Prophecy Countdown _ The Woman in the Wilderness _ Doug Batchelor)

Good morning friends, Welcome again to this Bible study series

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Let's sing together, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Jesus is beautiful, and

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Amen, why do you remain standing? We're going to have

our opening prayer. Past to Adam will lead us in

prayer this morning.

Lord, we invite your presence into this place. Where you

are is where we want to be also, And so Lord,

I pray that you will open our hearts, open our

minds to the things of Scripture. Lord, it has been

a busy week for many. For some, it has been

a trying week, a challenging week. But Lord, we come

to you on this your Sabbath day, and rest and

pause from all of that.

We ask that you would send the Holy.

Spirit, that we may be encouraged by the message that

we hear, that we may I understand the words of Scripture. Lord,

I ask for a special blessing upon Pastor Bachelor, that

you would use him as you have many times before,

that we would be touched and that our lives would

be transformed. Lord, may we not leave from this place

without an encounter with you. We ask in Jesus' name, Amen.

Please be seated. We are so grateful for our musicians

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Amen. Thank you Ryan Jackie. Beautiful song. Well pass it, Doug.

We're going to be answering some Bible questions that have

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to thank you for all of the great questions that

have been submitted. Now, if we don't mention your questions specifically,

don't get discouraged. We usually group different topics together so

we can try and cover as many questions as possible. Well,

passa doug. Last night you did a presentation on the Sabbath,

the seventh day of the week, and as you can imagine,

we had a number of questions that came in. So

we're going to start by addressing some of those chasis.

First fish number one, is it okay to eat out

at a restaurant on the Sabbath day?

Well, you know there might be occasions when you're traveling

overseas or you're on a boat or something, and you

know the only option is to eat out. I think

that Christian's on a plan so that you're not hiring

somebody else in paying them to cook your food. So

as far as possible, the Bible tells us that we

should bake what we're going to bake and boil what

we're going to boil. The reason God gave food to

the children of Israel twice as much on Friday is

so they wouldn't have to go through the extra preparation

then and it would all be ready on Sabbath. And

so you know, if you don't think that you should

be doing extra work on Sabbath, then why would you

go to a restaurant and pay someone to work for you?

And so I would say no if that can be avoided.

Like I said, there's extreme conditions. Our family has been

traveling overseas where a flight was delayed on Friday and

you ended up in a strange city and we had

no food. And you know, God's reasonable. There's emergencies, but

we should be planning ahead so that we don't have those.

All right, Another question that we have, what does poll

the apostle refer to in Roman chapter fourteen, verse five.

Okay, this is a couple of verses you almost always

get when you teach the Sabbath truth is one is

Romans fourteen five, the other's Colossians two thirteen. No one's

asked that yet, but someone will. Now Roman's fourteen. He's

talking about For when Christians who are pagans who had

converted to Christianity, if they were buying food in the

marketplace that had been offered to some pagan god, they said,

are we worshiping idols by eating that food? And Paul

said no, If it bothers your faith, well then don't

eat it and just eat vegetables. And then he says,

one man regards one day above another. This is verse five.

One person esteems one day above another, another person esteems

every day alike. Let each one be fully persuaded in

his own mind, is Paul saying.

Here.

Some people keep the Sabbath because they're convicted about it.

Some people don't. Let each one be persuaded in his

own mind. Can you ever hear a pastor on Sunday

telling his congregation that verse some of you think you

should come to church on Sunday. Some think you shouldn't

do whatever you however, you're persuaded. They never use that

verse that way on Sunday morning. I can promise you

that this verse had nothing to do with the Sabbath.

It had to do with keeping the annual Jewish feasts

that fell once a year. Because the converts to Christianity

that were Pagans were being told by the Jewish Christians.

You need to also circumcise. You can't eat anything offered

to idols, and you need to be keeping the annual feasts.

And you notice the word sabbath is not mentioned anywhere

in Romans fourteen. It's talking about the annual Sabbath days.

That's also being refer to in Colossians chapter two. They

all came after sin, the Sabbath of the Ten Commandments.

When did it come before sin? It's part of God's

perfect plan. It's written in the Ten Commandments. The other

sabbath aides were written on paper, they were nailed to

the cross. This is what passed away the veil, and

the curtain was torn from top to bottom when Jesus died,

indicating we don't need to keep the ceremonial laws any longer.

This is what Paul is talking about, not one of

the ten Commandments.

All right, here's another question about a Bible verse. Second Corinthians,

chapter three, verse seven, I say through to about verse eleven.

Does this verse do away with the Ten Commandments? Second

Corinthians three.

All right, let's read this for you. But the ministry

of death written and engraved on stones was glorious. So

the children of Israel could not look steadfastly at the

face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance,

which glory was passing away, it eventually faded. How much

more will the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious,

For it is the ministry of For if the ministry

of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds it

much more in glory. For even that which what was

made glorious had no glory in this respect because of

the glory that excels it. For if what is passing

away is glorious, what remains is much more glorious. All right,

So they're saying something passed away, and it talks about

the law written in stone passed away, and then he

talks about the law written in the spirit being even

more glorious. The ten Commandments are the letter of the law.

It is the foundation of the law. Jesus came to

teach us the spirit of the law, which shows it's

more than just an action, it's an attitude. When you

embrace the spirit of the law, of course you keep

the letter, you go beyond it. Let me show you

in a practical way. Jesus said, you have heard it

said by then of old you shall not commit adultery.

Where do you find that ten commandments? But I say

unto you that if a man looks on a woman

and lusts after her in his heart, he's committing adultery

in his heart. That would be the spirit of the law.

One of them is an attitude, right, it's something going

on in the mind. The heart, not the life says,

you can break the law in your heart. So now

I'm going to keep the spirit of the law. I

will not think about lust, but I can break the

letter and commit adultery. Is that what he's saying. How

is it possible for you to keep the law in

the spirit and break the letter?

Right?

The letter of the law says thou shalt not murder,

Jesus said, But if you're angry with your brother without

a cause, you're guilty of murder. He's talking about the

spirit of the law. Well, if you're keeping the spirit

of the law, are you literally going to commit murder?

The letter of the law said, remember the Sabbath day

you shall rest. The spirit of the loss has come

unto me and I will give you rest. And there's

a rest that remains for the people of God he Brews.

For if you're keeping the spirit of the law, will

you ignore the letter? So what Paul is saying is

the glorious truth of Christ, not Moses, and the law

written in our hearts is even so much more glorious

that it doesn't fade away. The letter of the law

is still intact. Now if someone says that First Corinthians

or Second Corinthians, chapter seven is suggesting that now we

don't need to keep the letter of the law. Are

they saying that it's okay to kill and to steal,

and to rob, and to lie and commit adultery and

covet worship other gods, pray to idols. They never argue that.

The only time they use that verse that way is

with the Sabbath truth that aughtust seems suspicious, right, see

what I'm saying. So he's talking about how much more

glorious the spirit of the law is. If you're keeping

the law in your heart, of course you're going to

keep the letter of the law, all right.

Another question on the Sabbath, thak it's the last Sabbath question?

Am I breaking the Sabbath commandment. By working every other Saturday, well.

Only every other Sabbath, you could be breaking it. Now,

there are some people, and I'm not sure who's asking

the question, there are some people who are doing certain

emergency work. You know, Seventh day Adventist Church has hospitals

and nursing homes and places that you do, you know,

ministry and care. And of course those people need service.

You don't just leave them and abandon them. And so

there are certain necessary functions that are emergency service, works

of kindness that continue even on the Sabbath day. And

so if you're involved in the medical field or something

like that, then if you alternate every other Sabbath so

you don't have to keep missing church, well that makes sense.

I've got several members of our church that are doctors

and dentists, and sometimes our dentists will get a call

and they'll say, I am in so much pain from

this toothache. He says, I'll meet you at the office,

and he goes there and he relieves her suffering. And

usually he doesn't charge him anything because it's just a

ministry of service. But did Jesus heal on the Sabbath day? Yeah,

you know, there are certain emergency things like that. God

is reasonable. But you know, if you're doing any kind

of regular work, you never saw Jesus in the carpenter

shop on the Sabbath day. That needs to be put aside,

and you need to talk to your employer. If you're

a good employee, they will keep you. Because if I

was an employer and I had an employee that said,

you know, I'm convicted about one of the ten Commandments,

and i want to keep the Sabbath day, and I'll

even work Sunday, I'll work extra hours, but I want

to keep God's holy time, I would want to keep

an employee like that because I thought they've got integrity,

they've got convictions, they're not going to steal from me.

And so ninety nine percent of the time the employers

will say, I will make an accommodation. By the way,

they're even laws in North America about accommodating people's religious

beliefs in your scheduling.

All right, Another question that we have, why did God

give the Ten Commandments on two tables of stone instead

of just writing it on one big table. Yeah.

Furthermore, if you read it says they were written on

the front in the back. Most people forget that part.

That's because you've got the first half of the first

Table of Stone is dealing with our responsibility to God.

When you it says, don't worship other gods, do not

make graven images, do not take his name in vain,

remember the Sabbath day. The last six commandments are more

civil in nature. They deal with our relationship with our

fellow man. The first four are your vertical commandments. The

last six are the horizontal, loving the Lord, loving your neighbor.

They're separated on two tables of Stone. And Roger Williams

when he helped found Providence Rhode Island, they were forcing

people back then to keep the first four commandments in

Salem and some of the early settlements, and it was

a disaster. People were put in the stocks if they

didn't go to church. Roger Williams said, you cannot force

a person to love God. The first four commandments needs

to be an individual choice. You need to have freedom

of conscience. The last six commandments the government must enforce.

You can't steal, you can't kill, marriage should be honored, etc.

And so governments need to keep that separation. That's where

the separation of church and state is. But there's nothing

wrong with recognizing that you're living in a country that

has a Judeo Christian foundation.

All right, passed that practical question. Here in heaven, will

the children grow slower than on earth?

Well?

I believe so. There's a strange passage in the Bible

where it says a child will die one hundred years

And people say children in a die at one hundred years.

Actually it's saying a child will not even cease to

be a child until they're one hundred. Have you ever

noticed in reading Genesis it'll say, and you know, Matthusla

got married at three hundred years old and had a son,

and you know what took him so long? Well, well,

people got married later back then because they live longer. Originally,

God's plan was for us to live forever. And once

we get our glorified bodies, and you've got eternity stretch

before you, we will still grow up children. There are

children in the Resurrection talks about that several places in

the Bible, but it says that they're going to grow

more slowly, and it says they shall go forth and

grow up as calves of the stall that's in Malachi.

So yes, they will grow, but they're going to grow

more slowly. There will be no new marriage is in heaven.

But does God give us divorce papers when we get

to the kingdom. Someone write that down and ask that question.

All right, another question that we have. Can I believe

who is struggling to quit smoking still be baptized?

Well you shouldn't be.

There are certain sins where you are chained to habits

of the devil. Those things should be forsaken. John the

Baptist said that we should bring forth fruits of righteousness.

When you baptize a person that is still smoking and drinking,

and then they go to the bar that night to

celebrate their baptism, and someone says, what are you celebrating?

I just joined the church. Did something wrong with that?

You want to have those addictions behind you now. I'll

tell you that before I got baptized, I argued with

the pastor because I was smoking, and I was going

to church every week, and I was reading my Bible

and I was sharing my faith and I was smoking,

and I was sharing my faith with people that smoked.

And the pastor said, brother Doug, what does it look

like you're a Christian, you're born again, you're baptized. It's

a new birth, and here you are. What do you

think of a baby that's smoking. There's something wrong with

that picture, right, he said, Jesus set me free, Praise

the Lord. I've been baptized, and you're still smoking. You're

still drinking. He said, you need to quit that first.

And while he was telling me this, I was arguing

with the pastor. I'm sitting in my pickup truck. He

met him at the post office. He's talking to me.

He's standing outside the windows down. My three year old

daughter is in the seat next to me. My cigarettes

are on the dashboard Marlborough and he's telling me. He said,

you want to be an example for your family. And

while he said that, my three year old grabbed my

pack of cigarettes started shaking them and they began to

fly out of the pack. He said, see that, she's

going to do what you do. And I became terribly convicted.

There's another story. I'll tell you something else that happened

that God helped me quit. But once I quit, I

stopped smoking. Since I was baptized, I never smoked again

forty years. God can give you the victory. It's easier

before than after.

Himen.

All right, maybe time for one quick question. Will there

be night in heaven?

Yes, there is no night in the city. The Bible

says there is no need of the sun, doesn't say

there is no sun. Says there's no need of the

sun because the glory of God is going to shine,

and God is light in him is no darkness at all.

And so but will there still be a separation of days, Well,

it says from one sabbath to another, we'll come to

worship him. That was part of God's original plan. So yes,

there will still be a separation of days. But there

is no night in the city where God lives.

All right, again, we want to thank you for your

great questions. We want to remind you if you haven't

yet given us a question, just scan the QR code.

You'll see it there on your screen and you can

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answer as many of those questions as we can.

Pass it up.

We've been placed with the music and we'll have another

beautiful musical item touch your people once again.

We need wisdom, we need power and true love for

each other. We have had so many baid but empty worlds.

So we come before your face asking for your grace.

Bring your people to a.

State of kingdom life. Rest are your church again, Touch

your peoples again with your precious holdly and.

We pray, unless your kingdom shine upon Mizar.

Through living gloiosture, not for temper.

Reity, but to restore forty.

And power, that amighty rushing wind blow.

Touch your people again.

Lord, do you see are tired servants and the broken

wounded soldiers.

Oh how much we need your precious.

We need the power of the Cross as the only

source for us when we stand up facing the final battle. Pride,

restore your church again, Touch your people.

Again with your precious holdly hand.

We pray, let your kingdom shine upon is.

Through living bloodious chure. Bird, not for temporary but to

restore thy.

Power.

Let a mighty shing blad touch your people again.

Em Thank you Ryan, thank you Jackie. Tonight, we have

a very important study. It's less than number eight. If

you have your study guides, you can follow along. It's

called the Woman in the Wilderness, and we're going to

be looking at a prophecy found in the very heart

of the Book of Revelation. Revelation Chapter twelve, we're going

to learn about a woman and a dragon. We're also

going to look at characteristics of God's people in the

last Days, so I hope you are ready for the

study once again. If you don't have a lesson, you

can download today's lesson at Prophecycountdown dot tv. There is

actually a place where you can fill in the various answers,

so I hope you have it handy and we're gonna

be studying this important topic, the woman in the Wilderness.

Amen, Tick tick, Welcome friends once again to the Prophecy

Countdown What's Next Seminar and we're so glad to be

here with you in Crowley, Texas. For our friends that

are watching, this is a suburb of Fort Worth, not

very far away from where I went to school in

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is on and it's live watch now because today's lesson

is a very important lesson. We're going to be going

to the middle of Revelation and talking about the woman

in the wilderness, and this is a very important subject

that we you know, Revelation is written in what they

call a chiastic structure, where it sort of makes a

statement at the beginning, it reaches the pinnacle in the middle,

and it reinforces the statement at the end. And we're

going to be looking at the pinnacle of the prophecy

you find in Revelation chapter twelve. But as our custom is,

we like to start with an amazing fact, you know.

In nineteen seventy seven, National Geographic did a special report

on a woman named Robin Davidson. She embarked on an

extraordinary journey across the Australian Outback. With only four camels

and her faithful dog for company. She traveled one thousand,

seven hundred miles of harsh desert terrain alone a woman

in the wilderness. In preparation, she trained camels and learned

how to survive in the desert for two years. On

the journey that lasted nine months, it pushed her to

her limits. She faced scorching he poisonous snakes and the

challenges of managing her temperamental camels. You know, they got

wild camels in Australia in the desert there as well.

Davidson's solo trek from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean

became an inspiring tale of human endurance and self discovery.

And there's a book written about this called Tracks that's

rather inspiring about her adventure. I think they even made

a movie about her adventure of surviving in the wilderness.

And one time they got she and her camels got

attacked by a bull camel that was in heat and

they said the only alternative is you need to kill

it because it will kill you. And had some amazing adventures.

You know, a woman in the Bible is a symbol

of what the church. God had his woman in the

wilderness for forty years in preparation to going to the

Promised Land. And there's other stories about God's woman in

the wilderness. So we're going to get to our lesson

question number one. How does God? How does Revelation, I'm sorry,

picture God's true church? How does Revelation picture God's true Church?

You can read the answer Revelation twelve, verses one and two.

A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under

her feet, and on her head a garland, or it's

called a stefanos. It means a crown of twelve stars. Then,

being with child, she cried out in labor and pain

to give birth. Bible says, I've likened the daughter of

Zion to a lovely and a delicate woman. God's church

is symbolized by a pure woman. Husbands, love your wives

as Christ loves the church. In the Book of Hoseiah,

he talks about his love for his people, his bride,

and when she's unfaithful, he accuses her of adultery. Now,

if you have your Bibles, and I hope you do

either in paper digital form, go to Revelation twelve. We're

gonna look at this together, and I want you to

read the first few verses with me. Revelation twelve, verse one. Now,

a great sign appeared in heaven a woman. This is

in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, the moon

under her feet, and on her head a garland of

twelve stars. Then, being with child, she cried out in

labor in pain to give birth. This woman is getting

ready to bring forth a child, and another sign appears

in heaven behold a great, fiery red dragon, having seven

heads and ten horns. This dragon with seven heads and

ten horns appears several times in Daniel and Revelation. And

seven diadems are crowns on his heads, and his tail

drew a third of the stars of heaven. These are

the angels, and threw them to the earth. And the

dragon stood before the woman, who was ready to give birth,

to devour her child as soon as it was born.

And she bore a male child who was to rule

all nations with a rod of iron. Who is that child?

Jesus and her child it's capital C if you're looking

in many Bibles. Her child was caught up to God

in his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness,

where she had a place prepared by God, that they

should feed her there. And now notice the number one thousand,

two hundred and sixty days. All right, we're going to

explore this passage very carefully because this woman is a

picture of God's Church. And then if you get to

the very end of the chapter, go to Revelation, chapter

twelve and verse seventeen, and the dragon was enraged with

the woman, and he went to make war with the

rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God

and have the testimony of Jesus. So in this chapter

we see a battle, and it's dealing with a woman,

a dragon, a child, and the seed of the woman.

First prophecy in the Bible is in Genesis chapter three,

and it talks about that the seed of the woman

would crush the head of the serpent, and the serpent

would bruise the heel. A battle involving a woman, the

seed of the woman, and a dragon or a serpent,

and so this is talking about just the apex or

the pinnacle of this battle. Now with that, let's get

back into our lesson and we'll go through some of

what we just read. I'll stop and expand on it

as we go. What does it mean? It says she's

clothed with the sun, the moon, and the stars. The

sun represents the light of God. God made the sun

Psalm eighty four, Malachi four to two. It says the

Son of Righteousness will arise with healing in his wings.

The moon represents it's the promises in the history of

the Old Testament. So God's Church has clothed with the

light of God's glory.

The sun.

She's standing on the moon. The foundation for the early

Church is the moon and the promises and the prophecies

of the Old Testament. The stars of above her head

represent the leadership. Above the head means authority. The Old Testament,

you've got the twelve tribes. You've got the twelve judges,

the patriarchs. The princes of Moses were twelve. In the

New Testament, you have the twelve apostles. The number twelve

matters to God. If you read Acts chapter one, just

before the Holy Spirit is poured out, you know what happens.

Peter said, Jesus chose twelve apostles. They weren't even all

from the same from different tribes. There were many of

them from the same tribe, but they had to be twelve.

Judas killed himself. Peter said, we need to replace Judas.

Get back the number twelve. And they cast lots, and

they picked Matthias. After it says that the twelve apostles,

then the place is shaken and the Holy Spirit is

poured out. The number twelve is a symbol for the leadership.

This is a picture of God's church. She bore a

male child who's to rule all nations with a rod

of iron. Iron was the strongest material. It would break

and shatter everything else. And her child is caught up

to God in his throne. Jesus ministered for thirty three

and a half years. He was crucified after being tortured, dyed, buried, rose,

and then he ascended to heaven, where he is now

at the right hand of God. Can you say, a

man that's a child now, contrast that woman we just

looked at in Revelation twelve. Take your bible, go to

Revelation seventeen. You're going to see that there is a

dramatic shift here. Revelation chapter seventeen talks about another woman.

These two women are like polar opposites. And one of

the seven angels who had the seven bulls, these are

the bowls vials of wrath. Come to talk with me,

and he said to me, come, I will show you

the judgment of the great Harlot, who sits on many waters.

This is on earth now, with whom the kings of

the earth have committed fornication. That's not good. Kings of

the governments, politicians and the inhabitants of the earth were

made drunk with the wine of her fornication. This wine

is not the unfermented grape juice of the communion. It's fermented.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness.

And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast,

which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads

and ten horns. There's that beast again, except before the

beast is trying to eat the manchild of the woman

clothed with light. Now this woman is riding on the beast,

who's in control. They're working in partnership. If you're writing

a beast, you're usually going the same direction. Is the

beast right? And this woman, she's clothed, but not the

glory of God. It's a glory of the world, with

purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones

and pearls, having in her hand a golden cupful of

abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her

forehead has written the name Mystery babbled and the Great,

the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And

I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the

saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

And when I saw her, I'm marveled with a great amazement.

And so here you have these two women. One represents

the true Church, the other represents a church that has

become apostate, unfaithful, a harlot. One's got the light in

the glory of God, the sun, the moon, the stars.

God made all of that. The other is purple and

gold and pearls and earthly adornment. And she's working in

cooperation with the beast and commits fornication with the governments.

It's a church that is in cohoots with the governments

of the world. Okay, two different women in the Bible,

and they're both in history today as you sit here.

So who is the great red dragon? Let's identify him?

And what does he do? It's hard to misunderstand who

the dragon is. Revelation twelve, verse nine brings it all

together for us. The dragon was cast out that serpent

of old called who it's on your screen. He's called

the devil and Satan, dragon, serpent, devil, Satan, who deceives

the whole world. Christ says he is the Prince of

the world, much of the world, most of the world

deceived by the devil. He was cast to the earth.

He's claimed this is his dominion, and his angels were

cast out with him. The devil and his demons have

been cast down here, and they're wreaking havoc on the planet.

And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready

to give birth, to devour her child as soon as

it was born. The devil did not want Jesus to

complete his ministry of redemption and salvation to our world.

Number three. What happens after Satan fails to destroy Jesus.

He could not get Jesus to sin it says her

child is what he's caught up. That's called the ascension.

He's caught up to God and is throne. Now the

devil cannot reach Jesus anymore. This is you can read

in Acts chapter one as the men the apostles stood

there gazing. Christ ascended. He was caught up into the clouds,

and now he is seated. He is enthroned before the

Lord and Jesus, who is the king of kings and

Lord of lords. Now want you to notice something. There's

a pattern in the Bible.

You have the.

Example of eight miracle births in the Bible. Each of

the births are a type of Christ. Notice Sarah and Isaac.

Sarah could not give give birth, but through a miracle

of God's power when she was what ninety nineteen ninety nine,

she gave birth to Isaac, Rebecca and Jacob. Rebecca was Baron,

and Jacob prayed and she gave birth. Actually it's Isaac

and Rebecca. So Rebecca gives birth to Jacob. Sorry, and

Jacob is a type of Christ. Rachel gives birth to Joseph.

Rachel was Baron, but Jacob praise, and she gives birth

Manoa's wife, I went too fast, Sorry, Manoa's wife. It

doesn't tell us her name was Baron. She has Samson.

Hannah is Baron. She goes and she prays at the temple.

She has what's his name, Samuel. Then there's a shoon

of mye woman and gaheyes, I says she has no child.

Elijah praise and she has a miracle son and Elizabeth

is Baron and through a miracle, she and zachar I

have John the Baptist. And then the final miracle birth

is who is Jesus? Okay, every one of these first

seven miracle births are types of Christ. Notice is Isaac

a type of Christ? He goes up the mountain. He's

a willing sacrifice. The father's beloved son Jacob, who has

the twelve Apostles, is a type of Christ. He has

the twelve Sons. Joseph who is sold by his brothers

as a slave. He forgives him and feeds the world

with the bread of life. During a famine. Samson, he

kills more by his death than he did by his life.

He stretches out his arms and he dies, is a

type of Christ. Samuel, who is a prophet, a priest,

and a judge of Israel, and he interceded for them.

He is a type of Christ. The Shunamite woman, he

has a boy. He dies in the field, but he

is miraculously resurrected like Jesus. Is he a type of Christ.

Then you have Elizabeth and John, John who is the

greatest prophets, who introduces Christ. They are all forerunners. Isn't

it interesting all these miracle birth with all males because

they're types of Christ. And then the ultimate when it

says a woman is striving to bring forth is Jesus

and the devil wants to destroy him. Now, this is

not the first time that the dragon has wanted to

destroy the manchild. What happened during the time of Moses.

The devil knew that a savior was coming. He wanted

to destroy the Savior. He knew that it was going

to be a boy, so he had all the baby

boys thrown in the river, right, but one survives and

he becomes a savior. Then we read about David's descendants.

The devil knew that a savior was coming. There was

going to be a great king who is a descendant

of David. The devil heard the prophecy saying the Messiah

would be a descendant of David. And during the time

of Queen Athaliah, she tried to kill all of the

royal seed of David, but one escapes. His name is

Joe ash Right, and he ends up restoring the true worship,

becomes a type of Christ. And then when Jesus was born,

this herod tried to devour the manchild before he's born,

kills all the babies in Bethlehem. You can see this

consistent effort. The devil is trying to keep the Savior

from getting started to take him out. Why he's a

weak baby all through the Bible. But after Jesus is

caught up to heaven, what does Satan do? He can't

now persecute Christ, so he directs his tension to the Church.

When the dragon saw that he had been cast to

the earth, he can no longer reach Christ. He now

persecutes the woman who gave birth to the manchild. If

you want to hurt somebody, it's one thing to hurt them,

but you're much more effective if you hurt what they

love the most. And God loves us even more than

his own son in that he sacrificed his son. Jesus

offered himself that we might be saved. So the devil

knows that Jesus greatly treasures He's desperate to save us.

He loves us more than his own blood. He gave

his blood to save us, and the devil wants to

hurt Jesus by hurting us. So whenever you're going through

trials and you think God doesn't care, oh he cares.

He knows, he sees it. He cries. The Bible says

that inasmuch as we do it to one of the

least of these, we do it to the Lord, because

the Lord feels everything we feel, and so Jesus, it

breaks his heart when we suffer. Sometimes he allows us

to suffer for our ultimate good and he turns it

to good. But catch this, friends, Not everything bad that

happens to God's people is God's will. There are bad

things that happen in the world that are not the

will of God. Why do we say in the Lord's prayer,

thy will be done? If God's will is always done,

then why do we pray Thy will be done? And

why does the Bible say God is not willing that

any should perish? Will many perish? Yes? Is God willing? No,

there's a lot of things in this world because of

the Devil that happened that are not his will. So

don't blame everything bad that happens on God. Can God

take bad things and turn them for good? Yes, that's

the important truth. But the devil wanted to destroy the church,

so plan a. The devil says, I'm going to destroy

the church by annihilation. I'm just going to make it illegal.

And the early Romans declared Christianity. Even during the time

of Peter and Paul. He declared it Nero Religio illicitae

Paul because he was a Roman, he was beheaded. You

can die quickly if you're a Roman. If you are

not a Roman, you are crucified. Peter was crucified, but

he said, I'm not worthy to be crucified. Crucify me

with my head down. And legend has it that Peter

was crucified head down, which actually accelerated his death. Many

Christians then were thrown the lions or Nero smeared them

with pitch and set them on fire to light his gardens.

And the Christians went underground because you got catacombs all

through the Roman Empire where they would bury their dead underground.

I've been through the catacombs and they go on for

miles and miles and miles. And the whole Christian Church

went underground. But you know what, the more the Christians

were persecuted in the arenas, and the spectator saw them

dying while they were praying, dying with peace, dying with faith.

The blood of the martyrs is seed for the Gospel.

The Church spread through persecution. Devil said, this is not

working very good. I need to go to Plan B.

And if I can't destroy the Church from the outside.

I'm going to try to destroy the Church from the inside,

it says in Revelation thirteen, verse seven. It was granted

to him to make war with the Saints and to

overcome them. He tried to annihilate Christians, but then when

he legalized Christianity, it became a bigger problem. Around the

time of Constantine, the Roman Emperor, he said, you know,

the Christians aren't hurting anyone, and there was already they

were fighting other wars with other branches of the Roman Empire.

Constantine fought the Battle of Maximilian Bridge, and he claimed

to have seen a vision in the sky. By the way,

his mother converted to Christianity. So Constantine said, well, I'm

going to fight under the sign of the Cross. So

he had his soldiers paint across on their shields, and

then he ordered them to march through the Tiber River.

And he said, well, that's baptism. He says, you're all baptized. Now,

you're all Christians. But the problem is that they went

into the water dry pagans, and they came up wet pagans.

They had no idea, and all of a sudden, something

terrible happened. The devil accomplished through compromise what he couldn't

accomplish through outright attack. When he went into the church,

and he brought in compromise. See the Romans, they had

statues everywhere. Someone said there were more statues and idols

in Rome than there were shingles on the roof. They

had idols everywhere, and so all these pains came to

the church leaders. They said, what do we do with

all of our idols? And the faith ones said we'll

get rid of them, and the other church leaders said,

oh no, no, no, we want them to join the church.

Little by little they can get rid of those things.

Let's just let them. Let them give Christian names to

their idols. Nothing wrong if they're praying to you know, Peter, James,

and John, we'll just rename Jupiter, Mercury, and Apollos. And

the statues of Diana holding her baby, we'll call her

Mary and baby Jesus. And they began to rename the statues.

The statue I've been to the Vatican, the statue of

Saint Peter in the Vatican predate Saint Peter. It used

to be the statue of Jupiter. And they moved it

and they've actually kissed away the foot several times and

replaced it. And all this compromise came in. Pastors were

people just like everybody else, and now the pastors were

being treated like a royal class the way the pagan

pastors were, and they had their holy investments, and they

were above the people. And they took the Bibles from

the people and they chained them in the churches and

the monasteries. They said, you're ignorant, you can't understand. We'll

tell you what it says, because they were afraid that

the people read for themselves. They'd find out salvation was

free and you could not pay to get a person

out of purgatory, and that hell did not burn forever

and ever. They got that from the Greek mythology. And

what you had now is a milkshake. It was a

stew with Christianity mixed up with a lot of pagan traditions,

and they became the state religion. The woman committed adultry

with the kings of the earth, and that lasted for

one thousand, two hundred and sixty not days years, because

in prophecy, a day is what it's a year. So

in five thirty eight you can remember that date. And

five thirty eight, Justinian he moved the capital from Rome

to come Stantinople, and he told the Bishop of Rome.

They moved the capital from Jerusalem to Rome, and they said,

we're going to give the Bishop of Roman army so

you can enforce religious observance. It now was being forced

on people. Did Jesus ever use military to force his beliefs?

They became a religious political power that had almost uninterrupted

power from five thirty eight to seventeen ninety eight. Now

what happened during that time? Any of you ever played

chess and you got the king and the queen, and

who's next to the king and the queen, the bishop

on the right and the left. Because that's the way

it was through Europe. The monarchs in Europe couldn't do

anything without church approval. The reason the Church of England

broke away and became its own church is because Henry

the Eighth kept trying to have a male child and

it wasn't working out, and so he would divorce his

wives or he'd kill his wife. And when he finally

wanted the church to approve a divorce, they said, Henry,

enough is enough. You can't keep divorcing her. You don't

have biblical grounds. They did have some values. He said, well,

I'll start my own church. By the way, you know

what's going to happen this week, For the first time

in five hundred years, King Charles is going to meet

with the Pope and they're going to pray together. Isn't

that interesting? And so you see that there was this

big compromise that took place, so made war. The true

Church now had to go underground and fled into the wilderness. Now,

when God's people fled into the wilderness, did he feed

them the children of Israel? Yes, right, Elijah. What you

see happening here in Revelation comes from the time of Elijah. Elijah,

there was a famine for one thousand, two hundred and

sixty days. A Jewish year is a lunar calendar, three

hundred and sixty days. You can read that for one thousand,

two hundred and sixty days of a famine. Elijah fled

into the wilderness, and he was fed by God. The

prophets were hidden in caves, and Oben I have fed

them right during the famine. And Jezebel was on the throne.

Jezebel was a corrupt pagan queen who began to manipulate

a Jewish king, and you had the commingling of church

and state with false religion mixed in till the famous

showdown on Mount Carmel. So number five, Oh, I went

too fast? Where did the woman go during this terrifying

period of persecution? And how long did it last? The church?

The woman fled into the wilderness where she had a

place prepared by God that they should feed her there.

One thousand, two hundred and sixty days. What is the

perfect number of God in the Bible? Seven? What's half

of seven three and a half and half of seven

Jewish years is one thousand, two hundred and sixty days.

How long did Jesus teach one thousand, two hundred and

sixty days? It usually represents a time of resistance and persecution. Christ,

at the end of that time period was killed for

his testimony. Jezebel tried to kill Elijah at the end

of that three and a half year period. After jesus death,

for three and a half years, the apostles preached to

the Jews, and then they killed Stephen exactly three and

a half years later. And now you have three and

a half prophetic years, which is one thousand, two hundred

and sixty years from five thirty eight to seventeen ninety eight.

What happened? Then? Napoleon sent his general Berthier into France,

arrested the pope, put him in captivity. He died in captivity.

The Catholic Church lost its dominance over Europe during the

time of Napoleon, But that deadly wound would be healed later.

We'll talk about that in another study. During the dark ages,

the church one underground. You've heard of the waled Vincians

and the Huguenots, and they lived in the Alps, and

they lived in the mountains, and they would try to

share their faith time of great persecution. But another way,

the church fled into the wilderness. What country all of

a sudden comes into visibility right about the time of

seventeen ninety eight. When did the United States have our

declaration of independence? Seventeen seventy six, Now that's when we

declared it. Are you aware that the nations of Europe

did recognize US as an independent country until seventeen ninety eight.

They realized, you know, they finally looked like they broke

free of Britain and seventeen ninety eight, they treated us

as an independent country, and all the nations of Europe

welcomed our ambassadors. At that time, America then became the

depository of free Protestant religion. Why did the pilgrims come, Well,

some came for trade and some came for exploration. But

the first ships that landed they were looking for a

light on a hill. They were looking for a place

where to practice our religion according to the dictates of

our conscience. And in just a few years America became

the world's number one supporter of international missions. We still

are today. Did you know that it became a bastion

of Protestant growth, and unfortunately a lot of Protestant division too.

We've got more denominations in North America Protestant ones than

any other country of the world. The Church fled into

the wilderness, not only in Europe, but during that end

of that time period, America opened up and provided a

place of freedom. The dragon persecuted the woman the church

who gave birth to the male child. Some people think

this woman was Mary. You're going to see a lot

of paintings in the Catholic Church of Mary standing on

a moon with twelve stars above her head. I must

tell you that it isn't Mary, it's the Church at large.

Mary was a godly woman. But doesn't say that Mary

fled into the wilderness and the dragon tried to devour her.

None of the rest of this prophecy applies to Mary.

Mary stayed with the apostle John, and she was well

known by the church, and she died probably in Antioch. Okay,

so you get the true Church is in the wilderness

from five thirty eight for one two hundred and sixty

years to seventeen ninety eight. You can look up these dates.

If you studied history at all, you're acquainted with these things.

You get this church state union. This beast receives a

deadly wound, but the deadly wound would be healed and

it would recover. We'll get to that later. So the

wilderness now opens up across the water, and America provides sanctuary,

and all the time period fits now. I always think

it's interesting people come from other countries. A lot of

immigrants come to America and they want to assimilate. And

I remember Karen and I were in Russia for the

fall of Communism, and we had Russian friends that moved

to America. Ok And they so, so, what do Americans

eat for breakfast? Cereal? Cereal? Okay, So they go to

the market and they find this aisle as long as

an airport terminal, and there's cereal on both sides, and

they're bewildered. They're going, how do I pick cereal? How

do you pick cereal? The cartoon on the cover. If

it's got the word coco, you pick it right. You

know how I pick my cereal. I don't look at

the picture. I immediately flip to the side of the

box and I read the ingredients. I read the ingredients,

I read the vitamins, I read the fiber content. If

the first ingredient is sugar or the second ingredient sugar,

I put it back. You know how people pick a

church in North America, there's so many different denominations. They

look at the cartoon cover. You know what the main

reasons are people pick churches in North America. It's the

church where my family went, got to be loyal to

the family. Now, that's nice, but that's not the right reason.

It's close to the house, that's great. If the church

is close, wrong reason great music program. We hope the

church has a good music program. Wrong reason to pick

a church, great children's program. You'd be surprised how many

people pick a church because they've got a good children's program.

That is important. Wrong reason to pick a church. I

like the looks of the building. It's new and sophisticated.

It's where the important people in the community go. That's

why they pick the church, because, you know, make contacts

and influence. I go because the preacher is good looking

and dynamic. We know, that's why you're all here this morning, right.

Or they go to the church because they have a

great pot luck. Now, I hope that you find a

church that has a good children's program, good music, good childcare.

The preacher will keep you awake. It's got a nice building,

good facilities that they sometimes feed you. And all those

things are good. None of them are the reason to

pick a church. Those are the main reason people in

North America a church. There is one reason to pick

a church. Biblically, you know what it is. The teachings

of the church are in harmony with the foundational teachings

of Jesus. You need to read the ingredients. You're responsible

for what your church teaches and what it believes? What

are the doctrines? You ask people? What does your church believe? Well,

my church believes the same as I do. Well, what

do you and your church believe? Same thing as the pastor?

What do you the pastor in the church believe? We

all believe alike. People don't know what they believe. Let's

face it, the average American is biblically I little. The

Bible says we should be ready to give an answer

to anyone who asks us the reason that is in

us with meekness and fear. People can tell you about

Survivor and The Bachelor and all these different programs, but

they can't tell you about Thus saith the Lord. We

need to know because the devil, the deception of the

last days are going to be so overwhelming. If it

were possible, even the very elect would be deceived. God

is telling us how to find his church. Let's take

a look for one thing it tells us when it

appears it appears after this time of great dearth the

seventeen ninety eight period. What are two other identifying marks

of God's true, remanent church. The dragon is enraged with

a woman, and he went to make war with the rest.

That word rests there. If you've got King Jacobs, it's

the remnant. It means the remainder of her offspring. Who

keep the commandments? Do you think that would be sixty percent?

Eighty percent? There is in one hundred percent They believe

in all one hundred percent. Every church keeps some of them.

They believe in all of the commandments of God and

have the testimony of Jesus. If you read Steen verse ten,

it says, fear God for the testimony of Jesus is

the spirit of prophecy. I there are religious leaders in

the country on TV I know where friends they come

to me and they said, Doug, you talked about prophecy

an awful light, And I said, yeah, it's thirty percent

of the Bible. And Jesus talks a lot about prophecy,

and it's there to help wake us up and prepare

people's coming friends. And yet a lot of churches are

ignoring these prophecies that appeal to the last These we

are in prophecy countdown right now, These things are unfolding.

Do you think the world's going to go on much

longer the way it's going With Ai and the explosion

of technology and the implosion of the environment, all these

things happening at once. And Jesus said that Day's going

to overtake most people as a thief. It is sooner

than you think. People all figure that, you know when

it turns into an apocalyptic meltdown. Yea, I guess the

end is coming. Jesus said, when he comes, they will

be planting and building and buying and selling and acting

like I've got lots of time left, and it'll overtake

the world as a thief. But Jesus said that day

should not overtake you as a thief. Why because you

read the Bible. You know what's coming. You're studying the word.

The dragon is angry with the woman number seven. How

did Jesus say the word to demonstrate our love for him?

For this is the love of God that we keep

his commandments. And his commandments are not burden some they're

not a burden. That's first John five to three, John

fourteen fifteen, Jesus said, if you love me, do what

keep my commandments? You know? I saw somebody had a

bumper steeker and said, if you love Jesus, honk your

horn any have you ever see that? Yeah, And you know,

you go up behind him and he say, oh.

It's a Christian beep beep, and.

They turn around. They gesture you in a way that

you can't repeat in church. They forgot about their bumper sticker.

And then I saw another bumper sticker and said, if

you love Jesus tithe, anybody can honk. That's interesting, If

you love Jesus tithe, anybody can honk. Honking's cheap. God

is wanting our hearts, He said, if you love me

Obamy number eight, what three angelic messages will God's end

Time Church be preaching? Now? It tells us what the

emphasis will be. If you read in Revelation fourteen just

before the Second Coming, take your bibles. You might turn

there real quick Revelation chapter fourteen. You know, Revelation thirteen

has the mark of the beast. Revelation fourteen then says,

and you can start with verse six. I saw another

angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the Everlasting

Gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth,

to every nation, tribe, tongue, going to the whole world.

God's Church on the last Days is not going to

be a local corner fellowship. It's going to be an

international movement. Every nation tongue in people, saying with a

loud voice that in Greek is megaphom. Fear God and

give glory to Him, for the hour of his judgment

has come. We are living during the time of what

you judgment, and worship him. It's calling this back to

worship the creator, Him that made the heaven the earth.

To see the springs of water. This is part of

the Sabbath command. And another angel followed saying, Babylon is fallen.

Is fallen that great city we just read about Babylon

in chapter seventeen, because she is talking about a woman

false church has made all nations drunk with the wrath

of her fornication. Babylon counterfeit. Truth is much bigger than

the true friends waiting when the true faithful remnant is

going to be popular, it will never happen. Christ said

most of his people forsook him because what he said

was difficult. Then the third angel followed them, saying with

a loud voice, if anyone worships the beast in his

image and receives his mark on his forehead or his hand,

he himself also will drink the wine of the wrath

of God that has poured out full strength into the

cup of his indignation, and will be tormented with fire

in brimstone, in the presence of the Holy Angels, in

the presence of the Lamb. The most fearful cursed plague

ever found in the Bible is in chapter fourteen of

the New Testament of Revelation, for those who receive the

Beast in his image? Do you think people should get

warned about this? Oh? And then look in verse fourteen,

same chapter. Then I looked and behold the white cloud,

and one on the cloud sat like the son of Man,

having on his head a golden crown and in his

hand a sharp sickle. Christ is coming to reap the

harvest of the earth. So these messages go to the

world just before the Second Coming. If that's clear, saymen,

you neaed the fight that is preaching the Three Angel's messages,

warning people about the false teachings of Babylon, warning about

the impending mark of the Beast, telling people to worship God,

that the time of judgment has come, that judgment must

begin at the House of God. All right, number eight,

So they'll be proclaiming these three angels messages, and I've

just read them to you. First Angel, the Everlasting Gospel.

The Gospel has not changed. We are saved by faith

in Jesus. It goes to the whole world for to

worship the aid. The Sabbath reminds me that God is

the Creator, calling people to worship the Creator. Second Angel,

Babylon is fallen. Is fallen. That means she's fallen. She's

not getting back up. This is a final judgment and

God is calling his people. God has his people in

Babylon calling her out. Let me tell you real quick

what that is dealing with. To understand revelation, you've got

to know what the Old Testament. In the Old Testament,

the children of Israel were carried off to Babylon because

of their faifulness. God, I told you to let the

land rest every seven years, let the land keep Sabbath.

You've not been doing that. So for the last four

hundred and ninety years that you have been ignoring that command,

I'm going to make you spend a year in captivity

while the land rests. So for seventy years they were

captive in Babylon. Now, if you went somewhere and camped

out for seventy years. I've only been here a week. Friends,

I tell you I am comfortable in my hotel room.

I got everything in its place. I got my gizmos,

my gadgets, I got my refrigerator, my food story bay.

When you camp out somewhere for seventy years, they had

their jobs, they had their children, they had their neighbors,

They spoke the language. They were assimilated. And God said,

after Babylon fell, come out of Babylon. Plagues are going

to fall on Babylon. You need to come back to

the Promised Land. And they said, Lord, we kind of

like it here. He said, you're my people. I want

you to come back. Even though it's a little country

compared to Babylon. You've got to trust me. The plagues

are coming on Babylon. Come out of her, my people.

His wife Mesopotamia Babylon. He brought Sarah from Mesopotamia to

the Promised Land. Where did Isaac get his wife Mesopotamia?

Abraham said, don't let him marry a local girl. The

servant went back and got Rebecca from Babylon, brought her

to the Promised Land. Where did Jacob get his wife

out of Babylon. Rachel actually got four for the price

of one. Got Rachel and Leah Zilvan Billha out of Babylon.

Back to the Promised Land. You see what's happening here

over my people, Back to the land I've given you.

Now Here we are in the last days. Babylon is

a religious belief system that has infiltrated. You know what

it's said in Revelation, Babylon the mother of Harlot, she

has a daughters. There's all of these churches. They have

a lot of elements of truth, but there's areas where

they've departed from the Bible and people have become drunk

with the wine of Babylon. And I'll tell you, friends,

there are pastors that I see on TV that are

begging for people's money. And I think people who believe

these guys must be drunk. They are brumpting in twisting

the Bible and taking advantage of people. They're not talking

to them about sin and repentance and living a holy

life and being a witness for Christ. They're talking about

everything's gonna be good. God's gonna bless you. You just

send me money, plant your seed of faith and everything

will be okay with you. And I'm thinking, where are

you calling them to repentance? The first words of Jesus

were repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

The words of John the Baptist of your sins, turn

from sin, be washed in the blood of the Lamb,

have the abundant life. They're not being taught the meat.

All they're getting is this syrupy What does the Bible

teach Amen come out of Babylon. And then you've got

the third message. He's not talking when he says Babylon.

He's not talking about ancient Babylon. It was destroyed back

in the days of Jeremiah. I'm sorry, back in the

days of Nehemiah. And it is never going to be

rebuilt again, Sir tenth Ancient Babylon. What do you call

it to Tom who's saying he's going to rebuild ancient Babylon.

And he got stopped both with the first and the

second goal war. And you can see a picture there.

He built his palace up above the ruins and it

is still ruins. God become capital. Third angel's message it

says that they if anyone worships the beast and his

image and receives his mark on the forehead. We've got

a lesson coming on that. Don't miss this week on

mark on the forehead of the hand, he himself will

drink the wine of the wrath of God. There'll be

great judgment on those number nine who will God? To

whom will God's Church present these messages having the Everlasting

Gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth,

to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people. This message is

going to go hearing. What specifications has God given in

his word to help us identify? Does God give us

anything specific to help us to find His remnant church

in the last days one it will appear into its

visible work after it emerges from its wilderness in seventeen

ninety eight. All right, well, let me just stop and

tell you something here. I know some of you are thinking, well,

pastor Doug, you're going to tell us to join your church.

Of course I am if I wasn't telling you that,

you're going to be saying, why don't you join the

church you think we should join. When I came to

Jesus and started reading the Bible, I went to a

lot of churches and met a lot of beautiful people,

but they all disagreed. I want to know the truth.

I want to be able to open up the Bible

and give a biblical defense for what I believe. There

are so many denominations. How do I make up my mind?

While I was living up in the cave in the

mountains there, someone brought me a book called The Great Controversy.

I don't know if any of you have seen our

commercials on Fox Network this week, and have you seen

some of the commercials you see Fox News? I see

some hands. Yeah, we're airing commercials, seventy commercials. It's the

only news channel that would air our irreligious commercials. Brussalem

and I hope you will order one of those and

read it. It pointed to presenting in this seminar, and

I said, this is the truth. Where have these people been?

And it led me to the Seventh Day administ Church.

The Seventh Day administ Church, I say it's popular, but

as I looked at this actual teachings, I said, this

is biblical. And I said, I want to go with

what the Bible says. So this church meets this criteria. Look,

it appears after the visible work after seventeen ninety eight.

It rose up in the eighteen hundreds. The thought and

its teachings will agree with the Bible. You know what

remnant means? I mean or and you order the remnant?

I hold up about it gets everyone's attention. Okay, when

you go to the store, the cardboard still under and

they on the cart. Now you notice what's this? And

then you set it off, and then pillows. I want

to make some curtains, and so that they start cutting

pieces off of the role, right, and they call it

a bolt of cloth, and they keep cutting it off,

and finally you get this odd shape down at the end,

and that's called the remnant. And they usually have them

on sale. But you know, the interesting thing about the

remnant is what comes off last is what went on first.

You with me God's Church in the last days, the

remnant is going to be as the church was in

the beginning. The Bible says that we are going to

return to the faith that was once delivered to the saints.

So we're going to have a faith, and we're going

to have a religion that's going to be the same

as a religion that the apostles were teaching in the beginning.

All right, let's keep going. It will proclaim God's three

end time messages with a loud voice. Is that the

loud reign that I hear. I'm gonna go with that.

It'll have those three messages. It'll be proclaiming that to

the world. It will be a worldwide movement. It's not

just a local congregation. There are some lovely neighborhood churches

where every pastor sort of is a law unto himself.

But this is a global movement. Do you know that

the Seventh day administ Church is the fastest growing Protestant

church in the world. I don't even like to call

it a denomination as far as I'm concerned, It's a movement.

And just in the last couple of years, Karen and

I have been to India and Pakistan, in China and

Malaysia and South American, Central American. We just we travel

all over the world, and everywhere we go we meet

these people that are finding Bible truth and they are

swarming back to the Word of God, which tells me

that Jesus is coming soon. It will teach the same

gospel as the end times. While it was around the

time of the founding of our country that this church

rose up because it had a nurturing, fertilizing place where

there was freedom of religion and people could practice their

faith here. I am in twenty fourteen. Do you know,

Amazing Facts was one of the only groups that was

allowed to come into China and preach a full evangelistic

series like I'm doing here, except a lot more people.

I was able to preach for fifteen nights, the same

number of meetings I'm doing here in mainland China, and

then they stopped and we are able to videotape it,

and the tapes are going around the country this last year.

The largest Christian church in India probably third or fourth

largest Christian church in the world. The pastor there is

a friend of mine, doctor Satish Kumar. He let me

preach in his church. I'll tell your friends, if you

want to make an evangelist happy. He let him preach

to about twenty thousand people. His membership is three hundred

and ninety thousand, and they have about five services during

the day and all these buildings scattered across and he's

got campuses everywhere. And he used to listen to Amazing

Facts tapes years ago when he first went into the ministry,

so he doesn't believe everything we believe. But he's a

Bible preacher, and he is watching. He's letting us share

his material. We're sending magazines that he's sharing with his congregation.

Things are happening all over the world. Friends, Jesus gave

us the seven prophetic identifying marks, and he said, go

and find my church. What does Jesus promise if you search?

He says, seek and you will find. And the seeking

needs to happen in the Bible number twelve. How many

church organizations will fit in the word, will fit in

the world. I'm sorry, how many church organizations in the

world will fit these seven points. There's what one Lord,

one faith, one baptism, and they're going to match up

with what the teachings of the Scripture are. Going back

to the teachings of Bible times number thirteen. Many denominations

call themselves Christians. Does that make them God's true church? No?

You read in Isaiah chapter four, verse one, in that

day seven women, what's a woman? They'll take hold of

one man, Jesus saying, we'll lead our own bread, their

own idea of the bread of life. Well wear our

own apparel, our own idea of righteousness. But we want

to be called by your name to take away our reproach.

You got all these different churches. They want the name Christianity,

but there's a lot of wolves that are scattered in

among the sheep. How do you pick a church with

all these denominations? Friends, read the ingredients. It's in the

Bible number fourteen. Once a person discovers God's true end

time church, is it necessary to become a member? Well?

Why when did you want to? The Bible says the

Lord did what he added to the church daily those

who are being saved, who wants to be saved, we

must be part of that. Take a stand with God's people,

take a stand for God's truth. Membership in God's end

time Church were called into one body. That body is

the Church First Corinthians, Chapter twelve thirteen. We enter that

body by baptism number fifteen. How many ways of escape?

Where they're In Noah's day? There was one arc and

there was one door, and Jesus said, I am the door.

The Bible says that he is the truth. Friends, there

aren't multiple truths. Are you aware of that? There is

the truth? Jesus is the truth. There is one arc

in the last days. Since here's the important question, since

there are many faithful Christians in other churches, and since

God only has one remnant church in the last days,

what's going to happen to these sincere Christians? Answer, Jesus said,

other sheep I have that are not of this fold,

them also I must bring. They will hear my voice

through the word and through the preacher. They will hear

my voice, and there will be how many one flock,

one fold, one shepherd. When Jesus comes back, do you

think he's coming back for church that's scattered through all

these different disagreeing denominations, or is there going to be

a movement of the spirit that's going to bring people

back together based on the Word? Where Christians are going

to stand? And I see that movement happening now in

North America. You can see people are thinking more about Christianity.

But you can be sure there's going to be a

polarization to the right and to the left. And we're

gonna have to say, we're going to go buy the

Bible and what the Bible says, Amen Babylon, the Great

is falling, God says, come out of her my people,

that you may not share in her sins or receive

of her plays. Jesus is calling you today to be

part of his people, to enter that ark of safety.

You're very precious to him. Now, you got a card

when you came in. If you'd reach for that right now,

I'd like to invite you to take this card out.

Those who are watching you will find this at the

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contact information on here. You may have a prayer request

you just want to put on the back for us.

We have a team that will pray for you first

and foremost. If you'd like to say I have accepted

Jesus as my personal savior, we like to encourage you

to make that decision, check that box. Second question, I

see from the Bible that God has.

A remnant people.

In these last days. You can see that God's going

to bring his people back. There'll be one fold and

one shepherd, and you want to be part of that.

Number three. I desire to worship in spirit and truth

and would like to join God's remnant people. I want

to be part of that movement that is based solely

on the word of God. Please mark that on your envelope.

Question number four. I still have questions about this subject

and I'd welcome help to study it further. You'd maybe

like some Bible studies to help you with that, and

I'd like you to be praying. Friends. I know that

some of you are thinking about getting to your cards

or getting to your lunch, but I'd like to have

you appreciate this sacred moment today. I presented before you

life and good, blessing and cursing death and evil. That's

what Moses said to the children of Israel. Jesus wants

us to take a stand for the truth. The truth

is not to be a burden. Sometimes the truth hurts,

but Jesus said, the truth will set you free. God

has a plan for your life. You're not hearing this

message now by accident. You're not here in this audience

by accident. It's because God had a divine appointment. I'd

like you to pray and write down on your envelope

say Lord, yes, I want to say yes to Jesus.

I want to be part of your people. If you've

not been baptized biblically, you might include that in the

section there and say I'm interested in baptism, or you

may have some prayer requests for us. Please write that

down and may I pray with you as we close

and you make these decisions. After you fill out your envelope,

don't just take it home with you. There'll be ushers

at the door that will take your envelopes and we'll

be praying over that and we'll contact you Father in heaven. Lord,

we are thankful for the moving of your spirit in

these last days that reminds us that Jesus is coming soon.

That you are preaching these three angel messages around the

world right now, you're calling people together. I pray that

you'll bless each of these people. Some are hearing these

things for the first time, and there's a struggle going

on in their hearts. Help them to recognize your voice

speaking through your word. Pray you'll bless answer any questions

that may be lingering, and help them say yes to

Jesus and yes to the truth. Bless them all, bless

our meetings that follow. We thank you. We pray all

these things in Jesus' name. Amen, God, bless you friends.

When is our next meeting tomorrow night? No? No, no, no,

don't go anywhere yet. Wait, I want to ask you

a favor. I'm going to take a picture with you.

Is that okay? The next meeting is going to be

tonight and it's the Devil and Dead Prophets. You don't

want to miss this because, especially with Halloween coming, a

lot of people are being to see it by what's happening.

So sit there for just a moment. We're going to

invite the photographer to come out. We're going to take

a selfie together. And but if you all smile, it.

Won't take long.

Is pastor offs coming? Just me? Okay, smile, don't move

if you wave