The Warrior Priesthood Revolution


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This book uncovers and systematically integrates ancient religious mythologies; archaeological mysteries; and End-time prophecies. It presents a very unorthodox view of the basic struggles (mind-battles) that non-professional Christians have regarding their personal Spiritual Wars. It covers a variety of topics to include our personal Wars on: racism, sex, drugs, money, plagues (COVID), hell, suicide and eternal judgment. It introduces some of the most unexpectedly rational and exotically strange hidden mysteries of the Holy Scriptures that critically challenge the traditional views of organized christianity (that are not based on the Bible). It also proposes a biblical theory for the origin of Racism. Jesus said, "The truth will set you Free," (Jn. 8:32). But pursuing freedom, will require the reader to have an open mind to new possibilities, think outside the box, and put aside their religious bigotry. This book is dedicated to the brave Christian warriors of Ethiopia that continue to "fight the good fight," (1 Tim. 6:12). The Ethiopian empire is the only region of Africa to remain defiantly Christian and survive the expansion of Islam as a Christian state. Throughout history, they have remained faithful to Christ, even while facing opposition and religious, racial, and political persecution from Roman Catholicism and Islam. New archaeological evidence has revealed that the African nation of Ethiopia was one of the first Christian Nations on planet earth. We now have scientific evidence, that all humans descended from a single migration from Africa in Ethiopia. So, we know that God's chosen people the Israelites, and Jesus and his Apostles were also descendants from Africa and therefore were a colored people. In light of these facts, this book is also dedicated to Christian Warriors such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and other black, indigenous and people of color in the worldwide Black Church throughout history that have suffered persecution and death for their faith in Christ. We know that racial misinterpretations of the "Curse of Ham" were used throughout history even by religions of Christianity to justify and prolong the black inferiority myth and the enslavement of black people. The Bible informs us that it was Satan's plan from the beginning to curse and destroy God's chosen "colored" people (Gen. 3:15). The New Testament Bible tells us that Philip baptized an Ethiopian eunuch near Jerusalem in the first century Early Church (Acts 13:1, 8:38). Bible scholars inform us that this was the beginning of Jesus' prophecy to his disciples to be his witnesses "... to the ends of the earth," (Acts 1:8).My purpose in writing this book is to proclaim that Jesus came to prepare his disciples and his future church for a complete spiritual revolution, because religious, racial, and political persecution would be coming upon them from their own family members who reject "The Way" (Acts 24:22). The goal is to empower readers to further mine the riches of God's Word to prepare God's warriors for the revolution. The Apostles John, Peter, and even Moses proclaimed that God: "has made us to be a Kingdom and Priests to serve his God and Father," (Rev. 1:6, 5:10; 1 Pet. 2:9; Ex. 19: 5,6). So, between now and the Second Coming, Jesus commands his Royal Priesthood Army to lead this anti-religious revolution by continuing the Great Commission. I pray that its uncensored truth will set those in the Royal Priesthood free from the bondage of repressive religious guilt, persecution, and the moral injuries that perpetuate the symptoms of religious addiction. It is also my goal to assist with providing guidance for discipleship and healing to God's people to unite the Army of the Lord to fulfill the Great Commission to: " ... Go and make disciples of all nations, ..." (Mt. 28:19).




Revolutionary Passage


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From perestroika to Putin: a recent history of Russia's turbulent transformation from communist to post-communist nation.




Revolution


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A revolution is a discontinuity: one political order replaces another, typically through whatever violent means are available. Modern theories of revolutions tend neatly to bracket the French Revolution of 1789 with the fall of the Soviet Union two hundred years later, but contemporary global uprisings—with their truly multivalent causes and consequences—can overwhelm our ability to make sense of them. In this authoritative new book, Saïd Amir Arjomand reaches back to antiquity to propose a unified theory of revolution. Revolution illuminates the stories of premodern rebellions from the ancient world, as well as medieval European revolts and more recent events, up to the Arab Spring of 2011. Arjomand categorizes revolutions in two groups: ones that expand the existing body politic and power structure, and ones that aim to erode—but paradoxically augment—their authority. The revolutions of the past, he tells us, can shed light on the causes of those of the present and future: as long as centralized states remain powerful, there will be room for greater, and perhaps forceful, integration of the politically disenfranchised.




Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution


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In this critical study of the thought of Augusto Cesar Sandino and his followers, Donald C. Hodges has discovered a coherent ideological thread and political program, which he succeeds in tracing to Mexican and Spanish sources. Sandino's strong religious inclination in combination with his anarchosyndicalist political ideology established him as a religious seer and moral reformer as well as a political thinker and is the prototype of the curious blend of Marxism and Christianity of the late twentieth-century Nicaraguan government, the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.




The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist


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A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco and the Ra'iatean Mai. Fullagar uncovers the life of Ostenaco, tracing his emergence as a warrior, his engagement with colonists through war and peace, and his eventual rejection of imperial politics during the American Revolution. She delves into the story of Mai, examining his confrontation with conquest and displacement, his voyage to London on Cook's imperial expedition, and his return home with a burning ambition to right past wrongs. Woven throughout is a new history of Reynolds--growing up in Devon near a key port in England, becoming a portraitist of empire, rising to the top of Britain's art world, and yet remaining ambivalent about his nation's expansionist trajectory.




The Third Revolution


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This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and if Anglo-American capitalism is likely to go the same way.




Priests of the French Revolution


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The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.







The Greek Revolution


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Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic Prize On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Greek war for independence (1821–1830) often goes missing from discussion of the Age of Revolutions. Yet the rebellion against Ottoman rule was enormously influential in its time, and its resonances are felt across modern history. The Greeks inspired others to throw off the oppression that developed in the backlash to the French Revolution. And Europeans in general were hardly blind to the sight of Christian subjects toppling Muslim rulers. In this collection of essays, Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas bring together scholars writing on the many facets of the Greek Revolution and placing it squarely within the revolutionary age. An impressive roster of contributors traces the revolution as it unfolded and analyzes its regional and transnational repercussions, including the Romanian and Serbian revolts that spread the spirit of the Greek uprising through the Balkans. The essays also elucidate religious and cultural dimensions of Greek nationalism, including the power of the Orthodox church. One essay looks at the triumph of the idea of a Greek “homeland,” which bound the Greek diaspora—and its financial contributions—to the revolutionary cause. Another essay examines the Ottoman response, involving a series of reforms to the imperial military and allegiance system. Noted scholars cover major figures of the revolution; events as they were interpreted in the press, art, literature, and music; and the impact of intellectual movements such as philhellenism and the Enlightenment. Authoritative and accessible, The Greek Revolution confirms the profound political significance and long-lasting cultural legacies of a pivotal event in world history.