Habakkuk's Two Tables #55
PART SIX: 1989
Presented by Jeff Pippenger
Invocation by Brother Jeff Pippenger: Heavenly Father, we thank you for a night's rest and for awaking us for another day of opportunity to serve you, opportunity to share this final warning message with those that you bring into connection with us. We ask you accomplish divine appointments for each of us this day, this week, that we might have opportunity to present this message. As we begin another week, we thank you for the Sabbath that has just passed. We ask that you would grant us the presence of your Holy Spirit now as we start the day by considering your Word. We want to be filled with your Holy Spirit, and we want the Latter Rain to be poured out upon us; so, we ask that if we have done anything that has broken the connection between we and you that you would forgive us, that you would prepare our vessels to receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at this time as we seek to understand more fully the last six verses of Daniel 11. We thank you that you are doing the work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the work of the Dirt Brush Man in opening these truths to us at this time. We ask that these truths would accomplish the transformation in our character. In Jesus's name, amen.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Okay. We are dealing with 1989 as the end of William Miller's seven scatterings, marking the Time of the End for 144,000. Every Reform Movement has a Time of the End, and the Time of the End is marked by a fulfillment of a prophecy. And when that prophecy is fulfilled, it opens up a prophetic truth that will test that particular generation, and we are saying that in 1989, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in fulfillment of Daniel 11, verse 40, that the following verses in connection with verse 40 are the events connected with the close of probation, and this is the message that is designed to test this generation, producing two classes of worshippers and then demonstrating those two classes at The Sunday Law in the United States.
We have several reasons for identifying this message as the message that is unsealed. One of them I will throw in the mix here is that John the Baptist presented a message of the events connected with the close of probation when he asked the question to the Pharisees, "Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" And the answer to that question of "Who hath warned you?" is the Book of Daniel had warned them. John the Baptist and Christ were operating upon the prophecy of Daniel 9.
The time period of Christ was a fulfillment of Joel. Joel is fulfilled three times. It is fulfilled in the history of Christ; it is fulfilled in the history of the Millerites. And in the Millerites, the first message proclaimed by William Miller, as we have read more than once from The Great Controversy, William Miller's message was to identify the events connected with the close of probation. So, when we are talking about our message being the events connected with the close of probation as the first message for this generation, we are also identifying this as a fulfillment of the Book of Joel, where when Joel is fulfillment in these three sacred histories, the first message is an identification of the events connected with the close of probation.
We also, along that line, have pointed out that in each of these generations, there is a closed-door message, from Noah to the end of the world; therefore, anyone that says they are a messenger to Adventism at the end of the world should be identifying a message that marks the close of probation, which is, of course, what the last six verses of Daniel 11 do.
Daniel 11:41, which we just finished in our last study, marks the close of probation for Seventh-day Adventists in the United States at The Sunday Law.
We are now going to go into the rest of the verses in this sequence. And I want to say what I am going to say here. I did not know exactly where I am going to fit it in, so I am going to fit it in here, and maybe I will repeat it at the end of this presentation, if I think about it.
When we finish this presentation, if we get all the way through the notes, we will have covered the last six verses of Daniel 11. And, it is only at that point, in my mind, that someone that is listening to this presentation has the opportunity to begin to evaluate whether it is true or not. I mean, you just cannot explain every argument in one hour. So, what we have been doing and what we hope to finish here today is set in place our understanding of the last six verses of Daniel 11, and we have done that over a period of time. We will bring it to a conclusion.
And at that point in time, Seventh-day Adventists are required to test the validity of that. We are supposed to be willing to investigate passages of Scripture, with one exception.
I would not do this, but I thought about doing this just to make the point: I have probably 20 books over in my library of human authors that people have given to me�not books that I have paid money for�of various authors in Adventism about prophecy. And I do not do much reading of men's books or listening to men's DVDs and audio presentations; but, if I am going to fulfill my responsibility for someone handing me off a book saying, "Would you look at this and see if it is okay?" what I do is I look at the chapter titles and say, "Okay. Here is the chapter where they are probably dealing with the Daily in the Book of Daniel," and I will go back to that chapter and I will see, "Oh, they think the Daily is Christ's sanctuary ministry. 'To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word there is no light in them,'" and I set the book aside.
There are some truths. If someone comes to you with a prophetic message that is telling you that we are supposed to worship upon Sunday instead of Sabbath, you do not have to spend any time investigating that foolishness. Okay? There are certain keys that would allow someone that has been studying to know that you should not spend your time there.
But, I am suggesting to you that when we get done today, there will not be anything that we are suggesting about these verses that is outside the logic and scope of Adventist understanding of end-time events; and, therefore, you really should investigate whether it is true or not. But, your investigation, in my mind, cannot begin until you hear what we believe, all the way through verse 45.
And in connection with that point, although we have spent a lot time in these verses, what I want you to understand is that it is tomorrow that we are going to start defending these verses, although we have been defending these things, it is the following studies where we are going to go back and look at Daniel 11:40-45 and show some arguments that we have not dealt with yet that put, I believe, these verses beyond challenge. This is the closed-door message that identifies the events that identify the close of probation.
Taking the World
Egypt
Daniel 11:42.
Daniel 11:40 begins with the Papacy receiving the deadly wound; and, in that very verse the Lord begins to tell the story about how the deadly wound is healed. And the beginning of the healing of the deadly wound is the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, brought about by an alliance between the United States and the Vatican.
And verse 41, the next thing to be specifically marked in this passage, is The Sunday Law in the United States where many Seventh-day Adventists will be overthrown as they take the hand of the Papacy; but, at that time, the call will go forth by those Adventists that are lifted up as an ensign, "Come out of her my people," and those people that come out of Babylon are represented as those that escape the hand of the Papacy in verse 41, represented by Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon, which is typifying the threefold makeup of modern Babylon, and that is where God's people come out of, the eleventh-hour workers in verse 41.
In verse 42: We have noticed that in verse 40 the characteristic of the Papacy conquering the world is he comes as a flood; the Euphrates overflows and it begins sweeping through the world. We have identified that this is the overflowing scourge.
And in verse 41, we can see that it says that he shall enter also, saying that the same flood of verse 40 is now hitting verse 41, The Sunday Law in the United States; and verse 42 is this same conquering process. You need to see this as a conquering that is taking place by the King of the North.
It says,
"42He shall stretch forth his hand"�
The hand, hopefully, is an easy symbol for Seventh-day Adventists.
If he stretches forth his hand upon the countries, what would that mean? As Seventh-day Adventists there are two places where you are going to receive the mark of the beast, either in the forehead or in the hand. If you receive it in the forehead, it is because you believe in Sunday sacredness. If you receive it in the hand, it is because you were forced into submission; so, when he stretches his hand out upon Egypt, and "the countries" represented by Egypt, they are being forced into submission to his authority, to his rule, to The Sunday Law.
�"42He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries:"�
This is plural. This is not an added word as it is in verse 41. This word countries is in here as it is in verse 40; and, in verse 40 "the countries" represent a group of countries that made up what we call the King of the South, the group of countries that were the Soviet Union.
So, whatever Egypt is here, it is a group of countries.
�"42He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape." Daniel 11:42 (KJV).
This, to me, has always been the simplest symbol in all of these six verses, "Egypt." That is what we are going to identify here. And if you start right there with Egypt and identify it correctly, you can go backwards into verse 41 and 40 and, from the understanding of who Egypt is in end-time Bible prophecy, you can put verses 41 and 40 together just by going backwards. And we are not going that, but I am telling you that this symbol here, Egypt, is the easiest one to see if you are willing to see, and it is like a marker in these verses, a good point of reference for the other understandings.
Sister White says in Testimonies, volume 1, page 131,
"Why is it so hard to lead a self-denying, humble life? Because professed Christians are not dead to the world. It is easy living after we are dead. But many are longing for the leeks and onions of Egypt. They have a disposition to act and dress as much like the world as possible and yet go to heaven. Such climb up some other way. They do not enter through the strait gate and narrow way." Testimonies, volume 1, 131.
The Egypt is a symbol of the world.
Testimonies, volume 5, beginning at page 217,
"I am filled with sadness when I think of our condition as a people. The Lord has not closed heaven to us, but our own course of continual backsliding has separated us from God. Pride, covetousness, and love of the world have lived in the heart without fear of banishment or condemnation. . . . The church has turned back from following Christ her leader and is steadily retreating toward Egypt. . . . Have we not been seeking the friendship and applause of the world rather than the presence of Christ and a deeper knowledge of His will?" Testimonies, volume�5, 217�218.
Egypt is the world.
The Great Controversy, page 628:
"The plagues of Egypt when God was about to deliver Israel were similar in character to those more terrible and extensive judgments which are to fall upon the world just before the final deliverance of God's people." The Great Controversy, 628.
Egypt is the world.
Signs of the Times, March 6, 1884:
"Many are not growing strong, because they do not take God at his Word. They are conforming to the world. Every day they pitch their tents nearer to Egypt, when they should encamp a day's march nearer the heavenly Canaan." Signs of the Times, March 6, 1884.
Egypt is the world.
Manuscript Releases, volume 10, page 240:
"The Lord God of Israel is to execute judgment upon the gods of this world, as upon the gods of Egypt." Manuscript Releases, volume 10, 240.
So, when the King of the North (the Papacy/modern Rome) comes into Egypt, Egypt does not escape, Egypt represents all the countries of the world.
ESCAPE: Strong's Concordance 6413�deliverance, (that is) escape (-3), remnant. 6412: a refugee: -(that have) escape (-d, -th), fugitive.
In verse 41 the word escape is a different Hebrew word that is translated as escape here in 42. In verse 41 it means escape as if by slipperiness. But this word that is translated as escape in verse 42, you see that the definition of it here is Deliverance, (that is) escape, remnant, refugee: escaped fugitive.
So, in the context of this word, it says "and the land of Egypt shall not escape," there is not going to be a remnant that gets out of Egypt. They are not going to escape. There are going to find no deliverance. This is talking about when the entire world is taken.
But, of course, there is a remnant. I am not denying that. The ensign and the eleventh-hour workers are the remnant; but, all the rest of the world has come under the authority of the One World Government that has for a moral leader the man of sin, the Pope of Rome.
Now, right here is the logic of how you can work backwards through these verses if you wish to. If you know that the King of the North is the Papacy and he is conquering Egypt in verse 42, these next two quotes will allow you to identify who verse 41 is. It is as simple as pie, if you wish to.
Testimonies, volume 6, page 18, says,
"As America, the land of religious liberty, shall unite with the Papacy in forcing the conscience and compelling men to honor the false sabbath, the people of every country"�every country�"on the globe will be led to follow her example." Testimonies, volume 6, 18.
So, if Egypt is every country on the globe, then that is verse 42; but, if the United States leads out before every country accepts The Sunday Law, who is the glorious land in verse 41?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The United States.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: It has got to be the United States.
Testimonies, volume 6, page 395:
"Foreign nations will follow the example of the United States. Though she leads out, yet the same crisis will come upon our people in all parts of the world." Testimonies, volume 6, 395.
Revelation 13:11-15
Revelation 13:11-15 we have been looking from time to time as we go through. There are certain things that I have taught through the years that were probably wrong, but there are certain things that I have taught through the years that may be right, that sometimes I do not have the sense that those people that have listened to them where it really clicks on. It is like, yeah, they hear what you say but they do not recognize the significance that I recognize, and maybe I am wrong about the significance. I am not holding myself up as the authority.
But, Revelation 13, there is a very important sequence in here to see.
In verse 11�and we have already gone through this�the United States speaks as a dragon.
1989 (Time of the End)
Rev 18:4
US (Lamb) � Rev 13:11 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - US (Dragon) 13:14-15 Rev 14:9-11
Daniel - 11:40 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11:41 11:42-43 Michael Stands Up
Sunday Law 12:1
1798 Sept. 11, 2001
Elijah 1989 ISLAM
Tyre (Isa 23) "ONE HOUR"
Carchemish (Tyre) "Time of Mercy" for 11th hr workers
Chosroes (Rev 9) Satan Personates Christ
LITTLE TIME OF TROUBLE
Figure No. 104.
It begins as a lamb here in 1798. Is that not when the United States begins as a Lamb?
But, at The Sunday Law, it speaks as a dragon.
So, we have pointed out, we have emphasized here more than once that Daniel 11, verse�40, is the history of 1798 to The Sunday Law; but, Revelation 13:11 is the history of 1798 to The Sunday Law: identical histories.
The history of Tyre in Isaiah 23, the history of the Papacy when she is forgotten, she is forgotten as the days of one king. She is forgotten from 1798 to The Sunday Law: the same histories.
So, here in verse 11 of Revelation 13, the United States speaks as a dragon and passes a Sunday Law; but, by the time you get to verse 14, in here [during the Time of Mercy]�let us read verse 14�the United States is forcing the world to set up an image to the beast.
Verse 14 of Revelation 13 says,
"14And [the United States] 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 we have spent time here. What is the only definition of the image of the beast given in Inspiration? It is the combination of church and state, with the church in control of the relationship. And we have taken time more than once in the worship series to show that when the United States passes a Sunday law in verse 41 or in Revelation 13:11, The Sunday Law is what identifies that the image of the beast has been fully formed in the United States. The Protestants in the United States have to have enough control over the government of the United States to make them pass a Sunday law, enough control that it shows that church and state have come together. And it is the Protestants that are in control of the relationship, because they are passing a Sunday law.
And if you remember, in The Great Controversy, Sister White defines the image of the beast; and, she says the mark of the beast still needs to be defined. The mark of the beast and the image of the beast are two different things. The image of the beast is the combination of church and state with the church in control of the relationship, and the mark of the beast is Sunday sacredness, Sunday worship.
So, in Revelation 13:11, you have an image of the beast. You do not see it specifically identified, but it is there; because, they pass a Sunday law when they speak as a dragon.
So, now in verse 14 the United States is going out to the entire world and saying, "You need to set up a One World Government with the church in control of this relationship."
And in verse 15, it says,
"15And he [the United States] had power"�
What is the power?
We have defined this.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Military and economics.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Military and economic strength. That is what Clovis gave to the Papacy in AD496, because Clovis is typifying the United States, and the United States began to repeat the history of Clovis in the Ronald Reagan years when we began funneling money (power) into the Soviet Union to bring it down, and building up our military (power).
So, in verse 15 it says the United States still had the power. It says,
�"15And he had power to give life unto [the One World Government] the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak,"�
And what does it mean to speak?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Legislative.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Action of legislative and judicial authority.
Does the United Nations have a judicial branch and a legislative branch?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Yes. New York City, legislative branch; Holland, judicial branch.
Okay. They are going to speak. They are going to pass laws.
Why are they going to pass laws? Because, the United States is going to set them up and force the world to accept it.
�"and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." Revelation 13:15 (KJV).
So, what I am saying is, in Revelation 13, if you look at it carefully, in verse 11 there is an image of the beast set up in the United States, and then in verses 14 and 15, there is an image of the beast set up in the world.
When the image of the beast is set up in the world, the Papacy has just conquered the world.
So, verses 14 and 15 of Revelation 13 are verses 42 and 43 of Daniel 11; because, this is one of the strongest arguments, is that the history where we are identifying these last six verses is the same history in Revelation 13 and 14, and it is the same history in Revelation 16 through 18: identical histories. But, you will not see it if you are not operating upon the principle of line upon line, because you do not look at prophetic lines and, therefore, you dissect and take parts here and there and you use the Greek thinking to destroy the Word of God.
So, what I am saying here�and I am struggling here�remember what we have shown is that when the United States passes The Sunday Law right here [the fourth waymark of Figure No. 104], that if you remember we have looked at a copy of different quotes. One says that the United States then unites with the Dragon. And in another quote we have looked at is that at The Sunday Law the United States stretches its hand to grasp the hand of the Papacy, and stretches its hand to clasp the hand of the Dragon (Spiritualism).
So, in verse 41, at The Sunday Law�and the final movements are rapid ones; and, the reason it is going so slow from 1989 to here [The Sunday Law] is because this is God's mercy being demonstrated for Seventh-day Adventists. But at The Sunday Law, Seventh-day Adventism is purified. The final movements are rapid ones. Now the subject moves outside of Adventism.
In verse 41 at The Sunday Law in the United States, simultaneously the United States is fully disconnected from righteousness ("fully," being directed by Satan), and it begins to force the world to accept the One World Government; and, that is verse 42.
So, right in here [between the fourth and fifth waymarks of Figure No. 104], you have verses 42 and 43; but, that is also the line of Revelation 14 and 15.
Do you see the parallel?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: And part of the reason that the United States is successful in allowing the King of the North to conquer Egypt is because at The Sunday Law Satan begins to personate Christ, and Satan is pushing the same buttons at the same time.
Revelation 17:10-18, 1-3, 4-6
Okay. Let us go to Revelation 17 and look at one more line. We are not going to look at this in-depth, because I intend to do that in-depth here in the future. This is just going to be an overview of Revelation 17.
Beginning at verse 10:
"10And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition."�
Who is the eighth that is of the seven in the Scriptures?
We have already dealt with this.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The Papacy.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Who always comes up eighth?
And somebody said the Papacy, but really it is Rome. Okay? By the context of where you find it, you have to determine which Rome it is. So, you know who the beast that was and is not, just from that argument.
Verse 12:
�"12And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet;"�
Ten kings that receive one kingdom: it does not say no kingdoms, in the plural as yet; just one kingdom.
�"which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast."�
Okay. This one hour, from The Sunday Law in the United States until Michael stands up, this is the one hour of Bible prophecy that is The Sunday Law crisis. It is the hour when the United Nations comes together with the Papacy, forming a world image of the beast when Egypt is conquered, in verses 42 and 43 of Daniel 11. This is the one hour of prophecy.
Verse 13:
�"13These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."�
What is their power and strength? Military and economic.
�"14These shall make war with the Lamb,"�
The Papacy does not do its own dirty work; it always has a civil power to do its dirty work. These Ten Kings are the ones that are going to spill the blood at the direction of the Papacy. They are going to make war with the Lamb by making war with the Lamb's followers. We have quotes along that line as we proceed.
�"14These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. 15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 18And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." Revelation 17:10-18 (KJV).
Okay. So, this story�this is just an overview. We are going to do this in detail later�it is emphasizing the relationship between the Ten Kings and the Papacy, and it is telling us what the Ten Kings are going to do. They are going to come into agreement with the Papacy. They are going to persecute God's people, and they are going to hate the Papacy and ultimately destroy her. So, there are some themes in here that are marked.
And there is a sequence of kingdoms there. "There are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; . . ." (Revelation 17:10 KJV). And we understand that the books in Daniel and Revelation are the same book; so, the kingdoms of Bible prophecy in the Book of Daniel would be the same kingdoms of Bible prophecy in the Book of Revelation; because, those books bring each other to perfection, according to Sister White.
According to Sister White, the same line of prophecy that is taken up by Daniel is taken up by John in the Revelation. So, in Daniel 2, Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar, "Thou, O king,�.�.�.Thou art this head of gold." (Daniel 2:37-38 KJV.) And the head of gold was Babylon and, therefore, a king is a kingdom. So, there are seven kings; there are seven kingdoms.
And in the Book of Daniel, the first kingdom is Babylon; the second kingdom, Medo-Persia; [the third kingdom], Greece; [the fourth kingdom], Pagan Rome; and [the fifth kingdom], Papal Rome. Five are fallen. When John is placed in the history of this vision, he is placed in 1798. Okay?
When these first five kingdoms have fallen, "one is." What is the kingdom that begins in 1798?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The United States.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: The United States.
And one is yet to come. He has not arrived in history yet. That is the Ten Kings (that is the United Nations at the end of the world).
But, John is in 1798 when he receives this vision. So, the United Nations is not in existence in 1798, as is the United States: The one is, and one is yet to come.
And when he comes, he will continue how long?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: A short space.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: One hour (a short space). Okay. This is one of the things that connect this together.
"And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven,�.�.�. (Revelation�17:11 KJV). And the eighth that is of the seven in the Scriptures is Rome; and, in this story [referencing Figure No. 104] it is modern Rome at the end of the world. And being of the seven, if you go back into the previous seven kingdoms, there is only one of those kingdoms that received a deadly wound, and that was the fifth kingdom; that was the Papacy. And the number 8 in the Scriptures represents resurrection. So, this eighth kingdom is marking when the Papacy's deadly would is healed, when it is resurrected.
Okay. This is just an overview. I am saying things that I have not proven yet.
Verses 1-3 of Revelation
Verses 1 through 3 in Revelation 17, it is telling about this is the Judgment. This is an illustration about how the Papacy is going to be judged, the whore of Rome that has committed fornication with the kings of the Earth, in verses 1 and 2.
But in verse 3 John is carried away into the wilderness; and, the wilderness, according to Revelation 12, verses 6 and 14, is the 1260 years. So, John is carried to the 1260 years in order to see a prophecy about the Papacy, which he would have had to do because he received the vision in the Year AD100, and the Papacy was not in history yet. If he is going to see a vision about the Papacy, then he has to be propelled into the future and he is taken into the wilderness, which is the 1260 years.
Revelation 17:4-6
And then in verses 4 through 6 [of Revelation 17], he sees a woman riding upon the beast. Of course, this woman is the Church of Rome. Sister White says so, and so does the dictionaries in the United States before the Year 2000. If you looked up scarlet woman in the English dictionaries, it would say, "The Roman Catholic Church; an illusion to Revelation 17."
So, he sees the Roman Catholic Church riding upon this beast, and she is drunk with the blood of the saints, identifying that the persecution of the 1260 years has already ended; because, you get drunk after you drink, and she has already drunken, and she is already the mother of harlots. The Protestant churches, some of them have already returned to Rome and became harlots themselves; they become daughters of Rome. She is already a mother when she is riding that beast, a mother of harlots. She has already persecuted. Therefore, from verses 4 through 6 we find that the vision of Revelation 17 it begins in 1798, in agreement with Daniel 11, verse 40, beginning in 1798; in agreement with Revelation 13, beginning in 1798. These three prophecies are line upon line, the same story.
And we have spent quite a bit of time identifying that verse 40 of Daniel 11 is the starting point for the Beast, Dragon, and False Prophet to lead the world to Armageddon. The King of the South in verse 40 is the Dragon; the chariots, horsemen, and ships are the False Prophet; and, the King of the North is the Beast. Verse 40 is the launching pad for the Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet leading the world to the place that in Daniel 11 is called "between the seas and the glorious holy mountain" which in other places in geography, and other places in the Scriptures, is what we call Armageddon.
The story of Revelation 16 is the story of the last six verses of Daniel 11, and we see these three players [the Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet] in verse 40. But, we see in Daniel and Revelation that each of these three players has a special line of prophecy that emphasizes the role that they play in this history.
Daniel 11, verse 40, is talking about the King of the North (the Beast). Revelation 13 is talking about the False Prophet in the same history (the United States). And Revelation 17 is teaching us about the Dragon power (the Ten Kings) in the same history. It is when we take these three lines of prophecy and lay them over one another that we understand what the Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet is doing in these prophetic illustrations.
Daniel 7, Daniel 8; Revelation 13:3-4
You will notice in your notes that I have Daniel 7, Daniel 8; and, Revelation 13 before I get to this quote by Sister White from Education. The reason I have Daniel 7, Daniel 8, and Revelation 13, we have already dealt with this in worship. Okay?
And in Daniel 7 the Roman Empire disintegrates into ten nations; then three horns are plucked up. So, you have seven nations. But, where these three nations are plucked up, what do you have? You have a little horn come up. So, Rome comes up eighth, and is of the seven. And I am just putting that in there for your references.
And then in Daniel 8, you have the story of the horns, where in verse 9 the little horn of Rome comes into this scenario, and he is the eighth horn in Daniel 8.
And then in Revelation 13, John sees seven heads, and one of those heads receives the deadly wound, and then that deadly would is healed. Those seven heads, the Papacy is one of those heads that has a deadly wound, but when it is healed it is prophetically the eighth head. It always comes up as the eighth and is of the seven. I have that in there just for that purpose.
Daniel 7 [Note: The following is provided for reference as it was not read into the record at this time.]
"1�In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2�Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3�And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4�The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. 5�And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6�After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7�After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8�I 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.
"9�I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. 10�A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. 11�I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. 12�As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. 13�I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14�And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
"15�I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. 16�I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. 17�These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. 18�But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. 19�Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; 20�And 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. 21�I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; 22�Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. 23�Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 24�And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 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. 26�But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. 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. 28�Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart." Daniel 7 (KJV).
Daniel 8 [Note: The following is provided for reference as it was not read into the record at this time.]
"1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. 2�And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. 3�Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 4�I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. 5�And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. 6�And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. 7�And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. 8�Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. 9�And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10�And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11�Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down. 12�And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
"13�Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14�And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
"15�And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. 16�And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. 17�So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. 18�Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright. 19�And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be. 20�The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. 21�And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. 22�Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. 23�And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24�And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. 25�And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. 26�And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. 27�And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it." Daniel 8 (KJV).
Revelation 13:3-4 [Note: The following is provided for reference as it was not read into the record at this time.]
""3�And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4�And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" Revelation 13:3-4 (KJV).
Assyria, Egypt . . .
Now, notice here a quote from Education. I have referred to it before. I want you to see it, if you will. In Education, page 179, it says,
"The crown removed from Israel passed successively to the kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. God says, 'It shall be no more, until He come whose right it is; and I will give it Him.'" Education, 179.
If you can get straight on this argument, the Lion of the tribe of Judah can start feeding you some honey, if you can get straight on this argument I am going to bring up.
One of the arguments here at the end of the world in Adventism is the true and false way to interpret the Bible. And if you bust out your Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary on Revelation 17, one of the things that they will tell you is that this "five have fallen, and one is not, and one is yet to come" is the kingdoms of history: it is Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, . . . �and I forget what they say. This is long before I understood that we had been high-jacked by Satan when the false interpretation of Biblical study was introduced in the 1930s. Before I knew that, this here was a stumbling block for me; because, I had seen that the Theologians of Adventism, they were willing to identify the kingdoms of history as Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, in spite of the fact that Ellen White says that Israel is one of the kingdoms of history. She says, "The crown removed from Israel passed successively to the kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome." And if you are going to use the faulty Protestant rule of prophetic interpretation to approach the Bible, and it is going to contradict the Spirit of Prophecy, you ought to set it aside.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Amen.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Because, your formula for Revelation 17 does not work because there is another country that needs to be in that formula: it is Israel.
Okay. That is outside the scope of this. I just want you to see that in the kingdoms of history, it is Assyria, Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Pagan Rome, and out of Pagan Rome comes Papal Rome. So, Rome always comes up eighth, and is of the seven, even in the kingdoms of history.
So, that is why that is in there.
Revelation 17:13, 13:2
Revelation 17:13
"13These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast." Revelation 17:13 (KJV).
Revelation 17:13 says that these Ten Kings will give their power unto the Beast, and this is paralleling Revelation 13:2.
Revelation 13:2
"2And 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).
In Revelation 13:2, the Dragon gives the leopard-like beast (gives the Papacy) three things: its power, its seat, and its great authority. And here at the end of the world we see the Dragon power of the Ten Kings giving their power to the Beast. So, if you are going to understand what it means that the United Nations and the United States give their power to the Papacy at the end of the world, then you need to go into Revelation 13:2 and find out what it means that Clovis gave his power to the Papacy in AD496, because they are parallel histories, and they are important. Jesus illustrates the end from the beginning.
So, that is why those references are in there. This is an overview at this point.
Speaking of Revelation 17, verses 12, 13, 14, in that area, Sister White says, and this is also in Ellen White's Study Bible, from Maranatha, page 187,
"'These have one mind.' There will be a universal bond of union,"�
Hartland Institute likes to teach that these kingdoms are the European Common Market, and that that is what is being discussed here in Revelation 17.
And even in Australia the word universal means worldwide. It does not mean Europe.
�"There will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy of Satan's forces. 'And shall give their power and strength to the beast.' Thus is manifested the same arbitrary, oppressive power against religious liberty, freedom to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, as was manifested by the Papacy, when in the past it persecuted those who dared to refuse to conform with the religious rites and ceremonies of Romanism." Maranatha, 187.
What am I doing here? What I am doing here is trying to show you that verses 42 and 43 of Daniel 11, when the Papacy conquers Egypt, it is identified also in Revelation 13, verses 14 and 15. It is the same story. And it is identified in Revelation 17, when the Dragon is giving its power to the Papacy. This is when Egypt is being conquered by the King of the North.
Who is the Dragon?
The Great Controversy, page 439:
"Thus while the dragon, primarily, represents Satan, it is, in a secondary sense, a symbol of pagan Rome." The Great Controversy, 439.
Purposely we have spent time identifying that the one of the characteristics of the Dragon is that it moves through history, and it has an earthly representative as it moves through history.
In the time of Christ, the Dragon's earthly representative was Pagan Rome. Pagan Rome has the number 10 attached to it, because that is one of the characteristics of the Dragon as well.
But, at the end of the world, the Dragon has moved again. At the end of the world, the Dragon is in the Soviet Union, until the Soviet Union was swept away in 1989.
And who was the leader when it was swept away?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: Gorbachev.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: Mikhail Gorbachev.
And what did he immediately do? He took a job at the United Nations. He moved to the United Nations, thus giving the student of prophecy an historical line to follow the Dragon has it moved to its final resting place, the United Nations.
And here, we have referred to this often from Testimonies to Ministers, page 38.
"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." Testimonies to Ministers, 38.
At the end of the world during The Sunday Law testing time, the Dragon power is a group of kings, governors, and rulers. It is not one king, it is a group. And in Revelation 17, it is Ten Kings. But, we have been showing through here, who as the primary king?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The United States.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: The United States.
Who is the United States?
In Carmel, in Carmel where is Jezebel in the story of Elijah? She is off. She is off in Samaria. She is out of the picture.
But, in Carmel, who is there? If the Beast is not there, who is in Carmel?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: The False Prophet.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: The False Prophet and the Dragon.
Who is the False Prophet in the story of Elijah?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: It is the priests of Baal.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: It is the priests of Baal (it is the United States).
But, when you come to the judgment, the third waymark in the story of Elijah, what happens to the priests of Baal?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: They are killed.
BROTHER PIPPENGER: They are killed. That is the end of the False Prophet. The False Prophet ends right there, because he joins the Dragon, he joins the Dragon. He becomes the premier king of the Ten Kings.
Who does he become?
Who does the United States become at this point at The Sunday Law in the United States? By the way, that is where this is. He becomes the United States.
And who is the United States? It is lots of things. It is Tarshish, okay? The premier symbol of economic strength is the ships of Tarshish. It is the United States. It is when the flagship of the economy of the world begins to go down from an East wind.
But, that is a different subject.
Structure
1798�deadly wound healed�message of the hour�close of probation
I am at "Structure" in your notes.
What I mean by that and what we will show when we get into Revelation 17�and I have
not taken the time to prove this yet, but I am going to put it in your head one time, so when we get to the point to prove it, it might settle in easier.
The structure�I mean this [the time line of Figure No. 104 appearing on the whiteboard] is real busy, right? But, the structure of the sequence of events in Daniel 11:40-45, it begins in 1798. And then it begins to tell the story about how the deadly wound is healed.
Okay. The story of how the deadly wound is healed is Daniel 11:40 to 43. Once the Papacy conquers Egypt and takes possession of the economic structure of the world in verse�43 where it has the gold, and silver, and previous things, the deadly wound is healed.
And then verse 44 marks the message of the hour, the tidings of the East and the North. And in that history Michael stands up; because, in Daniel 12:1 it says, "And at that time," somewhere back there in verses 44 and 45, Michael stands up and human probation closes.
So, at one level, the line of prophecy in Daniel 11:40 to Daniel 12:1 is that it begins in 1798. It tells the story of how the deadly wound is healed; and, then it emphases the message of the hour; and, then it marks the close of probation.
And the story of the United States in Revelation 13, it begins in 1798, and it is the story�this is where we get the term from, the deadly wound�it is the story about how the deadly wound is healed. By the time you get to verse 18, the man of sin with the number 666 is implementing the mark of the beast on all the world.
So, the story of Revelation 13 is that it begins in 1798. It tells how the deadly wound is healed, and then the message of the hour is emphasized because you come to Revelation 14. That is the message of the hour, is it not?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Affirmations.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: And the message of the hour takes you down to verse�11 in Revelation 14. And in Revelation 14 (9/11), you see the close of probation.
So, it is the identical sequence in Revelation 13 that it is in the last six verses of Daniel�11.
And, in Revelation 17, it begins in 1798. It describes how the threefold union of the sixth, seventh, and eighth kingdoms come together, how the deadly wound is healed; and, then you have Revelation 18.
And what is Revelation 18? It is the message of the hour, and it leads to the last four verses of Revelation 18, which is the close of probation.
So, the structure that we are suggesting about the last six verses of Daniel 11 is the identical structure as Revelation 13 and Revelation 17. And we will deal more of that in detail, because this is an important argument.
Egypt: Libya and Ethiopia
All right. Verse 43 of Daniel 11:
"43But he [the King of the North] shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. Daniel 11:43.
I have always, from the start, understood the Libyans and Ethiopians to be the rich and poor. In verses 42 and 43 the subject there is Egypt, and Libya is a country that is connected to Egypt. It borders Egypt, and so does Ethiopia. And throughout the history of Egypt, Libya has always, and still is, been a poor country. It has always desired to conquer Egypt and become rich and wealthy, because Egypt was the symbol of worldliness throughout history for the Libyans.
Even the last leader that they did away with, Kaddafi, Kaddafi had built giant tunnels along the border of Egypt, tunnels big enough to run his tanks and his trucks and his bombs through on the border of Egypt because he had plans of conquering Egypt. It has always been that way through history. The Libyans were the poor, downtrodden masses that wanted to be Egyptians.
Whereas, the Ethiopians, technically they were richer than the Egyptians; because, what made the Egyptians wealthy was all the goods from lower Africa that the Egyptians sold to the rest of the world and got wealthy from. But, before the Egyptians got those goods, they had to come through the Ethiopian traders, and the Ethiopian traders, they made their cut off the wholesale/retail dealings. So, the Ethiopians, they had some money.
So, in relation to Egypt, the Libyans and the Ethiopians: rich and poor. Okay? And that is, no doubt, a truth about this passage, because that is what Revelation 13 says in the same history. It says in Revelation 13:16�it is in your notes:
"16And 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." Revelation�13:16 (KJV).
Sister White comments on this, from The Great Controversy, page 604.
"Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that, "all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond" (Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the customs of the church by observance of the false sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death." The Great Controversy, 604.
So what am I saying? I am saying, in verse 43 of Daniel 11, that when the Papacy takes control of all of the countries of Egypt, when the Papacy takes control of the entire world, when the United States has forced the world to set up an image of the beast, then the whole world as represented by "rich and poor" is under the authority of the Papacy.
But, there is more to Libya and Ethiopia than that.
And then we have referenced the book, Keys of This Blood, by Malachi Martin, and you see here a passage from Keys of This Blood where Malachi Martin is talking about a pretend map that Pope John Paul II had in terms of how he was going to govern the world.
Now, if you remember what we said about Keys of This Blood, Malachi Martin in that book�and Malachi Martin was very close to Pope John Paul II. He was one of his apologists, if that is the right word�and the beginning of that book sets forth the premise that the world was now in a three-way struggle for who was going to take control of the world, and he names who the three players were. He says it is the Soviet Union (that is the King of the South); the United States (that is the chariots, ships, and horsemen); and the Papacy (that is the King of the North) in verse 40. So, Malachi Martin is talking about Daniel 11, verse 40, even though he did not know it. And he says that all these three powers are struggling to take control of the world, and he predicted that it will be the Papacy that takes control of the world because they have the moral authority to do so and the Soviet Union and the United States do not have that moral authority. But, that is all Catholic rubbish, but it is true at one level.
And in that book, because of the Messages of Fatima�and we talked a little bit about this�Pope John Paul II believed that he was the good Pope, because in the Messages of Fatima there is a good Pope and there is a bad Pope. Okay? And when Jesus returns, He is going to place a blessing upon the good Pope and He is going to judge the bad Pope and He is going to take control of the Catholic Church and lead it�that is the Message of Fatima�and He is going to co-rule with the good Pope.
So, as the good Pope (Pope John Paul II) is thinking about when he is going to take control of the world in this book, this passage here is describing this map of the world, and it says in short, from Keys of This Blood, Malachi Martin, pages 163-164, 171,
"In short, that contemporary map of shame would be the graphic expression of the atrocity we have come to describe so blandly as the division of the world into North and South, which is to say, in plainer terms, the division of nations, and of populations within nations, into rich and poor. . . .
"It is just such a map of shame that Pope John Paul does hold up to the world in his moral assessment of the geopolitical arrangements that are setting up our future for us. . . ."�
Now, when we get to this last paragraph, you might hear a little Obama in it; but, the next paragraph says,
�"On the modern map of world shame that is the subject of so much of John Paul's attention, North and South do not figure as precise geographical terms. Instead, they are global frontiers where wealth and poverty divide not only nations, but societies within nations. . . ."�
Now, here is the paragraph. Here is the scary part of it, I guess.
�"Whether it is applied in the confines of the United States, or in the world at large,"�
Do you see what he just did? He just said, first the United States and then Egypt, first the glorious land and then Egypt.
�"Whether it is applied in the confines of the United States [the glorious land], or in the world [Egypt] at large, John Paul's moral assessment of North and South [rich and poor] is simple and clear. In a morally adjusted economy, he insists, the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer." Keys of This Blood, Malachi Martin, 163�164, 171.
Do you hear that principle anywhere?
See, people think that maybe Obama is, you know, whatever they may think, that he is a representative of the Vatican. This is Vatican economics that he is proposing.
So, what I am saying is that Libya and Ethiopia in verse 43 of Daniel 11 are going to be "at his steps." And we defined this earlier in the previous presentation, but we will define it again. To be "at his steps" means to march with him.
Have you ever marched? When I joined the Air Force, they made us march during basic training and we never marched again. Okay. That is the Air Force for you. If you join the Army, you are going to march incessantly; and, if you are going to join the Marines, oh, man, you are really going to march.
But, marching, if you do not want that drill instructor to be in your face, you better be making the same steps that everyone else is, at the same time; because, marching implies that you are all in unity, you are all moving identically the same.
And the Libyans and the Ethiopians, the rich and the poor, are going to be marching with Rome. They are going to be at his steps, because that is what "at his steps" means. That means to march with him.
But, Libya and Ethiopia, they also represent military strength. So, at one level they represent economics, and at another level they represent military; and, those are the characteristics once again of who? The United States. The United States is going to bring all the military and all the economics together for the Pope of Rome, because Ahab loves Jezebel.
Military Might
Jeremiah 46:8-9; Ezekiel 38:5
Jeremiah 46, verses 8 and 9, beginning with verse 8 of Jeremiah 46:
"8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. 9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the blow." Jeremiah 46:8-9 (KJV).
So, when he is marching together with Ethiopia and Libya, it represents economics, rich and poor; but, it also represents that it has the military structure of Planet Earth in its back pocket.
Ezekiel 38:5
Go to Ezekiel 38:5.
Is it okay for a symbol to have more than one meaning? I hope so; I hope so, since we would be in trouble about the line if it was not.
Verse 5:
"5Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: . . ." Ezekiel�38:5 (KJV).
So, Ethiopia and Libya also represent military might. Military and economic might prophetically are power.
Steps
Okay. You see the definition of STEPS there. It is self-explanatory.
STEPS: Strong's Concordance 4703�from 6805; a step; fig. companionship:- going, step. 6805: to pace, i.e. step regularly; (upward) to mount; (along) to march; (down and caus.) to hurl: �bring, go, march (through), run over.
It means to march with.
Verse 43 of Daniel 11:
"43But he [the King of the North] shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things [the economic structure] of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians [the rich and poor and military of the world] shall be at his steps [are going to be marching with him; they are going to be in unity]. Daniel 11:43 (KJV).
When is it that the Egyptians are willing to give away their gold and silver and precious things?
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (No audible responses.)
BROTHER PIPPENGER: When the Plagues are falling. Right? That is where Daniel draws this story from. When the Plagues are falling on Egypt, the Egyptians are ready, "Here, take our gold and silver and get out of town!" All right?
So, here in verse 43, the King of the North (the Papacy) is taking control over the gold and the silver and precious things of Egypt, thus telling us that back in verse 41 that national apostasy is followed by national ruin, that the destructive judgments of God are in the land, which is the Time of Mercy for the eleventh-hour workers; but, that the judgments are in the land. And in this time period when the judgments are in the land, the Egyptians are willing to turn their financial structure over to the "savior of mankind." And the greatest moral authority on Planet Earth today is the Pope of Rome.
"17And 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." Revelation 13:17 (KJV).
And the greatest military and economic strength is the United States. So, when the United States uses its force to lift up this moral authority, that is what is being described here in these verses. But, there really is no unity with them, even though they are marching together, except as they unify to make war with the Lamb (verse 14 of Revelation 17) to persecute God's followers.
Testimonies, volume 5, page 101:
"With the ungodly there will be a deceptive harmony that but partially conceals a perpetual discord. In their opposition to the will and the truth of God they are united, while on every other point they are rent with hatred, emulation, jealousy, and deadly strife." Testimonies, volume 5, 101.
You have to understand this. It is part of the story; it is part of the story. In Revelation�17 the Ten Kings (the Dragon) they hate the whore. They hate the Papacy, yet they are going to come into a church/state relationship with the Papacy, even though they hate her. They hate her so much that they are going to kill her.
So, this is part of the story. This is part of the dynamics that you have to understand about this threefold union, is it is a marriage of convenience. It is not a marriage of love.
Testimonies, volume 7, page 182:
"As we approach"�
And I wish this would sink into your heads. There is a phrase in here; because, in Psalm�83 it talks about these Ten Kings lifting up the head, and this here will tell you what the head is that the Ten Kings lift up.
�"As we approach the last crisis, it is of vital moment that harmony and unity exist among the Lord's instrumentalities. The world is filled with storm and war and variance. Yet under one head�the papal power�the people will unite to oppose God in the person of His witnesses. This union is cemented by the great apostate. While he seeks to unite his agents in warring against the truth he will work to divide and scatter its advocates. Jealousy, evil surmising, evilspeaking, are instigated by him to produce discord and dissension." Testimonies, volume 7, 182.
Okay. This false unity, the head of it is the King of the North (the Papacy).
Review and Herald, December 21, 1897:
"In this time of prevailing iniquity, the Protestant churches that have rejected a 'Thus saith the Lord,' will reach a strange pass. They will be converted to the world. In their separation from God, they will seek to make falsehood and apostasy from God the law of the nation. They will work upon the rulers of the land to make laws to restore"�
Please underline these two words.
�"the lost ascendency of the man of sin,"�
We have spent time here showing that one of the prophetic characteristics of Satan is that he wants to ascend to the throne of God. He wants to ascend to the sides of North. He will ascend and be like God. The ascending is a characteristic of Satan; but, we have also shown that it is a characteristic of the Papacy, for in verse 40 of Daniel 11, this mighty sweeping away that is expressed in the Hebrew words that are translated as come against as a whirlwind in Daniel 11, verse 40, the definition of those Hebrew words not only describes the mighty sweeping away but, at the same time, an ascendency begins, suggesting to us, if we are willing to see, that the ascension of the King of the North begins with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, and it reaches the height when the Ten Kings agree to give their kingdom unto the Beast for one hour (for a short space), when the Beast conquers Egypt in Daniel 11, verse 42, and the United States forces the world to set up an image of the Beast in Revelation 13:14-15.
So, this ascendency is a characteristic to watch, and it is the Protestants of the United States that restore . . .
�"the lost ascendency of the man of sin, who sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. The Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the protection of the state. The protest of Bible truth will no longer be tolerated by those who have not made the law of God their rule of life." Review and Herald, December 21, 1897.
Brothers and Sisters, this health care law [referring to the Affordable Care Act a/k/a Obama Care], that is Roman Catholic principles. If you do not know that, you should know that. As a Seventh-day Adventist, you should know that.
There is a book called, Ecclesiastical Megalomania. There may be better books on this subject than that, but it is the one that I read. And Ecclesiastical Megalomania is very clear as it describes the political structure of the Papacy and how this political structure of the Papacy has been duplicated in various political structures around the world: Socialism, Communism; that is Catholicism, with just a little twist.
And so when we see a health care plan introduced into the United States such as this, if you really understand it, that is Catholicism. "And Catholic principles"�how does Sister White say it?�"will be taken under the protection of the state. The protest of Bible truth will no longer be tolerated by those who have not made the law of God their rule of life."
And what is the argument for a national health care system in the United States? Why, I hope it is not the Canadian Health Care System. We just had our Canadian friends go home yesterday, and that national health care system forces the Canadians to save up their money and come down to the United States to get health care if they are in serious trouble. So, we are going into a health care system like that. All right?
But, what is the argument for it? Because, even the poor need health care. Okay? It is the premise of the benefitting of all at the denial of a few; and, that is the argument of The Sunday Law. That is the argument of The Sunday Law: "The only reason we are having these problems is because of this little group that is keeping the Sabbath. And if we can deal with them, then it will benefit everyone." It is the same logic.
We will end right here. Let me wrap this up, and we will take this up tomorrow. We will start in verse 44 of Daniel 11 tomorrow, with tidings out of the East and the North.
Summary
So, what am I saying? Here is what I am saying�I wanted to get through this, but too many words, sometimes.
FROM THE AUDIENCE: (Laughter).
BROTHER PIPPENGER: I need to be focused.
All right. Here is what we are saying. We are dealing with Daniel 11:40-45, which begins at the Time of the End in 1798; but, this is where Revelation 13 begins, is in 1798, too. Because, Sister White says that at the time that the Papacy was robbed of its strength, John beheld a new power rising up out of the Earth. Okay?
And in Revelation 17, John is carried to the wilderness, and he sees the Papacy already drunk. He is not just in the 1260 years; he is at the very end of the 1260 years. Upon the testimony of two a thing is established. If Daniel 11:40-45 begins in 1798 and Revelation 13 begins in 1798, you know Revelation 17 begins in 1798. And they are telling the same story from three different perspectives. One is about the Ten King (the Dragon), and one is about the King of the North (the Papacy, and one is about the False Prophet (the United States). Line upon line brings this story into focus.
The history of 1798 to The Sunday Law is the history of Daniel 11, verse 40. It is the history of Revelation 13:11. It is the history of Isaiah 23.
In the history of verse 40 of Daniel 11, you have the history of the long, drawn-out war between the King of the South and the King of the North. Initially, the King of the South begins the war against the King of the North; but, ultimately, the King of the North returns and retaliates and sweeps away the King of the South. That is the story of Carchemish.
But, initially, Pharaohnecho begins the war (the Battle of Carchemish) against the Assyrians, and then years later�
When did they begin the war against the Assyrians? Who was king? Josiah.
But, when it ends�I forget if it is Jehoiakim or Jehoiachin�I think it is Jehoiakim is the king when the Battle of Carchemish ends. And when the Battle of Carchemish ends, it is the King of the North that is prevailing. So, this Battle of Carchemish, it is Daniel 11, verse 40. It begins with the King of the South initiating the war against the King of the North, and it ends years later when the King of the North sweeps away the King of the South.
And what does it teach us about the history of Daniel 11, verse 40? It teaches us that Josiah (as the leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church) rejects the warning message of Daniel�11, verse 40, and he ends up dead at Armageddon, between the seas and the glorious holy mountain. It is telling us that verse 40 is a message that you better understand as a Seventh-day Adventist, or you are going to die!
Is that too straight?
Chosroes, this is Revelation, chapter 9. Once again a long drawn-out battle that begins with Persia, Persia being a two-pronged power (the Medes and the Persians).
France being a two-pronged power, France (the King of the South) initiates a war against the King of the North (Rome) in 1798; but, the Persians, they initiate a war against Rome in Revelation 9 and they initially subdue the King of the North (Rome).
But, after a while, what happens? Rome retaliates against Persia.
And what does it do? It sweeps it away.
But, what does Rome also do as it is sweeping away the King of the South (Persia). Its power is dissipated.
And what does that do? It allows Islam to rise into history.
So, in verse 40 of Daniel 11, with the battle of Chosroes, we do not have a lesson about the Seventh-day Adventist Church rejecting the warning of Daniel 11, verse 40; we have the evidence that before The Sunday Law in verse 41 but after 1989 (when Persia is swept away), Islam will come into history. Right?
And we read the quote here [pointing to the Little Time of Trouble designated in Figure�No. 104]. This is a little bit different than I was always taught. And I am not going to make a big deal about it, but if you look closely at it, in the passage where Sister White is describing the time of trouble when probation is open, she says, "This time of trouble does not refer to a time when the plagues will be poured out but to a short period of time while salvation is still closing." At that time the nations will be angry, yet held in check, while the work of the Third Angel is accomplished. And then she says, "At that time, the Latter Rain will fall."
Okay. So, when you look at that, she is talking about the Little Time of Trouble; so, you can mark the Little Time of Trouble, beginning right here when the Latter Rain begins to fall, when there is a restraint placed upon Islam when the nations are made angry by the action of Islam, by the action of Islam of putting a hole in the ship of Tarshish and now it is sinking. The nations are angry, but they are held in check because George Bush in the United Nations put a restraint upon them. The Latter Rain begins to fall.
But, the subject of that passage in Early Writings where she is describing that is the time of trouble, but it is the time of trouble that comes before the Plagues. Therefore, this is the Little Time of Trouble.
For years I taught the Little Time of Trouble began at The Sunday Law in the United States. I understand otherwise now. But, this [9/11 and Islam, Figure No. 104] is where the destruction of the cities begins, and you can track this from 9/11, onward. It has begun. The Little Time of Trouble is here.
When The Sunday Law arrives, this is the one hour that the Ten Kings co-rule with the Papacy; and, this is where Satan personates Christ. This is where national apostasy is followed by national ruin; and, this is the time of God's destructive judgments, which is the Time of Mercy for the eleventh-hour workers.
And we will continue on this tomorrow. I am sorry we could not get through the other two verses.
Shall we pray?
Benediction: Heavenly Father, we are amazed at the consistency of your prophetic passages and how specific you are about certain truths; but, we need discernment to recognize these things and we need a willing heart to receive them as truth. We ask that you would give us both of those things. We ask that you would bless the work that we are doing here with the DVDs and the LiveStreaming. And as we are breaking camp from the wonderful meetings that Pastor Sankey provided for us, we know that there are many of us traveling in different directions and we ask for traveling mercies in all these regards. And as we take up a day of service for you here, we ask that you allow us to be safe and that whatever we do we can do for your glory and honor. And according to your will, we ask that you bring us back here tomorrow morning at 7:00 to continue this study. In Jesus's name, amen.