Satan’s Mark & God’s Seal | Last Day of Prophecy #6 - Pastor Doug Batchelor

this morning as we meet together we're gonna be talking about in our subject Satan's Mark God's seal and in this presentation we'll be talking about mark of the beast the seal of God the Antichrist 666 all in one presentation so pray amen but very important subjects I don't know if some of you caught this on the news the other day but amazon has patents some software now where they're using facial recognition technology so that when you go to pay for something in public you don't have to worry about someone looking over your shoulder as you type in your password on your phone you can simply snap a selfie and because there they have very sophisticated software right now that takes the the dips and the valleys and the peaks about 80 different nodule points or nodal points on your face and it registers and it's almost like a fingerprint everybody is a little different you notice how quickly babies can recognize who is the mom and who is not and they've developed some software so now when you pay for something you just you can make a selfie you can even change your face and it'll say up that's them paid and so you gotta be careful nobody steals your face or you could have problems but there are a number of identifying characteristics that are given in the Bible they help us know what are the beasts powers spoken of in Revelation and how that relates to the mark of the beast obviously you need to know what the Beast is to understand what the mark of the beast is and likewise the seal of God so we're gonna get right into our lesson with our first question what does a beast represent in Bible prophecy if you go to Daniel chapter 7 verse 17 it says and these great beasts are four kings which arise up out of the earth now Kings mean kingdoms and this comes from Daniel chapter 7 where it talks about these beasts one like a lion and one like a leopard and one like a bear not that order it's actually lying there leopard and then it's nondescript beast keep that in your mind the Antichrist power that is that final beast that is mentioned but you're not you know when we talk about the mark of the beast we're not talking about some monster it was customary back then as it is today to have different animals that represented kingdoms when I think of the eagle I want to say that what country do you think of the US and if I say the bear Russia the lion Great Britain likes several countries actually claim the lion when I say dragon China Satan thought the same thing I heard someone say say no no we're talking about governments right now yeah we think of the dragon and so they had that back then and so when we talk about the Beast we're talking about this political religious power in the last days next question how did the Beast of Revelation 12 13 and 17 compare our first we're going to start with Revelation 13 because this is the one that has the mark of the beast you read there and verses 1 and 2 I stood upon the sand of the sea and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea and it said it had seven heads and ten horns notice that seven heads ten horns and upon his heads the names of blasphemy now the Beast that I saw was like a leopard his feet were like the feet of a bear and it says his mouth was like the mouth of a lion didn't we just see those beasts in Daniel chapter 7 because the lion represented Babylon the bear represented medo-persia a leopard represented Greece and then came Rome just keep that in mind now when you go to Revelation 12 there is a dragon and says this dragon tries to devour this man child this baby as soon as he's born it's the it's Jesus it was the Roman power that was responsible for executing him for trying to kill the babies in Bethlehem so most scholars believe that the dragon here was working through the Empire of Rome but it's a dragon with notice great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns now when you you know travel around the u.s. every now and then you'll see a deer crossing that deer usually has one head on those signs we were in South Africa it's kind of interesting they had like giraffe crossings and then we were in Australia they had kangaroo crossings but what would you think of your driving and it says beast crossing there's this creature with seven heads and ten horns and you don't see those every day do you and so right away you know this is the same beast right and then you look in Revelation chapter 17 I saw a woman now what does a woman represent in Bible analogies it's a church we've discovered that says husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church but sometimes God's church was unfaithful in the Bible and the Old Testament God said Israel has gone whoring after other gods I was your husband and look you've been unfaithful to me so here you have a woman a church that has been unfaithful because it calls her Babylon the mother of harlots but she's riding on a beast that was Rome in Chapter 12 seven heads ten horns okay and so there you have it again revelation 17:3 what power have Protestants historically associated with the Beast of Revelation 13 and 17 all right everyone take a deep breath you might turn to the person on your right and your left and say are you getting this I want to just make sure everybody's turned in okay now friends don't miss this part I'm just telling you the next two presentations I'm not holding back any punches as they say we are going to talk about Protestants in North American around the world we're going to talk about America country I love I'm an American I'm a Protestant we're gonna talk about Catholicism and the papacy a lot of lovely Catholics I went to two different Catholic schools growing up we're not talking about people we're talking about powers and systems that are mentioned in prophecy is that clear now I'm just gonna give you history so hopefully everyone knows we're in this together I promise I'll talk about everybody for we're not sort of pure up so just bear with me want to do this in the right spirit what power did the great Protestant reformers identify with the beasts of Revelation chapter 13 and 17 let me quote Martin Luther we are of the conviction that the papacy the Catholic Church is the seat of the true in the real Antichrist I don't think that comes to anybody as a shock how about John Calvin I deny him to be the Vicar of Christ who is furious furiously persecuting the gospel demonstrates by his conduct that he is Antichrist and it goes on to say I deny him to be the head of the church some persons think us too severe and censure us when we call the roman pontiff Antichrist now the reason they call him Antichrist is because there are anti biblical teachings doesn't mean that the church is a monster or that the Pope is the devil incarnate it's not what it's saying you understand people have these misconceptions let's talk about the system of beliefs matter of fact do you know who the first person was one of the first people to call the office of the Pope Antichrist the Pope Pope Gregory the Great said when you begin to worship this office as though it's divine that is that makes it Antichrist and so they all understood this John Wesley if you're Methodist he is it that exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped claiming the highest power and the highest honor claiming the prerogatives which belong to God alone and we'll give you some examples of that how about John Knox as with Luther he finally concluded that the papacy was the very Antichrist and the son of perdition of who Paul speaks there in second Thessalonians Roger Williams one of the founders of early freedom in our country and he was a Baptist pastor he spoke of the Pope as the pretended Vicar of Christ on earth who sits as God over the temple of God exalting himself not only above all that is called God but over all the souls and the consciences of his vassals yay over the Spirit of Christ and over the Holy Spirit yay and over God himself Cotton Mather this was a brilliant early America preacher he had the whole New Testament memorized the Oracles of God foretold the rising of an antichrist in the Christian Church and in the Pope of Rome all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously answered that if anyone who reads the scriptures and does not see it there is a marvelous blindness upon them we're gonna give you some of those things they were talking about you've heard of Spurgeon he was called the Prince of preachers great preacher he said behold on her forehead the name Mystery Babylon the Great the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth the Church of Rome and her teachings are the vast mountain of rubbish covering the truth of God and so why did they say those things because the Bible for instance teaches baptism by immersion they teach will sprinkling Bible says do not pray to idols they pray to idols Jesus had called no man father you have one father in heaven they call their religious leaders father Bible says do not pray in vain repetition God is not deaf they say you want forgiveness confess your sins to the priest you're supposed to confess them to God and say Hail Mary or our Father multiple times in repetition and you could go through a whole litany of things that the great Protestant reformers protested against because they felt it was unbiblical Wickliffe Tyndale kramer these are the great reformers john bunyan wrote pilgrims progress the translators of the King James Bible and the men who published the West Minister and Baptist confessions of faith Sir Isaac Newton George Whitfield Jonathan Edwards Charles Spurgeon these men among countless others all saw the office of the see as Antichrist that's what virtually all Christians Protestants in America used to believe but it became politically incorrect to say it anymore you don't hear it much anymore am i right and you know I can understand there's a lot of pressure these days because if you tell the truth in some areas you'll be accused of hate speech now I want to make it clear again Catholics are wonderful loving people there are going to be millions of Catholics in heaven there are millions around the world that are spirit filled that love the Lord all right so you understand this is sincere people but there are teachings where they've been blinded to what the scripture sees in many Catholics never hear the scriptures so this is what the Protestant reformers taught that's why they wanted to come out of what they call the mother church what is the second angels message of Revelation chapter 14 and they're followed another angel saying Babylon the Great is fallen is fallen says it twice that great city because she made all nations drink the wine of the wrath of her fornication and so God's people are called out of Babylon Babel and his curse if you know your Bible history you know that in the Old Testament because of the run faithfulness God's people were carried captive to Babylon finally God worked it out where they could go home under the kingdom of Persia but many of them had become so comfortable in Babylon they didn't want to go to the promised land they wanted to stay in Babylon and God said you better get out of Babylon because the city is gonna be cursed it will be destroyed and so we have the same problem today many of God's children have been so long in spiritual Babylon they're comfortable and they don't know how to come out but it's important to get out because the plagues fall on Babylon revelation and question 5 how does God symbolize Babylon revelation 17 let's take our Bibles for just a minute open to Revelation chapter 17 and we're gonna look at some of these verses together I'm just gonna read the first maybe five or six verses in here revelation 17 one then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls he came and he talked to me saying come and I'll show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters waters mean many peoples with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication she's in cahoots with other governments and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication it's an intoxicating wine so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of names of blasphemy titles blasphemous titles having seven heads and ten horns and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication and on a forehead name is written notice in Revelation seal of God is in the forehead mark of the beast is in the forehead this woman's got a title in her forehead more about that later it says this is a big paragraph for somebody to be carrying around in their forehead Mystery Babylon the Great the mother of harlots and the abominations of the earth and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints and with a blood of the martyrs of Jesus it's a persecuting power and when I saw her I marveled with great amazement by the way if you're in that chapter just jump to the last verse it kind of fills it all in the woman that you saw is that great city that reigns over the kings of the earth when John wrote Revelation he had been imprisoned by what city Rome what city was ruling over the kings of the earth Rome says it's a woman in Rome does that narrow it down for you alright let's give you a few more details on this subject and get back to our the screen I got a lot of the scriptures on the screen revelation 17 18 and the woman that you saw is that great city that reigns over the kings of the earth that's Rome question 6 what other evidence from revelation 17 proves at Babel and refers to what we would call papal Rome or what the Catholic Church by the word by the way the word Catholic means Universal means it's something that is all over the globe worldwide power alright we're gonna go through seven points here like a through G just stay with me first of all it says that she is guilty of blasphemy blasphemy means putting yourself in the place of God or assuming the names of God let's see if it fits that definition here in Pharaoh's ecclesiastical dictionary the Catholic Church says about themselves the Pope is so great a dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man but is as it were God and the Vicar of God see I believe that's blasphemous I don't think a man can put himself in that position Pope Leo the 13th said we hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty and you know when you live in a virtual palace and you sit on a throne you know the Pope sits on a throne with two angels on the right in the left similar to the Holy of Holies in the sanctuary that was the dwelling place of God between the two angels that was the Shekinah seat mercy seat be she's dressed in purple and scarlet well I think most of us know that the Cardinals the principal color is scarlet and the bishops is purple and you'll see a lot of that if you go to the Vatican furthermore it says and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls and so it's a very wealthy institution you realize the Catholic Church owns more priceless treasures than any other private institution in the world at one time they owned the majority of the world's silver I don't know if that's still true today but no one will question if you go to some of these churches and you see the gold relics and and the art some of the most exquisite art and treasures golden pearls so forth having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations now the reason they say full of abominations there is because one reason the whole Protestant Church and all these churches split off from the Catholic Church is because of their teaching regarding the mass or what they call transubstantiation the priest when he goes through his incantations during the mass supposedly is transferring that grape juice that is not grape juice in the Catholic Mass it's actually alcoholic Jesus said that it was to be new wine that's unfermented and unleavened bread unleavened bread unfermented wine because it represents the blood of Jesus which is pure you notice that said in Revelation fermented because people got drunk from it I remember I went to military school as a young man and we were required to go to services every Sunday and because my mother was Jewish my father had been Baptist he was pretty much an atheist and they sent me to Catholic school so when I was in military school I didn't know where to go on Sunday so I kind of rotated between the Jewish services Protestant services Catholic services and I remember one day because the priest had to do several services that day and several masses where he drank he was tipsy by the time I got there he's going through I said I mean you know my parents drink I know what it looked like not only that they say they are turning it into the actual blood of Christ and it is the actual body meaning that the priest has the power to make God when you think about it that was a big debate during the Reformation and if you look in the Catholic Encyclopedia if you doubt me they say that chalice the golden cup is the most important of the sacred vessels having in her hand a golden cup she's called the mother well did you know that the Pope not only lives in the Vatican but he is the pastor of a church in Rome he's the pastor of the Lateran Church and you know what it says on the door of the Lateran Church the sacred I'm translating the Latin that you see there on the plaque for you the sacred ladder and mother and head of all churches of the city and the world doesn't say just the Catholic churches of the world all churches of the world calls itself the mother and she has many daughters who are also fallen she's the mother of harlots that means they're not good girls that means many of these Protestant churches when they came out of the mother church they retained in their bosom relics of popery they kept I was a potpourri I don't mean potpourri talking about relics of their theology some of you got there they they kept some of the teachings how many of you have noticed the incredible energy that Pope Francis has been putting into calling Protestant churches together he's he's calling for unity again he's inviting them back to the mother church he's and he is doing more his first Pope was visited by charismatic churches he's he's had international interfaith programs and he's reached out to all different faiths trying to draw them back again and if you look in the paper now the Pope is the most respected world leader right now according to the polls very interesting during a passion a call for unity from the Vatican the Pope said that the Christian division is a wound in the church and it is the work of the father of discord by the way you read in Revelation chapter 13 it says there's a wound notice that word it'll come up again later answer II it's a persecuting power drunken with the blood of the saints the martyred Saints if you saw the papers from Turin Italy June 22nd last year Pope Francis went to visit the Waldensian Christians in their church first time in the history of the Catholic Church they persecuted the Waldensian Christians that were Protestants that broke away thousands were slain and tortured and it kissed their Bible which was a Protestant Bible this was unheard of and he wrote him a letter and said we're apologizing for the persecution of the Waldensians and you know what a little while later the Waldensian wrote back and said we do not accept your apology I didn't know if you caught that in the news some of you kids that interesting history of the Pope's great numbers of Christians and Jews were driven from their habitations with their wives and their children stripped and naked many of them inhumanely massacred this happened over a period of over a thousand years and some estimates say as many as fifteen million Christians and Jews and others that they call heretics were killed you've heard of the Spanish Inquisition this is just history you could go to the churches of Europe see the dungeons where they tortured people and the torture implements they'll take you on a tour I seen them it says she sits on seven hills now that ought to make it clear just Google Seven Hills you know it pops up Rome it's called the city of the Seven Hills there you have it Rome was founded in 753 BC on the Seven Hills a term used for centuries to describe the primary hills surrounding the old city and I think we all know that gee she rules over the kings of the earth this is an international power the Pope has been facilitating peace between nations here he's got the Palestinian and Israeli president meeting together at the Vatican and I think you all know the Pope was instrumental in trying to heal the wound between the u.s. and Cuba so to speak started over a year ago and just the last year and this in November Pope addressed the United Nations how can he do that with the United Nations invite me I'm a pastor if you know anybody let me know I'd love to talk to him but you know why they invite the Pope because the Catholic Church is not just a religious power it is the smallest country in the world the Vatican is an independent state with about a thousand people they've got their own army they're called the Swiss Guard they have their own currency they have their own little railroad very short I think it basically just goes from those dwellings to the Vatican they have their own paper their own TV station their own press own postal system and the supreme ruler the absolute dictator of that country is the Pope and they have ambassadors from around the world from the Vatican no denomination has ambassadors that are political that are recognized as diplomats but the Pope is only church that would fit that description do you agree around the world says it's a political power from Cuba to climate change as a Time magazine this last year he has revitalized the Vatican's role in global diplomacy now he's bringing his activist agenda to the US as written of course just before his recent trip to the US now on to the number number seven what is the significance of the mystic number 666 I think I told you if you add up the first six Roman numerals you know I V X L D is 500 you'll get to I left one out there M no that's a thousand it comes to 666 and I thought that was you know if you play the roulette wheel if you add up all the numbers on the roulette wheel now I hope you don't do that but all the numbers on the roulette wheel 1 through 36 you add them up it comes to 666 one plus two plus three plus four up to 36 to 666 360 degrees in a circle what does that mean I don't know it's a very interesting mathematic number I see I left out C for century C is 100 that was the one I left out you add it up 666 so where does that number come from here is wisdom you find this revelation 13:18 let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast for it is the number of a man it'll be connected with a man and not the number is 666 God created the world in seven days really including the Sabbath because he made that part of his week first time you hear a number repeated three times in the Bible is the Sabbath says in Genesis chapter 2 on the seventh day the seventh day the seventh day a number associated with God and the worship of God and the name of God that he is creator and the number four man man was made on the sixth day is six this is all about worshiping man or God which is a big question who will you worship is the Battle of the last days that's our study tonight a war over worship you know when you read revelation 13 those who do not bow down and worship should be killed that harkens to the in Daniel chapter 3 which says Nebuchadnezzar makes this great image the height is 60 cubits its width is 6 cubits and in the Hebrew economy if it doesn't give its depth it would be the same as its width and so what you have is 60 by 6 by 6 and they're told the bow down so you see there's echoes of Daniel in Revelation even with that number and it was Goliath had a son six fingers on each hand six toes on each foot and it says it was set up in the plain of Dura now what is the official title of the Pope if you look for prompt the bibliothèque according to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia under the heading pop up the title is vicarious this is in Latin July day and it appears for the title of the Pope let me give you some other ones if you can read dr. Jay Christian professor of ancient history of the Christian archaeology Catholic University of America these are their own teachings the title vicarious Phil I'd a is common as the title of the Pope you can also look here in a book by pope john paul ii says the pope a scandal in a mystery comforted with are confronted with the Pope one must make a choice the leader of the Catholic Church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ that means vicarious Phil I'd a the Pope is considered the man on earth who represents the Son of God who takes the place of the second person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity and those are bold defined as blasphemous statements but notice the title again they're taking the title of Christ if you look at this quote from the sunday visitor the title of the Pope of Rome is vicarious Phil I di this is inscribed on his mitre now Pope modern Pope's don't wear the crown very much they used to always wear their crown there and they had several crowns these triple tiered crowns that represented the Pope is the king of heaven the king of earth and the king of purgatory and that's in their own teachings it's why they have these triple tiered crowns they used to have a little placard like the high priests of Israel had a placard on his crown it said holiness to the Lord the Pope had a vicarious feel i day i as a placard on his crown you add up that title using Roman numerals you realize names had numerical value letters had numerical value in Hebrew and Greek in Latin we don't do that so much in America a would be 1 B would be 2 I guess if you did it like that that's kind of the Cracker Jacks code but in these languages in Roman numerals what is v5 what is I you take the title of the Pope like Harris Phil idea you and V are the same you'll see that in many ancient Roman writings bicurious is 112 Phil I 53 day I 501 the number of his name 666 above the head of the Pope on his crown little different crown than the one that Jesus wore when he hung on the cross and above Jesus head and said this is the King of the Jews and here you got Christ who was a poor man who had nowhere to lay his head and he is our king he's the one we follow then you have someone else who is supposed to be the head of the church who lives like a king in a palace now granted Pope Francis is turning away from a lot of that he's winning people's hearts by this very humble approach instead of coming in the limousine he drives a Fiat they're very interview reminds me of my grandfather very likable guy now let's talk about the mark and Cain first is a bad mark and a good mark I just want to make this clear you know in Revelation everyone says I don't want the mark in the last day as well it depends on what mark everyone's marked you either have the mark of the beast or you have the mark of God which is called the seal of God so think about that so first the bad mark you go all the way back to Genesis revelation is the sum total of the whole Bible in Genesis Cain and Abel two brothers they had an argument Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him because Abel worshipped the why and Cain had altered the true worship and his sacrifice was not accepted my god he became angry and persecuted his brother this is the same scenario in the last days those who persecute you Jesus said your own people are gonna persecute you those who claim to be Christians who was it that turned Jesus over to the Romans his own church and Judas his own apostle it's like Joseph's own brothers sold him you're gonna see it play out again in the last days now there may be a war with Islam in some way and we'll talk about that tonight but I think the biggest fear is what's gonna happen in the name of the Lord who was it that was killing Jesus are killing Christians in Christ's time in the days of the Apostles Paul thinking he was serving God out there killing Christians it's gonna happen again and the Lord placed the mark upon Cain lest any finding him should kill him doesn't give us a lot of detail about that mark now here is the good mark if you look in the Book of Ezekiel chapter 9 I can't read it you read the whole chapter but I'll give you a couple of excerpts the Lord said to him go through the midst of the city through the midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the men whose sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done this is a good mark these are the people who are praying and they're sad for the sin in the church and they're praying for revival put a mark on them God says notice it's a good mark because then an angel of judgment is sent after the angel with the mark says go after him through the city and kill do not let your eyes spare nor have any pity utterly slay old and young men maidens and little children and women but do not come near do not slay anyone that has the mark and begin at my sanctuary that's why Peter so the judgment must begin at the house of God so this is talking about a division among those who claim to be believers one true one false have we got to know what side were on aim in France number eight who is going to be protected through the seven last play you can read in revelation 7 verse 3 it says hurt not the earth neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads now we're talking about the good mark those that have the seal are gonna be protected angels are holding back the winds of strife now ready to release but God is sealing his people what is this seal the righteous have in their foreheads is before all the fury is released first of all those who have the mark of the beast have the spirit of the devil those who have the seal of God have the holy spirit does everyone already know that obviously they've got the spirit of the power and it says here in Ephesians do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you are sealed for the day of redemption 2nd Corinthians 1:22 who has sealed us and given us the spirit in our hearts as a guarantee how many of you want that seal but there's another seal that is more distinctive in the life that identifies us as unique Isaiah 86 bind up the testimony seal the law among my disciples in the heart of the convert when God creates a new heart and they are under the New Covenant says I'll write my what in their hearts my law and within the law of God is the seal of God what is a seal a government seal always has three primary characteristics it's gonna have the name of the power it represents its title territory presidential seal would say at the time of this recording Obama Barack Obama named president title United States territory here I've got one from Canada where they recognize the Queen of England and it says Elizabeth Queen Canada you got today when there was a seal put on the tomb of Jesus you know what it said Pontius Pilate the named governor title Judea territory there was a seal put on the stone when Daniel was put in the lion's den government seal you know what it said darius his name king his title medo-persia taury seal will always have those three things that clear where do you find the seal of God which of the Ten Commandments contain all the elements of a seal it's in the middle commandment in the longest commandment that has the name of God it says for in six days the Lord Jehovah made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them gods his name the Creator his territory are all there in that commandment and that's why God said don't forget this it's the seal of God it shows that you give him your time in your worship the Sabbath contains the elements of the seal so we've identified what the seal of God is what about the and what the beast is now what is the mark of the beast and it's authority all right just looking now in a Catholic catechism they teach question and answer format what is the Sabbath day answer Saturday is the Sabbath day question why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday answer we observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday it wasn't from the Bible it was transferred by the church he goes on to say have you any other ways of proving that the Catholic Church has power to institute festivals of precept answer how did the Catholic Church not such power she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her she could not have substituted 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 zero scriptural authority you've got the law of man you getting to friends you've got traditions of man you got the law of God you get the seal of God you got a mark of the beasts of 40 now pastored are you saying that people would go to church on Sunday have the mark of the beast No stick with me one of the characteristics of the beast power he would think to change times and laws it says here in desparate del transcript the Pope has the power to change times to abrogate laws and to dispense with all things even the precepts of Christ did you know that that's called blasphemy when it says that the leader of the church can even change the teachings of Christ that's officially their teaching that's why I told you they don't blush you showed you a picture of the ten commandments the second commandment about idolatry is just like deleted and they take the Sabbath they make it the third commandment and they changed the day from the seventh to the first and most modern religionists agree with that and rather knowingly or unknowingly they're paying homage to a man-made law of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act and this act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters that's from CS Thomas the Cartman what is the second beast of Revelation 13 for all to receive he caused how many there's gonna be a consolidation of power he causes all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead no man might buy or sell unless he does we talked a little about that tonight does anybody have the mark of the beast now no why because it has not been a law it's not being compelled people aren't making the choice they're not informed on what the issues are when they say you cannot buy or sell Revelation 13 17 and there's a law that you have to worship on the first day instead of the seventh day that would be a sign number 15 is the mark of the beast or the seal of God a visible mark this is very important some Bible translations even say don't get the tattoo in your forehead doesn't say that in the original it says in the hand or in the forehead what does that mean if you look in Hebrews 10 16 thus says the Lord I'll put my law in their hearts and in their minds I will write the Bible says whatever your hand finds to do do it with your mind what does that mean doesn't mean your hand goes off by itself or doesn't mean your actions in the mind means in the fonts in the head means in the thoughts in the hand means in the work for example you can read in Isaiah 59 6 their works are works of iniquity and their acts of violence are in their hand their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity it's talking about in the hand being the actions in the forehead of thoughts let me give you one more exodus 13:9 and it shall be for a sign unto the upon thy hand and a memorial between thine eyes that the Lord's law might be in your heart you can also read this in Deuteronomy chapter 6 these words I command you this day shall be in your heart usual bind them for a sign upon your hand this will be frontlets between your eyes very simply if you don't have a law of God in your hand and in your head you will have the mark of the beast in your hand and in your hand let's talk about the actions if you're waiting for someone to get everyone to line up with a rubber stamp it'll coach me change and stamp everybody on the forehead that's not what's gonna happen it's something internal the Beast has a mark that represents its power and authority does God have a sign of his power yes I gave them my what my status to be a sign between me and then that they might know that I'm the Lord that sanctifies them hallow my Sabbath's it'll be a sign between me and you that you might know that I am the Lord your God verily my Sabbath's you will keep for this a sign between me and you throughout your generations a sign a seal that you might know that I am the lord that does sanctify you we just need to ask this question friends that Peter said we ought to obey God rather than men who will you want to obey you know before we close our service day we want to give you an opportunity to respond I'd like to invite Charles and Kelly to come out sure appreciate the music they've been bringing to our event and we've got some uh sure's that are standing by and they're going to be giving you each a card if they could do that right now when I share a heavy message like this I don't want it to evaporate I want you to think about it's don't want you to go away and say pastor that was interesting I want you to say pastor I want the seal of God I want the Holy Spirit I want to be on God's side I don't want to be deceived and so we like to invite you to take one of these cards that you'll be getting in the bucket and pass them around and there are 4 simple questions write down your pertinent information on there if you would please and these questions are really the main questions and hopefully you got a tool to write we're there if you don't you might borrow one from a neighbor and here are the questions I choose to put God's command this before man-made laws some of you who are watching at home your group leader I trust is distributing these cards among your group where they're available to download online as well we hope you'll lead your group through these same questions I would have put God's commandments first question before man-made laws if that's your desire would you put that down second question I choose to keep the seventh-day Sabbath and to worship the Creator do you want to follow the law of God and have him write his law in your heart check that say Lord I'm making a decision I want to be on your side and the last days I don't want to receive be a plagues that will fall on Babylon third question I am interested in joining a sabbath-keeping church you might want more information write that down no one's gonna force you to do anything but we'd like to pray with you help you make that decision direct you maybe to some good locations and the fourth question pastor pray for me I am praying about this decision I've still got many questions and you might put a prayer request down here also on our cards you have it in Spanish on the back it's English on the other side maybe it's Spanish on the front in English on the back I can't tell I like to have Charles come out and sing a verse or two while you're praying about this and I'll be praying for you and making your decisions [Music] my soul and my savior not of this world [Music] dream I have announced or for pleasure Jesus is mine there's nothing [Music] ah what would he eat your life is there something that's keeping you from making a full surrender to the Lord are you waiting for a good time to do that that would be that time why don't you surrender everything to Jesus now you're looking for a good day I've never known anybody that was sorry they said yes to Jesus you'll never regret doing what God commands you to do just like a loving parent he only wants to command us to do what's good for us I hope you'll make that decision to say yes choose to obey God's commandments choose to keep his day be part of his people make a decision we'll be praying [Music] maybe the least of his fee be two now hopefully you've had time to fill out your card and when you do that you know you're gonna pass it up the aisles you see our Usher's will receive those hopefully those in your home groups you'll have a device for collecting that because we want to pray for you we want to provide whatever biblical information you want that we don't have to be afraid of the truth answer whatever questions we can because we want you to know what the truth is God has told us to get this message out in the last days because we are running out of time can you say Amen I believe Jesus is coming soon and we want to be ready amen so please pass your cards to the aisle if for some reason you didn't have time following closing prayer in this service there will be some uh sure's with buckets at the door you can give them your card you may have a special prayer request you'd like to write down as well and our group organizers we want to pray for you and your personal needs if there's something you want to share and ask God to bless but I'd like to pray for you before we close the program that God will encourage you and it'll help you to have the resolve to do his will so could we bow our heads in at this moment Father in heaven our loving Lord we know we're dealing with issues of eternity right now I know that you want to fill each person with your spirit but it requires that we trust you that we have faith and surrender our lives to you that we believe that you love us so much that you sent your own son into the world to die in our behalf to save us from our sins our lawlessness that you might fill us with your spirit and put that seal in our hearts Lord we know that when people hear this truth sometimes it requires a struggle even as the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt there was a struggle involved in that new birth I pray that you'll give these people courage help them keep their eyes fixed on Jesus as they go forward and follow you with all of their hearts bless them each one some Lord have problems maybe in their families bring healing some may need healing in their bodies Lord give them healing there some may be struggling in their finances or relationships bless them help them to know as you promised there's a blessing in Revelation for those who hear read and keep the things that are found written in this book and help us to be doers of your word we thank you Lord and we pray asking us all in Jesus name Amen all right when is our next program friends tonight seven o'clock we hope you'll tune in email your friends Texan tell them to join us a war over worship don't miss it [Music] you

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Length: 49min 37sec (2977 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 26 2016