1 00:00:00,660 --> 00:00:02,980 Israel, verse 68, For he hath visited and 2 00:00:02,980 --> 00:00:05,580 redeemed his people, and hath raised up an 3 00:00:05,580 --> 00:00:07,580 horn of salvation for us in the house 4 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:08,600 of his servant David. 5 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:10,780 As his fate by the mouth of his 6 00:00:10,780 --> 00:00:13,060 holy prophets, which have been since the world, 7 00:00:13,140 --> 00:00:15,400 began, that we should be saved from our 8 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:16,960 enemies and from the hand of all that 9 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,680 hate us, to perform the mercy promised for 10 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,740 our fathers, and to remember his holy covenants 11 00:00:24,060 --> 00:00:25,840 fulfilled in Jesus. 12 00:00:27,540 --> 00:00:29,400 He was the first one who was born 13 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,520 of that promise, wasn't he? 14 00:00:31,259 --> 00:00:32,700 And he's your elder brother. 15 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:35,840 And you have been born of the same 16 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:36,920 promise, isn't that right? 17 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,340 The same life incarnate in you. 18 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,240 And I think that's the most likely explanation 19 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:51,800 of the woman and her seed. 20 00:00:53,260 --> 00:00:55,840 An explanation backed by scripture. 21 00:01:05,470 --> 00:01:07,130 Now let's see what happens. 22 00:01:15,010 --> 00:01:17,410 When Jesus died and rose again, there was 23 00:01:17,410 --> 00:01:18,590 war in heaven, wasn't there? 24 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,520 Didn't he triumph over principalities and powers? 25 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:26,360 Was it Satan cast down? 26 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,080 Didn't he emerge from the battle triumphant, crying, 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,300 I have the keys of death and hell? 28 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,600 Yeah, there was war in heaven when Jesus 29 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:39,840 rose from the dead. 30 00:01:41,060 --> 00:01:42,720 Michael and his angel. 31 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,180 I wonder, angels were manifest in the resurrection 32 00:01:46,180 --> 00:01:54,580 against the devil, who then was manifesting himself 33 00:01:54,580 --> 00:01:58,280 in this form, a red dragon having seven 34 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,720 heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon 35 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:04,460 his head. 36 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,039 The old familiar Roman Empire pattern, isn't it? 37 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,300 Seven heads and ten horns. 38 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,580 And it was a Roman cross upon which 39 00:02:16,580 --> 00:02:17,660 our Lord died. 40 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,880 Roman soldiers nailed him to it. 41 00:02:21,660 --> 00:02:25,580 A Roman declaration was put over his head. 42 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:29,020 Satan was operating through Rome against our Lord 43 00:02:29,020 --> 00:02:29,780 Jesus Christ. 44 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:34,560 But notice where the crowns are. 45 00:02:35,020 --> 00:02:38,040 The crowns are on the seven heads and 46 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,340 not, as in chapter 13, on the ten 47 00:02:41,340 --> 00:02:41,960 horns. 48 00:02:42,460 --> 00:02:45,140 That is its old Rome, old pagan Rome, 49 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,420 with its changing forms of government, that is 50 00:02:49,420 --> 00:02:50,580 in power here. 51 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,620 Persecuting, coming against the man-child who is 52 00:02:54,620 --> 00:02:56,940 caught up to God, and then coming against 53 00:02:56,940 --> 00:02:58,740 the remnant of the woman's seed. 54 00:02:59,420 --> 00:03:01,960 And you know how in the first three 55 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,220 centuries it was pagan Rome that was the 56 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:08,260 bitter opponent of the early church. 57 00:03:08,780 --> 00:03:10,960 And the brethren of Christ suffered ten great 58 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,100 persecutions as a result of that opposition. 59 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:20,520 But Satan had a second defeat from the 60 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:25,700 heavenlies, when in the era of Constantine, the 61 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:29,100 pagan powers of heaven were cast down. 62 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,480 And Satan had to adopt new disguises. 63 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,660 No longer could he hide himself in pagan 64 00:03:36,660 --> 00:03:37,060 Rome. 65 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,820 He changed his form and identified with the 66 00:03:43,820 --> 00:03:45,540 drawing anti-Christian force. 67 00:03:51,030 --> 00:03:53,690 So in chapter 13 you have the crown 68 00:03:53,690 --> 00:03:58,690 on the ten heads, on the ten horns, 69 00:03:58,910 --> 00:03:59,630 they've moved. 70 00:04:06,630 --> 00:04:08,350 The woman was given two wings of a 71 00:04:08,350 --> 00:04:11,090 great eagle, for she was persecuted for the 72 00:04:11,090 --> 00:04:12,890 one to sixty years. 73 00:04:13,630 --> 00:04:15,550 That is once again the period of the 74 00:04:15,550 --> 00:04:19,630 great apostasy, beginning to manifest itself by the 75 00:04:19,630 --> 00:04:21,190 sixth century and going on. 76 00:04:21,630 --> 00:04:24,630 God took this precious gospel and hid it. 77 00:04:25,970 --> 00:04:27,870 Those who loved it hid away in the 78 00:04:27,870 --> 00:04:30,390 mountains in the Alps, in the mountains of 79 00:04:30,390 --> 00:04:32,630 Asia Minor, in the mountains of Austria, in 80 00:04:32,630 --> 00:04:34,790 the remote recesses of Britain. 81 00:04:35,250 --> 00:04:39,820 God took the testimony and hid it, and 82 00:04:39,820 --> 00:04:41,420 the remnant of her seed were with her. 83 00:04:42,740 --> 00:04:46,380 And the earth helped the woman, and opened 84 00:04:46,380 --> 00:04:48,120 up her mouth and swallowed the blood which 85 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,640 the dragon cast out of his mouth. 86 00:04:50,220 --> 00:04:52,340 I've just been mentioning how those great papal 87 00:04:52,340 --> 00:04:55,900 armies came against the Waldensian brethren in the 88 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:58,620 Alps, and time and again a whole army 89 00:04:58,620 --> 00:05:00,140 was swallowed up in those mountains. 90 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,820 The combination of the mists and the precipices 91 00:05:04,820 --> 00:05:05,920 defeated them. 92 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:09,100 A handful of men protecting their homes would 93 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:10,160 defeat a whole army. 94 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,000 The earth opened her mouth and helped the 95 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:13,240 woman. 96 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:14,560 Swallowed up the flood. 97 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,600 You know that flood is one of the 98 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,120 scripture symbols of an army. 99 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,720 Swallowed up army after army. 100 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,120 The dragon was broke with the woman, and 101 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,760 went to make war with the remnant of 102 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,440 her seed, which keep the commandments of God, 103 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:31,060 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 104 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,200 And still, as you know, in many parts 105 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,340 of the world, those who love the Lord, 106 00:05:35,420 --> 00:05:37,820 whom you love, who read the Bible that 107 00:05:37,820 --> 00:05:40,620 you read, are still suffering from the bitter 108 00:05:40,620 --> 00:05:42,520 attacks of the great dragon. 109 00:05:51,540 --> 00:05:52,580 All right, let's take a break. 110 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:53,500 Five minutes. 111 00:06:00,350 --> 00:06:03,170 If you have questions, keep them, make a 112 00:06:03,170 --> 00:06:05,210 note of them, write them down, and I'll 113 00:06:05,210 --> 00:06:06,750 try and answer them before we close the 114 00:06:06,750 --> 00:06:06,990 minute. 115 00:06:08,250 --> 00:06:10,610 And well, in the meantime, I'll push on 116 00:06:10,610 --> 00:06:12,790 into Revelation 13. 117 00:06:13,790 --> 00:06:19,430 Once again, another view back over history to 118 00:06:19,430 --> 00:06:21,590 bring us up to date to the present 119 00:06:21,590 --> 00:06:24,890 position in the book of Revelation, obviously the 120 00:06:24,890 --> 00:06:26,090 most important position. 121 00:06:29,090 --> 00:06:31,150 Chapter 13, I stood upon the sand of 122 00:06:31,150 --> 00:06:34,510 the sea and saw a beast rise up 123 00:06:34,510 --> 00:06:37,130 out of the sea, having seven heads and 124 00:06:37,130 --> 00:06:40,590 ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, 125 00:06:40,590 --> 00:06:44,590 and upon his heads the names of blasphemy. 126 00:06:45,390 --> 00:06:48,330 The beast was like a leopard, feet like 127 00:06:48,330 --> 00:06:49,810 a bear, mouth like a lion. 128 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:52,570 The dragon gave him his power, his seat, 129 00:06:52,710 --> 00:06:53,610 and great authority. 130 00:06:54,850 --> 00:06:56,330 I saw one of his heads, as it 131 00:06:56,330 --> 00:06:57,390 were, wounded to death. 132 00:06:57,910 --> 00:06:59,190 His deadly wound was healed. 133 00:06:59,330 --> 00:07:01,050 All the world wondered after the beast. 134 00:07:01,770 --> 00:07:04,090 And they worshipped the dragon, which gave power 135 00:07:04,090 --> 00:07:06,110 to the beast, and they worshipped the saying, 136 00:07:06,550 --> 00:07:08,070 who is like unto the beast, who is 137 00:07:08,070 --> 00:07:09,290 able to make war with him. 138 00:07:11,010 --> 00:07:13,950 There was given unto him a mouth speaking 139 00:07:13,950 --> 00:07:17,010 great things and blasphemies, and power was given 140 00:07:17,010 --> 00:07:19,250 unto him to continue forth in two months, 141 00:07:19,330 --> 00:07:20,330 as our period again. 142 00:07:21,130 --> 00:07:23,470 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against 143 00:07:23,470 --> 00:07:26,610 God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle 144 00:07:26,610 --> 00:07:28,210 and them that dwell in heaven. 145 00:07:29,090 --> 00:07:30,710 And it was given to him to make 146 00:07:30,710 --> 00:07:32,550 war with the saints and to overcome them, 147 00:07:32,550 --> 00:07:35,470 and power was given him over all kindreds, 148 00:07:35,650 --> 00:07:36,290 towns and nations. 149 00:07:37,070 --> 00:07:38,850 And all that dwell on the earth shall 150 00:07:38,850 --> 00:07:42,270 worship him, whose names are not written in 151 00:07:42,270 --> 00:07:44,290 the book of the life of the Lamb 152 00:07:44,290 --> 00:07:46,190 slain from the foundation of the world. 153 00:07:47,250 --> 00:07:48,910 If any man have an ear to hear, 154 00:07:49,670 --> 00:07:50,450 let him hear. 155 00:07:51,170 --> 00:07:53,190 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into 156 00:07:53,190 --> 00:07:53,670 captivity. 157 00:07:54,230 --> 00:07:56,070 He that killeth with the sword must be 158 00:07:56,070 --> 00:07:57,150 killed with the sword. 159 00:07:57,630 --> 00:08:00,870 Here's the patience and the faith of the 160 00:08:00,870 --> 00:08:01,310 saints. 161 00:08:05,420 --> 00:08:08,800 Once again we see the Roman beast in 162 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,020 view, now very obviously receiving his power from 163 00:08:14,020 --> 00:08:15,900 the dragon, from satan. 164 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:22,660 We notice his heads, upon his head the 165 00:08:22,660 --> 00:08:23,720 name of blasphemy. 166 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,680 You know that blasphemy in scripture isn't the 167 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,740 sort of oath and curse that we hear 168 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:31,280 in our civilization. 169 00:08:31,860 --> 00:08:33,980 It is that thou being a man makest 170 00:08:33,980 --> 00:08:34,919 thyself God. 171 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,080 That's what they accused Jesus of. 172 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:39,480 Why do you take up stones to stone 173 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:39,640 me? 174 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,140 They said for blasphemy, because thou being a 175 00:08:42,140 --> 00:08:44,120 man makest thyself God. 176 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:46,480 That is the kind of blasphemy we have 177 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:47,200 in view here. 178 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,560 The Caesars took, demanded worship as God. 179 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:58,940 One of his hands wounded to death. 180 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:04,500 We have already seen how the Roman beast, 181 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,740 which was in full sway in John's time. 182 00:09:08,900 --> 00:09:14,140 Let's have a look at Revelation 17 verse 183 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:16,460 10. 184 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,660 There are seven kings, five are fallen, one 185 00:09:19,660 --> 00:09:21,460 is and the other is not yet come. 186 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,480 And when he cometh he must continue a 187 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,360 short space. 188 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,640 The beast that was and is not even 189 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:28,940 he is the eighth and is of the 190 00:09:28,940 --> 00:09:30,960 seven and goes into perdition. 191 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:37,600 So at John's time the sixth head of 192 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,000 the Roman empire was in power. 193 00:09:41,620 --> 00:09:44,500 And we know that was the great pagan 194 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,840 emperors who were ruling the world at that 195 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:47,260 time. 196 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,420 The seventh head then would have been the 197 00:09:50,420 --> 00:09:52,180 Christian emperors who succeeded them. 198 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,620 They continued a short space. 199 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:57,500 The empire broke up under them and everybody 200 00:09:57,500 --> 00:09:59,040 thought that was the end of it. 201 00:09:59,820 --> 00:10:03,740 But out of the wreckage of decadent Rome, 202 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:06,240 the deadly wound was healed. 203 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,040 And it was the bishop of Rome that 204 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,760 pulled Europe together and formed that new ecclesiastical 205 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,120 empire which proved to be more powerful than 206 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,060 the great empire it displaced. 207 00:10:20,780 --> 00:10:21,820 The deadly wound was healed. 208 00:10:21,940 --> 00:10:23,580 All the world wondered after the beast. 209 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,520 They worshipped the dragon which gave power to 210 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:26,880 the beast. 211 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,120 They worshipped the beast saying who is like 212 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:29,720 unto the beast? 213 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,300 Who is able to make war with him? 214 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,420 He had a mouth speaking great things of 215 00:10:34,420 --> 00:10:35,140 blasphemies. 216 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,940 Power was given to him to continue forty 217 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:38,660 and two months. 218 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,940 He opened his mouth in blasphemy against God 219 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:44,140 to blaspheme his name, his tabernacle and them 220 00:10:44,140 --> 00:10:45,300 that dwell in heaven. 221 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:47,400 I better remind you of some of his 222 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:47,920 vassaries. 223 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,060 I have the authority of the king of 224 00:10:56,060 --> 00:10:56,440 kings. 225 00:10:57,060 --> 00:10:59,100 I am all in all and above all 226 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:00,940 so that God himself and I the vicar 227 00:11:00,940 --> 00:11:02,860 of Christ, vicar of God have but one 228 00:11:02,860 --> 00:11:03,500 consistory. 229 00:11:05,140 --> 00:11:06,960 I am able to do almost all that 230 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:07,720 God can do. 231 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:10,180 What can you make of me but God? 232 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,380 And again there are many of those. 233 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:25,280 He was, this is Pope, Pope Pius II 234 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,580 was angry that the church councils were beginning 235 00:11:29,580 --> 00:11:32,120 to exercise authority over the Pope because he 236 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,180 was so morally rotten. 237 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:35,360 And this is what he said. 238 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:39,200 An excrucible and hitherto unheard of abuse has 239 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,160 arisen in our time, namely that some people 240 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,600 in the spirit of rebellion presume to appeal 241 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,800 to a council from the Roman pontiff, the 242 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:47,820 vicar of Jesus Christ. 243 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,240 We condemn appeals of this kind by councils, 244 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,580 prelates and consults of divine or human law. 245 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:57,900 We denounce them as erroneous and detestable and 246 00:11:57,900 --> 00:12:00,260 low and quash them and declare that they 247 00:12:00,260 --> 00:12:01,200 are of no significance. 248 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,660 We command that nobody may dare under any 249 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:06,920 pretext to make such an appeal against any 250 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:08,260 of our sentences and commands. 251 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,060 It is forbidden for any man to oppose 252 00:12:11,060 --> 00:12:13,560 or infringe this charter of our will by 253 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,480 which we condemn, reprove, null and quash the 254 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:16,880 forces. 255 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:20,180 If anyone so attempt, he shall incur the 256 00:12:20,180 --> 00:12:23,000 indignation of almighty God and of St. Peter 257 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,140 and St. Paul. 258 00:12:25,420 --> 00:12:28,980 You may be interested to know that the 259 00:12:28,980 --> 00:12:32,920 Pope gave all America, North and South, to 260 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:33,400 Spain. 261 00:12:35,470 --> 00:12:40,250 We give, this is the Pope Alexander, we 262 00:12:40,250 --> 00:12:42,090 give a sign and concede to you, out 263 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:44,290 of our kindness, knowledge and fullness and apostolic 264 00:12:44,290 --> 00:12:47,410 power, by the authority of almighty God and 265 00:12:47,410 --> 00:12:49,370 by the vicariate of Jesus Christ, which we 266 00:12:49,370 --> 00:12:51,630 have on the earth, all the islands and 267 00:12:51,630 --> 00:12:54,850 mainlands, discovered and yet to be discovered, west 268 00:12:54,850 --> 00:12:57,070 or south of the line drawn from the 269 00:12:57,070 --> 00:13:00,410 Arctic to the Antarctic pole, one hundred leagues 270 00:13:00,410 --> 00:13:02,090 west and south of any of the islands 271 00:13:02,090 --> 00:13:05,890 commonly called Azores and Cape Verde, irrespective of 272 00:13:05,890 --> 00:13:07,530 whether the islands and mainlands are in the 273 00:13:07,530 --> 00:13:09,670 direction of India or of any other country, 274 00:13:10,370 --> 00:13:12,730 and we strictly forbid anybody of any rank, 275 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:15,670 imperial or royal, or of any other status, 276 00:13:16,170 --> 00:13:19,510 under penalty of excommunication, to dare without your 277 00:13:19,510 --> 00:13:22,410 license to approach, for the purpose of trade 278 00:13:22,410 --> 00:13:24,690 or for any other reason, the islands and 279 00:13:24,690 --> 00:13:26,830 mainlands discovered or yet to be discovered. 280 00:13:27,450 --> 00:13:30,930 This we ordain, notwithstanding any apostolic bulls or 281 00:13:30,930 --> 00:13:33,990 ordinances or documents to the contrary, confident in 282 00:13:33,990 --> 00:13:35,670 him from whom empires 283 00:13:44,380 --> 00:13:56,500 proceed." 284 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:58,220 So there you are, Queen Elizabeth of England, 285 00:13:58,360 --> 00:13:59,220 the first Elizabeth. 286 00:13:59,820 --> 00:14:01,780 "...he who reigns on high, to whom is 287 00:14:01,780 --> 00:14:03,360 given all power in heaven and earth, has 288 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,800 entrusted his holy and catholic and apostolic church, 289 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,560 outside of which there is no salvation, to 290 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:10,440 one person alone, that is to Peter, the 291 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,700 prince of the apostles, and his successor, Roman 292 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:13,380 Pontius. 293 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:15,780 He alone is appointed prince over all nations 294 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:17,620 and kingdoms, to root up and to pull 295 00:14:17,620 --> 00:14:20,200 down, to plant and build, to waste and 296 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,200 destroy, among others assisting in the work of 297 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,980 abominable doctrines, is the servant of vice Elizabeth, 298 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,880 pretended queen of England, with whom, as in 299 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,500 the place of sanctuary, the most nefarious wretches 300 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:32,500 have found refuge. 301 00:14:33,300 --> 00:14:36,020 This woman, acquiring the kingdom and usurping for 302 00:14:36,020 --> 00:14:39,620 herself its chief authority and jurisdiction, has again 303 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:41,660 plunged that kingdom back into a wretched and 304 00:14:41,660 --> 00:14:44,400 unhappy condition, after it had so recently been 305 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,060 reclaimed for the catholic religion and prosperity. 306 00:14:47,980 --> 00:14:50,860 Therefore, being strengthened by the authority of him 307 00:14:50,860 --> 00:14:53,420 who gave us this plenitude of apostolic power, 308 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:55,640 we declare the authority of Elizabeth to be 309 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,600 a heretic, and an aider and abetter of 310 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:58,000 heretics. 311 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,420 We declare her to have incurred the sentence 312 00:15:00,420 --> 00:15:01,360 of excommunication. 313 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,200 Further, we declare her to be deprived of 314 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:05,900 her pretended claim to the kingdom of England, 315 00:15:06,420 --> 00:15:08,600 and of all authority and dominion whatsoever. 316 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,580 We command and bid all and sundry against 317 00:15:11,580 --> 00:15:13,680 her people, her lords and councillors and subjects, 318 00:15:14,020 --> 00:15:15,760 that they do not obey her or her 319 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,440 under pain of excommunication. 320 00:15:26,730 --> 00:15:31,150 In Ireland, the popes failed in their attempt 321 00:15:31,150 --> 00:15:33,590 to subdue and subvert England and Scotland, but 322 00:15:33,590 --> 00:15:34,730 they did better in Ireland. 323 00:15:34,870 --> 00:15:37,870 In 1641, the catholic bishops of Ireland, under 324 00:15:37,870 --> 00:15:39,830 the instruction of the pope, proclaimed a holy 325 00:15:39,830 --> 00:15:42,030 war and incited their people to massacre the 326 00:15:42,030 --> 00:15:42,610 Protestants. 327 00:15:43,310 --> 00:15:45,670 Villages and towns were destroyed, rivers of Ireland 328 00:15:45,670 --> 00:15:48,970 literally ran red with blood, even cattle were 329 00:15:48,970 --> 00:15:49,750 tortured. 330 00:15:50,430 --> 00:15:52,410 Burial of the Protestant dead was forbidden, but 331 00:15:52,410 --> 00:15:53,710 many were buried alive. 332 00:15:54,530 --> 00:15:56,850 Five hundred thousand Protestants were either massacred or 333 00:15:56,850 --> 00:15:57,430 expelled. 334 00:15:57,750 --> 00:16:00,290 Pope Urban issued this bull in commemoration of 335 00:16:00,290 --> 00:16:02,930 the deeds, extolling the faithfulness and loyalty of 336 00:16:02,930 --> 00:16:05,410 the catholic murderers, commending them in the name 337 00:16:05,410 --> 00:16:07,850 of God, and rewarding them with full and 338 00:16:07,850 --> 00:16:10,390 absolute remission of all their sins. 339 00:16:10,830 --> 00:16:12,890 To all who had so faithfully and gallantly 340 00:16:12,890 --> 00:16:15,390 done what in them lay, to extirpate and 341 00:16:15,390 --> 00:16:19,410 wholly root out this pestilipitous leaven of heretical 342 00:16:19,410 --> 00:16:20,010 contagion. 343 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,680 Against the scripture, Pope Gregory condemned Wycliffe as 344 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,680 having run into a detestable kind of wickedness 345 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,700 because he translated the scriptures into the common 346 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:39,260 speech. 347 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,060 Pope Leo X issued a bull against the 348 00:16:43,060 --> 00:16:46,040 German translation, carrying the foulest language. 349 00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:51,560 The bull condemns as false, shocking, scandalous and 350 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,800 impious and blasphemous against God and his pontiff, 351 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,020 the reading of the scripture by everybody. 352 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:04,060 Pope Pius VII, 1810, issued pronouncements against Bible 353 00:17:04,060 --> 00:17:07,800 societies and said, any association for the promulgation 354 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,180 of scripture to the common people is a 355 00:17:10,180 --> 00:17:13,619 crafty device whereby the very foundations of religion 356 00:17:13,619 --> 00:17:14,660 are undermined. 357 00:17:15,339 --> 00:17:18,680 A pestilence dangerous to Christianity, a defilement of 358 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,079 the faith dangerous to souls, a nefarious scheme. 359 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:34,040 Even as late as 1864, Pope Pius IX 360 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:40,500 reasserts medieval claims and says, we, the divine 361 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,360 vice-regents on earth, curse all who differ 362 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,200 from the Roman pontiff in belief and practice, 363 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,480 and summon the whole world to absolute submission 364 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,640 on pain of eternal damnation. 365 00:17:56,330 --> 00:17:59,190 So you can see that the case, the 366 00:17:59,190 --> 00:18:00,570 position is very very strong. 367 00:18:07,860 --> 00:18:09,640 It was given to him to make war 368 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,640 with the saints and to overcome them, and 369 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,580 power was given him over all kindreds and 370 00:18:14,580 --> 00:18:15,760 tongues and nations. 371 00:18:18,340 --> 00:18:20,720 As to the practice of this unchangeable church, 372 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,480 there is not a statement in the following 373 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,900 quotation which history does not abundantly substantiate. 374 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,620 As some luxurious emperors of Rome exhausted the 375 00:18:30,620 --> 00:18:33,500 whole art of pleasure so that the reward 376 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:35,220 was promised to any who should invent a 377 00:18:35,220 --> 00:18:38,540 new one, so have the Romish persecutors exhausted 378 00:18:38,540 --> 00:18:41,420 all the art of pain, so that it 379 00:18:41,420 --> 00:18:43,520 will now be difficult to discover or invent 380 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,280 a new kind of it which they have 381 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,680 not already practiced upon those marked out for 382 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:48,100 heretics. 383 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,200 They have been shot, stabbed, stoned, drowned, beheaded, 384 00:18:53,420 --> 00:18:57,920 hanged, drawn, quartered, impaled, burnt, buried alive, roasted 385 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,900 on spits, baked in ovens, thrown into furnaces, 386 00:19:01,420 --> 00:19:03,600 tumbled over precipices, cast from the tops of 387 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,560 towers, sunk in mire and pits, starved with 388 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,720 hunger and cold, hung on tensure hooks, suspended 389 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,740 by the hair of the head, by hands 390 00:19:11,740 --> 00:19:14,260 or feet, stuffed and blown up with gunpowder, 391 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:16,660 ripped with swords and sickles, tied to the 392 00:19:16,660 --> 00:19:20,140 tails of horses, dragged over streets and sharp 393 00:19:20,140 --> 00:19:22,940 plinths, broken on the wheel, beaten on anvils 394 00:19:22,940 --> 00:19:26,020 with hammers, blown with bellows, bored with hot 395 00:19:26,020 --> 00:19:30,100 irons, torn piecemeal by red-hot pincers, slashed 396 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:32,940 with knives, hacked with axes, hewed with chisels, 397 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,300 planed with planes, pricked with forks, stuck from 398 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,720 head to foot with pins, choked with water, 399 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,380 lines, rags, urine, excrement, or mangled pieces of 400 00:19:42,380 --> 00:19:45,020 their own bodies, crammed down their throats, shut 401 00:19:45,020 --> 00:19:47,200 up in caves and dungeons, tied to stakes, 402 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,520 mailed to trees, tormented with lighted matches, scalding 403 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,420 oil, burning pitch, melted limbs. 404 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,060 They have been played alive, had their flesh 405 00:19:55,060 --> 00:19:57,440 scalped and torn from their bones, they have 406 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,640 been trampled and danced upon until their bowels 407 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,080 have been crossed out, their guts have been 408 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,120 tied to trees and pulled forth by degrees, 409 00:20:04,780 --> 00:20:06,840 their heads twisted with cords till the blood, 410 00:20:06,980 --> 00:20:09,500 or even their eyes sprouted out, strings have 411 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:11,180 been drawn through their noses, they have been 412 00:20:11,180 --> 00:20:14,320 leaded out like swine, butchered like sheep, to 413 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,460 dig out eyes, tear off nails, cut off 414 00:20:16,460 --> 00:20:19,420 ears, lips, tongues, arms, breasts, has been ordinary 415 00:20:19,420 --> 00:20:22,280 sport with ronins, converters, and holy butchers. 416 00:20:22,980 --> 00:20:25,200 Persons have been compelled to lay violent hands 417 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,700 on their dearest friends, to kill or cast 418 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:30,320 into the fire their parents, husbands, wives, children, 419 00:20:30,860 --> 00:20:32,400 to look upon them while they've been most 420 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:33,960 cruelly and shamefully abused. 421 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,980 Women and young maids have also suffered such 422 00:20:36,980 --> 00:20:41,360 barbarities, accompanied with all the imaginable indignities, insults 423 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:43,880 and shame, pangs to which their sex has 424 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:44,600 exposed them. 425 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:47,880 Tender veins have been whipped, scarred, ground, stamped, 426 00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:50,020 burnt to death, dashed against trees and stones, 427 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:52,560 torn limb from limb, carried about on points 428 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,420 of spikes and spears, thrown to dogs and 429 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:55,840 swine. 430 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,340 If such treatment as this inflicted on successive 431 00:20:59,340 --> 00:21:02,640 generations of disciples of Christ, for centuries together, 432 00:21:03,260 --> 00:21:05,780 be not wearing out the saints of the 433 00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:07,740 Most High, what could be? 434 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,560 History affords no parallel. 435 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,200 The following is one of the authorised curses 436 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,560 published in the Roman pontifical to be pronounced 437 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,720 on heretics by Romish peace. 438 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,680 May God Almighty and all His saints curse 439 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:24,400 them with the curse with which the devil 440 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:25,520 and his angels are cursed. 441 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:27,940 Let them be destroyed as are the landsmen 442 00:21:27,940 --> 00:21:29,620 living, and let the violence of death spell 443 00:21:29,620 --> 00:21:30,120 upon them. 444 00:21:30,620 --> 00:21:32,320 Let them descend alive into the pit, let 445 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,080 their seed be destroyed from the earth, and 446 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:39,600 thirst, nakedness and all distress, let them perish. 447 00:21:40,020 --> 00:21:42,080 May they have all misery, pestilence and torment. 448 00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:43,540 Let them always be cursed. 449 00:21:44,300 --> 00:21:45,900 Always and everywhere let them be cursed. 450 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaking and silent let them be cursed. 451 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:48,940 Within and without let them be cursed. 452 00:21:49,380 --> 00:21:51,140 By land and by sea let them be 453 00:21:51,140 --> 00:21:51,360 cursed. 454 00:21:51,460 --> 00:21:52,460 From the crown of the head to the 455 00:21:52,460 --> 00:21:54,120 sole of the foot let them be cursed. 456 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,260 Let their eyes become blind, their ears deaf, 457 00:21:56,260 --> 00:21:58,640 their mouth become dumb, their tongue cleave to 458 00:21:58,640 --> 00:21:59,140 their jaws. 459 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,240 Let not their hands handle, let not their 460 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:01,860 feet walk. 461 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,160 Let all the members of the body be 462 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:04,420 cursed. 463 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,900 Cursed let them be, standing, lying from this 464 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:09,660 time forth for ever, and thus let their 465 00:22:09,660 --> 00:22:11,680 candle be extinguished in the presence of God 466 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,000 at the day of judgment. 467 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,600 Let their burial be with dogs and asses, 468 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,440 their hungry wolves with none of their corpses. 469 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,600 Let the devil and his angels be their 470 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:20,620 companions for ever. 471 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:23,720 Amen and amen, so let it be. 472 00:22:29,010 --> 00:22:32,150 The Inquisition, a name at which humanity has 473 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:32,950 learned to shudder. 474 00:22:34,410 --> 00:22:36,450 In Spain alone it has been proved by 475 00:22:36,450 --> 00:22:39,850 careful statistics that between the years of 1481 476 00:22:39,850 --> 00:22:44,790 and 1808 over 341,000 persons were condemned 477 00:22:44,790 --> 00:22:47,970 by this holy office, of whom 30,000 478 00:22:47,970 --> 00:22:50,670 or so were burned alive, 17 in effigy, 479 00:22:51,070 --> 00:22:54,270 nearly 300,000 tortured and condemned to penalty. 480 00:22:55,130 --> 00:22:57,670 Every Catholic country in Europe, Asia, and America 481 00:22:57,670 --> 00:23:01,530 had its Inquisition, and its consequent unexplained arrests, 482 00:23:02,070 --> 00:23:05,830 indefinitely long imprisonments of innocent persons, secret investigations, 483 00:23:06,330 --> 00:23:10,330 horrible torture chambers, dreadful dungeons, autos d'affaires, 484 00:23:10,510 --> 00:23:13,570 or burnings of obsolete heretics, its thousand nameless 485 00:23:13,570 --> 00:23:14,990 cruelties and injustices. 486 00:23:15,650 --> 00:23:18,870 When the French took Toledo and broke open 487 00:23:18,870 --> 00:23:22,050 the Inquisition prison there that we lead, graves 488 00:23:22,050 --> 00:23:24,990 seemed to open, and pale figures like ghosts 489 00:23:24,990 --> 00:23:27,870 issued from dungeons which emitted a sepulchral odor. 490 00:23:28,750 --> 00:23:31,550 Bushy beards hanging down over the breast, nails 491 00:23:31,550 --> 00:23:35,070 grown like birds' claws, disfigured the skeletons, who 492 00:23:35,070 --> 00:23:37,570 with laboring bosoms inhaled for the first time 493 00:23:37,570 --> 00:23:39,890 for a long series of years the fresh 494 00:23:39,890 --> 00:23:40,290 air. 495 00:23:40,910 --> 00:23:43,390 Many of them were reduced to cripples, head 496 00:23:43,390 --> 00:23:46,170 inclined forward, arms and hands hanging down, rigid 497 00:23:46,170 --> 00:23:46,730 and helpless. 498 00:23:47,610 --> 00:23:49,350 They had been confined in dens so low 499 00:23:49,350 --> 00:23:50,690 that they could not rise up in them. 500 00:23:51,630 --> 00:23:53,090 In spite of all the care of the 501 00:23:53,090 --> 00:23:55,330 surgeons, many of them expired the same day. 502 00:23:56,030 --> 00:23:57,550 The light of the sun made a particularly 503 00:23:57,550 --> 00:23:59,650 painful expression on the eyes. 504 00:24:00,610 --> 00:24:03,890 On the following day, General LaSalle minutely inspected 505 00:24:03,890 --> 00:24:05,910 the place, attended by several officers of his 506 00:24:05,910 --> 00:24:06,370 type. 507 00:24:07,130 --> 00:24:09,930 The number of machines for torture thrilled even 508 00:24:09,930 --> 00:24:11,750 men in nearer to the battlefield with horror. 509 00:24:12,570 --> 00:24:14,710 Only one of these, unique in its kind 510 00:24:14,710 --> 00:24:17,270 for refined cruelty, seems deserving of more particular 511 00:24:17,270 --> 00:24:17,690 notice. 512 00:24:19,090 --> 00:24:22,470 In a recession, a subterraneous vault contiguous to 513 00:24:22,470 --> 00:24:24,750 the private hall for examinations, stood a wooden 514 00:24:24,750 --> 00:24:27,110 figure made by the hands of monks, and 515 00:24:27,110 --> 00:24:28,490 representing the Virgin Mary. 516 00:24:29,430 --> 00:24:31,690 A gilded glory encompassed her head. 517 00:24:31,790 --> 00:24:33,410 In her right hand she held a banner. 518 00:24:34,210 --> 00:24:36,030 It struck us all at first sight as 519 00:24:36,030 --> 00:24:39,330 suspicious, but notwithstanding the silken robe descending on 520 00:24:39,330 --> 00:24:41,370 each side to ample holds from her shoulders, 521 00:24:41,670 --> 00:24:43,410 she should wear a sort of cuirass. 522 00:24:44,270 --> 00:24:46,850 On closer scrutiny it appeared that the forepart 523 00:24:46,850 --> 00:24:48,570 of her body was struck full of extremely 524 00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:51,470 sharp nails and small knife blades, with the 525 00:24:51,470 --> 00:24:53,370 points turned toward the spectator. 526 00:24:53,990 --> 00:24:57,290 The arms and hands were jointed, and machinery 527 00:24:57,290 --> 00:24:59,510 behind the partition set the figure in motion. 528 00:25:00,490 --> 00:25:02,150 One of the servants of the Inquisition was 529 00:25:02,150 --> 00:25:04,250 compelled, by command of the General, to work 530 00:25:04,250 --> 00:25:05,430 the machine as he turned it. 531 00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:08,150 When the figure extended her arms as though 532 00:25:08,150 --> 00:25:11,210 to press someone most lovingly to her heart, 533 00:25:11,490 --> 00:25:14,010 the well-filled knapsack of a Polish grenadier 534 00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:15,850 was made to supply the place of the 535 00:25:15,850 --> 00:25:16,410 living victim. 536 00:25:17,050 --> 00:25:20,270 The statue hugged it closer and closer, and 537 00:25:20,270 --> 00:25:22,910 when the attendant, agreedly to orders, made the 538 00:25:22,910 --> 00:25:25,070 figure uncast her arms and returned to her 539 00:25:25,070 --> 00:25:28,370 former position, the knapsack was perforated to the 540 00:25:28,370 --> 00:25:30,690 depth of two or three inches, and remained 541 00:25:30,690 --> 00:25:32,650 hanging on the points of the nails and 542 00:25:32,650 --> 00:25:33,390 knife blades. 543 00:25:34,050 --> 00:25:35,890 To such an infernal purpose, and in a 544 00:25:35,890 --> 00:25:37,970 building erected in honour of a true faith, 545 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:40,330 was the Madonna rendered subject. 546 00:25:42,770 --> 00:25:43,330 So on. 547 00:25:44,150 --> 00:25:48,550 There's an endless array of this, and the 548 00:25:48,550 --> 00:25:51,830 total number of victims was probably fifty million. 549 00:25:59,250 --> 00:26:00,650 Made war with the saints. 550 00:26:01,190 --> 00:26:02,810 All that dwell on the earth shall worship 551 00:26:02,810 --> 00:26:05,330 him, whose names are not written in the 552 00:26:05,330 --> 00:26:07,210 book of life, but the land slain from 553 00:26:07,210 --> 00:26:08,370 the foundation of the world. 554 00:26:09,390 --> 00:26:10,950 If any man have an ear, let him 555 00:26:10,950 --> 00:26:11,250 hear. 556 00:26:11,710 --> 00:26:13,730 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into 557 00:26:13,730 --> 00:26:14,250 captivity. 558 00:26:14,910 --> 00:26:16,590 He that killeth with the sword must be 559 00:26:16,590 --> 00:26:17,450 killed with the sword. 560 00:26:17,570 --> 00:26:20,110 Here is the patience and faith of the 561 00:26:20,110 --> 00:26:20,530 saints. 562 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,000 And I beheld another beast coming up out 563 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:26,420 of the earth. 564 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,280 He had two horns like a lamb, and 565 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:37,620 his fate as a dragon." 566 00:26:37,620 --> 00:26:39,320 Reading from my notes here. 567 00:26:43,820 --> 00:26:45,720 The ten kings give their power to him. 568 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,580 Revelation 17.13. He blasphemes. 569 00:26:49,660 --> 00:26:52,960 See John 10.33. Makes war, persecutes, receives 570 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:53,340 worship. 571 00:26:54,020 --> 00:26:55,960 He is described as the man of sin 572 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,300 in 2 Thessalonians 2, who arises out of 573 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:00,920 the apostasy with Judas-like apostleship. 574 00:27:01,780 --> 00:27:04,240 The papacy has fulfilled this prophecy with awful 575 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,040 depth and detail over twelve centuries of church 576 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:07,460 history. 577 00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:11,740 He has indeed blasphemed in the true scriptural 578 00:27:11,740 --> 00:27:13,720 sense, has made war with the saints, and 579 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:14,440 received worship. 580 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,640 He was aided by a second beast out 581 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,600 of the earth, Europe, while he himself retained 582 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:21,980 his seat in the Mediterranean. 583 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,940 The second beast was like him, had two 584 00:27:25,940 --> 00:27:26,500 horns. 585 00:27:29,770 --> 00:27:31,210 Compare the two witnesses. 586 00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:36,210 So, is a witness in company, is landlike 587 00:27:36,210 --> 00:27:41,030 in appearance, speaks as a dragon, deceives men, 588 00:27:42,190 --> 00:27:44,070 causes them to worship the beast. 589 00:27:44,950 --> 00:27:48,910 He is a prophet, a preacher, with pretended 590 00:27:48,910 --> 00:27:50,670 divine authority. 591 00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:53,370 You may read about him in Revelation 13, 592 00:27:53,690 --> 00:28:02,000 verse 11 to 17. 593 00:28:09,130 --> 00:28:11,190 And I note here what all the great 594 00:28:11,190 --> 00:28:13,890 Protestant interpreters deduced. 595 00:28:15,670 --> 00:28:23,350 The Catholic clergy, regular and secular, two branches, 596 00:28:23,570 --> 00:28:26,690 that is the monks and the priests, a 597 00:28:26,690 --> 00:28:31,330 united body, a beast within the beast, an 598 00:28:31,330 --> 00:28:36,770 empire within the empire, the church within the 599 00:28:36,770 --> 00:28:40,450 church, amply fulfill this prophecy. 600 00:28:40,550 --> 00:28:43,270 You know that in the Roman system, if 601 00:28:43,270 --> 00:28:47,010 you say joining the church, what usually means 602 00:28:47,010 --> 00:28:49,550 is that you're going into the priesthood, church 603 00:28:49,550 --> 00:28:50,650 within the church. 604 00:28:53,010 --> 00:28:55,810 This beast causes men everywhere to make a 605 00:28:55,810 --> 00:28:58,630 local image of the revived beast and worship 606 00:28:58,630 --> 00:28:59,410 it. 607 00:29:00,330 --> 00:29:01,990 And not many people will agree with me 608 00:29:01,990 --> 00:29:05,970 here, but one of the strange manifestations of 609 00:29:05,970 --> 00:29:09,190 medieval Christendom is the fact that every town, 610 00:29:09,350 --> 00:29:12,210 every city is dominated by a magnificent church 611 00:29:12,210 --> 00:29:19,350 building, with power or spire, something that Christ 612 00:29:19,350 --> 00:29:21,030 never instructed us about. 613 00:29:21,190 --> 00:29:22,610 He didn't tell us to do anything like 614 00:29:22,610 --> 00:29:22,950 that. 615 00:29:23,890 --> 00:29:26,510 And this church building is an object of 616 00:29:26,510 --> 00:29:28,230 worship, isn't it? 617 00:29:29,730 --> 00:29:32,770 Holy water is all you have to worship, 618 00:29:33,050 --> 00:29:33,670 it's holy. 619 00:29:34,210 --> 00:29:36,550 There's a tremendous aura of holiness about it. 620 00:29:38,170 --> 00:29:40,030 It is an image, it is the local 621 00:29:40,030 --> 00:29:43,270 image of the whole universal ecclesiastical empire, isn't 622 00:29:43,270 --> 00:29:43,490 it? 623 00:29:44,250 --> 00:29:45,690 There it is, right before your eyes, in 624 00:29:45,690 --> 00:29:46,590 every village, every town. 625 00:29:46,670 --> 00:29:48,170 There it is, the image of the whole 626 00:29:48,170 --> 00:29:48,390 thing. 627 00:29:48,410 --> 00:29:49,030 Who built it? 628 00:29:49,190 --> 00:29:50,190 Ordinary people did. 629 00:29:50,310 --> 00:29:51,310 Who made them build it? 630 00:29:51,710 --> 00:29:52,490 The priests did. 631 00:29:57,820 --> 00:29:59,920 Every town had its church, an image of 632 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:00,780 the Catholic church. 633 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,980 Every city its cathedral, a gorgeous image of 634 00:30:03,980 --> 00:30:06,200 the seat of ecclesiastical government. 635 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,380 You know that the word cathedral means seat. 636 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,560 I expect you know that. 637 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:13,260 Seat. 638 00:30:14,060 --> 00:30:17,120 When the Pope speaks ex-cathedra, that's from 639 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,400 his official seat. 640 00:30:18,780 --> 00:30:21,160 A cathedral is a seat of a bishop. 641 00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:24,360 Do you remember 2 Thessalonians 2? 642 00:30:24,540 --> 00:30:27,880 He's seated in a temple of God. 643 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,580 The image was given life. 644 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,100 Nobody else can operate it. 645 00:30:36,420 --> 00:30:38,980 The official church building, you have to be 646 00:30:38,980 --> 00:30:39,760 one of the clergy. 647 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:45,580 It had a voice from the pulpit and 648 00:30:45,580 --> 00:30:46,440 from the tower. 649 00:30:47,940 --> 00:30:48,480 Isn't that right? 650 00:30:49,020 --> 00:30:51,680 All medieval Christendom dominated by church bells. 651 00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:52,420 What did they do? 652 00:30:53,220 --> 00:30:56,340 They governed medieval life from sunrise to curfew. 653 00:30:58,340 --> 00:31:00,560 You got up by it, you went to 654 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:01,280 bed by it. 655 00:31:02,980 --> 00:31:07,080 With anatomists, men could be cursed, cities could 656 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,640 be cursed, villages be cursed. 657 00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:11,800 Benedictions, you're blessed by it too. 658 00:31:12,220 --> 00:31:19,160 Baptisms, marriages, burials, excommunications, interdicts, feasts and fasts. 659 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,440 All governed from the church. 660 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,220 The priesthood needed the church to be the 661 00:31:26,220 --> 00:31:28,940 image through which they functioned. 662 00:31:29,340 --> 00:31:30,980 They didn't have much power about it. 663 00:31:31,620 --> 00:31:35,960 And there it was, men everywhere made that 664 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:41,300 local image of the beast and caused that 665 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:43,180 as many as would not worship the image 666 00:31:43,180 --> 00:31:44,500 of the beast should be killed. 667 00:31:44,660 --> 00:31:46,880 Over and over again it happened. 668 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,400 In my own town there are memorials for 669 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,020 two martyrs in the reign of Bloody Mary 670 00:31:54,020 --> 00:31:56,540 who died there, burned at the stake outside 671 00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:59,280 the city walls, because they would not submit 672 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:00,360 to Mother Church. 673 00:32:03,930 --> 00:32:06,730 And all through my old country other towns 674 00:32:06,730 --> 00:32:10,870 have their memorials and their record of those 675 00:32:10,870 --> 00:32:11,370 who died. 676 00:32:11,470 --> 00:32:15,510 And through Europe, everywhere, this thing happens century 677 00:32:15,510 --> 00:32:16,390 after century. 678 00:32:22,830 --> 00:32:24,990 To receive the mark, that should be a 679 00:32:24,990 --> 00:32:27,890 C there, to receive the mark, there's a 680 00:32:27,890 --> 00:32:28,570 mark of a beast. 681 00:32:29,430 --> 00:32:31,770 Because if all both small and great, rich 682 00:32:31,770 --> 00:32:34,370 and poor, free and bound to receive a 683 00:32:34,370 --> 00:32:36,670 mark in their right hand, that's their deed, 684 00:32:37,090 --> 00:32:38,950 or in their forehead, that's their minds. 685 00:32:42,250 --> 00:32:44,450 It is a spiritual thing, as in Ezekiel 686 00:32:44,450 --> 00:32:48,010 9.4. See, scripture explains scripture. 687 00:32:48,830 --> 00:32:51,630 In Ezekiel chapter 9 you will find that 688 00:32:51,630 --> 00:32:55,610 the prophet sees a man with an inkcloth. 689 00:32:57,170 --> 00:32:58,030 Ezekiel 9. 690 00:33:07,660 --> 00:33:09,900 Go through the midst of Jerusalem and set 691 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:11,740 a mark on the forehead of the men 692 00:33:11,740 --> 00:33:15,400 that sigh and cry, for all the abominations 693 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,060 that be done in the midst thereof. 694 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,220 That is God, marking with an invisible mark, 695 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,020 which heaven could recognize. 696 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,800 Those who really belong to him. 697 00:33:25,860 --> 00:33:27,440 It wasn't a literal thing, it was a 698 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,500 symbolic thing, spiritual. 699 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,980 It is likely that the mark of the 700 00:33:32,980 --> 00:33:34,840 beast is also a spiritual thing. 701 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,780 But it has a remarkable counterpart in the 702 00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:42,740 baptism which is done by the priest on 703 00:33:42,740 --> 00:33:45,840 the side of the cross, on the forehead, 704 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,220 with the right hand. 705 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,440 If you refuse to receive that mark, you 706 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,420 are liable to excommunication from your village. 707 00:33:58,780 --> 00:34:05,220 From about the 10th century on to the 708 00:34:05,220 --> 00:34:06,120 17th century. 709 00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:08,780 And in some cases later, some countries later 710 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:09,219 still. 711 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,320 For all those hundreds of years, you could 712 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,820 neither buy nor sell, if you refuse the 713 00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:19,120 mark of the ownership of the Catholic Church. 714 00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:24,480 Imagine a plain history. 715 00:34:31,949 --> 00:34:38,570 The number of his name, I have given 716 00:34:38,570 --> 00:34:40,370 you a simple little solution here. 717 00:34:41,690 --> 00:34:46,330 Vicarius Filii Dei, adds up in Latin numerals 718 00:34:46,330 --> 00:34:48,130 to 666. 719 00:34:48,290 --> 00:34:53,230 The vicar of the there are other suggestions, 720 00:34:53,370 --> 00:34:56,470 the Greek Latinos, a Latin man also adds 721 00:34:56,470 --> 00:34:57,250 to 666. 722 00:34:58,050 --> 00:34:59,990 But don't put too much on the number 723 00:34:59,990 --> 00:35:00,930 of the name business. 724 00:35:03,150 --> 00:35:07,130 Use wisdom in association with it, because you 725 00:35:07,130 --> 00:35:10,470 can even turn Kissinger into 666, if you 726 00:35:10,470 --> 00:35:10,870 want to. 727 00:35:11,650 --> 00:35:13,290 It's surprising what you can do with numbers, 728 00:35:13,290 --> 00:35:14,250 if you really try. 729 00:35:17,110 --> 00:35:20,270 But essentially, it is the number of a 730 00:35:20,270 --> 00:35:20,710 man. 731 00:35:20,890 --> 00:35:22,390 It is the number of a man. 732 00:35:22,450 --> 00:35:25,690 But being threefold, three sixes, it's the number 733 00:35:25,690 --> 00:35:27,530 of a man taking the place of God. 734 00:35:29,410 --> 00:35:30,130 That's it. 735 00:35:31,490 --> 00:35:34,070 He that hath wisdom, let him that hath 736 00:35:34,070 --> 00:35:36,290 understanding count the number of the beast, for 737 00:35:36,290 --> 00:35:37,490 it is the number of a man. 738 00:35:37,850 --> 00:35:41,710 His number is six hundred three four and 739 00:35:41,710 --> 00:35:42,270 six. 740 00:35:45,350 --> 00:35:46,750 But I'm afraid I've been a bit terrible 741 00:35:46,750 --> 00:35:48,570 tonight, trying to hurry through a whole lot 742 00:35:48,570 --> 00:35:49,110 of material. 743 00:35:50,210 --> 00:35:52,270 And I expect your questions are so many, 744 00:35:52,390 --> 00:35:54,350 that you'll scarcely know what to ask first. 745 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,760 And I can't promise to answer all your 746 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,040 questions perfectly either. 747 00:36:03,980 --> 00:36:07,340 The interpretation I have set before you, is 748 00:36:07,340 --> 00:36:08,840 the one I think to be the most 749 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,480 likely, but I might be wrong on many 750 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:14,060 points. 751 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,320 There is, however, as I'm sure you can 752 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,500 see, this tremendous parallel between the intricate visions 753 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:27,560 of Revelation and the intricate history of the 754 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,120 professing Christian Church down through the centuries. 755 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,360 I'm certainly not an infallible interpreter. 756 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,460 You will find in any school of interpretation 757 00:36:45,460 --> 00:36:48,140 of the Revelation, whether it's Futurist or anything, 758 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,440 you'll get different points of view. 759 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,140 There are some people who believe there'll be 760 00:36:52,140 --> 00:36:53,600 one rapture. 761 00:36:53,740 --> 00:36:54,940 Some believe there'll be two. 762 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,000 I've known some who believe there'll be seven 763 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,420 different raptures. 764 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:00,660 They've got it by divine revelation. 765 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:03,320 It's the latest. 766 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,240 And some think that the Antichrist will be 767 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:09,720 a Jew. 768 00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:15,980 Some think he'll be a Roman. 769 00:37:16,180 --> 00:37:19,700 Cardinal Bellarmine, Roman Catholic Futurist, thinks he'll come 770 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:20,580 out of a church. 771 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,740 All Futurist people don't agree among themselves by 772 00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:28,160 any means, even though they're getting into a 773 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,480 future which hasn't happened yet. 774 00:37:30,270 --> 00:37:33,520 And those of us who are moral-passionate 775 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,080 and are inclined to follow the great reformers 776 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:40,760 in our interpretation of the scripture, also have 777 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,840 differences of viewpoints. 778 00:37:46,990 --> 00:37:50,900 One can't always be absolutely certain what the 779 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:54,840 divine cartoon is intended to imply. 780 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,320 Indeed, some of us don't always agree about 781 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,100 the cartoons in newspapers. 782 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,960 And it's no wonder if we make some 783 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,020 little mistakes about the divine cartoons in such 784 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:08,560 a difficult subject as this. 785 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,460 Suffice it to say that our Lord has 786 00:38:11,460 --> 00:38:16,160 warned us about the deceptions which he foresaw. 787 00:38:16,860 --> 00:38:19,740 And we look back at a very hasty 788 00:38:19,740 --> 00:38:22,440 glance into history and find that everything he 789 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,920 warned us about has been terribly and awfully 790 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:26,440 fulfilled. 791 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,540 And this should make us alert to our 792 00:38:30,540 --> 00:38:31,320 own day. 793 00:38:55,350 --> 00:38:58,430 Yes, I think the normal thing is figurative. 794 00:39:00,050 --> 00:39:04,070 Isn't there a reference there to Elijah? 795 00:39:04,450 --> 00:39:06,470 Wasn't he the man who called empire from 796 00:39:06,470 --> 00:39:06,810 heaven? 797 00:39:07,730 --> 00:39:10,810 He was testifying against the apostate court of 798 00:39:11,350 --> 00:39:12,650 Ahab and Jezebel. 799 00:39:13,910 --> 00:39:16,510 And it probably indicates that the witnesses would 800 00:39:16,510 --> 00:39:20,470 have a similar function in their day against 801 00:39:20,470 --> 00:39:26,290 an apostate court witnessing, calling down fire. 802 00:39:28,410 --> 00:39:29,830 Let's see, where's that first five and six 803 00:39:29,830 --> 00:39:34,690 part of fire proceeded out of their mouth 804 00:39:34,690 --> 00:39:35,870 and devoured their enemies. 805 00:39:37,930 --> 00:39:43,800 When, for instance, when John was led to 806 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,360 the stake, I told you what he said. 807 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,800 He said, you may kill this goose, but 808 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,800 in a hundred years, a swan will arise 809 00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,420 and you will not be able to silence 810 00:39:59,420 --> 00:39:59,760 him. 811 00:40:01,890 --> 00:40:04,030 As he was dying, fire proceeded out of 812 00:40:04,030 --> 00:40:04,270 his mouth. 813 00:40:04,510 --> 00:40:06,790 A hundred years later, Luther and the Reformation 814 00:40:06,790 --> 00:40:07,950 swept through Europe. 815 00:40:09,390 --> 00:40:11,250 And this sort of thing happened again and 816 00:40:11,250 --> 00:40:11,390 again. 817 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,740 These men were prophetic, especially in their dying 818 00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:17,220 moments. 819 00:40:19,530 --> 00:40:22,030 Do you think that there will ever be 820 00:40:22,030 --> 00:40:25,030 a single man that will be the antichrist? 821 00:40:27,430 --> 00:40:29,410 I'm inclined to say no. 822 00:40:33,110 --> 00:40:37,130 I would say that this revelation prophecy has 823 00:40:37,130 --> 00:40:42,190 been so tremendously fulfilled, that we're safer now 824 00:40:42,190 --> 00:40:45,570 to look for the coming of the Lord 825 00:40:46,130 --> 00:40:49,970 without an antichrist intervening between us and his 826 00:40:49,970 --> 00:40:50,250 coming. 827 00:40:53,050 --> 00:40:56,510 Right, most pre-revelation is due. 828 00:40:56,730 --> 00:40:57,890 Yes, yes. 829 00:40:58,230 --> 00:41:03,810 Do all these take place within three and 830 00:41:03,810 --> 00:41:04,210 a half years? 831 00:41:04,310 --> 00:41:07,430 Yes, I think it's most unlikely. 832 00:41:07,550 --> 00:41:09,470 We've seen that the range of revelation is 833 00:41:09,470 --> 00:41:12,130 from those early days, and right up to 834 00:41:12,130 --> 00:41:12,890 the second coming. 835 00:41:13,810 --> 00:41:16,210 We have seen this tremendous fulfillment. 836 00:41:18,670 --> 00:41:20,970 I do think that basically what he was 837 00:41:20,970 --> 00:41:24,030 warning the church about was her long and 838 00:41:24,030 --> 00:41:26,190 sad trial through the centuries. 839 00:41:27,890 --> 00:41:31,050 I can't tell you that there won't be, 840 00:41:31,850 --> 00:41:33,030 but I don't think it's likely. 841 00:41:34,430 --> 00:41:37,250 As we continue in our reading of scripture, 842 00:41:37,470 --> 00:41:39,510 I can show you that some of the 843 00:41:39,510 --> 00:41:41,850 things I think are likely to happen in 844 00:41:41,850 --> 00:41:45,490 the future, but I can't guarantee it. 845 00:41:47,780 --> 00:41:49,460 Look for the coming of the Lord, that's 846 00:41:49,460 --> 00:41:50,060 the best thing. 847 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,780 What was Elizabeth's reaction to the papal process? 848 00:41:59,980 --> 00:42:01,880 I think she had a sense of humor. 849 00:42:07,940 --> 00:42:10,640 The Pope sent the Armada to enforce it, 850 00:42:10,660 --> 00:42:10,980 you know. 851 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,620 You know about the Spanish Armada, don't you? 852 00:42:15,220 --> 00:42:19,920 There were 3,000 priests on board to 853 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,000 bring them back to Rome. 854 00:42:23,740 --> 00:42:25,860 But the Lord intervened and wrecked them. 855 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,000 It was a time of reformation, God's time. 856 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,540 This has a little bit to do with 857 00:42:37,540 --> 00:42:38,080 what was said. 858 00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:43,800 The other day on the 700 Club, Pat 859 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,100 was discussing with guests about the fall of 860 00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:51,060 Iran and the coming peace in the Mideast, 861 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,400 and saying that these two things showed that 862 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,100 we would be in a war with Russia 863 00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:01,360 before the 1980s ended. 864 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,540 Do you have any knowledge of this, or 865 00:43:05,540 --> 00:43:06,700 do you agree with this? 866 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,300 Whatever we say about the future must be 867 00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:18,180 speculative. 868 00:43:20,220 --> 00:43:21,980 You're more likely to be wrong than right, 869 00:43:22,020 --> 00:43:22,820 whatever you say. 870 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,940 Well, the odds are against, don't they, really? 871 00:43:31,460 --> 00:43:36,460 But I do think that a war centered 872 00:43:36,460 --> 00:43:39,560 around Israel and the Middle East is indicated 873 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,340 in the Old Testament, and probably the New, 874 00:43:43,060 --> 00:43:45,800 and it may be the next big thing 875 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:46,420 to turn up. 876 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,400 One of the last signs of the coming 877 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:49,980 of the Lord. 878 00:43:54,810 --> 00:43:58,470 Yes, yes, this is later on in Revelation. 879 00:44:02,750 --> 00:44:04,490 We'll deal with it probably next week. 880 00:44:04,490 --> 00:44:13,430 Revelation 16, verse 13 to 881 00:44:13,430 --> 00:44:15,190 17. 882 00:44:16,150 --> 00:44:17,990 We'll look at it later. 883 00:44:21,060 --> 00:44:24,880 All right, any other questions, problems? 884 00:44:31,420 --> 00:44:34,540 I was reading in another book, it said 885 00:44:34,540 --> 00:44:39,560 that during the latter 15th century, early 16th 886 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,600 century, when Europe was, I mean, when England 887 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,800 was under a monarch, a Protestant monarch, that 888 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,920 the Catholics were persecuted in England to a 889 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:54,920 very bad degree. 890 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:05,160 Is this also indicated in Revelation that the 891 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:09,120 time that they lived there, that the Catholics 892 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,340 were perceived as persecutors? 893 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,580 Not quite that one. 894 00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:20,500 The most of the Catholic persecution are, he 895 00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:23,940 that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity, 896 00:45:24,020 --> 00:45:24,620 that kind of thing. 897 00:45:24,700 --> 00:45:26,580 We've already read that today, that there would 898 00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:27,320 be a reaction. 899 00:45:28,140 --> 00:45:30,580 Most of it occurred right through Europe, particularly 900 00:45:30,580 --> 00:45:33,200 around the French Revolution, when country after country 901 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,060 turned against the Roman Catholic system. 902 00:45:36,780 --> 00:45:39,840 Especially in France, thousands of priests were killed, 903 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,180 guillotined, and this went through several European countries. 904 00:45:44,620 --> 00:45:47,760 In England it wasn't so bad, but they 905 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,740 certainly had quite a rough time. 906 00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:57,170 You see, England didn't all turn Christian because 907 00:45:57,170 --> 00:45:58,490 they broke away from Rome. 908 00:45:58,830 --> 00:45:59,830 They didn't all get converted. 909 00:46:02,130 --> 00:46:04,030 I don't think Queen Elizabeth was a slave 910 00:46:04,030 --> 00:46:04,330 woman. 911 00:46:05,510 --> 00:46:07,690 I'm fairly certain King Henry VIII had no 912 00:46:07,690 --> 00:46:08,870 idea about salvation. 913 00:46:22,220 --> 00:46:25,740 The Inquisition was started against the Jews, first 914 00:46:25,740 --> 00:46:28,140 of all, to make them confess where they'd 915 00:46:28,140 --> 00:46:30,280 hidden their money, and to force them to 916 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:31,060 become Christians. 917 00:46:32,260 --> 00:46:35,160 The Jews had a terrible time under Christendom, 918 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,140 and it's no wonder that the Jew hates 919 00:46:38,140 --> 00:46:39,620 the idea of Christianity. 920 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,220 Their history is terrible. 921 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,200 They suffered equally as much as these people 922 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:46,060 we've been reading about. 923 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:53,540 Driven from country to country, robbed, unfairly treated, 924 00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:55,180 living in ghettos. 925 00:46:55,940 --> 00:46:57,900 Their history is dark and terrible. 926 00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:51,460 The situation is improving everywhere, but a friend 927 00:47:51,460 --> 00:47:54,780 of mine at Eden told me that when 928 00:47:54,780 --> 00:47:57,980 he was in Ecuador in his early days, 929 00:47:58,060 --> 00:48:04,240 a predecessor Protestant minister heard someone at the 930 00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:05,100 door opened it. 931 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,740 A man dashed in, slipped a noose around 932 00:48:08,740 --> 00:48:11,140 his feet, and disappeared again. 933 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,240 The car started up, and the man was 934 00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:16,840 dragged out through the streets until he died. 935 00:48:18,340 --> 00:48:20,680 And that was not uncommon in those days. 936 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,440 Willie Burton of the Congo said that the 937 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,180 bitterest opposition he had, that his convert had, 938 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,720 was from the people who were taught by 939 00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:32,360 the Catholic priests, who taught them to beat 940 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:33,620 up Bible believers. 941 00:48:35,700 --> 00:48:38,360 But I'm sure that the situation is improving, 942 00:48:38,980 --> 00:48:39,380 rapidly. 943 00:48:54,870 --> 00:48:59,150 And are those Christians armed Christians? 944 00:48:59,890 --> 00:49:01,170 In China? 945 00:49:04,310 --> 00:49:05,570 In Chan. 946 00:49:06,810 --> 00:49:11,110 There have been some, there always are several 947 00:49:11,110 --> 00:49:12,770 kinds of Christians around, you know. 948 00:49:13,870 --> 00:49:18,070 And many of those who died as martyrs 949 00:49:18,070 --> 00:49:22,550 in Chan, some years ago, they were cruelly 950 00:49:22,550 --> 00:49:24,210 treated, buried up to their necks, and left 951 00:49:24,210 --> 00:49:26,370 to die with the ants eating their eyes 952 00:49:26,370 --> 00:49:26,630 out. 953 00:49:28,330 --> 00:49:29,810 They were genuine Christians. 954 00:49:30,950 --> 00:49:36,470 But whether this war is between genuine Christians 955 00:49:36,470 --> 00:49:38,150 or only professing Christians is another matter. 956 00:49:38,230 --> 00:49:39,150 I can't tell you that. 957 00:49:39,870 --> 00:49:42,990 Similarly, in Germany, there were those who were 958 00:49:42,990 --> 00:49:45,130 true believers who were willing to suffer, and 959 00:49:45,130 --> 00:49:47,030 there were those who were political Christians who 960 00:49:47,030 --> 00:49:47,930 just wanted to fight. 961 00:49:49,430 --> 00:49:51,730 I think everywhere this sort of thing happens. 962 00:49:54,610 --> 00:49:56,990 Because, just a few years ago, things are 963 00:49:56,990 --> 00:50:00,970 generally improving, and I wonder if you mean 964 00:50:00,970 --> 00:50:04,370 that in the sense that the drop is 965 00:50:04,370 --> 00:50:07,050 taking hold, and more people are coming in, 966 00:50:07,270 --> 00:50:12,750 or that there's less of this sort of 967 00:50:12,750 --> 00:50:17,090 persecution, or in some other sense? 968 00:50:21,910 --> 00:50:25,910 The Catholic Church in these ages, newspapers and 969 00:50:25,910 --> 00:50:29,730 so on, is being more and more careful 970 00:50:29,730 --> 00:50:31,370 about what it does. 971 00:50:31,670 --> 00:50:33,430 You can't do things these days as you 972 00:50:33,430 --> 00:50:34,230 used to be able to do. 973 00:50:34,830 --> 00:50:37,090 And I think there's a general moving of 974 00:50:37,090 --> 00:50:42,040 God's Spirit among the rank and file everywhere. 975 00:52:07,030 --> 00:52:11,730 The positive teaching of spiritual gifts, I think, 976 00:52:11,870 --> 00:52:15,830 has only been generally recovered during the present 977 00:52:15,830 --> 00:52:16,430 century. 978 00:52:16,950 --> 00:52:20,210 But there always has been evidence of this 979 00:52:20,210 --> 00:52:21,850 kind of thing among the elect. 980 00:52:22,350 --> 00:52:25,450 For instance, in the Sedans in southern France, 981 00:52:25,670 --> 00:52:27,390 at the time of the revocation of the 982 00:52:28,070 --> 00:52:31,270 Edict of Nantes, when hundreds of thousands of 983 00:52:31,270 --> 00:52:35,370 Protestants were robbed of home and family, and 984 00:52:35,370 --> 00:52:39,350 were driven out, little children were prophesying beautifully. 985 00:52:40,430 --> 00:52:43,750 Even when they were oppressed by soldiers, they 986 00:52:43,750 --> 00:52:45,810 were praying and prophesying. 987 00:52:46,930 --> 00:52:49,470 Wonderful manifestations of the Holy Spirit there. 988 00:52:50,450 --> 00:52:53,010 In Scotland, during the time of the Covenanters, 989 00:52:53,570 --> 00:52:56,770 there were a few, even the Prophet, obviously, 990 00:52:56,930 --> 00:52:58,250 had a divine gift. 991 00:53:05,150 --> 00:53:09,550 We haven't got such good records of miracle 992 00:53:09,550 --> 00:53:11,310 ministries, but there always seems to be a 993 00:53:11,310 --> 00:53:12,690 little touch of it here and there. 994 00:53:33,750 --> 00:53:36,730 The obvious question we all ask ourselves is, 995 00:53:36,910 --> 00:53:39,530 faced with the things that which should be 996 00:53:39,530 --> 00:53:42,470 withstand, and so forth, and maintain our faith, 997 00:53:43,610 --> 00:53:45,770 it occurred to me that the Holy Spirit 998 00:53:45,770 --> 00:53:49,850 empowers some people to be the witness that 999 00:53:49,850 --> 00:53:50,330 they were. 1000 00:53:51,270 --> 00:53:54,410 Is there any record of, during his horrible 1001 00:53:54,410 --> 00:53:57,650 death, of a special empowerment of the Holy 1002 00:53:57,650 --> 00:54:02,170 Spirit, even through his moments of pain and 1003 00:54:02,170 --> 00:54:02,730 agony? 1004 00:54:04,190 --> 00:54:09,830 Yes, there have been a few interesting ones. 1005 00:54:10,230 --> 00:54:13,090 Bishop Cranmer, who was Henry VIII's right-hand 1006 00:54:13,090 --> 00:54:18,310 man, but a believer, he backslid a bit 1007 00:54:18,310 --> 00:54:22,690 under pressure, and conformed to the Roman Catholic 1008 00:54:23,550 --> 00:54:26,250 oppression brought on by Bloody Mary. 1009 00:54:27,150 --> 00:54:31,490 But later on, he repented, and he faced 1010 00:54:31,490 --> 00:54:34,530 the stake, and he remembered that his right 1011 00:54:34,530 --> 00:54:38,590 hand had signed a document renouncing his Protestant 1012 00:54:38,590 --> 00:54:43,630 position, and he said, let this hand burn 1013 00:54:43,630 --> 00:54:46,730 first, this hand that betrayed me. 1014 00:54:47,390 --> 00:54:50,450 He struck that into the flame, and he 1015 00:54:50,450 --> 00:54:54,070 held it there, and mustered in grace there, 1016 00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:57,710 until that hand was burned off, before he 1017 00:54:57,710 --> 00:54:58,190 died. 1018 00:54:59,470 --> 00:55:00,850 It was dying grace. 1019 00:55:01,010 --> 00:55:02,270 Many of them had dying grace. 1020 00:55:03,950 --> 00:55:04,770 But not always. 1021 00:55:04,930 --> 00:55:06,650 Some suffered an awful agony. 1022 00:55:06,650 --> 00:55:13,480 You say that there was a decrease in 1023 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,700 the verity of the Roman Church inside Christ, 1024 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:19,760 and that science was not to do that. 1025 00:55:20,460 --> 00:55:21,700 How would that mean? 1026 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,400 Did you take some of the Christian from 1027 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,020 the Roman Church to something else? 1028 00:55:27,540 --> 00:55:28,860 I would say decreasing. 1029 00:55:29,820 --> 00:55:32,120 So you would expect then, in the culture, 1030 00:55:32,420 --> 00:55:34,880 that something would be left? 1031 00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:37,020 Yes. 1032 00:55:37,780 --> 00:55:39,900 Would it gradually become inflated into the New 1033 00:55:39,900 --> 00:55:40,400 England then? 1034 00:55:41,220 --> 00:55:44,780 No, I, no, I don't think that. 1035 00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,560 But there will be, it isn't exactly, he 1036 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,140 will be consumed, you remember the Thessalonian passage, 1037 00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,220 he will be consumed by the spirit of 1038 00:55:52,220 --> 00:55:52,760 his mouth. 1039 00:55:53,380 --> 00:55:55,160 Once the spirit of his mouth, surely the 1040 00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:56,960 word of God and the Holy Spirit working 1041 00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:01,260 together, would consume the anti-Christian thing. 1042 00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:11,220 I don't know. 1043 00:56:12,260 --> 00:56:15,480 I don't think we've got much longer. 1044 00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,020 Yes. 1045 00:56:23,790 --> 00:56:27,070 Where 1046 00:56:27,070 --> 00:56:39,950 are 1047 00:56:46,540 --> 00:56:46,840 we? 1048 00:56:48,540 --> 00:56:54,160 On the third page. 1049 00:57:03,810 --> 00:57:04,530 Yes. 1050 00:57:05,530 --> 00:57:06,250 All right. 1051 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,040 You're going to send me to the wall? 1052 00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:29,440 Yeah. 1053 00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:47,320 Very definite. 1054 00:57:52,740 --> 00:57:54,820 Yeah, he's the prince of this world, isn't 1055 00:57:54,820 --> 00:57:55,080 he? 1056 00:57:55,620 --> 00:57:59,060 And he adapts himself to whatever guise is 1057 00:57:59,060 --> 00:57:59,560 convenient. 1058 00:58:01,660 --> 00:58:04,140 Oh yes, I'm sure he's behind communism in 1059 00:58:04,140 --> 00:58:04,640 some measure. 1060 00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:08,460 Although I think he, he makes bigger blunders 1061 00:58:08,460 --> 00:58:11,580 there because the Lord uses him wonderfully. 1062 00:58:49,940 --> 00:58:51,400 Well, that might be a blessing. 1063 00:58:54,580 --> 00:59:00,050 That might be a blessing in disguise. 1064 00:59:11,650 --> 00:59:13,650 A recent part of it, and you said 1065 00:59:13,650 --> 00:59:18,630 in one instance that the persecution of the 1066 00:59:18,630 --> 00:59:26,770 charismatic Catholic renewal would come not from these 1067 00:59:26,770 --> 00:59:29,590 churches, you know, that are not, that are 1068 00:59:29,590 --> 00:59:32,250 still called the Catholic Church, you know. 1069 00:59:32,390 --> 00:59:36,130 And I didn't understand that prophecy until this 1070 00:59:36,130 --> 00:59:37,030 passed. 1071 00:59:37,370 --> 00:59:40,430 It would be illogical that their persecution would 1072 00:59:40,430 --> 00:59:43,230 come from the very church that they are 1073 00:59:43,230 --> 00:59:46,090 on, you know, that they still, a lot 1074 00:59:46,090 --> 00:59:47,090 of it, may be the reason. 1075 00:59:47,330 --> 00:59:47,810 Yes. 1076 00:59:48,390 --> 00:59:50,410 Yes, I do think that great pressure will 1077 00:59:50,410 --> 00:59:52,550 be brought to bear upon the Catholic Charismatics 1078 00:59:52,550 --> 00:59:54,890 to conform to the great church. 1079 00:59:56,050 --> 00:59:56,150 Yes. 1080 01:00:01,140 --> 01:00:02,400 All right, all right. 1081 01:00:02,820 --> 01:00:04,060 I think that will do for now. 1082 01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:08,300 Thank you, Tim. 1083 01:00:17,820 --> 01:00:21,480 Let me recommend this book, Great Prophecies by 1084 01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:21,940 Woodrow. 1085 01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:25,780 It's up here if you want to get, 1086 01:00:26,020 --> 01:00:27,120 see where to get it from. 1087 01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:33,540 Okay, leave me some sound there for a 1088 01:00:33,540 --> 01:00:33,640 minute. 1089 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,860 Oh, how many of you did not hear 1090 01:00:37,860 --> 01:00:39,700 the announcement at the beginning of class?