The Beast That Ascends Out of the
Bottomless Pit—
The New Age Movement
in Scripture
by
James King
Revelation
ch.11 -- the beast that ascendeth out of the Bottomless Pit
There are
some professed Christians who suggest that the New Age [spiritualism]
Movement is NOT found in Scripture. There are also some (including
many/most professing SDAs), who claim that the "Freemasons/Illuminatti" and their "New World Order"
is NOT found in Scripture.
Those
beliefs could not be further from the truth as the following will reveal.
Below, is
an excerpt from a larger study I've been working on for some time.
I trust you will find it accurate and illustrative of Biblical truth.
"And
when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the
Bottomless Pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them, and kill them. And
their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which SPIRITUALLY
is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." Revelation
11:7.
This
beast that ascendeth
out of the bottomless pit is often confused with the Papacy, but this is not a prophecy of
the Papacy since this prophecy starts near the end of the 1260 years. For 1260
years the Papacy did exactly what was foretold in Daniel 7:8, 23-25.
This
Beast that ascendeth
out of the bottomless pit is ANOTHER POLITICAL POWER that was to take the place of the Papacy in
France, and Satan would use to try to destroy the word of God. In The Great
Controversy, Ellen White says that this beast that ascendeth out of the
bottomless pit is not the Papacy, but rather: ANOTHER NEW manifestation
of satanic power:
"When
they shall have finished [are finishing] their testimony." The period when
the two witnesses were to prophesy clothed in sackcloth, ended in 1798. As they
were approaching the termination of their work in obscurity, war was to be made
upon them by the power represented as "the beast that ascendeth out of the
bottomless pit." In many of the nations of Europe the powers that ruled in
church and state had for centuries been controlled by Satan through the -269- medium of the papacy. But here is brought to
view a new manifestation of satanic power. {GC 268.3}
According
to the words of the prophet, then, a little before the year 1798 some power of satanic
origin and character would rise to make war upon the Bible. And in the land where the
testimony of God's two witnesses should thus be silenced, there would be
manifest the atheism of the Pharaoh and the licentiousness of Sodom. {GC 269.3}
This
prophecy has received a most exact and striking fulfillment in the history of
France. During the Revolution, in 1793, "the world for the first time
heard an assembly of men, -270- born and educated in civilization, and assuming the
right to govern one of the finest of the European nations, uplift their united
voice to deny the most solemn truth which man's soul receives, and renounce
unanimously the belief and worship of a Deity." ... {GC 269.4}
The beast
that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit is the santanic
force that caused the French Revolution and the overthrow of papal
"christianity" shortly before the
Papacy lost Pope Plus VI as its religious dictator.
It is
extremely important that we have some knowledge of the French Revolution
to unmask this same satanic force working now in our time that will
eventually involve the whole world. This "Force" that had its
beginnings in the French Revolution is just another tool Lucifer has, and is
using to further his plan to establish his eventual total Rule in this world.
This "Force" is predicted by Scripture to unite with the Mother
of Harlots and her daughters, which is a symbol of the Roman Catholic
Church, Apostate Protestantism, and all other religious movements that teach
Babylonian Illuminism, or Spirtualism.
This Confederacy between the false religions and the political powers of
this world is just history repeating itself. It is another attempt to unite man
under one banner leaving the Lord out, as it was in the days of Nimrod.
We need
to look inside the history of the French Revolution and study the subversive
groups that actually caused the Revolt. History books tell us that the
French Revolution first began in 1787 or 1788-(9) depending on which book you
read. However, it was actually planned by "Dr." Adam Weishaupt and the House of Rothschild almost 20 years
before the Revolution took place.
"Dr."
Adam Weishaupt produced the blue print for it, while
the House of Rothschild provided the money. This Apostle of Lucifer, Adam Weishaupt was born a Jew, converted to Catholicism, then
turned to Witchcraft, where he became an expert, and founded another sect of
the Illuminati. This sect of illuminati was founded May 1st, 1776. Like
Freemasonry, the Illuminati is a Luciferian
movement to preserve and promote the ancient Black Arts of Babylonian and Druid
Witchcraft. Its goals are to destroy Christianity and all world governments,
and then unite them under a one world government whose ruler is Lucifer.
The
modern fraternities of Freemasonry, Rosicrucians,
Golden Dawn (of which Aleister Crowley later became a
leader of), Wicca, Church of America, Gardinarian
Brotherhood, Church of All Worlds, and Process Church of the Final Judgment (of
which Charles Manson was a member), are only a few of the multitudes of
Witchcraft groups operating today behind the public eye, preserving and
promoting ancient Witchcraft. However, it was this Witchcraft school called
"the illuminati" of Bavaria that was predicted to make open,
avowed war on the Bible through the "political world".
This
world power, symbolized as "the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit", was predicted to destroy the
Bible (Two Witnesses) in the street of a city that is called (spiritually)
Sodom and Egypt, "where also our Lord was crucified". Revelation 11:7.8. This is not
Jerusalem, as it has often been interpreted, but Paris, France.
In order
for the reader to understand that events do not just happen, I want to share
the following information: The Illuminati Order was not
"invented" by Adam Weishaupt, but rather
renewed and reformed. The first known Illuminati order (Alumbrado)
was founded in 1492 by Spanish Jews, called "Marranos",
who were also known as "crypto-Jews". With violent persecution
in Spain and Portugal beginning in 1391, hundreds of thousands of Jews had been
forced to convert to the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. Publicly they were
now Roman Catholics, but secretly they practiced Judaism, including following
the Talmud and the Cabala. The Marranos were able to
teach their children secretly about Judaism, but in particular the Talmud and
the Cabala; and this huge group of Jews has survived
to this very day. After 1540 many Marranos opted to
flee to England, Holland, France, the Ottoman empire
(Turkey), Brazil, and other places in South and Central America. The Marranos kept strong family ties and they became very
wealthy and influential in the nations where they lived. But as is the custom
with all Jewish people, it did not matter in what nation they lived, their
loyalty was to themselves and Judaism.
The
following information is going to be a "shock" to all Roman
Catholics. In 1491 San Ignacio De Loyola was born in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, Spain. His parents were Marranos
and at the time of his birth the family was very wealthy. As a young man he
became a member of the Jewish Illuminati Order in Spain. As a cover for his
crypto Jewish activities, he became very active as a Roman Catholic. On May 20,
1521 Ignatius (as he was now called) was wounded in a battle, and became a
semi-cripple. Unable to succeed in the military and political arena, he started
a quest for holiness and eventually ended up in Paris where he studied for the
priesthood. In 1539 he had moved to Rome where he founded the "Jesuit
Order", which was to become the most vile,
bloody and persecuting order in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1540, the current
Pope Paul III approved the order. At Loyola's death in 1556 there were
more than 1000 members in the Jesuit order, located in a number of nations.
Setting
up the Jesuit order, Ignatius Loyola devised an elaborate spy system, so that
no one in the order was safe. If there was any opposition, death would come
swiftly. The Jesuit order not only became a destructive arm of the Roman
Catholic Church; it also developed into a secret intelligence service.
While the Popes relied more and more on the Jesuits, they were unaware that the
hardcore leadership were in fact Jewish, and that these Jews held
membership in the Illuminati Order which despised and hated the Roman Catholic
Church. (see also: Rev.17:12,16,etc)
In 1623 Marranos formed an order in France called "Guerients", which in 1722 was changed to an Illuminati
Order.
During
the end of papal supremacy in the 1700's, Adam Weishaupt
began to write down his plans to destroy all governments and religions. Atheism
was to be used as a tool to destroy the Roman Catholic Church's rule in France
(which then was the controlling "power" in Europe). Adam Weishaupt's "revolutionary" force was
first launched under the name of the "Perfectibilists
(Gesellschaft der Perfectibilisten)",
which posed as a political movement to destroy tyranny and ignorance, and
further the cause of Reason, Freedom and moral virtue.
Adam Weishaupt was a professor of Canon Law at
Ingolstadt, and he also was an ex-Jesuit priest. Posing at first as a religious
reformer and a liberal in politics, he attracted many to his political
movement, which was also known as "Republicanism". He adopted
the Jesuits' system of espionage, introduced Witchcraft to his followers, and
developed a fraternity within his political movement that was akin to
Freemasonry. After he formed his organization, with financial backing from the
House of Rothschild, he adopted the name "Illuminati".
They also
became known as "Free Thinkers", "The Enlightened Ones",
or "The Enlightenment", names given before Weishaupt's
time to the 17th century French writers with an atheistic, anti-Christian
slant. In Germany, before May 1st, 1776, they were the "German
Rationalists", or "Humanists", They,
too, promoted Atheism and openly attacked Christianity and all religions as
false, foolish and weird.
Adam Weishaupt taught his disciples that the illuminati are
the only members of the human race who are truly enlightened and know
"what it's all about". Weishaupt had
his followers believing that they were to be "the cream of the
intelligentsia", or the only people with the mental capacity, the
knowledge, the insight and understanding necessary to govern the world and
bring peace. However, only a few of his chosen members actually knew Weishaupt personally, and he was regarded by those who had
not seen him almost as a "god".
In his
booklet, "Communism Prophecy History America", Gerald B. Winrod compiled documentive proof
of how Adam Weishaupt cleverly concealed his identity
and became the most powerful figure of his day. Winrod
explains how Weishaupt set in motion forces that
actually destroyed millions of lives, and left his mark of evil to be felt in
all future generations without even being heard of by most people. On page 45
of his book, Winrod quotes from a letter that Adam Weishaupt wrote to an intimate friend:
"My circumstances necessitate that I should remain hidden from most
of the members as long as I live. I am obliged to do everything through five or
six persons. ... one must show how easy it would be
for one clever head to direct hundreds of thousands of men. ... I have two
immediately below me into which I breathe my whole spirit, and each of these
two has again two others, and so on. In this way I can set a thousand men in
motion and on fire in the simplest manner, and in this way one must impart
orders and operate on politics."
Weishaupt
recruited into his ranks as many young men of wealth and position as possible.
Within four or five years Weishaupt's Illuminati
became very powerful and even had his members directing the affairs of Germany.
Weishaupt's goal was to hide the sciences of
Witchcraft behind philanthropy, destroy Christianity with humanism (atheism),
then set up a One World Government.
In Des
Griffin's book "Fourth Reich of the Rich", he shows the
outline plan of Weishaupt's World Revolution that he
hoped to produce by these following statements: 1. Abolition of all ordered
Governments 2. Abolition of Private Property 3. Abolition of all Inheritance 4. Abolition
of Patriotism 5. Abolition of all Religion 6. Abolition of the Family 7. Creation of a
World Government.
Weishaupt,
who was only 28 when he founded the Order of the Illuminati on May 1st,
1776, did not make much progress until he met a high ranking Freemason named Baron
Von Knigge. Von Knigge
was not only a high ranking Freemason, but he also had been admitted as a
"Master" of most of the Secret Societies of his day, and
expert occultist.
To spread
his Order and give the Illuminati higher influence in the world, and
because Freemasonry is akin to Illuminism, Weishaupt connected with the Masonic Institution. He was
initiated in 1777 into Freemasonry in a Lodge at Munich that he planned to use
to promote his world revolutionary ideas. Baron Von Knigge
joined Weishaupt's Order in 1780, and soon became a
leader, dividing with Adam Weishaupt the control and
direction of the Order.
All
initiates of the Illuminati were required to take an oath to secrecy and bind
themselves to perpetual silence, unshakable loyalty, and submission to the
Order. Like Freemasonry, only a few top men within their organization actually
understood their true goals.
The world
accepted (and perhaps still accepts) Freemasonry as a Great Benevolent Society,
teaching the highest possible degree of morality and virtue. Since Freemasonry
enjoyed prestige and honour, Adam Weishaupt and Baron
Von Knigge planned a world take-over by using the Fraternal
Order of Freemasonry. Their plan was to penetrate into the high levels of
the Order, then take control in directing the affairs of the nations into an
eventual One World Government. However, since papal "Christianity"
was both Church and State, and had been THE dominating power that Satan
used to control the affairs of the world in Weishaupt's
time, Satan was making ready an even worse satanical
influence that would gradually unite all paganism, false Christianity and all
governments of the world, under one banner.
Weishaupt's
first step was, however, to get control of the International Order of
Freemasonry. In order to gain control of the Order of Freemasonry, Weishaupt and Baron Von Knigge
tried to sell the leaders of Freemasonry on the idea that their Order of the
Illuminati had a higher, much older and more mysterious system than any of the
higher degrees of Masonry. In its internal organization, the Order of the
Illuminati was divided into three great classes: (1) The Nursery (2) Symbolic
Freemasonry (3) The Mysteries.
Adam Weishaupt's plan for world take-over was to operate under
cover as long as possible, and when the gullible world finally found out it
would be too late to stop them. The Illuminati was to be a "Secret
Society within the Secret Society of the Freemasons". And, to stay
hidden from the vast population, Adam Weishaupt and
his co-conspirators selected for themselves code names, such as Spartacus
for Weishaupt, Von Knigge
became Philo, and Herr Von Zwack was called Cato.
The Illuminati also tried to hide their location as they traveled in different
countries spreading their poison. They did this by using code names to
communicate where they were. For instance, Ingolstadt, Germany, where their
organization originated, was given the fictitious name of Eleusis;
Austria was called Egypt, Munich was called Athens, and Vienna
was called Rome. The Illuminati invented its own calendar and the names
of the months were also given code names, such as "Dimeh"
for January, and "Bemeh" for
February.
Because
of Martin Luther's rejection of the Roman Catholic Church in 1517, and the
corruption and strife within the Roman Catholic Church itself, the Papacy lost
a great deal of its authority to dictate to the world. Before Adam Weishaupt formed his Order of Illuminati in 1776, "Free
Thinking" or the "Encyclopedists", were already preaching a philosophy against the
tyranny and fanaticism of the Roman Catholic Church. One such voice heard
in the third quarter of the 18th century was a French author,
philosopher and apostle of "Free Thought (Liberty)"
named Voltaire (1694-1778).
Even
though the Roman Catholic Church lost much of its power before 1798 when Pope
Plus VI was dethroned, Voltaire still lived in an age when the press did not
exist, thought was not free; and men were not equal before the Civil Law.
Although professing belief in a Supreme Being, or a god, he denied the
existence of Jesus Christ and the authority of the Bible. He became a staunch opposer of papal Christianity and helped to promote the
"Encyclopedis ou
Dictionnaire Raisonne des
Sciences, des Arts et des Metier" (28 vols.
1751-1772; Supplement 5 vols. 1776-7 table analytique,
2 vols. 1780), to which he was a contributor, and which is known to us today as
"the Encyclopedia".
Like Weishaupt, Voltaire, whose real name was Jean Francois Arouet, was educated by the Jesuits, but later turned
against Catholicism and helped promote the philosophy of "Enlightenment
(Illuminism)" to combat papal
Christianity.
From the
"Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology", by James M.
Baldwin, we read where the philosophy of the "Encyclopedists"
and that of the "Illuminists" became fused into the same
movement working to cause the French Revolution:
"For the Encyclopedia was more than a great dictionary of sciences,
arts, and trades; it was conceived in the spirit OF THE ILLUMINATION MOVEMENT,
and it carried the PRINCIPLES, AS WELL AS THE RESULTS, OF THE NEW THINKING INTO
THE CULTURE OF THE TIME, THUS IT BECAME AT ONCE A STOREHOUSE OF INFORMATION AND
A REVOLUTIONARY FORCE." Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Baldwin, The Macmillan Company, p. 322.
There was
an army of writers used by Lucifer in the 18th century to poison the minds of
the French people against Christianity as a whole nation. Voltaire once
boastingly said: "I am weary of hearing people repeat that twelve men established the
Christian religion. I will PROVE that one man may suffice to overthrow it".
Actually,
the ideas of the Enlightenment (illuminati) was
a continuation of the Renaissance, that was borrowed from the Greek philosopher
Plato (427-347 BC). Weishaupt's idealism was borrowed
also from such writers in the 17th century as "Descartes" and
"Bayle" in France, "Grotius" in Holland,
"Leibnitz" in Germany, and "Locks" in
England.
In the
early 18th century, writers such as "Newton" and "Hume"
in England, "Diderot", and "D'Alembert",
like Voltaire, can all be credited with contributing to this philosophical
movement which led to the founding of this Secret Revolutionary Society called
"the Illuminati".
In the
United States, Benjamin Franklin, who knew Voltaire, was a leading figure in
the "Enlightenment". And, ironically enough, the ideas
of this movement formed the background to the Declaration of independence.
It was our Lord Jesus Christ, however, that took this confusion and molded it
into a protective shield against both civil and religious persecution.
Now coming back to the prophecy about the illuminati making avowed war
on the Bible (the Two Witnesses of Rev.11).
Revelation
11:9-12 And
they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead
bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put
in graves. 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. And after three days and an half the
spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet;
and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from
heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a
cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
There may
have been many "minor" reasons why France became a habitation
of Atheists during the French Revolution with its 3 and 1/2 year "Reign
of Terror", however, it actually began
because of Roman Catholic suppression of the Scriptures. Christ was not
preached as set forth in the Gospel. It was just the opposite. Jesus was
misrepresented among the vast multitudes in France, which led to Christianity
being prohibited by state law. Because of the false presentation of the Gospel
by the Papacy, the suppression of the Scriptures, the tyranny and fanaticism of
the Papacy, an army of atheists was able to gain sympathy for their cause, and "the beast that
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit" was able to make war on the Bible (the Two
Witnesses) and overcome it. Here, we find the reason why the
Papacy lost its dictatorial power. This set the stage for not only destroying
Christianity in France at that era of time, but also set the stage for the
forces of France to march into Vatican City and dethrone the Pope when Napoleon
came on the scene after "the Revolution".
Many
Writers have hailed the French Revolution as "the dawning of a new era",
but it actually was the birth of another terrible deception of the Seven Headed
Dragon (Lucifer) to destroy millions of human lives. When Lucifer saw that the
Papacy's power was coming to an end as predicted in Daniel 7:25, he simply
raised up another movement to destroy man that would continue until the
Papacy's power is restored as predicted in Revelation 13:3.
Now,
"the Illuminati movement" that shall make war on the Lamb (but the Lamb shall overcome them, Revelation 17:14) is not to become
world-wide until the second beast of Revelation 13:11-17 begins to
emerge and speak as a dragon. This, of course, is the power of "Apostate
Protestantism" in America.
But
before we can understand how illuminism, Catholicism,
and Apostate Protestantism shall go forth into the world to unite them against
the Real Jesus of the Bible, we need to know what name the Illuminati are
operating under today.
As stated
earlier, Adam Weishaupt connected with the Masonic
Lodge in 1777. He posed at first among the Freemasons as a reformer in religion
and a liberal in politics. Because Freemasonry was also anti-papal, Weishaupt's anti-papacy policies in Germany became popular
immediately. Weishaupt enrolled no less than two
thousand names upon the Illuminati registers in Germany. Among those were some
of the most distinguished aristocrats of that Country. It is quite apparent
that the men of "the Order of Freemasonry" that joined Weishaupt's "Illuminati",
had no idea of what trap they had fallen into. Very few Masons understood what
Adam Weishaupt's plans were in the beginning, as very
few Masons today understand what their own organization teaches. Weishaupt penetrated into the Freemasonry organization with
all the shrewdness and subtlety that he learned from once being a Jesuit
priest.
Some
historians have written that the French Revolution was not premeditated.
Some will say that the French Revolution emerged only from a political
crisis that coincided with an economic breakdown. This "economic
breakdown" generated unrest and riots which even the French army could
not quell. It was this, some historian will argue, that made the people
of France determined to cause a social change, and overthrow their country.
What these historians say is true in part only; or, a "half-truth".
The parts of history most historians fail to see, (or leave out), is actually
what caused the people in the first place to accept this spirit (of Illuminism).
As stated
earlier, it was the suppression of the Bible and the fanatical
oppression by the Roman Catholic Church, that
actually generated "the spark" that eventually led the French
people to reject Christianity and publicly burn their Bibles.
History
records that the events that led up to the French Revolution were caused by
anarchy. The citizens became divided into a medley of hate factions that were
struggling for power, trying to exterminate each other. But, before this it was
the Roman Catholic Church, who slaughtered French citizens by thousands, that kindled a hatred for Christianity.
The
murderous character of the Papacy was seen in France. In 1572 AD Roman
Catholics tried in one sweep to murder all of the Protestants in France. This
is known in history as the "St. Bartholomew Massacre". Within
the space of one month, 60,000 Protestants are said to have been slain in
France. All told there were over 75,000. The Cardinal of Lorraine gave "1,000
crowns" as a reward to the person who brought the news to the Vatican.
Here we may understand more clearly Revelation 11:8, "where also our Lord was
crucified", and "Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto
me". Matthew 25:40. When
the Papacy killed the Protestants in the streets of Paris, they also were destroying
the Temple that Jesus dwelt in, and saith the Lord: "... ye have done it unto
me".
During
the Revolution, France was reduced to a state of moral debasement similar to
that of the city of Sodom in Lot's time. She also had the same spirit of
Atheism within her as did the Pharoah of Egypt in
Moses' day. Both the sins of Sodom (licentiousness) and of Egypt (Atheism)
France was said to have in Revelation 11:7,8.
At the
closing of the 1260 years the Two Witnesses (Old and New Testaments) were to
finish their testimony. And it was from here that "illuminism"
began to emerge and "overcome" Christianity. History calls
this movement of Illuminism (Atheism) "The
Jacobin Clubs". The Jacobin Clubs in France were the aristocratic
terrorists who spearheaded the French Revolution, which sent King Louis
XVI, on January 21st, 1793, to the guillotine. However, most historians leave
out who was really giving orders to Danton, Marat, and Robespierre, (the
leaders of the Jacobin Clubs). It was the Jacobin Clubs that actually abolished
Christianity through the National Assembly, and established the worship
of the goddess of Reason, or Liberty.
The name
"Jacobin" derived from the name of the convent these
aristocratic terrorists used to secretly plot the overthrow of King Louis XVI.
The convent was called "Jacobin Dominican Convent". They were
also known as the "Society of the Friends of the Constitution",
and were soon organized in every important town in France. They were the most
wealthy and influential people in France. They had as many as 500,000 members
at the height of the influence in 1793-1794.
The truth
is, this aristrocratic
terrorist movement called the "Jacobin Club" was actually
French "illuminists" operating under a different name. As
established earlier, Adam Weishaupt became a Mason in
1777 for the sole purpose of using that organization as a tool for infiltrating
into the high levels of government by simply replacing Freemasons who already
sat in these positions. With an inexhaustible talent for charlatanry, and a
well planned system of espionage, Weishaupt's
disciples infiltrated into the high levels of the governments in Germany,
France, England, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Italy.
However, it was Baron Von Knigge who joined the
Illuminati in 1780 that gave this organization its rapid expansion, not Adam Weishaupt.
Freemasons,
like all Secret Societies, choose to remain obscure and do not like to attract
attention. Because the Illuminati was a "Secret
Society within the Secret Society of Freeemasonry",
even though they had penetrated into the high levels of Europe, very few indeed
ever heard of them. However, shortly before the Revolution took place in
France, two hard blows would land on the heads of Adam Weishaupt
and his co-conspirators. The Freemasons were not long in hearing rumors about
the true nature of Weishaupt's plans to capture their
whole organization. When the Freemasons began to get wind of Weishaupt's true purposes, a chief council was held
to examine the nature of the Illuminati by top ranking Freemasons. A conference
of Masons was held in 1782 at which time Weishaupt
and Von Knigge attended. But it wasn't until Weishaupt and Von Knigge had a
"falling out" that led to Von Knigge
leaving the Order, that Weishaupt
began to have exposure and a threat of internal strife within the illuminati.
A contest
between Weishaupt and Von Knigge
about who was to be the "Rex" or King of this Secret
revolutionary movement was the real motive for Von Knigge
leaving it. After Von Knigge left the Illuminati, the
hardest blow to Weishaupt's Luciferian
Conspiracy was received in 1785. One of Weishaupt's coconspirators, named "Lanze",
was struck by lightning while en route from Frankfurt, Germany to deliver
documents to Robespierre, (the head of the Jacobin Clubs at that time). The
documents that Lanze was carrying had important
information about the Order of the Illuminati, and its plans of not only
destroying the French government through riots and revolutions, but also
governments of the world as well. This is how we today have information about
this beast
that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit. All of the papers Lanze
was carrying fell into the hands of the Bavarian
Government, and the authorities ordered the police to raid the headquarters of
the Illuminati in Germany. Adam Weishaupt had to
escape for his life and all documentive evidence that
the Order of the illuminati was a dangerous international terrorist group was
brought to the attention of many countries in Europe. However, the warnings
fell on deaf ears, as they will in our day.
When the
Word of God was rejected, and spiritualism took its place, France fell
into a degrading worship of the "goddess of Reason". This
period of time in history is also known as the "Age of Reason",
or the "Reign of Terror". And interestingly enough, the Reign
of Terror lasted 3 and 1/2 years, as prophesied in Revelation 11:11: "After three
days and a half (prophetic
years) the
Spirit of life from God entered into them, (Old and New Testaments), and they stood upon their
feet."
The beast
that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit was/is a political power that
ascended out of Witchcraft, made open, avowed war on the Bible and
Christianity, caused the French Revolution, and is predicted in Scripture to
continue from the French Revolution, and eventually spread to every corner of
the habitable globe.
To point
out how the same rebellious spirit of Nimrod and how his hatred towards the
Lord of the Sabbath could be seen also in the Illuminati of the 18th century,
Uriah Smith, in his book "Daniel and the Revelation" p.285,
quotes a priest of Illuminism that was a well known
comedian in France at that time:
"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?"
In the
next portion of this study we will continue to see this gradual Luciferian Conspiracy to overthrow Christianity and all
governments of the world symbolized in Scripture as "the beast that ascendeth
out of the bottomless pit" (Illuminati), and how it can be traced through
various names and guises starting from the French Revolution, to our present
day.
The
anarchy that was displayed in the streets of Paris through the efforts of this Antichrist
movement WILL be seen in this country (USA). Ellen White, in her book
"Education", p.228, saw this anarchy was soon to become a
world-wide Conspiracy. She states:
At
the same time anarchy is seeking to sweep away all law, not only divine, but
human. The centralizing of wealth and power; the vast combinations for the
enriching of the few at the expense of the many; the combinations of the poorer
classes for the defense of their interests and claims; the spirit of unrest, of
riot and bloodshed; the world-wide dissemination of the same teachings that led
to the French Revolution--all are tending to involve the whole world in a
struggle similar to that which convulsed France. {Ed 228.2}
James