"For refusing to keep the true, {Sabbath}
the message threatens the unmingled wrath of God;
for refusing the false, {Sabbath}
earthly governments threaten them with persecution and death.
With this issue before the people,
what does he do who yields to the human requirement?
Daniel & the Revelation p.616 Uriah Smith
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
that the image of the beast should both speak,
and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Revelation 13:15