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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 21-THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST: BUT Christians of past generations observed the Sunday,supposing that in so doing they were keeping the Bible Sabbath. But when…

julio 16, 2013 por lupitacalifornia

WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 21-

THE MARK OF THE BEAST-par 2-

SATURDAY SACREDNESS-part 2-

“But the Bible points to the seventh day, and not to the first, as the Lord’s Day. Said Christ: “The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath”. The fourth commandment declares: “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord.” And by the prophet Isaiah the Lord designates it: “My holy day”. (Mark 2:28; Isaiah 58:13).

Roman Catholics acknowledge that the change of Sabbath was made by their church, and declare that Protestants by observing the Sunday are recognizing her power. As the sign of the authority of the Catholic Church, papist writers cite “the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of… because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the church’s power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin”. (Henry Tuberville- An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, page 58). What then is the change of the Sabbath, but the sign, or mark, of the authority of the Roman Church-“the mark of the beast”?

REJECTING THE BIBLE

THE Roman Church has not relinquished her claim to supremacy; and when the world and the Protestant churches accept a sabbath of her creating; while they reject the Bible Sabbath, they virtually admit this assumption. They may claim the authority of tradition and of the Fathers for the change; but in so doing they ignore the very principle which separates them from Rome-that “the Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants”.  The papist can see that they are deceiving themselves, willingly closing their eyes to the facts in the case. As the movement for Sunday enforcement gains favor, the papist rejoices, feeling assured that it will eventually bring the whole Protestant world under the banner of Rome.

THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST

BUT Christians of past generations observed the Sunday, supposing that in so doing they were keeping the Bible Sabbath; and there are now true Christians in every church, not excepting the Roman Catholic communion, who honestly believe that Sunday is the Sabbath of divine appointment. God accepts their sincerity of purpose and their integrity before Him.  But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God.

He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome.  He is worshiping the beast and his image.  As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome-“the mark of the beast”. And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive “the mark of the beast”.

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 20-THE MARK OF THE BEAST: Sunday that popery first asserted its arrogant claims…But the Bible points to the seventh day, and not to the first, as the Lord’s Day.

julio 15, 2013 por lupitacalifornia

WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 20-

THE MARK OF THE BEAST-par 1-

THE beast with two horns “causeth [commands] all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name”. (Revelation 13:16-17).  The third angel’s warning is: “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God”.

“The beast” mentioned in this message, whose worship is enforced by the two –horned beast, is the first or leopardlike beast of Revelation 13-the Papacy. The “image to the beast” represents that form of apostate Protestantism which will be developed when the Protestant churches shall seek the aid of the civil power for the enforcement of their dogmas.  The “mark of the beast” still remains to be defined.

WORSHIP CONTRASTED

AFTER the warning against the worship of the beast and his image the prophecy declares: “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus“(Rev.14:12). Since those who keep God’s commandments are thus placed in contrast with those that worship the beast and his image and receive his mark, it follows that the keeping of God’s law, on the one hand, and its violation, on the other, will make the distinction between the worshipers of God and the worshipers of the beast.

THE BEAST’S CHARACTER

THE special characteristic of the beast, and therefore of his image, is the breaking of God’s commandments. Say Daniel, of the little horn, the Papacy: “He shall think to change times and the law” (Daniel 7:25), RV. And Paul styled the same power the “man of sin”, who was to exalt himself above God. One prophecy is a complement of the other. Only by changing God’s law could the Papacy exalt itself above God; whoever should understandingly keep the law as thus changed would be giving supreme honor to that power by which the change was made.  Such an act of obedience to papal laws would be a mark of allegiance to the pope in the place of God.

An intentional, deliberate change is presented: “He shall think to change the times and the law”.  The change in the fourth commandment exactly fulfills the prophecy. For this the only authority claimed is that of the church.  Here the papal power openly sets itself above God.

SATURDAY SACREDNESS-part 1-

WHILE the worshipers of God will be especially distinguished by their regard for the fourth commandment –since this is the sign of His creative power and the witness to His claim upon man’s reverence and homage- the worshipers of the beast will be distinguished by their efforts to tear down the Creator’s memorial, to exalt the institution of Rome.  It was in behalf of the Sunday that popery first asserted its arrogant claims; and its first resort to the power of the state was to compel the observance of Sunday as “the Lord’s day. “But the Bible points to the seventh day, and not to the first, as the Lord’s Day.

 THE LAW OF GOD: Exodus 20:3-17

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 19-THE BIBLE DECLARES:“In the last days perilous times shall come.For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents…

julio 13, 2013 por lupitacalifornia

WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 19-

INTERPRETING THE SYMBOLS-part 4-

UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE

WHEN the early church became corrupted by departing from the simplicity of the gospel and accepting heathen rites and customs, she lost the Spirit and power of God; and in order to control the consciences of the people, she sought the support of the secular power.  The result was the Papacy, a church that controlled the power of the state and employed it to further her own ends, especially for the punishment of “heresy”.  In order for the United States to form an image of the beast, the religious power must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will also be employed by the church to accomplish her own ends.

It was apostasy that led the early church to seek the aid of the civil government, and this prepared the way for the development of the Papacy –the beast. So apostasy in the church will prepare the way for the image to the beast.

HISTORY REPEATS

THE Bible declares that before the coming of the Lord there will exist a state of religious declension similar to that in the first centuries.  “In the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof” (2 Timothy 3:1-5).  “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils”. (1 Timothy 4:1).  When this state of ungodliness shall be reached, the same results will follow as in the first centuries.

FORMATION OF THE IMAGE

WHEN the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, the Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result.

 

“The wall of separation between church and state’ is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor that has proved useless as a guide to judging.  It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned” (Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Time, December 9, 1991).

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court “declared that when religious rights clash with the government’s need for uniform rules, the court will side with the government.”  (Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1990)

 

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 18-SPEAKS LIKE THE DRAGON: …the spirit of intolerance and persecution that was manifested by the nations represented by the dragon and the….

julio 12, 2013 por lupitacalifornia

WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 18-

INTERPRETING THE SYMBOLS-part 3-

SPEAKS LIKE THE DRAGON

BUT the beast with lamblike horns “spoke as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed;…saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had that wound by a sword, and did live”  (Revelation 13:11-14).

The lamblike horns and dragon voice of the symbol point to a striking contradiction between the professions and the practice of the nation thus represent. The “speaking” of the nation is the action of its legislative and judicial authorities.  By such action it will give the lie to those liberal and peaceful principles which it has put forth as the foundation of its policy.  The prediction that it will speak “as a dragon” and exercise “all the power of the first beast” plainly foretells a development of the spirit of intolerance and persecution that was manifested by the nations represented by the dragon and the leopardlike beast.  And the statement that the beast with two horns “causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast” indicates that the authority of this nation is to be exercised in enforcing some observance which shall be an act of homage to the Papacy.

Such action would be directly contrary to the principles of this government, to the genius of its free institutions, to the direct and solemn avowals of the Declaration of Independence, and to the Constitution. The founders of the nation wisely sought to guard against the employment of secular power on the part of the church, with its inevitable result –intolerance and persecution. 

The Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” and that “no religious test shall ever be required as qualification of any office of public trust under the United States.”  Only in flagrant violation of these safeguards to the nation’s liberty, can any religious observance be enforced by civil authority.  But the inconsistency of such action is no greater than is represented in the symbol.  It is the beast with lamblike horns in profession pure, gentle, and harmless- that speaks as a dragon.

THE IMAGE TO THE BEAST

SAYING to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast. Here is clearly presented a form of government in which the legislative power rests with the people, a most striking evidence that the United States is the nation denoted in the prophecy.  But what is the “image to the beast”? And how is it to be formed? The image is made by the two-horned beast, and is an image to the beast.  It is also called an image of the beast. Therefore, to learn what the image is like and how it is to be formed we must study the characteristics of the beast itself – the Papacy.

 

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 17-INTERPRETING THE SYMBOLS-“the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.” (Daniel 7:2).

julio 11, 2013 por lupitacalifornia

WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 17-

INTERPRETING THE SYMBOLS-part 2-

AMERICA IN PROPHECY

AT this point another symbol is introduced. Says the prophet: “I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb” (verse 11). Both the appearance of this beast and the manner of its rise indicate that the nation which it represents is unlike those presented under the preceding symbols. The great kingdoms that have ruled the world were presented to the prophet Daniel as beasts of prey, rising when “the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.” (Daniel 7:2).  In Revelation 17 an angel explained that waters represent “people, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues” (Revelation 17:15).  Winds are a symbol of strife. The four winds of heaven striving upon the great sea represent the terrible scenes of conquest and revolution by which kingdoms have attained to power.

OUT OF THE EARTH

BUT the beast with lamblike horns was seen “coming up out of the earth” (Rev.13.11). Instead of overthrowing other powers to establish itself, the nation thus represented must arise in territory previously unoccupied and grow up gradually and peacefully. It could not, then, arise among the crowded and struggling nationalities of the Old World –that turbulent sea of “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” It must be sought in the Western continent.

What nation of the New World was in 1798 rising into power, giving promise of strength and greatness, and attracting the attention of the world?  The application of the symbol admits of no question. One nation, and only one, meets the specifications of this prophecy; it points unmistakably to the United States of America.  Again and again the thought, almost the exact words, of the sacred writer has been unconsciously employed by the orator and the historian in describing the rise and growth of this nation.  A prominent writer, describing the rise of the United States, speaks of “the mystery of her coming forth from vacancy”, and says: “Like a ‘silent seed’ we grew into empire”. (G.A.Townsend, The New World Compared With the Old, page 462). A European journal in 1850 spoke of the United States as a wonderful empire, which was “emerging”, and “amid the silence of the earth daily adding to its power and pride”.  (The Dublin Nation).

The “two horns like a lamb” well represent the character of our own government, as expresses in its two fundamental principles –Republicanism and Protestantism.  These principles are the secret of our power and prosperity as a nation.  Those who first found an asylum on the shores of America, rejoiced that they had reached a country free from the arrogant claims of popery and the tyranny of kingly rule. They determined to establish a government upon the broad foundation of civil and religious liberty.

“If, therefore, the Catholic Church also claims the rig of dogmatic intolerance with regard to her teaching, it is unjust to reproach her for exercising this right…She regards dogmatic intolerance not alone as her incontestable right, but also as a sacred duty…According to Romans 8:11, the secular authorities have the right to punish, especially grave crimes with death; consequently, ‘hermetics may be not only excommunicated, but also justly put to death’” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911, edition, Vol. 14, pages 766, 768.)

“The wall of separation between church and state’ is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor that has proved useless as a guide to judging.  It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned” (Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Time, December 9, 1991).

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court “declared that when religious rights clash with the government’s need for uniform rules, the court will side with the government.”  (Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1990)

 

 

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 16- “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, he same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.” (Revelation 14:9-10).

julio 10, 2013 por lupitacalifornia

WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 16-

In contrast to those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus, the third angel points to another class, against whose errors a solemn and fearful warning is uttered: “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, he same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.” (Revelation 14:9-10). A correct interpretation of the symbols employed is necessary to an understanding of this message.  What is represented by the beast, the image, the mark?

INTERPRETING THE SYMBOLS-part 1-

THE DRAGON

THE line of prophecy in which these symbols are found begins with Revelation 12, with the dragon that sought to destroy Christ at His birth. The dragon is said to be Satan (Revelation 12:9); he it was that moved upon Herod to put the Saviour to death.  But the chief agent of Satan in making war upon Christ and His people during the first centuries of the Christian. Era was the Roman Empire, in which paganism was the prevailing religion.  Thus while the dragon, primarily, represents Satan, it is, in a secondary sense, a symbol of pagan Rome.

THE LEOPARDILIKE BEAST

IN chapter 13 (verse 1-10) is described another beast, “like unto a leopard” to which the dragon-Satan and pagan Rome- gave “his power, and his seat, and great authority”. This leopardlike beast, as most Protestants have believed, represents the Papacy, which succeeded to the power and seat and authority once held by the ancient Roman Empire.  Of the leopardlike beast it is declared: “There was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies…And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations”. This prophecy, which is nearly identical with the description of the little horn of Daniel 7, unquestionably points to the Papacy.

“Power was given unto him to continue forty and two months”. And, says the prophet, “I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death”. And again: “He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword” (Revelation 13:10). The forty and two months are the same as the “time and times and the dividing of time”, three years and a half, or 1260 days, of Daniel 7- the time during which the papal power was to oppress God’s people.  This period began with the supremacy of the Papacy, A.D. 538, and terminated in 1798. At that time the pope was made captive by French army, the papal power received its deadly wound, and the prediction was fulfilled, “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity” (Revelation 13:10).

 

LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE, WHICH HAS COST SO GREAT A SACRIFICE, WILL NO LONGER BE RESPECTED

THOSE WHO HONOR THE BIBLE SABBATH WILL BE DENOUNCED AS ENEMIES OF LAW AND ORDER

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 15-SATAN’S policy in this final conflict with God’s people is the same that he employed in the opening of the great controversy in heaven.

julio 9, 2013 por lupitacalifornia

WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 15-

TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PAPACY IS LEADING, LOOK AT HER PAST HISTORY-part 9-

THE DARK AGES REPEATED

SATAN’S policy in this final conflict with God’s people is the same that he employed in the opening of the great controversy in heaven.  He professed to be seeking to promote the stability of the divine government, while secretly bending every effort to secure its overthrow.  And the very work which he was thus endeavoring to accomplish he charged upon the loyal angels. The same policy of deception has marked the history of the Roman Church. 

It has professed to act as the vicegerent of Heaven, while seeking to exalt itself above God and to change His law.  Under the rule of Rome, those who suffered death for their fidelity to the gospel were denounced as evildoers; they were declared to be in league with Satan; and every possible means was employed to cover them with reproach, to cause them to appear in the eyes of the people and even to themselves as the vilest of criminals.  So it will be now.  While Satan seeks to destroy those who honor God’s law, he will cause them to be accused as lawbreakers, as men who are dishonoring God and bringing judgments upon the world.

COMPULSION BY CRUELTY

GOD never forces the will or the conscience; but Satan’s constant resort-to gain control of those whom he cannot otherwise seduce- is compulsion by cruelty. Through fear of force he endeavors to rule the conscience and to secure homage to himself.  To accomplish this goal, he works through both religious and secular authorities, moving them to the enforcement of human laws in defiance of the Law of God.

Those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as enemies of law and order, as breaking down the moral restraints of society, causing anarchy and corruption, and corruption, and calling down the judgments of God upon the earth. Their conscientious scruples will be pronounced obstinacy, stubbornness, and contempt of authority.  They will be accused of disaffection toward the government. Ministers who deny the obligation of the divine law will present from the pulpit the duty of yielding obedience to the civil authorities as ordained of God. In legislative halls and courts of justice, commandment keepers will be misrepresented and condemned.  A false coloring will be given to their worst the worst construction will be put upon their motives.

LIGHT EXCHANGED FOR DARKNESS

AS the Protestant churches reject the clear, scriptural arguments in defense of God’s Law, they will long to silence those whose faith they cannot overthrow by the Bible.  Though they blind their own eyes to the fact, they are now adopting a course which will lead to the persecution of those who conscientiously refuse to do what the rest of the Christian world are doing, and acknowledge the  claims of the papal sabbath.

LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE DENIED

THE dignitaries of church and state will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday.  The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments.  Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance.  Liberty of conscience, which has cost so great a sacrifice, will no longer be respected.  In the soon-coming conflict we shall see exemplified the prophet’s words: “The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:17).

In contrast to those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus, the third angel points to another class, against whose errors a solemn and fearful warning is uttered: “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, he same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.” (Revelation 14:9-10). A correct interpretation of the symbols employed is necessary to an understanding of this message.  What is represented by the beast, the image, the mark?

 

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 14-THE iniquity and spiritual darkness that prevailed under the supremacy of Rome were the inevitable result of her suppression of the Scriptures.

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 14-

TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PAPACY IS LEADING, LOOK AT HER PAST HISTORY-part 8

LAW AND ORDER THE REAL ISSUE-part 2-

SIN NO LONGER SINFUL

WHEREVER the divine precepts are rejected, sin ceases to appear sinful or righteousness desirable. Those who refuse to submit to the government of God are wholly unfitted to govern themselves.  Through their pernicious teachings the spirit of insubordination is implanted in the hearts of children and youth, who are naturally impatient of control; and a lawless, licentious state of society results. While scoffing at the credulity of those who obey the requirements of God, the multitudes eagerly accept the delusions of Satan.  They give the rein to lust and practice the sins which have called down judgments upon the heathen.

SOCIETY IN DISARRAY

ALREADY the doctrine that men are released from obedience to God’s requirements has weakened the force of moral obligation and opened the floodgates of iniquity upon the world. Lawlessness, dissipation, and corruption are sweeping in upon us like an overwhelming tide.  In the family, Satan is at work.  His banner waves, even in professedly Christian households.  There is envy, evil surmising, hypocrisy, estrangement, emulation, strife, betrayal of sacred trusts, and indulgence of lust.  The whole system of religious principles and doctrines, which should form the foundation and framework of social life, seems to be a tottering mass, ready to fall to ruin.

The vilest of criminals, when thrown into prison for their offenses, are often made the recipients of gifts and attentions as if they had attained an enviable distinction. Great publicity is given to their character and crimes. The press publishes the revolting details of vice, thus initiating others into the practice of fraud, robbery, and murder; and Satan exults in the success of his hellish schemes.  The infatuation of vice, the wanton taking of life, the terrible increase of intemperance and iniquity of every order and degree, should arouse all who fear God, to inquire what can be done to stay the tide of evil.

SCRIPTURES NOW REJECTED

THE iniquity and spiritual darkness that prevailed under the supremacy of Rome were the inevitable result of her suppression of the Scriptures; but where is to be found the cause of the widespread infidelity, the rejection of the Law of God, and the consequent corruption, under the full blaze of gospel light in an age of religious freedom? Now that Satan can no longer keep the world under his control by withholding the Scriptures, he resorts to other means to accomplish the same object.  To destroy faith in the Bible serves his purpose as well as to destroy the Bible itself.  By introducing the belief that God’s law is not binding, he as effectually leads men to transgress as if they were wholly ignorant of its precepts.  And now- as if former ages, he has worked through the church to further his designs.  The religious organizations of the day have refused to listen to unpopular truths plainly brought to view in the Scriptures, and in combating them they have adopted interpretations and taken positions which have sown broadcast the seeds of skepticism.

Clinging to the papal error of natural immortality and man’s consciousness in death, they have rejected the only defense against the delusions of Spiritualism.  The doctrine of eternal torment has led many to disbelieve the Bible.  And as the claims of the fourth commandment are urged upon the people, it is found that the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath s enjoined; and as the only way to free themselves from a duty which they are unwilling to perform, many popular teachers declare that the Law of God is no longer binding.  Thus they cast away the law and the Sabbath together.  As the work of Sabbath reform extends, this rejection of the Divine Law to avoid the claims of the fourth commandment will become well-nigh universal.

 

 

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 13-FROM the very beginning of the great controversy in heaven it has been Satan’s purpose to overthrow the Law of God.

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 13-

TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PAPACY IS LEADING, LOOK AT HER PAST HISTORY-part 7

LAW AND ORDER THE REAL ISSUE-part 1-

FROM the very beginning of the great controversy in heaven it has been Satan’s purpose to overthrow the Law of God.  To deceive men, and thus lead them to transgress God’s law, is the object which he has steadfastly pursued. Whether it be accomplished by casting aside the law altogether, or by rejecting one of its precepts, the result will be ultimately the same.  He that offends “in one point,” manifests contempt for the whole law; his influence and example are on the side of transgression; he becomes “guilty of all.” (James 2:10)

In seeking to cast contempt upon the divine statutes, Satan has perverted the doctrines of the Bible, and errors have thus become incorporated into the faith of thousands who profess to believe the Scriptures.  The last great conflict between truth and error is but the final struggle of the long-standing controversy concerning the Law of God.  Upon this battle we are now entering-a battle between the laws of men and the precepts of Jehovah, between the religion of the Bible and the religion of fable and tradition.

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INFIDELITY prevails to an alarming extent, not in the world merely, but in the church. Many have come to deny doctrines which are the very pillars of the Christian faith.  The great facts of Creation as presented by the inspired writers, the Fall of man, the atonement, and the perpetuity of the Law of God, are practically rejected, either wholly or in part, by a large share of the professedly Christian world.  Many ministers are teaching their people, and many professors and teachers are instructing their students, that the Law of God has been changed or abrogated; and those who regard its requirements as still valid, to be literally obeyed, are thought to be deserving only of ridicule or contempt.

DOCTRINAL IDOLATRY

IN rejecting the truth, men reject its Author. In trampling upon the Law of God, they deny the authority of the Lawgiver. It is as easy to make an idol of false doctrines and theories as to fashion an idol of wood or stone. By misrepresenting the attributes of God, Satan leads men to conceive of Him in a false character.  With many, a philosophical idol is enthroned in the place of Jehovah; while the living God, as He is revealed in His Word, in Christ, and in the works of creation, is worshiped by but few.  Thousands deify nature while they deny the God of nature. 

Though in a different form, idolatry exists in the Christian world today as verily as it existed among ancient Israel in the days of Elijah.  The god of many professedly wise men, of philosophers, poets, politicians, journalists- the god of polished fashionable circles, of many colleges and universities, even of some theological institutions- is little better than Baal,  the sun-god of Phoenicia.

No error accepted by the Christian world strikes more boldly against the authority of Heaven, none is more directly opposed to the dictates of reason, none is more pernicious in its results, than the modern doctrine, so rapidly gaining ground, that Gods’ Law is no longer binding upon men.  Suppose that prominent ministers were publicly to teach that the statutes which govern their land and protect the rights of its citizens were not obligatory-that they restricted the liberties of the people, and therefore ought not to be obeyed; how long would such men be tolerated in the pulpit? But is it a graver offense to disregard the laws of states and nations than to trample upon those divine precepts which are the foundation of all government?

 

 

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 12-“For professing faith contrary to the Church of Rome, history records the martyrdom of more than one hundred million people” (Brief Bible Readings, page 16)

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 12-

TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PAPACY IS LEADING, LOOK AT HER PAST HISTORY-part 6

REFORMERS PROTEST

THE lack of the knowledge of the Word of God allowed the Papacy to rule the world during the Dark Ages.  Toward the end of that age, as an understanding of God’s Word began to unfold, men began to protest the errors prevalent during that time.  Those Protestant Reformers threw off the shackles of error and superstition, and began to let the light of God’s Word shine.  These men received the title of Protestants, because, as they understood the truth of God’s Word they saw that they must protest and oppose the error of Catholicism if they would be true to God.  Once again in the history of this planet the knowledge of God’s Word had been forgotten.  Compare the Reformers’ understanding of the Papacy with the beliefs of this modern generation.

“For professing faith contrary to the Church of Rome, history records the martyrdom of more than one hundred million people” (Brief Bible Readings, page 16)

“On August 24, 1527, Roman Catholics in France, by prearranged plan, under Jesuit influence, murdered 70.000 Protestants within the space of two months.  The pope rejoiced when he heard the news of the successful outcome.”  (Western Watchman, November 21, 1912,-Catholic-)

POPERY DENOUNCED

MARTIN LUTHER said, “I know that the pope is the Antichrist, and that his see is that of Satan himself.  The Papacy is the general chase, by command of the Roman pontiff, for the purpose of running down and destroying souls”.

CHARLES SPURGEON said, “We must warn with judicious boldness those who incline towards the errors of Rome; we must tell them of the black doings of Popery”.

JOHN KNOX said the pope was “the very antichrist”.

JOHN WESLEY said of the Papacy, “He is an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he increases all manner of sin above measure”.

JOHN CALVIN said, “We call the Roman pontiff Antichrist”.

PROTESTANTS FORGET PAST

TODAY the descendants of those faithful martyrs have forgotten why they call themselves Protestants.  Consider the following:

“It is time for Protestants to go to the shepherd (the pope) and say, ‘What do we have to do to come home?’ “  (Dr. Robert Schuller, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Sept. 19, 1987).

“Heads of American Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches who were meeting with Pope John Paul II on Friday hailed their first broadly representative discussion as a landmark on the road to greater unity…The Rev. Donald Jones, a United Methodist and chairman of the University of South Carolina religious studies department, termed it, ‘the most important ecumenical meeting of the century’…The Rev. Paul A Crow Jr., of Indianapolis, ecumenical officer of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), called it a ‘new day in ecumenism’ opening a future in which God ‘is drawing us together’ “  (The Montgomery Advertiser, Sept.12, 1987)

“If Catholicism is to become more Catholic in the future, which is what I expect under the present pope, then theological differences will become sharper, but our alliances with Catholics against the secular culture can become deeper.  I, for one, am ready for the trade-off.”  (David Wells, Eternity Magazine, Sept. 1987).

“Protestant and Catholic charismatic teaching on the Christian life is to all intents and purposes identical. Is this not significant for the Christian future?”(J.I.Packer, Christianity Today, June 22, 1992)

Protestantism has forgotten her roots. She was ordained to resist and denounce the errors of Rome.  Now she is willing to embrace them.  Now as the entire world is on the verge of Rome’s final assault, the former enemies are forming alliances.  The Protestant world has forgotten they are involved in an eternal battle, and because of their willing neglect of knowledge, they are destined to be destroyed.

 

 

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