Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

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Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?
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Honoring Gods Word
It is impossible mentally or socially to enslave
a Bible-reading people. The principles of the
Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Horace Greeley
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Rejecting Gods Word
With the Bible repudiated or unknown, what
protection has the modern world against idiotic
superstitions, mass hysteria, and civil and
religious tyranny? . . .
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Rejecting Gods Word
. . . The French Revolution, which our world is
repeating seriatim, shows that there is no
protection under such circumstances. Time of the
EndGeorge McCready Price (1967)
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Revelation Chapter 13
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Revelation 13
Revelation 13 brings sharper focus to the two
competing powers which are the chief actors in
the final events of this worlds history.
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This particular prophecy in Revelation 13 flows
seamlessly from the prophecies of Daniel 2, 7 and
8. If we grasp this concept, then we will not
have any problem with the rest of the prophecy.
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Revelation Chapter 13
parallel prophecy
Daniel Chapter 7
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Babylon
Medo-Persia
605-538B.C.
538-331B.C.
Four Beasts of Daniel chapter 7
Greece
331-168B.C.
Pagan Rome
168 B.C. to A.D. 538
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Pagan Rome with 10 horns
Non-descript beast from the sea
Papal Rome came up among the 10 horns
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Daniel Chapter 7
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came
up among them another little horn, before whom
there were three of the first horns plucked up by
the roots . . .
little horn
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Daniel Chapter 7
. . . and, behold, in this horn were eyes like
the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
things.
Daniel 71 8
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Daniel Chapter 7
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Daniel Chapter 7
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had
their dominion taken away yet their lives were
prolonged for a season and time.
Daniel 712
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Dominion Lost but Prolonged
Everyone familiar with the prophecies of Daniel
and Revelation knows that, in any extended series
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. . .the next one following is always pictured
as the cause of the downfall of its predecessor.
George McCready PriceThe Time of the End (1967)
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Composite beast
How do we prove that imperial Rome (pagan Rome)
was followed by papal Rome?
Is there a logical connection between the two
powers?
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Whats Next in the Series?

• What follows next in the series weve studied
  in Daniel chapters 2 and 7?
• What is the world power that followed imperial
  Rome?
• Can we identify it through any defining
  characteristics?

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Whats Next in the Series?

• Identifying characteristics
• Comes up among the ten horns in western Europe
• Comes up AFTER the ten horns rose to power
• Would uproot three horns as it came into power

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Whats Next in the Series?

• Identifying characteristics
• Has eyes like a man and a mouth speaking great
  things
• Would be different from previous world powers
• Would speak against God

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Whats Next in the Series?

• Identifying characteristics
• Would be a power that persecuted Gods remnant
• Would have a specific time frame for its power
  over men
• Would think to change Gods law and times

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Whats Next in the Series?
Would have a specific time frame for its control
of mens consciences
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Whats Next in the Series?
Would think to change Gods law and times
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Changing Gods Law
Q. What is the third commandment? A. The third
commandment is Remember thou keep holy the
Sabbath day.
A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (1885)
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Changing Gods Law
I firmly assert that the images of Christ, of
the mother of God, ever Virgin, and also of other
saints, ought to be had and retained, and that
due honor and veneration are to be given them
Documents of the Council of Trent (1545-1563)
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Changing Gods Law
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six
days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work but
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy
God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor
thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor
thy maidservant. . .
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Changing Gods Law
. . . nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates for in six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day wherefore the
LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed
it. Exodus 208-11
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Changing Gods Law
. . . nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates for in six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day wherefore the
LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed
it. Exodus 208-11
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He hath made the earth by His power, He hath
established the world by His wisdom, and hath
stretched out the heavens by His discretion.
Jeremiah 1012
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Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy
great power and stretched out arm, and there is
nothing too hard for Thee. Jeremiah 3217
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Changing Gods Law
Ques. Which is the Sabbath day? Ans. Saturday
is the Sabbath day.
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Changing Gods Law
Q. Are the Sabbath day and the Sunday the
same? A. The Sabbath day and the Sunday are not
the same. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the
week. . .
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Changing Gods Law
. . . and is the day which was kept holy in the
old law the Sunday is the first day of the week,
and is the day which is kept holy in the new law.
A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (1885)
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Changing Gods Law
Ques.Why do we observe Sunday instead of
Saturday? Ans. We observe Sunday instead of
Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the
Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336), transferred the
solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
Peter GeiermanThe Converts Catechism of
Catholic Doctrine (1910)
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Changing Gods Law
Ques.Have you any other way of proving that the
Church has power to institute festivals of
precept? Ans.Had she not such power, she could
not have done that in which all modern
religionists agree with her,she could not have
substituted . . .
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Changing Gods Law
. . . the observance of Sunday, the first day of
the week, for the observance of Saturday, the
seventh day of the week, a change for which there
is no Scriptural authority.
Stephen KeenanA Doctrinal Catechism (1851)
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Changing Gods Law
It is well to remind the Presbyterians,
Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians,
that the Bible does not support them anywhere in
their observance of Sunday . . .
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Changing Gods Law
. . .Sunday is an institution of the Roman
Catholic Church, and those who observe the day
observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.
Priest Brady quoted in News, a newspaper from
Elizabeth, New Jersey March 18, 1903
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Changing Gods Law
Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of
one or the other of the alternatives either
Protestantism and the keeping of the holy
Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of
Sunday. Compromise is impossible.
Cardinal GibbonsThe Catholic Mirror December
23, 1893
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Changing Gods Law
Of course the Catholic Church claims that the
change was her act . . . and the act is a mark of
her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.
H.F. Thomas Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons
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Rejecting Gods Word
Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he
that doeth the will of My Father which is in
heaven. . . .
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Rejecting Gods Word
. . . Many will say to Me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in
Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name
done many wonderful works? . . .
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Rejecting Gods Word
. . .And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 721 23
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Whats Next in the Series?
We must not make the mistake of falsely
identifying the little horn power, because it
will prove to be the great antichrist power of
history.
The Beast, the Dragon and the Woman, p. 13
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