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should not this people, who are so few in number, do according to the
laws of the land?—Ms 163, 1897.
The Controversy Centers in Christendom
The so-called Christian world is to be the theater of great and
decisive actions. Men in authority will enact laws controlling the
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conscience, after the example of the papacy. Babylon will make
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Every
nation will be involved. Of this time John the Revelator declares:
[
Revelation 18:3-7
;
17:13, 14
, quoted]. “These have one mind.” There
will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy
of Satan’s forces. “And shall give their power and strength unto the
beast.” Thus is manifested the same arbitrary, oppressive power against
religious liberty—freedom to worship God according to the dictates
of conscience—as was manifested by the papacy, when in the past it
persecuted those who dared to refuse to conform with the religious
rites and ceremonies of Romanism.—
Selected Messages 3:392
(1891).
In the great conflict between faith and unbelief the whole Christian
world will be involved.—
The Review and Herald, February 7, 1893
.
All Christendom will be divided into two great classes—those who
keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and those who
worship the beast and his image and receive his mark.—
The Great
Controversy, 450
(1911).
As the Sabbath has become the special point of controversy
throughout Christendom and religious and secular authorities have
combined to enforce the observance of the Sunday, the persistent re-
fusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand will make them
objects of universal execration.—
The Great Controversy, 615
(1911).
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As the decree issued by the various rulers of Christendom against
commandment keepers shall withdraw the protection of government,
and abandon them to those who desire their destruction, the people
of God will flee from the cities and villages and associate together in
companies, dwelling in the most desolate and solitary places.—
The
Great Controversy, 626
(1911).