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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - A Woman, A Child, And A Dragon (Part 2) | July 20, 2025
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- Doug batchelor: hello friends, welcome back to
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- "prophecy odyssey."
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- In our previous episode, we saw how satan furiously persecuted
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- God's church after jesus ascended to heaven.
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- If you've ever wondered which church you should attend, then
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- Today's study is for you.
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- We're going to discover the seven identifying marks of god's
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- True church, and three vital messages it will proclaim to
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- The world.
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- Remember, if you'd like to know more about how to pick a church,
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- The program.
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- So thank you for watching, and god bless as you continue your
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- "prophecy odyssey" adventure.
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- Doug: where did the woman go during this terrifying period of
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- Persecution--and how long did it last?
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- Now, let me tell you what happened, and then we'll get
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- To the answer.
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- So, with the conversion of constantine and christianity
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- Being legalized--and suddenly it's very popular--all over rome
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- They had all these pagan priests.
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- Constantine said, "christianity is legalized."
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- His mother became a christian, and the pagan priest said,
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- "well, i'd like to stay on the government payroll, i'll be a
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- Christian," and all of these pagans began to join the church
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- Before they were converted or even taught.
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- In fact, when constantine was fighting the battle of
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- Maximilian and he came to the tiber river, he claimed to see a
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- Vision where he was to conquer under the sign of the cross, and
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- They began to paint red crosses on their shields, and he ordered
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- His army for good luck to march through the tiber river, and he
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- Says, "i'm going to baptize the whole lot of you, march through
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- The river."
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- Well, they had not been taught, and so you got all of these dry
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- Pagans that go through the river, and they come up wet
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- Pagans, but they're being told, "you're christians now."
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- They have no idea what that means, and they have all these
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- Idols all over rome.
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- They had more idols than tiles on the rooftop in rome, and they
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- Said, "what do we do with our idols?"
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- And they said, "well, let's change their names, give them
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- Christian names.
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- And diana, we'll call her mary; and jupiter, apollo, mercury:
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- Peter, james, and john."
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- And all of a sudden, idolatry just swept into the church.
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- And the priests, instead of being like the people--you know,
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- Jesus did not dress in special vestments, he dressed like a
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- Carpenter--but now they started to priest for an upper class.
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- And they said, "you know, we better not give the bibles to
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- The people, if you give the bibles to the people,
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- They're going to find out salvation is a gift
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- And we've been selling it.
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- And if they want forgiveness, they've got to pay indulgences
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- To the church."
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- And all of a sudden, the priests became a special class, and they
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- Were living in palaces, and the people were being ground down,
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- And the religion became a government institution.
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- That's how the capital of christianity moved from
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- Jerusalem to rome.
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- You still with me?
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- This is history, friends.
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- I mean, anybody can look this up.
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- And all of a sudden, there was tremendous compromise, and what
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- You had is there are still many sincere christians that were in
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- Rome, and they were fighting against the compromise, but all
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- Of a sudden you had the co-mingling of christianity
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- And paganism.
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- They started saying "hell burns forever" because they got that
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- From greek mythology with pluto, and they started saying you have
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- To--you can pay for your sins, salvation by works; everything
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- Began to change.
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- True christians began to get persecuted.
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- By the time of justinian--about 538 ad--justinian, the roman
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- Emperor, he said, "i'm moving the capital of constantinople.
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- I'm going to give--the bishop of rome is now going to be the head
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- Of the church.
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- We're going to call him the supreme papa, the father,
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- The pope.
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- That happened years after jesus.
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- Jesus never said peter was the leader of the church.
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- Jesus is the leader of the church.
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- In fact, right after jesus says, "peter--yeah, you--because of
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- Your declaration that i'm the messiah, on that rock of your
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- Declaration i'm going to build my church.
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- The gates of hell will not prevail against it, and i'm
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- Going to go to jerusalem where i'm going to die," and peter
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- Said, "no, no, lord, don't do that."
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- Jesus turned to peter and said, "get behind me, satan."
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- In the same passage where people say he's the first pope, jesus
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- Calls him satan.
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- Totally misunderstood.
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- So christians had to flee into the wilderness.
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- Notice: "the woman"--now, we're still in revelation 12, you
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- Tracking with me?
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- "the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a
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- Place prepared by god, that they should feed her there one
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- Thousand two hundred and sixty days."
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- A time of great persecution happened because the church in
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- Rome became a government institution that not only ruled
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- Over rome, they began to rule over all of the empires under
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- The roman empire.
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- And with the conversion of clovis, the king of the franks,
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- You had the holy roman empire.
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- And, how many of you have played chess?
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- You got the king and the queen, and who's on the right of the
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- King and the queen?
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- Bishop, bishop.
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- You look at the churches all through europe during that time
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- Of history, and you had the king and the queen, and then you had
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- The church, and they had to clear everything with the
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- Church, and if the king and the queen did not clear it with the
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- Church, then the whole nation could be excommunicated.
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- And the reason that you got the church of england is because
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- Henry kept killing his wives because they couldn't have
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- Children, and the church said, "look, enough is enough.
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- You've killed five or six wives, you know.
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- We can't approve your divorce."
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- He said, "well then, i'm just going to start my own church,"
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- And the church of england broke away because they're--and the
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- Whole nation was excommunicated at that time.
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- And so, the church had tremendous power over europe
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- During this time.
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- True christians that read the bible for themselves had to flee
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- Into the mountains.
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- They went into the italian and the swiss alps, and they kept
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- The purity of the faith, and they would copy out the
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- Scriptures by hand, and they'd send their merchants and their
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- Children into town to give little sections of scripture to
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- People to spread the faith and keep it alive, but the
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- Church--"clothed in the sackcloth" is what
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- Revelation says.
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- You know what sackcloth is?
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- When i was a kid, we had potato bags.
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- You don't have them anymore, they're plastic now.
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- How many remember burlap bags?
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- Kind of cloth, but it's cheap cloth, and light can still get
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- Through it, but it's obscured.
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- And the church, the light of the church was obscured during that
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- Time, had to go underground.
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- You know how long it lasted?
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- From 538 when the pope became the supreme ruler, it was given
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- An army, and christianity was enforced by an army--jesus never
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- Told us to force people to be christians--until napoleon came
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- Along in 1798.
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- The pope was arrested, they lost their universal power, and he
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- Died in captivity.
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- From 538 to 1798, you've got 1260 years.
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- It says "for 1260 days," 42 months, a time, a time, and the
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- Dividing of time; that time period is in prophecy
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- Many times.
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- By the way, what is god's number in the bible, god's number?
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- Seven, what is half of seven?
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- Three and a half.
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- It usually represents a time of persecution.
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- How long did jesus preach?
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- Three and a half years, and then he died.
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- And then the apostles preached for 3.5 years, and then stephen
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- Was killed exactly 3.5 years later.
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- And you look at the story in the old testament of elijah.
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- For 3.5 years, elijah preached, and the prophets had to
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- Go underground.
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- They were hidden in caves until he had his mount carmel
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- Experience, and even then he had great persecution.
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- Elijah had to run from his life from jezebel, a woman.
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- I'm talking about a woman representing the church.
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- She was a pagan woman that married a jewish king.
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- The combination of paganism and the truth was persecuting the
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- Prophets of god.
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- What happened in the old testament was repeated in
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- History, and it's going to happen again in the last days.
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- You--is it making sense?
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- All right, so she flees into the wilderness.
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- Number 6: what are two other identifying marks of god's
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- True church?
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- You get down to the end of chapter 12, it says, "and the
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- Dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war
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- With the rest," that means the remnant, "of her offspring," who
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- Do what?
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- "keeps the commandments of god, and has the testimony of jesus."
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- If you read in isaiah, chapter 8, says, "bind up the testimony,
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- Seal the law among my disciples," the law and
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- The testimony.
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- Read in revelation 19, verse 10.
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- John is talking to an angel, he falls down to worship the angel.
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- The angel says, "don't worship me, don't worship anyone
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- But god--we're not to pray to angels, we're not to pray to
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- Statues," say amen?
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- Said, "pray to god."
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- You don't even pray to angels.
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- And the angel said, "fear god, i am of your fellow servants who
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- Keep the testimony of god, for the testimony of god is the
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- Spirit of prophecy."
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- The law and the testimony, the law and the prophets,
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- Two characteristics.
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- Read in isaiah chapter 8, verse 20; according to the law and the
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- Testimony, the word of god, "if they speak not according to this
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- Word, there's no light in them."
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- The word of god is dual in nature: ten commandments, two
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- Tables of stone.
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- You've got the bible, the new and the old testament.
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- These are the two witnesses in revelation 11--we'll get to that
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- Another time--symbolized by moses and elijah, the law and
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- The prophets, and god's people will have the word of god.
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- Now, you might say, "well, yeah, every church keeps the
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- Commandments, some of them."
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- Oh, no, no friends, god's looking for people that will
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- Believe in all ten.
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- God does not call them the ten suggestions.
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- They are not called the ten good ideas, they're not god's ten
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- Recommendations, they are the ten commandments of god, amen?
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- Everybody in jail keeps some of them some of the time.
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- You keep them when you're sleeping for a few hours each
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- Night, and even then you might be dubious.
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- God is looking for people that believe in all ten, amen?
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- Keeping not just the letter, but keeping the spirit of the law as
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- Well, amen?
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- So the dragon especially hates that group of people.
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- Number 7: how did jesus say that we're to demonstrate our love
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- For him?
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- He said what?
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- "if you love me, honk your horn."
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- I heard about a woman that--she was stuck in traffic and she
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- Began to honk her horn and shake her fist; didn't know that the
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- Policeman was behind her.
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- He jumped out of his car and he pulled his gun and he said, "get
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- Out of your car, hands up, up against the car."
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- He searched her, checked her id.
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- She said, "what's all that about?"
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- He said, "well, i saw the way that you were gesturing to the
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- Driver in front of you, and i heard you honking your horn, and
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- I saw your bumper sticker.
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- It said, 'honk if you love jesus.'
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- I just figured you stole the car."
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- We need to be living it too, amen?
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- Bible says, "this is the love of god, that we keep
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- His commandments."
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- Isn't it all about love, friends, amen?
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- Number 8: what three angelic messages will god's end-time
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- Church be preaching to the world?
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- Answer--and you read about this in revelation 14, go to your
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- Bible real quick.
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- In revelation 14, you're going to notice that something unique
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- Happens here.
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- It tells us that jesus comes in revelation 14, verse 14.
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- You can see here where it says, "then i looked, behold a white
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- Cloud, and on the cloud one sat like the son of man."
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- Remember, he had been caught up chapter 12, now he's
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- Coming back.
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- "on his head, a golden crown; in his hand, a sharp sickle."
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- He's coming to harvest the earth.
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- It's the great judgment day.
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- What message goes to the world before jesus comes?
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- Look in chapter 14; starts with verse 6, gives three
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- Angel messages.
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- "i saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the
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- Everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth--to
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- Every nation."
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- It's going to be international: "every nation, every tongue,
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- Tribe, people.
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- With a loud voice"--it's going to go by radio and television,
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- By internet.
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- "'fear god and give glory to him, for the hour of his
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- Judgment has come.'"
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- We have a lesson on that coming tomorrow night.
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- "'worship him that made,'" calling us back to the creator
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- And the sabbath truth, "'the springs and the earth and the
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- Sea and the waters.'
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- And another angel followed, saying, 'babylon has fallen, has
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- Fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink the
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- Wine of the wrath of her fornication.'
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- And a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, 'if
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- Anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark
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- On his forehead or his hand, the same will drink the wine of the
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- Wrath of god that has poured out full strength into the cup of
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- His indignation.'"
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- You don't want to get the mark of the beast.
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- We've got a lesson coming on that, friends.
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- You don't want to make that mistake.
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- So, let's look at those three angels' messages quickly.
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- Number 1: "fear god," and you'll see them on the screen, say the
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- Answer with me.
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- "fear god, give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment
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- Has come."
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- Do you realize that's the end of time?
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- Do you know that part of god's judgment happens before he even
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- Gets here?
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- How do you know that?
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- Says, "behold, i come; my reward is with me to give to
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- Every man."
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- Does god know who's going up and who's not when he comes?
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- Some judgment happens.
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- "judgment must begin at the house of god.
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- If judgment begins at us, what will be the end of them that
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- Obey not the gospel?"
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- I'm quoting the bible.
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- Judgment has come.
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- Second angel's message: "and worship him who made the heaven
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- And the earth, and the sea," and that means worship him the right
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- Way, the right day; true worship of god.
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- Is there a lot of counterfeit worship today?
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- There's some people, bless their hearts, they go to church and
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- These pastors deceive them.
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- They say, "send me your money and god's going to get you a new
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- Pickup truck," right?
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- Just say--they take advantage of people, the counterfeit worship.
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- Answer the next one, and it says: "another angel followed,
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- Saying, 'babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because
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- She has made all nations drink the wine of the wrath of
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- Her fornication.'"
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- There'll be a judgment on the people that are in babylon, but
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- God wants to save babylon.
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- He's got his people in babylon.
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- Now, why does it talk about that?
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- During the time of jeremiah, king nebuchadnezzar, king of
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- Babylon, conquered jerusalem, brought the jews to babylon, and
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- They were there for 70 years.
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- How comfortable would you be for 70 years?
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- We're only here for three weeks in new york city, and karen and
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- I have gotten real comfortable in our hotel room.
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- We just may stay.
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- But after 70 years, when god said, "you're free now to go
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- Back," they said, "well, we kind of like it in babylon.
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- We've learned the language, we've learned the customs, we're
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- A little babylon-ish ourselves," and he couldn't get his people
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- Out of babylon.
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- He said, "but judgment's coming on babylon.
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- The persians are going to destroy them.
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- You don't want to be there, go home."
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- And god is telling his people in babylon, "today they're mixed up
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- In false religions, false churches.
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- Babylon is going to fall, the plagues will fall on babylon,
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- The seven last plagues.
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- Come out of her, my people."
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- Jesus has his people in babylon, he's calling them out.
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- "and a third angel followed them, saying, 'if anyone
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- Worships the beast in his image, and receives his mark on his
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- Forehead or on his hand, he will drink the wine of the wrath of
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- God,'" and that's that same wine--babylon has made people
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- Drunk with her wine.
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- Number 9: to whom will god's church preach these messages in
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- The last days?
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- Where does it go, the everlasting gospel?
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- "having the everlasting gospel to preach to," who?
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- "every nation."
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- Jesus said the gospel will be preached in all the world, then
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- The end will come.
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- Friends, you're living in the generation that will see that
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- Fulfillment, i believe.
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- Are you ready for jesus to come?
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- What specifications has god given in his word to help us
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- Identify his end-time church?
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- Well, let's look at what some of the criteria are.
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- Answer a, let's reevaluate what we just read in our study.
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- "it's going to appear and do its visible work after it emerges
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- From the wilderness in 1798."
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- Now, i just got to stop here and just say something to you.
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- I believe that god's got a remnant.
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- You know what a remnant is?
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- It's the remainder.
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- How many of you ladies have ever done any sewing?
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- You go to the store and you buy a remnant.
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- When i take my wallet out, everyone gets real quiet for
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- Some reason.
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- Okay, i've got--what do i got here?
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- I got a $10 bill, all right.
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- When they make cloth at the factory on the loom, they get
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- The bolt--you know, the cardboard tube--and they begin
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- To roll the cloth onto the cardboard tube, right?
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- What goes on first?
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- And they roll it all up, and then they--people come to the
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- Store and they say, "i'd like to buy some," and they buy little
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- Pieces and they cut it off, and they buy what they need for
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- Their pillows and their curtains, they cut off the
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- Cloth, and finally someone will say, "well, i only need so much,
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- And i got this little piece left over," and what's it called?
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- It's a remnant.
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- It's what's at the end, but you know what's at the end?
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- It's what went on first.
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- What comes off at the end is what went on first.
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- God's church in the last days is going to be following the
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- Scriptures the way the church did in the beginning.
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- The bible says, "we are going to return to the faith that was
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- Once delivered to the saints."
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- The bible tells us that "there'll be a remnant."
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- God saved a remnant in the days of noah, right?
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- He saved a remnant called abraham from babel.
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- Ur of the chaldees, he saved a remnant out of babylon.
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- And after the persecution of 1260 years and the church went
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- Underground, there was a great revival movement that took place
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- About 150 years ago where christians from all different
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- Backgrounds said, "let's find out what the bible really says.
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- Jesus does not want us divided by our denominations.
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- Let's pray for the spirit and open the word, and kneel and
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- Spend nights in prayer and get back to the bible."
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- That was the birth of the movement that's bringing you
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- This seminar.
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- Now, you say, "well, what church is that?"
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- I don't like to call it a denomination, but we're called
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- Seventh day adventists.
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- I don't often say it because i don't like to brag about it, but
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- I'm a seventh day adventist christian.
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- It's very simple, it means we believe in keeping all the
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- Commandments, including the 7th, and we believe christ is
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- Coming back.
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- It's the blessed hope, and we're telling people, "get ready, get
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- Ready, get ready."
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- And we are--do you know, north america, the seventh day
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- Adventist church is voted as the most diverse church ethnically
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- In that we have people from all different backgrounds, and it is
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- The fastest growing protestant church in the world today, and
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- They have the biggest educational system, second to
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- The catholic church.
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- They have the biggest medical system, second to the catholic
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- Church, and they're spreading everywhere because people are
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- Saying, "hey, if you're going to be a bible christian, where else
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- Are you going to go?"
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- What does your church believe?
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- "well, my church believes like my pastor."
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- What does your pastor believe?
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- "like my church."
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- What does your pastor and your church believe?
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- "same thing i believe."
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- People don't know what they believe, do they?
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- We got to go by the bible, friends, amen?
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- This church began during that time period.
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- It's following the '798 year time period.
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- It says, answer b, "it'll teach the same truths the apostles
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- Taught," we mentioned that.
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- Answer c: "it will keep the ten commandments, including the
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- Sabbath," amen?
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- Answer d: "it will have the spirit of prophecy."
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- It goes by the law and the prophets, and believes in all
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- The gifts of the spirit, friends, amen?
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- I believe the power of god is still alive today.
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- "it'll proclaim god's three-time end-time message with a
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- Loud voice."
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- It'll be a global international church.
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- It's not a local corner fellowship, it is an
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- International movement.
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- We meet that criteria.
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- "it'll teach the everlasting gospel, which is salvation
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- Through christ alone," which is what we teach and believe.
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- Now jesus, number 11: he gives us these seven prophetic
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- Identifying points.
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- He said, "go find my church."
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- What is the promise of jesus if we seek?
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- "seek, and you will find."
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- Where do we search?
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- In the word, you run to and fro through the word of god.
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- How many church organizations in the world will fit these
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- Seven points?
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- The bible says, there is "one lord, one faith," how many?
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- One faith; god wants his people united on truth, "one baptism."
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- Since there's so many different churches in the world today and
- 00:23:11.872 --> 00:23:14.809
- So many different denominations call themselves the truth, does
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- That make them god's true church?
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- No, read isaiah chapter 4, verse 1: "and in that day seven
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- Women," what's a woman represent?
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- Congregation: the church.
- 00:23:30.324 --> 00:23:31.692
- Doug: "will take hold of one man," jesus, the son of man,
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- "saying, 'we'll eat our own bread," our own word of god.
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- "we'll wear our own apparel," our own righteousness.
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- "only let us call ourselves by your name," we're going to call
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- Ourselves christian, "to take away our reproach."
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- There are more different churches that call themselves
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- Christians that don't follow the bible than any other religion.
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- Christianity is the most divided because it's the genuine and the
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- Devil is fighting it; but there is a truth, friends, based on
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- God's word.
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- Jesus said in the last days, wolves would come in not sparing
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- The flock.
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- So once a person discovers god's true end-time church, is it
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- Necessary to become a member?
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- "and the lord added to the"--who added to the church?
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- "the lord added to the church," his body, "daily those who were
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- Being saved."
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- Jesus had the 12 apostles, and then later he numbered 70
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- Disciples, and then they went, and the counts when they joined:
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- 3000, then 5000.
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- God has his people.
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- Number 15: how many ways of escape were there in noah's day?
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- Jesus said it'll be like it was in the days of noah.
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- "by faith, noah built a fleet of arks."
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- No: "he prepared an ark," one.
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- One lord, one faith, "for the saving of his household."
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- Christ has an ark in the last days, friends.
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- Doug: friends, i hope you've been blessed by today's message,
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- But really, the reason we do this is so that people might
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- Know christ.
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- You know, information is not going to save us.
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- It's a relationship with jesus, the one who died on the cross
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- For your sins.
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- You must personally accept him, and that's the most important
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- Thing, and why we do these programs.
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- If you've not asked him into your heart before, then i'd
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