<TITLE>12. Par 98-105</TITLE>L-98 Now, we want to notice here again now in the 2nd verse, that which would be the 13th...
I know Thy works, and--and where thou dwellest, even... Satan's seat... and thou holdest fast my name, and has not denied my faith,...
See, they're living where Satan is seated, and still they're keeping the Name of Jesus. See? "And not denied My faith..." What kind of faith did He give them? Pentecostal faith, at the beginning. They had a Nicolaitane faith there, a church organization and so forth they was building up, a church coming into existence under organization; but He said, "You got away from that; you hated it, and so do I. And you've not denied My Name; you've not went after their little old cults and things; you have stayed right straight on My Name. And you still got My faith like it was at the beginning." Oh, I like that.
... not denied my faith, even as those in the days wherein... (I guess you pronounce that A-n-t-i-p-s)... Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

L-100 I'm going to stop there just a minute. "Satan's seat." We want to kind of exercise on these things; I want you to catch it. Be sure you do now. "Satan's seat..." Now, God pronounced in Genesis where Satan's seat was, and that was in Babylon. It's always been Satan's seat, and in Revelations it was the same thing. But if you notice, Babylon changed itself from pagan to papal.
And now in the early years, or just before this taken place (a few years), Satan's seat built the great... I guess you would call him a pre-king-priest of the Chaldeans. The hierarchy of Babylon changed his seat when the Persians was pursuing him, and he left Babylon. His name was A-t-t-a-l-u-s, Attalus, the great king-priest of Babylon. When the Persians came in and taking over Babylon, running out the Chaldeans, Attalus, their king-priest, fled and took his seat at Pergamos. "The Satan's seat is where you are dwelling." Get it?

L-102 Now, that's why I go back to pick up this history out of the church history, finding where--to what taken place when He said, "You are dwelling where Satan's seat is."
I thought, "Well, where could that be, a certain thing, Satan's seat?" Then I find out that this great king, after he was fleeing from the conquering Persians that taken over (according to Daniel's vision), he came to this city of Pergamos, at Rome, and there made his headquarters. Satan shifted his headquarters from Babylon to Pergamos, where (future) he would start the new Babylon. Oh, my. Now, you get the backgrounds where we're at. All right.
Now, and there he martyred this wonderful brother, was martyred there, Antipas.

L-105 Then changing his technique... First he was a persecutor of the Christians. Oh, how he hated Christianity. And he was a priest-king himself, heathen by nature, and 'course then he changed his attitude and consolidated with Constantine.
Constantine was always considered (and is by the papal today) the origination of the Knight's of Columbus, now, the one that gave that bloody oath. But Constantine (I say this with reverence and respects.), to my way of reading it out of history, never was converted.


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