The French Revolution—
Then and Now
A
friend of mine requested that I write a parallel between the French Revolution
chapter of The Great Controversy as
related to similar current events. Here is a link to that chapter for your
convenience:
http://www.whiteestate.org/books/gc/gc12.html
I
believe the following document does a pretty good job of presenting the
parallels. A reading of this document and the following material will give one
proper insight to the real players in the French Revolution
https://omega77.tripod.com/mysterybabyloncathjew.htm
and
will provide the who’s, what’s, where’s, when’s and why’s of one of the most heinous
debacles in the annals of human history. All the paralles are labelled Modern
Manifestation.
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The Parallel Between The French Revolution
and
The End of These Times
PURPOSE
The purpose of this document is to, utilizing factual historical events, assist
the Faithful in being able to discern each phase (or stage) as the world
marches toward the End of These Times.
INTRODUCTION
To achieve this, we will review the French Revolution from its background
to its conclusion utilizing the key events of its trajectory. Then, said events
will be compared with the post World War II socio-political reality of the
world.
The French Revolution
Its Phases and
How History Will Almost Repeat Itself With a Vengeance
The
French Revolution (1789–1799) (1) was a period
of political and social upheaval in the political history of France, and Europe
as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an
absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic
clergy, underwent a radical change into forms based on the Enlightenment
principles of democracy, citizenship, and inalienable rights. It culminated
with the Napoleonic wars, the restoration of the monarchy, and two additional
revolutions as modern France took shape.
KEY Causes
·
A poor economic situation and an unmanageable national debt -
caused and exacerbated by the burden of a grossly inequitable system of
taxation and by the involvement of the French Crown in the American Revolution
against England
·
The Roman Catholic Church, the largest landowner in the
country, levied a harsh tax on crops which worsened the plight of the
poorest who faced a daily struggle with malnutrition;
·
The continued conspicuous consumption and massive spending of
Louis XVI (and other noblemen) despite the financial burden on the populous.
·
High unemployment and high bread prices caused more money to
be spent on food and less in other areas of the economy; thus, less employment,
higher bread prices, and so on....
....all of which led to...
·
Widespread famine, malnutrition and obvious conspicuous
starvation in those worse off during the months immediately before the
revolution. (some researchers have attributed this to an El Niño effect.).
Therefore, in addition to serious economic factors, there were grave
social and political factors, many of them involving resentments and
aspirations brought to the people's attention by the rise of Enlightenment
ideals.
P H A S E S
Phase I - The stage is set...
1787 - 1789
The immediate trigger for the revolution was Louis XVI’s inept attempts to
solve the government's worsening financial crisis. In February 1787, his
finance minister convened an Assembly of Notables, a group of nobles, clergy,
bourgeoisie, and bureaucrats selected in order to bypass the parlements. Their
failed effort eventually led to the formation of the National Constitutional
Assembly.
Modern Manifestation: The United Nations, and eventually NATO,
are set up to shore up the apparent non stoppable sliding of the world into a
situation worse than World War II. Yet, it does not happen. Smaller and
localized wars spring up most everywhere. Summits multiply and, in effect,
nothing is truly accomplished.
Phase II - The fuse is lit....
1789
Louis XVI made some unfortunate - if not outright stupid - decisions which gave
the impression to the Parisians that the National Constitutional Assembly was
going to be suspended. The Bastille was taken by the enraged populace - this
emboldened the repressed people country wide and the revolutionary spirit
spread
Modern Manifestation: Second and
Third world countries around the world, realizing that all that is coming their
way is the "hot air" produced in the never ending World Leader
Summits, turn to serious violence - whether Haiti, Argentina, Colombia, South
East Asia (your choice of country), Middle East (your choice of country) or
Africa (your choice of country), etc.
Phase III - The fire burns...
1789 - 1791
Because of the continuing excesses at Versailles, the last one being the
trampling on the revolutionary flag as part of the entertainment during one of
the never ending Royal soirees, mobs, led by Parisian working women, marched
upon Versailles. After escaping certain death at the hands of the enraged
populace, King and Queen were brought back to Paris to live there under the
watchful eyes of the restless populace.
As the work of the National Constituency Assembly progressed it brought about a
massive shifting of powers from the Roman Catholic Church to the state. Under
the ancient régime, the Church had been the largest landowner in the country.
Legislation enacted in 1790 abolished the Church's authority to levy a tax on
crops, canceled special privileges for the clergy, and confiscated Church
property.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, passed on 12 July 1790 and signed by the
King on 26 December 1790, turned the remaining clergy into employees of the
State and required that they take an oath of loyalty to the constitution. The
Civil Constitution of the Clergy also made the Catholic church an arm of the
secular state. The ensuing years saw violent repression of the clergy,
including the imprisonment and massacre of priests throughout France.
The Assembly abolished the symbolic paraphernalia of the ancient régime,
armorial bearings, liveries, etc., which further alienated the more
conservative nobles, and added to the ranks of those emigrating from strife
torn France. On 14 July 1790, and for several days following, crowds in the
Champ de Mars celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille;
Talleyrand performed a mass; participants swore an oath of "fidelity to
the nation, the law, and the king"; and the King and the royal family
actively participated.
Eventually the Royal Family tried to escape through Varennes. They were
caught and brought back to Paris. The King was suspended and the Royal Family
remained under house arrest at the Tuileries.
Modern Manifestation: As the chasm between the rich and the poor
widens, the hungry and oppressed see that their only hope is to sustain the
fire that the fuse lit in Phase II. Violence and civil disobedience becomes a
way of life in many of those countries.
Phase IV - The fire spreads...
1791 - 1792
The Constitution was essentially finished and major political players like
Robespierre, Marat and Danton, plus others, were positioning themselves to be
controlling powers in the new state. Louis XVI became no more than a figurehead
and, as the discord built amongst the key players, the Revolution was being
lead to higher levels.
Modern Manifestation: Now violence and civil disobedience has
spread to First World countries and the prospects of a harmonious settlement
seem further away every day.
Phase V - The fire is out of (human) control...
1792 - 1793
The politics of the period inevitably drove
France towards war with Austria and its allies. The King wanted to wage war. He
expected that war would increase his personal popularity. While one
revolutionary faction wanted to export the Revolution throughout Europe, thus
favored the war, another faction wanted to avoid war with other European
nations, preferring to consolidate and expand the Revolution at home.
On the night of 10 August 1792, insurgents, supported by a new revolutionary
Paris Commune, stormed the Tuileries. The King and Queen ended up prisoners and
a rump session of the Legislative Assembly suspended the monarchy: little more
than a third of the deputies were present, almost all of them Jacobins.
What remained of a national government depended on the support of the
insurrectionary Commune. The Commune sent gangs into the prisons to
arbitrarily try and butcher 1400 victims, and addressed a circular letter to
the other cities of France inviting them to follow this example. The Assembly
could offer only feeble resistance.
17 January 1793 saw King Louis condemned to death for "conspiracy against
the public liberty and the general safety" by a weak majority in the Convention.
The 21 January execution led to more wars with other European countries. The
much disliked Austrian born Queen, Marie Antoinette, would follow him to the
guillotine on 16 October 1793.
Modern Manifestation: Finally - whatever little control existed
vaporizes and chaos reigns worldwide.
Phase VI - The First Reign of Terror
1793
The twelve member Committee of Public
Safety came under the control of Maximilien Robespierre, and the Jacobins
unleashed the Reign of Terror (1793-1794) fueled by the fiery writings of
Jean-Paul Marat. The new Constitution and the Rights associated with it were
suspended. At least 18,000 people met their deaths under the guillotine; after
accusations of counter-revolutionary activities. The slightest hint of counter-revolutionary
thoughts or activities (or, as in the case of Jacques Hébert, revolutionary zeal
exceeding that of those in power) could place one under suspicion, and soon
under the blade of the guillotine.
On 13 July, the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat—a Jacobin leader and
journalist known for his bloodthirsty rhetoric— resulted in his near
beatification by the masses and the logical increase of Jacobin political
influence. Georges Danton, the leader of the August 1792 uprising against the
King, being perceived as a man who enjoyed luxuries, was removed from the
Committee and on 27 July, Robespierre, "the Incorruptible", made his
entrance, quickly becoming the most influential member of the Committee as it
moved to take radical measures against the Revolution's domestic and foreign
enemies.
On 5 September 1793, the Convention, pressured by the people of Paris,
institutionalized The Terror: The systematic and lethal repression of
perceived enemies within the country. The result was a policy through which
the state used violent repression to crush any real or perceived resistance to
the government. Under control of the effectively dictatorial Committee of
Public Safety, the Convention quickly enacted more legislation.
The Reign of Terror was now in full swing.
Modern Manifestation: As pre planned - the only solution to the
Global chaos is to forcibly implement the New World Order (2) and the One
Universal Religion (3). Force is justified... "...after all,
it is for the good of the people..."
Phase VII - The Second Reign of Terror
1793 - 1794
A second anti-clerical uprising was made possible by the
establishment of the Revolutionary Calendar on 24 October. Against
Robespierre's concepts of Deism and Virtue, Hébert's atheist movement initiated
a religious campaign in order to dechristianize society.
The climax was reached with the celebration of the Goddess "Reason"
in Notre Dame Cathedral on 10 November 1793.
Because any dissent was now regarded as counterrevolutionary, extremist enragés
such as Hébert and moderate indulgents such as Danton were guillotined
in the spring of 1794.
That is, Robespierre's collaborators and associates in launching the French
Revolution, Marat, Hébert and Danton have been now dispatched freeing
Robespierre's hands.
Robespierre decided that Virtue was necessary for the State and Society to
function and that a Godless system would not work.
Since the First Reign of Terror had worked so well in ridding the State from
its enemies, now, the Committee of Public Safety would establish a Second Reign
of Terror to force the populace to become virtuous. That is, implement
unspeakable violence to implement a new god and establish a reign of Virtue.
Modern Manifestation: Now the backlash to the Phase VI godless
system takes place - also, just as scheduled. False Piety will reign (4)
as....
Phase VIII - The
Saviour of France is manifested and quickly meets his end.
1794
On June 7 Robespierre, who had previously
condemned the Cult of Reason, advocated a new state religion and recommended
that the Convention acknowledge the existence of God. On the next day, the
worship of the deistic Supreme Being was inaugurated as an official aspect of
the Revolution. Compared with Hébert's popular festivals, this austere new
religion of Virtue was received with signs of hostility by an amazed Parisian
public.
During this Festival in the middle of Paris, a papier mache mountain had
been set up and, as part of the ceremonies, Robespierre came down from the
mountain draped in a white toga symbolically delivering an all too obvious
message: He was the Pontiff between the Supreme Being and the people or, worse
yet, he was the embodiment of the Supreme Being - the Messiah of the French
Republic.
That was too much for Robespierre associates in the twelve member Committee of
Public Safety.
On 27 July 1794, the reaction to
Robespierre auto deification led to the arrest and execution of Robespierre. By
now the new government was predominantly made up those who had survived the
Terror. After a final "cleansing cycle" called the White Terror
things started to cool down and order began to be restored.
Modern Manifestation: ....the stage is set for the world to
greet its "Savior" - the False Christ - and he makes his staged Grand
Entrance.
Phase IX - On the
way to cosmetically altered "Business-as-usual"
1795 - 1799
The Convention approved the new
"Constitution of the Year III" on 17 August 1795; a plebiscite
ratified it in September; and it took effect on 26 September 1795.
With the establishment of the Directory,
the Revolution might seem closed. The nation desired rest and the healing from
its many wounds.
Eventually Napoleon took control of the
country, became Emperor and it was back to "business as usual" for
the rich and powerful, but with much more discretion, and eventually,
fraternity and equality, made some inroads in France... and the world.
Modern Manifestation: Not quite... this time it will not be
"Business-as-usual" and this False Christ and those who staged his
"coming" will be dealt with by the Real Christ in a manner which will
make the entire French Revolution look like a Pic-Nic. Blessedly, it will
be brief... but it will be Final... for the world has reached The End of These
(Abominable) Times - Step No. 17 of the Sequence of Events Leading to the End
of These Times. (5)
DISCUSSION
As the reader will see, the parallel is
almost uncanny - down to the Anti Christ and then the False Savior
details. There are many other historical events which contain some of
those elements because man is very predictable thus satan does not have to be
very creative. Mankind keeps falling for the same snare millennia after
millennia.
May this document be one more of those "We have been amply warned" (6) documents
so that when God reminds us that "...unto whomsoever much is given, of
him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they
will demand the more." [Luke 12:48] there
will be no recourse nor complaints will be entertained.
NOTES_____________________________
(1) The French Revolution - Details : A starting point
(2) The New World Order
(3) The One Universal Religion
(4) The objective of certain sects within the Roman
Catholic Church
(5) The Sequence of Events
(6) We have been amply warned
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