. Hence, the Universal Sunday Law will result in making the the Sabbath the focal point of controversy in the final conflict which will immediately precede the return of Yahushua. But has he really succeeded in changing God’s law? Human laws will be made so stringent that men and women will not dare to observe the seventh-day Sabbath. Click edit button to change this text. And while the powers of darkness are stirring up the elements from beneath, the Lord God of heaven is sending power from above to meet the emergency by arousing His living agencies to exalt the law of heaven. [Revelation 13:11-17 quoted.] Are You Ready for The Crisis of The Ages? There is too little zeal among the students. The impression made by this message will be proportionate to the earnestness and solemnity with which it is proclaimed (Manuscript 16, 1900). He will come out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the world for their iniquity (The Review and Herald, April 23, 1901). It was an hour of fearful, terrible agony to the saints. SUNday Law Update: Pope Francis Now Is The Time For "The Universal COMMON GOOD". Congress and the President of the U. S., George Bush, indicated in Public Law 102-14, 102nd Congress, that the United States of America was founded upon the Seven Universal Laws of Noah, and that these Laws have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization. Those who have the privilege of hearing this message, and who persist in refusing to heed the warning, cast away their last hope of salvation. When you obey the decree that commands you to cease from labor on Sunday and worship God, while you know that there is not a word in the Bible showing Sunday to be other than a common working day, you consent to receive the mark of the beast, and refuse the seal of God. If these attractions, invented by men inspired by Satan, failed to make men worship the image, the hungry flames of the furnace were ready to consume them. With God firmly on our side. They should make more earnest efforts. So it is understandable that we yearn for the good-guy role which relies on such laws as a propellant. Many of these positions are held in abeyance and are not prominently outlined in our official beliefs. Now, just now, is our time to work in foreign countries. 14-17 (Revelation 14:9-12). Courage, fortitude, faith, and implicit trust in God’s power to save do not come in a moment. False religion will be exalted. It has been shown that the United States is the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns, and that this prophecy will be fulfilled when the United States shall enforce Sunday observance, which Rome claims as the special acknowledgment of her supremacy. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons. Whether our contemporary church leadership will buck the trend in our long history of refusing to re-evaluate, and possibly renounce our position on these laws, is anyone’s guess. It is this This third line is the nail the link the nail in a short place. Pope Decrees Sunday Universal Day of RestBreaking News!#leaprevelationfacebook.com/leap3moviestarspictures.org The angels longed to deliver them, but they must wait a little longer; the people of God must drink of the cup and be baptized with the baptism. Satan wished to have the privilege of destroying the saints of the Most High; but Jesus bade His angels watch over them. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” Acts 4:19, 20. Our people are not half awake to do all in their power, with the facilities within their reach, to extend the message of warning. 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. With God firmly on our side. I point you to the aggressive movements now being made for the restriction of religious liberty. When this substitution becomes universal, God will reveal Himself. Thus, God is vindicated in His people in all parts of the world. 15-17 (see EGW comment on 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4). There is no power that can prohibit any soul from taking of its fruit. It is the production of the man of sin, who strives in this way to counterwork God’s purposes. Our people are not half awake to do all in their power. In a limited degree, it has already gone forth. Legislation that will force the world to worship and rest on Sunday would be the ideal solution. But if their eyes could have been opened, they would have seen themselves surrounded by angels of God. We hold them in our back pocket for the initiates until they are baptized. Their worthy example will be a comfort and encouragement to the people of God who will be brought into the time of trouble such as never was. The truth of God’s holy word is to be made manifest. Through the setting up of a false sabbath, the enemy thought to change times and laws. 8-hour class minimum for guard card (After July 1, 2004) Please note: the changes that are taking place in California in regards to Security Guards, after July 1, 2004 the class requirements change as well as renewals of Security Guard cards. God’s sanctified memorial has been torn down, and in its place a false sabbath, bearing no sanctity, stands before the world. It is our work to magnify and exalt the law of God. The sign which the Papacy has from early ages claimed to prove her authority is Sunday worship. In all modesty, in the spirit of grace, and in the love of God we are to point men to the fact that the Lord God is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. Or perhaps the reasons we propose speak more to our collective indiscipline, as the waiting drags uncomfortably longer than was ever anticipated. This was impossible. In a joint statement published Wedneday, on the occasion of the International Day for a work-free Sunday, the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the EU (COMECE) and the European Sunday Alliance urged political leaders in Europe to protect synchronised free time - in most European countries traditionally on Sundays. The court approved the state’s restriction of commercial activities on Sunday because the judges determined that Sunday blue laws were designed "to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of health, safety, recreation, and general well-being through a common day of rest. For the non-religious, a universal day of rest for the good of the environment will make common sense. There is no work in our world so great, so sacred, and so glorious, no work that God honors so much, as this gospel work. I’ve covered this a bevy of times. Those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus are the object of the wrath of this power [Revelation 18:1-8 quoted] (Manuscript 135, 1902). …. An approach which seems to have bound us to specific events latched on to when we were developing our initial hermeneutics. This small remnant, unable to defend themselves in the deadly conflict with the powers of earth that are marshaled by the dragon host, make God their defense. They had the light of truth, they knew their Master’s will, they understood every point of our faith, but they had not corresponding works. “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book.” When this time of trouble comes, every case is decided; there is no longer probation, no longer mercy for the impenitent. The day of God’s vengeance is just upon us. However the expectation that in the end of time a universal Sunday law will be enforced by the civil authorities, upon the insistence of the public and at the demand of the “apostate” churches, seems to be more and more unrealistic. He will “avenge His own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with them.” They will be jealous for the honor of God. I will place in its stead a day that does not bear the credentials of God, a day that cannot be a sign between God and His people. 14. Men in Authority to Hear—God is going to bring around a condition of things where the good men and the men in authority will have an opportunity to know what is truth indeed. The influence of Rome in the countries that once acknowledged her dominion is still far from being destroyed. … Their wicked course He will tolerate no longer, and in His wrath He deals with them without mercy. The United States Will Pass a Sunday Law Soon. The seal of the living God is upon His people. Whatever the reasons, we should occasionally recall some of the ways we have attempted to mitigate our uneasiness and at least debate whether we are better off maintaining these period-conditioned advent beliefs or jettisoning them as inward-looking relics of a bygone era. Adventist Forum, publisher of SPECTRUM and spectrummagazine.org, is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to promoting community through conversation in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Issued by the highest tribunal on earth – EW 282,283; 5T 212, 213; FCD 14, 17; 7BC 976. An edict was issued forbidding the observance of the Sabbath under the severest penalties. Revelation 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. © 2021 Spectrum Magazine. This message is a Bible and Spirit of Prophecy study on the four stages of the National Sunday Law. When those early Christians were exiled to mountains and deserts, when left in dungeons to die with hunger, cold, and torture, when martyrdom seemed the only way out of their distress, they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christ, who was crucified for them. The less we make direct charges against authorities and powers, the greater work we shall be able to accomplish, both in America and in foreign countries. I will lead those who accept this day to place upon it the sanctity that God placed upon the seventh day. But it got nowhere. For fear of wanting food and clothing, they will join with the world in transgressing God’s law. May God help His people now, for what can they then do in such a fearful conflict without His assistance! The first day will be extolled, and the Protestant world will receive this spurious sabbath as genuine. Satan is making desperate efforts to make himself god, to speak and act like God, to appear as one who has a right to control the consciences of men. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour.One story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the day's takings. Rev. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”. And the revelator declares, also referring to the papacy: “All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life.” Revelation 13:8. The angels, faithful to their trust, continued their watch. God has a people who will not receive the mark of the beast in their right hand or in their forehead…. Under the jurisdiction of the man of sin, men have exalted a false standard in complete opposition to God’s enactment. In several places the civil power is speaking with the voice of a dragon, just as the heathen king spoke to the Hebrew captives. To outward appearance, there was no possibility of their escape. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Parents were bitterly reproaching their children, and children their parents, brothers their sisters, and sisters their brothers. After a terrible struggle the Romanists were banished from their dominions, and the ancient faith was restored. Calling for it as counter Global Warming measure. Already a few drops of God’s wrath have fallen upon the earth; but when the seven last plagues shall be poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation, then it will be forever too late to repent and find shelter. The substitution of the laws of men for the law of God, the exaltation, by merely human authority, of Sunday in place of the Bible Sabbath, is the last act in the drama. They need to search the Scriptures diligently, that they may learn how to guard against the mystery of iniquity, which plays so large a part in the closing scenes of this earth’s history. I am text block. There will be more and still more external parade by worldly powers. 3. They are deceived by their teachers, and they have not received the mark of the beast. There are many voices clamoring to fulfill exactly such a goal, using the economy, the environment, and even the family as reasons to legislate Sunday rest. At least not in the foreseeable future. No atoning blood will then wash away the stains of sin. Through the nonobservance of the Sabbath that God instituted, I will bring His law into contempt. Every nation on earth follows the example of United States in enacting a National Sunday Law. The word of truth, “It is written,” is the gospel we are to preach. We have chosen to obey Yahuwah no matter what pressures or punishments … I suspect we do this in part because of our historicist approach to eschatology. No flaming sword is placed before this tree of life. Here, she argues for the position: The dignitaries of church and state will unite to bribe, persuade, or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. When the test comes, it will be clearly shown what the mark of the beast is. This is the test that the people of God must have before they are sealed. As America, the land of religious liberty, shall unite with the papacy in forcing the conscience and compelling men to honor the false sabbath, the people of every country on the globe will be led to follow her example. But papal tyranny soon became a yoke so galling that the Abyssinians determined to break it from their necks. Soon I saw the saints suffering great mental anguish. They will be zealous in prayer, and their faith will grow strong. “Through my vicegerent, I will exalt myself. With Protestant teachers there is the same claim of divine authority for Sundaykeeping, and the same lack of Scriptural evidence, as with the papal leaders who fabricated miracles to supply the place of a command from God. The message presented at this time is the last message of mercy for a fallen world. The assertion that God’s judgments are visited upon men for their violation of the Sunday-sabbath, will be repeated; already it is beginning to be urged. When the authorities command us not to do this work, when they forbid us to proclaim the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, then it will be necessary for us to say as did the apostles: “Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. We have strategically hitched our fortunes to this event in precise, unambiguous ways – the Adventist in our name being a constant reminder. Satan says, “I will work at cross purposes with God. Their suffering was tenfold greater than that of their people. He should take to himself the words Paul addressed to Timothy: “Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. There it is friends you’ll be there. Eccl. All these are instrumentalities of God to co-operate in the grand work represented by the first, second, and third angels, the work of warning the inhabitants of the world that Christ is coming the second time with power and great glory. Secularism has taken hold and Christianity has lost ground, due in part to the Western Christian nations’ role in the carnage of two world wars. We need the same spirit that was manifested by God’s servants in the conflict with paganism (The Signs of the Times, May 6, 1897). The great conflict that Satan created in the heavenly courts is soon, very soon, to be forever decided. He will arise in His majesty, and will shake terribly the earth. That this day coincides with the Christian Sabbath is not a bar to the … God has presented to me the dangers that are threatening those who have been given the sacred work of proclaiming the third angel’s message. Now, just now, is our time to work in foreign countries. Why don’t you go up and save your lives?” But the saints heeded them not. “Thus the world will become mine. As America, the land of religious liberty, shall unite with the papacy in forcing the conscience and compelling men to honor the false sabbath, the people of every country on the globe will be led to follow her example. When brought under the sway of Rome, they were forced to set aside the true and exalt the false sabbath; but no sooner had they regained their independence than they returned to obedience to the fourth commandment. God’s people live dangerously, heroically – go through the T of T like the triumphant marching of conquering armies! I will obliterate the memory of it. Our people are not half awake to do all in their power, with the facilities within their reach, to extend the message of warning. Current geopolitical/theological calculus is dramatically different from the late 19th century. 13:3, 7, 8, 11, 17; 6T 18, 19, 395; 7T 141; FCD 2, 3, 11, 12; 5T 524; GC 579. The Mark of Distinction—We are nearing the close of this earth’s history. “When this substitution becomes universal, God will reveal Himself” 7BC 980. Angels provided them food and water, while the wicked were suffering from hunger and thirst. When does this take place? The church's prophet, Ellen White (1827-1915), wrote: "As America, the land of religious liberty, shall unite with the papacy in forcing the conscience and compelling men to honor the [Catholic Church's] false Sabbath, the people of every country on the globe will be led to follow her example.