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Jezebel slain in SamariaHabakkuk's Two Tables #51
PART SIX: 1989
Presented by Jeff Pippenger
Invocation by Brother Jeff Pippenger: Heavenly Father, we thank you for awakening us today for another period of time that we can serve you, and thank you for awakening us that we can start by studying your Word this morning. We ask that you would accompany our study, grant us the presence of your Holy Spirit. We ask that you would take control of this presentation, overrule my humanity that the words and thoughts conveyed would be from your Throne Room on High. We ask that you prepare the hearts and minds of those that are hearing these things, that they would receive them in the intended fashion that you have planned for this message. We want to understand more about 1989; Daniel 11, verse 40; and, we would ask that you grant us that now as we open your Word. In Jesus's name, amen.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: We never quite finished the whole study yesterday. There are some parts that I did not address that, the Lord willing, I will address later.
The Prophetic Role (Continued)
But, one of the things that we put in the record yesterday is the [first page] of your notes [for this session]. We have read all these quotes already.
But, what these quotes were put together for was to show that there are certain things connected with The Sunday Law in the United States. There are prophetic characteristics to The Sunday Law in the United States; therefore, these prophetic characteristics are connected with the glorious land, which we have identified as the United States.
[Note from Transcriber: All quotes from the provided notes, but not read again into the record, are provided as follows.]
The Man of Sin
"When the land which the Lord provided as an asylum for His people, that they might worship Him according to the dictates of their own consciences, the land over which for long years the shield of Omnipotence has been spread, the land which God has favored by making it the depository of the pure religion of Christ,�when that land shall, through its legislators, abjure the principles of Protestantism, and give countenance to Romish apostasy in tampering with God's law,�it is then that the final work of the man of sin will be revealed." Signs of the Times, June 12, 1893.
The Marvelous Working of Satan
"By the decree enforcing the institution of the Papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with Spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near." Testimonies, volume 5, 451.
National Ruin
"The people of the United States have been a favored people; but when they restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give countenance to popery, the measure of their guilt will be full, and 'national apostasy' will be registered in the books of heaven. The result of this apostasy will be national ruin." Review and Herald, May 2, 1893.
Tyranny
"Our land is in jeopardy. The time is drawing on when its legislators shall so abjure the principles of Protestantism as to give countenance to Romish apostasy. The people for whom God has so marvelously wrought, strengthening them to throw off the galling yoke of popery, will by a national act give vigor to the corrupt faith of Rome, and thus arouse the tyranny which only waits for a touch to start again into cruelty and despotism. With rapid steps are we already approaching this period." The Spirit of Prophecy, volume 4, 410.
The Greatest Peril and Darkness
"America, . . . where the greatest light from heaven has been shining upon the people, can become the place of greatest peril and darkness because the people do not continue to practice the truth and walk in the light." Selected Messages, book 3, 387.
I want to spend some time emphasizing these prophetic characteristics, so that we will recognize them easily in the study of the Word.
For instance, when it comes to the Dragon, the Dragon moves through history; whereas, the United States (the False Prophet) and the Papacy, they are always in the same place geographically. The Papacy is always in the City of Rome; and, the United States is always in the United States, whether it is Protestantism or Apostate Protestantism; but, the Dragon moves through history.
So, where I am wanting to look at these powers and make sure that we are familiar with the characteristics associated with the various powers.
1989
Lamb � Rev 13:11 Dragon � Rev 13:11
Daniel - 11:40 11:41
1798 Sunday Law
Chosroes
Josiah
Figure No. 98.
So, what these first quotes on the [first page of your notes of this session] that we looked at yesterday are, we identified that when The Sunday Law comes�this being The Sunday Law here�then, the final work of the man of sin begins here [referencing the time period following The Sunday Law in Figure No. 98]. And we are going to address that, the Lord willing, from the story of Elijah today.
You know, this side of the line [indicating to the right of the first waymark of Figure No.�98], in the story of Elijah, and Carmel, and the prophets of Baal, Jezebel is not seen. She is back in Samaria. But, once the prophets of Baal are slain, then Ahab is on his way to Samaria to talk to Jezebel.
Here [to the right of the second waymark of the second waymark of Figure No. 98], Jezebel comes back into view. Okay? This is the final workings of the man of sin.
Also right in here, the next quote says this is where Satan appears and begins to personate Christ in this history.
This is where national apostasy in the United States is followed by national ruin.
This is where persecution begins, at this [second] waymark. These are some of the characteristics associated with the conquering of the glorious land; and, this is also where the United States goes into the greatest darkness of all time.
So, what I am wanting you to see is that we are identifying specific prophetic characteristics with this [second] waymark. We want to do that. We want to emphasize the prophetic characteristics of a variety of waymarks today.
The False Prophet
Revelation 13:11-18, 2; Daniel 8:12; 11:30-31; 7:8, 20
So, if you will go to Revelation 13:11 to begin with, this tells us what the United States is going to do.
"11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." Revelation 13:11 (KJV).
And we have already pointed out here, but we are going to emphasize it again and probably more than once in this worship series that Revelation 13:11 [indicating the first waymark in Figure No.�98], the United States begins as a Lamb, but it ends speaking as a Dragon; therefore, this history from 1798�and we have marked verse 11 as beginning in 1798 based upon Sister White's comment where she says, and it is in your notes, at the time when the Papacy was robbed of its strength (that is 1798), John beheld a new power coming up out of the Earth and he begins to talk about the lamb-like beast.
So, the beginning of the United States in prophetic history is Revelation 13:11, and it is marked in prophetic history as in 1798. That is when the Papacy was robbed of its strength. But, by the time the United States speaks as a Dragon, that is The Sunday Law in the United States; therefore, the history represented by Revelation 13:11 is the history of 1798 until The Sunday Law. And this is the identical history of Daniel 11, verse 40.
Daniel 11, verse 40, begins at the Time of the End in 1798, and it ends in verse 41 at The Sunday Law in the United States.
"40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown, but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon." Daniel 11:40-41 (KJV).
So, to this history, the Lord willing today, we are going to put two more histories from God's Word that are specifically this history. We are going to build upon this history.
In Revelation 13:11, the United States speaks as a dragon at The Sunday Law; and then in verse�12, he exercises all the power of the first beast before him. And we have spent time on that.
The power of the first beast before him is represented in verse 2 of Revelation 13. The Dragon gave him his power, seat, and great authority. And the Dragon in Revelation 13:2 is representing Pagan Rome.
"2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." Revelation 13:2 (KJV).
Pagan Rome gave three things to the Papacy: power, seat, and authority. And the power is marked in history in AD496 when Clovis came into a church/state relationship with the Papacy. And, therefore, because verse 12 says the United States is going to exercise all the power of the first beast before us, then we determine that Clovis is typifying the United States. The United States is going to give its economic and military strength support to the Papacy, just as Clovis did. Okay?
"12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed." Revelation 13:12 (KJV).
So, in verse 13, then, which is on this side of The Sunday Law now�we are talking on this side of The Sunday Law [indicating to the right of the second waymark of Figure No. 98]�in verse 13 we see a symbol of Satan calling fire down out of heaven in the time period when he is personating Christ; but, Satan is associated with all of these powers. Okay?
"13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." Revelation 13:13 (KJV).
We know from Revelation�13 it says if you worship the Papacy, if you worship the Beast, you are worshipping the Dragon. So, the Dragon is closely related to the Papacy.
And, of course, the Dragon in Revelation 12, Sister White tells us is Satan, but in a secondary sense it is Pagan Rome.
"1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2�And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3�And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4�And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5�And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6�And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 7�And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8�And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9�And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10�And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11�And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12�Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 13�And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14�And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15�And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16�And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17�And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Revelation 12 (KJV).
So, the Dragon, Satan, he is directly, closely connected with spiritualism, the earthly Dragon power which changes as history proceeds; but, he is also closely connected with the Papacy, because if you are worshipping the Papacy you are worshipping Satan. That is what Revelation 13 says.
But, he is also that directly connected with the United States. So, in verse 13 [of Revelation 13] when Sister White says that Satan is going to call fire down out of heaven, and she is quoting Revelation�13:13, she is referencing the time period when he is going to perform his "marvelous works" when he is going to personate Christ, which begins right after The Sunday Law in the United States.
But, also the United States as the False Prophet, as the one that deceives the world to accept this One World Government, the United States has a type of power that it calls down from out of heaven. Okay? And the United States, like all powers, has two aspects: religious, and political. The fire of the United States' political aspect is its military power, calling fire down out of heaven. The religious side of the United States, they rejected the Truth back in 1842, Protestantism did, and they went into darkness; and, the symbol of Protestantism today is the little flame, the Pentecostal Movement calling fire from down out of heaven. So, these symbols are closely related.
So, in verse 13, you see the deception of the United States; and, we are moving in this direction [to the right of the second waymark], down this path.
And then in verse 14, the United States commands the entire world to set up an image of the Beast, and there is only one definition of the image of the beast, and it is a combination of church and state, with the church in control of the relationship.
"14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." Revelation 13:14 (KJV).
And in verse 14 the whole world is being confronted with a One World Government that is made up of the United Nations, the political arm; and, the Papacy, the church, that is ruling over the relationship.
And then in verse 15, it tells us further that the United States is going to have the power to allow this world image of the beast, this One World Government, to speak; and, we know that the speaking of a nation is an action of its legislative and judicial authorities. This is identifying the implementation of the world's Sunday Laws; and, the Death Decree, ultimately.
"15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."�
And then on to verse 18, the United States then is forcing the world to receive the mark of the beast, either to-buy-or-sell economics or put-to-death military. The United States here is exercising these two characteristics that are marked in Daniel 11, verse 40, as chariots, ships, and horsemen.
�"16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17�And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18�Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Revelation 13:15-18 (KJV).
Okay. So, verse 2 of Revelation 13, we have mentioned. This is the first place we can make a connection between the United States and Clovis. The Dragon gave its power to the Papacy in AD496, thus prefiguring the United States giving its military strength to the Papacy in the Ronald Reagan years.
Go to Daniel 8:12. Of course, we are not dealing with Daniel right now. We are not dealing with the Daily. We are not dealing with anything in-depth; but, we are going to make an application on verse 12 without defending everything we are going to say about it, because that would require a broader study.
Verse 12 says in Daniel 8:
"12And an host [military strength] was given him . . ."�
This is the female manifestation of the little horn in verse 12. Verse 10, the little horn is female; in verse 9 and verse 11, it is male. When it is male, it is Pagan Rome; when it is female, it is Papal Rome.
In verse 12, it says,
�"12And an host [military strength] was given him [given the Papacy] against"�
Now, just to remind yourself, real quick keep your finger in verse 12. We are just going for a second, and go to Daniel 11:24. Daniel 11:24 is speaking about Pagan Rome, and the last phrase says,
"24. . . yea, and he shall [Pagan Rome shall] forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time." Daniel 11:24 (KJV).
If you bust out your Uriah Smith's Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation," he will show you that this Hebrew word that is translated as against here, ". . . [Pagan Rome] shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, . . . ," that Hebrew word against is better translated from. Pagan Rome is going to broadcast its world decisions from its strongholds, the City of Rome. And this is very specific to this phrase, because it says even for a time�and this time is 360 years�and, when Pagan Rome ruled the world from the City of Rome, it was invincible. It was not until the Year AD330 that Constantine divided the kingdom into East and West it began to crumble.
So, understanding this Hebrew word [against] can be translated as from, allows you to see the truth about Pagan Rome, that when it ruled from its stronghold, the City of Rome, it was invincible.
So, if you go back to Daniel 8:12, this is the identical Hebrew word that is translated against in both verses, Daniel 11:24 and Daniel 8:12, that says,
�"Daniel 8:12 continued And an host [military strength] was given . . . [the Papacy] [from (not "against"); from] the daily . . ."�
From Paganism, the former European kings which were the remnants of Pagan Rome that had descended into ten kingdoms. They were Pagans. They were destined to give their military support to the Papacy; therefore, the military support that came to the Papacy, came from those former Pagan armies. It comes
�"[from] the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, . . ."� Daniel 8:12 in part (KJV).
And the transgression that allows the Papacy to take control of these armies of Pagan Rome is what we call the combination of church and state; and, you need to understand that for the next verse to understand what the transgression of desolation is in verse 13. But, we are not going there.
What I want you to see is that verse 12 is teaching the same thing that Revelation�13:2 is teaching. It is the second witness, that the military strength represented by Clovis (because he was the first of those European kings to come into a church/state relationship with the Papacy in AD496 and dedicate his money and his armies to placing the Papacy on the throne of the Earth), this is what is being marked also here in Daniel 8:12.
So what?
What does that mean? It means that this role of Clovis is identifying the role of the United States. Okay? So, when you see the chariots, ships, and horsemen in Daniel 11, verse�40, you are seeing AD496, when Clovis is coming to the aid of the Papacy; and, AD496 comes before 538. So, there are things that happened before the Papacy is placed upon the throne of the Earth, and it is very clearly marked in God's Word.
And go to Daniel 11:30-31.
It is by looking at the beginning, the time the Papacy was first placed on the throne of the Earth, that we understand the end, the period when the Papacy is finally placed upon the throne of the Earth and Clovis and France are typifying the role of the United States.
In Daniel 11:30, you have the verse that is the very last verse in Daniel 11 that has Pagan Rome as the subject. In verse 31, the subject is going to switch to Papal Rome. The reason for this is that in verse 31 Pagan Rome has a dialogue, a communication, intelligence with the Papacy; and, whenever you decide to sit down and have a communication with the representative of Satan, he takes the ascendency. And here is where the Papacy takes the ascendency.
And in the last part of verse 30, verse 30 says,
"30For the ships of Chittim shall come against him;"�
This is the Second Trumpet. This is Genseric, the Vandals. It places you in the history when the western part of the Roman Empire, is being taken down by the first four Trumpets of Revelation�8 that ultimately turns Western Rome into ten nations by AD476. So, when the ships of Chittim are coming against him here, they are coming against Pagan Rome (Western Rome), in that time period, before AD538, after 330 and, Pagan Rome is no longer having the ability to prevail in warfare because they have left their sanctuary of strength. They left the City of Rome back in AD330.
"30For the ships of Chittim shall come against him [Pagan Rome]; therefore he [Pagan Rome] shall be grieved, and return"�back to Constantinople, Uriah Smith tells us�"and have indignation against the holy covenant:"�
They carry out a war against God's Word in this history, Smith tells us.
�"so shall he [Pagan Rome] do; he shall even return [to Constantinople], and have intelligence with them [the Papacy, those] that forsake the holy covenant."�
Those that fell away in fulfillment of 2 Thessalonians, that says there must be a falling away first, in the transition from Pergamos to Thyatira. Pagan Rome has a dialogue with the Papacy in advance of placing it upon the throne of the Earth.
And, of course, we have already looked at this in Daniel 11, verse 40, when Ronald Reagan, typified by the activities of Pagan Rome in this history, when Reagan began to have a dialogue with the man of sin in the Ronald Reagan years. The means that he did so was with the head of the Central Intelligence Committee, and this verse says that he will have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
So, from verse 30 you go to verse 31. Now the subject has changed from Pagan Rome to Papal Rome, and verse 31 says,
�"31And arms shall stand on his part,"�
Military strength is going to stand up for the Papacy. This is Revelation 13:2; this is Daniel�8:12; this is Clovis, the symbol of Clovis, because he began this work; but, this is the United States standing up for the Papacy at the end of the world.
�"and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength,"�
For Pagan Rome in the warfare of the Trumpet time period with the Goths and the Vandals, the point of their attacks was the City of Rome; and, in that history repeatedly the City of Rome was bombarded, overran, and that was Pagan Rome's sanctuary of strength. So, they polluted the sanctuary of strength in that warfare.
But, that is not the sanctuary of strength for the United States. What is it that makes the United States glorious?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Constitution.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: The Constitution; that is the source of its strength.
So, the United States is going to pollute the Constitution of the United States.
When does it do that? In verse 41 at The Sunday Law.
�"and shall take away the daily sacrifice,"�
Pagan Rome set aside its profession of the religion of Paganism and changed to Papalism. It is the same religion, different name; different covering, but same religion. But, they set aside Paganism to accept Papalism. And in this history of the United States is finalizing the setting aside of Protestantism. Okay?
The Protestants of the United States, they went into darkness in the Millerite time period when they rejected the First Angel's Message; but, the United States has two aspects, the religious and the political. And the Protestants of the United States, they rejected the message of the hour in the Millerite History; but, the political aspect of the United States begins to reject it in the Ronald Reagan years and, of course, finalizes it at The Sunday Law, at The Sunday Law of the United States: It is fully apostate Protestantism. And what they have done, they have set aside a religion, Protestantism, to accept Catholicism under the pretext of calling it Protestantism and we know it is apostate Protestantism.
And that is what the Pagans of the Roman Empire did. They set aside their profession of Paganism to accept Catholicism. This history is prefiguring our history.
And it says,
�"and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." Daniel 11:30-31 (KJV).
They will be the ones that place the Papacy on the throne of the Earth.
And it is the United States in Revelation 13, verse 14, that tells the world that they must accept this church/state relationship called the "image of the beast," of which the Papacy is in control of it. It is the United States that places the Papacy on the throne of the Earth.
So, when we see the activities of Pagan Rome in terms of placing the Papacy upon the throne of the Earth, they are prefiguring the role of the United States.
Now, go with me, if you would to Daniel 7:8 and 20, one other thing. Daniel 7, verse 8 says,
"8I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. . . . 20And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows." Daniel 7:8, 20 (KJV).
The Pagan Rome gave three things to the Papacy (Revelation 13:2): It gave the Papacy its seat in the year AD330; it gave its power to it in the year 496; and, it gave its civil authority to it in 533 with the decree of Justinian. But, Pagan Rome also removed three things�it gives three things and it removes three things�and here we see Pagan Rome in Daniel 7 removing the Heruli, the Ostrogoths, and the Vandals. And the United States is going to participate in overcoming the King of the South, the glorious land, and Egypt. It is going to be the one that actively removes those three obstacles for modern Rome.
So, when you look closely at Pagan Rome, the symbol of which is Clovis and France, you will see that all of their activities are identifying the movements of the United States.
And where do those movements of the United States begin in end-time history? Daniel�11, verse 40, right in this history [indicating on the board the history between the first and second waymarks of Figure No. 98].
Tarshish
2 Chronicles 9:21-31; 20:35-37 (Psalm 107:23; Proverbs 31:14)
Okay. Now we are going to switch gears. We want to show you, if we can, another symbol of the United States that impacts this study. Go to 2 Chronicles 9:21.
In speaking about Solomon in verse 20, verse 21 says,
"21For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 22And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom."
"23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. 24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
"25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
"26 And he reigned over the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. 27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made has the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance. 28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
"29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead." 2�Chronicles 9:21-31 (KJV).
Already in this study�not for this purpose�but already in this study we have identified Solomon as a symbol of the United States. But here the symbol of Solomon's prosperity are the ships of Tarshish�all right?�that bring in the gold and the silver.
And if you go to chapter 20 of 2 Chronicles, verse 35, not speaking of Solomon now, it says,
"35And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: 36And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber. 37Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish." 2�Chronicles�20:35-37 (KJV).
The ships of Tarshish are the symbol of economic prosperity; and, when they are broken, the economic prosperity is broken.
Right? Do you see that?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Psalm 107:23; we have already gone through this, and we have dealt with the ships of Daniel 11, verse 40. But, in verse 23 of Psalm 107, it says,
"23They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; . . ." Psalm 107:23, in part (KJV).
So, ships in a general sense represent economics.
Proverbs 31:14: Ships represent economics, Proverbs 31:14. I know that we have already covered this here recently; but, we are going to try to make another point out of it.
"14She is like merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar." Proverbs 31:14 (KJV).
Ships are merchant ships.
But, what I want you to see here now with these is that the symbol of the merchant ships, the premier symbol of the merchant ships, is the ships of Tarshish in the Scriptures. I mean, there are a lot of merchant ships. Tarshish is a place, right? So, there are merchant ships from Tarshish, and then there are ships from Korea and merchant ships from Mexico and merchant ships from Canada; but, the premier symbol of the merchant ships is Tarshish.
And in the world, according to Revelation 13, the world is divided into rich and poor, free and bond. The world is rich and poor. So, the part of the world that has the merchant ships is the rich part of the world, what we would call the western world. All right?
And the symbol of economic prosperity is the ships of Tarshish; therefore, who is the "ships of Tarshish"? The United States of America, the glorious land, is the ships of Tarshish. When the ships of Tarshish are brought down, it is talking about the economics structure in the United States being brought down.
And the Bible teaches about the ships of Tarshish being brought down. They get brought down by an East wind.
Punishment
Go to Isaiah 2.
Speaking about the ships of Tarshish, we are trying to show that the ships of Tarshish, though they represent economics and they are the premier symbol for economic prosperity in the Bible, they are a symbol of the United States.
In Isaiah, chapter 2, you are going to see an elaboration on the Day of the Lord, when the Lord is going to punish God's people, for all mankind, for their pride and exaltation.
"1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3�And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4�And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
In verse 5, let us start there.
"5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. 6Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers."�
God's people here at the end of the world are in very bad shape. They are soothsayers. They are into spiritualism. Spiritualism is placing your word above God's Word.
�"7Their land also is full of silver"�they are Laodiceans�"and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:" "8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
"10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day."�
Okay. So, in this condition the Lord begins to tell us how He is going to punish mankind for this condition, and God's people for this condition.
Verse 12:
�"12For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:"�EVERYONE! �"13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, 14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, 15And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,"�
And in verse 16, it says,
�"16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures."�
And what I want you to see here, and maybe you will not follow me on this; but, when it comes to the ships of Tarshish, the punishment of the ships of Tarshish is marked in prophecy. Okay? If the ships of Tarshish do represent the United States�AND THEY DO�the punishment of the United States is marked in prophecy.
Now, you know, do you see the punishment of Brazil marked in prophecy? Only in a generic sense, that the Lord is going to punish all of the rebellious human beings at the end; but, what I want you to see is there are certain powers that are such a subject of Bible prophecy that even their punishment is noted. Okay? And the punishment that is meted out against Tarshish is the punishment that is meted out against the United States.
And their punishment begins right here when they pass The Sunday Law [referencing the second waymark on the whiteboard (Figure No. 98)]. We have already read the quotes. Here they have filled the cup of their iniquity to its full; here national apostasy is followed by national ruin; here they go into the greatest darkness of all time.
�"17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 18And the idols he shall utterly abolish. 19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" Isaiah 2 (KJV).
Notice this next quote�we have read it before�because I want you to see something here, if you will. Manuscript Releases, volume 14, page 162:
"'He had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.'"�
Who is that?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The United States.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: When is that?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Various responses.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Uh-huh. It is Daniel 11, verse 40. He had two horns as a lamb (this is 1798), and he spake as a dragon (that is The Sunday Law). This is verse 40 right here [indicating the time period between the first and second waymarks of Figure No.�98].
�"Though professing to be followers of the Lamb of God, men become imbued with the spirit of the dragon. They profess to be meek and humble but they speak and legislate with the spirit of Satan, showing by their actions that they are the opposite of what they profess to be. This lamb-like power"�
Does what?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Unites with the Dragon.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Unites with the Dragon.
Who is the Dragon?
Well, in our studies we have read from Testimonies to Ministers, page 38, which says, "Kings and rulers and governors have placed upon themselves the brand of antichrist, and are represented as the dragon who goes to make war with the saints�with those who keep the commandments of God and who have the faith of Jesus." {TM 38.2} So, the United States is destined�the United States, the False Prophet, right?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: �the United States, the False Prophet (Tarshish), is going to unite with the Dragon.
�"This lamb-like power unites with the dragon in making war upon those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. And Satan unites with Protestants and papists, acting in consort with them as the god of this world, dictating to men as if they were the subjects of his kingdom, to be handled and governed and controlled as he pleases." Manuscript Releases, volume 14, 162.
Revelation 19:19-20
And we want to show you this in Revelation 19; but, before we do, go to Revelation 19. I know that you are familiar with this, verse 19 of Revelation 19.
"19And I saw the beast,"�
Who is the Beast? That is the Papacy.
�"and the kings of the earth,"�
Who is that? That is the Dragon: kings, governors, and rulers.
�"19And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army."�
In verse 19 do you see the False Prophet? You do not see him directly, but he is there because he is united with the Dragon.
As a matter of fact, the actual truth of it that everyone already knows is the military fire power of the United Nations of the Dragon, it is the United States. Fifty percent of the military might of the United Nations is supplied by the United States at this time. What happens when they unite with the United Nations at The Sunday Law?
So, the fire power of the United Nations at the end of the world is going to be the fire power of the United States. They are going to unite.
Okay. The Dragon power of Revelation 17 is how many kings?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Ten.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: And who is the premier king?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The United States.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Yes, but who is he?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Inaudible response.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Who?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Clovis.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Okay. That will work; but, it is Ahab.
Is not Ahab the king of the ten Northern Tribes, but the premier king is Ahab.
And what did Ahab do wrong?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: He married Jezebel.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: He married Jezebel.
When did he marry Jezebel? At The Sunday Law. At The Sunday Law he marries Jezebel, and he unites with the Dragon and he becomes the premier king of the Ten Kings. Right? He unites with the Dragon.
And we have already read a quote, whether you remember it or not. We did not read it today,6 but it is in your notes. It is the second quote.
Sister White says that at The Sunday Law the United States joins hands with the Papacy AND joins hands with whom? With Spiritualism, the Dragon.
So, right here at The Sunday Law�at The Sunday Law right here [referencing the second waymark of Figure No. 98]�the United States becomes part of the Dragon power, but he becomes the premier part of the Dragon power. He becomes Ahab; he becomes Tarshish. He is the premier economic flagship; but, he is also the premier military fire power. Do you see it? That happens right here [at The Sunday Law].
Verse 20:
�"Revelation 19:19-20 continued 20And the beast [the Papacy] was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." Revelation�19:19-20 (KJV).
So, he was still there.
But, this is their punishment. The False Prophet and the Papacy, they are going to be thrown into the lake of fire. Okay?
So, what I am wanting you to see here is the punishment of the United States (the False Prophet) is a subject of prophecy. And when you see that the United States is Tarshish and you see the ships of Tarshish being broken, it is simply part of this punishment of the United States.
Are you with me?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.
Elijah
BROTHER PIPPENGER: I want to show you another history now that is the history of verse 40.
Maybe this does not seem significant to you�or, perhaps it does. I do not know. Maybe you do not understand why this is worth dwelling on as much as I have. But, verse 40 is the history of 1798 to The Sunday Law.
Revelation 13:11 is the history of 1798 to The Sunday Law.
HISTORY OF ELIJAH AND CARMEL (Prefiguring the History of USA)
(1798) Mount Carmel (Sunday Law)
Ahab and Jezebel slain in Samaria
3-1/2 yrs of Drought ELIJAH Prophets of Baal
Distinction between
True and False Prophets revealed
Figure No. 99.
The story of Elijah and Carmel is the story of 1798.
And when does the story of Carmel begin? Where is the Time of the End in the story of Elijah and Carmel? It is at the end of the three and a half years of drought. Right?
And what are these three and a half years of drought? It is the 1260 years of Papal rule that ended in 1798.
Who was ruling during the drought time period? Who was killing the prophets?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Several responses.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Well, Ahab was, but he was doing it at the direction of Jezebel. Correct?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, this is 1798, is it not?
Who appears here in 1798?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Elijah.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Elijah.
And Elijah is going to bring Ahab; and, who all comes to Carmel, Ahab and who else? The prophets of Baal.
Is Jezebel there?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: No.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: She is behind the scene. She is off in Samaria.
So, you have the sprinkling beginning. Elijah announces that this is going to take place, "as sure as the Lord stands before me." And if the Lord is standing before Elijah, that means the Lord came down, empowering his message. And they came to Carmel and there was a measuring that takes place as Elijah sends them to get 12 buckets of water and pouring it upon his offering.
And, finally, fire comes down out of Heaven; and, of course, this is the Midnight Cry in the time period of the Millerites. It is the Triumphal Entry in the time period of Christ.
What is happening right here [referencing just before the second waymark of Figure No.�99]? What is happening when the fire is coming down out of Heaven and illuminating the 12 stones? There is a distinction being made between the true prophet and the false prophet.
So, in our history, what is happening here?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The ensign.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: The ensign is beginning to be lifted up and separated from the tares in Adventism, and it will be demonstrated at The Sunday Law.
And what is The Sunday Law in the story of Elijah? What happens at The Sunday Law in the story of Elijah? What do they do that represents Judgment?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Indiscernible response.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: They take the prophets of Baal and they kill them.
Who are the prophets of Baal in relation to Elijah?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: False prophets.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: They are the false prophet. Elijah is the true prophet.
So, where does the False Prophet end? Right here [indicating The Sunday Law in Figure No.�99]. The False Prophet ends.
The False Prophet ends [indicating The Sunday Law in Figure No. 98].
Because, right here the United States is going to unite with the Dragon. Okay?
This is the story of the False Prophet [indicating Figure No. 99]. This is the story of the United States from 1798, when it is the sixth kingdom of Bible prophecy, until it ends [indicating The Sunday Law]; and the seventh kingdom of Bible prophecy, which is the kingdom of the Dragon (the Ten Kings), starts. And the United States is the False Prophet. It ends right there. It dies. The False Prophet is gone: now, it is going to unite with the Dragon power and become who?
Who does the United States become right here [at The Sunday Law], rather than the False Prophet?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Ahab.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Ahab; he becomes Ahab. He becomes the premier leader of the Ten Kings. Right?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Okay. What I am saying is that this story of Elijah is the story of 1798 until The Sunday Law. The story of Carmel is 1798 until The Sunday Law.
It is the same history as Daniel 11, verse 40, and Revelation 13:11. Do you see it?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Okay.
The Dragon
The Dragon Moves
Revelation 12; The Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel; Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7 Babylon; Revelation 2:12-13; Daniel 7:7-8, 19-21; Luke 10:18; John 12:12-33; 16:-14; Zechariah 3; Daniel 11:40-42; Revelation 17:10-14; 17; Psalm 83:1-8; 48:1-8
In your notes you have "The Dragon." We are not going to go through these. I am just going to tell you these things. I have told you them before.
But, the Dragon in Bible prophecy . . .
And the reason I am doing this, Brothers and Sisters, is because I want us to see that the three powers that lead the world to Armageddon are the Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet; and, when they begin to lead the world to Armageddon, their starting point is marked in the Scriptures. Where they start the work of leading the world to Armageddon is in Daniel�11, verse�40. And you need to be able to see the Dragon in verse 40 (that is the King of the South, both atheistic France and the Soviet Union); you need to be able to see the False Prophet (that is the United States as represented as the chariots and horsemen and the ships: military and economics strength); and, you need to see the King of the North [the Papacy] as the Beast. The Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet are going to lead the whole world between the seas and the glorious holy mountain and then he is going to come to his end and none shall help. They are going to lead the whole world to Armageddon.
And we read a quote in here in worship that says that the Sixth Plague is a warning that we need to understand. But, why do we need to understand a warning in the Sixth Plague: probation has already closed five Plagues earlier? Because, there is a work that is accomplished by the Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet that leads the world to Armageddon while probation is still open, and we need to understand that work. And what I am telling you, if you are going to understand it is you need to understand that their movements towards Armageddon begins in Daniel 11, verse 40.
When it comes to the Dragon power, one of the characteristics that is marked in Scripture that needs to be recognized is that he is the one that moves.
So, you see in your notes under "The Dragon Moves," Revelation 12: The dragon is cast out of Heaven, after he initiates the Great Controversy.
Then we find him in the Garden of Eden seducing Adam and Eve.
Then he is there at the Tower of Babel, though he is not specifically marked; but, was Satan the one that was leading Nimrod and his cohorts? He is there at the Tower of Babel. We know that.
Then we have the story of Job. I am not too sure where that actually fits into the history between Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar; but, we have the story of Job which tells us that Satan has become the leader of the Earth, once he overcame Adam, and has the right to go into these special councils with the sons of God.
And then we see him in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar is Babylon.
And historians tell us that when Babylon fell, the Chaldeans, the religious elite of Babylon, they fled to Pergamos. And sure enough, in Revelation 2, it tells us that Satan's seat now is in Pergamos. So, he has come from Heaven, to Eden, to Babel, to Babylon, to Pergamos.
And then when Pagan Rome begins to conquer the world, its practice was that if you find a new Pagan religion that is not worshipped already in Rome, then bring it back to Rome. So, when they captured Pergamos, they take the Chaldeans in Pergamos, along with their religious idols and relics, and they bring them back to Rome and they build them their own little room in the Pantheon Temple in the City of Rome. So, now the Dragon has moved from Pergamos to the City of Rome.
But we know what happened to Rome. It disintegrated into ten nations, and all those nations are Dragon nations.
If you want to know why the Europeans have a different mindset about what is going on in the world today with Islam and the financials, it is because their culture, their background, their DNA is that they are Dragons. Okay? The United States are Protestants. And if you do not understand the distinct difference in that, then you are missing something; because, in the�what would it be?�in the 19th Century, the famous authors�you know, the people like Mark Twain and that type of history�when they wrote about Catholicism in those years, they pointed out a distinct difference between Catholicism and Protestantism, so much so that they would say that in towns you could go to the Protestant side of the town and it is clean and it is orderly and prosperous; and, you could cross one street into the Catholic side of town and it is dirty and [there is] poverty and messy. The culture of Catholicism has an impact on those people that are raised in Catholicism, just like the culture of the Dragon has an impact on those people that are raised in that culture. That is Europeans: they are the Dragons.
We are Protestants; we are Protestants here in the United States. We have a different thing. It is an actual fact that people outside of Christianity note. They do not talk so much about the Dragon, but they know the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism.
So, in Daniel 7 we see the Dragon divided into ten parts.
Then in Luke 10 and John you see that at the cross, which is in the time period of Pagan Rome, Satan is totally banished from Heaven. He has closed his door to any access by the crucifixion of Christ.
But, then we see an illustration of Satan right there in the Investigative Judgment, in the Judgment of the Living, in Zachariah 3.
And then we see Satan also in this same fuzzy time period in Daniel 11, verse 40; and, in 1798 he is Egypt; he is atheistic France.
In 1989, in this time period here [between the first and second waymarks of Figure No.�98], the Dragon has moved from atheistic France to the new king of atheism, the Soviet Union. And when Ronald Reagan and the Pope brought down the Soviet Union, they did so by making Gorbachev come and bow before the Pope, which he did, and then he immediately took a job in the United Nations, and he still holds that job to this very day; because, the Dragon moves.
See, here is my point: When it comes to the Dragon power, Scripture is very specific to tell us that he moves. So, for me to suggest to you that the King of the South in verse 40 is the Dragon power, but in the beginning of the verse in 1798 he is atheistic France and then at the end of the verse he is the Soviet Union, that causes some people to think, "Oh, I don't get that. That seems kind of convoluted that they are changing it." But, not really! It is actually an evidence to the strength to what we are saying, because the Dragon power moves in prophecy. The fact that he is moving, slithering, winding through history is one of his characteristics. And the fact that we are saying from the Soviet Union he moves to the United Nations (to Egypt) in verse 42, that should not cause anyone distress; it should show that we are employing the symbol as the symbol has been identified in God's Word.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.
1798 Until The Sunday Law�Daniel 11:40 & Revelation 13:11
BROTHER PIPPENGER: So, in the next part of your notes, this is what we are dealing with. 1798 to The Sunday Law is verse 40 of Daniel, and it is Revelation 13:11. You have the quote that I referenced earlier, that when the Papacy was robbed of its strength in 1798, the lamb-like beast comes into history.
Signs of the Times, November 1, 1899:
"And when the Papacy, robbed of its strength, was forced to desist from persecution, John beheld a new power coming up to echo the dragon's voice, and carry forward the same cruel and blasphemous work. This power, the last that is to wage war against the church and the law of God, was symbolized by a beast with lamblike horns." Signs of the Times, November 1, 1899.
So, what am I saying here? What I am saying here now is that we are dealing with verse�40 of Daniel, 1989, which is when the Dirt Brush Man comes in and begins to clean up the mess of the seven scatterings of William Miller's dream.
And I am saying that Daniel 11:40 is the same history as Revelation 13:11; but, I am saying it is the same history as Elijah, and I am going to give you one more history, a fourth history.
Isaiah 23
Fornication � Revelation 17:1-2
What City? � Isaiah 23 (Revelation 17-18)
The Latter Rain � James 5
Ezekiel 27, 28
Isaiah 27:1-9, (10-13)
The first one of Isaiah 23: "The burden of Tyre . . . ," let us first identify who Tyre is.
Drop down to verse 15.
"15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,�. . ."�
WHO IS TYRE?
1798 Sunday Law
TYRE: YEAR OF ONE KING: USA
70 YEARS
Figure No. 100.
Okay. This is the line of Tyre. And Tyre is going to be forgotten 70 years. Whoever Tyre is, it is going to be forgotten for 70 years.
�"15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,�according to the days of one king:"�
All right. There is your definition of what 70 years is, because this is the end of the world; and, at the end of the world after 1844 there is no more time prophecy. These 70 years is a symbol, and it is defined in the verse that this 70 years represents the days of one king. And Daniel 2 tells us that a king is a kingdom. These 70 years represents the time of one kingdom.
And, of course, what I am saying is that the kingdom that it represents is the kingdom that came into history in 1798, the United States. But, the 70 years represents the days of one kingdom; so, it only goes until that kingdom ends, and that kingdom ends at The Sunday Law. That is what I am saying here, is that this is the 70 years of Tyre, and the one king is the United States (USA); and, this is the time period of the United States, 1798 until The Sunday Law.
Verse 15, to finish it off:
�"after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot." Isaiah 23:15 (KJV).
What do you have to do to be a harlot? You have to commit fornication.
She has not committed fornication prophetically since 1798; she has been forgotten. But, at the end of this time period, she is going to commit fornication.
Who is she going to commit fornication with?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Indiscernible response).
BROTHER PIPPENGER: With Ahab, right here, the United States. At the end of the 70 years, she is going to commit fornication with the United States, and then she is going to go out to the whole world and say, "I want to commit fornication with you."
Notice verse 16.
"16Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
"17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth."�
Who is it that commits fornication with all the kingdoms of the Earth?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Papacy.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: That is the Papacy. That is Revelation 17.
�"18And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing." Isaiah 23:16-18 (KJV).
Saying that in this time period [after The Sunday Law], the eleventh-hour workers are going to finance the Gospel.
But, what we are saying is that Tyre is going to be forgotten from 1798 until The Sunday Law. At The Sunday Law she is going to commit fornication with Ahab, with the United States. The United States is going to bow to her. Then she is going to go out and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the Earth, because the United States is going to unite with the Dragon. It is going to unite with those other kings.
Okay. So, let us go back to verse 1 [of Isaiah].
"1The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish:"�
Oh, the burden of Tyre has to do with the ships of Tarshish howling. The story of the Papacy has some connection with the ships of Tarshish.
Who is the ships of Tarshish? It is the United States, and it is the economic structure of the world. Okay? You take the economics from the United States and you throw them away, and the economics of the world go with it.
But, something about the economics causes someone to howl.
�"Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them."�
The destruction of the financial structure of the United States and the world that is part of the story of the harlot Tyre (part of the story of the Papacy) is revealed to us from Chittim.
What is Chittim? That is the Second Trumpet. We have already dealt with that, Daniel�11, verse 30.
Whatever is going to make the ships of Tarshish howl, we will understand what it is if we understand the message of the Trumpets. It is a Trumpet power that makes them howl. It is a Trumpet power that brings down the economics structure of the world.
And of the Trumpet powers, there are six that we are familiar with. We are not so familiar with the final Trumpet of the Third Woe. But of the first six Trumpet powers, which one of them was the champion of the seas?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Number 2.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Number 2: Genseric; he launched his attack from Cyprus which, in the time of the Old Testament was called Chittim.
So, this Trumpet power is the Trumpet power that is going to bring down the ships. Okay? That is the relationship there.
Verse 2:
�"2Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. 3And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. 4Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins. 5As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 6Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. 7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?"�
What is a city?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: A kingdom.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: A kingdom.
Is this a joyous kingdom?
�"her own feet"�
This kingdom, what is this kingdom?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: It is a woman.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: It is a woman. This is the kingdom that is a woman.
�"her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,"�
What is the crown? It is identifying who is in charge of this.
Who is in charge of this kingdom? Jezebel (the Papacy; Tyre).
�"8Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth [the Globalists, the United Nations]? 9The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength [economic structure is gone]. 11He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. 12And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. 13Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers [churches] thereof, they raised up the palaces [states] thereof;"�
The Assyrians founded church and state.
�"and he brought it to ruin."�
The Lord brought that tower down of Nimrod.
Verse 14:
�"14Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
"15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: . . ." Isaiah 23:1-15 (KJV).
In what day?
In this history here [Figure No. 100], in this 70 years, in this time period it shall come to pass that the ships of Tarshish shall begin to sink, before it is over [at The Sunday Law]. It shall come to pass in that day.
Do you follow this line? It is pretty easy to follow this line, is it not?
Okay. So, what are we saying? We are saying that Tarshish represent the economic strength of the world and that the premier example of the economic merchant is the United States; and, that Bible prophecy teaches it is an East wind that brings down the ships of Tarshish, and we understand that to be Islam. But, we are not there at this point.
But, before this 70 years is over, the sinking of the ships of Tarshish begins.
And, if you remember down here [Figure No. 98], we have already brought in two histories to establish the long, drawn-out war between the King of the South and the King of the North in verse 40 of Daniel. For a war that went for 200 years, we went back into the story of Josiah and the Battle of Carchemish that began in the time period of Josiah, when Egypt (the King of the South) pushed against Assyria (the King of the North). But, it was not until three kings later�I believe it was three kings later�when the King of the North (Nebuchadnezzar) came and defeated Pharaohnecho in a long, drawn-out war.
In this story [Figure No. 98], we see that Josiah represents the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that would not accept the warning message of Daniel 11, verse 40, when Pharaohnecho said, "Don't start getting involved in this battle." And he went and got involved with it anyway.
And where did Josiah die?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: He died in Megiddo.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: He died in Megiddo, and Megiddo is a subject of Daniel�11, verse 40 to 45. It is the place between the seas and the glorious holy mountain.
So, we have reasons to stick the story of Josiah there in this history of verse 40.
And we had reason to stick into this history Chosroes. You remember that story; a long, drawn-out war between the King of the South and the King of the North is this history. This is a long, drawn-out war that initially the Persians, they push against Rome and they prevailed; but, ultimately, Rome returns and retaliates against the Persians and wipes them out. But, Rome and the Persians, they are both weak at that point. They have used all their capital.
And what does this line (Chosroes) of prophecy tell us? This is what allows Islam to come into history.
1989 (Time of the End)
Lamb � Rev 13:11 Dragon � Rev 13:11
Daniel - 11:40 11:41
Sept. 11, 2001
1798 ISLAM Sunday Law
Chosroes
Josiah
Figure No. 101.
And what does Islam do?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: It attacks the financial structure.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: It attacks the ships of Tarshish and begins the sinking of the economic structure of Planet Earth by attacking the United States (Tarshish), leading to The Sunday Law, where the United States (Ahab) will enter into an unlawful relationship with Jezebel and unite with the kings of the Earth; and, the United States becomes Ahab, and the False Prophet dies right here at The Sunday Law [referencing the second waymark of Figure No.�99].
But, you really cannot see this if you are not using the structure of Daniel 11, verse 40, to set it up; because, Daniel 11, verse 40, it is one of the most profound verses in God's Word. It just is for a million different ways that I certainly do not know! And it is just amazing to me that Seventh-day Adventists are unwilling to wrap their minds around these truths; because, this truth, verse 40 of Daniel . . .
What is verse 40 of Daniel telling you, Brothers and Sisters? Probation is about to close, probation is about to close.
Ezekiel 27
Okay. I did not quite get through, but I want to show one more thing just to bring this presentation to an end, to have this part finalized.
Ezekiel 27: When it comes to the ships of Tarshish, I want to put it in the record that it is the East wind that brings them down.
Verse 25 of Ezekiel 27�the Lord willing, we will deal with this chapter more fully, and chapter 28 in connection with it.
But verse 25 says,
"25The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
"26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas." Ezekiel 27:25-26 (KJV).
What brings the ships of Tarshish down is an East wind; and, we are going to, of course, at some point in time show you that the East wind of Bible prophecy is Islam.
But, go to Psalm 48, so we can put this in the record for those who are not familiar with it, Psalm 48:4. It says,
"4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together."�
Who are the kings? All the prophets are speaking about the end of the world. This is the Ten Kings of Revelation 17. This is the Dragon power.
"4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. 5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. 6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind." Psalm 48:4-7 (KJV).
There is your second witness that the economic structure of the United States and therefore the world is brought down by an East wind, and that this is what causes the kings of the Earth to weep and howl. And you need to know why they are weeping and howling if you are going to understand why they are weeping and howling in Revelation 18; because, it is the same story.
And when they are weeping and howling in Revelation 18, what do they say three times? They say, "Alas! Alas! Alas!" The ships of Tarshish have been broken by an East wind, but that word that is translated Alas in Revelation 8:13, that same Greek word is translated as Woe, Woe, Woe; and it represents the Woes of the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Trumpets. And if the First Woe was Islam and the Second Woe was Islam, a child can understand that the Third Woe is Islam. It is the East wind, and the East wind arrives before The Sunday Law, based upon Isaiah�23 and the story of Chosroes. Verse 40 includes September 11, 2001.
Shall we pray?
Benediction: Heavenly Father, we thank you for opening your Word to our understanding. And we know that there is a church, our church, that is in darkness concerning these things and that it is your will that they be warned. Whether they will accept it or not, they need to hear the message in order to be held accountable for rejecting it, if they choose to reject it. But, we are hoping that they would receive it; but, they cannot receive it unless we give it, so we pray that you would open doors for each of us this day to have a divine appointment with someone, whether Adventist or non-Adventist that we can practice the art of winningly sharing this message with those on Planet Earth that do not understand that Probation is about to close and that the end of the world is coming at us with blinding speed. We thank you for the work that you began yesterday here with presentations by Pastor Sankey. We ask that you continue to bless this week on work both with the recordings and with the LiveStreaming, and we thank you for all these things in Jesus's name. Amen.