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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.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:18
(1900).
The Sabbath question is to be the issue in the great final conflict
in which all the world will act a part.—
Testimonies for the Church
6:352
(1900).
Foreign nations will follow the example of the United States.
Though she leads out, yet the same crisis will come upon our people
in all parts of the world.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:395
(1900).
The substitution of the false for the true is the last act in the drama.
When this substitution becomes universal God will reveal Himself.
When the laws of men are exalted above the laws of God, when the
powers of this earth try to force men to keep the first day of the week,
know that the time has come for God to work.—
The S.D.A. Bible
Commentary 7:980
(1901).
The substitution of the laws of men for the law of God, the exal-
tation, by merely human authority, of Sunday in place of the Bible
Sabbath, is the last act in the drama. When this substitution becomes
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universal God will reveal Himself. He will arise in His majesty to
shake terribly the earth.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:141
(1902).
The Whole World Will Support Sunday Legislation
The wicked ... declared that they had the truth, that miracles were
among them, that angels from heaven talked with them and walked
with them, that great power and signs and wonders were performed
among them, and that this was the temporal millennium that they
had been expecting so long. The whole world was converted and in
harmony with the Sunday law.—
Selected Messages 3:427, 428
(1884).
The whole world is to be stirred with enmity against Seventh-day
Adventists because they will not yield homage to the papacy by hon-
oring Sunday, the institution of this antichristian power.—
Testimonies
to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 37
(1893).
Those who trample upon God’s law make human laws which they
will force the people to accept. Men will devise and counsel and plan
what they will do. The whole world keeps Sunday, they say, and why