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Pandemic at the Door

Eric Walsh

COVID19: Not Afraid - Part 1

COVID19: Not Afraid - Part 2

Stopping the Pandemic at the Door

COVID19: Not Afraid - Part 3

COVID19: Spiritual Distancing - Deep Prophecy Version

COVID19: Not Afraid - Part 4

The Pandemic of Perversion

Don’t Cry for Jesus: Warning to the Last Generation

Pandemic of Persecution - Part 1

Pandemic of Persecution - Part 2

Pandemic of Addiction

After the Lockdown: Through Trials and Difficulties

Appetite for Pandemic

Father God, we thank you once again for bringing us into this place.

We thank you, Father, for allowing us this opportunity to study your word in history and prophecy.

I ask, Father God, that you make me just a nail upon the wall, a rusty, sorry nail, Lord.

And upon that nail, Lord, I ask that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Lord, let Eric Walsh not be seen or heard.

Instead, Father God, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

This is our prayer in Jesus's precious and holy name.

Revelation chapter 6 is where we'll jump back to.

We'll build a little bit back up from where we left off last time.

There's so much I wish I could go into, but in a two-part piece, there's a lot that I can't.

And there are some deeper spiritual messaging that I find in these verses that I want to share.

And so I'm not going to get into this as if it was a Revelation seminar, but really more kind of as what I call a sermonar, where we kind of blend a sermon in with a seminar.

So Revelation 6 and verse 7 says, And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, come and see.

And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword, and with hunger and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." This is, we talked about this being the church during the dark ages and the persecution of the faithful during this time through programs like the Spanish Inquisition and the desire to destroy the heretics, the quote-unquote heretics in Europe and eventually even around the world.

1 of the things that we highlighted last time is that here where it says in verse 8 of Revelation 6, it says that to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death.

And the word for death there is thanatos.

The word that I mentioned last time is also the word that Marvel Comics used to create the villain Thanos.

And so here it says that you are to kill with death.

A lot of times that's translated pestilence, and since we're in the middle of a pandemic, a pestilence, it is interesting that this is embedded in this church, which would have been the church that would have existed around the churches of Revelation chapter 3 of Thyatira and Sardis, which we'll come back to later on.

So this is where we are in the story, where the people of God are being persecuted.

It is a terrible time, and the world went so far backwards that we still to this day call the time when the papacy ruled the world with almost complete omnipotence around the world, complete power, we still call that the Dark Ages.

We talked last time about how Galileo, the great astronomer, was actually taken in front of 1 of these tribunals and put under house arrest and died.

It was a time where science and information and progress were completely stifled.

But it was predicted in the scripture, Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2, 3, 4, and 7, speaking of what we described last time as this little horn power, it said, let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come Except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." Paul says, listen, even right now, there is working underfoot.

The idea that as we studied through the 4 horses of Revelation, that after the white horse, the first horse, which only lasted until about 100 AD, that afterwards, quickly and swiftly, paganism would slip into the church and begin to take hold of the church.

And eventually, the church would go from a white horse to a black horse after the red horse of the influence of paganism.

And under the black horse, the church gained, the papacy gained complete control.

And then under the pale horse where we land today, the church now has political and religious power.

That's what Paul was warning them of way back when he wrote to the Thessalonians.

Revelation 6, 9, and 10 says, And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw unto the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.

They cried with a loud voice saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true!

Dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

And we talked last time about how the blood of Cain called out, of the blood of Abel, sorry, called out to God when he, the blood of Abel called out to God after his brother Cain had killed him.

This is Symbolic imagery stating that when the righteous are slaughtered, that God hears and sees it all.

As this time period moves forward, there are certain things that begin to happen.

As Martin Luther, on October 31st, interesting that that date now holds other meaning, but as he stood there over 500 years ago and he hammered his 95 thesis into the wall of that church, he began what, he actually continued what was a great reform movement against many of the false teachings and doctrines of the church at the time.

And this to me, as you study this thing, is the time when this blood begins to cry out.

When those who had been put under false trials and tortured, persecuted, and slain, now, hundreds of thousands of them at least, and that's a conservative estimate, Now, as the Protestant Reformation comes forward, what they died for was justified.

People like the Waldensees and others who suffered at the hands of the Vatican and the papacy under the times of the Dark Ages.

And ultimately what happens to end this time at around the time when, as the 7 seals move through and you get to the sixth seal, 1 of the things that happens in 1798, his birth year, arrests Pope Pius the sixth.

And as you can see here in this picture, and this took away the temporal power from the Vatican.

I want you to understand before this, they had political and religious power, but the French, after the French Huguenots had suffered, and we'll talk more about them in a second, under the rule of the Vatican, it's as if Napoleon, a couple hundred years later, looking back, realizes that this type of rule is not good and he turns Italy into a republic and wants Europe to be led a different way.

There's a lot more that you can unpack from that, but what ends up happening, however, is that that is a wound, a deadly wound, as we'll see it's called later on, that is received by the papacy.

This deadly wound changes everything because it is the beginning of the end of the persecution of the Dark Ages.

And so some say, well, those Dark Ages, it didn't really happen, and they argue it, but here the Pope apologizes for killing Protestants.

After 500 years, and this is from the Trumpet Journal, The Pope aims to end the biggest split in Christendom, a development that would radically expand the prestige and reach of the Catholic Church.

So the Pope says, listen, we're sorry, we killed Protestants all those years ago.

And the Pope comes forward because the Pope, as we're gonna see, is trying to bring the world back together under Catholicism.

But the article goes on, it says some other things.

It says, the trumpet has long said that the Catholic Church would play a major role in unifying Europe.

Once again, the only unifying authority which the coming 10 nations of Roman Catholic Europe can accept is the Pope of Rome." Now, it's from Herbert Armstrong.

He wrote that back in 1961 in Plain Truth magazine.

Armstrong saw the potential religious unity and political unity to be linked.

This was even before the Vatican II Council, the famous Catholic meeting that revolutionized the church's approach to outside groups and began laying the groundwork for the type of unity the church is seeking now.

They quote here and they say, the nations of Europe want to go together, yet they are competitive against each other.

This is before the European Union was formed.

The common market is knocking down the chief competitive barrier, trade.

That's what the European Union's Common Market does, he wrote in that same article.

Another serious barrier has been religion.

Protestants have been unwilling to submit to the authority of the pope.

But that barrier, too, is fast crumbling.

He said this back in, I believe they're quoting back to 1961.

Everywhere there is a relaxing of Protestant opposition against the Roman Catholic Church.

There was a deadly wound, we talked about in 1798, that is being healed.

And this is being spoken of from the Trumpet Magazine.

Today, both economic and religious barriers to a united Europe are greatly weakened, he wrote.

The Pope is the 1 political leader who can demolish the political barrier.

All that is needed is a new fear for their common safety from Russia.

Now, this was written during the time of the Cold War, But I want you to notice that he says that the Pope is the 1 political leader Even though the Pope is supposed to be a religious leader The quest to heal the wound is a quest to bring the political power back to the Vatican So he goes on the article goes on says the super state that the European Union elites want to create is not possible without some kind of common heritage, which is why we set, see it on the brink of collapse today.

Only the Catholic Church can provide that heritage.

Having close relations with Europe's major churches is a necessary precondition.

Armstrong pointed out, that is already in place.

So the writer from the recent article is saying all of this.

No major religious group in Europe opposes the Catholic Church.

No major religious group in Europe opposes the Catholic Church or the Pope in principle.

There are merely a narrowing number of doctrinal disagreements.

Now they're saying not only is the Pope going to bring the political side of this all together, and I should have put up some pictures from the Capitol, I've been to the headquarters of the European Union and how all of the Catholic imagery as if the Catholic Church is the official church of the European Union.

But now they're saying that's the political side.

They're also saying from a doctrinal side that there are merely a narrowing number of doctrinal disagreements.

In other words, from a theological standpoint, the differences are going to fall away.

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