0:00 This next topic is very important. In fact, it's probably the most misunderstood topic in all of Christianity. I have evangelist Harold Helm here to talk to us more about what happens when you die. Super important. What do you have for us? Absolutely. Yes. I mean, this is one of the most misunderstood topics, not just in Christianity, but in the world. It doesn't matter. Even atheists are confused about what happens when you die. So to speak. So are the dead really dead? And why does it matter? And particularly, why does it matter for the times that we're living in? And how does this tie in the biblical prophecy? So that's something that we're going to dive into. We're going to talk about. We're going to use scripture. And we're going to prove from the Bible exactly what happens to you when you die.
0:49 And we're also going to unveil the deception of Satan and how he's going to use this misunderstood subject to deceive the world before. The second coming of Jesus. I'm going to start with a pretty well-known scripture out of Revelations, chapter 16, verse 13 and 15. And it's about the three unclean spirits like frogs. And it's probably very misunderstood, or at least most people that cover this don't really break it down into detail as to what is it really talking about. And so I'm going to spend a little time on this. And it says, And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the devil, the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle, the great day of God Almighty. Now, this is pretty important because this is John the Revelator, right?
1:54 He's wrote the book of Revelations. He's seeing this revelation. And what's he seeing? He's seeing three unclean spirits is what he's saying. He's saying that. I've seen these unclean spirits, but they're like frogs. And he says they're coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophets. And what is their purpose? Their purpose is to gather who? Gather the entire world to battle of the great day of God Almighty. So his ultimate purpose is to bring the world under some type of union by using these three entities of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet so they can eventually make war against God. That's what we're seeing here. And people need to understand that there is an actual battle, a war, a spiritual and physical. It's been going on for a very long time. If you look at when Satan was, before he was Satan, he was Lucifer. And then when he had iniquity found in him, and he wanted to be like God, he wanted to challenge God, him and the third of the angels that he took were cast out of heaven.
2:56 There was war there. And it says Michael fought the dragon. And Michael, in his, the angels prevailed and they ended up kicking him out. That battle has been waging on ever since then. And it's going to culminate at the second coming of Christ. And it's, it's, you know, we, we talk about this, but it's really the great controversy. Ms. Ellen White, which one of the founders of our church, you know, she wrote a collection on books called the Spirit of Prophecy. And one of them is the great controversy. And she lays this out and goes into a lot of detail and talks about this hidden battle, but it's, it's great book. I'd advise anyone to read it. But. You don't even need the great controversy to really understand what's going on. You can look directly at the Bible because the Bible is our foundation, of course, on everything. And so I want to really unpack this here because, you know, first I'm going to break down who is the dragon, who is the beast and who is the false prophet?
3:48 You know, we know Satan is the dragon. Revelations 12, 9 tells us that he's the ancient serpent. And what does he work through? He works through earthly powers. He always has worked through Egypt. You know, you look at the sun. God. Raw is another name. For Satan. And and you look at him work through Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. And Rome was ruled under two phases. It was ruled under pagan Rome when they had Caesar and eventually Caesar transferred his power in a sense. That's what happened when the Pope came up and ruled the church in the state was basically Caesar hidden under a garb or a form of Christianity. But he still had the power of life and death over everybody. Still, the church in the state ruled. So we're going to see something. Very similar take place at the end of time. And this is very important because it all ties in to the last end times deception in the last crisis.
4:44 That's going to involve spiritualism. Yeah. And as as Satan is the direct deceptive agency involved in on this. So let's break down a little bit about the beast. And this is called the the last big thing that happens is essentially Armageddon. Right. Because that's what we're talking about at the very last thing before the second coming. Right. Now, there are two resurrections and a lot of people are confused about this as well, too. When you read Revelation chapter twenty through twenty two, it really talks about the thousand years of millennial. There's a lot of Christians who think that that's going to take place on Earth when we know it does not. It takes place in heaven. Yes. We have to do another program on that in the future. But at the end of that thousand years. So so when Christ returns at the seven trump the last day, there's only two groups of people that are on Earth that are alive at that time. You've got the saved and the lost. You've got the wicked. The redeemed, the one and the same.
5:33 Those that accepted Christ and those that reject him. Yeah. And the Bible is very and then you have the same group, but they have already passed away. So you have those that died in Christ and you have what we call the wicked dead that are in the graves that are rejected Christ that are dead. So when Christ returns, scripture is very clear that we that are alive and remain cannot precede those that have already died in Christ. John five twenty eight. First Thessalonians fifteen fifty one three. Fifty four. I mean, it's very clear that that when Christ returns, the dead in Christ will rise first. He'll resurrect him, take them to heaven. But the wicked are destroyed by the brightness of his coming. Right. And so at that point, Satan's bound to the earth for a thousand years. The wicked dead are in the graves and Christians, those that are redeemed, go to go to heaven for a thousand years, stay with Christ. But the end of the thousand years is actually another final battle.
6:28 So when Christ and his saints. Return to New Jerusalem, Mount Zion, God's favorite place in the universe. Scripture tells us that we see the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven. And this is the second resurrection. So the wicked are now resurrected and Satan is there with those that have been resurrected. And what do they try to do? The first thing he tried to do is gather them to war again to go and try to think that we have one more chance to defeat God. And, you know, the Bible tells us fire comes out the door and consumes. And the battle doesn't last very long at all. You know, I just it amazes me that Satan still thinks that he can defeat God. Right. So we see here that that the dragon that's talked about is Satan. It's very clear the beast who is the beast. Well, this there's two beasts in Revelations. One beast comes up out of the sea. Scripture tells us the sea is a densely populated area.
7:25 And so in the time that the Bible was written, the new world wasn't known. There were no Americas. It was known Australia. It was basically Europe at that time and a little bit of of Asia Minor and that part of the world. So we know that this this beast had to rise up out of that area. We know scripture tells us it's a religious political power and it receives the dragon's authority. Right. And it's it tells us that this beast power persecutes the saints for times, times and a half. A times, which is also 42 months or three and a half years. Now, for those of you out there that are good at math in the biblical calendar, they count everything in 30 days. So when you look at 42 months, how many days does 42 months have? Forty two times 30 is twelve hundred and sixty sixty.
8:17 And Bible tells us in Numbers 14, six and Ezekiel 14, 34, that one day is attributed to one prophetic year. So twelve hundred and sixty days will be twelve hundred and sixty. Years and then we trace we look at this time period that there's twelve hundred and sixty years that this power ruled and the first bishop of Rome that became the pope actually was five thirty eight. And from that point, twelve hundred and sixty years later brings us to 1798, which was the year that the papacy was conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte and Berthier when they went in and basically took away his power and put him in exile. And the world called that the mortal wound. Here we are looking at Bible prophecy, identifying this first beast that would see the mortal wound and be healed. And so they did receive a mortal wound. It was in 1798 that this that this happened and their power was taken away from them.
9:19 And it's it's and at this point, we're also identified in the Book of Daniel that this little horn, this first power would think to change times and laws of God. There's only one time law in the Ten Commandments. That's the fourth commandment relating to the Sabbath, which is the seventh day. It's Saturday, not Sunday. And and the papacy prize himself that church tradition is stronger than the Bible and that they believe that their transfer of God's Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week is there. And I didn't say this. You can look it up in their catechism. They say it's their mark of authority over the daughters of Rome. Now, who are the daughters of Rome? That would be your other Protestant denominations, whether you're Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Orthodox, whatever you fall into there.
10:09 You know, they consider you a daughter of the Roman Catholic Church. And so it's not just it wasn't just Daniel looking forward to this beast. You even look at Calvin. You look at why this you look at Martin Luther Tyndale. They all look to the papacy as as being identified as this first beast. It was mentioned in Revelations 13. Now, there's some other identifying marks. The Bible tells us that this same beast in Revelation 17, the Bible calls it a harlot. And in Jeremiah 6, 2 says, I like him to the daughters of Zion. It's a comely, delicate woman. So, in other words, God's true people, which he calls the church, he relates the church and Bible prophecy to being a woman. Now, you either have a good woman who is a virgin. In other words, she's staying true.
11:00 True to her love, which in this case is Christ. And they're not she's not fornicating or taking after other gods. This is a spiritual perversion of the seventh commandment. Thou shall not commit adultery. And then you have this harlot who is chasing after other gods and committing spiritual adultery with them. And this is this woman in Revelation 17. And it's the same beast. It's the same power mentioned in Revelations 13. And it's the culmination of the beast. And in Daniel 17. 2 and 7 as well that we see here. That's that's made up. You know, you have when Daniel was talking about the time frames of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. He mentioned Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and in Rome, you know, not necessarily in name all the way through, but in what these nations would represent and who they were. He mentioned a couple of them, but then he died. It was still several couple thousand years in the future.
11:54 But his prophecies have held so accurate that they. Cannot be disputed by any theologian. So this first beast is also mentioned as having the colors of purple and scarlet. Wow. Now, that's very interesting because you have you have cardinals and and then you also have the bishops which have purple and scarlet or red and purple is the colors that they hold within the Catholic Church. I think another major identifying point here is that Daniel says this beast would commit blasphemy. Mm hmm. Now, what is blasphemy? Well, blasphemy is only identified in Scripture a couple of times in the Gospels when Jesus was was going around healing people. He came up to a paralytic man who couldn't walk. And Jesus came up to him and he basically said, rise up and walk and your sins are forgiven. He had an encounter with Christ and he was changed. And the scribes and the religious, the Pharisees, they were like, what do you mean?
12:55 What did he just do? Yeah, he just committed blasphemy, said, you know, for killing. Someone, we wouldn't stone you. They're saying it wasn't a bad thing to heal someone. But when you say that you could forgive someone's sins because that's an attribute that is only available to God. Mm hmm. So one of the definitions of blasphemy is when you put yourself in the place of God. Yeah. The other was when he said, you know, before Abraham was, I am basically saying that he was God. That was another thing that they said was blasphemy. So this power. In order to commit blasphemy must do two things. It must take an attribute or a power that alone is of God. And it must say that it is God itself. Now, the Roman Catholic Church, the papacy, which is the pope, has always said that he alone can forgive sins.
13:49 And he says that he wears a crown called a mitre. And on that crown, there is an inscription is vicarious. Vila Dei. It's Latin. And it's written. It's written in Roman numerals. But numerically, you can count Roman numerals with X being 10 and D, you know, being 500 and so on and so forth. One or I being one. You can count it adds up to 666. Yeah. And they didn't. This isn't arbitrary because when the John the Revelator was actually seeing this in the Bible, he was saying, count the number of his name. And so this isn't just like, hey, if you know, you add these things up and it comes to six. No, no, no. John told us to do this. Correct. Yeah. He said it's a number of a man's name. And people miss that when they always look at the mark of the beast. They forget that the number, it's not a tattoo or computer chip. Satan's way more intelligent that. But he tells you it's a number of a man's name. So he's given us the identifying mark to understand that this is the beast.
14:48 And this is his mark. It's his authority. And he alone, that crown literally means in place of the son of God. There is a teaching spreading. Hold back your tithe until the church reforms. It sounds faithful, but scripture never uses tithe as a weapon. And robbing God could cost you your salvation. Get the answers fast before you decide. Every question is answered there. Scripture first. Go to titheanswers.com. That's titheanswers.com. We've scraped the comments. We've scraped every single sermon that talks about this. And we've answered all the questions on that website. Find out at titheanswers.com. That's what philad means? Yes. In place of the son of God. So literally the papacy believes that they are Jesus Christ hidden under. It's vicar of Christ. Or literally translated, a vicar is one that can stand in place of somebody.
15:44 So if you were a king and you were to send a dignitary in front to go represent you, he would be like your viceroy, right? Your viceroy. That's what they called them. So that's what basically the papacy is. He's saying that I stand in the place of Christ on earth. It's blasphemy. It's blasphemy. Also, one of his titles is king of kings. So over and over again, we see this. It's very clear that the papacy is the first beast that's mentioned there. In the fact that he ruled for 42 months and trampled upon the saints, we know that 1260 years historically is known as the dark ages, where by some estimates, 100 million or more Christians were tortured. They were put in bullying all. They were burned alive. At the stake, they were put in the Colosseum for gains and such, all because they refused to renounce their loyalty to Christ. Many of them were Sabbath keepers as well.
16:42 They refused to convert to the first day of the sun. And so over and over again, we see papal Rome is that first beast, that sea beast. But then we have this third beast that's mentioned here in Revelation 16, 13, and 15, that this is a beast that comes up. Now, earth, if sea is densely populated, multitude, peoples, and tongues, it's what water represents in Bible prophecy, then earth would have to be someplace that's dry. It would have to be the opposite of that. In other words, it would have to be someplace that's very sparsely populated. And what's interesting is that this particular power that it speaks of said it would be a lamb-like power. Who is the lamb? John 1, 29, behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. So Christ is the lamb. So it means that this nation would have to be founded on some form of biblical principles.
17:36 But scripture tells me at some point it will refudiate that and start speaking as a dragon. And of course, how do nations speak? They speak through passing laws. So eventually this religious Christian-like power that rises up someplace that is unpopulated would have to eventually start passing laws that would go against the very foundation of the world. The word of God in his law. And this is very interesting. And then when you look at the fact that it would also rise up right after the mortal wound was implemented to the first beast. Now, when was that mortal wound? When did he receive the mortal wound? 1798. It was put in exile. What nation in the world was recognized by the world in 1798 as individual independent power? Yeah, America. There's only one, right? The United States of America. And people will say, well, hold on. The United States was founded in 1776 on the Bill of Rights.
18:34 And then you had 1781 where the Congressional Congress came in. But it was in 1798 when France, the same nation who implemented the mortal wound on the first beast, recognized the United States and its independence from Great Britain as a sovereign nation. And for a gift, they sent us the Statue of Liberty. I mean, so it's so clear when you look at Bible prophecy. And so what does that mean? Well, it means that at some point, the United States of America, who is founded on Christian principles, and people say, you know, I hear they're like, no, you know, you have this whole 1621 movement. America was founded on racism and a lot of other stuff. You need to remember that the British are the ones that that brought that into the United States. The original settlers of the United States were Puritans. They were pilgrims. They came over here on Plymouth Rock. What were they escaping from? They were trying to escape.
19:38 Yeah. Combination of religion and national power. Correct. Right. They had the king over there of Great Britain that they were trying to get away from. And they also they didn't like the fact they were being overtaxed. They didn't like the fact that they weren't able to worship by the dictates of their own conscience. And so they fled Europe and they came to a new world. They saw opportunity to where they could worship God and live the life that they wanted to by their dictates of their own conscience. And of course, that eventually would be found into the 13 colonies. And then you had, you know, the British come over here and then you had the northern states and the southern states and southern states were ruled by Portugal, France, Spain, all these different countries, even Mexico and Texas was part of Mexico. And as each one of them joined the United States, I think it's interesting because as each one ended up joining the U.S. or we had wars and we took some of these lands or the Louisiana purchase, we purchased from France, whatever it was, America started to lose a bit of its closeness to God.
20:43 So it started as Puritans. And of course, slavery was not allowed there or anything. But then after the southern states started to join, they wanted to bring their ideologies. They wanted to bring their slaves in with them. They want to bring this culture. They didn't want to join the union. And of course, America made them. Mistake by allowing them to join with keeping some of those practices. So America started to open itself up to things that were ungodly by wanting to expand its territory. And now, as we've grown, we're about to celebrate our 250th year here in the United States. We are starting to see a union of, remember, the second beast, according to Revelations 13, is to give power. And to cause the whole world to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed.
21:34 And so that means that if you look at the state affairs, America must become, in order to do that globally, America must become much more powerful economically, militarily, and religious wise, which is why you're starting to see, one, the expansion phase of America. If we're a copy of Rome, then we must also copy the Roman Empire. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. The Roman Empire went through three phases. It started out as a republic. It moved into an expansion phase of the empire, or the conquest phase. And eventually, it became a theocracy, where church and state completely united. And it was our version of religion, or you were going to pay with your life if you didn't convert. Yeah. So we're seeing it in America. And there's people on the far right. We see the rise of Christian nationalism. And a lot of people are concerned about that. But you've got to understand that Satan loves...
22:28 He loves to play this Helgelian dialect. He's been doing it for a very long time. What is that? What is a Helgelian dialect? Well, it's a method that he uses to polarize two sides. So it doesn't matter if it's Republican, Democrat, black, white, rich, poor, red, blue. He causes an argument, an issue, some type of problem to where both sides want to attack each other on these issues. There's a solution. There's a compromise. There's a compromise that both sides eventually agree upon. It's called thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. And the synthesis in the middle is where Satan wants to go. But he can't just go out there and do it. So what he does is he creates this friction so that both sides eventually compromise. The compromise in the middle was what he wanted to begin with.
23:18 But he gets both sides to agree upon it. So right now, because of the far left of the last 10, 15 years has been pushing a big agenda for liberalism. And there's been a, God was starting to be removed and prayer was taken out of school a couple of decades ago. Our nation has seen a decline in morality. It's seen a decline in its education system. We went from being, you know, number one in the top five. Now we're at the bottom of the list when it comes to our educational system. But yet we spend more money per student than any other country on earth. But we have one of the worst education systems. You know, we dump more money into our cities. But yet a lot of them. And certain areas look like, it's horrible to say, but they look like garbage dumps. They're just destroyed and terrible. And so these, a lot of these liberal programs have been fueling this.
24:10 Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin with a lot of people getting rich other than the people. I mean, I always tell people you can't spend $40 trillion, but you can definitely steal it in a sense. And so the right, which leans more towards republicanism, you know, you got to remember America. America was founded as a constitutional republic with democratic qualities and a true democracy. The minority has no representation. So if you're in a, if you're in a democracy, the majority rules, if it's 51%, say the sky's red and you want to argue and stay the size blue. And they say, you're not allowed to say the sky's blue. You got to say it's red and they can implement punishment against you if you don't. And that's why we're starting to see this big push that we got to save our democracy, restore democracy, but we're not a democracy. We're a constitutional republic with democratic values.
25:01 So in a constitutional republic, both the minority and the majority have a voice. That's why you have a minority whip or minority representative in our chambers of Congress. I've also heard that there will be a far right as well that pushes people out. And even at the very end, we see that the religious are the ones that go out and try to push this idea that they should destroy those who... Do not follow how they want. So it seems like a big pendulum. It is. It's a pendulum. And I've been saying this for some years. You know, when President Trump announced he was going to run for election, I was one of the few people out there saying he was going to win by a landslide and he was going to win the second time. It was because I was a Trump supporter, though I agree with a lot of the Republican policies as far as Christianity. There's a lot of things I don't.
25:52 And it's like, you know, you support those things that are godly while rejecting those things are not. That's as Christians, what we're supposed to do without taking. Any political sides. And of course, I saw the pendulum swinging because the pendulum went so far left that I could see that Christians started to unite with Catholics, evangelicals to form this movement to save Western civilization and their ideas. We now need to start passing religious laws and they're doing it and they're looking to do it because of the agenda. The far left is now starting to bring the pendulum back. Right now, we're kind of in the middle, but we're starting to go. Towards the right. But as Christians, it's a great opportunity to share the gospel right now. Why it's in the middle. Do you remember this is when I first saw it, I first saw that head had gone and it was starting to come back about the time that Disney started to interfere with politics in Florida. Do you remember this? Yeah, I do. It was amazing because notes were coming out out of Disney's that they had sent out to their employees saying that we're going to try to interfere, that we don't want to touch it.
26:56 But where are our movies are having a. Bigger effect on the politics of Florida and the nation. And and and that came out and it was absurd. They lost about 50 percent of their tourism inside their their parks because of that. And I and that's when everything shifted. From what I understand. I mean, not it wasn't just Disney. This was a lot of things that was happening. Sure. But it blew my mind at the time. Well, you look at Hollywood, a lot of big stars that are Christian stars couldn't get hired in Hollywood. So they have come to Texas now. Texas, my home state, has become a very big platform for a lot of Christian movie companies that have come there and started the film. You know, you look at the The Chosen series. Oh, yeah. That's in Texas. And a lot of the people, a lot of the producers and and that are there come out of Texas and the show, a lot of actors that are from Texas. There's filming now in Galveston, San Antonio, Corpus, other other states as well.
27:53 Florida is a big one, but they've started because Hollywood wouldn't allow them. To film and to do a lot of things that they want to do on Christian value. So you started to see this big shift now back to the right. And then I started seeing. Legislature start talking about, let's put the Ten Commandments back into schools. Let's put them into everywhere we can, which sounds like a good thing. But it's like, OK, you know, if it's voluntary, that's one thing. But if you're going to start forcing the Ten Commandments, anytime government gets involved in forcing stuff, it's never good. Right. Who's version of the Ten Commandments going to be? Because, you know, the papacy has their own version of the Ten Commandments, too. And if you're watching this, you don't believe me. You can Google it. And and look, they've omitted the Second Commandment, which is thou shall not worship idols. They've taken the third, fourth commandment and turn it into the third commandment and just remove.
28:46 Remember the Sabbath and what day it is and just said, you know, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. And then they've taken the 10th commandment to make it in and split it in the two. And so who's going to be in the Ten Commandments? Who's version of it? And then you start looking at, OK, it sounds a little bit like the Dark Ages to where it was their version of Christianity. And if you didn't agree with that, you were punished all the way up to death. Well, the same thing is going to start happening in the United States as we see a big push to save America and westernize civilization. And, you know, a lot of the groundwork that the current president is laying right now with his executive orders, you know, people have always talked about, oh, Trump's going to bring in the National Sunday. All the mark of the beast, you know, personal opinion. I don't think so, because his daughter is a Sabbath keeper. His son-in-law is a Sabbath keeper. He's one of the biggest friends of Israel, which is Sabbath keepers. You know, he just did the proclamation, but the recognized what he called the Jewish Sabbath, what we know when the Jewish Sabbath, it's given that creation for all mankind.
29:47 However, the things that he is doing as president, he is laying out a groundwork, what we call precedence and law, which a future president can now come in. And say, because it was done before, we can do it again, but this time we want to bring in a proclamation for the first day of the week. And what may start as a proclamation will eventually become a law. Yeah. Because things will continue to get worse and they've got to blame somebody. And eventually, you know, more and more power will be given and to where we start pushing things towards the sun. Now, the Bible makes it very clear that the whole world wanders after the beast. So it doesn't mean that this is just a Republican issue, although the Republicans are the ones that are going to start pushing these religious laws and laying the groundwork. The left somehow has to agree to it.
30:39 And how does the left agree? Through climate change and some of the issues of giving the world a break, giving the world of rest on a particular day, which they say Sunday would be a family day. Eventually, that's going to happen. And so Satan's working through these three powers. Now, we identify these powers, the dragon, the beast of the sea. And the beast of the earth. So Satan's working through this, these three unclean spirits like frogs. But here's something that's amazing. Do you realize that these three are actually a counterfeit of the Trinity? They're a counterfeit of the Godhead. No, I didn't see that. Yeah. Now, check this out. OK, the dragon's Satan, right? He works through spiritualism. He is the source authority that's driving this, right? I mean, he is basically the one behind all this. All this deception.
31:29 He's driving the final deception. Satan wants to be God. He wants to be worshipped as God. That's an attribute of God alone. And he also says he gives his power and his seat and his great authority to the first beast. Well, God gives all his power, all his authority to Christ in Matthew 28, 18. Do you see the counterfeit here? And then you have the sea beast or that first beast, papal Rome, a government ruled by the church. It says it can forgive sins, right? That it is Jesus under a veil of flesh. It is the vicar of Christ, king of kings. This is an imitation of the Messiah, an imitation of Christ, even with a false resurrection, because the first beast receives a mortal wound and is healed. You know, you got to think about it. When Mussolini and Gestapo signed a treaty, I think it was 1929, and gave the papacy its power.