Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Mark of the Beast Formula?

"Heretofore those who presented the truths of the third angel's message have often been regarded as mere alarmists. Their predictions that religious intolerance would gain control in the United States, that church and state would unite to persecute those who keep the commandments of God, have been pronounced groundless and absurd. It has been confidently declared that this land could never become other than what it has been--the defender of religious freedom. But as the question of enforcing Sunday observance is widely agitated, the event so long doubted and disbelieved is seen to be approaching, and the third message will produce an effect which it could not have had before" Great Controversy p.605,606 E.G.W.

A possible formula from the current headlines of 2015 for leading to the mark-of-the-beast....

Climate Change = 
Calamities = 
Mark of the Beast (a counterfeit Sabbath)

From the GREEN Papal Encyclical released in 2015.......
"Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the “first day” of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen humanity, the
pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality. It also proclaims “man’s eternal rest in God”. ....The law of weekly rest forbade work on the seventh day, ...Rest opens our eyes to the larger picture and gives us renewed sensitivity to the rights of others. And so the day of rest, centred on the Eucharist, sheds it light on the whole week, and motivates us to greater concern for nature and the poor.
Enforceable international agreements are urgently needed, since local authorities are not always capable of effective intervention. Relations between states must be respectful of each other's sovereignty, but must also lay down mutually agreed means of averting regional disasters which would eventually affect everyone. Global regulatory norms are needed to impose obligations and prevent unacceptable actions,..." Pope Francis
 ENCYCLICAL LETTER
LAUDATO SI’ 
 OF THE HOLY FATHER 
ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME 
paragraphs237/173

"The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to bear upon men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those who serve God and those who serve Him not. While the observance of the false sabbath in compliance with the law of the state, contrary to the fourth commandment, will be an avowal of allegiance to a power that is in opposition to God, the keeping of the true Sabbath, in obedience to God's law, is an evidence of loyalty to the Creator. While one class, by accepting the sign of submission to earthly powers, receive the mark of the beast, the other choosing the token of allegiance to divine authority, receive the seal of God" Great Controversy p.605 E.G.W.
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