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The Gunpowder Plot, P CONTENTS: Introduction As the saying goes:- INTERFAITHISM AND THE “You don't know where your DESTRUCTION OF THE going unless you know where MORAL FABRIC OF SOCIETY you've come from ... ” PAGES 1-6 In this issue of The Voice from the Wilderness we are going to look back some 400 years, to the year GREAT BRITAIN THE THEY that trust in the LORD BATTLE AXE OF 1605, on the day of the shall be as mount Zion, which PROTESTANTISM 5th of November. We are going PAGES 6-11 cannot be removed, but abideth to unveil one of the most gut for ever. curdling plots ever hatched Psalm 125:1 against England. THE PAPER POPE, So let us go to the hired cellar THE MONUMENT OF under the Houses of Parliament ENGLISH PROSE - on the evening before November THE AUTHORISED BIBLE 5th. Down there is a soldier in PAGES 12-14 the services of Philip of Spain, aptly named Guy Fawkes, with 36 barrels filled with gunpowder, which have the capability to blow Parliament and its occupants sky high. GUY FAWKES - ROME'S Guy Fawkes night (or should we say bonfire night), with all its TOOL OF DESTRUCTION displays and fireworks, has nearly lost its true meaning to the people of PAGES 14-23 England. We at VITW (Voice in the Wilderness) believe the truth has been purposely swept under the carpet, but history testifies that this day was set aside to commemorate a miraculous deliverance by God, and to THE JESUITS remind the English people of a man, who, inspired by his staunch hatred PAGES 23-30 towards Protestantism, devised a scheme to blow up Parliament and the King. So we are going to trace the steps that led to this plot of high treason, BECAUSE THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE PLOT STILL THE STRATEGICAL EXISTS TODAY. MENDACITY OF THE NEW The question has been asked, and may always be asked: Why worry HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE about Guy Fawkes? He was caught, tried, found guilty, and hanged. PAGES 31-38 So, it is said, we have no need to worry about him in our Day and Age of Ethical Enlightenment ... or do we? The apex of our concern is not the man Guy Fawkes and what he planned to do, no, no, the concern which is paramount is the system to which Guy Fawkes was affiliated to, or should we say under the direct instructions of. Even though he may not be alive today, the organisation which he belonged to is still alive. Our question and concern is: If this system was the main instigator of the plot and is still alive today, would they ever think of doing anything of this sort again? My fellow Brothers and Sisters and friends, we know this organisation will be, and has been, involved in many plots against the peoples, presidents and governments of this world. So let us dissect the issues of the past, so we can rightly interpret the issues which will soon confront us in the near future. To prepare us for this immaterial excursion into the oracles of Protestant history, let us briefly examine the writings of the faithful pen of inspiration, that was employed by Jesus Christ, our omnipotent all loving God and Saviour: “She is silently growing into power. Her doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative halls, in the churches, and in the hearts of men. She is piling up her lofty and massive structures in the secret recesses of which her former persecutions will be repeated. Stealthily and unsuspectedly she is strengthening her forces to further her own ends when the time shall come for her to strike. All that she desires is vantage ground, and this is already being given her. We shall soon see and feel what the purpose of the Roman element is. Whoever shall believe and obey the word of God will thereby incur reproach and persecution.”1 “We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.”2 Before we discuss Guy Fawkes and the main Gunpowder Plot, we will study comprehensively but briefly, the history of the British Isles. Looking from the early centuries of Christianity, it shall be seen that there has been a continual battle going on between good and evil, between Christ and Satan. It would be a dishonour to the men and women who have given their lives to uphold, and press forward the truths of God’s word, if we fail to mention their efforts; and thus a large portion of the newsletter is dedicated to them. Voice in the Wilderness Published by Wilderness publications April 1997 1. The Great Controversy, p. 581, E. G. White, Pacific Press 2. Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, Burden Bearers, p. 196 INTERFAITHISM AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MORAL FABRIC OF SOCIETY “Fearful sights of a supernatural character will soon be revealed in the heavens, in token of the power of miracle working demons. The spirits of devils will go forth to the kings of the earth and to the whole world, to fasten them in deception, and urge them on to unite with Satan in his last struggle against the government of heaven. By these agencies, rulers and subjects will be alike deceived.” The Great Controversy, p. 624, E. G. White, Pacific Press REV 16:13 —14 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. ____________________________________ Lucifer was the highest angel in heaven. He was remember that Lucifer means “light bearer.” All a created being, and was next in line to CHRIST his power and wisdom came directly from the in power, rank and authority. When the most High; but this he attributed to himself, GODHEAD came together to discuss the instead of from Him who is the giver of all administration of the universe, he was not knowledge, wisdom and power. In the heart of permitted to enter into their secrets, and for this this arch-deceiver was the desire to put himself reason he developed a hatred for God and in the place of God, and this marked the disrespect towards His law, because God’s beginning of the great controversy, which is government rests on the foundation of His law. about to reach its climatic end very soon. This It is through his influence today that there is a ancient foe who received his education from large movement in the religious world who Jesus at the throne of the living God, is believe it is no longer expedient to keep God’s attempting to use the administrative skills that law. It should be remembered that Lucifer’s he learned whilst being God’s messenger. At position in heaven was the Covering Cherub (the this time, Satan’s methods of operation chief angel). He stood in the immediate parallel the same basic principles as the Lord’s - presence of God’s glory and was clothed with a but they lack the foundation of God’s Ten garment of light. It is also important to Commandment Law. What God gave to Man What the Devil gives instead Marriage Living together in sin (cohabitation) The Seventh-day Sabbath Sunday Sacredness 1 The Gospel of Grace WHO OR WHAT IS THE DRAGON? Froglike movements According to Revelation 12:9 the dragon is that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, him who deceived the whole world. So the dragon power is raw Luciferianism, which has its ideology rooted in Satan’s lies to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. There are three fundamental principles that need to be understood in the fall of man, in the third chapter of Genesis. (1) “Yea hath God said” Genesis 3:1. God in His mercy to the human race has given the three angel’s message as a means to prepare us for This dragon power is playing a fundamental role the world to come. Satan in response to in placing doubt upon God’s word, and we are this has three unclean spirits like frogs. Both of these witnessing the fruits of decades of the dragon’s movements end up on seas. The three attack. There are two major beliefs in the world angel’s message ends up on the sea of glass that today that are at the forefront. The first is flows by the throne of God.1 While the three Evolution. This teaches that there was a “big unclean spirits like frogs culminate in the lake bang”, and that all life on earth developed over of fire.2 One produces obedience to the law of millions of years. Evolution refutes the Biblical God; while the other prepares humanity to account of creation, as recorded in Genesis worship the beast and his image. This issue is to Chapters 1 and 2. The Bible declares that the be clearly understood by all who dwell on the world was created in six days, and that God rested earth at the end of time. God’s message to come on the seventh day. The seventh day was blessed out of Babylon is given under the direction of and sanctified because it was always to be a the Holy Spirit.
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