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Amazing Facts

Prophecies of Hope

Lowell Hargreaves

26. Modern, Magic, Miracles, and the Occult

27. Revelation’s “Time No Longer!”

28. The Unpardonable Sin

29. God’s Washing Machine

30. What Will Heaven Be Like?

31. Revelation’s Last Plagues

Michael Hargreaves

1. Mysteries of Bible Prophecy

2. Dinosaurs Prove the Bible True

3. Revelation’s Mother of All Battles

4. Revelation’s Omega, The Secret to Personal Power!

5. UFOs, the Occult, and Christ’s Coming

6. The AntiChrist Coverup!

7. Revelation’s Two Martyrs

8. The Topic that Satan Hates

9. $10,000 Offer for Missing Bible Verse!

10. The Bible’s Longest, Most Amazing Prophecy!

11. The Mysteries of the Mummies

12. The Devil’s Door!

13. Revelation’s Lake of Fire!

14. The Three Steps to Heaven

15. Revelation’s Millennium, when the Devil Goes on Vacation!

16. Survival Keys for Revelation’s End-Time!

17. Revelation’s Gateway to a New Life

18. Revelation Exposes the AntiChrist and 666!

19. The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast

20. Revelation’s Woman on the Moon!

22. Modern Prophets Visions and Dreams

25. Haunted House! Satan’s Deadly Trojan Horses!

23. Mystery Babylon, Revelation’s Scarlet Harlot!

21. The Secret to Financial Prosperity

32. Questions and Answers from Prophecies of Hope

Our topic for tonight is Revelation's Woman on the Moon.

There is a statement from the book, The End of Religious Controversy, page 95.

If we were to ask every church in Manila that question, what would they each say?

There are today an estimated 40, 000 different Christian churches, groups, or denominations globally.

Of the 40, 000 different churches, how many can be right, son?

I'm sure because we can read it in the Bible.

Let's go read it from Ephesians 4, verses 4 and 5.

Ephesians 4, 4 and 5 says, For there is 1 body, the body is the church, Colossians 1, 18, For there is 1 body and 1 spirit, even as you are called in 1 hope of your calling, 1 Lord, 40000 faiths and 1...

Out of the 40, 000 different churches, the Bible says there can only be 1 true 1.

Most people today simply inherit their religion.

And if you ask them why they belong to a particular church, they'll say, well, I grew up in this church.

Grandpa and grandma belonged to this church.

So I guess that's why I belong to this church.

Is that a good reason to belong to a church?

Because mom and dad belong to that church?

Well, let's just say, for example, that my relatives were Buddhists.

And I said, well, all my relatives are Buddhists, my grandparents are Buddhists, my parents are Buddhists, my friends are Buddhists, they're all Buddhists, and so if it was good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

Will I ever learn the truth of God if I have that attitude?

No, we must be willing to examine our faith in the light of Bible truth.

And if we discover that our faith is not in harmony with the Bible, then we must be willing to make changes.

Other people, they belong to a church because it's the big church, the popular church.

People like to belong to a big movement, a big church, a popular church.

But if I belong to the big church, the 1 that everybody else goes to, what does Jesus have to say about that?

Well, Jesus says in Matthew 7 verse 13, enter in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.

So if I'm going the broad way, the way everybody else is going, what road am I on?

The next verse says, because straight is the gate, narrow is the way which leads unto life, and how many?

So 1 thing is obvious, the true church is not going to be the world's biggest church, because Jesus says the way to life is a narrow way and few find it.

And I've often said I'd rather belong to a little tiny church that's teaching the truth than be a part of a big church's following tradition.

But how, Father, can I find the true church?

Well, I suppose what I should do is look for a perfect church.

If I could find a perfect church and I joined it, it would no longer be perfect because I would spoil it.

If you're looking for a perfect church, you won't find 1 because churches are made up of people and people are not perfect.

But we should be able to find a church that has a perfect doctrine.

You open your Bible and look for the identifying marks for God's true church, and then you look around to see what church meets those marks.

And that's what we're gonna do in our study this evening.

Does Christ have a true church on earth today?

Let's go read it from 1 Timothy 3, verse 15.

1 Timothy 3, 15, the Bible says, "'But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." So God does have a church, and it is to be the pillar, the foundation, the defender of the truth.

Fact is, the church is to be the defender of the truth.

The true church is to be the defender of the truth.

There are many churches today that are defending tradition, but the true church is going to be defending the truth.

That's our first identifying feature of the true church.

Well that leads us to the question, what is truth?

So the true church will be following Jesus Christ, not Antichrist, not man.

It will be teaching the Bible, not the traditions of man, and it will be keeping God's commandments instead of man's commandments.

Because the true church is defending the truth.

I look for the Bible identifying marks for the true church, and then I look to see what church meets those marks.

Son, Where in the Bible do you suppose we could find the best identifying marks for God's end time church?

Well, of course it would be in the book of Revelation that last day book that prophetic book Let's go to Revelation and In Revelation we find 2 women symbolized.

2 Corinthians 11 2, for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy, for I have espoused you to 1 husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

So Jesus is the husband, the church is the bride, the church is the wife of Jesus.

In prophecy, when a church is faithful to her husband, who's the husband?

When she is obedient to her husband, follows the teachings of her husband, that church is pictured in prophecy as a pure, virtuous woman.

When a church is not faithful to her husband, when she adopts worldly traditions, worldly practices, worldly customs, That church is pictured as an unfaithful wife, a harlot in prophecy.

A harlot in Bible prophecy always symbolizes an apostate Christian church.

The woman is supposed to be married to Jesus, but she is pictured as a harlot.

And you can read about this woman in Revelation, she's called Babylon.

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Prophecies of Hope

20. Revelation’s Woman on the Moon!

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Prophecies of Hope

23. Mystery Babylon, Revelation’s Scarlet Harlot!

45m

Babylon, America, and Bible Prophecy

18 Revelation Reveals the Bride of Christ

1h 33m

So You Think You Are a Leader?

2. Learning From Trump

56m

Prophecies of Hope

27. Revelation’s “Time No Longer!”

1h

Which Way, America?

18 Modern-Day Prophets

58m

Unlocking Prophecy

17- Prophecy Predicts a People

1h

Restoration 2023

Search for the True Church & Prophets and Prophecy

1h 7m

Restoration 2023

More than Enough & The Gift of the Spirit

1h 1m

Amazing Discoveries Reveal the Future

Are You in the Wrong Church? Here’s the Bible Test

57m

Why Am I a SDA?

5. What’s Wrong with Being a Cultural Adventist?

49m

Hebrews 11- Faith

08 The Faith of Jacob

40m

Revelation Today Crusade

17. Prophecy’s Warship

1h

Sound Doctrine