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00:01 I'm John Carter in Moscow.
00:04 In Havana, Cuba. 00:07 Now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 00:10 I'm John Carter in Petra. 00:13 Right here in Communist China. 00:16 Reporting from India. 00:18 Hi, I'm John Carter in the Solomon Islands. 00:21 I'm John Carter in Soweto. 00:24 From El Salvador. 00:26 I'm John Carter in Sydney, Australia. 00:29 Today an in-depth study of Constantine 00:33 and the Mark of the Beast. 00:36 Welcome back. 00:38 We're talking about when Constantine rides again, 00:42 Constantine and the Mark of the Beast. 00:46 In the last program, 00:48 we talked about the great falling away 00:49 that happened in the Christian church 00:52 when Constantine became the emperor 00:54 and set up a theocracy. 00:57 And what we're saying today 00:59 is that what happened back in the third, 01:02 and the fourth, and the fifth centuries 01:04 is going to be repeated on a worldwide scale 01:08 starting right here 01:10 in the United States of America. 01:13 So we're talking about 01:14 the coming of a new Constantine. 01:18 When firmly established the Roman Church, 01:23 instead of the old pagan Rome 01:27 became the persecutor of heretics. 01:31 And in Europe, you had a theocracy 01:33 that lasted for more than 1,000 years. 01:36 It's going to happen again. 01:38 I want you to take your Bibles 01:40 and come over here to Revelation 17:1-3, 01:44 dear hearts and gentle people, 01:47 Revelation 17:1-3 01:50 and notice it please in the Bible. 01:54 "Then one of the seven angels 01:55 who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, 01:57 saying to me, 'Come, I will show you 01:59 the judgment of the great harlot 02:01 who sits on many waters.'" 02:03 Listen to me, 02:04 in Bible prophecy a woman is a symbol of the church. 02:09 A good woman is the good church, 02:12 and a bad woman or the harlot 02:14 is the symbol of the bad church, 02:17 or the Antichrist church. 02:19 And verse 2 says, "With whom the kings 02:21 of the earth committed fornication..." 02:23 They got married to this church. 02:26 "And the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk 02:28 with the wine of her fornication." 02:31 And on holy alliance. 02:33 "So he carried me away 02:35 in the Spirit into the wilderness. 02:37 And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast 02:40 which was full of names of blasphemy, 02:42 having seven heads and ten horns." 02:45 All commentators know whether they're Roman Catholic 02:49 or Jewish or Protestant, 02:50 they all know that in Bible prophecy, 02:53 a woman represents the church. 02:56 And this harlot woman here 02:57 represents the great Antichrist church. 03:02 And if you notice now in Revelation 17:4-5, 03:07 "The woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet, 03:12 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, 03:16 "she is filthy rich, 03:18 "having in her hand 03:20 a golden cup full of abominations 03:23 and the filthiness of her fornication." 03:27 And verse 6 says, look at this, 03:29 "I saw the woman," the church, 03:33 "drunk with the blood of the saints 03:36 and with a blood of the martyrs of Jesus. 03:39 And when I saw her, 03:41 I marveled with great amazement." 03:44 Here is a church. 03:47 Hey, are you listening? 03:51 What's going on today in America? 03:53 Does anybody read these prophecies anymore 03:56 or are they... 03:58 Have they become so politically correct 04:00 that they're not interested in the truth? 04:03 Now here you got a woman, that's the church, 04:06 and she's riding the beast, 04:08 and the beast is the state. 04:13 That happened in the Dark Ages. 04:15 And when the church was riding the state, 04:18 millions of people were tortured 04:21 and they were put to death. 04:23 That's the great Antichrist of Bible prophecy 04:27 and it started in the days of Constantine. 04:31 Now please, will you notice 17:18 04:38 because it tells you 04:39 where you can find this corrupt system. 04:42 "And the woman of the church, 04:44 whom you saw is that great city 04:49 which reigns over the kings of the earth." 04:52 Now listen, my friend, 04:55 you don't have to be a minister, 04:57 you don't need to be a theologian, 05:00 you don't need to be a politician, 05:02 you just need to know a little bit about history. 05:05 History tells me that the great city 05:09 that reigned over the kings of the earth 05:11 in the days of the New Testament 05:14 was the great city of Rome. 05:20 And so here is a church that is joined to the state, 05:24 and the Bible says her headquarters are in Rome. 05:30 Now I come back to the question we asked in the first segment. 05:34 Whatever happened to the words of Jesus, 05:38 my kingdom is not of this world. 05:40 Jesus said, "My ministers are not going to get 05:45 involved in politics. 05:49 My church is not going 05:50 to employ lobbyists in Washington. 05:56 My church is going to have 05:57 one great calling and one great mission." 06:01 You know what it is? 06:03 It is to preach the Gospel of Jesus. 06:06 My kingdom is not of this world, 06:09 but these people got so far from God, 06:13 it was their mission to bring the Kingdom of God 06:16 into this world through legislation 06:21 and through force. 06:24 All this was the product of a Christian theocracy, 06:29 the woman riding on the beast. 06:32 I want you to look at the screen. 06:36 These are not very nice pictures, 06:40 but these pictures illustrate 06:44 what was done when the church joined 06:47 with the state and persecuted people 06:50 who had different points of view. 06:53 Hundreds of thousands, 06:54 even millions were tortured and they were put to death 07:00 by a Christian theocracy. 07:04 And people in America say to me, 07:06 "Oh Jesus, bring back a Christian theocracy." 07:13 Edmund Burke, a British philosopher 07:16 who lived 1729-1797 said, 07:20 "Those who don't know history 07:22 are destined to repeat it." 07:28 Can I tell you one of the greatest tragedies 07:29 in America? 07:31 Many Americans have forgotten what made America America, 07:37 because people came to this country 07:39 because they were sick 07:41 of a Christian system of government, 07:47 sick of this Christian theocracy. 07:50 This lasted in Europe for more than 1,000 years. 07:56 Millions of people, Catholics, Protestants, 07:59 Jews, and Muslims tortured, 08:02 torn apart by Christian leaders 08:07 all in the name of Jesus 08:10 to bring in the Kingdom of God. 08:14 Finally, across Europe that had experienced 08:16 a time of great moral and intellectual darkness 08:21 for more than 1,000 years, 08:23 the Gospel Son arose with light, 08:25 healing, and prosperity. 08:28 After the night always comes the morning. 08:31 Martin Luther came preaching. 08:34 People say, "Oh, no, he must have been offended." 08:35 No, no, no, he was a hero. 08:38 John Knox came preaching. 08:42 The light of the Protestant Reformation revolution 08:46 burst upon the world. 08:51 Darkness fled before the rising sun. 08:56 Now finally, from England and Europe, 09:02 brave men and women set sail for America 09:07 where the air was free, and men and women 09:11 did not wear chains. 09:15 What I find another great source of consternation, 09:20 it appears to this pilgrim that so many Americans 09:25 have forgotten what made America America. 09:31 The Pilgrims fathers... 09:33 Hold on, who were they? 09:36 They were people who came to America 09:38 to establish a church without a pope 09:42 and a state without a king. 09:46 You see? 09:48 Lots of Americans don't know this, forgotten it. 09:54 They came to America to escape the despotism 09:59 and the persecution of a religious theocracy. 10:03 And now many of their children 10:05 are in Washington loving 10:08 the setup of Christian theocracy. 10:12 They will not setup a Christian theocracy, 10:14 they will setup Antichrist. 10:17 No! Yes. 10:20 Please be informed. 10:24 Today, many have forgotten what made America great. 10:27 And they want to take us back to the theocracy 10:30 of the Dark Ages. 10:34 Let me remind you of some of the silly laws 10:36 that came from a theocratic type of government 10:40 that is when the state is enforcing religious laws. 10:45 John Calvin, one of the great Protestant scholars 10:48 and a remarkable man, 10:50 he gave to the world the doctrine of predestination 10:53 that some of us don't like. 10:56 Activities forbidden in Geneva "Feasting, dancing, singing, 11:01 pictures, statues, relics, church bells, organs, 11:04 altar candles, indecent or irreligious songs, staging 11:09 or attending theatrical plays, wearing rouge, 11:12 that's the red stuff ladies put on their cheeks 11:15 so used to, jewelry, lace or immodest dress, 11:19 speaking disrespectfully of your betters, 11:24 extravagant entertainment, 11:26 swearing, gambling, playing cards, hunting, 11:29 drunkenness, naming children after anyone 11:32 but figures in the Old Testament, 11:34 reading immoral or irreligious books." 11:37 I believe that some of these things are wrong. 11:41 That it is not the church's job to enforce their laws. 11:47 It took a long time even for the Protestant reformers 11:49 to get away from a theocracy. 11:53 A father who christened his son Claude 11:56 was jailed for four days. 12:00 In the days of John Calvin called his boy Claude, 12:03 lock him up four days. 12:05 When religious people 12:07 use the state to enforce religious laws, 12:10 the result is persecution. 12:12 Not Christ, but Antichrist. 12:15 You see, my friend, 12:18 God has given us freedom of choice. 12:21 God says, "Serve Me because you love Me, 12:24 not because you're forced to serve Me." 12:27 Legislation cannot change the heart. 12:30 That is why I am appalled by ministers 12:36 and vast religious groups that try to use 12:39 the power of the state to enforce 12:43 the teachings of their church. 12:46 That is un-American, unchristian, 12:52 and evil. 12:55 Christian lobbyist, 12:57 one day I was cleaning my car on a Sunday, 13:00 person came by and said, 13:02 "We're seeking, we're going around everybody, 13:04 we're seeking to get votes for our pastor 13:07 who's gonna run for Congress." 13:09 I said, "What's wrong with him?" 13:11 Oh, he wants to get through Congress. 13:14 We want to make this a Christian nation. 13:18 Well, they talked to the wrong person. 13:22 That is a delusion. 13:23 That is a snare. 13:25 Jesus said, "You got to be born again." 13:28 Legislation can change 13:30 the outward action, 13:34 but it cannot change the heart, 13:36 only the Gospel of Christ can change the heart 13:39 and society needs a new heart. 13:42 Ministers ought to stop their politicking 13:46 and start preaching the Gospel of Christ. 13:49 How amazing? 13:50 You turn on television 13:52 and there you've got all these ministers 13:54 and they're talking politics, politics, politics 13:57 that's because they've lost their souls to the devil. 14:02 Oh, that's too strong. No, I can say it stronger. 14:06 Listen to me, a minister is called to preach Christ 14:12 and the gospel. 14:13 The gospel saves, not Washington, DC. 14:19 What's wrong with people? 14:20 If you don't remember the past, 14:22 you're going to commit its errors. 14:27 Here's another one. 14:28 This is from the Code of Connecticut. 14:30 Can you believe it? 14:31 "No one shall run on the Sabbath." 14:32 This is the state law, "Or walk in his garden, 14:35 or elsewhere except reverently to 14:37 and from meeting. 14:39 No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, 14:42 sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath. 14:46 If any man shall kiss his wife or wife her husband 14:48 on the Lord's Day, Sunday, 14:50 the party in fault shall be punished 14:53 at the discretion of the court of magistrates." 14:59 That's Constantine, that is in Connecticut. 15:01 You laugh about this, it's going to happen again. 15:04 And it just won't be kissing your wife. 15:10 The genius of America. 15:16 The genius of America is seen in the Constitution. 15:20 Some people say we hate the Constitution, 15:21 we gotta get rid of it. 15:26 They are dangerous words. 15:27 The First Amendment said, 15:29 "Congress shall make no law respecting 15:32 an establishment of religion." 15:34 Congress has got no right 15:37 to setup a church. 15:42 Some of you look at me and say you don't believe it. 15:44 Where were you born I ask you? 15:47 Surely not here in America. 15:49 You must have been born in some oppressive place, 15:52 where church and state work together." 15:55 Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." 15:58 I can practice my faith in America 16:01 at present and preach 16:03 what I want to preach, you see?" 16:07 Or abridging the freedom 16:08 of speech, or of the press." 16:13 If you get rid of freedom of expression 16:18 or the freedom of the press, 16:20 you go down the road 16:22 of the communists and the Nazis. 16:26 You may not like the press, I may not like the press, 16:30 but a world or country without the press 16:36 is a very, very sad, 16:38 desolate, dark, and awful place." 16:42 Or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, 16:45 and to petition the government 16:47 for a redress of grievances." 16:49 Thomas Jefferson, you know, 16:51 I meet people all the time 16:53 who say, we'd like to get rid of this First Amendment 16:57 because we want to have a Christian nation. 17:01 We want to enforce religious laws, 17:04 we want to change society. 17:07 Thomas Jefferson said this 17:09 in a letter to Dansbury Baptists, 17:13 "Believing with you that religion is a matter 17:16 which lies solely between man and his God." 17:20 My religion is between me and my God." 17:27 That he owes account to none other 17:29 for his faith or worship, 17:32 that the legitimate powers 17:33 of government reach actions only, 17:37 "they reach actions only, "and not opinions. 17:41 I contemplate with sovereign reverence 17:45 the act of the whole American people 17:48 which declared that their legislature 17:51 should make no law 17:52 respecting an establishment of religion 17:56 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, 17:59 thus building a wall of separation 18:02 between church and state." 18:03 I've turned on television. 18:05 I've had famous religious preachers say, 18:08 "We are opposed to the separation 18:11 of church and state." 18:15 They're getting to ride with Constantine. 18:18 In fact, they may be 18:22 the new Constantine. 18:26 I say these words kindly of people 18:31 who are ignorant of history 18:33 are condemned to repeat the errors of history. 18:38 And that statement on the separation of church 18:40 and state does not mean that 18:42 the state should be antagonistic to religion 18:45 as it is often in California. 18:51 But it means that there is no place 18:52 for a theocracy in America. 18:57 Now I'll look into the future 19:01 and Constantine rides again. 19:05 When we went to Texas, part of the Bible Belt, 19:09 that was 30 years ago, 19:13 we had some wonderful experiences 19:15 and met wonderful people. 19:17 I love Texas, the old fashioned courtesy. 19:21 I miss Texas. 19:22 They respect the decency. 19:24 Some of my best friends are Texans. 19:28 We lived in Arlington between Dallas and Fort Worth. 19:31 I remember talking to a beautiful Christian lady, 19:35 one Sunday afternoon, and she said to me, 19:38 "Wouldn't it be wonderful 19:40 when Jesus is president of America." 19:46 And America is a Christian country, 19:51 not just Texas. 19:55 In Thousand Oaks, 19:56 where we live after one election, 19:59 some time back, a lady drove up and down 20:02 the street with a big sign saying, "Hallelujah. 20:06 Jesus won." Jesus won. 20:11 Jesus has got a political party. 20:13 Yes, He's got a... Has he? 20:17 You're getting into bed with Constantine. 20:21 Today that's the voice of millions 20:23 of conservative Christians in America, 20:27 and many of us are filled with prejudice, 20:30 and we don't want to know the truth. 20:34 I stand for the Bible, 20:37 an old fashioned American values. 20:41 Thank you very much. 20:44 Now look at Revelation 13:11, 13 and 14, 20:50 "Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, 20:52 had two horns like a lamb, 20:54 "that's the gospel, "spoke like a dragon." 20:56 That's what he's going to do. 20:57 "He performs great sign, 20:59 so that he makes fire come down 21:01 from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 21:03 and deceives those who dwell on the earth 21:05 by those signs that he was given power 21:08 to do in the sight of the beast, 21:10 telling those who dwell on the earth 21:11 to make an image to the beast, 21:14 which was wounded by the sword and lived." 21:16 You have two beasts here. 21:20 One is the beast of the Dark Ages, 21:23 the church and state, the theocracy, 21:26 the image of the beast 21:28 is the copy of the church and state. 21:31 And the Bible says that in the last days, 21:34 a power will arise that starts at very, very good 21:38 to protect the gospel. 21:41 But it gives its authority to the first beast, 21:44 the church of the Dark Ages and it sets up an organization 21:48 that is a union of church and state. 21:54 This is fundamental 21:58 American truths 22:01 that will save our souls, but more important than 22:05 American truth it is Bible truth. 22:08 The image of the beast is the copy, 22:10 the union of church and state. 22:12 Intolerant Christians who want to enforce 22:14 their religious laws upon others. 22:18 Look at Revelation 13:15-17, 22:23 "He was granted power to give breath 22:25 to the image of the beast," church and state, 22:27 "that the image of the beast," church and state," 22:29 should both speak 22:31 and cause as many as would not worship 22:32 the image of the beast to be killed. 22:35 He causes all, both small and great, 22:37 rich and poor, free and slave to receive 22:39 a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads 22:41 and that no one may buy 22:43 or sell except one who has the mark of the beast, 22:47 or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." 22:53 I know these things are not preached much today. 22:56 I wonder why? 23:00 The Bible says the beast 23:02 is the union of church and state. 23:03 It was the church that Constantine started. 23:07 Then the image of the beast 23:09 is a copy of the church and the state 23:12 and forcing religious laws 23:14 as happened in the early days of America, 23:17 Connecticut, other places, and in the Dark Ages 23:21 when Pontifex Maximus was the ruler. 23:26 Religious laws that tell you how to worship 23:28 and when to worship and this movement 23:31 will be led by people all in the name of Jesus. 23:37 The laws of the church instead of the laws of God, 23:41 and they will be forced conformity either you do it 23:46 or else we won't buy from you, we won't sell to you. 23:49 We will boycott you, we will put you to death. 23:52 It's the voice of the dragon. 23:56 And there will also be another type of conformity. 23:59 It will be willing conformity, 24:01 where heaps and heaps of people 24:04 who think they are Christians get up in a big queue, 24:08 get in a big line and they will say me too. 24:13 Don't miss me out. 24:15 I wanted so much. 24:17 Give it to me. 24:19 I want a mark of beast. 24:25 Listen to me. 24:29 The stage work is being set as I speak. 24:33 Let me tell you the great need. 24:37 The great need for Christians, non-Christians, 24:40 everybody 24:44 is courage to stand alone 24:47 against the majority for the sake of conscience. 24:51 Remember, remember, Martin Luther, 24:56 here I stand I can do none other. 25:01 Remember, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 25:05 a Lutheran pastor in Germany. 25:08 Do you know how many went with the Nazis? 25:12 Almost all. 25:15 Not this man. 25:17 In the end they strung him up with piano wire. 25:21 Probably 99% of the Christians said me too. 25:27 If you conform now, you're going to conform then. 25:33 So I say to you, God will at the end 25:38 He will have His remnant, His Daniels, His Elijahs, 25:44 His Pauls, His Noahs. 25:48 God will have His heroes. 25:54 Let me tell you something. 25:57 Listen, if you're not God's hero now, 26:01 you won't be God's hero then. 26:06 But you and I should say with Luther, 26:11 here I stand, 26:14 I can do none other. 26:18 God help me. 26:21 Amen. 26:30 Hello, friend. I'm John Carter. 26:32 Behind me is the great city of Manila, 26:37 the capital of the Philippines. 26:39 Did you know, this is quite amazing. 26:41 There are more people living in this area 26:43 than in New York City. 26:45 And Christ died for these people. 26:48 We came here, oh, long time ago back in 1984. 26:54 What's that, 34, 35 years ago, 26:57 and we came here with a team of young people 26:59 and we came to the PICC. 27:02 It is our intent to come here, 27:05 hire the biggest hall that's available, 27:07 the greatest outdoor stadium, whatever it takes. 27:11 You've got more than 20 million souls out here. 27:16 And I say it again. 27:17 These are people for whom Christ died. 27:20 I'm asking you to pray 27:21 for the people of the Philippines. 27:24 Please pray for the people here in Metro Manila. 27:28 And please write to me, John Carter, 27:30 P.O. 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