32 -- Approximate time when the Apostle Thomas set out for India to preach the gospel, non-violence, on the way to Indian king of Gandhara, named Gundephar, and, empowered by the Holy Spirit, lead over years many millions to Christ and to salvation in much of India, China and in the furthest reaches on earth. His first church was supposedly founded in 52 A.D. in Cranganore. His message was recorded eventually (by 641 AD) in the "Jesus Sutra" containing at first the pure gospel, which over the centuries experienced slight to moderate changes until the Muslim hordes and Catholics came, by the 6th century, and induced their populations to persecute and destroy the simple Christians living in peace under the Christian Taoist dynasty rulers. --

40 -- At the beginning of the Christian era the Lombards, or Longbardi (long beards), a German people which settled the region of the lower Elbe River, flowing through Hamburg into the North Sea.

50 -- In the days of the Apostles, in particular the Apostle Paul, the word of God was used in a mighty way and the resulting Bible books demand a thorough understanding from its readers. Over time various views came about on how to interpret Paul, the NT and all the Bible. It is important to realize that the first principal of research toward a goal of understanding Paul is to follow the claims of authorship we find in his letters. As each is studied on its own terms and in relationship to each other, the diversity of subjects and emphases appears as well as the unity within this diversity. Paul's letters must be studied in the same way as the whole of Scripture has a bearing on Paul's writings as they in turn will have a bearing on the whole of the Bible. This may be called the `inductive canonical approach,' - to let Scripture interpret Scripture - which has a primary role over any other approach.

51 or 52 -- Gallio comes to Corinth as `proconsul.' Gallion () was a magistrate in Corinth when the Apostle Paul was there as a Greek inscription testifies.

52 -- Approximate time that the 12 apostles spread out to fulfill Christ's command to preach the gospel in all the world. The Apostle Thomas made his way to India.

56 -- Greek influence in India continued and spread long afterwards. Contact between the Greeks in India and Persia was revived when the Parthians overrun the area in 56 A.D. Greek style fused with Buddhist motifs to create the first Buddha statues using the sun god Apollo as their model. The relationship is also shown by body posture, use of Greek togas and the sunburst halos derived from Apollo.

58 -- Paul is on his 3rd missionary journey in Corinth, writes there his epistles to the Galatians and to the believers in Rome. On his journey through Galatia Paul learned that Judaizers had persuaded Christian converts to submit to circumcision and to keep other precepts of the ceremonial system of the laws which Moses wrote with his hand into the `law of Moses', which had come to their end when Christ died on the Cross. Moses law also included civil laws, those having to do with purification and washings, etc. However, certain laws, like health laws would be beneficial also after the cross.

60 -- Time when Greeks with names like Meridarch Theodorus were dedicating Buddhist temples in the Swat Valley, eastern Afghanistan/western Pakistan. In India was the king of the Greeks, one named Merinda. The Christians used the `Milindapanha' Christian text-book until it vanished by the 8th-10th centuries, probably destroyed whenever found by Catholics and Muslims.

67 -- Bloody battle between Jews and Romans on the way to Jerusalem in Galilee. Mass grave of ca. 30 found at Yodfat/Jotapata/Iotape, after battling the city for 47 days.

70 -- Roman armies destroy the city of Jerusalem and its Temple.

79 -- August 24, Mt. Vesuvius erupts destroying Pompeii and Herculanum. On that day, members of the Roman army which had destroyed Jerusalem was vacationing in Pompeii and were thus among those who died. Of those who were members of the upper class and perished were Pliny the Elder (his other common name was commander Gaius Plinius Secundus), the procurator Antonius Felix and Agrippa, the son of the Jewish princess Drusilla. They night before, they didn't know that the words of the Apostle John in Revelation, "Behold, I come quickly" would apply to them. That in a few hours their destination, heaven or hell, would be fixed; and we are reminded of the "ring lady of Pompeii," which puts our time on earth in proper perspective in view of the soon coming judgment of God. As then, today too, people do not realize that they have only a few months (a year has only 12 months) to live before they see the form of God - the number which only God knows. Since Jesus is coming very soon, God allows the NWO to develop its tenants. Each hour and day, thousands of thousands, millions die each day world wide.

2nd century AD -- A villa in Rome, the Domus Valeriorum, with many artful frescoes discovered. [Archaeology, May/June 2006.]

117 -- Death of emperor Trajan. During his reign Rome reached its greatest dimension.

180 -- Pantainos of Alexandria is said to have stumbled on Matthew's Gospel in Aramaic while on his missionary travels in India in about AD 180.

196 -- Victor I, variously dated from 175 to 199 (some 189), in the year 196 took it upon himself to impose on all the other churches the Roman customs; that is to compel them to observe the Passover upon Sunday. "This bold attempt," says Bower, History of the Popes, "we may call the first essay of papal usurpation." Vol. 1, p. 18. - The churches of Asia Minor informed Victor that they could not comply with his lordly mandate. Then, says Bower, "Upon the receipt of this letter, Victor, giving the reins to an impotent and ungovernable passion, published bitter invectives against all the churches of Asia, declared them cut off from his communion, sent letters of excommunication to their respective bishops; and, at the same time, in order to have them cut off from the communion of the whole church, wrote to the other bishops, exhorting them to follow his example, and forbear communicating with their refractory brethren of Asia." Bower, Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 18. -- "Thus the papacy became another worldly Italian court, characterized by intrigue and bribery to be found elsewhere." H. J. Hillerbrand, The Reformation, p. 19.

250 -- Time of Novatian, apparent founder of the Cathari or Puritans. He wrote about the Sabbath as follows: "The law was given to the children of Israel for this purpose, that they might profit by it, and return to those virtuous manners which, although they had received them from their fathers, they had corrupted in Egypt, by reason of their intercourse with a barbarous people. Finally, also, those ten commandments on the tables teach nothing new, but remind them of what had been obliterated - that righteousness in them, which had been put to sleep, might revive again, as it were, by the afflatus of the law, after the manner of fire (nearly extinguished)." [Novatian, Jewish Meats,', chap. 3. Original works no longer extant.]

300 -- By this time the good news Gospel of Jesus Christ, who came to save sinners, had spread throughout the now known world - from England to India, and from Egypt to the Black Sea.

301 -- Armenia becomes the first nation to adopt Christianity as their state religion. Their church existed independently of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. " In lands beyond the jurisdiction of Rome, there existed for many centuries bodies of Christians who remained almost wholly free from papal corruption. They were surrounded by heathenism, and in the lapse of ages were affected by its errors; but they continued to regard the Bible as the only rule of faith, and adhered to many of its truths. These Christians believed in the perpetuity of the law of God, and observed the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. Churches that held to this faith and practice, existed in Central Africa and among the Armenians of Asia." 4SP 68.1

312 -- Edict of Milan. The right of every man to worship as he chose was recognized in this edict. [See Neander's `Church History', Vol. 2, Professor Torrey's edition, Boston, 1852, on this subject.] Around this time a theocratical theory was spun out in order to subordinate secular power to itself. So in the time of Constantine the civil power was subordinated to the ecclesiastical power. [See also A.T. Jones, `National Sunday Law', Pacific Press, 1889, p. 57f.]

313 -- Start of the Church Period of Pergamos (100-313).

314 - 323 -- Truce between Constantine in the West and Lucinius in the East ended with defeat of the latter.

321 -- March 7, the famous edict (Constantins) prohibiting certain kinds of work "on the venerable day of the sun" was issued.

324 -- Emperor Constantine moves his capital from Rome to Constantinopel/Istanbul and hands the power over Rome to pope Sylvester I. By this means the papacy emerged as the dominant power in Europe. - That is how the "little horn" of Daniel 7, growing up among the ten horns, by 476 AD had combined the power of the state and religion in its hands splitting off three Arian powers (the Heruli by 493, the Vandals by 534 and the Ostrogoths by 538) in the process.

325 -- The important synod of Nicea, Greece; resolved that Jesus coeternal with God and is truly God.

330 -- Constantine moves his capital from Rome to Constantinople.

347 -- John Chrysostome, a Greek church father was brought before the emperor to answer for his faith:

Emperor: If you persist being a Christian, I will banish you from your father's land.
Chrysostome: Your Majesty, you cannot do that; the whole world is my Father's land.
Emperor: Then I will take away your property.
Chrysostome: You cannot do that either. My treasures are in heaven.
Emperor: Then I will send you to a place where there will not be a friend to speak to you.
Chrysostome: You cannot do that, for I have a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. I shall have my Brother Jesus Christ forever.
Emperor: I will take away your life.
Chrysostome: You cannot do that either. My life is hid with Christ in God.

375 -- The Huns/Hunns attack southeast Europe.

381 -- Council of Constantinople, held that Jesus is truly human.

400 -- From this time on Augustine, Bishop of North Africa, makes himself a name by introducing his brand of Catholicism among the Arabic tribes of North Africa and thus helping Rome's desire along to make Jerusalem their holy city. In the long run, however, this plan failed when the Arabs, after conquering Jerusalem and realizing their power, did not relinquish control back to Rome as was expected - thus laying the ground work for the crusades some centuries later. From many small clues and symbols we learn that, actually, Islam is an out of control creation of Rome.

400 -- In the beginning of this 5th century the Lombards appear to have migrated to the Danube River area where they converted to Arianism. Throwing off the yoke of the Heruli by 490 AD, they destroyed the Gepidae by 566 AD, took possession of Pannonia, and under Albion invaded Italy in 568 AD.

401 -- A church convention in Carthage passed a resolution to transfer public shows from Sundays to other days of the week because the people went rather to the circus then to church. But the church could not stand competition and by 425 their law was passed.

410 -- Alaric sacks Rome. That signifies the end of Roman Britain. - - Birth of Narsai who became known as the "Harp of the Spirit" for writing hymns, some of which are still used today; he died by ca. 503.

410 -- Time of Tyconius.

411 -- Time of Bishop Rabulla (411-435) of Edessa.

425 -- The Sunday law now included, `In order that the devotion of the faithful might be free from all disturbance." Thus Constantine gave the church political preference. Out of this grew under Augustine the theoretical basis, the germ of spiritual despotism, intolerance and persecution, which ended in the Inquisition. -- Sunday keeping because of the resurrection is unbiblical because Christ and the Apostles instituted the Lord's Supper and adult Baptism as the memorial for the resurrection. The resurrection, important as it is, was to be preached about to bring people to the faith, but not made into a holy day. Sunday keeping churches err greatly when they keep an unbiblical form of `Lord's Supper' (no foot washing) and (infant) `Baptism'.

428 -- A monk named Nestorius became arch-bishop of Constantinople. He died in exile in the Egyptian desert around 451.

435 -- Vandals in North Africa.

448 -- Persian Zoroastrians murdered 153,000 Christians in Kirkuk, Mesopotamia.

450 -- Around this year, peace was established by the Persian Emperor Hormized III. By now the leaders of the Christian Church in the Sassanian Empire (226-642 in Iraq, Iran, Afgh.) had learned that any link with Rome, Constantinople, or even the Mother Patriarchate of Antioch, exposed them to Zoroastrian suspicions of treason. Despite the persecutions, Christians eventually grew to outnumber Zoroastrians in the Sassanian Empire, and theirs would have become the faith of the empire had not the Arabs conquered the Sassanians by the middle of the 7th century and introduced Islam.

455 -- The Vandal leader Genseric, after destroying the Roman fleet in the harbor of Cartagena, Spain, and another time off the coast of Carthage, he sacks Rome in this year.

468 -- The fleet of Leo I. costing 130,000 lbs of gold, consisting of 1113 ships and exceeding 100,000 men, were attacked by Genseric towing barges filled with combustable material during a night into the unsuspecting Roman fleet, destroying it and catapulting Genseric into the position of tyrant of the sea. That made him like Alaric and Attila and sundry powers which carved up the Roman Empire as foretold by Bible prophecy, - Daniel's ten divisions of iron mixed with clay in the toes thus extending the effects of old earthly history to the days just before the Second Coming of Christ.

476 -- Odowacar unseats Romulus from Western Rome.

493 -- The Heruli are defeated.

500 -- Approximate time when Lao Zin wrote the "Tao Te Ching" classic of Taoism.

508 -- Clovis defeats the Ostrogoths. Start of the 1290 prophetic days of Daniel 12:11 reaching to 1798; also start of the 1335 prophetic days of Daniel 12:12 reaching to 1843.

534 -- The Vandals are defeated.

538 -- The Ostrogoths power is broken. - Emperor Justian's Decree. Start of the prophetic 1260 days, 42 months, 3½ times encompassing the Dark Ages of papal rule and supremacy. Start of the Church Period of Thyatira (538-1517).

548 -- The Vandals were defeated by the general of Justinian, Belisorius. It appears there remained of them perhaps some 160,000, who shipped out of the Mediterranea and on to the southern coast of Ireland. What happened next, may be, since the Irish king Anlach was Arthur's brother in law, Arthur shipped his army to Ireland to assist him. The Vandals got back on their ships and crossed to Rembrockshire. Arthur followed and chased them across southern Wales, losing three sons in battles en route. Eventually they reached the Severn River and the Vandals got across after another major battle. If they moved on, Wroxeter and Wall would have been in their line of march. At about this time Wroxeter, the capital of Powis, was destroyed and a new capital established further west. In this scenario the Staffordshire Hoard could either be the loot from Wroxeter, the Vandals treasure, if they were defeated in a major battle. In Welsh tradition, the Vandals and the Mercians were the same people. [World Archaeology, Feb/Mar 2010, Vol. 4, No. 3, Issue 39, p. 9.]

549 -- First Christians reach Tibetan world; conversion of the white Huns. Asking for a bishop, they remained the most faithful church for many centuries. - - From the 6th to the 8th centuries Tibet was not Buddhist but Shamanic.

552 -- Ostrogoths are finally destroyed.

565 -- Lombard king Alboin ruled till 573.

568 -- The Lombard (Longobards) ruler Albion invades Italy establishing himself and his Lombards at Pavia as capital. While there they were induced by Pope Gregory the Great (590-604), and their queen Theodelinda, to accept Roman Catholicism. Because of the seizure of the Pentapolis and Ravenna by the energetic Lombard king Liutprand, the Pope, fearful of further aggression, summoned Pepin, king of the Franks, to subdue them (756).

581 -- Start of the Sui Dynasty (581-618 A.D. which built the circular `Altar of Heaven' located in the City of Xian. It was exposed and reburried.

585 -- Time of Aurelius Cassiodorus. / Persian/Afghan city of Herat has its first archbishop.

589 -- A Brief History of China: Three civil wars and a succession of tribal invasions afflicted the region until the end of the 5th century A.D. when the short lived Sui dynasty (589-618) managed to regain much of the north and create at least the semblance of a united China again. Li Shimin had been one of the generals of the Sui Dynasty. He rose in rebellion in 616 and by the following year had captured Chang-an and declared it the restored capital city of China. In 618 he formally declared the Tang Dynasty and placed his father on the throne. Li then set about wiping out all opposition to his rule, including every one of his several brothers. Once they were dead, he deposed his father, and in 626 became the 2nd emperor of the Tang, taking the title `Taizong.' As Emperor Taizong he ruled until 650. By this time, Tang China had become the most powerful empire in the world and was on its way to being greatest in scale and power that has ever seen. At its peak, Tang China ruled from North Korea to the Caspian Sea and from Mongolia down to present-day Vietnam. Beyond this, the states of Japan, Korea, and what is today Thailand and Laos accepted the suzerainty of China and each sent tribute to the Imperial Court at Chang-an. Tibet was the only power in the region even remotely comparable to China, but had a strategic alliance made with it. - - It was this empire and this ruler that the first mission to China of the Church of the East encountered in 635. - - Shamanism was probably the oldest religion in the region. Then came Taoism (due to Lao Zi) in the 2nd century A.D. and after that Greek based Buddhism. - - When the teachings of `The Sutra of Cause, Effect and Salvation', the first and second Sutra, offered the clearest evidence that the Church was that the spirit in it had been influenced in their presentation of spiritual concepts from other mission field. This Sutra had been translated into Chinese by 640 A.D. While the first part of the Sutra reflects some concepts of the early, pure apostolic teachings, later passages were mixed with other ideas. It shows that Christian concepts and teachings were prevalent in early China until post 538 A.D. Catholics came and set out to induce the spirit of persecution among those in power and in time it and Islam, destroyed Christianity in the east.

590 -- Pope Gregory I (the Great), asserts the supremacy of the supposed apostolic succession. Under the triple titles of (1) Bishop of Rome, (2) Primate of Italy (mixing church & state), and (3) Apostle of the West, he gradually, by gentle insinuations (lies) or bold assertion, as best suited the circumstances (a worldly ruler, not of Christ), elevated the episcopacy of Rome into a genuine papacy [Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. VII, p. 418] of the church. He succeeded in bringing the Arians of Italy and Spain into the Catholic fold, and thus secured the solidarity of the Western ecclesia, [Ibid., p. 419]. It was the growth and encroachment of Catholic power in Italy that ultimately led to the overthrow of the Lombard kingdom.

600 -- Gold coins of Heraclius, who ruled between 610 and 641 A.D., were found Dec. 21, 2008 in a wall of an ancient building in Jerusalem. He is depicted wearing military dress and holding a cross in his right hand.

614 -- Persian conquest of Jerusalem.

622 -- Islam begins to rear its head, having received the Syrian Nestorian holy book, as the basis for their own Quran.

635 -- Khalid ibn al-Walid of (Saudi)-Arabia began his conquest of the old Roman Empire including the Sassanide Empire, much of the Middle East, North Africa and Spain.

636 -- Time of Isidorus of Seville.

680 -- Lebanese Maronite Church splits away from the Orthodox.

711 -- Spain: Muzza was in command of the army that defeated the last Visigothic king of Spain in 711. Muzza is said to have been buried at Mount Abyla (Moorish Gibil Muza) since it is regarded to contain a sepulcher of a prophet by that name.

712 -- Islam storms the pillars of Hercules (the rock of Gibralta) to establish a presence in Spain that was to last for 700 years. While in Spain, the Arabs set up schools and taught people new sciences like mathematics. In the Roman Empire, the papacy kept people in ignorance and darkness so typical for the Middle Ages. It remained that way for a long time that schooling in Catholic countries fell far below that of those countries which welcomed the Reformation. So we can say, God actually used these Muslim people - since they educated the people - to indirectly prepare the people in those lands in many ways for the reformation. That is how God can use things, that the devil has set up, to help His people. - That is why God's people can rest in God, for nothing can touch them without His permission. While God's people may experience trials and troubles, they can rest in Him in prayer and faith, just knowing He will turn things just right - to help them grow in faith. - Thus all the troubles caused today by these people, God uses them to overrule all the trouble they may cause, so that God's people may be ready for His plans and purposes, especially, to ready people everywhere for the Second Coming of Jesus at the end of the world.

712 -- From the Lombard king Rothari (died 652) to Liutprand (712-744), lasted a period of irregular Lombard royals.

727 -- Time of the Patriarch Timothy I (727-823), was head of the Christian Church of the East. Evidence for Christian presence are three large crosses and some inscriptions carved in a large rock at Tankse, Ladakh, once part of Tibet, but now in India. It dominates the pass at Drangste, one of the main trade routes between Lhasa and Bactria. The name "Jesus" written in Sogdian, was discerned. Another inscription reads, "In the year 210 came Nosfarn from Samarkand as emissary to the Khan of Tibet."

732 -- Carl Martell achieves victory over the Arabs by Tours and Poitiers in France.

751 -- Crowning and anointing of Pippin by Boniface at Soissons.

756 -- Pepin, king of the Franks, subdues the Lombards and presents the disputed territory to the Pope.

800 -- On Christmas Day of this year the Pope of Rome placed upon the head of 29 year old Carlemagne (Karl der Große), while kneeling in worship at Rome, the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. The church approved him and desired a united Europe. His father, King Karlsman (768-771), had recently defeated the Mohammedans. Even though it looked like he would be able to unite Europe, he was not able to accomplish it. He could not make the iron and clay unite.
Charlemagne subjects the Lombards and makes their kingdom an imperial province, causing the Lombards thereafter to become merged among the general Italien population.[Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. VII, `Lombards', p. 395.]

801 -- Time of the old , foliated Kufic script, an Arabic type script.

843 -- Peace of Verdun.

877 -- Pope John VIII's time he complains to emperor Charles the Bald: Muslims had established themselves in Naples and were raiding up to the gates of Rome.

919 -- Henry I.

France

987 -- Last descendant, Ludwig V. (the lazy), of Charlemagne dies. The nobles reassert their right to elect a king.

987 -- Hugh Capet, count of Paris, chosen king. He was the originator of the Capetian Dynasty. He was not a strong king. Dukes like those of Normandy, Flanders, Anjou and Champagne were more powerful. But he occupied a central place in France and had the blessing of the church. He was able to pass on the crown to his son without baronial opposition.

996 -- Robert II, the pious, king. Reigned till 1031.

999 -- A monk named Gerbert from a monestary of Fleury, later became the bishop of Rheims and Ravenna became Pope Sylvester II (999- 1003). He is said to have introduced Arabic numerals in Europe.

1022 -- Burning of heretics begins in Orleans (Long. ca. 1.9 & Lat. 47.9), France.

1031 -- Henry I. king.

1035 -- Duke Robert of Normandy dies, his son William succeeds at age 8 as the 6th duke of N.

1051 -- William of Normandy visits King Edward of England.

1056 -- Henry IV (Heinrich IV) (1056-1106) of the Frankish House is emperor. He was a very troubled, sensual man and blamed the pope (Gregory VII, 1073-1085) for the same reason. The pope excomunicated Henry, who met him at Canossa in the winter. Their later history as sad.

1060 -- And onward was the time of anti-popes. It was also the time of noble families like the Frangipani family, the Orsini. the Savelli, the Colonna and later the Anibaldi. Each of these built their own towers for protection. They fought each other on the side of the pope, against the pope, on the side of the emperor, against the emperor, following their own interests rather than political ideals. The main focuses of this contention were St. Peter's, the Latern, the Turris Chartularia and Castel Sant'Angelo. There was usually an antipope occupying one of these places, and a legitimate pope another place.

1060 -- Philip I. king. Had numerous clashes with the church.

1065 -- Harald, the son in the line of succession, visits Normandy, but in a storm was driven out of his direct course and shipwrecked near the mouth of the Somme River, in the territory of the Count of Ponthieu, who would not let him go without being paid a ransom; and so Harald (1066) arrived safely at the court of William (1066-1087).

1066 -- William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, conquers Anglo-Saxon England in the Battle of Hastings. Under the descendants of the Viking chief Rollo, Normandy became the most powerful state of France.

1077 - Henry at Canossa. Later, historians write, Heinrich IV. came to Rome with his antipope, occupied the Lateran while Gregory's nephew defended himself in the Septizonium on the Palatine, near the Turris Chartularia, until Henry IV destroyed it, smashing its magnificent columns, possible looting e.th. in the vicinity. Gregory called in the Normans and their Saracene allies. The city was sacked and burned; the people were killed or taken as slaves. The section between the Lateran and the Collosseum was almost destroyed by fire; one of the gates of the Lateran was later called the `Burned Door."

1088 -- Death of Berengarius of Tours, the great preacher who opposed the idea of transsubstantiation.

1095 -- Pope Urban II (1088-1099) starts the unchristian military invasions (crusades) of Muslim countries to spread sectarian Catholic doctrines everywhere.

1096 -- First Crusade starts.

ca. 1100 -- The start of the 12th century put strange new organizations on the scene. These organized themselves as needed during the crusades, the devils way of organizing his henchmen, no doubt. These "orders" as they were called, included `Christ's Militia', the knights of the Order of the Hospital of St. John', the `Knight's Templar', and later the `Teutonic Knights'. Some time later, more `modern' names and organizations emerged like the `Knights of Columbus', whose emblem included an ax head surrounded by other implements. These are sort of secret signs often displayed during important meetings, when they are set up in the background in recognition who it is who is directing these meetings and overseeing them. [So, educate yourself and when you are in important meetings look around for such items!] Today, it is true, the `Masons' run the world and its major churches and the `Knights of Columbus' are its henchmen (even though many may not know it yet).[`Western Civilization', over several pages.]

1105 -- Time of Jewish scholar Raschi.

1108 -- Louis VI (the fat). Of him it was said, that `he studied the peace and comfort of plowmen, laborers, and poor folk, a thing which had been long neglected.' He surrounded himself with dependable and loyal men. Before his death he was able to arrange a marriage between his son and Eleanor, heiress to the vast duchy of Aquitaine, southern France.

1126 -- Era of Peter de Bruys, died 1126 by burning.

1137 -- Louis VII king. Events forced him to annul the marriage (he had no heir) and relinquish his large territory.

1145 -- Joachim of Floris (1145?-1202)(southern Italy) born. He was a Cistercian abbot who taught some unconventional views which later, apparently, led to adherents being persucuted.

1147 -- Era of Arnold of Brescia, a converted monk, who preached about the wordliness of the ecclesiastical body. He taught that the Church should hold neither temporal possessions nor jurisdiction and confine itself to its spiritual functions. He preached separation of church and state as a consequence to the fundamental truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Became a preacher in Zürich, Switzerland. Upon the death of not so Innocent II, he preached in Rome. His preaching caused the Romans to arise and expell the Pope. Frederick Barbarossa betrayed Arnold and delivered him to the pope where he was murdered. His followers became known as the `poor men.'

1147 -- Louis VII and wife went on the 2nd crusade, during which she was said to have had an affair. Later she had an affair with Henry of Anjou, the later king Henry II. of England. Now Louis VII dissolved the marriage. Eleanor immediately married Henry and he received the territory of Aquitaine.

1152 -- Frederick II, Barbarossa (1152-1190), is king.

1154 -- Henry II of England, great-grandson of William the Conqueror, becomes king of England. The ensuing conflict between France and England over the English possessions in France would last up to 300 years and even beyond - to ca. 1453 or further. Henry's two sons were Richard the Lion hearted and John.

1154 -- Over a hundred murders were committed by priests from the start of Henry II's reign without ever having been held responsible. [Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909), `History of the Inquisition,' 4 volumes, N.Y., 1888.; Juan Antonio Llorente, `Historia Critica de la Inquisicion de Espana.']

1167 -- Council of the Cathari held at St. Felix de Caraman, near Toulouse, attended by their highest dignitary, Bishop Nicetas, from Constantinopel. They believed,

1. that they refused obedience to the authority of the pope and prelate,
   
2. that all, even laymen, can preach;
   
3. that, according to the apostels, God is to be obeyed rather than man;
   
4. that women may preach;
   
5. that masses, prayers, and alms for the dead are of no avail, with the addition that some denied the existence of purgatory;
   
6. that prayer in bed, or in a chamber, or in a stable, is as efficacious as in a church.

1180 -- Philip II king of France. He was able to win the fiefs of Normandy and Anjou for himself. Philip plotted always against England by setting the sons of Henry II against their father and after his death, they were against each other.

... 3rd crusade by Richard the Lion hearted. After his return he was held for ransom in Germany. Philip and John conspired to pay highest price so Richard would be kept in captivity in Germany. Once freed, Richard fought Philip but died of a minor wound infection during a siege.

John became king of England, and Philip became his avowed enemy.

1186 -- An artistic stone carving of a stegosaurus from this time was found in a 10 foot column of Cambodia's Ta Prohm Temple.

1204 -- The French king stripped English of Normandy, Brittany, Anjou, Maine and Touraine. Only Aquitaine remained in English hands and would later become the cause for the `Hundred Years' War.' John made a last attempt by making an alliance with the Guelph emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Otto v. Brunswick. In response, Philip allied with the rival Hohenstaufen (Ghibelline) party in Germany and secured papal sanction, for both Otto and John were at this time at odds with Innocent III.

1214 -- The climax came at the Battle of Bouvines in Flanders where Philip won a resounding victory. The defeat of Germany led to a civil war there.

... yrs. -- Philip II (Augustus) exploited the clergy and the townships. The administrative `provosts' became hereditary officials who farmed royal holdings for pay. Philip created a new office, the `bailiff,' who looked after several provosts and whom he paid wages. Feudal customs forbade any taxation. He exerted pressure on Jewish and Italian bankers to pay him larger loans. In lieu of military service from his vassals he demanded payment. This way he obtained a more secure uniform system of royal revenues.

... yrs. -- The beginning of royal efforts to subdue the County of Toulouse, part of Languedoc, came during the reign of Louis VIII. That county became the center of the Albigensian Christians. Their faith was spread from the Near East, through the Byzantine Empire, moving westward through the Balkans and northern Italy, to finally penetrating southern France in the 11th century. They were so strong in Langeduoc that the papacy feared that Catholicism would disappear from southern France. Thus the papacy induced the state, Philip II, to do its bloody work and act out its characteristic as the `Mother of Harlots and the Abomination of the Earth.' Rome and its henchmen became drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

The `Council of Toulouse' met about the time of the crusade against them. This Council ruled, "We prohibit laymen possessing copies of the Old and New Testament. . . . We forbid them most severely to have the above books in the popular vernacular." "The dwellings, the humblest hovels, and even the underground retreats of the men convicted of having the Scriptures shall be entirely wiped out. These men shall be hunted for in the woods and caverns and any who shall give them shelter shall be severly punished." [Council, Toulouse, Pope Gregorius IX, Anno cr. 1229. Decrees 14, 2.]
"This pest [the Bible] had taken such an extension that some people had appointed priests of their own, and even some evangelists who distorted and destroyed the truth of the gospel and made new gospels for their own purpose . . . [they knew that] the preaching and explanation of the Bible is absolutely forbidden to the lay members." [Acts of the Inquisition. Philip van Limborch, History of the Inquisition, ch. 8.]
The `Council of Tarragona' ruled in 1234: "No one is to read or distribute the book of the Old or New Testaments in Roman languages . . . lest . . . be accused of heresy."
At the `Council of Constance' in 1415, Wycliffe was posthumously condemned on recommendation sent by Archbishop Arundel of Canterbury, as "that pestilent wretch of damnable heresy who invented a new translation of the Scriptures in his mother tongue." All the world still thanks these reformers and translators of the Bible today for what they did.

King John (1199-1216) learned of what had taken place, was furious, sent his representatives to Rome to plead their cause. Innocent III. was Pope then, (1179-1180, 1216), John clashed with him, 1206, over a disputed election to the archbishopric of Canterbury. Under papal, unbiblical mixing of religion and state, interdict John lost. None of the Catholic Sacraments are vital to salvation, faith in Jesus Christ is.

Innocent annulled both elections and appointed his own nominee, Cardinal Langton to be archbishop.

1207 ca. -- long term civil war in Germany.

1208 -- A million Waldenses and Albigenses [Swiss and French Protestants] perished during a crusade proclaimed by Pope Innocent III in 1208.

1208 -- A date seen on the subject of the establishment of schools of higher learning - universities, as the one in Paris, France, which became a trend setter. The university of Paris was recognized as a legal corporation by pope Innocence III. Originall there was a single "university" for instruction in four faculties - (1) preparatory, that of the "arts", the teaching of grammar, rhetoric, dialectics or logic; (2) the quadrivium, the teaching of astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, music; and the higher faculties of (a) theology, (b) canon law, and (c) medicine. Over each faculty a "dean" presided. The professors were also grouped at first by "nations" or people groups in France (the French, Picards, Normans and the English), each headed by a proctor.

1209 -- Pope wants Guelph candidate Otto v. Brunswick (if he paid heavy price). Unfortunately Otto gave up all lands claimed by papacy, gave up his rights from Concordat of Worms - had now no control over selection of bishops. Was crowned as Otto VI, fell heir to Frederick I. imperial ambitions. Wanted his territories back from pope. Pope sets up new candidate, the Hohenstauffen Frederick II. Otto VI is on the defensive, made alliance with King John of England who was at war with Philip II of France. Philip II supports Frederick II. One of the greatest Battles of the Middle Ages results at Bouvines, in the low lands. The French and Ghibelline German troops crush Philip II. invading army.

1212 -- Hohenstaufen Frederick II king (1212-1250), the red-haired, very educated little king of Sicily.

1215 -- Monday, June 15; - The barons of England force king John to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede (ca. Long. -0.5, Lat. 51.3). This document became a cornerstone of English and American civl liberties.

1216 -- Innocent III died. Frederick II turns against papacy, did not renounce Sicily.

1216 -- Honorus III pope.

1223 -- Philip (Augustus), fearing the alienation of southern France, sent his son to make sure the region would be turned over to the crown. The persecutions continued for another 20 years, before all these gentle people were annihilated. They represent part of those described in the Book of Revelation as souls crying from under the altar, Rev. 6:9.

1225 -- Birth of Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, son of Landulf, count of Aquino, a small town about half way between Rome and Naples. He studied in Cologne (Köln) and from there in Paris and later taught at Köln am Rhein, then in Italy, in Paris, and finally in Naples. He wrote, `Summa Theologiae' (never quite completed); he was an Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic teacher and upheld the authority of the church's councils and Fathers, thus advocating the church's human genius. He taught the principles of grace and merit through sacraments alone. With many others he believed that all sacred actions were sacraments, whereas they ought to be man's free choice response to the love of God of having been saved. - The church of the Middle Ages never comprehended the biblical teaching of the separation of church and state and that God never forces man's conscience, 2.Cor. 4:1-5.

1227 -- Gregory IX pope.

1228 -- Frederick II (under excommunication) leads 6th crusade, takes Jerusalem.

1230 -- Gregory IX and Frederick II sign peace treaty to bid time.

1231 -- Frederik II issues `Constitutions of Melfi' to centralize his power and gain Sicily.

1234 -- The revolution of the Roman city dwellers - they took over the Patrimony of St. Peter and made it the Patrimony of the City, sacking the Lateran, and the palaces of the cardinals.

1237 -- Frederick II defeats northern Italian papal communes.

1243 -- Innocent IV pope. Wants holy war against Frederick, Upsets Louis IX (1226-1270) of France.

1241 -- Battle against the Mongols at Liegnitz (ca. Long. 16.2 & Lat. 51.2).

1244 -- The last of the Albigensis were killed at the Castle of Montsegur, southern France. While they killed the men, the wish for liberty, freedom, and the right to read and study what one desires to study, never died. Freedom of opinion and choosing one's own destiny, was still alive and would again flourish. It was evident, that the majority church had become the instrument of Satan. Even today the spirit of persecution seeks to revive.

1250 -- Frederick II dies. In the long run he lost and ruined the German empire. His son Manfred claims Sicily.

1250 -- Hohenstaufen Conrad IV, Frederick II's son, is king.

1254 - Conrad IV dies.

1260 -- Marco Polo (1260-1294) voyages to China.

1265 ca. - Pope supports Charles of Anjou, brother of Louis IX.

1266 -- Battle of Benevento, near Naples, Charles defeats and kills Manfred.

1268 -- Conradin, grandson of Frederick II, attempts to take Sicily, defeated by Charles and beheaded in Naples. Papacy wins against Hohenstaufen family. Medieval German Empire ceased to be a power to reckon with.

1285 -- Philip the Fair (der Schöne) is king (1285-1314) of France. His minister was Nogaret who decided to tax the land owned by the church (Pope Boniface VIII, 1303) which was 1/4 of the realm.

1291 -- After the fall of Acre to the Muslims, the last of the Latin holdings in Palestine were lost and the crusades were over not having achieved a permanent presence in Palestine, neither did they greatly retard the advance of Islam.

1294 -- Boniface VIII pope.

1299 -- The Mohammedans started their attacks against the Roman Empire as they got closer and closer to Constantinople -this they did for 150 years until 1449, when they finally took it over, thus fulfilling the five month day prophecy of Revelation 9:5 - since 5 old Jewish months equal 150 days, this period lasts 150 years (a day for a year) from 1299 - 1449 in real history. 1299 falls in the turbulent era of Nicean/Athenian emperors, as John IV, Laskaris, and Michael VIII. The year 1449 falls between the time of John VIII and Constantine XI, rulers of which is little known. In France 1449 was during the reign of Charles VII (1422-1461).
Real History: "1204-1261 Constantinople becomes the strongest fortified city of the Middle Ages, and because of the 4th Crusade the capital of the Latin Emperors", by which they mean the Popes of Rome. This source has it that "Constantinople was taken by 1453." That allows interpretations of prior actions toward that goal and then selects which historical event the critical one was. [Fernis/Haverkamp, `Grundzuege der Geschichte,' 1962, p. 128, p. 152.]

1311 -- Council of Ravenna institutes sprinkling instead of baptism by immersion. Evidence shows that (adult) baptism by immersion was practiced in the church for a thousand years or more, even until 1311 and still in places beyond that date. Places where visitors can see the truth of this is in the underground quarters where the persecuted were hiding during Roman, Islamic and all the ages, in Cappadocia, one can find a baptismal installation deep underground.; Those who visit ancient Philippi and Ephesus can find there baptismal installations.; Also inside the octagonal building next to St. John of Lateran in Rome is an old baptismal that was used for adult baptisms.; Near the leaning tower of Pisa is a bell tower which has a baptismal inside where adult baptism was practiced for a thousand years after Christ's baptism.; Even Czar Vladimir the Great (1113-1125) in a piece of art in Kiev is shown being baptized in a pool.; If you happen to walk into the building of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, you will see an African fresco illustrating adult baptism in a pool. -- A large 6th century baptistry was discovered at Butrint, Albania, and is shown in Archaeology, Mar/Apr 2006, p. 22.

1324 -- John Wycliffe born, educated - attention was directed to the Scriptures.

1327 -- Edward III king (1327-.1377).

1337 -- The `Hundred Years War' begins. The English in France from 1337 - 1453.

1337 -- Edward III claims the throne of France.

1340 -- French navy defeated at Shys.

1340 -- Time of Franciscan scholar Nikolaus of Lyra.

1346 -- The English defeat the French at Crecy.

1347 -- Calais falls to the English.

1350 -- Spain: The reign of Peter the Cruel (1350-1369). France: Death of Philip VI of France (1328-1350) and succession of John II (1350-1364).

1356 -- The Black Prince defeats and captures John II at Poitiers.

1360 -- The Treaty of Bretigny - Province of Aquitaine surrendered to the English.

1362 -- Urban V. pope. He demanded that England (Edward III) should pay 1000 marks tribute which Pope (not so) Innocent III (1198-1216) had exacted from King John of England (1199-1216). Members of Parlament said this: (1) "The Kingdom of England was won by the sword, and by that sword has been defended. Julius Caesar exacted tribute by force; force gives no perpetual right. Let the pope then gird on his sword, and come and try to exact his tribute by force. I, for one. am ready to resist him." (2) "He only is entitled to secular tribute who legitimately exercises secular rule, and is able to give secular protection. The pope can not legitimately do either: he is a minister of the gospel, not a temporal ruler. He should follow the example of Christ, who refused all civil dominion (Matthew 8:20). Let us see that the pope abide within the limits of his spiritual office, where we shall obey him (in the 13th cent.). But if he choose to transgress these limits, he must take the consequences. Let us boldly oppose all his claims to civil power." Some 7 or 8 more speeches are preserved which in general repudiate the temporal power of the pope; also of his infallibility (We all saw the fallibility of Benedict XVI already several times), and, that he is the vicar of Christ (vicarius filii dei). There was also a clear separation of the spiritual and secular power in the presentations. This was known to Roger Williams and became part of our American Constitution, the separation of church and state. Amen.

1365 -- Wycliffe was appointed head of Canterbury Hall, a new college.

1367 -- Spain: The English in the Cantabrian hills at `Inglis Mendi' near Vitora came with a body of 400 infantry under the command of Sir Thomas and Sir William Felton was overwhelmed by vastly superior forces in 1367. [Vitoria, south of Bilbao, northern Spain.]

1367 -- Bohemia: Militz, archdeacon of the Cathedral Church at Prague, journeyed to Rome and there nailed to the door of St. Peter's the words, "Antichrist is now come, and sitteth in the church." He fell sick and died in 1374 at Avignon. His disciples included: Matthias of Janow (died 1394) and Conrad von Waldhausen.

1369 -- Charles V `confiscates' Aquitaine - hostilities recommence.

1370 -- Through rivalry Wycliffe was later removed from that by new archbishop of Canterbury. From this point on, his conflict was no longer to be with the primate of England but with the very pontiff of Christendom. However, to properly understand the situation, we need to go back a century in time.

1372 -- Poitiers and La Rochelle admit French troops.

1373 -- John of Gaunt leads his great chevauchee from Calais to Bordeaux.

1374 -- Wickliff sent as ambassador of England to Bruges to meet the pope's corrupt chancery. Later he would sent out missionaries to spread the gospel. These became known as `Bible Men' and the `Lollards' for the low tone songs they sang.

1376 -- Death of the Black Prince.

1377 -- Thursday, February 19, the archbishop of Canterbury sets up court at Lambeth to try Wickliff. It ends in the bishops shameful defeat.

1377 -- Edward III died.

...... yrs -- Wycliffe translates Bible into English, it trumps the Magna Carta.

1377 -- Richard III king of England (1377-1399).

1378 -- Gregory XI., pontiff of Rome died.

1378 -- Start of the schismatic, divided popes: Urban VI (1378-1389) pope over Venice, Milan, Genoa, Flanders, Portugal and England; Clement VII (1378-1394) pope over Avignon which included France, the kingdom of Naples, Savoy, Spain, Scotland and parts of Germany. The schism of the west lasted from 1378 to 1417.

1380 -- Death of Charles V of France and succession of Charles VI (1380-1422).

1381 -- Peasants' Revolt in England. Writings of Wickliff studied by professors at the University of Prague.

1383 -- Expedition of the Bishop of Norwich to Flanders, Holland.

1384 -- Wycliffe dies on December 31, 1384 aged 61. A stroke at this young age may indicate that the diet in those days was too rich on animal fat and salt.

1386 -- The French prepare to invade England but then abandon the plan.

1389 -- Truce of Leulinghen between the French and English.

1390 -- The Turkish, Christian City of Philadelphia (`Alashehir') is taken by the Muslims.

1391 -- Dialogue between the Byzantine emperor Manual II Palaeologus and a Persian Muslim on the nature of Christianity and Islam. Their 26 conversations touched on many topics, including the relationship between faith and reason, and the appropriateness of compulsion in faith. The emporer is quoted as having said, "Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats . . . To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death."

1395 -- England: Friends of the gospel petition for reforms.

1396 -- Johann Huss receives his master's degree.

1397??ca. -- Henry of Hertfort, Richard's cousin returns and with malcontents deposes Richard.

1399 -- Richard dies, Henry IV (1250-1254) succeeds.

.... yrs -- Sadly Henry (IV) chooses to defend the church and under his rule the first martyrs die in England at Smithfield.

1390is to 1400s -- Time of a man named Zbynek as Archbishop of Prague, died in 1411.

1399 -- Spain: Henry III. (??) despatched two missions to Tamerlane in 1399 and 1403, the 1st was led by Pelayo Gomez de Sotomayor and Herman Sanchez de Palazuelos, the 2nd by Alfonso de Santa Maria and Gonzalez de Clavijo.

1407 -- Murder of the Duke of Orleans by agents of John, Duke of Burgundy.

1408 -- Council of Pisa; announced Alexander V (1410) to be the rightful pope; Innocence VII (1406-1415) was the other.

1412 -- The Duke of Clarence leads a checauchee from Normandy to Bordeaux.

1413 -- Henry IV dies, son Henry V. king. He condemns Cobham in Sept to be executed. Cobham escapes and is burned in 1417.

1414 -- Council of Constance.

1415 -- Henry V (1413-1422) invades France, captures Harfleur and wins the battle of Agincourt.

1415 -- Sabbath, July 6, John Huss burned as a martyr for his faith at Constance.

1416 -- Sabbath, May 30, Hieronymus was burnt to death as a martyr for his faith at Constance, Germany.

1417 -- Henry IV begins the conquest of Normandy.

1419 -- Rouen falls to the English. John, Duke of Burgundy is murdered by Armagnacs. Alliance between Burgundians and English.

1420 -- Treaty of Troyes; Charles VI recognizes Henry V as heir to the French throne and Regent of France. The English occupy Paris.

1421 -- Duke of Clarence defeated and killed by the Armagnacs at Baugne.

1421 -- Duke Albrecht V (1420-21) of Austria/Vienna; 210 Jews executed in a mass burning in Vienna because they refused to be baptized. [Karl R. Stadler, Austria, p. 135.]

1422 -- Death of Henry V and Charles VI. Henry VI (1422-1461) recognized as king of France north of the Loire River till 1470 while only France south of the Loire recognizes Charles VII.

1423 -- The Earl of Salisbury defeats the Dauphinists at Cravant.

1424 -- The Regent Bedford defeats the French at Verneuil.

1428 -- The Earl of Salisbury begins the siege of Orleans.

1429 -- Sir John Fastolfs defeats the Dauphinists at the `Battle of the Herrings'. Joan of Arc relieves Orleans and defeats Fastolf and Lord Talbot at Patay. Charles VII crowned at Rheims, but Joan fails to recapture Paris.

1430 -- Capture of Joan of Arc.

1431 -- Burning of Joan of Arc. Coronation of Henry VI at Paris.

1435 -- Death of the Regent Bedford. Treaty of Arras between Charles VII and the Burgundians who abandon the English Alliance.

1436 -- Charles VII recaptures Paris.

1441 -- Fall of Pontoise to the French - the last English stronghold in the Ile de France.

1444 -- Truce of Tours between the French and the English.

1448 -- The English surrender Maine to the French.

1449 -- Charles VII invades Normandy and takes Rouen. - Constantinople falls to the Mohammedans, and the Turks begin their conflicts and wars against the Greek Empire for 391 years and 15 days, and though their power rose, and they made Constantinople independent, that ended in 1840.

1449 -- is also the start of another time prophecy, that of Revelation 9:15, "the 4 angels were looened, which were prepared for an hour (1 hour), a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of them." - One prophetic year = 360 days = 360 years; one prophetic month = 30 days = 30 years; one day = one year; one hour = the 24th part of a year = 15 days; Sum Total: 360 + 30 + 1 + 15 days = 391 years and 15 days. This has been calculated to reach from July 27, 1449 to August 11, 1840. What happened that day? The great power of the Mohammedans came to their end on that very day when

1450 -- English defeated at Formigny. All Normandy falls to the French.

1451 -- Charles VII conquers Guyenne.

1452 -- At the invitation of the Guyennois, Lord Talbot reoccupies Bourdeaux.

1453 -- English defeated at Castillon and finally lose Bordeaux.

1453 -- Constantinopel belongs now to Turkey since 1449.

1456 -- First Bible printed on a printing press.

1469 -- Nicolo Machiavelli, a historian and political theorist from Florence, Italy, 1469-1527. Machiavelli, as a more neutral source, without the slightest reference to Bible prophecy, gives the following list of nations which occupied the territory of the Western Empire at the time of the fall of Romulus Augustus in 476 AD, the last emperor of Rome: Lombards, Franks, Burgundians, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, Heruli, Suevi, Huns and Saxons. The Huns, an invading people, were later replaced by the Alemani, the Germanic tribes. Machiavelli and his compatriot Francesco Guicciardini were historians, the latter was more successful.[See H. Grattan Guennes, The Divine Program of the World's History, R&H, London, MCMXLII (1962), pp. 216,217.]

1483 -- Martin Luther born at Eisleben, Nov. 10.

1484 -- Tyndale is born.

1485 -- Henry (Tudor) VII king.

1485 -- Portugese reach the mouth of the Congo River, Central Africa.

1487 -- Portugese Bartolomeo Diaz reaches Cape Hope, South Africa.

...yrs -- Henry's VII. young son Henry (#??) is educated by Erasmus. Henry VII, asks hand of Catherine of Argone, daughter of Ferdinand of Spain (1479-1516), for his oldest son Arthur. They are married in an ill fated marriage.

1491 -- Inigo Lopez de Recalde, Igntius of Loyola, born at the castle of Loyola.

1498 -- Edict of Nantes, determined the rights of Protestants in France. (France: Charles VIII, 1483-1498; Louis XII (of Orleans), 1498-1515.

1492 -- Spain: King Ferdinand V. of Aragonia (1479-1516) & Queen Isabella of Castile (1474-1504), whose persecution of the Jews culminated in an edict of banishment on March 30, 1492. Having encouraged and established the terrible Spanish inquisition, that murderous organization led by the cruel monk Torquemada, assumed the hateful practice of trying to force confession from its victims by every form of agonizing torture. [Why were monks so cruel? See the explanation.] As a result the unfortunate victims were often carried away to execution so racked and broken that they could no longer walk. The wicked queen reflected the papal spirit and believes in her sick thinking that it mattered not how people's bodies suffered, if thereby their souls could be saved. Her husband liked the inquistion so well, that he extended its authority over Aragon. It was the time of Columbus, Pizzaro and Cortez. The inquisition crushed all freedom of thought in Spain, and gradually stopped the progress of the country. Moreover, by accustoming the people to find entertainment in scenes of horror, it bred in them a spirit of savage cruelty which has had terrible results and still plagues the Spanish speaking world today.

1492 -- Spain: Time of the famous Moorish clan of the Abencerrages (and the rival Zegri clan) which was present during the dissolution of the kingdom of Granada in 1492.

1492 -- Christopher Columbus lands on the Bahama Islands, then Cuba and Haiti. He died in 1506. A poem on the Appearance of Columbus before the King of Spain. - Later the Knights of Columbus made it their business to control the political process, the political "machinery" and non-Catholic politicians, whose candidates they must approve before they are nominated. - It can happen, once they understand how Bible prophecy identifies their institution, the mark of the beast and its image, they may decide to come out of Babylon and worship God in truth and with all their heart thus living in peace with all men.

Saying to him, "My Lord, I want to search for lands the ancients could not find,
and hope to take them without war.
If you provide the means and I the Person.
For fortune often gives, as a free gift much for a little price . . .
The King refused him, smiling, but at last gave him a ship and two fair caravels.
Who travels on the sea is never safe but fighting always water and the wind.
Reward and tribute often can be lost, and no help then in saying, "I regret."
But as it pleased the Lord, who does not err, in three and thirty days, he reached the land.
His armed men searched for ambush; there was none.
Three days they traveled through the lands they found, and saw no house, no human.
The first-found isle I called San Salvador, the second was Concepcion, honoring Mary.
The third one Ferdinanda, named for you. Fourth, Isabella for the honored Queen.
The fifth Giovanna . . .
Great rivers and maximum mountains, trees, fountains, birds, things never seen till now,
My mind, Lord, weeps for joy. Tall pines that touch the sky,
And nightingales, and cotton.
And in November there are trees that flower like May upon the mountain and the plain;
Spices and precious metals in excess, and little rivers that bring with them gold.
Water and space are here, in a land no brush could paint.
. . . . . the people . . . .
Although they are nude they are clean. I cannot tell you of their pleasantness.
They live in peace together, do no wrong.
They do not worship planets, sun or moon, but raise their minds up wholly to the sky.
Women and men are pious in behaviour; each one already is inclined to believe.
Who has not seen these islands and their wealth, their trees, their men and women,
Who never leaves the circle of his walls, can never give right praise unto the Lord
not having seen the things that He has made.
An isle of women, where they live alone, though lovers come and use them;
They have no women's arts; they draw the bow . . ." {Ambrosini, p. 159.}

1498 -- The Portugese Vasco da Gama reaches Calcutta, India. More

1502 -- The Portuguese: Prince Arthur dies. Henry VII wanted now Catherine to marry his young son. The promate Warham said, according to the Bible (Lev. 20:21) she could not marry the brother of her husband. - In this same year Vasco da Gama led an expedition to India, his first port of call being Calicut, a journey of a few hours north of Cochin. This voyage was not one of discovery, for already the Portuguese had made their presence felt on the Malabar Coast. His previous visit to Calicut had left very unpleasant memories. They had fallen victim to the wiles of wealthy Arabian merchantmen who had influenced some of the Moslem community to attack the aspiring Portuguese traders. This, Da Gama, who ever sought to further the religious domain of the pope, saw as an insult and affront to Catholicism. Hence, his second expedition was partly a punitive one. His fleet consisted of 20 vessels, most of which were armed. As well as carrying numerous soldiers, Da Gama had brought with him his spiritual and tactical advisers - priests of the Roman Catholic Church.

1502 -- A lengthier Article: The Portugese Vasco de Gama arrives at Calicut (Skip I read this already.)
The following contains further examples of the so-called Christian Church following centuries of apostasy and how that can turn people into Satan's henchmen. We are on the verge of repeating such history today because of the short memory and blindness of man.
West Coast of India with 20 armed vessels and spiritual and tactical advisers - priests of the Roman Catholic Church. - As the armada approached the shores of India it encountered a ship heavily laden with Moslem pilgrims returning from Mecca. Realising their helplessness in the face of such formidable odds, the pilgrims handed over to the Portuguese a sizeable ransom. But Da Gama's response was to set their ship ablaze! -
With a valiant effort, born of desperation, the pilgrims succeeded in quelling the fire, only to have the heartless Da Gama return and order the re-torching of their vessel. The historian D'Orsey records how the terrified mothers held up their screaming children, pleading with Da Gama for mercy. But their cries only encouraged the priests who stood by and assured Da Gama that the horrendous scene being enacted was but a foretaste of further successes to come. ["Portuguese Discoveries, Dependencies and Missions in Asia and Africa" p.5.]
Their sadistic anticipations were soon fulfilled. Da Gama proceeded to Calicut and after heavily bombarding the town, sent in a raiding party who administered to the terrified inhabitants a dose of "savagery too horrible to describe." ["Encyclopedia Britannica" 1953 ed. art, Da Gama.]
On this same voyage, Da Gama established a trading post and a factory in Cochin and in the following year, the Portuguese conferred upon this town the dubious honour of making it into the first European fortress in India.
Apparently the Portuguese continued to regard the Moslems as a pestilential obstacle to trade, for in 1510, when Sinkandar Lodi (1487-1517) ruled India, they massacred the entire male population of Goa. (Ibid., Article, Goa). "By marrying his men to the widows of his victims he would give to Goa its own population." [Ibid. 1990 ed. art, Albuerque Alfonso de.]
This, no doubt, reflected their innate hatred of the Moors and the Moslem religion, as they recalled how the Moors had overrun Portugal and Spain.
We must not assume that the sole purpose of, the Portuguese conquerors was the acquisition of wealth. "We have come in search of Christians and spies" - this was the answer given by one of the companions of Vasco da Gama to a couple of Moors who questioned them about the purpose of their journey to the East. ["The St Thomas Christian Encyclopedia of India, (1982) p.22.]
There seems no doubt that the Portuguese saw themselves as a nation chosen by destiny to be emissaries of the pope and exponents of the teachings of Jesus Christ, albeit a false Jesus Christ they came to believe in because of their false, mixed with man's wisdom, doctrines, not those Jesus Christ taught in the Holy Scriptures. King Emanuel is reported to have written in one of his dispatches to India:
"We are sending [in this expedition] religious persons and men well versed in the Christian faith and religion that they may celebrate the divine worship and administer the sacraments, so that you may be able to see for yourselves what is our religion and faith which was established by Jesus Christ." [Ibid., translated from Castanheda, Historia BU, Chap. 35, p.78.]
One might suppose that the St Thomas Christians of the Malabar Coast would have welcomed the Portuguese as Christian brothers. Indeed, this is the impression given by the Encyclopedia Britannica for we are told, "Hard pressed by the Moslems, they welcomed the Portuguese." (Ibid., article, St Thomas).
Perhaps this was so with their initial contacts with some Portuguese. But if we are to believe that this continued to be so after they had become acquainted with the way in which the Portuguese dealt with the Moslems, then a serious question must arise in the minds of thinking Christians. Here was a professedly Christian nation who took their religion seriously enough to take their priests with them on their voyages of conquest, yet they acted with a savagery completely foreign to the very principles enunciated and practised by Jesus Christ. If we are to believe that the St Thomas Christians of India condoned and consented to profit from such barbarity, then we must believe that the St Thomas Christians also had lapsed into a similar state of depravity. A brief look at the behaviour of the Portuguese should dissuade charitable minds from arriving at such a conclusion.
It is well to realise that at this time Portugal was a nation whose rulers were completely subservient to ecclesiastical authority and power, and that power was absolute under the authority of a church which claims to speak, command and act on the authority of Jesus Christ. What we know ought to be enough for us to understand that the RCC serves a false Christ, not the Christ presented in the Bible.
But whatever the state of the Indian church, there are some things of which we may be sure - their religion was not compatible with that of the Portuguese. They looked to the Syrian Bible as their guide and refused to accept the traditions of Rome.
The celebrated historian Edward Gibbon mentions a fundamental difference between these religions. Of the St Thomas Christians he says:
"The title of Mother of God was offensive to their ear, and they measured with scrupulous avarice the honours of the Virgin Mary, whom the superstition of the Latins had almost exalted to the rank of a goddess. When her image was first presented to the disciples of St Thomas they indignantly exclaimed, "We are Christians not idolaters!" ["Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" ch. 47, p.31.]
It was inevitable then that the Church of Rome would find the simplicity of their faith and their independence of Rome offensive. Claudius Buchanan, D.D. tells of their early contacts and designs:
"'These Churches', said the Portuguese, 'belong to the Pope.' 'Who is the Pope?' said the natives, 'We never heard of him.... ' 'We', said they, ' are of the true faith, whatever you of the West may be; for we came from the place where the followers of Christ were first called Christians."' [Antioch.; "Christian Researches in Asia" p.60 (1813]
It is said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. No better examples of the truth of this statement can be found than in the conduct of the colonial Portuguese. There judgment came in 1755, when the Lisbon earthquake, destroyed their city and some of their fleet. Under the ecclesiastical banners of the cross and the images of the Virgin Mary, they availed themselves of the secular governments' instruments of war to force their will on a less sophisticated people whose lands they proceeded to plunder.
In such an environment it is not surprising that some who were placed in command of these unfortunate people should become intoxicated with power, and revelled in their own sadistic outrages. An example of such conduct has been recorded by the traveller Sir James Tennant, and it is mentioned here in order to give the reader an insight into the attitude of those who regarded themselves as part of a race destined by God to lord it over those whom at times they regarded less than human:
"Jerome Azavido, a soldier less distinguished by his prowess than infamous for his cruelties, was dispatched to Ceylon in 1594 to avenge the iniquities endured by his fellow countrymen ... In the height of his success there, he beheaded mothers after forcing them to cast their babes between millstones ... He caused soldiers to take up children on the points of spears ... He caused many men to be cast off the bridge at Malwane for the troops to see the crocodiles devour them, and these creatures grew so used to the food, that at a whistle they would lift their heads above the water!" [Furia Y Souza, Steven's Translation, Vol. 111, pt.lll, Ch. XV, p.279. Cited by James Tennant - "Ceylon" Vol. 2, p.33.]
In recognition of what vestige of decency and justice may have lingered in this papal-led government of Portugal, it should here be recorded that as a result of the publicity accorded the conduct of Commander Azavido and his accomplices, the Portuguese government was shamed into punishing him. Incarcerated in a Lisbon dungeon, he was able to ponder his reverses and speculate upon the fickleness of a system that condoned similar behaviour by a patriot such as Da Gama, yet used him as a scapegoat to appease public conscience!
Such were the people who intruded their attentions on the peoples of the Indies.
And what of the state of the Indian Christian church at the time of the Portuguese arrival? It is probably expecting too much to assume that it had preserved the faith in all its apostolic purity over a period of fifteen centuries. When we look back over the comparatively short history of Protestantism and compare the way in which its churches have changed their perceptions of truth, and compromised their protest against Romanism, we can then allow that many of the Christian communities in India must have become careless and indifferent.
The Reverend James Hough, M.A., F.C.D.S, believed this to be the case. Speaking of the Indian Christian church in the tenth century he observes:
"It partook indeed of that alloy which soon corrupted the profession of Christianity in all parts of the world; yet we need not hesitate to confirm that it would not suffer by comparison with any church in Christendom." ["History of Christianity" p.115.]
Yet Hough was able to affirm that these Christians still regarded their apostolic Bibles as their sole authority on faith and godliness. He says:
"Tried by this test [SOLA SCRIPTURA] the impartial reader will be satisfied that the Syrian Church of India was a daughter of the primitive church of Christ." (Ibid.)
In the year 1534, two Roman Catholic priests named Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier [Note#1] gained permission from the Pope to establish an exclusive Order for the purpose of combating the inroads of the Protestant Reformation and for enforcing the Pope's assumed "divine" authority. With typical effrontery they called themselves the "Society of Jesus". Its members are commonly known as "Jesuits".
Note#1: Rarely does Xavier share with Loyola the dubious honour of founding the Society of Jesus. The Collins Dictionary of Proper Names gives him this credit. Perhaps there has been an attempt to bolster his missionary image by disassociating him from one of the seamy sides of Roman Catholicism.
The Government of Portugal soon came to be dominated by the Jesuits and it was not long before some of them appeared in Portuguese India. The historian Kaye tells us of their intentions:
"They accompanied the conquerors principally for the purpose of converting the St Thomas Christians." ["Christianity in India" reviewed in Dublin University Magazine. Vol.54, p.340.]
The most famous of the early Portuguese missionaries to arrive, in Southern India was Francis Xavier. His indefatigable missionary zeal is legendary in Christendom and he is revered as a saint by Roman Catholics. His body now rests in an ornate jewel-encrusted coffin with glass panels in the Cathedral of Bom Jesus in Goa.
Being a co-founder of the Jesuit Society, Xavier was naturally an automatic believer in the Society's dictum that "the end sanctifies the means". They used double meanings in words, "amphibologia." (If you have a preacher like that, you may want to escape.) He could not tolerate what was known as "Jewish wickedness", such as Sabbath-keeping and refraining from eating pork, nor did he like the Moslems who regarded swine flesh with abhorrence and the Roman Catholics as idolaters. So, in the true spirit of Romanism, he opted for tried and tested methods of fear and force to coerce such people into conforming to the "true faith." On May 16, 1545 he wrote to D. Joao III, King of Portugal as follows:
"The second necessity for Christians is that your majesty establish the Holy inquisition, because there are many who live according to the Jewish Law and according to the Mahomedan sect, without fear of God or shame of the world." [Siva Redo.; Cited by A.K. Priolkar - "The Goa Inquisition" pp.23,24, 1961.]
(For those who are not aware of Roman Christianity's ingenious device for maintaining the "Purity" of their faith, Collins Dictionary defines the Inquisition thus: "A tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics in the Roman Catholic church." The Dominican Friars were exclusively entrusted with this "Holy Office" under the Pontificate of Pope Gregory IX in the year 1233. In fact throughout its history, Rome fulfills Rev. 18:24 - they are guilty of "all" blood shed on earth.)
King Joao was not disposed to grant Xavier's request. However, following his death, his infant grandson, Don Sebastian, assumed the crown and under the regency of a Catholic prelate, Cardinal Heserique, the "spiritual" needs of the Indies were readily recognized. In 1560 Aleixo Diaz Falcao was appointed Inquisitor of the Indies and he set up a Tribunal for the Inquisition at Goa.
The Christian churches of India had over the centuries coexisted and eventually thrived in what was essentially a Hindu and Moslem community. It is estimated that on the Malabar coast alone were upwards of a hundred Christian churches. Their followers had, along with the Jews, established themselves among the business leaders of their communities. Marignolle speaks of them being masters of the steelyards and becoming the chief merchandisers of the spice trade in South India. [Mingana, "Early Spread of Christianity" John Rylands Library Bulletin, Vol.10, p.487.]
But with the setting up of the Goa Inquisition, the Bible-believing Christians of the Indian Syrian Churches were to enter into a fatal struggle with the zealots of the papacy. Says Wilkinson:
"It was a dark night for the St Thomas Christians when the Jesuits, supported by the guns of Portugal, arrived in India." ["Truth Triumphant" p.314]
For more on the history of India gathered in India itself (2010), click here and here.

1503 -- Julius II pope. Grants special permission for marriage for the son of Henry VII.

1504 -- Ivan III the Great (1462-1505), relents to his wife Sophia, a devout Roman Catholic, to execute archbishop Novergerov, a Sabatny (Sabbath keeper) by burning him as heretic in the Red Square of the Moscow of his days in 1504. This was stirred by the Catholic bishop Gennadii. But Novergerov was a principal proclaimer of gospel truth. His death contributed greatly to the death of the Russian reformation, most of which, unlike in the West, were Sabbath keepers for that they learned just from knowing the scriptures. The next year (1505) Ivan III died and Dmitri was slated to be the next czar, but Sophia had her way and her son Vasilii III (1505-1533) set on the throne.

1509 -- Henry VII dies May 9th.; Young Henry VIII (1509-1547) king at age 18. Seven weeks later he marries Catherine.

1510 -- Portugal: Apparently the Portuguese continued to regard the Moslems as a pestilential obstacle to trade, for in this year they massacred the entire male population of Goa. (Ibid., Article, Goa). "By marrying his (Da Gama's) men to the widows of his victims he would give to Goa its own population." (Ibid. 1990 ed. art, Albuerque Alfonso de).

1510 -- Conquistadores: Juan Pizzaro (1505/11 - 1536/37); Francisco Pizzaro (1478-1541).; Hernando Cortez (1485-1547).

1513 -- English Parliament passes law that ecclesiastics convicted of murder or theft to be tried by a secular tribunal, except bishops, priests, and deacons. Cardinal Wolsey protested that it was a violation of God's laws for a church clerk to be tried. Henry, distinctly seeing that to put the clergy above the law was to put them over the throne, replied that it was by the will of God that the kings who reigned in England were kings. Furthermore, the kings of England in time past had recognized no superior, other than God. He therefore, affirmed the right of the crown above that of the church.

... yr -- Erasmus leaves England and writes his Greek New Testament.

The clergy were horrified. They pointed to some passages where the differences were most glaring and accused Erasmus of trying to place himself above Saint Jerome in seeking to correct the Latin Vulgate. "Look here! This book calls upon men to repent, instead of requiring them, as the Vulgate does, to do penance! (Matthew 4:17)" On none of his works had Erasmus worked so carefully. He had compared all of the best manuscripts. He had corrected many obscurities and errors found in the Vulgate and had even placed in his version a list of the errors he had found. Nothing else went as far to prepare the way for the Reformation as the Bible being restored in its purity.

1516 -- Dec. 19, Pope Leo X. authors bulla `Pastor aeternus,' which states, "The eternal shepherd . . . has in the solidity of the rock of Peter elected his successors as his representatives, not to obey them means to be punished with death." (Cit. Deut. 17:12) [C. J. Hefele, `Konziliengeschichte', 1886, Vol. VIII, 710.] "A mouth speaking great things." Daniel 7:8.

1517 -- Protestant Reformation period begins. Start of the Church Period of Sardis.

1519 -- The Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan (14??-1521) sets out on his voyage to circumnavigate the world with 270 men in five vessels on August 10, 1519. Arriving on the Island of Mindanao, he continues to the Island of Cebu arriving there on August 7, 1521 (he left and died on a Wednesday), spreading alarm because of their strange appearance among the natives. The king was at war with some other tribes and Magellan agreed to participate. Months later he was injured on the little Island of Mactan (just east of Cebu on the map, close to Bohol Isld.) and died later. Once he was gone, his expedition found that its troubles multiplied and 27 of them were slain by treachery at a banquet where they had been guests of honor. Now only 100 of them were left, not enough for a return voyage. One vessel was burned and the two left sailed westward again, this time discovering the large Island of Palawan and touching a part of north Borneo. At Tidor Island (Lg. ca. 124 east; Lt. 0.6 north) a cargo of spices was taken aboard but one vessel sprung a leak and had to be abandoned. All in all, some say that only 18 of the original crew ever returned from this voyage. [Trumbull White, Our New Possessions, C.W. Stanton, 1898, p. 38,39.]

1519 -- Tyndale leaves Oxford and Cambridge.

1519 -- A flotilla of Spanish ships under Magelan, reaches the Pacific via South America.

1525 -- First English language New Testament reaches England.

1526 -- The first Diet of Spires gave each German state full liberty in matters of religion until the meeting of a general council.

1529 -- The second council of Spires. In this year emperor Charles V. convened the second diet at Spires for the purpose of crushing the protesting princes reformation heresy, as they called it.

1527 -- August 24, Roman Catholics in France, by prearranged plan, under Jesuit influence, murdered 70,000 Protestants within the space of two months. The Pope rejoiced when he heard the news of the successful outcome."-Western Watchman, Nov.21, 1912 (Catholic weekly)

1530 -- Call to this Augsburger event was made in Janury of that year by emperor Charles V. The adopted articles were read to the emperor by June 25 of that year.

1532 -- Remaining Waldenses of Italy join the Calvinist church.

1538 -- Henry VIII signs order to place a copy of the English (Coverdale) Bible in every parish church.

1540 -- Start of the `counterreformation' initiated by Ignatius Loyola. Within fifty years the Jesuits had planted stations in Peru, Africa, the islands of the East Indies, Hindustan, Japan, and China, and before long in the Canadian forests and the American colonies. Their members secured important chairs in universities. They became counselors and confessors to monarchs, and were the most able of all Catholic preachers. By 1615 they had a membership of thirteen thousand. Thus through the Jesuits, the Counter Reformation, next to the Protestant Reformation itself, became the most memorable movement in the history of modern times." The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol. II, 464. The Jesuits had many training centers: Valladolid, Seville, Madrid, Lisbon, Douai, Pont-a-Mousson.
Valladolid was certainly a hotbed for the inquisition judging by their processions of hooded men. See Martin Huerlimann, Spain, 1954.

1541 -- French explorer Jacques Cartier, starts the Charlesbourg-Royal colony and building a fort where now is a suburb of Quebec City.

1541 -- The Jesuit order is established.

1542 -- The Jesuit Francis Javier goes to Goa, dies in 1552.

1545 -- The Council of Trent gets under way until 1563, sets up the counter reformation.

1545 -- Jesuits already accepted as a new Catholic order by hearing confessions.

1551 -- Jesuits establish themselves in France in the chapel of Saint-Denis at Montmartre (Paris). The white marble Sacre Couer was built nearby. Soon they become the secret masters of Paris. Their oath would say, "You have been taught to insidiously sow seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, and states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, and enjoying the blessings of peace. You have vowed to take sides with the combatant and act secretly in connection with your brother Jesuit, which might be engaged on the other side, and openly opposed to that which you might be connected with, only that the church might be the gainer in the end... The end justifies the means." [Library of Congress, catalog card number 66-43354.] Pope Julius III (1550-1555), "The nation that will not serve me shall perish."

1552 -- Jesuits start their work of corruption and violence worldwide.

1556 -- Young Duke Albert V of Ingolstadt (Lt. 11.4 & Lg. 47.5), joined by 8 `Fathers' and 12 Jesuit teachers to give the state of Bavaria a new seal and Catholic rules. Persecutions against Protestants and Anabaptists carried on severely also in Neuss, Bonn, Cologne and Westphalia, between 1563 to ca. 1590. These same intolerant, murderous teachers created by 1587 and 1588 colleges in Hildesheim and Muenster, thus regaining these areas for Catholicism.

1558 -- Spain: Constantino Ponce de la Fuente, the reformer of Seville, is arrested, died in Febr. 1560.

1559 -- French King Henry II (1547-1559) dies June 29th as a result of injuries from a tournamet. He was succeeded by Francis II. (1559-1560) and then by Charles IX (1560-1574).

1560 -- Period of Reprisal begins., the RCC sponsored Inquisition arrives in India.

1561 -- Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy launches persecution of Waldensian faithfuls whom he regards as heretics, which extended also to Calabria, at Casal di San Sisto and Guardia Fiscale in the toe/boot of Italy. Many times these locations of bloody scenes would later receive new names to hide their bloody past.

1562 -- The days of Oliver Cromewll in England.

1562 -- The Council of Trent was set up by Diego Laynez, the second Jesuit General, which met Jan 18, the 17th gathering of the Council of Trent; Archbishop Reggio fulfills "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Dan. 7:25, when he meant to point out that the in the expounding of the law found in the Bible ceased with the Church's authority, as he said: "The Sabbath, the best known command in the law, was changed into the Lord's day. ... This and similar (laws) did not cease with the preaching of Christ (for he said he didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill), but due to the authority of the Church were they changed." He also said, "So testifies [the Roman Church] also that the Sabbath was changed into Sunday against what the Ten Commandments, which they know advises to keep it, and there is no other example which is fanned so much and presented as the change from Sabbath to Sunday, and we are saying by that fact that the power of the church is great, since she dispensed with the law and changed something in it." [Augsburger Confessions, Article 28.] For the record, so did Rome not only deny with all of its power the people to read the Bible in their mother tongue, and falsified the teaching of righteousness, but also assumed the right to change time and law at the accomplishing of which they pride themselves. [Conradi, `Weissagung und Weltgeschichte,' S. 133,134.] - Asking a priest, if they changed the commandments of God, he said, we only adjusted them, but he knows now, you cannot adjust them without changing them.

1571 -- Battle of Lepanto in which the half brother of Philip II, Don John of Austria, broke the power of the Turkish fleet of some 300 vessels.; Spanish king Philip II, trying to bring the inquisition to the Netherlands drove the people to rebellion.

1572 -- St. Bartholomew Massacre, August 24 and on.

1574 -- shrewd Henry III. king of France (1574-1589 assassinated by the Jesuit directed Jacobin Clement).

1577 -- El Grecco, real name Domenico Theotocoupoulis takes up residence in Toledo.

1581 -- Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest goes to China and starts his work of destruction of the Taoist Christians.

1586 -- The 82 foot high Egyptian obelisk moved from the Roman Circus is installed at the 108.7 acre site of the Vatican in Rome.

1592 -- A man by the name of Barriere confesses to have tried to assassinate Henry IV (1589-1610). Henry IV. had chosen as his confessor and tutor for the Dauphin (successor son) a distinguished Jesuit by the name of Father Cotton. On 5-16-1610, the eve of his campaign against Austria, he was murdered by Ravaillac who confessed to have been inspired by the writings of Fathers Mariana and Suarez, who sanctioned the murder of "tyrants" or those insufficiently devoted to the papacy's interests. The duke of Epernon, who made the king read a letter while the assassin was lying in wait, was a notorious friend of the Jesuits, and the historian Jules Michelet proved that they knew of this attempt. Of Father Cotton, his adversaries used to say that he had "cotton" in his ears. So rulers over lands, beware.

1600 -- Period of Puritan Awakening (John Winthrop) begins

1618 -- Start of the 30 years war - lasting into 1648; (1) It was fought between the Vatican and the Protestants of Europe; (2) It was a war over religious principles and was instigated by the Jesuits, who promoted "Pharmaceuticals" = the Greek word = "sorceries" of Rev. 18:23.; (3) The book `MAGICARVM' (Magicarum)' by the Jesuit priest Martino Del Rio', it is a handbook on pharamceutical sorceries. (4) The book has the seal of the Jesuits (IHS) on its title page; Pharmacopia is the Latin word from which we got Pharmaceutical(s); (5) Since that time there has been a battle between pharmaceuticals and natural healing.; (6) Del Rio's handbook of pharamceutical sorceries outlines the Vatican's future world of medicin.; (7) Del Rio did incantations, he cast spells, and used "chemicals" on people as an alchemist.; (8) These chemicals were designed to be used by those in black robes.; (9) When they used the chemicals on people as healers, they said that they were "practicing." This is the origin of the medical term to "practice" medicin.; (10) A loyal RCC family moved to America in 1722.

1619 -- Time of Franciscus Quaresmius, a French Minorite, who lived in Jerusalem from 1619-1652, editing the massive and influential 2 volume work on the history of Palestine.[BA, June 1991, p. 65.]

1640 -- Period of the knowledge of Liberty (Roger Williams) begins.

1643 -- Louis XIV king (1643-1715). His famous cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) ran the state.

1620 -- Jesuits incite the population of (Lake) Veltlin, Austria, (Lt. 9.45 & Lg. 46.25), to rise against the Protestants and killed at least some 600.

1671 -- Jesuits, aided by the dragoons of Leopold I., persecute the Protestants in Hungary where the people under Francis Kakoczy fought victoriously against them for a generation.

1681 -- Madame de Maintenon and Father La Chaise, confessor of Louis XIV., persuaded him to restart the persecutions against the Protestants. [See Ragnhild Hatton, Europe in the Age of Louis XIV, 1969 Harcourt, Brace & World, p. 183.]

1685 -- Signing of the "Revocation of the Edict of Nantes" October 17, 1685, making those of his subjects who refused to embrace the Catholic religion outlaws. Soon after the accelerated conversions under the "dragonnade" started when Innocent XI. was pope in Rome, ever since making him not so innocent in the eyes of God. This set of the flight of some 400,000 inhabitants and the loss of 60 million francs. These were deep memories in France to the time of their revolution. The Jesuits regarded the signing of the Nantes Edict as a total victory, the final reward for 125 years of intrigue, violence, lying and lawless living without respite. The depopulation, the reduction of national prosperity were the acute material consequences of their triumph, followed by a spiritual impoverishment which could not be cured, even by the best Jesuit school. This is what France suffered and the Society of Jesus had to pay for dearly later.

1679 -- Christian Wolff born, died 1754. A largely destructive theologian.

1694 -- Johann Lorentz von Mosheim (1694? to 1755), professor of theology at Helmstedt and Goettingen. He had no sympathy with the teachings of the-Bible-only believers.

1700 -- Period of Advent Awakening continues and increases.

1712 -- Peace from persecutions being discussed in Aarau; Lucerne and Uri had just accepted it when the Jesuits, under order from Rome (Clement XI), did all they could to reverse it.

1713 -- King Friedrich Wilhelm (Fredrick William) I king till 1740. (This is not the Brandenburg Frederick William the Great, 1640-1688).

1717 -- Pirate ship of Black Sam Bellamy doundered off the coast of Cape Cod in a storm.

1719 -- Spain: The English sank the Spanish men-of-war and captured Vigo Bay under Lord Cobham in October 1719 during a one year war with Spain declared by a European coalition in December of 1718.

1720 -- Period of "Enlightenment" (Voltaire) begins.

1721 -- The year when Pastor Egede of Denmark went to Greenland to spread the gospel message there. He and his family started their voyage from Bergen, Norway on a vessel named `Hope'. Floating ice forced them to retreat but where enclosed by ice. Through God's help they all made it eventually to shore.

1722 -- (11) Johann Roggenfedder moves to the USA who changed later his name to John Rockefeller. (12) His grandson was William Avery, "Doc" Rockefeller, who also had a son. (13) He practiced witchcraft taught to him by his (j.) mentors.; (14) He had no medical training but advertized himself as "Dr. William A. Rockefeller" the celebrated cancer specialist. He made his fortune by blending crude oil with Whiskey, called `snake-oil' or `cure-all-tonic'. (That is why in the 19th century a warning voice warned people not to use these drugs. - Even today the cocktail of chemicals in foods is poisonous.) He committed crimes, had two wives and two homes under different names.; (15) He traveled by wagon from town to town; on its side was written, "All forms of cancer cured (unless too far gone). And they can be greatly benefitted." [See `God's gold, the story of Rockefeller and His Times,' Flynn, 1932.] (16) Many called him "Devil Doc Rockefeller". (17) His "snake-oil" bottles showed the "cadeuces" symbol, a couple snakes wound around a rod with eagle's wings with their fangs exposed.; It became the symbol of the medical profession.; Most MD's don't peddle `snake-oil' today; they do not know this history.; (More)

1730 -- Time of B. Frankel, Grand Master of Free Masonry and Illunimati in France

1735 -- Period of a `Great Awakening' (Jonathan Edwards) begins.

1740 -- King Friedrich II, der Grosse, till 1786.

1755 -- Lisbon earthquake. See images. Start of the Church Period of Philadelphia.

1759 -- Charles III. (Carlos Tercero) of Spain (1759-1788). The time of the `petulengres' (`lord of the horse-shoes,' probably from the Greek `petalon.')

1769 -- James Watt patents the steam engine.

1776 -- Period of the American Revolution (Thomas Jefferson) begins. -- Adam Weishaupt, professor of Ingolstadt, founds the quasi-Masonic order of the Illuminati which was formed to infiltrate Masonic Lodges, present their philosophy.

1782 -- Portugal: Dr. Antonio Pereira de Figueiredo published a Portuguese version of the Old and New Testaments between 1781 and 1783. Among the documents described from Portugal is this illuminated missal titled as follows: "Forma sive ordinatio Capelli illustrissimi et xianissimi principis Henrici Sexti Regis Anglie et Francie am dm Hibernie descripta serenissio principi Alfonso Regi Portugalie ilustrie per humilem servitorem sm Willm. Sav. Decanu capelle supradicte." {`The design or arrangement of the Chapel of the most illustrious and Christian prince, Henry VI, King of England and France, and lord of Ireland, described for the most serene prince Alfonso, the illustrious King of Portugal, by his humble servant, Willm. Sav., dean of the aforesaid chapel." Written by William Saye, Dean of St. Paul's.}

1785 -- James' Watt steam engine becomes profitable.

1792 -- Period of Revolution (French Revolution) and Compromise (Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827) begins.

1793 -- November 26, revolutionary committee in France issues decree abolishing religion.

1798 -- Life of Dr. Thomas Hodkin (1798-1866), a Quaker by faith.

1798 -- End of the 1260 `day for a year' prophetic period; pope is taken prisoner, absolute power of papacy broken. - In the following years, Rome decided on new strategies. While Rome was thought to be dead, the order of Loyola embarked on a campaign to set up "secret societies" which appeared outwardly to be anti-religious, atheistic and anti-Catholic but which were secretly directed by Rome.
The Ascending pyramid of the `Maurer': Humanists > Masons no Aprons > YMCA > Pathfinders etc. > Rotary, Lions, Odd Fellows, etc. > Blue Masons (John's Masons) > York Rite > Scottish Rite > Communism > B'nai B'rith (Jewish `Maurer' financial control)> Council of 500 (Bilderbergers, industrialists, Opus Dei, Knights groups)> Council of 33. Those in bottom groups do not even know they are part of this system. While `Pathfinders' or `Boy Scouts' do no bad things, they are mainly doing good things and they do not realize that their organizations have been set up by Masons to accomplish certain purposes; they learn good things like to survive in the field, how to march in preparation for the army, how to work in crafts, etc.; they are feeder groups controlled by higher Masons - Mystery Babylon, GC 561, 581, however, if parents watch their children and instruct them in Bible truth, and if these children are raised so they never turn to such societies, `Patherfinders' is a helpful tool in their education.

1799 -- The following century became the time of the rise of anti-God movements through influences like hypnotism (Franz Mesmer), theosophy (Helen Petrovna, Annie Ward), the Oxford movement, new Bible versions, evolution would destroy: creation, God's 7th day Sabbath, the plan of redemption, the fall of man - opening the way for new age philosophy and occult teachings; more energized movements to undo God scattering all nations abroad (Gen. 11:4) so His faithful would not unite with the world so readily and instead begin a drive to unite all religions in one as symbolized in the maitreya logo showing the occult symbols for Luciferian worship: the swastika, the cross, the sign of Islam (moon sickle), and occult symbols for Luciferians.

1798 -- May 19, Napoleon sets sail with 27 large ships, 300 transports and many smaller carrying ca. 50,000 troops to arrive and take Alexandria on July 2, the pyramids on July 25.

1799 - May 21, Napoleon begins his retreat because of Turkish threat.

1800 -- Period of Great Bible Societies and Missionary Efforts begins worldwide. In Spain it was called the `Despacho de la Sociedad Biblica y Estrangera.'

1804 -- May 14, Lewis & Clark leave Camp Dubois at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers on their way across North America to the Pacific as did the Scottish fur trader Alexander Mackenzie a decade earlier in Canada.

1806 -- Birth year of Luis de Usoz (1806-1865) of Madrid who, as a Hebrew scholar and collector of religious literature, loved to assist in providing Spanish Bibles in his country. As a noble, he had singular knowledge and was able to elucidate obscure portions of the life of Carlos III (1759-1788).

1807 -- Fulton's test run his first steam ship on the Hudson River the 140 miles from Albany to New York, going 5 miles per hour in average. It was a great success. Not until 1838 dared steamships go on the ocean.

1811 -- Spain Map: On three occasions, twice in 1811 and once in 1812, Bajadoz in Spain (Long.7 & Lat. 38.8) was besieged by Wellington; it was taken, after a particularly ferocious struggle, on Monday, April 6, 1812, no doubt hearing the traditional Castilian battle cry, `Santiago y cierra España.'

1811 -- The first petition went to Congress for laws prohibiting the carrying of mails on Sunday.

1812 -- English Spanish event: Victory of Salamanca on Thursday, July 22, 1812. In Spain it is known as the victory against the French at Arapiles.

1814 -- Wednesday, August 24th, British forces plunder and burn the White House in Washington D.C. and transfer the booty to their navy vessels led by the Fantome which in late November, together with two of her other ships hit rocks, sinking them in heavy fog 20 miles south of their port in Nova Scotia, on their way to their base at Halifax. Reports say that in 1960 American minted 1814 coins were found in a region known as Fantome Fangs. Other vessels also shipwrecked in the area: the French merchant ship Le Chameau in 1725 and a British navy ship, the HMS Tilbury, in 1757. All in all Nova Scotia is supposed to have some 450 shipwreck sites. [Archaeology, May/June 2006, p. 10-11.]

1819 -- Early Personalities of Egyptology: Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), a native of Padua, who befriended the Swiss traveler and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (??), who introduced him to Henry Salt (1780-1827) British Consul-General to Cairo (1816-27), and his employee. - Later Flinders Petrie, a largely home schooled, Plymouth Brethren Protestant, became famous in Egyptology.

1820 -- Spain: Don Rafael del Riego y Nuñez revolted against the absolutist government of Ferdinand VII (1814-1833) and was executed in 1823.

1823 -- Spain: Spanish constitution was put down by Angoulême, France (Long. 0.1 &Lat. 45.7) by French bayonets, May 1823.

1823 -- Year of the death of John Stewart, a mulatto freedman of Virginia, who before had learned to love and depend on the Lord. His mission took him to the Wyandottes tribe of the upper Sandusky in the State of Ohio.

1824 -- Samuel Broadbent, author of `Narrative', is in Maquassi, the head kraal of Chief Siffonello of the Baralong tribe of the Bechuanas. It was the time of commotion among the tribes of South Africa. The stronger nations like the Zulus were taking tribal areas by force; and lesser tribes, driven by fear and hunger, were overrunning one another. He tells in his book how thousands of tribesmen were sweeping the country, destroying and killing as they went. Samuel, his wife and two children were left alone. It was then that he took courage from the words of Proverbs 18:10. They closed the window shutters and prayed, committing themselves to God's care and went into a restful, trusting sleep. For the next three days Manatee warriors passed through the little town and never once did these men bother them.

1832 -- Dr. Nathan Bangs publishes his, `History of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church' when it was still more connected with God.

1833 -- Chicago is incorporated as a city with less than 400 residents. The arrival of the railroad would change that later.

1835 -- Portugal: George Burrow, English Bible Society rep, voyages to Lisbon. He states that Lisbon was still "a huge ruinous city, still exhibiting in almost every direction the vestiges of that terrific visitation of God, the earthquake, which shattered it some eighty years ago. It stands on seven hills, the loftiest of which is occupied by the castle of Saint George, which is the boldest and most prominent object to the eye, whilst surveying the city from the Tagus. The most frequented and busy parts of the city are those comprised within the valley to the north of the elevation. - Here you find the Plaza of the Inquisition, the principal square of Lisbon (the modern Praca de Commercio), from which run parallel towards the river three of four streets, amongst which are those of the gold and silver, so designated from being inhabited by smiths cunning in the working of those metals; they are upon the whole very magnificent; the houses are huge and as high as castles; immense pillars defend the causeway at intervals, producing, however, a cumbrous effect. ... With all its ruins and desolation, Lisbon is unquestioningly the most remarkable city in the Peninsula, and, perhaps, in the south of Europe." ... Citra, located on the other, eastern side of the Lisbon mountain "is a mingled scene of fairy beauty, artificial elegance, savage grandeur, domes, turrets, enormous trees, flowers, and waterfalls, such as met with nowhere else beneath the sun." The "gray palace witnessed the assemblage of the last cortes held by the boy king Sebastian of Portugal (1554-1578) - killed during an expedition against Morocco at the battle of Alcazarquivir - ere he departed on his romantic expedition against the Moors." [Borrow, George, `The Bible in Spain', London, 1959, p. 3-6.]

1835 -- Samuel F.B. Morse (Brutus) was born in 1791, and he died in 1872. This American artist and inventor of the telegraph traveled to Europe, where he learned of Papal plots to destroy the American Constitutional Republic. This information so alarmed Morse that he wrote two books attempting to warn the American people about Papal plots against America. One of them, 'Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States', was published in 1835. Samuel Morse personally warned Abraham Lincoln about these Papal plots to destroy the American Republic."

1835 -- Tuesday September 15; Charles Darwin sets foot on the Galapagos Islands (Isabela/Albemarle, Santa Cruz, Jervis and Fernandina Islands) beginning his unscientific and misleading account and interpretations of what he saw. Darwin was not trained in objective and critical scientific analysis, observation nor testing of methods and conclusions. He never looked through a microscope nor did he participate in field studies on geology, paleontology or any other scientific discipline. He simply did not know enough to write `Origins of Species'. He just conjectured, guessed and only because man set their mind to defeat the Word of God, was he chosen as their beginning authority. Well, our authority is the Word of God, someone who was there when the world was created. There is no mechanism for the appearance of different kinds of life in the theory of evolution. Therefore, teachers of evolution have no answers anyone can rely on. Darwin nor anyone can give an answer to `What was the original species?'
[Volcanic lava and the fine layering observed occurs during explosive eruptions. Close examination will still show these thin, distinct beds or layers. That type of layering is due to explosive eruptions of pyro-plastic flow laying down one layer after another within seconds and continue on as long as the eruption lasts creating many, many such fine, thin layers. Later observers, not having seen eruptions are unable to present the true origin of such layers caused by catastrophic events may not be interpreting them correctly.]

1836 -- Spain: General Quesada, whose suppression of the riots in Madrid took place during the premiership of Mendizabal in 1836. / Don José Agostinho Freire, a Portuguese minister, who served under the liberal Don Pedro, was murdered during an outbreak of mob violence in Portugal in 1836 .

1839 -- John D. Rockefeller born (1839-1937). By 1879 his company, Standard Oil, handled 90% of the refining business in the US. At age 50 (1889) he was the richest man alive. In 1891 he had a nervous breakdown, decided to spend the rest of his life as a philanthropist. His frtune went from 900 million to 26 million, but he lived to 97 years of age.

1840 -- Spain: The Irish naval lieutenant named Graydon distributed Bibles in Catalonia and in the south of Spain while the Wesleyan missionaries Messrs. William Harris Rule and Lyon preached in a church at Cadiz for the entire year. - This was also the time of the Spanish artist Don Vicente Lopez y Portaña (1772-1850) who was regarded as the best painter of his time in Spain.

1840 -- The `London Morning Chronicle' of August 12, 1840 published a letter which, together with all period publications, was analyzed, and the conclusion reached, that by August 11, 1840, the power of the Sultan of Constantinople was gone. How was it done, at that time a coalition of four European nations, including England, went to the Sultan and told him, sign our terms and we will protect you from an attack of your enemies. Unless you do that, you will be hurt real bad. The Sultan did this and yielded his power to the European coalition. These prophecies were expounded on by Josiah Litch and William Miller. When on August 11, 1840 the atheists saw how exactly that `391 year 15 days' prophecy was fulfilled, some of them became Christians. That is how God uses prophecy; he often shows how he overrules man's efforts to help His purpose to save sinners from being condemned to the eternal, second death in the coming judgment.

1842 -- Karl Marx joins "The League of the Just", later called the "League of Communists", one of the Jacobine groups. Started to write his `Communist Manifesto' in 1844, the same year when Christ began His ministry in the Most Holy, Satan had his men working hard behind the scenes and more openly in these (^) various ways. We learn from subsequent history more clearly that a member of the church of Rome can be a Cath. and at the same time be an atheist and a spiritualist. Many monks and nuns become atheists in convents because they see Jesus Christ year after year only as a shriveled up black image helplessly hanging on a crucifix. The only representation of God they have is their mother superior and/or their priests. Had they Bibles, they could discover the truth.

1843 -- "The comet of (February) 1843 is regarded as, perhaps, the most marvelous of the present age, having been observed in the daytime even before it was visible at night, - passing very near the sun, - exhibiting an enormous length of tail, - and arousing an interest in the public mind as universal and deep as it was unprecedented. It startled the world by its sudden apparition in the spring, in the western heavens, like a streak of aurora, streaming from the region of the sun, below the constellation of Orion. It was at first mistaken, by multitudes for the zodiacal light; but its aspects and movements soon proved it to be a comet..." ["The Great Comet," in `The Great Events of the Greatest Century,' and in `American Progress,' 1883]

1844 -- Start of the Church Period of Laodicea.

1844 -- Just days before October 22 of this year, high mason Joseph Smith is murdered by a lynch mob in prison (so no one particular could be identified as the culprit). The wicked powers knew, that, if they would pull this off while God's people were trying to turn people's minds to the great event that was about to transpire, it would divert people from turning with all their hearts to the Lord. Also, at the same time, the presidential elections were going strong. To add excitement to it all, even Joseph Smith was running for President of the United States.

1844 -- Advent believers expected Christ to return in October. After the disappointment only about 50 hung on to their faith, restudied the subject and learned of Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. For centuries The religious power in Rome did what Bible prophecy said they would do, they "took away" the daily, Dan. 11:31. In its brazen boldness, it even cast down the Sanctuary. It did this by blotting out the truth of direct access to the intercession of Christ, through its many untruths that men should confess their sins to priests, pray to beads and statues, and submit their souls to a form of religion. It was the Church of Rome which "cast down the truth to the ground" (Dan. 8:10-12), by changing the law of God, declaring that men burn forever in hellfire, and commanding the worship of men and women according to their own dictates. - - The Period of Christ's Ministration in the Most Holy of the Heavenly Sanctuary Begins and with it the Period of the Investigative Judgment (Dan. 7; 8:14) begins. Popular churches miss it because of false Bible and prophetic views. Period of Post Renewal of Icons of Bible Faith (Sabbath, Mortality of Man) begins.

1844 -- Time of the end of any scriptural, numerical prophecy and the world. Sweeping changes mark the following years: in philosophy, science and religion.

1844 -- First railway office on Manhattan Island.

1844 -- A few days before October 22 a lynch mob murders the Mormon founder and high mason Joseph Smith in an Illinois prison. As a mason what motivated Smith? Rome was well aware about the religious excitement before and around 1844 in America. They were well aware that the RCC was being identified in Bible prophecy as the antichrist. Free Masonry became the "Protestant arm" of Rome to oppose and paralyze prophetically guided Protestants so Rome would not be exposed. As we know that the lower degrees of masonry will put a Bible on the table in their lodge. Those who moved up the ladder to the 32nd degree and become a Shriner, then the Bible is removed and a Qoran put in its place in the lodge. Mormonism was invented by the Jesuit arm of the RCC for they knew a Mormon would not become a Protestant. For more consider the writings of Mormon leaders, the Grand marshals of Masonry, John Adams to President Jefferson, the writings of UN Secretary Robert Muller, (Muller School) `World Core Curriculum,' A. Bailey, to name a few. And so, those who speak out on issues over the radio and such, unless the know something about these things, they tap in the dark professing to be wise.

1847 -- August 9, Captain Ernest Andreas Moberg of the small Swedish vessel `Iduna' was on a voyage to sail 204 passengers from Hamburg to New York, to live their as farmers and the like. On his straight course, in some fog, he was crossed by the `Chanunga' inflicting fatal damage to the hull of his vessel. People had no time to dress, but they kept their gold and silver belts on, thus weighting them down so that only 34 passengers were saved, among them a 12 year old girl. The collision occurred at latitude 44.24, Long. 58.31, near Nova Scotia. [Source: `Weser Zeitung' of September 18, 1847. Found accidentally during a search.]

1850's -- Another name of interest may be: Henry Southern (1799-1853), secretary to the British Minister at Madrid 1833-1839, Secretary of Legation at Lisbon 1840-1847, and Minister to Brazil 1851.

1853 -- J. Hudson Taylor, author of `A Retrospect,' on his China Inland Mission. Tells how he voyaged to China in this year.

1854 -- Immaculate Conception theory announced, Daniel 7:11; 11:38.

1860 -- Period of the great lie of evolution supported by false science begins and is followed by its consequences of great atrocities and violence among men.

1860 -- When the Republican National Convention nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency of the United States, the population had grown to 300,000 people, a thousand times more than when it began.

1861 -- Continued from here. (18) John D. Rockefeller learned his father's trade well. When the `Civil War started in 1861, John D. sold his barrels of his father's "snake-oil" at high prices to both, the northern and southern armies to treat the wounded. It was the main treatment for pain in those days. Because of this, John D. was the first multi-millionaire after the Civil War. (19) To be able to get enough crude oil to mix with his whiskey, John D. Rockefeller bought up the holdings of the first U.S. oil field in the USA (in PA), and in 1870 he founded the Standard Oil Company. (20) Because Standard Oil got so big that it ran small oil refineries out of business, the US Supreme Court, on May 15, 1911, said that it was a menace to the republic. "For the safety of the Republic, we now decree that the dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15, 1911." [`John D. A Portrait in Oils', p. 154]; Rockefeller did not like that, so he broke it up into new companies that were still controlled from his headquarters in New York - companies now called, Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Chevron, Arco, etc. (21) Just like Grandpa's `snake-oil' had been sold to both sides during the Civil War, Rockefellers' oil financed both sides in WWI. (22) In WWII, Standard Oil worked closely with the Rome controlled IG Farben.

1862 -- Period of Civil War Crisis (Abraham Lincoln & Ellen White) begins.

1863 -- The first organization was formed to change the Constitution of the United States (Xenia of Ohio).

1864 -- A permanent organization was formed, called the `National Reform Association,' with the avowed object to secure a religious amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

1864 -- The motto `In God We Trust,' was placed on coins at the suggestion of a Pennsylvania minister, being authorized by an Act of Congress on April 22.

1871 -- Night of October8, of this year the great Chicago fire began destroying some 18,000 buildings, killing 300 and leaving 90,000 homeless. It took 20 years for the city to recover.

1873 -- Krakatau erupts spewing steam and rocks 50 miles into the air and causing a tidal wave that kills some 36,000 people.

1874 -- Uriah Smith published his `Leading Doctrines of the Review.' A four month series of articles in which he speaks much on the law but `justification by faith', which is the foundation of "hot" works for those who are part of the era of the church of Laodicea, is not mentioned. That was perhaps in part so because usually the wheel that gets the grease is the one that squeaks, however, greasing the insights on keeping the law of God, caused another wheel to squeak, yet, to find the cause of that squeaking took a lot longer.

1877 -- James White and Uriah Smith hold the `Bible Institute' at Battle Creek, Michigan. This series of lectures for Adventist ministers focused again on how the Bible teaches the law of God. The purpose was to train the pastors to go out and preach the three angels messages more effectively. These lectures wer published later, and once more there was no mention of justification by faith.

1878 -- In this year Uriah Smith published a 336 page book, `Synopsis of Present Truth.' Again, this summary of the Adventist message contained no mention of `justification by faith,' or of `righteousness by faith.' - This helps us to see why Christians of other faiths began to accuse SdA's of being legalists, as they noticed our focus on law and/or neglect of righteousness by faith. It was in this context that EG White wrote in the RH, March 11, 1890, "We have preached the law until we are as dry as the hills of Gilboa, that had neither dew nor rain. We must preach Christ in the law, and there will be sap and nourishment in the preaching that will be as food to the famishing flock of God. We must not trust in our own merits at all, but in the merits of Jesus of Nazareth. Our eyes must be anointed with eye-salve. We must draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to us, if we come in his own appointed way. O that you may go forth as the disciples did after the day of Pentecost, and then your testimony will have a living ring, and souls will be converted to God."
Thus we see that, to accuse SdA's of being legalists today, is rather rummaging in old bags and luggage. Today it is more important to know the love of Christ how He proclaimed His law on Sinai so he can call us His own and do away with illegalism, the breaking of the law of God that those same churches are guilty off who accused SdA's of legalism.

1884 -- On December 11 of this year the `National Reformers' made the first offer to join hands with Catholics.

1887 -- A peasant woman discovers up to 380 El Amarna Letters.

1888 -- On May 21st of this year Senator Blair introduced his bill for a National Sunday Rest law.

1888 -- Period of Rejection of Third Angel's Message, with it of Christ and the Holy Ghost begins in SdA church affecting the whole world. Followed by an extended period of continued rejection, the Laodicean syndrome prevails. Period of books, music and denominations of a new order continuous, gets new momentum and worsens. Period of more marked withdrawing of the Holy Spirit from those who reject God's unselfish lordship becomes more noticeable. Satan is gaining more fully control over those who refuse the invitation of God's saving love.

1889 -- On November 12 of this year the Catholic Congress at Baltimore resolved to unite with Protestants in a movement for `proper Sunday observance.'

1891 -- Pope Leo XIII releases his encyclical `Rerum Novarum' (On the Condition of Labor).

1903 -- The meeting of 17 personalities to structure the coming revolution in Russia. - Between 1903 to 1917 these 17 became 40,000; 1917 to 1937 40,000 became 167 million; Between 1937 to 1957 167 million became 963 million.

1906 -- Wednesday, April 18, 5:12 a.m.; San Francisco earthquake hits.

1908 -- On September 14 of this year Mr. Samuel Gompers officially announced the American Federation of Labor as in favor of Sunday rest, and as having `done as much, if not more, than any other organized body of men and women to enforce the observance of the Sunday rest day.'

1914 -- June 28, successor to the throne of Austria and his wife were murdered near Seranjewo, Bosnia, this triggered a chain reaction of attack and protection between European nations - thus leading to WWI.
1914 - 1918 -- Four great empires collaps: (1) the Russian under the Czars, (2) the German under the Kaisers, (3) the Austrian under the Hapsburgs, and (4) the Ottoman Empire under the sultans.

1914 -- Period of Lost Generations begins.

1915 -- April 24, Start of Armenian roundup and destructions.

1917 -- `Our Lady of Fatima' - Vatican ignores 1.John 4:1; demonic apparition announces, identifies itself as the RC theoretical `Immaculate Conception.'

1917 -- Bolshevik revolution begins. Rome wined and dined some 300 hoodlums in New York city, shipped them to Europe and sent them in boxcars to Moscow, equipped with millions of dollars worth of gold and weapons. When the boxcars were opened they went and killed the Czar and his little family.

1917 -- Dec 11, Turks surrender Jerusalem to General Allenby.; But the subsequent fierce, repeated attacks by the Turks against the British holding the city, did not achieve their hoped for result. The Turkish military leaders had promised their soldiers, that by winning the city, they could do for one day in it as they wished.

1919 -- Between this year and 1933, the period of prohibition, caused the streets of Chicago to become war zones.

1923 -- In this year the Great Kanto earthquake in Japan, ignited firestorm that raged through the city and produced a gigantic fire tornado that killed 38,000 in 15 minutes in the Hifukusho-Ato region of Tokyo.

1925 -- Scopes Trial at Dayton, Tennessie; Clarence Darrol, Henry Fairfield Osborn. Main issue was the tooth of `Hesperopithecus' the Nebraska Man. Was it a man's tooth, or an ape's tooth? [#27, Nebraska Man, "best" evidence for evolution found in 1923 by Harold Cook. The First Anthropoid Primate Found in America.' See Science, Vol. 60, no. 1427, May 5, 1922) p. 463.] - Because of this `tooth' evidence evolution won the Skopes Trial and was since introduced into the Public School System and then around the world - primarily based on this fossil `tooth' evidence, by 1925. - In 1926 Harold Cook went back to the same gravel pit, excavated, and found the rest of the skeleton and its teeth, of which the Trial tooth, was one of them from the same jaw. The trial tooth fit in there perfectly. Was it a skeleton of an ape or a man? No. It was a pig. [Nebraska Man Found to be a "pig." William K. Gregory, `Hesperopithecus Apparently Not an Ape nor a Man'. Science, Vol. 66, no. 1720, Dec. 16, 1927.] The admission was not made until years later.

1928 -- The papal nuncio in Germany, E. Pacelli, leads the powerful Catholic Zentral Partei to the extreme right and secretly helps Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) skyrocket to power. [See `Mein Kampf' and look for the name of the Catholic priest in the back who wrote most of it.]

1929 -- Pope Pius XI (1922-1939) disbands the Catholic party to consolidate Mussolini's regime, and in turn the Lateran Treaty is signed. This same year the pope is crowned as "Sovereign Ruler of the World.'

1929 -- Monday, February 11; Signing of the Lateran Pact or treaty between the Italian government's Mussolini and the Vatican re-establishing the political power and diplomatic standing of the Catholic Church, which had been lost when Italy seized Rome on Tuesday, September 20, 1870. - This pact, discovered Leo H. Lehmann, says, "Lewis Mumford was one of the few Americans who discovered that the second World War began at the signing of the Lateran Pact between the Pope and Mussolini in 1929." [L.H. Lehmann, `Vatican Policy in the Second World War,' 1946.] -- In his book, `Saved for Living,' p. 160, Lewis Mumford says, "Political interpreters have set various dates for the beginning of the Fascist uprising against civilization, but most of them go back no further than 1931. This is a curious blindness, the betrayal of the Christian world, very plainly, took place in 1929, in the Concordat that was made between Mussolini and the pope." [250] A few years after this signing the Japanese emperor visited the pope in Rome where both of them signed an agreement. - - The ultimate goal of Rome was to have Japan, Italy and Germany attack their neighbors and neighboring nations to win against them, and then take on America to destroy Protestantism worldwide. God thwarted their efforts. Japan was to conquer in a double pincer movement (1) through Korea, Manschuria, Burma, Indonesia, Australia into the South Pacific; and (2) Korea, north through Siberia, Alaska through Canada toward the USA. Italy was to conquer roughly (1) France into Netherlands, Spain, North Africa, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia; (2) through Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, down toward northern Egypt to join with the African corpse. Strangely daring for the times, too daring, it failed. If their plan had succeeded they planned to overcome the center of Protestantism, the USA.

1930 -- In the early 1930's Germany was nice and beautiful. That changed suddenly in the middle of the decade. All of a sudden, out of nowhere (out of Jesuit offices) the Jews, Sabbath keepers, were attacked and you know what happened. Then for `peace and safety's sake' all freedoms were taken away. Remember the word "all" in Rev. 18:24 means literally "all". Adolf, puppet of Rome, was kept from accomplishing it. What was he to do during those cold, cold winters? These cold, cold winters would buy the Lord more time for His people so they can learn about the time we live in and how the word of God, the 3 AM and the Great Controversy describes what will happen. Cold winters stymy travel, ground movement of agencies, etc., it allows more time for those who would read His word.

1931 -- May 15; Pope Pius XI (1922-1939) releases his encyclical `Quadragesimo Anno' (On the Reconstruction of the Social Order).

1933 -- The Nazi party under Hitler assumed power in Germany to establish `das tausendjährige Reich (the millennial Reich),' it lasted a dozen years. ["The third Reich is the power which not only recognized, but put into practice, the high principles of the papacy." "Hitler never left the church, and always paid his church dues punctually . . . Ever since his time as a choir boy at the Convent of Lambach, he had admired the Roman church with its organization, its ceremonies, its symbols, and he copied these for his temporal ministry down to the smallest detail."; Dr. Henry Picker, The Hitler Phenomenon, p. 8.]

1933 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes President of the USA (1933-1945).
In Germany, Vatican signs a Concordat with Germany, with the assistance of Franz v. Pappen, making Roman Catholicism the only recognized religion there. [Nazis did destroy some Cath, priests who didn't go along with him as a smoke screen, a tactic Rome has used before.]

1938 -- Joe Garagiola began his broadcasting career under the name Paul Aurandt at KXOK, St. Louis, the city regarded as one of the abominable beer capitals in the world. It features 1) the 50,000 seat Bush Memorial Stadium, 2) the gateway Arch; a town which was visited by a Pope desiring to make it his capital in America. Later Joe Garagiola, alias Paul Aurandt, changed his name to Paul Harvey. At KXOK he worked by 1944 alongside another young announcer by the name of Harry Caray, sportsman.

1938 -- Hurrican Oak hits the US in the Fall.

1938 -- Nov 20, Catholic priest Charles Coughlin delivers a radio address in which he defends Nazi violence against Sabbath-keeping Jews. Vatican had a concordat with all three axis powers in those days, hoping they would conquer the world for Rome. The allies worked somewhat in Rome's favor, for instance in that they fire bombed the German non-military Protestant city of Dresden and other such areas.

1939 -- E. Pacelli is elected Pope Pius XII. (1939-1958), the top mason, visits very high ranked mason Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the home of George Washington, discussing the plans they had for the NWO. The masons planned three major world wars to soften up and get rid of the Protestants. Two of these wars happened already, the third is supposed to rid the world of every true Protestant whom the church hates so much.[See `Our Sunday Visitor,' "Can we get it together for good?", May 25, 2003.] After Roosevelt and Pope Pius XI (1922-1939) met, mason Myron Taylor is made a special delegate to the Vatican. In the NWO no one is allowed to think for themselves, people must "cooperate with the collective conscience." The Jacobins then were like secret societies today. The (hand) signals of the Jacobine in the French Revolution became the symbols of Freemasonry. The NWO will follow pretty much the same pattern used during the French Revolution to reach their goal. They want to destroy the Orthodox (ex. Russian Orthdox Church included) and the true Protestants.

1940 -- Roosevelt becomes President of the USA.

1942 -- President Theodore Roosevelt signs an Executive Order establishing "exlusion zones." The signs at those zones read, "Stop Area Limits - For persons of Japanese ancestry residing in this relocation center - Sentry on Duty."
T. R. said, "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
President Woodrow Wilson said, "The civilized world (is) no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

1943 -- Monday, April 19, attack on the Warsaw Ghetto (link: offline) where the Jews lived. ("On Monday, April 19, 1943, the Jewish feast of Passover, over 2000 Waffen SS soldiers under the command of SS General Jürgen Stroop attacked with tanks, artillery and flame throwers. A fierce battle erupted between the heavily armed Germans and 1200 Jews armed with smuggled in pistols, rifles, a few machine guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails." They tried to defend their life, they resisted for 28 days.)

1943 -- Ronald Reagon stars in his famous film, `This is the Army,' which would later be instrumental in aiding him to win the US presidency because of its RCC friendly overtones.

1945 -- August 6, 8:16 AM, Hiroshima destroyed by a US atomic bomb. General McArthur warned, "We've had our last chance. If we do not device some greater and more equitable system [of settling our international problems], Armageddon will be at our door." It seems that the prophet Joel saw something like this in vision, Joel 2:30.

1945 -- Start of a false Christ and Holy Ghost presented world wide over television and large speaking events.

1946-49 -- Civil war in Greece when communists tried to take over the country; execution of Eleni Gatzoyiannis for helping her two young children walk out to freedom.

1952 -- Armenian Demos Shakarian (1913-1993) from Los Angeles organized `Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International' (FGBFI). Turns out to be a tongue speaking Pentecostal organization.

1953 -- June 2, Elizabeth, Queen or King of England, "Defender of the Faith" is coronated with the oath that includes the promise by British Monarchs to uphold and defend the Protestant Reformed Religion.

1958 -- Under Pope John XXIII, there has been a rapid alteration in the Vatican's anti-Bolshevik stand ... to result by 2009 under Pope Benedict XVI and American historically undiscerning politicians in favor of Marxism and socialism.

1960 -- Eastern religions and false Christian movements invade the West because of large scale apostasy from the true faith of Jesus.

1960 -- America elects the first catholic President. When asked what he would do with respect to the Constitution, he replied, `he would put the Constitution above the canon laws of the church.'
Libraries clear out many books which the RCC does not like, ex. on the inquisition, etc.

1961 -- May 15; Pope John XXIII releases his encyclical `Mater et Magistra' (Christianity and Social Progress).

1961 -- May 29, Sunday-closing (blue) laws upheld by the High Court in Washington. [`The Seattle Daily Times', May 29, 1961.

1962 -- Vatican II in session, ended in 1965; Goal confirmed: "The entire structure of the laws in America are to be re-made and enforced according to the teachings of the RCC." "State, this land belongs to us by every right. Long enough have we compromised. ... Now we demand what is really ours, and we are going to have it." "No one has a right to preach but those who have "genuine" Apostolic succession from the RCC." Ever since the RCC works not for the kingdom of God, or as a world civil power, but rather as an infiltrating spiritual virus. (But remember, the Apostles have no successors.) -- Out of it came the decree known as Unitatis Redintegratio which says, there "can be no ecumenism worthy of the name without a change of heart." - The New World Order (NWO) is being pushed today. What will it lead to, see here and here.

1963 -- January, The Navy's manned bathyscaphe `Trieste' descended to a depth of 35,857 feet.

1963 -- August 5, officials of the USA, Britain and the USSR sign the first nuclear-ban treaty agreeing not to test in the air, space and under water. In October President John F. Kennedy signs it. Secretary of State Dean Rusk says, It was "a first step on the road to a secure and peaceful world," not knowing or believing prophecy.

1967 -- March 26; Pope Paul VI releases his encyclical `Populorum Progressio' (The Development of Peoples).

1967 -- Cath. Charismatic movement, decided upon in Vatican II (1962), begins in Pittsburgh; the National Service Committee is established. (Next)

1967 -- An Airforce Captain working in an underground missile facility indicated that lights in the sky shut down the missiles.

1970's -- The Vatican sponsors middle class youth to join religious groups such as the Unification Church, the Children of God and the Hare Krishna to weaken Protestants and any other Christian church groups.

1971 -- Federal Reserve declares that the US is bankrupt because our debt equaled our income. Dollar devalued by 8.57% in November.

1971 -- The `People of Praise' is founded and `Building Christian Communities' by Steve Clark is published.

1972 -- Federal Reserve says, US is not willing to tighten their belts.

1974 -- More than 30,000 Charismatics meet at Notre Dame, the Jesuit College and University. Amazingly at Notre Dame is where the book by Thomas Tillam was discovered, probably forgotten by the brass.

1975 -- The International Cath, Charism. Conference in Rome. Pope Paul VI permits Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenes to use the high altar, normally reserved for the pope at the closing mass." That shows how exalted they feel about the Charism. movement sweeping the world. All be it, does it show everywhere? No. I never noticed anything like that around, it does not show the true power of God. The Ch. movement is a smoke screen designed to make the world think that RC is Christianity while they prepare to inquisite all those who disagree with her.

1975 -- Protestants and Catholics issued the first common catechsim.

1977 -- General Ecumenical Conf. in Kansas City: one of the largest Charism. Conf. ever held.

1979 -- October 6, Jimmy Carter Baptist President of the USA, invites Pope to the White House. "It was the first time, not only that a pope has visited the WH, but the first time any pope had called on a governmental leader anywhere." (RNS, Oct. 6, 1797). Carter said, "I welcome you to the WH the symbolic home of all our people. On behalf of every American of every faith, I also welcome you into our nation's heart." Carter that day fulfilled pretty much the healing of the wound inflicted on the papacy in 1798. The pope said, "The pope wants to bless you - with the permission of the President of the United States." Such an apostolic blessing by the pope for US government officials would not have been possible a decade earlier.

1980 -- `Man and Woman in Christ' is published by Clark. The smoke screen continues.

1980 -- Ronald Reagon wins US presidency and becomes the 1st US President who is inaugurated facing the obelisk (occult sign) at the tope of the Washington Monument.

1980 -- May 18, Mt. St. Helen explodes 25x more powerful than the blast that ripped Hiroshima, however, minus the radioactive fallout. The mountain spewed only (hot) volcanic dust.

1981 -- US ambassador sent to Vatican. Pope & Reagon were shot. It is possible that the shooting of the Pope was a staged event, not real, to draw attention to himself and establish a way to influence Islam.

1982 -- Clark forms the `Sword of the Spirit.' An international, interdenominational community of communities. A sign that they want to deeper and further infiltrate and destroy Protestantism.

1983 -- Monday, April 18, Trilateral Commission meets Pope John Paul II. - President Ronald Reagan passes an executive order 12425 stating, "(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable." (International Org, Immunity Act {22 U.S.C. 288}) This was amended by exec. order 12425, resulting in the President, in the dead of night, placing the USA under the authority of the international police org. (INTERPOL) granting its full immunity in the US [Columbia Conservative Examiner, Dec. 26, 2009.] by removing language in the executive order passed in '83 by Reagon.

1984 -- Thursday, March 22, B'nai B'rith (Jewish Free Masonry) meets with John Paul II.

1984 -- April 23, Spotlight Magazine reports that President Reagon gave secret orders "to establish mass detention facilities - otherwise known as concentration camps - to be set up at a number of major US installations." - Meeting the head of Rome in Alaska, where he assured him that we would become involved world projects of the RCC.

1985 -- Sept. 19, 8.1 quake struck Mexico City flattening the Hotel Regis and causing plenty of damage.

1987 -- Lech Walesa of Poland receives waver of communion in honor for his work.

1987 -- Dec. 30; Pope John Paul II releases his encyclical `Sollicitudo Rei Socialis' (On the Social Concerns of the Church).

1989 -- President George Bush Sr. / Gorbachev at a NWO summit meeting in Malta. Radio News, Dec. 1, reports Bush as saying, "A gateway to the new Millennium of freedom." He does not specify who will and who will not enjoy that freedom. (See also article in LA Times, Feb. 18, 1991). Knights of Mailta (control banks & military) included before: Pat Buchanan, William F. Buckley Jr., William Casey, Archbishop Edward Egan, Heinrich Himmler, Lee Iacocca, Joseph Kennedy, Henry Luce (Cath. Magazins founder), Senator Ted Kennedy, Tip O'Neill, Franz von Papin, J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Sinatra, and many more.

1990 -- Gorbachev receives `Peace Price.' Start of the RCC sponsored `Celebration Movement', till about 2000.

1992 -- February 24, Time magazine article `Holy Alliance,' about fall of communism.

1992 -- July, Catholic World Report: States that the Cath. Charismatic movement began in 1967 in Pittsburgh, Penns. Since then it has touched the lives of millions upon millions, according to their (greatly exaggerated?) figures, all around the world.

1993 -- Monday, April 19, attack on Waco coinciding with the Nazi attack on the assigned Jewish quarters of the Warsaw Ghetto, 50 years earlier. Notice the parallels: (1) same date - (a) on a Monday (b) on the 19th of the month, (2) Warsaw - Waco, s.th. about the `W' in the name, (3) Jews and those at Waco were Sabbath keepers while the powers in control at the time were Jesuits, (4) the Jews at Warsaw resisted, the people at Waco did not, (5) it looks like the top US leader got instructions, volunteered, did it because of Hitler's birthday, or had some other sinister reason(s) to do this, (6) more later ...

1993 -- Sharon Perez, Prime Minister of Israel deeds Jerusalem to the Vatican.

1993 -- September 14; Bipartisan betrayal took place when then President Clinton signed the NAFTA pact and Democrat and Republican leaders lend their support; they included: Gerald Ford, Thomas Foley, George Mitchell, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, George Bush (Sr.), Bob Mitchel and Al Gore.

1998 -- Daily Mail News June 7; The Pope pleas for Sunday sacredness: "Pope John Paul II yesterday urged Christians to keep Sunday as a holy day. He said the true value of the sabbath must be rediscovered in obedience to the Third Commandment." Before his passing he also said, "Make it clear that Sunday must not be worked, since it must be celebrated as the day of the Lord." - Well, this is his Sunday-sabbath, not God's. The Sabbath of the Lord God is the Fourth Commandment Sabbath (Ex. 20:8-11) which honors God the Creator of all, the day He has given for mankind as a sign and seal to keep to distinguish His people from idolaters (Ex. 22:31). For you see, the authority of the 4th commandment is definitely recognized after the Saviour's crucifixion, Luk. 23:54-56. This scripture is the most remarkable case for Sabbath observance in the whole Bible. It comes to us today at a crucial juncture implanted by the omniscient God as the first Sabbath of the New Testament (New Covenant) week.

1999 -- Three day meeting with youths from 63 countries on the theme of neoliberalism including Fidel Castro. (Pretoria News, Aug. 20, 1999). - - Some (Dr. Moslem al-Asadi) claimed in the Italian newspaper `Corriere della Sera,' the real Sadam Hussein died in 1999 of cancer of the lymph nodes and since then they showed the picture of his double (Posted March 26, 2003, WorldNetDaily.com).

2000 -- August 28, the Church of England urging its churches to hold "Christian Seances" to call up the spirits of the dead, so the church members could develop their "psychic skills." [Times article]

2000 -- Pope opens `Jubilee' door.

2001 -- Around this time the document `Dominus Iesus', on ecumenism, was released. This document has been controversial for its statements on salvation and the Church, although it merely clarified positions held consistently by the Church for a long time...." Unfortunately many Protestants are being wooed under the umbrella of this Church supposing that they are being loved, thus blinding the descendants of the reformers that all the compromising that happens will be only on their side. They do not see that powerful efforts are happening which is designed to outlaw true Bible Christianity via the ORPM supported by organizations like the CFR, ADL, JDL and the CRI (see HR2431 - didn't pass in 2001).

2001 -- July 6, the Baptist Information Service reported that the Lutheran Leader said that the pope might be the global spokesperson for all Christians.

2001 -- September 8, returning from Europe.; September 11, twin towers crash.

2002 -- January 12, R. Schuler: he and many other rel. leaders to meet head of RCC at Assissi to help cement into place and finalize the process of peace that Rome is trying for in order to stop the messages of Rev. 14 to reach the world. - What are some of the easier recognizable disparities between more Bible oriented religion and those faiths which make light of Bible truths? A big problem among many church members is that they do not really believe what God has said. To many, it seems like a fairy tale. Because of the influence of (1) liberals on the left, (2) television hypnotism, ridiculing people of faith and (3) fanatics on the right, many do not really take seriously God's warnings to us about who is behind attacking God's Word. Because of not believing God's warnings who is largely behind Satan's manipulations to do what God says is going to be done in our world they do not even study it out. As a result they (4) become discouraged when they see things happen instead of becoming more bold in their faith and rejoicing in the Lord that they have the privilege to watch His Word being fulfilled before their eyes. (5) They are in grave danger of caving in - to give up God's holy Sabbath of the Bible, to remain or become Sunday keepers.

2004 -- July 4, `Our Sunday Visitor'. The headlines say, "The Troubling Revival of the KKK." It tells how the KKK was openly `Protestant' and was against the dear black people and the Catholics. It fails to tell the truth that the KKK was started by Catholic priests as a diversion to prevent the dear black people to become Protestants and join Rome instead. Therefore, realize that all modern history books contain the rewritten history as Rome sees it. They are not worth the paper they are printed on. Sources also say that Rome has sent their trained people into libraries to steal and destroy thousands of old history and religious books all over the world. The survival of the KKK is no more surprising than the "Day of Rest" law which was "accidentally" passed in the capitol building of Richmond. Why? Because we are in the days of the end of the world.

2004 -- Sept., Lutherans come to a historic agreement which states to leave past condemnations against each other because they do not apply any longer. With that, much, often hidden opposition of Luther's work and teachings, were nullified at the meeting at the Lutheran-RC Conference in Geneva.

2004 -- October 29; Tony Blair and Jack Straw sign the new constitution of the European Union with the leaders of the other 25 member states look on toward them and a giant statue of the pope sitting with an outstretched hand, wearing his triple crown and the colors of the EU are the colors of the virgin Mary showing that they have "one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast". [See New American, Dec 13, 2004.]

2005 -- How safe is the world in the human view? According to reports there are about 20 suitcase size nuclear bombs missing from the Russian arsenal and many, many pocket size ones but is that true? I think pocket size one's are a lie.

2005 -- US Supreme Court is increasingly referring to foreign law to decide US cases, Isa. 59:14.[USA Today, January 14, 2005] - It appears that every attorney in the USA received education either from a Jesuit school of law or by a Jesuit trained professor.

2005 -- May 15; Global day of prayer; starts as the sun rises in New Zealand, ends as it sets in California; included more than 240 countries.; A G. Power said he had a vision from God to start that movement. The Lord tells us that many counterfeit movements will come about, counterfeit because God does not choose prophets who do not keep His law, that would be like unseating Himself from His Heavenly Throne.

2006 -- Sept. 26; Pope Benedict XVI. (strange) speech at Regensburg, Germany. His message was clear: Protestantism is a threat to a peaceful, nonviolent Christianity when it insists on the Bible as its sole authority and emphasizes an individual's responsibility first and directly to God. - His post 9/11 message from Regensburg was stark: Islam may have shown propensities to violence in the past, but Rome will accommodate it in a tent of rationality if it comes to the table. Protestantism, on the other hand, is the root departure from "safe" Christianity. It spawned Enlightenment and the Western violence that now antagonizes so much of the rest of the world. Perhaps Benedict would have religious people worldwide see papal authority as the solution to the religiously motivated violence that now plagues the world. It is time to read Revelation 13 to know the truth and see through his misrepresentations. See Brutus take on violence here and here.

2006 -- October/November: `Habeus Corpus' taken away which allowed us in our court system to receive a fair trial with representation.

2007 -- February, No protection for American citizens either.

2008 -- Those who see history as cyclical events vs linear events may state:

We are at the front end of a substantial economic recline. America considers its turning point historical events: The 1780's American Revolution (the 1st turning point) - ca. 80 years later - the 1860's Civil War (the second turning point) - ca. 80 years later - 1929 to 1940 the Great Depression and World War II (the third turning point)- ca. 80 years later - 2005 or later, [William Strauss & Neil Howe's, `The Fourth Turning Point,' (S&H), 1997.] Quoting: "As the crisis congeals, people will come to the jarring realization that they have grown helplessly dependent on a teetering edifice of anonymous transactions and paper guarantees. . . . As all these generations enter their crisis constellation, the unraveling will have left the government so fiscally over committed to sustaining everyone's expectations that initial official responses to these new concerns will lack credibility. Subliminal fears will now become urgent. The Unraveling era's wry acceptance that people might never get much back from Social Security crystallize into a jolting new fear that everything from Treasury Bills to re-mortgage instruments to mutual funds could become just as suspect. . . . This might result in a Great Devaluation, a severe drop in the market price of most financial and real assets. . . . With savings worth less, the new elders will become more dependent on the government, just as government becomes less able to pay benefits to them. . . . The new youth will face even taller barricades against their future. . . . Soon after the catalyst, a national election will produce a sweeping political realignment, as one faction or coalition capitalizes on a new public demand for decisive action. Republicans, Democrats, or perhaps a new party will decisively win the long partisan tug-of-war, ending the era of split government that had lasted through four decades of awakening and unraveling. . . This new regime will enthrone itself for the duration of the crisis." [Ibid., pp. 274, 275].

Notice: S&H identify a potentially illuminating insight. They suggest that each generation is characterized by

1. a common location in history
   
2. common beliefs and behavior, and
   
3. a perceived membership in a common generation. [Ibid., p. 65]

2009 -- "Contending for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." Jude 3.

"Let the watchmen on the walls of Zion not join with those who are making of none effect the truth as it is in Christ. Let them not join the confederacy of infidelity, popery, and Protestantism in exalting tradition above Scripture, reason above revelation, and human talent above the divine influence and the vital power of godliness." {RH March 24, 1896; 4BC 1141.7}.

The confederacy shown in the following items is the counterfeit of the true unity that will exist among God's people who will be abiding in Him, Jh. 15:4,5. We are to abide in the Words of Christ, we are to unite us to Christ in repentance of our sins, without these can be no true, Holy Spirit filled unity.

"Union is strength; division is weakness. When those who believe present truth are united, they exert a telling influence. Satan well understands this. Never was he more determined than now to make of none effect the truth of God by causing bitterness and dissension among the Lord's people. The world is against us, the popular churches are against us, the laws of the land will soon be against us. If there was ever a time when the people of God should press together, it is now. God has committed to us the special truths for this time to make known to the world. The last message of mercy is now going forth. We are dealing with men and women who are judgment bound." {5T 236; See here on differences in unity.}

2009 -- January 3, Sabbath, after sunset, Israel starts ground war against Hamas rocket launchers in Gaza.

2009 -- Jan 20, America has a new President, Barak Obama was inaugurated on this day thanks to those whose first allegiance is toward Rome, the mother of all Protestant churches. Our new president does not know the Bible, the US is on a downslide right away. Israel finished withdrawing its troops from Gaza.

2009 -- Jan 21, Christians should respond to Christ's urgent appeal for unity in his Church, says Pope Benedict. - What characterizes Christ's Church we present here?

2009 -- Febr 5, When President Obama spoke at the 2009 National Prayer breakfast in Washington DC to over 3500 guests, including members of congress, the media and invitees from over 100 countries, he stated that he had heard God call him while he was walking the streets of Chicago. "I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck - no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose." On top of this and out of this spring consequences for all of us:

1. the pope has summoned all churches to unite
   
2. President Obama has declared that God called him
   
3. the president appoints prominent Roman Catholics and Pentecostals (Spiritualists) to high position in the Federal Government

2009 -- Why does America not outright win any wars anymore? - Because of activities behind the scenes. We must understand that the Jesuit Order is a very powerful order. They work through the strangest organizations (i.e. KKK) to further their own plans. It was the Jesuit McLaughlin who wrote speeches for President Richard Nixon for $35,000 a year. And so we Americans value our freedoms, but we are being undermined by secretive agents. Many in the Right-Wing Movement people are true patriots who want to uphold liberty; they want to maintain their freedom of free speech and how to educate their children as they wish. They are decent people, but they are not aware that their leadership is controlled by Rome. Their own Jesuit controlled leadership will betray them - just as Hitler betrayed his armies to the East and cut-off their supplies; just as Napoleon betrayed his armies in the East, abandoned 250,000 men; that is exactly what will be done to our Right-Wing patriotic people who are the bulwark against tyranny in this country today.
"Cardinal Spellman wanted the Vietnam War. He would travel over there at the war-front and he would call the soldiers the `soldiers of Christ.' Cardinal Spellman wanted the Vietnam War, and if he wanted it, the Pope and the Black Pope, the Jesuit General, wanted that War. The truth is, that every war since the civil war has been started by the Jesuits in harmony with their oath. The Vietnam War created a 200 billion dollar debt for the American people, and that debt was incurred by the US Congress, who borrowed that money from the Jesuit controlled Federal Reserve Bank. It was not mainly that American industry is instrumental in causing such calamities, but the secretive powers that run this world. This way that Order made a lot of money. They killed a lot of "heretics" in that war [and in every war - like the one going on in Iraq and Afghanistan right now]. The Order preserved the CIA.
When President Kennedy decided to abolish the CIA, the Order secretly prepared and trained a man to abolish their own Catholic president who had gotten in the way. Kennedy also did not want the voucher system for public schools. The Vatican wants the American taxpayer to pay for their schools, because, remember, `Roman Catholicism, left to itself, without government support, crumbles.' [Their leaders deal in `slaves and souls of men.' Rev. 18:13.] They are simply to obey the hierarchy. Catholic people in America, for the most part, enjoy freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to make a profit; all of those things the Vatican does not want and the current Pope is working to do something about it (take those freedoms away).
Therefore, remember, The Jesuits are an army. They are soldiers. They are under oath. They have the colleges and universities bought and paid for! And these universities will not get grants if they start to expose the Order. Every pope swears to usurp this [US] government, control it, and use it with a coalition of other governments for the annihilation of the "heretic Protestant" and "liberal" population of this country and the world, pursuant to the Council of Trent, which every Pope swears to uphold.

2009 -- February 19, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown uses his meeting with Pope Benedict to invite him to England.

2009 -- March, Pope Benedict XVI visits Angola. Tells them to be Catholics.

2009 -- April, Global 20 (G20) meet in London. President Obama speaks at Strasbourg. Occasional references to global means to help the world's crisis. Increasing mass murders of disgruntled people whose worldview seems to allow it, when God condemns such behavior and predicted that man will live in fear until the end.

2009 -- May 10 and onward, Pope visits Jordan and `holy' places in Israel, May11.

2009 -- June 2-8, President Obama visits Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany and France. Greets people in Cairo by saying, `salam alaikum'.

2009 -- June 11, the World Health Organisation declares a Pandemic (Phase 6) ostensibly because of the swine flu. More than 60 countries are reporting such cases. The rich get nervous. The concern is because of the wide spread of the infection, not necessarily the severity of it. -- World hunger said to have reached 1 billion.- Now, 2011, it becomes known that these pandemic scares were orchestrated for some overreaching, mind controlling, people controlling megalomenias.

2009 -- June, President Obama seems to tend to ignore the US Constitution and instead rule by executive orders.

2009 -- July 7, M. Jackson dies and all the world is watching while Rome fixes to release its most important document for our age, announcing and hiding its affairs behind the media frenzy about a dead man just two days later.

2009 -- July 9; Pope Benedict releases his encyclical `Caritas in Veritate' (In Charity and Truth) which calls the governments of this world to establish a world political authority.
Reuters News, `Pope calls for "world political authority." July 7, 2009.
Vatican City: Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a world political authority to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat. The pope's call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in a new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations. An encyclical is the highest form of papal writing and gives the clearest indication to the world's 1.1 billion Catholics as well as non-Catholics of what the pope and the Vatican think about specific social and moral issues. Benedict said, `there is an urgent need of a true world political authority. Obviously it would have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the co-ordinated measures adopted in various international forums,' he said. The UNs, economic institutions and international finance all had to be reformed `even in the midst of a global recession,' he said in his encyclical, a booklet of 141 pages. He said the current economic crisis was `clear proof' of what he branded as `pernicious effects of sin' in the economy. [End of this caption]
USA Today News: The encyclical also echoes Benedict's many speeches, saying that to reach a sound global economy every responsibility and commitment must be rooted in the values of Christian truth. Without that, he said, `there is no social conscience and responsibility.' `Neither,' he says, are mere `good sentiments' enough. Human progress requires God, and today's choices concern `nothing less than the destiny of man.'
That means the pope is calling for a uniting of church & state in a geo-political governing body - a New World Order. - God says, "These (the 10 horns, the UNs) have one mind, and shall give their strength and their power unto the beast." Rev. 17:13.
He says further, `... that no man might buy or sell, save he that has the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name ...' Rev. 13:15-17. "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Rev. 13:8.
God assures the world, "But as many as received him (Jesus Christ), to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." John 1:12; Matth. 1:21. Yet, "If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation." Rev. 14:9,10.

2009- July 10, the Russian president, Dimitri Medjedev illustrated his call for a new international currency, by showing a new one world currency.

2009 -- 11-17-09, Herman Van Rompuy, prime minister of Belgium was educated at the Jesuit Sint-Jan Berchmans College in Antwerpen. He studied philosophy and economics at the Catholic University of Leuven. This week he was announced to be the first prime minister of the European Union after a non-public election.

2009 -- December 21, Signing of the "Lisbon Treaty" in an imposing conference inside a large monastery (the frequently have dungeons underground) in Portugal which puts all people in the European Union (EU) under very strict Roman Catholic Canon Law which makes skipping Sunday services a "grave sin", thus trumping their holiday against the known law of God which requires all true and faithful followers of Jesus Christ to keep the seventh day Sabbath (Sambata dies) holy. Therefore, the issue is who do you obey, who do you worship? Some sinful man or the Almighty, loving God who is coming again soon? This issue is the critical test and decides who get the Mark of the Beast and who gets the seal of God. Do not follow the earth bound powers for they lost the case already before the divine tribunal. The coming persecution will purify God's church, therefore, do not fear but trust in the Lord. Never forsake the law published in Exodus 20, it is God's law.

2010 -- Feb 18,19; Dalai Lama and President visit.;

2010 -- August 25, Severe drought and strong dry winds in Sao Paolo have caused a rare fire tornado in the northwest city of Aracatuba. A three month drought in the region has led to brush fires across Brazil, creating the conditions for the fire tornado.

2010 -- (June, August) Amazing, intricate and perfectly balanced 3D crop circles were made in English wheat fields. One consisted of a dotted portray of an extraterrestrial (?) face, the other of two plus signs (equal sided crosses?) - one laying underneath a same thickness, same size square, the other on top. All the lines were perfectly align and accentuated, shaded, to each other, but not to the rows in the field itself, making it hard to see that people could do something like this overnight.
2010 -- August 30, Time magazine voices concerns about building a mosque near ground zero. At the same time Christian churches are drawn into Spiritualism, as Islam in provoking a spirit of intolerance in America to be focused on sincere Christians in the future. -- Control over the Internet is also about control of Christian websites more than anything else.

2010 -- September 16, Queen Elizabeth (Queen since June 2, 1953) meets Pope Benedict XVI amidst the whole British government to welcome the pope, after 400 years of Protestantism, renouncing their oaths, history, dependability, spirituality, conscience for political expediency, in a dangerous move which was prophesied long ago in Revelation chapter 13.

2010 -- Oct. 10-24; The synode of Bishops for the Middle East takes place in Rome under Pope Benedict XVI. At this meeting the pope called for changes in the Arab world - this took place t months before the current ME crisis started. To reach his apex of dominion he has to overcome all those sole rulers in their lands and subject the populations to Rome. That he will succeed in doing.

2010 -- November 4, College graduate, President Obama, after his Democrats lost their majority in Congress to the Republicans, takes his friends on a 10 day trip to India and other countries, 40 aircrafts, 65 ships, 6 armored cars. Quantitative Easing, liquidity (printing money), counterfeit government, counterfeiting dollars. - Now, July 2011, reports creep through that many from India are shipped illegally into the country.

2010 -- Nov 6,7 - Pope in Spain with no kind words for the secularized nation where they eliminated required Catholic education in public schools.

2010 -- December, What is the NWO up to? They are causing one terror, one war, one chaos, and one horror after another - to make the minds of the people so exhausted from all the wicked evils, the murders, dangers and death, that they finally will be willing to have "good" religious laws for "peace and safety." Next the NWO insiders will blame 1) the weird sect, 2) remove the protection of law (probation closes for everybody), and 3) let the angry people try to kill God's people. The ground work for that is being laid now and things happen faster and faster. That means we have to speed up the presentation of the `Three Angels Messages' to warn the world, for the NWO will be a short lived affair just before Jesus Comes Again in His glory, that of His Father and all the holy angels. - Therefore consider, lets say the NWO vanquished all those they could not tolerate and now they rule the world. Will they have peace inside their heart? Will they find new struggles with those they associated with before? Will they turn hard task masters, slave holders and such? Is that the world that would be the result? Yes, most assuredly so, for that way is the kingdom of Satan and the wicked. It will go on until no one is left.

12-12-10 -- Our `Sunday Visitor' magazine shows Rome and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, who have been chosen for years to this office by Rome, both smiling, uniting. The article shows how Rome "persuaded" 5 Anglican bishops, dozens of pastors, and three hundred to four hundred church members into leaving their churches and joining the RCC in the first wave. Rome succeeded but "persuaded" their leaders into ordaining women, and then by the Roman leader paying them a joyful visit.

01-04-11 -- Listen to this all those alive in 2011. "All heaven is represented to me as watching the unfolding of events. A crisis is to be revealed in the great and prolonged controversy in the government of God on earth. Something great and decisive is to take place, and that right early. If any delay, the character of God and his throne will be compromised. The armory of heaven is open; all the universe of God and its equipments are ready. One word has justice to speak, and there will be terrific representations upon the earth, of the wrath of God. There will be voices and thunderings and lightnings and earthquakes and universal desolation. Every movement in the universe of heaven is to prepare the world for the great crisis." {EGW, 1892; SpTA01b 38.3}

02-01-11 -- Beware of election promises, especially when combined with economic problems, that is how Adolf rose to power.

02-05-11 -- Pope Benedict XVI ordained five new bishops from Hong Kong directly for China, thus challenging China to raise a bishop without his approval.

03-11-11 -- An 8.9 quake, the largest in recorded history, off the NE Hokkaido coast of Japan triggers a 23 foot tsunami, washing cars and structures away. Thousands died with extensive damage, and we remember the volcanic eruptions in Japan in January/February of this year. The tsunami is said to have caused 7 foot waves in Hawaii, now up to 33 feet at Sendai, Japan; it caused a massive whirlpool in the ocean near the epicenter. It damaged at least two nuclear reactors at the Fukushima power plant and would burn at least 465 kg of uranium, thus the massive radioactive fallout will stay with the world for many years.

07-15-11 -- Dalai Lama in Washington around this time.

10-09-11 -- Steve Jobs (02-24-55 to 10-05-11). With the publication of Walter Isaacson's new biography of `Steve Jobs', you can learn why Steve Jobs never became a Christian. Being a spiritual man, he trekked to India to seek counsel of gurus, and was committed to Zen Buddhism. Why no Christianity? Well, when Steve was 13 years old, he saw a magazine cover picturing starving children in Biafra, Africa. Disturbed Steve Jobs supposedly confronted his pastor. Isaacson describes the encounter:
Jobs: "If I raise my finger, will God know which one I'm going to raise even before I do?"
Pastor: "Yes, God knows everything."
Steve the pulled out the Life magazine cover and asked,
Jobs: "Well, does God know about this and what's going to happen to those children?"
Pastor: "I know you don't understand, but, yes, God knows about that."
Steve Jobs announced that he didn't want to have anything to do with worshiping such a God, and he never went back to church - because a pastor gave him a shallow answer instead of a profound answer which would have presented that Jesus Christ stepped into history and tested death for us. The tragedy here is that Steve Jobs, not hearing the Bible's explanation, turned away from Jesus Christ, the Creator and Savior. - We don't know what Jobs would have decided if he had heard what God's Word really says about suffering and death. The lack of an answer got in his way, and (to our knowledge) he died rejecting the God who offers real peace and salvation.

12-25-11 -- Honor killing of 6 people (4 girls, 2 grandparents?) in a town in Texas and suicide of the shooter of that religion which practices honor killings while the US news services doesn't mention that, thus misleading the American people.

12-28-11 -- Funeral of the long time dictator of North Korea; tacit rise of his young son (in the 20's) to take his place.

12-28-11 -- US concentrating on drone development and its electronic centers to ready themselves for oblivion.

01-10?-12 -- France News: `France, Turkey appear to clash over new Armenian genocide law. Legislation in France would make denial of the Armenian genocide a crime punishable by a 45,000 - euro fine and a year in jail; Turkey said that this move will have grave consequences.'
"France and Turkey are heading toward a showdown this Thursday (tomorrow), as France moved to make denial of the Armenian genocide a crime punishable by a 45,000 euro fine and a year in jail - and an apoplexic Turkey (which allied itself with Germany in WWI) threatened to retaliate if the sensitive matter was dealt with in this fashion." D. Harman.

Many well written books on `Church History' have been published. Just recently I read Hollifield's Book. The author used a very academic approach in presenting the material and a style of writing which employed many published sources but amazingly not a single Bible text. It appears this is the way academia wants to see such topics being treated. An, `above scriptural quibbling' approach, do not open yourself up for multiple divergent interpretations among various Christian groups approach. In itself that may be a good method. It is succinct, comprehensive and probably for most readers more understandable. However, in our treatment of this subject matter, we shall present a more spiritual approach to hopefully balance the equation and provide a view which those readers may welcome, who are what we shall consider members of a Christian church.

We also diverge in a more significant way from previous works on this subject in that we, right from the start, declare our allegiance to a firm believe in the authenticity, reliability and content of the biblical books making up the Bible. In that we believe in the short 6 day model of creation week and in a revised account of the ancient history of what we shall call, and not uniquely so, the Bible Lands. We believe this approach may cast a fresh, and often naturally evolving account on the whole subject matter.

The very first `church' had only one member besides its `pastor'. This was the church of Adam. According to the biblical account Adam had no childhood, no playmates of his age group and no fellow being who was just like him. Adam was unique. Allowing for the probability that the Book of Genesis means just what it says, we consider Adam, as the crowning act of creation week, to have been endowed with exceedingly full developed mental and physical powers, we may try to understand, but probably cannot fully comprehend today. God is said to have formed the body of Adam from the dust of the earth. We may want to understand that to mean that God used the elements of our physical world to make up the chemical compounds necessary for life. Just like dust is made up of atoms and molecules of various types, some of these same elemental particles are present in living cellular forms of life. As such we know that our bodies contain many carbon, hydrogen and oxygen molecules. We also find in living creatures elements like sodium, potassium, magnesium and so on, atomic particles which we can also find in rocks and as metals. In short, we are intrinsically part of the world that surrounds us - except for one thing - we differ from inert objects in that we are alive. In this sense we do not ascribe to the idea that `nature is all there is' for we believe in revelation and endeavor to present a spiritually and logically arranged world view which can satisfy at least one purpose of this writing, to understand ourselves better.

So there Adam was, a lifeless `corpse' created by the creative skill of the Almighty. This human shape sprang to live as soon as God blew breath, air, oxygen into the lungs of Adam and his eyes opened up and he was a living soul, a living human being. This union of

body + breath = a living soul

has also the following mathematical aspect, in that 1 + 1 = 2. A body + breath = a nephesh soul. Not more, not less. Without the body breath is just that, breath. Without breath, a body is just that, a body. Both in unison are needed to make a living soul, or being.

Who can argue with mathematics? The Genesis account on this creative act certainly uses a simple formula. This formula has only 3 components: body, breath and soul; not four components: body, breath, human being, and a soul. The `nephesh soul' was the living being in its totality and without a remnant or extra part not accounted for explicitly. Originally the Bible speaks of life as without an end through death. It speaks of a `tree of life' whose fruit, somehow, sustained existing life with no loss in functionality.

The Biblical God is presented to us as the creator of everything. God is not to be compared with a human being, God is a spirit, a being of another dimension we can only vaguely imagine, but he is a personal being according to the Bible. As such we accept the view that in this vast cosmos, we should not think that the three or four dimensions we live with are all there is. We ought not to insist that nature is all there is for that would be a diminishing view of our vast surroundings. Instead, we remember that we occupy a rather humble position and allow for more to exist than meets the eye. Realizing that may help us recognize how our system of education categorically chose in modern times not to speak of the scriptural account of our being and left vast numbers of people largely uneducated about our earth's and humanity's place and size in the cosmos of all things as biblically presented. These attitudes arose because of a convergence of a number of things which led to critical Bible study, Darwinian thought and the inability of ancient biblical history studies to account for the biblical scenarios.

All three of these influences have since been shown to be grounded on questionable evidence.

We understand this human race to be a special act of creation by an Almighty God. Beholding his works in faith we can see, sense or imagine with the faculties which we possess, his creativity displayed in his creation and by his divine revelation. As such we cannot restrict ourselves to a world view which narrows us down to a mere son or daughter of our parents, but looking back, we consider us sons and daughters to original parents, specially created by God. Furthermore, we understand this family lineage to be attested in the very first book. The Book of Genesis was not written by one person but is a compendium of texts, written on clay or similar material tablets, which were kept as family records by the biblical patriarchs. These tablets were passed on through the succeeding generations until Moses brought them together, compiled them, and named the resulting volume the Book of Genesis. This process has been described under the topic of the `toledoth' of Genesis. This Book of Genesis, therefore, is the oldest book in the world which contains almost uninterrupted eyewitness accounts of events, anciently considered to be of sufficient significance to be recorded.

The Bible, and in some ways also secular history, teaches that the original knowledge of where life and mankind came from, has purposely been hidden from succeeding generations. The Bible has much to say about the influence of sin and how it brought earlier, divinely ordained guidelines into disrepute thus deepening the chasm between the divine and the fallen earthly realm.

The earliest blueprint for Adam and Eve was designed to reflect how other, non-human, but God created spiritual, angelic beings interacted with God. The God who made all these worlds and beings was one to be worshipped in admiration and joyous glorification. Among all other beings, humans too were to be part of these universal scenes of worshipping God, his love, sustaining and constantly creating powers. Admiration and `worship' people engage in today bestows frequently upon other human beings attributes and honors which should only be rendered to God.

Originally God made for Adam a garden. He did not live in a wilderness but in an orderly environment, a paradise as it were, a `Divine National Park', pleasing and wholesome to human existence. In it man was surrounded by the perfect creation of God which included all forms of life, rocks, the sun, moon and the stars above. This Eden `Park' was traversed by a river flowing out of it. This river parted then in four branches.

The first of these rivers was named Pison, which flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
the second was named Gihon, which flowed around the whole land of Ethiopia,
the third was named Hiddekel, which flowed toward Assyria,
the fourth was named Euphrates.

We suggest the following account may be helpful in recognizing the effects of a world wide flood:

"As we look at the general features of the landmasses all over the world, we observe systems of valleys draining in all directions from the summits to the present sea level. These valley systems were clearly formed by water, but, contrary to the ideas of Hutton, Playfair and Lyell, they were not formed by the existing rivers over immense periods of time. The greatest evidence of this is the many dry valleys (no longer containing any river) in the valley systems, which connect into the drainage system at just the right level. These suggest that the carving, scooping waters which produced the valley systems are no longer seen on the continents.

As the valley systems end at the level of the present seas, so in a similar way the dry and wet valleys on the sides of lakes end at the present level of the lakes.

These two points show that the whole network of valleys was formed contemporaneously, regardless of the length of the valleys.

Since the valleys were not carved by the present streams but the latter merely flow down previously prepared valleys, a study of the additional erosion by the rivers leads us irresistibly to a commencement of their flow in a certain place (in time)." [The Observations of George Fairholme, AiG]

The scriptural account suggests that Eden was located in a very picturesque setting of the creation of God. At first man was perfect. We can assume Adam was of a magnificent stature and could swiftly travel throughout his whole realm and see all the sights. But every so often he returned to the tree of life to partake of its fruits. For how long Adam could enjoy this blissful state of affairs is not revealed to us. Many commentators seem to think of it as of short duration. We suggest it was sufficiently long enough for Adam to have seen at least a good portion of his world. After having searched far and near for a mate, Adam realized his loneliness and God made Eve.

Like all of God's created beings, man also has free choice. Unlike other created beings, man had the gift of pro-creation. For all we know, this separates man from angelic beings.

Sin entered
by Ralph Larson

Airplane pilots are constantly checking their instruments to determine their exact location, and boat captains and truck drivers often consult maps to pinpoint where they are and where they are going. We, as members of the 6000 year old Seventh-day Adventist church, are also traveling down a road with an exact destination in mind, and, in this article, we will look at where we are on this journey to the everlasting kingdom. We will start at the very beginning of the great controversy with Revelation 12:7. "And there was war in heaven: Michael and His angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was there place found any more in heaven."

Why were the devil and his angels cast out of heaven? We all know that the controversy began with the devil trying to overthrow his Creator and take His place. His presumptive boast was, "I will be like the Most High." Isaiah 14:14. I would like for you to focus your attention on how the devil tried to do this and the lever that he used in his attempt to pry God off His throne.

"When Satan rebelled against the law of Jehovah, the thought that there was a law came to the angels almost as an awakening to something unthought of." {Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 109.}

They operated on the law of love; love for their Creator and love for their fellow beings and, for them, that was sufficient. It was not necessary to explain to an unfallen angel that if you loved someone you would not lie to him. That was self-evident to him. It was not necessary to explain to an unfallen angel that if you loved someone you would not steal from him. He could figure that out by himself. The law of love was all the angels needed and it was all they had.

However, when God saw the rebellious thoughts in Lucifer's heart, He spelled out His law in a heavenly council.

"The Son of God presented before him [Lucifer] the greatness, the goodness, and the justice of the Creator, and the sacred, unchanging nature of His law." {Patriarchs and Prophets, 36.}

Christ, the Son of God, heard that lie and determined that He would prove it to be false. He made plans to come to this world to live the law in humanity, that Satan's charges, that man cannot keep the law, might be demonstrated to be false.

Revealing the Devil's Lie

There were two aspects to Satan's accusation that had to be met. If Christ came to this earth with any advantage over us He could not truly be our example. Also, if Christ had access to any power to help Him resist temptation that we do not have access to, then His demonstration would be phony and would prove nothing.

Christ accepted these two challenges, and promised to come to this earth in the human nature of man, with no advantage because of His birth or any power that is not available to you and me. He would resist temptation in the same manner in which every tempted soul may resist the evil one. Through His humiliation and poverty, Christ would identify Himself with the weakness of the fallen race. The great work of redemption could be carried out only by the Redeemer taking the place of fallen Adam. The king of glory proposed to humble Himself to fallen humanity, and so the plan of redemption was devised.

When Adam fell in the Garden of Eden, Satan said, "See, that proves that God gave a law that no one can obey." When the conditions reached such a terrible state before the flood, again he said, "See, that proves that God has given a law that man could not obey." When the Jewish church wandered so far away from God during the time before Christ came, again the devil said, "You see now, how can there be any doubt that God's law cannot be kept."

Then Jesus came. He did not argue. He just quietly, from infancy through childhood and adolescence and all the way to the cross, lived a sinless life with no advantage of any kind over us. At the end of His life He could say, "Who convinceth Me of sin?" "The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in Me." John 8:46; 14:30. The victory was full and complete and it once and for all disproved the devil's greatest lie.

Are you beginning to understand the meaning of Ellen White's first vision? In this vision she seemed to be above the world and she was looking for the Adventist people. She could not find them looking down at the earth. The angel said, "Look again, and look a little higher." God's last day people have been called to follow our Lord in that magnificent demonstration that He gave to us, to prove to the universe that God's law can be kept perfectly by the fallen sons of Adam.

The Birth of Two Heresies

Continuing down through history we come to the reformation. In the reformation days the state church, the Catholic Church, stood on

A) the principle that man could not obey the law of God. Maybe a few saints could, but the rest could not. They had to invent
B) the doctrine of purgatory in order to take care of the problem of man's inability to stop sinning while on this earth.

The reformation went very well in the beginning, but quickly ran into trouble. Since that time there have been two theological opinions coming to us from the reformation. One is what we call

A) Armenian- Wesleyan- Methodist- Seventh-day Adventist theology.[498] The other is called
B) Calvinism, which embraces the Reformed, the Presbyterians and the majority of those churches which, today, call themselves Evangelicals.

Within each of these two schools of thought the devil developed a theory to destroy their testimony to the world.

In the Armenian ideology, he developed the doctrine that,

the law of God has been nailed to the cross so that it no longer needs to be kept explicitly.

the law of God was not nailed to the cross, it is still binding, but it cannot be obeyed. And, that since God knows we cannot obey His law, He does not want us to waste our strength in vain endeavors to do that which is impossible, so we must just trust in Him to forgive us.

I must point out that neither of these errors were in the original Armenianism or the original Calvinism. John Wesley preached a rip-roaring sermon once in which he said that anyone who declares that the law of God is nailed to the cross is one of the worst enemies the gospel ever had. He would never have said that the law of God was abolished, and neither would John Calvin have ever said that the law of God could not be obeyed. And so it was a corruption in Armenian Methodism and a corruption in Calvinism that brought us to the point where Adventism was in 1888.

Calvinism and 1888

In 1888 there were three major issues that were contended: an organizational problem of kingly power reaching out over the world, a spiritual problem which was rebellion against the Spirit of Prophecy, and a theological problem, an invasion of Calvinism.

In this article we will focus on this third major issue, the invasion of Calvinism. Many have thought that the theological issues at the 1888 General Conference centered on a controversy over the law in Galatians. But the hassle over the law in Galatians was only a symptom, not the problem. Ellen White said that there was no sense in making such a debate over that. It is not that important. But the larger problem, an angel told her in vision, had been going on for years. She wrote this warning:

"Many who preach the truth to others are themselves cherishing iniquity." {5T, p. 76}

"What can I say to arouse our people? I tell you not a few ministers who stand before the people to explain the Scriptures are defiled. Their hearts are corrupt, their hands unclean." {Ibid., 78.}

On the first Sabbath of the 1888 General Conference, Ellen White spoke these words to the assembled ministers and delegates.

"Now, what we want to present is how you may advance in the divine life. We hear many excuses:

I cannot live up to this or that. What do you mean by this or that?

Do you mean that it was an imperfect sacrifice that was made for the fallen race on Calvary,(?)

a) that there is not sufficient grace and power granted us that we may work away from our own natural defects and tendencies,(?)
b) that it was not a whole Saviour that was given us?
c) or do you mean to cast reproach on God?" {1888 Materials, 122}

The idea that God has given a law that His creatures cannot obey, is the devil's greatest lie, and it was invading the Adventist church in 1888. At that time, Ellen White took a firm and powerful stand against it. Over the years she continued to emphasize that theme. In 1892 she wrote on the subject, pointing out the very same kind of reasoning. And so, Calvinism was refuted and did not give the church very much more trouble for about a half a century. In the 1950s, Calvinism invaded the church again, this time much more successfully by using a more subtle approach.

A Harmless Concession?

A certain scholar, named Walter Martin, visited with some leaders in Adventism. He wanted to write a book about Adventists, describing us as a cult. After some hesitation, the brethren set up conferences with him, and in an attempt to persuade him that we were not a cult, they gave him a statement to the effect that the Seventh-day Adventist church had always believed just like the Calvinists believe: that our Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth in the human nature of unfallen Adam.

To refute this claim, my wife and I compiled a book called The Word Was Made Flesh, which contains twelve hundred statements about the human nature of our Lord, from many different Adventist publications, four hundred of them by Ellen White. In these twelve hundred statements, written over a one hundred year period, there was not one that claimed that Christ came in the unfallen nature of Adam. In spite of that, our brethren gave Walter Martin a statement that the opposite was true: that we had always believed, except for a poorly informed minority, that our Lord came to this earth, like the Calvinists believe, in the human nature of the unfallen Adam.

Apparently no one realized that that was a Trojan horse-it seemed like a harmless doctrine. I find people to this very day who will look at me, and ask,

"Brother Larson, What difference does it make?"

It makes a lot of difference. If our Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth in the human nature of the unfallen Adam, He knows nothing at all about the problems that I struggle with because of my heredity. He knows nothing at all about the weaknesses that have come to me through generation after generation down the stream of time. It would be utterly ridiculous to say that He was tempted in all things as I am tempted and it would be utterly unfair to say that I ought to live like He lived. How could I? How could I, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand years down the stream of time, live like He lived? The unfallen Adam! Why it would be utterly unfair.

Through this seemingly harmless doctrine, a way was opened for the wave of Calvinism to sweep into Adventism. Within an incredibly short time, as theological trends go, the Calvinistic doctrine, embracing Satan's greatest lie, began to creep into colleges, academies and churches all over North America, and to a lesser extent all over the world. The Calvinistic doctrine which says that man cannot stop sinning is now being heard in Seventh-day Adventist churches all across the country.

Today, Adventism is divided into two camps: those who are embracing Calvinism and those who recoil from it in horror. A great shaking is occurring, and many are wondering who can withstand the test? If everything we have trusted in fails, what will we do. Let me remind you of a story that I think will help us understand what our position should be in these days of seeming uncertainty. You find examples here! Also do not forget to read carefully what Brutus by 1835, pre-Adventist, has to say!

[250] In his book, `Saved for Living,' Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) says, "Political interpreters have set various dates for the beginning of the Fascist uprising against civilization, but most of them go back no further than 1931."
What is Fascism? "Fasces" is the plural form of the Latin word `fascis.' It means "bundle." It is represented by a bundle of rods bound together by cords. In ancient Rome it was the ensignia of official authority.It was carried by certain rulers, and was characterized by an ax head projecting from a bundle of elm or birch rods about 5 feet long and tied together with a red strap. It symbolized penal power. Fascism, unlike communism, gives some freedoms to its citizens, thus keeping them as happy as possible. Like in Germany, the enemies of the state are wiped out, but obedient citizens survive for the benefit of the ruling class. When a Roman leader would have a victory, he would come to Vatican hill, where then a pagan temple was, and lay his fasces down there. Mussolini used it, trying to bring back the glory of ancient Rome. Fascism is where you have one man ruling, but it is not communism. It may have a semblance of democracy, and try to give the masses just enough to be happy and exist, but not to rebel. Fascists may give `entitlements', `bale-outs', and `handouts,' like in France just before the revolution. There are parallels with the `Occupy Movement' today. While Fascism wants the people to be happy servants of the state, there is no room for God's message but fosters a slave mentality to help leaders to enforce their laws. An examble is Germany when Hitler changed it from a republic to a fascist nation. Overall a republic is ruled by good laws giving "liberty and justice for all." A democracy is where the majority rules, and it's too bad for everyone else. A fasces is on top of the dome of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., holding up the pedestal upon which the lady is standing. The pedestal has the words, "E. Pluribus Unim" engraved, meaning `all one'. The design was Masonic planned, and was laid out and built by Jesuit controlled masons who were Fascists. Rome's "all one" is different than God's "all one" (Mal. 2:10; Gal. 3:28) in finishing His work, that we read about in the Bible. Three or four recent presidents of the USA bowed and honored the head of the Vatican. There is a connection between the owly Bohemian ritual place, Fascism and the RCC. - In a chamber in the US Congress, on each side of the pulpit, are vertical fasces and the back of the gold colored chair is shaped like the blade of the fascist ax. - In the `Lincoln Memorial,' masonic builders added fasces to the chair he sits on. Lincoln had nothing to do with such societies. If you look closely, the torch in the hand of the Statue of Liberty is also made of fasces. Masons in France made the statue as a gift to America. While the statue itself is a symbol of freedom, they included such things to mix it up with signs of secretive, basically anti freedom societies. That is why, unless you recognize that two forces have been trying to shape the history of our nation, the United States of America, you cannot really understand what is going on. Remember: These types of symbols are not put there by accident or because of someone's idea of what looks good, they are initiated by those who are of the inner circle of secretive societies.
Where Things are Tending: People today really notice what kind of things are going on - leading to a fascist society. They see what is happening but they cannot quite figure out why. News media talk about the shocking symptoms, but they cannot see the bottom line of who is manipulating things under the surface. Many do not even know there is a surface - or that anything is under it. It may help for us to recall what Avro Manhattan wrote, "No political event or circumstance can be evaluated without the knowledge of the Vatican's part in it. And no significant world situation exists in which the Vatican does not play an important explicit or implicit role." While millions are getting the feeling that someone is putting a rope around the nation's neck, almost no one knows who is behind it, or where things are fast leading. - Looking at Rome we may wonder, `Why is it that all these rulers now are from Germany?' The head of the new re-fashioned "inquisition" is from Germany. Why? We know those he leads have written multiple times that they never forget and forgive. Rome has long been trying to get revenge on Germany for what Dr. Martin Luther and the great Protestant Reformation did. Rome and her friends also hate the U.S. for being the great bastion of Protestantism, and the great center from which the mighty three angels' messages are proclaimed in all the world, the links of which are a small part. Today the U.S. is aiding Rome to regain the supremacy over the whole world. Protestants are following closely in the footsteps of Rome today. They keep Rome's religious festivals like Lent, Easter and the like, tying them to paganism. They increasingly support Rome's claim for enforcement of Sunday holiness. It is conformity to man made laws above the law of God, the veneration for human traditions above the commandments of God - that is permeating the Protestant churches and leading them on to the same work of Sunday exaltation which the papacy has done before them. Since long ago Rome had "supremacy" in "the old world" - but that spiritual supremacy, they claim, did not violate Daniel chapter 2 because the secular governments directly and openly ruled, and while ruling, did what the papacy asked them to do while being infiltrated by agents of Rome. So Rome continues to "regain" that "supremacy." In harmony with Daniel 2, papal Rome will not rule the world as pagan Rome did. But they will "regain control of the world" as she did in the dark ages - when the secular power ruled, and the papacy controlled their actions - getting the secular power to destroy for them, Rev. 17. Toward these ends is what is happening across the world right now which will lead to the papal inspired national Sunday law. This is why Family Radio church is so eager to leave this world for they are not prepared to have to admit that Sunday is a false day of worship and so in June and onward of this year what will their followers do? Will they toss all religion away because they realize they were mislead? Yes, many will! That is the baleful effect of false doctrines.

[0498] The Armenian understanding:
SDA's Traditional Teaching on Justification & Sanctification: We have already seen in a previous study that traditionally Adventists have been teaching the Armanian gospel — that the salvation Christ accomplished on the cross was only provisional, so that for it to become a reality one must first repent (i.e., turn away from the life of sin), believe in Jesus Christ, and confess all sins already committed.(Named of Jacobus (James) Arminius, 1560-1609, of Oudewater, near Utrecht, Netherlands. After the death of his father, his mother and siblings died during the Spanish massacre of Oudewater in 1575. Educated at Marburg University, Germany, 1576-1581, , at Basel, 1582-1583, then under Theodore Beza {high Calvinist successor of J. Calvin in Geneva, extreme position of irisistible predestination}, 1519-1605, later prof. at Univ. of Leiden, wrote, DEclaration of Sentiments, in 3 volumes of `The Works of J. Arminius'.)
This traditional understanding of the salvation has to a large degree affected our understanding and therefore our teaching on justification and sanctification, as well as some of our major doctrines.
As a result, justification has been defined as only the forgiveness of past sins. But since forgiveness of sins, wonderful as this may be, is negative, i.e., it only cancels a bad debt, this in itself does not make us righteous and, therefore, cannot save us. Hence, justification has to be accompanied by sanctification or holy living if one is to make it to heaven. Consequently, justification plus sanctification is what will ultimately qualify us for heaven.
However, we all know that sanctification is an on going process which, unfortunately, is accompanied by failure. What do we do with the new sins we have committed, since justification is only the forgiveness of past sins? Our response has been that every time we commit a new sin we go back to condemnation until we repent and confess that sin. As a result, the Christian experience of most Adventists has been like a yo-yo, between justification and condemnation. This, to say the least, is very frustrating.
It is this view of justification and sanctification that is to a large degree responsible for robbing God's people of the assurance of salvation and driving them out of the church. Tell me, who wants to remain in a church that offers no real peace with God and is constantly putting you on a guilt trip?
This confused idea of salvation is what led E. G. White to correct the pastors at Battle Creek in 1890. I quoted her statement to them when we studied the Objective and Subjective salvation. Here is the essence of what she said:
"The danger has been presented to me again and again of entertaining, as a people, false ideas of justification by faith. I have been shown for years that Satan would work in a special manner to confuse the mind on this point.... I have been shown that many have been kept from the faith because of the mixed, confused ideas of salvation, because the ministers have worked in a wrong manner to reach hearts. The point that has been urged upon my mind for years is the imputed righteousness of Christ." (FW, 18).
Considering her many statements concerning sanctification and justification AFTER 1888, one can only conclude that by imputed righteousness, Ellen White meant that no man can earn salvation by works of his/her own.
Ellen White made the following statement concerning justification and sanctification in 1903:
"No one can believe with the heart unto righteousness, and obtain justification by faith, while continuing the practice of those things which the Word of God forbids, or while neglecting any known duty....As God works in the heart, and man surrenders his will to God, and co-operates with God, he works out in the life what God Works in by the Holy Spirit, and there is harmony between the purpose of the heart and the practice of the life. Every sin must be renounced as the hateful thing that crucified the Lord of life and glory....It is by continual surrender of the will, by continual obedience, that the blessing of justification is retained." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, pp. 396-397.
Genuine faith will be manifested in good works; for good works are the fruits of faith. As God works in the heart, and man surrenders his will to God, and cooperates with God, he works out in the life what God works in by the Holy Spirit, and there is harmony between the purpose of the heart and the practice of the life. Every sin must be renounced as the hateful thing that crucified the Lord of life and glory, and the believer must have a progressive experience by continually doing the works of Christ. It is by continual surrender of the will, by continual obedience, that the blessing of justification is retained.
Those who are justified by faith must have a heart to keep the way of the Lord. It is an evidence that a man is not justified by faith when his works do not correspond to his profession. James says, "Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was his faith made perfect?" (James 2:22). {NL 28.1-2}
Thus, no one is justified unless they accept the FULL FREE PACKAGE OF GRACE—PARDON AND POWER. Christ gives (IMPARTS) grace and power—HE DOES IT ALL—all the works in and through us!
Unfortunately, this mixed, confused idea of salvation is still being taught by those who defend historic Adventism. Justification or imputed righteousness is still defined by them as only the forgiveness of past sins. When asked to defend this view of justification from Scripture, the typical answer given are two texts, both of which are taken out of context. The two texts are 1 John 1:9 and Romans 3:25. Let us examine them in context.
Nowhere in all of Scripture do we find justification defined as only the forgiveness of past sins. Furthermore, no where in all of the Bible do we find that justification plus sanctification is what qualifies us for heaven.
Ellen White says that the law and the gospel cannot be separated. That is why there cannot be any separation between the law and the gospel, or objective, forensic justification and subjective justification! They both are legal. They both involve propitiation of the law. Christ satisfies both by His death that made pardon possible, and His gift of His Holy Spirit that made His power possible. Thus, both, PARDON AND POWER are efficacious and contributory to our salvation. But Christ does it all IN AND THROUGH US, as a free gift of grace.
Therefore, objective justification and subjective sanctification are part of the salvific process and conditional to salvation. A) Objective Truth: 1 Cor. 1:2; 6:11.; B) Subjective Application: 2 Thes. 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:2.; - In Christ, the whole world has been sanctified or made holy [Eph. 1:4]. This is the objective use of sanctification. But sanctification as a subjective experience, applies only to believers who have been justified by faith, and this is an on going process. True justification by faith means NOT I BUT CHRIST, and this sets the believer aside for holy use. [Read Gal. 2:20; 5:13, 14.]
We have to remember, to assume that Christ kept the law for them [converts] and outside them at and before the cross is not correct. The fact is that Christ keeps the law IN THEM NOW AFTER THE CROSS. His keeping of His own law in and through us is efficacious toward our salvation! Why? Because His works are efficacious! That is why He did and does them!

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