SWYC 2007: In This Generation

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GYC Southwest

SWYC 2007 Plenary Sessions

Stephen Bohr

Changing The Times

Revelation’s Sanctuary Pattern

Lessons from the Two-horned Beast

Ivor Myers

Samson’s Riddle

His Death Shall Bring

Without Hands

The Law of Relationships

Before we open God's Word this afternoon, I would like to make a short announcement.

I represent a ministry called Secrets Unsealed, And our intention is not only to evangelize outside, but to evangelize inside the Adventist church.

Sometimes the greatest evangelism is inside.

And so we produce materials that are Not primarily for outreach, although they're good for that also, but for what we call inreach.

And we have a booth here, and we have a marketing director and her husband with us, as well as several of the Fresno Central Church members, and they would like to meet you at our booth after lunch today, upstairs.

For everyone who goes by our booth, if you sign up on our mailing list, you will receive a free complimentary copy of the DVD, Worship at Satan's Throne, which deals with the theological foundations of why we talk so much about not worshipping the way many churches are worshipping today.

It's all centered in the message to the Church of Philadelphia.

And so it's a two-hour presentation, by the way, on DVD, and it's free to you if you go by our booth and you sign up on our mailing list.

Also there's other goodies up there, and so I invite you to go by and talk to Eileen.

She's a good marketer in the good sense of the word and So we hope that you will make it a point to visit our booth.

So let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Father in heaven, we thank you for the awesome privilege of being in this place.

But we thank you so much for the rain and father I ask that you will pour out your rain upon us now in this meeting the abundant rain of your Holy Spirit I ask Lord that you will open our minds and give us understanding and open our hearts and give us a willingness to stand for you though the heavens fall, though it means giving up our life because we love Jesus.

We thank you Father for being with us and for hearing our prayer, for we ask it in the precious name of Jesus, Amen.

I want to review as we begin what we studied in our sermon last night.

Very briefly let's go through Daniel chapter 7.

Daniel 7 we have a lion, what does the lion represent?

Then we have a bear, what does the bear represent?

Then we have a leopard, what does the leopard represent?

Then we have a fourth beast, what does that fourth Beast represent?

The Dragon Beast by itself, the Dragon Beast with 10 horns, the Dragon Beast with a little horn, And then the final stage of the little horn.

Now let's turn in our Bibles to Revelation chapter 13.

Revelation 13 is actually repeating what we find in Daniel 7 using some of the same symbols but also using some different symbols.

Revelation chapter 13 and I want you to notice verse 2.

It speaks about this beast that rises from the waters from the sea And you'll notice it says in verse 2, Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion.

The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

Now you'll notice here that we have the same beasts of Daniel 7.

We have a lion, we have a bear, we have a leopard, and we have a dragon beast.

And by the way if you go back to Revelation 12 you notice that the dragon beast has 10 horns So you have a lion a bear a leopard a dragon beast with 10 horns And then I want you to notice at the end of verse 2 what this dragon beast with 10 horns does.

Chapter 13 and verse 2 the last part of the verse says, the dragon gave him, that is gave this beast, his power, his throne, and great authority.

So this verse is talking about the transition from pagan Rome to papal Rome.

Now I want you to notice the time period that this little horn of Daniel 7, this beast of Revelation 13 governs.

Revelation 13 and notice verse 5, and he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies is that the same thing the little horn did absolutely let me not read the last part of the verse Let's just go to verse 7 for a moment.

It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them.

Is that the same thing the little horn did?

And now notice the time period at the end of verse 5.

And he was given authority to continue how long?

Which is the same as time, times, and half a time.

See time, 1 year, times, the dual without a qualifier means 2 times and then a half time.

I won't go into how you can prove that from the Bible.

3 1⁄2 years times 360 days per year and the total is 1260.

Now if the biblical year has 360 days, the biblical month must have 30.

Because 30 times 12, 30 days times 12 months gives what?

So you have 42 months here, so you multiply 42 months times what times 30 and where is the total 1260 so basically we're told that the beast at least in its first stage of existence, ruled for a period of 1, 260 years.

It says, and I saw 1 of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded." So what happened to this beast?

By the way, each head governs consecutively.

So when the head is wounded, the beast is wounded.

And so it says, I saw 1 of his heads as though he had been mortally wounded by the way when was the mortal wound given it would have to be after the 1260 years right because if it's after the 1260 years then he governed longer than 1260 years.

And so it says, it continues saying, and his deadly wound was what?

Was healed and all the world marveled and followed the beast.

How many stages of existence does the beast have?

It has the period of the 42 months, it's wounded, and then its deadly wound is what?

Healed, and the whole world marvels and wonders after the beast.

Now here is a very important question that I want to ask.

What was this beast wounded with that took away its authority and its power and its rulership?

He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity.

Did this system lead God's people into captivity?

And now notice, he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword.

With the sword and therefore he was going to be killed with the sword.

We usually say that the sword represents the word of God.

But in the Bible, symbols are flexible depending on the context in which they appear.

It can't refer to the Bible, the sword here.

Well, simply because the sword that kills the beast is the same sword that he used to kill and the papacy did not use the Bible to kill.

And we'll read the first 4 verses of Romans chapter 13.

Here the apostle Paul is discussing the authority of the civil power and he says this, let every soul be subject to the governing authorities, that is to the state, to the civil power, for there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.

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SWYC 2007 Plenary Sessions

Lessons from the Two-horned Beast

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