"The Image of The Beast" - Pastor Stephen Bohr

[Music] let's bow our heads for prayer our beloved Heavenly Father thank you for the privilege of calling you our Father we thank you that you have not left us in this world without guidance without information about what is happening in the world and what will soon transpire so that we can prepare we ask father that as we open your word today that your Holy Spirit will be with us show us the times we're living in so that we might prepare properly for the great events that are soon to take place in this world and we thank you Father for hearing your our prayer for we ask it in the precious name of your beloved son Jesus amen before we begin our study today I would like to just mention that what I presented in the last two lectures plus what I'm going to present in the lecture today is found in a book that I wrote which is titled prophecies dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde there's a lot more material in the book than what I've been able to share in the lectures so if you are interested you can call secret's unsealed the information at the end of the presentation and they'll tell you how to get a copy of this very very important book now we want to review very briefly what we studied in the last two lectures and we're going to do it quickly because we have a lot of material to cover in our lecture today first of all we want to talk about the sea beast the sea beast according to what we've studied represents the papacy the Roman Catholic papacy and then as we studied last night the land beast of Revelation chapter 13 represents the United States of America and as we studied the two horns like a lamb on the head of that beast that rises from the earth represents two kingdoms the kingdom of the church and the kingdom of the state in other words civil and religious liberty but Revelation chapter 13 tells us that this second beast is going to do some rather strange things this second beast is going to help the first beast recover its power in fact this second beast that rises from the earth is going to leave the whole world to worship the first beast and to worship an image of that first beast and also to receive the mark of the beast or the number of the beast which means that this second beast that rises from the earth is functional its purpose in prophecy is to restore the first beast to power and in our lecture today we're going to talk about the image to the Beast of course an image is a likeness and so the image is going to be very much like the first beast so if we know what the first beast was like we're going to know what the image of the Beast is like as well now as we've studied the two horns like a lamb represent two kingdoms the church and the state separate from one another or we could say that they represent civil liberty and religious liberty civil liberty would have to do with the kingdom of the state and religious liberty would have to do with the kingdom of the church but the question is in Revelation chapter 13 what is represented by the voice of the Dragon because book of Revelation says that this second beast that rises from the earth has two horns like a lamb in other words it has these two kingdoms separate from one another for civil and religious liberty but then this beast begins speaking as a dragon what does it mean that this beast speaks as a dragon well we need to understand what the dragon represents in the book of Revelation and I'm going to go through this quickly because we don't have time to read all of the Bible verses but the best place to understand the meaning of the dragon is in Revelation chapter 12 and I'm just to give you the picture we don't have time to look it up right now I'm going to give you the picture of what we find in that chapter the chapter begins by showing a woman that has a child in her womb and that child is about to be born and then a dragon is seen who wants to devour the child as soon as the child is born now it becomes very obviously that that child who is going to be born is none other than Jesus Christ and the dragon is waiting for him to kill him the moment that he's born now we need to understand that the dragon has a double meaning in this passage of course we know that the dragon is a symbol of Satan because he's called the ancient serpent the devil and Satan in Revelation chapter 12 so in the first instance the dragon represents Satan but let me ask you through whom did Satan attempt to kill the child was it him personally who did it no the Bible tells us that it was through a ruler of the Roman Empire a ruler called Herod in others Satan did it through the medium of a king King Herod who was a king of the Roman Empire in other words the dragon represents Satan but the dragon also represents the civil power through which Satan attempted to kill the child then you find there in Revelation chapter 12 that the woman after the child is born and the child goes to heaven he's caught up to God and to his throne the Bible tells us that the woman has to flee to the wilderness for 1260 years we've encountered that prophecy before haven't we she has to flee for 1260 years from the presence of the dragon interesting the same dragon that wanted to kill the child is the dragon that wants to destroy the woman or wants to destroy the church so if at the beginning of Revelation 12 the dragon represents Satan working through Rome what must be represented by the dragon who wants to persecute and destroy the woman it must also be saved working Oh through Rome and we noticed that the little horn is the persecuting power during the 1260 years and of course the little horn represents Satan working through papal room so in other words the second stage the dragon trying to destroy the woman is Rome the first stage when the dragon wants to destroy the child is Rome so let me ask you when this beast that rises from the earth has two horns like a lamb but it speaks like a dragon it must mean that it speaks like Satan but it also speaks like whom it's going to speak like roll in other words like the first beast the sea beast are you following what I'm saying because all the way through it's Satan working through the medium of Rome now this second beast is a very unique Beast because every beast in Daniel 7 conquered the Beast that came before it but this is the only beast in Bible prophecy that actually helps the previous beast recover its power that makes this beast absolutely unique this beast helps the first beast or the sea beast recover its power which it lost now it's become very common in the United States for people to talk about the need to be Christian and to be patriotic and many Christians believe that in order to be both you have to be in favor for example of school vouchers and you have to be in favor of school prayer and you have to be in favor of federal funds for charitable choice and you have to be in favor of religious displays on public property etcetera etcetera they say if you don't believe in those things you're not really Christian and you're not really patriotic but let me tell you something if you're in favor of those things of the state mandating those things which have to do with religion that is unpatriotic and unchristian and you say how do you say that let me explain why you see the Lord Jesus taught that we're supposed to render to Caesar that which is Caesars and to God that which is dark God's you do not blend the two and so when when Christians are in favor of the government mandating religious things that is not Christian because that's not what Jesus Christ taught and it's also not patriotic and you say why isn't that patriotic for the simple reason folks that the founding fathers of the United States separated church and state we found it in our last study in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States the princess of principles upon which this nation is based are the principles of civil and religious liberty separation of the things of the church from the things of the state so when Christians say we need to join the church in the state that is not patriotic because it goes against the principles upon which the United States was built the two principles that are the secret of its power now in order to understand the work of the Beast of Revelation 13 the Beast that rises from the earth we need to go back to a prophecy that we find in the Old Testament it's the prophecy of Daniel chapter 3 you see in Revelation chapter 13 this beast raises an image it commands everybody to worship the image whoever does not worship the image is to be killed now that scene comes directly from Daniel chapter 3 and so in order to understand this we need to go back to Daniel chapter 3 actually folks do you know it's very very interesting to notice that Daniel chapter 3 is illustrating one of the closets actually the first Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States you say well how is this let me explain Nebuchadnezzar was the civil ruler of Babylon was the he was to preserve the civil order but Nebuchadnezzar raised up an image and he commanded everyone to what to worship let me ask you was this the civil power trying to establish religion most certainly he's trying to establish a real just observance by raising an image and say to everybody you need to worship this image was he overstepping his bounds yes because he had the right to legislate when it came to civil matters but he did not have a right to command people to worship in a certain way let me ask you when he established this religious observance what was the immediate result the immediate result folks was persecution as you read The Book of Daniel was Daniel a very good citizen of Babylon did he respect the king did he pray for the king did he obey the legitimate civil laws of Babylon he most certainly did but when the king overstepped his bounds and he legislated he established a religious observance with his civil power these three young men practiced civil disobedience the story shows us that the time when we can practice civil disobedience is when the state overstepped its bounds and legislates the first table of God's law it legislates worship it establishes a worship observance so let me ask you in this story do you find an illustration of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States yes because the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law respecting the what the establishment of religion and the reason for that is because when the when the state or when the civil power establishes religion the immediate result is what persecution by the way did God intervene to deliver those three young men yes there was no hope to be delivered from the hands of the civil power who wanted to enforce this religious observance there was no escape unless God directly intervened and God actually Jesus Christ came into the furnace and he delivered the three young men who obeyed God rather than man now in Daniel chapter 6 we have another story that illustrates this second Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution you see we have the story of Daniel chapter six the second Clause of the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion nor prohibiting the what the free exercise thereof in other words the government cannot prohibit you from practicing your religion and it cannot establish a religion tell you that you have to follow that religion or you have to follow this practice in this certain way now where in Daniel do we find and find an illustration of the free exercise part of the First Amendment to the Constitution it's in the story that we find in Daniel chapter 6 interesting that the two first two clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution are illustrated in the Book of Daniel you say what story is that you remember that King Darius deceived by his advisers gave a law or a decree that no one could pray to any God during a period of how long during a period of 30 days no one could pray to their God let me ask you was the rious establishing religion no what was he doing he was prohibiting the free exercise of religion he was saying you can't pray he wasn't saying you have to pray this way he said no you can't pray he says he's in other words trying to eliminate the free exercise of religion and you know what happened Daniel as usual he was very obedient to the Kings civil laws he was greatly respectful of the king he prayed for the king he was loyal to him but when it came to the civil power making this religious decree violating the Free Exercise Clause so to speak he opened the windows to his room and he always did three times a day the Bible tells us that he was arrested and he was thrown into a den of lions let me ask you what happens when the Free Exercise Clause is violated the immediate result is what persecution that's what happened in the days of Jesus that's what happened in the Middle Ages that's what's going to happen at the end of time this second land beast is going to make an image of the first beast which means that because the first beast joined church and state it used the sword of the state it must mean that the second beast from the earth is also going to use what is going to use the sword of the state because an image is a likeness this beast that rises from the earth is going to be similar to the beast that dominated during the Middle Ages and by the way what was Daniel's only escape the law of man could not deliver him because the laws of the Medes and Persians could not be changed so who had to intervene to deliver Daniel God had to intervene to deliver Daniel from the mouths of Alliance by the way do you know that neither Nebuchadnezzar no to really understood what God was trying to teach them because immediately after this experience it's interesting Nebuchadnezzar says now I forbid anyone to say anything against the god of Daniel because if you say anything against the god of Daniel I'm gonna raise your house to the ground and gonna chop you up in pieces let me ask you did he have a legitimate right to do that absolutely not he was a civil ruler he could not say that of the true religion or of a false religion and to rious didn't understand either because after this experience he says I command everyone to tremble and to fear before the god of Daniel no King can command to tremble and to fear before the god of anyone because the government has been placed to govern in civil matters not in religious matters are you understanding the picture that we're talking about here the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution of the United States were divinely inspired because these clauses are actually found illustrated in Holy Scripture somebody might say pastor Bohr do you really think that it's possible in the end time that such a scenario is going to take place that the United States of America this beast that rises from the earth which we clearly identified last last time from the Bible that it would violate the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment clauses of the Constitution of the United States do you really believe that such a thing is possible not only do I believe that such a thing is possible but prophecy tells us that that's exactly what is going to happen you see the papacy destroyed the view of Jesus and the apostles of the separation of church and state we studied in one of our lectures that Jesus taught that Caesars things and God's things are to remain separate they are not to be blended or mixed in fact when the two kingdoms came together when the Jews used the civil power of Rome the result was persecution and the death of Jesus Christ the Apostles also in the book of Acts they never use the civil power of Rome to advance the kingdom of Jesus Christ never they preached the Word of God they use the sword that God gave him and people were converted and they joined the church but they never used a civil power of Rome but the Jews used the civil of power power of Rome to persecute the Christians you see the Apostolic view was to keep the things of the church and the things of the state separate but the papacy changed that during the Middle Ages the founding fathers of the United States of America returned to the view of Jesus and the apostles when they established the government of the United States of America a government of the people by the people and for the people a government that recognized that there are two kingdoms in the United States and we can be citizens of both kingdoms a civil kingdom and the religious Kingdom but they should remain always separate that was the view that Jesus and the Apostles had held but prophecy tells us that in the United States of America these principles will be repudiated and the United States will return to the position that the papacy had during the 1260 years in other words they will make an image of that and you say pastor Bohr you're crazy that could never happen in the United States of America the land of the free and the home of the brave listen you don't think so you say well we have the we have that Constitution we have the First Amendment how could this ever happen listen prophecy tells us that this beast that rises from the earth has two horns like a lamb but at the same time that it has the horns it speaks like a dragon let me ask you is that kind of like a split personality type absolutely you sell is it possible that it has two horns like a lamb the two principles that Jesus recognized separation of church and state civil and religious matters separate one from another and you're saying that then at the same time that it has those two principles then it's going to speak like a dragon it's gonna speak like Rome it's gonna persecute like wrong it's gonna join Church in state like Rome how could you say such a thing the fact is that prophecy tells us that it's going to be that type of thing because it's still gonna have the two horns like a lamb which we've identified as civil and religious liberty but at the same time that it has those it's going to speak like a dragon in other words the United States is not necessarily going to eradicate or gets rid of the First Amendment but it is going to act contrary to the Fouch First Amendment and you say how is this possible well the United States government has three branches and you know which ones they are they're the executive branch the legislative branch and the judicial ban branch the executive branch enforces the laws the legislative branch makes the laws or writes the laws and the judicial branch primarily the Supreme Court interprets the laws and tells you whether they are constitutional or not constitutional let me ask you what if Congress should write a law and and four and actually give it for enforcement and it's taken to the supreme court and the supreme Court says this law is unconstitutional what happens the law does not go right but what happens if the Congress in acts a lot that is unconstitutional and somebody appeals it to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court says it is constitutional let me ask you will that law be enforced it most certainly will be enforced even if a law goes against the Constitution if the Supreme Court says that that law goes it goes so let me ask you which is the most powerful branch of government you know most of the time when I ask this people say the executive they enforce the law but not really the most powerful branch of government is the judicial branch primarily the Supreme Court of the United States of America and if you don't believe that all you have to do is remember the election of the year 2000 a very contemporary event you remember what happened in Florida all the hanging chads when you know that'll stick in our memory forever the fraud the fiasco of the hanging chads and you know that that you had lawyers involved and they were taking it to this Circuit Court into the appeals court and the lawyers were fighting it but when the Supreme Court said George Bush won case closed George Bush became president of the United States of America and actually the Supreme Court elected the President of the United States of America now this is a scary thing the Supreme Court presently have has five Roman Catholic judges John Roberts the Chief Justice Antonin Scalia Clarence Thomas Anthony can--it Kennedy and Samuel Alito within the next eight years or so some of the more liberal judges on the Supreme Court you know judge Justice Ginsburg for example it was just operated on for I think it was pancreatic cancer and so many of these more liberal judges are going to pass what if we had one or two more Roman Catholics named to the Supreme Court say well the justices are red-blooded Americans you know they're patriotic in there they're really Christian but you know Roman Catholicism teaches that your first loyalty is to the church whatever the church commands that's what you do even if it means setting the civil power and the back burner you always do what the church says you see the problem is many Protestants today are fascinated by the papacy and the reason why they're fascinated by the papacy is because the papacy fights for human rights it fights for the poor it fights more morality it fights for conventional marriage it fights for religion in America it even fights for religious freedom and so Protestants in the United States say well this system has definitely changed but you know I've looked in vain for any change in the teachings of a Roman Catholic Church they have changed not one dogma and as we looked at the book the keys of this blood by Malachi Martin he clearly expressed that the Roman Catholic papacy has the desire for geopolitical world power once again as she had during the Middle Ages in other words she has not changed she presents a new facade after accounts of Vatican 2 but inside she's the same behind the variable appearance of the chameleon there is the invariable venom of the serpent now let me read you a couple of statements here from my favorite book and Bible prophecy the great controversy this folks was written over a hundred years ago what I'm going to read now over a hundred years ago and when it was written the United States wanted nothing to do with the Roman Catholic papacy it was a Protestant country and nobody wanted anything to do with this system when she wrote this but she said the following in order for the United States to form an image of the beast the religious power known as in order to form the the religious power must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will also be employed by the church to accomplish her own ends is that what happens in the Middle Ages yes that's what the image would be a replica or a copy of what existed in the Middle Ages the church using the state to accomplish her purposes also in the same book the great controversy page 581 this visionary writer says this Rome is aiming to re-establish her power if she needs to re-establish that is because she was lost it Rome is aiming to reestablish her power to recover see the word recover her lost supremacy let the principle I don't know if this let the principle once be established in the United States that the church may employ or control the power of the state the religious observances may be enforced by secular laws in short that the authority of church and state is to dominate the conscience and the triumph of Rome in this country is assured in this country folks will speak like a dragon it will speak like Rome on page 445 she says this when the leading churches of the United States uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result you see at that time the issue will be global survival the same argument will be used as was used when Jesus was condemned by the Jewish Sanhedrin do you remember what they said it is better for these centers today then for our nation to perish and so the same argument will be used once again and everybody will say this is Christian this is patriotic we need to do this for the land of the free and the home of the brave and folks there's a growing into intimacy between Protestant America and Roman Catholicism for example Protestants have delighted in participating with the Roman Catholic Church on social issues such as abortion gay marriage judicial activism electing people to the Supreme Court that they feel they should elect their documents of great significance have been signed for example evangelicals and Catholics together were great leaders of Protestant denominations and great leaders of the Roman Catholic Church basically said let's stop proselytizing one another's members and let's just go out and preach the gospel together also the Lutheran's and the Catholics of all people folks the Lutheran's Martin Luther was the one who began the Protestant Reformation in the year 1517 when he put the 95 theses on the cathedral door in Wittenberg Lutheran's and Roman Catholics saw signed the joint declaration and righteousness by faith and basically the Lutheran's are saying it was just a battle over words over semantics we basically agree on the doctrine of righteousness by faith you see Protestants in the United States have forgotten history and when we forget history we are doomed to repeat the errors of history on a state level the United States has drawn very very close to the Roman Catholic papacy from the time that Ronald Reagan joined forces with john paul ii to overthrow communism in the eastern bloc to giving a congressional medal to john paul ii congressional medal of freedom to establishing diplomatic relations with the papacy to three presidents a president's wife and a secretary of state kneeling before the body of John Paul the second to the Pope visiting the White House all of these things show us that there's a political correctness involved there there's this desire to draw forces together in other words there's no longer any desire to be different to be separate in fact many are saying you know we are all in this together let's just love one another and preach the gospel together the question is which gospel is that the gospel that the Bible presents or is it the gospel that is presented by the Roman Catholic Church you know if history proves right and I believe that history does prove right because history repeats itself unscrupulous and self-serving legislators in the United States of America will repeat the same mistake that Pontius Pilate committed back in the times of Jesus Christ they will give in in order to preserve their position of power in order to continue being elected by the people in order to gain popularity they will deliver people whom they knowingly know are innocent let me just read mark chapter 15 and verse 11 where it speaks about the trial of Jesus and it says there but the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he should rather release Barabbas to them in other words the enemy of the enemy of Jesus was not the state Pilate didn't have any gripe with Jesus even the multitudes were not really technically the enemies of Jesus it was the religious leaders and the religious leaders influenced the people to Kalama to the state that they would destroy and kill public enemy number one that's exactly the way that it's going to happen in the future in the United States of America exactly the same thing that happened during the Middle Ages Ellen White once again in the book the great controversy page 592 has this rather chilling description of this time she says those who honor the Bible and we're going to discuss this a little bit later on those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as enemies of law and order as breaking down the moral restraints of society causing anarchy and corruption and calling down the judgments of God upon the earth their conscientious scruples will be pronounced obstinacy stubbornness stubbornness and contempt of authority they will be accused of disaffection toward the government ministers who deny the obligation of the divine law will present from the pulpit the duty of yielding obedience to the civil authorities as ordained of God in legislative halls and courts of justice commandment keepers will be misrepresented and condemned a false coloring will be given to their words the worst construction will be put upon their motives and you say pastor Bohr that could never happen in the United States of America well folks that's not what prophecy says prophecy tells us that this beast from the earth is going to make an image of that first beast it's going to join church and state and eventually it is going to condemn God's people to death as happen with Jesus Christ you see people today have been unwilling to a great degree of learning from the experience of the earliest church you see what happened in the early church is that the early church lost its power and as a result of losing its power the moral condition of society deteriorated and so the church said we need to we need to straighten things out and so basically what they did was unite with the civil power to enforce morality in to enforce religion to moralize society Protestantism today is experiencing a drought you see Protestants today want to do the same thing that the church did in the third and centuries of the history of the Christian Church you see the church had gone astray from its roots and had gone astray from preaching the Word of God that Holy Spirit had slowly but surely been withdrawn from the church therefore the church said in order for society to be moral we have to appeal to the arm of the state to force people to be moral in the United States Protestants today believe that by having on our currency in god we trust' and by saying and in the pledge of allegiance one nation under God and by the government mandating prayer in public schools and by posting the Ten Commandments in our courtrooms and by having Christmas displays on public property or by enacting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage we say Society is going to become moral let me tell you folks what makes people moral is not what the government says but it's God through the Holy Spirit taking the law and writing it on the human heart then you don't need any human laws you don't need any civil laws to enforce morality in society because Jesus is in the heart through his holy law you see Protestantism has lost its power instead of preaching the unadulterated Word of God through the powerful administration of God's Holy Spirit Protestants today preach a prosperity gospel they say oh plant a seed in my ministry and you'll get rich many person searches major on signs and wonders and people just love signs and wonders other Protestant denominations major in psychological self-help courses and many even major in political involvement thinking that this is going to better people's lives but scripture tells us that that which can improve people's lives is the sword of the Spirit which is the world God which penetrates deep and transforms the heart of the human being you know what's going to happen folks is described in Revelation chapter 17 we've studied this before but let me review some of the details in Revelation chapter 17 you have a harlot and that harlot is sitting on many waters the many waters upon which the harlot sits are multitudes nations tongues and people's in other words this fallen Church this apostate Church sits on the multitudes of the worlds she governs them and she controls them and she also fornicates with the kings of the earth which means that this is apostate Church a harlot Church that has illicit relations with the kings of the earth it says there in revelation 17 that this apostate church is clothed in purple and scarlet those are her favorite colors and she's adorned with gold and silver and with precious stones and she has a golden cup in her hand who with the golden cup are found her abominations or wine and she gives those false doctrines or abominations to the nation's and the nations drink and the nation's become drunk and along with her they want to shed the blood of all of those who are not in harmony with her teachings and she appeals to the kings of the earth to be the enforcers but as we studied the Bible says in Revelation 17 verses 16 and 17 that the Kings will hate the harlot and they will make her desolate and naked and eat her flesh and burn her with fire basically well basically what this is saying is that the political powers with which this apostate Church fornicated the political powers that she used to accomplish her purpose are going to eventually rise against her to destroy her I'd like to read you another statement that we find in great controversy page 655 that describes this climactic moment when people realize that they've been deceived by this system the people see that they have been deluded they accuse one another of having led them to destruction but all unite in heaping their bitterest condemnation upon the ministers it's a serious thing too Minister if you're a minister don't deceive people study your Bible and make sure that you're teaching the truth the people see that they have been deluded they accuse one another of having led them to destruction but all unite in heaping their bitterest condemnation upon the ministers unfaithful pastors have prophesied smooth things they have led their hearers to make void the law of God and to persecute those who would keep it now in their despair these teachers confess before the world their work of deception the day is coming reckoning day is coming she continued saying the multitudes are filled with fury we are lost they cry and you are the cause of our ruin and they turn upon the false shepherds the very ones that once admired the most will pronounce the most dreadful curses upon them the very ends that once crowned them with laurels will be razed for their destruction the swords which were to slay God's people interesting that she uses the word swords the swords that which were to slay God's people are now employed to destroy their enemies everywhere there is strife and bloodshed let me ask you what happened at the French Revolution did you have a small-scale model of this event in the French Revolution what did this beast this sea beast do during the 1260 years it used the state to persecute and kill everyone who was not in harmony with it is that true or is that not true it is absolutely true all you have to do is punch into the computer Inquisition and then we'll give you all of the gory details of how the church use the state to persecute those who are not in harmony with the church well the fact is folks that what happened in 1798 is that actually even before during the French Revolution the people said we're not going to put up with this anymore in other words that the lid of the pressure cooker blew off because the people had been so oppressed and so trample upon that they said we're not going to take it anymore and they arose against the Kings and they arose against the religious system in fact historians say that the blood flowed freely in the streets of Paris in France because they rose against the church is that going to happen again when the people of the world see that this system has oppressed them and has trampled upon them absolutely reckoning day will definitely come the Bible describes this moment when God's people are in jeopardy you remember in Daniel chapter 3 when the three young men were delivered from the fiery furnace the word delivered is used several times in Chapter three do you remember when Daniel was delivered from the lion's den the word delivered has used many times those stories are typological in other words those stories actually illustrate in small-scale model what is going to happen at the end of time and you say how is that notice Daniel chapter 12 and verse 1 here is where you have the end time scenario of Daniel in the lion's den and the three young men in the fiery furnace it says in Daniel 12 verse 1 at that time if you look at the previous verses it speaks about the king of the north that goes out to kill and slay God's people it says at that time Michael shall stand up the Great Prince who stands watch over the sons of your people and there shall be a time of trouble let me ask you was the was the time that Daniel spent in the lion's den a time of trouble do you think it was a time of trouble for the three young men in the fiery furnace you better believe it and so it says there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that time and at that time listen to this your people shall be what delivered theirs the key word of Daniel 3 and Daniel 6 your people shall be delivered every one who is found written in the book and you say how do you know this is talking about the end time notice verse 2 and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth still awake speaking about the resurrection right this is the end time many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life some to shame and everlasting contempt those who are I shall shine like the brightness of the firmament and those who turn many to righteousness like stars for ever and ever now I would like us to take a look at two stories as we draw our presentation today to a close do you remember the story that we find in the book of Esther you all remember the story that we find in the book of Esther you see you have a three-fold alliance in the book of Esther that wants to destroy the Jews you have first of all the King secondly you have a vile woman who is the wife of Haman and in the third place of course you have Haman and then you have more a KI who represents God's faithful people now how does this story develop go with me to Esther chapter three and verse eight Esther chapter three and verse eight it says then Haman said to King Ahasuerus there is a certain people scattered and deeper' dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom their laws notice this their laws are different from all other people's and they do not keep the Kings laws therefore it is not fitting for the King to let them remain so how does the plot develop Haman because Mordecai does not bow before him as the King has commanded see there you have a religious decree the King has commanded that everybody needs to kneel and bow before Haman Mordecai says I can't do that I'm a Hebrew thou shalt not have any other gods before me the Bible forbids idolatry he said so I can't do it so the Bible says that Haman was filled with wrath and he said I've got to destroy this individual but he says not only him I've got to destroy all of his people let me ask you did you have a union of church and state in this story you most certainly did that King was a Spheeris who was the religious figure that really wanted the destruction of the Jews did the King want the death of the Jews no he was deceived by his what by his religious advisor right and he actually thought that his religious advisor was doing him some good he says Wow thank you so much Haman these people are risk to my kingdom if we let them remain then the Kingdom is going to disappear there's going to be anarchy thank you for being so interested in my kingdom and so for a while the plot goes real well but to make a long story short instead of Mordecai and his people being destroyed who hung on the very gallows that he created for Mordecai Haman and his wife hung on those gallows that they made for Mordecai and on the day of the battle God's people were delivered from the hand of Haman so in this story we find an illustration of what we're talking about here an illustration of the dangers of having a religious figure tried to influence a political figure into punishing those who do not worship as this Union says that they're supposed to worship and there is a result what you have you have persecution well there's another interesting story that we find in Scripture and this will illustrate a fully and completely the scenario that were portraying here that's going to happen in the United States of America you remember the story of John the Baptist you know John the Baptist was thrown into prison why was he thrown into prison because he told King Herod that it was not listed for him to have another man's wife by the way what is that called adultery so what did John the Baptist denounce he denounced adultery of the king with this vile woman what was her name Herodias interesting and that landed him in jail the fact that he denounced the fornication of the king with this vile woman Herodias and so the Bible says that Herodias hated John the Baptist she wanted to get rid of him but the problem is evidently the King didn't listen to her very much and so he is she was always looking for the opportunity she says how can i how can I get rid of this man who denounces this relationship that I have with the king so an opportune day came when King Herod was celebrating his birthday and it just so happens that this vile woman had a daughter and the name of the daughter was salomi and this is when her odious this adulterous woman this fornicating woman who was fornicating with the king because the king was not her husband she said to her daughter by the way the King was under the influence he had drunk wine so he wasn't thinking straight in this story there's music involved just like in Daniel 3 you have music involved which the right the wrong kind of music can be with you the wrong kind of music can hypnotize you hello the devil knows that that's why he's using it in the world today so she she notices that the king is drunk and she says to the daughter you know go in and dance for the king because the king had his eye on her so he goes in the King says please dance for me I want to see you dance she says only if you grab me a wish and he says oh yes I'll grant you any wish you want up to half the kingdom he had to be drunk to offer half the kingdom for a dance the Bible says that he said that he swore in the presence of the men that were in the court he said I will give you what you request up to half the Kingdom canceled salami went and danced and then she she went to listen listen to this she went to her mother she did not have a mind of her own she was the image of her mother she went to her mother this adulterous woman that John the Baptist landed in jail because he was denouncing this fornication in Revelation is there a message against the fornication of Babylon at the end of time absolutely you see this literal story illustrates great spiritual and religious principles at the end of time worldwide global movements at the end of time and so she still goes to her mother and says mother what should I ask for and her mother says the head of John the Baptist I'm asking what's he just like your mother she was just like her mother you say how do we know that you know what would a normal daughter have done if her mother had said I want the head of pastor Bohr mother I hope that that would be the case mother how you ask for the head of Pastor ball no that can't be you know what she said okay what's he just like her mother she was identical she was an image of her mother and so she goes to the king she says I want on a platter the head of John the Baptist and now the King saw that he had been deceived but it was too late he was too embarrassed to go against his sworn statement before all of the courtiers that were in there and so he did what Pilate did he washed his hands and the Bible says that the henchman went into the prison and beheaded John the Baptist and the interesting thing is the way that this story ends folks if you read this story by the way is in mark chapter 6 beginning with verse 14 all the way through verse 28 it says that the the man who cut off John the Baptist's head brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl and the girl gave it or the daughter gave it to her mother who is the dangerous figure in this story the dangerous figure in this story is the mother not the King not the daughter but the daughter is used as an instrument for the mother to get her purposes accomplished let me ask you doesn't does the harlot of revelation 17 have daughters she's called the mother of harlots and the fornications of the earth our her daughter is going to do her bidding they were born from her in the 16th century and they sustained many of the same teachings that she sustains and eventually they will join church and state as she joined church and state and eventually they will be the instrument they are not the protagonists they will be the instrument through which she the mother of harlots will give a death decree against God's people for God's people to be eradicated from planet Earth you say pastor Bohr what you've presented is insane it could never happen in these United States of America let me tell you folks in a time of severe crisis natural disasters a collapsed economy crimes such as never has been seen before nations do very strange things and they have a tendency to look for a scapegoat for what is happening you know when I sit down and I think about these things I'm saddened because this is a great country I wouldn't have wanted to be bugged been born in any other country in the world in the United States not because it has more people or has more money or because it's scenery is more beautiful no but because of the wonderful principles upon this country was established and what I think that the United States is going to repudiate those principles I'm deeply saddened what could have been and wasn't now the question is what religious observance is the United States going to enforce you say it's going to enforce religion and it's going to prohibit the free exercise of religion so what religious observance or observances is the United States going to enforce contrary to its principles would you like to know well all I can say is don't miss the next exciting episode allow me just to say that in our next lecture we're going to talk about the number of the Beast fascinating study it's the number of his name the Bible says you see how do you get a number from my name we're going to talk about that tomorrow and it's going to be a fascinating subject and I hope that you make it a point to come because what we're talking about are life and death matters folks this is not just intellectual information these are matters of life and death that we know them or else will come out on the wrong side I pray to God that we will choose to be on the right side [Music]

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Published: Tue Oct 01 2019