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Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?
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Revelation Chapter 11

• Are we there yet . . . ???

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Does it Matter?

• The American archbishop who heads the Vatican's
  supreme court said Catholic politicians

who support abortion rights should not receive
the sacraments, including funeral rites.
Raymond Burke
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Does it Matter?

• Burke said It is not possible to be a
  practicing Catholic and to conduct oneself in
  this manner. . . . Neither Holy Communion nor
  funeral rites should be administered to such
  politicians . . .

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Supreme Power of the Pope
No Christian could hope for salvation who was
not in all things an obedient son of the Church,
and who was not ready to take up arms in its
defense. Henry Charles LeaHistory of the
Inquisition of the Middle Ages (1888)
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Supreme Power of the Pope
. . . The papal mandate, just or unjust,
reasonable or unreasonable, was to be received
and implicitly obeyed, for there was no appeal
from the representative of St. Peter the pope .
. . for the destiny of all men lay in the hands
which could administer or withhold the sacraments
essential to salvation. Henry Charles
LeaHistory of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages
(1888)
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Revelation Chapter 11

• I will give power unto My two witnesses, and
  they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and
  three score days clothed in sackcloth.
• Revelation 113

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• From the close of the 14th century, when
  Wycliffes translation of the Bible placed the
  Word of God in the hands of the common people of
  England . . .

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• . . .until the full dawn of the Reformation, the
  restraint which had long been placed upon the
  Scriptures was gradually removed.
• Stephen N. HaskellSeer of Patmos, p. 199 (1905)

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• Quick Review of Key Dates

508
533
538


Clovis Baptized
Arian Tribes Fall
Justinians Decree
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• When Justinian first mediated the conquest of
  Italy, he sent ambassadors to the kings of the
  Franks, and adjured them, by the common ties of
  alliance and religion, to join in the holy
  enterprise against the Arians.
• Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of
  the Roman Empire, chp. 41, par, 32

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• With the conquest of Rome by Belisarius in
  538, the history of the ancient city Rome may
  be considered as terminating . . . and commences
  the history of the Middle Ages.
• George FinlayGreece Under the Romans, p. 295
  (1844)

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• From this time on the popes, more and more
  involved in worldly events, no longer belong
  solely to the church they are men of the state,
  and then rulers of the state.
• Philip SchaffHistory of the Christian Church,
  vol. 3, p. 327 (1893)

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Principles Established

1. France as the handmaiden of the papacy from
   Clovis the Frank beginning in A.D. 508
2. Papal domination of political powers from A.D.
   800
3. Union of church and state as a papal strategy
   for political and ecclesiastical world domination

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Principles Established
It is separation of Church and State that makes
this nation of ours FREE, and all citizens in
America FREE to worship according to their
individual consciences.
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• Quick Review of Key Dates

508
533
538
750
800


Donation of Constantine
Charlemagne is named Holy Roman Emperor
Clovis Baptized
Arian Tribes Fall
Justinians Decree
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1260 years covered by the Prophecy
Holy Roman Empire formed
533
1793
800
1798
538
Woman now rides the Beast
Opposing Arian tribes destroyed
King Louis XVI killed by rebels
Pope Pius VI arrested at Rome
Justinians Decree
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At age 82, on the orders of the French Directory
in Paris Pope Pius VI is taken captive at Rome
Feb. 15, 1798
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Revelation Chapter 11
And when they shall have finished their
testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the
bottomless pit shall make war against them, and
shall overcome them, and kill them.
Revelation 117
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Revelation117-13
In the year 1793 twelve hundred and sixty years
from the letter of Justinian A.D. 533 declaring
the Pope Universal Bishop, the gospel was, by a
solemn act of the legislature and the people,
abolished in France. . .
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Revelation117-13
. . . By the decree of the French government,
declaring that the nation acknowledged no God,
the Old and New Testaments were slain throughout
the limits of republican France. George
CrolyThe Apocalypse of St. John, pp. 175-176
(1828)
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• The symbolism of the prophecy gives a striking
  picture of an attack to be made upon the two
  witnesses,the Scriptures of the Old and New
  Testaments . . .

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• . . . It was to come just as the great prophetic
  period of 1260 years of papal supremacy was
  ending. And at the same time one of the ten parts
  of the mystical city. . .

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• . . . of the prophecy, is overturned as by
  earthquake. It was just at this time that the
  earthquake of the French Revolution came.
• Beacon Lights of Prophecy, p. 253 (1935)

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And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom
and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 118
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Points to Define
What is the beast from the bottomless pit?
How does this prophecy apply to Sodom and
Egypt? How was Christ crucified?
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Daniel Chapter 11

• And the king shall do according to his will and
  he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above
  every god, and shall speak marvellous things
  against the God of gods . . .

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Daniel Chapter 11

• . . . and shall prosper till the indignation be
  accomplished for that that is determined shall
  be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his
  fathers, nor the desire of women . . .

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Daniel Chapter 11

• . . . nor regard any god for he shall magnify
  himself above all. But in his estate shall he
  honour the god of forces and a god whom his
  fathers knew not shall he honour with gold and
  silver. . .

Daniel 1136 - 38
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Characteristics of this Power

• A king or beast in prophecy is a political
  power or nation
• Arose at the time of the end
• Worshiped force, violence, and human reason
  as gods
• Rejected the God of his fathers

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• What were some of the things France did which
  caused it to be labeled atheistic and
  anti-God?

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Characteristics of France

• Rejected the Creator God and everything that
  He had ordained for the welfare of mankind
• Rejected the sacredness of marriage and family

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• France is the only nation in the world
  concerning which the authentic record survives,
  that as a nation she lifted her hand in open
  rebellion against the Author of the universe.
• Blackwoods Magazine, Nov. 1870

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Revelation Chapter 11

• If we search the annals of the world, we shall
  not find even a private society or sect, much
  less a civil community and state, which, before
  our day, has in the most public manner . . .

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• . . . proclaimed to all the nations around it,
  that there is no God! and made that position the
  basis of the constitution of its government.
• Joseph GallowayBrief Commentaries on Such Parts
  of the Revelation and other Prophecies as Refer
  to the Present Times, vol. 1, p. 64 (1802)

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Characteristics of France
Rejected the God-given seven day week This
new power exalted itself above every power
religious and political Deified brute force
and reason
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French Revolution

• The duke of Orleans, forty of the nobility, and
  200 of the clergy now joinedin the open

rebellion against the king and the Church
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• The first atheistic act was the introduction of
  the Republican calendar, in which a decadi of
  ten days was substituted for the immemorial
  seven-day week . . .

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• . . . and the tenth day was instituted as a day
  of rest in place of the Sabbath. With the
  introduction of the new calendar the Christian
  dating of the years was also discontinued . . .

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• . . . and a new era was inaugurated. The French
  Era was to succeed the Christian Era, now
  declared abolished. . .

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• . . . Henceforth the years were to date not from
  the birth of Christ, but the birth of the French
  Republic, September 22, 1792.
• George BurnsideRevelations Wonders Unfolded,
  pp. 137-138

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Points to Define
What is the beast from the bottomless pit?
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Revelation117-13
The beast from the bottomless pit is not a
nation it is an ideology, international in
extent . . .
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Revelation117-13
. . . France was the concrete agent which
initiated the change but it was the ideology
then dominating the Directory . . .
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Revelation117-13
. . . the ruling power in Paris, which was
behind the change . . . It was a fundamental
change of ideas. George McCready PriceThe Time
of the End, p. 67 (1967)
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Revelation117-13
What Revelation calls the beast from the
bottomless pit, or the abyss . . . was a new
manifestation of satanic power. George McCready
PriceThe Time of the End, p. 43 (1967)
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Revelation117-13
The power symbolized in Revelation 117 by the
beast from the bottomless pit which made deadly
war on the Bible at the time of the French
Revolution . . .
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Revelation117-13
. . . We have named it organized atheism,
infidelity on a national scale George McCready
PriceThe Time of the End, p. 55 (1967)
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God Rejected

• On the 26th of August, 1792, an open profession
  of Atheism was made by the whole nation, once
  zealously devoted to the Papal superstition . .
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• Ethan SmithDissertation on the Prophecies, p.
  154 (1814)

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God Rejected
France is the only nation that ever openly
denied the existence of the Deity, and set up a
worship recognizing no other ruler than the
Goddess of Reason. Stephen N. HaskellSeer of
Patmos, p. 201
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God Rejected
Proponents of the French Revolution appealed to
human reason to justify the universality of human
rights. In stark contrast to the French
revolutionaries, the American founding fathers
appealed to rights endowed by our
Creator. Who Created Human Rights?By James
Standish
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God Rejected
Rousseau . . . preached the alluring doctrine
that the primitive state of man was one of virtue
and happiness, from which he man had declined
through the rather inexplicable activities of
priests, kings, lawyers, and the like. H. G.
Wells The Outline of History, p. 895 (1920)
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But . . . What Caused It?
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What Caused It?

• The opinions of intelligent men at the time
  generally attributed the French Revolution to
  religious decay. In short, to the errors and
  defects of Popery we cannot but impute . . .

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What Caused It?

• . . . in a great degree the original of that
  revolutionary spirit which has gone so far toward
  the subversion of the ancient establishments of
  religion and civil government . . .

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What Caused It?

• . . . By the abuses of religion such minds have
  been led into all the extravagancies of deism and
  atheism, of revolution and anarchy.
• George CrolyThe Apocalypse of St. John, p. 318
  (1827)

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What Caused It?

• Books were written by the most subtile crafty,
  cunning of their order, calculated to unhinge
  the mind from the truths of Revelation, and to
  bring the Gospel into contempt.
• Ethan SmithDissertation on the Prophecies, p.
  158 (1814)

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What Caused It?

• Books . . . teeming with the most artful
  suggestions of Infidelity were profusely
  scattered through the whole mass of society.
• Ethan SmithDissertation on the Prophecies, p.
  158 (1814)

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What Caused It?

• So that few or no good books could circulate in
  society or even be found.
• The whole purpose for this work was to suppress
  every evangelical publication.
• Ethan SmithDissertation on the Prophecies, p.
  158 (1814)

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What Caused It?

• Longstanding abuses by the Church (nearly
  1260 years)
• Heavy taxation by the government and no
  representation of the lower classes of persons
• New ideas overtaking the educational system
  which resulted in a rejection of God and the
  Bible

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