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

Honoring God’s Word “It is impossible mentally or socially to enslave a Biblereading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom. ” Horace Greeley

Rejecting God’s Word “With the Bible repudiated or unknown, what protection has the modern world against idiotic superstitions, mass hysteria, and civil and religious tyranny? . . . ”

Rejecting God’s Word “. . . The French Revolution, which our world is repeating seriatim, shows that there is no protection under such circumstances. ” Time of the End George Mc. Cready Price (1967)

Revelation Chapter 13

Revelation 13 brings sharper focus to the two competing powers which are the chief actors in the final events of this world’s history.

This particular prophecy in Revelation 13 flows seamlessly from the prophecies of Daniel 2, 7 and 8. If we grasp this concept, then we will not have any problem with the rest of the prophecy.

Revelation Chapter 13 parallel prophecy Daniel Chapter 7

Babylon Medo-Persia 605 -538 B. C. 538 -331 B. C. Four Beasts of Daniel chapter 7 Greece 331 -168 B. C. Pagan Rome 168 B. C. to A. D. 538

Pagan Rome with 10 horns Non-descript beast from the sea Papal Rome came up among the 10 horns

Daniel Chapter 7 “I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots. . . ”

Daniel Chapter 7 “. . . and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. ” Daniel 7: 1 – 8

Daniel Chapter 7

Daniel Chapter 7 “As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. ” Daniel 7: 12

Dominion Lost but Prolonged “Everyone familiar with the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation knows that, in any extended series. . . ”

“. . . the next one following is always pictured as the cause of the downfall of its predecessor. ” George Mc. Cready Price The Time of the End (1967)

Composite beast How do we prove that imperial Rome (pagan Rome) was followed by papal Rome? Is there a logical connection between the two powers?

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

What’s Next in the Series? Identifying characteristics 1. Comes up among the ten horns in western Europe 2. Comes up AFTER the ten horns rose to power 3. Would uproot three horns as it came into power

What’s Next in the Series? Identifying characteristics 4. Has “eyes like a man and a mouth speaking great things” 5. Would be different from previous world powers 6. Would speak against God

What’s Next in the Series? Identifying characteristics 7. Would be a power that persecuted God’s remnant 8. Would have a specific time frame for its power over men 9. Would “think to change” God’s law and “times”

What’s Next in the Series? Would have a specific time frame for its control of men’s consciences

What’s Next in the Series? Would “think to change” God’s law and “times”

Changing God’s Law Q. — What is the third commandment? A. — The third commandment is : “Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day. ” A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (1885)

Changing God’s Law “I firmly assert that the images of Christ, of the mother of God, ever Virgin, and also of other saints, ought to be had and retained, and that due honor and veneration are to be given them” Documents of the Council of Trent (1545 -1563)

Changing God’s Law “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant. . . ”

Changing God’s Law “. . . nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. ” Exodus 20: 8 -11

Changing God’s Law “. . . nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. ” Exodus 20: 8 -11

He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. Jeremiah 10: 12

Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee. Jeremiah 32: 17

Changing God’s Law Ques. — Which is the Sabbath day? Ans. — Saturday is the Sabbath day. .

Changing God’s Law Q. — Are the Sabbath day and the Sunday the same? A. — The Sabbath day and the Sunday are not the same. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week. . .

Changing God’s Law. . . and is the day which was kept holy in the old law; the Sunday is the first day of the week, and is the day which is kept holy in the new law. A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (1885)

Changing God’s Law Ques. —Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Ans. — We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A. D. 336), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. Peter Geierman The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1910)

Changing God’s Law Ques. —Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept? Ans. —Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her, – she could not have substituted. . .

Changing God’s Law. . . the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority. Stephen Keenan A Doctrinal Catechism (1851)

Changing God’s Law “It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. . . ”

Changing God’s Law “. . . Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church. ” Priest Brady quoted in News, a newspaper from Elizabeth, New Jersey March 18, 1903

Changing God’s Law “Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of the alternatives; either Protestantism and the keeping of the holy Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible. ” Cardinal Gibbons; The Catholic Mirror; December 23, 1893

Changing God’s Law “Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. . . and the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things. ” H. F. Thomas; Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons

Rejecting God’s Word “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven. . ”

Rejecting God’s Word “. . . Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works? . . . ”

Rejecting God’s Word “. . . And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7: 21 – 23

What’s Next in the Series? “We must not make the mistake of falsely identifying the little horn power, because it will prove to be the great antichrist power of history. ” The Beast, the Dragon and the Woman, p. 13

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