Chapter 5. The Period of Preparation for the Second Advent of the Messiah

Table of contents
Section 1. The Period of the Reformation (1517-1648)
1.1 The Renaissance
1.2 The Reformation

 Section 2. The Period of Religious and Ideological Conflicts (1648-1789)
2.1 The Cain-Type View of Life
2.2 The Abel-Type View of Life

 Section 3. The Period of Maturation of Politics, Economy and Ideology (1789-1918)
3.1 Democracy
3.1.1 Cain-Type Democracy
3.1.2 Abel-Type Democracy
3.2 The Significance of the Separation of Powers
3.3 The Significance of the Industrial Revolution
3.4 The Rise of the Great Powers
3.5 Religious Reforms and Political and Industrial Revolutions since the Renaissance

 Section 4. The World Wars
4.1 The Providential Causes of the World Wars
4.2 The First World War
4.2.1 Summary of the Providence in the First World War
4.2.2 What Decides God’s Side and Satan’s Side?
4.2.3 The Providential Causes behind the First World War
4.2.4 The Providential Results of the First World War
4.3 The Second World War
4.3.1 Summary of the Providence in the Second World War
4.3.2 The Nature of Fascism
4.3.3 The Nations on God’s Side and the Nations on Satan’s Side in the Second World War
4.3.4 The Providential Roles of the Three Nations on God’s Side and Satan’s Side
4.3.5 The Providential Causes behind the Second World War
4.3.6 The Providential Results of the Second World War
4.4 The Third World War
4.4.1 Is the Third World War Inevitable?
4.4.2 Summary of the Providence in the Third World War
4.4.3 The Providential Causes behind the Third World War
4.4.4 The Providential Results of the Third World War

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메시아강림준비시대(再降臨準備時代)는 서기 1517년 종교개혁(宗敎改革)이 일어난 때부터 1918년 제1차 세계대전(第一次世界大戰)이 끝날 때까지의 400년 간을 말한다.

The period of preparation for the Second Advent of the Messiah was the four-hundred-year period from the Protestant Reformation in 1517 to the end of World War I in 1918.

시대의 성격에 관한 대강은 동시성(同時性)으로 본 메시아 강림준비시대(降臨準備時代)와의 대조에서 이미 논술되었으나, 여기에서 좀더 상세한 것을 알아보기로 하겠다. 그런데 복귀섭리(復歸攝理)로 보아 이 기간종교개혁기, 종교사상투쟁기, 정치와 경제 및 사상성숙기 등 3기간으로 구분된다.

The character of this period was already summarized in comparison with the parallel period of preparation for the advent of the Messiah, but a more detailed examination will be made here. With respect to the providence of restoration, this period is divided into three periods: the period of the Reformation, the period of religious and ideological conflicts, and the period of the maturation of politics, economy and ideology.

The Period of Preparation for the Second Advent of the Messiah