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Amazing Facts

Prophecy Encounter

Doug Batchelor

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 1

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 2

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 1

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 2

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 1

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 2

144,000 & The Seal of God, Pt. 1

The Woman of Light

A Prophet in the River

The Mark of the Beast

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 1

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 2

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The 14th century Aztec Empire was 1 of the most powerful and sophisticated civilizations in the Western Hemisphere.

Yet this kingdom of 2000000 people was conquered within a year by a Spanish force of just 600 lightly armored men.

Well the Aztecs believed in the coming of Quetzalcoatl, a legendary, feathered, bearded, light-skinned god-king who was going to come from across the sea to Mexico.

When the conquistadors arrived in 1519, Hernando Cortes impersonated this god of the Aztecs to befuddle the superstitious King Montezuma.

By fooling the native people, Cortes completed his conquest that included enslaving and murdering many of them.

The vague prophecies of their Aztec God easily pave the way for a counterfeit.

Jesus has foretold in the last days, many false Christs and false prophets will use great signs and wonders to deceive, if it were possible, even God's very elect.

He also said, most people will be deceived.

That's why you need to join me for today's program as we learn from the Bible how to identify false Christ's and false prophets.

I want to welcome those again who are watching to the Prophecy Encounter series.

Now if this is the first time you're tuning in, you do need to brace yourself because we're going to be, you're going to be hearing just 1 of the most intense controversial presentations that can be coming from the book of Revelation and we just are praying for God's spirit to be with us, you pray for me that I'll just say things gracefully but I also want to be faithful and sharing the truth with you because as Christ said, the time is at hand.

Presentation tonight is dealing with the subject, A Woman Rides a Beast and this harkens from a prophecy in a picture that you'll find in Revelation 17.

Now in this presentation in particular, we're gonna be talking about what is this beast that keeps reappearing in the books of Revelation and Daniel.

So what are some of the primary clues to identify the Antichrist beast that you find in Revelation 17.

Revelation chapter 17, and this is where you need to like take a deep breath.

Then 1 of the 7 angels, verse 1, who had the 7 bowls, he came and he talked with me saying, come and I'll show you the judgment of the great harlot, that's obvious she's not good, who sits on many waters, What do the waters represent?

Control over many people, with whom the kings of the earth, the governments, have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of names of blasphemy, having 7 heads and 10 horns.

And the woman was arrayed, she's clothed in purple and scarlet, what colors did I say?

And adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, sounds beautiful, and a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication was in her hand.

And her forehead a name is written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

I'll tell you the mystery of the woman and the beast that carries her." So, let's go ahead now and go into the interpretations that you'll find here.

And the woman that you saw, you look in the last verse in chapter 17, if you got your Bible there, it says, the woman that you saw is that great city that reigns over the kingdoms of the earth.

When John was a prisoner on the Isle of Patmos, what great city was reigning over the kings of the earth?

If I said nothing else, you ought to start getting it right there.

And this is, I think, a pretty vivid example of Bible prophecy being clear.

If you want to argue with Gabriel, you take it up with him.

But he told John, here's the mind that has wisdom, the 7 heads are 7 mountains in which the woman sits.

Now, is everybody here aware that if you just look in the encyclopedia, it's going to tell you Rome is called the City of 7 Hills?

Is there a principal church that has its headquarters in Rome?

Purple and scarlet are the official colors of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinals wear scarlet robes and the archbishops wear purple.

And you'll even find times where the Pope will wear both.

What other clues were given there in Chapter 17?

It says that the woman is adorned with precious stones, with gold and precious stones and pearls.

Well, have any of you ever been to Rome and seen the Vatican and some of the treasures there?

It says, the Vatican treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine.

That's the gold that is in the American Reserve, it's in Switzerland, it's in a variety of banks, it's not counting the gold in the actual priceless treasures they own, and it doesn't count the real estate, it does not count all their holdings in silver, and the cash that they have invested, they are 1 of the wealthiest institutions in the world.

And if you read in, it says the golden chalice in there, you can go to the Catholic Encyclopedia, it occupies first place among all the sacred vessels of the church.

Are there any clear points from which we can draw from Daniel 7 to help us identify the Antichrist power.

All right, so now we're looking back in Daniel 7, we're comparing Scripture with Scripture, and it gives us 10 characteristics.

And it says that, first of all, it arises from among the 10.

It rules for 1, 260 year or time, a time and the dividing of time.

It's changed God's law, he would think, to change times and laws.

And this is little horn power that's got...

It's unique or different from the others.

Does the papacy fit these 10 points that we just saw?

Look here, first of all, did it come up from among the main nations that you find in Europe.

It came up in the middle of the Mediterranean.

I saw these beasts come up from the great sea.

What was the great sea for Bible writers?

They had the Sea of Galilee, they had the Dead Sea, and then they had the Great Sea, which is the Mediterranean.

And of course, Italy is a peninsula in the very midst of the Great Sea.

And so that's where it says his power rises up.

It says the dragon gave him his power, his seat, and great authority.

So pagan Rome, which is the dragon, then gives the very position to this new institution that developed.

With the conversion of Constantine, you realize Christianity was called religio elicite in Rome to begin with.

Christians were chased out of Rome at 1 point, and Jews.

You can read that in the book of Acts, and it was forbidden and they were terribly persecuted.

But over time, Constantine was fighting battles on the outside, he was a Roman emperor, and he said, you know, Christians aren't hurting anybody, they're pretty peaceful.

Nero wanted to wipe them out, but it didn't work, the more they persecuted them, the more they grew.

And he claimed to have a vision, he said, I'm now to fight and conquer under the sign of the cross.

Constantine legalized Christianity and his mother was a Christian, and almost overnight it became vogue to be a Christian, and everybody in the government wanted to be a Christian, and all of a sudden all the pagan priests and the pagan gods in Rome, they said, you know, what do we do with our gods?

And there was a big rush, all of a sudden, everyone wanted to be a Christian.

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