Good morning.
Welcome to Inquisition Update.
My name is Tom Friess, and I'll be your host for the next hour.
You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com.
Thanks for tuning in, everybody.
I hope you were with us yesterday.
We began the reading of a new book here on Inquisition Update, A Woman Rides a Beast,
by Dave Hunt.
A very important book, and I proceed with this book with the caution that Dave Hunt
was a futurist, and to what extent he believed in futurism, we'll see as we
discuss this book.
But nonetheless, the book contains vast amounts of critical information for God's
people today, and I decided to read this book despite Dave's futurism, and I will
refute it as we go along, meaning no disrespect either to Dave Hunt or the
publisher of this book.
And I hope my listeners will gain a more thorough understanding of the
Vatican-Jesuit-led New World Order, which Dave Hunt clearly recognized.
Now, yesterday we began with sort of a prelude to the book, and we were talking
about evangelicals and Catholics together, this organization, this ecumenical
organization that cropped up after Vatican Council II, setting the guidelines for the
relationships between evangelicals and Catholics, between the evangelical
churches and the Roman Catholic Church.
And first order of business was a prohibition set forth against the
evangelical churches, against what is called sheep-stealing, discouraging
Protestant churches, or evangelical churches rather, and I make a distinction,
a Protestant church recognizes that the Pope, the Papacy is the Antichrist,
that the Roman Catholic Church is the synagogue of Satan, and the evangelical
churches are ecumenical, and they believe that the Roman Catholic Church too is a
Christian organization, the Pope is a Christian and the spiritual leader of the
world, and they are hoping to gain an ecumenical reunion with the Roman Catholic
Church on some level.
Now, of course the Roman Catholic Church, being that church, that one holy Roman
Catholic and apostolic church, outside of which there is no salvation,
doesn't want evangelical churches, Protestant churches, or any other
churches, stealing their sheep.
But Rome speaks with a forked tongue.
Rome says, you may not steal our sheep, but we must steal your sheep.
Now this is consistent with the bull, the papal bull by Pope Boniface VIII,
Unum Sanctum, wherein it is said, it is absolutely necessary that all human
beings be subject to the Roman Pontiff.
Okay, so clearly this quote that we concluded with yesterday by this so-called
father, Father Tom Forrest, clearly outlines the definition of evangelization
by the Roman Catholic Church.
You may not steal our sheep, but we must and will steal your sheep.
So, that's where we left off yesterday, and concluding with the last paragraph we
read yesterday for continuity purposes, Dave Hunt says, yet in spite of such clear
explanations of Roman Catholic quote-unquote evangelism, evangelicals are
participating with Catholics in joint evangelistic efforts.
In other words, they're all getting together to make everybody Catholic.
Okay, the evangelicals are not sheep stealing from the Roman Catholic fold,
but they are working together with Catholics to quote-unquote evangelize,
which means to make their converts Roman Catholic.
And he says, for the Catholic, now here's the rub, here's the rub.
For the Catholic, salvation does not come through personally receiving Christ as
Savior, but is a lengthy process that begins with baptism, and thereafter
depends upon one's continued relationship to the Roman Catholic Church.
Salvation comes through participation in the Roman Catholic sacraments,
penance, good works, suffering for one's sins and the sins of others here and in
purgatory, indulgences to reduce the time in purgatory, and almost endless masses
and rosaries to be said on one's behalf, even after one's death.
Catholic quote-unquote evangelism is by works.
The very antithesis of the gospel of grace of God, Acts chapter 20 verse 24.
There's one Bible verse that the Roman Catholic Church simply does not
understand, that salvation is a gift, not of works, lest any man or any pope or
any church, any Roman Catholic Church could boast.
Now, clearly already my listeners, if they've been paying attention,
know that there is a diabolical, there is a diabolical spirit in this
ecumenical movement.
And he says, nevertheless, many Catholics, when they hear the true biblical gospel of
God's grace, are receiving Christ as personal Savior.
Remember God said, my word will not return unto me void?
When Roman Catholics, for the first time, just as the Protestant Reformers,
read the Bible for themselves for the first time and read it for what it says,
and not what the church teaches about it, they receive Jesus Christ as their
personal Savior.
That's not sheep stealing.
That's salvation.
So the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Bible, is the worst enemy of the Roman
Catholic Church because it converts Roman Catholicism, it converts Roman Catholics
to the kingdom of Christ.
Salvation finally comes to the Roman Catholic.
He realizes he no longer needs penances, he no longer needs to confess his sins to
a priest, he no longer needs indulgences, there's no such thing as purgatory,
no such thing as masses for the dead.
Roman Catholicism crumbles even upon its own foundation.
That's how to evangelize Roman Catholics and to evangelize evangelicals.
Give them the gospel of Jesus Christ, and what do you get?
A Protestant.
He says, such Catholic Christians eventually struggle with the conflict
between Roman Catholicism and what they now realize, as the Bible teaches,
a conflict so marked that the vast majority find it impossible to remain in
the Roman Catholic Church.
Many Protestants are equally in doubt over the question of what their relationship to
Catholics ought to be.
Confusion now surrounds the issues which were involved at the Protestant
Reformation.
The purpose of this book, the purpose of this book is to present vital,
factual information which throws essential light upon the whole question of
Catholic-Protestant relationships.
The vast majority of both Roman Catholics and Protestants are ignorant of the
pertinent facts.
And I couldn't agree with that more.
He says, the vast majority of both Roman Catholics and Protestants are ignorant of
the pertinent facts.
And that's why Inquisition Update exists.
To bring the pertinent facts to both Protestants and Catholics.
Now, it is our hope and prayer that the following pages will help to clarify the
issues and dispel the confusion.
Now, this is the beginning of chapter 1 of the book.
A Woman Rides the Beast is the title of it.
And he begins by giving us a passage from the book of Revelation chapter 17,
this being particularly verse 3.
He carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness.
And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
That is a description of the Roman Catholic Church.
The woman seated upon a scarlet-colored beast.
The beast representing the governments of the world.
The civil power.
The woman represents the Roman Catholic Church.
And the beast represents the governments of the world.
It's a global union of church and state.
The Roman Catholic Church and the governments of the world.
That's the New World Order in one single picture.
Now, Dave Hunt begins by saying the most astounding prophecies in the Bible are
found in the last book known as the Revelation or the Apocalypse.
And recorded by the Apostle John in A.D.
95.
He claimed to have received from the resurrected Christ himself this series of
visions of God's final judgment upon mankind which would close human history.
This, the Bible's last and most awesome panoramic view into the future,
embodies revelations of climactic events.
Some already fulfilled, most still future, but all both incredible and terrifying.
Of all the glimpses of, quote, things which must shortly come to pass,
see Revelation chapter 1 verse 1, which John reveals, none is as intriguing
and staggering as the vision recorded by John in chapter 17.
There we see a fearsome scarlet-colored beast with seven heads and ten horns.
This is not the first time it has appeared to biblical prophets.
From the description, it is obviously the same terrifying creature whose description
has already been recorded three times.
John himself had seen it twice.
Daniel, the prophet, saw it as well 600 years earlier.
But in this last glimpse, suddenly, something has changed.
In its previous appearance in scripture, the beast has always been the total focus
of attention and invariably presented alone.
Now, however, it appears with a rider on its back.
That anyone would dare, much less be able, to mount such an incredible beast seems
beyond imagination.
Yet there she sits, quite at ease and obviously in control, astride a
world-devouring creature defying description.
She?
Yes, she.
A woman rides the beast.
Stand by for a moment.
Yes, she.
A woman rides the beast.
For 1900 years, the beast itself has been a major focus of attention for students of
Bible prophecy.
Its identity,
the frightening role it will play in the last days, and its ultimate end have been
debated through the centuries.
In the last 200 years, however, many evangelical Christians have held to a
fairly clear consensus.
The beast represents both the revived Roman Empire, Satan's worldwide
counterfeit of God's kingdom, and the satanically empowered Antichrist who will
rule it.
Whether that interpretation is correct or not will become apparent in the following
pages.
A woman who cannot be ignored.
The woman is a far more enigmatic figure compared to the beast.
The leaders of the Protestant Reformation were absolutely certain that she
represented the Roman Catholic Church in general, and the Pope in particular.
That belief, however, has been rejected lately by most Protestants as provocative
and demeaning to a body of quote-unquote fellow Christians, with whom evangelicals
desire to work together in the task of winning most of the world for Christ
before the year 2000.
In fact, the subject of the woman is generally avoided today as too divisive to
discuss.
And why is it too divisive to discuss?
We understand that Catholics and evangelicals are wanting to get together.
They don't want anybody discussing this woman and describing it as the Protestant
Reformers did the Roman Catholic Church.
It's foiling their ecumenical plans.
Yet, it's the truth.
It's ecumenism that is the error.
It is Catholics and evangelicals together that is the error.
Mixing the holy with the profane, that is the error.
Now still, the woman so vividly portrayed by the Revelator, John, cannot be
dismissed so easily.
There she is.
Two of the final chapters in the Bible are devoted to this woman.
What will we do with her?
It would be dishonest to ignore such an important prophetic figure.
The entire Bible is God's Word.
We can't just lop off Revelation chapter 17 and 18 because they seem to describe
the Roman Catholic Church as that woman.
We must take the Bible for what it is.
God's Word.
We must not add to it nor take anything away from it.
If we seek to desire to know the truth, then we must deal with Revelation chapter
17 and 18 precisely the way the Protestant Reformers did.
We must look at it face to face and deal with it.
And acknowledge the truth that is in it.
And act accordingly.
Which the Protestant Reformers did.
They left the Roman Catholic Church and they liberated all of Europe.
And even the influence of the Protestant Reformation dominated the founding of this
country.
Shall we repudiate all of that because of Vatican Council too?
Shall we call the Protestant Reformation an error because Christians today wish to
believe, despite all the evidence of history and prophecy, that this woman is
the Roman Catholic Church?
What will we do with her?
It would be dishonest to ignore such an important prophetic figure.
The entire Bible is God's Word.
We have no right to close our eyes to Revelation chapter 17 and 18 than to John
chapter 3 verse 16.
Unquestionably, the woman is the central figure in these two important chapters.
A major player in the drama of the last days.
John gives far more attention to her than to the beast she rides.
And the fact that she rides the beast, a beast of such importance that it
literally holds the central position in Bible prophecy, demands our special
attention.
It could not be clearer that the secret of this woman's identity and the role she
will play is a major key to understanding Bible prophecies concerning the reign of
Antichrist and events leading up to Christ's second coming.
The most stunning prophecy in the Bible.
In the following pages we will show that the woman's identity is established
meticulously and yet beyond any reasonable doubt by John himself.
We will see that the vision of the woman is one of the most remarkable and
significant prophecies in Scripture.
The insights of John was given by the Holy Spirit concerning this woman staggered
him.
These insights are no less breathtaking in our day.
Much of John's visions has already been fulfilled in history and can therefore be
verified beyond question Based upon the insights John provides, our identification
of the woman will be determined carefully and unequivocally.
Although many readers may denounce our conclusions, no one will be able to refute
them.
And that has been my experience since I began this ministry on amateur radio more
than a decade ago.
Not one single attempt has ever been made to refute the facts as I have given them
from history and prophecy.
All they can do is call me nasty names and try to destroy my life.
They can't refute a single one.
Now the truth about the woman astride this beast is one of the most stunning
prophecies in Scripture.
We say specifically, quote, in Scripture, unquote, because significant prophecies
which have been on record for centuries and were later fulfilled are unique to the
Bible.
These are not cheap guesses by psychics, but involve major world events of sweeping
importance and irrefutable historic record.
The vision of the woman riding the beast, as we shall see, provides insights into
occurrences which have shaped world history in the past, and which will
profoundly determine human destiny in the future.
She sits, in fact, not only astride the beast, but upon the culmination of
centuries of related Bible prophecy.
A question of credibility.
Are we simply sensationalizing John's vision?
Why should anyone today be concerned with its interpretation?
The question of validity can be settled quite easily.
Most prophecies in the Bible have already been fulfilled.
It is therefore a rather simple and straightforward matter to examine that
record.
For the sake of any doubters, and to strengthen the faith of those who already
believe, we must take a brief excursion into the amazing world of biblical
prophecy.
We will prove that past prophecies have been impeccably accurate, and that their
fulfillment could not be explained by chance.
That evidence will assure us that we are not wasting our time by examining
prophecies concerning the future.
And the woman on the beast does indeed have much to tell us about the future.
That goal accomplished, we will turn our attention to Revelation chapter 17 and 18,
and address the question of the identity and future role of the woman riding the
beast.
Confident that the vision will be fulfilled exactly as John reveals it.
Much of the information we will present will not make pleasant reading.
Disturbing, stretching the reader's credulity, denied by many, it will
nevertheless be the fully documented truth.
Moreover, it is a truth which every person on planet earth, and especially all who
consider themselves to be Christians, and most of all Roman Catholics,
need desperately to understand.
Our sympathy is particularly with sincere Roman Catholics who have such confidence
in their church that they have accepted what the hierarchy has told them without
studying history to learn the full truth.
It is our hope and prayer that the historic facts we present will be
thoroughly checked against the record, so that many devout followers of Rome will
be able to face the evidence.
And this information is just as important for Protestants today.
Protestants who have renounced their former name and now wish to be called
ecumenical evangelicals, who seek peace and unity with that which Paul and which
John the Revelator called Antichrist.
Now, beginning chapter 2, begins with a quote from the book of Isaiah,
chapter 46, verses 9 and 10.
Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else,
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not
yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.
Chapter 2 is entitled, Reason to Believe.
Biblical prophecy is the key to understanding both the past and the
future.
While to skeptics that may seem a preposterous claim, it is easily proved.
Because most Bible prophecy recorded in Scripture has already been fulfilled,
it is therefore a simple matter to determine whether or not the prophecies in
the Bible are reliable.
All we have to do is compare the prophecies with recorded history,
and there we will find its fulfillment.
And from that knowledge gained, we can clearly see what God is talking
about in the future fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
With that, we'll take a break and we'll be back right after this.
You're listening to Inquisition Update on First Amendment Radio.
First on firstamendmentradio.com and firstamendmentradio.net The book of
Revelation says the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus Christ.
This is at the very heart of firstamendmentradio.com.
In that spirit, we have created the Prophecy Reality News app for all of your
mobile devices.
Streaming First Amendment Radio 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Available for your Apple, Android device, and smart phone.
Absolutely free.
Get the Prophecy Reality News app installed today.
So you can listen to First Amendment Radio wherever you are.
The Prophecy Reality News app.
Get it now.
The program you are listening to is 100% sponsored by you the listener on this
First Amendment Rights Media channel.
You will notice that there are few commercials on this radio network.
There's a good reason for that.
Corporate advertising dollars come with strings that limit program content.
So without your help, these programs cannot continue on satellite, internet,
or our several affiliates.
If you benefit by the educational law programs, we ask you to give.
If you are admonished or nurtured by the Bible and ministry programs, we ask you to
give.
If some voice a cause that you are passionate about, we ask you to give.
If you believe in any of these, we ask you to support them as you would a
missionary on a continual basis.
As if giving a tithe for missionary radio.
These programs are not commercially viable and must be supported by those faithful to
the cause of truth.
Look for the button to sponsor your favorite programs at our listen and
schedule pages on the internet.
We will also give you unlimited archive access to all of our programs.
We're asking you to give much less than a tithe.
So that you may also send support directly to a particular program host, cause,
and anywhere else the spirit may lead you.
Do all to the glory of our God and creator.
For his holy nation, the only kingdom that will last forever.
Thank you for listening.
You're listening to firstamendmentradio .com worldwide.
Freedom is never free.
We need your support today at firstamendmentradio.com.
Welcome back from the break.
You're listening to the second half hour of Inquisition Update on First Amendment
Radio.
If you wish to support Inquisition Update, please do so by supporting First Amendment
Radio who sponsors the program.
First Amendment Radio.
Brother Nicholas recognizes the information presented here is important.
And has taken it upon himself to sponsor this program.
So help him out please.
Help him pay the bills.
Keep Inquisition Update on the air.
Now before I continue in chapter two of this book, A Woman Rides a Beast by Dave
Hunt.
I'm going to warn you that chapter two brings up an issue that I have with Dave
Hunt's futurism.
And his focus on the modern nation state of Israel.
And before I even begin my contention with Dave Hunt.
And I knew there was something wrong.
The world was focused on Israel and Jerusalem.
Just like the Bible said that Israel would become a burdensome stone.
And I knew that there had to be something wrong.
And that book opened my eyes and my heart to understand who Israel is.
What is Israel?
Israel is no longer the Jews.
Israel is no longer a postage stamp piece of land on the eastern end of the
Mediterranean.
Israel is the kingdom of Christ.
And there is now no difference between Jew and Greek.
We are all one in Christ Jesus.
The Israel spoken of in the Bible is those of the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Those who are of the faith are counted as Abraham's seed.
The baton has been passed from the Jews to all of us.
Who believe and trust and obey Jesus Christ the Messiah.
And no book brings out the details of the transition of the meaning of Israel.
From the Jews and the land of Israel to God's kingdom.
More so than that book, Exploding the Israel Deception by Steve Wolberg.
It's got to be one of the most important and enlightening books in all of my
library.
Again, if you can get a copy of that book, the error that Dave Hunt is about to
express in his book will become readily apparent to you.
And you, like me, will know the truth about who Israel is today.
Now we are not talking about replacement theology as the Roman Catholic Church
teaches.
That the Roman Catholic Church has now replaced Israel.
No, I believe in the description that God gives of Israel.
His kingdom is of every people, nation and tongue.
All who put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ are Israel.
And surely there will come a time of persecution unlike any time in history for
the true Israel.
Those of the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the heirs to the
promise.
True Bible believing Christians.
And I believe that the creation of the modern nation state of Israel was brought
about by the Vatican.
And to focus the world's attention back on an earthly kingdom.
When we know that God's heavenly kingdom is a spiritual kingdom.
It's not of this world.
But now because of Rome's intention to move its seat of power to Jerusalem.
And to destroy the Jews both spiritually and physically is the role of the Vatican.
To re-fulfill what is described in Daniel chapter 9 verse 24 through 27.
And the futurist interpretation of verse 27.
And he shall cause the sacrifices and oblations to cease.
A future land of Israel with Jews living in the land, building a temple and
beginning animal sacrifices all over again.
Is not the will of almighty God.
That is not the Israel of the scriptures.
But Rome wishes to have a do-over of Daniel's 70th week.
That seven year period of time of Christ's ministry that was fulfilled personally by
him.
Perfectly and completely 2,000 years ago.
Rome doesn't like the outcome of that prophecy and neither do the Jews.
And they've used the futurist interpretation of that Bible prophecy.
To pertain to one single figure in the future called the Antichrist according to
them.
And that that will usher in Christ's literal return.
It's all a deception.
No one brings it out more clearly than Steve Wolberg and his book, Exploding the
Israel Deception.
That book is an extremely valuable book.
Now I'll continue what Dave Hunt says here.
He says, two major themes of prophecy run consistently throughout all scripture.
Number one, Israel.
And number two, the Messiah who comes to Israel and through Israel to the world as
the Savior of all mankind.
And it says around these two central themes almost all other prophecies revolve
and find their meaning.
Whether it be the rapture of the church, which is not going to happen.
This is another contention that I have with Dave Hunt.
He believes in futurism.
He believed in the rapture of the church.
And these were both Jesuit creations for the purpose of forcing the world to
believe the lie.
That Jesus was not the fulfillment of Daniel chapter 9 verse 27.
Okay?
He says, whether it be the rapture of the church, Antichrist, his coming world
government and religion, the battle of Armageddon, Christ's second coming,
or any other prophesied occurrence, the Bible is absolutely unique in
presenting these prophecies which it records in specific detail beginning more
than 3,000 years ago.
About 30% of the Bible is devoted to Bible prophecy.
That fact validates the importance of what has become a neglected subject.
In marked contrast, why has Bible prophecy become a neglected subject?
Because if we study Bible prophecy and if we study history and see the fulfillment
of Bible prophecy in history, we know which prophecies have been fulfilled and
which are yet to be fulfilled.
And if we study the Bible prophecy, particularly Daniel chapter 9 verse 24
through 27, if we study the New Testament, we study history, we conclude without
possibility of error that the 70th week of Daniel was perfectly and completely
fulfilled by Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago and that this future phony seven years of
great tribulation and the foundation of the new modern nation state of Israel is a
Jesuit lie, a Vatican inspired lie.
God is not turning back to deal with the world through the Jews, He's dealing with
the world through Israel.
All of His people, Jew and Gentile alike, that's why Bible prophecy is a neglected
subject in the world today.
Because those who study diligently Bible prophecy, compare it with history,
can come to no other conclusion but the correct one.
And all the rest of the world is deceived.
He says that fact validates the importance of what has become a neglected subject.
In marked contrast, prophecy is completely absent from the Koran, the Hindu Veda,
the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, pardon me if you will for the
pronunciation of these so-called holy books of the pagan nations of the world,
I've never read them, some of these I've never even heard reference made to,
but Dave Hunt makes a perfect illustration.
The Bible is the only book on the planet that foretells the future.
That distinguishes the Bible from every other false religious book.
It's what marks it as God's holy eternal word.
It proves that the God of the Bible is the God of gods, the only God.
It's what makes the Bible the word of God, the authentic word of God, is the
foretelling of the future with 100% accuracy.
He says in marked contrast, prophecy is completely absent from the Koran,
the Hindu Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, the sayings of Buddha or
Confucius, the Book of Mormon, or any other writings of world religions.
This fact alone provides an undeniable stamp of divine approval upon the
Judeo-Christian faith.
Now here's another contention that I have with Dave Hunt.
Judaism is a mixture of the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with the
Babylonian Talmud.
That was the error that Jesus contended with when he walked the streets of
Jerusalem.
The corruption of the faith.
I do not describe myself as a Judeo-Christian, and neither should have
David.
Dave Hunt was not a Judeo-Christian.
He'd just been indoctrinated with that nonsense.
The roots of our faith are not in Babylon as it is in the Judeo-Christian faith.
The roots of our faith are in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
I don't describe myself as a Judeo-Christian.
That belongs with those who mix the holy with the profane.
That mixed Babylonianism with the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Again, he says, this fact alone provides an undeniable stamp of divine approval
upon the Judeo-Christian faith.
Wrong!
He says, which all other faiths lack.
This faith that he described, the Judeo-Christian faith, is the Roman
Catholic faith.
The Ecumenical Evangelical faith.
It's not the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Judeo-Christianity is the counterfeit of the true faith of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.
It's called Christianity today.
And it's not the truth.
It is deceived beyond comprehension.
And we should shun any... those who truly believe in the Bible and what it says must
distance themselves from being described as a Judeo-Christian faith.
Now he says, Bible prophecy, unblemished record of fulfillment, is sufficient to
authenticate the Bible in distinction to all other writings as the one and only
inerrant word of God.
So clearly, Dave Hunt recognizes that Bible prophecy and their perfect
fulfillment as viewed in history is testimony.
The unarguable testimony that the Bible is the only holy book on the planet.
And that the God described thereof is the only God in the universe.
You know, many times in my discussions on amateur radio, I was accused of believing
in...
having blind faith.
Blind faith.
I simply told them, how can you call this a blind faith?
We have 5,000 years of record in the Bible.
We have that many prophecies and fulfillments of Bible prophecies to the
most minutest detail.
I'm as sure of my faith as I am that the sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow.
And you call it a blind faith?
You call it a blind faith simply because you won't look at the record.
You won't look at the prophecies in the Bible and see their fulfillment in history
and concede the incontestable fact.
Reading the Bible is like reading the future.
Reading the Bible is like reading a newspaper to a historian.
There's no blindness in this faith.
It's an assurity.
Just as we read the scriptures and we see in prophesied in the Bible, the very words
that Jesus would express on the cross should satisfy any critic.
But they will never be satisfied.
Why?
Because they love the darkness more than the light.
They won't acknowledge the clear and evident proof that the Bible is a
testament unto itself.
And that history verifies the truth of everything said in the Bible.
It's the most accurate account of history that exists in this world.
And the naysayers and the atheists and the agnostics find any argument they can,
even to the lowest of the low, in trying to say that we have a blind
faith.
But yet, they'll believe the words of Stephen Hawking, or scientists,
or philosophers, or the Roman Catholic Church, or any of the other holy books in
the Bible, any other of the holy books other than the Bible, and believe that
they have the truth.
And you talk about a blind faith.
What blindness!
None of them can demonstrate the incontestable authority of the Scripture
through Bible prophecy.
They all lack it.
That's the one thing that Satan cannot duplicate, is God's ability to tell the
future, thousands of years before it even happens.
There's no blindness in my faith.
Now again, he's beginning another subject here, speaking of prophecy, the great
proof.
He says there are many important reasons for Bible prophecy.
First of all, prophecy fulfilled provides irrefutable proof for the existence of the
very God who inspired the prophets.
By foretelling major events of world history, centuries and even thousands of
years before they happen, the God of the Bible, the only God, proves that He is the
only true God, the creator of the universe and mankind, the Lord of history,
and that the Bible is His infallible word, given to communicate His purposes and way
of salvation to all who will believe.
Here is a proof so simple that a child can understand it, yet so profound that the
greatest genius cannot refute it.
Prophecy thus plays a vital role in revealing God's purpose for mankind.
It also provides foolproof identification of God's true Messiah, or Christ,
and unmasks Satan's imposter, the Antichrist.
And I will add, without apology, the papacy.
The Bible speaks specifically of the papacy, even the very words that are
written in the bulls and encyclicals of the popes.
Without mentioning the word pope, we can read the prophecies and we cannot
deny that it is the pope, the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
Again it says, prophecy thus plays a vital role in revealing God's purpose for
mankind.
It also provides foolproof identification of God's true Messiah, or Christ,
that is Jesus, and unmasks Satan's imposter, the Antichrist.
The papacy, so that no one who heeds God's word need be deceived by him.
No one who reads God's word and understands its meaning can deny who the
Antichrist is.
And none of them should be deceived by him.
And we know that most of the world is completely deceived, believes the papacy
is a man of God, that the Roman Catholic Church is a Christian faith, even so much
so that they would renounce the Protestant Reformation as a grievous assault upon the
throne of Almighty God, and unite with the Roman Catholic Church, and submit
themselves to the papacy's authority, and come under Roman Catholic canon law,
completely discarding God's holy and immutable law.
That's what ecumenism is.
The destruction of true Bible-believing Protestantism.
He says, just as prophecy is unique to the Bible, so it is unique to Christ.
No prophecies foretold the coming of Buddha.
No prophecies foretold the coming of Mohammed, or Zoroaster, or Confucius,
or even Joseph Smith.
Neither Mary Baker Eddy, the current popular Hindu gurus, have invaded the
West, or any other religious leader, all of whom lack the credentials which
distinguish Jesus Christ alone.
Yet there are more than 300 Old Testament prophecies which identify Israel's
Messiah.
Centuries before his coming, the Hebrew prophets set forth numerous and specific
criteria which had to be met by the Messiah.
The fulfillment of these prophecies, in minute detail, in life, in the life,
the death, and the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, demonstrates indisputably
that he is the Promised One, the true and only Savior.
Inasmuch as these two major themes of Bible prophecy, Israel and the Messiah,
have been dealt with in some of my other books, principally in How Close Are We?
We will only summarize them briefly here.
In Isaiah chapter 43, verse 10, the God of Israel declares that the Jews
are his witness to the world.
Now, who are the Jews?
Who is Israel?
Those of the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Gentile and Jew alike.
Don't let Dave mislead you.
He declares that the Jews are his witness to the world, that he is God.
If I don't come from Jewish descent, I'm telling you that the God of the Bible,
he is God.
That makes me a Jew according to God's definition of a Jew.
That makes me a member of Israel according to God's definition of Israel.
And I don't live in Palestine.
I live in Iowa.
Now, it says, such is the case in spite of the fact that 30% of today's Israelis
claim to be atheists, and most Jews worldwide would never think of telling the
world that God exists.
Yet they are the witnesses, says Dave Hunt.
Yet they are the witnesses, both to themselves and to the world, of his
existence, because of the astonishing fulfillment in history of precisely what
God said would happen to these special people.
What did God say about these Jews, these Israelites, that they would be
persecuted and killed and chased all over the world?
Stigmatized?
You think that only applies to those who call themselves the Jews?
Look at the history of the Roman Catholic Church and who she has persecuted.
I don't deny that the Roman Catholic Church has persecuted the physical
descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but more so she has persecuted
the spiritual descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, true Bible-believing
Protestants.
And the world has forgotten about that, haven't they?
We're all reminded constantly of the so-called six million Jews who were
exterminated in the crematoriums of Germany and Poland.
I believe the number far exceeded six million, because the Jews that the Germans
and the Poles exterminated were not just the physical descendants of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, but the spiritual descendants of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, the Bible-believing Protestants.
And the world needs to remember the blood that has made the whore, the woman in
Revelation 17, drunk.
It's the blood of the saints, and the blood of the prophets, and of all the
slain of the earth.
Notice that there are few commercials on this radio network.
There's a good reason for that.
Corporate advertising dollars come with strings that limit program content.
So without your help, these programs cannot continue on satellite, internet,
or our several affiliates.
If you benefit by the educational law programs, we ask you to give.
If you are admonished or nurtured by the Bible and ministry programs, we ask you to
give.
If some voice a cause that you are passionate about, we ask you to give.
If you believe in any of these, we ask you to support them, as you would a
missionary, on a continual basis, as if giving a tithe for missionary radio.
These programs are not commercially viable and must be supported by those faithful to
the cause of truth.
Look for the button to sponsor your favorite programs at our Listen and
Schedule pages on the internet.
We will also give you unlimited archive access to all of our programs.
We're asking you to give much less than a tithe, so that you may also send support
directly to a particular program host, cause, and anywhere else the Spirit may
lead you.
Do all to the glory of our God and Creator, for His holy nation, the only
kingdom that will last forever.
Thank you for listening.
Visit crosstheborder.org, C-R-O-S-S, crosstheborder.org, to get your print,
e-pub, or PDF version of Nicholas Arthur's new book titled, When the Third Temple is
Built.
That's crosstheborder.org.
When it comes to prophecy today, much of the Evangelical Christian world
has their eyes on Israel, waiting and watching to see when the Third Temple will
begin to be built.
The plans are drawn, the Jewish people are eager, most Evangelical Christians today
believe that the rapture will happen before the Third Temple is built.
Hi, I'm Michael Eugene.
I was taught that Daniel's 70th week was in the future.
Is that really what the Bible teaches?
Have we searched the Scriptures and found this to be true?
Why is it so important for a re-established Israel to build a Third
Temple in Jerusalem?
Is it necessary to build a Temple on the same location already occupied by the Dome
of the Rock?
Is it necessary for sacrifices to take place in the Temple on Temple Mount?
Is there really a rapture followed by seven years of tribulation?
What is the New Testament Temple?
Can we identify history and prophecy?
Who is the first beast in Revelation chapter 13?
Who are the seven kings in Revelation 17?
I have asked all these questions and I have found Nicholas Arthur's new book,
When the Third Temple is Built, answers all these questions and more using
Scripture to interpret Scripture.
The Bible says that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private
interpretation.
Nicholas shows us in his new book, When the Third Temple is Built,
how the Bible interprets prophecy and not man's private interpretation.
Visit crosstheborder.org to get your print, e-pub, or PDF version of Nicholas
Arthur's new book titled, When the Third Temple is Built.
That's crosstheborder.org.