Mass movements and revolutions are led not by the downtrodden masses but by the well-educated and moneyed, who have the most to lose and keep their eyes on the true objectives. The downtrodden are only foot soldiers taking orders, and their focus stays on themselves and their immediate needs. Those who lead the parade toward violence are almost always the same kinds of people: government, religion, and university education. The French Revolution is the pattern. It was essentially a civil war in which the guillotine was used to eliminate enemies who were also fellow countrymen, and civility and common decency were lost. America's present social and political turmoil resembles the period leading into that revolution, and the worst violence may still lie ahead. The cause is a long spiritual decline into a materialist, secularist, self-centered attitude of "who needs God and His commandments?" Groups that think alike stand in intense opposition to one another, and a growing number are convinced they cannot reach their goals without violence. Because the American people once had a religious bent, they were willing to sacrifice and back off short of war against their neighbors, but that willingness is disappearing. France and Germany, like America and the other Western nations, are essentially Israelitish, and Amos 3:2 warns that God will punish Israel's iniquities because He knew Israel above all families. The church must watch this domestic behavior and change toward better conduct.

Mass movements, whether Christianity, communism, or fascism, follow patterns analyzed by Eric Hoffer in The True Believer. Hoffer was a self-educated atheist who analyzed Christianity with no access to God and so misjudged the true religion, yet he was right on target about much of this world's version of Christianity. Revolutions are not ignited by the poor or the wealthy, because both fear losing what they have and lean toward conservatism. Instead, well-educated middle and upper-middle class people ignite them, with university students as prime targets. Once the students begin, the poor join as cannon fodder and shock troops, driven by the hope of personal gain and a massive change of circumstances for the better. Leaders such as Hitler and his circle, and Marx and the Russian revolutionaries, deceived people brilliantly by stressing this hope, and followers give whatever they have, even their lives, with blind, unthinking enthusiasm for the cause. The United States is now in the throes of a bloodless revolution of this kind. The Nones joined a mass movement brilliantly orchestrated by Satan. Weak biblical training at home left them without spiritual defense against anti-God secular instructors and fellow students in college. Their hope of gain was greater personal freedom, especially release from restraints on sex outside marriage, with abortion available as a state-given liberty. This revolution aims to stamp out the fear of God completely, and when that is accomplished, the end will begin in full force, because Israel will fall on a moment's notice.

Revolutions and mass movements are made, not born. They begin in universities, drawing rooms, and salons, where intellectuals form students with Messianic hopes, promising revenge on oppressors and utopia under a new regime the intellectuals intend to lead. The students then take the ideas into the streets. The American, French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions followed this pattern, but their fruits differed with the philosophical soil: the American Revolution, rooted in Enlightenment thought, classical learning, and Christian morality, cost about 4,400 lives, while the French cost about 40,000 and the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century cost tens of millions. Today's Antifa and Black Lives Matter are not grassroots uprisings. They are the fruit of nearly two centuries of Marxist thought, carried through the Frankfurt School and its Critical Theory. That school's disciples questioned and deconstructed every principle of Western civilization, including Christianity, and presented their own ideas as progressive and scientific. They undermined language and placed their protégés in schools, universities, media, politics, and government, moving each generation further left. Critical Race Theory now uses race as the spearhead to create unrest so that a revolution against capitalism can occur, after feminism and sexual causes failed to do so. The movement is driven by power and by hatred of God, which matches Paul's end-time description of proud, blasphemous men and anticipates the world's following of the beast. Believers must read these movements as signs of the times, as Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for failing to do, and watch with open eyes.