VIII. THE SABBATH AND THE BEAST POWER
- DANIEL 7:
- 25
"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall
wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and
laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times
and the dividing of time."
- NOTE:
- What in the Bible is a law and
deals with time? The fourth commandment.
- The system of the Roman Catholic Church
clearly fits all the identifying characteristics of the beast power in
DANIEL 7 and REVELATION 13. Is there a law that she claims to have
changed and does she claim this to be the "mark" of her
authority? Let her answer.
- Chancellor for Cardinal Gibbins wrote on
November 11, 1895: "Of course the Catholic Church claims that the
change (of the Sabbath) was her act. It could not have been otherwise,
as no one in those days would have dreamed of doing anything in matters
spiritual, and ecclesiastical, and religious without her. And the act is
a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things."
- "Augsburg Confession" as recorded
in the Library of Original Sources, Vol. V. pages 173 and 174 where
Martin Luther says: "They (the Catholic bishops) allege the
changing of the Sabbath into the Lord's Day, contrary, as it seemeth, to
the Decalogue, and they have no example more in their mouths than the
change of the Sabbath. They will needs have the church´s power
very great, because it hath done away with a precept of the
Decalogue."
- Satan usually counterfits everything that
God has. If the beast power claims a day (Sunday) or the change of a day
as her mark of authority; would not Godªs sign of authority be a
day, also? Lets see what the Bible says.
- EXODUS 31:
- 13 "Speak thou also unto
the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for
it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that
ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you."
- EZEKIEL 20:
- 12 "Moreover also I
gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might
know that I am the Lord that sanctify them."
- EXODUS 31:
- 16 "Wherefore the
children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath
throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant."
- 17 "It is a sign between me and the
children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven
and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."
- NOTE:
- Refer to section V. on page 13.
Everyone that is in Christ is a spiritual Jew, heirs of the promise, and
are Abraham´s seed. (children of Israel)
- God knew that there would be a problem with
people not keeping the fourth commandment so He chose it as a sign.
Could keeping the fourth commandment be a sign that a person has made a
full commitment to Him? If all other Christians keep nine out of ten
commandments, doesn´t this make the ones that keep all ten stand
out from the rest? Notice the description of the saints in the last days
on this earth. REVELATION 14:12 "Here is the patience of the
saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the
faith of Jesus."
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