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Adventistische Schriften über: "How should the worship of the God of fortresses in Daniel 11 be understood?"
Answer
The worship of the “God of fortresses” in Daniel 11 is often linked by Adventist pioneers and commentators to the French Revolution and the deification of war and reason. In this view, this foreign god is interpreted as the personification of military power or as the “Goddess of Reason,” which replaced Christianity and the worship of the Creator. This power was characterized by an open denial of God and the exaltation of human will.
The Worship of Freedom and Reason
»Honor the God of fortresses." – Freedom and the fatherland were the objects of worship. "A god that his fathers did not know." – The Goddess of Reason. This system was introduced in January 1794. ... This excerpt will show how they renounced the worship of God and pledged to henceforth honor freedom, equality, virtue, and morality. The next step was the worship of the Goddess of Reason.«
War as an Object of Deification
»The God of fortresses is the personification of war, and the idea is this: He will honor no other god but war; the capture of fortresses he will make his god; and he will worship this god by all means to achieve world domination. Of this god, war as an object of deification, one could say that his ancestors knew nothing, because no other king had made war his religion, his god, to whom he offered all gold, silver, gemstones, and jewels as sacrifice.«
Original Sources (English)
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