{"id":47678,"date":"2022-10-12T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=47678"},"modified":"2025-03-04T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:59:42","slug":"the-chastisement-comes-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-chastisement-comes-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chastisement Comes… Part II","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMonument to Minin and Pozharsky<\/em> on Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
\nThe statue commemorates the princes who gathered an all-Russian volunteer army
\nand expelled the forces of the Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\nR<\/span>ussia remains one of the most mysterious countries in both historical and current affairs. It is “ground zero” for several seismic events in both history and prophecy.<\/p>\n

For instance, Freemasons considered Russia to be the best candidate to experiment with a synthesis of Enlightenment philosophies:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Communism, which so many believed to be an invention of Marx, had been fully hatched in the mind of the Illuminists long before he was put on the payroll.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014Stephen Mahowald,\u00a0She Shall Crush Thy Head<\/em>, p. 101<\/span><\/p>\n

The organization of the secret societies was needed to transform the plans of the philosophers into a concrete and formidable system for the destruction of civilization. <\/strong><\/span>[1]<\/sup><\/a>“At this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons. No longer making any secret of their purposes, they are now boldly rising up against God Himself \u2026that which is their ultimate purpose forces itself into view\u2014namely, the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.”\u00a0\u2014POPE LEO XIII,\u00a0Humanum Genus<\/em>, Encyclical on Freemasonry, n.10, April 20th, 1884<\/span><\/span>