WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.510 --> 00:00:07.067 Hi, and you’re now with the Forerunner Chronicles. Alright everybody. So, as the majority of you out there already know, 2 00:00:07.086 --> 00:00:13.369 recently there’s been a dramatic increase in violent activity everywhere. And I’m not just talking about these acts of 3 00:00:13.393 --> 00:00:19.441 violence in which individuals are jumping out of their vehicles in a road rage and they end up committing a homicide by shooting 4 00:00:19.456 --> 00:00:26.056 someone’s parent in their face, or these other individuals that just go and grab knives and go and stab all their family 5 00:00:26.073 --> 00:00:33.046 members—they stab their coworkers, neighbors, classmates, roommates, friends—they just stab any random individual for 6 00:00:33.059 --> 00:00:40.248 that matter, just because that random person just so happened to be within arm’s length of themselves. And by no means— 7 00:00:40.265 --> 00:00:45.481 I’m not trying to make light of any of these violent scenarios, because there’s nothing to be made light of them. 8 00:00:45.491 --> 00:00:53.210 Frankly speaking, they’re nauseating. But what I would really like us to focus in on at this time are those acts of violence 9 00:00:53.232 --> 00:01:00.480 which are currently being defined by the civil powers of our world as acts of terrorism. Because the most recent acts of 10 00:01:00.503 --> 00:01:08.031 terrorism that are gaining the greatest bit of notoriety around the world are those which have been credited to being the activities 11 00:01:08.051 --> 00:01:17.079 carried out by a universally-notorious organization as of late known as ISIS. And I know you know who ISIS is because that 12 00:01:17.096 --> 00:01:24.941 name ISIS has been on the headlines of every major news outlet in existence. For instance, not too long ago, ISIS made 13 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:31.430 the headlines because they completely showered a freedom of speech convention in Copenhagen with several rounds of 14 00:01:31.446 --> 00:01:38.307 ammunition from a fully automatic weapon, and then even more recently than that, ISIS once again gained the attention of the 15 00:01:38.327 --> 00:01:45.843 global media as a result of them taking over twenty Egyptian Coptic Christian men, lining them up on a beach and then 16 00:01:45.862 --> 00:01:53.659 beheading them in cold-blooded fashion. We’re talking about some seriously blood-curdling stuff here. But what I find even 17 00:01:53.679 --> 00:02:00.995 more intriguing than that—and yes I do find something more intriguing than that—what I find even more intriguing than that 18 00:02:01.012 --> 00:02:09.587 is that as the smoke was settling over the cinematic-like bloodshed that has forever stained France in connection with 19 00:02:09.603 --> 00:02:15.995 the Charlie Hebdo incident, Pope Francis was on board a plane headed for the Philippines, and he was accompanied by the 20 00:02:16.014 --> 00:02:22.859 press, and he was discussing with them where he believed the line must be drawn in the sand when it comes to the defense of 21 00:02:22.881 --> 00:02:30.788 religious freedom and the exercise of the freedom of speech. And Pope Francis made some statements—in a very 22 00:02:30.805 --> 00:02:39.006 uncharacteristically animated fashion I might add—that were so mind-boggling that everyone that heard those words passing 23 00:02:39.033 --> 00:02:45.027 out of his mouth should have shrieked in horror, but instead, of course, his statements elicited chuckles because everyone 24 00:02:45.047 --> 00:02:50.829 thinks that Pope Francis is a cuddly teddy bear. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not going to tell you what he said. I’m going to 25 00:02:50.853 --> 00:02:58.051 allow you to see and hear it for your own selves. And as you listen and as you watch, you will realize that something very 26 00:02:58.068 --> 00:03:02.328 insidious is on the horizon. Take a look. 27 00:03:07.264 --> 00:03:13.666 I believe you cannot react violently, but if my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a 28 00:03:13.689 --> 00:03:25.661 punch. It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. 29 00:03:28.167 --> 00:03:34.683 And there you have it, just like that. With a lightning-fast light jab, the man whom the majority of this generation have 30 00:03:34.699 --> 00:03:41.980 classified as the world’s leader of morality, Pope Francis, has displayed right before the media how he would readily 31 00:03:41.993 --> 00:03:50.823 PHYSICALLY respond to an individual if they ill-advisedly spoke about his mama. Really! What an absurd practice to advocate 32 00:03:50.843 --> 00:03:57.706 as acceptable by the man that’s supposed to be, according to the Roman Catholic Church, the Vicar of Christ. And for those 33 00:03:57.726 --> 00:04:05.346 of you that are not familiar with that title, Vicar of Christ is Latin for the representative of Christ on Earth. It’s a title that’s given 34 00:04:05.362 --> 00:04:14.315 to the pope. But how could such a violent reaction to someone verbally assaulting one of your kin be a right representation of 35 00:04:14.343 --> 00:04:21.554 the character of Jesus Christ? Doesn’t Jesus say in the book of Matthew, chapter 5 and verse 39, “but I say unto you, that ye 36 00:04:21.578 --> 00:04:29.437 resist not evil, but whosoever smiteth thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also”? Doesn’t Jesus say that there right in 37 00:04:29.457 --> 00:04:35.049 Matthew chapter 5 and verse 39? I know it’s in my Bible. What about in the book of Romans chapter 12 and verse 21? Does 38 00:04:35.077 --> 00:04:43.789 not the Word of God tell us there “be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good”? Doesn’t the Bible teach that? 39 00:04:43.810 --> 00:04:51.537 Clearly, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible teaches these high exalted divine principles, and therefore what we’ve just seen 40 00:04:51.561 --> 00:05:01.567 and what we’ve just heard, clearly once again establishes that in the year 2015, just like in the Dark Ages between 538 AD and 41 00:05:01.589 --> 00:05:11.085 1798 AD, the papacy is continuing a long tradition that they’ve adopted throughout the ages of exalting the prerogatives of 42 00:05:11.096 --> 00:05:21.630 finite men above the prerogatives of God Himself. But what I find extremely disturbing about this whole fiasco of the pope on 43 00:05:21.655 --> 00:05:28.776 a plane throwing shadow punches to illustrate to the media how he would swiftly respond with VIOLENCE towards an individual 44 00:05:28.804 --> 00:05:39.487 that cursed at his mother is that Pope Francis was not utilizing that illustration for some obscure purpose. He was using that 45 00:05:39.514 --> 00:05:48.691 illustration with a very definite purpose in mind. He used this illustration of how he would physically react towards someone 46 00:05:48.710 --> 00:05:57.365 telling a mama-joke to depict to the world not only what he believes should be the expected response, but what he believes 47 00:05:57.395 --> 00:06:06.903 is the acceptable response as to how one should react towards another individual or group that purposely disrespects the 48 00:06:06.931 --> 00:06:13.199 religious faith of another. That’s serious! Ladies and gentlemen, just think about this for a second. Let’s just say—for the sake of 49 00:06:13.215 --> 00:06:20.659 conversation, all right—let’s just say that I, was to call the Roman Catholic Church—which by the way is identified by the 50 00:06:20.672 --> 00:06:27.065 papacy as the Mother Church—so what if I was to call the Mother Church, the Roman Catholic Church, “the whore” of 51 00:06:27.090 --> 00:06:32.587 Revelation chapter 17? Or to use even more explicit language, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF 52 00:06:32.617 --> 00:06:39.467 HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” as it is said to be in Revelation 17 and verse 5. Would that be sufficient to 53 00:06:39.492 --> 00:06:48.484 solicit a violent response from the papacy? Evidently yes. Because over 50 million Christians were tortured and sent to 54 00:06:48.502 --> 00:06:57.451 bloody graves BY the papacy between 538 AD through 1798 AD because they protested against the papacy as the 55 00:06:57.478 --> 00:07:03.875 prophetic whore of Revelation chapter 17. But wait a second. Let’s just say for the sake of conversation once again—so 56 00:07:03.895 --> 00:07:11.488 hypothetically speaking, let’s just say that I, was to call the pope which by the way is identified by the papacy as the Holy Father, 57 00:07:11.504 --> 00:07:18.200 or in the Italian language he’s identified as “Papa,” so what if I was to call Papa, the pope, the “man of sin,” the “son of 58 00:07:18.221 --> 00:07:27.367 perdition,” the “anti-Christ.” Would that be sufficient to solicit a violent response from the papacy? Evidently yes, because over 59 00:07:27.386 --> 00:07:34.950 50 million Christians—and I’m giving the conservative estimate—50 million Christians were maimed and murdered by 60 00:07:34.978 --> 00:07:44.606 the papacy between 538 through 1798 as a result of protesting against the Roman Catholic Church and its pope as the 61 00:07:44.631 --> 00:07:54.621 dominant antichrist of Bible prophecy. But I have even a better one. Listen to this one. What if an organization known as ISIS 62 00:07:54.646 --> 00:08:03.312 was to behead over two dozen Christian men, and then one stood up from the midst of their ranks and took his 63 00:08:03.334 --> 00:08:12.964 blood-stained knife and pointed it towards the sea, and then said—and I quote—“we will conquer Rome!” Would those types 64 00:08:12.986 --> 00:08:22.387 of words, would that type of rhetoric be sufficient to anger the papacy to such an extent that they would be led to mobilize an 65 00:08:22.405 --> 00:08:30.469 invisible campaign behind the scenes to influence all of the major political powers in our world, especially those that are 66 00:08:30.496 --> 00:08:39.981 located in the West, and seek to compel these civil powers not only to use their military might to take a punch at ISIS, but to 67 00:08:40.003 --> 00:08:49.106 take a strike at any organization—and any individual for that matter—that would openly denounce the authority of the 68 00:08:49.127 --> 00:08:57.318 papacy. Do you think that that may be possible? Well ladies and gentlemen, only time will tell. And trust me, with the pope’s 69 00:08:57.338 --> 00:09:05.085 schedule to come to the shores of the United States of America this September in the year 2015 at which point he is scheduled 70 00:09:05.123 --> 00:09:14.660 to address the joint houses of the United States Congress—a feat which no other pope in the history of the papacy can add to 71 00:09:14.680 --> 00:09:24.427 his résumé—I assure you, I assure you, we are not going to have to wait too long to find out. Ladies and gentlemen, what 72 00:09:24.459 --> 00:09:33.537 we are looking at are the final unfoldings of Bible prophecy. The serpent has shown us his fangs and he is getting ready to strike 73 00:09:33.568 --> 00:09:40.444 with all of his venomous power. The Bible tells us in Revelation chapter 13 beginning at verse 11 that the United States of 74 00:09:40.472 --> 00:09:47.884 America, under the prophetic symbol of a beast having two horns like a lamb but then ultimately speaks as a dragon, will 75 00:09:47.913 --> 00:09:58.058 utilize its civil power to lead the nations of our world to confer reverential homage upon the papacy. We are told in Revelation 76 00:09:58.093 --> 00:10:05.640 13 and verse 12 “and he” meaning the United States of America “will exercise all the power of the first beast before him” being a 77 00:10:05.662 --> 00:10:12.562 symbol of the papacy “and causeth all the world and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast” the papacy 78 00:10:12.584 --> 00:10:20.317 “whose deadly wound was healed.” Then, in Revelation 13 and verse 15 the Bible goes on to say “and he had power to give life 79 00:10:20.349 --> 00:10:26.978 unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and he causeth as many should not worship the 80 00:10:26.996 --> 00:10:35.043 image of the beast should be killed, and he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark 81 00:10:35.061 --> 00:10:43.527 in their right hand, or in their forehead: and that no man might buy nor sell, save he that had the mark of the beast, or the 82 00:10:43.556 --> 00:10:52.284 name of the beast, or the number of his name.” This issue of the mark of the beast is getting ready to become a tangible 83 00:10:52.311 --> 00:11:00.984 reality that ALL of us are going to have to deal with. Therefore in loving kindness, and in mercy, God has forewarned us in the 84 00:11:01.011 --> 00:11:09.656 book of Revelation chapter 14 and verse 9, “and the third angel followed saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast 85 00:11:09.675 --> 00:11:17.767 and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, 86 00:11:17.787 --> 00:11:28.555 which is poured out without mixture into His cup of indignation.” It is not God’s design—it is not God’s desire that any man 87 00:11:28.576 --> 00:11:37.893 should perish in his sins. That’s why the Bible clearly tells us in John 3:16 “for God so loved the world, that He gave His only 88 00:11:37.912 --> 00:11:45.302 begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” When the Bible tells us that 89 00:11:45.324 --> 00:11:54.181 God gave His Son, it does not simply mean that God gave His son to die on the cross for our sins, but Jesus Christ FOREVER 90 00:11:54.210 --> 00:12:06.006 will identify Himself with humanity. This is why Jesus Himself said that He, HE, is not ashamed to call Himself our brother! 91 00:12:06.027 --> 00:12:13.148 Ladies and gentlemen, if we could only understand the matchless love that God has for us, then we would give up all 92 00:12:13.168 --> 00:12:20.760 the foolishness of this world that we’re allowing to allure ourselves away from having a loving POWERFUL relationship 93 00:12:20.778 --> 00:12:27.466 with Jesus Christ. A relationship that will give you victory over lying, victory over stealing, victory over pornography, victory 94 00:12:27.485 --> 00:12:34.954 over anger, victory over unkindness, victory over every hereditary and cultivated sin that will keep you out of the 95 00:12:34.972 --> 00:12:44.531 Kingdom of God. Why are you keeping yourself away from Jesus? Don’t listen to the devil! Jesus said, any man that comes 96 00:12:44.548 --> 00:12:54.099 to Him, He will in no wise cast him out. Won’t you come to Jesus today? My friends, it’s time to wake up. We are living at 97 00:12:54.124 --> 00:13:02.674 the end of all things, and God is saying, Wake up! Christian that is lazy and doing nothing. Wake up! my friend that is in the 98 00:13:02.703 --> 00:13:08.695 world. You say there’s no God. There is a God! That’s why you can see. There is a God! That’s why your heart pumps. There is 99 00:13:08.712 --> 00:13:16.148 a God! That’s why you’re still alive. God is giving you an opportunity to turn from your wicked ways and to receive 100 00:13:16.169 --> 00:13:30.501 salvation today! My friends, NOW is the acceptable day. NOW is the time of your salvation! Won’t you choose Jesus today? 101 00:13:30.520 --> 00:13:43.468 Because God would not want to spend eternity without you. And He proved it by DYING for you. So please, choose wisely. 102 00:13:43.478 --> 00:13:52.876 As always, this is the Forerunner, and whether you like it or not, the truth is the truth.