The Midnight Cry

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00:14 Thank you. Thank you, Arthur.
00:16 Thank you, each one of you.
00:18 We have been studying
00:19 over the last couple of weeks now
00:23 prophecies in quite,
00:25 in depth study of prophecy.
00:28 And we hope that those subjects have been a great,
00:31 great help to you.
00:32 And tonight, we kind of put a cap sheaf
00:34 on the prophecies,
00:36 and we'll start taking and applying
00:39 a lot of the things that we have learned
00:41 over the next few nights.
00:42 So you're going to begin to see
00:44 how these prophecies have helped you
00:46 in other portions of the Scripture.
00:49 Tomorrow night, we come to a subject entitled,
00:52 "Why don't they just tell the truth?"
00:55 "Why don't they just tell the truth?"
00:58 Have you ever been in a situation
01:00 where you wish they would
01:03 just tell you the facts and tell you the truth?
01:06 You know have you ever been in an airport
01:11 and the plane is delayed and they say,
01:15 "Well, it's probably going to be 15 minutes late."
01:19 And two hours later the plane shows up.
01:22 You know how that goes?
01:24 This subject tomorrow night is one
01:27 that I consider to be vital.
01:29 I consider it to be extremely important
01:32 as we take a look at the Word of God on,
01:35 why don't they just tell the truth.
01:37 So we hope that you won't miss tomorrow night.
01:40 It's a very, very vital subject.
01:43 Tonight,
01:45 we're going to continue to look at prophecy.
01:49 Like I said, we're putting
01:50 kind of a cap sheaf on it tonight,
01:52 because many of these prophecies
01:54 we've studied in Daniel 2, Daniel 7,
01:57 Revelation 13, Revelation 11, and Revelation 17,
02:02 all those are going to begin to come together tonight.
02:06 And as they come together,
02:08 you're going to find yourself right down in the present day.
02:12 And what is happening today
02:15 and the scriptures even going to give you kind of a look
02:17 into what will take place in the future.
02:20 And as I have told you from night to night,
02:25 you can depend on this book.
02:27 It will not fail.
02:31 It's sure
02:32 and the prophecies will take place just exactly
02:36 as Scripture says they will.
02:39 Now, you're going to hear things
02:41 on the news, on the radio, and television, and newspaper
02:46 in which they'll talk about things that are going to happen
02:49 and it may look certain way
02:51 but I can assure you,
02:52 it will happen just exactly
02:54 as the Scripture says it will happen
02:57 because the Bible says, "It's God who sets up kings
03:00 and it's God who takes them down."
03:02 Okay.
03:03 So we have some exciting subjects
03:06 over the next few nights, folks.
03:08 The next three weeks
03:09 that will help you understand God's Word into men and women
03:14 who are living today.
03:16 This day and this age, I can't think of anything
03:21 that would be of more value to you,
03:24 and more help to you
03:26 than to understand what this book says.
03:29 So we hope you'll continue to be with us
03:31 from night to night.
03:32 I hope you've been enjoying
03:33 the music of Pam and Jimmy Rhodes.
03:37 They're very, very dear friends of mine.
03:39 I've appreciated them.
03:42 In fact, when I was a young pastor,
03:44 Pam was one of my members in one of my churches.
03:48 She was just a young lady then
03:50 and started singing there in Albuquerque, New Mexico
03:53 and it's always been a special blessing to me.
03:56 I've appreciated it very much.
03:58 She's going to sing a beautiful song tonight
04:00 entitled, "On the wings of Eagle."
04:15 And He will raise you up on eagle's wings
04:21 Bear you on the breath of dawn
04:26 Make you to shine like the sun
04:31 And hold you in the palm
04:37 Of His Hand
04:42 You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord
04:47 Who abide in His shadow for life
04:52 Say to the Lord,
04:54 "My Refuge
04:57 My Rock in Whom I trust."
05:03 And He will raise you up
05:08 On eagle's wings
05:11 Bear you on the breath of dawn
05:16 Make you to shine like the sun
05:21 And hold you in the palm
05:26 Of His Hand
05:32 You need not fear the terror of the night
05:37 Nor the arrow that flies by day
05:43 Under His Wings your refuge
05:47 His faithfulness your shield
05:53 And He will raise you up
05:58 On eagle's wings
06:00 Bear you on the breath of dawn
06:05 Make you to shine like the sun
06:10 And hold you in the palm
06:16 Of His Hand
06:22 For to His angels He's given a command
06:27 To guard you in all of your ways
06:32 Upon their hands they will bear you up
06:37 Lest you dash your foot against a stone
06:44 And He will raise you up
06:48 On eagle's wings
06:51 Bear you on the breath of dawn
06:56 Make you to shine like the sun
07:00 And hold you in the palm
07:06 Of His Hand
07:12 And He will raise you up on eagle's wings
07:18 Bear you on the breath of dawn
07:23 Make you to shine like the sun
07:29 And hold you
07:33 And hold you
07:38 And hold you
07:42 In the palm
07:48 Of His Hand
08:11 Our gracious Father,
08:15 tonight we come
08:18 asking that You will hold us up in Your hands
08:25 that You give to us wisdom.
08:30 Give us, Lord, understanding
08:34 as we look at the prophecies of Your Word.
08:38 Lord, may our hearts be soft,
08:43 may they be tender.
08:46 May the Holy Spirit
08:49 come in and speak to each one of us.
08:53 Lead and guide us.
08:56 May we come to know
08:59 what You desire for us
09:01 who are living in these days.
09:04 And we'll give to You the honor,
09:07 and the glory, and the praise,
09:09 for this we ask in Christ's name,
09:12 amen.
09:13 Amen.
09:20 In this past century,
09:24 there have been basically three women
09:28 who have been in the position of rulership
09:31 and those three women have done an exceptional job.
09:38 Those three women are one
09:40 Golda Meir of Israel.
09:45 Tremendous leader.
09:47 Done a great, great job.
09:51 Queen Elizabeth,
09:53 still continues to work,
09:58 holding the whole kingdom together.
10:03 Another woman that was in a position
10:05 of rulership
10:06 that did a tremendous job was Margaret Thatcher.
10:11 Those three women in the past century
10:13 will probably go down in history
10:16 as great, great leaders.
10:19 You see, when you pick up your Bible,
10:22 and you begin to look at prophecy,
10:25 God does a simple little thing,
10:28 and that is that he takes a woman
10:32 to represent a church.
10:34 You'll find the Scripture speaks of it in that way.
10:37 Notice what it has to say here.
10:41 "I have likened the daughter of Zion
10:44 to a lovely and delicate woman."
10:48 Jeremiah 6:2.
10:50 So here he just simply says,
10:52 and when he speaks,
10:53 he is likened the daughter to Zion.
10:57 Zions, talking about the church.
10:59 That's what it's referring to.
11:00 You can think of other texts in the Bible
11:03 where he makes that comparison
11:05 as the one in Ephesians 5:25,
11:08 where he says, "Husbands, love your wives,
11:12 just as Christ also loved the church
11:14 and gave Himself for her.
11:17 This is a great mystery,
11:19 but I speak concerning Christ and the," what?
11:22 "Church."
11:23 So here he's making that comparison
11:25 between himself and the church.
11:27 You also remember that it speaks
11:30 in the Matthew about Christ being the bridegroom.
11:35 The church is the bride.
11:37 So God simply uses a woman
11:40 to represent a church in Bible prophecy.
11:43 So when you get to Revelation,
11:46 Revelation Chapter 12, you'll find a woman.
11:50 It speaks about her in these terms.
11:52 It says, Revelation 12:1.
11:54 "Now great sign appeared in heaven:
11:57 a woman clothed with the sun,
12:00 with the moon under her feet,
12:02 and on her head a garland of twelve stars."
12:06 This is a good woman.
12:08 We'll talk more about her on another night.
12:11 But she is a good woman.
12:13 She's clothed with the sun.
12:15 The moon is under her feet.
12:17 On her head she has a garland of twelve stars.
12:20 This represents God's church.
12:24 I'm here in Revelation Chapter 12.
12:26 But when you go to Revelation Chapter 17,
12:29 you find there another woman
12:32 who is riding on a scarlet colored beast.
12:35 It says this about her.
12:39 "Then one of the seven angels
12:41 who have the seven bowls came and talked with me,
12:44 saying to me, 'Come,
12:46 I will show you the judgment of the great harlot
12:49 who sits on many waters.'"
12:50 So now, we see immediately this is not a good woman,
12:55 because it's referring to her as a harlot, okay?
13:00 She's sitting on a beast
13:01 and we're going to take a look at all that.
13:03 But watch as it goes on and describes this woman.
13:09 "With whom the kings of the earth
13:11 committed fornication,
13:12 and the inhabitants of the earth
13:15 were made drunk with wine of her fornication.
13:19 So he carried me away
13:20 in the Spirit into the wilderness.
13:22 I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast
13:25 which was full of names of blasphemy,
13:27 having seven heads and ten horns.
13:30 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet,
13:32 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls,
13:36 having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations
13:39 and the filthiness of her fornication.
13:43 And on her forehead a name was written:"
13:47 Now watch very carefully
13:49 because God begins to identify certain things for us.
13:52 And it says on her forehead is a name that is written:
13:57 "Mystery, Babylon the Great,
14:00 the mother of harlots
14:02 and of the abomination of the earth.
14:05 I saw the woman,
14:06 drunk with the blood of the saints
14:08 and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
14:10 When I saw her,
14:12 I marveled with great amazement."
14:14 So here John has seen this woman,
14:17 she is riding on this scarlet colored beast,
14:20 and she has been drunk with the blood of the saints.
14:23 He talks about all the things that she has done.
14:27 Now, what we need to do tonight is we've got to identify
14:31 who this woman is.
14:33 That's what we'll have to do.
14:35 We're going to have to identify who the woman is.
14:37 Also we're going to have to identify who this beast
14:40 that she's riding on represents.
14:42 We're going to begin to put all that together
14:45 so that you can take a look at the Revelation Chapter 17
14:49 and understand what it's talking about.
14:52 We have studied all these different powers.
14:56 We have talked about
14:58 how that the church went into a wilderness
15:02 for 1260 years from 538 to 1798.
15:08 We talked about that period of time.
15:10 And we talked how the church fled in the wilderness
15:15 and the great persecution that she went through.
15:18 So what we want to do tonight is see
15:20 when it speaks of this woman who is represented as a harlot.
15:25 We want to see what the scripture says,
15:26 we will not have trouble identifying this woman.
15:32 In fact, I will not even have to say to you
15:35 who she represents.
15:37 All we will have to do is read the Scripture to you,
15:40 and you will know who it represents.
15:41 So let's look at the Scripture.
15:43 See what it says about it.
15:45 Four points of identification.
15:48 Has to be a world power, put it down, one point.
15:52 Has to be a world power.
15:54 "With whom the kings of the earth
15:56 committed fornication."
15:58 Revelation 17:2.
15:59 So it tells you that it had to be a world power,
16:02 you can't go looking for some little church off
16:07 in the corner somewhere, friend.
16:09 You've got to look for a church that it says
16:12 that she has committed fornication
16:14 with the kings of the earth.
16:15 It means that she had to be involved
16:17 with the kings of the earth.
16:19 She has to be a world power.
16:21 One point.
16:22 Second point.
16:24 Leads the world astray from God's Word.
16:27 Going to lead the world
16:28 astray from the teachings of Scripture.
16:30 It says here in Revelation 17:2.
16:33 "And the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk
16:35 with the wine of her fornication."
16:37 Now it speaks that she has in her hand a cup
16:42 filled with a wine of her fornication.
16:45 When the Scripture speaks of this cup,
16:48 and it speaks of the wine of her fornication,
16:50 it's meaning teachings
16:52 that are contrary to the Word of God.
16:55 This is what it's talking about.
16:57 And thus it has to be a church
16:59 that has taken a stand contrary to Scripture.
17:05 You have to put it down.
17:06 You're going to have to think,
17:08 you're going to have to look for yourself tonight.
17:09 It has to be a church that teaches things
17:12 that are contrary to the Word of God.
17:16 That's what it says, very clear.
17:18 All right.
17:19 Point three.
17:21 Satan deception regarding Scripture,
17:24 that's what the wine cup represents.
17:27 Okay.
17:28 Third point says,
17:30 it would be a persecuting power.
17:32 "And I saw the woman drunk
17:34 with the blood of the saints and with the martyrs of Jesus."
17:37 So you've got to look for a church
17:39 that has persecuted.
17:42 "When I saw her..."
17:43 John says,
17:44 "I marveled with great amazement."
17:47 Why?
17:48 Because of the tremendous things
17:50 that she did and the persecution
17:52 that took place.
17:54 So if you're looking for a church,
17:56 you've got to look for a church that has been a world power.
18:01 You got to look for a church that has led people
18:04 contrary to the teachings of Scripture,
18:07 and they have persecuted, those are three things.
18:10 You look at it any way you want to,
18:12 but you're going to have to sit down
18:14 and make that application.
18:16 The fourth point.
18:19 Unification of church and state.
18:22 "So he carried me away in the Spirit
18:24 into the wilderness.
18:25 And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast
18:30 which was full of names of blasphemy,
18:32 having seven heads and ten horns."
18:34 So it says this woman
18:36 is sitting on a scarlet colored beast.
18:39 Now, if you're looking at it,
18:41 you remember that in Bible prophecy,
18:43 a woman represents a church, okay?
18:47 So this woman
18:49 riding on this scarlet colored beast
18:51 represented church.
18:53 It says that she is riding on a beast.
18:57 Daniel 8:20 helps you and I understand
19:02 what beast represent?
19:03 It says, "The ram which you saw,
19:05 having two horns,
19:06 they are the kings of Medo-Persia."
19:08 So a beast in Bible prophecy
19:11 represents a nation or a civil power,
19:16 okay?
19:17 It represents a civil power.
19:18 So, dear friends,
19:20 if you have a woman riding on a beast,
19:25 what do you have?
19:29 Well, you have uniting of church and state.
19:33 You have a church riding on a beast,
19:36 the church or a woman riding on a beast,
19:38 the woman represents the church,
19:40 the beast represents civil power.
19:42 If she's riding on that beast,
19:43 that represents union of church and state.
19:47 So those four points you got to put down.
19:50 One, has to be a world power.
19:53 Secondly, she had to lead people
19:56 contrary to the Word of God.
19:59 Three, she had to persecute people.
20:03 Persecute the saints of the most high.
20:05 And four, she had to unite church and state.
20:10 Not hard to identify, is it?
20:13 If you understand history, if you read history,
20:16 you can identify that without any trouble tonight.
20:19 Okay,
20:21 let's continue on with God's Word
20:22 and see what it tells us here
20:24 because it says here in Revelation 17:3.
20:29 "So he carried me away in the Spirit
20:32 into the wilderness."
20:34 And I saw a woman.
20:35 Now I want to take a little bit of time here.
20:38 Who is writing this Book of Revelation?
20:41 John. John.
20:44 John's writing it.
20:45 Where is John at this time?
20:50 Oh, he's on the island of Patmos.
20:53 That's where he's at where he writes
20:54 the Book of Revelation is on the island of Patmos.
20:57 But here John says, he's been what?
21:01 "Carried into the wilderness."
21:05 Therefore envision, envision
21:08 John has been carried into the wilderness.
21:13 And as we look at this prophecy,
21:15 you cannot look at it
21:18 as John being on the island of Patmos.
21:22 It won't work.
21:23 Or you cannot look at it from where you and I are today.
21:28 You have to look at it from John in the wilderness.
21:33 Are you with me?
21:35 It has to be that way,
21:36 or you won't get it all together tonight.
21:38 So that's the reason I'm spending some time
21:40 on this third verse as John says,
21:43 he was carried away into the wilderness.
21:47 We will establish where that wilderness is.
21:50 Watch what he sees in the wilderness.
21:54 "Sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names
21:57 of blasphemy,
21:59 having seven heads and ten horns."
22:00 So he sees this beast
22:02 has seven heads, ten horns,
22:04 scarlet colored beast.
22:08 "The beast that you saw and is not,
22:12 and will ascend out of the bottomless pit
22:14 and go to perdition.
22:16 And those who dwell on the earth will marvel,
22:18 whose names are not written in the Book of Life
22:20 from the foundation of the world,
22:24 when they see the beast that was,
22:27 and is not, and yet is."
22:32 So John here is saying,
22:33 this beast that I saw here that has these seven heads,
22:37 and it has these ten horns that beast was,
22:42 is not yet is.
22:45 It's what John is saying.
22:47 So let's take a look and see if we can put together
22:50 what John is talking about,
22:52 because John is here on the island of Patmos.
22:55 He's been carried envision into the wilderness.
22:58 So in the wilderness, John is in the wilderness now,
23:02 and he sees a beast that what?
23:06 Was.
23:08 Are you with me?
23:09 In the wilderness he sees a beast that was...?
23:13 Was is what tense?
23:16 Past. Past.
23:17 Okay, keep it clear.
23:19 In the wilderness,
23:22 John is seeing this vision
23:24 and he sees this beast that is not...
23:29 What tense is that?
23:32 Present. Present.
23:35 He saw a beast that was,
23:37 that past is not, is present and yet is,
23:43 is what?
23:45 Future. Future.
23:46 Okay.
23:48 Are we beginning to understand?
23:49 It's going to beginning to help us
23:51 limit exactly where John is.
23:53 He saw this beast that was in the wilderness,
23:57 that beast is not.
23:59 And yet he says, it is going to come.
24:03 Yet is.
24:04 That's what John is saying.
24:05 So remember as we go through this,
24:08 keep John in the right place.
24:12 Keep him envision in the wilderness
24:15 and this whole prophecy will begin to clear up
24:18 and you'll see exactly what it's talking about.
24:21 All right.
24:23 With that, let's see if we can find out
24:25 who the beast is? What the beast is?
24:27 It says, "The beast that was,
24:31 and is not, is himself also the," what?
24:35 The eighth.
24:37 "The eighth,
24:38 and is of the seven and it's going to perdition.
24:43 They're also seven kings.
24:46 Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come.
24:50 And when he comes, he must continue a short time."
24:54 Now folks if you had been with me from night to night,
24:58 we have put all that together.
25:01 We've studied all that.
25:02 We've put that together,
25:03 that should be very clear to you,
25:05 and I'm going to review it just a little bit for you,
25:07 in case there's some of you
25:09 that are just tuning in and getting understanding
25:11 what we're talking about.
25:13 You remember we studied Daniel 2?
25:16 You remember in Daniel 2, there was an image,
25:19 it had a head of gold, arms and breast of silver,
25:22 belly and thighs of bronze,
25:23 legs of iron and feet part of iron and part of clay.
25:26 And we found out that
25:28 that head of gold represented Babylon.
25:30 The arm and breast of silver represented Medo-Persia.
25:33 The belly and thighs of bronze represented Greece.
25:37 The legs of iron represented pagan Rome.
25:40 Remember, we took you through those.
25:41 Okay, now watch
25:43 because God takes and I told you as we studied
25:46 that God simply takes a prophecy
25:49 and picks it up like in Daniel 2,
25:51 and He's going to go this far with it,
25:53 and He's going to stop
25:55 and then He's going to go back
25:56 to the same starting place in Daniel 7,
25:58 except this time He's not going to stop here.
26:01 He's going to go farther that God repeats and enlarges.
26:05 And you remember as we studied Daniel 7,
26:08 you remember now
26:10 He has given those nations beast,
26:13 and you remember the first one was a lion,
26:17 represented Babylon.
26:19 Babylon of old.
26:20 605 to 539, she ruled.
26:25 Pictured as a Babylon, even as a lion.
26:27 Even the Scripture refers to Babylon as a lion.
26:33 In fact, in the ruins,
26:36 if you were to go over to Babylon today
26:39 to where they have rebuilt the Ishtar gates,
26:42 you will see lions there with eagle's wings.
26:46 The British museum
26:47 that did much of the excavation of Babylon
26:50 has statues of lions with eagle's wings.
26:53 God used that lion to represent Babylon,
26:56 that is one of those heads,
26:59 this beast in Revelation 17 has how many heads?
27:03 Seven heads.
27:04 Five have fallen, okay?
27:06 All right.
27:08 The second one was that of a bear
27:11 and that was pictured as Medo-Persia.
27:14 You remember,
27:15 this bear had three ribs in its mouth.
27:18 It represented the three countries
27:20 that Medo-Persia overthrew
27:21 which was Babylon, Egypt and Libya.
27:25 So Babylon fell to Medo-Persia.
27:29 It's what history tells us took place.
27:31 That's what Scripture tells us took place.
27:33 The third beast
27:35 that came on the scene of action was a leopard.
27:38 Had four wings on its back, had four heads,
27:41 that leopard represented the kingdom of Greece.
27:47 The wings on its back represented the swiftness
27:50 with which Alexander the Great took everything.
27:53 The foreheads on that beast
27:54 represented that when Alexander the Great died,
27:57 his kingdom was divided among his four generals.
28:00 Okay.
28:02 The fourth beast was that of a dragon
28:07 represented as pagan Rome.
28:11 Pagan Rome opened up the waterways,
28:15 opened up the roadways made it possible
28:19 for civilization to move across the world.
28:22 Rome ruled longer than any other power
28:25 from 168 BC to 476 AD.
28:30 Thus you have the fourth kingdom as a dragon.
28:33 Then we came to the fifth kingdom
28:36 which was that of papal Rome
28:40 that the Bible presents as a nondescript beast
28:44 in Revelation 13.
28:46 And that beast also had seven heads and ten horns.
28:51 Now follow me carefully.
28:54 Babylon fell to Medo-Persia, Medo-Persia fell to Greece,
28:59 Greece fell to pagan Roman, pagan Rome fell to papal Rome.
29:04 Five have fallen.
29:09 Are you with me?
29:11 Okay. Five have fallen.
29:14 One is,
29:18 the other is yet to come,
29:21 when he comes, he must continue a short time.
29:26 And so those five have fallen.
29:28 Are you beginning?
29:29 You should be.
29:30 Are you beginning to find out where John is?
29:35 He is in the wilderness, envision.
29:36 Where is he?
29:38 Well, he's at the time of this sixth beast.
29:41 That's where he is.
29:42 The time of atheism.
29:45 That's the reason the Scripture refers to it as a wilderness.
29:49 John is at that time
29:51 and when he's talking about and he says,
29:53 "This beast that was,
29:57 is not, yet is."
30:02 Okay.
30:04 So when John says,
30:05 this beast that was, is not, and yet is,
30:09 he can't be talking about communism
30:13 because that's the wilderness where he's at.
30:16 That's exactly what's going on.
30:19 Communism ruled 1798.
30:23 Basically fell in 1991.
30:26 Then it says that the seventh beast,
30:28 which we studied, was that of the United States.
30:32 And it says that it would speak as a dragon.
30:39 And when communism fell,
30:43 this country found itself
30:45 as a superpower unrivaled
30:50 and now it says from that point,
30:53 it would speak as a dragon
30:55 and it says it would last a short time.
31:00 Now when the Scripture says a short time,
31:02 that means in relationship to the other kingdoms.
31:05 It's actually what it means in relationship
31:07 to the other kingdoms.
31:09 Those are the seven, okay?
31:12 And we've looked at them very carefully.
31:14 Now let's go a step farther.
31:19 Speaking of the United States, its position,
31:23 in a article put out by the Associated Press,
31:28 March 8, 1992.
31:30 "In a broad new policy statement
31:32 that is in the final drafting state,
31:33 the Defense Department asserts that America's political
31:37 and military mission in the post-Cold War era
31:42 will be to ensure that no rival superpower
31:45 is allowed in Western Europe,
31:47 Asia or the territory of the former Soviet Union."
31:50 And so it makes it clear the position the United States
31:53 is taken that she is not going to let a superpower,
31:57 another superpower arise.
32:00 She's not going to permit that if she can help it, okay?
32:03 So now she has in that position and it says
32:06 that she would speak as a dragon.
32:10 Now the beast that, what?
32:14 Was, and?
32:17 Is not, is himself also the...
32:21 Eighth. Eighth.
32:23 Okay.
32:24 The beast that was.
32:27 Now where's John?
32:30 In the wilderness.
32:31 He can't be talking about atheistic communism
32:35 because that is present.
32:37 He can't be talking about the United States
32:39 because that was future.
32:42 So it has to be one of these five
32:44 that we've studied
32:46 when he said the beast that was,
32:48 and is not, Babylon was, is not,
32:52 Medo-Persia was, is not, Greece was, is not,
32:56 pagan Rome was, is not, papal Rome was, is not.
33:02 Are you with me?
33:03 Those are the five.
33:05 It has to be one of those.
33:06 He is himself also the eighth.
33:09 And is of the seven and is going to perdition.
33:14 So John is telling you, this one that is the eighth,
33:17 it has to be one of those seven.
33:19 So what I'm trying to tell you,
33:21 don't go running off some other place
33:24 trying to find another country and put it in there.
33:26 Because John has told you clearly,
33:28 it's one of those seven.
33:31 He's made that very, very clear.
33:34 Okay.
33:35 Let's see if we can identify who this eighth one is.
33:39 All right.
33:40 Points of identification.
33:43 It's one of the seven.
33:45 John tells us that it's one of the seven.
33:47 So no question about that.
33:48 Secondly, it's the beast that was, okay?
33:54 Thirdly, it is not at the time
33:58 John is in the wilderness, okay?
34:02 He makes it clear.
34:03 Four, he himself also the eighth.
34:09 All right.
34:10 He himself also the eighth.
34:12 So it says, he's going to be the eighth.
34:13 So that means that particular power
34:16 has to what?
34:18 Come back.
34:20 It has to come back.
34:22 So one of those five, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
34:26 pagan Rome, papal Rome.
34:28 One of those has to come back, all right?
34:33 Fifth point, had to make war
34:36 with the saints because it says,
34:39 the woman on his back made war with the saints,
34:42 all right?
34:43 Six,
34:45 has to be the uniting of church and state.
34:48 Because she's riding on the back of the beast,
34:50 right?
34:52 So you've got to have uniting of church and state.
34:56 Seven, it has to receive
34:59 a deadly wound as the Scripture says,
35:03 was wounded with the sword and yet lived.
35:08 And the eighth point,
35:10 the deadly wound has to be healed.
35:13 All right. Let's take that.
35:14 Let's see those eight points
35:16 and see if there's any one power
35:19 that fits all those eight points.
35:24 Okay.
35:26 One of the seven.
35:27 Now there's just one
35:29 that will fit all eight points, okay?
35:31 And I'm going to put it down here.
35:32 If you can find
35:33 one of the other seven that will fit all eight points,
35:37 let me know, will you?
35:39 That I can't find but one that fits all eight points.
35:42 One of the seven, all right?
35:45 Papal Rome.
35:48 One of the seven, okay?
35:52 The beast that was,
35:53 papal Rome was one of those five that was, is not.
35:59 Napoleon came in,
36:02 overthrew the papal government, 1798, February 15, 1798.
36:07 And established a secular one.
36:10 So during this time,
36:12 it is not the time that John is in the wilderness.
36:15 It is not.
36:17 Is himself also the eighth.
36:20 Question.
36:22 Does papal Rome exist today?
36:25 Huh?
36:26 Oh, very definitely.
36:28 All right.
36:29 Point five, had to make war with the saints.
36:35 Has she persecuted?
36:37 Yeah. Papal Rome has persecuted.
36:40 Uniting of church and state.
36:43 Well, that's what she stands for.
36:45 Uniting of church and civil government.
36:49 Papal Rome.
36:51 Seven, received a deadly wound.
36:57 February 15, 1798.
37:00 She received a deadly wound.
37:05 Deadly weapon healed, 1929.
37:12 Mussolini signed the Lateran Pact
37:16 which reinstated the papal power
37:19 as a civil government
37:21 and thus the deadly wound was healed.
37:25 Only one out of those seven
37:28 that fits all those eight points.
37:33 Now, what we've got to do at this point, dear friends,
37:37 is you and I have to take a look,
37:40 a very clear look tonight at where we're headed.
37:47 I don't have the ability to tell the future.
37:52 That is not something that man of himself has, but God does.
37:59 And God's Word is accurate.
38:02 So I want you to follow very carefully as the scripture
38:05 tells you and I where we're headed,
38:08 what's about to take place.
38:12 Revelation 17:9.
38:15 Here's a mind which has wisdom, Bible saying,
38:19 if you really want to, you know, kind of be smart.
38:22 If you want to understand things,
38:24 "Here is the mind that has wisdom.
38:25 The seven heads are seven mountains
38:27 on which the woman sits.
38:30 There're also seven kings.
38:33 Five have fallen, one is, and the other's not yet come.
38:36 And when he comes, he must continue a short time.
38:39 We've taken a look at all of those.
38:41 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth,
38:46 and is of the seven, and is going to perdition."
38:49 And you and I have studied now down to that point,
38:52 we've come that far.
38:54 Watch carefully now.
38:55 "The ten horns which you saw are ten kings
39:01 who have received no kingdom as yet."
39:06 Now, we're getting to our day.
39:10 "Ten kings that have received no kingdom as yet
39:13 but they receive authority
39:15 for one hour as kings with the...?"
39:18 Beast.
39:20 "With the beast."
39:22 Now you should begin to put things together.
39:26 Dear friend, please, I beg of you tonight.
39:29 Understand that I am talking about
39:32 a civil power.
39:34 I am talking about
39:35 what governments are going to do?
39:37 Please, I beg of you,
39:38 do not take what I say and apply it to people.
39:43 Don't do that.
39:45 This is talking about where we're headed,
39:48 where we're going, okay?
39:51 They receive authority
39:53 for one hour as kings with the beast.
39:56 "These are of one mind,
40:00 and they will give their power and authority to the beast."
40:03 Now, when it says these ten kings
40:06 are of one mind that tells you clearly
40:09 that they're not all going to come together
40:12 and just be one kingdom.
40:15 It tells you they are going to cooperate,
40:18 they're going to work together, they will be of one mind.
40:21 Are you following me?
40:23 So don't, it doesn't teach that they're all going
40:26 to come together and just be one power.
40:28 It teaches they're going to work together.
40:30 They're going to be of one mind.
40:34 All right.
40:36 As we have studied God's Word night after night,
40:40 we found that that image in Daniel 2 had ten toes,
40:45 and it says, those ten toes were what?
40:48 Ten kings.
40:49 It's what the scripture says very clearly.
40:52 In Daniel Chapter 7, that beast,
40:55 that dragon had ten horns
40:57 and it tells you those ten horns were ten kings,
41:01 very, very clear.
41:04 When you get to Revelation 12,
41:06 that beast has ten horns which are ten kings,
41:12 you get to Revelation 13 that beast has ten horns,
41:17 which represented ten kings and you get to Revelation 17
41:21 and this beast has ten horns and it says,
41:24 they are what?
41:26 Ten kings.
41:28 Now as we have studied the scripture clearly
41:31 in every one of those prophecies,
41:33 those ten horns represented
41:37 the ten Germanic kingdoms
41:41 that came down and they broke up
41:43 the Roman Empire.
41:45 They were such tribes as the Anglo-Saxons,
41:48 the Franks, the Heruli,
41:49 the Vandals, the Burgundians and so forth.
41:52 Those Germanic tribes
41:55 became the nations of Western Europe.
41:59 The Alemanni became Germany.
42:03 The Franks became the French.
42:07 The Lombards became Italy.
42:11 The Anglo-Saxons became the English.
42:14 These Germanic tribes
42:17 became the nations of Western Europe.
42:22 Okay.
42:24 I hope you're putting some things together.
42:28 These ten kings have received no kingdom
42:32 as yet, okay?
42:37 But they are of one mind and they will give their power
42:42 and authority to the beast.
42:46 What do we have happening in Europe today?
42:49 What is taking place?
42:51 We have these ten kings
42:56 that are bringing together
42:57 what is called the European Community
43:01 or the Common Market.
43:04 What is their thinking?
43:08 Where are they?
43:10 They have a symbol, you know,
43:11 they used the Tower of Babel to represent their kingdom.
43:14 It says, one voice, many languages, one nation.
43:21 They're pictured there.
43:22 All right.
43:25 Let me show you what's going on in their minds,
43:29 where we're headed, folks,
43:30 I'm talking about what the scripture says,
43:32 where you and I are headed tonight.
43:38 Sunday Telegraph, August 24, 25, 1991, London.
43:44 This is what it says,
43:45 "If European federalism triumphs, the EC..."
43:50 European Community, that's what the EC stands for.
43:54 "The EC will indeed be" and what?
43:59 "An empire."
44:01 Indeed it's coming there.
44:03 They now have the Euro.
44:06 Just this last year, they united their army,
44:10 and their army today is the largest in the world.
44:15 Okay?
44:16 So don't think it isn't coming together.
44:19 There may be a lot of rough spots.
44:21 There may be a lot of bumps.
44:22 But let me tell you,
44:24 it's happening in step by step, it's coming together.
44:27 Now listen to what it says here.
44:31 It will lack and yeah, it says, indeed, it will be an empire,
44:36 but it will lack an emperor,
44:41 but it will have the pope.
44:45 It's not difficult to think that what we're told,
44:48 that's the pope.
44:50 Recognizes this.
44:52 Yes, that is who they're looking to.
44:56 That is what their thinking needs
44:58 to take place.
45:00 I'm trying to share with you what is happening today
45:03 in the time in which you and I are living.
45:07 And you need to watch very carefully
45:09 when you pick up the newspaper.
45:10 When you look at the television
45:12 and you hear these things are happening, folks.
45:14 Be aware of what the Word of God says
45:17 because it won't lead you astray.
45:20 You'll know exactly where we're going.
45:25 I don't know if you're acquainted
45:26 with the man by the name of Charles Malik.
45:29 If you're not, Charles Malik was the president
45:32 of the assembly of the United Nations.
45:35 He's the ambassador
45:37 from Lebanon to the United States.
45:41 He's a guest lecturer at Harvard.
45:45 This man is in the thick of this.
45:49 I want you to watch as he,
45:52 what his thinking is regarding
45:55 what is happening over in Europe.
45:59 Charles Malik, this is what he says,
46:03 "The only hope for the Western World
46:06 lies in an alliance
46:07 between the Roman Catholic Church
46:10 which is the most commonly, influential, controlling,
46:14 unifying element in Europe."
46:18 Now, I said if there's anything that is unifying,
46:22 controlling in all of Europe, it's the Catholic Church,
46:27 and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
46:32 He says those two churches are the ones,
46:35 are the main ones in Europe.
46:40 "Rome must unite with Eastern Orthodoxy
46:45 because the Eastern Orthodox Church
46:48 controls the Western Middle East,
46:50 the east end of the Mediterranean."
46:54 That's what she controls.
46:56 So he's saying,
46:57 it is absolutely imperative that these two unite
47:01 and there are movements tonight towards that things
47:06 that are happening right now.
47:08 But listen as it goes on.
47:11 "And if they don't solidify that control..."
47:16 If the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church
47:19 don't solidify that control, they don't come together.
47:23 "Islam will march across Europe.
47:26 Islam is political."
47:31 Now that's clear.
47:33 That's what he's saying is going to happen.
47:34 That's what he's saying is going to happen.
47:36 That is not what the scripture says
47:38 will happen.
47:41 Scripture does not say that Islam will march across Europe.
47:46 Therefore, what's going to happen?
47:49 I don't know
47:51 if you're putting things together.
47:53 It says, those two are going to unite,
47:55 that's what's going to take place.
47:57 Okay?
47:59 "They only hope for the Western World
48:03 lies in a united Europe
48:07 under the control of the pope.
48:13 Then all Protestant Christians around the globe
48:16 must come into submission to the pope,
48:19 so we will have a unified Christian world."
48:23 Now, I'm just trying to get across
48:25 when it says these ten kingdoms
48:28 or ten kings have received no kingdom as yet,
48:34 but they are of one mind
48:38 and they will give their authority
48:41 to the beast.
48:46 So you ought to be able to begin
48:48 to put things together and understand
48:51 where we are in the stream of time.
48:54 You need to see that and understand it.
48:56 But let's take it a step farther.
48:57 We've looked at Europe, okay?
49:00 Watch this.
49:03 Revelation 13:2.
49:06 We talked about a two-horned beast, right?
49:10 And we identified that two-horned beast
49:13 as that of the United States.
49:16 And let me tell you,
49:18 there is not another power on the face of the earth
49:21 that will fit that two-horned beast
49:23 except the United States.
49:24 That's the only one that fits the time sequence,
49:27 that's the only one that will fit
49:28 into that prophecy.
49:30 Listen to what it says the United States will do.
49:34 "And he," United States,
49:37 "exercised all the authority of the first beast..."
49:43 That's the nondescript beast that has the seven heads
49:47 and two horns that we identified
49:49 as papal Rome, okay?
49:53 "And he exercised all the authority
49:55 of the first beast in his presence
49:57 and caused the earth..."
49:59 Caused what?
50:01 "The earth and those who dwell in it
50:05 to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed."
50:11 So it says the United States is going to give its power,
50:17 its authority to the beast.
50:19 It's what it says will happen.
50:22 And, dear friends,
50:23 I plead with you tonight, watch carefully.
50:28 Watch carefully the moves that are taking place
50:32 to unite church and state in this country.
50:37 Let me tell you a basic fact.
50:41 Many of the things that are said today
50:46 from those that are interested in bringing church
50:51 and state together are good things.
50:54 Don't misunderstand me.
50:56 Many of the things that are proposed are things
50:58 that need to be done.
51:01 Many of those things are things that we've gotten away
51:04 from that as a country we need to be doing,
51:07 they're good honorable things.
51:09 Don't misunderstand me.
51:11 But there is a basic fact
51:14 and the basic fact is simply this
51:17 that the pendulum does not stop.
51:22 You see, it doesn't stop.
51:24 It swings the whole way.
51:26 And so some of these things that we've gone way up here
51:30 and we do stupid things.
51:34 As a nation,
51:35 we do things that we shouldn't be doing
51:37 because we've let the pendulum swing way up here
51:42 and it needs to come back.
51:45 But unfortunately,
51:46 when you take church and church begins
51:49 to take over civil authority,
51:51 that pendulum's not going to stop in the middle,
51:54 it's going to swing right on up.
51:57 Like the old saying is,
52:00 let the camel get his nose in the tent,
52:02 and he will sleep with you.
52:05 And that is very, very true in this state
52:08 when church gets its nose in the civil government,
52:12 you better believe we're headed for some serious times.
52:16 So I want to just give you a kind of a glimpse
52:20 of what is beginning to happen, what's taking place?
52:25 Church and state working together.
52:32 Time Magazine, February 24, 1992.
52:36 "This was one of the great secret alliances
52:38 of all time.
52:40 Reagan and the pope agreed to undertake
52:42 a clandestine campaign
52:44 to hasten the dissolution of the Communist Empire.
52:49 Step by...
52:51 Reluctant step, the Soviets and the communist government
52:54 of Poland bowed to the moral, economical,
52:58 economic and political pressure imposed by the pope
53:02 and the President."
53:04 All of a sudden,
53:05 we find church and state working together.
53:12 It's beginning to move and bring all that together.
53:17 And when we do that, dear friend,
53:20 let me tell you something,
53:22 we are moving down a road that history
53:25 has told us will not work, won't work.
53:30 One other statement.
53:33 "One of the earliest goals, as President Reagan says,
53:37 was to recognize the Vatican as a state
53:41 and to make them an ally."
53:44 And thus the two-horned beast
53:47 caused the world to worship the first beast.
53:53 It's what it says.
53:55 So what am I trying to tell you?
53:57 I'm telling you that
53:59 where we are in this particular time,
54:01 is that we're beginning to see things
54:03 developing in Europe.
54:06 It says clearly in God's Word,
54:08 that those powers are going to work together
54:11 and they're going to give their authority
54:13 to the beast.
54:15 It says the United States is also going to give
54:19 its authority to that of the beast.
54:22 And thus you find that it says
54:24 that all the world wondered after the beast.
54:31 What it says is going to happen?
54:34 And thus we find that today you find the world leaders,
54:39 our President himself, seeking the council,
54:44 going there and talking, seeking the council,
54:46 hoping to work together.
54:48 And you find that happening at our present day.
54:53 2 Peter 1:19.
54:57 "And so we have the prophetic word confirmed,
55:01 which you do well to..."
55:04 What? Heed.
55:05 "Heed as a light that shines in a dark place."
55:10 Oh, dear friend, the prophetic word won't fail.
55:15 God is saying pay attention.
55:18 Look at it.
55:19 Give heed to it
55:20 because what God has said, He said,
55:23 I have told you before it comes to pass,
55:27 that when it comes to pass,
55:29 you'll recognize it and know it.
55:31 You see, prophecy is to tell you and I
55:35 where we're going.
55:37 It's what it tells us.
55:38 Where we're going is to tell us where we are?
55:42 And it's to tell us what we ought to do?
55:45 That is the purpose of prophecy.
55:47 And I have shared it with you night after night,
55:49 that you might know it, because it goes on and says,
55:54 "Until the day dawns..."
55:55 That's referring to the coming of Jesus Christ,
55:57 "Until the day dawns
55:59 and the morning start rises in your hearts."
56:03 And so, you have the prophetic word
56:07 that you and I can understand.
56:10 Revelation 17.
56:12 We've been studying it.
56:14 Now, folks...
56:19 in some ways I wish there was another beast.
56:25 I wish there was another one there
56:26 that I could say, well,
56:28 here's another one, but there isn't.
56:32 I mean, do you know where you go
56:33 after the Revelation Chapter 17?
56:38 It talks about this woman in the 18th Chapter,
56:40 19th Chapter
56:42 and after that you're in heaven.
56:45 That's where you're at.
56:47 I wished I could say, oh, here,
56:50 here's another beast but I can't.
56:52 Watch, listen to what it says here,
56:54 Revelation 17:14, "These..."
56:58 Do you know who these are?
57:01 Huh?
57:02 When it says these, who we've been talking about?
57:05 Ten kings.
57:07 "These will make war with the Lamb."
57:13 Are you getting the picture?
57:15 "These will make war with the Lamb,
57:17 the Lamb will overcome them,
57:21 for He is Lord of lords and King of kings,
57:26 and those who are with Him
57:29 are called chosen and faithful."
57:35 The Lamb will overcome them.
57:39 What you and I have to make.
57:40 Absolutely sure.
57:43 Has that we're called, we're faithful.
57:47 We're faithful.
57:48 We follow the Lord.
57:50 We follow what the Scripture says.
57:52 I build my belief on the Word of God
57:56 and I stand solidly on the Word of God.
57:59 And I don't let people move me off of the Scripture
58:03 because, dear friend, we're down to the end.
58:07 Jesus is coming back.
58:09 And you and I need to be ready for the coming of Jesus Christ
58:15 because He's coming.


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