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Can the resurrection of Jesus be 'explained away' by any means? Extra-biblical explanations have been proposed and yet they all fail to account for the common facts we are all working with. Only the Biblical Account can be validated as 'the truth'

Dr. Fudge's famous seminar presenting information from his book 'The Fire That Consumes'.

The popular Christian doctrine of Hell (ECT) asks us to believe that God tortures people for eternity, however, is that belief actually in line with what the Bible teaches?

Was law done away with at the cross? Are we still to obey the Ten Commandments?

~1 Timothy 4:4-5~ "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is 'sanctified by the word of God' and prayer."

A lecture about the nature of evil & suffering by Walter Martin

Milton Mills, MD and other speakers talk on what the bible says about animals and veganism in an open panel discussion. July 8th, 2017.

Bible Answers: Does Romans 14 Say Vegetarians are Weak? Bible study & Bible Q&A ~Romans 14~ ~1 Corinthians 8~ ~Acts 15~

Did Jesus really exist? If so, what can we know about him historically? For any Christian, the historicity of Jesus isn’t merely a matter of curiosity. The Christian faith is dependent upon the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as historical reality. But how can we know if the Jesus of the Gospels is historical or legendary? 'Jesus of Testimony' answers many of the important questions for skeptics as well as Christians in the area of Christian apologetics. In Part 1: 'Lord or Legend', the historicity of Jesus Christ is demonstrated using important 'non-Christian' historical sources that are available to us today. Part 2: 'Are the Gospels Reliable?' examines the historical reliability of the Gospels as eyewitness testimony to the life of Jesus. Part 3: 'Miracles' provides strong evidence that miracles happen today and happened in history. In Part 4: 'The Testimony of Prophecy', many of the Old Testament messianic prophecies are quoted along with their New Testament fulfillments which establish a solid confirmation of Jesus’ credentials as the Messiah. In Part 5: 'The Resurrection – Fact or Fiction?' the case is presented for the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Finally, Part 6: 'The Good News' concludes that the portrayal of Jesus in the Gospels, dependent on eyewitness testimony, is more plausible than the alternative hypotheses of its modern detractors and presents Jesus’ message of the Gospel. We would like to have this movie available with subtitles in multiple languages. English, Spanish, German, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese(Traditional & Simplified) and Greek are available now. Please contact us if you would like to help. To order DVDs, make donations or download visit: jesusoftestimony.com Part 1: Lord or Legend. 1:37 Part 2: Are Gospels reliable. 19:23 Part 3: Miracles. 1:00:23 Part 4: Testimony of Prophecy. 1:18:40 Part 5: Resurrection. 1:33:39 Part 6: Good News. 2:01:05

Will Kinney's KJB Classroom: "A great lesson from Will Kinney which clears up the confusion many people have regarding where God has specifically preserved his words!" -Sword0fTheSpirit

False Church Ecumenical Deception Wolves in Sheeps Clothing

A compelling presentation on childhood vaccines designed to help parents make educated vaccine decisions. As a parent of 5 children, Mary can relate to the confusion surrounding the most important health care decision parents must make. Her compassion for the family is evident as she tells her story of how she discovered the facts behind the vaccine program. The presentation is based on Congressional Hearings by the Government Reform Committee between 2000 - 2004 and references major medical journals, researchers and dozens of medical doctors. This fully referenced, 2 1/2 hour, easy to watch DVD, combines history, experience, logic, science and factual information. Whether you are a parent or just concerned with your own health, you will find this DVD a valuable part of your health library. To purchase this DVD or if you are interested in having Mary Tocco present at your conference visit this website https://childhoodshots.com https://childhoodshots.com/shop/

00:15 Good evening everyone, glad to be here? [Audience] Yes. 00:19 Yeah, me too. 00:22 If you are half as happy to be here as I am 00:25 then you're very happy to be here and I'm looking 00:27 forward to this evening's presentation: "The Actual," 00:30 "Definite, Certain, Unavoidable Identity of the Antichrist", 00:35 and as Paul has said, this is a very serious topic, 00:38 but fortunately it is not one that is mysterious in the Bible. 00:43 Many people have misunderstood who the Antichrist is, 00:45 there's been a great deal of conjecture, a great deal 00:48 of ideas and opinions, and everybody's "Oh, who could" 00:51 "it be?", and you could go to a Christian book store today 00:54 and probably find 5-7 at least, different interpretations of who 00:59 the Antichrist is, but tonight we're going to go 01:02 not to a bookstore, but to the most important book, 01:05 does that sound like a good idea? 01:08 And I will show you tonight, from the Bible, exactly 01:11 who this Antichrist power is, and as I've already told you, 01:13 I'm not going to tell you who it is, we'll put all of 01:16 the identifying characteristics up on the board, 01:18 and then you will tell me who it is, and I'm not just kidding. 01:21 So let's get right into our message proper tonight, 01:24 but before we do that, what will we do first? 01:26 - [Audience] Pray. - Pray! That's right! 01:29 So let's do that together. Father in heaven, 01:32 we come before You just now, we want to bow our heads 01:35 and recognize that You are God, and that You are 01:37 the great teacher. Father, tonight we are looking 01:40 at a very important topic, and a topic that, as You know, 01:44 has been very misunderstood, so Father, tonight as we go 01:49 to Your word we pray that You would give us absolute clarity. 01:52 We claim the promise of 1 Corinthians 14, that You 01:54 are not the author of confusion. So Father, tonight we are 01:58 looking for Bible truth, not from man's ideas, not from 02:01 man's opinions, not from man's conjectures. 02:04 Tonight as we study Your word may our eyes see it. 02:08 So please Father, give us spiritual minds that we may 02:11 discern spiritual things. We're looking to You 02:14 as we open Your word, we ask that You would open our hearts 02:18 and that we would have a crystal clear Biblical understanding 02:22 of this important topic. Be with us now, Father, 02:25 for we ask it in Jesus' name, let everyone say amen. 02:30 Take a look at that first paragraph. 02:33 Last lesson we learnt that the Antichrist is a subtle 02:36 religious imposter, not a violent political opposer. 02:39 He is a counterfeit more than a combatant. 02:43 Paul referred to him as "the son of perdition" and "the man" 02:46 "of sin". That first name is used 02:48 only to describe one other individual in the Bible, 02:51 and as we've already said, that's Judas Iscariot. 02:54 He was not an opponent from without, but a betrayer from 02:57 within; Paul drew that parallel purposely. 02:59 In this lesson we will identify the Antichrist from the Bible. 03:02 We will note 10 identifying characteristics from the Bible, 03:05 and then we will draw the obvious conclusion 03:06 As you will see, this is really a very elementary matter. 03:10 The 3 fold office of Jesus Christ, open your Bibles 03:13 as we begin this lesson, to the first book of the New Testament, 03:16 Matthew 12. 03:23 We'll read our paragraph, it says: As we learned 03:26 last lesson, the goal of Satan is to obscure the person, 03:31 place and power of Jesus Christ, but what does this mean? 03:35 How could Jesus Christ ever be obscured in the mind 03:38 of the world, much less in the mind of the committed believer. 03:41 In order to answer this question we will take a look at 03:44 the 3 fold office that Jesus Christ fulfills for the believer 03:48 In Matthew 12, I wish we had time to spend a lot 03:50 of time here, but I just want to direct you to 3 Scriptures. 03:53 Jesus is having a conversation with the religious leaders 03:56 of His day, and He says something very interesting 03:59 as people are listening in. 04:01 We'll pick it up in verse 39 so we set the context. 04:11 Matthew 12:39, Jesus says: "An evil and adulterous" 04:14 "generation seeks after a sign and no sign will be given" 04:17 "except for the sign of the prophet Jonah, for as Jonah" 04:20 "was 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the great fish," 04:23 "so the Son of man will be 3 days and 3 nights" 04:26 "in the heart of the earth." He's referring to the His death, 04:28 burial and resurrection. Now look at verse 41, 04:31 Jesus speaking: "The men of Nineveh will rise up" 04:34 "in judgment with this generation and condemn it" 04:37 "because they repented at the preaching of Jonah" 04:40 and I want you to notice what He says here: "and indeed," 04:43 "a greater than Jonah is here." How many of you know 04:47 the story of Jonah? That's a story that's 04:50 well known to us, right? God said: "Go to Nineveh", 04:52 and he said: "Well, I'd rather go to Tarshish", so you have 04:55 this whole conflict playing out where he goes, and the ship 04:58 gets involved in the midst of that terrible storm, 05:01 he's thrown overboard, a great fish eats him, burps him up 05:04 on the land, and he goes and he preaches and Nineveh repents. 05:06 In the mind of the Jewish individual, Jonah was one 05:10 of the most powerful and successful prophets ever. 05:15 Think about it, you have the entire book of Jeremiah 05:17 and I can't find a single place in all of Jeremiah where even 05:21 1 person listened to 1 thing that Jeremiah said. 05:25 But Jonah goes to a Pagan city, preaches for a few days 05:28 and the whole city repents. Is that a pretty successful 05:31 prophet? So Jesus says: "By the way," 05:34 "a greater than Jonah is here." Jesus says: "I'm greater than" 05:37 "the most successful prophet." Look at the very next verse, 05:40 verse 42: "The queen of the south will rise up in judgment" 05:44 "with this generation and condemn it, for she came" 05:46 "from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon" 05:49 "and indeed, a greater than Solomon is here." 05:53 Who was Solomon? The 3rd king of Israel, 05:56 he was the greatest king in all of Israel, at least in terms 05:58 of wisdom and prosperity, so in the mind of the Jew, 06:01 Solomon is the greatest and Jesus says: "I'm great than" 06:04 "the greatest king. So, I'm greater than the most" 06:06 "successful prophet, I'm great than the greatest king", 06:09 are we seeing pattern? Okay, go to verse 6 06:13 of the same chapter, Jesus speaking, Matthew 12:6: 06:18 "Yet I say to you that in this place there is one greater" 06:23 "than the temple", Jesus says "I'm even greater" 06:27 "than the temple itself and the priests that minister there", 06:29 of course He was greater than the temple, the whole purpose 06:32 of the temple was to point to Him. 06:36 You have the outer courtyard, and the Holy Place, and the Most 06:38 Holy Place, all of that pointed forward to Jesus, He says 06:42 "A greater than Jonah is here, a greater than Solomon is here," 06:45 "a greater than the temple is here; I'm greater than" 06:47 "the greatest prophet, I'm greater than the greatest" 06:49 "king, and I'm greater than the greatest priest," 06:52 "even the temple itself." Here we find the 3 fold 06:55 office that Jesus Christ fulfills. 06:57 Jesus is prophet, Jesus is Priest, Jesus is King. 07:01 But He's not any ordinary prophet, He's the greatest 07:04 of the prophets, He's not any ordinary Priest, He's 07:06 the greatest of the priests, greater than the temple itself, 07:09 and He's not any ordinary king, He is King of kings, 07:12 and Lord of lords. Right there on your sheet 07:15 you have that: His 3 fold office is: Prophet, Priest and King. 07:19 You say: "Wait a minute, what's a prophet?" 07:21 Right there on your study guide: A prophet is one who speaks 07:25 for God. 07:28 You read the Old Testament, what did the prophets love 07:31 to say? They said: "Thus sayeth the Lord...", 07:34 in other words: "This is what God says..." 07:37 So a prophet is one who speaks for God. 07:40 A priest is one who ministers for God, you'd write 07:43 that right in your study guide; a prophet is one who speaks 07:46 for God, a priest is one who ministers for God, 07:49 and a king would be one who rules for God. 07:54 So when we're talking about the Antichrist power, what we're 07:57 looking for is a power that would seek to overtake 08:01 and usurp, and obscure the 3 fold office of Jesus. 08:05 Jesus said: "I'm greater than the greatest prophet," 08:08 "I'm greater than the greatest temple, or the priest," 08:11 "I'm greater than the greatest King", prophet, priest and king; 08:15 One who speaks for God, one who ministers for God, 08:18 one who rules for God, and the Antichrist power on earth 08:21 is going to say: "No! I'm God's voice on earth!" 08:24 "No! I'm God's ministry on earth!" 08:26 "No! I'm God's authority on earth!" 08:29 Are we all clear everyone? So far so good. 08:32 So let's continue on. Last paragraph on page 1: 08:35 This is who Jesus Christ is; the Antichrist will seek to obscure 08:39 or even usurp, that means "take", these various offices 08:43 from Jesus Christ. How very important then 08:46 that we know who Jesus Christ really is according to the Bible 08:51 Can you see how essential it is to know Jesus according 08:55 to what is true. Remember our knowledge of God, 08:58 and our worship of God must be in spirit and in truth. 09:03 Very quick question before we go one second further: 09:06 does this idea make sense, yes or no? 09:09 - [Audience] Yes. - Okay, Jesus says: 09:11 "I'm greater than Solomon, I'm greater than Jonah," 09:14 "I'm greater than the temple", He's the greatest prophet, 09:17 the greatest priest, the greatest king, 09:19 so the Antichrist is going to try and usurp those offices, 09:22 the Antichrist will say: "I'm God's voice on earth," 09:25 "I'm God's ministry on earth, I'm God's authority on earth", 09:28 that's what we're looking for. Next page: 09:31 The Antichrist. The Name Antichrist is not used 09:34 very frequently in the Bible, only the author, John, uses it. 09:38 However, there are several different names that 09:42 the Antichrist is referred to by in the Scriptures, 09:44 here are most of them, you can write them in there. 09:47 He's referred to, as we've already said as the Antichrist, 09:50 we looked at that in 1 John. He's referred to as "the beast" 09:53 in Revelation, particularly chapter 13. 09:55 He's referred to as "the man of sin" in 2 Thessalonians 2, 09:58 "the son of perdition", also in 2 Thessalonians 2, 10:01 and another one that we've not talked about, "the little horn", 10:04 which is what we're going to spend some time looking at 10:07 tonight in Daniel 7 and 8. So there are several different 10:10 monikers for the Antichrist, he's not always referred to 10:12 just as the Antichrist, that's an important point that many 10:15 do not understand. Okay, it says: 10:17 The last one, Nr.5, is found in the book of Daniel 7, 10:20 so let's go to the book of Daniel as we begin to uncover 10:24 exactly who this Antichrist, beast, man of sin, 10:29 son of perdition, little horn power is. 10:31 We go to the book of Daniel 7, that's in the Old Testament, 10:36 should be able to find it, if you can find Isaiah, 10:38 go forward, Jeremiah, then you've got Lamentations, 10:43 Ezekiel, then you'll find Daniel 7. 10:49 We're on the subheading: Four Frightening, Ferocious, 10:53 Feral creatures. Let's go look at these 4 beasts, 10:58 before we do that, let's quickly review. 11:03 We've seen this man before, haven't we? 11:06 This is from Daniel chapter... who remembers? 11:09 Daniel chapter...? [Audience] 2. 11:11 That's right, and a King had a dream, what was his name? 11:14 Nebuchadnezzar. 11:16 And he had a dream of a great metal man, the head of gold, 11:19 the chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, 11:22 long legs of iron, and then the feet partly of iron 11:24 and party of clay, and we saw that this metal man 11:27 was a great timeline. 11:30 Very simple, so you can be filling these in, 11:32 it's quite simple on your sheet. [Text on screen] 11:58 Daniel said "the dream is certain and its interpretation" 12:02 "is sure"; this is Daniel 2. 12:08 So let's go to our study guide, it says: God is the greatest 12:13 teacher in the universe. And just like any good human 12:17 teacher, He uses the twin teaching techniques of review 12:22 and enlarge. 12:26 You remember this, if there's any teachers here this evening, 12:29 this is one of the most foundational pedagogical 12:33 principles, and that is that when someone goes from 12:36 the 4th grade into the 5th grade, you first review 12:39 what they learned before, and then you enlarge upon it. 12:41 Then they go from the 5th to the 6th, you review what you've 12:44 learned before, and then you enlarge upon it, etc, etc. 12:47 So in Daniel 2 we have this timeline, Babylon, 12:51 Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, divided Rome, and so when we 12:54 come to Daniel 7, this is the second great prophecy in 12:58 the book of Daniel, we find this same idea of reviewing 13:02 what we've been over and then enlarging upon it. 13:09 So you're in Daniel 7 with me, and we'll pick it up 13:13 in verse 1, it says: "In the first year of Belshazzar," 13:20 "king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head" 13:25 "while on his bed, then he wrote down the dream," 13:28 "telling the main facts." Verse 2: "Daniel said," 13:31 "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the 4 winds" 13:36 "of the heaven were stirring up the great sea", 13:39 so Daniel sees a frothy sea being whipped into action 13:43 by the winds, "...and 4 great beasts came up from the sea," 13:50 "each different from the other. The first was like a lion" 13:58 "and had eagle's wings. I watched till its wings" 14:01 "were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth" 14:03 "and made to stand on 2 feet like a man, and a man's heart" 14:06 "was given to it. Suddenly another beast, a second" 14:08 "like a bear was raised up on 1 side and had 3 ribs" 14:13 "in its mouth between its teeth, and they said thus to it," 14:17 "Arise, devour much flesh." Verse 6: "After this I looked" 14:20 "and behold, there was another like a leopard which had" 14:24 "on its back 4 wings of a bird, this beast also had" 14:30 "4 heads and dominion was given to it." Verse 7: 14:33 "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold," 14:36 "a 4th beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong," 14:39 "it had huge iron teeth, it was devouring, breaking in" 14:44 "pieces and trampling the residue with its feet," 14:47 "it was different from all the beasts that were before it," 14:49 "and it had 10 horns." Now, how many beasts? 14:53 4 beasts, the first beast was a lion that had eagle's wings, 14:57 you can see it there on the screen, you can also see it 15:00 on the banner, a lion with eagle's wings. 15:02 The second beast was a bear that was sort of hunched up 15:05 on one side that had 3 ribs in the mouth, the 3rd was 15:08 a strange 4 headed leopard with 4 wings of a fowl, 15:12 and the 4th was an unusual beast, he doesn't exactly tell 15:15 us what it was, he just says it was ferocious, it was 15:18 terrible, it was horrific and it had 10 horns, and it had teeth, 15:22 strange teeth, made of iron. Think about that: 15:27 4 beasts, and over here, there were 4 main metals, 15:32 those 4 main metals then gave way to feet of iron and clay, 15:35 and how many toes do you have on your feet? Ten. 15:38 And how many horns are on that beast? [Audience] Ten. 15:41 So what we're finding is that God is reviewing what we've 15:44 already learned in Daniel 2. Somebody says: "Whoa," 15:49 "you're trying to tell me that these beasts" 15:51 "aren't real beasts?" How many of you have ever 15:54 seen a 4 headed leopard, anyone ever seen that? 15:57 Or leopard with wings? Or a lion with wings? 15:59 No. Notice this, you're right there on your study guide, 16:02 we're in the bottom paragraph: The very same timeline is 16:05 spelled out in Daniel 7, but this time, instead of using 16:08 a metal image, God uses 4 great beasts. 16:13 Are these beasts literal? The answer is "no". 16:17 Look with me, you're still in Daniel 7, look at verses 17 16:21 and 23, Daniel 7:17, 23. 16:27 "These great beasts, which are 4, are 4 kings" 16:32 "or kingdoms which shall arise out of the earth." 16:35 Notice verse 23: "Thus he said, the 4th beast shall be" 16:38 "the 4th kingdom on the earth." So in end time Bible prophecy, 16:44 a beast represents a kingdom. Notice that pastor Asscherick 16:50 didn't make that up, I didn't say: "Well, you know," 16:53 "what should we say these beasts represent?" 16:56 No! It's right there in the book of Daniel, a beast 16:58 represents a kingdom, are we all clear? 17:02 Okay, so far so good, very powerful. 17:04 Notice you'd write that in there, kings or kingdoms. 17:06 Now this practice of referring to nations as beasts 17:09 is still common even today. For example, what modern 17:12 nations are represented by the following beasts? 17:16 The bald eagle would be...? The USA. 17:20 The bear would be...? The former USSR. 17:24 Turn the page over if you're keeping up with me. 17:28 The dragon would be...? [Audience] China 17:30 Very good, and the rooster would be...? 17:34 France. You didn't know that, did you? 17:38 No one ever knows that one, I put that one in there 17:41 just because you don't know it. [Audience laughs] 17:43 It's very interesting, the beasts are symbolic, 17:49 and the beasts came up out of the great sea that was being 17:56 frothed up by the wind. Well guess what, the water 17:58 is also symbolic. Revelation 17:15, we're going 18:02 to spend a lot of time in Revelation 17, but I'll give 18:05 you 1 verse very quickly, it says: [text on screen] 18:14 So water in end time Bible prophecy represents 18:17 a populated area. That does not mean that 18:21 every time you see water in the Bible it represents a populated 18:23 area, no, in end time prophecy water represents people. 18:30 We use that same language today, we'll say: 18:33 "There was a sea of people there", that same kind of idea, 18:36 so what Daniel is seeing is 4 nations rising out of 18:40 a populated area. If that all makes sense 18:43 everyone say "amen". [Audience] Amen. 18:46 Okay, so far so good. We're doing great. 18:49 Now let's continue on: These 4 beasts retrace exactly 18:52 the same timeline - I'm at the top of page 3- that the image 18:55 of Daniel 2 did, but with more detail thrown in to confirm 18:59 historical correspondents. So what we're going to find 19:02 is that history hasn't changed, history doesn't change 19:05 from Daniel 2 to Daniel 7, we still have Babylon, 19:08 Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome and divided Rome, but God is now 19:12 throwing in more details. Remember, He reviews 19:19 and then enlarges. The historical correspondence 19:24 is absolutely incredible. The winged lion was actually 19:28 one of the most sacred symbols in ancient Babylon. 19:32 In fact, we showed you a picture earlier, this was night Nr.2, 19:36 of the great Ishtar Gate located in the Pergamon Museum, 19:39 the very gate through which Daniel would have walked 19:41 to stand before Nebuchadnezzar, and on the great Ishtar Gate 19:45 there are many different animals that were very symbolic 19:48 and very important to the Babylonians, and one of them 19:51 was a winged lion. 19:57 The lion is the king of the beasts, and gold is the chiefest 20:00 of metals, so here, just as Babylon was represented 20:03 by the head of gold, so too Babylon is represented 20:05 by this winged lion. 20:07 Notice the next one: the chest of silver represented the great 20:11 Medo-Persian empire. So too, here we have a bear. 20:15 It's very interesting to note there were 2 elements 20:18 of that bear that were kind of interesting: 20:20 Nr.1 is it was hunched up on 1 side, you remember that? 20:24 Showing an imbalance, and that's exactly what history tells us. 20:28 The Medes and the Persians had to league together 20:31 in order to rule the then known world, but the Persians 20:34 were always the stronger of the 2, so the Persians were 20:37 stronger than the Medes, the bear was raised up on 1 side 20:40 showing an imbalance. How many ribs were in 20:42 the mouth? 3 ribs, representing 20:45 the 3 provinces of Babylon that had to be conquered: 20:49 Lydia, Phrygia and Egypt, those were the 2 provinces of Babylon 20:53 that were conquered in order for Medo-Persia to come 20:57 to ascendancy. 20:59 Are you seeing the historical correspondences? 21:02 - [Audience] Yes. - Very powerful. 21:04 We notice the next one, there was the leopard with 4 heads 21:09 and 4 wings, and if time allowed I could show you that wings 21:12 in the Bible represent speed in prophecy. 21:17 So a leopard, the Cheetah family, is already a very fast 21:21 land mammal, very fast, very powerful, representing 21:25 the great empire of Greece. Think about this, Alexander 21:29 the Great started conquering the then known world 21:32 at the age of 16, and by the time he was 30 years old 21:34 he had conquered the whole then known world. 21:37 Is that very fast? So you have a fast mammal, 21:41 you put 4 wings on his back, you have a very rapidly 21:44 moving empire, just exactly what we see in Greece, but it gets 21:47 even more amazing. Alexander the Great died 21:50 in a drunken stupor at the age of 32. 21:53 His last words were reputed to have been: 21:56 "The kingdom goes to the strongest", 22:01 because there was no heir that could just step into 22:03 Alexander the Great's shoes, "The kingdom goes to" 22:06 "the strongest", and what ended up happening to Greece is 22:09 they divided it, the Macedonian- Grecian Empire, 22:12 they divided it into guess how many parts... 22:15 4 parts, and there were 4 generals: Cassander, Lysimachus, 22:18 Ptolemy and Seleucus that all went to the north, south, 22:21 east and west, and the kingdom of Greece was divided into 4, 22:24 how many heads are on the leopard? Four! 22:27 Incredible. More historical correspondence, 22:31 but it gets even more amazing. The long legs of iron 22:36 represented by this hideous, strange, ferocious beast 22:40 that was crushing everything. In fact, this beast was so ugly, 22:42 so terrible, so amazing, Daniel couldn't even think 22:45 of anything that even looked like it, he said it was 22:46 a horrific, terrible, ferocious beast with teeth 22:50 of iron that would correspond with the long iron legs. 22:57 Of course, the great iron monarchy of Rome. 23:01 How many horns were on that final beast? 23:03 10, and how many toes there? 10, so you have 23:05 the correspondence, just as Rome broke down 23:08 into those 10 tribes, here we have Rome with the 10 horns. 23:14 So just as we have Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, 23:18 so too here, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. 23:22 Up to this point we have no new information, this is 23:26 all review. 23:31 I want to show you very quickly a quotation that we've 23:34 already showed once before. This was from Edward Gibbon, 23:37 the secular historian, I told you that Edward Gibbon 23:40 was actually quite disinterested in religion, and was actually 23:43 against organized religion, but he himself said, 23:46 as a secular historian in his "Decline and Fall of" 23:49 "the Western Roman Empire", [text on screen] 24:00 So even he could see that Daniel 2 represents a timeline. 24:04 This has been the historical interpretation, 24:10 and it's also been the correct interpretation. 24:13 I want to show you something that's very interesting, 24:15 a friend of mine visited the court house in Nuremberg, 24:18 Germany, this is THE court house in Nuremberg, Germany, 24:22 where many of the Nazi war criminals were tried, 24:25 in this very building, and above the 2 great doors 24:28 are 2 very interesting sculptures, and I want to 24:32 show you amazing historical correspondence. 24:36 If you see just quickly, you have a figure on the left 24:40 and a figure on the right. You can't make it out super well 24:43 here, but on the right, that's Nebuchadnezzar with his long 24:46 beard and his Babylonian garb, and if you look carefully, 24:49 you see a lion with eagle's wings. 24:53 On the left you can see a gentlemen, you can see 24:55 he's wearing a sort of Medo-Persian outfit, 24:58 that is he has the kind of Persian head dress he has on, 25:01 and there's a bear. So let's look at these 25:04 a little bit closer. Sure enough, there's Nebuchadnezzar 25:07 and the lion with eagle's wings, does everyone see that? 25:10 Now look at this: here we have a Persian individual, 25:13 a Persian soldier, and we have a bear, and if you look 25:16 very carefully, I could show you a close up picture, 25:18 guess how many ribs are in that mouth? 25:21 3 ribs. 25:23 Now here's another one, this is the separate large door, 25:26 and if you can look carefully you can see Alexander the Great, 25:29 none other than Alexander the Great, and that right there 25:32 is a leopard, guess how many heads it has... 25:35 - [Audience] 4. -4 headed leopard. 25:37 And over here we have a Roman soldier and a strange 25:40 looking beast with 10 horns. Here's up close views of that. 25:43 You see that? Alexander the Great, do you see the 4 25:45 headed leopard everyone? Okay, you see the historical 25:48 correspondence? And look here, Roman solider, do you see 25:51 this horrific beast? Do you see the 10 horns? 25:55 Absolutely incredible. Now, that shows you, 25:57 in fact, if I looked and looked and looked to try to figure out 25:59 how old this building is, I don't know, the person that took 26:02 the pictures told me the building is circa 1650 AD. 26:08 I'm still trying to confirm that, but if that's true 26:11 that shows you that this side idea, this interpretation 26:14 is some 400 years old, this isn't something that 26:17 Pastor Asscherick just invented, people have historically 26:20 seen [points at statue] Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, 26:22 and [points at beasts] Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. 26:25 Are we all clear everyone? [Audience] Yes. 26:28 So far so good, now you'll notice that this strange beast 26:30 has these horns coming up, and if you look very carefully 26:33 you can actually see there's a little head on this horn. 26:36 You might be thinking: "Well why's there a head" 26:39 "on that horn for?" Well that's what we're going 26:42 to find out right now. Go back to Daniel 7. 26:47 Okay, and we're in verse 7, very quickly let's read about 26:50 this ferocious beast. "After this I saw in the night" 26:53 "visions, and behold, a 4th beast, dreadful and terrible," 26:56 "and strong exceedingly, it had huge iron teeth," 26:59 "it was devouring, and breaking in pieces, and trampling" 27:02 "the residue with its feet. It was different from all" 27:05 "the beasts that were before it, and it had 10 horns." 27:06 Now look at verse 8, here's new information. 27:09 Everything up to this point is review, 27:13 but here's new information. Verse 8, Daniel says: 27:16 "I was considering the horns." Now, if I say to you 27:21 "Well, consider it", what am I saying? "Think about it." 27:24 Daniel says: "I was thinking about the horns". 27:26 Something about that 4th beast, and something about 27:29 those horns riveted and arrested his attention. 27:33 He said: "Wow, I was thinking about the horns," 27:35 "and there was another horn, a little one." 27:39 Do you see that everyone? A little horn, that little horn 27:42 is the Antichrist. Bible scholars are universally 27:46 agreed on this, that little horn is the Antichrist power. 27:52 Look at this: "A little horn came up among them before whom" 27:56 "there were 3 of the first horns plucked up by the roots," 28:00 "and in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man," 28:04 "and a mouth speaking great words", my Bible says: 28:08 "pompous words", if you look in the margin it says: 28:11 "blasphemous words". That's why here on that 28:14 statue that we just showed you, on those horns one of the horns 28:17 had a little head on it, and that little horn is 28:21 the Antichrist. Let's continue. 28:25 Verse 9: "I watched till thrones were put in place", 28:27 Daniel's seeing all of this in vision, "and the Ancient" 28:30 "of Days", that's God the Father, "was seated." 28:32 "His garment was white as snow, the hair of his head" 28:34 "was like pure wool, His throne was a fiery flame, it's wheels" 28:37 "a burning fire, a fiery stream issued and came forth" 28:40 "from before Him:", here's God, "a thousand" 28:42 "thousands ministered to Him, ten thousand times ten" 28:45 "thousand stood before Him, the court was seated, and the books" 28:48 "were opened." This is a judgment scene. 28:52 We'll spend a lot of time on this, but we're just going 28:55 to go over it quickly right now. Verse 11: "I watched because of" 28:58 "the sound of the great words", or "pompous words, which" 29:01 "the little horn was speaking. I watched till the beast" 29:04 "was slain and its body destroyed and given to" 29:07 "the burning flame." So Daniel sees in vision 29:11 these 4 beasts, the 4th beast has 10 horns, and he's 29:17 thinking about those horns. Something about those horns 29:20 riveted his attention, and he sees another little horn 29:23 come up among those horns, and this horn starts spouting 29:26 his mouth off, that little horn is the Antichrist. 29:30 What we're going to do is give 10 identifying characteristics, 29:34 you write them down in the corresponding verses 29:37 and you will see exactly who this power is. 29:41 It's all right here in this passage, here we go: 29:46 the first thing that we need to notice is that it is 29:49 a little horn. 29:56 Actually, look with me just very quickly so we're clear on this, 29:59 look at Daniel 7:24. 30:02 Look at verse 24 so we can be clear, it says: 30:04 "The 10 horns are 10 kings which shall arise out of this kingdom" 30:11 So are these literal horns? Should we be somewhere out 30:14 scouring the earth looking for 10 horns? 30:17 No, the 10 horns represent 10 kings or kingdoms. 30:20 Hey that's exactly what we would expect, because here 30:23 you have Rome, Rome divides into the iron and clay, 30:27 which are kingdoms. 30:31 10 toes, 10 horns, so the first thing we want to notice 30:34 is Nr.1- it's a little kingdom. Did it refer to any of the other 30:39 horns as being little? No, but here it says: 30:42 "a little horn". Identifying characteristic Nr.1: 30:45 it's a little kingdom. 30:49 Nr.2- notice that it comes up among them, did you see 30:52 that in verse 8? Let's read verse 8 again. 30:55 It says: "A little horn coming among them." 31:01 Now, among "them", who's "them"? "Them" is the 10 horns, 31:06 and the 10 horns are the nations of divided Rome, 31:08 or today what we would call Europe. 31:10 So this power has to come up among the European nations. 31:15 It has to come up among "them", so if we're looking 31:18 for the Antichrist to pop up in Tokyo, you're looking 31:20 in the wrong place, it has to come up among the nations 31:23 of divided Rome, what we today call Europe. 31:25 Think of it this way: I'm not among you right now, 31:28 I'm over here, but if I walk out into the midst of you, 31:31 could you say now: "He's among us"? 31:34 - [Audience] Yes. - Does that make sense? 31:36 So now I'm among you, this little horn has to come up 31:39 among the 10 horns, and the 10 horns correspond to 31:43 the 10 toes. So far so good? 31:45 Okay, Nr.3- it has to come up after them. 31:49 You say: "Well, how do we know that?" 31:51 Well think about it, it's a timeline, the little horn 31:54 didn't come up during the period of Greece, the little 31:57 horn didn't come up during the period of Medo-Persia, 31:59 the little horn had to come up after the dividing of Rome. 32:02 In other words, in order to come up among the nations 32:05 of divided Rome, Rome would have had to be divided, 32:08 so it has to come up, if you want the date, 476 AD, 32:10 it has to come up after 476 AD some time. 32:13 If somebody says: "Oh, I know who the Antichrist is," 32:16 "and he came up in 233AD", wrong! Can't be! 32:19 It has to come up after the division of Rome. 32:21 Now, the spirit of Antichrist was already working, 32:24 as we've said, in John's day and in Paul's day, but it 32:27 manifests itself here among, and after the division of Rome. 32:30 Nr.4- notice that it plucked up 3 horns. 32:36 We'll come back to that, in fact if you remember, it says 32:37 it plucked up 3 by the roots. What happens if you pluck 32:41 up something by the roots? Gone. 32:44 This horn was diverse, or different from the other horns, 32:48 you're still in Daniel 7, look at Daniel 7:24: 32:56 "The 10 horns are 10 kings who shall arise from this" 32:59 "kingdom, and another shall arise after them", 33:04 see, there it is, "after them, he shall be diverse", 33:08 my Bible says "different from the first ones". 33:12 So something about this kingdom, this little kingdom 33:16 is different. It couldn't be like all 33:20 the other kingdoms, something was different about this kingdom 33:23 Let's continue, Nr.6- this kingdom was a prominent 33:28 man at its head. 33:33 You pick that up in Daniel 7:8. 33:39 It says: "In this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man" 33:45 "and a mouth speaking pompous words", so this horn 33:48 has a prominent figure that has eyes that see and guide it, 33:51 so a central man that guides it, and a central figurehead 33:55 that speaks for it. A prominent man at the head. 33:59 Nr.7- this little horn speaks blasphemy, we've already 34:02 seen that, in fact, it's several times in the chapter, 34:05 but verse 25 is the clearest one, "speaks pompous words" 34:08 "against God", blasphemies. We should ask the question: 34:13 "what is blasphemy?" 34:17 People says: "Oh blasphemy is bad", no let's look 34:20 at the Biblical definition of blasphemy, I'll give you 34:23 3 verses, in fact you can write them down, 34:26 there's not a place for you to write this down in your 34:29 lesson, but you'll want to make note of this. 34:31 First definition of blasphemy from the Bible, Mark 2:7; 34:34 speaking of Jesus they said: [text on screen] 34:39 Jesus claimed to be able to forgive sins and the people 34:42 of His day said "that's blasphemy to claim to be" 34:44 "able to forgive sins". Was Jesus committing blasphemy 34:47 when He said He could forgive sins? No because He was God, 34:50 but if I claim to be able to forgive your sins, 34:53 the Bible says that's blasphemy. If you steal my sunglasses 34:56 and I forgive you that's different, but if you steal 34:59 his sunglasses and I forgive you, I have no prerogative 35:02 on that, are we clear? 35:05 Okay, notice the second definition, speaking, 35:07 the religious leaders said, they were talking to Jesus: 35:11 [text on screen] 35:17 Because Jesus had said in John 10:30 "I and My Father" 35:20 "are One", think about that. Is it blasphemy for Jesus 35:24 to claim to be God? No because He is God, 35:29 but what if I claim to be God? Would that be blasphemous? 35:32 - [Audience] Yeah. - So definition Nr.1: the power 35:34 to forgive sins. Definition Nr.2: claim to be God. 35:38 Definition Nr.3, as if that's not enough, the apostle Paul 35:42 in 1 Timothy 1:12, 13, he says: [text on screen] 35:58 The apostle Paul refers to himself as a blasphemer, 36:01 listen to this very carefully, because he persecuted 36:04 the people of God in the name of God. 36:09 That's another definition of blasphemy, to persecute 36:11 the people of God in the name of God. 36:15 So 3 definitions of blasphemy: claim to be able to forgive 36:18 sins on earth, claim to be God on earth, and persecuting 36:20 God's people in the name of God. 36:23 So those are our Biblical definitions. 36:27 So let's continue. 36:36 Okay, man at the head, speaks blasphemy, 36:39 it's a persecuting power. Look at Daniel 7:21, 25. 36:47 Verse 21 says: "I was watching and the same horn" 36:51 "was making war against the saints." 36:55 Who are the saints? God's people. 36:58 So this little horn is making war against the people of God. 37:03 Look at verse 25: "And he shall speak pompous words" 37:07 "against the Most High and shall persecute the saints" 37:12 "of the Most High." So this power's got to be 37:14 a persecuting power. Nr.9- this power will change 37:18 or think to change the very law of God, the times 37:21 and laws of God. You're still there in 37:25 Daniel 7:25, it says "Shall persecute the saints of" 37:28 "the Most High and shall intend to change times and laws". 37:35 Not some little city ordinance of Sterling Heights, Michigan, 37:37 no, this power would claim to be able to change the very 37:41 laws of God. 37:46 And then finally, this power would rule for 1260 days. 37:51 Notice it in verse 25, would change times and laws, 37:55 then the saints would be given into his hands for "a time," 38:00 "times and half a time". 38:03 Follow the maths here: "a time" is 1, "times" is 2, 38:09 and "half a time" is a half, so that would be 38:11 3 and a half, that's what we talked about the last time 38:15 we were together. So this power would rule 38:17 for 3 and a half prophetic years, 1260 prophetic days. 38:24 So far so good everyone? In fact, that time period, 38:26 1260 appears 7 times in the Bible, 5 times in Revelation, 38:31 2 times in Daniel, it is the single most important, 38:35 prominent time prophecy in all of Daniel and Revelation. 38:41 This is critical, a key that helps us to unlock Bible 38:44 prophecy is that in end time Bible prophecy 38:51 a prophetic day equals a literal year. 38:54 This is a time honored principle of interpretation, 38:57 and I'll give you 2 verses, you can write that down: 39:00 [text on screen] 39:03 So a prophetic day equals a literal year. 39:10 So when we're talking about this power reigning for 1260 39:14 prophetic days, that power is really reigning for 1260 39:19 literal years. We'll show you that in just 39:23 a moment. Okay, so, the Antichrist, 39:26 who exactly is this little horn? Did you get your marks 39:29 all written down? Let's quickly review them: 39:31 Nr.1- it is a little kingdom. Nr.2- it has to come up 39:35 among the nations of divided Europe. 39:38 Nr.3- it has to come up after them. 39:44 Nr.4- it plucked up 3. Nr.5, I'm turning the page, 39:49 it's diverse, or different, my order might be a little 39:52 different here. Okay, it's different, 39:55 Nr.6- it's blasphemous, speaking the blasphemies, claims 39:59 to forgive sins, claims to be God on earth, and persecuting 40:02 the people of God in the name of God. 40:05 It has a prominent man at its head, it is a persecuting power, 40:09 it would think to change the very laws and times of God 40:12 and it would rule for 1260 prophetic days or literal years. 40:17 Beloved, I want you to think this through. 40:20 First of all, let's be clear about something, crystal clear, 40:23 God is not against people. 40:28 God loves people, but God does not love systems that try 40:34 to take away the kingdom of Christ, and the prophet 40:39 status of Christ, and the priestly status of Christ. 40:42 So far so good. So for example, 40:45 I happen to be an American, and there's no shame in being 40:48 an American, however, as an American there are certain 40:51 things that America has done historically, that I'm not very 40:55 proud of. Can someone say "amen" to that? 40:58 [Audience] Amen. 41:00 Come on now, you just look at our treatment of the slaves, 41:04 you look at our treatment of the indigenous peoples 41:06 of this land; now, the fact that I'm an American, 41:08 and the fact that America has historically done bad things, 41:12 does that make me a bad person because I'm an American? 41:15 No. So notice, my affiliation 41:19 with America, my citizenship as an American, just because 41:23 America has done wrong things does not mean I'm a bad person, 41:27 are we crystal clear on that? Okay, so God is not against 41:31 people. Let's say that together: 41:35 "God is not against people", so if when we put this up here 41:40 on the screen and everyone sees who the only power is 41:43 that could meet these 10 identifying characteristics, 41:46 incidentally, there are many more, we've just looked 41:48 at 10 of them, the only power that could fit, if you say: 41:51 "Oh, how could that be? I know someone who's affiliated" 41:54 "with that system", or "I myself am affiliated with that system", 41:56 does that mean you're a bad person? [Audience] No. 41:59 Not at all, because God is not against people, but He is 42:02 against systems. Okay crystal clear. 42:05 So, all of those identifying characteristics, who's the only 42:09 power that could fit all of them? The answer is: 42:13 The Roman church-state. 42:17 The ecclesiastical empire of Rome. 42:20 The only power that fits all of the identifying characteristics. 42:24 A hand in glove fit, the Roman church-state, and I want 42:30 to show you that in our closing moments. 42:34 Let's go through it. Does it fit? 42:36 Nr.1- is it a little kingdom? Absolutely, one of the smallest 42:40 kingdoms in the world, located in Rome, the Vatican is one 42:43 of the smallest kingdoms. Does it come up among them? 42:46 Does this nation rise up among the nations of Western Europe? 42:51 Does it meet that identifier? Sure does. 42:54 Does it come up after them? Sure does, in fact, 42:57 the power, we'll show you this in a little bit, 43:00 came up at about 538 AD, I'll give you a quotation 43:03 of that fact in just a moment. 538 AD so it meets that. 43:06 Plucks up three...some of this takes a little bit 43:09 of historical knowledge to go through, and I'll just quickly 43:12 run through this. There were 3 tribes, 43:14 the Vandals, the Heruli and the Ostragoths, they were Arian 43:17 tribes, that is to say they denied the preeminence 43:21 of Jesus Christ. Basically what happened is 43:24 the bishop of Rome got on the phone to a man named 43:26 Justinian, the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire 43:29 and he said: "I've got these 3 tribes over here that are" 43:31 "giving me a hard time, they deny the teachings of" 43:34 "the church", and what happened is, the short version 43:37 is very short, Justinian came over and thrashed those kingdoms 43:40 because the bishop of Rome said "they don't agree with us" 43:43 "theologically", those kingdoms, the Heruli, the Vandals 43:46 of Northern Africa and the Ostragoths are gone today. 43:48 No modern descendants whatsoever, none. 43:51 It fits the historical correspondence perfectly. 43:53 Is it different from the other kingdoms? 43:56 Yes, this kingdom is a religio-political system. 44:01 Does that make sense? France is France, 44:05 it's a kingdom. England is England, 44:07 it's a kingdom, here, the Roman church-state is a church 44:11 but it's also a kingdom, so it's diverse and it's different. 44:16 Let me show you a quotation to that effect. 44:18 This is taken from Alexander Clarence Flick, "The Rise" 44:21 "of the Medieval Church", page 168, [text on screen] 44:53 In other words, when Constantine took his empire and moved it 44:56 from Rome to Constantinople, what we today call Istanbul, 45:00 he had to leave somebody in charge, and who did he 45:03 leave in charge? He left the bishop of Rome 45:06 in charge of that Empire, and if you go today to 45:08 the Vatican you see one of the most prominent paintings there 45:12 is "The donation of Constantine". We should all 45:16 know that, that's basic history, that's when Constantine 45:18 basically turned the western Roman Empire over to him 45:21 and said: "Here, it's yours." And that's exactly what 45:23 Flick is saying here, this is just basic history. 45:27 Okay, does it have a prominent man at its head 45:29 that speaks for it and that guides it? 45:31 Sure it does, does it speak blasphemy - now, I hate 45:34 to do this, absolutely hate to do this, because my own father 45:37 is affiliated with this system, but my father would tell you 45:40 that this is what this system teaches, so let's be clear 45:42 on that, let's be clear that this is from their own sources, 45:45 I'm not up here blasting them, I'm not up here making fun 45:48 of them, this is from their own sources, this is what 45:51 they teach, are we clear on that everyone? 45:54 - [Audience] Yes. - God's not against people, 45:56 and I'm not against people, but I am for truth. 45:59 This is taken from "Dignity and Duties of the Priest": 46:01 [text on screen] 46:12 "Ego te absolvo" - that's Latin for "I forgive you", 46:14 "I absolve you", [continues to read text] 46:24 Do you see that? So here's Jesus, He forgives 46:26 John, and here's a priest, and he forgives Mary 46:29 and both are equally forgiven. Are we clear? 46:34 Does that meet one of our Biblical definitions 46:37 of blasphemy? To claim to be able to forgive sins? 46:39 Absolutely it does. Notice this one, this is from 46:42 the Arch Bishop of Venice prior to becoming Pius X: 46:45 [text on screen] 46:58 One of the definitions of blasphemy was claiming to be 47:01 God on earth, this power says "We're God on earth." 47:04 So far so good? Okay, and our final definition 47:07 of blasphemy, not our final one, but just another one 47:11 that sort of lends itself to that "The Great Encyclical" 47:14 "Letters of Leo XIII", He says on page 304: 47:17 [text on screen] 47:20 The Bible calls that blasphemy. 47:24 If I sit up here tonight and said "I hold upon this earth" 47:27 "the place of God Almighty, you want forgiveness," 47:30 "you come to me, you want ministry, you come to me", 47:33 you would call that blasphemy. You'd say "who do you think" 47:35 "you are, that's blasphemous, I'll go to Jesus." 47:38 Speaks blasphemy, persecuting power. 47:41 Just very quickly, WEH Lecky, "The History of the Rise and" 47:44 "Influence of Rationalism in Europe", he said: 47:47 [text on screen] 47:55 To the tune of 100 million people killed during a period 47:59 called "The Dark Ages" by this power. 48:03 "The Dark Ages", part of the reason it was called 48:06 "The Dark Ages" is that the Word, which is "a lamp" 48:09 "unto your feet, and a light unto your path" was illegal, 48:12 you couldn't have it. This book was kept in 48:15 the Latin language, it wasn't the common language of 48:18 the people, it was chained to a monastery wall, 48:20 or chained to a temple wall, you didn't get access to it. 48:23 Are we clear on that? And if you did have one 48:26 of these, you'd be persecuted. You could be killed 48:29 for having one of these. Killed! 48:32 If they come into your house and they see you have it, 48:35 you're done, "we're very sorry, we're very sorry that you" 48:37 "have this book", and killed in a lot of horrifically 48:40 terrible ways that I just don't want to spend time on, 48:43 we'll talk maybe more about that on another night. 48:46 Persecuting power, changes the very times and laws 48:48 of God. You say: "no, couldn't be!" 48:51 From "Lucius Ferraris Prompta Bibliotheca", and article 48:53 entitled "Papa", vol. 6, page 29 [text on screen] 49:11 "We can change the law of God", the Bible says that he would 49:14 intend to...can you really change the God's law? 49:18 - [Audience] No. - No, but it doesn't say 49:20 that this power would do it, but that it would intend 49:23 to do it. Are we clear on that? 49:25 You see the distinction there? 49:27 Last but not least, that this power would rule for 1260 49:30 prophetic days, and this is absolutely incredible. 49:33 Listen to this, from "the History of the Christian church" 49:35 Vol. 3, [text on screen] 49:44 That was the story I was just talking about, after those 3 49:47 were plucked up, the Heruli, the Vandals and the Ostragoths, 49:50 [continues to read] 49:54 When those powers were gone there was nobody to resist 49:56 anymore, so due to a letter of the Roman Emperor Justinian, 50:00 known as Justinian's decree, which set up and acknowledged 50:02 the bishop of Rome as the head of all churches. 50:07 When did that take place? 538 AD, so what happened 50:11 that year? [text on screen] 50:30 What year did that take place? 538 AD. 50:33 Well check this out. 1260 years later in exactly 50:37 1798, exactly 1798, do the maths. 50:42 538, you move 1260 years, you come to 1798. 50:47 You say "well what happened in 1798?", I'll tell you 50:49 what happened in 1798, a man by the name of Napoleon, 50:52 have you ever heard of him? He was essentially sick 50:55 and tired of taking orders from the Papacy, and he sent 50:58 one of his top generals, a man by the name of 51:01 Louis Alexandre Berthier, he sent him down there 51:04 into the Vatican and he went in, he took the bishop of Rome 51:07 off of his throne, 51:12 everything he declared the property and republic of France, 51:15 and people said that's the end of it. 51:17 That's the end of the Roman church-state, it's done, 51:20 and that happened in 1798, exactly 1260 years after 51:27 that power had risen to political and ecclesiastical 51:29 prominence. 51:30 It's history, basic history. So there you have it. 51:36 Does it fit? Is it a little kingdom? Yes. 51:38 Did it come up among them? Yes. Did it rise up after them? Yes. 51:41 Did it pluck 3? Yes, the historical correspondence 51:44 is amazing. Is it different? Yes, 51:46 it's a religio-political kingdom. 51:49 Does it have a prominent at its head that speaks for it 51:52 and guides it? Yes. Does it speak blasphemy? Yes. 51:54 Does it claim to be God on earth? Yes. 51:57 Did it persecute the people of God in the name of God? Yes. 52:00 Does it claim to be God on earth? Yes. 52:03 Is it a persecuting power? Yes. Does it actually think it can 52:06 change the very times and laws of God? Yes. 52:09 Did it reign for 1260 prophetic days, or literal years? Yes. 52:12 I want to be crystal clear about something as we go to 52:14 our sheet, you're all on your sheet, last page. 52:17 Hear a pin drop in here, that's alright, God's Bible truth 52:20 is never there to embarrass you. 52:24 God never sends Bible truth to embarrass, God never 52:27 sends Bible truth to hurt anyone's feelings, God sends 52:30 Bible truth because He loves you, not because He hates you. 52:34 Think of it this way: what's the difference between 52:37 a surgeon and a butcher? [Audience laughs] 52:39 A surgeon cuts to heal, and a butcher cuts to kill. 52:43 God is a surgeon, not a butcher. 52:46 God does sometimes cut us, or do we sometimes learn 52:49 things in the Bible that cut us? Yeah, but God cuts to heal, 52:54 not to kill. If God has sent you 52:56 Bible truth, it's because He loves you, not because 52:59 He doesn't love you, and I'm going to say it again: 53:01 God is not against people, but He is against systems 53:07 that obscure the place of Jesus Christ. 53:13 So look there, right in the middle of that last paragraph. 53:15 Sadly this power has sought to usurp the 3 fold office 53:18 of Jesus Christ. This power has claimed the 53:21 prerogatives of prophet, priest and king. 53:25 It claims to speak for God, it claims to minister for God, 53:28 forgive sins, etc, and to rule for God. 53:31 In doing this it has obscured the person, power and place 53:35 of Jesus Christ. You're encouraged to do 53:37 your own research on this subject. 53:40 Don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself, 53:42 read and re-read the Bible passages that deal with 53:45 the Antichrist and see if it isn't the hand in glove fit. 53:49 Go to your library and see for yourself. 53:51 Remember Bible truth is never sent to discourage, overwhelm, 53:54 or humiliate us. It is sent to save us, 53:58 keep your eyes focuses on Jesus Christ and His saving love, 54:01 God is on your side. So in closing tonight, 54:06 let's be crystal clear, was tonight's message clear? 54:10 Yes or no? [Audience] Yes. 54:13 Okay, you understood, you saw the basic timeline: 54:16 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and then divided Rome, 54:18 and the Antichrist power comes up down in there. 54:21 In Daniel 7: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, 54:24 the Antichrist comes up there, we looked at just 54:27 10 identifiers. Listen beloved, if time would 54:29 have allowed, I could have given you 20 identifiers to this power 54:32 You go read Daniel 7 and 8 for yourself and you'll see 54:35 there's many more identifiers that we actually didn't look at. 54:38 The choice that faces everyone of us today is the same 54:41 choice that faced the people in the days of Jesus, 54:44 and that is: is it Rome? Or is it Christ? 54:46 Who is it? It's Rome or it's Christ? 54:48 That was the same choice that Jesus faced, it was the same 54:51 choice that all those people standing outside, they said: 54:54 "This is your king", and they said: "we have no king" 54:57 "but Caesar." They were making a choice, 54:59 they said "We'll take Rome over Christ." 55:02 What we're going to see as this Bible prophecy seminar continues 55:05 to develop is that this is not just something that says: 55:07 "I'm so glad that happened back in 1798", what we're going 55:10 to be seeing especially over the next 2 meets, actually all 55:13 of them, but especially over the next 2: "The Rock That Simply" 55:16 "Will Not Role", is this isn't something that just happened 55:18 all back then; no, this is something that is happening 55:21 right here today. And you say: "What do you mean" 55:25 "by that?" You've got to keep coming, 55:28 you've got to see, not because I'm here, listen, I don't get 55:30 anything from you being here, but you get a lot from 55:33 being here because the Lord is here. 55:36 So you come, and you'll see from the Bible 55:40 exactly where this thing is leading, so Nr.1 tonight: 55:43 3 questions: was tonight's message clear, yes or no? 55:46 [Audience] Yes. Nr.2- are you going to check 55:49 this out for yourself and see if it's true? [Audience] Yes. 55:51 You check it out! And Nr.3- if it is true, 55:54 will you follow it? [Audience] Yes. 55:56 Okay, let's pray together. Father in heaven, 55:59 we love You so much, we've presented tonight the very best 56:01 that we are able, this powerful Biblical truth that there is 56:04 a power that would seek to take away the very prophet 56:08 office, and the priest office, and the king office of our Lord 56:12 and Redeemer, Jesus. Tonight Father, these are not 56:15 easy messages to preach, but You send us truth, 56:17 not because You hate us, not because You want to humiliate 56:21 us or overwhelm us, but because You love us. 56:23 Tonight we've done our very best to present this, and I just 56:26 plead with You on behalf of Christ that You will take 56:28 this great truth, that You will bury it in the hearts 56:31 of people and they will see, given the choice, 56:34 between Rome and Jesus Christ, "I will choose Jesus", 56:39 by God's grace and in His name we pray, let all the saints 56:42 of God say amen.

Join us as we visit the biblical discoveries including Sodom and Gomorrah with cremated bone, brimstone, ash, gypsum, and man-made formations near the Dead Sea. See Noah's Ark National Park with visitor's center, the ark site with man-made metal, petrified wood, and the exact length as mentioned in the Bible. See the anchor stones which hung from the ark. The Red Sea Crossing with the 3,000-year-old ancient column marking the location. See chariot parts and people parts on the sea floor at Nuweiba, Egypt. Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia with its blackened and burned peak. See the large stone altar that hosted the golden calf. Visit the split rock where water flowed out for the children of Israel. Hear about the Ark of the Covenant hidden in a cave at Jerusalem near Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, and the incredible evidence that rests on the Mercy Seat. Bonus Material - Ron Wyatt Presentations All the discoveries were found by the late Ron Wyatt who worked on the sites for 22 years, while making over 120 trips overseas to accomplish this work with the Lord. A series of miracles took place while Mr. Wyatt made the discoveries. He explains the significance of the discoveries and tells of some interesting experiences. See ArkDiscovery.com for more information.

Dr. Kent Hovind is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities on science and the Bible. His amazing ability to communicate complicated scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand format makes this essential information accessible to young and lay people, as well as the science professor. His fully-illustrated slides and humor make assimilating knowledge exciting, enjoyable, and even entertaining! This 17-hour series is a "must-have" for anyone studying the vital subject of Creation.

Dr. Kent Hovind is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities on science and the Bible. His amazing ability to communicate complicated scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand format makes this essential information accessible to young and lay people, as well as the science professor. His fully-illustrated slides and humor make assimilating knowledge exciting, enjoyable, and even entertaining! This 17-hour series is a "must-have" for anyone studying the vital subject of Creation.

Dr. Kent Hovind is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities on science and the Bible. His amazing ability to communicate complicated scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand format makes this essential information accessible to young and lay people, as well as the science professor. His fully-illustrated slides and humor make assimilating knowledge exciting, enjoyable, and even entertaining! This 17-hour series is a "must-have" for anyone studying the vital subject of Creation.

Dr. Kent Hovind is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities on science and the Bible. His amazing ability to communicate complicated scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand format makes this essential information accessible to young and lay people, as well as the science professor. His fully-illustrated slides and humor make assimilating knowledge exciting, enjoyable, and even entertaining! This 17-hour series is a "must-have" for anyone studying the vital subject of Creation.

Dr. Kent Hovind is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities on science and the Bible. His amazing ability to communicate complicated scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand format makes this essential information accessible to young and lay people, as well as the science professor. His fully-illustrated slides and humor make assimilating knowledge exciting, enjoyable, and even entertaining! This 17-hour series is a "must-have" for anyone studying the vital subject of Creation.

Disc 1 & 2 of Q & A from the Creation Seminars. Dr. Kent Hovind is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities on science and the Bible. His amazing ability to communicate complicated scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand format makes this essential information accessible to young and lay people, as well as the science professor. His fully-illustrated slides and humor make assimilating knowledge exciting, enjoyable, and even entertaining! This 17-hour series is a "must-have" for anyone studying the vital subject of Creation.

Dr. Kent Hovind is considered by many to be one of the foremost authorities on science and the Bible. His amazing ability to communicate complicated scientific concepts in an easy-to-understand format makes this essential information accessible to young and lay people, as well as the science professor. His fully-illustrated slides and humor make assimilating knowledge exciting, enjoyable, and even entertaining! This 17-hour series is a "must-have" for anyone studying the vital subject of Creation.

An Exposé of the Catholic Beast and her Ancient Babylonian Mystery Religion, how she merged her paganism into a counterfeit version of christianity, including the pagan practices of Easter and Christmas. The popes and their adherents blasphemously claim that the popes are God on Earth, but in truth they are Anti-Christ. They have thought to change times and laws, and have deceived many into breaking the very first principle of God's 4th commandment, by forgetting his holy sabbath. Many instead incorporate the pagan tradition of worship of the venerable day of the sun, sunday, in place of actually obeying God and keeping his 4th commandment in spirit, love, & truth.

Peter J Williams completely dismantles, disassembles, and destroys Dawkins bogus objections to the God of the Bible!!!

Berean Research Institute documentary videos provide hard hitting Biblical truth that refutes cults and false doctrines in the church. Our video, "Are Ye Saved", is a study of the issue of biblical salvation - by grace, through faith, unto salvation - intended to lead people to Christ with scripture, a love for people, a love for the truth, and sound, logical reason. We pray that the truth and final authority of scripture will resonate from this video into your life. http://www.bereanresearchinstitute.com

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