Part 10 - The Magician & The Messiah 2/14/26

(87) Part 10 - The Magician & The Messiah 2/14/26 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKTY2uz4KuQ Transcript: (00:00) Good evening everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Bible study this evening. It's This is the best you're going to get. I'm in my pajamas. You're going to have to deal with it because I'm tired. [laughter] Hallelujah. I came home, left church about 4:00 and [clears throat] crashed. And I'm not going to change. (00:27) It is what it is. So, praise the Lord. But we're here. Hallelujah. We're here. And we're so glad to see all of you here tonight. We actually have a wonderful crowd for a sun for Sabbath night or Saturday night. Sabbath's over with, but Saturday night. And um we're going to get right into it this evening. Praise the Lord. (00:52) Give me one second. I'm still putting a little of my research together. Hallelujah. All right. Okay. So, basically where we're going to pick up tonight is where we left off last week. Um, but there was a lot of things that um I wanted to clarify because um and by the way last night I was supposed to get to why we don't uh use the bitter herbs at Passover and I did not get to that but I'll try to touch on that next next Sabbath before the the lesson. This won't take but just a few (01:55) minutes. But uh anyway, I want to go back tonight to a group of people that that are our forefathers and uh but I didn't really teach on it like I wanted to. I I sort of skipped over this group of people and there's been a lot of confusion. Last week when I talked about the Waldensians, uh there was some people that um went to researching the Waldensians and they got confused because uh the Waldensians seem to have been trinitarian and um so it caused a lot of confusion. (02:41) There were people posting in the telegram group and I believe even while I was teaching that they were trinitarian which of course goes against everything that I was teaching. So I want to clear that up tonight and bring you the truth. The Waldenians were not trinitarian and we're going to prove that this evening. And um to do that we're going to let's see pull up some graphics here to get started. (03:10) But there was a great cover up that most people don't know about uh with the Waldensian. So I'm going to give you some good education tonight that you need to be aware of when you're discussing the Waldensians because um uh it can be a little confusing. So we're going to start with a historian and his writing on this particular subject. (03:37) [clears throat] Let's see. share screen. All right. Emilio Coma was a historian. Uh he was a Italian and he wrote about the Waldensians that lived in Italy. And he said, 'The cloud that covered the change, notice that word, the change of the ancient Waldensian church into the Protestant before the Reformation reveals a church that is hardly recognizable with the original. (04:18) Now, someone tell me what what that just said to you. See if anybody's awake tonight. Sounds like it's uh it's not familiar with what we think Christianity is. So it's unusual to us because it doesn't look like what it looks like now. >> Okay. So basically this historian is saying that there is two groups of Waldensians. (04:53) the original ones and the ones that history now tells us about. He said there was a cloud. If you'll see the two pictures in this image, the two churches, the one on the left would be the original Waldenians that descend from John the Apostle all the way through that Zetakite line. But he said the the present day Waldensians look nothing like the original. (05:20) And that's where people get confused when they're studying about the Waldensians. And it does seem that they are trinitarian. There is two groups of Waldenians. The original that was nothing like the modern Waldensians today. Uh it would almost be like uh a hundred years from now. Uh, if someone looked up Pentecostal [clears throat] and and they compared the Isuza Street Pentecostals with the modern Pentecostals, there it's a world apart. (06:01) It's not even the same people. It's not the same movement. It's it doesn't even look like that. It, you know, [clears throat] it it would turn into a uh a modern, totally separate. And so you have to be careful to understand the original Waldenians were not the modern Waldenians. And we're going to go through that story tonight of how it happened. (06:25) But the the first thing we got to talk about is why it happened. Okay. The Protestant church, which is the antithesis of the Catholic Church, the Protestant church needed Waldensian history because the Protestant church, and I'm fixing to show you the great cover up. I'm going to show you the evidence of it. It's mind-blowing. (06:53) The Protestant Church did not want to admit that their movement came from the Catholic Church. So what did they do? They hooked up with the Waldenians and convinced the Waldensians to join the Reformation. And in doing that, they then hitched their trailer to the Waldenian horse. And now they could say that their ancestry is not Catholic. (07:32) The Protestant historians needed Waldensian history to justify their existence, saying they're not Catholic. The Protestants were trying to prove they did not come from the Catholic Church. So they needed apostolic succession that would bypass Rome. So they did something criminal. They did something unconscionable. (08:03) In 1658, Sir Samuel Morland, M O R L A N D, >> was sent by Oliver Cromwell. I know you know who Oliver Cromwell is, hopefully. >> Okay. Oliver Cromwell sent Sir Samuel Morland to collect ancient Waldensian manuscripts and to deposit those manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library. So, Sir Samuel Morland went and found 21 volumes of Waldensian literature that come from the Waldenians. (08:54) What did he do with those 21 volumes? He brought them to Cambridge and placed them there. Now something happened when those documents got to the Cambridge Library. Now these documents, there were 21 of them, but somehow mysteriously the first seven of those 21 documents [snorts] are now missing. According to the Presbyterian Board of Publication, there's seven documents that were missing from the Cambridge collection of the 21. (09:45) These manuscripts somehow disappeared. And guess what? For 200 years, those seven manuscripts were lost until 1862 when a man by the name of Mr. Bradshaw found those seven missing documents. [snorts] And when he found those seven missing documents, there was a crime exposed. And I'll show you the crime in those missing documents in the oldest manuscript. (10:32) Now, these documents were called the noble lessons. Lenobia leion. They were called the noble lessons. This was the ancient writings of Waldensians. 21 of them. Seven were missing until they were found. And when they found them, the date had been altered. Look under the two magnifying glasses. An inspection of the manuscript in the Cambridge University Library has proved the true reading should be 1400 years. (11:13) Someone changed the date from 1400 to 1100 to make this document appear older. It was a crime. The figure four, the number four had been erased before the word sent. Someone changed the date to support the Protestant Reformation narrative. Now, why would they need to do this? Because the original Waldensian documents, remember if the Protestants are needing to claim apostolic succession through the Waldenians, they are in a mess if those first seven documents are ever found. (12:08) Because the first seven documents, the doctrines can contained within them are completely contrary to Protestant doctrine. Amen. And I know it's it's a little history lesson here. So they found 21 documents. Se the first seven go way back to original Waldenianism. And the doctrines in those seven are not Protestant doctrine. (12:42) They're not Baptist, Presbyterian. They're they're they're totally different than what the Protestants were needing to do. The Protestants were needing to claim they came from that older line. But the problem is that older line was going to run into the first seven documents that would totally upend the story. (13:04) So they changed the date completely. It was a crime. As a matter of fact, someone was prosecuted for the crime. And uh those first seven documents revealed contradictory doctrine to the Protestant church. Now, it gets even worse. Let me show you the next one. It's called the Baptist coverup. You never know what you're going to learn in my class. (13:35) [laughter] Hallelujah. Praise Yahweh. Let's look at the Baptist cover up. It gets even worse. Okay. [clears throat] The Presbyterian scholar Samuel Miller documented outright forgery. In chapter five of his history, Mr. Joan directly tampers with and falsifies. In other cases, he was only chargeable with withholding from his readers testimony of the most direct kind which lay plainly before him. (14:13) But in the case before us, he is guilty of direct forgery. The Baptist church forged these documents. William Jones was a Baptist historian. Okay? [clears throat] He deliberately removed all evidence of Waldensian belief that contradicted Baptist theology. And he even falsified passages from earlier historians. (14:53) He falsified them literally to justify the Baptist church. We'll show you the next one. Both Protestants and Baptists tampered with the Waldenian record to claim them as their own and that is a travesty. The ancient records of the Waldensians do contain abundant and conclusive evidence. The other fact is that Mr. Jones has withheld all the evidences of this fact from his readers. (15:42) So this was a great cover up of the Walden. And that's why now if you go to Google and you start studying the Walden, they're going to look just like the Baptist to you. Okay? Because the Baptist and the Protestants literally are trying to connect themselves to the Waldenians to come away from Rome to say that they do not derive from Rome. (16:09) So it was a great cover up. Now let's talk about uh the truth. I'm going to give you the truth tonight of who the Waldensians were originally. Now, I've already told you about a man by the name of Peter Waldo. I'm not going to go back all over all of that today, but uh Peter Waldo was one of the original leaders that joined the Waldenians. (16:36) But Peter Waldo did not found the Waldensians. As a matter of fact, let's look at history and let's look closer at these Waldensians because they are the direct descendants of the Pasadinis and uh the Olites and all of those down through history. Here is what they tell us. But Waldensians objected to being called after Peter Waldo because Peter Waldo did not found the Waldenians. (17:20) They teach that we are a little Christian flock falsely called Waldenians. We are not numerous, they said. Now listen to your ancestry. We are not numerous. We live concealed and for very good reasons. And I'll explain what those good reasons are in a moment. But whatever may be said, we are the church of God or the apostolic assembly. (18:00) And those who are not with us will go into judgment. We are but a handful of people, but it may be on our account that the whole world has not perished. Amen. They said they were a little flock. They said, "We're not numerous, but if it were not for us, the whole world would be perished." They knew who they were. (18:31) [laughter] They they knew who they were. And they said, "We are not Waldenians. We existed before that name was ever given to us by Peter Waldo. We are the church of God or the assembly of the apostles. And we don't we're not walled in sins. You can call us that. You can call us whatever you want to, but we existed before Peter Waldo. (19:04) We existed from the apostles and so they took great offense at being called Waldensians or Waldonites because they knew that they were more. It would be like uh in our day uh you know when people call you [clears throat] maybe Von followers, you're like, "No, no, no, no, no. We're not. But call us that. (19:29) Call us whatever you want to, but we're the assembly of the apostles. It just it just so happens Peter Waldo showed up in our life." You understand? Amen. All right. Okay. Praise God. Amen. But every here's what happens with this apostolic assembly. Every time God raises a leader to lead that assembly, suddenly the followers of that man are are Waldenites or Walden. (19:58) Do you see Wald Wald Walden? That comes from Waldo. Peter Waldo. That was their apostle. And so, oh, they're just a bunch of Walden. Or they're just a bunch of uh like when I followed Brother Brham, I was called a Branomite. Uh, no. Call me whatever you want to. And God may have maybe Peter Waldo's the leader right now. (20:21) Maybe John Vaughn's the leader right now. Maybe whoever. But that's not our name. Okay? That's not who we are. And we know it. We are a little flock that's always existed. And if it were not for us, the world would be on fire. >> Amen. Apostle. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> They We know who we are. But look at how this thing works. (20:46) Just go back, go back all the way uh uh to to Ala and all of those leaders, the followers. It was a way to mock them, to attach them to their leader. It was a mockery. It the Waldenians was a mockery. It was a mockery. And the Waldenians were offended. They said, "No, we're not Vonites. No, we're not Waldensians. No, we are the Assembly of the Apostles. (21:14) We But you know what? If you want to mock us, go ahead. But we're bigger than a man. We're bigger than we're than a moment. We are a movement that descends from the apostles. Amen. Amen. So that somebody say, "The more things change, come on. The more they stay the same." >> And I love what they said about themselves. (21:40) We're not numerous and we live concealed. What does that mean? We live private. We live uh now now if you say today we live concealed. There's another word for concealed and it's called a cult. [laughter] We're very private. We're very enclosed. And they said it's for a good reason that we are. And uh and you're going to find out what that good reason is because tonight I'm going to show you the persecution they suffered. (22:15) And what their enemies didn't realize is the more they persecuted the little flock, the more concealed and [clears throat] congealed that little flock became. Is anybody with me tonight? Amen. the closer the tighter the the enemies forced that jelling of these wall dens. Praise God. Hallelujah. They said we're a little flock and uh they were uh part of an unbroken chain and uh they knew that. (22:54) Now, I want to talk more about their writings, those 21 fragments, they're known as the noble lessons. And what I found so interesting is that in these noble lessons, in those first seven, when I read them, I'm blown away. I'm I'm so blown away. By the way, is that number seven interesting? Amen. I'm I'm so blown away by what I found in the seven missing documents. (23:30) Now the one of the things we find is that it was written in a language called Ocatan. Occin that document is a line. I want to see if I captured that line. Yeah, I think I did. Let's look at this and see what is written in those first seven documents. I'll share it with you and then I'll explain what it's saying. (24:02) The noble lessons they dated. Look what they dated. The great falling away, the apostasy exactly where FHMI dates it. The noble lessons is the founding documents of the Waldenians and it says there are already,00 years that have been fully accomplished since it was written thus for we are in the last time. (24:37) Now what are they referring to,00 years earlier? Constantine and Pope Sylvester, they believe that the church fell away. Exactly what I've taught you for 10 years. They believe the church is not going to fall away, but that it fell away under Constantine. They believe like we do that that is when the Antichrist rose. I was blown away when I looked at these seven documents. (25:09) I said, "My God, I feel like I'm preaching to myself with what I'm reading." Because they documented when the Antichrist came on the scene and when the documents or when the church fell. By the way, if you're not drinking out of this beautiful cup of apostolic assembly, oh man, what a comforting cup it is. What a what a wonderful cup. (25:33) Sister Betts has hers up. Amen. This is my new favorite cup. I just love holding it knowing I'm drinking out of the same cup as all my brothers and sisters. Hallelujah. We'll have [laughter] jello. They'll be available at the Passover. Hallelujah. Praise God. [laughter] [clears throat] Amen. Praise the Lord. The Waldenians believe like we do that the church fell away under Constantine. (26:07) And uh the Waldenians dated their separation from Rome to the time of Constantine, not Peter Waldo. This means they saw themselves as preserving what existed before Constantine's corruption. And that's the exact doctrine that we preached. I mean, that just blew my mind when I'm reading that and I'm like, my God, they believe what we believe. (26:38) They taught and preached 600 years ago. See, I need everybody to understand. I have revealed nothing. I've only uncovered it. Truth. Truth has been flowing from the days of the apostles. And and we are just blessed tonight to know that we're preaching the same thing that the Waldensians preached concerning the great falling away. (27:12) Now, here's something that uh uh the Protestant church covered up, concealed. The noble lessons was written in the language of the Piedmont Valley, not in the French dialect of Lion where Peter Waldo lived. So the Waldenians and their noble letters predates they it predates Peter Waldo and yet we're calling them Waldensians but the truth is they are the apostolic assembly. Amen. They are the Nazarines. (28:04) They are the Ebianites. You can call them everything, but they said they were the church of God, the assembly. They were the assembly of the house of Israel. And their their writings predate Peter Waldo. So, uh, here's what happened. These people existed. All right? But Peter Waldo that lived in Lion, France, took his followers because Yahweh revealed truth to Peter Waldo of the Sabbath. (28:38) And what did Peter Waldo do? He took his followers and they were chased out of Lion's France in 1186. And what did they do? They went down in the Piedmont Valley. And who did they find in the Piedmont Valley? They didn't find Waldensians. They found an apostolic assembly of people. And those people were called, are you ready for your notes? [snorts] The Valdes. V A L D S E. (29:14) Some people call them the Vaja. V AU. Oh. Oh, I just caught that. V AU. I like it. Hallelujah. Amen. V AU. Oh, yes. They were the the voa. So from now on, we'll no longer call you Vonites. We'll call you the Vaja. Hallelujah. [laughter] Oh, hallelujah. Praise God. We're the Vaja. Amen. So they met the Vajo or the Valdis and the VJO. (29:55) Oh, I'm liking that. Uh they were already in the valley practicing the Sabbath when Peter Waldo found the vola. Now when Peter Waldo gets to the VA they are missing a leader and so Peter Waldo joins them and that movement in the Alpine valleys. So the the voda were from the pasagenis and on down the line back to John the apostle Peter Waldo joins with them. (30:42) He does not create them. Now in 1184 in 1184 there was a council called the council of Verona in the Catholic church. That council condemned the voa which they were now calling the Waldenians. And at that moment, the Waldenians, as they were known, were forced underground. Now, when they were forced underground, they began to multiply. (31:22) They were known by a certain name. And we're going to look at that. I've already discussed it before, but we'll look at it one more time. This is the name they were known by after they went underground. Yes. >> Okay. Whenever they went underground, they became called the insabati. The insabati. And there's the word. (31:54) The original Waldensians, the Sabbathkeepers, they were known as insabati. who called them the insabati, the Catholic Church. And here is the critical evidence. So if anyone tells you that the Waldensians are trinitarian and Sunday worshippers, they're wrong. Here is the critical evidence of the original Waldensians as Sabbathkeepers from one of their persecutors. (32:27) One of their persecutors was an inquisitor. What's an inquisitor? Authorized by the Catholic Church for the Inquisition to kill heretics. Well, one of those inquisitors, his name was Gee Gui. And here's what he wrote. For centuries, evangelical bodies, especially the Walden's were called in sabati because of Sabbathkeeping. (33:05) You have evidence from the Catholic Church that the Waldenians were Sabbathke keepers. They were Sabbathke keepers. There is no question about it. Now, let's look at uh another historian, a a Protestant historian by the name of Goldest. He wrote in 1567. And here's what he said about these Walden. He said plainly, I'm sorry, this is Archbishop Usher. I apologize. (33:52) He said, "Many understood that they were given these names because they worshiped on the Jewish Sabbath." Now, these are the enemies of the Waldensians that are leaving these testimonies. Now uh Goldest said, now listen to this. Now listen to this. These volensians according to Goldest said the Insabbody. They were called the Insabbody not because they were circumcised. (34:30) And isn't that interesting that I felt led to teach on circumcision last night? This is a group of people that were not circumcised, but he said, "But they kept the Jewish Sabbath." This sounds like our people. They were not circumcised, but they kept the Jewish Sabbath. And then that's followed by Archbishop Usher, who acknowledged that they were Sabbathkeepers. (35:03) Now let's look at the their own testimony from the Waldenians and what they said about themselves in those noble letters that they left behind for history. Here is what their testimony is from their own confession that we are to worship only one God. That means they are not trinitarian. Who is able to help us? And not the saints that are departed that we ought to keep holy the Sabbath day. (35:37) That comes from the book Luther's Forerunners, page 38. That is their own testimony that they were Sabbathkeeping. Now, we're going to go over several proofs that they were Sabbathke keepers. Number one, evidence number one comes from another inquisitor called Manita of Cremona. And we're going to read his testimony about these Waldensians because he was sent to kill them. (36:13) And this is his testimony about what they believed. Inquisitor Monita of Cremona in now remember they were excommunicated or not not excommunicated they were a bull was issued in 1148 in 1241 Dominican inquisitor Father Monita of Cremona wrote a fivebook pole called Advarus Catheros at Vald Denise that's the Walden Ians around 1241 in the chapter entitled desamato and dead dominico on the Lord's day on the Sabbath and the Lord's day Monita passionately defended himself against the criticism of the Waldensians that Catholics transgress (37:08) the Sabbath commandment. Now, why would he have to defend himself against the Waldenians if they are not Sabbathke keepers? Okay, so that's your first evidence. [clears throat] He discussed the significance of the Sabbath among the Waldensians. Evidence number two that I'm going to show you is a royal evidence that comes from a royal court. (37:40) This is evidence number two that they were Sabbathke keepers. It's the royal edicts. The earliest documented uses of the term insati comes from royal edicts. King Alonso II of Aragon wrote this edict against heretics. He called them the insabatos and the poor of lion. Who was the poor of lion? Peter Waldo. So he is referring to the Waldensians as the insabatos. (38:18) King Peter II of Aragon called them the sabatati. These are the first known uses of the words for the Waldenians and these are official government documents that the Waldensians were Sabbathke keepers. Very important. I don't want anybody to let anybody convince you that our forefathers were Sunday keepers or trinitarian. (38:51) Another inquisitor by the name of Francis Payne. Francis Payne. He said, "Many of the Waldensians observed the Sabbath according to the custom of the Jews. There is another infinite or evidence called the Bohemian manuscript from the 15th century. Church historian Jo Y Johan Dolinger, he said, "The Waldensians in Bohemia, listen to this, do not celebrate the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (39:37) And not a few of them celebrate the Sabbath with the Jews." Now, that's an interesting statement. This is 15th century and he's already acknowledging that there are some Waldensians that were not keeping the Sabbath by this time. But he said not a few, in other words, a very large number were still keeping the Jewish Sabbath 300 years after Peter Waldo. (40:16) So, as we go through this, I'm going to show you what the Inquisitors said about their belief even further. if I can find it. I'm missing some pages here, but let's try this. Give me one second. Uhhuh. There's the Bohemian manuscript. Open with open with photos. Okay, there it is. Let me show you what they said about the beliefs of these Waldensians. (41:01) Now, this comes from Whoops. Stop. Go back. Go back. Go back. Go back. I think this is it. Yeah, there we go. The original Waldensians. According to the Inquisitors, they made a pope of the Bible from their ancient confession of faith. We can see that they held in abomination human inventions and anti-Christian inventions. (41:34) So rigidly did they adhere to this principle that they were sometime charged by their Roman Catholic antagonist with making a pope of the Bible. In other words, their ultimate authority was not the Pope, but the Bible. They founded their doctrine. Here's what William Jones said, history of the Christian church. (42:04) They founded their doctrine on both Old and New Testaments. They profered the doctrine contained in the Old and New Testaments and comprehended the Apostles Creed and the Ten Commandments. Boy, this sounds mighty familiar to a ministry I'm part of. I'll tell you, it truly does. And this is their own testimony. Now let's see what uh another inquisitor that was out to destroy them wrote in his writings here. (42:46) Listen to what he says about about these va waldians. The next thing is this. They reject all holidays. They despise candle moss, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, and Christmas. >> I'm one of them. >> Amen, Elder. >> Yeah, y'all. This is our people. This is our people. And this is the proof of who the Waldenians were. (43:36) They rejected all feast days or Roman holidays. Now, let me show you the next thing the inquisitor said about these people. Interesting, is it not? Notice what else they said. They kept the annual Passover. They were determined to keep the Lord's supper yearly, not weekly. In Germany, as well as France, the Waldians celebrated the Lord's Supper annually between the years of 13 and 1400. (44:15) That's from the Shop Herszog encyclopedia. So, not only were these people like us in in in so many other ways, but now they only take the Lord's supper one time a year. Amen. I think I'd have been right at home among these folks. Hallelujah. I think we could have got along real real well. >> They only kept the Lord's supper one time a year. Qutorodesimons. (44:47) >> That's what they were. See, these are who they are. These are the corttoesim. You see the names are changing, but not the beliefs. Now, let me show you another belief they had. And this one's very interesting because I'm going to come back to it in just a moment and try to uh point something out for you. Look what the inquisitor said about them. (45:11) They used unleavened bread. Ledger, one of the historians of the Waldensians, who himself was a pastor. Listen to this carefully. This is coming from a pastor among the Waldensians who was a pastor for 24 years. He says that as a consequence of the Waldensian supply of ministers from France and Geneva in 1630, we're way past 1100 1200. (45:46) Now we're up to the 1600s, shortly before America becomes a nation, right? One of the changes that they allowed to happen from these ministers, these Protestant ministers that came to visit them, they gave up the use, they didn't give up Passover, but they gave up the use of unleavened bread and began to use leavened bread. Now, this is very interesting to me. (46:19) In 1630, these Waldensians are still keeping an annual Passover with unleavened bread, proving in six, I mean, America 1776. We are right here. Do you see the line? We've come all the way from John. Do you see the Ortoims? We're still They're still there. There's the proof that they still existed. But something happened in 1630. (46:50) They got a visit from the Protestant Reformation ministers that came to visit with them and they compromised with the Protestants in 1630. And we're going to talk more about that later tonight. Now, um, let me show you what else they did. This is what history tells us about them. Watch this carefully. (47:18) They were one of the few congregations in the world that did this. They practiced footwashing. According to the Baptist history, there's a directory for making a Christian of a pagan before baptism and for washing the feet afterwards. Now, here's what's interesting. You can go to a messianic meeting where they have Passover. (47:50) You go to a Jewish temple where they have it and you won't find footwashing anywhere. Brothers and sisters, these people practiced it just like we do. Let's continue. Let me show you what else they believed. And I when I saw this, I nearly jumped out of my seat. I've told you for years what the mark of the beast is. I've told you it's the authority of the church of Rome. (48:27) I've told you that the mark of the beast is everything Romeish is the mark of the beast. And uh wait till you see what they preached the mark of the beast was. Don't blow your mind. Yeah. You can't make this stuff up no matter how hard you try. H second. Let me pull it up right here. The Waldensians understood the mark of the beast. (49:09) The voa did not practice pedo baptism nor receive the sign of the cross. This they called the mark of the beast because they believe the sign of the cross was the symbol of Constantine's Christianity. Not the cross itself, the sign. Watch of the cross. Watch me. The sign of the cross. They believe you were putting the mark of the beast on you. (49:47) You were identifying as a Roman Christian. You know, there's great debate whether Yesua even died on a cross. You know, many many believe he died on just a a straight up and down tree, not a cross. So I I amen. I I found that to be quite interesting. These Waldensians, you didn't see crosses among them. You probably saw manoras if you want to know the truth. (50:20) Now let me show you what these Waldensians believed. They also believed just like we do that Rome was Babylon, the synagogue of Satan. And then finally, history says this is Hold on one second. Give me one second, y'all. I gotta bear with me. All right. Sorry about that. I heard a strange noise. Now, let me show you the next thing that the Waldenians believed that was uh just like us. just like us. (51:28) Let's read the historian. The reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox, and all the others were babies in their spiritual knowledge when compared with the Waldenians, particularly in regard to the nature of the kingdom of Christ. Here's let me can I break this down for you? The Baptists, the Presbyterian, the Methodists, the Pentecostals. (52:04) All of these other things, all these other groups seemed like babies compared to the corttoesimons, the apostolic assembly, especially in their understanding of the kingdom of God. Does that sound familiar? [laughter] Have you ever looked at other groups and you're like, my god, they they're so so shallow. (52:33) This is what the historian said about the Waldenians. Everyone else was shallow compared to them, especially their understanding of the kingdom of God. Amen. So that's just a few few things that uh they believe. So let me pull up a final uh graphic that will show you uh all the things that they believed which is very important for you to understand. (53:06) Annual Passover, 7th day Sabbath, unleavened bread, feast of Pentecost, rejection of Easter and Christmas, uh footwashing, the ten commandments. They believed Rome was Babylon and they identified the sign of the cross as the mark of the beast. That is original Waldenian faith. That is what Protestants have tried to hide. (53:34) That's why they got rid of the first seven noble lessons. Now the question you're asking is why the first seven? Wasn't all of this in the other ones? Sadly, no. And I'll tell you why in just a moment. Let me show you where they compromised and how they lost. It was all over bread. Their first compromise. Their first compromise came from bread. That simple. (54:14) It was that simple. They started fellowshipping with another church and it was what kind of church? The Baptist church. They started fellowshipping with that church and that church convinced them to give up unleavened bread or leaven bread. It was very simple. They came in contact with a group of people called the Hassites. (54:43) And after they communicated with them, the reformers, then they gave up slowly but surely. They wanted to be accepted in the reformation. Now, there's a reason they wanted to be accepted in the Reformation. They had been persecuted so hard. They had been fought against. Listen to me. This little flock has been fought unusually unusually so from her beginning. (55:16) From her very beginning. And they wanted the persecution to end. For it to end, they were willing to make small changes to fit into the Protestant movement. And it all began with unleavened bread at Passover. The historian by the name of Ledger documented how this happened. There was a sinod in 1532 called the Sinaod of Sheneron. (55:56) It was September the 12th, 1532. And it was deep in the Angroa Valley of the Piedmont Alps. The Waldenians held a sinod that would change their history forever. Who was at that sin? 140 Waldenian preachers. And then there was two other men there from the Protestant church. His name William Frell. F A R E L. (56:33) He was a Protestant. Remember this little flock is not Protestant and it's not Catholic. It's original. It's original seed. But they were in such a place where the persecution was so heavy they were willing to go back into Protestantism. They were willing to go into Protestant to hide to to fellowship and to quit being so different from the world. (57:05) There was another man there by the name of Anthony Sonier. He represented the French reformed churches. Now there was a controversy there and according to uh Gabriel Odysio another historian the subject of predestination came up and it caused great unrest at that Sinai. So the original Waldenians were resisting the Calvinistic form of predestination and that divided the Waldensians. (57:47) Some wanted to preserve their ancient faith. Some of these Waldensians, they wanted to preserve their ancient faith, but others wanted to join the reformation. and that side won. As soon as they did, their brethren, the Waldenian brethren that were living in Bohemia, wrote a letter to the Waldenians in the Piedmont Valley. (58:21) And it was a letter of rebuke. And here is what that letter said. The Bohemian brethren sent this letter to the Waldenians that had just compromised and they rebuked them for the compromise. They said that their new Calvinistic faith was a betrayal of their communal understanding of biblical truth. It was a betrayal. There was we they said we have a communal biblical truth. We have it. (59:01) We've had it all the way back to the apostles. That's what makes us so concealed, so congealed is that truth. And you have betrayed us. You're leaving us and you're betraying the community that has held on to these truths all of these years. Now, right after that, the Waldenians began to scatter. (59:31) They were swallowed up by the Protestant churches. Their former doctrines gave way to new theology and they joined that church from this time forward where they had formerly been the spiritual descendants of the vois and all the way back now they would become Protestant. How was this possible? The reformation, you know, with Martin Luther, John Knox, Calvin, they had been the reformation had succeeded in doing what the Roman church had never been able to do, even by force. (1:00:21) the persecution that had failed to eliminate them. They were won over by persuasion and as a result the old Waldensian heresy disappeared. These Waldensians had survived until they were seduced in every sense of the word and they were enchanted by acceptance and they said in their mind let's just join for unity. (1:01:03) They turned to the reformation and then vanished into its embrace. What Rome could not do by force, Geneva did by persuasion. So the Waldenians were absorbed. And now you see why the first seven manuscripts were hidden because after that is the writings of the new Walden. Amen. In other words, the first seven were the originals, but now those writings are after they were absorbed by the Baptist and the Presbyterians and all of these other church. (1:01:48) Their original beliefs, including Sabbathkeeping, were replaced with Calvinistic theology. Now, the modern Waldensian church, it still exists. It's called Protestant. It keeps Sunday. It affirms the Trinity and it merged with the Italian Methodist in 1975 and it is indistinguishable today from Protestantism. (1:02:17) They abandoned the faith of their fathers. The Waldencian church today would call their ancestors Judaizers and heretics. The majority compromised. The majority compromised in 1487. And I'm going to show you why they compromised. Before we blame them, let's find out why they compromised and why many have left this ministry and compromised. (1:02:49) They couldn't take the persecution anymore. In 1487, Pope Innocent VI issued a papal bull called ID Norri Cordis, which is our hearty desire. It was a genocide. And I'm going to show you what that bull called for on your screen. This is what was issued from the Holy Catholic Church against these Sabbathke keepers. (1:03:24) He called on all rulers of the nations to take up arms for an international crusade against the Waldenians. He promised indulgences to anyone that joined the crusade, a spiritual reward for killing. He absolved all participants from ecclesiastical penalties, gave them a license to commit any crime. He legitimized anything they stole from the Waldenians, giving them a financial incentive. (1:03:56) He promised remission of all sins to anyone that killed a heretic. Murder as salvation. He enulled every contract with the Waldenians. That's economic warfare. You can neither buy nor sell. Come on now. without the mark of the beast. He commanded servants to abandon their Waldensian masters social isolation. He forbade anyone to give them any assistance and he authorized the seizure of all their goods. This bull went out. (1:04:37) So before you get mad at the Waldenians for compromising, all they were doing, please listen to your pastor, was hiding. They just wanted to get out of the spotlight. They just wanted to hide from the persecution. They didn't know it was the persecution that was keeping them in the way of truth. And so they were tired of the persecution. (1:05:16) They just wanted to go into a church where they could hide. So the pope promised, "If you kill a Sabbathkeeper, I'll wash your sins away." So let's go through all the crusades against the Sabbathkeeping Waldenians. The first one is called the 1488 crusade. The 1488 crusade 18,000 soldiers and a response to that bull was led by Alberto de Capitani. (1:05:51) He organized 18,000 crusaders and they went to those Piedmont valleys. When they got there, another group from France approached the valley of Loys, Lys. And the Waldens inhabitants, [snorts] they retreated. When they saw those armies coming, they retreated and they went up a mountain, a high mountain, into a cave 6,000 ft up in the air. (1:06:30) And I'm going to see if I can find the statement here. They Here you go. This is a statement of what happened to these Sabbathkeeping uncirc unircumcised Sabbathkeeping peacekeeping people. Here's the record of history. As the French army approached, they went up the valley. La Palude had observed some Waldensians go into a nearby cave and he ordered a fire to be built at its entrance. (1:07:06) After the fire was extinguished, the inside of the cave was examined. There was found to be 400 children dead in their mother's arms, and about 3,000 individuals perished from smoke. Why? They wouldn't take the mark of the beast. You see, you thought all that mark of the beast stuff was future. No, no, no. They wouldn't buy nor sell. (1:07:33) They they would not take the mark of the beast. They wouldn't do it. By the way, this is history. This is not a myth. Those 400 children died in mama's arms from the Catholic Church. So when you get a little upset about the persecution of Facebook pages, you ought to be ashamed to yourself. Oh, but they put my picture grow up. (1:08:05) But they they really you had lost a you you you haven't come on. 400 children and then Rome burned them all like vermin. 3,000 of them. Did you hear that number? 3,000 Sabbathke keepers died from smoke. only because they wouldn't give up the Sabbath day for the Roman Catholic Church. Now, let's go to the next massacre that happened. (1:08:41) It was called the Mnadal Massacre. In 1545, Francis I of France ordered the Waldenians to be punished. The papal soldiers killed, listen, thousands of Waldensian villagers and destroy 28 Sabbathkeeping villages. And then in 1560, the Calabrian extermination in southern Italy, there were Waldensian communities in a place called Calabria. (1:09:14) And this happened right before they merged with the Protestant church. When they came, they murdered their pastor, Jocks Banello. He was burned alive. And Giovani Pascali, he was burned at Rome. And the entire colony was exterminated. And those who escaped were forced to renounce their faith. an entire community wiped from the face of the earth. (1:09:48) And then we have the Piedmont Easter massacre because these saints that we come from would not keep Easter. It so angered the church that they decided to make a point about Easter. Did somebody just say their family was from Cambria? Thought I saw that in the chat. >> Yes, my people. Lisa's people were Sicilians from that area. (1:10:16) >> Okay. Wow. Well, this is this this may have been some of your people, Elder. Now, watch this. The Piedmont Easter massacre. Little children were torn from the arms of their mothers and they dashed their heads against the rocks. Hundreds of Waldensians fled for a large cave in the towering mountain called Castelluso. (1:10:41) The murderous soldiers found them there and hurled them down the precipice to their death. 6,000 believed to be killed. The survivors wrote, "Our tears are no longer of water. They're of blood. They do not merely obscure our sight. They choke our very hearts. Oh, but we're not finished. John Milton wrote a famous senette after this massacre. (1:11:23) He wrote a famous set after this massacre. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints. [snorts] I'll let you read it right along with me. whose bones lie scattered on the alpine mountains cold. Even them who have kept thy truth so pure of old. When all our fathers worship stocks and stones, forget not in thy book record their groans. (1:12:01) Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold. Oh, I love it. Oh, I love it. Slain by the bloody Piedmont that rolled mother with infant down the rocks. Amen. All of this happened just before they gave up. some preachers came along and said, "Look, our church is not going through that kind of persecution. You don't have to give up, but just just a little, you know, what day you go to church on, don't worry about it. (1:12:45) Just come on and we'll love you and we'll you can just be part of us and nobody will kill you anymore. Nobody will put your name on a sign at the end of your driveway. Nobody will stand with bull horns outside your church because of truth. And they were so tired. They were so tired. They gave it all up. And that's why the Bible said the dragon makes war with the remnant of her seed waiting to destroy her child. (1:13:29) Saints, don't give up. This thing's almost over. He that endures to the end will wear the victor's crown. We are the last generation of these people. Oh, and Satan is war. The Bible said he's angry with her seed, the remnant that has survived. We're not supposed to still be here. Don't you understand? When he killed the Walden, he thought that he had burned their villages down. (1:13:58) But you see, there's something you cannot burn. The fire can't burn it and the water can't drown it. Hallelujah. And it's truth. Truth is marching on. Blessed be the name of the Lord. It's not time for any [clears throat] of you to give up. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thousands of them died. And then last year, if I'm not mistaken, a certain pope went to a Waldenian community and said these words to Sabbathke keepers. (1:14:38) In 2015, Pope Francis became the first pope to visit a Waldensian community and he said these words, "On the part of the Catholic Church, I ask your forgiveness for the non-Christian and the nonhuman attitudes and behaviors that in history we have had against you." He said, "What they did to the Walden sins was not even human. (1:15:08) not even human. 400 children, thousands, all killed because they wouldn't take the mark of the beast. But I I do have some good news for you tonight. I do have some good news for you. Everybody in the Waldens community did not compromise. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yahweh will always have a remnant. (1:15:45) There was a group of people that did not compromise at all. And I'll tell you who they were along this time period about 1527 when the Waldensians is going into compromise. There's another group of people called the Anabaptist. Now, the Anabaptists are absorbing all of these Waldensians. And uh they believed a lot like the Waldensians. (1:16:20) They rejected infant baptism. They rejected the authority of the pope. They looked a lot alike. But the Anabaptists were not sabotarians. They did not keep the Sabbath or the feast or the sacred names, but they were just enough like the Waldensians to where compromise could be made. However, amongst the Anabaptists, there was those Waldensians that would not give up the Sabbath. (1:16:58) And I've told you about them. One was Oswald Glate. We went over him last week. Oswald Glate was an Anabaptist that was drowned in the Denube River as a martyr or the Sabbath day. Andreas Fiser was a was called the Sabotarian apostle and he would not give up the Sabbath. He was from the Waldensians. (1:17:24) The Anabaptists rejected Glate and Fiser and those Santa those sabotarian Waldenians was a minority within a minority. Now when you go over to Transennylvania, you find these Sabbathkeeping Waldensians that believe that Yeshua was not Yahweh, that he was human, that he was no trinity, 7th day Baptist, Torah feast, dietary laws, and no circumcision required. (1:18:00) We find those people in the Transian sabotarian group. They were teaching our doctrine 450 years ago, but there were they were all stoned to death. Now that brings us to a land called England. [clears throat] And something amazing is happening in England. In 1617, a 100red years before America is formed, there is a church. And we're going to talk about that church in just a moment. (1:18:37) But before we do, let's go over to the to the Celtic island. And let me show you these Waldensians that found their way to the Celtic islands of the sea. And there you're going to find something remarkable on the aisle of but where a sabotarian church existed in 1802. It was one mile from Iona and it had an apostle by the name of St. (1:19:10) Columba. He was called the Sabbathkeeping apostle of Scotland. The historian James Moffett said, "One cannot resist the obtruding conjecture that fond hankerings after the earlier faith." Listen to that fond hankering. You know what a hanker? I got a hankering for something. He said, "We find some fond hankerings of an earlier faith that survived through all obscurity and awakened again to activity in the warmth and light of the gospel. (1:19:50) " They were teaching on the Celtic island of Scotland this glorious gospel. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father. With St. Columba, the apostle of the Sabbathke keepers. Now, when we go to England at the same time, we're going to find a young man who is a tailor. That's right, a tailor. And he was studying the Bible and he converted to Sabbathkeeping in 1617. (1:20:28) And this young man's name was John Tras. John Tras 1585 to 1636 began preaching the Sabbath in London in 1617. And then in 1618 they whipped him and branded him on his forehead with a J for John. The great movement in England was started by John John Tras. His wife's name was Dorothy Tras. She was put in prison for 25 years and she died in prison rather than deny the Sabbath day. (1:21:22) Dorothy Tras, listen to me, was your mother in the Lord. Dorothy Tras was one of your mothers. She died in prison. No, she didn't get raptured. And no, God didn't deliver her because he knew that you and I would talk about Dorothy Tras and would help us to hold on to our faith in spite of persecution. He used her for this moment. (1:21:55) Now Dorothy Tras, they converted a young man by the name of Theophilles Grabburn. He was a minister in the Church of England who converted to the Sabbath. When he died, we have his will. You can read it. He left all of his estate to the congregation of Sabbathke keepers at Norwich. And then we have Francis Bampfield, one of the most remarkable figures in Sabbath history. (1:22:28) He was a recctor at Sherborn until they ejected him in 1662. Now listen to this. He embraced the Sabbath while he was in Dorchester jail. And in prison, he began to preach the Sabbath day. He spent eight years in jail. And after release, he started a little group of people [snorts] called Penners Hall Church in 1676. (1:22:57) And then he was sent to preach about the Sabbath day in Wiltshshire, Hampshire, Dorsesture, Glouster, and Burkshshire. And then he died in prison in 1684. The next one is Thomas Tillum. He had 200 members of his church at Colchester that kept the Sabbath day. And then we come to a church that's most remarkable. It's called Millyard Church. (1:23:32) It was founded in 1617 by John Tras. That was his church, Milly Yard Church. In 1698, they set the Ten Commandments up in that church. And then they wrote the Articles of Faith in 1704. And ladies and gentlemen, that church still exists today in England. You can go to Millard Church and find John's church at Millard Church in England. (1:24:13) Now, all of this brings us to a part where I'm going to close tonight. This all happened in England because of the Walden sins. This all happened. And there's a warning here for me and you. You must fight to preserve the Sabbath. Well, out of Millyard Church, there was a young man that visited that church by the name of Stephen Mumford in 1668. (1:24:51) the Bell Lane 7th Day Baptist Church. See, that's that group of Anabaptists that stayed faithful. These were Waldens calling themselves Anabaptists now, but these were Sabbathkeeping Anabaptists. And it was located in London. They sent a letter in 1668 to the Sabbathkeepers of Newport, New England. It was signed by 11 brethren including Edward Fox, William Gibson, and John Belchure. (1:25:27) [laughter] In that same year, Dr. Edward Stinett of the Wallingford Church also wrote to the Sabbathkeepers in Rhode Island. [clears throat] There were corresponding Sabbathkeepers between England and America. And in 1664, Steven Mumford, a Sabbathkeeping Anabaptist, in other words, a Walden, in other words, a aite, in other words, a quarter desc. (1:26:01) He was He's still one of them. Him and his wife Anne immigrated from London to Newport, Rhode Island. They left the Millyard Church, came to America, and and history tells us that Steven Munford came over from London in 1664 and brought the opinion with him. I love that. He brought the doctrine with him that the whole of the ten commandments were immutable and that it was anti-Christian power which thought to change times and laws that changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. Mumford came to America (1:26:45) teaching the Ten Commandments are binding, that the Sabbath was changed by Antichrist, and that this was the fulfillment of Daniel 7:25. Mumford began to share these convictions with the with the Baptist in Newport. And then several Baptists were convinced. One's name was Tacy Hubard. One was Samuel Hubard, one was Rachel Langworthy, Roger Baster, William Hiscock, and on December the 23rd, 1671, seven people, I love that number, Stephen and Am Munford with five others entered into a covenant together and began the first 7th day Baptist church (1:27:44) in America. The Waldensians had found the land for the lost tribes of Israel in that church. Now, before I go tonight, why Rhode Island? Because Roger Williams had founded the colony on the principle of religious freedom. The charter Roger Williams wrote in 1663 guaranteed the freedom of worship. I'm going to read a quote to you. (1:28:20) The 7th Day Baptist in Rhode Island were collaborers with Roger Williams and Dr. John Clark and establishing the colony on the principles of religious liberty. At this moment in time, you listen to me. The Pagosinis, at this moment in time, that little flock with the number seven made its stand in the United States of America. (1:28:57) And now we have followed this line from John the Apostle to John Tras to to to Mumford. And here we are. And we're just getting started, by the way. Oh yes, we're just getting started. And after tonight, then we pick up the American line and we follow it to the year 2026. God bless you tonight. Thank you for joining me. (1:29:29) I pray you learned something. We love every one of you, >> pastor. Hallelujah. [clears throat] >> Thank you, Apostle. >> Thank you, Apostle. >> Thank you for joining me tonight. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, pastor. Wonderful. Thank you. >> Thank you, pastor. Wonderful. Appreciate you.