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America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Modern Version]

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

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entirely wiped out."--Concil. Tolosanum, Pope Gregory IX, Anno. chr. 1229. Canons 14 and 2.<br />

This Council sat at the time of the crusade aga<strong>in</strong>st the Albigenses.<br />

"This pest [the bible] had taken such an extension that some people had appo<strong>in</strong>ted<br />

priests of their own, and even some evangelists who distorted and destroyed the truth of the<br />

gospel and made new gospels for their own purpose . . . (they know that) the preach<strong>in</strong>g and<br />

explanation of the Bible is absolutely forbidden to the lay members."--Acts of Inquisition,<br />

Philip van Limborch, History of the Inquisition, chapter 8.<br />

The Council of Tarragona, 1234, ruled that: "No one may possess the books of the Old<br />

and New Testaments <strong>in</strong> the Romance language, and if anyone possesses them he must turn<br />

them over to the local bishop with<strong>in</strong> eight days after promulgation of this decree, so that they<br />

may be burned lest, be he a cleric or a layman, he be suspected until he is cleared of all<br />

suspicion."--D. Lortsch, Histoire de la Bible en France, 1910, p. 14.<br />

At the Council of Constance, <strong>in</strong> 1415, Wycliffe was posthumously condemned <strong>by</strong><br />

Arundel, the archbishop of Canterbury, as "that pestilent wretch of damnable heresy who<br />

<strong>in</strong>vented a new translation of the Scriptures <strong>in</strong> his mother tongue."<br />

The opposition to the Bible <strong>by</strong> the Roman Catholic Church has cont<strong>in</strong>ued through the<br />

centuries and was <strong>in</strong>creased particularly at the time of the found<strong>in</strong>g of Bible societies. On<br />

December 8, 1866, Pope Pius IX, <strong>in</strong> his encyclical Quanta cura, issued a syllabus of eighty errors<br />

under ten different head<strong>in</strong>gs. Under head<strong>in</strong>g IV we f<strong>in</strong>d listed: "Socialism, communism,<br />

clandest<strong>in</strong>e societies, Bible societies. . . . Pests of this sort must be destroyed <strong>by</strong> all possible<br />

means."<br />

Page 276. The Reign of Terror.--For a reliable, brief <strong>in</strong>troduction <strong>in</strong>to the history of the<br />

French Revolution see L. Gershoy, The French Revolution (1932); G. Lefebvre, The Com<strong>in</strong>g of<br />

the French Revolution (Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton, 1947); and H. von Sybel, History of the French Revolution<br />

(1869), 4 vols.<br />

The Moniteur Officiel was the government paper at the time of the Revolution and is a<br />

primary source, conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g a factual account of actions taken <strong>by</strong> the Assemblies, full texts of<br />

the documents, etc. It has been repr<strong>in</strong>ted. See also A. Aulard, Christianity and the French<br />

Revolution (London, 1927), <strong>in</strong> which the account is carried through 1802--an excellent study;<br />

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