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The European Union in Prophecy
The palaces of popes and prelates were scenes of the vilest debauchery. Some of
the reigning pontiffs were guilty of crimes so revolting that secular rulers
endeavoured to depose these dignitaries of the church as monsters too vile to be
tolerated. For centuries Europe had made no progress in learning, arts, or civilization.
A moral and intellectual paralysis had fallen upon Christendom. The condition of the
world under the Romish power presented a fearful and striking fulfillment of the
words of the prophet Hosea: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because
thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee: . . . seeing thou hast forgotten
the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor
knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood." Hosea 4:6, 1, 2. Such
were the results of banishing the word of God.
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