definition demands that there's a one-world government. Now, if you haven't noticed in the Spirit of Prophecy how often and how seriously Sister White talks about the secret societies and some of the characteristics she associates with them, you should, because it's clear that Spirit of Prophecy speaks to these issues. And when Sister White speaks to these issues, over and over again she refers to a passage found in Isaiah 8. We'd like to start with this passage right now, verse 9 of Isaiah 8. Now, brothers and sisters, over and over again when Sister White's talking about spiritualism, the dragon power at the end of the world, she'll refer to this confederacy here that Isaiah speaks about. And this confederacy is none other than this ten-king confederacy that we find in Revelation 17 that's going to rule the world for one hour with the beast. And as Sister White uses this passage of Isaiah as one of the keys to bring this information together, she lists certain characteristics about what this confederacy is made up of. Now, confederacy is one of the characteristics of the pagan force. The New Agers and spiritualists will tell you that before the flood, the world was ruled from the mystical Atlantis that dropped into the ocean. But when Atlantis ruled the world before the time of the flood, supposedly the New Agers tell us that it had the world, the then known world, divided up into ten districts that it ruled the world from. Paganism takes its history to this tenfold confederacy all the way back to mythically before the flood. And then the first time we see paganism as a kingdom illustrated in Bible prophecy, we see the first primary time that it's illustrated as pagan Rome, we see it disintegrate into the ten kingdoms. And then, as we approach the end of the world, we once again see this tenfold confederacy. And if you were seeing the presentation we did on Revelation 17, we referred to a passage in the Spirit of Prophecy where Sister White says the king, rulers, and governors of this world are represented by the dragon. And she clearly identifies these ten kings in Revelation 17 as none other than the dragon power, spiritualism. So, as we begin this presentation now,