In this sermon, the speaker discusses a vision that Daniel had in chapter seven of the Bible. The vision includes four great beasts that come up from the sea, each representing different powers. The speaker mentions that these beasts symbolize various groups of people, including different races, religions, and social classes. The sermon also mentions a three-story computer in Brussels, nicknamed "the beast," which is said to be designed to assign each citizen of the world a number for buying and selling. The speaker suggests that this computer and the assigned numbers could potentially be used as a global credit card system.

Very well, we're up a Bible-class bit now. The Common Market. And this is the third message of the Common Market. And tonight we're looking at its prosperity. And I want to take the time this evening to expound from this book the prosperity that will come to this Common Market. And I hope you've got it into your mind from the other lecturers that the Common Market, the European Economic Community, as Mr. Heath called it, that the Common Market is not a sort of glorified old ram affair, you know. I want you to get that into your mind, because I think some people think it is. Let me tell you that it will be worldwide. It won't stay just in the European Community. It will keep in every market in the world. That I will prove, of course. You know, we've done some studies already, and some of you have been away in your holidays. And we want to bring you up to date, and so I'm recapping just a little bit. I'll not go too far with it, but it will help the folks that have been away. Let's go to Daniel, chapter 2, just for the moment. And in Daniel, chapter 2, as you know the wonderful chapter, it was here the king said you could never have a dream, and this mighty image came before him. And it was Daniel who got the secret from the Lord and began to tell the dream to the king. In verse 31, Daniel 2, verse 31, This image's head was a fine gold. The image you can see was a man. His head was a fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. And Daniel said to the king, And I saw still thus a stone cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, and we want to get that into our minds, because the stone cut out without hands is Christ, and it's Christ coming back to take up the kingdom. That's the time the feet are crushed. And so he just outlines the image, and then he said to Nebuchadnezzar, verse 37, Thou, O king, art the king of kings. And at the end of verse 38 he said to him, Thou art this head of gold. So there's no problem there. The head of gold was the Babylonian kingdom. And after me shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee. This is the breast and the arms of silver. And we found out that that was the meted Persian kingdom. And another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule for all the earth, was the third kingdom, and that was the kingdom of Greece. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, and of course that was the Roman Empire. And so this is quite simple. We've got historians here from Queens who know history better than I will ever know. But you will see quite clearly that while the Babylonian kingdom was standing, and even the Mediterranean, and the Grecian, and the old Roman Empire, that the Lord Jesus didn't come, the stone from heaven, and didn't come and smite this kingdom on its feet. You see that verse 41 that says, Whereas thou saw'st the feet and toes. Now we get those toes in now. Of course if it was a proper image it's got ten toes. And you know that's very wonderful because it says in verse 44, talking about the toes, And in the days of these kings. Well all these toes happen to be kings, and the word kings there is an old Hebrew word which means powers or rulers. So that what you could never see was these four Gentile world empires. And then after a long space of time, the reign of any last of the last days, these ten toes would begin to wriggle, and then Jesus would come and smite them. And that's where we're living now. So we've found the common market all right. Make no mistakes about it. But we've found a bit more and I can't go into all that sure, because it's going to waste time. Look at chapter 7 just to let us do a little bit more for you. Chapter 7. And just like there were four beasts, four metals, there are four beasts now. This is another vision that Daniel had. Daniel stepped and said, verse 2, I saw in my vision by night. Verse 3, four great beasts came up from the sea. Verse 4, the first was like a lion. Verse 5, and behold another beast, a second like unto a bear. Verse 6, beside the heron, and lo, another like a leopard. Verse 7, after this I saw in my night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible. You'll see at the end of verse 7 it had ten horns. And you get the ten toes and the ten kings, ten rulers, ten powers, ten horns, whatever way you like, they're all there. And when Daniel's seeking for the interpretation of these, in verse 20 it says, and of the ten horns that were in his head, then it says, verse 24, and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings, and they're back to these ten powers again. There isn't any problem in all this. These ten toes are now beginning to take shape anew. Ten powers, ten kings, ten rulers. There, there, there now. And I want to tell you this itself here, and the ten horns, verse 24, out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise, and another shall arise after them. That's another power. And he, this is a person, shall be diverse from the persons of subdued three kings. Don't let Gideon do that just tonight. And he shall speak great words against the most high, and shall wear out the faints of the most high, and think to change times and laws, and they shall be given into account until a time, and times, and the dividing of times. And if you look at verse 25, you'll get two things. This last power, whom I say, is the president who will arise in this common market. This is the president you'll say we're looking at now, a person. You'll always know him when you meet him in Scripture by the mouth and the month, a time and times and dividing a time. I think a time stands for a year, and times for two and a half a time, or three years and a half. And you get the mouth and the month. If you get them, you'll always get the character. Now, let's go a wee bit further with that. Let's go on over to Revelation chapter 13, and then we're almost ready to begin. Only doing this for the bronzed ones from the holiday camps, all the folk that have been swallowing the sour waters of the Mediterranean. Yes, now, we're at chapter 13 of Revelation, and there's a man here, and he's called the beast. I think it's the same president, of course. There's five just for what we want now. And there was given unto him a mouth. That's the same mouth as we were looking at, preaching great things and blasphemies. And power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. No, I didn't write that. It just happens to be it's the same mouth and the same month. So it must be the same man. But in this chapter you don't only have the mouth and the month, you have something else. You see, another fellow rises to help him, verse 11, and I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth. Now, he's going to help this president, and here's how he's going to do it, verse 16. And he causes all, let's get the word all in, and in case we make any misinterpretation, the Holy Ghost has put it like this, both small and rich, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forage, and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast. Now, he's not only a month, and we don't only have the month, but now we have the markets. Now, I want to tell you that this president that will arise, because they're beginning to form a parliament now in Brussels, oh yes, a great European economic community, confederacy parliament is going to be formed. And out of that parliament we're going to have this top of the common market. And he's going to be a sort of superman, super evil man, of course. And you know, he's going to take control of the markets, of the whole world. Don't let's stop with this small market like the Lannister, you know. He's got the hold of it, and he's going to make everybody buy, and we're talking about communists and Romanists. Oh yes, right over the world, and Confucius and all the rest of it. The whole world will have to know. And when he has control of all the markets, and you're only allowed to buy or sell if you have his market, you'll have to buy. Great thing for the Church of Jesus Christ to know that she won't be here. She'll be gone. So we've got along to there just now, and tonight we're going to look at the prosperity of the markets. Because I haven't any doubts at all about the prosperity of the common markets. None whatsoever. You see, when the referendum was on, we had politicians each evening, and some of them were advocating and trying to persuade the people not to vote yes for the common markets, because that the religion of Rome would take command of the world. And I believe that the folks who were arguing from that standpoint, they were perfectly right. Because next week we are not looking at the prosperity of the markets, we're going to look at the religion of the markets. And don't miss that if you can possibly come. But you see, some of the advocates, they advocated that you say no to the common markets, not only because of Rome, but because that Westminster will become a sort of glorified county council when this great European common market parliament begins. Well, Westminster won't council very much, and I think they were right. Some of them advocated that we must not say yes to the common markets, because our Queen will lose all her royal sovereignty, and she'll be like a dame of the British Empire living at Buckingham Palace, and so she will. But I noticed that a great many politicians were saying, don't vote yes, because the common market will fail, and we would prosper outside of it. And they were wrong. There isn't any chance in the world of it failing. And what is more, there isn't any chance of them succeeding. Because outside it, you won't be allowed to. You can be perfectly sure I never voted for such a thing. Yes, but we've got to look now. I have no doubts about its prosperity. I heard Mr Shaw on my desk tonight trying to push it, it won't succeed, it won't prosper. And he has said a few dark things since that too. Yes, well, we need to go by the book, never mind about the politicians too much. Now, if we're going to look at its prosperity tonight, first of all we're going to look at the policies, because there are some policies that this common market and its great president will follow. And then I want to look at some of the plans that revealed in this book about this common market, and I want to have just a little glimpse of the power that it will have. And as we look at the policies and plans and power of the common market, we will find that these policies and these plans and this power will give it absolute control of all the markets of the world. That's what we've got to prove from this book this evening. So let's look at these policies, for they will bring prosperity, and these plans, for they will bring prosperity, powers, for it will bring prosperity. And now we're beginning to start. I'm just on that foster mood this evening that I'm not in any hurry. Say it away. Once I get the signal from down there I'm as late as a mare. I can go on till midnight. If you've got a piece, eat it now. All right, we're at the book of Daniel. We're back to Daniel, chapter 8 this time. Book of Daniel, chapter 8. And we want to have a look at this king that's going to arrive, or this president, or this ruler, or this power that's going to come in the latter days. And we're at Daniel, chapter 8, and verse 23. Daniel 8, 23. And in the latter time of their kingdom, and get the latter time in, please, when the transgressors are come to the full, and that ought to make you fully persuaded that it is the latter time, a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up. This is the fellow that we're thinking will be the president of the common market. He wants you to see the countenance, it's fierce, but more than anything I want you to see what the Bible says about him. He understands dark sentences. I wonder what that means now. There can't be truth in them when they're dark. Truth and light go together. But leave that for a moment. Verse 24, and his power shall be mighty. When we begin to look at his power one night, we're going to look at his religion or the religion of the market next week, but his power will have to be looked at. His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. Of course, anybody who knows this book understands that, or the devil will get on their hands. And he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper. Did you get your word in, just in case you missed it? It's been there a long time, written away in the days of Daniel. Shall prosper and practice and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And I think that when you're reading in this book and you get the mighty and the holy people, you must be thinking about the Jewish nation, because he means to take it out on them. But that's not our subject this evening. Don't be sidetracked. We're just after the prosperity of the market. Now, watch this verse, verse 25. And through his policy, through his policy also, he shall cause Christ to prosper in his hands. Now, the word policy is a very thrilling word. It's a Hebrew word. And it's sesham. It's S-E-S-H-E-M. Sesham. And you know, you can go and get a Hebrew lexicon and look it up, and if it's a good concordant lexicon, you can find everywhere where it's mentioned in the Bible. Sometimes it's not the word policy that translates it. You see, up the chapter a little bit there, where we have that word, verse 23, at the end of it, understanding. That's the exact same word you can look at when you get home. Because policy is an understanding. And I'm sure you can see with one eye that policy is understanding. You see, when you come to understanding, when you come to the faculty of understanding, in here somewhere there's a brain. I don't know how much I have, but there it is. It's there somewhere. And in that brain there are certain departments. There is the faculty of imagination. I can imagine a lot of things. And then there is the faculty of memory. And that's a very valuable faculty for me. Because I just can't go through this unless this faculty, this memory, keeps up the scratch. And it has been a very good friend of mine down through the years. I think God gave me an extra special bit just there, but that can be the bit. But there is not only imagination in there, and memory in there, there is something in there that's called understanding. That's another faculty I have. Understanding. Now, we must remember that when God made Adam, what a wonderful being he was. Turned out perfectly. See? Yes, perfect man. Turned out by the hand of God. Of course, you know, Adam fell, sinned, and one man's sin entered into the world. And the understanding became darkened. Oh yes, it's what Paul says in the New Testament, your understanding was darkened. And that's why, no matter how clever or how silly you are at Queen's University, if you're not saved, you don't understand the things of God. Sorry for bumping into you, or love to run over some of you. I think you have a whole case where you can spell better than me. Let's make it quite clear that an actual man doesn't even know the things of God. The spirit unit of man, you need to be born again and get up, shackled and enlightened a little bit. When Jesus took his disciples in the upper room, they're just fishermen, rough characters. But he opened their understanding. Look at my understanding of scriptures. Oh yes, isn't it? Some of the old judges who don't like this class, and all the footcomings here, they say, sure he never went to school, that's quite right. Yeah, but I did spend about 40 years at the feet of Christ, and he knows a thing or two. If he can open your understanding, you begin to see things. If that's how it works, it just works like that. But then you see, you do know this, that unsaved men and unsaved women, while their understanding is darkened, you know, then they go about quite decent, respectable people. But you know, there are some darkened minds that the devil works with. Don't forget that. Oh, we've got black magic and all the rest. Oh yes. That's why this fellow who has this sort of understanding, this policy, that's why he can understand dark things. That's what we read. Or did you think I printed it? Oh yes, understand dark sentences. Somehow the devil's going to talk to them, and somehow he's going to understand perfectly what the devil wants. And here's what the book says now, if you're watching it properly. Verse 25, And through his understanding of policy, through his policy of his so-called craft, there's a word for you, there's another Hebrew word, and I'll tell you what it means. It means deceit. Somebody says you're crafty, they've got an idea about you. Yes. You see, through his darkened understanding, and being in perfect understanding with the powers of darkness, you know, he's going to be able to deceive quite a lot of people. And this deception is going to bring prosperity to the common market. That's what we're reading, in case you missed it. And through his understanding also, he shall deceive, and yet that will bring prosperity. You know, that's an amazing sort of thing, isn't it? When we look down the chapter a little bit, do you see it says, through his policy also, he shall cause craft to prosper in his hands. He shall magnify himself in his heart, and by prosperity is the word there, shall destroy many. The word peace is the wrong translation. Oh no, it says in your margin, if you try to look at the margin, it says by prosperity. If he's going to work this prosperity, he's going to destroy a lot of people through it. You know, this is an amazing thing, because these policies or this understanding that he has, it's going to bring prosperity, and at the same time it's going to destroy many. Now, let's go a bit further than that. Let's think about the plans. Let's go to chapter 11. We're at Daniel 11. Now, verse 24, it's talking about the same person. Verse 24, Daniel 11. He shall enter peaceably, even upon the fattest places of the province. Oh, the word fattest is a very interesting word, you know. You know, when Abraham left Jacob, I know he was pretending to be Esau. Oh, shall I let the young people see that. Go back to Genesis 27. Book of Genesis 27. You know, it's Jacob pretending to be Esau. Verse 26, we're at chapter 27 of Genesis 26. And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And he came near and kissed them, and he smelled the smell of agreement, and blessed them, and said, See, the smell of my son is of the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed. Therefore God give thee of the Jew of heaven and the fattest of the earth. Yes, real blessing from God, you see. And I want you to get this. Let's go back to Daniel chapter 11. You know, this character that's going to arise, I wonder when it says, He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province. I wonder, is it the fattest places of Israel? That's quite a question, and I'm not going to enter into it very much just now. I've just wondered in the last day or two, when Israel needs an application to become an associate member of the common market, and they were accepted last week or the week before. I wonder, are they walking into this? And I wonder, is this the beginning of somebody moving towards themselves not peaceably, but they're going to take the fatness from them? Just wondering, that's all. But I want you to get the hold of this. Watch Daniel 11 and 28, this is Daniel chapter. It says, Then, and it's talking about the same person, Then shall he return into his land with great riches. Let's get the great riches into this. I have a feeling when it says his land, that he's been away fighting with Egypt. I think if we had read on we would have found out. Let's go back to 24. I'm sure I'm jumping the gun a little bit here. Verse 24, And he shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province, and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, and his father's fathers, which tell me plainly that this man, this super man, this man who's going to be the president, that he must be a Jew. Because he's going to do what his father's never done, they're his father's fathers, and I'm sure that Daniel wouldn't have done it. I want you to get this. He shall scatter, let's get the word scatter, he shall scatter among them the prey and spoils and riches. He's got a lot to throw around him, hasn't he? Because I think that this is a part of the policy of building up the commonwealth. You see, when the referendum was on, remember, there are farmers mis-meeting now. They said to me, what are we going to do? Are we going to vote for this referendum or are we not? You see, I knew what was in their mind. Supposing every farmer in Ulster had voted totally against it. Now, they didn't. Remember, there came a yes from Ulster, although some of us didn't like it. There came a yes. But supposing every farmer had voted yes, supposing that Britain had come out of the common market, supposing all the farmers in the free states had fit in, I'll tell you the common market would have scattered them, prey and spoils and riches. They'd have left some of them. It was a very tight moment, wasn't it? You know, that's how they're going to prosper. They'll be able to give away a bit here and there and yonder. And that's exactly what this book says. Because that's the plan. It's a part of the plan. You see, when we go over to 28th where we were, then shall he return into his land with great riches. Of course they're going to prosper. Great riches is actually inspired there. And his heart shall be against the holy government, of course. And he shall do exploits and return to his own land. That's why I say, when it says at the beginning of the verse, then shall he return into his land, I think he claims Palestine is his land in a certain way. Ah, but his own land. Ah, that's the common market heart. And you're bound to see that he's got great riches. Let's go down the chapter a little bit. See verse 36. And the king shall do according to his will. Now don't let's get mixed up with his power just now. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god. And shall speak marvellous things against the god of gods. And that's that most coming into it again. And shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished. For that that is determined, that's what kept me from voting. If God determines it'll be gone anyway. Neither shall he regard the god of his fathers. That's why I know he's a Jew of some kind. Nor the desire of women. What was the desire of women right through the Old Testament Scriptures? To be the mother of the Messiah. Here's no time for that. Yes, neither shall he regard the god of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any gods. Yes, this is the same man that's in 2 Thessalonians 2. He shall magnify himself above all. Now watch this carefully now. But in his estate shall he honour the god of forces. When we come to his power we'll know more about that. Actually the translation in the margin said the god of munitions. And the god whom his fathers knew not. Let's get that beginning. Shall he honour with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things. Oh, who's the god that his fathers knew not? You see, when we come to think about the religion of the common market next week, let's get it quite clear and unmistakable that he's going to make the church of Rome the religion, the common market. And you know he'll be able to give them a lot too. Gold and silver and precious stones and all the pleasant things they want. If they want Babylonian garments and golden trousers they'll get them. They'll be beginning to flip the chapels with gold. Oh yes, they told you he wouldn't prosper. Oh, you're reading right. I can tell you the politicians. I tell you it will prosper, this common market will prosper. It's going to prosper. Quite the understanding of the character and the plans that he has afoot. Once he begins to throw out things to folk in Gethsemane. Once he begins to land in Rome's lap on the gold and silver and precious stones. Watch this little bit before we go any further. This is the power that he's going to have. It says in verse 42, nearly chapter 11. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries. Oh, don't forget that little bit, you know. He's spent over, going to spread over a bit of land. And the land of Egypt shall not escape. Oh yes, they're having a bit of fun with it now, aren't they? Yes, that's just like them. You see, Mr. Kissinger's either there now or gone tomorrow. And he's fiddling about with Egypt. Then he'll go over to Israel. Then he'll go up to the Arabs. I wouldn't trust him for a night. If he was Radley Nixon, you would never know what would happen. I'll tell you what we bypassed there a moment ago. It said this, verse 39. Thus shall he do in the most strongholds with a strange God, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide, and the word should be THE land, capital T, capital L. He shall divide the land forgain. You know what he'll do? He'll sell the Jews down the river. That's what he'll do. And I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Kissinger's not out of now. Oh, yes, you know, it's a great old book we have. But let's make this bit quite clear. Verse 42. While he will sell the Jews, he shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries, don't forget the word countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. Oh, no fear. Verse 43's a big one. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver. Will he or will he not? See all the gold in all the vaults all round. Ah, well, that's what sort of counts. You know, they're moving at this very moment in the common market which I have a paper here which was sent to me. Dr. Hendrick Eldman, Chief Analyst of the Common Market Confederacy. So you can see if that's him all right. Dr. Hendrick Eldman. His associates point to the need presently of a world monetary system that could do away with all currency and coin. We are coming suddenly to a place where pounds and new pennies won't come. Oh, we have a sort of credit card system going on in America and they hardly use money at all. They carry around the credit card. A director of one of the biggest stores in Ulster was telling me the other day that this excess card that you can get from the bank, that a man can step into his shop and he can come from the back of the yard. His name can be anything. Pat Malone, if you like. That's just a guess all of a sudden. And if Pat Malone steps into the shop the last minute on Saturday night and he wants two hundred pounds worth of goods and he hands him this excess card. He said, I can take it from his hand, go to the phone. I can phone a certain number in London. And in less than five minutes I know how much Pat Malone has. And they're going to work like this, you know. This fellow's going to take command of all the gold. And I would like to know who's going to work against him. Yes, let's get this bit in from Revelation. We're back at Revelation chapter 13. And we're at verse 16 just to save the time. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond. Can I go on and say black and white, red and yellow, lame and illiterate, Protestant and Catholic? Can I go on and bring them all in? Jew or Arab. He causeth all to receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead, that no man might buy or sell, save he that hath the mark or the name of the beast. Watch this piece of paper I have. I'll tell you where it's from. It's from Jack Blackwood, who is the general director of all global outreach work. And it says here, writing in the current issue of Gospel Call, published by the Eastern European Mission, Mr. England, who is one of the representatives, describes recently on their, watch it all now, three-story computer, three-story computer, in the Brussels headquarters of the Common Market Confederation. They've got a three-story computer in Brussels. Well, now, it's a three-story computer. It's nicknamed the Beast. This gigantic computer is designed to assign each citizen of the world a number. Every man, Jack, on earth can be numbered. And it's so wonderful they only need six digits to do it. And they can be so mixed and remixed and double-mixed that every man can have a number and know two the same. This gigantic computer is designed to assign each citizen of the world a number to use in all buying and selling. The number would be invisibly Laffer, you know the word Laffer mean, Laffer tattooed on the forehead or on the back of the hand. Such a mark would provide a walking credit card system. The number would show up under infrared scanners to be placed at all checkout counters of supermarkets and places of business. You're not telling me that's wrong, are you? Have they got this computer? Yes or no now? Is it in Brussels now? Come on, some of you dolts. Is it there? Can it put this, this infrared? Can it put this Laffer tattooed mark? Can there be an infrared scanner? Can it see the number and nobody else can? If you haven't got the number you can't buy. By God, we must be at the end of the day. There was never anything like that printed in this world before. Brethren and sisters, I'm telling you that we're on the edge of this thing. The common markets there know whether we like it or not. I hate to say it, but the tools are wiggling now. They're about to form the Parliament. The man of sin is not so far away and before he can be revealed we must be removed. My, how near we are to the end of the day. How near. My, we should fill the prayer meetings and slog them out and pray for our kids and do everything we can for the Lord. And we're sitting like they were in the days of Noah, half asleep and the door will be shut in our face. And we're going on with this now. We have looked at its prosperity and it's bound to prosper. We're going to look at its religion next week. And you may bring your peace with you because we're not giving up too soon. Let's sing a couple of good old verses this evening. 1078 please. 1078, tell the whole wide world of Jesus bear the news from shore to shore telling sinners of the Savior let the light spread more and more. First and last verse of 1078 please. Lord make us conscious of the great truth that thou art coming soon. Lord awaken us. We feel that we need a real awakening. We're occupied far too much with the things of time and sense and little problems. Lord thou wilt come to the air one of these days or nights. As sure as this book has foretold it, it will come to pass. Lord help us to arise tonight and put our beautiful garments on and begin to shine in these last dark closing days. Help us to be light to the perishable. Part us in thy fear and with thy blessing for thy holy name's sake.