WEBVTT 00:26.060 --> 00:27.020 Good morning. 00:27.260 --> 00:28.840 Welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:29.140 --> 00:31.960 My name's Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:32.380 --> 00:35.020 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:35.120 --> 00:36.420 Thanks for tuning in everybody. 00:37.040 --> 00:40.560 I'll bet that over the weekend everybody's anxious to return to the book, 00:41.040 --> 00:43.300 A Woman Rides a Beast by Dave Hunt. 00:43.420 --> 00:44.240 I know I am. 00:45.220 --> 00:48.300 And this is a book that's been out for a number of years. 00:48.300 --> 00:54.620 And as I pointed out, there's many, many, many important things to talk about 00:54.620 --> 00:55.240 in this book. 00:55.920 --> 01:02.880 One of which is Dave Hunt's futurism. 01:03.680 --> 01:10.120 And it's a struggle to read the book and to disclaim his futurist beliefs. 01:10.120 --> 01:15.380 But that has become the orthodox teaching in Christianity today. 01:15.540 --> 01:16.160 Futurism. 01:16.360 --> 01:17.860 Dispensational futurism. 01:18.840 --> 01:24.340 The belief that the Antichrist is a single individual that comes within seven years 01:24.340 --> 01:25.380 of Christ's return. 01:25.920 --> 01:33.500 And it is not the papacy as it has existed since its founding nearly 2,000 years ago. 01:34.340 --> 01:39.460 But nonetheless, we'll forge along with this book and uncover the futurism as we 01:39.460 --> 01:42.820 go and try to eat the meat and spit out the bones. 01:44.180 --> 01:51.760 Now yesterday, or rather Friday, we concluded on page 46 of this book, 01:52.240 --> 01:55.060 but we'll back up a little bit for continuity purposes. 01:55.060 --> 02:01.740 At the bottom of page 45 it says, The Latin equivalent of the Greek prefix 02:01.740 --> 02:10.180 anti- is vicarious, from which comes the word vicar. 02:11.240 --> 02:15.940 Thus, Vicar of Christ literally means Antichrist. 02:16.280 --> 02:21.060 The official title of the Pope, Vicar of Christ, literally means 02:21.060 --> 02:21.980 Antichrist. 02:21.980 --> 02:24.020 They are the same word. 02:24.740 --> 02:25.980 It's not a trick. 02:26.760 --> 02:28.420 It's the truth. 02:29.440 --> 02:35.000 Now, although the Roman Catholic Popes have called themselves Vicar of Christ, 02:35.320 --> 02:40.760 in other words, Antichrist, for centuries, they were not the first to do so, 02:40.880 --> 02:43.560 but inherited that title from Constantine. 02:44.220 --> 02:50.180 His future counterpart, the coming world ruler, now here's Dave Hunt's futurism 02:50.180 --> 02:58.100 cropping up again, he has just admitted that the title of the Popes is Antichrist. 02:59.120 --> 03:06.700 And yet, he's talking about a future counterpart of Constantine, who also 03:06.700 --> 03:12.260 called himself Vicar of Christ, will be the coming world leader over the 03:12.260 --> 03:16.460 revived Roman Empire, and he will be THE Antichrist. 03:17.220 --> 03:24.360 Now look, first of all, the revived Roman Empire has already been established. 03:24.920 --> 03:27.060 It's already up and running. 03:27.780 --> 03:29.880 It's a matter of daily history. 03:30.560 --> 03:40.480 And to put it off in the future is to simply divorce oneself of the truth and to 03:40.480 --> 03:44.640 hold fast to that phony Jesuit futurism. 03:45.620 --> 03:49.380 The papacy has always controlled the kings of the earth, except for a brief time 03:49.380 --> 03:55.420 after the Protestant Reformation, after the French Revolution, when General 03:55.420 --> 04:01.780 Berthier removed the papacy from his throne and took him into exile, 04:02.120 --> 04:08.460 and then made the government of Rome come under secular control. 04:09.300 --> 04:16.100 The Pope, if the papacy as it existed at that time, had only spiritual power over 04:16.100 --> 04:18.660 the Roman Catholic Church, if he was the head of the Roman Catholic Church, 04:19.240 --> 04:21.760 but he had no temporal power whatsoever. 04:22.740 --> 04:24.280 That is no longer true. 04:24.400 --> 04:31.020 After the Lateran Accords of 1929 with Mussolini, the papacy was restored to a 04:31.020 --> 04:32.340 kingly status. 04:33.240 --> 04:38.520 And that kingly status is exerted by the papacy over all the kings of the earth 04:38.520 --> 04:38.880 again. 04:38.880 --> 04:43.500 The Roman Empire has been re-established. 04:43.580 --> 04:46.640 It's been up and running at least since 1929. 04:47.660 --> 04:54.280 So to look for this union of church and state on a future basis is simply 04:54.280 --> 04:58.620 kowtowing to the Jesuits' deception called dispensational futurism. 04:59.400 --> 05:05.140 And it is ignorant of the plain evidence facts on the ground as they exist today. 05:07.400 --> 05:14.200 As already noted, the ancient Roman Empire, the Emperor, was worshipped as 05:14.200 --> 05:14.640 God. 05:14.940 --> 05:19.780 That is, under the pagan Roman Empire, before the rise of the papacy, 05:19.900 --> 05:26.040 and the Holy Roman Empire as it were, the Emperor was worshipped as a God. 05:26.180 --> 05:28.640 Not just a king, but a God as well. 05:29.500 --> 05:34.040 As such, he was the leader of the pagan priesthood and of the official 05:34.040 --> 05:36.800 state-sponsored pagan religion of the Empire. 05:37.700 --> 05:42.360 An image was made to the Caesars before which the citizens were required to bow 05:42.360 --> 05:45.460 and worship, just like Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon. 05:46.580 --> 05:47.940 Nothing has changed. 05:48.840 --> 05:53.660 And it's as those who refused to acknowledge the Emperor as God were 05:53.660 --> 06:01.780 killed, and so it will be, here's the futurism again, when the Roman Empire is 06:01.780 --> 06:04.540 revived under Antichrist. 06:05.040 --> 06:12.680 When was the pagan Roman Empire revived under Antichrist? 06:12.980 --> 06:16.860 When the papacy replaced Caesar. 06:17.000 --> 06:21.560 Remember Constantine went to Constantinople and left the power vacuum 06:21.560 --> 06:22.100 in Rome? 06:22.100 --> 06:27.860 And the papacy rebelled against Constantine and arrogated to itself both 06:27.860 --> 06:32.960 the title and the jurisdiction and the power of Caesar. 06:34.040 --> 06:39.700 And then it became the so-called Holy Roman Empire. 06:40.700 --> 06:49.320 Immediately when the Restrainer left Rome, Constantine, the Antichrist, arose in his 06:49.320 --> 06:49.840 place. 06:49.840 --> 06:51.320 The little horn. 06:52.240 --> 07:01.120 The Holy Roman Empire is simply the pagan Roman Empire with a thin cloak of 07:01.120 --> 07:07.340 Christianity over it, and then all the power of Constantine vested in the papacy. 07:08.140 --> 07:11.960 Don't look in the future for Antichrist because you'll be deceived. 07:11.960 --> 07:17.080 If you understand, as the Protestant Reformers did, the papacy was, 07:17.180 --> 07:23.020 is, and always will be the Antichrist, then you're on the right track and you 07:23.020 --> 07:26.400 won't be deceived by dispensational futurism. 07:27.140 --> 07:34.380 Again, he says, and so it will be when the Roman Empire is revived under Antichrist. 07:34.960 --> 07:39.800 This fact is clearly presented in the extensive vision Christ gave John. 07:39.800 --> 07:48.300 Here's what he said, and he causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to 07:48.300 --> 07:54.580 worship the first beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should 07:54.580 --> 08:00.540 make an image to the beast, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of 08:00.540 --> 08:02.480 the beast should be killed. 08:03.460 --> 08:06.360 Revelation chapter 13, verse 12 and 15. 08:07.380 --> 08:14.180 And so this concludes where we ended up Friday on the broadcast. 08:14.320 --> 08:15.040 Now we'll continue. 08:15.660 --> 08:18.920 He's talking about the paganization of Christianity here. 08:19.000 --> 08:26.280 He says, When Emperor Constantine supposedly became a Christian in 313 AD, 08:27.060 --> 08:33.740 which was nothing but a clever political maneuver, Constantine was not a Christian. 08:34.180 --> 08:35.960 He died a pagan. 08:36.900 --> 08:42.400 Even it is believed that his mother was the source of the Christianity in 08:42.400 --> 08:43.940 Constantine's house. 08:44.040 --> 08:50.940 And we know from history that Helena, as you might pronounce her name, 08:51.320 --> 08:52.900 was neither Christian. 08:52.900 --> 09:02.060 She simply went down to Jerusalem and collected as many so-called Christian 09:02.060 --> 09:03.380 artifacts as she could. 09:04.480 --> 09:08.640 And she was nothing but an idolater, typical of paganism. 09:09.600 --> 09:15.960 We've heard all the stories about the pieces of the true cross and all the 09:15.960 --> 09:22.320 so-called holy grail and all these so-called Christian artifacts that she 09:22.320 --> 09:23.400 brought back to Rome. 09:23.880 --> 09:27.680 It's simply, well, it's not Christianity at all. 09:28.560 --> 09:34.720 It's more consistent with the paganism that dominated both the pagan Roman Empire 09:34.720 --> 09:36.800 and the Holy Roman Empire. 09:36.960 --> 09:38.320 It still goes on today. 09:39.460 --> 09:44.900 You have to realize, and most people don't, that mass cannot be said on a Roman 09:44.900 --> 09:50.360 Catholic altar unless it has been consecrated by a priest, a Roman Catholic 09:50.360 --> 10:00.760 priest, and it must have some quote-unquote holy relic buried in the 10:00.760 --> 10:02.700 floor beneath that altar. 10:03.700 --> 10:09.680 So it's just a Christianized or a baptized paganism is all it is. 10:10.320 --> 10:13.000 And this is what the Protestant Reformers understood. 10:13.820 --> 10:19.440 Again, he says, when Emperor Constantine supposedly became a Christian in A.D. 10:19.560 --> 10:25.500 313, which was nothing but a clever political maneuver to unite church and 10:25.500 --> 10:32.280 state, he gave freedom to Christians as well as official status alongside paganism 10:32.280 --> 10:33.480 to the Christian Church. 10:34.360 --> 10:36.980 And he calls it again, Christian Church. 10:37.040 --> 10:38.200 We have to get out of the habit. 10:38.200 --> 10:39.920 It's the Roman Catholic Church. 10:40.180 --> 10:41.880 It's the synagogue of Satan. 10:42.840 --> 10:45.860 In no way can it be described a Christian Church. 10:46.900 --> 10:52.680 And despite his knowledge of this, not only this author, Dave Hunt, 10:52.740 --> 10:55.920 but many other authors make the same mistake. 10:56.400 --> 11:01.060 And we have to acknowledge it for what it is, the synagogue of Satan led by 11:01.060 --> 11:02.300 Antichrist himself. 11:02.940 --> 11:10.160 He says, since the church was now a recognized religious body in the empire, 11:11.340 --> 11:16.280 Constantine as emperor had to be acknowledged as its de facto head. 11:16.860 --> 11:23.080 So this pagan became the head of what we know today as the Roman Catholic Church. 11:24.000 --> 11:33.280 As such, he convened the first ecumenical council, the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. 11:34.060 --> 11:40.700 He set its agenda and gave the opening speech and presided over it, just as 11:40.700 --> 11:49.080 Charlemagne would over the Council of Chalon in 500 A.D. 11:49.400 --> 11:52.260 or rather, excuse me, 500 years later. 11:53.160 --> 11:59.320 Interested, not in the truth of the gospel, but in unifying the empire, 11:59.620 --> 12:04.480 there's your political motive for this union of Christianity, so-called, 12:05.140 --> 12:12.500 and the Roman state, Constantine was the first ecumenist and introduced that error 12:12.500 --> 12:15.200 into the persecution-weary church. 12:15.540 --> 12:17.720 And who was it that persecuted the church? 12:18.240 --> 12:18.740 Rome! 12:19.920 --> 12:26.060 They simply couldn't destroy the gospel, they couldn't destroy all the believers in 12:26.060 --> 12:32.200 Jesus Christ, all they could do was absorb it into the empire, and acknowledge it 12:32.200 --> 12:34.820 officially, and make it part of the government. 12:35.680 --> 12:43.620 In other words, by flattery, he conquered what was then the early church, 12:43.620 --> 12:48.620 or at least a portion of it, and put it under the state. 12:49.540 --> 12:56.060 Now, we have to understand that not Constantine, not the Pope, not anyone else 12:56.060 --> 12:57.780 but Christ is the head of the church. 12:58.280 --> 13:04.220 The church, as established by Christ, was an independent church. 13:04.380 --> 13:07.100 It never united with the state. 13:07.460 --> 13:10.920 It never even sought state approval. 13:10.920 --> 13:16.400 With Christ the head of the church, the churches were independent and separate 13:16.400 --> 13:17.200 from the state. 13:17.940 --> 13:25.340 The heavenly never mixed with the earthly, and it continued to worship, just as 13:25.340 --> 13:27.860 instituted by Christ and the apostles. 13:28.680 --> 13:34.660 And it never became slaves of the state. 13:34.660 --> 13:41.180 It remained loyal to Christ, never allowing itself to be enslaved. 13:41.860 --> 13:47.440 When we think of the example of the Waldenses, who were holed up in the Alpine 13:47.440 --> 13:52.920 hills, and farmed the valleys, and simply would not come to mass, 13:53.060 --> 13:58.700 would not confess their sins to the Roman Catholic priests, would have nothing to do 13:58.700 --> 14:02.800 with the Roman Catholic Church, and went about everywhere they went, 14:03.000 --> 14:05.220 preaching that the Pope was the Antichrist. 14:06.540 --> 14:14.440 So, the church of Jesus Christ existed completely separately from Constantine and 14:14.440 --> 14:15.160 the Popes. 14:16.040 --> 14:20.380 What we are seeing here is the erection of a counterfeit, quote unquote, 14:20.540 --> 14:27.520 Christianity, that deceives and enslaves the whole world, and persecutes the saints 14:27.520 --> 14:28.140 of God. 14:29.660 --> 14:36.260 Now, while heading this so-called Christian church, Constantine continued to 14:36.260 --> 14:43.480 head the pagan priesthood, to officiate at pagan celebrations, and to endow pagan 14:43.480 --> 14:48.720 temples, even after he began to build Christian churches, that is, Roman 14:48.720 --> 14:52.680 Catholic churches, not Christian at all. 14:53.840 --> 15:01.280 As head of the pagan priesthood, he was Pontifex Maximus, that was his 15:01.280 --> 15:06.700 title, and needed a similar title as head of the Christian church. 15:07.380 --> 15:12.320 The Christians, rather than Catholics, honored him as Bishop of Bishops, 15:12.920 --> 15:19.080 while Constantine called himself Vicarious Christi, in other words, the Vicar of 15:19.080 --> 15:21.360 Christ, the replacement of Christ on earth. 15:22.270 --> 15:29.120 So, before he was a pagan, but when he became a Christian, so-called, 15:29.840 --> 15:31.260 he became a blasphemer. 15:32.280 --> 15:33.960 That is typical of the papacy. 15:34.400 --> 15:40.420 See, the papacy today has all the power, strength, and title, and jurisdiction, 15:40.820 --> 15:43.300 and immunity as did Constantine. 15:44.270 --> 15:51.720 When the Restrainer left, the man of sin arrogated to himself all the prerogatives 15:51.720 --> 15:57.360 of the pagan emperor that he replaced, and stood up in his place. 15:57.900 --> 16:05.200 So, all the power now is vested in the Pope, and he holds the office of Pontifex 16:05.200 --> 16:09.460 Maximus, Caesar, the King of Kings. 16:09.460 --> 16:15.700 And he also, as Bishop of Bishops, he claims the power of Christ. 16:16.620 --> 16:18.080 Okay, head of the church. 16:19.060 --> 16:21.300 This is very Antichrist. 16:22.160 --> 16:27.040 It says the Christians, the so-called Christians, honored him as Bishop of 16:27.040 --> 16:33.540 Bishops, while Constantine called himself Vicarious Christi, Vicar of Christ. 16:34.220 --> 16:40.440 He meant that he was, quote, unquote, another Christ, acting in the place of 16:40.440 --> 16:40.980 Christ. 16:41.740 --> 16:46.100 When translated into Greek, however, as we have seen, Vicarious Christi 16:46.100 --> 16:48.880 literally means Antichrist. 16:49.600 --> 16:52.200 They are the same word, just different spellings. 16:53.300 --> 16:59.220 Constantine was the prototype of the Antichrist prophesied in Scripture, 16:59.220 --> 17:03.260 and who is yet to come, says Dave Hunt. 17:04.040 --> 17:06.880 No, he came 2,000 years ago. 17:07.040 --> 17:10.380 He's the one who replaced Constantine, the Restrainer. 17:11.340 --> 17:14.420 Okay, we don't look into the future for Antichrist. 17:14.600 --> 17:20.140 He's been with us all along, persecuting God's people and fulfilling all the Bible 17:20.140 --> 17:22.020 prophecies regarding Antichrist. 17:24.640 --> 17:30.580 Continuing, he says, In the Middle Ages, the bishops of Rome began to claim that 17:30.580 --> 17:33.640 they were the sole representatives of Christ upon the earth. 17:34.480 --> 17:40.160 Demanding that the entire church worldwide be subject to their rule, they forbade any 17:40.160 --> 17:46.340 other bishops to be called Papa, or Pope, or Father, and took to themselves 17:46.340 --> 17:52.760 the three titles of Constantine, Pontifex Maximus, Vicar of Christ, 17:53.860 --> 17:59.380 and Bishop of Bishops, which they retained to themselves to this very day. 18:02.120 --> 18:05.840 Antichrist just simply can't change his spots, can he? 18:06.500 --> 18:08.320 He's been with us all along. 18:09.960 --> 18:17.400 It's uncanny to me to read, as much as Dave Hunt knows, and then to go to his 18:17.400 --> 18:20.160 grave still confused about who Antichrist is. 18:20.980 --> 18:25.800 Anyway, he says, As the Pope's claim to absolute power over kingdoms, people, 18:25.940 --> 18:30.780 and property were realized, great corruption entered the Roman Catholic 18:30.780 --> 18:31.240 Church. 18:32.100 --> 18:37.700 The Protestant Reformers and their creeds were unanimous in identifying each Pope as 18:37.700 --> 18:38.340 the Antichrist. 18:38.980 --> 18:40.540 That's what I believe. 18:40.700 --> 18:43.320 Every Pope is an Antichrist. 18:43.320 --> 18:46.580 Every Pope is a successor of Antichrist. 18:46.720 --> 18:48.780 It is the dynasty of Antichrist. 18:48.880 --> 18:58.340 Remember, Satan is a spirit, and he rules through a human agency, just as Christ is 18:58.340 --> 19:03.240 evident in the world through the human agency of his people, called the Body of 19:03.240 --> 19:03.600 Christ. 19:04.340 --> 19:06.000 Satan has a counterfeit. 19:06.380 --> 19:07.880 It's called the Papacy. 19:07.880 --> 19:18.760 And since, being human, they're blessed to live no more than 70 years, then Satan 19:18.760 --> 19:25.900 rules the world through this human agency in a line of successors. 19:27.820 --> 19:34.220 Each Pope is a continuation of the office of the man of sin, the son of perdition. 19:34.220 --> 19:40.980 So, the Protestant Reformers were correct in saying that each Pope is an Antichrist, 19:41.100 --> 19:42.520 is the Antichrist. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.520 Now, here's Dave Hunt's Futurism again. 19:45.640 --> 19:49.360 He says, Scripture, however, does not support that claim. 19:50.200 --> 19:56.160 The Antichrist is a unique individual without predecessors or successors. 19:56.820 --> 20:02.960 He will be the new Constantine, the ruler of the revived worldwide empire. 20:04.660 --> 20:12.020 It's going to be difficult to address every instance of Dave Hunt's Futurist 20:12.020 --> 20:12.600 beliefs. 20:13.620 --> 20:16.360 But the Bible speaks of the Papacy. 20:17.320 --> 20:22.760 It does not speak of a single man of sin, a son of perdition, that comes seven years 20:22.760 --> 20:23.920 before Christ's return. 20:24.400 --> 20:28.880 Listen, Dave was corrupted by dispensational Futurism. 20:28.880 --> 20:35.440 He did not understand verse 27 of Daniel chapter 9 was fulfilled by Christ. 20:36.420 --> 20:40.960 He believed that verse 27 was talking about the Antichrist. 20:41.480 --> 20:46.400 That the Antichrist would cause the sacrifices and oblations to cease. 20:47.400 --> 20:52.840 And therefore, Dave Hunt is looking for a future Antichrist who will cause Jewish 20:52.840 --> 20:55.440 sacrifices and oblations to cease. 20:55.440 --> 21:00.060 When the Bible doesn't speak of it. 21:01.020 --> 21:07.140 Verse 27 is about the Messiah, Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago. 21:08.080 --> 21:13.240 And every time we turn around, David's Futurism crops back up and will 21:13.240 --> 21:16.680 push it back down where it belongs every time it comes up. 21:17.820 --> 21:22.460 Now he continues discussing a staggering new insight. 21:23.180 --> 21:27.680 He says the final revelation of the fourth beast comes in the vision which God gave 21:27.680 --> 21:30.680 John as recorded in Revelation chapter 17. 21:31.440 --> 21:38.100 This time, in a staggering new insight, a woman sits astride this horrible 21:38.100 --> 21:38.680 creature. 21:39.620 --> 21:44.340 That this is the same beast which Daniel saw and which is represented to us in 21:44.340 --> 21:47.360 chapters 12 and 13 of Revelation is quite clear. 21:47.360 --> 21:55.300 For it has the now familiar 7 heads and 10 horns. 21:55.400 --> 21:56.380 See verse 3. 21:57.280 --> 22:00.260 One other identifying feature is recorded. 22:01.840 --> 22:07.600 The beast is full of names of blasphemy. 22:09.140 --> 22:13.680 An obvious elaboration upon what was seen in chapter 13. 22:14.680 --> 22:18.420 And upon his head the names of blasphemy. 22:19.620 --> 22:21.580 Now what is blasphemy? 22:22.540 --> 22:24.760 Calling oneself vicar of Christ. 22:25.360 --> 22:26.880 The replacement of Christ. 22:26.960 --> 22:31.920 There is no replacement of Christ unless of course we acknowledge the Holy Spirit 22:31.920 --> 22:35.660 whom Christ sent after he returned to his Father. 22:36.520 --> 22:43.580 If there is a vicar of Christ, if there is a replacement of the Son of 22:43.580 --> 22:48.260 God on earth, it is none other than the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit. 22:49.240 --> 22:53.700 And to arrogate to a human being that agency is blasphemy. 22:54.060 --> 22:59.740 And that's what the papacy does when it calls itself Antichrist. 22:59.740 --> 23:05.400 When it calls itself the vicar or the replacement of Christ on earth. 23:05.600 --> 23:13.280 As a matter of fact, every pope holding to that title, every pope acting in that 23:13.280 --> 23:21.620 office, which is every pope throughout history, has blasphemed the Holy Spirit. 23:22.380 --> 23:24.320 Let that soak in during the break. 23:24.320 --> 23:28.880 You're listening to Inquisition Update on FirstAmendmentRadio.com. 23:29.020 --> 23:30.600 We'll be back after these messages. 23:56.710 --> 24:05.030 Hear it first on FirstAmendmentRadio.com and FirstAmendmentRadio.net The book of 24:05.030 --> 24:10.550 Revelation says the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus Christ. 24:10.950 --> 24:14.290 This 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26:41.000 Radio. 26:41.000 --> 26:45.320 If you'd like to support Inquisition Update, please support First Amendment 26:45.320 --> 26:47.040 Radio, who sponsors the program. 26:48.620 --> 26:55.220 Now, Dave Hunt says the final revelation of the fourth beast in the Bible comes in 26:55.220 --> 27:01.000 the vision which God gave John as recorded in Revelation chapter 17. 27:02.100 --> 27:08.360 But this time, in a staggering new insight, a woman sits astride this 27:08.360 --> 27:09.500 horrible creature. 27:09.500 --> 27:14.740 Okay, for the first time, the beast referred to in Daniel's visions, 27:15.800 --> 27:23.020 this one by John in Revelation 17, this same beast is controlled by a woman. 27:23.260 --> 27:24.620 Now, what is this woman? 27:25.420 --> 27:31.420 Well, in the Bible, we all know the beast represents Gentile nations, or kingdoms. 27:33.680 --> 27:42.320 Abusive, tyrannical, God-man kingdoms, for lack of a better term. 27:42.780 --> 27:45.120 That's what Nimrod was, a God-king. 27:45.880 --> 27:48.960 That's what Nebuchadnezzar was, a God-king. 27:49.540 --> 27:52.900 That's what Caesar was, a God-king. 27:52.900 --> 27:55.240 They were blasphemers. 27:56.440 --> 28:04.980 But this time, this beast power is being ridden and controlled by a woman. 28:05.100 --> 28:09.060 Now, in the Bible, women represent churches. 28:09.540 --> 28:14.180 God uses the example of a woman to describe churches. 28:15.180 --> 28:22.020 And when Israel was obedient to God, kept His commandments, and worshiped Him 28:22.020 --> 28:27.480 according to spirit and truth, he regarded Israel as a chaste virgin. 28:28.280 --> 28:31.200 Okay, the feminine, a woman. 28:32.080 --> 28:38.640 Likewise, when Israel was apostate and disobeyed the commandments of God and fell 28:38.640 --> 28:42.100 into idolatry, he called her a harlot. 28:42.100 --> 28:45.440 She went a-whoring after other gods. 28:45.940 --> 28:53.580 Accused Israel of fornication and of adultery. 28:54.460 --> 29:00.120 Okay, a whore or a harlot is an adulterous woman. 29:00.940 --> 29:08.500 So now we have a woman, or rather a church, controlling this beast power. 29:09.260 --> 29:15.800 It literally represents a union of church and state, where the church dictates to 29:15.800 --> 29:18.300 the state what shall be done. 29:19.220 --> 29:24.880 This is the description of the Roman Catholic Church, which is a church state. 29:25.020 --> 29:28.420 The Vatican is a church state union. 29:29.280 --> 29:36.600 The Pope is not only the head of the church, but he is the head of the papal 29:36.600 --> 29:37.140 state. 29:37.140 --> 29:38.800 Vatican City. 29:39.060 --> 29:45.140 And he claims his jurisdiction not over just Vatican City, but over the whole 29:45.140 --> 29:45.600 world. 29:46.160 --> 29:50.380 So this is what is described in Revelation chapter 17. 29:50.600 --> 29:54.720 A global government persecuting power. 29:55.920 --> 30:01.020 A global civil government controlled by the Roman Catholic Church. 30:01.140 --> 30:02.320 That's the New World Order. 30:02.980 --> 30:05.100 There's nothing new about it at all. 30:05.100 --> 30:10.440 History is just dominated by the Old World Order. 30:11.260 --> 30:16.280 And to describe the Old World Order was a union of church and state, the Roman 30:16.280 --> 30:19.440 Catholic Church, over the governments of the world. 30:20.100 --> 30:23.060 Okay, I hope I made that clear. 30:23.780 --> 30:29.540 Now it says that this is the same beast which Daniel saw, and which is presented 30:29.540 --> 30:33.160 to us in chapters 12 and 13 of Revelation is quite clear. 30:33.160 --> 30:40.920 For it has the now familiar seven heads and ten horns, and one other identifying 30:40.920 --> 30:42.160 feature is recorded. 30:42.660 --> 30:45.520 The beast is full of names of blasphemy. 30:46.180 --> 30:53.340 An obvious elaboration upon what was seen in chapter 13, upon his heads the names of 30:53.340 --> 30:54.020 blasphemy. 30:54.580 --> 30:57.220 We've already determined what blasphemy was. 30:57.220 --> 31:00.720 Irrigating to oneself the prerogatives of God. 31:01.120 --> 31:04.060 Irrigating to oneself the power to forgive sins. 31:04.860 --> 31:06.360 And that's what the papacy does. 31:06.500 --> 31:10.160 Calls himself the Vicar of Christ, blaspheming the Holy Spirit. 31:11.160 --> 31:14.340 And this is the Antichrist, the papacy. 31:15.160 --> 31:19.860 The Roman Catholic Church is the woman that rides the governments of the world 31:19.860 --> 31:21.860 and controls the governments of the world. 31:22.860 --> 31:27.500 Now he says this is a remarkable change of perspective this last time the beast is 31:27.500 --> 31:27.880 seen. 31:28.560 --> 31:33.940 The woman riding it rather than the beast itself is now the focus of attention. 31:34.700 --> 31:41.820 The focus of attention in Revelation chapter 17 is this woman, this church. 31:42.640 --> 31:50.300 The description of the beast is brief, only sufficient to let us know that it is 31:50.300 --> 31:52.680 the same one we have seen before. 31:53.360 --> 31:58.060 No further insights into the nature or meaning of this horrible creature are 31:58.060 --> 31:58.320 given. 31:58.660 --> 31:58.900 Why? 31:59.280 --> 32:04.100 Because we should be able to recognize it by now, throughout history. 32:04.820 --> 32:08.500 Now it says a new figure has taken center stage. 32:09.140 --> 32:15.560 And two entire chapters of Revelation chapter 17 and 18 are devoted to detailed 32:15.560 --> 32:17.740 discussion about this woman. 32:18.620 --> 32:24.180 Far more space than has been given to the beast itself in all prior appearances in 32:24.180 --> 32:24.660 the Bible. 32:25.540 --> 32:32.240 Now John has never indicated in any of the three times he has seen the frightening 32:32.240 --> 32:35.980 creature that he was shocked or even amazed by it. 32:36.900 --> 32:40.740 But now at last he expresses great astonishment. 32:41.580 --> 32:46.380 Not for the beast, however, but for the woman on its back. 32:47.100 --> 32:50.040 It is the sight of her that staggers John. 32:50.900 --> 32:54.220 How did this woman mount such a fearsome creature? 32:55.120 --> 32:59.300 Why should it allow her to sit on its back, holding the reins and controlling 32:59.300 --> 32:59.600 it? 33:00.340 --> 33:08.000 Obviously, she will play a key role in the revival of the Roman Empire, the reign of 33:08.000 --> 33:12.880 Antichrist, and future world events leading to Christ's second coming. 33:13.560 --> 33:15.300 What will that role be? 33:15.980 --> 33:17.320 When will it be revealed? 33:17.860 --> 33:18.880 Who is this woman? 33:19.600 --> 33:22.940 To answer such questions and more is the purpose of this book. 33:22.940 --> 33:29.200 And let me tell you, the Protestant Reformers revealed all of this 500 years 33:29.200 --> 33:29.600 ago. 33:30.480 --> 33:38.140 If we would return to Bible Protestantism, we wouldn't need such books as A Woman 33:38.140 --> 33:45.020 Rides the Beast, and none of us would be deceived about dispensational futurism as 33:45.020 --> 33:46.100 was Dave Hunt. 33:46.100 --> 33:53.540 And before my listeners become critical of my assailing of Dave Hunt's futurism, 33:53.760 --> 33:57.920 I will confess once again for the record, for 50 years of my life, I have believed 33:57.920 --> 34:00.340 that deception just as Dave Hunt did. 34:00.900 --> 34:06.300 But I have repented, and I hope my listeners will be led by the Spirit of God 34:06.300 --> 34:10.780 to do the same and return to true Bible believing Protestantism. 34:10.780 --> 34:18.200 Now chapter 5 is entitled Mystery Babylon, but Dave gives us a portion from 34:18.200 --> 34:20.700 Revelation chapter 17 verse 5. 34:20.820 --> 34:27.360 He says, Upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery Babylon the Great. 34:28.260 --> 34:34.540 And the diabolical Antichrist, Pope Innocent III, who reigned from 1198 34:34.540 --> 34:43.480 to 1216 said, Thus, as the moon receives its light from the sun, so the royal 34:43.480 --> 34:49.900 power, that is the state, derives from the pontifical authority the splendor of its 34:49.900 --> 34:50.360 dignity. 34:51.180 --> 34:58.140 The state of the world will be restored by our diligent care, for the pontifical 34:58.140 --> 35:01.960 authority and the royal power, that is the church and the state, 35:02.760 --> 35:05.600 fully suffice for this purpose. 35:05.600 --> 35:16.220 So Antichrist Innocent III revealed nearly a millennium ago how the papacy would 35:16.220 --> 35:21.580 control the entire world by controlling the governments of the world. 35:22.140 --> 35:24.340 The woman riding the beast. 35:24.340 --> 35:27.240 Chapter 5, Mystery Babylon. 35:28.140 --> 35:29.560 Why mystery? 35:30.340 --> 35:36.080 That Babylon, an ancient city whose ruins have been covered by the desert sands for 35:36.080 --> 35:41.800 at least 2300 years, should be mentioned so prominently in prophecies pertaining to 35:41.800 --> 35:45.980 the last days, does indeed seem an enigma. 35:46.980 --> 35:51.480 It is popularly taught that the woman represents ancient Babylon revived. 35:51.480 --> 35:58.080 The fact that Iraq's sadistic ruler, Saddam Hussein, began Babylon's 35:58.080 --> 36:02.920 reconstruction some years ago, is therefore seen as contributing to the 36:02.920 --> 36:04.300 fulfillment of this vision. 36:05.220 --> 36:11.160 Ancient Babylon, however, even if it again becomes an inhabited and functioning city, 36:11.740 --> 36:16.580 could not possibly be the Babylon to which the writing on the woman's forehead 36:16.580 --> 36:17.100 refers. 36:18.220 --> 36:24.760 Saddam's rebuilt Babylon simply doesn't meet the criteria that John sets forth. 36:25.700 --> 36:31.540 Those criteria, which we will be examining in detail, establish the woman's identity. 36:32.360 --> 36:35.640 And as we shall see, she is not ancient Babylon. 36:36.200 --> 36:39.460 And I agree with Dave Hunt on this. 36:40.340 --> 36:42.920 Saddam Hussein worked for the papacy. 36:43.510 --> 36:51.540 And I believe Saddam Hussein was simply rebuilding Babylon as a diversion from any 36:51.540 --> 36:57.640 focus of the people of the world upon Rome as the new Babylon, as fulfilling the 36:57.640 --> 37:01.420 prophecies regarding mystery Babylon the Great. 37:02.240 --> 37:12.380 And there are still hosts on First Amendment radio who swear that ancient 37:12.380 --> 37:14.820 Babylon in Iraq will be rebuilt. 37:15.500 --> 37:19.680 It will become a center of commerce in the world. 37:20.620 --> 37:25.280 And if it is, and I do not believe God will allow that city to be rebuilt, 37:25.520 --> 37:30.480 but if it is, it will simply be a diversion away from the papacy. 37:30.480 --> 37:39.260 To divert everyone's eyes away from the true antichrist onto a false antichrist. 37:39.600 --> 37:45.000 Thus opening the way for the papacy to seat itself in the world as the 37:45.000 --> 37:48.560 replacement of Christ or Christ in the flesh. 37:49.620 --> 37:52.540 And that's what the papacy's goal has been all along. 37:53.240 --> 37:59.560 To elevate itself to global supremacy both over spiritual things and temporal things. 37:59.560 --> 38:01.340 The God King. 38:02.220 --> 38:03.680 The Antichrist. 38:04.780 --> 38:09.560 Now, Saddam imagines himself to be a modern Nebuchadnezzar. 38:10.200 --> 38:13.860 Perhaps even the reincarnation of that emperor of ancient Babylon. 38:14.600 --> 38:19.020 What Saddam admires most about Nebuchadnezzar is that he destroyed 38:19.020 --> 38:25.100 Jerusalem and killed or carried away captive Israel's inhabitants into Babylon. 38:25.460 --> 38:27.700 Leaving the land of Israel desolate. 38:27.700 --> 38:30.680 Now let me say before we even go on. 38:31.540 --> 38:38.560 The whole object of the papacy today is to re-fulfill the 70th week of Daniel. 38:39.420 --> 38:46.100 And to take the world's eyes away from what Rome has endeavored to do. 38:46.540 --> 38:50.580 To put the focus on a boogeyman. 38:51.120 --> 38:52.940 Like Saddam Hussein. 38:53.530 --> 39:04.440 Another thing the papacy has done is prevent Christians from realizing who the 39:04.440 --> 39:06.220 true Israel is. 39:06.760 --> 39:12.420 Those who belong to Christ are Israel. 39:12.920 --> 39:14.120 Spiritual Israel. 39:15.220 --> 39:21.940 And the Vatican is focusing the world to believe in a physical Israel. 39:21.940 --> 39:24.960 A physical earthly Israel. 39:25.240 --> 39:27.300 A physical earthly king. 39:27.520 --> 39:29.640 A physical earthly antichrist. 39:30.700 --> 39:38.960 And again, I will recommend the book, Exploding the Israel Deception by Steve 39:38.960 --> 39:39.520 Wolberg. 39:40.320 --> 39:42.840 If you want to understand the truth. 39:42.840 --> 39:51.660 If you don't want to be misled by this phony futurist recreation of the ancient 39:51.660 --> 39:55.160 Jewish nation of Israel. 39:55.520 --> 39:56.840 That we see today. 39:56.980 --> 39:58.740 And all the focus on Babylon. 39:59.780 --> 40:01.160 And away from the papacy. 40:01.360 --> 40:06.920 Simply read the book, Exploding the Israel Deception by Steve Wolberg. 40:07.620 --> 40:13.360 And your eyes will be opened as to what Israel is according to the scripture. 40:14.280 --> 40:15.500 Who is Israel? 40:16.000 --> 40:18.340 Is it a bunch of disbelieving Jews? 40:18.980 --> 40:23.600 Living in a land created by the governments of the world? 40:23.920 --> 40:25.540 By the papacy itself? 40:25.540 --> 40:34.660 As a stage upon which the papacy hopes to re-fulfill the phony, Jesuit, futurist 40:34.660 --> 40:37.660 interpretation of Daniel chapter 9 verse 27. 40:38.200 --> 40:40.240 The deception is elaborate. 40:41.340 --> 40:46.340 And it required a great deal of cooperation with the papacy. 40:46.740 --> 40:48.500 By the kings of the earth. 40:49.320 --> 40:51.820 But they want an earthly kingdom. 40:52.650 --> 40:56.820 And to get it done, they must deceive the Christian world. 40:56.960 --> 40:58.020 And that's what they've done. 40:58.080 --> 41:00.080 And they've partly deceived David Hunt. 41:00.800 --> 41:01.820 Rather, Dave Hunt. 41:02.600 --> 41:04.840 And they've deceived me for 50 years. 41:05.720 --> 41:08.840 I don't want my listeners to fall for this deception. 41:09.840 --> 41:15.000 Now, it is true that Saddam Hussein imagined himself to be a modern 41:15.000 --> 41:16.100 Nebuchadnezzar. 41:16.100 --> 41:21.480 There were even articles written in mainstream media reports about Saddam's 41:21.480 --> 41:25.900 supposed visions of being a modern day Nebuchadnezzar. 41:26.960 --> 41:32.900 And he believed he was even a reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar of ancient 41:32.900 --> 41:33.300 Babylon. 41:34.300 --> 41:38.980 What Saddam admires most about Nebuchadnezzar is that he destroyed 41:38.980 --> 41:45.220 Jerusalem and killed or carried away captive Israel's inhabitants into Babylon, 41:45.940 --> 41:48.040 leaving the land of Israel desolate. 41:48.780 --> 41:55.220 So you have to understand that it is the Vatican who has taken advantage of this 41:55.220 --> 42:01.580 and who would also like to destroy all the Jews, as they have done throughout all 42:01.580 --> 42:10.220 history and leave that place, Israel today, open for a papal rule. 42:11.140 --> 42:17.280 Now, as the new Nebuchadnezzar, Saddam Hussein dreams of wreaking the same 42:17.280 --> 42:22.900 destruction upon today's Israelis whom he sees as his chief enemies. 42:24.040 --> 42:28.340 Of course, Babylon itself was then conquered by the Medes and the Persians 42:28.340 --> 42:35.780 and for that depredation, Saddam views Iran, that is the successor of the ancient 42:35.780 --> 42:42.540 Persia, as his other great enemy and fought an eight year war against her. 42:43.400 --> 42:46.840 So Saddam thinks that history is repeating itself. 42:47.740 --> 42:54.320 And he is the new Nebuchadnezzar and his nemesis is Israel and his kingdom will be 42:54.320 --> 42:58.240 eventually replaced by the Medes and the Persians if he doesn't destroy them. 42:58.240 --> 43:04.300 Now, Saddam has proudly imprinted his name on every brick being used in the 43:04.300 --> 43:06.080 reconstruction of ancient Babylon. 43:06.920 --> 43:14.720 As much hated and feared by his own people, one day Saddam will be deposed, 43:14.820 --> 43:16.940 as eventually happens to all tyrants. 43:17.720 --> 43:23.940 It would not be surprising if the Iraqis, in order to erase the last vestige of 43:23.940 --> 43:30.720 Saddam's loathsome memory, thereafter bulldoze the proud structures he has 43:30.720 --> 43:32.780 erected at the site of ancient Babylon. 43:33.480 --> 43:38.980 Whether that happens or not, there is no way that this city, rebuilt after lying in 43:38.980 --> 43:43.920 ruins for more than 2,000 years, could be mistaken for the Babylon which 43:43.920 --> 43:47.860 the major subject of Revelation chapter 17 and 18 is written. 43:48.880 --> 43:55.720 Dave Hunt knows that the Babylon of the Bible, as we see it today in the world, 43:55.860 --> 43:59.760 is not in Iraq, it is in Italy. 44:00.620 --> 44:03.940 Rome is the new Babylon, Babylon the Great. 44:05.000 --> 44:09.660 She is the woman riding the beast and in control of all the governments of the 44:09.660 --> 44:13.580 world and making slaves and martyrs of God's people. 44:14.460 --> 44:17.020 Now, the Babel connection. 44:17.860 --> 44:20.820 There is, of course, a connection to ancient Babylon. 44:21.900 --> 44:25.140 The name on the woman's forehead establishes that fact. 44:25.720 --> 44:30.740 What could that name mean in the world of the last days, just prior to the second 44:30.740 --> 44:31.660 coming of Christ? 44:32.420 --> 44:38.120 Obviously, it must refer to a dominant feature common to all four world empires. 44:38.120 --> 44:43.760 A major element of the first empire, Babylon, which is still dominant in the 44:43.760 --> 44:45.500 fourth empire, Rome. 44:46.380 --> 44:52.420 A paramount feature common to all was the unity between the throne and the altar, 44:53.280 --> 44:55.640 between the prince and the priest. 44:56.620 --> 45:04.300 In other words, what was common among them all is that church and state were united 45:04.300 --> 45:07.100 and the church controlled the state. 45:08.080 --> 45:11.560 Separation of church and state was yet unheard of. 45:11.620 --> 45:13.260 In fact, the opposite was true. 45:14.180 --> 45:19.400 The pagan priests, the astrologers, magicians, sorcerers and soothsayers were 45:19.400 --> 45:24.640 the emperor's close advisers and often the hidden influence controlling the empire. 45:25.300 --> 45:31.000 Thus, a principal characteristic of this woman, who is both a city and a spiritual 45:31.000 --> 45:38.600 entity, will be her adulterous relationship with secular governments. 45:39.300 --> 45:45.820 And we've spent all of our time here at Inquisition Update showing every day how 45:45.820 --> 45:48.700 the papacy controlled the governments of the world. 45:48.860 --> 45:50.380 The union of church and state. 45:50.500 --> 45:53.700 That's what defined the old world order. 45:53.700 --> 45:57.220 That is what is being restored in the new world order. 45:57.960 --> 46:03.100 The unity of church and state, the union of church and state persisted 46:03.100 --> 46:07.960 from the days of Babylon until beyond the ascendancy of Rome, the fourth world 46:07.960 --> 46:09.560 empire in Daniel's vision. 46:10.300 --> 46:15.440 As we have seen, Roman emperors, like other ancient rulers, headed the 46:15.440 --> 46:19.000 pagan priesthood and were worshipped as gods. 46:19.640 --> 46:22.040 That's where we get the concept of the God-King. 46:22.200 --> 46:26.620 Look, if you don't believe in the God of the Bible, then you have to make your own 46:26.620 --> 46:27.020 God. 46:27.160 --> 46:31.580 And hopefully it's a man that you can worship as a God, right? 46:32.190 --> 46:38.700 So all the power, all the antichrists of the world struggled for that position. 46:39.120 --> 46:41.240 To be both a king and a god. 46:41.960 --> 46:44.260 That defines all of history. 46:45.340 --> 46:50.740 And the papacy is simply the current emanation of that ancient God-King. 46:51.600 --> 46:58.420 Now, inasmuch as religion was the dominant factor in every empire, we do well to take 46:58.420 --> 47:01.180 a closer look at the religion of Babylon. 47:01.880 --> 47:05.520 Now he's going to talk about ancient Babel, tower to heaven. 47:06.740 --> 47:10.280 Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon was built around the ruins of the Tower of Babel, 47:10.800 --> 47:15.020 which was erected shortly after the flood by the descendants of Noah under the 47:15.020 --> 47:16.180 leadership of Nimrod. 47:17.020 --> 47:22.220 See Genesis chapter 10 verse 8 through 10 and Micah chapter 5 verse 6. 47:22.220 --> 47:31.920 Now, Nimrod was the first post-deluvial, that is, post-flood God-King. 47:32.760 --> 47:38.540 It was simply a restoration of what took place before the flood. 47:39.400 --> 47:40.240 Idolatry. 47:41.240 --> 47:46.160 Nimrod declared himself a God-King and demanded worship and obedience by the 47:46.160 --> 47:46.500 people. 47:46.500 --> 47:53.660 He held the people captive in walled cities and set them about building a 47:53.660 --> 47:54.180 tower. 47:55.160 --> 48:00.420 That tower represents the religion of Babylon or Babel. 48:00.660 --> 48:04.680 Now, its original purpose was clearly stated by its builders. 48:04.680 --> 48:13.500 Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make 48:13.500 --> 48:18.240 us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 48:18.960 --> 48:21.280 See Genesis chapter 11 verse 4. 48:22.160 --> 48:30.060 The city, Babel, was a political civil union of earth's inhabitants at that time. 48:30.060 --> 48:38.020 The tower, as opposed to the city, was clearly a religious enterprise, 48:38.440 --> 48:40.300 the means of reaching heaven. 48:41.300 --> 48:44.800 So there you have church and state. 48:45.800 --> 48:52.540 Now, Babel thus represents the unity of church and state, involving the entire 48:52.540 --> 48:56.880 world in an attempt to elevate man to God's level. 48:57.560 --> 49:02.660 That this would be accomplished through a tower built by human genius and energy, 49:02.760 --> 49:07.260 obviously represents man's religion of self-effort. 49:08.280 --> 49:10.700 Or salvation by works. 49:11.720 --> 49:15.820 Which is just exactly what the Roman Catholic Church does. 49:16.660 --> 49:18.700 Salvation by works. 49:19.620 --> 49:20.940 By sacraments. 49:21.320 --> 49:22.320 By baptism. 49:23.160 --> 49:25.920 By participating in the mass. 49:25.920 --> 49:28.300 That abomination called the mass. 49:29.360 --> 49:37.680 In Roman Catholicism, grace is infused by participating in these works of the Roman 49:37.680 --> 49:38.480 Catholic Church. 49:39.160 --> 49:45.300 Now, in as much as the entire world was united in this effort, we have the first 49:45.300 --> 49:50.440 example of world government and world religion joined as one. 49:52.040 --> 49:59.600 Babel was simply a microcosm of the current global macrocosm. 49:59.600 --> 50:06.420 And it says, as man began in this unity, so he must end in it as well. 50:06.880 --> 50:09.880 Such is the clear message on the woman's forehead. 50:10.960 --> 50:14.060 The tower was the obsession of the city's inhabitants. 50:14.420 --> 50:17.900 The purpose of life that both united and enslaved. 50:18.720 --> 50:23.280 Thus, religion dominated the partnership of church and state. 50:23.840 --> 50:29.260 That such will be the case in the New World Order of Antichrist, at least for a 50:29.260 --> 50:34.460 time, is clearly depicted by the fact that the woman rides the beast. 50:34.980 --> 50:41.680 A global union of church and state, just like the one that existed before the 50:41.680 --> 50:43.120 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of Nicholas Arthur's new book titled, When the Third Temple is 54:24.550 --> 54:24.890 Built. 54:25.250 --> 54:26.870 That's crosstheborder.org. 54:27.290 --> 54:30.930 When it comes to prophecy today, much of the evangelical Christian world 54:30.930 --> 54:35.530 has their eyes on Israel, waiting and watching to see when the Third Temple will 54:35.530 --> 54:36.310 begin to be built. 54:36.310 --> 54:41.830 The plans are drawn, the Jewish people are eager, most evangelical Christians today 54:41.830 --> 54:44.850 believe that the rapture will happen before the Third Temple is built. 54:45.110 --> 54:46.830 Hi, I'm Michael Eugene. 54:47.350 --> 54:50.010 I was taught that Daniel's 70th week was in the future. 54:50.630 --> 54:52.270 Is that really what the Bible teaches? 54:52.930 --> 54:55.870 Have we searched the Scriptures and found this to be true? 54:56.510 --> 55:00.210 Why is it so important for a re-established Israel to build a Third 55:00.210 --> 55:01.050 Temple in Jerusalem? 55:01.050 --> 55:06.290 Is it necessary to build a temple on the same location already occupied by the Dome 55:06.290 --> 55:06.770 of the Rock? 55:07.330 --> 55:11.330 Is it necessary for sacrifices to take place in the Temple on Temple Mount? 55:11.930 --> 55:15.130 Is there really a rapture followed by seven years of tribulation? 55:15.970 --> 55:17.390 What is the New Testament Temple? 55:18.210 --> 55:20.370 Can we identify history and prophecy? 55:21.410 --> 55:24.150 Who is the first beast in Revelation chapter 13? 55:24.850 --> 55:27.370 Who are the seven kings in Revelation 17? 55:27.370 --> 55:31.730 I have asked all these questions and I have found Nicholas Arthur's new book, 55:32.330 --> 55:36.570 When the Third Temple is Built, answers all these questions and more using 55:36.570 --> 55:38.170 Scripture to interpret Scripture. 55:38.810 --> 55:42.290 The Bible says that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private 55:42.290 --> 55:43.010 interpretation. 55:43.830 --> 55:46.730 Nicholas shows us in his new book, When the Third Temple is Built, 55:46.930 --> 55:51.350 how the Bible interprets prophecy and not man's private interpretation. 55:52.350 --> 56:01.490 Visit crosstheborder.org to get your print, e-pub, or PDF version of Nicholas 56:01.490 --> 56:04.730 Arthur's new book titled, When the Third Temple is Built. 56:05.070 --> 56:06.790 That's crosstheborder.org.