Rev
11:9 And they of the people and kindreds
and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and
shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
Rev
11:10 And they that dwell upon the earth
shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another;
because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
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There are
a lot of people who believe even today that the Bible, that belief in God, that
belief in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior- is an oppressive religion. This
moment in history (PROPHECY)- if you will- reveals a time when religion was
banned. This happened at tail end of the 1260 year prophecy which ended in
1798.
It is
notable, very notable and recognized in many ways even today- if not
significantly for the religious aspect.
The Reign of Terror- who hasn't learned of this in school history? This
is a remarkable event and all that surrounds it is very telling. In 1798
Napoleon's general took the Pope out of power and this led up to that
prophetically significant event. We can't ignore it, we shouldn't ignore it. We
have to realize that there is quite bit
of prophecy specific to the very end times, but we have thousands of years of
history that the prophecy has been set for. Periods of great events, and long
lulls. We have to trust that our Savior will give us all the truth we need so
that we are not deceived as all but the very elect will be.
So much to
learn! Does this fit the prophecy?
Truly, does it? Could it? Putting things all together does it work? Are we
forcing puzzle pieces into the puzzle or are they falling easily into place? A lot of people would have us believe we are
forcing those puzzle pieces. And you
know what, they'd say that no matter what theories we come up with.
Everyone
has their own and this is the theory of people who came to the truth as God was
opening the eyes of people to understand the messages in the little book of
prophecy- Daniel. Does this mean they
can't be wrong? No, it doesn't mean that at all. We all are given light and
seriously as God enlightens our understanding to things then we can build on
truths that have been presented but only in such a way that we are not
contradicting God's word, not contradicting truths that have been established
beyond any doubt whatsoever. If we begin to believe in something that takes
away that truth that has been given without any doubt at all then everything
collapses and deception works its way in. We have to pray and pray hard to have
understanding in God's truth.
Personally I do not subscribe to any religion at all that has been established
as a religion today- unless I am joining the few who are coming out of Babylon
and believing in God's truth and nothing but God's truth.
Do I have
all the answers? No, and I never will.
We are ALL called to walk by FAITH and that means not having evidence
for all things. We place our hope and faith in our Savior to lead us to all the
truth we need to be His now and forever.
For now
read the history excerpts below and realize that the two witnesses (the old and
the new testaments) the Bible, was truly, historically, on a huge level denied
entirely.
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History-
1793-1797
Oct. 5,
1793. The revolutionary calendar was established making weeks of 10 days.
(God
created the seven day week)
The month
is divided into three décades or
"weeks" of ten days each, named simply…
From
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar>
Nov. 10,
1793 A statute of liberty as "godess of the French people" replaced
the image of Mary. . -
The
official nationwide Fête
de la Raison, supervised by Hébert and Momoro on 20 Brumaire, Year II (10 November 1793) came to
epitomize the new republican way of religion. In ceremonies devised and
organised by Chaumette, churches across France were transformed into
modern Temples of Reason. The
largest ceremony of all was at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The Christian altar was dismantled and
an altar to Liberty was
installed and the inscription "To Philosophy" was carved in stone
over the cathedral's doors.[10] Festive
girls in white Roman dress and tricolor sashes milled around a costumed Goddess
of Reason who "impersonated Liberty
From
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason>
Nov. 24.
Satute ordering the closing of all churches. (Aulard, p. 161)
Sept. 17,
1797. Catholicism had been generally restored.
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France
guarantees freedom of religion as a constitutional right and the government
generally respects this right in practice. A long history of violent conflict
between groups led the state to break its ties to the Catholic Church early in
the last century and adopt a strong commitment to maintaining a totally secular
public sector.[1]
The
Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution is a conventional
description of the results of a number of separate policies, conducted by
various governments of France between the start of the French Revolution in
1789 and the Concordat of 1801, forming the basis of the later and less radical
Laïcité movement. The goal of the campaign was the destruction of Catholic
religious practice and of the religion itself.[1] There has been much scholarly
debate over whether the movement was popularly motivated or something forced
upon the people by those in power.[2]
The
programme of dechristianization waged against Catholicism, and eventually
against all forms of Christianity, included:[1][3][4]: confiscation of church
lands, which were to be the security for the new Assignat currency removal of statues, plates and other
iconography from places of worship
destruction of crosses, bells and other external signs of worship the institution of revolutionary and civic
cults, including the Cult of Reason and subsequently the Cult of the Supreme
Being, the enactment of a law on October
21, 1793 making all nonjuring priests and all persons who harboured them liable
to death on sight.
The climax
was reached with the celebration of the Goddess "Reason" in Notre
Dame Cathedral on 10 November 1793.
The
dechristianization campaign can be seen as the logical extension of the
materialist philosophies of some leaders of the enlightenment, while for others
with more prosaic concerns it was an opportunity to unleash resentments against
the Church and clergy.[5]
In Paris,
over a forty-eight hour period beginning on September 2, 1792, as the
Legislative Assembly (successor to the National Constituent Assembly) dissolved
into chaos, three Church bishops and more than two hundred priests were
massacred by angry mobs; this constituted part of what would become known as
the September Massacres. Priests were among those drowned in the Noyades for
treason under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Carrier; priests and nuns were
among the mass executions at Lyon, for separatism, on the orders of Joseph
Fouché and Collot d'Herbois. Hundreds more priests were imprisoned and made to
suffer in abominable conditions in the port of Rochefort.
Anti-church
laws were passed by the Legislative Assembly and its successor, the National
Convention, as well as by département councils throughout the country. Many of
the acts of dechristianization in 1793 were motivated by the seizure of church
gold and silver to finance the war effort,[6] though exceptions weren't
uncommon. In November 1793, the département council of Indre-et-Loire abolished
the word dimanche (English: Sunday).[citation needed] The Gregorian calendar,
an instrument decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, was replaced by the French
Republican Calendar which abolished the sabbath, Saints' days and any
references to the Church.
Anti-clerical
parades were held, and the Archbishop of Paris was forced to resign his duties
and made to replace his mitre with the red "Cap of Liberty." Street
and place names with any sort of religious connotation were changed, such as
the town of St. Tropez which became Héraclée. Religious holidays were banned
and replaced with holidays to celebrate the harvest and other non-religious
symbols. Robespierre and his colleagues decided to supplant both Catholicism
and the rival, atheistic Cult of Reason with the Cult of the Supreme Being.
Just six weeks before his arrest, on June 8, 1794 the still-powerful
Robespierre personally led a vast procession through Paris to the Tuileries
garden in a ceremony to inaugurate the new faith.
The
dechristianisation of France reached its zenith around the middle of 1794 with
the fall of Robespierre. By early 1795 a return to some form of religion-based
faith was beginning to take shape and a law passed on February 21, 1795
legalised public worship, albeit with strict limitations. The ringing of church
bells, religious processions and displays of the Christian cross were still
forbidden.
As late as
1799, priests were still being imprisoned or deported to penal colonies and
persecution only worsened after the French army led by General Louis Alexandre
Berthier captured Rome and imprisoned Pope Pius VI, who would die in captivity
in Valence, France in August of 1799. Ultimately, with Napoleon now in
ascendancy in France, year-long negotiations between government officials and
the new Pope, Pius VII, led to the Concordat of 1801, formally ending the
dechristianisation period and establishing the rules for a relationship between
the Roman Church and the French State.
Victims of
the Reign of Terror totaled somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000. According to
one estimate, among those condemned by the revolutionary tribunals, about 8
percent were aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class, and 70
percent were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading the draft,
desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes.[7] Of these social groupings,
the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church suffered proportionately the greatest
loss.[7]
Main
articles: Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution and Revolt
in the Vendée
The
Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution is a conventional
description of a campaign, conducted by various Robespierre-era governments of
France beginning with the start of the French Revolution in 1789, in order to
eliminate any symbol that might be associated with the past, especially the
monarchy.
The
program included the following policies:[44][45][46] the deportation of clergy and the
condemnation of many of them to death,
the closing, desecration and pilaging of churches, removal of the word
"saint" from street names and other acts to banish Christian culture
from the public sphere removal of
statues, plates and other iconography from places of worship destruction of crosses, bells and other
external signs of worship the
institution of revolutionary and civic cults, including the Cult of Reason and
subsequently the Cult of the Supreme Being,
the large scale destruction of religious monuments, the outlawing of public and private worship
and religious education, forced
marriages of the clergy, forced
abjurement of priesthood, and
the enactment of a law on 21 October 1793
making all nonjuring priests and all persons who harbored them liable to death
on sight.
The climax
was reached with the celebration of the Goddess "Reason" in Notre
Dame Cathedral on 10 November.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians#French_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianisation_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution
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Roman
Catholicism, the religion of a majority of French people, is no longer
considered a state religion, as it was before the 1789 Revolution and
throughout the various, non-republican regimes of the 19th century (the
Restoration, the July Monarchy and the Second French Empire).
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In
September 1793 a period known as the Reign of Terror ensued for approximately
12 months
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The climax
was reached with the celebration of the goddess "Reason" in Notre
Dame Cathedral on 10 November. Because dissent was now regarded as
counterrevolutionary, extremist enragés such as Hébert and moderate Montagnard
indulgents such as Danton were guillotined in the Spring of 1794.[citation
needed] On 7 June Robespierre, who favoured deism over Hébert's atheism and had
previously condemned the Cult of Reason, recommended that the Convention
acknowledge the existence of God. On the next day, the worship of the deistic
Supreme Being was inaugurated as an official aspect of the Revolution. Compared
with Hébert's somewhat popular festivals, this austere new religion of Virtue
was received with signs of hostility by the Parisian public
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The days
of the French Revolution and Republic saw many efforts to sweep away various
trappings of the ancien régime; some of these were more successful than others.
The new Republican government sought to institute, among other reforms, a new
social and legal system, a new system of weights and measures (which became the
metric system), and a new calendar. Amid nostalgia for the ancient Roman
Republic, the theories of the Enlightenment were at their peak, and the
devisors of the new systems looked to nature for their inspiration. Natural
constants, multiples of ten, and Latin derivations formed the fundamental
blocks from which the new systems were built.
The new
calendar was created by a commission under the direction of the politician
Charles Gilbert Romme seconded by Claude Joseph Ferry and Charles-François
Dupuis. They associated with their work the chemist Louis-Bernard Guyton de
Morveau, the mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange, the astronomer
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande, the mathematician Gaspard Monge, the
astronomer and naval geographer Alexandre Guy Pingré, and the poet, actor and
playwright Fabre d'Églantine, who invented the names of the months, with the
help of André Thouin, gardener at the Jardin des Plantes of the Muséum National
d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. As the rapporteur of the commission,
Charles-Gilbert Romme presented the new calendar to the Jacobin-controlled
National Convention on 23 September 1793
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