9 -- Battle of the German tribes against the legions of Varus.

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. 67 -- Bloody battle between Jews and Roman on 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 -- 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.

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.

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.]

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 papcy 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.

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 Hunns attack southeast Europe.

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.

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'.

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.

476 -- Odowacar unseats Romulus from Western Rome.

493 -- The Heruli are defeated.
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.

552 -- Ostrogoths are finally destroyed.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

843 -- Peace of Verdun.

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.

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.

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.

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.]

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

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.

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 -- 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.

1154 -- Henry II, 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.

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, 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.

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 Otto II. invading army.

1212 -- Hohenstaufen Frederick II king (1212-1250).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 seculat 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 so 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.

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.

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.

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 Fench 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.

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.

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 -- His 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. As a result the unfortunate victims were often carried away to execution so racked and brokem 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 result 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.

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

1502 -- 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

1560 -- Period of Reprisal begins.

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 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.] 1571 -- Battle of Lepanto in which the half brother of Philip II, Don John of Austria, broke the power of the Turkis 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.

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

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.

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 by 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.

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.

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

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

1755 -- Lisbon earthquake. See images.

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.

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) begins.

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

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.'

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).

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'
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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.]

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.

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 "grey 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.]

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

1840 -- Spain: The Irish naval lieutenent named Graydon distributing 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.

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.

1844 -- 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

1929 -- Monday, February 11; Signing of the treaty between the Italian government 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.

1931 -- May 15; Pope Pius XI 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 millenial Reich),' it lasted a dozen years.

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 Fall in US.

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."

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

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.

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

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." (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."

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

1971 -- Declares that the US is bankrupt because our debt equalled our income.

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.

1983 -- Monday, April 18, Trilateral Commission meets Pope John Paul II.

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

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).

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.

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

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 -- 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 organisations like the CFR, ADL, JDL and the CRI (see HR2431 - didn't pass in 2001).

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 -- 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]

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.

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. Our new president does not know the Bible. 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. 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, 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. 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.

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

2009 -- July 7; Pope Benedict releases his encyclical `Caritas in Veritate' (In Charity and Truth).

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 who, today, call themselves Evangelicals.[500]

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 a great example here! Also do not forget to read carefully what Brutus by 1835, pre-Adventist, has to say!

[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.
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!

[0500] A "gulden", more correctly "Gulden" is the name of a coin in olden days, the time of the reformation and onward.