The subject we are going to be looking into in this lecture is, who is the
Antichrist?
It's a very heavy subject, but it's a very important subject.
And I start this lecture off by saying something or reading something,
and I'd like you to look at this graphic and study with me what it says.
Heavy on the heart.
Truth is independent of opinion.
By its very definition, truth is intolerant of error.
Every aspect petitioning the conscience for acknowledgement.
The individual, however, holds the key to admission or rejection.
This slide, this image that you've just seen, sums up many of the lectures that
are coming up, including this one.
The subject is heavy on the heart, but truth is intolerant of error.
And it's also intolerant of your or my opinion.
It doesn't matter what you think, and it doesn't matter what I think.
What the Bible says is truth.
However, the individual, and that's you and me, hold the key to either accept or
to reject this information.
We're going to be looking into who's the Antichrist.
And I'd like to start off with a couple of opening comments.
You see, the Bible describes and discusses both Christ and Antichrist.
And because these two forces are the forces that will battle it out to the end,
we have to look at how the Antichrist is going to play a role in the end time.
If we don't understand the interaction or the role of the Antichrist, we cannot
understand how deception can filter into the system of worship in order to twist
people into things that they think they're doing right, but they're actually doing
wrong.
It is critical that we identify him, and not only that we point out who he is,
but that we watch him.
We keep an eye on what he's doing so that we can see how prophecy is being fulfilled
in the Bible.
Some people, when they think about the Antichrist, they say, oh no, it's Osama
Bin Laden.
Others say it's George Bush.
Others say it's Tony Blair.
But Tony Blair has just stepped down, so it couldn't really be him.
See, the problem with this is only the Bible mentions the Antichrist in such
detail, and therefore only the Bible in such detail can be used to identify him.
We have to be looking at 21 biblical characteristics on how to identify the
Antichrist.
These have been written in a prophetic manner.
So just as we did in the previous lectures, we have to read 2 Peter 1 verse
20.
It says, knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private
interpretation.
For this reason, only the Bible can tell us who the Bible is speaking about.
Let's look at the Antichrist prophecy.
Webster's Dictionary tells us that the word anti actually means ante,
which is A-N-T-E, which means in the place of.
So clinically speaking, Antichrist would mean somebody that comes in the place of
Christ.
We generally think that Antichrist is the person that's going to be opposed to
Christ.
But again, that is today's thinking superimposed over a biblical prophecy.
A hundred years ago, nobody would have understood that the Antichrist could be
George Bush because he didn't exist.
We also wouldn't have thought 30 years ago about the risk of Osama Bin Laden or the
fear of him being the Antichrist because his threat didn't exist.
But yet, something written almost 2,000 years ago has to have the same meaning as
what it does today when we speak about the Antichrist.
Antichrist means in the place of Christ in 75% of language cases.
Let's pop back to Isaiah 14 verses 12 to 14.
Read with me what it says.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning?
For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God, I will sit upon the mount of the
congregation in the sides of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds, I will be like the Most High.
This is a description of what took place as to why Lucifer was thrown out of
heaven.
Satan's name when he was in heaven wasn't Satan.
He became Satan in heaven like Gabriel.
His name was Lucifer.
Lucifer meaning the light bearer.
Lucifer had a war in heaven.
It was Lucifer vs.
Michael who we identify in many cases as God.
Lucifer vs.
God.
Lucifer fell out of heaven because he said, I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt myself above the throne, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God, I will sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north,
and then he says, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the
Most High.
You see, he wanted to be God.
He wanted to be God.
But we know that that job is already taken.
So if Satan or Lucifer at the time cannot be God, then he has got to do what he can
to try and be God where he is now.
So Satan in his war against God wants to be God, and he will do whatever he can to
be in the place of God.
Matthew 24 verses 4 and 5 read as follows, Jesus answered and said unto them,
Take heed that no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name,
saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many.
See, this is where Christ is pointing out that there will be a force of
impersonating Christ or coming in the position of Christ that will be used to
deceive people.
Now Satan can't get all of us willingly to bow down to him.
If there were a cloven-footed gargoyle that would walk into your sitting room
today, with a tail and a pitchfork and blowing smoke, you wouldn't bow down to
him and worship him.
He can't come to you like that.
He has to come in a form of disguise.
A form that will make you feel comfortable with bowing down to something that looks
right, that feels right, that sounds like it, smells right, but yet, it's going to
be wrong.
We look at the dictionary of prophetic terms in prophecy, a day equals a year.
The Bible is full of these type of examples.
We look at white robes, which according to many examples in the Bible is equal to
righteousness or victory.
The trumpet was a loud warning of God's approach.
Prostitution is a representation of idolatry, spiritual adultery.
Seas and waters, as we saw, were nations and tongues and peoples.
A beast was a kingdom, a government power, a political power, a king, etc.
etc.
Let's pop back to Daniel 7 verse 1 and read there.
In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and
visions of his head upon his bed.
And then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
He says, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens
strove upon the great sea, and four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one
from another.
Now, I can't tell you what the word winds means.
I can't tell you what the word seas mean, and I can't tell you what the word beasts
mean.
Therefore, we have to go to the Bible and say, please, could you help us?
Let's look at Jeremiah 49 verses 36 to 37 to find out what winds are.
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds of the four quarters of heaven and will
scatter them towards all of those winds.
And there shall be no nation whither the outcast of Elam shall not come.
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that
seek their life.
I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the Lord, and I will
send a sword after them till I have consumed them.
This passage is an example of what's known as Hebrew parallelism.
It's written in this way, and then it's repeated in that way, so that the reader
can make sure that they understand what is being explained.
Here, the first way around it says, upon Elam will I bring the four winds.
It's then repeated in a different way, it says, for I will cause Elam to be
dismayed before their enemies.
So, winds depicts destruction, or war, or some sort of conflict.
What about beasts?
How do we know what a beast is?
Daniel 7, 17 and 23 explains.
Those great beasts which are four, are four kings which shall arise out of
the earth.
Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth,
which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms.
So, we can identify that a kingdom is a beast, and a beast is a kingdom,
only when speaking prophetic language.
What about seas?
Well, Revelation 17, 15 says, And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawest,
where the horse sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
There we have a perfect example of seas.
The waters, the lots of waters that refers to peoples and tongues.
So, we are starting to see, seas equals people, wind equals war, beasts equals
kingdoms.
That is the Bible telling us what the Bible means.
There is no influence, no human influence, external influence of any sort.
So, Daniel 7, 2-3 says, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of
heaven strove upon the great sea, and the four great beasts came up from the
sea, diverse from one another.
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings.
Remember, we have discussed this.
I beheld, till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the
earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
This represented, can you remember, the golden head, the lion with eagle's
wings, was Babylon.
Daniel 7, 5 continues, it says, And behold, another beast, the second one
like a bear, it was raised up on the one side, it had three ribs in its mouth
between its teeth, and it was told, Arise, devour much flesh.
Can you remember who this was?
Medo-Persia, that's correct.
Daniel 7, 6, And this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard,
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl.
The beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to it.
Remember who this was?
Alexander the Great, Greece, and then Daniel 7, 7.
Concentrate with me now.
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth.
Remember, iron was a representation of Rome.
It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of
it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
The next verse says, I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among
them another horn, a little one.
Do you remember a horn was a king?
So here were ten kings, and among them came up another king.
Before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots, and behold,
in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
This little horn is the Antichrist power.
The Bible gives us information about this horn, this little king, or this little
kingdom, that it doesn't describe in such depth in any other form.
Daniel 7 verses 19 and 23 read as follows, Then I would know the truth of the fourth
beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth
were of iron, and his nails of brass, which devoured, broke in pieces,
and stamped the residue with his feet.
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,
which shall be diverse, different from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole
earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Daniel 7 verse 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall
arise, and another shall arise after them, and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings.
Daniel 7 verse 22 Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the
saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Now the Bible goes into various descriptions about this little power,
this Antichrist beast, this force that's going to stomp and break in pieces and
will control the whole earth.
I would like to go into 21 Biblical examples of these, identifying
characteristics that the Bible gives us.
And we are going to say, Who is the power in the world that might fit all of these
examples?
Let's have a look at it.
The first characteristic is that the power, this Antichrist power, was already
working in Paul's day.
Was Osama Bin Laden working in Paul's day?
Was George Bush working in Paul's day?
Did America exist in Paul's day?
You see, just by this first characteristic, this first example,
already 90% of those so-called Antichrist powers that we have decided are the
Antichrist in our own mind are removed.
2 Thessalonians 2 verses 7-10 explain, For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work, and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming,
even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and
lying wonders.
Here Paul is writing about the same power.
He is writing about the power that is already working at his time.
That time will run through, according to what we have just read, until the Ancient
of Days has come.
So from Paul's time, right through until the Lord comes again.
We will look into that just now.
Characteristic number 2.
He arises out of the fourth beast.
Read with me.
Daniel 7 verses 7-8.
After this I saw a fourth beast, terrible and powerful and strong
exceedingly, and it had ten horns.
And I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them a little one,
before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots.
So where does this horn come from?
It comes out of the fourth beast.
There are four beasts and it has to come out of the fourth beast.
Characteristic number 3.
It arises in between the ten horns.
What you will notice is that it is very specific.
The Bible is so specific about identifying who this is.
Read this with me.
Daniel 7 verses 7.
And I saw this, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful and strong
exceedingly, and it had ten horns.
I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn,
a little one.
So where does it come up?
Among or in between the other ten.
So all we have to do is look at the various kingdoms at the time and then we
have to see, well, where does this Antichrist power have to come up?
We will look at that in the second half.
Characteristic number 4.
It arises after all other ten kings are already there.
Daniel 7 verses 24 explains this.
It says, And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise,
and another shall arise, how?
After them.
And he shall be diverse from the four men, and he shall put down three kings.
Here Daniel is making sure that with this explanation he gets every single thing
explained.
Characteristic number 5.
He works under the auspices of religion.
Most people don't know this, they just think of a fearful power opposed to
Christ, the Antichrist.
Well, that's not actually true.
This is somebody that will have to work under the auspices of religion and comes
in the place of Jesus Christ.
Daniel 7 verses 2 explains that it says, And conquering the ten horns, that were on
his head, the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that
horn had eyes and a mouth that spake great things, whose look was more stout than his
fellows.
In the original translation, speaking great things means that he was speaking
great spiritual things.
He was a spiritual leader of sorts.
Matthew 24 verse 15 in the Old Testament supports this.
And he says, When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was
spoken of through Daniel, so Matthew here is pointing back to Daniel.
So let's read that again.
When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, that's this Antichrist,
which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place,
let him that readeth understand.
Here Matthew is saying this Antichrist power, the abomination of desolation,
is going to come up inside the temple of God.
He's going to come up working as a religious power.
Number six might come as a surprise, because I specifically take time to
identify that this is a human being.
It has human-like characteristics or qualities.
Why is that important?
Well, today there's an idea that the Antichrist might be a computer in
Brussels, some superhuman artificial intelligence computer.
That's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says it has to be a human.
Read with me Daniel 7, 8, 20 and Revelation 13, 5 and verse 18.
In this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel 7, 20.
Even that horn that had eyes and a mouth.
Revelation 13, 5.
And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things.
He that hath understanding in verse 18, let him count the number of the beast,
for it is the number of a man.
This is a human being, a type of system that is put in place by humanity.
Interestingly enough though, characteristic number seven says that
he'll be diverse.
He'll be different from all the others.
Daniel 7, 24 says, As for the ten horns out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise,
and another shall arise after them.
We've been through this.
Now listen.
And he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
So this power is somehow going to be different than all the other kingdoms that
have gone before him.
Number eight, he has to uproot three kingdoms.
We've just read it and I'll read it again.
I considered the horns and behold there came up among them another horn,
a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots.
And Daniel 7, verse 20 says, Before which three fell, and Daniel 7, 24 says,
And he shall put down three kings.
Very important.
The rise of this power cannot be misconstrued to be any other power,
because all of these things have to take place and he has to fulfill every single
one of them, even taking out three of the kings that stood before him.
Number nine is this little horn, this little power is going to be greater
than the others.
He's going to come up small, but he's going to grow bigger than any others.
Daniel 7, 20 says, And considering the ten horns that were on its head, and the other
horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes and a
mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its
fellows.
Somehow this horn will be stronger than the previous kingdoms that stood in its
place.
Number ten, let's look at number ten.
This kingdom or this power will make war against the saints.
This power is going to despise the Christian people that believe in the Bible
and the Bible alone.
Daniel 7, 21 says the same thing, it says, I beheld and the same horn made
war with the saints and prevailed against them.
Number eleven, you see how close we are getting now to identify who this is?
Can it be George Bush anymore?
No.
Well, let's look at number eleven.
Remember, we've still got to go to twenty-one biblical... and no more,
I'm just choosing twenty-one of them.
Number eleven, this power will speak against God.
Read with me in Daniel 7, 25.
And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the
Most High.
Characteristic number twelve is he speaks blasphemies.
He blasphemes God.
In Revelation 13, 5 it says, And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things
and blasphemies.
And verse six continues, And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God to
blaspheme his name.
Interesting.
He blasphemes God.
And then the next characteristic thirteen is that he blasphemes God's tabernacle.
Revelation 13, verse six says, And he opened his mouth for blasphemies
against God and to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle.
Not only that, number fourteen, he blasphemes God's angels.
It says in the same verse, And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God and
to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in heaven.
This power will even think to change laws and will think to change times.
Let's split those up and put number fifteen in.
He will think to change times.
Let's read this in Daniel 7, 25.
And he shall speak words against the Most High, and he shall wear out the saints of
the Most High, and he shall think to change times.
Number sixteen, he will think to change laws.
The same verse we've just read, Daniel 7, 25.
And he will think to change the times and the law.
Number seventeen, this power will rule for a period of 1,260 years.
Remember, I just want to warn you again, we've kept on saying this, 2 Peter 1,
20 says, No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Well, this is the reason for 1,260 years we need to make sure that this is right.
Every day is a year when speaking prophetically.
Well, a prophetic scale of 1,260 years, turning it backward would mean 1,260 days.
Well, Revelation 11, verse 3 and 12, verse 6 speak about this power reigning
for 1,260 days.
Revelation 11, verse 2 and 13, verse 5 speak about this power reigning
for 42 months.
Daniel 7, verse 25 and 12, verse 7, it speaks about this power reigning for
three and a half years.
Each one of these, 1,260 days, 42 months, or three and a half years are
referring to the same period.
Let's look at some of these examples.
Revelation 11, 3, 1,203 score days.
Revelation 12, 6, 1,203 score days.
Revelation 11, 2, 40 and 2 months.
13, verse 5, 40 and 2 months.
7, verse 25, a time, a times and dividing of time.
That's three and a half years.
Daniel 12, verse 7, a time, times and half.
And then Revelation 12, verse 14, a time and times and a half a time.
A time being a period of a year.
Take one day for a year, it works out to 1,260 days.
Now that's obviously, if you remember that the Jewish calendar at the time was 30
days for a month.
So 42 months would be 42 times 30, which comes to 1,260 years, or days,
one day for a year.
Do you think that this is an important theme?
The Bible reiterates this point over and over and over and over.
How long do you think George Bush has been in power?
How long has Osama Bin Laden been threatening the world with whatever he's
doing?
1,260 years?
No.
So we've got to look at this in the greater context.
Excuse me Bible, please could you tell me who this power is?
That 1,260 years is again a way of the Lord recapitulating his information and
making sure that we understand it and that we don't miss anything.
Number 18, characteristic number 18, this power goes into captivity.
Revelation 13, 10 explains, if any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth.
If any man shall kill with a sword, with a sword he must be killed.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Speaking about that power, he says that he will have to go into captivity.
Not only that, but characteristic number 19 says, with the sword he must be killed.
That's the same verse, read it with me, Revelation 13, 10.
If you have your Bibles, pause the DVD.
Take time to make sure that what I'm saying is biblical.
Don't just absorb what I'm saying.
Check up on everything that I'm saying.
It has to be biblical, otherwise it cannot be the truth.
Revelation 13, 10.
If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth.
We've covered that.
Now, if any man shall kill with a sword, with a sword he must be killed.
Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
So this is an indication of that war with the saints.
He's going to make war with the saints and in the same manner where he dislodged the
saints from power, from removing them from their circumstances, in the same way he
will be removed.
Number 20, this removal or what's so-called the killing or the end of the
life of this beast, this Antichrist power, is called a wound.
And this wound is healed.
It tells us in Revelation 13, verse 12 that, and he maketh the earth and them
dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
This is a text word we'll be discussing and covering in a lecture, an image to the
beast.
This has got to do with another beast that arises and drives humanity to worship the
first beast.
The first beast being this Antichrist beast.
And this Antichrist beast according to Revelation 13, verse 12 says, this
Antichrist beast had a deadly wound and this wound was healed.
And number 21, this Antichrist's number is 666.
Some people think about this number and they say, oh, the mark of the beast,
666.
No, no, no, no, be careful.
The mark of the beast isn't 666.
The mark of the beast is something different.
We'll look into that in a different lecture.
This mark is a number of a man.
Let's read it here.
Revelation 13, verse 18.
Here is wisdom.
He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast.
For it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
You see, this has got to do with trying to figure out what is going to happen in
future, trying to figure out how we are going to defend ourselves against this
beast, how to make sure we don't get involved in deceptions.
But at the same time, realizing that the Bible gives us all of these
characteristics on how to identify who this Antichrist power is, and if we are
willing to understand all of these characteristics and then look into history
and find out if there is anybody that fits the mold, well, we should be able to
figure out who the Antichrist is.
The question then comes, who is he?
Who is this Antichrist power?
Well, I'd like to stop again and just read the message which I gave you in the
beginning.
Heavy on the heart.
Truth is independent of opinion.
By its very definition, truth is intolerant of error, every aspect
petitioning to the conscience for acknowledgement.
The individual, however, holds the key to admission or rejection.
You will hold the key to either accept this information or reject it.
Your conscience is going to pull at the heart strings.
It's going to... maybe this information is going to shock you.
I pray in sincerity that you will find a way to accept the information given.
I don't do this vindictively.
I do this because I've been asked according to the Word of God.
These are the characteristics of the Antichrist.
Work it out who it is that you can defend yourself.
Today, more often than ever, we are being taught, don't worry about the Antichrist.
We don't have to worry about him.
Christ will look after him.
Yes, he will.
Oh yes, he will.
He's even going to get a plague of his own.
But not only that, in the meantime, the devil is going to give him powers to
allow him to deceive us.
So let's find out who this power is.
21 biblical characteristics we've laid on the table.
There's only one power in the world that fulfills all 21 of these identifying
marks.
That is, unfortunately, the papacy.
When I say unfortunately, I say unfortunately because of the context in
which we live.
Today, the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church is one of the heralded,
most uplifted marketing icons of our time.
The papacy is an individual or the head of a system that is seen as possibly the
solution to our problems.
It's easy enough for me to say, well, boom, there's the answer.
But let's make sure whether this is the case.
We have to look now at those 21 characteristics or 21 identifying marks
and we have to say, is it possible that this power can fulfill all 21 of those?
Surely not.
Well, let's have a look.
Do you remember what the first characteristic was?
It has to be a power already working in Paul's day.
Remember in 2 Thessalonians, he said that the power, this abomination of desolation
does already work?
Well, if you think about it, Rome, the power of the Roman Catholic Church,
Rome was in power at the time of Christ.
You'll remember that it was a Roman official that tried to kill baby Jesus.
It was the governor, a Roman governor that condemned Jesus.
It was a Roman executioner that crucified Jesus.
It was a Roman emblem that sealed Jesus' tomb and it was a Roman guard that watched
the tomb while he was asleep on the Sabbath day.
Rome was certainly a power that was awake and in force at the time.
Second characteristic, it arises out of the fourth beast.
Can you remember when we went through the statue, the gold, the silver of
Medo-Persia, the hips of Greece and the legs of Rome?
And this is a power that comes out of the fourth beast.
One, two, three, four.
This is the fourth beast.
This is the fourth kingdom that rises.
It rises out of the Roman kingdom.
Well, we know it as the Roman Catholic Church.
Church history, again looking outside the Bible, confirms this on page 175.
It says, When the last wave of barbarian invasions had spent its force,
the face of Europe had been transformed.
Independent Germanic kingdoms had been established on the ruins of the Roman
Empire.
So out of this Roman Empire came this new horn.
The Church and churches on page 42 and 43 says a similar story.
Out of the ruins of the Roman Empire there gradually arose a new order of state whose
central point was the Papal Sea.
Therefore inevitably resulted in a position not only new, but very different
from the former.
Do you remember that?
It has to be diverse, different.
Well, we'll look at that just now.
The historian Thomas Hobbes in his book Leviathan on page 457, he explains that,
If a man consider the origin of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily
perceive that the Papacy is none other than the ghost of the deceased Roman
Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
So history perceives the fact that what the Bible is telling us might be true.
The third characteristic is it arises between those ten kingdoms, between ten
horns.
In other words, where Rome was is what we now know today as Europe.
So it has to arise in Europe or in the European area.
And we just look at the Time magazine which explains Europe's new frontiers with
a sort of satellite image down on Europe.
And we can think, where would Rome have been in that area?
Where is the Roman kingdom today or the Vatican today?
Is it in the European area?
Absolutely.
Just by the way, this image is a very interesting image.
You'll notice that Time magazine puts the star coming from the north.
And you'll remember just now when we read from Isaiah, Satan Lucifer said,
I will exalt myself above the stars of God.
I will sit, I want to be in the sides of the north.
Well, this is not a difficult image.
This is what they call signal pictures where they send out images to those that
understand these symbols.
We'll get into this in later lectures.
Europe's new frontiers, Time magazine says.
Well, out of that European area would arise this Roman kingdom.
Characteristic number four.
He arises after the ten horns, after all ten of them have already been
set up.
Well, we know that the Roman kingdom was split into ten separate little kingdoms,
ten separate horns.
Here they are, the Franks, the Anglo-Saxons, the Suevi, the Visigoths,
the Burgundys, the Alamanni, the Lombards, the Ostrogoths, the Heruli and the
Vandals.
Those were the ten kingdoms which Rome became.
Now, interestingly enough, we know that he works under the auspices of religion.
And I still had to quote out of Matthew 24 to show that this power is going to be
standing inside the temple.
Well, question.
If he works under the auspices of religion does the Roman Catholic papacy work as a
religious figure?
Yes or no?
Absolutely.
Number six.
He has human-like qualities.
He's not a computer.
Quite correct.
It's the papacy.
It's a normal human being.
Number seven.
He's different and diverse from the others.
You see, this is the first time in history that a power was both the power of the
religious and the political world.
Up to now, a power had been somebody like Alexander the Great who was a political
power, a beast to be reckoned with.
This was for the first time the combination of what they call today church
and state.
Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the Reformation on page 37 says,
his or Justinian's reign saw the traditional view of the emperor as the
protector of the church changed to that of the emperor as the governor of the church.
So where his role was just a one-sided affair, he now started to look after both
secular and religious issues as well.
C.C.
Eckhart, who is a historian, said in his book, The Papacy and the World Affairs,
on the very first page, when the Roman Empire had disintegrated and its place had
been taken by a number of rude barbarous kingdoms, the Roman Catholic Church not
only became independent of state in religious affairs, but dominated secular
affairs as well.
So it's different from all the others.
Number eight.
Remember it has to uproot three kings or uproot three horns, three kingdoms before
it can come to power?
Well, let's go back to the graphic and have a look.
Those were the ten kingdoms that came before and these are the seven kingdoms
that remained behind.
Arrhenius' followers were destroyed.
All of the ones which they called or Arrian followers were destroyed by 538.
Now there is a lot of debate around this.
There were three specific kingdoms that were destroyed.
Those were the Heruli, the Ostrogoths and the Vandals.
Today we have the Visigoths which are today the Spanish.
We have the Suevi which is today Portugal.
We have the Saxons which is England.
We have Lombards which is Italians.
We have the Burgundians which are the Swiss and we have the Alemanni which are
the Germans.
And the papacy tells us or the Vatican system, the Catholic system tells us that
these three kingdoms were not true followers of Christ.
They were pagan type religions.
Well we only know that from Catholic records because every time a kingdom was
taken over, they and their records, every historic thing was wiped off the
face of the earth.
Some documents are now coming to light that we are starting to realize that it
might not have been the case.
These might have been three kingdoms that believed in the scriptures and sort of
Biblical, the perspective on the Bible and the Bible alone, but we don't know that
for sure.
All we know is that they've been wiped off the map.
Three kings that had to be uprooted before 538?
Absolutely.
Fulfillment of prophecy?
100%.
Number nine, this little power has to be greater than the others.
It has to claim to rule the world.
Well I can't tell you that they say that.
We have to go into their documents and find out whether that can possibly be
true.
This is a quote from the Most Holy Councils, Volume 13.
It says the following.
We define that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff, that's the Pope,
holds the primacy over the whole world.
Now it's one thing to claim that, but it's another thing to repeat it and
repeat it and repeat it.
Let's have a look at what Henry Cardinal Manning says.
These are all Catholic sources.
The Temple Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, page 46.
The vicar of the incarnate Son of God, anointed high priest and supreme temporal
ruler, the Pope, sat in his tribunal impartially to judge between nation and
nation, between people and prince, between sovereign and subject.
Wow!
This is a point of view from Henry Cardinal Manning that says the papacy,
although the people on the ground don't know that, they think their king is in
charge, the papacy is able to impartially judge between nation and nation and people
and prince and sovereign and subject.
This is not something that's normally known.
Today we look at a very different picture, of course.
The papacy wouldn't claim authority over the new world order or the world powers.
Would that be possible?
Well here's an image of Malachi Martin's book.
He's a pontifical professor in the Vatican.
He wrote this book, The Keys of this Blood.
Read the subtext underneath the heading.
It says, Pope John Paul II versus Russia and the West for control of the new world
order.
For this entire period of time, this power has still claimed more and more
and more authority.
And it's getting to the point now, we're going to get right into the lectures
and we're going to see more and more how this power is claiming more and more
power.
The papacy saying that I will control your country, not that the people on the ground
will know, but the kings know quietly that I'm the power that rules you.
This power has to be greater than the others.
Fulfillment of prophecy?
Absolutely.
What about number 10?
He makes war with the saints.
Well again, we just have to go back in history and have a look.
The title, or the word heresy comes to mind.
In the article Heresy on page 440, it states, heresy or from the Greek
heresis, which means choice, which means deciding for oneself what you want to
believe.
So if you want to believe what the Bible says and the papacy says, no, no,
no, I say this, the Bible says that.
If you decide for yourself to rather go this way, opposing what the pope says,
you are called a heretic.
Now heresis means choice, deciding for oneself what we should and shouldn't
believe.
So let's have a look at the regulations of the Synod of Toulouse concerning the
Inquisition.
This was the persecution of those that didn't believe according to the Catholic
Church.
This is in 1229.
This is a long time ago.
A priest and two or more lay people must diligently search out heretics.
In other words, those people that want to believe what they want to believe.
If they discover a heretic, a follower, a patron or a protector of heretics,
they must, taking precaution that they do not escape, quickly notify the bishop and
mayor of the place or his bailiff so they will be duly punished.
The house where a heretic is found must be torn down and the property must be
confiscated.
All members of the parish shall vow to the bishop under oath that they will preserve
the Catholic faith and will persecute heretics according to their power.
This oath must be renewed every two years.
Lay people are not permitted to possess the books of the Old and the New
Testament.
They are not allowed to read these books.
Only the Psalter, the Breviary or the little office of the Blessed Virgin and
these books not in the vernacular language.
Pastors must explain these regulations to their parishioners four times a year.
So there was a certain movement that was pushed out a long time ago which allowed
even the members to persecute the members if they were deemed or even the suspicion.
Suspicion was conviction in those days where if you were considered to be
somebody that thought along the lines of thinking anything other than what the
papacy says, you were deemed a heretic and your house was to be burnt and you were to
be set alight yourself.
The History Channel gives an image of just one of the many ways that they tortured
these poor souls over these many, many years.
Tying them onto a wheel, making a fire underneath and slowly roasting them over
these burnt coals.
Absolutely disgusting, despicable things that were done to these people.
Catholic professor Alfred Baudrillard said the following.
The Catholic Church is a respecter of conscience and of liberty.
Nevertheless, when confronted by heresy, she has recourse to force, to corporal
punishment, to torture.
She lit in Italy the funeral piles of the Inquisition.
This was confirmed in Cardinal Bellarmine.
A bit later he speaks about the experience that teaches that there is no other remedy
for the evil but to put heretics or Protestants to death.
For the Romish Church proceeded gradually and tried every remedy.
At first she, this is now the Roman Catholic Church, she merely excommunicated
them.
Afterwards she added a fine, then she banished them and, oh shame, finally she
was constrained to put them to death.
Very, very sad how she was constrained when the people said, but the Bible says
something else.
They were called Protestants.
Protestors, people that protested that what you are trying to sell me is not
true.
The Bible says the following and I can't go against that.
Who are you to tell me?
Those people, they were constrained to put those people to death.
And these are the type of disgusting things that were done to these people,
put on chairs of spikes and wired into these torture chambers, this one on the
top right here being a back brace where they would bend the spinal cord over this
point to try and torture you into submission so that you would give up your
protesting against the papacy and acknowledge that he is a true leader.
History tells us that today more than a hundred million Christians have been
killed throughout the Middle Ages.
Not only a hundred million, some people are calculating as high as a hundred and
fifty million people have been killed through this means.
Makes war with the saints?
Fulfillment of prophecy?
Absolutely.
What about the next characteristic, number 11?
He speaks against God.
Now, this is where this power comes into its full might.
He says, statement made on crowning of Pope Leo the 10th, this is by Morgan
Thomas, he says in his book Pontiff on page 332, receive the tiara, this is the
statement made when Pope Leo was crowned.
Receive the tiara, be ordained with the triple crown and know that thou art the
father of the princes and of kings, victor of the whole world, a replacement
of Jesus Christ and receive the glory and honor that has no end and that belongs to
you.
Mother Teresa, later on in time, said in 1984 at the worldwide retreat for
priests, this is her speaking herself, she said, only when the priest is there
can we have our altar and tabernacle and Jesus.
Only the priest can put Jesus there for us.
Jesus wants to go there, but we cannot bring him without the priest.
The priest is another Christ.
You see, when you are reading and analyzing these things, we have come to
believe that, or the protestors, the protestants have come to be told that,
no, no, no, what happened, happened a long time ago and that was a misunderstanding.
Well, we are going to have to look into this in some depth, because in 1984,
that's only 13 years ago, or 23 years ago at least, that's only a quarter of a
century ago, Mother Teresa said the same thing.
This power will speak blasphemies against God.
He in fact blasphemes God himself.
Now, I again can't tell you what a blasphemy is.
We say, the Bible says he's going to speak blasphemies.
So please, Bible, could you tell us what a blasphemy is?
Well, in Luke 5, 20 and 21, we get a very clear indication of what it is.
Let's read it together.
And when he saw their faith, he said, Man, your sins are forgiven you.
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, Who is this who speaks
blasphemies?
Who can forgive sins but God alone?
So according to Luke, what is a blasphemy?
A blasphemy is somebody that claims to be able to forgive your sins.
So that's the one biblical example.
The second biblical example is available for reading in John 10.
Let's read it together.
John 10, verses 30 to 33.
This is Jesus speaking.
He said, I and the Father are one.
Verse 33 says, And the Jews answered him, It is not for a good work that we are
going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself
God.
So the first definition of blasphemy is claiming to be able to forgive sins.
The second biblical definition of blasphemy is calling yourself as a man,
God.
Biblical characteristics of blasphemy.
Does this power somehow fulfill these blasphemies?
Well, let's have a look at their documentation.
Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2, article on the Pope, page 265.
This judicial authority will even include the power to pardon sin.
Let's check another one.
The Catholic Priest, page 87.
Seek where you will through heaven and earth and you will find one created being
who can forgive the sinner, who can free him from the chains of hell.
That extraordinary being is the priest, the Roman Catholic priest.
Is this power speaking blasphemies, according to Luke?
Yes.
Let's try another one.
The Catholic National, July 1895.
Thou art a priest forever, says the ordaining bishop.
He is no longer a man, a sinful child of Adam, but an alter Christus, another
Christ.
Forever a priest of the Most High with the power over the Almighty.
The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ
himself, hidden under the veil of flesh.
Here is a man calling himself God above the God of heaven.
According to the Catholic National, their own documentation, this power has
power over the Almighty.
Is that a blasphemy according to the Bible?
Absolutely.
Dignity and Duties of the Priest, volume 12, page 27.
All of these are their quotes.
I'm not saying this, they are saying it.
And God himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of his priests, and either not to
pardon or to pardon according as they refuse or give absolution.
Listen to this, let me read it again.
And God himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of his priests, and either not to
pardon or to pardon according as they refuse or give absolution.
The sentence of the priest proceeds and God subscribes to it.
Blasphemy?
Absolutely.
Imagine saying that God has to listen to what you decide.
Michael Muller, in his book, The Catholic Priest, said something as well.
He says, or he asks the question, who can forgive sins?
There is a man on this earth that can forgive sins, and that man is the Catholic
Priest.
Yes, beloved brethren, the priest does not only declare that the sin is, or the sin
to be forgiven, but actually forgives the sin.
The priest lifts his hand, speaks the word, and instantly the sinner becomes a
child of God.
So great is the power of the priest that the judgment of heaven is subject to the
decision of the priest.
My word, this is powerful stuff.
Throughout these lectures, I will not be saying a thing.
I will give you quote after quote after quote from their sources that will confirm
that what the Bible is saying is true.
Cardinal Bellarmine said on Authority of Councils, Volume 2, page 266, all the
names which in Scripture are applied to Christ, the same names are applied to the
Pope.
And then in June 20 of 1894, the great encyclical letters of Pope Leo XIII,
it is written, We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
Now when you claim to be God Almighty, you are claiming something at a great
risk.
Acts 12 verses 21-23 tell us of a story where Herod one day claimed the same.
And read with me what it says, And upon a set day Herod arrayed in royal
apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration to them.
In other words, he was speaking to them.
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a God and not of a man.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the
glory, and he was eaten of worms and gave up the ghost.
It is a risky thing to claim authority and glory for yourself rather than to give it
to God.
Here is an old pope, Pope Benedict, claiming himself to be God, as if by the
birth of Jesus Christ when they came to give gifts to God, he is doing the same.
Underneath it is written, Gifts.
Pope Benedict XVI receives offertory gifts from the children dressed as the Magi
during the Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on January 1st, the Feast of
Mary, Mother of God.
Again, Benedict is claiming to be God.
You see, what we are going to have to look at is, what did they say in the past and
what are they saying today?
Many of the quotes that I give you are going to come closer and closer and closer
to where we are today.
And you are going to see that this beast, this antichrist power hasn't changed.
Throughout history the same meaning must be given to prophecy in the past as what
it is today.
We just have to look into media through the filter of prophecy and be able to
recognize all of these signs.
Everything is being fulfilled to absolute perfection.
We've only done eleven of the characteristics.
Let's do number twelve.
He blasphemes God.
We've just done that.
Let's do number thirteen.
He blasphemes God's tabernacle.
Now, if you don't understand what it means by God's tabernacle, then it's difficult
to realize how he is blaspheming it.
Many of the blasphemies which he does are done in secret.
And I will be uncovering in the next lecture and the lecture thereafter how the
true secret religions are in opposition to the tabernacle or the sanctuary of God.
But just on the surface itself, if you look into St. Peter's and into the
Vatican and into Roman Catholic churches, you'll see the same thing.
Here's an image of St. Peter and above you've got what's called Bernini's canopy
with the serpentine pillars going to the top.
You've got the images of gold and of wealth and not only of that, but of the
snake figures themselves.
On these serpentine pillars which go to the top, you look up at the top,
you've got sun symbols which will get into in later lectures.
You've got honeycombs, you've got beehives, you've got bees.
And then not only is the temple which is sacred or supposed to be sanctified in
front of God blasphemed, but the things which are done inside the temple are
blasphemous to God.
What is the first thing you have to do when you walk as a Roman Catholic into a
Catholic church?
Is you have to kneel down in front of the cross with Jesus on it.
Well, this is what is known in the Ten Commandments as bowing down to a graven
image, which we are told we're not allowed to do.
And here are images of the Pope worshipping and bowing down to a statue of
Mary.
Benedict does the same thing as an image of Pope Benedict bowing down and
worshipping a statue of Mary.
Number 14, he blasphemes the angels.
Well, we just have to look into the Vatican.
We can go into the St. Peter's Basilica or we can go into the Sistine Chapel.
You look up at the ceiling and there you have many, many, many pictures of the
angels in a tiny little cherub form.
Weak little babies with tiny little wings that don't really have power over
anything.
A biblical depiction of the angel is a type of male power, powerful male form,
which when needed can overpower just through the breath of an angel,
just through one movement can overpower thousands of people.
This transformation of the angels into tiny little weak cherubs that are very
cute, that's blasphemous against the Word of God.
Number 15, the characteristic number 15, he will change times.
Well, he will think to change times because time was set up by God.
And you can't change what God has set up.
You can think to change it, or think that you are changing it, but you can't really
change it.
World Almanac on page 646 says the following, by 1582 the accumulated error
was estimated at 10 days.
In that year, Pope Gregory XIII decreed that the day following October 4th,
1582, should be called October 15, thus dropping 10 days and initiating the
Gregorian calendar.
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar we live according to today.
The week was still kept the same, it was still Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, but as it explains in this graphic, Monday was the first,
Tuesday the second, Wednesday the third, Thursday the fourth, and Friday was the
fifteenth.
The rotation of the week was the same, but the date was changed, and he thought
to change the times.
Not only was the calendar changed, but midnight was changed, or the start of
the day was changed.
Throughout history, or biblical history, time started, the day starts, when you go
to sleep.
It's the reason that the Sabbath starts on the Friday evening, because you can't
start the Sabbath by working, you start the Sabbath by resting, it's the rest day.
So on a Friday evening the Sabbath starts.
Every day started at sunset and ended at sunset with a new day starting at sunset.
This was changed, now we live according to midnight to midnight.
Every day starts at zero, zero, zero, zero, and ends at eleven at night,
eleven fifty-nine.
This power will think to change laws.
Now, if you are in opposition to and coming in the place of Christ,
whose laws do you think you're going to want to change?
Zimbabwe's laws?
America's laws?
Australia's laws?
God's laws, that's who you're going to want to change.
Decretal de Translap Episcop Cap, explains exactly that.
Roman Catholic source that says, the Pope has the power to change times,
to abrogate laws and dispense with all things, now listen to what they say,
even the precepts of Christ.
Prompto Bibliotheca Papa article two says the Pope can modify divine law.
You see, if you have a look in the Old Testament and you go and have a look at
the normal King James Bible, and you have a look, what are the ten commandments in
the King James Bible?
And you lay them out, one, thou shalt not have any other gods before thee.
Two, thou shalt not bow down to any graven image.
Three, thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord in vain.
Four, remember the Sabbath day.
Have a look for a moment if you can, here's an image for you if you don't have
one at your bedside, the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Cardinal Peter
Gasparri, this is brand new, it's 1932, this is a newish document.
Have a look, what are the ten commandments available there?
One, I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Wonderful, thank you very much, that's the same as ours.
Number two, thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord God in vain.
Stop a second there.
What is the second commandment in the King James Version Bible?
The second commandment is, thou shalt not bow down to any graven image, right?
What is the second commandment in the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain.
But that's the third commandment.
The fourth commandment says, remember the Sabbath.
But here, the third commandment says, remember the Sabbath.
You see, what has happened here is that the second commandment has been removed.
Remember, we've just read the article that says the Pope can modify divine law.
The only divine law that's left on earth is the moral law.
So the papacy takes the opportunity and the chance to remove the one that says,
I'm not allowed to kneel down in front of the statue of Mary, or I'm not allowed to
kneel down in front of the cross with Jesus Christ on it, because it's a graven
image.
It takes it out and issues its own ten commandments and says, please abide by
these.
Not only is that the one change that they've made, if you read on, you've now
removed one.
You can't live by the nine commandments.
So they've obviously had to make another change.
They've taken number 10 and they've split it in half and in true occult fashion,
they've turned it upside down.
So now, where the King James Version Bible reads, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
house, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's wife.
Their ninth commandment reads, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
And then their 10th reads, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
These are a new set of 10 commandments issued by the papal power in contradiction
to the word of God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia says the following on page 153 on volume 4.
The church, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath of the seventh day
of the week, made the third commandment, which should naturally read as the fourth
commandment, referred to Sunday as the day to be kept as the Lord's day.
They admit it.
They know it.
They changed it because they changed the commandments and then they changed the
Sabbath.
We're going to get into that in the next lecture.
What about number 17?
He will rule for 1,260 years.
Well, Labanco, who's a professor of history at the University of Rome,
says the following.
To the succession of the Caesars came the succession of the Pontiffs in Rome.
When Constantine left Rome, he gave his seat to the Pontiff.
Legally recognized supremacy of the Pope began in 538 A.D.
when they went into effect a decree from Emperor Justinian, making the Bishop of
Rome head over all the churches, the definer of doctrine and the corrector
of heretics.
Virgilius ascended the papal chair in 538 A.D.
under the military protection of Belisarius.
That's from History of the Christian Church, Volume 3.
So 538, BOOM!
We've got our starting gun for this marathon period of 1,260 years.
Virgilius ascended the papal chair in 538.
That's history.
That's not biblical.
That's pure history.
So if we add 1,260 years from 538, remembering that there's no zero here,
minus 3, minus 2, minus 1, 1, 2, etc., we come to the year of 1798.
Would you like to guess what happened in 1798?
Well, I tell you what, let's not look into the Bible, let's look outside the Bible
and find out what history says.
Church History, page 24, says the following.
The murder of a Frenchman in Rome in 1798 gave the French an excuse to occupy the
Eternal City and put an end to the papal temporal power.
In 1798, the papacy as a power came to an end.
This quote continues...
Another quote from the Encyclopedia Americana in 1941 says...
In 1798, Berthier made his entrance into Rome.
He abolished the papal government and established a secular one.
Berthier entered Rome on the 10th of February in 1798 and proclaimed a
republic.
Half Europe thought Napoleon's veto would be obeyed and that the pope and the papacy
was dead.
Modern papacy by Reverend Joseph Rickerby.
History confirming what the
papacy was in the 19th century.
It's a perfect fulfillment of prophecy.
Number 19 specifically identified the power of how he must be killed.
He says, with the sword he must be killed.
Now, the way it's written in the Bible, it explains that in In the same manner as
he took over control of certain people, in the same manner he will be removed from
his power.
In other words, he will be forced from power like he forced the Protestants,
the Protesters from power.
Fulfilled?
Absolutely.
Number 20 says that the wound will be healed.
Now, that means that after this death of the papacy, he will come to life again.
Let's just read again Revelation 13 verse 3.
And I saw one of his heads, as it were, wounded to death, and his deadly wound was
healed.
Now in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gaspari signed the Italian-Vatican Treaty.
The Pope received 750 million lira for his support of the fascist party.
On this historical day, Benito Mussolini restored the Pope's power as a political
entity.
He gave him back his own little kingdom.
And there is the San Francisco Chronicle, an image of the Chronicle.
Read this with me.
It is phenomenal.
They know what they are doing, he says.
The Roman question tonight was a thing of the past, and the Vatican was at peace
with Italy.
In affixing the autographs of the memorial document, healing the wound, extreme
cordiality was displayed on both sides.
February 11, 1929.
Lastly we need to look at his number, 666.
Our Sunday visitor, which is the Catholic Weekly, explains to us that the letters
inscribed in the Pope's mitre are these.
Vicarius Filii Dei, which is Latin for the Vicar of the Son of God.
That's inscribed inside his mitre.
Now the literal meaning of Vicarius Filii Dei means Vicarius is substituting for,
or in the place of, Filii is the Son and Dei is God.
So substituting in the place of the Son of God.
That's what's written in his mitre.
Now you only have to do a mathematical calculation because the Bible says
calculate the number of the beast.
And you take, in those days, each letter referred to a number, or was a number,
and the Roman lettering was the same.
V would be a 5 and X would be a 10.
So your Vicarius Filii Dei would add up to 666.
Not only would it be Vicarius Filii Dei that would add up to 666, but his other
titles as well.
Latinus, which is the Latin speaking man, adds up to 666.
Helena Basile, which means the Latin kingdom, it adds up to 666.
There are many that add up to 666.
I gave you in the beginning 21 biblical characteristics on how to identify the
Antichrist.
We've had a look at every single one of them, and in the very first one,
George Bush, Al Qaeda, all of them were removed.
We've run through and there's only one power in the world that fulfills all 21.
It is the Roman Catholic power.
The problem is that there's a core deception underneath this guise which he
presents today in the world.
And this core deception comes from scripture.
Just as I did when I was in the New Age, use the biblical information to project
lies into the world, so Satan is using biblical information to project lies into
the world.
Satan found a loophole.
Remember we read there that the laity, the people on the ground, weren't allowed
to have or read the New or the Old Testament?
Well, because people didn't understand or weren't able to read the New or the Old
Testament, and all their sermons and their ceremonies were in Latin, when they quoted
Mark 16, they quoted it slightly off the cuff.
Read with me.
Mark 16, 13 to 17 and 19.
Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples
saying, whom do you men say that I, the Son of Man, am?
And they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others
Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
And he said unto them, but whom do you say that I am?
And here Simon Peter answers Jesus Christ, and he says, Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah,
for flesh and blood is not revealed unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter, upon this rock I will build my
church.
What has happened here is that an interpretation has been given that Jesus
Christ identifies Peter as the rock and upon the rock he will build his church.
But we have to ask ourselves the question, how big is a rock in the Bible?
Well, Judges 15 tells us that 3,000 men of Judah went on top of the rock.
Judges 20, 47 says that 600 men turned and fled and abode, lived in the rock of Ramon
for four months.
A rock in the Bible is a mountain.
But when you do a search in the Bible, you find the term or the word rock 119
times.
Every time when referring to a person, it's referring to God.
So when it says, who is the rock of the Bible?
No prophecy of scripture being of any private interpretation.
We have to say, who is the rock of the Bible?
Please tell us and according to Deuteronomy 32, 3 and 4, 2 Samuel 22,
2 Samuel 22, 3 and 4, 2 Samuel 32, Psalms 18 verse 2, 1 Corinthians 10 verse
4, all of them say that Jesus Christ is the rock.
But today, the catechism of the Catholic Church number 85 says, the task of giving
an authentic interpretation of the word of God, whether it is in its written form or
in the form of tradition, has been entrusted to the living and teaching
office of the Church alone.
So we will interpret scripture.
They then release a Catholic Good News Bible, which now says in Matthew 16 verse
18, I tell you Peter, you are a rock and upon this rock foundation I will build my
church.
See, that's not accurate.
The truth behind it is that that thou art Peter, upon this rock I will build my
church.
In the original interpretation, Peter is Petrosh.
That's a little pebble, a little piece of rock, a little rolling stone, a river
pebble.
The word rock is Petra in the original Greek.
And the sentence says, as thou art a little rolling stone and a pebble
signifying some of the characteristics of the rock, even though you are one of the
strongest apostles of all time, even though that's the case, you are a
little rolling stone, upon the rock, the Petra, I will build my church.
And who's the Petra in the rest of the Bible?
Jesus Christ.
So today, we get images like this where Benedict is reaffirming, constantly
reaffirming the authority.
He says in Catholic Online, he says, Jesus made St. Peter the rock.
Well, that's not true.
Peter the rock, this is brand new, June 7, 2006.
The three metaphors to which Jesus takes recourse are very clear.
Peter will be the rock.
Number two, he will have the keys.
And number three, he will be able to bind or loose.
In other words, he's got the ability to forgive your sins.
Well, that's not actually biblical.
For all times, Benedict says, Peter must be the custodian of the communion with
Christ.
That's the marketing that they put out to the public, the people on the ground.
But this is a beast that speaks out of both sides of the mouth.
Vickers of Christ, De Rosa, page 206, says the following.
They've just said that there's a Patrine office that takes control.
Read this with me.
Not a single father can find any hint of a Patrine office in the great biblical texts
that refer to Peter.
Papal supremacy and infallibility, so central to the Catholic Church today,
are simply not mentioned.
Not a single creed, nor confession of faith, nor catechism, nor passage in
patristic writings contains one syllable about the Pope.
It's still less about faith and the doctrine being derived from him.
This is a beast that understands that they know what they're doing, but yet the
entire Antichrist deception hangs on one tiny little hook.
Matthew 16, verse 18.
I tell you, this is from the Good News Bible, I tell you, Peter, you are a rock,
and upon this rock foundation I will build my church.
And through this revelation 12.9 says, and Satan deceives the whole world.
This is a shocking revelation.
There is no way for me to soften this information.
I cannot be affected, or allow myself to be affected by what do my emotions tell me
about this.
I was deceived my entire life about this until somebody had the guts to come and
tell me, well, this is actually what the Bible says.
This is a shocking revelation.
But please understand, God loves every person, but he hates some of the systems.
Just like we heard about the seals, and when we spoke about Christ from
Ephesus, the church of Ephesus, from the beginning when Christ was here to
100, where Jesus said that I also hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, he also says
in Revelation 18, verse 4, come out of her my people, that you are not a partaker of
her sins, and you receive not of her plagues.
This is a call where Jesus loves you as an individual, but hates the systems in which
we might find ourselves.
Take this understanding, chew on it, and realize that God might be calling you
out of a false system of worship.
From here onwards, we are going to get into even more serious information.
The next lecture being the seat of the dragon.
I hope you'll come back and join me for the next lecture.
Thank you.