Bible Prophecy Today
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Brothers and Sisters,
We have a Wonderful God, He is a very loving, kind and merciful God, and yet He is just and righteous in all that He does. He loves all His children, including those who do not love Him. He loves every rebellious Son and Daughter on this planet, He gives life to every person on earth, He sends the rain and the sunshine to bless both the righteous and the wicked with good things to eat. But very few of His children give Him any thanks for all these blessings.
When we awaken to the joy of a new day, what a blessing ! While we sleep thousands of people die without Jesus as their Saviour, lost, eternally lost, how terribly sad. We must be about our Heavenly Father’s business. We must share His love with everyone who will listen. We must tell them what Jesus has done for us and what He wants to do for them. Our lives must be a living example of the goodness, mercy and love of God for every person. “God so loved the world”. He has no favorites. God made all men equal. No race of men are better than another, it is the devil who has planted this evil in the hearts of men and leads them to commit the most horrible crimes against one another.
Jesus died to save every person who will accept His sacrifice as an atonement for their sins. He calls for men everywhere to repent and be baptized in the name of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If we have been truly converted, if we have been truly “born again”, our lives will show it. When the world looks at the way I live, do they see reflected in me the life of Jesus ? Millions confess with their mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, but few are living examples of the Savior !
1 John 1: 7 – 9.
“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and The Truth is not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.”
Have we been washed in the blood of Jesus ?
When we have been washed in the blood of Jesus are we still sinners ? Yes, we are still sinners, but now our sins are forgiven. Does that mean we will never sin again ? No, all of us will sin again. What is the difference between those who have been washed in the blood of Jesus and still sin and those who have rejected the blood of Jesus and continue in sin ?
When we have been truly “born again” do we willfully choose to sin ? Yes, we choose to sin. Sin is always a conscious choice. When we accept Christ as our Saviour and start climbing the narrow path to the City of God, we have just started a war with the Devil ! Our sinful nature is still there. Satan knows that and attacks us on our weakest points. But, praise God we have a Mighty Helper, Jesus Christ, who has defeated Satan on our behalf and is instantly available to help us. One great advantage we have is that the “help line” is never busy ! The Spirit of God will give us instant help to defeat the Devil and send him running for cover !
So, how do we come to the place where we will no longer sin ? Is it possible to totally stop sinning ? Yes, we will, by the grace of God and the power of His Holy Spirit, come to the time when we will no longer sin. But, we will not know that we have reached that point in our life, only God knows. Can we enter heaven if we are still making excuses for our sins ? No, not one person will enter heaven who is still choosing to sin.
What shall we do with God’s instruction in Matthew 5:48
“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
Is that possible ? To be as perfect as God ?
Would God ask us to do that which it is impossible for us to do ? God will never ask us to do anything that we can not do.
What must we do then to come to the perfection of character that God requires. What would you say is the number one thing we must do once we have repented, confessed our sins and have been cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus ? What do you think of this verse:
1 Thess. 5; 17
“Pray without ceasing.”
This is so important ! We must be in constant contact with The Holy Spirit
if we would keep from sinning. It is
The Spirit of God that gives us victory over sin. And what about this verse:
James 4:7
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
In the Precious Name of Jesus we can say NO to the devil ! We can choose not to sin !
We must “pray without ceasing” and claim every promise God has given for victory over sin.
Here is one promise in Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
And this one in John 15: 5 “I am The Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.”
Without Christ’s help we can not be perfect as God requires, but if we believe and pray with an honest heart, wanting victory over sin with all our heart, Christ will give us victory over every sin and by His Righteousness we can be perfect
as Our Father in Heaven is perfect ! All the praise belongs to Jesus who has already fought the Devil and defeated him !
Titus 3: 5 & 6. “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
3:6 Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;..”
The Apostle Paul uses a graphic illustration of our deliverance from sin in Romans 7: 24 & 25.
“O wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 6: 23. “
Brothers and Sisters, we should have been crucified, we should have suffered and died; we should have hung on that cross in disgrace, but Jesus, wonderful loving Savior took our place.
Thank You Dear Jesus !
What is this terrible thing called sin that caused the death of God’s Son ? 1 John 3: 4
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of The Law.”
Is that true ? Yes, God does not lie !
What Law is this ? God’s Ten Commandments.
Some people tell us they were nailed to the cross ! Others say we can not keep them. Still others say we should keep nine of them, but we can throw out # 4 ! What does God say ?
James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
But now just a minute, when did James write this ? Before or after the cross ? How come Jesus didn’t tell James the Law was going to be nailed to the cross ?
Look at 1 John 2: 3 & 4
“And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His Commandments.
He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and The Truth is not in him.”
This is a very serious matter ! Did John write this before or after the cross ? This was after the cross ! But why didn’t Jesus tell John the Commandments would be nailed to the cross ?
This is very serious brothers and sisters. Look again at verse 3: “And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His Commandments.”
If we are not keeping all ten of God’s Commandments, then we do not know The Father or The Son or The Holy Spirit !
Look again at verse 4: “He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and The Truth is not in him.”
Are we keeping all of God’s Commandments ? If not then God says we are liars ! God said it not me !
But I believe it because God said it and God can not lie !
Look at verse 4 again: “He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and The Truth is not in him.”
Who is The Truth ? Jesus said that He was The Truth.
So, if we know God we will keep all ten of His Commandments.
If we say we know God and do not keep all ten of His Commandments we are a liar !
If we do not keep all 10 of God’s Commandments The Truth is not abiding in our hearts !
If we do not keep all 10 of God’s Commandments Jesus is not abiding in our hearts because Jesus is The Truth !
If we do not keep all 10 of God’s Commandments we do not have the Holy Spirit of Truth in our hearts !
That brings us to a serious question: If we do not keep all of God’s Commandments and as a result do not have Jesus in our hearts, neither the Holy Spirit, what really have we become ?
Godless unbelievers and walking dead people !
We are on Satan’s side but “think” we are on God’s side. Spiritually dead !
1 John 5: 11 & 12. “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath The Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”
Only those who keep all 10 of God’s Commandments have life ! Those who do not keep all of God’s Commandments will die an eternal death !
Millions of Christians say they love Jesus, but words are cheap, how do we prove to the world that we really do love Jesus ?
It is very simple, really. Open your Bible to
John 14: 15; Jesus said:
“If ye love Me, keep My Commandments” !
Only those who keep all of God’s Commandments love Jesus !
So what about each one of us here today, can we prove we love Jesus ? Do we keep all of His Commandments ?
Some people tell us they have the authority to change The Commandments and choose which ones they will keep. Do we have the authority to change God’s Law ? How could we ever think such a thing when God said He will never change His Law ! Go to:
Psalms 89: 34
“My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My Lips.”
Is God’s, “Covenant” the same as His Ten Commandment Law ? Lets see what the God says in:
Deuteronomy 9: 9 – 11 and verse 15
“When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
9:10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
So no confusion here !
God said He wrote His Covenant on two tables of stone and gave them to Moses on Mount Sinai. His Covenant is therefore the Law of Ten Divine Precepts called The Ten Commandments. In Psalms 89: 34, God said He will never break the Word’s of His Covenant, which are the Word’s of the Ten Commandments, nor, would He ever alter one Word of that Covenant Law !
Those who tell us that The Commandments were; “nailed to the cross” or that “Christ changed The Law” , do not know the Mighty God of the Bible, they do not know Jesus Christ, they do not know The Spirit of God, they are liars, and they do not love Jesus !
That is what God says in His Holy Word !
We need to understand how truly evil we are and how easily we can be deceived by Satan or his agents. Are we evil people ? Christians generally think they are pretty good ! They go to church, they give offerings, they heal the sick and feed the hungry and cloth the naked. Christians do all those good things and yet they are breaking God’s Law ! How can this be ?
Open to Jeremiah 17: 9
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it” ?
Did you know we were that evil ? God does not “beat around the bush” ! He tells us plainly that we are evil, our heart is evil, our heart is deceitful and we are desperately wicked !
We do not even know how evil we really are !
Christian beware ! GOOD WORKS, is not proof that we are “saved” ! Is that true ? Yes, Jesus warned us of this in Matthew 7: 21 – 23.
“Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven.
7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name ? and in Thy Name have cast out devils ? and in Thy Name done many wonderful works ?
7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.”
Why is Jesus going to say to all these people who claim to be Christians and are doing all these wonderful works; I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.”
Why ? He is going to say it because they were not keeping His Ten Commandments ! While doing all of these, “good works” they were teaching people that the Commandments were, “nailed to the cross”, they were teaching that “you can not keep them anyway.” They said that Jesus “changed them”. That Jesus just gave two commandments. When Jesus said in :
Mark 12: 28 – 33. “And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but He:
12:33 And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
When Jesus spoke these words, was He doing away with any of The Commandments ? What was Jesus saying ? Jesus simply said that all The Commandments can be summarized in these two statements; “Love to God and Love to your neighbor”. Is that true ? Yes, because The Law of Ten Commandments describe for us the Holy and Righteous Character of The Creator of the Universe. And remember Jesus said:
“My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My Lips.” Psalms 89: 34
A fearful woe is upon any man or woman who thinks they have the authority to change the Holy Law of God, which God said He will never change !
Malachi 3:6 “For I am The Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Matthew 5:17 - 18. “Think not that I am come to destroy The Law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from The Law, till all be fulfilled.
What is a “jot” ? A jot is like the dot on a lower case i.
What is a “tittle” ? A “tittle” is like the crossing of the t on a lower case letter t.
Jesus is saying to all of us; “Beware O’ Sinful and Foolish Man that you do not change one little particle of My Holy Law, not the dot on the i or the cross on the t !
If I love God, am I going to worship idols ?
If I love God, am I going to curse and swear in the Holy Name of The Father and The Son ?
If I love God am I going to break the fourth Commandment which says; “The seventh day is The Sabbath of The Lord thy God ?
If I love God, am I going to despise my parents, kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, and covet my neighbors property ?
Never ! If I truly love God I will be delighted to obey ALL of His Ten Commandments !
It is very interesting that even those who claim to be Christians and teach that God’s Law was nailed to the cross, will tell you that we still should not worship idols or take God’s name upon our lips in cursing, they believe we should honor our parents, we should not kill, steal or commit adultery and we should not covet our neighbors property, but in the same breath they will tell us the Fourth Commandment was changed and now the first day of the week is the Sabbath.
Will someone please show me in the Scripture where it says God The Father, or Jesus changed The Sabbath to Sunday ! I have searched The Bible from Genesis to Revelation many times as have many others and have not found even a hint that The Seventh Day Sabbath was changed to the “first day” of the week. What does God say ?
Psalms 89: 34
“My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My Lips.”
James 1:22 “But be ye doers of The Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Millions of people say they love Jesus, they say they believe The Scriptures, but they do not “practice what they preach !
Those who think they have the authority to change even the dotting of the i or the crossing of the t in God’s Word are totally deceived !
So who thought they could change The Law of God and tried to change The Sabbath from The Seventh Day to the “first day” of the week ? Here is one statement from the church who changed the day:
“The Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact. Deny the authority of the Church and you have no adequate or reasonable explanation or justification for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday…. the Bible is silent on Sunday observance, it speaks only of Sabbath observance." Catholic Record, September 1, 1923.
The Roman Catholic Church readily admits they changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. Here is another:
“Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, NJ ‘News’ on March 18, 1903. See This Rock
Here is another;
''The [Roman Catholic] Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday. In this matter the Seventh-day Adventist is the only consistent Protestant.'' The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, p. 4.
"Sunday is our mark of authority. The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance (to Sunday) is proof of that fact." "Catholic Record," London/Ontario, Sept. 1, 1923
Notice what The Catholic Church said is her , “mark of authority” ! "Sunday is our mark of authority.”
Carefully notice what else they said:
"Sunday is our mark of authority. The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance (to Sunday) is proof of that fact." "Catholic Record," London/Ontario, Sept. 1, 1923
The Catholic Church says they are above The Bible and the fact that they changed the Sabbath proves it !
Remember what we read in Daniel 7: 25:
“And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”
Daniel, by the inspiration of The Spirit of God wrote that The Papacy would attempt to change the Law of God. Is changing the day of worship from the Seventh Day to the “first day”, an attempt to change the Law of God ? It is indeed.
The Fourth Commandment says:
“Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days The Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore The Lord blessed The Sabbath Day, and hallowed It .” Exodus 20: 8 – 11.
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it ? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good ?
23:20 “Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and He hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.”
O’ foolish men that think they can change the decrees of the Mighty Creator ! That think they can bless a day that God has not blessed. That think their word is above the Word of God. Amazing blindness, terrible deception that is leading millions to accept the Mark of The Beast. “Sunday is our mark of authority”. Who said that ? The Catholic Church ! And almost every Protestant church agrees with and obeys The Popes of The Catholic Church !
Do we know the God we worship ? How do we know ?
Look at the Ten Commandments. Do They tell us the God we should worship ?
Which one of these commandments tell us who the true God is ? His identity will be revealed in the first four which reveals our duty towards this God, whoever He is .
Open your Bible to Exodus 20, and we will began at verse 1.
So now we know that the God who we are to worship is The Lord who is The Creator of Heaven and Earth.
But, if we remove;
The Fourth Commandment from God’s Law, then we do not know The God that wrote them and those who remove the Fourth Commandment are worshiping on the Pagan Catholic Sunday and worshiping
a false god ! In fact, we find ourselves in a very terrible position because it was Satan who led the Catholic Church to change God’s Law, so if we keep the pagan “Day of The Sun”, then we are kneeling down to and worshiping; the devil !
Remember ; what Jesus said in:
1 John 2: 3 & 4
“And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His Commandments.
He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and The Truth is not in him.”
I do not want God to write in His record book that I am a liar so I ask Jesus every day to help me keep all of His Law no matter what all the rest of the people do !
I want to go to heaven when Jesus comes and no liars will go to heaven ! God said in Revelation 21: 7 & 8 :
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Luke 10:27 “And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.”
Only those who keep all 10 of God’s Commandments will receive eternal life !
It does not matter one iota what I think or what any one else thinks, God sets the rules. Period !
Just think: Jesus, took a lump of clay, formed it into His own image, made it a copy of Himself, then He gave this image the ability to breath, which gives us life in a body most wonderfully made. As The Scripture says in Genesis 2: 7;
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Notice what we just read. The Bible says that the dust of the ground, formed in the image of God, plus the breath of life from God, makes us a living soul.
So then: If God takes away the “breath” of “life”, what do we have left ? A dead soul.
It takes the “breath” of “life” from God to make a living soul, remove the “breath” of “life” and the soul dies.
So in the very beginning, we see there is no such thing as an “immortal soul” inside any man or woman . There is no bodiless spirit that flies away to heaven or hell when the breath of life stops !
How did this immortal soul teaching get started anyway ? Who said that man would not die but become as gods ? It is the first lie ever told on this planet and it was the fallen angel Lucifer who had been cast out of heaven that told it.
Genesis 3: 1 – 5
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
By that one seemingly small act, the curse of sin came upon all of Adam and Eve’s children and the world has been a house of horror for 6000 years !
Why did she do it ? Why did she believe the Serpent and not God ? What would I have done if I was in Eve’s position ? What would you have done ? Well, we have the answer before us every day as thousands of preachers tell their members that they have an immortal soul that can not die and that when the body dies their soul goes to
heaven or hell !
Do we have an immortal soul ?
What does the Scripture say ?
1 Timothy 6: 15 – 16
“in His times He shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Who only has immortality ?
God alone has immortality !
When will we receive immortality ?
1 Corinthians 15: 53, 54
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall
have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.”
The Bible says we are corruptible we are mortal we must “put on” incorruption, we must, “put on” , immortality. We do not have it now.
So when will the change come ? When will God give us “immortality” ?
Jesus tells us in 1 Corinthians 15: 51, 52;
“Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,
When will that “last trumpet” sound ?
1 Thessalonians 4: 13 – 18.
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
4:15 For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep.
4:16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
What Great Event do these verses describe ?
The Glorious coming Of Jesus Christ !
There are two groups listed here. Who are they ? Those who are asleep and those who are alive. Are those who are; “asleep”, sleeping as we would take rest at night ? What does it mean they are sleeping ?
Remember when the brother of Mary and Martha died ? They sent a message to Jesus saying he was sick, but, Jesus waited until the fourth day before He went to see them. Jesus said, “Our Friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go that I may awaken him”. The disciples said, “If he is just sleeping he will be OK”; but then Jesus said plainly , “Lazarus is dead”.
Jesus compared death to being asleep because He knew there was going to a resurrection of the body at a future time.
Did he tell us when that time would be ?
Yes He did; notice:
John 6: 39-40.
“And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and
believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Now that brings us back to 1 Thess. 4.
Why are we seeking a better understanding of Bible Prophecy ? We are obeying the instruction of The Holy Spirit who testified in:
2 Peter 1:19 “We have also a more sure Word of Prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Day Star arise in your hearts:
2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no Prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
2 Peter 1:21 For The Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by The Holy Ghost .”
7:25 And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
7:26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
7:27 And The Kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.”
1. “Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western Emperors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned to one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus,... commenced the temporal sovereignty of the popes. And meekly stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter to which the emperors and kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many ages.”
