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America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Original Edition]

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

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declension that prevails <strong>in</strong> England: “The truly righteous are<br />

dim<strong>in</strong>ished from the earth, and no man layeth it to heart. The<br />

professors of religion of the present day, <strong>in</strong> every church, are<br />

lovers of the world, conformers to the world, lovers of creature<br />

comfort, and aspirers after respectability. They are called to<br />

suffer with Christ, but they shr<strong>in</strong>k from even reproach. …<br />

is engraven on the very front of<br />

every church; and did they know it, and did they feel it, there<br />

might be hope; but, alas! they cry, ‘We are rich, and <strong>in</strong>creased<br />

<strong>in</strong> goods, and stand <strong>in</strong> need of noth<strong>in</strong>g.’” –Second Advent<br />

<br />

The great s<strong>in</strong> charged aga<strong>in</strong>st Ba<strong>by</strong>lon is, that she “made<br />

all nations dr<strong>in</strong>k of the w<strong>in</strong>e of the wrath of her fornication.”<br />

This cup of <strong>in</strong>toxication which she presents to the world,<br />

represents the false doctr<strong>in</strong>es that she has accepted as the result<br />

of her unlawful connection with the great ones of the earth.<br />

Friendship with the world corrupts her faith, and <strong>in</strong> her turn<br />

<br />

doctr<strong>in</strong>es which are opposed to the pla<strong>in</strong>est statements of<br />

Holy Writ.<br />

Rome withheld the Bible from the people, and required all<br />

men to accept her teach<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> its place. It was the work of the<br />

Reformation to restore to men the word of God; but is it not<br />

too true that <strong>in</strong> the churches of our time men are taught to rest<br />

their faith upon their creed and the teach<strong>in</strong>gs of their church<br />

rather than on the Scriptures? Said Charles Beecher, speak<strong>in</strong>g<br />

of the Protestant churches: “They shr<strong>in</strong>k from any rude word<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>st creeds with the same sensitiveness with which those<br />

holy fathers would have shrunk from a rude word aga<strong>in</strong>st<br />

the ris<strong>in</strong>g veneration of sa<strong>in</strong>ts and martyrs which they were<br />

foster<strong>in</strong>g. … The Protestant evangelical denom<strong>in</strong>ations have<br />

so tied up one another’s hands, and their own, that, between<br />

them all, a man cannot become a preacher at all, anywhere,<br />

without accept<strong>in</strong>g some book besides the Bible. … There is<br />

noth<strong>in</strong>g imag<strong>in</strong>ary <strong>in</strong> the statement that the creed power is now<br />

beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g to prohibit the Bible as really as Rome did, though<br />

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delivered at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Feb. 22, 1846.

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