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Ceres SDA Church

Revelation Today Crusade

Anil Kanda

1. The Ancient Calendar that Reveals Your Future

2. The End Of the World: Near or Just Fear?

3. War Of the Stars

4. Prophecy’s Answer to the Skeptic

5. Prophecy’s Search For the Ark

6. Daniel’s Long Time Prophecy

7. God On Trial

8. Prophecy’s Haunted House

9. God’s Love Revealed In Hellfire

10. Antichrist Exposed- Part 1

11. Antichrist Exposed- Part 2

12. Antichrist’s Greatest Deception

13. America In Bible Prophecy

14. The Mark of the Beast Revealed

15. How Egypt Proved the Bible to be True

16. Prophecy’s Why So Many Churches

17. Prophecy’s Warship

18. Prophecy’s Waterfall

19. The Testimony of Pastor Anil Kanda

20. The Final Prophecy

Tonight's message is entitled, Why So Many Churches?

Why So Many Churches and How Does Bible Prophecy Show That?

When you look in the Bible, you discover there's only 1 Jesus.

However, what you discover in Bible prophecy is that there are 2 women contending for the name of Christ.

There are 2 women contending for the name of Christ.

You have what the Bible describes as the harlot woman of Revelation 17.

And then you find out that there is a pure woman found in Revelation chapter 12.

And you discover these 2 women are vying or contending for the name of Christ.

And what you begin to discover in Bible prophecy is that a woman in Bible prophecy simply represents the people of God.

What you find in Jeremiah chapter 6, verse 2, this is what Jeremiah says, I have likened or compared the daughter of Zion to a lovely and delicate woman.

Oftentimes Christ's church is called the bride of Christ.

So a woman in Bible prophecy represents a group of people who are following God.

And what you find out is that there are 2 women who are vying for the affection of God.

However, there's something interesting about 1 of the women and there's something quite unusual about the other woman.

So what we find is 2 groups of people vying for the name of Christ.

We're coming right down to the very end of this world's history, and because of it, all sorts of things are taking place.

Deception is worldwide, and what we are finding is there is mass confusion.

And we wanna make sure we're following the word of God.

So what we're going to do is we're going to first identify this first harlot woman.

So everybody take your Bible, let's go to Revelation chapter 17, verse 1.

We need to identify this woman, this scarlet woman.

Let's find out more about her and what the book of Revelation says.

Revelation chapter 17 starting with verse 1.

Okay, well let's discover who this woman is.

Verse 1, then 1 of the 7 angels who talked, who had, excuse me, then 1 of the 7 angels who talked, who had, excuse me, then 1 of the 7 angels who had the 7 bulls and talked with me, saying to me, come I will show you the judgment of the great what?

Harlot, who sits on many waters with whom the kings of the earth 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 what?

Scarlet beast, which was full of names of blasphemy, having 7 heads and 10 horns.

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

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

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.

But the angel said to me, Why do you marvel?

I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the 7 heads and the 10 horns.

The beast which you saw was and is not and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition.

And those who dwell on the earth will marvel whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world when they see the beast that was and is not and yet is.

Here is the mind which has wisdom, the 7 heads, or 7 mountains on which the woman sits.

Now we take a good look at some of these characteristics and what we begin to discover is that these traits begin to help us identify very clearly who this beast power is.

Well let's take a good look at this number 1 she is called a harlot does anybody know what a harlot is a Prostitute that's exactly right the Bible makes it very clear.

This woman is a prostitute in other words she's selling her body for what?

We also discover she's dressed in purple and scarlet.

Because when you go to the Old Testament, only the priests were dressed in purple and scarlet.

And so this woman has this religious garb.

Number 3, she's not just called a harlot, she's called the what?

Blasphemy well, let's keep going with some of these identification points She sits on 7 hills or 7 mountains as the Bible says She persecuted the saints and she ruled over the kings of the earth.

So when we take a good look at all those characteristics, we have come across this power before, we have come across this church before.

We know very well who this church is clearly identified as.

And what we discover is about, this is referring to the Roman church system.

In fact, you go out into the world and what you will discover about Rome, it's called the city on the 7 hills.

But there's a lot more identification that's there that we need to understand.

And it helps us understand why this is extremely important when it comes to Bible prophecy.

What we discover is the papal power has connections all over the world, influence all over the world, not just Christian countries, but well-known third-world countries whose primary religion is not Christianity.

Not just Islamic countries, but even Hindu countries, we discover that the Roman papal church power has hands in nearly everything.

Many world leaders will consult the Pope when it comes to making big decisions, world decisions, foreign policies.

And so we see very clearly that this harlot woman is none other than the same Roman church system that we have identified.

We understand from Bible prophecy that the whole world wanders after this power.

We learned several quotations and by the way, somebody also asked me a question at the table, and by the way, when I'm going around the table and I haven't met you yet, feel free to shake my hand, I'd love to meet you.

But somebody asked me a question about all the quotations that we're putting up.

If you want, tomorrow, I'm going to have about 4 pages of those quotes and I'll get them to you.

Okay, we'll make sure we get that to you tomorrow.

And you see some of these quotations about blasphemy, claiming to be God and claiming to have the power to what?

And those were the things that the Jews actually accused Jesus of.

But he wasn't committing blasphemy because he really was God and really could forgive sins.

We discover some of these quotations as, let's continue with this.

For he is so great dignity and power that he forms 1 and the same tribunal with Christ.

We the popes hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

The pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but He is Jesus Christ Himself hidden under the veil of flesh.

We discover several of these quotations from Catholic leadership, Catholic literature, identifying the title of the Pope.

We also discover something very interesting and this helps us understand more about Bible prophecy.

Written, Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth.

We discover that on this woman's name, on this woman's head, there is a very interesting name written.

This isn't just like the Babylon of the old days.

This is Babylon, modern day Babylon, modern day confusion.

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