Studies in Revelation

I stole this from Scattered Sheep…lol.  Thanks Guys!

http://scatteredsheep.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/studies-in-revelation/

You’ll Be Shocked To Discover Who Gave Birth To The Antichrist W. J. Mencarow – Refomation Church

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=12409199281

Roman Catholics are correct when they say their faith was founded by Peter in Rome. But it wasn’t the Apostle Peter.

“Men will readily rally around any one who can give the least appearance of plausibility to any doctrine that will teach them that they can be assured of happiness…though their hearts and natures are unchanged, and though they live without God in the world…” – Alexander Hislop, “The Two Babylons”

What you think the book of Revelation teaches determines how you live your life – are we to conquer the world for Christ or tread water until He rescues us on the last day? – and what you think the headlines mean. Do events in the Middle East prove we are on the brink of the end times? Is Antichrist about to be revealed? Is Armageddon around the corner?

This generation of Christians has been taught Futurism; that most of Revelation describes end-time events.

Futurism is a late 16th century Roman Catholic invention that was crafted to defend the Papacy against the claims of the Protestant Reformation. Sadly, most fundamentalists and evangelicals are unknowingly parroting Roman Catholic propaganda.

The historic Protestant view is that Revelation is a panorama of world history from the first century to the end of time. It reveals the rise and fall of nations, of Romanism, Islam, the Protestant Reformation, a future New World Order of one civil government and religion imposed upon the world. But it also reveals the final triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Christianization of all nations BEFORE the end of history.

Please listen to all the sermons in this series to understand the historic Protestant view of the book of Revelation.

  666 – The Beast of Revelation, Antichrist; The Historic Protestant Interpretation

W. J. Mencarow – Refomation Church

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=715081640154

The church settled the meaning of the book of Revelation centuries ago. Sadly, this has been lost to the modern church.

This sermon series is an appeal to the church to recover that meaning.

Rev. 13:18 says understanding (or wisdom) is required to “count” the meaning of the number of the beast, 666. This is clearly not the human wisdom of this world, which God calls foolishness. I Cor. 3:19: “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” This is the problem with many of the claims you’ve heard about the meaning of 666 and the identity of Antichrist. What the Lord requires is not human wisdom, falsely called, but the wisdom that comes from reading and meditating upon the revelation of God through His written Word, the Bible, and living your life in obedience to it.

This sermon presents the interpretation of 666 that was held by the majority of Protestant theologians from the Reformation until the 1800s when mysticism on the one hand and liberalism on the other began to invade the church. This historic interpretation of the number of the beast has also been held by some proto-reformers (before the Protestant Reformation) and even by some of the church fathers going back to the second century — and possibly even before!