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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:13 My name is CA Murray, and allow me once again 01:15 to thank you for sharing 01:17 what is probably a very busy day for you 01:20 and a very fine day in the Lord for us. 01:22 Thank you for your love, your prayers, 01:23 your support of this ministry, as for just shy of 34 years, 01:29 we with your help and aid and assistance have together 01:32 lifted up the name of Jesus in our attempt 01:36 to fulfill the command of Jesus 01:38 to send the gospel around the world. 01:40 I'm very, very excited today for number of reasons. 01:43 First, because of my guest, and I use that term in quotes, 01:45 "guest," and because of the subject matter 01:48 that we're going to discuss today. 01:50 With me in the studio, Pastor John Lomacang. 01:53 You may hear me call him in any number of things, 01:56 he is Pastor John Lomacang in the most formal of senses, 01:59 he is also Lomi 02:01 because I have known him for 40 plus years, 02:03 he is rabbi because he is rabbi, 02:05 and we have a lot of nicknames for each other 02:08 when you've known each other as long as we have, 02:10 you develop this little diminutive. 02:11 So, rabbi, good to have you here, man. 02:13 Good to be here, good to be here. 02:14 I'm excited about not only us being here 02:16 but the topic that we're going to cover today. 02:18 Yeah, we've got a couple of New Yorkers here today. 02:20 That's right. 02:21 So sometimes, we may talk like New Yorkers, 02:23 but it's good to have him here. 02:25 And we'll jump right to the punch line 02:27 because he's here to talk about a new book, 02:31 it's still about new that he has been assigned to write, 02:33 he has completed the writing of it. 02:35 In conjunction 02:36 with the Give Him Glory musical project, 02:38 we need a companion book to sort of walk us 02:42 through some of the things 02:44 that that wonderful music CD and DVD speak about, 02:47 but we needed a teaching tool to go along with that, 02:50 and John was asked to write that. 02:53 He's done a very, very fine job in looking over it. 02:55 So today, we want to kind of walk 02:57 through the three angels' messages, 02:59 first, as a doctrine 03:00 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 03:02 taught by really no other, John, 03:03 Protestant and denomination as we look at it. 03:05 That's right. 03:07 Then we want to look at the import 03:08 of the message itself, 03:10 and that's what this book attempts to do 03:12 and does do in a very fine way without being overly... 03:17 What can I say, John? 03:18 Overly... 03:19 Overly ecclesiastical. Yeah, there you go. 03:21 You know that I'm using one of your words 03:23 because, you know, a lot of times 03:25 whenever you get into the topic of the three angels' messages, 03:27 I've seen 300 page books, I've seen... 03:29 Dissertations... 03:31 Precisely. 03:32 I've seen going back to 1888 and 1844, 03:34 and going through all the Adventist history. 03:35 Well, you don't have to go back to go forward. 03:38 It's got enough propulsion on itself to go forward 03:41 and that's what I've done in the book. 03:43 Well said. 03:44 Yeah, you can turn the Book of Revelation into a flat iron 03:45 if you wish. 03:47 It can be a very heavy thing to drag along 03:48 or you can do as you have done to keep it light, 03:51 keep it user-friendly... 03:52 That's right. 03:54 And yet, not do a disservice 03:56 to the weight of the message itself. 03:57 That's right. Yeah. 03:58 So you sort of tread the line there between 04:01 being as deep as you need to be, 04:03 but not being overly heavy 04:07 so that you're not scaring people off 04:08 'cause Revelation can intimidate you 04:09 as you well know as somebody 04:11 who has studied the book for many, many years. 04:12 And what I've done intentionally, 04:14 because just for the benefit of those 04:15 who watch and listen to the program, 04:17 it's only 46 pages. 04:18 Mm-hmm. 04:20 And I did that just as an introduction, 04:21 that's why it's called 04:22 Three Angels' Messages In Summary. 04:24 Summary, yeah. 04:25 And because it is of such a heavy nature 04:28 that you could spend, 04:29 you know, 100 pages on each of the messages, 04:31 not only... 04:32 And then the preamble to it and the culmination of it. 04:35 So when you put all that together, 04:37 you could really get a person 04:38 that doesn't have the time in this day and age... 04:40 So I thought about the college student, 04:42 the professional, 04:44 people that we run into in our travels 04:45 on the airplanes, at the airports... 04:48 People that have no clue about 04:50 what the message is at all and secondly, 04:52 people that have no idea about our denomination. 04:54 So what I did intentionally, 04:56 I didn't use any denominational jargon... 04:58 Uh-huh. 04:59 And I say that respectfully, meaning it's only Bible. 05:02 I didn't use any quotations from Ellen White 05:04 because a lot of people don't know who she is... 05:06 With great respect for her writings, 05:07 which you know I have... 05:08 Mm-hmm. 05:10 But I decided, well, if somebody decided to pick up 05:11 this book of 46 pages with no angels on the cover, 05:16 that's intentional... 05:17 I don't want people to be scared away by angels 05:19 because in this day and age, 05:21 our college students don't think about angels, 05:24 they think of it almost in the sense... 05:25 It's kind of strange but an unusual way, 05:27 when you see angels in bookstores today, 05:29 sadly enough, a lot of it is leaning 05:32 toward the occult world. 05:33 Yes. Yes. It's a sad reality. 05:35 Or you think of angels 05:37 and you think of the catholic icons 05:38 and different churches that use it, 05:40 but that's not how the Bible puts it, 05:42 it's just that it's evolved into some meaning 05:44 that we don't want to get people confused about. 05:46 But the picture on the cover... 05:48 Bring that up one more time, I want to show them that. 05:49 The picture on the cover shows a light coming down, 05:52 disseminating to the entire world, 05:54 making connections, 05:56 light connections around the world. 05:57 So in fact, the three angels' messages 05:59 is lighting the world with His glory, 06:00 that's the intent of the cover. 06:02 Yes, yes. 06:03 And I want to stop this and sort of just pause there 06:05 for a moment because that's what 06:07 jumped out at me. 06:08 One, it's an attractive cover, it's an inviting cover, 06:10 but the word that would catch me 06:13 is the Three Angels' Messages In Summary. 06:15 That's right. 06:16 So I know I'm going to get a summation 06:17 and not some big long heavy opus 06:20 that is gonna keep me locked down for days 06:21 and weeks and months, it's a summary, 06:23 and yet all of the information is there 06:25 that a person will need to understand the doctrine. 06:28 That's right. And so I read... 06:29 I did 46 pages because I want to make it user-friendly 06:32 if you're on a flight, wherever you're going, just even if... 06:35 Yeah, just put plain material. Right. 06:36 You can just... 06:38 If you're between classes or you're on your way home 06:40 or you decide one evening or in your school, 06:43 spare time at lunch, 06:45 you want to thumb through it, you can put this in your bag, 06:47 you know, you're not losing any capacity 06:49 to put something else in there, 06:51 you're not overweighting yourself 06:52 with a book... 06:54 You know, having to sit down 06:55 for hours and look at something... 06:56 Precisely. It's taking you right to... 06:58 And what it does... 06:59 And the other thing about it, it doesn't... 07:01 Don't let the size fool you because... 07:03 You know those medication pills you get 07:05 from the doctor. 07:07 They're really, really small but he said, 07:08 "Don't make a mistake and take two"? 07:10 Well, that's what this book is all about. 07:12 Good deal. 07:13 It's small but it is concentrated, 07:15 it doesn't bypass, 07:16 it doesn't sidestep the issues... 07:18 And we'll talk about that in just a moment. 07:19 Excellent. 07:21 Let's talk just for a moment before we go to our music, 07:22 John, speaking of music, about the project 07:25 that this has been combined with. 07:27 You have a great part in that project also... 07:30 You're featured on that project, 07:31 but let's sort of just tie that knot 07:34 just a little bit between what this is explaining 07:37 and the original project 07:38 that made this come into existence. 07:41 Well, Give Him Glory, which is a beautiful project, 07:45 it was inspired by the three angels' messages. 07:47 A number of writers like Lanny Wolfe, also... 07:52 The names don't come to my mind right away, 07:54 but a number of project writers, very good, 07:57 Dave Huntsinger... 07:58 Yeah, yeah. 07:59 And David Clydesdale, a great orchestrator... 08:04 Christ Wilkinson, 08:06 all these writers and musicians... 08:09 And the word musician is an understatement 08:10 for their categories. 08:12 I mean, each one of them is in a category 08:13 all by him or herself. 08:15 It's very true. 08:16 Because they're so good at what they do, but because... 08:18 And there's one continuation between all of them 08:20 is none of them is Adventist. 08:23 And Danny, the Lord impresses him 08:25 in such an amazing way, 08:26 he tried to find a way to introduce this message 08:28 to the Christian world at large. 08:30 What better way than people 08:32 that have a large rubber stamp in the Christian world already? 08:34 So when Lanny Wolfe decided to take on the task, 08:37 he said wonderfully, he says, "For many years, 08:40 with more than 700 songs very well known, 08:42 like More Than Wonderful, Someone is Praying For You, 08:45 a number of other songs 08:47 that are very well known in the Christian world. 08:49 He said, most of the songs he wrote were 90% Lanny Wolfe, 08:55 10% percent God, that's the phrase he used. 08:58 But then he said, when he got to the Book of Revelation 09:00 and the three angels' messages, 09:01 he said, "First of all, I've never heard about them." 09:03 Right. Yeah. 09:04 "Secondly, I don't know what they are." 09:05 He said, "You know, we take the Book of Acts 09:07 and we do a holy dance around it." 09:08 Yeah. He is such a great guy. 09:10 But he said... 09:11 So he knew right off the bat, 09:13 this was not a valley in which he was going to go 09:15 with his own sword and come out successful, 09:17 so he went into this valley completely blindfolded, 09:20 being led by the hand of God to understand 09:22 what these messages are, and it transformed his life, 09:26 it transformed the lives 09:27 in the understanding of all those 09:29 who participated in it. 09:30 So each of the songs are inspired 09:31 by the three angels' messages, but as you said earlier, 09:34 to give support to that, I decided... 09:37 And Danny had asked me a few months ago. 09:39 He said, "Write something about it." 09:40 And so we decided non-threatening, very thin, 09:43 it almost disappears on air when you turn it sideways, 09:46 to put something together and praise God. 09:49 This booklet has now been disseminated, 09:52 I think they're up to more than 35,000 already, 09:55 and we're about to go into another printing. 09:57 And we're going to talk about the importance of it 09:59 and why it needs to be sent into every corner of the world 10:04 because it is, in fact, 10:06 the last act in the drama of the great controversy. 10:09 Yes. It's the final act. 10:10 You remember years ago the FBI? 10:12 You know, act one, act two, act three, then epilogue. 10:14 Yes, yes, yes. It's an old movie. 10:16 Those of you who are young just bear with us. 10:18 But this is the epilogue of the Christian journey, 10:22 and Revelation is not to be feared 10:25 but to be dived into. 10:27 And so if you paid for a two hour movie 10:30 and you saw an hour and 45 minutes 10:32 and then they cut the screen off, you'll say, 10:34 "Hey, what did you just do?" 10:37 And he'll say, "The last 15 minutes don't matter." 10:39 Well, that's the height of the whole thing. 10:41 Precisely. 10:42 And so the three angels' messages 10:43 is the last 15 minutes of Christian history. 10:46 And most Christians, and I'm saying this, 10:49 most Christian churches, 10:51 most Christian pastors do not read it, 10:56 they don't communicate it 10:57 because there is this eschatological belief 11:00 in Christianity today 11:02 that beyond Revelation 4, they insert in there, they say, 11:07 Revelation 4 describes the rapture of the church, 11:10 the church being taken out of the world. 11:12 So they say, "Revelation 5 to 22 really doesn't matter..." 11:16 "Because you're not here anyway." 11:18 Well, that's not scripturally correct. 11:19 Correct. 11:21 So this message will clearly 11:23 become a victim of that kind of mentality. 11:25 So people today... 11:27 And I tested this on the plane, I gave this to a lady 11:30 who is of a different denomination, 11:32 as I was writing down, 11:33 she said, "What are you writing?" 11:35 And I said, "Oh, I'm doing a project on..." 11:36 And I talked about the three angels' messages. 11:38 She said, "What is that?" 11:39 And I shared it with her, and she travels 11:42 and does seminars all over the world. 11:44 She says, "First of all, can I ask you a question? 11:47 Why have I not heard about that? 11:48 I've been a Christian almost all my life." 11:50 I said... 11:52 "You got to ask your pastor." 11:54 You know, and she said... 11:56 And I said... 11:57 So I told her how to get a copy of the book, 12:00 this is before it was done. 12:01 And she said, 12:03 "I cannot wait to go home and tell my husband, 12:04 and I'm surely going to ask my pastor this weekend 12:07 why we don't know about this." 12:09 It's a message that is of final 12:11 and dynamic importance to everyone living. 12:14 And let me say this, 12:15 whether you are a Christian or not, 12:17 these messages are going to impact you 12:19 in a tremendous way. 12:21 So this is not just a Christian message 12:23 but this is the last movie. 12:25 So if all of a sudden, the Emergency Broadcast System 12:27 in the United States decided to go off 12:29 and it was not a test... 12:31 Everybody's going to pay attention. 12:32 Precisely. 12:34 This is more important than the Emergency Broadcast System 12:35 for the United States. 12:37 This is a worldwide emergency broadcast. 12:39 It occurs to me that as good as the musical project is, 12:42 it cannot... 12:43 You cannot in a song answer every question. 12:45 No The fact that there are... 12:47 You may create some questions 12:48 that that cannot be answered in that particular song. 12:50 So this then is a primmer, it is a syllabus to go along 12:55 with that so that when questions 12:56 are generated by the music, the answers are here. 12:59 So that makes it very, very necessary. 13:01 And I appreciate the fact that you had respect 13:04 for the time of your reader 13:06 by not making it excessively long. 13:07 The thing about the Book of Revelation, pastor, 13:09 is the fact that truth is there but you've got to dig, 13:13 and some people are afraid to dig, 13:14 some people don't have the tools to dig, 13:16 some people's shovels are not sharp enough, 13:18 but it's there. 13:19 And the point is that the music project 13:23 doesn't answer all of the questions... 13:24 But surely exposes the doctrine, 13:26 but in doing so it may create 13:29 as many questions as it answers. 13:31 So you've got this companion book 13:32 that allows you to go to the next level... 13:34 That's right. 13:35 And that's why what you've done is so necessary 13:37 because any question that is asked 13:39 can be answered in a short concise way 13:42 in this book. 13:43 That's right. Yeah. 13:45 Let's do this, pastor, 13:47 let's go to a song from the project. 13:49 Kind of work our appetites, then I'm gonna come back 13:51 and sort of loose and let you go 13:53 'cause we have a lot to cover and not a lot of time to do it. 13:55 The song is, "Behold, I Come Quickly." 13:58 That's right. 13:59 Yeah, a great song from the project. 14:00 You'll enjoy this, then we're going to come back 14:02 and sort of turn the pastor loose 14:03 and let him talk to us about this wonderful book. 18:24 You can see that the audience enjoyed 18:26 that presentation very much. 18:28 It was a worship atmosphere that evening when we produced 18:31 that during the 2018 spring camp meeting. 18:34 Really, really wonderful time. 18:36 The project is ready, the CD is ready, 18:39 the DVD is in the process of being ready, 18:42 and by the time you call in for your order, 18:44 it'll be there for you. 18:45 In the meantime, Danny felt it necessary 18:49 to add a companion book 18:51 to this very, very fine project. 18:53 John was asked to do that, we have that with us today. 18:56 We're going to talk about that. 18:58 Pastor, I'm going to sort of give you head now 18:59 and let you sort of walk us through what you want us 19:01 to know about this particular book 19:03 and about the doctrine per se. 19:06 Well, first of all, the three angels' messages, 19:08 as I said earlier in the program, 19:09 is the culminating, 19:10 it's the last act in the drama of Christianity. 19:14 But it's not just a Christian doctrine, 19:15 it's a doctrine that's going to encompass 19:17 the entire world. 19:18 Giving an example, we talk about... 19:21 Any of the doctrine 19:22 that the Christian church practices 19:23 primarily affects the Christian's life. 19:26 This is the one doctrine that affects everyone's life. 19:29 You know, you talk about 19:30 how you worship on the weekends, 19:32 some people go to church on Sunday, 19:33 some go on Sabbath. 19:35 We know the Bible supports Sabbath worship, 19:37 but then people talk about diet, 19:39 dress, their music, their lifestyle, 19:41 that all affects the Christian in his 19:42 or her own community, 19:44 but the three angels' messages affects everyone 19:47 in every community. 19:49 When the Lord gave the commission in Matthew 28, 19:51 "Go therefore and make disciples 19:52 of all nations." 19:54 Or "Go ye therefore and teach all nations." 19:56 That commission was to the entire world, 19:58 everybody in the world. 19:59 So the revelation message of the three angels 20:02 is a message that is for the entire world, 20:05 I'll break each message down in just a moment. 20:07 But in the first message, God calls, 20:10 in the second message, God identifies, 20:13 and in the third message, God warns. 20:16 Calls, identifies, and warns. 20:18 So let's go ahead and look at the first message. 20:20 Revelation 13... 20:22 Revelation 14, and we're going to look at the first message 20:26 of the three angels. 20:28 And by the way, if you look at the Bible 20:29 as you go in Revelation 14, 20:31 there are so many threes in Scripture. 20:34 If you just do a search on threes in the Bible, 20:37 for example, going all the way back, 20:39 Noah had three sons, 20:41 there were three days' darkness on Egypt 20:44 when the Lord sent his plagues. 20:46 Pharaoh was told by Moses 20:49 that we're going to go three days' journey 20:51 into the wilderness to worship the Lord. 20:53 Then you have the three major feasts 20:55 in the Bible that only the males 20:56 were supposed to show up at, 20:58 the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, 20:59 and the Feast of Tabernacles. 21:01 Tabernacles, correct. 21:02 Then you also have three days and three nights, 21:04 Jonah in the belly of the fish. 21:06 And in the same sign, three days and three night 21:08 Jesus in the heart of the earth. 21:10 But then you had the three angels' messages 21:12 of Revelation 14, and then you have 21:15 the counter of the three angels' messages, 21:19 the three unclean spirits. 21:21 So when you look at Revelation, there is the Christ 21:24 and then there is the antichrist. 21:27 There is a system from God and there is a system 21:29 from the enemy or Satan that wants to counteract. 21:33 So before we look at the three messages 21:34 of the angels, these messages 21:36 include the Godhead, the Father, the Son, 21:38 and the Holy Spirit, the most important three. 21:41 So the Father, the Son, 21:42 and the Holy Spirit are unified in the proclamation 21:45 of the three angels' messages to the entire world, 21:48 but the message is clearly depicted here 21:50 in Revelation 14:6, 7, and I read the first message. 21:55 It says: 22:19 Notice, the first message is to every nation, 22:23 every tribe, every tongue, every people. 22:26 Let me put this in the context of what I see it. 22:28 It's like of the atomic blast. 22:31 Every nation on earth will be affected 22:32 by an atomic blast. 22:34 So there is no such thing as a limited nuclear exchange. 22:37 No, it's oxymoron. It's an oxymoron. 22:39 Yeah, yeah. 22:40 So if I have 1,500 nuclear weapons, 22:42 you only have 1,399, 22:44 I'm not going to say I'm stronger than you are 22:45 because if one goes off, 22:47 the entire world is affected by it. 22:50 When you break down 22:51 these messages in its components, 22:53 first of all, you have three angels 22:57 which signify the importance of the message, 22:59 this is a symbolism of the great 23:01 importance of the message. 23:03 Preachers, teachers, messengers of God 23:05 are proclaiming a vitally important message. 23:08 You don't have literal angels in the heavens flying around, 23:10 yelling down from, you know, 35,000 feet. 23:13 This is the import of the message. 23:14 And when you see in the Bible the importance of the message, 23:17 angels were sent a lot. 23:20 You see, you have angels that came and visited, 23:23 an angel came and visited Mary. 23:25 And so when you look at the visitation of angels 23:27 throughout the scriptures, 23:29 it was always at a very important venture, 23:30 the message was one not to be ignored, 23:32 not to be overlooked. 23:34 So you have the first angel and he's saying the message 23:37 with a loud voice. 23:40 So if I'm going to proclaim something with a loud voice, 23:43 that means it's of great importance. 23:45 So this message is of such great importance, 23:47 that is to every nation, every tribe, every tongue, 23:49 every people, and then what is it saying? 23:52 Fear God, meaning that's the moment 23:54 that when all the other gods of the world 23:56 are fading into insignificance, 23:58 it's bringing us back to God, fear God. 24:00 Yeah. And which God? 24:02 Mm-hmm. 24:03 The one who made the heavens and the earth, 24:05 the sea and the springs of waters. 24:07 Pastor, I want to just tap the brake on in just a moment 24:10 because you've really hit on something 24:12 I don't want our folk to miss, one, 24:14 the exalted nature of the message. 24:15 One, the angels are flying up above. 24:18 Two, it's in the hand of angels. 24:20 Not given to a man to give, this is something... 24:24 Speaking with a loud voice. That's right. 24:26 So it's something that should not be ignored, 24:28 cannot be ignored because of its importance 24:30 to the whole world. 24:32 Flying angles, loud voice, 24:34 God really wants you to hear what's coming. 24:36 And so the whole world, they're told... 24:38 They're saying, "Fear God and give glory to Him." 24:42 Now it's amazing why the phrase 24:44 "Fear God" is there because at a time, 24:46 when fear is gripping the world, 24:49 you know, men's heart is failing them for fear 24:51 because if we think that we see anything happening 24:53 to our world, just give us some more time, 24:55 it's going to get to the place of cataclysmic interruptions 24:58 all over our world, 24:59 and when "Men's hearts are failing them for fear 25:02 and looking after those things 25:03 coming on the earth," Luke 21... 25:07 We're going to see that men's hearts are focused 25:12 in a completely different direction. 25:14 They're going to be seeing things 25:16 that are bringing their hearts to a stop, and God is saying, 25:19 "While you're fearing what's happening around you..." 25:22 "Fear God and give glory to Him." 25:24 That means honor Him, it's a call back, 25:26 God is calling men back to the true God, 25:30 and then it is letting them know 25:32 the hour of His judgment has come. 25:34 Very important here 25:35 because the hour of the judgment is synonymous 25:38 to the language that we know in the Old Testament. 25:40 Every year, the Jewish nation faced 25:41 an hour of judgment. 25:43 Very true. 25:44 It was the final handling of their sins, 25:46 it was called The Day of Atonement. 25:48 When God proclaimed this yearly feast, 25:50 the Day of Atonement, 25:52 it was when people had to look at themselves and account 25:54 and provide a sacrifice for their sins. 25:57 Well, who is the final sacrifice? 25:58 Jesus is. 26:00 He gave His life to save all of us. 26:01 So in this very pivotal hour of earth's history, 26:04 when probation for man is closing 26:06 because the world has got to come 26:08 to an end sooner or later. 26:09 But when the hour of judgment... 26:11 We're living in that time of judgment that we are, 26:14 the best decision we can make in this time of judgment 26:18 is to go back to honoring the true God, 26:20 not the god of money, 26:21 not the god of lifestyle, not the god of materialism, 26:23 not the god of all these different occult 26:25 and false religions 26:26 but the one who created the heavens 26:28 and the earth. 26:29 That's the only true God. Yes. 26:31 His stamp is everywhere. 26:32 The only true God is also tagged by Christ, 26:37 who is the only one that conquered death. 26:40 So this message, the message of Revelation, 26:42 is a revelation of Jesus Christ. 26:45 We must honor Him, give an account for our sin, 26:48 and the judgment hour is what's calling us back. 26:51 So as I deal with the first chapter, 26:54 I talk about the everlasting gospel, 26:56 you cannot miss the everlasting gospel. 26:58 The everlasting gospel, since it's everlasting, 27:02 it is not a gospel that changes through the years, 27:05 it's a gospel proclaimed from the very beginning, 27:07 from the fall of man to the end of the issue of sin, 27:10 that's the continued gospel. 27:12 Precisely. 27:13 "For by grace are we saved through faith, 27:15 and that not of yourselves, 27:16 it is a gift of God, not of works, 27:18 lest any man should boast." 27:20 So unequivocally, if you're listening 27:21 from any other denomination, put a pin in this. 27:25 Seventh-day Adventist Christians believe 27:26 in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus alone. 27:29 Can I get an amen? Amen and amen. 27:31 And congregation. 27:32 Okay, salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone, 27:36 that's the everlasting gospel. 27:38 From the Garden of Eden 27:39 to the culmination of the return of Jesus, 27:42 salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone. 27:44 You cannot work your way into salvation. 27:47 There's nothing you can do to add to your salvation, 27:50 but because you are in a saving relationship, 27:52 you are responsible to live your life and walk 27:54 according to the dictates of God's Word. 27:56 Amen. Amen. 27:58 So this whole idea of... And I talk about... 28:00 "There is no other name given among men 28:02 whereby we must be saved than the name of Jesus." 28:05 He is the redeemer. 28:07 So I treat this with such distinct... 28:12 I begin the book and end the book 28:14 with a beautiful representation 28:16 that Jesus is the only redeemer, 28:19 there is no other redeemer, 28:20 not Buddha, not the Islamic leader, 28:25 no other redeemer on earth except Jesus. 28:29 We must all go through Christ, I deal with that. 28:32 Then I talk about every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, 28:34 the everlasting gospel which is the commission, 28:37 the commission simply is go and teach all nations. 28:41 And then that invitation to 28:42 "Come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden." 28:45 So the first angel's message, 28:47 which I'm not going to take a ton more time on, 28:49 is covered in a beautiful way. 28:52 Once again, fear God and give glory to Him, 28:55 we're living in the judgment hour 28:56 when we must take an account of our sin 28:58 because the issue is not... 29:00 Jesus is not coming back to destroy people, 29:02 He's coming back to destroy sin. 29:04 Yes, yes. 29:05 When we know that, we don't think of Jesus 29:06 as some kind assassin with a scope 29:08 from a long distance, 29:09 but He's coming back to destroy sin, 29:11 and anybody connected to sin will be destroyed with sin. 29:13 See, that's the thing. 29:15 The controversy is between Christ and sin. 29:17 He wants to destroy sin, and the collateral damage is 29:20 those that are in sin 29:22 will have to be destroyed at the same time. 29:23 Your point is so clear, 29:25 and I'm trying to cut you off here... 29:27 You've got me kind of full of the subject, 29:29 the idea that the coming of Christ 29:31 is a cosmic event. 29:32 That's right. 29:34 Ready or not, the whole world 29:35 is going to be involved in that. 29:36 So these messages or this message, 29:38 divided into three sections, 29:40 is preparing you for a cosmic event 29:42 which is going to take place and cover the whole world, 29:45 so it's of universal importance 29:47 whether you believe in it or not, 29:49 accept it or not, like it or not, 29:51 you're part of this thing. 29:52 Everybody. Right. 29:53 I mean, if there was an atomic blast, 29:55 a guy that doesn't go to church 29:57 can't say, "Please, don't touch me." 29:58 "Yeah, don't bother me." 30:00 Everybody is going to be involved. 30:01 If there's an earthquake, 30:03 everybody, rich and poor, going down. 30:05 If there's a tsunami, He doesn't say, 30:06 "Well, let's just drown the people 30:08 that are just poor and let the rich people live." 30:10 Everybody, this... 30:12 Pastor CA, the importance of this book cannot be 30:15 overemphasized. 30:17 There's a quotation I want to just put in here. 30:19 As Adventists, we know that 30:21 this is the culminating message. 30:23 I mean, you could preach all kinds of messages, 30:25 but if you leave out the last 15 minutes, 30:28 and I'm saying to pastors, and leaders, and members, 30:30 and people that want to witness and share the faith, 30:33 this message is the last piece of the puzzle. 30:38 So if you leave out the last piece, 30:40 the servant of the Lord says, "The truth for this time, 30:43 the third angel's message is to be proclaimed 30:47 with a loud voice, meaning, increasing power 30:50 as we approach the great final test." 30:52 Which says, my pastor, my friend, 30:54 that if you call yourself, 30:55 start yourself a full gospel church 30:57 and you're not preaching this, you're not full gospel... 30:59 No. 31:00 Because this is the cherry on the sundae, man, 31:03 this is the top of the... 31:05 The frosting on the cake. 31:06 If you're not preaching this, it's incomplete. 31:08 It's incomplete. You're not full gospel. 31:09 Completely incomplete. Yes. 31:11 That's an oxymoron, isn't it? Completely incomplete. 31:14 Completely incomplete. 31:15 You know, what we call organized confusion. 31:18 And so what's happening here 31:19 is there are lots of Christian churches... 31:21 And the beautiful thing about this message, 31:23 it culminates in the swelling, it gets to the point 31:26 where it lightens the earth with His glory. 31:28 Yeah. Revelation 18. 31:30 And the call in Revelation 18 is a culmination, 31:33 it's the swelling of the three angel's messages, 31:35 the third angel's message, and the message swells, 31:38 it's like when you put... 31:39 Remember those Chia Pets years ago? 31:41 Oh, yes, yes. 31:43 You get these little seeds 31:44 and you pour little water on it, 31:46 and all of a sudden, 31:47 it starts growing and expanding, 31:49 looks like foam and I went 31:51 to somebody's desk here at 3ABN, 31:52 I said, "What is that?" 31:54 I thought it was flaxseeds. He said, "No. 31:55 Those are the chia seeds" I said, "Chia seeds? 31:57 What do you do with that?" He said, "Add water..." 31:59 And these particular chia seeds had a flavor, 32:01 it's like grape and strawberry... 32:03 Oh, wow. 32:04 And he said, they chew it like a marshmallow 32:06 and he said he uses that 32:07 for like when he gets an appetite during the day. 32:09 Uh-huh. 32:10 The gospel message is to be, 32:12 when you pour the grace of Jesus into it, 32:16 it expands to the entire world, 32:18 and so you cannot leave it out. 32:20 And so to highlight the need for this 32:23 to get into every hand, every community 32:25 because your neighbor, 32:26 whether he or she knows it or not, 32:27 whether the family knows it or not, 32:29 whether the pilot or the banker 32:30 or the lawyer or the school teacher 32:32 or the student know it or not, 32:34 they're going to be affected by it. 32:35 So does it make sense... 32:38 We say, "What you don't know can't hurt you." 32:40 That's the biggest lie I've ever heard. 32:41 Very true. 32:43 What you don't know will kill you, you know. 32:44 That's right. 32:45 The biggest lie I've ever heard 32:47 was what you don't know won't hurt you. 32:48 We know that's not true because what you don't know 32:51 is the very thing that you need to know. 32:53 Precisely. 32:54 And so I deal with that, 32:56 and I go in a little more in depth to those 32:57 who understand how the Day of Atonement services work. 33:02 And so for somebody to say, "Well, how do you know 33:04 we're living in the hour of the judgment of God?" 33:05 I deal with that, also, leading us 33:08 through the Old Testament 33:09 and the New Testament to let you know that, yes, 33:11 we are living in the time of God's judgment. 33:15 And we talk about the heavenly sanctuary, 33:17 we talk about Christ 33:18 as our substitutionary sacrifice. 33:20 We talk about worshiping who made heaven and earth, 33:22 and then we go over to the second angel's message. 33:26 Let's bring up the slide of that. 33:27 Revelation 14:8, and here it is, 33:30 the second message. 33:43 That's the second message. 33:45 Let's deal with that for a moment. 33:46 Now the word Babylon comes from the root word Babel. 33:50 We like to say Babylon, 33:52 but it's actually babble, babble, babble. 33:55 We don't say Babylon, when we say Babel, 33:59 it's not the Tower of Babel, it's the Tower of Babble 34:01 because on the other side of the flood, 34:04 the post diluvian generation, they are those... 34:08 After they began to spread, after they began to multiply, 34:12 because only three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth, 34:15 they began to multiply, 34:16 and for some reason, unbelief set in, 34:19 and they decided, 34:20 "Well, this flood really did a damage to our world, 34:23 wiped out everything here." 34:24 And so they said, "Just in case it happens again, 34:27 let's build ourselves a tower." 34:30 And when you read that in the Book of Genesis, 34:31 it says, "Let us build ourselves a city. 34:34 Let us make a name for ourselves." 34:36 Ourselves, yes, yes. 34:37 "We're going to build our own method of salvation. 34:39 We're going to give it our own identity. 34:42 We don't want to be identified by their God." 34:44 And so when the Lord saw this project was going forward 34:47 because they all spoke one language, 34:48 this is amazing component, 34:50 there was a one language world at that time. 34:53 They only spoke one language, so one of the first things 34:55 the Lord did at the Tower of Babble 34:58 was He confused the languages. 35:00 Yes, yes. 35:01 We talk about that in the booklet, that today, 35:03 there is a sign of Babylon in churches today, 35:06 the confusion of tongues. 35:08 We deal with the topic of tongues briefly. 35:11 That's one of the signs of Babylon, 35:13 they were babbling on but nobody understood anything. 35:16 And those who babbled this language 35:18 and the others that babble that language, 35:19 they coalesced in their own groups 35:21 and they began to move 35:22 and proliferate throughout the earth. 35:24 So Babylon... 35:25 One of the first signs of Babylon today 35:27 is the confusion of languages. 35:29 And there are many Christian churches that say, 35:31 "You got to speak in tongues to be saved." 35:32 No. 35:34 That's a gift that the Lord gives only 35:35 as He sees needed... 35:37 Yeah It's not a confusing language, 35:38 but simply, a method of communicating 35:40 the gospel to the world. 35:41 For a specific purpose. Very much so. 35:43 Now Babylon is fallen, it's fallen. 35:45 Babylon now came into fruition as a larger nation 35:49 under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. 35:51 How amazing that Nebuchadnezzar, 35:53 this king of Babylon, 35:54 the greatest nation that lived in the world, 35:57 the greatest dynasty, 35:58 he was symbolized by the gold of Daniel 2 36:01 and the lion of Daniel 7, the golden image of Daniel... 36:04 The golden portion of the image of Daniel 2 36:07 and the lion of Daniel 7, 36:08 when you combine those two together, 36:11 you got the most valuable metal, 36:12 it was the wealthiest of nations, 36:15 then you have the most powerful beast, 36:17 it was the strongest of nations... 36:18 But if you look at the graduation, 36:20 it didn't graduate, it depreciated 36:23 because the metals went from gold to silver 36:24 to bronze to iron, then iron and clay. 36:26 They got stronger but cheaper. 36:28 Exactly, got stronger but cheaper. 36:30 The nation... 36:31 'Cause gold is the softest of the metals... 36:33 Silver is a little harder but cheaper, 36:34 bronze is cheaper 36:36 but a little tougher still, and then iron, 36:38 the legs of iron and the feet of iron and clay. 36:40 Iron is very hard... 36:41 But you can buy iron for the next to nothing. 36:44 Nobody buys iron watches. No. 36:46 You know, if anybody gives me an iron, 36:49 you know, iron watch, 36:51 I mean, you can't walk past anything 36:53 with an iron watch. 36:54 The point of that is Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, 36:58 when Nebuchadnezzar saw that his kingdom 37:00 was the most valuable in his own eyesight. 37:03 He also was told by Daniel that it will not last forever. 37:06 Precisely. Yeah. 37:07 But he said I've got other plans. 37:09 So he built an image of all gold 37:13 and he calls for all nations to worship 37:16 This is important because in the last days, 37:19 it's not going to be literal Babylon 37:20 but spiritual Babylon... 37:22 And the whole focus of it is 37:24 the leader of spiritual Babylon is going to call 37:26 for the nations of the world to coalesce together. 37:29 I have to make a very important point here. 37:31 The nations of the world are not only religious 37:33 but economic, social, materialistic, atheistic, 37:38 so the message of Babylon in the last days 37:41 is a coalition of everything that is antichrist. 37:44 Yes, yes. 37:46 Social, mental, spiritual, physical, 37:49 doesn't have to be religious 37:51 because religion was not the only focus point 37:53 in the plain of Dura that day in Babylon, 37:55 you know that. 37:56 Whatever the heathen nation was, 37:58 they were called together 37:59 under the power of Nebuchadnezzar 38:01 and they said, "Whenever you hear 38:02 the sound of the instruments..." 38:04 He used music to bring about false worship. 38:06 Be careful today when you're involved in music 38:08 that leads you to false worship. 38:10 But how amazing it was in that Babylon 38:13 of Nebuchadnezzar's day, 38:14 there were three Hebrews Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 38:18 We all call them Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 38:20 their Babylonian names, but I like the Hebrew names, 38:23 Hananiah, Mishael, and Azaria... 38:24 So do I. I do, yeah. 38:26 Because those who they are, not who they were tagged to be. 38:29 First thing, they got from mama say, 38:30 that's their real names. 38:31 Their stand they took on that day of tests 38:33 was because of who they were... 38:34 Precisely. 38:36 Where they came from, not who they were tagged to be. 38:38 They didn't become Babylonian, 38:39 they remained Hebrew in a Babylonian society. 38:42 So here's the point, 38:44 we must remain spiritual Hebrews. 38:47 We must remain Christians in a Babylonian society. 38:50 Three Hebrew boys standing firm at the time 38:53 when everybody was being forced to worship, 38:56 and because they stood firm, 38:57 there were those in Babylon that heard about the true God 39:03 when Nebuchadnezzar tried to take their lives, 39:05 and he did not succeed. 39:07 There was a death decree 39:09 when these three men were delivered from the fire, 39:11 through the fire, then all of a sudden, 39:13 there's a proclamation 39:14 that these three men had the true God. 39:17 Then the knowledge of God was spread 39:19 throughout the whole earth. 39:21 So the same thing is going to happen in the future. 39:23 Spiritual Babylon made up of Catholicism, apostate, 39:28 Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, 39:31 secularism, Buddhism, atheism, 39:34 all these antichrist methods 39:36 in which you see in all of those, 39:37 one, is a false representation of Christ and all the others, 39:41 a rejection of Christ. 39:43 Christ is not the central focal point of salvation. 39:46 He's mentioned in Judaism and Islam, in Christianity, 39:51 in apostate Protestantism, but for some reason, 39:53 He is not properly represented. 39:56 But when he says, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen." 39:58 It's a s very significant point 40:00 because Babylon is already fallen 40:01 in the eyes of God. 40:03 It's already a fallen system, it's a nation of... 40:06 It's a system that coalesces together 40:08 to bring the persecution to the people of God, 40:11 and I talk about that in the book, 40:13 I bring it out very carefully. 40:15 And when he says, "All nations drink of the wine 40:17 of the wrath of her fornication," 40:18 Now fornication is talked about 40:20 in the sense of an illicit affair. 40:23 Yes. 40:24 So this system of Babylon 40:26 has caused the leaders of the world 40:29 to get drunk through her wine. 40:31 In other words, she's feeding them something 40:32 that's inoculating them... 40:34 Sorry that's not inoculating them 40:35 but inebriating them. 40:37 Well said. Yeah. 40:39 They're inebriate 40:40 because whatever she has, they're drinking. 40:42 Whatever she is suggesting, they are participating in 40:46 because the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 40:48 Fornication is an act of uncleanness. 40:51 Fornication is an act of carnal nature, 40:54 but here in the spiritual breakdown, 40:57 this woman of Revelation 17 40:59 is not faithful to the true God. 41:01 She is a woman dressed in purple and scarlet, 41:04 she has a golden cup, but as we know, 41:06 purple and red and gold were all a part of this... 41:10 The colors in the temple services, 41:12 but the most significant color was blue... 41:14 Yes. 41:15 And she doesn't have any blue on. 41:16 No blue. 41:18 Blue was the symbol of the commandments of God. 41:19 So when you share, when you read the book, 41:21 people will be able to understand 41:24 that those systems that omit the Ten Commandments 41:29 are in danger of being seduced by the wine of Babylon. 41:33 Yes. 41:34 One of the things that you've touched on, 41:35 the book brings out, and certainly, 41:37 the message of the three angels, 41:39 tells us is that you need to examine 41:43 at this point in time your religious belief system... 41:46 Right. 41:47 Because the truth is that 41:49 every system is not acceptable to God. 41:50 That's right. 41:51 "Babylon is fallen, is fallen" 41:53 says that some people are doing things 41:55 that are not acceptable to God. 41:56 That's right. 41:57 That's not true worship, 41:59 they don't worship to the true God, 42:00 they do not recognize who he is, 42:02 and as such, they are fallen. 42:04 So we need to examine what we believe, what we teach, 42:08 what we practice 42:10 because one of the things that the message is telling us 42:11 is that everything is not equal 42:13 and everything is not acceptable to God, 42:15 and you bring that out in the book. 42:16 And I bring that out clearly. Yes. 42:17 But the one beautiful highlight... 42:19 See, if there's anything bright about the message to Babylon 42:23 or about Babylon, it's in Revelation 18:4. 42:26 And I want to make this point. 42:27 We are Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 42:29 but one thing we firmly teach 42:31 is that God has Christian believers 42:33 in all walks of life. 42:34 Yes, very true. 42:36 Some of them are not even members of a church, 42:38 but they believe in Christ in an ethereal sense, 42:40 they call His name when trouble comes, 42:42 but those who may be in other communities of faith, 42:44 whatever denomination may be, He doesn't leave them there, 42:47 and this is a very important point because people think, 42:50 "Well, I could remain where I am 42:51 and I'll be saved anyhow." 42:53 When the test comes, and this is a very key point, 42:55 if you die and you're a member of another church, 42:58 we're not saying you're lost. 42:59 That's never the message we preach. 43:01 Wherever you meet Jesus and what you live by, 43:03 if you know and you're faithful to that, 43:06 then the Lord will honor that. 43:07 Well said. But the Lord... 43:09 As you come down to the test coming to the world, 43:12 and the same thing in the days of Babylon, 43:14 when the test came 43:15 and the those Hebrews stood firmly in the hour of test. 43:18 The test hasn't yet come but it's on the way. 43:20 Yes. 43:21 And this system led by the Vatican, 43:23 led by Catholicism 43:25 is going to bring the test to the whole world, 43:27 and there's a coalition coming together right now. 43:29 Catholicism and Protestantism 43:31 are beginning to coalesce together since 1994, 43:34 the Catholic Protestant doctrine, 43:36 a document they pull together. 43:38 And so we find that there is such favor 43:41 with Catholicism 43:42 when in fact, that's going to lead us 43:43 to the next portion of the book. 43:45 But here's the bright side of the message of Babylon. 43:47 Revelation 18:4. 43:49 "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 43:51 'Come out of her, my people.'" 43:53 Yes. 43:54 So God's people in every walk of life. 43:56 John 10:16, "Other sheep I have that are not of this fold." 44:00 What fold? Revelation 12:17. 44:02 Yes. 44:04 "The dragon is angry with the woman 44:06 who keeps the commandments of God." 44:07 That's the fold. 44:09 If your church teaches that the commandments of God 44:10 are done away with, nailed to the cross, 44:12 just for the Jews, you're in the wrong fold 44:15 because the last book of the Bible, 44:17 the last chapter of the book of the Bible, 44:20 the last chapter of the last book in the Bible, 44:24 highlights those who keep the commandments of God. 44:29 They have a right to the tree of life 44:32 because they keep the commandments of God. 44:34 So the commandments of God have not been obliterated, 44:35 has not been deleted, has not been altered, 44:37 has not been... 44:38 It's not ten suggestions, it's Ten Commandments. 44:40 And Jesus says, 44:41 "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 44:43 That's the culmination of it. 44:44 So I deal with that in the second chapter, 44:46 but I must now go down to the last chapter 44:48 because we don't have a whole lot of time 44:50 and we are being pressed here 44:52 for the significance of our time. 44:53 The last chapter... 44:55 And by the way as I transition, 44:57 I'm going to talk about Revelation 12:17 in Babylon 45:00 because Satan is angry with you 45:03 if you desire is to keep the commandments of God. 45:05 Amen. Amen. 45:06 Now one point I forgot to bring out 45:07 in worship Him who made heaven and earth, 45:10 how do you worship the Creator if you ignore the Sabbath? 45:13 Yes. 45:14 You cannot ignore the seventh day Sabbath 45:17 and identify yourself as a worshipper of the Creator 45:20 because He made the world in seven days. 45:22 That's what I was trying to restrain myself 45:24 from interrupting you because you're on such a roll, 45:26 but that the fact that it always has been, 45:28 is now, will always be about worship, about God. 45:30 Exactly. 45:31 And the messages of the three angels 45:33 calls back to correct worship. 45:34 Who are you worshipping? Why are you worshipping? 45:36 How are you worshipping? When are you worshiping? 45:38 All part of that message. Thank you. 45:40 Who are you worshipping? Why are you worshipping? 45:41 How are you worshipping? And when? 45:43 And when. 45:44 And by the way, let me make the point 45:45 because some people will say this... 45:47 Some people say we should worship God every day. 45:48 I totally agree, 45:50 but the Lord didn't bless every day as a holy day. 45:52 Well said, Pastor. 45:54 So if you ignore the day He blessed and choose your own, 45:56 well, you're not worshiping the true God... 45:57 Precisely. 45:58 Because Ezekiel 20:20 says, 46:00 you know, "Hallow My Sabbaths, 46:03 it is a sign between Me and you, 46:05 that you may know that I am the Lord 46:07 who sanctifies you." 46:08 Exodus 31:13, also. 46:09 Exactly, Exodus 31:13. 46:11 So you cannot ignore the day, the only day He blessed, 46:14 and say you recognize in the true God. 46:15 Precisely. 46:17 He is saying that's not true. Well said. 46:18 The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, your God, 46:21 it's not what day you pick but who is your God, 46:23 that's the quick issue. 46:24 Finally, the mark of the beast. 46:26 The most... The warning now. 46:28 You have the call, you have the identification, 46:31 then you have the warning, the mark of the beast. 46:33 Let's look at the last slide. Revelation 14:9-12. 47:14 As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, 47:16 we could take a program just on that. 47:17 Just on that. Just on that. 47:19 Because this smoke 47:20 that ascends up forever and ever, 47:21 they have no rest forever and ever. 47:23 It's not suggesting 47:24 that they are going to be burning forever and ever. 47:26 Precisely. 47:27 You have to have eternal life to burn forever and ever, 47:29 and the wicked don't have eternal life, 47:31 but the conflagration that John was shown 47:34 is the entire world on fire 47:36 and all connected with sin is going up in smoke. 47:39 Yes. Yes. 47:40 But only eternal life is given to the righteous. 47:41 But quickly now, it identifies the third angel's message, 47:45 and now let me make a very important point. 47:48 When you look at the messages of Revelation, 47:50 Daniel looks forward, 47:52 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome... 47:54 Mm-hmm. 47:55 Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. 47:57 Yes, all four. 47:59 John looks back, Rome, Greece, Medo-Persia, and Babylon. 48:05 But John when he's writing about the mark of the beast, 48:08 he's writing as a prisoner of Rome. 48:10 Yes. 48:11 He's in the Roman system, he's under the Roman rulership, 48:16 he's in bondage under the Roman rulership. 48:19 So he's identifying the beast system 48:21 that he's under bondage by. 48:23 Yes, yes, yes. 48:24 And when you look at... 48:26 The Bible says it in Daniel 7, 48:28 speaking about the fourth beast, 48:29 "The fourth beast 48:30 shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth. 48:32 He shall be diverse from all the others, 48:35 he shall trample the earth down and break it in pieces." 48:39 When you look at history, there's no other nation, 48:41 there's no other system 48:42 that identifies as that fourth nation 48:45 other than Rome. 48:46 Yes. 48:47 The power of Rome, the system of Rome, 48:49 today known as Roman Catholicism. 48:51 And the popes took over the power of the church 48:54 during the Dark Ages, 48:56 eradicating everyone that stood in his way. 48:59 And today, you can say this... 49:00 Carefully, think about it. 49:02 You can say, there's no singular man on the planet 49:05 that has more religious and political identity 49:08 than the pontiff himself... 49:10 The head of the Church of Rome... 49:11 Very true. 49:13 And all Protestant leaders, all governments, 49:14 all nations honor Him, the Bible says. 49:17 But here's something 49:18 I want to make very, very clear. 49:20 And I told you, don't get this book mixed up, 49:22 it's thin but it's concentrated. 49:26 The Bible identifies the seat of his power 49:28 and the dragon gave him his power, 49:30 his seat, and his great authority. 49:32 Who is the dragon? Revelation 12:9. 49:33 That's Satan. That's Satan. 49:35 The devil. Yes, sir. 49:36 So Satan created a system that's anti to Christ, 49:38 meaning they have an earthly priest 49:41 when Christ is our heavenly priest. 49:42 Yes. 49:43 You ask forgiveness of an earthly man 49:45 when Christ is the only one that can forgive sins. 49:47 Yes. 49:48 They have also an additional redeemer Mary, 49:51 "Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for sinners, 49:53 now and at the hour of their death." 49:54 How can somebody who's dead help you forgive your sins... 49:58 Right. And redeem people? 50:00 So this substitutionary system has been put in place, 50:04 and I'm telling you I'm not tiptoeing 50:05 through the tulips here 50:07 because my family is 99% Catholic 50:10 and I love my family, 50:11 and there are some sincere Christians in my family 50:14 that found Christ in Catholicism, 50:16 but the system itself is corrupt, 50:18 and the Lord is calling people out of every corrupt system. 50:21 So I talk about that church, the mother church. 50:23 Yes. 50:24 But she is not by ourselves, she has daughters. 50:26 And what's the daughter? 50:27 The daughter is those that practice the things 50:29 that they adopt. 50:30 Yes. 50:32 When you follow the day 50:33 that Rome established and blessed, 50:34 you're a daughter. 50:36 When you follow them as the authority of the church, 50:37 you are a daughter. 50:38 And it's in clear stark language, 50:41 so you can see now this booklet is by no means 50:44 a tiptoe through the tulips. 50:46 But bring up the last slide for me 50:48 because here is the call. 50:49 Here's the call. The culmination. 50:56 Amen. 50:59 So, Pastor CA, 51:00 and those of you watching and listening to the program, 51:02 we want to avoid the mark of the beast, 51:03 and Sunday is the mark of Rome's authority. 51:06 It is. 51:07 When Sunday becomes a forced issue 51:09 that people must honor it and worship it 51:11 as the day that all people in society, 51:13 both religious and political must honor, 51:16 that's being pushed already. 51:18 I have an entire program on Sunday worship 51:20 that's being pushed already. 51:21 And pray for me to finish the book on Sunday mass. 51:23 Yes, yes. 51:25 I know you've been struggling with that 51:26 for a few years now... 51:28 About four years. Yes, yes. 51:29 And it's a book that is not a tiptoe either. 51:31 But here's the point, the three angels' messages 51:33 is a book that everyone should have in their possession, 51:36 in summary. 51:37 If you really love your neighbor 51:39 and love your family 51:41 and those people that you've met, 51:42 you need to get this into their hands 51:43 because this will open their eyes 51:45 to the final issues confronting planet earth. 51:48 Pastor, thank you so very much. 51:49 Before we go to our news break and come back 51:51 and kind of put a little bow on this 51:53 so I want you to give us a closing thought. 51:54 Really worthwhile book to get. 51:57 One of the things the three angels' messages does, 51:59 it gives us a position, it's like a GPS, 52:02 it tells us where we are in history. 52:03 That's right. 52:05 We can locate ourselves, vis-a-vis the second coming 52:06 of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 52:07 And Pastor touched on something, 52:09 in 1551, Archbishop Reggio said... 52:11 That's right. 52:12 The Protestant inconsistency is, you say Sola Scriptura, 52:15 but you're keeping a day that's not Scriptura, 52:17 it's Catholic. 52:18 So whatever you call yourself, 52:20 you're still a fallen brethren of the Catholic Church. 52:22 There's so much, We could take another two, three hours 52:25 just talking about the ramifications 52:27 of this particular book and the three angels' messages. 52:30 We want to go to our news break now, 52:31 then come back and let the pastor 52:32 put a little bow on this 52:34 as we wrap up our program together. |
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