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The European Union in Prophecy
Communion were prohibited. And announcements posted conspicuously over the
burial places declared death to be an eternal sleep.
The fear of God was said to be so far from the beginning of wisdom that it was
the beginning of folly. All religious worship was prohibited, except that of liberty and
the country. The "constitutional bishop of Paris was brought forward to play the
principal part in the most impudent and scandalous farce ever acted in the face of a
national representation. . . . He was brought forward in full procession, to declare to
the Convention that the religion which he had taught so many years was, in every
respect, a piece of priestcraft, which had no foundation either in history or sacred
truth. He disowned, in solemn and explicit terms, the existence of the Deity to whose
worship he had been consecrated, and devoted himself in future to the homage of
liberty, equality, virtue, and morality. He then laid on the table his episcopal
decorations, and received a fraternal embrace from the president of the Convention.
Several apostate priests followed the example of this prelate."-Scott, vol. 1, ch. 17.
"And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry,
and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that
dwelt on the earth." Infidel France had silenced the reproving voice of God's two
witnesses. The word of truth lay dead in her streets, and those who hated the
restrictions and requirements of God's law were jubilant. Men publicly defied the King
of heaven. Like the sinners of old, they cried: "How doth God know? and is there
knowledge in the Most High?" Psalm 73:11.
With blasphemous boldness almost beyond belief, one of the priests of the new
order said: "God, if You exist, avenge Your injured name. I bid You defiance! You
remain silent; You dare not launch Your thunders. Who after this will believe in Your
existence?"--Lacretelle, History, vol. 11, p. 309; in Sir Archibald Alison, History of
Europe, vol. 1, ch. 10. What an echo is this of the Pharaoh's demand: "Who is Jehovah,
that I should obey His voice?" "I know not Jehovah!"
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." Psalm 14:1. And the Lord
declares concerning the perverters of the truth: "Their folly shall be manifest unto
all." 2 Timothy 3:9. After France had renounced the worship of the living God, "the
high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity," it was only a little time till she descended
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