Sunday Law Crisis, The

Revelation 13 Explained

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00:09 On July 6, 2014,
00:11 the Associated Press ran a story that said,
00:13 "Keeping stores open on Sunday
00:15 is not beneficial for society," says Pope Francis.
00:19 Is that really true? Is this part of Bible prophesy?
00:22 Does this have anything to do with the mark of the beast?
00:25 That's our topic on The Sunday Law Crisis:
00:27 What you need to know.
00:30 A thousand years before there was Protestant,
00:33 there were Sunday laws
00:34 that originated in pagan sun worship.
00:36 For centuries, the church ruled the world
00:39 until the Protestant Reformation.
00:41 Men like Martin Luther,
00:42 champion of personal and religious freedom.
00:44 Thousands fled to America
00:46 to seek freedom from religious tyranny.
00:48 Will Protestants and freedom loving Americans
00:51 fight to keep freedom alive
00:52 or will we descend into a modern dark age?
00:56 The Sunday Law Crisis: What you need to know.
00:59 Episode 1: Revelation 13 Explained.
01:04 Here are some recent headlines.
01:05 Fox News, "Let's make Sunday a day of rest for God's sake."
01:09 Time Magazine,
01:11 "And on the seventh day we rested,"
01:13 saying that Blue laws were a gift.
01:15 Newsmax and CNN,
01:18 "Arizona state senator make Sunday said,
01:20 'Make Sunday church attendance mandatory.'
01:24 " USA TODAY, " Tight rope,
01:26 better take a break or you'll breakdown."
01:28 With an article that talks about
01:30 stores being closed on Sunday.
01:32 ABC News, "German court enforces day of rest.
01:36 Germany's highest court strictly enforces day of rest
01:39 and bans Sunday shopping."
01:42 The Guardian, "Slow Sunday,
01:45 the simple solution to global warming."
01:48 It says in the, right below the headlines,
01:50 "Using Sunday as the day of rest and renewal.
01:53 It would be good for our personal health
01:55 as well as the health of the planet."
01:58 And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
01:59 There's a lot of other headlines
02:01 that we can share.
02:03 Tim, Tim Saxton,
02:04 praise the Lord that you are here with me.
02:07 God bless you.
02:08 We've done programs together before.
02:10 And I think this is probably
02:12 the biggest that we've ever done.
02:14 The last headline I read from The Guardian
02:16 talked about Sunday being the solution to global warming.
02:19 Talk to us about the Pope's 183 page encyclical
02:24 that's released-- was released, June 18, 2015.
02:28 Yes, Pope Francis issued
02:29 an encyclical on the environment.
02:31 You know, the world leaders have been grappling
02:33 with the whole issue of the environment
02:35 and climate change for years.
02:37 And Francis finally wade in on it
02:39 and in his encyclical, he talked about
02:42 working together for the common good.
02:45 And that's quote, "the common good."
02:46 Just remember that so we could come back to it.
02:48 But in his encyclical, Francis mentions that
02:51 God gave the seventh-day Sabbath
02:54 in the Old Testament as a day of rest.
02:56 And he pointed people back to rest.
02:59 He laments in the encyclical, the business of society today.
03:03 And in the end he brings it together with this quote,
03:06 "Sunday is meant to be the day
03:09 which heals our relationships with God,
03:11 with ourselves, with others and with the world."
03:15 And he brings Sunday out
03:17 as the day of rest for modern society
03:21 that whereas you had the Sabbath,
03:22 he says in the Old Testament.
03:24 He says, "Sunday is the day today
03:26 that we should all be coming together"
03:28 and that coming together on Sunday he says,
03:31 "Would give this greater concern
03:33 for nature and for the poor."
03:34 And it's important to realize that this man
03:36 who put this encyclical together
03:38 is currently the most popular person on the planet.
03:41 He has the most influential twitter account
03:45 and that encyclical was released
03:46 in languages around the world.
03:48 It's been read by legislative people
03:51 and government people and layman alike.
03:54 It just, it's made a big splash.
03:57 It has made a big splash.
03:58 Francis has an agenda on the encyclical.
04:01 And he is pushing hard at the agenda
04:03 with nations around the world.
04:04 And people are by and large joining him
04:08 in wanting to push his agenda forward.
04:10 Including President Obama.
04:11 The day that the encyclical came out,
04:13 President Obama made a statement
04:14 that the United States must lead out
04:16 Iin helping to implement
04:18 the Pope's suggestions in the encyclical.
04:20 Right.
04:22 Now doesn't that bring us to a text in Revelation 13?
04:25 Yes, and that's what we want to focus on.
04:27 We want to give just a quick overview
04:29 of the Book of Revelation, Chapter 13
04:31 so we can understand what all of this means
04:33 in the light of Bible prophecy.
04:35 Tim, as you know,
04:38 talks about a beast.
04:40 "John said, 'Then I stood upon the sand of the sea.
04:43 And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea.'"
04:45 This beast has various characteristics in verse 5,
04:49 "He has mouth speaking great things"
04:51 and verse 7 "He makes war on the saints.
04:53 He is given authority over every tribe,
04:56 tongue and nations."
04:58 Verse 8 says, "All that dwell upon the earth
05:00 will eventually worship this beast."
05:02 And verse 3 says that "All the world would marvel
05:05 and follow the beast."
05:07 Now we done a lot of study on this
05:09 and it's significant to realize that for hundreds of years,
05:14 Protestants, scholars and leaders like Martin Luther,
05:17 who founded the Lutheran Church,
05:19 John Wesley, who founded the Methodist Church,
05:21 Charles Spurgeon, the great Baptist pastor in London.
05:24 John Calvin who founded the Presbyterian Church,
05:27 Matthew Henry's famous Bible commentary,
05:29 which is the most widely respected commentary
05:31 in the world that pastors look to regularly.
05:35 All of these men and countless others
05:38 interpreted this prophecy as a reference
05:41 to the Roman Catholic Church
05:43 that the beast was a symbol of the Church of Rome.
05:46 Now I don't believe they thought
05:48 and I don't believe and I don't think you,
05:50 I know you don't believe that this is the reference
05:52 to individual Catholic people.
05:53 But it's a system that for a long time
05:57 has really been at war with basic Bible truth.
06:02 So we have the first beast
06:04 that's described in Revelation 13.
06:05 And then we have another beast, a second beast.
06:08 There is the sea beast
06:09 and the earth beast in verse 11, John wrote,
06:12 "I saw another beast coming out of the earth.
06:14 He had two horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon."
06:19 In Daniel 7:23, the Bible is pretty clear
06:21 that a beast represents a great power, a great nation.
06:25 The Roman Church is a religio-political organization.
06:30 And here's another nation rising up out of the earth
06:33 and when you put these pieces together,
06:35 he comes out of the earth or wilderness area.
06:38 He has two horns representing a separation of power.
06:41 These horns do not have crowns like the first beast does.
06:44 Which crowns represent kingly power.
06:47 So this beast does not have kings
06:50 but its leaders are elected through democratic processes.
06:54 It has two horns like a lamb,
06:56 showing it has mild Christian features,
06:58 Jesus in the Bible is called the Lamb
07:00 and yet eventually it will speak like a dragon.
07:05 Not only that but in verse 16,
07:07 yeah, it eventually becomes a super power.
07:09 It says, "He causes all to receive this mark."
07:12 This mark of the first beast.
07:14 And buying and selling is involved
07:16 and so the second beast eventually
07:19 gains the clout to affect the world's economy.
07:23 And when you put these pieces together,
07:24 the first piece represents
07:25 the greatest religious power on the earth, the Vatican.
07:29 The second beast represents the greatest nation on earth
07:33 which is the United States.
07:34 It just fits perfectly.
07:36 And the Bible says that both of these beasts
07:40 will be cooperating together at the end of time.
07:44 Verse 12 says that
07:45 "The first beast will come back into power at the end times.
07:50 He would have a deadly wound that would be healed."
07:52 And verse 12 says, "The second beast
07:54 will cause the earth and those who dwell in it
07:57 to worship the first beast who's deadly would was healed."
07:59 Now just to let people know,
08:01 our viewers know that White Horse Media
08:03 has a couple of books that go into detail.
08:05 We don't have time to go into all the details
08:07 that we know of this prophecy.
08:08 But we have a little book
08:10 called the Anti-Christ Identified
08:11 that talks about the first beast
08:13 and another one called
08:14 the United States in Bible Prophecy
08:16 that deals with the second beast.
08:18 And as you go down to the end of this chapter,
08:20 the Bible says that the two will cooperate
08:23 and the second beast representing America
08:25 will eventually enforce the mark of the first beast.
08:31 Now we need to talk about that mark
08:32 because it is very significant in the light of prophesy.
08:35 Let's go to Exodus Chapter 20,
08:39 and actually I don't really need to read
08:41 so much from Exodus 20.
08:42 But Exodus 20 describes the Ten Commandments
08:44 and I've got some real tables here of the Big Ten
08:51 that God wrote with His own finger.
08:52 Exodus 31:18 says that God wrote this law,
08:55 the Big Ten with His own finger
08:57 on two tables of stone.
08:58 Exodus 20:8 zeros in on the fourth Commandment,
09:03 number four that says,
09:04 "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy."
09:08 And then it says that
09:09 "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord."
09:13 And God wrote this with His own finger on stone.
09:16 And, Tim, as we have looked at these issues,
09:19 we have concluded that the Law of God
09:22 is more important than the traditions of men.
09:23 True.
09:25 The Law of God is above all the laws of men.
09:29 And it's very clear in the New Testament.
09:32 In the Old Testament and in the New Testament,
09:35 that the Bible Sabbath is the seventh day of the week
09:38 which is sun down Friday to sun down Saturday
09:41 and the first day of the week is the day
09:43 that Jesus Christ rose.
09:45 And yet when you read the Bible carefully,
09:47 the resurrection of Christ does not change the Law of God.
09:50 And in fact, Jesus addressed that issue, didn't He?
09:52 He did, and in fact, if you look
09:54 at the Bible Sabbath, Steve, in Exodus chapter 20,
09:57 like you were quoting from, refers us back to creation.
10:01 That the Sabbath actually started in creation,
10:04 the seventh day Sabbath when God rested.
10:06 And you see the Sabbath throughout the Old Testament.
10:09 When Christ came in the New Testament,
10:11 Luke 4:16 says, it was His custom to go to church.
10:14 "Go to synagogue on the Sabbath day."
10:15 Mark 2:27 says,
10:17 "He is the Lord of the Sabbath."
10:19 In the Book of Acts, we find the disciples
10:21 keeping the Sabbath with both Jews and gentiles.
10:24 It wasn't a Jewish day.
10:26 It was something for all creation.
10:28 In Isaiah 66, the Bible makes it clear
10:31 that in the new earth, when sin is gone
10:34 and everything is recreated from one Sabbath to another,
10:38 everyone will come before the Lord in worship.
10:41 So we see the Sabbath
10:43 as something God gave to all His creation
10:47 before there was sin, all through this time of sin
10:50 and it was still continued to be a special time of worship
10:54 when sin is no more.
10:57 But then that brings us to the tradition of men.
10:59 Just one quick question here.
11:01 You mentioned Mark 2:27. I think that was a misquote.
11:03 Mark 2:27 says, "The Sabbath was made for man,
11:06 not man for the Sabbath."
11:08 And in verse 28 actually Jesus says,
11:09 "The son of man is Lord of the Sabbath."
11:11 Right. That's right.
11:12 So when you put the pieces together
11:14 and Jesus said, He's Lord of that day.
11:15 Now let's take a quick look at Matthew 15.
11:17 I was reading this recently about the issue of tradition
11:20 verses the law of God.
11:21 So why don't you just give us a quick,
11:23 and I'll, contribute to this
11:25 Matthew Chapter 15 deals with the issue
11:27 of tradition versus commandment.
11:30 Well, the Jewish leaders
11:31 came to the disciples with the question.
11:33 How come your master,
11:34 how, they came to Jesus with a question,
11:37 "How come the disciples do not wash the way we do?"
11:41 Before we, and it wasn't just washing hands
11:43 like we think of today.
11:45 It was a ceremonial washing.
11:46 Right, as it was tradition of the elders,
11:48 the Bible says that.
11:49 And Jesus turned it around with a question to them.
11:51 He says, "Why do you transgress
11:53 the commandment of God by your tradition?"
11:57 Because in the fifth commandment,
11:58 Steve, the Bible says,
12:00 "Honor your father and your mother."
12:01 Right. Here it is, right here.
12:02 "Honor your father and mother."
12:04 But the priests and Pharisees of Christ,
12:05 they had come up with a way around the fifth commandment
12:08 where people could call it corban,
12:10 say it's dedicated to the temple
12:12 and they wouldn't have to contribute
12:13 to their aging parents.
12:15 They could give it all to the priests
12:16 and leaders in the temple.
12:18 And so Jesus confronted them with the fact that
12:21 they got around the commandments of God
12:23 in order to honor their tradition.
12:25 That's right. And...
12:26 Do we see any of that today?
12:28 Yes, we do and to me, Tim,
12:30 one of the most significant things
12:32 of that passage in Matthew 15, is in verse 4,
12:35 Jesus said, "For God commanded, honor your father and mother."
12:39 So Jesus stood for the commandment of God,
12:42 the fifth commandment.
12:44 And the in verse 5 He said that, "But you say,"
12:46 showing how they were using their traditions to get around
12:49 what God said in the fifth commandment
12:51 and then His punch line in verse 9,
12:54 "In vain they worship me teaching for doctrines
12:56 that commandments of men."
12:57 So when it comes to Jesus Christ Himself,
12:59 when it comes to the issue of tradition
13:01 versus the commandments of God,
13:03 Jesus is very clear that God commanded us
13:06 to keep His commandments.
13:07 And what applies to the fifth commandment
13:09 also applies to the fourth commandment
13:11 that it is tradition
13:14 that has brought in Sunday as the day of rest.
13:17 Now history shows us
13:18 that the Roman Catholic Church changed
13:21 the Bible Sabbath from Saturday into Sunday.
13:25 In fact, I've got a copy
13:26 of the catechism of the Roman Church.
13:28 This is called the Converts Catechism of Catholic doctrine,
13:31 published in 1946,
13:34 written by Reverend Peter Geiermann.
13:36 It's got the Catholic imprimatur on it.
13:39 And on page 50, it says,
13:41 "Question: What day is the Sabbath Day?
13:43 Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
13:44 Question: Why then do we observe
13:46 Sunday instead of Saturday?
13:47 Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday
13:49 because the Catholic Church
13:51 transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday."
13:55 And there's a whole long history behind all of this.
13:59 But it is a fact that the Roman Church
14:02 has changed that day and they claimed
14:03 that day as their own, the reasons...
14:05 I'm sorry.
14:07 In fact, they not only just claim the day at their own
14:09 but they encouraged their members
14:12 to seek legislation to keep the day holy.
14:16 In the New Converts Catechism in 2188,
14:19 it says, in respecting Religious Liberty
14:21 and the "common good" remember, we mentioned that earlier?
14:24 The "common good" of all
14:25 Christians should seek recognition
14:27 of Sundays as legal holidays.
14:30 So the church just doesn't,
14:31 they didn't just change the Sabbath to Sunday
14:33 according to their word but they are telling,
14:36 they are saying this should be enjoined upon everybody.
14:39 That's right.
14:40 And now the history behind this is quite interesting.
14:42 We have a book, White Horse Media
14:44 sells the book called
14:45 "Sunday, the Origin of its Observance
14:48 in the Christian Church, written by E.J. Wagner.
14:50 This book goes into great detail.
14:52 It demonstrates that
14:54 the switch from the Bible Sabbath to Sunday
14:57 in the early Christian centuries was connected
14:59 to hostility to Jews, number one.
15:01 Compromises with pagan sun worship, number two.
15:04 And then they rationalize the switch
15:07 with the idea that well,
15:08 "Hey, Jesus Christ rose on Sunday anyway."
15:11 So that was the big rationalization.
15:13 Now not only that but here is a statement
15:14 from one of the most famous
15:16 Catholic Cardinals of the 1800s.
15:20 American Catholic Cardinal, he said through his chancellor,
15:23 C.F. Thomas in an official letter
15:25 dated November 11, 1895.
15:28 "Of course the Catholic Church claims
15:29 that the change from Sabbath to Sunday
15:32 was her act and the act is a mark
15:35 of her ecclesiastical authority in religious matters.
15:40 I have a big Bible here that I've--
15:42 Somebody gave this to me.
15:44 It's a very old Bible that used to belong
15:46 to a Presbyterian late preacher.
15:48 And this is very interesting
15:50 that in the prophesy of Revelation 13
15:52 about the mark of the beast, it says in the notes
15:56 and this was a Presbyterian view.
16:00 It says under the heading of a mark.
16:03 "A mark is submission to the rights
16:07 and ceremonies of the papal communion.
16:09 In their right hand,
16:11 that means active obedience to the papal power.
16:15 In their foreheads, that means outward profession
16:19 of its doctrines in infallible authority."
16:22 So here is the Bible
16:23 of the late Presbyterian preacher
16:26 and right there in the foot notes,
16:27 it shows the Protestant position
16:29 that the mark of the beast has something to do
16:31 with submission to the papal power.
16:33 Now here's the statement from the Lord's Day alliance.
16:36 This is a statement that just came out
16:38 recently in April of 2015 and it's called the title,
16:42 "It's Sunday as a mark of a Christian unity."
16:45 And we have another little book on this
16:47 from White Horse Media called
16:48 "Decoding the Mark of the Beast."
16:49 We have another little book that explains the truth.
16:54 It says of the Sabbath,
16:55 "Discovering the Lost Sabbath Truth."
16:56 Both of these books
16:58 explain what the Bible says about the Sabbath.
17:00 It explains about Sunday
17:01 and it explains how the Catholic Church
17:04 in their claim to be the true church.
17:07 They actually say, we change the Sabbath into Sunday.
17:11 And it is a mark of our authority in religious matters.
17:15 They basically say nobody else could do it.
17:16 We did it and this shows that we are the true church.
17:19 And our response is,
17:21 it does not show that you are true church.
17:22 It shows that Biblically speaking,
17:24 you are the beast of prophesy.
17:26 And that you are doing exactly what prophesy predicts
17:30 and we know from the study of history
17:32 and the study of the Bible
17:34 that eventually this mark of Rome's authority
17:37 is going to be enforced around the world.
17:40 I also have another book here called "Dateline Sunday, USA,
17:43 The Story of Three and a Half Centuries
17:46 of Sunday Law Battles in America"
17:48 by an attorney named Warren Johns.
17:50 And it's a fact, isn't it?
17:52 That Sunday has been enforced throughout history.
17:54 It started with Constantine in 321 AD.
17:57 Sunday has been enforced in throughout
17:58 European history in various ways.
18:00 British history, there were Sunday laws
18:02 especially early colonial America,
18:04 there were Sunday laws.
18:06 And prophesy predicts that at some point,
18:09 and we can see the stage being set right now
18:11 that Sunday will be enforced
18:13 as a supposed solution to a global cris to help effect
18:19 God's response to the earth and climate change
18:22 and cutting missions and a whole host of things.
18:25 But really this is gonna be a massive deceptive solution
18:28 to a global crisis that is fulfilling prophesy
18:32 as the mark of the beast, it is.
18:34 It is very flawed thinking, Steve.
18:35 Very flawed thinking.
18:37 And I think you had, you had some points on the three flaws
18:41 in the people's thinking that's bringing this about.
18:44 Yes, Sunday legislation has three major flaws.
18:47 Number one is obviously it's a wrong day.
18:49 The first day of the week, the day that Jesus rose
18:51 but that does not change the seventh day Sabbath.
18:53 Jesus stood up for the commandments,
18:55 not tradition and so it's the wrong day.
18:57 Number two, it's a force.
18:59 God never uses force to compel the people to obey Him
19:02 number three, it is a violation
19:04 of the United States constitution.
19:06 And I have a copy here
19:07 of the constitution of the United States
19:09 that starts out saying on the top,
19:10 "We the people," we the people
19:12 and the first amendment of our constitution says,
19:15 in the bill of rights, number one,
19:17 that "Congress shall make no law respecting
19:20 an establishment of religion
19:21 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
19:24 That the United States forbids government to enforce religion.
19:28 But if you look at history,
19:29 that exactly what the Roman Church has done.
19:30 The Roman Church has enforcedreligion,
19:32 the Roman Church is a church state combination.
19:35 America is a church state separation.
19:37 The prophesy in Revelation 13 says that
19:39 America, the two horns will come together
19:42 and image of the papal power will be created in America
19:45 and it will then enforce the mark of the papal power.
19:48 And we can see that that is,
19:50 it's lining up right in front of our eyes.
19:51 It is, now some of our viewers might ask,
19:53 "Well, how could they ever--
19:55 how could people in America
19:56 ever support Sunday legislation?"
19:59 You know, that may come as a question
20:01 from some of our viewers.
20:03 And I think we should go to Revelation Chapter 13.
20:05 There is a text in there
20:07 that shows us how this comes about.
20:09 Yes. Why don't you read it?
20:11 Revelation Chapter 13, verse 14 says,
20:15 "And deceives them,"
20:17 talking about the second beast power.
20:19 "And deceives them that dwell on the earth
20:21 by the means of those miracles which he had power to do."
20:25 Miracles, people can be deceived by miracles, Steve.
20:30 You know, the Bible talks about that Satan himself
20:34 will appear as an angel of light.
20:37 Now as Protestants we are withstand
20:40 upon the Bible and the Bible only,
20:43 that we judge everything by the Bible.
20:46 But the world we live in is gotten away from the Bible
20:50 so much that when miracles appear,
20:53 when angels appear,
20:54 when dearly departed loved ones appear
20:57 and say and work miracles
21:00 and the miracles aren't not in accordance
21:02 with the word of God, people are more likely
21:04 to follow miracles than the word of God
21:07 if they are not grounded in what the word says.
21:09 That's right, and those dearly departed loved ones
21:11 are really not dearly departed loved ones.
21:13 No, they are not. They are impersonating spirits.
21:16 The spirits of devils who are working
21:18 to deceive people as this crisis builds
21:21 to support the keeping of Sunday.
21:23 Here's another passage in Revelation 19:20
21:26 that talks about the beast,
21:27 the first beast and the second beast,
21:28 the second beast who "worked signs in his presence,
21:31 by which he deceived
21:33 those who received the mark of the beast."
21:35 So this tells us that as this development
21:38 in crisis continues to unfold on planet earth
21:40 that we're gonna see a lot of miracles
21:42 that are coming from devils,
21:44 to deceive people, to convince them,
21:46 hey Sunday really is the right day.
21:47 If you don't keep Sunday,
21:49 you are going against the common good,
21:50 you are going against what's best for the planet,
21:52 you are going against God.
21:53 But the reality is those
21:55 ghosts are lying through their teeth.
21:56 They are.
21:58 You know, there's an interesting story
21:59 seven years ago in the state of Oregon,
22:01 where some women became involved
22:02 with what they described as angels.
22:04 And they followed what these angels said
22:07 till these angels told them one day that they needed to go
22:09 and do somebody in, to commit murder.
22:11 Wow.
22:13 And unfortunately these ladies went
22:15 and did that very thing and were arrested
22:17 and apprehended
22:18 and they were following the wrong angels.
22:21 Deceptive angels.
22:23 Deceptive angels. Fallen angels.
22:24 Anytime, anytime something goes against the word of God,
22:28 even if an angel from heaven or someone who looks like
22:31 your dearly departed loved one appears
22:32 and says, this is the way,
22:34 it's not the way that goes contrary to the word of God.
22:37 And the miracles, they will have power to do,
22:39 will be convincing people of the counterfeit day.
22:43 You know, everything that God does,
22:45 Satan has a counterfeit.
22:46 Sunday is the counterfeit day.
22:48 That's right.
22:49 And miracles
22:50 are gonna support that.
22:52 Now let's go to the judgments.
22:53 We got a little bit of time left
22:55 and we're running out of time.
22:57 Hosea Chapter 4, verse 2 talks about
22:59 how God had a controversy with people in the land
23:01 and there was "killing, lying
23:03 and committing adultery and stealing."
23:05 And that people were breaking the law of God.
23:08 And all these calamities that are increasing
23:11 people are gonna tribute that to keeping Sunday
23:12 or not keeping Sunday.
23:15 But the Bible says that calamities and judgments
23:16 are going to be coming
23:18 because humanity has been breaking
23:21 the Ten Commandments and sinning on all sides.
23:23 Right, I think about Isaiah 24:5, it says,
23:26 "The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof,
23:28 because they have transgressed the laws,
23:29 changed the ordinance
23:30 and broken the everlasting covenant."
23:32 And now it's, Tim, I got four minutes.
23:34 Talk about the judgments that we need to warn people,
23:36 are coming upon the cities.
23:41 Absolutely, you know, we are told in the book,
23:42 "Last Day Events."
23:45 "To secure popularity in patronage,
23:49 legislatures will yield to the demand for Sunday laws.
23:51 By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy
23:54 and violation of the law of God, our nation
23:57 will disconnec herself fully from righteousness."
23:59 When this prophecy comes true,
24:02 when the United States passes a national Sunday law,
24:04 national apostasy, we're told,
24:06 will be followed by national ruin.
24:10 In history where nations would totally repudiate
24:13 the law of God and go opposite of that,
24:15 then judgments would come upon those nations.
24:18 So the same thing will happen to the United States.
24:20 Judgments will fall upon the United States
24:22 including on the cities of the United States
24:23 when this laws pass
24:26 and those judgments will be falsely attributed
24:29 to those who aren't honoring Sunday.
24:33 And so they'll ratchet the persecution even deeper,
24:34 because they are thinking these judgments are coming
24:36 because we are not honoring Sunday.
24:39 But it's really because the law of God has been violated.
24:40 That's exactly right. We know that recently--
24:42 The Supreme Court made a decision
24:43 concerning the issue of marriage
24:45 and that marriage was made by God
24:47 on the sixth day of creation work--
24:50 Creation week, the seventh day came next
24:52 and we're gonna see the same violation
24:55 of God's principles and his commanments
24:57 from the Supreme Court and from courts
24:59 around the world The United States
25:01 will lead out and that will spread out
25:03 around the world and the ultimate issue
25:06 is that God's law is being violated
25:07 by the governments of the world.
25:09 And judgments will follow.
25:11 Our God is a merciful God, He's a loving God.
25:13 But He's just God.
25:15 And when national assemblies
25:17 officially endorse the violation of God's law,
25:19 promotes Sunday, enforce Sunday
25:21 and even start persecuting
25:22 those who don't go along with this,
25:26 this appearance illusion to a global crisis,
25:28 global warming, trying to get everybody together,
25:30 to focus on families and religion
25:34 and God and coming back to God.
25:35 Those who don't go along with this
25:37 are going to be in big trouble.
25:39 But we got to follow the Bible.
25:41 We got to follow what the word of God says
25:44 and there is a final message in Revelation 14
25:46 called the Three Angels Messages.
25:47 And in verse 9 to 12,
25:49 we have the message of a third angel.
25:52 The Bible says in verse 9, "The third angel followed them,
25:54 saying with a loud voice,
25:57 If anyone worships the beast and his image,"
25:59 which is a duplication in America
26:02 by the United States of papal principles
26:05 and then the enforcement of a papal day upon the people.
26:07 "And receives his mark."
26:08 That's the mark of Rome's authority,
26:10 its usurped authority,
26:12 "on his forehead or on his hand,
26:14 he himself shall also drink the wine
26:16 of the wrath of God."
26:18 There's a solemn warning, don't follow the beast,
26:20 don't follow the second beast
26:21 who makes an image of the first beast.
26:23 Don't go along with the mark of the beast
26:24 in the forehead or the hand.
26:25 The forehead represents
26:28 the mind where we yield to this and believe it.
26:30 The hand represents the actions
26:32 where people go along with it and do it.
26:34 And the pressure is gonna be on.
26:37 But the end of verse 11 it talks about
26:41 "those who receive the mark of his name."
26:42 And then verse 12 says,
26:45 "Here is the patience of the saints.
26:48 Here are they that keep the commandments of God."
26:49 As God gave them and wrote them
26:53 with His own finger on stone and "the faith of Jesus."
26:56 Jesus is the last word before the period
26:58 at the end of the third angel's message.
27:00 And from all the study that I have done,
27:02 done a lot of research onto this,
27:05 the Bible is very clear that the finger
27:09 that wrote the law on stone was on a hand
27:10 that was nailed to a cross.
27:12 That Jesus Christ gave His life.
27:13 He gave His life for the world
27:16 for all the sins of breaking God's commandments.
27:17 And He is offering us full forgiveness,
27:20 His grace, His love and His power
27:22 to help us to become commandment keepers.
27:24 We got more to come
27:27 as we continue to talk about the Sunday law crisis
27:28 and it is our prayer
27:30 that you would choose to follow Jesus
27:34 and to follow the Bible and not the beast.
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