The Preparation

for the Second ComingPart One

JesusJesus Second Second ComingComing

PersecutionPersecutionIn RomeIn Rome PatriarchsPatriarchs

United United KingdomKingdom Divided Divided

KingdomKingdom

Papal Papal CaptivityCaptivityPreparationPreparation

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Preparation for the Second Coming

CainAbel

Restoration History

Israel

Hebraism

Esau

Hellenism

Jacob

Greece-Rome

Family

Nation World

Hebraism Hellenism

Internal CultureInternal Culture External CultureExternal Culture• ReligionReligion• FaithFaith• DutyDuty• PietyPiety

• ScienceScience• ReasonReason• RightsRights• HumanismHumanism

Hebraism Hellenism

Internal Internal FreedomFreedom

External External FreedomFreedom

The Freedom of the Original The Freedom of the Original Mind wants to Mind wants to

find and respond to the find and respond to the MessiahMessiah

and build Kingdom of Heaven and build Kingdom of Heaven

the Ideal World the Ideal World

CainAbel

Restoration History

IsraelHebraism(Internal)

Esau

Hellenism(External)

Jacob

Greece-Rome

Abel-type Worldview

Cain-type Worldview

Family

Nation

Abel Abel SideSide

Cain Cain SideSide

World Foundationfor the Messiah

United WorldUnited World

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Preparation for the MessiahPreparation for the MessiahHebraism – Jewish Culture

Hellenism – Greco-Roman Culture

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Preparation for the Second Preparation for the Second ComingComingNew Hebraism – Reformation

New Hellenism – Renaissance

Period of the

Reformation and the

Renaissance

Period of the Conflict

Between Religion

and Ideologies

Period of Maturing of

Politics, Economy

and Ideology

Formation GrowthCompletio

n

Preparation for the Second Coming (400 yrs)

1517-1648 1648-1789 1789-1918

God’s God’s Work Work

ThrougThrough h

HistoryHistory

The Ideal The Ideal of the 3 Blessingsof the 3 Blessings

God’s God’s Work Work

Through Through HistoryHistory

The Ideal of the The Ideal of the 3 Blessings3 Blessings

God’s God’s WorkWork

RenaissancRenaissancee

ReformatioReformationn

The Ideal of the The Ideal of the 3 Blessings3 Blessings

Renaissance

Reformation

Preparation for the Second Coming

Reformation and

Renaissance

Cain-

type viewAbel

-type view

► Intellectual Renewal

► Human value based on reason and creativity

Renaissance

Rebirth of Hellenism

Renaissance

Arts:

Michelangelo

Science:

Copernicus

Renaissance

Arts:

Science:

Leonardo da Vinci

Renaissance

Politics:

Machiavelli

Literature:

Shakespeare

Renaissance

Reformation

Preparation for the Second Coming

Reformation and

Renaissance

Cain-

type viewAbel

-type view

► Reform of medieval church and dominance of the Papacy

► Restoration of Hebraism - recover the early Christian spirit to earnestly follow God’s will

► 14 century – Wycliffe - English Bible

► Response to Pope Leo X and indulgencies – Martin Luther 1517

The Abel Type World-view – Internal Freedom

Reformation

Protestant:

Luther

Reformation

Protestant:

Calvin

Reformation

Protestant:

Zwingli

Counter-Reformation

Catholic:

Ignatius Loyola

Period of the

Reformation and the

Renaissance

Period of the Conflict

Between Religion

and Ideologies

Period of Maturing of

Politics, Economy

and Ideology

Formation GrowthCompletio

n

Preparation for the Second Coming (400 yrs)

1517-1648 1648-1789 1789-1918

RenaissanceEnlightenme

nt

ReformationSecond

Reformation

Preparation for the Second Coming

Conflict between religion and philosophies

Reformation and Renaissance

Cain-type view

Abel-type view

► Truth through scientific method

► Questioning of values and doctrines

► Rejection of religious experience

Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Rationalism: deductive

method

Descartes

Empiricism: inductive method

Bacon

Enlightenment

Scientific Method:

Newton

Social Contract:

Locke

Enlightenment

Voltaire

Deism:

Rousseau

► Overemphasis on human responsibility

► Disrespect for faith and religion

► Overemphasis on material life

Tendency of Cain Type World view

Resentment toward Abel

► Truth through personal religious experience

► Study and application of the Bible

Second Reformation

Second Reformation

Puritanism:

Pietism:

Phillipp Spener

Mystical experience , religious passion and

the inner life and individual piety

Second Reformation

Methodism:

John Wesley

The Great Awakening:

Jonathan Edwards

Second Reformation

Idealism: the inherent and

transcendent ‘spiritual awareness’ of the person

integrates reason and experience

Immanuel Kant 1724-1804

Georg Friedrich Hegel

1770-1831

Idealism: mind and spirit

Second Reformation

Spiritualism:

Emanuel Swedenborg

1688-1772

► Overemphasis on God’s responsibility

► Disrespect for reason and science

► Overemphasis on life after death

Tendency of Abel Type World-view

Arrogance toward Cain