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The Roots of Rebellion by Ellen G. White

The Roots of Rebellion erupts from the fertile soil of profound discontent, self-determination and insatiable striving for liberty and power. Originating from the clash of two ancient kingdoms and unfurling at the world's spiritual epicentres, this book declares the virulent and intractable enmity to truth; resulting in embattled sequels of tyranny and revolution and outbreaks of hostility and persecution, all yielding the bitter fruit of anarchy. The mystery of rebellion dominates the seats of government and rages in the hearts of humankind. Flourishing into mature, passionate and intrepid subversion, the instruments of rebellion construct and establish an order of chaos and coercion; commanding universal compliance and cooperation. As it effectively enlightens on the secret underpinnings of one world government and hegemonic imperialism, the reader is armed to encounter and counter the greatest deception of all time.

The Roots of Rebellion erupts from the fertile soil of profound discontent, self-determination and insatiable striving for liberty and power. Originating from the clash of two ancient kingdoms and unfurling at the world's spiritual epicentres, this book declares the virulent and intractable enmity to truth; resulting in embattled sequels of tyranny and revolution and outbreaks of hostility and persecution, all yielding the bitter fruit of anarchy. The mystery of rebellion dominates the seats of government and rages in the hearts of humankind. Flourishing into mature, passionate and intrepid subversion, the instruments of rebellion construct and establish an order of chaos and coercion; commanding universal compliance and cooperation. As it effectively enlightens on the secret underpinnings of one world government and hegemonic imperialism, the reader is armed to encounter and counter the greatest deception of all time.

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Roots</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Rebellion</strong><br />

me so far out <strong>of</strong> the way as to affect any <strong>of</strong> the great interests <strong>of</strong> truth or duty." "Your<br />

error, as I apprehend, lies in another direction than your chronology." "You have<br />

entirely mistaken the nature <strong>of</strong> the events which are to occur when those periods have<br />

expired. This is the head and front <strong>of</strong> your expository <strong>of</strong>fending." See also Leroy Edwin<br />

Froom, Prophetic Faith <strong>of</strong> Our Fathers (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald<br />

Publishing Assn., 1950), vol. 1, chs. 1, 2.<br />

Page 435. A Threefold Message.--Revelation 14:6, 7 foretells the proclamation <strong>of</strong><br />

the first angel's message. <strong>The</strong>n the prophet continues: "<strong>The</strong>re followed another angel,<br />

saying, Ba<strong>by</strong>lon is fallen, is fallen. . . . And the third angel followed them." <strong>The</strong> word<br />

here rendered "followed" means "to go along with," "to follow one," "go with him." See<br />

Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, Greek English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon<br />

Press, 1940), vol. 1, p. 52. It also means "to accompany." See George Abbott-Smith, A<br />

Manual Greek Lexicon <strong>of</strong> the New Testament (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1950),<br />

page 17. It is the same word that is used in mark 5:24, "Jesus went with him; and<br />

much people followed Him, and thronged Him." It is also used <strong>of</strong> the redeemed one<br />

hundred and forty-four thousand, Revelation 14:4, where it is said, "<strong>The</strong>se are they<br />

which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth." In both these places it is evident that<br />

the idea intended to be conveyed is that <strong>of</strong> "going together," "in company with." So in<br />

1 Corinthians 10:4, where we read <strong>of</strong> the children <strong>of</strong> Israel that "they drank <strong>of</strong> that<br />

spiritual Rock that followed them," the word "followed" is translated from the same<br />

Greek word, and the margin has it, "went with them." From this we learn that the<br />

idea in Revelation 14:8, 9 is not simply that the second and third angels followed the<br />

first in point <strong>of</strong> time, but that they went with him. <strong>The</strong> three messages are but one<br />

threefold message. <strong>The</strong>y are three only in the order <strong>of</strong> their rise. But having risen,<br />

they go on together and are inseparable.<br />

Page 447. Supremacy <strong>of</strong> the Bishops <strong>of</strong> Rome.--For the leading circumstances in<br />

the assumption <strong>of</strong> supremacy <strong>by</strong> the bishops <strong>of</strong> Rome, see Robert Francis Cardinal<br />

Bellarmine, Power <strong>of</strong> the Popes in Temporal Affairs (there is an English translation<br />

in the Library <strong>of</strong> Congress, Washington, D. C.); Henry Edward Cardinal Manning,<br />

<strong>The</strong> Temporal Power <strong>of</strong> the Vicar <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ (London: Burns and Lambert, 2d ed.,<br />

1862); and James Cardinal Gibbons, Faith <strong>of</strong> Our Fathers (Baltimore: John Murphy<br />

Co., 110th ed., 1917), chs. 5, 9, 10, 12. For Protestant authors see Trevor Gervase<br />

560

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