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choosing the token of allegiance to divine authority, receive the seal of
God.—
The Great Controversy, 605
(1911).
Enforcement of Sunday Observance Is the Test
None are condemned until they have had the light and have seen
the obligation of the fourth commandment. But when the decree shall
go forth enforcing the counterfeit sabbath, and the loud cry of the third
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angel shall warn men against the worship of the beast and his image,
the line will be clearly drawn between the false and the true. Then
those who still continue in transgression will receive the mark of the
beast.—
Evangelism, 234, 235
(1899).
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.”—
The Great Controversy, 449
(1911).
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