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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…

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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 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.

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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 8-Christians were forced to choose either to yield their integrity and accept the papal ceremonies and worship.

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WORLD CRISIS FORETOLD –CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS ENDANGERED-part 8-

TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PAPACY IS LEADING, LOOK AT HER PAST HISTORY-part 2-

THE DARING CHANGE

In the early part of the fourth century the emperor Constantine issued a decree making Sunday a public festival throughout the Roman Empire.  The day of the sun was reverenced by his pagan subjects and was honored by Christians; it was the emperor’s policy to unite the conflicting interests of heathenism and Christianity.  He was urged to do this by the bishops of the church, who, inspired by ambition and thirst for power, perceived that if the same day was observed by both Christians and heathen, it would promote the nominal acceptance of Christianity by pagans and thus advance the power and glory of the church. But while many God-fearing Christians were gradually led to regard Sunday as possessing a degree of sacredness, they still held the true Sabbath as the holy of the Lord and observed it in obedience to the fourth commandment.  The arch deceiver had not completed his work. 

He was resolved to gather the Christian world under his banner and to exercise his power through his vicegerent, the proud pontiff who claimed to be the representative of Christ.  Through half converted pagans, ambitious prelates, and world-loving churchmen he accomplished his purpose. Vast councils were held from time to time, in which the dignitaries of the church were convened from the entire world.  In nearly every council the Sabbath which God had instituted was pressed down a little lower, while the Sunday was correspondingly exalted.  Thus the pagan festival came finally to be honored as a divine institution, while the Bible Sabbath was pronounced a relic of Judaism, and its observers were declared to be accursed.

CREATOR’S SEAL REMOVED

The great apostate had succeeded in exalting himself “above all that is called God, or that is worshipped” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). He had dared to change the only precept of the divine law that unmistakably points all making to the true and living God. In the fourth commandment, God is revealed as the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and is thereby distinguished from all false gods. It was a memorial of the work of Creation that the seventh day was sanctified as a rest day for man.  It was designed to keep the living God ever before the minds of men as the source of being and the object of reverence and worship.  Satan strives to turn men from their allegiance to God, and from rendering obedience to His law; therefore he directs his efforts especially against that commandment which points to God as the Creator.

Protestants now urge that the resurrection of Christ on Sunday made it the Christian Sabbath. But Scripture evidence is lacking.  No such honor was given to the day by Christ or His apostles.

FROM PAGAN TO PAPAL ROME

In the sixth century the Papacy had become firmly established.  Its seat of power was fixed in the imperial city, and the bishop of Rome was declared to be the head over the entire church. Paganism had given place to the Papacy.  The dragon had given to the beast “his power, and his seat, and great authority” (Revelation 13:2). And now began the 1260 years of papal oppression foretold in the prophecies of Daniel 7:25 and Revelation 13:5-7.

Christians were forced to choose either to yield their integrity and accept the papal ceremonies and worship, or to wear away their lives in dungeons or suffer death by the rack, the fagot, or the headsman’s ax.  Now were fulfilled the words of Jesus: “Ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’ sake”. (Luke 21:16-17). Persecution opened upon the faithful with greater fury than ever before, and the worlds became a vast battlefield.  For hundreds of years the church of Christ found refuge in seclusion and obscurity.  Thus says the prophet: “The woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and three score days” (Revelation 12:6).

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