{"id":6740,"date":"2011-10-19T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-great-revolution\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:01:42","slug":"the-great-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Revolution","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

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AS <\/strong>promised, I want to share more words and thoughts that came to me during my time in Paray-le-Monial, France.<\/p>\n

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ON THE THRESHOLD… A GLOBAL REVOLUTION<\/p>\n

I strongly sensed the Lord saying that we are upon the “threshold<\/em>” of immense changes, changes that are both painful and good. The biblical imagery used over and over again is that of labor pains. As any mother knows, labor is a very turbulent time\u2014contractions followed by rest followed by more intense contractions until finally the baby is born… and the pain quickly becomes a memory.<\/p>\n

The labor pains of the Church have been occurring over centuries. Two large contractions occurred in the schism between Orthodox (East) and Catholics (West) at the turn of the first millennium, and then again in the Protestant Reformation 500 years later. These revolutions shook the foundations of the Church, cracking her very walls such that the “smoke of Satan” was able to slowly seep in.<\/p>\n

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\u2026the smoke of Satan is seeping into the Church of God through the cracks in the walls.<\/span> \u2014POPE PAUL VI, first Homily during the Mass for Sts. Peter & Paul<\/em>, June 29, 1972<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This “smoke” is the sophistries<\/em> of Satan, philosophies that have led mankind further and further away from the truth. These philosophies, which bloomed in the wake of the schisms, proposed an alternative world view to that of the Catholic Church’s that were said to “enlighten” the people. Yet, the term “enlightenment” is actually an irony:<\/p>\n

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Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools… (Rom 1:21-22)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Enlightenment period culminated in the French Revolution (circa 1789-1799) when the “enlightened” rose up and rebelled against political and religious authority. [1]<\/sup><\/a>Aspects of the Revolution were just in that they attacked the injustices between rich and poor and the abuses of authority.<\/span><\/span>