Jan. 22, 2025

Tracing Babylonian Legacies in Christian History - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 24

Send us a text Unlock the secrets of ancient Babylon and explore how its spiritual and cultural influences continue to echo through history and into modern times. Join us as we uncover the profound journey of the biblical figure Daniel in Babylon, whose trials and interpretations of symbolic dreams have shaped language, culture, and the course of empires from Babylon to Rome. We'll trace the migration of Babylonian cultic practices to Pergamos, highlighted in the Book of Revelation as "Satan'...

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Unlock the secrets of ancient Babylon and explore how its spiritual and cultural influences continue to echo through history and into modern times. Join us as we uncover the profound journey of the biblical figure Daniel in Babylon, whose trials and interpretations of symbolic dreams have shaped language, culture, and the course of empires from Babylon to Rome. We'll trace the migration of Babylonian cultic practices to Pergamos, highlighted in the Book of Revelation as "Satan's seat," and reveal its enduring impact on religious beliefs, particularly during the time of Jesus and the early Christian church.

Discover the intriguing legacy of Babylonian religious practices as they weave through the corridors of history and into the heart of the Roman Empire. From the worship of Baal and the archetype of the father, mother, and son, to the Attalus kings of Pergamos who served as both monarchs and high priests, we'll explore how this cultic power shifted to Rome, merging with emerging Christian practices. The integration of these influences, particularly under Constantine, not only shaped the Church of Rome but also laid the groundwork for a fascinating interplay of faith systems, including a closer look at the controversial doctrines that arose.

Fast forward to modern times, where the eerie parallels between ancient structures and major historical events reveal an unsettling fusion of power, conflict, and occult influences. From Hitler's fascination with the Pergamon Altar to its architectural echoes in Nazi rallies, we'll connect these dots to modern manifestations of ancient beliefs. As we conclude, we delve into the spiritual battle between darkness and divine power, highlighting the unwavering strength of faith and the inevitable triumph of justice over malevolent ambitions. Prepare for an enlightening journey through time, revealing how ancient practices continue to shape our world today.

00:00 - Babylonian Cult and Its Influence

10:37 - The Legacy of the Babylonian Cult

28:11 - Christianity's Babylonian Influences and Pergamos

41:57 - Babylonian Influence in Modern Times

55:15 - The Battle of Faith and Darkness

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Praise the Lord, we are finished.

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We have just finished what we were going to do in the book of Daniel concerning this great man of God who had an excellent spirit, who, in the days of his ministry in Babylon, shook the planet with such miracles and such faith that what he did has become a fabric of our everyday language.

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When we say somebody's facing an insurmountable obstacle, they've been thrown to the lions.

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Right Glory to God.

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Or they've been put in the fiery furnace if they're going through some afflictions, or you know how this is.

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Daniel's trials and troubles have made him an everyday phrase in our vocabulary.

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It is such a strong thing amen, hallelujah.

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But I want to say this that we know that at the end of what Daniel had to do, there were two things that happened.

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One was that the king Nebuchadnezzar, nebuchadnezzar's grandson, was killed in a very, very low, intensive battle where the Medes and the Persians snuck into Babylon through the riverbed of the riverbed Euphrates, broke through the impregnable wall, broke into the palace and killed the king, killed all of his people that were with him and took over the kingship of Babylon.

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Now, what I'm going to be talking about today is you can go back and read this in the second chapter of the book of Daniel.

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Daniel had a dream, amen.

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And in that dream or Daniel didn't have a dream Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, and Daniel came in and told the king what he had dreamed, and then told him the interpretation.

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Interpretation that dream was of the great man, the man who had a golden head, a silver torso, a waist and thighs of bronze, legs of iron and feet of iron mixed with clay.

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And Daniel told him that what that meant was that King Nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold, that God had made him the most powerful king on the planet.

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Okay, are you with me?

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After him would come one of silver, but not of the grandeur of Babylon.

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That was the Medes and the Persians who came after Nebuchadnezzar.

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They weren't as powerful as Babylon, but they had defeated Babylon and took over their place.

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That was the part of silver.

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Then there would come a part of bronze.

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That was the Greeks, who would follow after them.

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And then there were the legs of iron, which was Rome.

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And then there were the feet of iron mixed with clay, which is what happened to the Roman Empire when it was dispersed and went throughout all of Europe in different forms, just like the toes on your feet?

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Okay, are you with me on your feet?

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Okay, are you with me?

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This is very important.

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I want you to remember this Babylon, medes and Persians, greeks, rome, and then what would amount to the Roman culture that has existed in Europe, even until this day.

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This is very important.

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About what we're going to be talking about Amen, praise God, hallelujah.

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We are going to talk about today the seed of Satan, and this is important because this is what happens to the Babylonian cult of religion when Babylon is diminished in its influence and its power and the city itself begins to crumble apart and dissolve.

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But that which was in Babylon and in its power did not, just because Babylon ceased to exist, the spiritual influence that was at the core of Babylon.

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Listen to me very carefully.

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Babylon has been the seat of everything anti-God.

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Since Noah came off the flood, came out of the flood.

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Are we hearing this?

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Since he came off the ark?

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Are we hearing this?

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Since he came off the ark, his great grandson was Nimrod.

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Amen, hello, I'm remembering.

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All this Didn't take any time at all, less than probably 100 years, maybe 150 years, until Babylon was the seat of everything that was in rebellion against God.

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They still remembered the flood with such clarity that they held God responsible for it and started raising up an anti-God kind of a culture.

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Case in point was the tower right.

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So after the Medes and the Persians took over Babylon, gradually the city and its temples were destroyed.

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The city itself began to lose its importance, its luster Instead of being the most powerful kingdom on the earth, it became a province in the Medes and Persians' government system and eventually it just kind of diminished in its influence.

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However, this did not mean that Antichrist was cut off.

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This did not mean that Jezebel was cut off.

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It did not mean that this cultish religion that the Babylonians developed was cut off, because it is at the core of every false religion on the planet.

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And this Babylonian cult survived and it found a new home within not too long of a time.

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Now you got to remember that what we're talking about here is at the end of the Babylonian kingdom, is about 400 years before Jesus comes.

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So over the next 200 years, this cult of Babylon moves, and it moves for a while.

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It's under the influence of the second king, the king of silver, the Medes and the Persians.

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But there was a great battle.

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I wish I could remember the name of it.

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When Alexander and the Persians fought and Alexander conquered, the Persians and the Greeks became the leading kingdom in that part of the world, that's the kingdom of bronze.

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When that happened, the seat of the Babylonian cult moved from Babylon to a city in Greece called Pergamos.

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You know that name because in the second chapter of the book of Revelation of the book of Revelation, the third church that's addressed is the church of Pergamos, and Pergamos is known as the place where Satan's seat is.

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And there is a reason for that.

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Everybody say there's a reason.

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That's not just the Holy Ghost talking to John and telling John to put that phrase in there, just to puzzle people.

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So they'll wonder what in the world I'm talking about.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Let's back up for a moment so that you know what I'm talking about.

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This Babylonian cult survived.

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It found a new home in Pergamos of Asia Minor, which is right on the Aegean Sea, very close to Constantinople, very close to Ephesus, very close to Troy.

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There's an actual city yet still there today.

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That's called Bergama, I believe is the name of it, or Bergamo in Turkey.

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This Babylonian cult has three deities associated with it, or three high-level gods and goddesses.

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One is Nimrod.

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One is his wife, semiramus, and their son Tammuz.

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Now, the wife was alleged to be half human and half fallen angel.

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So this was in this time when the sons of God, the fallen angels, came down after the flood and re-cohabited with the daughters of the earth and started to produce giants again.

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We went over this a little bit when we were talking about the Tower of Babel.

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The wife is supposedly half human and half fallen angel and supposedly, allegedly, according to the legends I mean, we don't have a lot of written documentations about this Nimrod was her child, but he grew up and became her husband, so that out of their union came this son, who was also part angel, part human.

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Okay, so you have all three of them.

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Since the wife was part angel, she had Nimrod.

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He was a giant and their son was a giant.

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So there's this father, mother, son kind of thing, and this is the same pattern you have in Egyptian mythology, in all kinds of other religions around the world.

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You have this father, mother, son kind of thing that goes on.

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Amen, that becomes the basis for it, you know.

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And then they're they, they participate, they substitute, they put and make them sun gods and moon gods and everything else, but it's the same basic, basic thing.

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Mother, father, son, are you with me?

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Now, for those of you that are keeping score at home, the god Baal, or Baal, the god that the children of Israel worshipped in the wilderness, amen as the golden calf, the same God that was raised up in two places in Israel when they separated from the kingdom of David, are we getting?

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This was first associated with Nimrod and his son, tammuz, so out of them came this worship of the god Baal.

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All right, so we got all that.

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Now this moved to the city of Pergamos.

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In the city of Pergamos was built one of the largest temples in the place that we call Asia Minor now, which is now modern-day Turkey, which is the area that Paul went and evangelized.

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All of those great churches that he started there were in this place that was called Asia at that point but now is called Asia Minor or called Turkey.

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Amen, ephesus, pergamos.

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All of those great Smyrna, all those great churches were part of that geographic area.

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This Babylonian cult went to the city of Pergamos and there they built this great temple to Zeus.

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It is huge, it is tremendously large and, in its day, was unbelievably over the top in comparison to other temples anywhere around, had this huge altar made of marble and they performed all kinds of of burnt sacrifices on this altar.

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Amen, now the king.

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There were three kings.

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Their names were Attalus A-T-T-A-L-U-S, attalus I, attalus II, attilis III, and then, under the reign of the first king, they started to build this temple.

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He was given the title of pontiff, which means high priest.

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Okay, not only was he the king of this area, which was called Lydia, and Pergamos was the central city, and that's where they built the temple and that's where the king lived.

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He was the king, but he was also the high priest of this Babylonian religion that had moved from Babylon and now was setting up where, in one of the most principal cities of the kingdom of bronze.

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Here's the kingdoms Babylon, the Medes and Persians, greece, rome, et cetera.

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Over here is the Babylonian cult religion.

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They're in Babylon.

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They stay there while the Medes and Persians control Babylon.

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When they get whipped, they move to Greece, where the power has gone.

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Are we following this?

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They move to Greece, and the power is there now, and they build this huge temple.

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First king starts, second king finishes it, third king, and all three of them are called high priests.

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They're kings and they're high priests.

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They're kings of a geographical area.

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They are high priests of a form of worship that started in Babylon In BC 133, 133 years before Jesus came.

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The third king died.

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This is all documented stuff, I'm not making this up.

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The third king died and he bequeathed his kingdom.

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He bequeathed his kingdom, kingly title, and he bequeathed the priesthood title to Rome.

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He figured, if I just give it to them, then they won't come and kill my people and take it.

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So that's what he did.

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He just gave it to them.

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He bequeathed it.

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He bequeathed the headship of this Babylonian cult religion, the priesthood.

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He gave this to Rome.

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This is about 200 years before Paul would start a church there.

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You understand where we're at time-wise here.

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We're not way back in some, you know, forgotten.

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We're right.

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You know, real close to Jesus coming, real close to Paul starting a church right there, he probably preached right on the steps of that temple.

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I know Paul, he couldn't wait to get there.

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Praise God.

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I'm talking about real stuff here, folks.

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Now, when he gave up the city to the Romans, the Romans came, took possession and made this area a province and they called it Asia, province of Asia.

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So when Paul talks about Asia.

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That's what he's talking about, amen.

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When you read about that in the book of Acts, he talks about this area and they made that a province.

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And the people?

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Since they made up a province, the people started.

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Now they belonged to Rome instead of to Greece.

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Greece was gone, greece was defeated, amen.

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The reason this kingship came up was because there was a power vacuum, because Greece had been defeated.

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Now the legs of iron weren't under control, and so these people, along with the priesthood, moved to Rome.

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Oh, yes, they did, and they kept the name of their high priest as the pontiff.

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They started to get a following in Rome.

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Hello, this stuff really happened.

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This is almost impossible to believe, but it's going to get better than this.

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I'm just getting warmed up.

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I'm just giving you the beginnings.

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Now, within 100 years, I said everybody say within within a hundred years, this cult religion had taken over Rome.

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So much so that, in less than 50 years before Jesus came, they decided Rome, decided that they were going to have an emperor, and they made one of their great military leaders the emperor of Rome.

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But since this title, less than 100 years before, had been bequeathed to Rome by this king in Asia Minor, they not only made him emperor, but they made him the high priest of the Babylonian religion and they gave him a title.

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He was not only the king or the emperor of Rome, but he was the Pontifus Maximus, or the supreme high priest of this religion.

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Do you want to know what that guy's name was?

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The first emperor of Rome?

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His name was Julius Caesar, julius Caesar onwards, the emperor had that title.

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So when the people from Pergamos came to Italy, they brought with them their rights, their religion, everything that came out of Babylon, and they set up a pontiff in Rome who was the head of the priesthood.

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So when Caesar was made emperor, that title passed to him and then from there on out, the Caesars that followed him were all given the title Pontifex Maximus, or the high pontiff, or the most high high priest.

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Glory to God, Hallelujah.

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He became the heir to all of the rights and all of the title of the pontiff of Pergamos, because it was given to him in their will.

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When that king died, he gave it to Rome and Rome, when Caesar became Caesar, they gave it to him.

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So what's all that mean?

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That means that the first Roman emperor became the head of the Babylonian priesthood and Rome became the geographical successor of Babylon.

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It passed from Babylon to Pergamos and Pergamos to Rome, following the prophecy that Daniel came, that it would be in Babylon, then it would be in the Medes and Persians, then it would pass to the Greeks, pergamos.

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Then it would pass to the Romans, when it moved over there and was vested in Julius Caesar.

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Now you can see, because Julius Caesar did not leave an heir, he had no children.

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So now you can see why everybody and their brother wanted either a piece of him or a piece of what came after him.

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Because with the title of emperor came the title of high priest, and if you had the title of high priest you had access to all of the guys that knew all of the incantations, all of the spells, all of the rituals.

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They knew how to manipulate hell and all of this we're going to get to next week.

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All of this was to stop one baby from being born in Israel.

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I got one question Did they succeed?

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But they sure enough tried.

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They were busy at it while Israel was sleeping.

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Amen and prophets were sent Malachi and others, zephaniah and others.

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Israel was sleeping under the bondage of the law and didn't even know it was happening, but the Antichrist knew it was coming Hallelujah and moved to the seat of power so it could control how things were managed.

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Praise God, every successor to the emperor from that point forward had this title of the high priest of the Babylonian cult, which was just another incantation for the worship of Baal, and this son called Tammuz.

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This kept in a steady line for almost 400 years, down to the year 325 AD, and an emperor called Constantine.

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He is known as Constantine the Great, who happened to be supposedly the first Christian emperor and made Christianity legal in Rome.

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However, the problem with Constantine is he wore too many hats.

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He was the head of the church, he was the head of the government and he was the head of the Babylonian cult.

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Oh, hallelujah, the head of the Christian church as the first Christian emperor.

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He was the head of the government the empire of Rome and he was the head of the Babylonian cult.

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He was the Pontus Maximus.

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Hallelujah.

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Now listen to what happens next, because he is the emperor and he is a Christian emperor.

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As that passed on, the head of the church in Rome was the emperor and he had the title of Pontifus Maximus Amen, which meant he was the high priest of the Babylonian cult.

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He was also the head of the church.

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He was the head of the government.

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But Rome did not survive.

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The legs of iron morphed into the feet of iron and clay.

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That means it still had aspects of the Roman culture, but it was something else.

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And about that same time, in about 400-something AD, the Bishop of Rome became the supreme figure in the church.

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In the West there was a corresponding Archbishop of Constantinople, who was the head of the church in the East, or the Greek Orthodox Church.

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Amen, two guys, one in Rome, one in the East.

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The one in Rome acquired a title.

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You want to know what the title was?

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It was Pope.

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You want to know what his secondary title is?

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Title is Pope something or something or something.

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Pope John I, pontifus Maximus.

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And it's been that way for 1600 years.

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They don't even try to hide it.

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It's right out there for everybody to see if you just do your homework.

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But if you don't want to do your homework, you just think he's a harmless old guy rides around in the popemobile.

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That would be a wrong thing to think.

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He is the walking embodiment of the Pontiffus Maximus that goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel.

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Glory to God and all of this passed through Pergamos and a temple that was made to Zeus, but God just bypassed the Zeus business and said that temple belongs to Satan.

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That is where Satan dwells.

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Now, if you don't think, the devils dwell in places.

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I was on my way from San Jose, going through a little town that used to be the colonial capital of Costa Rica, cartago, carthago, and in that town are the ruins of a cathedral, that a huge and, in its day, probably beautiful cathedral.

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It's one of these things that reminds you of what was said of the in Jerusalem, that the, the latter temple, did not have the glory of the former.

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That was a beautiful, big place.

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The temple they have now is not even close, but it got destroyed by an earthquake in the 1800s, built probably back in the 1500s 1600s.

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This place Right at the foothills, right at the foothills of the largest volcano in Costa Rica, it's 11,000 feet high.

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It's a huge thing.

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If you go up there, you can see both oceans from there.

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On a clear day, it's just this unbelievable mountain that you go up.

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God said stop the car.

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I said okay, we stopped the car.

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He said get out.

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Face the mountain.

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I said okay.

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I said I want you to bind the spirit of Jezebel.

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She's up there at the top of that mountain and she controls this country and she's been controlling it for hundreds of years and I've sent you to break its spell.

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Go where you go.

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I let it rip folks.

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Now I know people that you know they were going to climb up Mount Everest because they had the same vision that she was up there and they couldn't get up there.

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They didn't have the you know.

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They didn't know the first thing about climbing mountains, that they were going to go up there anyway, I don't know about that.

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I didn't have to climb up the mountain.

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She could hear me fine from where I was standing.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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Over time, what has happened is that the Church of Rome, because of its mixed affiliation, acquired many of the Babylonian practices, idolatrous teachings and obscuring the true meaning of Scripture over the years.

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Because, well, that's just what they do.

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They were going to make sure that this thing that came out of Israel was not going to survive in its intended original form, and so what they did was they took a little bit of Babylon and mixed it with a little bit of Moses, and they came up with this thing that's called the Church of Rome and they exported that all over the world.

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That was the first taste of Christianity that most of the world ever got, and because the church did not break from it when the Reformation came, did not really break from the church of Rome, amen.

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Even when they went out and took the gospel to the world, they took a lot of what Rome had mixed together and formed.

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What are the feet?

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The feet is a mixture in many different directions of Rome, plus whatever it encounters on the earth in clay.

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What is Rome good for?

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Rome is good for coming into a country and taking its idolatrous practices and morphing them into this thing, because they don't care.

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They don't care about anything, about being pure, they just care about dominating you.

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Most of this can be laid right at Constantine's feet, who is responsible for mixing much of the pagan practices of the Babylonian cult with Christianity.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Now let's go back to what the Bible says about Pergamos, and you can read this in the second chapter of the book of Revelation.

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It tells you this First thing is that they were killing Christians in that city in John's day.

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So the influences of this system of religion in Pergamos had such an effect that, 200 years later, it was their natural bent to kill Christians.

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It says there that they killed a faithful martyr whose name was Antipas.

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This man was supposedly ordained as an apostle by Apostle John, and he was martyred by being boiled alive in oil in a cauldron that was fashioned after the shape of a bull or Baal.

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In other words, this man of God was offered up burned alive in oil in an idol made to Baal, likely on the very spot that this temple existed.

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Not only that, but they practiced the Bible says the doctrine of Balaam, which is to teach people to eat things sacrificed to idols.

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So if they sacrifice a bull, they're going to cut that bull up.

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This is what this has actually happened.

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They would cut that bull up after doing sacrifice.

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They would put it on sale in the marketplace, but it would get a higher price, because it was sacrificed to an idol, than it would be if it just came out of the field.

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And the people were taught this.

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They were taught to practice this abomination, because how God sees this is that when you do that, you take that which it was sacrificed to in yourself.

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And then the other doctrine of Balaam was fornication, in specific, the kind of fornication that is practiced in false religious systems, where they they put they and you remember the great, the great idol in Ephesus was the statute of Diana.

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Remember that they would.

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The streets were lined, literally on both sides of the streets leading up to that idol, with brothels, and those brothels were sponsored by the state religion of Artemis or Diana worship, and it was taught to the people that as they participated in that sin going up to the idol, they were getting more prepared to meet her.

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Don't ask me to make any sense out of it.

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Don't ask me to say you know well, well, you know, they're just, you know just a primitive people and you know that's how they express themselves.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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No, it's perversion off the scale, but that's what that God requires, that's what those demon systems require.

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So when you see perversion being practiced at the beginning of the Olympics or something like that, amen, it's not because they have a difference of opinion or they want to express themselves artistically.

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They're acting out a satanic witchcraft spell over that whole thing and over the people that are watching it.

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Still going on.

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Folks Praise God.

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They also practiced the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which, by the way, jesus inserts in here.

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So you need to pay real close attention, because he did it twice.

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Which thing I hate Jesus said when he's talking about the Nicolaitans?

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He said this thing I have against you that you still have some that follow after the doctrine of the Nicolaitans.

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Which thing I hate?

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Now, why would Jesus hate it?

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Because the Nicolaitans?

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That doctrine teaches this, that there is a separation between the priesthood and the believers, the followers.

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The term Nicolaitan really means a super laity and it means that they not only are super superior in position but they are superior in their authority and they're superior in their ability to suppress and oppress and and basically Lord it over the folks that sit out there.

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Now, the way that they now listen, it's hard to.

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It's hard in in this kind of an atmosphere to enforce that.

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It's even harder when we're in there because we're all sitting at the same level and we're doing everything kind of together.

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But if I retreat back here a little bit, I put more space between you and me and then I put a fence.

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Oh well, this is just a place where you can come and kneel before your God and receive the sacraments.

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Of course, we're not going to give you the wine.

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Now, you know, because, well, you're just, you know that's for the priests, we'll take the wine for you, you'll just get the bread.

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They did this for hundreds of years.

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But the first thing they did was they put a fence and then, if you'll see, in the older church architectures, they put the places where the word of God was read and preached up higher.

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They declined stairs to get up there.

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Preached up higher, they declined stairs to get up there.

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And all of that is a symptom of this doctrine of the Nicolaitans separating the people from the priest, making the priest something different or something altogether than they are.

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And Jesus says I hate that, I hate that I came, that they may all be priests and kings under their God.

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See, you can't have that kind of an attitude in a body.

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That is destructive to the body.

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But just look at what's on television.

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Just look at what's on television these big, huge platforms.

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The speaker is at least 50 to 75 feet away from anybody.

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Sometimes the platform's up on a higher thing.

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Sometimes they have police escorts.

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They have all these people around them.

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You can't touch them, you can't talk to them, you can't make an appointment to see them, the only people you can talk to are three or four levels down below them.

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You tell me what that is in this context, and then you tell me what spirit is in control of that and you tell me what church Jesus addressed that in, and you tell me what spirit was in charge of that place in the day that he addressed that letter to them.

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Glory to God, Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.

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So in Pergamos is this huge temple complex, and at the very center of this temple complex is this temple to Zeus.

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The front of this temple, there's an outer wall to it that is nothing but this long wall of marble columns.

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I want you to get this picture, okay, I want you to get this picture of a long wall of columns, big columns.

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You know how the Greek temples are made.

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They're like those kind of columns.

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And then you walk through a gate and up some steps and then you're into another place where the temple is, and that temple is a large wall of columns.

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Except on the corner of the columns are these two carved reliefs of this epic battle between giants and men.

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In the middle of that wall.

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You go into that little place a little bit and that's where the altar is and that's where the sacrifices were made.

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There's a huge, huge statue of Zeus in there.

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But the main thing is that everything's got these columns, tall columns, going up, very impressive, very high.

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You know, guaranteed to, you know whoa, you know that kind of thing.

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This great altar was located in Pergamos, where the Bible says is the seat or the throne of Satan.

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Now you go, okay, no big deal, that's just you know, just you, you know john being john, and just you know kind of exaggerating, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And you know who knows anything, you know who knows what pergamos is and what anything means.

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And two thousand years after that was written about about more like 1850 years.

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But we'll just round it off.

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Some German archaeologists went to this area and they began to dig.

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They found the altar.

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Not only did they find the altar, but they found the two relief things that were at the corners of this thing.

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They found some of the pillars.

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They dug all this up and they conned the government of Turkey into giving it to them, and so they took it back to Berlin.

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They built a museum in Berlin just for these things.

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Now I want you to know that, just right down the street from that museum is another museum that has those blue gates of Babylon that I showed you the pictures of the other day.

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Berlin is how shall I say this?

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They have bought into this hook, line and sinker.

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They've got the gates to the original Babylonian entryway, the gates of the Isatar, ashitar, who is the wife of Nimrod Is anybody paying attention?

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They've got the gates that led into the city.

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They've got the altar that came out of Pergamos.

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They've got the reliefs, the carved images that were in the wall.

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They've got pillars and they built museums just to house this stuff and show it off.

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Hello, you say.

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Well, you know that doesn't mean anything, you don't think so I'm going to tell you two people.

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One of them, I'm going to name one of them, I won't, but I'm going to tell you of two people who spent some time in that museum admiring the reconstruction of that temple that is called the seat of Satan.

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They've got the whole thing rebuilt to scale.

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You know who went in there and studied it and marveled at it?

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Hitler.

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Do you know what he did when he came to power?

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He had a replica of it, built in Nuremberg to scale.

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Do you remember I emphasized the thing about the columns, this replica in Nuremberg.

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You can look it up on.

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Look up Nuremberg Cathedral of Lights and you'll see this great wall of columns.

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And you'll see this great wall of columns and in the middle there's an opening and out of that opening Hitler would come.

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Do you know what they had lined up with each of those columns?

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These huge anti-aircraft lights that would shoot a concentrated beam of light a mile up in the sky.

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So they took the columns that were in the original temple and took it one more step and made them columns of light that went up into the air a mile and then wrapped them in a circle around this place.

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Are you hearing what I'm saying?

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You don't believe me?

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Go look up the pictures.

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You know what?

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Believe me, go look up the pictures.

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You know what.

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You know what happened there, one after another, after another after another, of 300, 400, 500, 600,000 people.

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One estimate in one meeting they said a million people came to worship Hitler as he came out of those lights.

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And it was at that spot that he announced the ultimate burnt sacrifice of the ultimate, the final solution that sent six million Jews to their death.

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He announced it from there, he laid it out.

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He told them what was going to happen.

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Right on that spot, right in the replica of the temple that God said is the seat of Satan and has been in Berlin now since 1888, almost to the year not quite, but almost to the year that that was completed in Berlin, the king of Germany took upon himself to name himself the emperor of Germany and gave himself the title of Kaiser, which is, in German, caesar.

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You always say I can connect the dots.

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Connect that dot that we have had an unbroken chain of Caesars accompany this seat of Satan all over Europe.

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You think that you know?

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You think I'm just teaching you all this stuff because it's interesting.

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We are right in the middle of the last battle and we're still going to win.

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But that's not the only replica that got made.

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One of your former presidents well, he may not have been your president, but he was a former president did the same thing.

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He went over there and studied it.

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He went over there and sat down, went over there and gaped at it, went over there and let that all get in him.

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He was not yet the president, but he was about to be nominated and he came back to the United States and ordered that the stage be redesigned in the form of that temple with the columns and the lights and everything else, and in front of that column he accepted the nomination of his party.

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You see, in the days when they built them, those Greek temples, when they built that, they assumed that the God was coming there to dwell in it.

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That's why Jesus, by the Spirit, said this is where Satan dwells, this is where his throne is, this is where his seat is.

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And that seat moved from Pergamos to Rome and in Rome.

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Then it moved from the emperorship of Rome into the church of Rome.

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But that only lasted for about 400 years and the church decided it couldn't get along with just being a church.

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And so in 800 AD they teamed up with a man named who we know as Charlemagne, who became the first Holy Roman Emperor.

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From 800 AD to 1800, for a thousand years, the Church of Rome ruled jointly with the Holy Roman Emperor to take control over Europe.

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Are you hearing me?

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For the last several hundred years that power was concentrated in Germany, in Austria, in that area, in Germany, in Austria, in that area, not only did they have the belief system of the temple in Pergamos, but they had the spear of destiny, which was supposedly the spear that pierced the heart of Jesus and that can be tracked at.

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Whoever has it has unbelievable power to wield war.

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Hitler had it in his possession.

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One of the first things he did was invade Austria, which was the ancestral home of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Invade Austria and take control over the Spear of Destiny.

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At that time, they had both the Altar of Zeus and the spear of destiny, and they just raised hell in Europe because Antichrist was going to get rid of God's people oh, yes, he was and then he was going to turn on.

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The United States Just didn't work out that way.

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God rules, I said.

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God rules from heaven.

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He should have never messed with his people.

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I'm going to give you.

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I got to quit.

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I'm going to break this real short.

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Are you ready?

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If you're taking notes at home, write this down From 133 BC, from that date and going forward, rome was the seat of the Babylonian cult, and then, from 133 to Caesar, there was a high priest in Rome who was over that, and then that it was passed to this.

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The Babylonian priesthood was passed to and through all of the Caesars Augustus, caesar, julius Caesar, nero, caligula, all those guys that you hear about.

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They were all priests of this religion.

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Then, from 325 AD to 800 AD, it was passed through the popes and the Caesars.

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From 800 AD to 1806 AD it was shared between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor.

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In 1877 to 1885, something like that all of this stuff out of the Temple of Pergamos was moved from Pergamos to Berlin.

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In 1888, the King of Germany became the emperor of Germany and acquired the title of Kaiser Amen, and his seat was in Austria, where the spear of destiny was, and just up the road is the temple of Zeus in Berlin.

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From 1877 to 1945, the Temple the seat of Satan was in Berlin.

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After World War II it was moved toants developed an atomic bomb.

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We had the best scientists in the world and it took us almost a decade and more resources than you can possibly imagine.

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They did it in three years with a nation of peasants you go figure.

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