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Amen, beautiful, thank you, Well pass the duggets, Bible Q

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We've got some great questions that are coming so far,

and thank you for all of the questions that have

been posted so passor Doug, let's see how we can

get through these, Luke. One verse seventeen says that Elijah

the Elijah message was to turn the disobedient to the

wisdom of the Just. What does this mean.

Well, that's a statement. This is what the Angel was

telling Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist, prophesying his ministry.

John's ministry was repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is

at hand. It's a message of revival, turning them to

the wisdom of the Just, turning people back to the Lord,

to obeying the word of God. In the Old Testament,

one of the prophecies about the coming or the return

of Elijah was he will turn the hearts of the

fathers to the children and the hearts of the children

to the fathers. This is also talking about turning the

children back to the teachings of the fathers, and that

was part of John's ministry.

All right, next question that we have, how long will

be the time period from the day the New or

the Holy City descends from heaven until the wicked are

destroyed by fire at the end of the one thousand years.

Yes, it says Satan is loose from his prison for

a little season. Now we don't know how long that is.

Evidently this is long enough for him to organize an

attack on the city of God to marshal the all

the resurrected wicked. There is a period of time. I

would just be speculating. The only other verse I can

give you in the Bible where there's any connection, it

said Moses refines us to be called the son of

Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather and this is Hebrews eleven, choosing

rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than

enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, for a season. Well,

how long was that season for Moses? Well it was

forty years in the wilderness. So how long is the

season that Satan is loosed. We don't know. It's an

unspecified period of time. They somehow forge Ramaic weapons, organize

it basically just long enough for the universe looking on

to see Satan and the lost refuse to change. They're

still ready to fight God. God has left with no

alternative but to then judge and reiin fire upon them all.

Right, Next question connected with the presentation last night in

Daniel nine twenty six, can you clarify who the people

of the Prince are that'll come and destroy the city

and also who is the one who makes a covenant

for one week?

Yeah, this is a verse is so important. It has

been terribly misunderstood by a lot of dear Christians for years,

people who understood the historic interpretation of Prophecy. Let me

read it to Daniel chapter nine, and it says in

after sixty two weeks, Messiah will be cut off, but

not for himself. So it's talking about who Messiah and

the people of the Prince who is to come that

means after him will destroy the city and the sanctuary.

No mystery there. Jesus said there wouldn't be left one

stone upon another. The people that the Prince who came

after talking about the Caesars that destroyed Jerusalem, and at

the end it will be with a flood, and the

end of the war there was a worgan se Jew's

desolation is determined. Everyone's together on that. Here's where there

is a split, total polar opposites. And he will confirm

the covenant with many for one week. Many Christians believe,

even have historically believed, this is still now the Messiah.

See in Hebrew it often gives a headline and that

backs up and gives the details. So it was just

giving the details, saying, yeah, eventually this prince would come

that would destroy the city. But it's returning to the

subject of the prophecy, which is the Messiah. He will

confirm the covenant. Some think it's the Antichrist making a covenant.

There is no verse anywhere in the Bible that says

the Antichrist has made a covenant with God's people. God

has a covenant. He will confirm the covenant with many

for one week. Jesus was baptized in thirty seven AD.

I'm sorry, twenty seven eighty. Thank you. That's why Karen's

upfront in twenty seven AD. This is a date very

well established in history. Then for seven more years, God's

people specifically preached the apostles to the lost lost sheep

of the House of Israel. Stephen was stoned, and then

the Gospel went to the gentile else that's seven years.

In the midst of that time, Christ died. He caused

the sacrificial system to cease. So it's the subject has

got to be talking about Jesus. And that makes the

seventy week prophecy fo one hundred and ninet years one

complete contiguous prophecy. You don't have to tear off the

last week and float it and call it the seven

years of tribulation. There's no verse in the Bible that

talks about seven years of tribulation. This is something that

came from Caambalism and the Jesuit interpretation of prophecy called futurism.

Just to add one more thow to that passage at

the beginning of the passage where the Angel comes and

says to Daniel, I have come to give you a

skill and understanding, and then he talks about the new

Jerusalem or the Jerusalem, talks about your city, and he

talks about the Messiah, the anointing of the Most Holy

so the two subjects being addressed in the passage is

not only the Messiah, but it's also referring to the

city of Jerusalem and when the Romans had come and

destroy it. So both subjects are addressed. Those amen, perfect,

Thank you all right. Next item that we have passiday,

Do you have to go to church in order to

be saved?

Well, if you can't go to church, that does not

become an obstacle to your salvation. But if you can

and you don't, I'd wonder why. Because the Church is

the body of Christ, and we are baptized into Christ

and into his body, and we need each other. And

when they baptize Him at Pentecosts and they were filled

with the spirit, it says the Lord added to the church.

The Bible says, do not forsake Hebrews chapter ten, do

not forsake the assembling of one another together. And all

the more as you see the day approaching, you know,

after COVID and I realized that that was an unusual circumstance.

A lot of people stay at home, some never came back,

and something is lost when we do not come together.

You need accountability. I find that Christians that don't worship

with other Christians become eccentric in their beliefs. You need

to bounce your beliefs and your behavior off others, and

that helps you stay on the straight and narrow. We

need to be part of a church family. Friends. It's

very important.

Okay, where will the evil angels be when Satan is

bound on the earth for one thousand years?

Well, often when it talks about the devil, it includes

his angels. And when it says Satan was cast out

and his angels with him, the Bible tells us in

the Book of Jude the angels are kept in everlasting chains.

And when Jesus was casting devils out, they said, have

you come to tormentous before the time? They know their

day is coming, It tells us in Matthew chapter twenty five,

verse thirty one. Well, the parable starts in verse thirty

one that the goats are cast into the lake of

fire prepared for the devil and his angels. So his

angels are with him through the millennium, and they're going

to remonstrance with the devil and say here we followed you,

and you said you had a better plan, and now

look where we are. So he's gonna have to put

up with that for a thousand years too, all right.

Next question that we have when the new Earth is created, Well,

Jesus still lived the nails scars in his hands and

in his feet.

We believe so. And there's a prophecy, is is it?

Zachari Wird says, where did you receive these wounds in

your hands? In the house of my friends? I may

be giving you the wrong reference. I'm getting older. It's

happening more often anyway. But I've got a lot of

Bible memorized. But I'm dyslexic. I forget numbers. And so

in Jesus, when he rose from the dead, he first

he appeared to the disciples, and Thomas was not there.

And he came a week later, and he said, do

not be unbelieving, but believing. Behold my hands, thrust your

hand into the scar in my side. You believe because

you've seen. Blessed are those who believe without seeing. So

even with his resurrected body, Jesus still had the scars.

That will be an eternal reminder of his love for us.

All right.

Next question that we have, why did God seal and

protect Cain after he had committed murder.

Well, I wouldn't use the word seal. You could maybe

say that, but the Bible says mark regarding Cain, there

is a seal of God placed on the Lord's people.

Part of our subject tonight and tomorrow, say Cain said,

the people that are going to come. He knew that

God had told oudamy be fruitful, multiply fill the earth,

that people are going to procreate. He knew the math

Soon there'd be thousands of people. He would be infamous

as the first murderer. And he says, they're going to

kill me. And he said, no, I'll put a mark

on you. And we don't know exactly what that was.

It's in our lesson actually, but he said, I'll put

a mark on you lest anyone hurting you should do so.

So God somehow protected him and his life actually was

a demonstration of what the conceptu when says are godsaid

the ground was cursed for Cain, whose principal love was

tilling the ground.

Yeah, maybe just one more foot on that passage in Revelation.

You have two groups. You have those that have the

seal of God. They are sealed for paradise, for heaven,

and you have those who are marked for judgment and death,

and so Cain was marked for judgment and death, just

like at the end of time, there are two groups

of people, the marked and the sealed. All Right, next

question that we have based on First Corinthian sheph deliver

Us five. Should women cover their heads when they come

to church.

Yeah, there's a whole passage there and it talks about

women covering their heads, and then it says their hairs

are covering. And the big question is if you travel,

you know, when Karen and I are in India or

even in Russia, you'll notice the women in church often

cover their heads. And they cite this passage for one thing.

I'd say, if you're convicted to do that, well you

follow the Holy Spirit. There's certainly no harm in that.

But later in the passage Paul says, we have no

such custom. And so the big question is is there

a command anywhere in the Old Testament that says women

must cover their heads. They also talks about them veiling

their faces, and I don't see too many churches doing that.

But so the belief is that this was something that

was considered a custom of respect, and that when they

prayed in public, they were to cover their heads as

a sign of respect. You should never build a doctrine

on one verse. You need the mouth of two or

three witnesses to do that. But I do think there

are principles and several scriptures that talk about men and

women displaying modesty when they come before the Lord to

worship and to pray, you.

Know, pass it. I've been in some countries where their

sign of respect is to remove their shoes. For example,

in India, if you're going to come up on the platform,

even if you're coming to the church, a lot of

churches they take their shoes off. And in some culture,

if you're a man, which it is here in North America,

you take your hat off when you come to church.

But in some cultures you cover your head, even as

a man. When we went to the Whaling Wall or

the Western Wall in Jerusalem, that required even the men

to have a hat or something.

They'll give you a little cardboard Yamaica. So you could

go to the whaling well, but you've got to cover

your head. And that's changed from what the Jewish tradition

used to be. So there are certain traditions of respect.

We should always observe those all right.

God said to have an Eve. In the day that

you eat of the fruit, you will surely die. So

why didn't they die that day?

Well, they did begin dying. He said in the day

that you eat that fruit. In dying, you will die.

Is the way that translates in Hebrew, you will begin

to die. Now, it's interesting. Psalm eighty four says, a

day where the Lord is like a thousand years, and

a thousand years like a day. How long did the

oldest man who ever lived? Who is the oldest man

who ever lived? Ethuslacally, it's Enoch Mathusel is the oldest

man who ever died. Enoch is the oldest man who

ever lived, because he's still alive. Amen, all right, So

but you know you knew what I'm saying. So he

lived nine hundred and sixty nine years. No man lived

to a millennium in the day you eat. There of

Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years. It doesn't tell

us how long Eve lived. Maybe she died sooner. But

for God, who says that a day is like a

thousand years, he did die in that day, and he

began dying spiritually. Their robes went out. The spiritual death

process began that day. They were barred from eating from

the tree of life, and they began dying that day.

All right, maybe time for just a few mole What

is the spirit that returns to God at death?

Well, the Bible says that God breathed into Adam's nostrils

and he became a living soul. And when you die,

the body returns to the earth as it was, and

the spirit or the breath of life returns to God

who gave it. It is not talking about the personal you.

Your spirit, your consciousness suddenly starts to float around in

some heavenly limbo until you get your body when Jesus

comes back. The Bible says the dead, No, not anything.

It is talking about the power of life, the breath

of life that God gives us creatures. And in Ecclesiastes,

where it says that it says it happens with a

dog and a cat good and bad, it says the

spirit of all, the breath of life the wording Hebrews

rock returns to God who gave it. All.

Right, second question that we have connected with that, it's

didn't the thief on the cross go to Paradise that

day with Christ.

Oh. Yeah, this is a common misunderstanding in the parable

of the what's not a parable In the story of

the two thieves in Luke chapter twenty four that died

on the right and left of Jesus. One of the

thieves was converted during the time he hung on across.

At first they both were mocking Jesus. But Jesus was

on the cross six hours and as the Holy Spirit

was working on his heart, this thief probably on his right.

We don't know that, but you can't prove I'm wrong.

So I'm gonna say it's on his right, because you know,

the sheep are on the right, that goes through on

the left, and so the thief there. He saw the

sign above his head. This is the King of the Jews.

He heard Christ say, my God, my God, why have

you forsaken me? And that's from Psalm twenty two, And

he remembers later in that psalm it says, they pierced

my hands and my feet. They gambled from my clothing.

He saw them gambling for the clothing. He remembered the

miracles and this parables, and the Holy Spirit quickened his mind.

This is the son of God. This is our only hope.

He's had mercy on publicans and sinners. Maybe he'll forgive me.

And he turns and says, Lord, remember me when you

come into your kingdom. And Jesus immediately, despite his suffering,

he turns to him and he says, verily, I say

to you today, you will be with me in paradise.

The translators did not know where to put the comma.

It changes everything. There is no punctuation in the Greek.

They chose to say, verily, I say to you, comma,

you will be with me today in paradise. But that

he wasn't with Jesus in Paradise that day, because Sunday morning,

Jesus tells Mary, do not cling to me, do not

touch me. I've not yet ascended to my father, who's

in paradise. So Jesus was not in Paradise that day.

How could the thief be with him in Paradise that day?

Colma makes a big difference. Jesus said, Verily, I say

to you today. I'm telling you today I do not

look like a lord. I don't like I'm a king.

But you've called me lord and king. You will be

with me in paradise, and in that great resurrection, that

First Resurrection, that thief will come forward and he will

be with Jesus in paradise. Christ will fulfill the promise

he made that day.

Matter of fact, even the thief passed that. You said, Lord,

remember me when you come in your kingdom. So he

wasn't looking for anything that day.

Right when he comes.

Well, that's time for our Q and A again. If

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important topic entitled Babylon and the Lamb like Beasts. You

find this in Revelation chapter thirteen.

Hello, friends, welcome once again to the Prophecy Countdown series.

What's Next, And we're gonna be talking about what's next Tonice. Tonight,

we have a very important study that is dealing with

the subject of the two beasts that you find in

Revelations chapter thirteen, Babylon and the Land like beast. And

a lot of people always think about the mark of

the beast, and they don't necessarily think about there are

really two beasts in that chapter that talks about everyone

must worship six sixty six, the number of a man,

there are two beasts at work there. We're gonna be

talking about them. So we're going to jump right into

the lesson because I've got a lot to cover. You

Pray for me that I can make it clear, and

that the Holy Spirit will prepare our hearts to receive

these things, and that I can present it in a

way that will be understandable, and that we can digest

it all right, amazing facts. America is going to be

mentioned in prophecy tonight, so I thought it'd be appropriate

to start with a little fact about our country. The

US economy is the largest in the world. As of

twenty twenty five, the US produced over twenty eight trillion

and annual GDP, roughly one fourth of the entire world's

economic output. The US economy is larger than the next

three China, Japan, and Germany combined. Fact number two, the

US has an abundance of agriculture. As far as food production.

The US exports more than one hundred and seventy billion

dollars in agricultural goods yearly, including soybeans, corn, beef, rice,

and much more. American farmers produce enough food to feed

more than ten percent of the world's population. Third point,

and this plays into our study. The US military has

the largest spending budget of any other military in the world.

In twenty twenty five, the US spent eight hundred and

forty nine billion on its military. It's actually more than

that if you factor in some of the retirement and

other benefits. Eight hundred and forty nine billion on its military,

which is more than the other eight next countries combined.

And so I think most people would agree that America

is a superpower. But we need to find out what

the people on the street think. So we're going to

go to our men and women on the street and

hear some comments on Babylon and the US and prophecy.

Well, we definitely were on paper, absolutely, I don't know

I would.

Think so tactically in terms of military might.

Yes, yeah, I think. I think My final answer is

that I think then i'd say, would like to think

it's the greatest power sin within people. I don't know

that one. I don't know how to answer that. The

Harlett of Babylon. I'm actually not really sure woman, because

Harlote sounds womanish. Maybe I don't know for sure. I

have no idea.

I don't know.

I'm sorry, I don't.

Know that one.

I don't know off the top of my head. It

can be a representative of like nuclear power.

I'm not sure that.

I don't know. Isn't it the market of the No,

the mark? Is it the market? Do they give the

market the beast? It is like the problem that you're

trying to overcome. Well, now it's all perfectly clear. Would

you agree? We could just have the closing prayer and

we'd say we understand what is Babylon and the beast

and the mark of the beast. I think the only

thing that our friends that were giving comment. We want

to thank all those who participated. These are just people

on the street that we get give them a microphone,

said you be willing to share opinions and this. They

were not prepped or told what to say, but you

could see pretty quickly when it came to the subject

of Babylon there was universal agreement. They don't know. Well,

that's going to take us right into question number one

in our lesson. I see some of you leaning down

filling out your lessons. That's great. For those of you

at home. You can order these lessons, you fill them out.

It is wonderful then to help you remember, and you

can use these to give studies to other people. We

want to spread the truth in the last days. You say, amen,

what is the second Angel's message in Revelation fourteen? That's

question one. But the question is what is the second

Angel's message in Revelation fourteen? Another angel followed saying, what

is it? Babylon is fallen? Is fallen that great city

because she made all nations drink the wine of the

wrath of her fornication. Literal Babylon fell back during the

time of the Persian conquest, after King Nebukinizer, when Daniel

was still alive. Now it is talking about the fall

of spiritual Babylon, and that means fallen, fallen, not getting

back up. Why she made all nations? Is this an

international power? Babylon is that same power that makes all

nations worship a certain way, made all nations drink the

wine of the wrath of her fornication. There's going to

be God's wrath poured upon a Babylon and her children

for their unfaithfulness. Wine in the Bible represents doctrine. Jesus said,

speaking of his doctrine, you do not put old wine

in new wine skins. His was the new, the fresh

wine skins old wine is fermented. It makes people drunk.

They don't think clearly. They get confused. And that's what

Babylon means. Confusion. Number two, How does God's symbol is Babylon?

In Revelation seventeen, the woman who you saw is that

great city that reigns over the kings.

Of the earth.

Now, when you read Revelation seventeen, and it describes as

Harlot that is sitting on the beast with seven heads

and ten horns, and it comes up from the water

talking about the Mediterranean Sea. The Roman Empire surrounded the

edges of the Mediterranean Sea at this time. Rome's on

a peninsula right in the middle of it, for that matter.

And it says the woman sits among seven heads and

the seven heads or seven hills. Rome is known as

the city of seven hills. You can look that up

just and you google what is the famous city of

seven hills? And what city was ruling over the world

when John was imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos when

he wrote Revelation Rome. Back then it was pagan Rome

that transitioned into papal Rome. No question about who this is.

It says, I've likened the daughter of Zion, that the

daughter of Zion is God's people, his Church to a

lovely and a delicate woman. Two women in Revelation. One

is the true Church, clothed with sun, moon and stars

light of God. The other is clothed as a harlot

with worldly adornment. God's Church is symbolized by a pure woman. Husbands,

love your wives as Christ loves the church. Bible prophecy

symbolizes the Church as a pure woman. This woman has

the light of the world. We're trying to share some

of that light through this seminar. We can be certain

who this fallen woman is that you find in Revelation seventeen,

and in verse eighteen it says she was ruling when

Revelation is written. History tells us it was Pagan Rome

that eventually turned over its authority in capital city to

Papal Rome, better known as the Catholic or the Roman

Catholic Church. Word Catholic just means universal. Now I need

to say what I'm going to say here. Gently make

a little disclaimer announcement. Friends, I need to be faithful

and tell you what Prophecy says. You need to know

what's coming. I'm a teacher I'll back up everything I

say with scripture, and in some cases it'll be the

fulfillment of history. I want to say it in love.

I know some people, when they first hear these things

are absolutely shocked. I have had, do you know, actually

gave this seminar in a convent of nuns at one point.

Can you imagine that It's very interesting, very delicate, and

so some people it can be hard to swallow. But

I want you to know what I am sharing is

not this strange doctrine of doug. What I'm sharing with

you is actually a very old teaching that has been

lost by Protestants. I'm about to prove that to you now.

John Wickliffe, who is called the morning Star of the Reformation,

was a Catholic priest. Listen to what he wrote about

what had happened to his church. We suppose that Antichrist,

the head of all these evil men, is the Pope

of Rome. This is a Catholic priest. Okay. He did

the first translation into English. They forbade him. They did

not want him to translate the Bible from Latin to English.

He said, the people need to know what it says

so they can study for themselves. John huss who is

burnt at the stake, also a Catholic priest. This is

what he said. The Pope is the true Antichrist, of

whom it is written that he sits in the Temple

of God, among the people of God, where Christ is worshiped.

This is what I've been telling you, friends. The evangelical

world is waiting for the Jewish nation to rebuild a

literal temple, for the antichristis cident, and they are missing

the whole teaching. All the Protestant Reformers, they knew what

it meant is the spiritual Church of God, the spiritual

ties over which this Antichrist power is sitting. Martin Luther,

the most prominent of the protesters, founder of the Protestant Reformation,

a Catholic priest, he nailed his ninety five theses to

begin a discussion on the doors of Wittenberg. He didn't

know that it was going to turn the religious world

upside down. The vicar is in the place of an

absent chief. What is such a vicar? But Antichrist? I

know and am certain that the papacy is the Kingdom

of Babylon. No question about who that woman is Now

we're going to get to America in a minute. But

some of you missed the first part of this first

Beast in Revelation thirteen. So we're reviewing that John Calvin,

one of the founders of the Congregational churches, the papacy

has so corrupted their church. He was a Catholic priest.

The papacy has so corrupted the church's doctrine and authority

that the pope had effectively become the Antichrist, foretold by

Paul in passages such as Second Thessalonians two, verses three

and four. That's from his institutes of the Christian religion,

and you've got the references if you want to snap

a picture of any of these. Thomas Kramer burnt at

the stake by the Church of England. What did he say?

Wherefore it followeth Rome to be the seat of Antichrist

and the pope to be very Antichrist. Now there have

been many popes. It is no particular pope. Some popes

are nice, some are not, summer spiritual, some are not.

There may be some popes in Heaven. You hear me.

It is the office we're talking about here, right, So

we're talking about the position. The idea that a man

is to be in a position called God or to

be worshiped is unbiblical. And this is what they were

talking about. I could prove the same by many other

scriptures in Daniel, in Revelation, Old Writers, and strong Reason.

Roger Williams, one of the found religious freedom in North America.

A Baptist, he spoke of the Pope as the pretended

vicar of Christ on earth, who sits as God over

the Temple of God. See, they all believe that temple

was a spiritual temple, exalting himself not only above all

that is called God, but over the souls and consciences

of all his vassals. You know, for years the Catholic

Church taught no Protestant can be saved, and many still

hold to that teaching. John Wesley. If you're a Methodist

founder of the Methodist Church, he said, he it is

that exalts himself above all that has called God or

that has worshiped, claiming the highest powers and the highest honor,

claiming that prerogatives which belonged to God alone. Spurgeon called

the Prince of preachers a Baptist. I sometimes read his

sermons what a magnificent Christian. He was a great reader

of the Puritan writers, and preached at the Metropolitan Church

in England for many years. Behold upon her forehead the

name written Mystery babble and the Great the mother of

Harlot's and abominations of the Earth. The Church of Rome

and her teachings are a vast mountain of rubbish covering

the truth of God. What was cast to the ground Daniel,

chapter eight. The truth was cast to the ground. This

is what the Protestant Reformers all taught. But you know what, friends,

it is not politically correct to say what I'm saying

or what they said. But they said, if you're going

to go buy the Bible, this is what all the

reformers taught. When was the last time you heard a

sermon on that. It's considered unkind. You know, there are

some countries I can't preach this. It's called hate speech

and they'll put you in jail. But you're just interpreting

the biblical prophecies done. The Westminster Confession has a lot

of good truth in it. There is no other head

of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ, Nor can

the Pope of Rome in any sense be the head thereof.

But is that Antichrist, that man of sinned son of tradition,

that exalts himself in the Church of Christ against Christ

and all that is called God. In the book A

Great Cloud of Witnesses, it says Wickcliffe Tyndale. Either to

the Tyndale Bible. They translated the Bible to English Luther

Calvin Kramer in the seventeenth century Bunyan. You ever read

Pilgrim's Progress written by John Bunyan, the translators of the

King James Bible, all of the translators of the King

James Bible, and the men who published the Westminister and

Baptist Confessions of Faith, Sir Isaac Newton, Wesley, George Whitfield,

Jonathan Edwards, and more recently Spurgeon, Bishop J. C Ryle,

and doctor Martin Lloyd Jones. These men, among countless others,

all saw the office of papacy as the Antichrist, namely

the first beast in Revelation thirteen based in Europe. But

now we're going to be talking about the second Beast

based in our country. Now we're all in this together.

Because I'm technically a Protestant, I love my country. I'm

hanging on to my passport. When I come home from overseas.

I feel like kissing the ground sometimes. So I love

my country. But Prophecy says something's going to turn bad.

You'll see, I saw the woman drunk with the blood

of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs

of Jesus. It tells us this woman, this unfaithful church,

had become a persecuting power. Now it shouldn't surprise you

that a religious organization could start out a godly power

and become a persecuting power. The Jews were God's people,

but did they stone the prophets and kill Jesus Christ. Now,

not all of them. It's I mean, the whole early

Jewish Church, the whole Early Christian Church was all Jewish.

So what I'm saying is not antisemitic. It's just saying

there it's good and bad in every group. Right, those

quotes I just read you from the Reformers started out

Catholic priests, but they said we need to have a revival,

we need to return to the Bible. But instead they

were excommunicated, and thus they had the Protestant movement that

protested what was happening to the Christian Church. On her

forehead and name is written Mystery Bible and the Great

the Mother of Harlot's and abominations of the Earth. Now wait,

is she alone or does she have daughters? What does

a woman represent a church? The daughters of a Harlot?

Are they good or bad? Technically it means they retain

in their teachings some of the behavior of the mother.

That there's something illegitimate about the daughters of a Harlot.

A lot of churches came out of the Roman Church,

but they did not come all the way out. They

still retained in their teachings some of the teachings of

Rome that were not in the Bible or the teachings

of Jesus. I thought I'd thrown an interesting, amazing fact.

You know every week John and I Pastor Rousin, and

this Amazing Fact radio program we take Bible questions. You

can call in Bible Answers Live. Any of you ever

heard our Bible Answers Live radio program and you can

listen to them if you just download the Amazing Facts

Radio app af Radio. You can listen to all kinds

of these programs. Anyway, I saw an amazing fact. There's

a woman, Carolyn Smith, struggling to get enough money to

put her son in a private school. She wasn't happy

with what was happening in the public school. She lived

in Las Vegas, and she said she would auction the

space on her forehead to the highest bidder. I know,

it sounds pretty strange. She'd let them tattoo what they

wanted on her forehead. And she did this online and

Golden Palace dot com. They often they advertised on the

backs of boxers. She got ten thousand dollars to let

them tattoo this on her forehead. I just thought that

was interesting thinking about a woman with a paragraph in

her forehead. Now, are you clear that in Revelation when

it talks about a mark in the forehead and the

seal of God in the forehead, that it is symbolic.

You're not going to see a woman in Revelation seventeen

with a paragraph in her forehead. Yes, Carolyn really did it,

but in Revelation it's a symbol. We'll get to that.

Number three. What other evidence from Revelation seventeen points to

papal Rome as spiritual Babylon. Well, first of all, the

Harlot is an unfaithful woman symbolizes the Church. Secondly, the

beast the Kingdom symbolizes the state. She is riding on

this beast with seven heads and ten horns and crowns.

These are government powers. You have the combination of a

church and a state. The Vatican is the only thing

that would fulfill that criteria. They have ambassadors from around

the world. It is a religious politic entity, and it

is it's received a deadly wound, but that deadly wound

has been and is being healed, and all the world

is going to be wondering after the beast. Quickly reviewing

some of the identifying characteristics from the woman in Revelation seventeen,

she's guilty of blasphemy, claiming to forgive sin, putting the

pope in the place of God. Dressed in purple and scarlet,

she's called the Mother. She has Harlot daughters who are

also fallen. She has persecuted the saints. The church admits

that she sits on seven mountains, seven hills of romes.

She ruled over the kings of the earth. In one,

three and four, the Harlot is called the mother of

Harlot's just as the Roman Catholic Church is called the

Holy Mother Church. The harlot wears purple and scarlet. The

exact same colors are worn by the Roman Catholic bishop

and cardinals. The Roman Catholic Church admits to persecuting the

saints and ruling over the kings of the earth. Go

visit any of the churches in Spain or Europe and

they'll show you the torture chambers, and you can read

about the Inquisition. The harlot sits on the beasts. Seven heads,

seven divisions of Pagan Rome are the seven kingdoms of Europe.

Now they've shifted their border several times, but ten was

sort of a beginning number. From Germany, France, Sweden, Italy,

the Anglo Saxon so forth. You've got the colors there

very clear to see. Notice this quote from Father John

A O'Brien that observance of Sunday instead of Saturday remains

a reminder of the Mother Church. This is a Catholic

priest saint from which non Catholic sects they call all

Protestants Evangelicals that still go to church on Sunday. They say,

you have broken away from the Mother Church, but you

are still following a law that we made. We are

the ones who change the day from Saturday to Sunday.

But you still follow our laws, So why not follow

all of them? The Harlot Daughters and other Christian denominations

still retain in their bosom relics of potpourri. How do

the beasts of Revelation thirteen and seventeen compare? Notice the similarities.

I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw

a beast rising about of the sea, having seven heads

and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and

on his head's blasphemous names. Describes this beast committing blasphemy,

and Daniel seven also the same beast power. Look in

Revelation seventeen, scarlet beast full of names of blasphemy, seven heads,

ten horns, Revelation thirteen, Revelation twelve, Revelation seventeen, same beast. Friends,

how many times have you seen a beast with seven

heads and ten horns? I mean, we got to be

talking about the same beast, or we agreed it's the

same power. God says that three times, so there's no misunderstanding.

What is the meaning in origin of the word Babylon.

Let us build you go to Genesis eleven. Let us

build a city in a tower whose top is in

the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves. It said, Now,

why did they build that tower? God destroyed the world

with a flood. He gave a rainbow, said I will

never do it again. They did not believe God. They said,

we're going to save ourselves. So part of Babylon is

salvation by works, and it's man made religion, man made worship.

They said, let us make a name for ourselves. God said, scatter,

be fruitful, multiply. They said, we're not going to do that.

We're going to build a city. We're going to consolidate.

And God did not like what they were doing. God said,

let us another example of the Trinity, God using plural,

let us go down and confound confuse their language, that

they may not understand one another's speech. The whole construction

project broke down in chaos and confusion because they could

not communicate. Wherefore it is called Babel because there the

Lord did what they're the Lord confused. So what's the

characteristic of Babylon. Confusion of doctrines? Pastor Doug Bible says,

the resurrection is when Jesus returns. But here on the

tombstone it says mom or Grandma's now in heaven, and

then this tombstone says she's sleeping. And the Bible says

the judgments in the future, but they're already in hell

where you can pull them out of hell, judge and

put them back again. There's so much confusion in Christians

about what the Bible says. It doesn't need to be

that way, friends, That's why we do these seminars try

and straighten it out. Why do you call a baby

a baby because baby's babel. That's where the word comes from.

Babylon is one of the characteristics, a confusion of tongues.

I'll get to that later. Number six, How does God

describe Babylon when urging his people to leave? Now, I'm

going to do an appeal tonight. You got a card

when you came in, Because God says, come out of her,

my people. You can't come out of something and just

go nowhere. He wants us to come out of something

into something. He wants to come out of darkness into

his marvelous light. The Bible says, God has called us

out of darkness into his marvelous light in the churches,

the light of the world. He wants you to be

walking in the light as he is in the light.

He cried with a with a mighty loud voice, saying,

Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen. It has become

a dwelling place of demons. Do you want to be

where the demons are? And a prison of every foul spirit,

not just the spirit of foul spirit, and the cage

of every unclean, hateful bird, place of vultures eating dead bodies.

Babylon is going to be under a curse, and God

is calling his people out. What does he say? I

can't emphasize this enough. I heard another voice from heaven saying,

come out of her. Do we all know who the

hurry is true? Come out of true Church or the

false church? False Church and her daughters? Come out of her,

he says, my people. Does Jesus have his people in

many different churches? Friends, you've heard me say, you're going

to see Catholics in heaven. Protestants have many different denominations.

God has his people. They're walking in the life they have.

He does not expect us to live up to what

we don't know. He says, If you know and you

continue in sin, you'll be beaten with many stripes. To

whom much is given, much is required. So God looks

at what we know. Your good parents. You don't punish

your che for disobeying rules they did not know about. Right.

God is a fair judge. There are people that are

in Babylon that are walking in the light they have.

But in the last days he's calling his church back

together on biable truth. Amen, it ought to make sense.

There's going to be a big shaking in the last days.

Everyone's going to have the mark of the beast or

the seal of God. So something has to happen before

Jesus comes where there is going to be a shaking

and people are going to take their stand for the

truth and come back together. And Jesus will come for

a united church. What did the devil say? They will

all know you are His disciples by our love for

one another. The devil heard Jesus say that, and he's

trying to divide the Christian Church more than any other religion,

so that the world laughs at Christians because we're all

in disagreement. We're fragmented. This is a message I'm giving

that God is calling people back together, not to be

part of a clas but to be standing on truth.

The truth will set you free. Where is the truth,

Jesus is Thy word is truth. What we're telling you

is what the Bible says. God is calling his people,

and he's calling you. If you're not part of God's

remnant church, he's calling you out of Babylon. Why lest

you receive of her plagues? You've read about the seven

plagues In Revelation number seven, Jesus accuses Babylon of making

the world drunk with her wine. What does this represent?

The woman has in her hand a golden cup full

of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. It is

the fermented, polluted, false teachings that have crept into Christianity.

The inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the

wine of her fornication. When I see people marching up

and down the streets of some cities during religious festivals

carrying statues in Mexico, I've seen you. Go to Russia,

They're carrying paintings up and down the street, burning candles,

praying to paintings. It's called idolatry. A lot of false

teachings have come into the church. The inhabitants in the

earth have been made drunk. The new wine that Jesus

offered the disciples at the Last Supper as a symbol

of his blood and the pure Gospel contrasted with the

teachings of Babylon that are intoxicating lives. They're attractive. People

get addicted to religion, they get addicted to wine. False

teachings that make the people spiritually drunk. Now, I took

this picture out in front of a Catholic church. I

have hidden the name of the church, but they were

kind enough put to ten commandments out there on the lawn.

I don't know if you've noticed there's something wrong here.

If you look in your Bible, you'll notice that there's

something called the Second Commandment. The second Commandment says, you

shall not make under yourself any graven images like of

anything in the heaven above, or the earth beneath, or

the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down

yourself to them, nor serve them. For I the Lord

your godman jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers

upon the children. Unto the third and fourth generation of

them that hate me and showing mercy into thousands of

them that love me and keep my commandments. How could

you forget that much of the ten Commandments? But it's

the commandment about idolatry, and they know that doesn't fit

with their teachings, so it's been deleted. They say, well,

it's really part of the first Commandment. No, it's not. Well,

you say, how do you keep ten commandments? They divide

the last one into two, and they make the fourth

commandment about the Sabbath the third commandment. The Bible says

the beast power would think to change times and laws,

and they've substituted a man made day on the sixth day,

the day of Man, the sixth six six, for the

day of God, which is the seventh. God says, I

have blessed the seventh day. You know, as God doesn't

say keep a Sabbath, He says, keep the seventh day. Now,

if I say to you right now, will you bring

me a piece of paper? All of you could jump

up and hand me a piece of paper. But if

I use the definite article the and I say bring

me the paper, you're gonna look and say wonder who's

got the paper. It changes everything, doesn't it. So when

God says, remember the seventh day is the Sabbath of

the Lord, I have blessed the seventh day, he's been

as specific as he can be. You can't say I'm

gonna change it. We're all gonna go on Wednesday. There

is God. Now, you should worship God seven days a week,

are we clear? But they're not all the Sabbath. Some

people say I worship God seven days a week as

though they're holy. You're not. If you're going to church

seven days a week, you're lazy. You're not holy. You're

supposed to be resting on the Sabbath day, not supposed

to be doing your regular work. Now, this is quote.

If you go to the website Sabbathtruth dot com. I

don't have enough time to quote. I will show you

quotes from leading theologians from every denomination that are honest.

This is doctor E. T. Hyscox. He's the author of

the Baptist Manual. Listen to what he says. There was

and is a command he said, it's still there to

keep holy the Sabbath day. But that Sabbath day was

not Sunday, it'll, however, be said, and with some show

of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh

to the first day of the week, with all its

duties and privileges and sanctions. Earnestly, desiring information on this subject,

which I've studied for many years, I asked, where can

such a record of a transaction be found? Not in

the New Testament, Absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence

of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh

to the first day of the week. Zero And I

can give you Methodists, I can give you Presbyterian, I

can give you Congregationalists, Episcopalian. The theologians know this. Another

criteria for Babylon. The soul is immortal. Did we learn

the Bible says God, and God only has immortality. Immortality

is given at the resurrection. The penalty for sin God

told Adam and Eve is death. The idea that the

laws are going to be punished eternally, burning forever and ever,

for the sins of one lifetime. There is a lake

of fire, the wicked punished according to what they deserve.

It's not burning now, and it's not going to burn

forever and ever. They will be consumed, burnt up second

death perish is what the Bible says. Some people go

to purgatory after they die Limbo purgatory. Nowhere in the

Bible man made teachings. A confusion of tongues is a

characteristic of Babylon. Friends, you realize you go back one

hundred and fifty years, they didn't have this teaching in Christianity.

I believe in gifts of the spirit. I believe in

the gift of tongues. I believe God gave me the

gift of tongues. At one point when I needed it,

I started speaking Spanish that I did not know the

whole other story asked me about it. Sometime when I

joined the church and became a Christian, I went to

Pentecostal churches, and I kept saying, where in the Bible

do we have this babbling where no one understands? And

Jesus said, you will speak with other tongues. At Tenecosts.

He gave them the supernatural ability to speak in languages

they did not formally know for the purpose of preaching

the Gospel. There are three, how many three examples of

speaking tongues in the Bible. Acts chapter two, Acts, Chapter ten, Acts,

Chapter nineteen. In all three cases, they understood what they

were saying. Paul said, I'd rather speak five words with

my understanding that I might instruct others in ten thousand

in an unknown tongue in something you don't understand, he says,

if the bugle gives an uncertain call, who'll prepare for

the battle? You know, in ancient times, the way that

they signaled their troops was through a trumpet. Cavalry used

a bugle in the morning when you woke up, you

heard I went to military school. They played that over

the pa every morning. At the end of the day.

What did they play? But you know they had they

had charge, and that meant charge. They had a signal

for everything. And Paul is saying, if the trumpet gives

an uncertain sound, who will prepare for the battle. When

I go to these churches and people are just standing

up and they start babbling incoherently, and someone's stands and says,

thus sample or I think, why didn't you say in

English to start with? Paul said, if there's no interpreter,

let them keep silent. That's not what they're doing. I

got a whole book I've written on this called understanding tongues.

I believe in the gifts of the spirit, but it

has been abused, and confusion of tongues is one of

the characteristics of Babylon baptizing babies. We talked about that

babies are dedicated, they're not baptized. You need to be

old enough to repent. Believe a priest might grant forgiveness

when a person confesses to him. If you're in a

church that's doing that, you're in Babylon idolatry. If you're

in a church where they're bowing, praying, kissing, burning candles

in front of paintings and statues, that's idolatry. You shall

not make any graven images. You know this. I'm going

to rush along a human other than Christ never sinned.

They say Mary was sinless. They call it the Immaculate conception.

The Bible does not teach that they turn Mary into

God instead of a trinity. They got a holy quartet.

The Bible doesn't teach that number eight. What power will

support the beast in the end time? Here it comes,

and I saw another beast coming up out of the earth.

Not the water waters are multitudes of people the earth

is sparsely populated as our continent was. The woman the

Church fled into the wilderness, where she had a place

prepared by God that they should feed her there. On

two hundred and sixty days, God fed Elijah in the wilderness. Miraculously,

God fed the Israelites in the wilderness. God fed his

church with Bible truth during the Dark Ages, when they

fled into the mountains of the Alps and the Caucauses

in different places, fleeing the persecution that went on for

over a thousand years. Finally, after they received a deadly wound,

the Church received a deadly wound. They found a whole

new country, and the pilgrioms came, and the Puritans came

so they could practice freedom of religion. The dragon persecuted

the woman that gave birth to the manchild, but the

earth helped the woman. The earth opened its mouth and

swallowed up the flood that the dragon had spewed out

of his mouth. A flood and army came to destroy them.

They found a new world where they could go and

typically right now North America and Canada. Protestantism, at least

it used to be, was the principal religion. They came

across the water. It's interesting, it even gives you the

same time period. Notice God describes when this first beast

we were to receive a deadly wound in seventeen ninety

eight the United States. Our declaration was seventeen seventy six.

In seventeen eighty seven, we had the Bill of Rights.

Seventeen ninety one. We were widely recognized as a world power.

By seventeen ninety eight. They didn't know if we had

totally thrown off the British power. They started dealing with

us in our ambassadors in seventeen ninety eight the same

time in matches Friends, America is the second lamb like beast.

In sharp contrast to the waters heavily populated area, the

United States of America comes from a sparsely comparatively sparsely

populated area. After only twenty two years, from seventeen seventy six,

the USA now was widely recognized as a world power.

From just it was a territory of Britain, all right. Notice,

speaking of this second beast, oh man, get your Bible

real quick. We haven't even read it. If you've got

your Bible, go to Revelation, chapter thirteen. And I want

to look at this with you because I think people

are going, what is he talking about it? Where's revelation?

Is it New Testament? I got it all right. Here

we go, Chapter thirteen, Verse one. I stood on the

sand of the sea, saw a beast rising up out

of the sea. Seven heads, ten horns. We all know

who that is. Starts out pagan Rome, ends up being

papal Roam. By Revelation seventeen, it's now a woman. But

look further down, go to verse eleven. Then another beast

came up out of the earth that had two horns,

like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. In Revelation,

is a lamb good or bad? Good? Jesus is a lamb?

Is a dragon? Good or bad? Bad? Starts out good,

ends up bad? Two horns? What are the two horns?

And by the way, this second beast now points to

the first beast that it should be worshiped. It makes

an image. An image means a similar political religious power

that compels worship. Yes, that could happen in America. I

know it seems hard to believe. The two horns of

the lamb. We had a religion with no pope. We

had a government with no king, freedom of worship, government

chosen by the people, comes up, takes off like a bullet.

It's interesting in the time period too, the Beast's power

went from five thirty eight. They got a deadly wound

in seventeen ninety eight when the pope is arrested. Their

uninterrupted leadership was destroyed. Who was ruling the world in

in Europe? Napoleon. Guess who sold Thomas Jefferson one third

of the US called the Louisiana Purchase. And because of

the Monroe doctrine, we didn't stop there. We chased the

Spanish out of the whole West down to Mexico, and

we took it from coast to coast. And it all

happened from the same power that had created a deadly

wound for the Beast, and tells us that this second

beast the United States the most powerful country, most influential country. Friends,

I've been all over the world. I'm just telling you

you can find McDonald's everywhere. They've got Coca Cola. In

countries where you can't say Jesus name, they got Levi's.

They say they hate America, but they're buying our products

everywhere I've been around the plant. This is the most influential.

Four of the most powerful businesses in the world are

all based things like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft. The United States.

They have bigger economy, more money than most countries, is

extremely powerful. And we've got a president right now that

is playing in that hand. I'm not trying to get political.

I'm just saying he recognizes that, and he's playing that

hand to try and bring down the tariffs that are

being charged against America because they understand it is a

tremendously powerful country. Number nine. According to Prophecy, how does

America transform and mutate over time? Starts out as a

place where it is a refuge. Not perfect there. There's

plenty of problems in the country. I mean, you know

some of the early settlements. Do you know what the

first communist country was, the US Socialism. They tried to

see everything long as to everybody. The settlers, the Puritans,

they almost starved to death. That half of them died

that first couple of years. Finally they realized they needed

to abolish that. Let everybody own his own property. Nobody

wants to work in everybody's garden. People want to work

in their own garden. But we experimented with this socialism

and then some of them read the Bible. They said,

you realize they weren't socialists in the Bible. They had

their own land, they had their own inheritance. It failed,

and yeah, they had witch trials. They didn't do everything perfectly.

But Roger Williams came along. He said, we need to

separate church and state. The ten Commandments are divided. Everybody

gets to decide what God they worship, when they worship him,

how they worship him. The last six commandments are civil

in nature. We must all obey those. And as long

as we understood that, everybody moved to Rhode Island. Back

then the church exploded two horns like a lamb, but

spoke like a dragon. How does a country speak the

way it legislates with its laws. Yeah, I thought it

was interesting that when you look at the bison, you

wonder what John's envisioned. Two horns like a lamb, but

spoke like a dragon. Only in the US they had

millions of bison. They got these little horns, but on

a cold day when they're snorting, they got steam coming

out of a note speaks like a dragon. Speaking like

a dragon means that the United States, under the influence

of Satan, will abandon its original principles of freedom by

passing laws that force people to worship contrary to conscience.

Violators will face economic sanctions, and ultimately there will be

a death decree. Now you think, pastor dec how could

that ever happen? How many of you noticed that there

was a surge of church attendance after nine to eleven.

And when people are afraid, folks get very religious. And

I don't know what will be the trigger. It can

be a natural disaster, financial, a nuclear accident, or war,

combination of the three, and all of a sudden, countries

are people are ready to sacrifice their freedoms for the

illusion of security. I was a kid. I've been flying

my whole life. My father was in the airline business.

I don't remember my first flight. Grew up on my airplanes.

We shoued to walk on the plane with a piece

of paper. You were careful, you could sneak on a plane.

They used to give us a deck of cards and slippers.

It was different crayons to color with. Now you get

like body searched. What happened a few planes got hijacked

nine to eleven. More people are afraid, more freedoms they sacrifice,

and the government's going to be manipulating with fear, and

people are going to start sacrificing their freedoms. How does

the US support the first Antichrist Beast or Revelation thirteen?

And he exercises all of the power of the first

Beast in the presence of the first Beast for those

who dwell in it to worship the first Beast whose

deadly wound was healed, and he causes the earth. What

other power has that kind of international influence? And those

that worship the first Beast whose deadly wound was healed,

it's compulsory form of worship. America began fleeing the persecution

in Europe, and it really was historic when Pope Francis

came and had just superstar coverage wall to wall. There

you got the Vatican flag and the US flag flying

together over the Capitol Mall. It says, an image to

the beast. Isn't it interesting here? You get the Vatican,

you got the US capital. Is it just me or

there's some similarities there? And in front of the Vatican

you've got a great big solar what do you call

a sun obelisk? And what do you have in front

of the Washington Monument, the biggest obelisk in the world,

just an image to the beast. Used to be the

whole Supreme Court of the United States. We're all Protestants

because we figured they will follow these Judeo Christian laws

about freedom of religion. Today there are no longer any

Protestants on the Supreme Court. All of them are we

have I think currently at the time of this recording,

there are two Jews and the rest are Catholic. One

was raised Catholic, but he goes to an Evangelical church

or Episcopal church. And for the first time in history,

now the pope is an American pope. Friends, we are

living in very interesting times. Number eleven, You've missed a

good chance to say, Amen, what three powers will unite

against God's people in the end time? I saw three

unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of

the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and

out of the mouth of the false prophet, and they

go forth to the kings of the earth. Spiritualism is

going to be involved. Satan is going to impersonate Christ,

and right now would be a great time. I think

the devil is staging his forces where they're going to

come together and they're going to start appearing, especially if

you believe people die and they go right to heaven.

Famous characters are going to start speaking in dreams. What

happened to King Saul who saw witch that brought back

a prophet, a biblical prophet that deceived him and he

died in a battle. And just like he died in

that battle, there'll be this battle of Armageddon number twelve?

What effective methods will this end Time coalition utilize? For

they are the spirits of demons performing what signs which

go out to the kings of the earth and the

whole world to gather them to the battle of the

Great Day of God Almighty. For he performs lies so

that he even makes fire come down from heaven on

the earth in the side of man. Let me pause here,

that's so much you're saying, I'm watching the clock. Y'll

pray for me. Can you think of a great story

in the Bible where someone prayed and fire came down

from heaven. Elijah prophet of God, proving that God was

the True God, and the whole nation was converted as

because of that evidence, that great sign of the fire

coming down. It tells us that the devil is going

to counterfeit this power. Now, how will he do that?

A counterfeit form of the Holy Spirit falling out? You

remember at Pentecost where tongues of fire appeared on the

heads of the disciples. Counterfeit fire. In the last days,

there's going to be a counterfeit revival movement that will

be unbiblical. But people are going to look at the

signs and wonders and miracles, and people will not believe it.

Us saith the Lord. They'll more go with what everybody's doing,

what is popular and what is impressive, and it'll be

beamed by television. It'll jump up on your phone or

all your devices, and everyone's going to go, wow. Jesus

has come. The prophets are reappearing. We are in the

last days, and he deceives those who dwell on the earth,

not just one country, by the means of those signs

which he was given power to do. Now, what did

Jesus say in Matthew twenty four speaking of the second Coming?

There will be false Christs, and they'll be false prophets

and people are going to be deceived, and this is

going to happen friends in the last days, and I've

just got to tell you, friends, then it breaks my heart.

Sometimes there are some good, honest I told you I

know some of them. I'm friends. I got emails from

some of them today. I don't know if any of

you saw Amazing Facts was broadcasting giving away a book

The Fallen Rise of Jerusalem on Fox Network. I see

some of you saw that, and my friends were emailing

me today. There are some good people and other religions,

and I'll talk to them. They know who I am,

they know what I believe. I've had them come up

to me privately at different conventions unless they Doug, don't

tell anyone, but I believe hell just like you. I've

gotten phone calls from Baptist pastors. Pastor Doug during COVID,

my wife and I were binge watching your studies. We're

not sure what to do, but we think that you're

spot on. There are good people in these churches that

are waiting to take a stand, and you're going to

see a big shaking. Something's going to happen they're going

to come in. But there are some bamboozling Charlagans out

there that are robbing people. They are just diabolical in

what they're doing, taking advantage of people and fleecing the sheep,

as you might say, And they're just they are wolves

that are deceiving people, false doctrines, counterfeit signs, and wonders.

So the second Angel's message Babylon is falling, has fallen.

Come out of her my people. God has good people.

I'm saying this to those of you who are watching

as well. I'm hoping the Holy Spirit will speak to

you where you are and you here before Jesus comes.

He's calling his people together. He says, other sheep I

have that are not of this fold them also, I

must call John chapter ten. There will be how many

one fold, one shepherd, one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

When Jesus comes back, his church is not going to

be fragmented and scattered. There's going to be a polarization.

You will either have the mark of the Beast or

the seal of God. Don't miss tomorrow morning. We're gonna

explain very plainly what that is. You'll also want to

watch you'll be inspired by our afternoon presentation called the

un Sinkable Ship at five o'clock. For those of you

that are able to come, I know you'll be blessed

by that. But I don't want you to be deceived.

If you're in a church that is teaching one of

these false doctrines and I didn't cover them all. You're

in Babylon, God is wanting you to come out and

come in to His remnant fold. He has a people,

he has a church. It is growing around the world.

I believe with all my heart that the Seventh day

Adventist Church is this final movement of prophecy. It's not

just a church, it is a movement that is spreading

around the world. It's got the largest educational system next

to the Catholics, largest Protestant medical work. They're doing missionary work.

They're teaching the Gospel, and people are coming in because

they're coming back to the Bible. And it is going

to swell and it is going to grow. There's going

to be a counterfeit revival that's going to confuse a

lot of people, and the whole world is going to

be shaken. But God sent you this message because he

wants you to make a decision. Question thirteen. What will

prevent God's end time? People from being deceived? Answered to

the law into the testimony. If they do not speak

according to this word, it's because there's no light in them. Friends,

we got to base what we believe on a Thus,

saith Lord. There are going to be laws, and we're

going to have to make a decision. I think we

all know that the government has the power. The technology

is there to control your buying and selling. How many

of you do your banking digitally now? And come on now,

and you use credit cards? Some of you haven't picked

up cash in a long time. It'll be easy to

control buying and selling. We know that. And if you

don't cooperate and you don't come to church when and

where they tell you, because there'll be plagues and persecution.

They'll say there's going to ultimately be a death decree.

God is calling his people together for the word, and

you're hearing that message. Tonight says if any man worships

the beast in his image, the wrath of God is

going to fall out. Friends, We've made it very clear.

Don't miss tomorrow morning. But I want to give you

an opportunity to respond tonight. If the Holy Spirit is

speaking to you, and you know that I've been telling

you the truth, and you want to return to the

faith that was once delivered to the saints. Those great

preachers of Protestant history I quoted, they were saying the

same thing I'm saying. Please write your name on your card,

and I want to look at the questions with you

very quickly. First of all, there is an arc of safety.

There's one door, one shepherd. Jesus is the door. If

you would like to say I have accepted Jesus as

my personal savior. Do that tonight. You come to him

just like you are, and he will receive you. He'll

not cast you aside. Question number two. I can see

from the Bible that God has a remnant people in

these last days. Jesus is not coming back for a fragmented,

scattered church. We're going to be one people in heaven. Amen.

We're going to show the world our love for one

another and our love for the truth. Said. If you

love me, keep my commandments. If you want to be

part of His people, and you believe that He has

a remnant church in the last days, please market there's

not many truths. There's one truth. Question number three, and

I hope you're all praying as I asked this, and

even those at home. You can go to the Prophecy

Countdown dot tv website. You can fill out this card

and let us know amazing facts. Will help follow up

with you online. I desire to worship in spirit and

truth and would like to join God's Remnant church. You

don't just come out of Babylon, you come into God's fold.

And if you'd like to know how do I do that?

How do I go about being part of God's people?

Then you contact us, fill out your card, contact a

local church and say I was watching Prophecy Countdown. I'd

like to study the Bible more. I want to understand.

I don't believe anyone should rush into anything. Jesus said,

go you there for teach baptizing, and there's teaching that

comes afterward, teaching them to observe all things I have

commanded you. Does God want us to teach the commandments?

That's what we're doing during the series Friends, Question number four.

I still have questions about this subject and I would

like to have further studies to help me understand right

then check that box. Please put down just some way

for us to contact you. We've got people that are

praying over these cards. We leave the back of the

card blank so that you can write down a prayer request.

There's a place at the Prophecy Countdown website. We have

a team that is praying. I believe God answers prayer.

Don't you send us in your prayer requests and we'll

pray for you. And then after the program tonight, some

people forget. Please leave your card with the people there

at the No one is going to harass, no one

is going to pressure, no one's going to twist your arm.

We just want to make it possible for you to

go all the way and get out of Babylon and

to be ready for Jesus coming. Friends, we are living

on the threshold of eternity. Do you believe it? I

want to be ready. I want you to be ready. Amen,

Father in Heaven. We've heard the truth tonight from your word,

and I pray that you'll bless each person listening that

we will make a decision now to come to Jesus

and get ready for his soon return. We thank you, Lord,

We believe it. We pray it in Christ's name. Amen.

God bless you friends, and don't forget to leave your card.

Win's our next program tomorrow morning. You don't want to

miss it. That deadly mark or the saving Seal. The

deadly mark or saving seal will see you then. Thank

you very much and God bless and have a happy time.

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