<TITLE>24. Par 233-242</TITLE>L-233 Now, you see what the mark of the beast is? It's the mark of apostasy. It's a person who is a--just thinks that, "Well, I belong to church, and I'm just as good as the next fellow. Am not I belonging to this church?" And you realize where your church organization that you're depending on, where it come from? Do your realize?
The Bible said, "He that worships the beast, receives his mark, or the letter of his name (Now, watch.) in forehead or hand." That's knowledge or deed. That don't mean you got a big tattoo on your face. It don't have to be that. It's not talking of the outward. It's talking of spiritual.
You watch him and see what he knows about the Scripture. Listen to him and see where he goes to. "If any man don't have this doctrine, there's no Light in him," the Bible said. See? See? Watch where it goes to. Watch what he does.
You say, "Well, I--I belong. I'm Protestant. Yes, sir. I--I belong to this certain church. Yes, sir." And on Sunday you just have about enough respect for it to come in out of the rain. He goes down, instead of going to prayer meeting, you'll close up the church and set and watch television. He goes out here and he drinks and carries on and acts like the rest of the world, yet he belongs to the church. Remember, that's the mark of sin.

L-237 Now, let's read on a little farther, quickly, and then I'll close. We have passed time. Let's see now the 6th verse.
 And I saw the woman... (now the church) drunk with the blood of the saints...
"Drunk with the blood of the saints." You know, the Bible said, when she was destroyed, that every martyr that died on the earth, the guilt was found in the Catholic church. It's exactly, at the beginning.
 ... and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and... (John speaking now)... and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
John said. Now, let's looky here. John said, "I looked at her; she was so pretty, of a lovely big church. She had a whole bunch of churches been born out of her, 'mother of harlots.' And I looked back yonder, and how could that woman... She was giving out that false doctrine, causing all the kings and great men to be made drunk with it. And here her daughters is doing the same thing. But I looked at her; she was so pretty."
One place in the Scripture said, "I set as a queen and have need for nothing." See?
And now, and John, said, "I admired her. I looked at her, and looked with great admiration. I admired her."
 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee--I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and the beast that carries her, which has seven heads and ten horns.

L-242 Now, let's see if we are right. If we got Catholicism right, then you know Protestantism is following it. So you got... You, you got intelligence enough to know that. See? Watch.
 The beast which thou sawest was,... is not, and is...
"The beast." Now, watch. Now, you'll notice over here, it said how many kings there was, how it was fallen, one must come.
 ... and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit...
Not on the Bible... Out of a bunch of superstitions it was made up. There's no background for it. Where do you get purgatory at? Where do you get this non-meat eating, the priest not marrying, and all these other things they do, confessions? Where do you get that at? There's no place nowhere to find it. It come out of hell. The Bible said so. It come out, the beast, the power, the doctrine it had, come out of the bottomless pit.
 ... and goeth into perdition...
Where's perdition? Hell. Goes right on back to the place where it come from.
 ... and they that dwell upon the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book... from the foundation of the world, when they beheld the beast which was,... is not, and yet is.


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