CHAPTER VI. “THE COUNCIL OF BLOOD.”

Free spirit of the Hollanders-Crimes of Charles the Fifth in Holland-Philip the Second and Bloody Mary-The Edict of 1550-Fearful persecutions-William the Silent-Hollanders flee to England, and the commerce of Holland declines-The preachers of the Reformation-Field preaching under guard-Camp-meetings in Holland-Composition of the Council of Blood-Deeds of the Council of Blood-All the inhabitants of Holland condemned to death-The siege of Leyden-Relief of Leyden-Founding of the Dutch Republic

The dealings of Spain with Holland and the Netherlands are dyed in stains of deepest crimson. This chapter in the history of Spain is a tragedy of the most dreadful type. During the few short years in which this dependency of the Spanish crown struggled for freedom, crimes, monumental in their proportions and unnumbered for their multitude stand registered against the government and warfare of Spain. PRUS 61.1

Of all the people of Europe, none were more brave than the Hollanders. To an unparalleled degree they were tenacious of liberty, both in things civil and in things religious. From time to time during their history they had wrested valuable charters of freedom from their masters. These had been won at great cost of blood and treasure, and at all times their owners showed a disposition to cling to them firmly. From the earliest days of their history, sovereignty had resided in the great assembly of the people, and this same assembly elected the village magistrates, and decided upon all matters of great importance. The government may have been a fierce democracy, but it was a democracy nevertheless. PRUS 61.2

At length, however, Holland fell under the rule of Spain; and with the advent to the throne of Charles V. of Reformation fame, ill times began for the little land. This monarch made continued effort to drain their treasure, and to hamper their industry. He hated their ancient and dearly bought civil liberties, and did all in his power to restrict and overthrow them. The Netherlands at this time were divided into seventeen distinct and separate provinces; but this prince was determined to construct them into one kingdom, in order that he might rule them the more effectually with the iron hand of absolutism. 1 PRUS 61.3

His hand it was that planted the Inquisition in the Netherlands. For reading the Scriptures, for looking irreverently at a graven image, for even daring to hint that the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ was not present in the consecrated wafer, from fifty to one hundred thousand Dutch perished according to his edicts. Well has Motley said that his “name deserves to be handed down to eternal infamy, not only throughout the Netherlands, but in every land where a single heart beats for political or religious freedom.” PRUS 62.1

But even in this life his crimes went not unpunished. “While he was preparing to crush, forever, the Protestant Church, with the arms which a bench of bishops were forging, lo, the rapid and desperate Maurice, with long red beard streaming like a meteor in the wind, dashing through the mountain passes, at the head of his lancers-arguments more convincing than all the dogmas of Granville! Disguised as an old woman, the emperor had attempted, on the 6th of April, to escape in a peasant’s wagon from Innspruck into Flanders. Saved for the time by the mediation of Ferdinand, he had, a few weeks later, after his troops had been defeated by Maurice at Fussen, again fled at midnight of the 22nd of May, 1555, almost unattended, sick in body and soul, in the midst of thunder, lightning, and rain, along the difficult Alpine passes from Innspruck into Carinthia.” Sad end indeed was this to all his greatness. Sick and tired of life, on the 25th of October, 1555, he abdicated the throne, and went to spend the rest of his life within the walls of a monastery. “This was a fitting end for a monarch who all his life had been false as water, who never possessed a lofty thought, or entertained a noble or generous sentiment.” PRUS 62.2

He was succeeded in Spain and the Netherlands by Philip II, who married Bloody Mary of England. The tastes of these two certainly ran in the same direction. “To maintain the supremacy of the Church seemed to both of them the main object of existence; to execute unbelievers, the most sacred duty imposed by the Deity upon anointed princes; to convert their kingdom into a hell, the surest means of winning heaven for themselves.” Philip hated the Christian heretic with a more venemous hatred than any of his ancestors had ever manifested toward Jew or Moor. Yet in spite of all this pretended piety, he was so grossly licentious that his liaisons are the scandal of the annals of his state. PRUS 62.3

For national and popular rights he had a loathing which he never attempted to disguise. For the people itself,—“that vile and mischievous animal called the people,”—as far as their inalienable rights were concerned he entertained a most supreme contempt. It was during his reign that the great struggle for freedom in the Netherlands broke out. “It was a great episode,—the longest, the darkest, the bloodiest, the most important episode in the history of the religious reformation in Europe.” Spain was determined to put the Netherlands in a quarantine so effective that the religious pest of Protestantism should find no entrance. In the Netherlands the scaffold had many victims, but the numbers of its converts were few indeed. In that land there were men and women who dared and suffered much for conscience’ sake. They were not fanatics. “For them all was terrible reality. The emperor and his edicts were realities; the ax, the stake, were realities; and the heroism with which men took each other by the hand and walked into the flames, or with which women sang a song of triumph while the grave-digger was shoveling the earth upon their living faces, was a reality also.” PRUS 63.1

Immediately after the accession of Philip, the terrible edict of 1550 was re-enacted. From this notable document an idea of Spain’s methods of governing her colonies may be gathered:— PRUS 63.2

“No one shall print, write, copy, keep, conceal, sell, buy, or give in churches, streets, or other places, any book or writing made by Martin Luther, John Ecolampadius, Ulrich Zwinglius, Martin Bucer, John Calvin, or other heretics reprobated by the holy church; … nor break, or otherwise injure the images of the Holy Virgin or canonized saints; … nor in his house hold conventicles, or illegal gatherings, or be present at any such in which the adherents of the above-mentioned heretics teach, baptize, and form conspiracies against the holy church and the general welfare…. Moreover, we forbid all persons to converse or dispute concerning the Holy Scriptures, openly or secretly, especially on any doubtful or difficult matters, or to read, teach, or expound the Scriptures unless they have duly studied theology, and been approved by some renowned university; … or to preach secretly, or openly, or to entertain any of the opinions of the above-mentioned heretics; … on pain, should any be found to have contravened any of the points above mentioned, as perturbers of the state and of the general quiet, to be punished in the following manner: that such perturbators of the general quiet are to be executed; to wit, the men with the sword, and the women to be buried alive, if they do not persist in their errors; if they do persist in them, then they are to be executed with fire; all their property in both cases to be confiscated to the crown.” PRUS 63.3

“Thus, the clemency of the sovereign permitted the repentant heretic to be beheaded or buried alive, instead of being burned.” PRUS 64.1

All who in any way helped the heretic were in danger of, and liable to, the same punishment; for said the decree:— PRUS 64.2

“We forbid all persons to lodge, entertain, furnish with food, fire, or clothing, or otherwise to favor any one holden or notoriously suspected of being a heretic; … and any one failing to denounce any such, we ordain shall be liable to the above-mentioned punishments.” The edict went on to provide “that if any person, being not convicted of heresy or error, but greatly suspected thereof, and therefore condemned by the spiritual judge to abjure such heresy, or by the secular magistrate to make public fine or reparation, shall again become suspected or tainted with heresy-although it should not appear that he has contravened or violated any one of our abovementioned commands-nevertheless we do will and ordain that such person shall be considered as relapsed, and, as such, be punished with loss of life and property, without any hope of moderation or mitigation of the above-mentioned penalties.” PRUS 64.3

And it was further decreed “that the spiritual judges desiring to proceed against any one for the crime of heresy shall request any of our sovereign courts or provincial councils to appoint any one of their college, or such other adjunct as the council shall select, to preside over the proceedings to be instituted against the suspected. All who know of any persons tainted with heresy are required to denounce them and give them up to all judges, officers of the bishops, or others having authority on the premises, on pain of being punished according to the pleasure of the judge. Likewise, all shall be obliged, who know of any place where such heretics keep themselves, to declare them to the authorities, on pain of being held as accomplices, and punished as such heretics themselves would be punished if apprehended.” PRUS 64.4

In order to bring about the greatest number of arrests by means the most base, and by that which appeals powerfully to the most sordid attributes of our natures, it was further decreed that the informer, in the case of conviction, should be entitled to one half the property of the accused, if not more than one hundred pounds Flemish; if more, then ten per cent of all such excesses. PRUS 65.1

Treachery to friends, brothers, and sisters was encouraged by a provision “that if any man being present at any secret conventicle shall afterwards come forward and betray his fellow members of the congregation, he shall receive full pardon.” PRUS 65.2

Nor was this any mere fanatical decree for the purpose of inspiring terror, for the sovereign continued to ordain:— PRUS 65.3

“To the end that the judges and officers may have no reason, under pretext that the penalties are too great and heavy, and only devised to terrify delinquents, to punish them less severely than they deserve-that the punished be really punished by the penalties above declared; forbidding all judges to alter or moderate the penalties in any manner; forbidding any one, of whatsoever condition, to ask of us, or of any one having authority, to grant pardon, or to present any petition in favor of such heretics, exiles, or fugitives, on penalty of being declared forever incapable of civil and military office, and of being arbitrarily punished besides.” 2 PRUS 65.4

Such was one of the most famous decrees, having for its main object the trampling into the dust the religious and civil rights and liberties of the people of Holland. It would almost seem that if the archfiend himself had set about it to create a more awful ordinance, he would have paled before the magnitude of the task. And it can never be said that this was done in the Dark Ages, and that the monarch was the only creature of the times in which he lived. It was done during the days when the Renaissance and the Reformation were at their height. It was done during an age in which men were supposed to have come out of darkness into great and marvelous light. And to make the whole transaction the more horrible, it was ordered and decreed that this edict should be published forever, once in every six months, in every city, and in every village of the Netherlands. And this by a monarch who said of himself that he had always, “from the beginning of his government, followed the path of clemency, according to his natural disposition, so well known to all the world.” PRUS 65.5

And now the Inquisition was set in motion as the instrument whereby this decree should be carried into effect. It has been well said that, however classified or entitled, the Inquisition was only a machine for inquiring into a man’s thoughts, and for burning him if the result was not satisfactory. The Inquisition was that part of the church which caused the savages of India and America to shudder and turn chill at the very name of Christianity. PRUS 66.1

It is said that one day the secular sheriff, familiarly known as Red-rod, from the color of his wand of office, met upon the high road, Titelmann, the great inquisitor of Holland, and thus addressed him:— PRUS 66.2

“How can you venture to go about alone, or at most with one attendant or two, arresting people on every side, while I dare not attempt to execute my office, except at the head of a strong force, armed in proof, and then only at the peril of my life?” PRUS 66.3

“Ah! Red-rod,” answered Titelmann, laughing, “you deal with bad people. I have nothing to fear, for I seize only the innocent and the virtuous, who make no resistance, and let themselves be taken like lambs.” PRUS 66.4

“Mighty well,” said the other; “but if you arrest all the good people, and I all the bad,’ t is difficult to say who in the world is to escape chastisement.” PRUS 66.5

There was no end to the horrors of this horrible time. One Bertrand was seized by Titelmann for having insulted the host. He was dragged on a hurdle, his mouth closed with an iron gag, to the market-place. Here his right hand and his right foot were burned and twisted off between two red-hot irons. Then his tongue was torn out by the roots, and because he still endeavored to call upon God, the iron gag was again applied. His arms and legs were fastened together behind his back; he was hooked by the middle of his body to an iron chain, and made to swing to and fro over a slow fire till he was entirely roasted. His life lasted almost to the end of these ingenious tortures, but “his fortitude lasted as long as his life.” PRUS 66.6

At Ryssel, in Flanders, Titelmann caused one Robert Ogier to be arrested, together with his wife and two sons. The accusation brought against them was that they did not go to mass, and that they had private worship in their own home. They were asked what rites they practised in their own house. One of the children answered: “We fall on our knees, and pray to God that he may enlighten our hearts, and forgive our sins. We pray for our sovereign, that his reign may Toe prosperous, and his life peaceful. We also pray for the magistrates and others in authority, that God may protect and preserve them all.” The simplicity of the boy drew tears from even some of those who sat in judgment upon his case. Nevertheless the father and the older child were condemned to the flames. “O God!” prayed the youth at the stake, “Eternal Father, accept the sacrifice of our lives, in the name of thy beloved Son.” “Thou liest, scoundrel!” interrupted the pious monk, who was lighting the fire; “God is not your Father, ye are the devil’s children.” As the flames rose high above them, the poor child once more cried out, “Look, my father, all heaven is opening, and I see ten hundred thousand angels rejoicing over us. Let us be glad, for we are dying for the truth.” “Thou liest! thou liest!” again roared the monk; “all hell is opening, and you see ten hundred thousand devils thrusting you into eternal fire.” Only eight days after this the wife of Ogier and the other child were burned, and this once happy family exterminated. PRUS 66.7

These were some of the things which were done in the Netherlands for the purpose of obliterating civil and religious freedom in this dependency of Spain. It is no wonder that such things bred revolt, and that the Hollanders, slow to rise, but terrible and determined when at last they did rise, should make one terrible effort to throw off the accursed yoke. And it must ever be remembered that the whole object of these wicked proceedings was to extort money and property unjustly from the people, and to bring about the incorporation of a number of free and liberty-loving states into one compact and centrally governed kingdom, to be farmed for the benefit of the crown of Spain. PRUS 67.1

General police regulations were issued at the same time, “by which heretics were to be excluded from all share in the usual conveniences of society, and were in fact to be strictly excommunicated. Inns were to receive no guests, schools no children, almshouses no paupers, graveyards no dead bodies, unless guests, children, paupers, and dead bodies were furnished with the most satisfactory proofs of orthodoxy. Midwives of unsuspected Romanism were alone to exercise their functions, and were bound to give notice within twenty-four hours of every birth which occurred; the parish clerks were as regularly to record every such addition to the population, and the authorities to see that Catholic baptism was administered in each case with the least possible delay. Births, deaths, and marriages could only occur with validity under the shadow of the church. No human being could consider himself born or defunct unless provided with a priest’s certificate. The heretic was excluded, so far as ecclesiastical dogma could exclude him, from the pale of humanity, from consecrated earth, and from eternal salvation.” 3 PRUS 67.2

To the famous William of Orange, better known as William the Silent, or Father William, the great work of leading the revolt for freedom was by right assigned. His is one of the most noble characters of which all history boasts. In 1564 he took the ground that the time for speaking out had arrived, and that brave and honest men could no longer keep still. He argued that an envoy of high rank should be sent to the king of Spain in his native land, and that he should be told in unequivocal terms how the people of the Netherlands felt toward him and his rule. “Let him,” were his words, “be unequivocally informed that this whole machinery of placards and scaffolds, of new bishops and old hangmen, of decrees, inquisitors, and informers, must once and forever be abolished.” PRUS 68.1

Even while the envoy was absent in Spain, the oppressive measures were pushed forward with unabated fury. Such a state of things was produced by this great wickedness, that the ordinary business of mankind was almost entirely suspended. Commerce came to a dead standstill. The great commercial city of Antwerp “shook as with an earthquake.” Merchants from other lands, manufacturers, and artisans fled away, and the grass began to grow in the streets. Contemporaneous records tell how that “famine reigned in the land. Emigration, caused not by overpopulation, but by persecution, was fast weakening the country. It was no wonder that not only foreign merchants should be scared from the great commercial cities by the approaching disorders, but that every industrious artisan who could find the means of escape should seek refuge among strangers, wherever an asylum could be found. That asylum was afforded by Protestant England, who received these intelligent and unfortunate wanderers with cordiality, and learned with eagerness the lessons in mechanical skill which they had to teach. Already thirty thousand emigrant Netherlander were established in Sandwich, Norwich, and other places, assigned to them by Elizabeth.” 4 PRUS 68.2

“It had always, however, been made a condition of the liberty granted to these foreigners for practising their handiwork that each house should employ at least one English apprentice.” 5 “Thus,” said a Walloon historian, splenetically, “by this regulation, and by means of heavy duties on foreign manufactures, have the English built up their own fabrics, and prohibited those of the Netherlands. Thus have they drawn over to their own country our skilful artisans to practise their industry, not at home but abroad, and our poor people are thus losing the means of earning their livelihood. Thus has cloth-making, silk-making, and the art of dyeing declined in our country, and would have been quite extinguished but by our wise countervailing edicts.” 6 PRUS 69.1

The cause given by this writer undoubtedly gives a wrong view of the case. This expatriation of these poor people came about on account of the sufferings imposed upon them in their native land. Where such terrible edicts were being daily enforced, where civil liberties were mocked at and trampled in the dust, it is only reasonable to suppose that commerce and manufactures would make their escape out of a doomed land with the utmost possible despatch. PRUS 69.2

But neither edict, nor famine, nor persecutions could shake the purpose of the sturdy Hollanders. They were determined to do as they pleased in things religious, and not to be oppressed in their civil rights so to do. In the early summer of 1566, “many thousands of burghers, merchants, peasants, and gentlemen were seen mustering and marching through the fields of every province, armed with arquebus, javelin, pike, and broadsword. For what purpose were these gatherings?—Only to hear sermons and sing hymns in the open air, as it was unlawful to profane the churches with such rites. This was the first great popular phase of the Netherland rebellion. Notwithstanding the edicts and the inquisitions with their hecatombs, notwithstanding the special publication at this time throughout the country by the duchess regent that all the sanguinary statutes concerning religion were in as great vigor as ever, notwithstanding that Margaret offered a reward of seven hundred crowns to the man who would bring her a preacher dead or alive, the popular thirst for the exercises of the reformed religion could no longer be slaked at the obscure and hidden fountains where their priests had so long privately ministered…. PRUS 69.3

“Apostate priests were not the only preachers. To the ineffable disgust of the conservatives in church and state, there were men with little education, utterly devoid of Hebrew, of lowly station,-hatters, curriers, tanners, dyers, and the like,-who began to preach also; remembering, unseasonably perhaps, that the early disciples, selected by the founder of Christianity, had not all been doctors of theology with diplomas from a ‘renowned university.’ But if the nature of such men were subdued to what it worked in, that charge could not be brought against ministers with the learning and accomplishments of Ambrose Willie, Marnier, Guy de Bray, or Francis Junius, the man whom Scaliger called the ‘greatest of all theologians since the days of the apostles.’ An aristocratic sarcasm could not be leveled against Peregrine de la Grange, of a noble family in Provence, with the fiery blood of southern France in his veins, brave as his nation, learned, eloquent, enthusiastic, who galloped to his field-preaching on horseback, and fired a pistol shot as signal for his congregation to give attention. PRUS 70.1

“On the 28th of June, 1566, at eleven o’clock at night, there was an assemblage of six thousand people near Tournay, at the bridge of Ernonville, to hear a sermon from Ambrose Willie, a man who had studied theology in Geneva, at the feet of Calvin, and who with a special price upon his head, was preaching the doctrines he had learned. Two days afterward ten thousand people assembled at the same spot to hear Peregrine de la Grange. Governor Moulbasis thundered forth a proclamation from the citadel, warning all men that the edicts were as rigorous as ever, and that every man, woman, or child who went to these preachings was incurring the penalty of death. The people became only the more ardent and excited. Upon Sunday, the 7th of July, twenty thousand persons assembled at the same bridge to hear Ambrose Willie. One man in three was armed. Some had arquebuses, others pistols, pikes, swords, pitchforks, poniards, clubs. The preacher, for whose apprehension a fresh reward had been offered, was escorted to his pulpit by a hundred mounted troopers. He begged his audience not to be scared from the Word of God by menace; assured them that although but a poor preacher himself, he held a divine commission, and that he had no fear of death; that should he fall, there were many better than he to supply his place, and fifty thousand men to avenge his murder. PRUS 70.2

“The duchess sent forth proclamations by hundreds. She ordered the instant suppression of these armed assemblies, and the arrest of the preachers: but of what avail were proclamations against such numbers with weapons in their hands? Why irritate to madness these hordes of enthusiasts, who were now entirely pacific, and who marched back to the city at the conclusion of divine service with perfect decorum? All classes of the population went eagerly to the sermons. The gentry of the place, the rich merchants, the notables, as well as the humble artisans and laborers, all had received the infection. The professors of the reformed religion outnumbered the Catholics by five or six to one. On Sunday and other holidays, during the hours of service, Tournay was literally emptied of its inhabitants. The streets were as silent as if war or pestilence had swept the place. The duchess sent orders, but she sent no troops. The train bands of the city, the crossbowmen of St. Maurice, the archers of St. Sebastian, the sword-players of St. Christopher, could not be ordered from Tournay to suppress the preaching, for they had all gone to the preaching themselves. How idle, therefore, to send peremptory orders without a matchlock to enforce the command! PRUS 71.1

“Throughout Flanders similar scenes were enacted. The meetings were encampments, for the reformers now came to their religious services armed to the teeth, determined, if banished from the churches, to defend their right to the field. Barricades of upturned wagons, branches, and planks were thrown up around the camp. Strong guards of mounted men were stationed at every avenue. Outlying scouts gave notice of approaching danger, and guarded the faithful into the enclosure. Pedlers and hawkers plied the trade upon which the penalty of death was fixed, and sold the forbidden hymn-books to all who chose to purchase. A strange and contradictory spectacle! An army of criminals doing deeds which could only be expiated at the stake; an entrenched rebellion, bearding the government with pikes, matchlocks, javelin, and barricade, and all for no more deadly purpose than to listen to the precepts of the pacific Jesus. PRUS 71.2

“Thus the preaching spread through the Walloon provinces to the northern Netherlands. Toward the end of July an apostate monk, Peter Gabriel by name, was announced to preach at Overwen, near Harlem. This was the first field meeting which had taken place in Holland. The people were wild with enthusiasm, the authorities beside themselves with apprehension. People from the country flocked into the town by thousands. The other cities were deserted, Harlem was filled to overflowing. Multitudes encamped upon the ground the night before. The magistrates ordered the gates to be kept closed in the morning till long after the usual hour. It was of no avail Bolts and bars were but small impediments to enthusiasts who had traveled so many miles on foot or horseback to listen to a sermon. They climbed the walls, swam the moat, and thronged to the place of meeting long before the doors had been opened. When these could no longer be kept closed without a conflict, for which the magistrates were not prepared, the whole population poured out of the city with a single impulse. Tens of thousands were assembled upon the field. The bulwarks were erected as usual. The guards were posted. The necessary precautions taken. But upon this occasion, and in that region, there was but little danger to be apprehended. The multitudes of reformers made the edicts impossible, so long as no foreign troops were there to enforce them. The congregation was encamped and arranged in an orderly manner. The women, of whom there were many, were placed next the pulpit, which, upon this occasion, was formed of a couple of spears thrust into the earth, sustaining a cross-piece, against which the preacher might lean his back. The services commenced with the singing of a psalm by the whole vast assembly. Clement Marot’s verses, recently translated by Dathenus, were then new and popular. The strains of the monarch minstrel, chanted thus in their homely but nervous mother tongue by a multitude who had but recently learned that all the poetry and rapture of devotion were not irrevocably coffined with a buried language, or immured in the precincts of a church, had never produced a more elevating effect. No anthem from the world renowned organ in that ancient city ever awakened more lofty emotion than did those ten thousand human voices, ringing from the grassy meadows in that fervid midsummer noon. When all was silent again, the preacher rose,-a little meager man, who looked as if he might rather melt away beneath the blazing sunshine of July than hold the multitude enchained four uninterrupted hours long, by the magic of his tongue. His text was the eighth, ninth, and tenth verses of the second chapter of Ephesians; and as the slender monk spoke to his simple audience of God’s grace, and of faith in Jesus, who had descended from above to save the lowliest and the most abandoned, if they would but put their trust in him, his hearers were alternately exalted with fervor or melted into tears. He prayed for all conditions of men-for themselves, their friends, their enemies, for the government which had persecuted them, for the king whose face was turned upon them in anger. At times, according to one who was present, not a dry eye was to be seen in the crowd. When the minister had finished, he left his congregation abruptly, for he had to travel all night in order to reach Alkmaar, where he was to preach upon the following day. PRUS 72.1

“By the middle of July the custom was established outside all the principal cities. Camp-meetings were held in some places; as, for instance, in the neighborhood of Antwerp, where the congregation numbered over fifteen thousand; and on some occasions was estimated at between twenty and thirty thousand persons at a time, ‘very many of them,’ said an eye-witness, ‘the best and wealthiest in the town.” 7 PRUS 73.1

Looking back through the mist of time, we think how easy it would have been for Spain to have saved herself much trouble and travail, and to have imparted great happiness to a frugal, industrious, and peaceable people by simply letting them worship according to the dictates of conscience, and regulate their own local affairs in whatever manner would have been most satisfactory to them. This would have been a simple solution, to be sure; but lust and greed of gain were against it, and to these monsters principle was sacrificed. PRUS 73.2

In 1567 the Duke of Alva, with a powerful army, was sent to look after the interests of Spain in the Netherlands. He was instructed to organize and preside over that terrible court, forever to be known in history as the Blood-Council. It was a mere informal club, of which the duke was perpetual president, while all the other members were appointed by himself; and of these other members there were only two who had the right to vote; the remainder were not permitted to vote at all. This infamous court carried on its proceedings in defiance of all law and all reason. Information was lodged against one man or against one hundred men in a single document, and execution was frequently done upon the one man or upon the hundred men within forty-eight hours after the information had been lodged. The proceedings of the council were also ex parte, and an information was almost invariably followed by a death-warrant. Sometimes the sentences were in advance of the docket. Upon one occasion a man’s case was called for trial, but before the investigation had commenced, it was discovered that he had already been executed. Moreover, upon examination, it was found that he had committed no crime. “No matter for that,” said Vargas, gaily, “if he has died innocently, it will be all the better for him when he takes his trial in the other world.” PRUS 74.1

However, according to the rules which defined and constituted guilt, it was almost impossible for a man to be innocent before such a court. People were daily executed upon the most frivolous pretexts. “Thus Peter de Witt, of Amsterdam, was beheaded because at one of the tumults in that city he had persuaded a rioter not to shoot a magistrate. This was taken as sufficient evidence that he was a man in authority among the rebels, and he was accordingly put to death.” “Madame Juriaen, who in 1566 had struck with her slipper a little wooden image of the Virgin, together with her maid servant, who had witnessed, without denouncing, the crime, were both drowned by the hangman in a hogshead placed on the scaffold.” PRUS 74.2

“Death, even, did not in all cases place a criminal beyond the reach of the executioner. Egbert Meynartzoon, a man of high official rank, had been condemned, together with two colleagues, on an accusation of collecting money in a Lutheran church. He died in prison, of dropsy. The sheriff was indignant with the physician, because, in spite of cordials and strengthening prescriptions, the culprit had slipped through his fingers before he had felt those of the hangman. He consoled himself by placing the body on a chair, and having the dead man beheaded in company with his colleagues. PRUS 74.3

“Thus the whole country became a charnel-house; the death-bell tolled hourly in every village; not a family but was called to mourn for its dearest relatives, while the survivors stalked listlessly about, the ghosts of their former selves, among the wrecks of their former homes. The spirit of the nation, within a few months after the arrival of Alva, seemed hopelessly broken. The blood of its best and bravest had already stained the scaffold; the men to whom it had been accustomed to look for guidance and protection were dead, in prison, or in exile. Submission had ceased to be of any avail, flight was impossible, and the spirit of vengeance had alighted at every fireside. The mourners went daily about the streets, for there was hardly a house which had not been made desolate. The scaffolds, the gallows, the funeral piles, which had been sufficient in ordinary times, furnished now an entirely inadequate machinery for the incessant executions. Columns and stakes in every street, the door-posts of private houses, the fences in the fields, were laden with human carcasses, strangled, burned, beheaded. The orchards in the country bore on many a tree the hideous fruit of human bodies. PRUS 75.1

“Thus the Netherlands were crushed, and but for the stringency of the tyranny which had now closed their gates, would have been depopulated. The grass began to grow in the streets of those cities which had recently nourished so many artisans. In all those great manufacturing and industrial marts, where the tide of human life had throbbed so vigorously, there now reigned the silence and darkness of midnight. It was at this time that the learned Vigilius wrote to his friend Hopper that all venerated the prudence and gentleness of the Duke of Alva. Such were among the first-fruits of that prudence and that gentleness. PRUS 75.2

“Upon the 16th of February, 1568, a sentence of the holy office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death as heretics. From this universal doom only a few persons especially named, were excepted. A proclamation of the king, dated ten days later, confirmed this decree of the Inquisition, and ordered it to be carried into instant execution, without regard to age, sex, or condition. This is probably the most concise death-warrant that was ever framed. Three millions of people, men, women, and children, were sentenced to the scaffold in three lines; and, as it was well known that these were not harmless thunders, like some bulls of the Vatican, but serious and practical measures, which it was intended should be enforced, the horror which they produced may be easily imagined. PRUS 75.3

“And under this new decree the executions certainly did not slacken. Men in the highest and humblest positions were daily and hourly dragged to the stake. Alva, in a single letter to Philip, coolly estimated the number of executions which had taken place after the expiration of holy week, ‘at eight hundred heads.’ Many a citizen, convicted of a hundred thousand florins, and no other crime, saw himself suddenly tied to a horse’s tail, with his hands fastened behind him and so dragged to the gallows…. The tongue of each prisoner was screwed into an iron ring, and then seared with a hot iron. The swelling and inflammation, which were the immediate result, prevented the tongue from slipping through the ring, and of course effectually precluded all possibility of speech.” PRUS 76.1

Still the sturdy Hollanders were not crushed. Fear ne’er sat upon their breasts; and never did they stack their arms until the Duke of Alva had been forced to leave the country. But there was no peace even then; Spain kept up the fight, and the people of the Netherlands contended against the most fearful odds which history has to record. Then came the far-famed siege of Leyden. The beleaguered city endured sufferings untold, and it seemed impossible for their brethren to bring them relief. Leyden was not upon the sea, but they resolved to send the sea to Leyden. “Better a drowned land than a lost land,” was the cry of the patriots. They determined to pierce the dikes that kept back the ocean, and drown their land in the waves. The Spaniards mocked at the very idea. The idea that any people could love liberty sufficiently to purchase it at such an awful price was foreign to their lust-loving and greedy souls. “Go up to the tower, ye beggars,” was their frequent and taunting cry, “go up to the tower, and tell us if you can see the ocean coming over the dry land to your relief.” “And day after day they did go up to the ancient tower of Hengist, with heavy heart and anxious eye, watching, hoping, fearing, praying, and at last almost despairing of relief by God or man.” Once, fearing that they had been forgotten, they addressed a despairing letter to the estates; but back came the reply: “Rather will we see our whole land and all our possessions perish in the waves than forsake thee, Leyden. We know full well, moreover, that with Leyden all Holland must perish also.” PRUS 76.2

Once during the siege a crowd of those who had grown fainthearted during the long and terrific struggle came to Adrain van der Werf, the burgomaster. They assailed him with threats and reproaches. He waved his hand for silence, and spoke as follows: “What would ye, my friends? Why do ye murmur that we do not break our vows, and surrender the city to the Spaniards, a fate more horrible than the agony which she now endures? I tell you I have made an oath to hold the city, and may God give me strength to keep my oath! I can die but once; whether by your hands, the enemy’s, or by the hand of God. My own fate is indifferent to me, not so the city entrusted to my care. I know that we shall starve if not soon relieved; but starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not; my life is at your disposal; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh among you. Take my body to appease your hunger, but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive.” His words inspired courage, and a shout of applause went up from the assembled throng. PRUS 77.1

At length the last dike was pierced, and the ocean, aided by a strong equinoctial gale, swept over the land. In a light flotilla came the relieving force with supplies for the people of Leyden. Terror took possession of the Spaniards, and in the gray light of the early morning they poured out of their entrenchments, and fled toward The Hague. They were none too early in their flight. Rapidly did their narrow path vanish in the waves, and hundreds sank beneath the deepening and treacherous flood. Leyden was relieved. PRUS 77.2

It is needless for me to write here of the Dutch Republic which followed, when the Netherlands gained their freedom and separation from the crown of Spain. Suffice to say that before the advent of the United States upon the stage of earth’s history, the little Dutch republic was the home of the oppressed of all Europe; and it is significant that Leyden was the home of the Pilgrim Fathers before they sailed upon that memorable voyage which landed them upon Plymouth Rock, where they were destined to lay the foundation stone of a new and greater Republic, which was to take up the work so gallantly commenced by Holland, and bear it forward to perfection.  https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/1619.326#326

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What means this wild babel of tongues clamoring for subjects over which to exercise sway? What means this strange jargon, formed from an Old World monarchical vocabulary? Are men crazed with the madness sometimes begotten by victory at arms? Are men drunken with the lust of colonial empire? Are men raving in the delirium of that dread fever, earth-hunger, in which all the monarchies of the Old World are writhing? Think they in the hour of triumph over a foe, outclassed at every point, to build a tower of national greatness which will reach to the very heavens, and at the same time to lay its unrighteous foundations on the stricken forms of vassal peoples? The result will surely be as it was before in the case of the builders of Babel, there will be confusion of tongues, and the dissolution of the nation. 

‘…The bad government kills out the good government as surely as slave labor destroys free labor, or as a debased currency drives out a sound currency.”

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Are You Ready For A New World Order? The World Government Summit Is Asking

March 31, 2022

by Jacob M. Thompson

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“And the question is, will that new system of digital money and digital accounting accommodate the competing needs of the citizens of all these locations, so that every human being has a chance to have a better life? Because that’s the only measure of whether a world order really serves.”

The World Government Summit for 2022 recently began in Dubai of the United Arab of Emirates, calling and asking for a new world order, and what steps will need to be taken to get the world there.

The World Government Summit, according to their official website, “is a global, neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to shaping the future of governments.”

‘The Summit, in its various activities, explores the agenda of the next generation of governments, focusing on harnessing innovation and technology to solve universal challenges facing humanity,’ they additional describe themselves.

They add, ‘Since its inception in 2013, the Summit has championed the mission of shaping future governments and creating a better future for humanity. The past 7 editions of the Summit have successfully established a new model to collaborate on an international playing field to inspire and enable the next generation of governments.’

‘The World Government Summit is a global knowledge exchange platform for governments that was established in 2013 under the dynamic leadership of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai and is poised to scale newer heights of excellence and inclusivity.’

The organization is partnered with many of the more well-known international governmental and world affairs groups, along with media giants like CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Time, Sky News, EuroNews, and many other partners.

CNN’s Becky Anderson led the discussion on the 29th, kicking off the first official day of the summit, that was livestreamed to their official YouTube channel.

Anderson, just a few seconds in after stepping up to the podium asked, “Are we ready for a New World Order?,” noting that it is a “daunting subject” to discuss. She additionally stated similar sentiment that of President Joe Biden’s recent calls for a New World Order.

She stated:

I believe what is clear is that we have hit an inflection point. We are certainly living in a unique age of certainty and volatility in global affairs.

Whether you are from the global North, or the global South, we have all collectively lived through the twilight zone that was the pandemic, and the changes to our social, our digital, and our physical landscape that Covid-19 wrought.

And just as the world reemerges from the pandemic, we are faced with the Russian invasion of Ukraine which certainly feels like a transformative geopolitical moment.

Coming as that does against a backdrop of great power struggles, the emergence of middle powers of climate crisis and cyber security challenges, the trendline certainly seems to indicate a world headed in a disorderly direction.

Is the U.S.-led multilateral system created post-WWII to manage international relations so that the world would never see and experience the same chaos and disorder of a world war, is it anything like fit for purpose? And if not, what is the alternative? That is the purpose of this discussion today.

Prior to the year 1898 this USA government was a republic pure and simple. Its foundations were laid in principle, and not in power. It was not an empire in any sense of the word, for the foundations of an empire are laid in power, and not in principle. It was built upon that everlasting rock that right makes might. Against this the coming of floods and the blowing and beating of winds are alike powerless, for it standeth sure and falleth not forever. But empires, on the other hand, are built upon that sinking sand that might makes right. Against these the floods come, and the winds blow and beat, and they fall, and great is the fall thereof. PRUS 80.4

To-day this nation is in danger of abandoning the rock and settling upon the sand. The love of power, so prone to the human breast, is smothering priceless, eternal principle. From being a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, it is being rapidly transformed into a government of some of the people, by a few of the people, for all the people. This is imperialism as opposed to republicanism, and this is national apostasy. PRUS 81.1

Until the summer of 1898 the word “imperialism” was but little heard from the lips of Americans. Now the very atmosphere is fairly drenched with it. A perfect wave of imperialism has swept over the land, and the desire for an Imperial America, or an “Imperial Republic,” as it has been styled, sits supreme upon hundreds of scores of souls. But an imperial republic cannot exist. With equal sense and propriety one might talk about “good badness.” PRUS 81.2

What means this wild babel of tongues clamoring for subjects over which to exercise sway? What means this strange jargon, formed from an Old World monarchical vocabulary? Are men crazed with the madness sometimes begotten by victory at arms? Are men drunken with the lust of colonial empire? Are men raving in the delirium of that dread fever, earth-hunger, in which all the monarchies of the Old World are writhing? Think they in the hour of triumph over a foe, outclassed at every point, to build a tower of national greatness which will reach to the very heavens, and at the same time to lay its unrighteous foundations on the stricken forms of vassal peoples? The result will surely be as it was before in the case of the builders of Babel, there will be confusion of tongues, and the dissolution of the nation. 

Anderson then introduced the panel of different leaders and advisors for this discussion. Frist turning to His Excellency Dr. Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anderson, asked him, “Are you ready for a new world order?”

Though not answering with a yes or no, Gargash immediately pointed towards technological advancements here in the 21st century, that he compared to 26th century tech. But he said there is a problem:

But I think the frame of thinking is still 19th century. I think this is one of the problems that we have in the international system where if you look it’s still about nationalism, it’s still about state sovereignty, it’s still about use of force or non-use of source of force.

And I think this is one of the major major issues as we try to bridge really what is mentally you know governing international relations with the 19th century mode of thinking. But at the same time with technology fast fast ahead of us and the curve, I think we will be a major problem.

Once again the time has come when the Declaration of Independence is not held sacred by all, is not thought to include all. Once again, to make the bondage, not of the negro, but of the Filipino, universal and eternal, “it is assailed, and sneered at, and hawked at, and, torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.” PRUS 82.4

The forcible annexation of ……….. is now being attempted. The government of the United States is endeavoring to subject this people against their will. To enforce this idea is to enforce slavery; not in the extreme degree, to be sure, but in part and in principle nevertheless. On this point a United States senator has truly said:— PRUS 82.5

“Wherever a people are required to render an obedience which is involuntary, that requirement is an enslavement of that people. PRUS 82.6

“There are different degrees of enslavement. If we put our yoke upon a people, if we rule them arbitrarily, if we send them governors and judges, if we make laws for them without their participation, if we enforce obedience to such laws by our army, then it is an absolute enslavement. If, on the contrary, we allow them free institutions, but at the same time prescribe to them that they shall owe allegiance to a government against their will, it is none the less an enslavement, although less in degree.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/1619.410#467

Interestingly enough, The WinePress’ report, “Agenda 2030: You’ll Own Nothing And Be Happy,” cited a piece from the World Economic Forum and their visions for life in 2030, where the world is cultivated by autonomous smart cities. Near the end of their essay, they stated this:

My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.

Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.

After that Fred Kempe – President and CEO of the think tank the Atlantic Council – spoke, and he, who said his former mentor was the infamous globalist Henry Kissinger, invoked a similar sentiment, that, “what do you mean new world order? We have not had a world order yet.” Rather, a Western order that was “imposed on the world.”

[This new order] can go two different directions with the war in Ukraine now being a decisive element. Either the jungle is back, as the historian Bob Kagan talks, and that we can go into a darker era.

Or we could go into an era because of the advances of science, advances of technology, there could be one of the most prosperous, promising, progressive, enlightened, moderate, modern eras that we’ve ever face[d].

I think we’re in a moment where that’s being decided, and I think the importance of the Ukraine issue is that’s a fulcrum for this, and how the world manages this and comes out of this, is going to have far-reaching consequences that go beyond Ukraine.

Later in the discussion, Pippa Malmgren – a former Special Assistant for President George W. Bush for the National Economic Council – explained how another major tenet for this new world order to work, the old monetary and currency systems must be abandoned; additionally noting how she felt that we are already in world war III that has extended beyond Ukraine.

“Nothing is more dangerous for a free people than the attempt to govern a dependent people despotically. The bad government kills out the good government as surely as slave labor destroys free labor, or as a debased currency drives out a sound currency.” 15 https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/1619.410#467

Surely this is plain enough from the author of the Declaration of Independence. Why, the very fundamental principle of the doctrine of a republic is diametrically opposed to the acquisition of territory by conquest. This truth is plainly set forth by John Fiske, the most philosophical of all the American historians. He divides nation-making into three classes, the third of which he styles the “English method.” This he defines as being the one which contains the “principle of representation.” Then he adds:— …..

“Our experience has now so far widened that we can see that despotism is not the strongest but well-nigh the weakest form of government; that centralized administrations, like that of the Roman empire, have fallen to pieces, not because of too much, but because of too little, freedom; and that the only perdurable government must be that which succeeds in achieving national unity on a grand scale, without weakening the sense of local and personal independence. For in the body politic this spirit of freedom is as the red corpuscles in the blood; it carries the life with it. It makes the difference between a society of self-respecting men and women and a society of puppets. Your nation may have art, poetry, and science, all the refinements of civilized life, all the comforts and safeguards that human ingenuity can devise, but if it lose this spirit of personal and local independence, it is doomed, and deserves its doom…. Of the two opposite perils which have perpetually threatened the welfare of political society,-anarchy on the one hand, loss of self-government on the other,-Jefferson was right in maintaining that the latter is really the more to be dreaded, because its beginnings are so terribly insidious.” 14 PRUS 87.1

“Nothing is more dangerous for a free people than the attempt to govern a dependent people despotically. The bad government kills out the good government as surely as slave labor destroys free labor, or as a debased currency drives out a sound currency.” 15 

I see a future where we genuinely have ubiquity and not scarcity. I see a future where the internet is available for free for everyone in the most remote locations on the planet, for example.

And that means the location of power is going to shift. And I see … decentralization of power structures everywhere, in finance, in political power. In fact this conflict that we’re in right now may be the beginning of that shift.

What underpins a new world order is always the financial system. […] And what we are seeing the world today I think is we are on the brink dramatic change where we are about to, and I’ll say this boldly: we’re about to abandon the traditional system of money and accounting, and introduce a new one.

And the new one, the new accounting is what we call blockchain. It means digital. It means almost having a perfect record of every single transaction that happens in the economy, which will give us far greater clarity over what’s going on, and it also raises huge dangers in terms of the balance of power between states and citizens.

In my opinion we’re going to need a digital constitution of human rights if we’re going to have digital money. But also this new money will be sovereign in nature. Most people thing that digital money is crypto and private, but what I see are super powers introducing digital currency. The Chinese were the first, the U.S. is on the brink I think of moving the same direction, [and] the Europeans have committed to that as well.

And the question is, will that new system of digital money and digital accounting accommodate the competing needs of the citizens of all these locations, so that every human being has a chance to have a better life, because that’s the only measure of whether a world order really serves.

Also at this summit, founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab made an appearance, weighing in and giving his two cents; who, again, reemphasized that we are in the midst of what he calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

History is truly at a turning point.

We do not yet know the full extent and the systemic and structural changes which will happen. However, we do know the global energy systems, food systems, and supply chains will be deeply effected. In times of crisis, the role of governments is more important and more relevant than ever.

What is also needed is a summit like this one [..], and to look into constructive ways we can build our common future.

Our futures are intrinsically connected to one another as profound challenges to mankind such as climate change are globally interconnected, and require collaborative responses.

In conclusion, and despite all the challenges, we have to uphold our responsibility which we have towards the next generation, at which we can only fulfill through collaboration on a national and on a global level.

‘The laws, however, which must effect this must flow from their own habits, their own feelings, and the resources of their own minds. No stranger to these could possibly propose regulations adapted to them. Every people have their own particular habits, ways of thinking, manners, etc., which have grown up with them from their infancy, are become a part of their nature, and to which the regulations which are to make them happy must be accommodated. No member of a foreign country can have a sufficient sympathy with these. The institutions of Lycurgus, for example, would not have suited Athens, nor those of Solon, Lacedaemon. The organizations of Locke were impracticable for Carolina, and those of Rosseau for Poland. Turning inwardly on myself from these eminent illustrations of the truth of my observation, I feel all the presumption it would manifest should I undertake to do what this respectable society is alone qualified to do suitably for itself.” 19 PRUS 89.2

This is all admirable truth. No self-respecting community will cheerfully obey any other than self-imposed laws. They may obey through fear, or on account of the presence of armed force, but there will always be danger of riots caused by discontent, or of insurrection in the hope of freedom. Liberty is an inalienable right. Nature has planted it in the human breast, and just as long as it exists there, many and grievous will be the troubles of colonial empires. The cases of Ireland and India under British rule are cases in point. PRUS 89.3

Colonial empires are wrong in principle. The conception of the thing itself is wrong. Colonial empires are built upon arbitrary theories and force, instead of on natural law. The splendid colonial system of England is held up as an example of this type of government; but Goldsmith called upon legislators— PRUS 90.1

” … to judge how wide the limits stand Betwixt a splendid and a happy land.” PRUS 90.2

Lord Macaulay himself denied the value of colonies, even to European nations:— PRUS 90.3

To see more of the discussion, and so much more, see their YouTube channel for more information.

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What once used to be called “conspiracy theory” could not be any more truthful and factual, as these elites are just flying it in everyone’s face: and yet the fickle masses are more interested in an actor pretending to slap another actor.

Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zephaniah 3:8

This new world order is being wrought because it is THE LORD who is the one causing it, because of the nation’s iniquities and who despise his word. And so this new world order is being constructed together because the Lord is going to soon destroy them all. Do not lost sight of that.

Moreover, this push for this new digital currency that The WinePress has been warning about for some time, is now right around the bend. And, you read that demented lady’s description of how they are going to do it. But to summarize, she is talking social credit scores. Ultimately, this is another critical step closer towards the mark of the beast.

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18

In the not too distant future, the West (and some parts of the East) will utterly collapse, and people will be begging for this Great Reset, and to be plugged into the smart cities. But there will be many who will live in those “19th century homes” that are just so ‘evil.’ Or, as the Bible calls it, a return to some of the “old paths” (Jeremiah 6:16).

Therefore, as things continue to look bleak, trust the Lord, and be patient: opportunity will arise and present itself.

[1] A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. [2] For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. [3] Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. [4] Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. [5] Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. [6] And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. [7] Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. [8] Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. [9] For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. [10] For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. [11] But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. [12] The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. [13] The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. [34] Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

Psalms 37:1-13, 34

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺?

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙙𝙤𝙢, 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮, 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙤𝙙, 𝙗𝙪𝙩, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙙, 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙂𝙤𝙙’𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙. He is working with all his insinuating, deceiving power, to lead men away from the third angel’s message, which is to be proclaimed with mighty power. If Satan sees that the Lord is blessing His people and preparing them to discern his delusions, he will work with his master power to bring in fanaticism on the one hand, and cold formalism on the other, that he may gather in a harvest of souls. Now is our time to watch unceasingly. Watch, bar the way to the least step of advance that Satan may make among you….

I have been warned that henceforth we shall have a constant contest. Science so-called and religion will be placed in opposition to each other, because finite men do not comprehend the power and greatness of God. These words of Holy Write were presented to me, “Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them” [Acts 20:30].

The moral sight of these men is diseased. They do not feel their need of the heavenly anointing, that they may discern spiritual things….They will fall into deceptions and delusions that Satan has prepared as concealed nets to entangle the feet of those who think they can walk in their human wisdom without the special grace of Christ….

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𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀. The system of truth must stand distinct from all other systems, whether of religion or of morals. It is the light emanating from Christ. Our great work is to reveal Christ to the world, and thus reveal the Father.

𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨. They regard their course as wise, but their tendencies and actions are evil. They are of the class who, professing to be wise, need to become fools in order to be wise in God’s wisdom. They lead away from the path where the voice of Jesus is heard, saying, “𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆, 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘆𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁” [𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗮𝗵 𝟯𝟬:𝟮𝟭]. They are false teachers, blind leaders of the blind. They divert attention from the very work to be done in this period of the world’s history. But those who follow the Leader, step by step, will hear and 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙙….

𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘆, 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. While the Christian world are honoring a false sabbath, we are to show them its true character. It must be made plain to them that they are honoring a man-made institution in place of that which God sanctified. Every rival must be made to appear as an idol. Solemn is our responsibility.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. They say, “Why do you in your teachings make the seventh-day Sabbath so prominent? This seems to be always thrust before us. We should harmonize with you, if you would not say so much on this point.”…And there has been a disposition on the part of some of the workers to adopt this policy. I am bidden to warn you that deceptive sentiments are entertained, a false modesty and caution, a disposition to withhold the profession of our faith in the night season, matters have been presented before me that have greatly troubled my mind. 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙡 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙣, 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙬𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢?…𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙖 𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩?

If the world is in error and delusion, breaking the law of God, it is our duty to show them their sin and danger. We must proclaim the third angel’s message….𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙜 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝. 𝙒𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩. 𝙐𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙧𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙯𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙨. 𝙇𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙎𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙝-𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚. 𝙄𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙪𝙥𝙤𝙣 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩, 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮, 𝙞𝙛 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙮….

𝙊𝙣 𝙣𝙤 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨, 𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡. 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙….All the success and patronage that can be secured by policy plans will be a snare to every soul who works on this principle. Some are flattering themselves that a more auspicious time is coming when God, who ever sides with the right, will vindicate His honor by lifting up His holy law, and then they will obey the truth and will triumph with it. I have been shown that in maintaining the right, it is not safe to yield one hair’s breadth because of circumstances, or to teach others that we may do this with comparative safety….

𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨, 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙣. We should tell the people plainly that we cannot accept the papal sabbath, because it is a mark of special dishonor to God, whom we love and worship. But while we sacredly observe the Sabbath of the Lord, it is not our work to compel others to observe it. God never forces the conscience; that is Satan’s work. Since God is the Author of the Sabbath, it must be presented to the minds of men in contrast to the false sabbath, that all may choose between them….

𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙬 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙖𝙗𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙞𝙣, 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙙, “𝙒𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨, 𝙊 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙” [𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙅𝙤𝙗 𝟮𝟭:𝟭𝟰]. Others will say, as did Pharaoh, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice?” [Exodus 5:2]. But we must hold aloft the banner of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus….While Satan will make masterly efforts to suppress the truth, we must stand firmly to reflect light to the world. let not the fear of man, the desire for patronage, be allowed to obscure a ray of heaven’s light….

We should be alarmed when we see the least disposition to hush the voices that proclaim the message of the third angel. That angel represents the people of God who give the warning to the world. No greater contempt could be shown to the Creator than the contempt manifested for the day which He has sanctified. And, as Satan with his human agencies pushes the warfare against God, by leading men to trample on the Sabbath, the few who honor God should be aroused to greater zeal and earnestness in its

defense….

In the great conflict between faith and unbelief the whole of the Christian world is involved. All will take sides. Some apparently may not engage in the conflict on either side. They may not appear t o take sides against the truth, but they do not come out boldly for Christ, through fear of losing property or suffering reproach. All such are numbered with the enemies of God. Manuscript 16, October 1, 1890. (see also 7ABC 246, 321, 331, 335, 351, 378, 393, 423; CWE 94-95; Ev 179, 593-94; 2SM 19-21) #christian #faith #god #jesuschrist #lordjesuschrist #adventistangelswatchmanradio #ecumenical

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