[“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever” Isaiah 40:8, KJV.] When France publicly rejected God and set aside the Bible, wicked men and spirits of darkness exulted in their attainment of the object so long desired—a kingdom free from the restraints of the law of God.Continue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 5”
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The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 4
[Isaiah 48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.—KJV] At the opening of the Revolution, by a concession of the king, the people were granted aContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 4”
The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 3
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Psalm 14:1. And the Lord declares concerning the perverters of the truth: “Their folly shall be manifest unto all.” 2 Timothy 3:9. After France had renounced the worship of the living God, “the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,” it was only a little timeContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 2
“When they shall have finished [are finishing] their testimony.” The period when the two witnesses were to prophesy clothed in sackcloth, ended in 1798. As they were approaching the termination of their work in obscurity, war was to be made upon them by the power represented as “the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlessContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 1
[Choosing Opinions Over God’s Word] In the sixteenth century the Reformation, presenting an open Bible to the people, had sought admission to all the countries of Europe. Some nations welcomed it with gladness, as a messenger of Heaven. In other lands the papacy succeeded to a great extent in preventing its entrance; and the lightContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Bible and the French Revolution—Chapter 15, Part 1”