Who or What Is The 666? || Sept 28th, 2021

[Music] foreign [Music] holy words long preserved [Music] in this world they resound with god's own heart oh let the ancient words impart [Music] words of life words of hope give us [Music] ancient words will guide us [Music] changing me and changing you we have come with open hearts [Music] holy words [Music] oh [Music] [Music] hear them right through the ears [Music] [Applause] me [Music] is [Music] changing me and changing you every day our hearts renew cleanse and change [Music] [Music] open homes [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] good evening and welcome i'm pastor frankie lazarus and welcome to the 11th broadcast of lessons for living biblical answers for life's most perplexing questions have you ever booked a hotel taking a cruise booked a plane ticket just tried to do something official the one thing that is common to all of these activities is that you have to produce some form of identification in order to gain access it's an important thing in today's society and culture your identity is in this world seems to be the only way to really navigate a society that is wrought with fraud scams and identity theft your identity is used to prove that that you are who you say you are in a word that you're legit so what if i told you that our spiritual identity is under attack and that there are spiritual forces at work to change your identity and derail your destiny now some refer to this as the mark of the beast or 666 but what do these numbers mean and who does it refer to stay tuned because tonight pastor bill santos will reveal the answers in his message who or what is 666 a vitally important message for every single one of us online tonight so right here on lessons for living biblical answers to life's most perplexing questions we will receive the answer before we begin i invite you just to uh pray with me our heavenly father god we thank you so much for this privilege we have to be here tonight to hear the truth from god's word we ask you that you will open 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thank you so much pastor winston herlock for that wonderful comforting message the power of god's grace and thank you everyone that is joining us on our 11th night of lessons for living biblical answers to life's most perplexing questions my name is bill santos thank you for being here i see our friends from grenada are here and from the virgin islands and from toronto and from all about we're so grateful that you have taken time from your busy schedule and be with us we know you have many options and you've chosen this one and we're so grateful that you're here with us tonight and we're excited to share with you this important truth on what or who is 666 a few things i want to remind you of before we venture into tonight's study one of them is our prayer line and throughout the night you're going to see that number come up in a few times you know as i say every night these are volunteers that are prayer warriors that are prepared to pray with you pray for you answer your questions uh 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gonna spend a few moments in our meet in greet and so yesterday we were on there again and we got to meet some of the folks and that's you know we spend a few minutes there just fellowshipping with one another and it's a really enjoyable time and so as we get closer to the end of the program we'll share with you all of the particular so that you two can join us on the meet and greet but let's move into uh tonight's topic tonight we are going to be looking at something that is well it's uh important it's uh it's an important subject it is one that has um created a significant amount of confusion still one of the most vital teachings in the book of revelation intense interest has every time we mention this program this this study folks always get excited we're going to look at who or what is 666 or sometimes referred to as the beast power and we're going to look and we're going to ask is the beast a person is the beast an organization what does the number 666 mean and how can i possibly avoid it because one thing everybody seems to be in agreement with it's something you don't you don't want and i'm happy to tell you that i don't have the answers but the book of revelation does god will not leave us in the dark on this topic as important as it is in the same way that he doesn't on any other topics we just have to be willing to go to the right source and once we do i think we've seen that every night i think we saw it last night as we talked about what happens to us when we die that the bible speaks very clearly and you're going to see that revelation has some very good answers to help us understand what is all involved here with the beast 666. before we get into that i'm just going to ask you just to bow your head with me once again and we're going to have a word of prayer gracious god loving heavenly father thank you so much again for bringing us all virtually together for these moments we spend in the study of your word father each night we just commit these meetings to you we place them in your hands ask that you just just take control of everything that happens here may your angels be posted at each location where this message is going may your hand be upon the in the equipment the internet the slides everything so that the evil one will in no way possible disrupt what we have here tonight and so father just allow us the privilege of being in your presence and pour out your holy spirit on us now i pray in jesus name amen now before we venture into the book of revelation i'm going to take you to john's gospel because there's a an important verse here that guides our study in the book of revelation in john 14 29 it says now i have told you before it happens so that when it happens you may believe friends it is very very important particularly when we go to the book of revelation that we do not speculate beyond what has been revealed to us as we deal with end time prophecies the the fulfillment and the complete understanding of these prophecies is only going to be possible when the prophecies are actually fulfilled not before you see the revelations prophecies are not there to satisfy our curiosity they're not there just so that you have something you know interesting to talk about you know at your next social gathering the prophecies in daniel as we read here in the book of john that says i'm telling you before it happens so that when it happens you may believe the prophecies in the book of revelation are there so that we can be ready and be prepared for what is coming forward for what is about to happen i believe in the not too distant future you see throughout history satan has been attacking the church by means of persecuting forces we we've touched on that and as he begins his final attack his strategy shifts we touched on that a little bit the other night right the strategy shifts from coercion to deception and as we come to revelation chapter 13 what we see is this unholy trinity if you will three entities come together this triune league this diabolical trinity that is formed between the dragon the beast that comes up out of the sea and the beast that comes from the earth these three powers come together and they form an unholy alliance a satanic trinity it's very interesting for me to note that for everything god creates the true the devil creates the counterfeit including a counterfeit trinity under the leadership of satan and so in revelation 13 1 we read then i stood on the sand of the sea and i saw a beast rising up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and on his horns ten crowns and on his heads a blasphemous name now at first glance this you know ghastly beast you know once again we encounter folks saying oh here we go how in the world are we going to understand this what does it all mean remember we are dealing here with symbols in the book of revelation these symbols here represent nations or or powers and john here is telling us that he he's describing here a great power that is rising up out of the sea now interestingly if you were with us yesterday when we looked at daniel chapter 7 and daniel had a vision i think you're going to begin to see some parallels between what we studied a couple of nights ago and what we're going to look at tonight let's go back to daniel chapter 7. beginning at verse 2. look at what it says daniel spoke and said i saw in my vision by night the four winds of the of the heavens striving upon the sea four great beasts came from the sea diverse from one another you know what's very interesting it seems to be a common place for evil powers to emerge that are going to attack god's people the sea it appears to be out of the sea that the evil powers come that are going to attack god's people now in revelation chapter 17 we get a definition of what revelation means by waters it says revelation 17 15 then he said to me the waters which you saw are peoples multitudes nations and tongues so here we learn that the waters the sea represents nations or or represents people this beast has seven heads the seven heads ten crowns it covers seven historic periods and ten kingdoms support it since it is speaking blasphemy well blasphemy is speaking out against god we saw that also in daniel chapter 7 and we're going to be reminded of that in just a second here so apparently what we have here in revelation chapter 13 is a religious power the description continues now the beast which i saw was like a leopard his feet like the feet of a bear and his mouth like the mouth of a lion here we have pictured a composite beast but again interestingly enough john uses the same symbols that daniel used in daniel chapter 7 to describe those great world powers you remember he saw an eagle-winged lion that represented babylon he saw a tilted bear with three ribs in its mouth that represented medo-persia he saw a four-headed four-winged leopard that represented greece and then he saw an iron-toothed ten-horned beast that represented rome you remember that and so revelation chapter 13 what we read here it it succeeds out of this history that we saw in daniel chapter 7. now revelation gives us certain clues to try to uncover the identity of this power and so i'm just going to ask you just to hold off on your judgments until you've seen all of the clues and then will will you can draw your conclusion so let's start at revelation 13 2 the last part here's what it says the dragon gave him his power his throne and great authority so whoever this beast of revelation 13 is where does he get his power from it says from the dragon where does he get his throne from the dragon where does he get his authority from the dragon you see i mentioned earlier this satanic trinity it is the dragon what does the dragon represent in revelation it represents satan it is the dragon who leads this alliance it is the dragon who delegates to the other two members of this satanic trinity right now again remember how i said to you for everything that god creates the real the devil creates the counterfeit isn't it interesting to see that in the same way that the father has given his throne and his authority to his son jesus christ the dragon mimics that by giving his throne and his authority to this beast power in the same way that jesus christ was the representative of god the father here on earth this beast power having received its authority its throne its power from the dragon the sea beast becomes the representative of the dragon here on earth it's like the sea beast is the second member of the diabolical trinity trying to replace the position that is occupied by jesus christ right this beast power wants to assume the position that is exclusively of jesus he wants that position in the hearts and in the minds of god's followers of everyone but particularly god's followers still with me let's continue revelation 13 8 it says all who dwell on the earth will worship him this power here depicted in revelation 13 would become a worldwide religious power a power that transcends geographical boundaries right but at the same time that it is a religious power it is also a political power revelation 13 8 continues sorry 13 5 i apologize it says he was given a mouth speaking great things and what blasphemies blasphemy is speaking out against whom against god so here john begins now to describe some of the activities of the beast right he has described where the beast gets his power he has described the fact that the beast knows no geographical boundaries it is universal it is worshiped universally but now john begins to describe some of the activities of the beast and one of the things that he tells us is that this beast power speaks great things and blasphemies now if you recall from our study the other night of daniel chapter 7 when we got to the part in the prophecy where it began to describe the activities of the little horn there in daniel 7 if you recall well how did it describe it let's have a quick look here it said there daniel chapter 7 verses 8 11 and 20 and there in this horn speaking of the little horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things and then it says then i watched because of the sound of the boastful words from his uh from which the horn was speaking and then it said even of that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastful words friends we begin to see that this power described in daniel 7 and the power described here in daniel chapter 13 daniel revelation chapter 13 are the same earthly power they have the same activities blasphemy pompous word sometimes speaking out against god blasphemy is when a power or an individual claims equality with god or claims for him the prerogatives that are exclusive to god for example let's look at mark chapter 2 and verse 7. look at what it says it says here why does this man speak such blasphemies who can forgive sins but god alone you see for one time the pharisees were right i mean who can forgive sins only god can forgive sins that's a prerogative that is exclusive of god and when the religious leader saw jesus forgiving sins that shocked him because to them he was just a man if jesus had not been god man he would have been a blasphemer because according to mark chapter 2 and verse 7 blasphemy is claiming to be able to forgive sins friends that is a prerogative exclusively of god look at john chapter 10 verse 33. the jews answered him saying we are not stoning you for a good a good work but for blasphemy and because you being a man claim to be god when a man claims equality with god that is blasphemy so we begin to see here that this of sea beast speaking great things and blasphemies what is this sea beast trying to do here this beast of revelation 13 is trying to claim the titles the prerogatives that exclusively belong to god they only belong to god they belong to no one else but this power is trying to claim them for themselves speaking great things and blasphemies you still with me i hope so clue number four it was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them again here john is speaking about the activities of this power right making war with the saints what does that sound like to you it sounds like to me that this is a power that persecutes sounds like persecution so as we pause and as we just consider where we are right now we see that it is a power that gets its authority its throne its power from the devil we see that it is a religious system that is worshiped worldwide it's not restricted to any geographical area the whole world worshiped a universal system of worship what else did we see it claims prerogatives that are only of god that only belonged to god what were some of those claiming to be able to forgive sins claiming equality with god and now we see here a power that persecutes that persecutes the saints let's continue clue number five and he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and he was giving given authority to continue for 42 months now here's a new principle i'm going to show you to help you interpret bible prophecy in bible prophecy one prophetic day represents or equals one literal year okay that's in bible prophecy when you're in the book of genesis like we were the other night and you see the evening and the mornings the first day and the evening those are literal days 24-hour days but when we are in bible prophecy and you see a day that represents one literal year okay so we have here 42 months we're going to do a little bit of math right you take 42 times 30 you come to 1260 days 1260 prophetic days equals 42 prophetic months you with me 1 260 prophetic days equal 1 260 literal years so whatever power this revelation 13 beast power is it's an earthly power that exercises authority for a prophetic period of 1260 days or 1260 years now you remember in daniel chapter 7 and i said that that little horn power and this revelation 13 power represent the same power we remember that that little horn power emerged out of where rome this power is a successor of the roman empire it covers exactly the same period of the little horns activities in daniel chapter 7 daniel chapter 7 verse 25 and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time that is representative time one year times two years and half a time half a year three and a half years well three and a half years is how many months 42 months 42 months is how many days 1 260 days 1 260 prophetic days are how many literal years 1 260 literal years so you know we're kind of constrained by time but the only period that fits aptly into this time frame is the middle ages during which the established church in western europe exercised religious and political oppression revelation 13 is a prophecy of the major apostasy in christian church history the rise of the medieval church to power and dominance was gradual but check the history books by 538 the roman church had established itself as an ecclesiastical power ad538 begins the prophetic period of 42 months or 1260 years in 538 a.d a couple of things happened first in that year there were three powers that were in conflict with the papacy those three powers were conquered in 538 a.d let me take you back to daniel 7. if you recall it said that when that little horn came up it uprooted how many of the horns that were there three there were three powers that rebelled against papal authority as long as those three powers were there the pope's position as a religious political leader was not secure but in 538 a.d the last of those three powers was in fact defeated it was conquered what did that do that opened the door to secure the pope's position as a religious and political leader in that same year justinian who was the emperor he signed a decree what that decree essentially did was it said the bishop of rome the pope was now the head of all the churches of all the christian churches and the bishop of rome was the one that would now define what was biblical doctrine and how to correct the heretics so anyone that was against what the church taught the bishop of rome would determine that's a heretic and would then prescribe the punishment to correct them are you with me when you read the history books you begin to see that ad538 is called the period of papal supremacy 538 a.d now if my calculations are correct and we start at 5 38 a.d and we add to it 1260 years we come to the year 1798. so if we're calculating this correctly at the end of this period of 42 months foretold by john here in revelation something must happen something important must happen what i'm going to show you now i know the first time i saw it it blew my socks off because john tells us at the end of that 1260 year period papal supremacy john describes it as one of the heads of the beast was mortally wounded you add 1260 years to 538 you come to the year 1798 did something important happen to the papacy in 1798 absolutely papal power was in fact seriously wounded in 1798 napoleon sent a french general by the name of berthier he was dispatched to rome he wasn't going there on a friendly visit in fact he took the pope captive he imprisoned the pope when did that happen 1798 at the end of the 42-month prophetic period described by john look here at revelation 13 3. this gives me goosebumps i saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded that's 1798 and his deadly wound was what healed and all the world marveled and followed the beast you see friends in 1798 it appeared that the papal power had come to the end its political power was gone its lands were confiscated in fact the pope the pope died while in exile the enemies of the papacy they cheered they said it has come to the end but friends there's an important lesson here and that is this the bible is never wrong bible prophecy has an accuracy rate of 100 percent in fact if it's not 100 percent you can know it's not from god you know as much as i try to convince my parents that 80 was still an a in university it's not a hundred bible prophecy is 100 accurate or it's not from god at all and what did the bible say here the bible said the wound would heal that there was going to be a revival of this beast power it looked like it had ended in 1798 but the bible said the wound would heal and the bible is never wrong what this prophecy is saying here is that the world powers all the world marveled and followed the beast the world powers are going to be seduced to create a system of state religion resembling the one from the middle ages and we've read the history books we know what happened in the middle ages we know what happened when civil authority and political power came together and joined hands do you know what it led to it led to religious organizations forcing orthodoxy upon the people using coercion this was the system that satan used during the middle ages and john is telling us here that that same system of the middle ages that same system of coercion and oppression and enforcement of orthodoxy through even force if necessary that same system will be replicated in the closing days of earth's history what for what purpose to win over the conscience of the world's people and control their worship because the final conflict will all be about worship true worship versus false worship this prophecy friends is warning us it is preparing us remember what we read there in john so that when it happens you will be ready it is pointing to the revival of medieval intolerance do you know that the history books tell us that 50 million people lost their lives during that that dark period in earth's history because of their unwillingness to do what the church said they died because of their loyalty to jesus and the word of god john here is telling us in this prophecy that that whole scenario of intolerance and coercion and oppression will reappear at the time of the end revelation 13 16 says he causes all both small and great rich and poor free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forward foreheads you see what it's saying here all of those that succumb to the pressure applied by this power by this institution they are going to receive a mark on their right hand or their foreheads all the classes small and great rich and poor free and slave all the classes of human society are commanded to receive the mark of the beast to receive the mark of the beast means that you belong to the beast but it means that you worship the beast and that no one may buy no one may sell except one who has the mark or the name or the of the beast or the number of his name the mark of the beast is the antithesis of god's seal it is the exact opposite just as god's seal defines those who belong to god the mark of the beast identifies those who belong to and worship the beast are you with me receiving the mark of the beast on the right hand which is a symbol for action on the forehead which is a symbol for decision thinking what it represent it's not a literal mark i've had folks say it's going to be a computer chip all right it's going to be a tattoo now it's not going to be it's not the vaccine none of those things remember we're talking about symbols here i said to someone the other day they said you know it's going to be a microchip under your skin i said if that's the case then my dog has the mark of the beast because my dog dexter has a chip under his skin it's not that my brothers and sisters it's not that receiving the mark of the beast on your right hand on your forehead it stands for refusing to obey god's commandment it it means that you have made an exchange you have given up obedience to god and replaced it with obedience to the beast you see the book of revelation tells us that the central issues in the final crisis are going to be worship and obedience to god and how do we do that how is that played out by keeping his commandments the whole world is going to be divided into two camps those who worship god and those who worship the beast when jesus returns the second time everyone will be worshipping someone some will be worshipping god the creator and some will be worshipping the beast now how what will characterize whether they are worshipers of god or worshipers of the beast what will be the identifying mark remember there has to be something external because you and i cannot see the heart god can yes not you and i so what is the external characteristic that denotes is this person a worshiper of god or is this person a worshiper of the beast do you know what it is well let me show you revelation 14 12. here is the patience of the saints here are those who keep what the commandments of god and the faith of jesus the sign of who you worship the the character defining characteristic of those who worship god is they they keep his commandments those who worship the beast do not are you with me now the first four commandments are those commandments that govern our relationship with god it's very interesting to me to see how the beast power and how revelation shows that those first four commandments the ones concerning our relationship with god the ones that concern our worship of god that they become the standard of loyalty to god in the final crisis you see satan's end-time activities are portrayed in the book of revelation as a well-planned attack against these four commandments just just just look at this with me it says here in revelation 13 15 and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed you see the beast here demands worship and what does it say here this demand of worship is a direct attack on the first commandment you shall have no other gods before me they are commanded to worship the beast under the threat of death an attack on the first commandment revelation 13 14 and 15 telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast and as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed the earth beast we're going to see that on another night raises up an image to the sea beast to be worshipped to worship the image of the sea beast well friends that's a direct attack on the second commandment you shall not make for yourself an image and you shall not worship them let's continue revelation 13 verses 5 and 6. we read this earlier he has given a mouth he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies he hope opened his mouth to speak blasphemies against god to blaspheme his name the beasts blasphemies is a direct attack on the third commandment you shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain do you see this attack on commandment 1 attack on commandment 2 attack on commandment 3 and what do you suppose comes next he causes all both small and great both rich and poor both free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead so that no one may buy or sell except he who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name listen to me carefully now the mark of the beast is a direct attack on the fourth commandment remember the sabbath day to keep it holy because the sabbath is the distinctive sign of god's faithful people it's the sign of their obedience to god ezekiel 20 20 we read this the other night hallow my sabbaths and they will be a sign between me and you that you may know that i am the lord your god so what is the mark of the beast the mark of the beast then attempts to substitute human commandments for god's commandments the most obvious example of this is in an attempt to substitute the human established false sabbath namely sunday the first day of the week for the seventh day god's holy sabbath i want to show you something here from a document called the catholic record i assume you cannot read that and so i've amplified it let me show you what this says it says protestants reject divine tradition the unwritten word which catholics accept as of equal authority with the written word the bible divine authority given by christ to the church to teach in his name to bind and loose protestants deny for them and it's their boast the bible and the bible alone has divine authority and so here the roman church is laying the groundwork they're saying listen we believe that divine tradition right what the church fathers write is on same footing equal par with the bible you protestants however and this it's your boast you believe it's the bible and the bible only okay the stage is set let's continue now in the matter of sabbath observance the protestant rule of faith is utterly unable to explain the substitution of the christian sunday for the jewish saturday it has been changed the bible still teaches that the sabbath or saturday should be kept holy are you with me this is the roman church there is no authority in the new testament for the substitution of sunday for saturday surely it's an important matter it stands there in the bible as one of the ten commandments of god there is no authority in the bible for abrogating this commandment or for transferring its observance to another day of the week you see you see you protestants you talk about the bible in the bible only but when it comes to the sabbath you've got a problem because if it's the bible and the bible only then you should be keeping the sabbath because that's what the bible teaches for catholics however it's not the slightest difficulty all powers given me in heaven and on earth as the father sent me so i also send you said our divine lord in giving his tremendous commission to his apostles he that heareth you heareth me we have they write in the authoritative voice of the church the voice of christ himself the church is above the bible and this transference of sabbath observance from saturday to sunday is proof positive of that fact do you see the point saint catherine catholic sentinel here's what it says perhaps the boldest the most revolutionary change the church ever did happened in the first century the holy day the sabbath was changed from saturday to sunday the day of the lord deus dominica was chosen not from any directions noted in the scriptures but from the church's sense of its own power the day of resurrection the day of pentecost 50 days later came on the first day of the week so this would be the new sabbath now look at what they say people who think that the scriptures should be the sole authority should logically become seventh-day adventists and keep saturday holy do you see friends the road of life goes only one of two ways the true sabbath or the counterfeit sabbath let's continue here is the wisdom let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast for it is the number of a man his number is 666. here we have a call to the reader to figure out the number of the beast which is 666 for this the bible says special wisdom and understanding are needed now this wisdom is important to understand this wisdom does not come from a brilliant intellectual ability the wisdom comes from divine discernment imparted to us by the holy spirit i feel the best way to understand 666 is from a spiritual perspective seven is in the bible the divine number seven represents god's perfection one short of seven six represents humanity falling short of divine perfection 6 6 6 identifies this satanic trinity this satanic triad composed of the dragon the sea beast and the earth beast the counterfeit trinity six is the number of babylon we still use babylonian measurement for our angles you know 90 180 360. 60 seconds in a minute it was six was the number of the chief gods in the babylonian pantheon this helps us understand why king nebuchadnezzar's statue was 60 cubits high and 6 cubits wide much of the language of revelation echoes daniel chapter 3. revelation tells us that the story of daniel chapter 3 will be repeated at the time of the end of the world on a worldwide scale people are going to have to make their choice whether they will worship the image or they will remain faithful therefore this number 666 refers to this end time system that is going to cause people in the world to side with satan and worship the beast whose deadly wound was healed but this system friends let me be perfectly clear is nothing more than a human institution counterfeiting god but yet failing in living up to the divine character it is a counterfeit system of worship in ezekiel 28 verse 9 it says will you yet say before him who slays you i am a god although you are a man and not god god's message to this last day system is the same message in the old testament that god gave to the king of tyre who claimed to be god and he said you are a man you are not god friends these are the issues that will be on center stage in the last days it is the making of a decision to follow jesus christ it is true worship versus counterfeit worship it is the true sabbath versus the counterfeit sabbath folks say to me are you suggesting that my relatives that have all faithfully kept sunday that have now deceased they're all going to be lost no in the days of their ignorance god winked but now god is making a final appeal he is saying i am calling together people from every denomination to join a movement a movement grounded on bible truth not the teachings of man a movement that will worship the one true god not the image of the beast a movement that will recognize god's commandment and will faithfully keep god's commandments and tonight you and i still have the opportunity to make that decision a time is coming when that opportunity will be taken from us in fact many who remain faithful to god in the final crisis may in fact lose their lives but friends everyone who chooses to worship the beast will lose eternity the decision is yours tonight tonight you still have the freedom to choose i pray you do not waste that freedom in jesus name [Music] have you ever tried to measure just one sin seeking forgiveness when your heart knows within our god will not judge us on a big on how small he looks for calvary's blood [Music] has no boundaries since death jesus knew in the beginning that man would precious try to imagine [Music] how this miracle took place love beyond or god's amazing grace [Music] sometimes when we're weary we might stumble and fall but just one trunk off his precious blood [Applause] [Music] has no boundaries since death pain and fall jesus knew in the beginning that man would surely [Music] jesus precious blood yes the savior's precious amen thank you pastor herlock will you pray with me gracious god loving heavenly father thank you for the words of scripture the warnings that are contained you have laid out before us satan's deceptions his trap that we may be prepared that we may avoid it father we know that the only way to protect ourselves from satan's deception is to be grounded in your word to be cleansed in the blood of the lamb to claim victory in the name of jesus father i pray that everyone within the sound of my voice wade may do that today choose jesus choose victory choose eternal life remain faithful to him until we hear from the lips of our master well done good and faithful servant father keep us protect us guide us continue to forgive us oh we fail you so many times thank you for loving us in jesus name amen well thank you everyone thank you pastor frankie for being with us here this evening pastor bill that was an amazing message tonight thank you i i'm praying that uh all the listeners will prayerfully consider uh the words that came to us tonight from the word of god and just make a good decision for their own eternal salvation thank you so much it was serious it was thank you well presented you know we're at a critical time in earth's history that's right you know you know you know pastor the the devil doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't believe the truth that's right and so um it is so important it's so worrisome to me that there is this level of biblical illiteracy you know within the christian church and um whatever you can do whatever we can do to appeal to the folks to study their bibles ground themselves in god's truth that's the protection that's the only way we'll be protected that's right and i think what i really appreciate tonight's um pastor bill is that this came straight from the word of god this is not an opinion that you came up with an idea that you came up with you were able to show clearly from the word of god uh systematically that that that this is what is going to happen and i love that first text you started off with i'm telling you this before it happens yeah you'll believe when it happens that for me that was a key text i'll tell you tomorrow night we're going to look at um a question i get asked all the time too if the bible is only one why there's so many denominations oh great question so we're going to look at that one tonight tomorrow night we're going to be off on thursday then friday night you know um there's one thing i didn't say in the message here you know when it talks about the enforcing you know orthodoxy revelation tells us that this beast power has an accomplice we've talked about two members of the satanic trinity the dragon and the sea beast but there's another one well we'll see we'll uncover that one on friday night and so yeah if you had to miss a night you should have missed tonight yeah yeah well since you didn't you got to be here tomorrow and you got to be back on friday thank you so much pastor bill you did a wonderful job under the anointing of god's spirit thank you we've got a meeting coming up mean greet um you'll see the id there on on on the screen um so we're looking forward to meet with you uh we'll step in there for a few minutes and just meet each other say a prayer and uh and just ask god to seal his truth in our lives in our hearts and uh we look forward to look forward to meeting you in the next few 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Published: Tue Sep 28 2021