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		<title>Why Many Don't Believe (cont.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now living in the reign of the 6th head of Revelation 17, the King of the South of Daniel 11:40 and the beast from the bottomless pit of Revelation 11:7.  This power, which is completely against the word of God, became known in Europe during the mid-17th century AD and exploded onto the world stage in the years following the French Revolution.  To understand exactly who this power is, we have to look back at the French Revolution.    In May 1789, the States General of France met at the call of Louis XVI to, supposedly, vote in new taxes. The assembly was made up of France's three classes of society:  the clergy (1st estate), the nobles (2nd estate) & the commoners (3rd estate) and they normally met separately (within their respective estates).  France had depleted its treasury by supporting the United States in their war for independence against the British and needed revenue.   Unexpectedly however, the commoners expressed their own agenda.    The third estate declared that they wanted nothing more to do with the king or God.  They had been reading writers of philosophy from the 1600s that taught that men can be enlightened and felt that reason was the best means of knowing where we came from and why we're here.  This period was known as the Age of Reason.  The commoners went to this assembly trying to bring about reforms from what they felt were shackles of the system they were subjected to.  The result of these activities, and the fact that Louis now insist that the three parties meet separately going forward, led to the third estate uniting under what was to be known as the National Assembly.  "After being prevented from meeting in their usual meeting place, the delegates went to a nearby indoor tennis court.  There all but one agreed to what is known as the Tennis Court Oath.  In this oath, the members of the new National Assembly swore "never to separate until the constitution of the kingdom was established and fixed upon firm foundations"*.  This led to a series of events initiated by the National Assembly (now joined by former members of the clergy and nobles) to where in 1791 they forced the king to accept their constitution.    Under this new constitution, a Legislative Assembly was formed, all by idealist younger men who had their own agenda.  They declared the king a traitor to France and set out to turn France into a republic.  Additionally (and most importantly), they sought to share their ideas with surrounding nations in an effort to rid Europe of all kings and nobles.  In 1792, these men persuaded the Legislative Assembly to call a National Convention to draw up this new constitution which would establish France as a republic.  Within this new government, the Committee of Public Safety was formed.  This committee was heavily influenced by members of the Jacobin Club who initiated the Reign of Terror on anyone opposed to the Revolution taking place.  Many were massacred under the direction of this newly established government.  This takes us up to Revelation 11 and the "three and a half days" that the Bible ("two witnesses...the Old and the New Testaments) was forced out of France.    In prophetic language a year is represented by a day (Ezekiel 4:5-6; Numbers 14:34).  In this case, the three and a half prophetic days is actually three and a half literal years.  On November 11, 1793 a Grand Festival was held in France dedicated to "Reason and Truth".  The Cathedral of Notre Dame was desecrated and named "The Temple of Reason".  In the middle of the temple, a pyramid covered by a temple was built and on it was inscribed "To Philosophy".  There was a Torch of Truth on top of this altar.  At this time, the people set up the "Goddess of Reason" and worshiped her publically.  She was paraded in the streets, suggestively dressed and holding up a torch in her right hand.  Keep in mind that the influential minds of this movement (Jacobin Club members) wanted to share their philosophies of freedom with the world (as a gesture from France, New York now hosts a remnant of that philosophy in the Statue of Liberty).  The members of this Club referred to themselves as "Illuminists" or "Enlightened Ones" and taught that reason could solve all of mankind's issues.  Within this Club, a secret society was formed in Bavaria by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt...this group was called the Illuminati.  Their aim was to replace Christianity by the religion of reason.    These teachings led to atheism, communism, evolution and secular humanism.  In 1844, the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Robert Chambers), the Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts (a precursor to communism by Karl Marx) and a 230-page essay by Charles Darwin (after collaborating with Joseph Dalton Hooker) were all written, launching a firestorm of belief in evolution and disbelief in God, the Creator.  Not only have these teachings drawn people away from God, they've also contributed to a rise in immorality and hatred towards one another.    This is the kingdom in which we're living under now.  This is the sixth head of Revelation 17, the King of the South of Daniel 11:40 and the "beast from the bottomless pit" of Revelation 11.  It is a new manifestation of satanic power, set out to make open, avowed war upon the word of God (Great Controversy pp. 268-269).  When the papacy received its "deadly wound" (which was caused when satanic forces removed the Catholic Church from its position as the kingdom Satan used to advance his sinister cause until the time decreed by God came - 1798), this new power manifested itself in almost every form within society since 1844 and continues to do so today.  The method used in the West has been and still is the educational system, which we'll look at next.]]></description>
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