The Midnight Cry

God’S Jurassic Park

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00:13 I've noticed rather a strange phenomenon.
00:18 You can talk to almost any child
00:23 in school, almost anyone...
00:26 even in grade school...
00:28 and they can name these beasts for you.
00:33 They can tell you what they are.
00:35 Doesn't make any difference whether you're talking about
00:37 barosaurus or whether you're talking about supersaurus
00:41 or whether you're talking about T. rex
00:44 or whether you're talking about triceratops.
00:48 They can name them off... all the dinosaurs.
00:51 And we have them in our books.
00:54 I mean, in grade school they have them, they see them.
00:57 They talk about them. We even make toys
01:00 and they play with them.
01:02 And this is all right.
01:05 And yet if I send you a brochure
01:08 that has the picture of the beasts that are mentioned
01:11 in the Bible parents will say to me:
01:13 "Why do you put those awful beasts there on that brochure? "
01:17 And they seem to object
01:20 to understanding it, yet they don't mind their children
01:24 seeing beasts like this.
01:25 And you can ask them and they can name them.
01:28 But if you mention the beasts in the Bible
01:31 they don't know anything about them.
01:35 And yet those beasts in the Bible
01:38 have a whole whole lot more
01:41 meaning to you and to me
01:44 than do the dinosaurs.
01:46 As we have been studying Bible prophecy
01:49 we have looked at them. And you remember we have
01:52 looked at a lion.
01:54 And we found out that this lion
01:56 represented the kingdom of Babylon
01:59 that went from 606 BC to 539 BC.
02:05 And then you remember after the lion
02:07 we took a look at a bear that raised itself up on one side,
02:11 had 3 ribs in its mouth.
02:12 That bear represented Medo-Persia
02:15 going from 539 BC to 331 BC.
02:20 And then you remember after the bear
02:23 we came to rather a strange beast in the Bible.
02:26 That was a leopard, but that leopard had 4 heads
02:30 and four wings. You remember that?
02:32 And that leopard rep- resented the kingdom of Greece.
02:36 The four wings on its back represented the swiftness
02:39 with which Alexander the Great
02:41 took everything that was before him.
02:43 The four heads on the beast represented Alexander's
02:46 four generals that the kingdom was turned over to.
02:50 And Greece went from 331 BC to 168 BC.
02:56 And then we came to a dragon.
03:00 And we found out that that dragon
03:03 represented the kingdom of pagan Rome.
03:07 Rome was the kingdom that ruled longer than any other kingdom
03:11 from 168 BC to 476 AD.
03:16 So we've taken those one after another
03:18 and then as we studied it we found in Revelation
03:22 the 13th chapter we had kind of a non-descript beast
03:26 that was made up of a leopard,
03:29 made up of a bear, a lion.
03:31 It had seven heads, and as we studied that we found
03:34 that that beast represented the kingdom of papal Rome.
03:39 And so we have looked at those beasts one right after another.
03:43 Those five, and I read you a text in God's Word
03:46 that said: "Five of these have fallen.
03:50 One is, one is yet to come. "
03:53 And tonight we're going to take a look
03:56 at the one that is in Revelation the 11th chapter.
04:01 So we're going to see what that beast represents.
04:03 How that all fits together. So with that,
04:06 let's go to Revelation the 11th chapter
04:08 and see what it has to say. Revelation the 11th chapter
04:12 and verse 7:
04:25 So here it speaks about this particular beast.
04:28 I know lots of people that read the 11th chapter
04:31 of Revelation and they never pick up on this beast.
04:35 But it says that this beast
04:37 would overcome them and kill them.
04:40 Now what we've gotta find out
04:41 is who... who is this beast gonna overcome and kill.
04:45 Well, the Bible speaks of two witnesses.
04:48 And it says that this beast would overcome them
04:51 and kill those two witnesses.
04:53 In fact, the Scripture says this about it:
05:09 Did that ring any bells with you?
05:12 Huh? Are you with me?
05:14 OK. It says that they're gonna prophesy 1,260 days.
05:20 Watch what happens... still in the same verse:
05:26 So it says these two witnesses
05:28 they're going to prophesy for 1,260 days
05:34 in sackcloth.
05:36 What would you think that sackcloth represents?
05:41 What do you think sackcloth represents?
05:44 Well, sackcloth represents mourning;
05:47 it represents hard times.
05:50 It represents distress.
05:52 So it says that they're going to prophesy 1,260 days
05:58 mourning... in distress.
06:00 All right. So what we want to do tonight now is we want to
06:03 go back and pick up with the first verse
06:06 and we're going to look at verses 1 through 7
06:08 and we're going to begin to put this prophecy together.
06:11 And it says in Revelation the 11th chapter and verse 1...
06:15 we read:
06:32 Telling them to rise, measure the temple and so forth.
06:49 So he said: "Don't measure; it's been given to the Gentiles. "
06:52 Now watch because it's going to tell you
06:54 how long it has been given to the Gentiles.
07:22 Now when it says: "These are the 2 olive trees, "
07:26 who are the two olive trees?
07:29 The two witnesses.
07:31 OK. Make sure you're under- standing as we're reading
07:33 God's Word. These 2 witnesses are the two olive trees.
08:25 OK? So what we want to find out tonight
08:28 is what is this talking about? Who are these two witnesses
08:31 that the beast kills?
08:33 Who do they represent?
08:34 Folks, if you're going to understand prophecy,
08:38 you've gotta go to Scripture.
08:40 You're not going to understand it if you don't go to Scripture.
08:43 And let me tell you something:
08:45 when God puts something down
08:47 He's not writing something that you can't understand.
08:51 Don't accept that.
08:53 You can understand it; you can know what He's talking about.
08:57 God didn't reveal it in His Word
08:59 so that you and I couldn't understand it.
09:01 May take a little study.
09:04 When I was in school I had a professor
09:06 that said it wasn't harmful nor fatal to think.
09:09 And it's not. So you may have to think a little bit
09:13 but God will bless you if you do.
09:15 So if it's talking about two olive trees
09:18 and two lampstands,
09:20 let's see what the Scripture says about those 2 olive trees
09:24 and those two lampstands. And so we're going to go
09:26 to the book of Zechariah and see what it says here.
09:49 So here it's talking about this lampstand.
10:01 OK... here we are. See, same phrase as used in the book
10:05 of Revelation here in Zechariah.
10:20 He said: "What do these represent? "
10:23 All right... listen carefully:
10:45 He asked him, he said: "No, I don't understand what this is. "
10:47 And he said: This is the Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel. "
10:53 Watch:
11:04 So when he asked him he said: "Who are these 2 olive trees?
11:07 "Who are these two lampstands? "
11:09 He says: "This is the Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel. "
11:13 "Not by might nor by power
11:16 but by My Spirit saith the Lord. "
11:19 So what are they? What do they represent?
11:22 They represent the Word of God!
11:24 That's what they represent.
11:26 Stands for the Word of God.
11:28 Now you remember that in the Bible
11:32 you'll find the Holy Spirit is pictured many times as oil
11:38 and it's also presented as fire.
11:41 OK? You remember when Samuel anointed David
11:45 he used what? Oil.
11:48 And you'll find in many cases in Scripture
11:51 oil is used to represent the Holy Spirit.
11:53 You also remember it says:
12:11 So it says if there's anybody sick
12:14 they're to gather the elders of the church,
12:16 pray for that person, anoint that person with oil.
12:19 It represents the Holy Spirit.
12:21 "And the prayer of faith, " it says, "shall save the sick. "
12:25 You also remember that on the Day of Pentecost
12:28 when the Holy Spirit fell upon the people
12:31 it fell as what?
12:33 Flames of fire on their head.
12:36 So you have those two repre- sentations of the Holy Spirit.
12:40 "Not by might nor by power
12:43 but by My Spirit saith the Lord. "
12:47 That's' how it's to take place.
12:49 So as we're studying God's Word
12:51 it tells us here in II Peter the first chapter and verse 21:
13:05 So when we come to the Word of God
13:09 and the Word of God being re- vealed, it is revealed by what?
13:15 Huh? The Holy Spirit.
13:17 They didn't speak of their own will.
13:19 It was given to them by the Holy Spirit, revealed to them
13:24 by the Holy Spirit.
13:25 So when it talks about those two olive trees and oil
13:29 that represents the Holy Spirit.
13:32 That oil went to what, folks?
13:35 It went to lampstands that were to give light.
13:42 Are you with me?
13:43 So He's picturing what's going to happen here
13:45 and that's the reason it says this in Zechariah.
14:03 That oil is flowing through that to the lamps
14:07 to give light. That is the reason it tells us there
14:10 in Zechariah:
14:18 So when you get to the book of Revelation
14:21 and it talks about these two witnesses
14:23 it says this is the Holy Spirit. And that it is giving light
14:28 through what? This is the what?
14:32 The Word of the Lord.
14:35 It's giving light through the Word of God.
14:43 That's the reason when you read God's Word
14:46 such as in Psalm 119:105 it says:
14:55 So when the Scripture here talks about these two witnesses...
15:00 OK? The two witnesses there:
15:04 you know who those two witnesses are?
15:06 Those two witnesses are the Old and New Testaments.
15:12 The Word of God.
15:14 See, that's what it's talking about there.
15:16 And as we study this prophecy tonight,
15:18 dear friend, you're going to see that with absolute clearness.
15:22 It'll stand out vividly
15:25 that this is talking about the Word of God.
15:27 These are the two witnesses: the Old and New Testaments.
15:32 It says the beast would do what to them?
15:36 Said it'd kill them.
15:38 OK... let's watch as the Scripture begins to reveal
15:43 what's going to happen here.
15:45 Some people want to hold that these two witnesses
15:48 are Moses and Elijah.
15:51 And you'll hear people say that the two witnesses are
15:54 Moses and Elijah. And they seem to think that
15:56 Moses and Elijah are going to come back to the earth
15:59 and that they're going to be killed and they're going to lie
16:01 on the street for 3-1/2 days.
16:04 They won't be buried. And then Moses and Elijah
16:06 are going to be resurrected.
16:08 That's' what many people teach.
16:11 That is not what the Scripture is saying.
16:12 I want you to listen to what the Scripture says
16:14 about it, and I'll tell you why they think it's Moses
16:16 and Elijah.
16:29 OK... you remember Elijah is the one that prayed
16:32 for fire to come down out of heaven. You remember that?
16:35 So that's the reason it's saying here that some people
16:38 believe that it's Elijah.
16:39 Goes on and says:
16:52 And you remember Elijah was the one who prayed that
16:55 it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain for a period of time.
16:59 3-1/2 years in Israel.
17:01 And you remember Moses is the one that prayed
17:04 and the water turned to blood. So these are the reasons
17:07 people take and say this represents Moses and Elijah.
17:11 "And they have power over the waters to turn them to blood. "
17:15 But let's take a look now
17:17 and see what the Scripture tells us about these
17:20 because it says:
17:25 Now what I want to tell you tonight
17:27 is that Moses and Elijah did not do that
17:33 of their own strength.
17:36 Moses and Elijah did that based on the Word of God.
17:39 I can read you in the book of Leviticus
17:42 where it says very clearly that if...
17:46 if the people did not obey God
17:49 and did not follow Him it would not rain.
17:53 I can read that to you in Leviticus.
17:56 And the people of Israel were not obeying God.
17:59 They were not following Him; they were not doing His will.
18:01 And so all Elijah did is said: "Lord, honor Your Word. "
18:07 And based on the Word of God it didn't rain.
18:11 OK? So that is the power; that is what was used.
18:15 All right. Let's go to Revelation 11:2.
18:34 So here in Revelation the 11th chapter
18:38 it uses the term forty-two months.
18:41 It also uses the term 1,260 days.
18:45 Terms that you and I are familiar with
18:47 because we have read those in Daniel 7.
18:52 We've also read it in Revelation 13, right?
18:55 OK. So when it talks about that it says:
19:09 So they're going to prophesy that length of time
19:12 in sackcloth.
19:13 Now as we have studied God's Word together here
19:16 from night to night we found that in Daniel
19:18 the 7th chapter it talks about time, times, and 1/2 a time.
19:23 It also talks about it in Daniel 12.
19:26 OK. I told you that in Bible prophecy a day represented
19:30 how much? One year.
19:33 When we get to the book of Revelation, Revelation 12:6
19:36 talks about 1,260 days.
19:39 Revelation 12:14 talks about time, times, and 1/2 a time.
19:44 And Revelation 13:5 talks about forty-two months.
19:48 All those, folks - and I have mentioned this
19:51 several times now, I'll continue to mention it -
19:54 God is consistent.
19:58 See, I run onto people that want to change these up.
20:03 If you change them up, you never know what...
20:05 when you get off of one horse and on another.
20:09 God is consistent all the way through.
20:13 That 1,260 years in every case
20:17 will refer to that text where it says: "I have given you
20:21 a day for a year" so it will represent 1,260 years
20:26 that began - if you add them up...
20:30 Time represents 360 days... time does.
20:34 Times represents 720.
20:37 1/2 time represents 180.
20:39 That gives you 1,260.
20:41 42 months, 30 days in a Biblical month,
20:45 you multiply it times 30 and it gives you 1,260.
20:48 All those represent the period of time
20:51 from 538 AD to 1798 AD.
20:55 In every case it represents that same period of time.
21:02 Now, let's see what takes place 'cause it says
21:05 that they would prophesy in sackcloth
21:10 for 1,260 years.
21:16 Revelation the 11th chapter verse 3:
21:30 If you look at this period of time
21:33 from 538 AD to 1798 AD,
21:37 folks, that covers the period of time
21:41 known in history as the Dark Ages.
21:46 It's a time in which
21:48 the Bible was taken away from people.
21:52 It was chained to library walls.
21:55 The people were told that they were too ignorant to read it.
22:01 It was a time of great... go back and read your history...
22:04 time of great, great persecution.
22:09 That's why it says they witnessed
22:11 in sackcloth and ashes because it was a time -
22:15 hard time - a time of persecution.
22:18 A time of suffering; a time of sorrow.
22:23 A time in which people were burned at the stake.
22:28 All you have to do is read about people such as Hus
22:31 and Jerome and Wycliffe.
22:35 Took them and burned them at the stake.
22:37 They didn't burn Wycliffe.
22:39 He died on them before they got to the stake with him.
22:42 But it was a time in which they were persecuted.
22:44 And because the Christians were so terribly persecuted
22:48 they had to flee.
22:50 And they fled up into northern Italy
22:55 and southern France.
22:58 And that's what you and I know as the Alps.
23:02 And they came into those areas and they settled those areas
23:06 and some of those people became known as Waldensian people.
23:11 Others that worshiped and followed the Lord
23:14 became known as Huguenots.
23:17 Others became known as the Albigenses.
23:20 But these were people, folks, that took God's Word
23:23 and they said: "We will build our faith on Scripture. "
23:27 "We will stand on the Word of God;
23:30 this is where we will stand. "
23:32 And because they refused... they refused to stand
23:36 any other place than on the Word of God
23:38 they were hunted and they were persecuted...
23:42 greatly persecuted.
23:45 Hard time... sorrow...
23:49 time of great, great persecution.
23:54 But as time passed
23:57 in Revelation the 12th chapter...
23:59 and we'll look at this in detail on another night...
24:01 but Revelation the 12th chapter speaks of this, folks.
24:05 Listen to what it says here. And by the way,
24:07 let me give you a principle. I'll come back to it
24:09 another night. But any time you're studying Bible prophecy,
24:12 you're studying God's Word here,
24:15 and you come across a woman in prophecy...
24:19 Now don't apply it outside of prophecy...
24:21 But any time you come across a woman in Bible prophecy
24:24 a woman will always represent God's church.
24:29 OK. If she's a good woman.
24:32 Put that down.
24:33 If she's a good woman.
24:35 OK. Always represent God's church.
24:37 And so when you get to Revelation the 12th chapter
24:40 you have a woman there, and this is what it says about her:
25:01 Are you beginning to see the consistency of Scripture?
25:04 The church had to flee into the wilderness
25:07 where she was terribly persecuted.
25:10 God said He'd prepared a special place just for her
25:18 and that she would witness for 1,260 days.
25:26 I've been there. If you've never been there,
25:30 if you want to drive into northern Italy,
25:34 southern France there's a place there called Torre Pelicci.
25:40 And all you've gotta do is walk back into the mountains
25:42 and this is where these Waldensian people lived.
25:48 They persecuted them terrible.
25:49 They sent soldiers up after them.
25:52 An interesting point: these people lived in the mountains.
25:57 If you've never been there, folks, it's most gorgeous.
26:00 I mean, beautiful mountains!
26:01 But they're like this... I mean, they're steep.
26:04 And these people walked up and down those mountains
26:07 and did their farming on the side of the mountain
26:09 and everything. So when the soldiers came to get them
26:13 these men just ran off
26:15 and the soldiers just couldn't run fast enough.
26:17 They just couldn't keep up with them.
26:18 And so there was no way they could catch these men.
26:21 And so these soldiers got this bright idea in their head:
26:24 well if we can't catch the men we'll catch the women.
26:27 Tried to catch the women. They couldn't catch the women either!
26:30 Women ran up the mountains and just ran off and left them.
26:33 And so they couldn't catch either one of them.
26:35 But they did terrible things and they persecuted them horribly.
26:39 They witnessed in sackcloth and ashes.
26:43 Now folks, let me share something with you.
26:46 It's because of these people like the Waldensian people
26:50 that you've got your Bible
26:53 because they're the ones that took care of it.
26:56 They're the ones... There's no printing press.
27:00 The Bible has to be written by hand.
27:03 And they wrote it down - hand transcribed it -
27:07 put it in books there and they cared for it.
27:10 So when the Reformation came
27:14 the Waldensian people are the ones that presented
27:17 the reformers with the Word of God.
27:18 That's one reason you have it.
27:21 They were the people that cared for it
27:24 in a very, very special way.
27:28 It says in Revelation 11 verse 7
27:37 When these people finished their testimony, OK?
27:50 Like I said, this was a terrible, terrible time.
27:54 But all of a sudden across the country
27:57 men began to stand up and preach.
28:00 And all of a sudden you have the Reformation taking place.
28:04 Hus, Jerome... who were Bohemians...
28:07 who forfeited their life, were burned at the stake,
28:10 had stood up and said: "We will stand on the Word of God
28:13 and the Word of God alone. "
28:15 Wycliffe, who had taken and translated the Bible
28:19 into English so people could read it and understand it,
28:23 and they were going to burn him at the stake. And he died
28:26 before they did. And then other men began to come on
28:29 like Luther. And he began to preach
28:32 and he began to stand up and say: "This is the Word of God
28:35 and everybody should be able to read the Word of God
28:37 and to follow it. " And over in Switzerland
28:40 other individuals like John Calvin here in Geneva:
28:45 he began to stand up and preach.
28:47 And through the preaching of John Calvin, folks,
28:51 400,000 people accepted the Reformation.
28:57 They became known as Huguenots.
29:01 There were other men like Zwingli. These were great men
29:05 and they began to preach the Word of God.
29:07 And because they preached the Word of God
29:11 some of the princes of Europe began to stand up and
29:15 they said: "Our conscience will not be dictated to.
29:20 We will follow the Word of God.
29:22 We will believe the Word of God
29:24 as we read the Word of God and understand it. "
29:27 And so they stood up for the Word of God.
29:29 Great men! And the persecution began to come to an end.
29:37 But let me tell you what happened.
29:41 Countries like Germany, Switzerland...
29:46 they accepted the Reformation.
29:50 France... France opened its doors. Threw them wide open
29:56 and accepted the Reformation.
29:59 And the Reformation began to move across France
30:02 with great rapidity.
30:06 This went on for a few years.
30:09 Then one of the kings of France
30:13 got offended. And because he was offended
30:18 he turned against the Reformation
30:21 and they began to persecute the reformers
30:26 and France closed its doors to the Reformation.
30:32 Just absolutely closed the doors to the Reformation
30:35 and said: "No! " Anybody that followed the reformers
30:39 they were considered heretics
30:41 and they were gathered and they were burned at the stake.
30:46 You have what was called
30:49 the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
30:54 where they gathered up 60,000 Huguenots
30:58 one Sunday morning and killed them.
31:02 OK? At this time there's a struggle going on.
31:07 There's a struggle going on politically in Europe
31:10 and there's a man here - little man right here -
31:14 that is trying to gain control of Europe.
31:17 His name is Napoleon.
31:21 Napoleon wants to control Europe
31:26 but he knows... he knows that he cannot control Europe
31:32 unless he can break the back of the papal power.
31:37 And so we find
31:39 that on February 15, 1798
31:43 Napoleon's general - Berthier -
31:46 made his entrance into Rome...
31:54 Now folks, put a line under that word secular.
32:00 Put a line under that word secular because all of a sudden
32:04 it's going to start meaning a whole lot more.
32:07 You see, when France turned against the Reformation
32:12 through the preaching of John Calvin
32:16 thousands and thousands and thousands of people
32:19 accepted it. And the truth about it was
32:22 is those that accepted the message of the Reformation
32:26 were the "intelligenci" of the country.
32:29 They were teachers, professors, businessmen, tradesmen.
32:33 And all of a sudden France turned its wrath against them
32:39 and they had to flee France.
32:42 And when they fled France
32:45 it did horrible things to that country's leadership.
32:52 Things began to change drastically.
32:55 And all of a sudden
32:57 a beast begins to rise up.
33:03 Remember it said this beast would come up and it would kill
33:07 the two witnesses? Huh?
33:11 OK. This is the beast that's coming up
33:13 because what happens is this. It says:
33:27 OK... Napoleon has come to power: 1798.
33:31 He has established a secular...
33:36 he has established a secular government.
33:41 People are turning against religion.
33:46 It says, Revelation 11:8:
34:02 So it says that they would kill them.
34:04 They would lie in that street.
34:07 They're going to lie there 3-1/2 days we're going to find out.
34:12 Great persecution took place.
34:15 The king of France as I told you went through
34:19 and gathered up anybody that followed the reformers
34:22 and they either killed them with a sword
34:27 or they burned them at the stake or they crucified them.
34:31 In fact, they took a man who was a follower of the reformers
34:36 and got him to tell who these people were.
34:39 And as they went down the street he pointed out the houses
34:43 and they put marks on them. And then the soldiers came back
34:46 and gathered these people up.
34:48 It was a terrible time in history.
34:51 Even the papal power,
34:54 the papal power who had been the favored one,
34:58 all of a sudden now found itself
35:02 in great great trouble.
35:05 It found that the people had turned against them also.
35:12 A man by the name of Thomas Paine
35:16 has written a book. It's called The Age of Reason.
35:21 That book has circulated all across France.
35:25 And in the book The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
35:29 he tells them there to take religion and get rid of it.
35:33 To toss it out; not to follow it.
35:36 That there is no God and they're not to believe in God.
35:40 And that book now has gone all across France
35:44 and France has turned against God and they have established
35:49 what is known in history as The Age of Reason.
35:57 They kicked religion out of France.
36:02 I want you to listen. That took place
36:16 I want you to listen to a couple historical statements.
36:54 The French assembly said: "We will not worship God.
37:00 We will establish The Age of Reason. "
37:04 One more statement:
37:41 That's what the French assembly did. They said:
37:44 "Have nothing to do with God any more. "
37:57 They took this woman, put her on a cart,
38:01 and pulled her through the streets of Paris
38:04 and worshiped her as the Goddess of Reason.
38:10 And this began one of the most horrible times
38:14 in the history of humanity
38:17 referred to by some historians as the Reign of Terror
38:24 because now the people no longer have any kind of standard.
38:30 They've thrown out the Book.
38:33 And when they threw out the Book they threw out morals.
38:36 They threw out everything that they stood for
38:39 and therefore everything went awry.
38:42 You could believe anything you wanted to
38:45 as long as it wasn't religion.
38:48 You couldn't believe that. If you did, you were in trouble.
38:54 Now watch... Revelation 11 verse 8:
39:08 You must read that text very carefully because it says
39:13 "spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord
39:17 was crucified. " Please... that's saying spiritually;
39:20 it's not saying literal.
39:23 Christ was not crucified in Egypt, was He?
39:26 Wasn't crucified in Sodom.
39:29 So you've gotta understand when you read the Word of God
39:31 and it says spiritually you've gotta make the application.
39:35 Why is it saying spiritually
39:38 where our Lord was crucified
39:41 and it refers to Egypt and Sodom?
39:43 It refers to Egypt for this reason. Because you remember
39:46 God called Moses and He said: "You go down
39:49 and you tell Pharaoh 'Let My people go. ' "
39:54 And Moses went down and told Pharaoh. He said:
39:57 "God has said 'Let My people go. ' "
40:00 And Pharaoh said this:
40:13 You see, Egypt stood for atheism.
40:18 They had thrown out God... France had.
40:21 They said: "We're not going to believe in any Deity. "
40:23 "We're throwing out God. "
40:25 That's the reason God referred to it as Egypt.
40:28 Why did it refer to Sodom?
40:32 Sodom and Gomorrah?
40:34 Those cities were destroyed because of what?
40:38 Loss of morals.
40:42 Dear friend, any time you take the Bible
40:45 and you throw out the Bible, all morality is gone.
40:49 And France lost its morals.
40:52 I mean, there was nothing to restrain the people in any way.
40:58 Fornication, adultery was wide open.
41:00 Unbelievable during that time.
41:02 It was so bad I can't even describe it to you tonight.
41:06 That's the reason it referred to it as Sodom.
41:10 And it says: "Where our Lord was crucified. "
41:16 Why would it say that?
41:18 Because if you believed in God...
41:23 It didn't make any difference what church you went to
41:27 if you believed in God you were gathered up
41:30 and taken and guillotined.
41:33 Your head was cut off.
41:36 God said this:
41:43 I mean, they gathered up everybody
41:46 that just even looked like they might be religious
41:49 and they cut their heads off.
41:50 In fact, it went on so bad,
41:53 folks, that blood ran down the gutters of the streets of Paris.
41:56 OK.
42:12 See, that's why it says: "Where My Lord was crucified. "
42:17 Now, it says Revelation 11 verse 9:
42:35 Says their dead bodies are going to lie in the street
42:39 for 3-1/2 days.
42:40 Now, we found out in our study that in Bible prophecy
42:46 a day represents how much? One year.
42:49 "I have laid on you a day for a year. "
42:52 OK. The Age of Reason
42:58 began January 1, 1793.
43:04 OK? Now I want to read you
43:09 a couple historical statements. I want you to put it in place.
43:13 Back in the time when France made the decision
43:19 that they were not going to go with the Reformation -
43:22 the king turned against the Reformation -
43:25 and they went out and they gathered up the Huguenots
43:29 and they burned them at the stake and they killed them all
43:32 history is recording this statement about it.
43:34 Listen to this very carefully:
43:36 Looks like we have lost a computer.
43:40 Maybe we can go back to it; get some help there
43:44 to find out what the problem is.
43:45 But history says that that king marched down the streets
43:50 and as he went down the streets they pointed out
43:53 the homes and they gathered the people and they killed them
43:59 one right after another.
44:01 Now folks, we're 200 and about 56 years
44:07 later to the very day
44:10 and now they've gone and they've gotten Louis XVI
44:15 and they're leading him down the street
44:18 taking him to have his head cut off.
44:21 The very thing that the king of France did
44:25 256 years before
44:27 now is happening to the king of France.
44:31 This was referred to as The Age of Terror.
44:35 Terrible time that took place.
44:38 OK... let's continue on. It says
44:41 that their dead bodies will lie in the street how long?
44:46 Three and a half days.
44:47 Now friends, if there's any of you here tonight that
44:51 have some question about the Word of God,
44:54 that you maybe don't believe that it's exactly right,
45:01 that Age of Reason began January the 21st, OK?
45:07 1893.
45:11 Excuse me... 1793.
45:16 France did away with religion.
45:19 Three and a half years later... All right?
45:24 June the 10th, 1796,
45:31 things had gotten so bad in France -
45:34 absolutely so horrible in France -
45:37 that the whole country was falling apart
45:40 that the French assembly decided to re-establish religion
45:44 in France... exactly 3-1/2 years.
45:50 Said they would lie dead in the street how long?
45:53 Three and a half days.
45:54 In Bible prophecy a day represents how much?
45:56 One year. And it says they would lie in the street
45:59 dead for 3-1/2 days or 3-1/2 years.
46:03 And it did it to the exact day.
46:07 You'd better believe that when God's giving you prophecy
46:10 it's accurate. Amen!
46:13 Now it says here in Revelation 11
46:17 and I'm going to have to have some glasses.
46:20 I won't read this without them.
46:23 Revelation the 11th chapter... they're laying right back there.
46:28 Folks, I don't know what happened there.
46:31 Our screen's coming back.
46:32 OK... maybe we'll get to it
46:35 and take a look at it, but let me just tell you right now
46:39 if we lose it well you don't worry about it
46:42 because I can preach without it.
46:43 It's not... it's not required. Thank you.
46:46 It's not required for me to have that to preach by.
46:49 But my glasses are required to be able to see it. OK?
46:55 OK... the 11th chapter. So anyhow
46:59 at the end of 3-1/2 years it's reinstated.
47:03 It's put right back where it was.
47:07 Because they realized that without religion
47:09 the whole country is falling apart...
47:12 that they can't make it work.
47:14 And so they re-established religion.
47:16 But it says here in verse 12
47:20 "And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying
47:23 to them: 'Come up here. '
47:25 And they ascended to heaven in a cloud
47:27 and their enemies saw them. "
47:29 In other words, those two witnesses
47:32 came back to life.
47:34 They were resurrected after 3-1/2 days
47:36 and He said: "Come up here. " And it says they arose
47:39 and were caught up into heaven.
47:42 Now what I'm trying to get across to you tonight,
47:45 folks, is this Word will not fail.
47:49 Absolutely will not fail... under any way.
47:54 OK? So watch what happens here...
47:57 I think we're... well, we were almost there.
48:00 I think we're just about there.
48:02 We'll get there in a minute.
48:03 Maybe we can take it a little farther.
48:06 A little bit more.
48:09 OK... I think that's good.
48:12 We'll take it from there.
48:13 OK... and then it says in Revelation 11 verse 10:
48:28 One of the strangest things happened. You know,
48:31 I don't understand: when somebody does something
48:35 then everybody wants to get on the bandwagon.
48:37 And when France tossed religion out of France
48:41 other countries sent them letters and gifts and said
48:45 how wise they were and how smart they were.
48:48 You know, this is what it's talking about.
48:50 They sent gifts to them, congratulated them
48:52 for what they did.
49:10 A great fear fell on those who saw them.
49:13 Now folks, think about it, think about it:
49:17 17... 1796...
49:23 the Word of God hasn't gone any place
49:26 because there's no way it could be published.
49:29 Very few people had Bibles.
49:31 There wasn't much of a chance for people to read
49:34 the Word of God. This is 1796!
49:38 It says that when this came and they came back to life
49:42 they were caught up - watch - into heaven:
49:55 It says if there's anything that is sure it is the Word of God.
49:59 And I told you tonight you can build your faith on it.
50:02 Watch:
50:03 January 21, 1793, they did away with religion.
50:09 The French assembly on June 10, 1796,
50:13 voted to put it back... exactly 3-1/2 years.
50:19 OK? Three and a half years
50:21 just as the Word of God had prophesied.
50:33 OK? Listen: what happened?
50:37 The British Bible Society
50:40 1804... Are you getting the picture?
50:44 All of a sudden here the Word of God
50:46 is caught up. The British Bible Society
50:49 is formed and now the Word of God is being circulated
50:53 around the world.
51:00 And all of a sudden the Bible begins to be circulated
51:03 across the globe. All of a sud- den foreign missions take off.
51:19 And all of a sudden the Word of God begins to spread
51:22 across this whole world just exactly as the Scripture
51:26 said it would.
51:30 How does this affect you?
51:33 How does it affect me?
51:35 I want you to listen very, very carefully.
51:49 That beast came up out of the bottomless pit
51:53 on February 15, 1798, when Napoleon established
51:58 a secular kingdom. And all of a sudden you find
52:03 atheism for the first time raising its head.
52:08 All of a sudden atheism as France kicks religion
52:12 out of France and established atheism...
52:16 came in. Now watch, because something begins to happen.
52:21 Out of the writing of Thomas Paine,
52:25 The Age of Reason... There's a man that has read that.
52:29 His name is George Hegel.
52:33 Look at the dates of his birth:
52:36 1770 to 1831.
52:39 Folks, George Hegel is the father... he is the father
52:44 of modern atheism in philosophy and theology.
52:48 He's the one that introduced all this stuff
52:52 that you find today across the country
52:54 in which he talks about higher criticism
52:58 and how that all these things in the Bible were not true.
53:01 George Hegel did that.
53:04 George Hegel had a student
53:08 that studied George Hegel...
53:11 studied under George Hegel...
53:13 that also studied Thomas Paine.
53:17 And from their writings he developed his philosophy,
53:21 and his name was Charles Darwin.
53:26 Look at the dates.
53:28 Charles Darwin said the origin of the species,
53:34 evolution, that you and I came from a monkey
53:39 or we came from some protozoa or something else.
53:43 And out of that Christianity and religion
53:47 was completely moved out of it.
53:51 Ah... Charles Darwin?
53:53 Charles Darwin has a friend...
53:56 Charles Darwin has a friend that they study together.
54:01 They study the writings of George Hegel.
54:03 They study the writings of Thomas Paine.
54:06 His name is Karl Marx.
54:11 And Karl Marx decides that they need to set up a society,
54:15 a government, that is built without God.
54:18 And on the basis of the writings of Karl Marx
54:21 you have atheistic Communism coming up.
54:24 And it moved into Russia and held them in its palm
54:28 and in its control for 70 years.
54:34 Oh? You want to take it a step farther?
54:37 A man that studied under Karl Marx,
54:41 studied under Charles Darwin,
54:44 his name: Sigmund Freud.
54:49 And Sigmund Freud said: "Ah, we are in a time of new morality.
54:56 Why you should do it if it feels good. "
55:00 No morals... no restrictions.
55:03 "Just do it. " Because... why?
55:06 "You came from some animal. "
55:09 And so you find that the whole concept completely changed.
55:15 And thus you find that atheistic Communism
55:19 raised its head. Now folks,
55:22 let me tell you what bothers me.
55:25 Russia suffered under Communism
55:30 for 70 years.
55:35 Go over to Russia today
55:37 they invite you into their universities to speak to their
55:40 students to tell them about God
55:43 'cause they know... they know that it didn't work.
55:48 You come back to the United States
55:50 and they won't let you talk about God in the universities.
55:57 I wonder... I wonder where we are, folks.
56:02 I thought this was supposed to be a country that was
56:05 established on religious principles.
56:09 I thought we were supposed to be God-fearing men and women.
56:14 And yet we have schools
56:17 all across this country
56:19 that teach that there is no God.
56:23 That they teach evolution
56:25 and tell the young people that that's what they're to believe.
56:29 I think you and I need to very carefully
56:34 re-assess where we are, where we stand,
56:38 and what we believe.
56:41 Atheistic Communism, ruled, came into power
56:45 and ruled, from 1798 to 1991.
56:51 The sixth beast.
56:53 There's the other puzzle.
56:56 Are you following me?
56:58 You see, it just goes together like that.
57:14 OK... let's look at it.
57:17 This is what we've learned.
57:41 Napoleon came in and established a secular kingdom.
57:46 Just exactly as God's Word says... there's the six.
57:51 But it also says that there's a seventh.
57:56 Seven heads. Five have fallen, one is,
57:59 one is yet to come.
58:09 You see, we're approaching the coming of Jesus Christ.


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