2-19-06 - “THE MARK OF THE BEAST” Part 3 – 7L-AM
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

My brothers and sisters in Jesus, we are continuing to study the most serious warning that God has given in the entire Bible. That is the warning against receiving the mark of the beast. All that will receive the mark of the beast will be lost. This matter is so serious, so don’t miss a single broadcast. 

Before we start today, shall we seek God’s guidance? “Heavenly Father, as your people, we know that in these last days deception will be in the church. Our only safety is in Your revealed word. We ask for You to give us Your Holy Spirit to guide us in to all wisdom, knowledge and understanding, in Jesus name, AMEN.”

I am going to repeat my pledge to cry aloud and spare not, to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to show God’s people where they are transgressing God’s law.

Continuing where we left off last week, I can only say, wake up friends. Time is running out. Shortly after the National Sunday law comes in, that we spoke of last week, the United States of America is going into financial ruin. Already George Bush is spending this country into a hole it can’t climb out of. This year, 2005 may prove to be the last year we have to get our spiritual house in order. We live in the days of Noah, just before the flood. If I were to pinpoint where we are relative to those days, it would be where the animals are boarding the ark.

Listen, most of you listening today are going to reject what I’m saying. You’re going to continue to keep Sunday as your day of worship. You’re going to say, my parents kept it, my grandparents kept it, and I will die keeping it. Your parents and grandparents lived up to the light they had and the Bible says in times of ignorance God winked. But God’s not winking at this generation. Once you know the truth, you are responsible for it. And God’s word gives us the truth. Saturday is God’s seventh day Sabbath. It’s not a Jewish Sabbath, even thought the Jews have been keeping it since Moses time. The Sabbath was made for all mankind on the seventh day of creation, 2500 years before there was a Jew.

Friends and especially you pastors out there, we’re running out of time. God is giving this call to come out of confusion. I was raised a Methodist and believe me if the Methodist church was teaching the truth today, I would still be a Methodist. I don’t care if you are a Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian or Pentecostal, if you are disobeying one of God’s Ten Commandments, according to James, you are breaking all ten.

God never blessed Sunday, and there is nothing holy about it. God commanded us to work on Sunday in Exodus 20:9 and Ezekiel 46:1. You may say I choose to keep Sunday holy, but friends, you can’t keep a day holy, that’s not holy to begin with. God did not give us the option to pick a day. He made only one day holy of the seven, and it was not the first day Sunday. Jesus rose on Sunday because He was in the tomb on the Sabbath, resting from His work of Redemption, just as He rested that first Sabbath from His work of creation.

Noah preached the final warning message to the world for 120 years while the ark was being built. We have been living in the time of the end since 1844. For 160 years this message of warning found in the three angels messages of Revelation 14:6-11, that I preach today has been going out to the whole world. The year 2005 is a pivotal year where all of the warnings will soon end. Probation for mankind will soon be over and all cases will be decided for eternity.

I don’t want anyone to be lost, because God doesn’t want you to be lost. When God gave His Son it was to save us from sin. But He can’t save us in sin. There are a lot of false doctrines today, throughout the Christian world that are accepted as Bible truth. But friends they are nothing more than Satan’s lies disguised as truth. 

Here are the facts: God cannot lie. He is the Father of truth. Satan thrives on error, and he is the Father of lies. Look at the first big lie he told on planet earth. I am starting in Genesis 3:3. Eve told the serpent, “But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.” That was the test of obedience given to Adam and Eve. That was the truth from God. Eat it and die. Now here comes the lie in verse 4, “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:”
  
Who told the truth? Did Adam and Eve die? They failed the test of loyalty and God had to remove them from the garden, which gave them access to the tree of life. They were sinners in need of a Savior.

Now we are going to look at Satan’s lie that has almost the whole Christian world caught up and believing as if it were Bible truth. We must now look at Genesis 2 verses 1-3. God had just completed the six literal 24-hour days of creation. It reads, “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”  

Listen now, this is when God finished creating in six days, then rested from His work. Why? Did God need rest? No. He was making something very special for His people and it would be a 24hour weekly appointment with Him and His people. Resting from labor is the key element. Then notice the next thing He did, He blessed the seventh day. In the entire Bible there is no other day of the week that He blessed. Think about this, can man change the day and make another day blessed? No sinful man cannot make a day blessed. 1 Chronicle 17:27 says, “for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.” And so friends when God blessed the seventh day which today is Saturday, it is still the only blessed day of the week, and it will be forever. 

	Now look at the third thing He did in verse 3, He sanctified it. That means He set it apart for holy use. Man cannot make a day holy, only God can. Now we will fast forward to Mt. Sinai. Moses went up on the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments. 7 of the 10 commandments begin with the instruction, “thou shalt not.” The first commandment says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” The fifth commandment begins, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” But look at the 4th commandment. It starts with the word remember. What does remember mean? It means don’t forget! Why would God say remember the Sabbath day? Because they would forget it back then, and they have forgotten it today, and it’s been forgotten for the last 16 centuries. 

	The Bible says in Exodus 20:8-10, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:”

He said the seventh day, not a seventh day. Which seventh day did He mean? The seventh day of creation which today is Saturday.

Now some of you may be thinking it doesn’t really matter what day you keep holy, as long as you keep one day holy? Watch out, because that is not God’s truth. God told us to remember the seventh day He blessed and made holy. Where in the Bible does it say it doesn’t really matter what day you keep holy? Friends that’s Satan’s clever lie and millions believe it.

You need to listen, because very soon, following a great disaster that is going to hit the United States this year, in 2005, coupled with the natural and man made disasters, religious leaders are going to call for a National Sunday law to appease God’s wrath on this immoral, God forgetting nation. It will pass and George Bush will sign it. I don’t know when either event will happen, but heaven has given this warning 5 years ago, and when it does happen, there will be a very short time to prepare before probation ends for this planet earth, then God’s mercy and grace is removed, and His wrath is poured out in the seven last plagues. 

I have stated that Sunday keeping is the mark of the beast. I have also stated that the Roman Catholic Church government, the Papacy is the antichrist little horn power of Daniel 7, and the antichrist first beast of Revelation 13. I am going to prove this with the Bible beyond any shadow of doubt. Now listen carefully, I am not talking about the Roman Catholic Church people. I believe that there are millions of faithful people that are going to soon come out of that Babylonian confusion and God will save them. The Papacy is the Great Whore of Revelation 17:1 and the Sunday keeping Protestant churches are the daughter harlots in Revelation 17:5. What is a whore? A whore is one who has proven to be unfaithful. How has the Papacy proven itself unfaithful? Because it usurped authority that did not belong to it, and it changed God’s law. It took the fourth commandment where God said remember the seventh-day Sabbath, and in its place it put the pagan first day that was the day to worship the sun god. 

The Sunday keeping Protestant churches are called the daughter harlots by God, because they continued this unfaithfulness to God, and continue to keep the counterfeit Sabbath which indirectly gives worship to Satan, who gave the Papacy its power, seat and authority. I will prove this as well, as right now I need to lay the foundation. You will see it all in the scriptures as we study today and the weeks ahead.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, I care about you and your soul salvation. You may not be aware of it, but the most fearful warning in all the Bible is found in Revelation 14:9,10. This is present truth and it is directed at us who live in the final generation. It says, “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man (now that is generic, any man is any man, woman or child) If any man worship the beast and his image, (we worship the beast when we keep its traditions and forget God’s commands) If any man worship the beast and his image, (his image is apostate Protestant America that is going to pass the National Sunday law) If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, (This is not a literal mark on the forehead, God says it is in our forehead and that is your frontal lobes of your brain, that is where the seat of your understanding and belief system is established. The mark is Sunday Worship, and if you continue to cling to that belief, after the National Sunday law comes in, you will have the mark of the beast) continuing the warning, If any man worship the beast 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, (That’s the seven last plagues) which is poured out without mixture (That means without mercy) into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:” 

Friends, please understand why I am so passionate about this. Satan has almost the whole world deceived on this issue. And the world continues to do its business on God’s Sabbath, just like they did in Noah’s day, and the flood destroyed them.

Time is up for this week, so be listening to Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts next Sunday for “THE MARK OF THE BEAST” Part 4. Tell your friends to listen in.

God bless you friends and study your Bibles daily,

Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Even so, Come Lord Jesus.