To ignore History and Prophecy, is to turn a blind eye
to truth.
We are warned that we are blind especially in the last
days and it is no wonder? We refuse truth because it confuses us, it makes us
have to study deeply and truly search for understanding through the Holy
Spirit. We have to go beyond mere
mouthing words and study- we have to
watch and pray, do we?
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Rev 11:11 And after three days and an half the Spirit
of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great
fear fell upon them which saw them.
Rev 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven
saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
and their enemies beheld them.
Rev 11:13 And the same hour was there a great
earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were
slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to
the God of heaven.
The word of God.
God's holy word.
Love.
Despised.
Revered.
Trampled upon.
Honored.
The Bible has been
through many, many phases- some, where it has been openly honored and others
where, it has been openly despised. People have gone to great lengths to
possess the written word of God, many have died in possession of mere snippets
of the Scriptures because it has been illegal to have any part of God's written
word. Even today in parts of the world this is still true. We don't like to
believe it is because that would mean we live in a barbaric world and we do in
many, many ways. To discount such a powerful prophecy geared towards the
written word of God would be incredibly foolish and we would be allowing
ourselves to be blind if we ignored the possibility.
The word of God was
abandoned, burned, discarded, destroyed all as the age of reason was ushered
in. Where did this take place? Over in part of the world which was once under
the rule of the Roman Empire. When the Roman Empire was broken up into ten main
parts this part of the world was one of those ten- France. Do you remember our
Daniel study on this? Let's have a tiny
refresher.
'There were ten
nations at some time in their history that were most important in bringing the
Roman Empire to its knees, who as independent kingdoms held portions of the
Roman empire as theirs.
Huns, Ostrogoths,
Visigoths, Franks, Vandals, Suevi, Burgundians, Heruli, Anglo-Saxons, and
Lombards'
The Franks- France.
This wasn't a part
of the world unknown, a part of the world that had no history in God's
prophecies, this part of the world was 1/10th of those responsible for the
Roman Empire falling apart. France- one of the ten toes in Daniel's prophetic
interpretation of the great statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. We shouldn't be
surprised at all whatsoever that this part of the world would play a part in
more prophetic history. Politics and religion mingled- politics trying to shut
out religion and succeeding in keeping the written word of God despised but the
word of God could NOT be destroyed.
The written word of
God was shoved into darkness, deep, deep darkness for many years and then in
extreme darkness before it was revived.
Rev 11:11 And after three days and an half the Spirit
of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great
fear fell upon them which saw them.
Rev 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven
saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
and their enemies beheld them.
Rev 11:13 And the same hour was there a great
earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were
slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to
the God of heaven.
The Bible! The
glorious Bible was massed produced and began to be given to many, many, many
people and it has NOT stopped being massed produced since and given to many.
The Bible Societies in our world have gone to great lengths to see that God's
written word has gone to people all over the world in many, many languages.
Read this--
Religious books,
especially the Bible and the Qur'an, are probably the
most-printed books, but it is nearly impossible to find reliable sales figures
for them. Print figures are missing or unreliable since these books are
produced by many different and unrelated publishers. Furthermore, many copies
of the Bible and the Qur'an are printed and given away free, instead of being
sold.
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books>
The MOST printed
books and the Bible is among them!
The Spirit of life
from God entered into the written word being proclaimed.
Did great fear fall
upon those which realized the Bible's power as it was being given to people
everywhere? Yes. The very same people that did not want the Bible to be given
to people but wanted to control what they knew of God's word- were NOT happy
with this mass produced Bible going to everyone. These people even told their
followers that the word of God could only properly be interpreted by them. It's
true! I know I've mentioned it before in other studies.
'In particular,
watch more carefully over those who are assigned to give public readings of
holy scripture, so that they function diligently in their office within the
comprehension of the audience; under no pretext whatsoever should they dare to
explain and interpret the divine writings contrary to the tradition of the
Fathers or the interpretation of the Catholic Church.'
INTER PRAECIPUAS (On
Biblical Societies) by Pope Gregory XVI, May 8, 1844
There is much a
person can find on the history of the Bible, of the Bible being banned and so
forth. God's witnesses were severely oppressed.
We have access to God's written word and we are so incredibly blessed by
that access.
God's word directs
us heavenward, yes?
The gospel of Christ
directs us heavenward. We cannot forget this, not for a moment. The Gospel of
the kingdom! Salvation through our Savior!
As the fallout from
the French Revolution, of the Biblical side of things was witnessed many were
horrified, severely horrified by what they saw and yet those who are God's
chosen knew still they must give all glory to God. God's remnant throughout
time have been witness to the abuse of God's written word through those who
have sought to follow God's truth.
Killed for the word of God, this is fact NOT fiction and yet so many
today laugh off Christianity. So many laugh off conviction and believe it's all
a bunch of foolishness.
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VERSE 13. And the
same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell,
and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were
affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
What city? (See Rev.
chapter 17:18: "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which
reigneth over the kings [kingdoms] of the earth.") That city is the papal
Roman power. France is one of the "ten horns" that gave "their
power and strength unto the [papal] beast;" or is one of the ten kingdoms
that arose out of the Western Empire of Rome, as indicated by the ten toes of
Nebuchadnezzar's image, the ten horns of Daniel's beast (Dan. 7:24), and John's
dragon. Rev. 12:3. France, then, was "a tenth part of the city," and
was one of the strongest ministers of papal vengeance; but in this revolution
it "fell," and with it fell the last civil messenger of papal fury.
"And in the earthquake were slain of men [margin, names of men, or TITLES
of men] seven thousand." France made war, in her revolution of 1789-98 and
onward, on all titles of nobility. It is said by those who have examined the
French records, that just seven thousand titles of men were abolished in that
revolution. "And the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of
heaven." Their God-dishonoring and Heaven-defying work filled France with
such scenes of blood, carnage, and horror, as made even the infidels themselves
tremble, and stand aghast; and the "remnant" that escaped the horrors
of that hour "gave glory to God" - not willingly, but the God of
heaven caused this "wrath of man to praise him," by causing all the
world to see that those who make war on heaven make graves for themselves; thus
glory redounded to God by the very means that wicked men employed to tarnish
that glory.
p 538 -- For the
statistics and many of the foregoing thoughts on the two witnesses, we are
indebted to an exposition of the subject of The Two Witnesses, by the late
George Storrs.))))
Oh by the grace of
God may we NEVER be among those fools, NEVER be among those deceived. Please Lord continue to enlighten us, please!
By Your grace, by Your mercy, by Your LOVE always!!!!!!!!
Help us Lord, save
us!
Amen.
