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*Non SDA sources affirm: the two witnesses in Revelation are the Old and
the New Testament & **the French Revolution is fulfillment of Revelation
11's prophesy***
*The two witnesses in Revelation *
*People's New Testament Commentary*, “It is said that for 1260 days the
witness shall prophesy in sackcloth. Every reader knows that for ages
the Bible was forbidden to the people and locked up in the dead
languages. It was even a crime, for which many suffered death, to have
the Bible in the tongue of the people. It is proper that we should
consider here this period of mourning in which, if I am correct,_the
witness_ of _the Old Testament and New Testament_ shall be given in
sorrow”/1/.
*Wayne Jackson* is a well known apologist in the *Church of Christ* and
editor at /The Christian Courier/, “God’s “two witnesses” were to
prophesy 1,260 days in sackcloth. The _two witnesses_ may be the
combined _testimony of the Scriptures_, along with the example and
preaching of the church /(Commentary on the New Testament, Wayne Jackson)./
*Jean Napier*,*Scottish mathematician*, champion of Protestantism,
writes, "In his mercy, the Lord will see that _the two witnesses_, _the
Old and the New Testaments_, are allowed to preach during these twelve
hundred and sixty years, although not in their own garments, but
disguised."—"<http://www.blogger.com/null>The/Secrets of the
Apocalypse//," p. 200, 3d ed./
*Jean de Launoy*, a *French historian*, in his book published at Geneva
in 1641, says: "These _two witnesses, the Old and New Testaments_, may
thus be put to death, their volumes exposed to all kinds of abuse, and
shamefully trodden down."—"/Paraphrase et Exposition de l'Apocalypse,"
p. 292. /
*Bishop Wordsworth*, the *Anglican* scholar, declared, “The _two
witnesses_, the olive trees, are the _two Testaments_ ministering their
testimony to the church of the old dispensation as well as to that of
the new, which explains the two witnesses being called also the two
candlesticks… The church in both dispensations has no light in herself,
but derives it from the Spirit through the witness of the twofold word,
the two olive trees/.(Robert Jamieson et al., Commentary Critical and
Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing,
1871), on Revelation 11:3). /
*George Croly* (1780-1860) M.A., Classical*scholar*, author and Bible
Expositor. *Anglican *Rector. In The Apocalypse of St. John, he held
that the _two witnesses were the two Testaments_, slain in the French
Revolution, the political earthquake in France, the tenth part of the
city. The 3 ½ days were the 3 ½ years from November 1793 to June 1797
when religion was abolished. He forecast that the Bible would have
stupendous triumph.
Note: At least _over twenty such scholars could be listed_ (See: Le Roy
Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers (Washington, DC: Review and
Herald, 1954), 2:3)
*The Revelation 11 and the French Revolution*
*William Whiston *(1667-1752) *Baptist theologian* and mathematician. He
was Newton’s successor at Cambridge University. He authored fifty works
including a translation of Josephus. His major work was The Revelation
of St. John. He believed that infidelity (such as later occurred in
Revolutionary France) might be the only means of stopping the Papal
enslavement before true Christianity could be restored.
**
*Bishop Thomas Newton *(1704-1782) Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St.
Paul’s London. He wrote Dissertations on the Prophecies (1754) which ran
into eighteen editions, as well as in Danish and German. Concerning the
fulfillment of Revelation 11, he wrote, Rome therefore will finally be
destroyed by some of the princes… and as the kings of France have
contributed greatly to her advancement, it is not impossible nor
improbable that… they may be the principal authors of her destruction.
France… may appear more likely to effect such a revolution. 82 This was
written thirty five years before the Revolution.
*John Fletcher*(1729-1785) Excellent *scholar *and *associate of John
Wesley*. Authored nine works. He held that the Papacy would fall amid
revolutions. He acquainted Wesley with the knowledge that 10,000 French
Protestants in 1755 expect some great revolution, that will result in
their being united with 200,000 of their brethren who have been expelled
from France. 83 This was forty four years before the Revolution.
*Jean Vuilleumier*, a veteran *French editor in Paris*, France,
researched the records of the French Revolution to verify the
fulfillment of the prophecy of Revelation 11, especially the time period
of the three and a half years in which religion and the Bible were
legally abolished. His confirmations were published in 1940. Jean
Vuilleumier(ed), Ministry, No. May-July 1940).
"The Huguenots," by *Samuel Smiles*, "The supporters of the old church
[as the rumors of the coming Reformation began to be heard in France], .
. . stunned by the sudden spread of the new views, . . . knew that power
was on their side —the power of kings and parliaments.. . . and these
they loudly called to their help. . . . Bibles and New Testaments were
seized wherever found, and burnt. . . . The printers who were convicted
of printing Bibles were next seized and burnt. . . . In that city
[Paris] during the six months ending June, 1534, . . twenty men and one
woman were burnt alive. In 1545 the massacre of the Vaudois of Provence
was perpetrated, accompanied by horrors which it is impossible to
describe."—/Pages 21, 28./
*Thomas Goodwin*(1600-1680), celebrated non-conformist, *member of
Westminster Assembly*, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. In 1639 he
declared that the tenth part of the city of Revelation 11:13 was one of
the ten kingdoms of Western Europe under the jurisdiction of Papal Rome
and as the kingdom (France) had the first great stroke, so now it should
have the honor to have the last great stroke in the ruining of Rome. The
earthquake is a mighty commotion. This was _152 years before the French
Revolution_. Le Roy Froom, 2:588-596.
*Pierre Jurieu*(1637-1713) Distinguished Huguenot leader. Brilliant
scholar and *Professor of Theology* and Hebrew at the Huguenot Seminary
at Sedan, France. A great champion of Protestantism against French
Jesuit leaders. He ably answered the Futurist and Preterist schools of
prophetic interpretation. He authored sixty works, including Exposition
of the Apocalypse (1685). He taught that the tenth part of the city of
Revelation 11:13 was France, which would shake off the yoke of Rome. 78
This was 104 years before the Revolution.
*Robert Fleming*(1660-1716), a Scottish divine.*Pastor *of English
Church of the Refugees, Holland. Author of ten works. An expositor of
prophecy. Very influential. A confidante of King William III of England.
In his Rise and Fall of the Papacy (1701) when France was at the height
of her power, he declared that he hoped for the death of the chief
supporters of Antichrist, and perhaps the French monarchy may begin to
be considerably humbled about that time (at least before the year 1794).
This was forecast ninety years before the Revolution. His conclusions
were based on Revelation 11.
*Sir Isaac Newton*(1642-1727). *Famous mathematician*, philosopher and
genius in scientific research. He also studied Bible prophecy for forty
two years, resulting in his work, Observations Upon the Prophecies of
Daniel and The Apocalypse (1773). He upheld the Historical School of
Interpretation and taught that before primitive Christianity could be
restored, the power of infidelity in ‘a main revolution’would be used to
put a stop to, or block the Popedom that has so long corrupted the
Church. 80 This was twenty years before the Revolution.
*Jacques Philipot Huguenot*, pastor driven out of France. In 1685 he
wrote Elucidations on The Apocalypse of St. John. One hundred and four
years before the revolution, he wrote on Revelation 11, The earthquakes
in Scriptures mean great change occurring in the nations…. There will be
a surprising change in France of which the whole world will be glad
except the clergy, the monks and the Jesuits…. It is France… Which is
referred to by this tenth part of the city… the city here is Babylon,
i.e. the Papal empire, the Church of Rome…France is one of the ten horns
of the beast, one of the kingdoms… France is… a part of the city, i.e.
of the Papal empire….Since the death of the two witnesses takes place in
France…this tenth part of the city which shall fall is France.
*John Willison*(1680-1750) Scottish divine. Authored nine principal
works. Wrote A Prophecy of the French Revolution (1733) fifty years
before the event. He said, Before Antichrist’s fall, one of the ten
kingdoms which supported the beast (Papacy) shall undergo a marvellous
revolution. Revelation 11:13 (quoted) by which tenth part is to be
understood as one of the ten kingdoms into which the great city, Romish
Babylon, was divided. This, many take to be the kingdom of France.
*George Bell.*In 1796, in the *London Evangelical Magazine* he declared
on the basis of Revelation 11, that the Gentiles of verse 2 were the
papacy; that the earthquake of verse 13 was the French Revolution and
the tenth part of verse 13 was France. He continued, Have we not seen,
in one of the ten kingdoms, a most astonishing revolution? Have we not
also seen that kingdom fall off of the Papal jurisdiction? Have we not
good ground to hope that the accomplishment of the prophecies respecting
the rising of the witnesses and the fall of Antichrist is near at hand?
One year later, Revolutionary France restored the Scriptures
(resurrected the witnesses) and two years later, France delivered the
deadly wound to the Papacy.
*Joseph Priestley*(1733-1804) *English clergyman*, philosopher and
scientist. Authored eighty works. In February, 1794, he declared on the
basis of Revelation 11, that France was currently fulfilling the
prediction in the French Revolution.
*James Bicheno*(Died 1831). Dissenting minister and schoolman. Authored
numerous works. Taught that Revolutionary France was the fulfillment of
Revelation 11.
*George Croly*(1780-1860) M.A., Classical scholar, author and Bible
Expositor. *Anglican* Rector. In The Apocalypse of St. John, he held
that the two witnesses were the two Testaments, slain in the French
Revolution, the political earthquake in France, the tenth part of the
city. The 3 ½ days were the 3 ½ years from November 1793 to June 1797
when religion was abolished. He forecast that the Bible would have
stupendous triumph.
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that at least thirty-two scholars, up to the time of the French
Revolution, had predicted on the basis of Revelation 11 that France
would be the European kingdom that would end the supreme power of the
Papacy./
Cited:
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http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/peoples-new-testament/revelation/11.html?p=4
https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1940/May/the-two-witnesses-in-prophecy
http://www.steps.org.au/Sermons/Revelation-Topic-16.pdf
See also: http://www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/french-revolution.htm
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