. I'll put that one. We'll make
14:45 these the rules for the human race. "
14:48 These according to the Apostle Paul Romans chapter 7
14:51 are essential for life. Amen!
14:55 They're not arbitrary.
14:57 Every one of those Ten Commandments make it possible
15:00 for life to exist. You break them you bring death.
15:04 And what the mercy seat is all about is bringing us
15:07 back into harmony with the harmony of the universe.
15:11 By the way, when the universe plays music
15:13 it's beautiful. It's in harmony.
15:17 All right. Now let's go to chapter 12.
15:20 I'm not going to take time to read chapter 12
15:22 because if you don't mind
15:25 I'm going to just describe some things there.
15:27 You follow me in chapter 12 but I'm going to use my own
15:30 paraphrasing words if you don't mind.
15:32 The picture here that opens up
15:37 is this woman who's clothed with the sun,
15:41 crown of stars, moon under her feet.
15:44 But she's unique in this sense and this picture
15:48 that she's expecting a child.
15:52 Now that flashes you right back to Genesis
15:56 where God promised Eve that she would have a Seed -
16:01 one Seed someday - that would crush the serpent's head
16:05 that had brought all this misery on all of us.
16:12 And so she's getting ready to have this child
16:16 and then appears in this scene a great red fiery dragon.
16:22 That's a scary thing.
16:27 And the dragon stands and he wants to kill this child...
16:31 devour this child.
16:34 But he is not able to do that because the child is caught up.
16:41 Now I want to ask a question or two
16:43 because we're going to get down to trying to identify
16:45 some important texts here in just a little bit.
16:48 This great red dragon the Bible says in chapter 12
16:54 pre-existed this earth and there was war in heaven
16:57 between the great red dragon and Michael and His angels.
17:02 And for sake of time I will only say that Michael
17:05 here is a symbol of Christ leading the forces of heaven.
17:09 He's not a created being - Hallelujah! -
17:12 He's eternal. Jesus always has been, always will be.
17:17 He's God. By the way, some people say:
17:19 "We can't see your God. "
17:21 I'm telling you: this earth HAS seen God.
17:24 Saw it in the living Christ.
17:27 We've seen God in the flesh.
17:32 And the Bible says that this great red dragon
17:35 is none other than that old serpent the devil
17:40 and Satan who deceived the entire world.
17:44 That's who he is.
17:46 But let me ask a question:
17:50 was there a great red dragon standing there
17:54 when they nailed Jesus to the cross?
18:00 You're thinkin' about it, aren't you?
18:02 That's good. The answer is yes and no.
18:09 Yes, there was a great red dragon unseen.
18:13 But the great red dragon doesn't usually show up. Am I right?
18:17 That you can see him? He works through human agents.
18:21 May God help us not to be an agent of the great red dragon.
18:24 Amen! I want to be an agent of the Lord Jesus.
18:29 So here is this great red dragon, but the human agent
18:35 that crucified Christ
18:39 is whom?
18:42 Well who was Pontius Pilate?
18:44 He was the Roman governor appointed by the Caesar
18:46 if you please.
18:48 Who nailed Jesus to that cross
18:53 is Roman soldiers.
18:55 Who put Him in essence in that tomb and put a seal on it
18:59 and 100 soldiers to guard it?
19:01 Whose soldiers were those?
19:04 This is Rome.
19:06 The agent through whom the great red dragon works
19:11 is Rome. That make sense?
19:15 Yes. Is that hard? No.
19:17 That's common knowledge.
19:19 Let me ask you a question:
19:21 is that rooted in history? Yes or no?
19:24 Yes. Is that reality? Yes it is.
19:28 By the way, Jesus' resurrection's a reality, too.
19:32 Amen! Yeah, don't let me get into that.
19:36 But let me just say this: there've been people that
19:39 say... Skeptics, lawyers, these kind of people...
19:43 And they say: "Let's just give the ancient documents
19:46 that tell us about Jesus the same thing that we would give
19:48 to the ones that tell us about Julius Caesar for instance. "
19:51 And there's far more evident evidence that the resurrection
19:56 is a reality. And if the resurrection is a reality -
20:00 and it is - and Genesis is true
20:02 and the coming of Jesus is true.
20:05 This Lamb that was slain is alive.
20:12 So now let's go to... let's go to chapter 13.
20:17 No, the end of chapter 12.
20:20 So Jesus is resurrected... He's in heaven.
20:24 The devil cannot get his hands on Him.
20:27 So the woman represents God's church from Eve all the way
20:31 down through. And now what the devil does
20:34 is he persecutes God's church;
20:37 he persecutes the church of Jesus.
20:39 There's quite a scene there
20:41 as he spews out a flood in order to destroy the woman.
20:46 And she goes into the wilderness for 1,260 years...
20:50 days it says. Day for a year prophecy.
20:53 I can't spend time on everything tonight.
20:56 You understand that. And by the way, 3ABN I think
20:59 has some good Bible studies or It Is Written
21:01 if you want to get the details on that.
21:03 But she runs as it were, and the Bible then says
21:06 the earth opens its mouth and swallows the flood
21:11 and she is safe for a while.
21:20 And then it describes the end of time.
21:22 Now I want to tell you tonight: we're living in the end of time.
21:28 We're living here.
21:30 The Lord is coming.
21:33 And everything we've been talking about for 150 years
21:36 is coming to pass in front of our very eyes.
21:42 So those people are described as those - verse 17- who keep
21:48 the commandments of God. What commandments?
21:51 Has to be the ark of the covenant commandments.
21:54 Keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.
21:59 And then he says: "I stood on the seashore... "
22:02 Some versions say: "then he... " talking about the great red...
22:06 red dragon stood on the sand of the sea. "
22:08 Doesn't matter.
22:10 "And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. "
22:13 Now interestingly enough, this beast also has seven heads
22:17 and ten horns. And the Bible says
22:22 he's like a leopard and he's got feet like the feet of a bear,
22:25 mouth of a lion. You can read Daniel chapter 7.
22:28 But then the key point is in verse 2.
22:31 It says: "And the dragon gave him his seat,
22:36 his power, and great authority. "
22:40 So since Rome is also represen- ted by that great red dragon
22:47 then it must be Rome... Is this hard?
22:51 It must be Rome that gives this new beast -
22:57 this new animal - its power,
23:02 authority, and its seat or its throne.
23:08 Is that clear?
23:12 That means also that this leopard-like beast
23:17 is also found in history.
23:22 And it's going to be found somewhere as the old pagan Roman
23:27 Empire fades away.
23:30 It gets replaced if you please
23:34 by this new beast in a different dress.
23:39 That's right! Still has 7 heads and 10 horns.
23:44 Now I want to say something.
23:49 God is no respecter of persons
23:53 and He's no respecter of denominations.
24:00 The book of Revelation I think is a combination of
24:04 the truth and lovingkindness together.
24:08 Lovingkindness and truth... and they're not separate.
24:16 The book of Revelation has something to say
24:19 to the Protestants... some pretty tough things.
24:23 It has some pretty tough things to say to Adventists.
24:26 It has some pretty tough things to say to Catholics.
24:31 It has some pretty tough things to say to the Muslims.
24:36 When Jesus called the Pharisees "whited sepulchers"
24:41 He did it with tears in His voice.
24:43 But did He love them? Tell me... did He love them?
24:46 Yes! Of course He did.
24:49 When John the Baptist said "You brood of vipers..."
24:56 Tough! It's the truth. Did he love them? Yes.
25:05 Nobody listening to me is any better than anybody else.
25:08 This book is for all of us; we need to hear it.
25:11 All right, so who is this leopard beast that gets it?
25:16 So I'm going to let history do a little answering for that.
25:20 Is that OK? Let me give you a little...
25:24 analyze the data here for a moment.
25:26 "The leopard beast receives its throne of ruling authority
25:29 from the dragon. The great red dragon acts
25:31 through his human agent pagan Rome.
25:33 Pagan Rome gives the leopard beast his seat or capitol
25:37 or ruling authority. And since Pagan Rome gives
25:40 the leopard beast its throne then it means the leopard beast
25:44 comes after pagan Rome. And since pagan Rome is found
25:47 in history then the leopard beast from the sea must also be
25:50 found in history following on the heels of pagan Rome. "
25:53 Does that make sense? Amen! All right.
25:55 Here's history. This is, by the way,
25:58 an outstanding, renown English historian:
26:00 Stanley's History. "The popes filled the place
26:04 of the vacant emperors at Rome
26:07 inheriting their power, prestige, and titles from
26:11 paganism. Constantine left all to the bishop of Rome.
26:16 The papacy is but the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire
26:21 sitting crowned upon its grave. "
26:25 Secular historian. Here's a renown American historian.
26:32 He taught at Princeton University. Wrote several works
26:35 on the Roman Empire and its civilization.
26:38 This is Abbott's Roman History page 236.
26:41 The other one was Stanley's History page 40.
26:43 "The transfer of the emperor's residence to Constantinople
26:47 was a sad blow to the prestige of Rome
26:49 and at the time might have predicted the speedy decline.
26:52 BUT the development of the church and the growing authority
26:56 of the bishop of Rome or the pope
26:58 gave her a new lease on life and made her - Rome -
27:02 again the capitol. This time, the religious capitol
27:06 of the civilized world. "
27:08 Pretty powerful.
27:10 And there's plenty more to go with that.
27:12 But just leave it there that this came from within the church
27:18 and now Rome passes it off.
27:21 Now let me just skip down here
27:23 and verse 6 says: "And then he opened his mouth
27:28 in blasphemy against God and those who dwell in heaven...
27:31 His tabernacle and those who dwell in heaven. "
27:35 Blasphemy is a religious term
27:37 and Jesus basically was defined of course in the New Testament
27:41 by if anyone chooses to forgive sins because that belongs to God
27:44 alone. And if anyone claims the prerogatives of God
27:49 that that was con- sidered a religious blasphemy.
27:56 Do we have anything like that?
27:59 I don't think I've got... Does that mean I've got 29 min.
28:04 left? I guess that's what it means.
28:07 Well, let's see here. Let me me just talk for a moment about,
28:14 let me talk for a moment about the penetration
28:16 of paganism into Christianity.
28:22 This is Cardinal Gibbons in his book Faith of our Fathers.
28:28 He says: "The penetration of religion
28:30 of Babylon became so general and well known
28:34 that Rome was called the new Babylon. "
28:39 Now hopefully before you're a Christian
28:40 maybe you looked at the horoscope.
28:42 Hopefully if you're a Christian you don't look at that.
28:45 Somebody should have said "Amen! "
28:52 That horoscope? OK... that's old Babylonian paganism
28:56 is what it is. And there's a painting in the Vatican
28:59 of one of the popes sitting under a circle with
29:03 all those astrological paintings from Babylon there.
29:10 Just... Let me just cut to the chase.
29:12 Babylon... they created this astrological religion.
29:16 They believed that there were 36 chief gods
29:20 and that there was a dragon -
29:24 a seven-headed dragon - that ruled over the 36 gods.
29:28 How about that? Isn't that interesting?
29:31 And then over THAT was the sun god.
29:35 And they assigned each one of these 36 chief gods
29:38 a number. And they said:
29:41 "Number 1, number 2... up to number 36. "
29:45 Well then they said: "Let's add these together. "
29:48 One plus two plus three and they keep accumulative
29:52 adding those things. And what number do you suppose
29:55 they come up with at the end of 36?
29:58 Six hundred and sixty-six.
30:01 Not just 666... six hundred and sixty-six.
30:04 Fascinating. That's why they wore... that's why they wore
30:10 emblems, charms around their neck.
30:12 On one side it had the sun god. On the other side
30:14 it had this table with this 36.
30:17 And any sum of any side ended up being 666...
30:22 six hundred sixty-six.
30:24 And they thought that would ward off those evil spirits.
30:31 Now let's look at Revelation... Like I said, I don't have
30:34 enough time to get into every- thing. The beast from the...
30:37 The two-horned beast... I can't get into him tonight.
30:39 But we want to focus in on this mark,
30:42 and I want to look if you don't mind at verse 16.
30:47 Revelation verse 16. "He causes all, both small
30:52 and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark
30:57 in the right hand or in their foreheads
31:00 that no one may buy or sell except he who had the mark
31:03 of the name of the beast or the number of his name. "
31:06 This is talk about control.
31:09 And if you don't think the stage is set for that...
31:14 Have you ever heard of Google? No offense, Google.
31:19 Have you ever heard of Facebook?
31:22 No offense.
31:26 Everybody in this room and probably everybody listening
31:28 to me is in somebody's file.
31:31 And if you don't think the US government doesn't have
31:33 their own files on all of us...
31:36 Knowledge is power.
31:39 And when I saw and I read how extensive and pervasive
31:42 all this stuff was I said to myself:
31:44 "This is a set up for the mark of the beast. "
31:48 Because it's about control.
31:50 It's about information. You have to have information to control.
31:53 OK... let's go on here.
31:59 "That no one may buy or sell except... " verse 17...
32:02 "they have the mark or the name of the beast
32:05 or the number of his name.
32:07 Here is wisdom... "
32:10 Now the Lord asks us to use reason here.
32:14 He doesn't ask us to get emotional.
32:18 He asks us to use reason.
32:22 Two plus two does not equal ten...
32:26 it equals four.
32:30 Use some wisdom; think about this.
32:35 It's reasonable... it's not unreasonable.
32:39 And don't forget the context.
32:49 "Let him who has understanding
32:52 calculate the number of the beast
32:54 for it is the number of a man. "
32:57 I've heard some people try to apply it to a woman.
33:02 You ladies escaped.
33:08 Serious. "For it is the number of a man.
33:12 His number is six hundred and sixty-six. "
33:17 So we should be able to look at the papal power
33:21 and we should be able to find one of his titles.
33:25 Now I'm going to back up for just a moment, flash back...
33:27 I want to flash back to II Thessalonians chapter 2
33:32 where this apostasy that comes within the church
33:37 becomes a substitute - becomes in place of...
33:43 And many people think sometimes when they see the word
33:46 antichrist... By the way, it's not just one.
33:49 The Apostle John said there would be many antichrists.
33:54 The word anti means actually "in place of. "
33:57 In other words, it takes over by substituting itself.
34:05 Just because somebody says they have the prerogatives of God
34:09 doesn't mean that they HAVE the prerogatives of God.
34:15 And so we find this...
34:21 this 666 very interesting.
34:25 And I want to... So what we're looking for
34:28 is in the titles of the papacy
34:32 is there something - a title - that substitutes itself?
34:40 Well, there is.
34:42 It's called Vicarius Filii Dei.
34:44 Now sometimes you get on the Internet
34:46 they'll say: "Ah, no, no... some people just came up with that. "
34:49 And they kind of say: "Oh, no, no, no, that didn't exist.
34:53 They never used that as titles. "
34:54 That's very fascinating because in 1054
34:58 pope... let's see if I get the right one here...
35:02 Pope Leo the 9th I think
35:05 said in a document - and this is a big deal -
35:09 to the patriarch of the Byzantine church because he was
35:11 establishing his authority
35:13 he called himself Vicarius Filii Dei
35:16 which means in place of the Son of God.
35:22 And then there was the thing called the donation
35:24 of Constantine that was fabricated we think today
35:28 by the papacy to establish a fact
35:32 that they actually had Constantine
35:34 actually basically - these are my proverbial words -
35:37 write them a deed to the Roman Empire
35:39 and to its throne. That's why they used the titles.
35:42 By the way, the papacy has many titles:
35:44 Pontifex Maximus etc. etc.
35:49 So you have this donation that was forged
35:54 but they claimed that... nobody believed that it was
35:57 anything but true, and they put it into Canon law.
36:02 And in that Canon law they refer to themselves as
36:06 Vicarius Filii Dei.
36:09 And then you have the summary on the power of the church.
36:13 Doesn't that sound interesting?
36:15 It's one of the most influential documents that's ever been
36:17 commissioned by Pope John XXII.
36:21 One of half a dozen most influential documents
36:26 on the church.
36:28 And there it's called Vicarius Filii Dei.
36:33 Pope Paul I think it's the 6th...
36:35 recent one... he was alive in my lifetime.
36:37 He's dead now, but he referred to himself
36:40 as Vicarius Filii Dei.
36:43 When you take Vicarius Filii Dei
36:46 and you add it up it comes out to 666.
36:51 Now you can do the same thing with your name.
36:52 You know that.
36:54 You've seen the Roman numerals on a clock.
36:56 It's not hard, is it?
36:57 V equals how much? Five.
37:00 A V or a U will always equal 5.
37:02 You see it used both ways.
37:04 And I'm not going to add them up for you tonight
37:06 'cause I think you can figure that out for yourself.
37:10 But there's some more to go with that.
37:13 In the early church they felt like it would be
37:16 the Latin-speaking man that would be the 666 person.
37:21 And if you take the Latin- speaking man in Latin or
37:25 in Greek it adds up to 666.
37:29 Tell me: what is the only political power on earth
37:34 has official language of Latin?
37:36 There's only one... there's only one.
37:42 Well... so what is the mark of this power?
37:50 What is its mark?
37:52 By the way, I should have... From that same document
37:57 I've gotta share this with you. From that same document
38:01 I could give you a lot of... See if I can find that here
38:06 real quick. I wanted you to hear some of the claims
38:09 of the papacy. I thought that would come jumping up at me here
38:12 but I don't see it right off the top of my head.
38:15 OK... that's all right.
38:18 But let me get down to the mark for just a moment.
38:21 And I want you to go to chapter 14
38:23 and you heard a wonderful presentation on Babylon
38:27 just a few... previous... just fantastic.
38:32 And then it comes to the third angel's message.
38:34 This is a sobering... this is so sobering.
38:41 "Third angel followed them saying with a loud voice:
38:43 "If anyone worships the beast... " That's the issue...
38:46 "and his image and receives his mark
38:50 on his forehead or in his hand
38:54 he will drink of the wrath of God which is poured out
38:57 full strength. " You know why?
38:59 'Cause there's no more Mediator.
39:05 Once the judgment comes,
39:07 once the close of human probation... and I'm going to
39:10 talk about that on Sabbath afternoon.
39:12 Once the close of human probation comes
39:15 there's no more Mediator.
39:17 And God doesn't have any choice but to eradicate
39:21 sin from the universe.
39:23 If He doesn't eradicate it, He can't be just.
39:25 But God is not only merciful, God is also just.
39:29 And God is not just just... He's also merciful.
39:33 But He's got to eradicate in order to save the universe
39:36 'cause the universe cannot exist with sin.
39:40 That's why it's got to come out of our hearts...
39:42 out of our affections.
39:44 Thank God for the blood of Christ and for that slain Lamb
39:47 which was slain from the foundations of the earth.
39:49 Another reference to creation.
39:51 OK... coming back to this:
39:53 and look at verse 12.
39:57 "Here is the patience... " Of whom?
40:02 The saints! Saints.
40:04 This is that remnant again; they endure a lot.
40:09 It takes faith to endure, doesn't it?
40:13 It takes faith to hang on.
40:15 It take faith to stay the course.
40:18 When the obstacles are going and it's rough and tough
40:20 it takes faith. And let me tell you: it's going to take faith
40:24 for God's people to go through the end of time.
40:27 Now some people think they're going to prepare for the end of
40:29 time, you know, if they get a big enough garden
40:35 or maybe run to the mountains.
40:37 And probably the mountain's a good place to go sometimes.
40:39 I'm not making fun of anything.
40:41 We should have gardens if you can.
40:43 I've got one... I just got it put in
40:48 before coming down here.
40:53 That's not what's going to save you.
40:57 The only thing that will save you is your faith
41:01 in the saving grace and power
41:04 of the Lord Jesus. Amen!
41:07 Have I lost any of you so far? Are you still with me?
41:10 OK. I told you it wasn't rocket science.
41:13 Now let's go to this mark thing.
41:14 I don't know how many different kinds of ideas
41:18 have come about the mark of the beast.
41:20 It seems every new president becomes the beast
41:22 and then somebody else has a computer
41:23 and then somebody else has something else.
41:25 It's amazing what peoples' minds do.
41:27 But I don't want their opinions.
41:30 What I want is a solid - rock solid - Biblical
41:34 understanding of the mark of the beast.
41:36 And I want to understand the mark.
41:38 What is the mark of this power?
41:41 What does it claim that its mark is?
41:43 So let's look at just something. If you look at verse 12,
41:46 "Here is the patience of the saints. Here are they that keep
41:48 the... " What? Commandments! "and the faith of Jesus. "
41:52 Now the book of Revelation is a book of contrasts.
41:55 So if one group of people have the mark
42:02 and another group has the commandments of God...
42:07 Still with me?
42:10 then you're going to find the real in the commandments of God
42:15 and the counterfeit up here in the mark. Does that make sense?
42:21 That's the only place I know how to go, because
42:23 that in the context of the text.
42:27 So if those who are in contrast
42:31 to those who have the mark of the beast -
42:32 keep the commandments of God - that means that whatever that
42:36 mark is is not keeping the commandments of God.
42:38 Does that make sense? Amen!
42:40 Now fascinating... Of course that mark's put on peoples'
42:43 foreheads or in their hand.
42:44 And that's, you know... You've got people running around
42:47 thinking somebody's going to brand them with 666
42:49 and all that kind of crazy stuff.
42:51 This is symbolic of how you think.
42:53 God does care about how you think by the way.
42:55 And buy and sell. That tells you there's going to be huge
42:58 economic issues in the end of time.
43:00 And they're going to have con- trol over those economic issues.
43:02 If you don't go along with them, then they're going to take...
43:05 "I may not agree with it but I'm going to go along with it. "
43:09 I can be an atheist and still receive the mark of the beast.
43:19 So I want to look at something else real quick
43:22 I want to flash back over.
43:24 You've got your Bibles... to chapter 7.
43:29 Chapter 7 ends with this marvelous picture
43:34 of Jesus coming on the clouds of glory
43:39 if you please or on His throne.
43:41 And it's a unique combination of words.
43:43 And these people look at Jesus and they say: "Hide us
43:47 from the wrath of the Lamb. "
43:51 Doesn't that seem like an oxymoron to you?
43:57 That's because they never understood His love
44:01 or they never accepted His love.
44:05 Now we have no righteousness of our own.
44:08 The only righteousness we have is His.
44:12 And then when John sees this thing he's overwhelmed
44:15 by the scene and he says in words of exclamation
44:21 he says: "Who will be able to stand? "
44:30 And then chapter 7 answers that question.
44:34 And if you look, verse 7 says "Hold the winds of strife. "
44:40 I think God's holding those winds of strife right now.
44:44 Verse 2: "And then I saw another angel ascending from the east
44:49 having the seal of the Living God
44:51 and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom
44:54 it is granted to harm the earth and the sea
44:56 saying: 'Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees... '
44:59 That's why there's not going to be a nuclear war right now.
45:03 'till we have sealed the servants of our God
45:07 on their... ' " Where? Forehead.
45:09 Now I got very interested about that word sealed
45:11 and I went back and I looked in the original language
45:15 and that is "an authentic, genuine mark. "
45:19 I said: "Why does it say mark in one place
45:21 and seal in the other place? " They are two different words
45:24 but they're very closely related.
45:27 Because this is the genuine. If you accept the Lord Jesus
45:32 Christ as your Savior and He changes your life
45:34 and transforms you He becomes not only your Savior
45:37 but your King. Somebody should have said "Amen. "
45:40 Amen! And the Ruler of your heart and your affections.
45:44 Then He is going to seal you in your head
45:49 and your mind with an authentic seal that says you're His.
45:54 Hmm. The mark, however,
45:58 is a badge or a scratch.
46:02 It's an imitation of the real.
46:06 Remember the substitution thing?
46:10 So this mark is a substitute for the genuine seal of God.
46:19 So if I go to the Ten Commandments -
46:22 that's my context -
46:24 where do I find in the Ten Commandments the seal of God?
46:27 There's only one place to find it
46:29 and that's in the fourth commandment.
46:32 You can read it for yourself.
46:34 It says the Lord God, Yahweh, or Jehovah.
46:37 I like Jehovah better.
46:39 Jehovah God, Elohim.
46:42 Jehovah God: that's His name.
46:45 And then it says Lord Creator
46:48 or Lord, Yahweh, or Jehovah
46:52 Maker or Creator. That's His title.
46:56 And then it tells you what His territory is:
46:59 heaven and earth
47:01 and the universe if you please.
47:04 The Sabbath is God's mark of creation
47:07 and that's why you find it in the middle of chapter 13
47:10 the slain Lamb is brought back up again in verse 8.
47:14 "All who dwell on the earth will worship him whose names
47:18 have not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life. "
47:22 Slain from the foundation of the earth.
47:24 If you go to chapter 14 the three angels' message starts out
47:29 with the fact that God is Creator of heaven and earth.
47:33 The pagans refuse to receive God as Creator.
47:37 They rebel against that creation.
47:40 But the Sabbath has always been God's seal if you please.
47:45 In the end of time when Jesus comes in the clouds of glory
47:49 the people that are waiting to meet Jesus
47:52 and to be received of Him, they are not going to be disobeying
47:56 the Ten Commandments. Amen!
47:58 They're not going to tamper with it;
47:59 they're not going to change it.
48:01 They're going to be keeping the Sabbath
48:02 because they're going to have the seal of God.
48:05 Amen! And if you keep the Sabbath in your heart
48:08 you've got the living Christ in your heart.
48:10 By the way, the real 10 Command- ments is the living Christ.
48:14 Amen! And He comes into your heart
48:17 and your life He brings His life,
48:19 His commandments, into your heart and into your life.
48:23 So the Sabbath becomes the mark not only of creation
48:27 but it becomes the seal of our redemption.
48:31 And Sabbath is that time that we are drawn
48:34 to the Savior. And when Jesus comes
48:37 everybody that's going to be saved is going to be keeping
48:39 ALL of God's commandments.
48:41 They're not going to be able to pick and choose.
48:43 Now the papacy substituted Sunday for that
48:48 and they make those claims.
48:52 Let me put it this way... let me ask this question:
48:56 who claims ownership of the Sabbath?
49:00 Jesus said: "For the Son of Man is even Lord
49:03 of the Sabbath Day. "
49:05 That's Matthew 12 verse 8.
49:09 And of course the Bible says in the Ten Commandments
49:12 that the seventh day is the Sabbath of whom?
49:15 The Lord! It's not the Jews' Sabbath.
49:18 It's not the Adventist's Sabbath.
49:20 It's not anybody's Sabbath. It's the Lord's Sabbath
49:23 and we are to keep it by grace.
49:30 So where did this substitution come in?
49:34 Well, it comes in again from the pagan, Babylonian
49:39 influence. The day of the sun was something that the pagans
49:43 revered, and it was just easy to incorporate that.
49:47 What the Roman papacy did is they made people fast
49:51 on the Sabbath and then have a feast on Sunday.
49:55 That's pretty slick, isn't it?
49:58 Actually the Sabbath should be a day of rejoicing
50:00 and celebration and happiness and joy.
50:02 Not doing your own work; not doing your own thing
50:05 but we should be rejoicing in the Lord our God
50:07 who's given us the breath of life.
50:10 And so they came up with this. And by the way, they claim it.
50:14 And that summary on the power of the church
50:18 is a very powerful document.
50:20 Listen to this: "Resolved: the Sabbath Day law has been
50:24 changed by the pope to the Lord's Day
50:27 due to the preeminence of things signified
50:31 and the excellent factors
50:32 in agreement with time and circumstance. "
50:35 I will tell you this, and I say it with sweet kindness:
50:37 time, circumstance, or anything else doesn't give any man
50:40 the right to change the law of God
50:42 that He wrote with His own hand.
50:43 Now I want to say this: if...
50:48 if the Ten Commandments matter,
50:52 the Sabbath matters. Amen!
50:57 If "Thou shall not steal" matters,
51:01 if "Honor your father and your mother" matters,
51:04 if "not taking the Lord's name" matters,
51:07 if not committing adultery matters,
51:11 if not stealing matters,
51:14 it not coveting matters,
51:17 then the Sabbath matters. Amen!
51:20 You can't separate 'em out.
51:23 And God isn't going to change. I'm glad for that.
51:26 I'm glad that God doesn't change, aren't you?
51:28 Wouldn't it be scary if He did?
51:31 I mean with all that power?
51:33 He doesn't change.
51:35 And you can praise Him and give Him glory,
51:38 tell Him how much you love Him,
51:41 tell Him how grateful you are.
51:42 That's really good for us to do that.
51:44 But you know, all that praise... It might change you
51:46 but it wouldn't change Him. Amen!
51:48 That praise doesn't change Him.
51:50 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
51:54 He's the same at creation
51:56 as He will be when Jesus comes in the clouds of heaven.
51:59 It's going to be a glorious time when Jesus comes.
52:03 Well, they make the claim.
52:05 Here's Cardinal Gibbons... I'm sorry... yes, Cardinal Gibbons.
52:11 "Of course the Catholic church claims the change was her act
52:15 and the act is the mark of her ecclesiastical power. "
52:19 Here's Dr. Hiscox. He wrote the Baptist Manual
52:24 back in the 1800's... 1893.
52:29 Dr. Edward Hiscox,
52:31 author of the Baptist Manual.
52:33 In a paper he read this.
52:35 "What a pity that it - Sunday - comes branded with the mark
52:39 of paganism and christened with the name of the sun god
52:45 when adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy
52:49 and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism. "
52:54 I want to weep when I read that.
52:56 I say to my Catholic friends who we love by the way:
53:00 Jesus loves everybody.
53:02 Aren't you glad for that?
53:05 I say to them: "As much as I love you
53:09 I don't think you should allow a man, even if you revere him,
53:14 to change one dot or I of God's law. "
53:18 In fact, Jesus said that. He said: "Not one dot;
53:20 not one crossing of the T will change
53:24 till heaven and earth pass away. "
53:28 I say to my Protestant friends:
53:31 "You claim to believe the Bible.
53:36 You claim. Why don't you just accept it at face value
53:41 instead of trying to...? "
53:44 And I say to the Adventists:
53:48 "There's two issues here: the right day
53:52 and the right way. "
53:57 You get the right day and not keep it holy
54:00 it's not going to do... Just showing up for church
54:02 on Sabbath morning's not going to cut it.
54:05 You SHOULD be in church on Sabbath morning.
54:07 Somebody should have said "Amen. " Amen!
54:11 Should be in church.
54:13 But we need to keep the Sabbath holy.
54:16 That means use the Preparation Day to get ready
54:18 for the coming of the Sabbath.
54:21 It means that I'm ready. You know, whatever you have to do...
54:24 the housework. Some people call that legalism.
54:26 That's not legalism. That's saying: "Lord I love You so much
54:29 I can't wait till that special day gets here. "
54:33 It means laying aside all your other stuff.
54:36 You know, hallelujah! On the Sabbath I don't have to mow
54:39 the yard! I'm free.
54:42 My wife doesn't have to cook on the Sabbath.
54:45 She's free.
54:46 We're free. The Sabbath frees us
54:49 from all that stuff we do during the week.
54:51 Nothing wrong with the stuff we do during the week
54:53 but on Sabbath we are free.
54:56 Free to visit with the Lord to show Him our... And by the way,
55:01 that's what Sabbath is all about. It's a time for God
55:03 to come specially to His people. He's with us all week long.
55:07 We know that. When the sun goes down on Saturday evening
55:10 doesn't mean the Lord walks away.
55:12 That's not the point.
55:14 The Bible says Jesus said the Sabbath was made for
55:16 man. In other words, He gave it to us as a gift
55:20 to bless us and to encourage us and to strengthen us
55:24 and to bring happiness and joy to us.
55:26 What's it going to be like to keep the Sabbath?
55:28 And it's going to be kept in the New Earth, so why shouldn't we
55:30 get used to it now? Amen!
55:36 I'm telling you: great changes are coming into the world,
55:39 and they're already touting Sunday as the solution
55:43 to climate change. I'm not getting into politics
55:46 so that doesn't matter.
55:48 The point is that we know before Jesus comes
55:51 there's going to be great upheavals in nature
55:53 regardless of where it comes from.
55:56 And the families are falling apart with all the pornography
56:00 and all the garbage and everything.
56:02 Sunday is the solution.
56:04 They're beginning to see Sunday, if we could just get everybody
56:06 going to church. If we could just get everybody
56:09 taking some time off we could even get the atheists
56:12 to slow down. By the way, in the encyclical
56:16 the Pope gave calling for Sunday the atheists were
56:18 cheering it.
56:24 The real question is not what you're going to do with the
56:26 Sabbath.
56:32 What are you going to do with the Lord of the Sabbath?
56:40 It's not just the Ten Command- ments on the stone that Moses
56:43 gave us. But what are we going to do
56:46 with the Ten Commandments in the ark of the covenant in heaven
56:50 of which the Sabbath is a part?
56:54 Are you committed to the Sabbath?
56:56 Not just the day, but are you committed to the way?
56:59 Are you committed to the joy the Sabbath will bring?
57:02 Are you committed to the Savior who gave us the Sabbath?
57:07 Do you want to celebrate this glorious God who created us
57:12 and sent His only begotten Son to redeem us
57:15 and save us by His grace?
57:18 When you keep the Sabbath holy
57:20 you celebrate a mighty God
57:25 who REALLY REALLY loves you.


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