Days of the End

Chapter One

DAYS OF THE END

Bert Clendennen

The book of Daniel deals with (he end of this age or the end of time. God gave Daniel certain visions and revelations that pertain to the end and then told him they were closed up until the end. "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried: but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand: but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up. there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth. and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. But go thou thy way (ill the end be: for thou shall rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days "(Daniel 12:10-13)

God gave Daniel information about certain limes, events and length of days, and told him to go his way until the end when he would stand in his lot. In other words. God told Daniel he would be resurrected. Since ail the saints are going to he resurrected together at the end of time, there is certainly a key here that, if properly computed, would bring us into the proximity  of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. "But of that day and hour knoweth no man. no. not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." (Matthew 24:36. 42)

Discerning the Times

Although no man knows the day nor the hour of His coming, there can be no doubt we arc in the final days - perhaps even the closing hours. The events and prophecies given by Daniel. Ezekiel. and others do set times. Jesus said to the religious leaders: “When you see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say. There cometh a shower; and so it is. And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say. There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypocrites ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth: but how is it that ye do not discern this time?” (Luke 12:54 - 56)

We know everything but the right thing. In other words, He is saying, “There is given to you a knowledge of when this age will end.” We can. by establishing when certain events began, know the time of Christ's return. If a person could establish the time when the daily sacrifice was taken away, then he could count changes in the calendar.

Watch and Be Sober

“But of the times and the season, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say. Peace and safety: then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child: and they shall not escape. But ye. brethren, arc not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day; we arc not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others: but let us watch and be sober.” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-6)

If these solemn words mean anything, they mean that in this world there are children of light who are wide awake to the nearness of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. These enlightened ones know the times and seasons of His coming, which to the world shall he as a thief in the night. If the Lord didn't want us to know something about the time of His coming, why did He inspire Daniel to fill so much of his prophecy with days, weeks, years and times? These times, when carefully reckoned bring us to certain, exact dates which, if correctly computed and properly understood, point unerringly to the season of His coming. In fact. He told Daniel he would be resurrected at the end of a thousand two hundred and ninety days How much more exact could He be than this?

Abomination That Maketh Desolate

If we could know when the abomination that maketh desolate was made to stand in the Holy Place, we could know when He would come. The conclusion of many serious Bible scholars is that the Mosque of Omar which stands atop Mount Marian where the Temple of God used to stand is the abomination that maketh desolate. We need only to know when the mosque was built; then twelve hundred and ninety years from that time Daniel will be resurrected. How specific God is with us! In the tear of God let us examine these scriptures given to us by Daniel the prophet foretelling of the coming of Christ, the end of the age and the resurrection of the just. It will become evident that the Lord has not left us in darkness concerning the end of the age.

God's Secret Weapon

There is a wisdom that is hidden from the world - the ungodly - but is revealed to God's people. It is a secret wisdom that God imparts to those who arc possessors of His mind - those who have the Holy Ghost within them, those who will dare yield themselves to the Spirit. The wicked and the careless cannot partake of the riches of this spiritual understanding because it is the wisdom of God - the priceless gift of the Holy Ghost. Concerning the wisdom that God imparts to mature saints. a great description is given here: “Howbeit we .speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But as it is written. EYE HATH NOT SEE. NOR EAR HEARD. NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN. THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea. the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man. save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man. but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God: that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth. but which the Holy Ghost teacheth: comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they arc foolishness unto him: neither can be know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For WHO HATH KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ." (I Corinthians 2:6-16)

The word “perfect” is better interpreted “mature”, thus, the wisdom of God is imparted to the spiritually mature. We oftimes expect more of people than God intends, unless we understand He is talking about mature saints when He speaks of those who are perfect.

Sodom and Gomorrah- Examples to Us

At the Teen Challenge Center in Houston we were filming some segments of the movie “Sown to the Wind,” showing how decadent we have become. Never has a people seen such an explosion of self conceit, materialism, pride, arrogance, selfishness, greed, corruption, and false religion.  Unless we repent, we're going 10 face the same judgment as all other nations in history. Four blocks from the Teen Challenge Center in Houston is the crossroads of teenage prostitution. From 11:00 PM until around 3:00 AM. the city has set up no turn signs because the traffic is so heavy. There along the street are male and female prostitutes from age 10 through the teens. The traffic from around 11:00 PM on is bumper to bumper as adults come to pick up these children to use them. If you think God is going to let that go on, you're wrong. There has never been a generation more possessed with perversion, going after strange flesh, than America today. The Apostle Jude foretold this: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." (Jude 7-8)

We have arrived. This is an age of wickedness, covetousness. malice, envy, murder, strife, malignity, gossip, slander, hatred of God, pride, foolishness, faithlessness, heartlessness. ruthlessness; all gross disregard for righteousness. God wants His Church to be aware that He is about to come. God is trying to tell us the age is ending, and we know when it will happen.

Intercourse with Darkness

The signal for the downfall of the Adamic race, the rampant sinfulness, the degrading corruption and defiance of God that followed was brought to a full manifestation when the sons of God began to intermarry with the daughters of men. I don't know all the implications, but I have looked at it as being an intercourse with darkness. They produced a generation of giants, wicked beyond words, that hated God. Here we have a mixture of the human and the demonic. That certainly is taking place today. Men are fascinated by the darkness. Spiritism is on the rise. There is a revival of the occult. Men are turning to witchcraft and Satan worship. Even little children are manifesting the marks of demonic influence.

Line of Demarcation

There is coming into focus a line of demarcation and it will get more pronounced all the while The real mark is going to be the nature of men and women, their love for Christ and their change of heart. There is going to be some decided marks of holiness that show up in God's people, a separation from this world, a hatred of violence. Instead of sitting around at night and watching the violence, filth and rape, we should be reading the Word, praying and seeking God. We need to have prayer meetings including all the family in the homes if we are going to be ready when He returns. We will see this happening with those who really go on with God.

On the other hand, you arc going to see others who hate Christ, people who don't want Christ mentioned on radio broadcasts. You can call in and talk about Buddha, and nobody will worry about it, but don't talk about Jesus. The hatred for Christ is on the rise, and the love for Christ among true Christians is also on the rise. There is coming a time when some people will be willing to lay down their lives for Him, while others are going to despise to hear His name, even though they go to Church.

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up. and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Luke 21:28) I believe those who mean business with God can look up and rejoice today. However, when the Lord revealed these things to Daniel, it must have been a great frustration because it was sealed, until the end time. But it must have been a great comfort for God to say to him you will come up in the resurrection of the just. Daniel in fasting and praying earnestly sought God for a clearer vision of the revelations that had been given him. Notice the Lord spoke to him of two different lime spans. In Daniel 12:12 He spoke of a period of 1335 days. After this Daniel was told he would rest (evidently in death) and be resurrected at the end of these days. This is somewhat confusing because of the two distinct time periods. But looking into the history of the abomination of desolation, it is really a double confirmation. Since the just dead will he raised at the time of Christ's coming. God was telling Daniel that 1335 years after the daily sacrifice was taken away. Christ would come.

Be Ye Also Ready

"But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man Cometh." (Matthew 24:43-44)

If we study the Word of God we can know the season of His coming, and we are fools if we are careless. There is such a weight of evidence in the Bible as to the coming of Jesus that there is absolutely no excuse for our being in darkness.

"And he said unto me. Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." (Daniel 8:14) Here we are given another period of 2300 days after which the sanctuary would be cleansed. "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy. and to anoint the most Holy." (Daniel 9:24)

Here we are told of a period of 70 weeks encompassing the entire history of Israel up lo the lime of the bringing in of everlasting righteousness; which undoubtedly refers to the kingdom of God, as he refers to it as a kingdom that would not end.

God's Time Scales

In the Word of God, days, weeks, and times are given as measurements of times. When an architect draws plans for a building, he has certain scales of measurement, and on maps you will find that an inch equals a certain amount of miles. In God's Word, in exactly the same manner, we have the Holy Spirit using time scales to represent the length of time that will pass before certain prophecies are fulfilled. Perhaps the simplest example of this is found in the book of Ezekiel: "I have appointed thee each day for a year.' (Ezekiel 4:6) Here we have the explanation of days in the Bible, unless specifically stated as otherwise. Therefore, in Daniel 12 the mentioned 2300 days is 2300 years, and the 1290 day period is 1290 years

Scale of 70 Weeks

Days, however, is not the only time measurement. We have a scale of weeks which is made up of 70 weeks. Then, we have a week of days, a week of weeks, and a week of years. This is all just God's way of telling us how to measure time, that we could know the season of His coming. If these measurements of time are given for this purpose, then it's wisdom to look at what God is saying. God gave the scale of 70 weeks to the Prophet Daniel as he was earnestly seeking for understanding.

"And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; Yea. whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the lime of the evening oblation. And he informed me. and talked with me; and said. O Daniel. I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment  came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." (Daniel 9:20-25)

Jubilee Cycle

Two time scales are used here. Both are called weeks. The time used is a week of years: that, a week of forty nine years or the jubilee cycle. The seven Sabbath years under the jubilee is clearly stated in Leviticus: "And thou shall number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shall thou cause the It limpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubile unto you: and ye shall return every- man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." (Leviticus 25:8-10) A week of years is 49 years. Gabriel in the message to Daniel showed him that seventy weeks were determined upon the people, and that in this time the Lord would accomplish six outstanding things:

 1. Finish the transgression

2. Make an end of sins

3. Make reconciliation for iniquity

4. Bring in everlasting righteousness

5. Seal up the vision and prophecy

6. Anoint the most Holy

The bringing in of everlasting righteousness and the anointing of the most Holy, brings us down to what evidently is the millennium kingdom. So in these seventy weeks we will see an accomplishment of all things up to the coming of the Lord and the setting up of His kingdom on this earth. We need only to determine the time this seventy week period began and we can know the end. I have to try to oversimplify the matter that has puzzled men from Daniels day until now. I believe by using the 49 year week of the jubilee and the 70 weeks that Daniel speaks of in Chapter 9 verse 24, the entire history of Israel is actually embraced from the Exodus until the end of the days and the bringing in of the everlasting righteousness.

Now if we were to calculate that, it would be 49 X 70 equals 3430. Since the internations geophysical year of 1957. when such a wealth of knowledge was discovered, the date of Israel's departure has been pretty well set as 1453 B.C. They departed in the month of Nison. which is April. So by taking the year 1453 B. C. as Israel's year of departure and adding 3430 plus the final jubilee year it brings us to the end of this millennium. I have no way of knowing. The only thing I am idling you is that if you measure the 70 weeks of Daniel, and add it to the time that has been established Israel left Egypt, il will bring you to the time period we are in. Although we cannot pinpoint the exact year. I want to impress you with the fact that according to the time given to Daniel. We have arrived at the end. We could be off a few years on Israel's departure from Egypt. But this is the millennium I believe that Jesus could come.

Rise and Fall of Empires

Another direct Bible prophecy concerning the end is found in Daniel 8. In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar. Daniel was given a vision of the destruction of the Babylonian Empire by the Medo-Persians. and the destruction of the Medo-Persia Empire by Greece. Medo-Persia is characterized as a ram having two horns pushing north and south and westward, so that no beast could stand before him. Then in the midst of these mighty Persian conquerors appears another beast in the form of a rough he goat with a notable horn between the eyes. This he goat is the Grecian Kingdom under Alexander the Great. In the vision Daniel saw, the he goal Greece with the notable horn between the eyes, came from the west. He came against the ram in the full strength of his power, smote him. broke his horns (his power) and stamped upon him. In other words he destroyed the Medo-Persian Empire.

Then the he goat waxed very great, but suddenly the great horn between the eyes of the he goat was broken. This prophecy, no doubt, concerns the death of Alexander the Great. He had become so great in power (he was only 32 when he died) that his empire stretched all the way from India to Ethiopia. His powers and cunning as a general have never been matched. Since he was never defeated in battle, his death was the turning point of the history of the Grecian Empire.

Daily Sacrifice Taken Away

After the death of Alexander the Great, his empire was divided into four heads exactly as Daniel prophesied. These are the four horns that replaced the great horn: Selecus took Syria. Ptolemy took Egypt Cassandra took Greece and Lysimachus took Thrace. From one of the four horns came the little horn of Daniel 8:9 by whom Jerusalem was trodden down and the daily sacrifice was taken away.

“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 ? And he said unto me. Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” (Daniel 8:13-14)

It is 2300 years from the time the daily sacrifice was taken away, as described in Daniel 8:9. it is the end of the indignation. The indignation is a desecration of God's holy place - a Moslem Mosque standing in the place of the Temple. It is not possible from our vantage point to know the exact year to begin counting the 2300 years. Yet we can say with a great deal of certainty that the count should begin with the death of Alexander the Great because the vision concerned the Grecian Empire, and it was after the death of Alexander the Great that one of the four horns trod down Jerusalem and took the daily sacrifice away. Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. If we add the 2300 years, it brings us to this decade. Although this could vary because of the calendar being wrong, it still tells us we are living very close to the time of Christ's return. As we approach the end and God's Spirit stirs our hearts, these things that were closed up until the end will more and more open up unto us. for they were written that we may know.

Abomination of Desolation

The first time the daily sacrifice was taken away was after the death of Alexander the Great, but the abomination that made desolate waited until 640 - 645 A.D. which was the building of the first mosque of wood where God's Temple had originally been on Mt. Mariah. Add 1335 years and you arrive at our days. However, the permanent mosque of stone was built some 45 years later. Count 1290 years from the time the permanent mosque was built, and you come again to our day. All of this is in the Bible that we may know the time of the end. There is nothing here for speculation. It is here that we will not be taken unaware. These figures God gave Daniel by the Spirit are the clues to the end of this age. It is a matter of knowing the time these things started, and then adding the number of years. It is impossible to bring it to the exact year, but that doesn't take anything away from the fact that we are in the end of an age. Christ is coming.

Chapter Two

THE FALSE PROPHET

Down through ihe centuries. Satan. taking advantage of rnan’s weaknesses, has made him a tool uf his evil scheme. Even Christians who live on the wrong side of their nature have become unwilling instruments in the plans of ihe evil one. The super ego, the burning ambition. the desire to be recognizcd. the insecurity. pride. etc. all have been coin for currency in the kingdom of darkness. In short. "self" is the ground of the devil and every error. schemc. and gimmick of religion has come about by Satan involving the human self in things spiritual.

All the false prophets. with thcir false teachings. up to this point in history. have had one end in mind; to condition the people for the main and final event. The oil on the hands. the leg stretching. teaching folks to speak in tongues. the intellectual use of the great gifts of the Spirit. the phenomenal invasion of angels: all are part of the program to prepare the soil for the "False Prophet" of Revelation 13.

This personalny, who may emerge at any moment, is to be the last and greatest of his class. He is to be the consummation of all false prophets of all time. He is the creation of human thought and socicty. The god he proclaims will be a combination of religion and materialism. a creation of the religious mind. This evil genius will be the evolution of all systems of religion thai have had ihcir place among mankind. A summation of the progress of human society in a culmination of beliefs and persuasions. He will be accepted by all. other than the "Elect of God."

The religious mind has been pre-conditioned to accept this master of deceit without question. Slowly. but very surely. the mind has been fed the poison of false doctrine. always. of course. with just enough truth mixed with it to make it look good.

There can be no anti-Christ without the false prophet and there can be no world government without a world church. Since the world church will be made up not only of apos.a.e Christianity bui of all ihc religions of the world, a compromise must be struck. This will pose no problem for the false religions for they have, for ihe most pan. not rejected the competition of other gods. It is the Christian message that will have to he diluted to make way for Ihc new religion of the false prophet Our message has always been, "...there is none other name under heaven given among men. whereby we must he saved." (Acts 4:12) The signs of change are everywhere. A revival of religion is in (he making. At this very moment, all religions are in ferment. Islam, Mormon, Christian, Buddist, Hindu: we are on the threshold of a new religion

Eight times it is written of this efficient Prime Minister of Religion, "he causeth." What he causcth is most extraordinary, in all the history of falsehood and deceit. "He causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast.” There is nothing new annul this Pharaoh had his team of clever magicians They upheld the prestige of his throne Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin. placed his accomplices in religious administration at Bethel and Dan. Hitler had his Gobbels. Gobbels, a forerunner of the false prophet, was assigned to turn the religious instinct to Hitler and the state. Hitler captured the animal instinct by causing craft to prosper. In the midst of the worst depression in history, he put every man to work. In one decade. Hitler and his false prophet, changed the beliefs and thinking of a great nation, turning the people into barbarians. “The New Germany” was the religion and it was based the ability of the human race to redeem self.

Hitler's Germany was a mock run. We are about lo witness the real performance. The false prophet will work hand in glove with the antichrist, with full authority “And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him…”(Revelation 14:12) In this prestigious position. the false prophet assumes power over the religious instinct of the human race, claiming absolute custody of what is true. From that point on, no one will  complain of too many religions - a world church will settle that issue.

Coming to power, the false prophet moves quicly to fotify his claim to total control by exhibiting a supernatural will over the forces of  nature. “And he doeth great wonders, so that he makcth fire come down from heaven on I he earth in the sight of men. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saving 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 13:13-14)

Thus, the false prophet imposes on the world wins credence to his profession, and claims and sways the public sentiment to the acknowledgment of a new divinity demanding a new religion. It has happened before. In the past, whole generations have perished, the victims of lies and propaganda so cleverly promoted that multitudes have been lost. Paul warns thai the final act will deceive the whole world.

It will be by miracles thai man's faith shall be captured and controlled. ”Even him. whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.” (II Thessalonians 29:9)  So will man's apostasy be confirmed We must never forget for a moment that there is a supernatural power which is against God and truth, as well as one for God and iruth. Today's miracle conscious religious world is ripe for delusion. If a man can work a miracle, the neo-Pentecostal world will not ask what he believes.

The Soil Is Prepnred For the Pseudo-Holy Man

The curtain of night slowly drops on this poor sin cursed earth, as the Christian world moves to remove the list barrier to the 'new religion." the Word of God The despotism of the "big lie" could never come as long as the Church w as faithful to the Word of God. Now that's all gone in the new evangelism She has moved into a "spirit only" movement. The so-called Christian Church is no longei a Bible believing institution. She still uses the Word when it benefits her It is no longer the ironclad rule of faith. She is ready for the big lie.

The Church never came lo this delusion over nighl Il has been a ralher gradual process Here a little and there a liltlc. accepting thai which was false to the Word She has been led as a lamb lo the slaughter Thinking  herself wise, she became a fool by compromising precious truth for a false unity. The end of which will be the enslavement of all mankind. Jcsuv said. "And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not. shall he likened unto a foolish man..." (Mallhcw 7:26) According to these words, to hear and not do is the same as saying mere is no God. "The fool hath said in his heart. There is no God..." (Psalm 14:1)

This foolish action became extremely noticeable a few years ago when the Holy Spirit began reaching inside dead religious bodies and touching hearts, ignoring the Word of God which plainly says. "But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man thai is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer. or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such an one no not to cat." ( I Corinthians 5:11) or "WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE YE SEPARATE, saith the Lord. AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING: AND I WILL RECEIVE YOU." (II Corinthians 6:17) or "Having a form of godlincv. but denying the power thereof: from such turn away Religious leaders told those whom God had touched to stay in these dead and idolatrous systems. This led to a spiritual break down. The impression left was that God was blessing these idolatrous religious systems, which was nol true. God was moving to get His people out. With the Bible base destroyed, the Church no longer having an absolute to take its bearings from, began lo cave in before the enemy like a house of cards. Once the Word of God was sel aside and the mind became convinced thai God was Tilling idol worshippers with His Holy Spirit, it was all downhill. Once this he was believed, the Church was open to believe anything by anyone who could fake a supernatural act. At this point, the religious quacks began to crawl out of the woodwork to take advantage of the simple. When the Word of God is ignored, ihc Holy Spirit takes His flight. In His plare has come the deceived evil spirit of self, with a thousand and one gimmicks to further delud and deceive. Haungry  hearts were taught to speak in tongues and told they were filled with the Holy Ghost. So that all could see a miracle, the ęfadę of leg stretching was born. The saints were told to bring a paper bag to church to vomit up the devil. The mighty gifts of God became toys in the hands of many who had lost the fear of God. In many services, sermons were preached lo program the sainls to fall out when prayed for. One evangelist carried his own carpet to fall on. and of course they were assured that someone would catch them. No matter that all this came to nought, there is always something new and the poor people keep hoping. The coming world church will be an amalgam of all the great religions of the world. This is very important to note, for much teaching has led us to believe it will only consist of apostate Christianity. I know it is almost unbelievable that Christianity could be so diluted that it could corporate the pagan religions, but it will happen, or to put it bluntly, it has already happened.

Very subtly the enemy has moved the Church away from the Bible. Once this was accomplished, the rest was easy. Within the charismatic movement, people were taught to speak in tongues and this became the basis of fellow ship. The unregeneratc were taught to say words they did not understand and were told they had been baptized in the Holy Ghost. No matter, they were still seeped in idolatry, and for a man to lift his voice against such blasphemy was to invite the crudest denunciations. The Church came to believe that God had changed. That He no longer hated every false way. The Word of God. with its terrible pronouncements against all idolatry was ignored. Wc began to witness those who believe that Mary is co-redemptive with Christ speaking in tongues, and professing lo be filled with the spirit of truth. It is not uncommon to hear folks saying the Rosary in tongues, and giving testimony that the speaking in tongues has made Mary to the Catholic, what it made Jesus to the Protestant. Not only was this accepted by the neo-Pentecostal world, but was heralded as a mighty visitation from God. Which meant, they, the neo-Pentecostal. now by their actions, say that the Word of God is wrong, that God is accepting the heresies of Rome. I know when this is read, many will react and say. the Roman
church is moving away from its idol worship. This is not so Pope John Paul II said in an address. The mother of the church (Mary) will be lifted higher than ever before.

Angels are now a part of the delusion. These being from another world have come to earth with a message other than the Word of God. After many encounters w with such creatures. Roland Buck from Boise. Idaho says that God is not concerned with our doctnne. what we believe, but rather of Christ in us This says that Christ will come on other grounds than the Word of God. To believe such is to completely bypass God's Word, thus opening the door for the new religion. If the Word ot God can be circumvented and Mary can become co-redemptive with Christ, it is only a short step to making Mohammed and Buddha the same.

Absurd! Not in the least. It has already begun. Read this taken from a Spokane. Washington newspaper: "Billy Graham and Mohammed Ali on the same bill? Why not, says Evangelist Billy Graham - All's primary beliefs are something we all could believe. Graham says that Ali. a black Muslim, wants to be a healer in the world and he is in a unique position to do a great deal of good. Graham says he and Ali discussed joining forces Monday at Graham's Montreal. N.C. home, talking about things they have in common - Love and belief in mankind."

Thus. Mr. Graham, the most popular evangelist of the 20th century, has joined forces with one whose religion is anti-Christ. The Word of God is ignored, set aside, rejected. The Word says. "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3)  Again, "...what communion hath light with darkness'' (II Cor. 6:14) also “...what concord hath Christ with Belial?..." says Paul lo the II Corinthians 6:15. In the minds of millions, this will be an act of God simply because a man of such stature as Mr. Graham did it. Thus, the soil is prepared for the false prophet.

Still not convinced? Well listen to this. On the ABC World News of September 24th. a segment of the news was given on the Catholic Church called "A Church In Turmoil." A priest on the program, telling of the changes that have now come to the Roman Church said. The Mass now incorporates Islam. Hindu. Protestant, and Catholic." Anyone who believes  that God will sanction such an unholy mixture knows nothing of God.

Satan, knowing that it would be difficult for Bible believing folks to accept such a radical departure from the Word, reinforces the lie by sending angelic beings to convince the holdouts. The man from Idaho says that God took him up to heaven and revealed to him who the Pope would be. one year before he was elected. God assured Mr. Buck that the Pope had no more privileges with Him than the least saint. However, because he had so much influence with men. He (God) was concerned with who got the job. because the Pope was to help Him heal His fragmented body, the Church. The Word of God says that the Church Christ will return for will be without spot or wrinkle. The prophet Zechariah said the Church would be "A candlestick all of gold..." (Zechariah 4:2) or a Church all of God. Yet. there is a man who says by inference that this has been changed. God is now going to use a man lo help heal His Church who believes that Mary is co-redemptive with Christ A man who claims to he The Vicar of Christ, yet allows the highest sacrament of his church (the Mass) to be a mixture of pagan religions 1 don t know who told this man Buck such a he. but I can assure you it was not God, nor was it one of His true angels.

The new religion, as in the past, will take up the wrong sword, "...and cause that as many as would not worship the image of The beast should be killed" (Revelation 13:15) Satan will go to any length and use any tool to make you a part of this lost world, "...for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." (Matthew 23:15) Satan's own prophet will close this awful trap on the souls of men. Refusing lo believe (he Word of God. impotent nun will be caught between the jaw of damning miracle-backed, angel preaching, soul delusion, and the jaw of self preservation. Dr. J A. Seiss puts n this way "Thus, in the name of democracy and popular rights comes absolute dictatorship and imperialism: in the name of better reason, tramples on religion and revelation, thus, comes a great consolidated system of gross idolatry; in the name of charitable liberalism, which disdains allegiance to any creed, comes a bloody depotism which compels man to worship the base image of a baser man. or die." These are the final days of God's testimony on the earth. "God. who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds." (Hebrews 1:1-2)

This is God's truth. He asks us to believe and be saved. If you refuse this testimony now that God offers, another testimony is coming. It will be the testimony of the pseudo-lamb that already is being heard. The devil will impose upon the Christ rejecter his substitute. Without Jesus Christ, you will be eternally caught in the web and become the helpless victim of religious mimicry.

Chapter Three

THE WORLD CHURCH IS HERE

Revelation 17:1-11 “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto mc. Come hither. I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written. MYSTERY. BABYLON THE GREAT. THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood ol the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her. I wondered with great admiration. And the angel said unto me. Wherefore didst thou marvel? 1 will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest  was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was. and is not. and yet is And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And 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. And the beast that was. and is not. even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.”

The world church described in this Scripture is here. It isn't everywhere, but it is born and shall soon be seen by all. Every serious student of the prophecies of the Bible has seen as part of the final drama, a world church. A giant religious conglomerate that shall swallow up every thought into subjection to itself. Since there can be no anti-Christ without a false prophet, or a one world government without a one world church, it is vital that the world church and the false prophet are now a reality. Under the skilled hand of the false prophet, men of God saw that a system would come to take complete authority over what is to be believed. Everything outside of the system will be branded as a heresy and the pressures that will be placed on those who resist will be beyond this preacher's ability to describe. There will be a repeat of the dark ages on a larger scale. An age when there was only one church and that church murdered all who resisted or dared to preach against it Over 50 million saints were slaughtered because they opposed a world ecclesiastical system that claimed to be the sole custodian of truth. A system so powerful that it gained control of governments, crowning emperors, and declaring itself to be the vicar of God on earth. There will be a repeat of such, already it is in embryo. It has been born, and its development is as sure as the morning.

The final phase of this religious system was to be an amalgam of all religions, both Christian and pagan. But how it was to be brought about was the question that failed to be answered. Daniel wrote of the end of the age, yet he wondered how those things could be. Today, we are seeing them fulfilled. So through the years men have studied the great prophecies of the Bible, looked at the 17th chapter of the Book of Revelation, saw this powerful ecclesiastical system astride the dragon and the beast, drunk on the blood of the martyrs. Men have seen, but the question was. "How can these things ever be?" Christianity had to be drastically compromised, these men of God could see. but how could it be compromised to such a degree that it could incorporate the Islamic and the Hindu religions? One thing was certain, before such a system could be a reality: certain basic principles had to undergo radical changes. The whole of Christianity had to change. The fundamental voice of Christianity had to be silenced as far as its speaking out against religion was concerned. I have spoken out on television against Mormonism and the manager of the station called me and said. "Don't mention that again except in a good sense if you want to be on this television station.” A Mormon could speak out against fundamental Christianity and nobody would say anything about it. but I must not raise my voice against the false. Preach against anything else, but don't preach against religion, for religion is the world's sacred cow. Mr. Luther said, a man can preach and name every sin in the land, but if he fails to preach that which is plaguing Christianity at the present lime in history, he may as well remain silent. James Robinson can preach against homosexuality, and for a moment the station may put him off. but when 10.000 people rally with him. they put him back on. Let a man lash out against the false in religion and he stands alone. Yet the truth of the matter is. had the pulpit refused to pervert the Word of God. homosexuals wouldn't be. If the pulpit in America would be true to the Word of God. the perverts would recede into the shadows, and the drugs would disappear from our streets. Man can preach his heart out against sin and rottenness of this world and run into very little opposition, but the voice had to be silenced when it spoke against religion. Our problem is not the corruption on the outside, it is the watered down Gospel on the inside. I realize that men have been killed for less than I am going to say here, but under God. as a servant of His. I must say what I am going to say. Christ is coming, and "...if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." (Matthew 24:24) There his to be a voice raised in warning .

Not only was the fundamental voice to be silenced against religion, the Word of God had to be set aside as the iron clad rule of faith. When men stood in the pulpit and said. "Thus saith the Lord." and without fear said what God said concerning every issue. Satan was in trouble. In those days God's people had no time for those who claimed their words superseded the Word of God. The pulpit was placed in the middle of the church to say to all who walked through the door, the Word of Almighty God shall have preeminence in our church. That nothing shall gain the ascendancy over the preached Word of God. In the early days of Pentecost, our fathers were very careful that the church should never place more emphasis on experience than on what we believed. They were determined the Church was to be grounded upon what we believe and not in the mystical world of experiences Thank God. there is the experience of the "new birth.'' of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. These experiences come to men in various ways. Paul saw a light, a rooster crowed for Simon Peter, but the things that hold men steady is when they believe the Bible to be the Word of God.

For the world church to come this had to change. The mighty Word of God had to be set aside as the iron clad rule of faith. Old staid truths were openly questioned by those in authority. Openly, from the pulpit where the young could hear, they brought a question mark against the Word of God. There could never be a world church, until the Word was set aside. As long as I am governed by the Word of God. I'll not be caught up in the deceptive practices of religion. No matter how many miracles it works, no matter how great it sounds, no matter how great the crowd. I will leave it to its own doings, if it bypasses the Word of God.

Angels supposedly now have come to tell us we were wrong in our fundamental beliefs. These angels have come to tell us that God doesn't see sin any more. That we. looking at the situation from the human level, see the failure, but God looking down from Heaven, doesn't see the failure. That lie is nothing but a strike at the Word of God. Isaiah 59:2 says. "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God. and your sins have hid his face from you. that he will not hear." It is a lie to say that God will work while we live in open sin. Great emphasis is placed on human love and experience, and doctrinal purity is placed down. It is supposed to be a great spiritual thing to do away with doctrine. One of the biggest preachers in this country, when asked a question concerning the baptism of the Holy Spirit said, we don't deal with doctrine. God says the deacon must be sound in doctrine. I believe the janitor ought to be sound in doctrine. What we believe is the most important thing about us. There could never have been a world church, had we stayed in Gods Word.

Further, the Church had to compromise her stand on Christ being the only way to God. and that He was the only mediator between God and man. There could never be a world church as long as the church insists there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. You can never pollute a church that holds to the fact of one mediator between God and man. Jesus Christ. For the world church to come all of that had to change.

To bring the Church to this place of compromise, an imitation spirit was introduced. I write from a place of authority. I have been there. I watched this phony thing conic, where men are taught to say certain words, and then told they had the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Once the mighty Spirit of God was reduced to a manipulation of the flesh, there was nothing left to lift up a standard when the flood came. The compromise of the Church really took hold with this false baptism. The basis of fellowship was no longer the blood of Jesus Christ, but the ability to talk in tongues. No matter what else you did. or believed, if you could talk in tongues, this was all that was necessary for fellowship one with another. When that happened, the mighty Spirit of God took flight, and the Church had no place to anchor. When there's no Christ to believe in. as the anchor of the Church, anything can happen.

Before this anti-Christ spirit could invade the fundamental Pentecostal ranks, it had to recruit a big name among the Church itself. There is no way he could just walk in from the outside, there had to be an apostate on the inside. With the pressure of those who have affected millions, the Spirit filled Church was deceived into believing that God has changed and was filling idolaters with His Spirit. Please let me remind you that God has not changed. There is no one who believes that Mary is coredemptive with Christ who is filled with the Holy Ghost. There is no way the Holy Spirit will prostitute Himself with idolatry. I am not being mean. If men want to worship a cow in this country, he has got the right. But I've got the right to tell you it's not in the Bible. The Bible said. “If it were possible, the very elect would be deceived.” The Southern Baptist fold. 16 million strong, have always been a fundamental Bible believing people as far as salvation was concerned. But when their biggest name becomes a partner with that which is anti-Christ, the pressure is bound to affect millions of them. When the greatest names in Pentecost stand and tell us that the ecumenical movement is God's revival, that Rome has changed and the Church is now come together under the banner of the Pope, the world church knocks on our door. By their actions and silence, the leaders of the Church have accepted Mary as co- redemptive with Christ. I heard a priest say that there will be more people saved by believing in the mother, than in believing in the Son. Mary died like every other woman  saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, but she didn’t ascend into Heaven like the Savior. She is not coredemptive with our Jesus. She is not a mediator between God and man. The Church had to compromise that stand. Those radical changes had to take place before there could be a world church. Next, the conditions in the world had to reach a point that it warranted a one world government, and there can be no world government without a world church. You cannot kill the religious instinct of a human. You may starve a man to death, because God put in him a desire for food. He may die for the want of water, because in his being, there is a thirst for water. By the same token you may take God away from man You may not let him worship, but hell die knowing there is a God somewhere. For in him there is a desire for God. You cannot kill that instinct. There has to be a world church and its end is a world government

For the nations to accept a one world government, they had to be brought to a place that the cry for peace was so great that men would accept anyone they believed could bring it about. Anti-Christ will come in on a platform of peace, so the cry for peace must reach such proportion that men will accept his offer. In 1871, Albert Pike, an agent of hell said. "There will be three world wars, and the third will pit the nihilist and the atheist against the watered down Christian faith. When the war is over, the devastation will be such as to sicken man. The survivors, seeing the brutality of atheism and the weakness of Christianity, will turn to the only true god. Lucifer.” Two of these world wars have come and gone. The world is in two camps, the so- called Christian world lined up against the so-called nihilist and atheist. Just as the prophet of Satan said it would be.

Every major upheaval in history has been planned and executed by the mind of Satan in his bid to rule the earth I've traced this mind through the centuries. In the sixth century, you have the Moslems. They cross the Preens Mountains into Europe and almost overran the world. The only thing that stopped them, it wasn't time. In the 12th century, it was Genghis Kahn and the hordes of Mongolia that almost overran the earth. In the 18th century - the Napoleonic and French Revolution. Then came World War I. Hell thought this would be the master stroke. Surely with millions dead and maimed, earth would accept his offer, but it wasn't time. Woodrow Wilson. President of this great country, died of a broken heart, because the congress refused to enter the League of Nations. America wasn't ready. Then came the great depression, deliberately contrived and executed by the mind of hell. On the heels of the depression. World War 11. and still America wasn't ready for a one world government. Now she was ready for the United Nations. While we were still staggering from World War 11. there came Korea, racial haired, and the Viet Nam War. America had arrived. A great part of her people would accept the world government if they thought it could bring peace. Let a man come on the world scene who can promise peace and prosperity, be he god or devil, the world will accept him. It had to reach this point.

With conditions right, all that was needed for the world church was a world citizen. He had to be one who was not bound by any one creed. He must be a man who is above the law and can change beliefs. A man elevated to such authority and power in religious matters, that if what is believed doesn't fit the plan, he can change what is believed. The Bible is unalterable; no man can add to it. and no man can take away from it. No amendments can be made So a world church demands a man of world stature, who is not bound by the Word of God. Who when he speaks, claims his words to be above God's Word. Whose influence on the world scene is so powerful it makes kings and rulers uneasy. A man acclaimed and looked up to by the media, worldwide. His message must be peace, not salvation by grace, not peace through and by the grace of God. but peace through a one world dictator. He steps on the platform at a time in the 20th century, when men are sick of war. when the world's problems are with perplexity, when the cry of the world is for someone who can lead them out of the darkness. Having refused the truth, the world is ripe for hells lies.

There is only one man alive that fits that description. John Paul II has emerged the true world leader. A great leader hath been born. The Pope has appeared at a moment when bitter disillusionment, caused by the failures of so many doctrines and materialistic philosophies, has plunged mankind into despair. The Italian media called him. “The so much awaited leader with firm convictions, personality and clear teachings.” There isn't but one world citizen living. From East Germany. West Germany. Ireland. Mexico, and America, the people came by the hundreds of thousands to adore him. At one instance, they were chanting, this man is the one we are looking for. the world leader. Thin one is the one that the world has been waiting on. With his great charisma he captured the hearts of millions worldwide. Where you find great charisma displayed in religious leaders, you better be careful. For behind that charisma there may be more than what you bargained for. This man has all the qualifications. He claims when speaking excathedra. to be infallible, he can change beliefs. He is above the law. In Mexico the law forbids open air religious meetings. This never applied to the Pope. His influence is such as to make world leaders uneasy. He is acclaimed by the world press to be the holy man. a world leader, and by many as the hope of this age. He can go anywhere on earth and millions will turn out to hear him. There is no other man alive that can do this. This man is the only living true citizen of the world. He is not bound by any creed. He will change the Bible to fit the need. In Ireland, before a million people, he prayed for Mary to heal that troubled land. No matter that the Bible forbids such idolatry. His message is not salvation by the grace of God. it is world peace through politics. If he is not the false prophet, he certainly has to he the final forerunner. There is not enough time to £o through it all again.

As the real Church turns down the home stretch the darkened mind has intensified its efforts to deceive. The deceptive is on display. Many false prophets have come forth. Men are born moral agents with a sense of right and wrong. Man in himself knows he ought to act according to the good of the world about him. Because man is born with a sense of right and wrong, he tries to hide it He loves darkness rather than light, until he becomes a reprobate. At that point he begins to daunt his homosexuality and tells the world that God Almighty made him that way. It's the same with the Church. Today, deception is on display. There is no attempt to hide it. because those that know better refuse to speak out. There is no voice. The graduation of the ecumenical has been frightening. First it was physical, a merger of religious organizations; that never got off of the ground. Then it came to be a spiritual thing, when men taught that God would compromise His truth for unity. The grounds of fellowship were changed from "walking in the light as He is in the light.(1 John 1:7) to the ability to speak in tongues. The unregenerate was taught to speak in tongues and told he had the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This false baptism led folks to believe that God was accepting that which is false and idolatrous. The idol self has gotten into the religious act. and thinking people turn away. But all of this had to happen for a world church to come. U has come. On the Day of Pentecost. 120 people, by a sovereign act of God. were constituted the Church. The Church was there, in the upper room. It wasn't everywhere, but it was born. It later spread to the far reaches of the earth, but it was no less real when it numbered 120. So it is with the world church, it is here. It isn't everywhere, but it is born. I preached a message on the “False Prophet “ In that message I said. "The world church will be made up of apostate Christianity The Bible says. How can two walk together except they be agreed? (Amos 3:3)  What fellowship hath light with darkness? (II Corinthians 6:14) One week after 1 preached the message, the ABC World News carried a segment on the Roman Church called. “A Church in Turmoil.”  In the program a priest told of the changes that had come to that church. He said the new mass incorporates a bit of
Islam, a bit of Hindu, a bit of Protestantism, and a bit of Catholicism. All of it in one. The highest ordinance of that church has become a mixture of Paganism and Christianity. On November 26. 1979. President Sadat of Egypt, broke ground for a temple that housed the combined worship of Hindu. Christian, and Islam. All of them under one roof, worshipping the same god. It won't work. Say what you will, do what you will, the Bible says that all who do not believe that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh arc antichrist. If you don't have the Son.
you don't have the Father.

The world church is born, heralded by world leaders and the big names of religion. Millions of innocent people will be sucked into this damnable system. The real Church, in these closing moments, will once more be branded as heretics, and shall suffer at the hands of the harlot system. Let me encourage you dear saint: it is this very pressure that shall turn us to a total dependence upon God. When that happens, the prophecy of Daniel will be fulfilled, "...that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits." (Daniel 11:32)