Really? Please trace your history for me.
They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; 10 if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.
Pax!
Sure thing, read these books (if you do not, you desire to remain purposefully ignorant of History)
The Two Republics, by A.T. Jones.
https://www.whitehorsemedia.com/docs/the_two_republics.pdf
History of the Sabbath by J.N. Andrews.
https://www.sabbathtruth.com/portals/20/documents/History_of_the_Sabbath.pdf
Truth Triumphant, by Benjamin G. Wilkinson.
https://www.sabbathtruth.com/portals/20/documents/Truth_Triumphant.pdf
Ecclesiastical Empire, by A.T. Jones.
https://www.whitehorsemedia.com/docs/ecclesiastical_empire.pdf
The Great Empires of Prophecy by A.T. Jones.
https://www.whitehorsemedia.com/docs/the_great_empires_of_prophecy.pdf
The Great Controversy, by Ellen G. White (best summation of history):
https://egwwritings-a.akamaihd.net/pdf/en_GC.pdf
The verse you quoted, perfectly fits what happened with the
Roman 'faith', they having left the truth (it is documented, read), went out from us and began their own, and persecuted all through their history, chasing that woman of faith (Revelation 12), into the wilderness for many hundreds of years, living in desert places, caves, dens, isolation, persecuted, starved, martyred, burnt, harrassed, but always sharing the Gospel in simplicity and Sabbath keepers always present.
During the Reformation, Luther, Melanchthon and others linked back up with these faithful ones, which still had their Bibles, simple Christians, such as the Vaudois, Waldenses, Passagini, Albigensi, Paulicians, Insabbati, Sabbatini and many other such names depending on the many areas of remotes places they were in.
What is amazing, is that you think that the 'church' that exalted itself to power, stooping to murder, and harass, condemn, anathemetize, plunder, lie, forge documents, and all else is the true faith. No, they are the spiritual descendant of Cain and Judas.
Vaudois:
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[page 11] compares the "Lutherans" of this time to the fabulous hydra; when one head was cut off, two sprang up in its place. And no wonder; for the author of the "History of Heresies" writes of these martyrs, even while ascribing their patient endurance to satanic influence, "that Christianity had revived in all its primitive simplicity."
In 1544 Francis I. concluded the treaty of Crespy with the Emperor Charles V., by which the two monarchs bound themselves to exterminate heresy within their respective dominions. The king chanced to be ill of a dangerous disease brought on by his licentiousness, and for five or six weeks his life hung upon a thread. The bigoted Cardinal de Tournon, making him believe that his sufferings were a judgment from God, urged him to propitiate heaven by destroying heresy. Moved by these motives, and by misrepresentations which the victims had no opportunity of correcting, for they were never heard, Francis issued an order for the extirpation of the Waldenses of Provence, who appear to have excited the wrath of the clergy to a terrible height. These Vaudois, as they are usually called, the better to distinguish them from the Waldenses of Savoy, lived in the south-east corner of France, between the Durance and the Alps. They were a peaceable, God-fearing, industrious race,* and had been a living protest against the Church of Rome for hundreds of years--even from the days of Constantine, if their annals may be trusted. Louis XII. is reported to have called them "better Christians than himself;"† and a Romish missionary, who was sent to turn them from the error of their ways, was himself converted and forced to acknowledge that "he had learned more from the little Vaudois chil-
[page 11-12, notations *, † recorded]
[* Hist. des guerres dans le Venaissin, etc. i. p.39. Published anonymously, but the author was Father Justin, a Capuchin monk. See also Muston: Israel des Alpes, 1851.
† Bousset (Hist. des Variations, liv. xi. § 143) acknowledges their piety, but calls it "feigned," and ascribes their virtues to the inspiration of the devil.]
[page 11-12] [chil-] dren than he had ever done at college." in the wildest valleys of the Alps, and on rocky heights where the chamois could hardly keep his footing, they built their huts and tended their flocks. They had covered a barren district with smiling harvests, "making the desert blossom as the rose." Du Bellay, governor of Piedmont, describes them as "a simple people," paying their taille to the crown and the droits to their lord more regularly than their orthodox neighbours. But their virtues were their chief crime in the eyes of the king's clerical advisers. In 1540 the Parliament of Provence had condemned twenty-three of these poor creatures to be burned alive for contumacy, and ordered their country to be laid waste. The sanguinary decree farther directed the towns of Merindol and Cabrieres, and other places, which had been the refuge and retreat of the heretics, to be razed to the ground, the caves which had served them for an asylum to be destroyed, the forests cut down, the fruit-trees roots up, the rebel chiefs put to death, and their wives and children banished for life."* Some friends of the poor Vaudois succeeded in getting the decree suspended until 1st January, 1545; when Francis I., hoping to do a meritorious work that would atone for his dissolute life, ordered it to be enforced. To John Menier, baron of Oppede, and chief president of the Parliament of Provence, was entrusted the task of carrying out the royal decree. He was one of those happily rare individuals who delight in slaughter from mere blood-thirstiness. He made no distinction between believers and heretics. The troops under his orders--wild mercenaries with more of the brigand than of the disciplined soldier--wasted the country with fire and sword. From the frightful detail of cruelties one little fact may be gathered characteristic of the man. All the inhabitants of the town of Merindol, which stood on the Durance,† were put to the sword, with the exception of
[page 12-13, notations *, † recorded]
[* Cabasse: Hist. Parl. Provence
† Il n'existe plus rien du bouorg florissant de Merindol. Lacretelle: Guerres de Rel. i. p.31.]
[page 12-13] one person, a poor idiot, who had ransomed his life by promising a soldier two crowns. Oppede heard of it, and sending for the soldier, gave him the two crowns, and having thus bought the prisoner, ordered him to be tied to a tree and shot forthwith. "I know how to treat these people," he roared out; "I will send them, children and all, to live in hell." The small two of Cabrieres, in the same neighbourhood and a little south of the poetic Vaucluse, was treated with similar severity. Every house was destroyed; between 700 and 800 persons were killed in the streets or fields; a number of women who had fled for refuge to a barn were burned to death, and those who had escaped the sword and fire were sent to the galley "with circumstances of inhumanity," says the historian, "that would have deserved our pity on any other occasion."* "In one church," says Guerin, "I saw between four and five hundred poor souls of women and children butchered." Twenty-five women --
Praecipites atra ceu tempestate columbae Condensae--
who had taken refuge in a cavern in the papal territory of Avignon, were smothered to death, the vice-legate kindling the fire with his own hands.† In fine, twenty-four towns and villages were destroyed and 3000 persons put to death. Such little boys and girls as the soldiers did not want were sold into slavery: they might be purchased for a crown apiece. And that none might escape, the Parliament of Provence issued a proclamation, forbidding the neighbours to offer the Vaudois either food or shelter, so that many were starved to death in the mountains.‡
[page 13-14, notations skipped.] ..."
- Massacre of St. Bartholomew., preceded by a History of the Religious Wars in the reign of Charles IX., by Henry White., with Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square. 1868., pages 11-13 - https://archive.org/stream/massacreofstbart00whitiala#page/11/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/massacreofstbart00whitiala#page/12/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/massacreofstbart00whitiala#page/13/mode/1up
You probably think
Patrick of (Scotland) Ireland was a Roman Catholic 'saint', but no, he was a Sabbath Keeper -
