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Hello and welcome to Zee3 News.

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I'm James Bailey and today is Tuesday,
May 26, 2020.

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And today I want to continue the
discussion that we've had over the past

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two weeks on these programs regarding
Rome.

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And what I'm trying to do is lay the
groundwork from the Scriptures and from

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historical facts showing that Rome
continues to operate today as the dominant

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kingdom in the earth and they will
continue to do so until the Lord Jesus

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Christ returns to destroy them.

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And I know that sounds like a very odd
statement and the reason it does is

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because history has been rewritten so that
we don't know the truth about what's

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happening in our world today.

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But if we're willing to dig into the
historical facts and dig into the

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Scriptures to understand what the
Scriptures say about our times,

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we can know the truth.

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And now, for the longest time,
I did not know any of these things and I

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was like everyone else that when I began
to hear about these things it sounded very

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strange.

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And it's because I, like all the rest of
us, have been lied to in school and in our

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movies and documentaries.

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Any kind of history perspectives that
we've been given have been filled with so

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many lies and so much of the truth has
been removed that we just don't know much

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of anything.

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And so when we hear the truth,
it just sounds very bizarre.

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But I went through this process where God
began to show me the danger that we are

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currently facing.

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And this is a danger that I was completely
unaware of because there are no voices.

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There are no warnings.

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There's hardly anyone that is aware of
these things.

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And so even people like myself who have
been dedicated Christians and faithful

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church attenders, I wasn't hearing any of
these things.

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And it's because it's been, the enemy has
been so successful in blinding us.

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And so we, because we don't know our
history, we don't know the danger that

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we're facing today.

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But God began to help me.

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Back in 2014, I had a dream which was a
very vivid dream in which I went into the

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future and I was attending an outdoor
dinner party in which everyone was dressed

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very formal.

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We were all wearing, the men were wearing
black tuxedos.

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And we were just, it was at a resort area
right on the coast.

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It was a beautiful setting.

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And I was part of this big corporation.

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It was a corporate event.

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And I was one of them in the dream.

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And so they began to share with me their
plans and I began to see the evil and

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ruthlessness of these people.

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And I began to be aware that as I was
talking to them, I was able to sense that

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these people were murderers.

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And that I could literally sense that they
had blood on their hands and on their arms

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for all the murders they'd committed.

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And I spoke to the woman who was the
leader over the whole corporation.

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And I understood that she reported to
Barack Obama.

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And this was back in 2014.

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But she began to tell me their plans to
implement the final phase of their plan,

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which called for the mass murder of the
American people.

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And I'm not going to go into all the
details, but I can just tell you that I

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came away from that dream thinking,
what in the world is this?

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Why would there be such a plan?

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And who would want to do this?

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Who would want to kill the American
people?

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I mean, I know there's always foreign
enemies and whatever, but this was an

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inside job.

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This was our own government.

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These people were all under Obama and they
were referring to him as the president,

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but yet this woman was running the affairs
of the country.

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And I was not shown what her position was,
but yet I knew she was in charge and I

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knew she was ruthless and extremely evil.

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And so I came out of that dream just
thinking, good grief, what is that all

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about?

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And literally have spent years just kind
of wondering.

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But in the more recent years, it has
become clear to me because I've started

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connecting the dots from history.

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And when I do that, the picture becomes
incredibly clear because what I'm seeing

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is the plans for the future are the same
plans.

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It's just a repeat of what's been
happening throughout history for literally

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a couple thousand years.

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And in fact, it's the same people
ultimately behind it.

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It's Rome that's behind it.

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And they're just doing what they've always
done.

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They have been through the Crusades and
through the Inquisitions.

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They have been mass murdering people for
hundreds and hundreds of years.

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And it actually goes back farther than
that.

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I mean, Rome has been persecuting Jews
first, but then Jews and Christians all

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the way back to the beginning of the
empire.

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I mean, I've got a spreadsheet where I
keep these things, these events from

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different sources, and it's incredible to
see how consistent it has been over the

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centuries.

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And they've never stopped.

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They've never repented.

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They've been very outspoken about their
intentions, saying from the Council of

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Trent in 1545, a curse be all heretics.

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That's their position, and they've never
repented from it.

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And that's what they've done prior to
that, and that's what they've done

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afterwards, and that's what they are still
planning to do.

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And the reason why I had that dream,
the reason why they have those plans for

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the American people, is because America
has been a stronghold of Christianity.

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And so by destroying all the American
people, they would, in effect,

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kill all the Christians at the same time.

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I mean, they understand that not everyone
in America is a Christian, but they don't

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care, and that's the way they've always
operated.

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They'll just say, kill them all,
and that way we know we covered it.

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And so I've spent some time the last few
weeks, I've really dug into the historical

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facts, and very happy to say I've been
able to conclusively connect the dots so

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that I know without a doubt what is
happening and how we got to where we are,

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and specifically what I've found shows
exactly what Daniel saw, what actually

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King Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream that
Daniel interpreted for him, in which he

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saw the future kingdoms upon the earth all
the way until the return of the Lord.

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And that final kingdom, which was the
fourth kingdom, he saw as legs of iron,

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and then the feet was a mixture of iron
and clay.

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And it's been really interesting because
as I've studied the history of Rome,

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I have found that, in fact, it is exactly
as the Scriptures say, that there was this

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extended period of time in which they
operated openly as Rome under the Roman

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banner, the Roman name, and that is the
picture of those legs of iron.

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But when you get to the lower part,
and you get to the feet, there is a shift.

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And, in fact, that's what history shows.

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There was a shift, and it was about 200
years ago.

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It was in the year 1814, 1815,
right in there.

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Everything shifted.

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Major, major shift in history.

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And, of course, we've never heard anything
about that.

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It's been hidden from us.

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And, in fact, that is a big part of what
the feet are all about.

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Because in the feet, the iron is still
there all the way through to the toes,

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but it's mixed in with the clay.

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So it doesn't look the same as it did
before.

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It now has infiltrated areas of clay that
hide the fact that it's iron.

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It's the same iron that was in the legs.

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It's the same Roman kingdom that's always
been operating.

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But now they are operating in a subversive
way, in a way that they have infiltrated

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among us quietly and secretly.

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But yet they are just as strong,
in fact, they are stronger than they've

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ever been, and more dangerous than they've
ever been.

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And yet, at the same time, they are less
known.

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There's less awareness of their existence.

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And so I'm going to be sharing my findings
with you so you can see the details of

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what I'm talking about, the shift that
took place and how that all happened and

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how the world was transformed into what we
have today.

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But today I want to illustrate that change
and show you how dramatic it was by

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sharing with you the many Christian
leaders who were speaking out against Rome

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for a period of about 300 years.

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And it was a unanimous voice.

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We stood up as one voice against Rome and
standing in behalf of the Scriptures and

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our faith in God, and we fought back.

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And it was a great thing to see,
and that's I'm talking about the

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Protestant Reformation from 1517.

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So you have this close to 300 years from
1517 to 1815.

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But it is a striking contrast when you see
how the Christians spoke in those days.

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And then you compare that to how the
Christian leaders speak today and how

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there is literally no voice.

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We went from having a unanimous consensus,
a boldness, a defiance to say to this

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satanic stronghold that you will not push
us back.

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We will push you back because we know who
we are in Jesus Christ.

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And so that's what happened.

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During that time, Rome was pushed back
because the Christians were bold,

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and we were informed, and we were in
agreement, we were unified, and we all

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spoke together as one, and we did not hold
back.

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We were not trying to be politically
correct.

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We were just speaking the truth and
standing for the Scriptures.

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And that is the formula for victory.

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And that is the same formula for victory
today.

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We can have that kind of victory today.

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But it starts with knowing the truth and
then being bold enough to speak the truth.

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And it is just such a contrast because
today there is no voice.

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There are no Christian leaders that I am
aware of.

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I mean, very, very few.

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There are a few small things you might
find on YouTube, but I am talking about

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the main established Christian leaders.

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There is nobody talking about this stuff
that I am aware of.

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And so today I want to share with you how
our leaders were bold in those days,

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and how they pushed back the darkness in
those days, and how they provided for us

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an example that we need to follow.

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And so I am going to share with you some
examples of what I am talking about and

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actually start with a couple that were
prior to Martin Luther because there were

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strong Christian communities prior to
Martin Luther.

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It is just that Rome crushed them for the
most part wherever they were found,

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wherever they arose.

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They were considered heretics,
and Rome attacked and mass murdered many

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thousands of Christians wherever the Word
of God took root and began to grow.

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They became a target for Rome.

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And I shared some of that in my previous
program if you want to go back and listen,

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but I am referring to the Crusades,
which we were always taught was between

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Christians and Muslims, and it was not.

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It was between the Pope, the Roman
Catholic Church, and anyone who stood in

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their way and did not submit to Rome.

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So they waged war relentlessly.

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They did wage war against Muslims,
but they also attacked anyone else that

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was not under their authority,
that was not submitted to them,

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including the nation of Prussia.

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They just relentlessly attacked Prussia
unprovoked and over a period of 65 years.

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They finally wore down the Prussian people
who, that was a pagan nation, but they

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were broken after 65 years, and they were
forced to submit to Roman rule and accept

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Roman Catholicism.

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And so you see this pattern of how Rome
operated, and it's so clearly not

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Christian.

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Christians don't spread the gospel with a
sword threatening to cut someone's head

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off, or actually cutting their head off,
unless they submit and come under

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submission to Rome.

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But that's how the Roman kingdom has
operated from the beginning.

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And so Rome operated along these lines for
well over a century.

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A thousand years where they were pretty
much undisputed.

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They were the only game in town when it
came to religion.

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And they created this climate of fear that
if you would even say a word against the

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Catholic Church, and someone would
overhear you, you could be tried for

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heresy.

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And so it was in that context that these
men of God rose up to fight against the

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Roman Catholic Church.

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And they were able to take a bold stand,
putting their life on the line to stand

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firm and speak out for the Scriptures,
for the Word of God.

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And it was very hard for most people to
know the Scriptures in those days,

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because this was long before the printing
press even existed.

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They didn't have their own Bibles,
and whatever Scriptures there were,

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were primarily written in Latin,
which was not the language of the masses.

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So you had this great ignorance among the
people that they did not know the

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Scriptures.

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So they relied on the Church, and
unfortunately the Church betrayed them.

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But in England, there was a scholar named
John Wycliffe who studied the Scriptures,

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and he believed them, and he began to
declare what the Scriptures say,

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and show how they contradicted what the
Roman Catholic Church was teaching.

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And at one point, John Wycliffe went to
Rome, and he was shocked at what he saw,

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and he wrote over the door of one of the
cardinals, Antichrist is now come,

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and sitteth in the church.

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And then he departed.

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So that's the kind of boldness this man
had, to confront this empire that had a

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reputation for killing any dissenters.

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But the people listened to him,
and some of them believed him,

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and were curious because here's a man
who's quoting Scriptures to make his

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point.

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And so it sounded strange to them that why
would the Church be so contrary to the

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Scriptures, but yet how could you dispute
when this man had the knowledge of the

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Scriptures and was revealing it to them?

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And he had an impact on many people.

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In fact, there were two men, two English
scholars, who listened and studied what he

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was saying, and they became so persuaded
that they decided to take this message to

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other parts of Europe.

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And they traveled all the way to the
kingdom of Bohemia, which is the modern

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day Czech Republic.

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They went to the city of Prague.

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And since they didn't have books to
distribute, they decided to present the

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Gospel in a very creative way.

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And they did it by painting pictures on
the walls of this house.

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And I'm going to read what they did.

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It says, On the one wall they portrayed
the humble entrance of Christ into

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Jerusalem, meek and riding upon a donkey.

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On the other wall they displayed the more
than royal magnificence of a pontifical

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cavalcade.

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There was seen the Pope, adorned with his
triple crown, attired in robes bespangled

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with gold, and all lustrous with precious
stones.

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He rode proudly on a rich horse with
trumpeters proclaiming his approach,

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and a brilliant crowd of cardinals and
bishops following in his rear.

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And I was reading that from a book called
The History of Protestantism by James

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Wiley.

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But their graphic portrayal of the
contrast between the Lord Jesus and the

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Pope really highlighted their message and
made it loud and clear.

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And so one of the men there who was a
pastor of a church in Bohemia was a man

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named John Huss.

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And John Huss was very much impacted by
this and decided to pursue it by studying

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these things out for himself.

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And it was a big stretch for him because
all he had ever known, and all any of them

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had ever known at that time, was the
teachings of the Catholic Church.

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Now that event happened in the year 1404,
and that was twenty years after the death

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of John Wycliffe.

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But yet the bold stand that John Wycliffe
had taken made such an impact on these

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people that it was continuing to spread
throughout other parts of Europe.

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And John Huss took these things and began
to understand the scriptures more than he

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had ever understood before.

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And so then he began to see what Wycliffe
was talking about, and he began to

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understand that the scriptures
contradicted the teachings of the Roman

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Catholic Church.

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And since he was the pastor of a church
there in Prague, he began to be very

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outspoken in his views and sharing with
the people this contradiction.

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And in this one quote that I have,
he says, "...if the Pope uses his power

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according to God's commands, he cannot be
resisted without resisting God himself.

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But if he abuses his power by enjoining
what is contrary to the divine law,

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then it is a duty to resist him,
as should be done to the pale horse of the

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Apocalypse, to the dragon, to the beast,
and to the Leviathan." That sounds like a

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pretty straightforward statement,
right?

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Anybody interested in obeying God would
only obey the teachings of a man to the

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extent that that man was submitted to God.

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But to the Roman Catholic Church,
it was statements like this that were

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considered heresy.

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You might think they would say,
oh, thank you, Brother John, for pointing

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out that scripture.

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We weren't seeing that, but now we
understand it more accurately and we can

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make the necessary changes.

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No, it's not like that at all.

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They don't care what the scriptures say.

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All they care is that you're defying their
authority by pointing out these things and

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they want to silence him.

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And so John Hus had to make a decision
whether to stand with the scriptures or to

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betray the scriptures to submit himself to
the authority of Rome.

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And what I like about John Hus is as I
read about him, I can see that there were

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many things he didn't understand.

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I mean, he'd been raised in this Catholic
institution his whole life, and there were

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still many things he was trying to sort
out.

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He didn't have all revelation.

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He just had a little bit.

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But what really made an impact on me is
that this man was willing to stand on what

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he did have.

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And so when he was confronted and arrested
and brought before this Council of

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Constance in the year 1415, they hoped and
they gave him every opportunity to recant

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his statements and to admit his errors,
but he refused.

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And he said, if you can show me from the
scriptures where I am in error,

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then I will be glad to recant.

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But otherwise, I'm standing on what I've
said.

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And he understood that this could cost him
his life, but yet he was not a coward.

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He was willing to lay down his life for
what he believed in, and I really admire

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him for that.

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And so he took his stand and they
condemned him to death.

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They condemned him to be burned at the
stake.

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And that's what this illustration here is
showing, is John Huss being tied up as

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they're preparing to burn him at the
stake.

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And at that time, he made an amazing
statement.

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He says, it is thus that you silence the
goose, but a hundred years hence there

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will arise a swan whose singing you shall
not be able to silence.

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And so he prophesied that a hundred years
later would come one that would stand

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against Rome.

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And his prophecy was fulfilled by Martin
Luther, starting in the year 1517,

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when he posted his 95 Theses on the door
of the church in Wittenberg, Germany.

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And so John Huss was burned at the stake
in 1415, so he became a martyr.

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But again, we see the same pattern as what
happened with John Wycliffe, that after

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his death, the impact of his life
continued on as it was spread to other

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people.

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His whole nation took note of the bold
stand that he made, and his willingness to

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lay down his life for what he believed.

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And it just ignited something in them that
they also wanted to have what he had.

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They wanted to know the Scriptures like he
knew them.

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And so his life was sown like a seed that
just multiplied in Bohemia and produced

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many strong, committed Christians.

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And as the people of Bohemia grew strong
in their faith, they also grew strong in

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their resistance of the Roman Catholic
Church.

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They were not willing to submit to that
kind of corruption, that kind of evil any

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longer.

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And so they stood firm, and just like John
Huss, they said no to Rome.

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And as a result, the Pope called on
leaders of other nations to send armies to

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go and conquer the Bohemians by force.

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And it's such a great story, because the
people of Bohemia were far outnumbered.

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But yet, time and time again, these
nations would attack, and the Bohemians

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would win the victory.

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And they were just defying all the odds.

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And it was because God was giving wisdom
to their leaders, so they understood how

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to arrange their smaller numbers of
soldiers so that their soldiers were

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protected while the enemy soldiers were
exposed.

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And they arranged these lines of wagons
that they chained together as a barrier.

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And as the enemy troops would try to get
through that barrier, they were

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vulnerable, and the Bohemian soldiers
would chop them apart and stab them with

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spears.

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And so time after time, the Bohemians,
the much smaller Bohemian army,

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defeated these other armies.

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And it was great.

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It was just an amazing thing.

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This went on for some 15 years of battle
after battle.

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And this is what Rome has done repeatedly.

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They are relentless, that even if they
don't get the victory the first time,

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they're not done.

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They're coming back, and you can count on
it.

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And that's what happened, is eventually
the Bohemian people got worn down,

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and they just didn't want to fight any
longer.

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They wanted an end to all the fighting.

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And so they tried to make compromises with
Rome, and that was their big mistake.

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Because as long as they stood firm in
their faith, they had the victory.

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But when they made compromises,
they were defeated in battle, and they

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eventually were forced back into
submission to Rome.

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But it's an amazing story, but yet it's a
story that most of us have never heard

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before.

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I had not heard it until I started
studying these things for myself,

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because it was removed from our history
books.

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There was a time back in the 1800s,
this story was in our school history

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books.

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But you won't find it there today,
and that's the reason why most of us have

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never heard this.

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I mean, John Huss should be a hero for
every Christian child growing up,

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that we can see all the great character
traits of a hero in this man, and the

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impact of his life, and the success that
his people had in standing against Rome.

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It's just a fantastic story.

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And just as John Huss had prophesied on
the day that he was burned at the stake,

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there did arise that swan, Martin Luther,
in the year 1517.

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And this quote shows the boldness and the
directness with which he confronted Rome.

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He says, we here are of the conviction
that the papacy is the seat of the true

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and real Antichrist.

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Personally, I declare that I owe the Pope
no other obedience than that to

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Antichrist.

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Now, by making that statement,
he got a response from the Pope.

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Pope Leo X issued a decree, which the
Popes call Bulls.

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So, he issued a Bull, telling Martin
Luther he was condemned to eternal

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damnation.

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But I love the way Martin Luther reacted,
because he took that Bull, he went outside

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and gathered some people, and he made a
fire, and he threw that Bull into the

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fire, and he made this statement.

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He says, whoever wrote this Bull,
he is Antichrist.

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I protest before God, our Lord Jesus,
His sacred angels, and the whole world,

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that with my whole heart I dissent from
the damnation of this Bull, that I curse

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and execrate it as sacrilege and blasphemy
of Christ, God's Son and our Lord.

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So then you impious and insensate papists,
write soberly if you want to write,

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whether this Bull is by Eck or by the
Pope, and Eck was some other Catholic

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leader.

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It is the sum of all impiety, blasphemy,
ignorance, impudence, hypocrisy,

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lying.

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In a word, it is Satan and his Antichrist.

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If this Bull has come out in your name,
then I will use the power which has been

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given me in baptism whereby I became a son
of God and co-heir with Christ,

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established upon the rock against which
the gates of hell cannot prevail.

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I call upon you to renounce your
diabolical blasphemy and audacious

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impiety, and if you will not, we shall all
hold your seat as possessed and oppressed

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by Satan, the damned seat of Antichrist.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, whom you
persecute.

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Now, living in Germany in the year 1517,
Martin Luther would have known as well as

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anyone that Rome would not tolerate any
kind of dissent and that they had long

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been murdering anyone who would take a
stand as he was taking.

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So he understood what the price was,
but yet he disregarded his own life.

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He was willing to take that risk to take a
stand for what he believed.

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And the impact of his stand was so
enormous, it affected so many other people

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because by this time, the printing press
had been invented and they were able to

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distribute literature reporting on his
statements that spread like wildfire

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throughout Europe.

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And so Luther ignited the Reformation
throughout all of Europe as men began to

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study what he was teaching.

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And similar to what had happened with John
Hus, they were curious, they began to

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study it out for themselves, and they saw
it in the Scriptures just like he did,

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and they also began to take bold stands
just like Luther.

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And so all over Europe you had men rising
up like John Calvin making this statement.

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He says, I deny that see, referring to the
Roman Catholic Pope, to be apostolical,

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wherein not is seen but a shocking
apostasy.

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I deny him to be the vicar of Christ,
who in furiously persecuting the gospel

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demonstrates by his conduct that he is
antichrist.

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And this kind of bold language became the
norm for Protestants.

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This is the way Protestants spoke back in
those days.

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They did not hold back.

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And another example is in 1646 in England.

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The Church of England asked some of their
leaders to meet together and write down a

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statement of what they believed that would
be used in their church meetings as a

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confession of faith.

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And as part of that statement,
here's what they wrote.

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There is no other head of the church but
the Lord Jesus Christ, nor can the Pope of

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Rome in any sense be head thereof.

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But is that antichrist, that man of sin
and son of perdition, that exalteth

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himself in the church against Christ and
all that is called God?

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Now, I find that to be quite an amazing
statement because it's so bold and so

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direct, and they are just flat out calling
the Pope as having that same spirit as the

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antichrist.

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Now, this is not some radical fringe
group.

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This is the statement of faith of the
Church of England in 1646, and it just

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shows how this was the consensus of
Protestants.

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This is how Protestants spoke back in
those days, and their words were having a

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tremendous impact.

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They were advancing Protestantism all
throughout the world and pushing back the

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influence of Roman Catholicism all
throughout the world.

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And just like the boldness of John
Wycliffe made a big impact on John Hus,

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and the boldness of John Hus made a big
impact on the people of Bohemia,

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these kinds of bold proclamations of faith
with people standing together in agreement

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and proclaiming the Word of God,
it was making a powerful difference in the

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lives of many people, and it was pushing
back the kingdom of darkness, specifically

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the kingdom of Rome.

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And just yesterday, I saw that when I was
reading a book written by Jonathan

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Edwards, who was an American revivalist
preacher and president of Princeton

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University, and I could tell from what he
was writing that he was viewing,

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from his perspective, his view of the
Roman Catholic Church was that it was in

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decline.

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And this was in about the mid-18th
century.

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And that just shows how much the impact of
the Reformers and their bold stand that

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they took, how much impact it had,
because it had just been a couple hundred

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years before that, that Rome was the
undisputed monopoly, the only game in

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town.

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But from his perspective, he considered
that Rome's influence was waning and that

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they were on the way out.

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I wish that was true, and we now know in
hindsight that it wasn't true.

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But as of the mid-18th century,
that's the way it looked to him.

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And he joined in, like everyone else in
those days, in just declaring that the

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Pope is of the devil, is of the
Antichrist.

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But he was underestimating Rome's
relentless pursuit of their goals.

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And at that very time that he was writing
these things, I'm sure he was unaware,

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but Rome was busy scheming to put
themselves back on top as those legs of

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iron were transitioning into this new
approach in forming the feet of clay and

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iron.

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And in my next program, I'm going to share
the story of how Rome responded to these

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Protestant Reformers and ultimately rise
to far greater power than they ever had

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before.

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And it's truly an amazing story.

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I don't think I'll be able to tell it all
in one program, but I think it's a huge

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story that everybody should know because
once we have all those dots connected,

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then it leaves no more wiggle room,
no more doubt about it, so we can begin to

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know with confidence that Rome is very
much alive and well today and advancing

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their agenda with almost no resistance
whatsoever.

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Because as they were advancing their
schemes, they were also employing

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deceptive tactics that has led to where we
are today to where no one even knows where

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they are or who they are or what they're
up to.

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And nobody is speaking openly about it.

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It's completely turned 180 degrees from
what it was during those 300 years of the

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Reformation.

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In fact, today we even have Christian
leaders pledging their allegiance to the

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Pope and Christian leaders openly
declaring that there is no longer any

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protest and therefore there should no
longer be any such thing as Protestants,

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but we should all be together,
joined together as one with the Roman

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Catholic Church.

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I mean, we have come full circle from
where we were when Martin Luther took his

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stand.

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And so, it seems like a near impossible
challenge to spread this message,

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but I'm trying my hardest to get the facts
out and hopefully others can pick up where

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I've left off and spread the word so that
we begin to wake up.

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So, thanks for joining me today and I hope
to be back again soon with another

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program.

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Until then, so long.