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Revelation Chapter 12 1. Woman and her child 2. Dragon’s origin and his nefarious works 3. Mysterious “woman”

Mother of God?

Queen of All

Queen of All “In Zeitoun, Egypt, a suburb of Cairo, a remarkable series of events occurred. A woman that onlookers believed was Mary, appeared in the form of an apparition, performing signs, wonders, and healings. . ”

Queen of All “. . . This same woman appeared several nights each week for years. The vast majority of spectators were Muslim. . Several nights each week, thousands of Moslems (who constituted most of the crowds) fell to their knees on prayer rugs. . . ”

Queen of All “. . . spread wherever space permitted, and wept before the magnificent, wondrous, glorious form of Our Lady from Heaven. ” Tetlow, Oakland, and Myers Queen of All, p. 31

Queen of All “He said, ‘I am a messenger come from thy Lord, to give thee a boy most pure. ’ She said, ‘How shall I have a son whom no mortal has touched, neither have I been unchaste? ’ He said, ‘Even so the Lord has said. . . ”

Queen of All “. . . ‘Easy is that for Me; and that We may appoint him a sign unto men and a mercy from Us; it is a thing decreed. ’ So she conceived him, and withdrew with him to a distant place. ” Koran, Surah 19 (“Mary”)

Queen of All “And to the woman [Mary] who kept her chastity, We [Allah] breathed into her of Our spirit, and made her and her son a sign to all mankind. Your community is but one community, and I am your only Lord. Therefore serve Me. . ”

Queen of All “Men had divided themselves into factions, but to Us shall they all return. ” Koran, Surah 19 (“Mary”)

Worshipping Baal “We expect that the Immaculate Virgin and Mother of God, Mary, through her most powerful intercession, will bring it about that our Holy Mother. . . ”

Worshipping Baal “. . . the Catholic Church will gain in influence from day to day among all nations and in all places. . . ”

Worshipping Baal “. . . and that there will be one fold and one shepherd. ” Pope Pius IX

Biblical “Wonders” “Great Wonder” “Another Wonder” Contrast of two “wonders” and two “women” in Rev. 12

Queen of All “The divine Feminine is known by a thousand names and revered in as many forms—from Isis to Mary the mother of Jesus. We know her through her love, wisdom, grace, power, beauty, creativity, nurturing, and compassion. . ”

Queen of All “. . . Today she is bringing an urgent message to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths around the world. She is revealing that the world as we know it is coming to an end and from its ashes will be born a ‘new way of existence. . ’”

Queen of All “. . . This time she will come with her consciousness of pure light and love, which will penetrate everyone and everything on this planet. It will be, she said, the Time of the Goddess. ” Hennelly and Hennelly Mary’s Way

Unifying Power? “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do. ” Revelation 13: 14

Unifying Power? “He who could appear clothed with the brightness of the heavenly seraphs before Christ in the wilderness of temptation, comes to men in the most attractive manner as an angel of light. . ”

Unifying Power? “. . . He appeals to the reason by the presentation of elevating themes; he delights the fancy with enrapturing scenes; and he enlists the affections by his eloquent portrayals of love and charity. ” Great Controversy, p. 554

Revelation Chapter 12 “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus. ” Revelation 12: 17

Revelation Chapter 12 “[Satan] wars against the invisible church, namely, ‘those who keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus’. . . ”

Revelation Chapter 12 “These are ‘the remnant, ’ or rest of her seed, as distinguished from her Seed, ‘the man-child. ’ on one hand. . . ”

Revelation Chapter 12 “. . . and from mere professors of Christianity on the other. . . Satan directs his enmity against true Christians, the elect remnant: the others he leaves unmolested. ” Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Revelation Chapter 12 “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus. ” Revelation 12: 17

Revelation Chapter 12 “. . . which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus. ” “. . . for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. ” Revelation 19: 10

Revelation Chapter 12 “. . . See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. ” Rev. 22: 9

Revelation Chapter 12 “. . . by the operation of one and the same Spirit, who enables me to show you these revelations and enables you to record them: wherefore we are fellow servants. ” Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Gifts of the Spirit “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit. . . to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits. . . ”

Identifying the True • Arose after 1798 Remnant • Are a small minority • Keep the Ten Commandments • Has the “spirit of prophecy” • Has global evangelism work

Identifying the True Seventh-day Baptists Mormons Remnant Jehovah’s Witnesses Roman Catholic Pentecostals Seventh-day Adventists Islam Church of Christ, Scientist United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, aka “Shakers”

Identifying the True Arose after 1798 — why? Remnant The true remnant of God was “hidden in the wilderness” for a specific period of time — 1260 prophetic “days” or 1260 literal years.

Identifying the True Arose after 1798 — Remnant • Seventh-day Baptists (1651) • Mormons (1820) • Jehovah’s Witnesses (1870) • Pentecostals (1906) • Seventh-day Adventists (1863)

Identifying the True Has world-wide evangelism — Remnant • Mormons • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Pentecostals • Seventh-day Adventists • Roman Catholics

Identifying the True Has the “spirit of prophecy” — Remnant • Mormons • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Pentecostals • Seventh-day Adventists

Identifying the True Seventh-day Baptists Mormons Remnant Jehovah’s Witnesses Roman Catholic Pentecostals Seventh-day Adventists Islam Church of Christ, Scientist United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, aka “Shakers”

Who’s Authority? “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” Exodus 20: 8 -10

Who’s Authority? “Question: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day. ”

Who’s Authority? “Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? “Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. ” Peter Geiermann, The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50

Who’s Authority? “You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we [Roman Catholics] never sanctify. ” James Cardinal Gibbons The Faith of Our Fathers (1880), p. 111

Who’s Authority? “The observance of the Lord’s day [Sunday] is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church. ” Augsburg Confession of Faith, quoted in Catholic Sabbath Manual, Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 10.

Who’s Authority? “There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. . . Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament – absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week. ” Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, author of The Baptist Manual, in a paper read before a New York ministers’ conference held Nov. 13, 1893

Who’s Authority? “The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment begins with the word ‘remember, ’ showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the law on the tables of stone at Sinai. . ”

Who’s Authority? “. . . How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding? ” D. L. Moody Weighed and Wanting, p. 47

Creeping “We confess that the Pope has Compromise power of changing Scripture and of adding to it, and taking from it, according to his will. ” Roman Catholic Confessions for Protestants Oath, Article XI

Creeping Compromise “He is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge of councils; the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged by no one, God himself on earth. ” Quoted in the New York Catechism

Who is the Authority? “The twelfth encyclical of John Paul’s papacy is dedicated to the subject of Christian reunification and appropriately entitled ‘May They All Be One. ’. . . The pope identifies five key doctrines that need further study before we ‘reach full communion’. . . ”

Who is the Authority? 1. Authority of Scripture vs. church tradition 2. Infallibility of the pope as the church’s doctrinal authority 3. Ordination of priests 4. Power of the Eucharist 5. Co-mediation of Mary

Identifying the True • Arose after 1798 Remnant • Are a small minority • Keep the Ten Commandments • Has the “spirit of prophecy” • Has global evangelism work

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