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Last Day Events
Soon the Sunday laws will be enforced, and men in posi-
tions of trust will be embittered against the little handful of God’s
commandment-keeping people.—
Manuscript Releases 4:278
(1909).
The prophecy of
Revelation 13
declares that the power represented
by the beast with lamblike horns shall cause “the earth and them which
dwell therein” to worship the papacy—there symbolized by the beast
“like unto a leopard”.... This prophecy will be fulfilled when the United
States shall enforce Sunday observance, which Rome claims as the
special acknowledgment of her supremacy....
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.—
The Great Controversy, 578, 579, 592
(1911).
Arguments Used by Sunday-Law Advocates
Satan puts his interpretation upon events, and they think, as he
would have them, that the calamities which fill the land are a result
of Sundaybreaking. Thinking to appease the wrath of God these
influential men make laws enforcing Sunday observance.—
Manuscript
Releases 10:239
(1899).
This very class put forth the claim that the fast-spreading corrup-
tion is largely attributable to the desecration of the so-called “Christian
sabbath” and that the enforcement of Sunday observance would greatly
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improve the morals of society. This claim is especially urged in Amer-
ica, where the doctrine of the true Sabbath has been most widely
preached.—
The Great Controversy, 587
(1911).
Protestantism and Catholicism Act in Concert
Protestantism shall give the hand of fellowship to the Roman power.
Then there will be a law against the Sabbath of God’s creation, and
then it is that God will do His “strange work” in the earth.—
The S.D.A.
Bible Commentary 7:910
(1886).
How the Roman church can clear herself from the charge of idol-
atry we cannot see.... And this is the religion which Protestants are
beginning to look upon with so much favor, and which will eventu-
ally be united with Protestantism. This union will not, however, be
effected by a change in Catholicism, for Rome never changes. She