"Vice President Mike Pence visited Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday, January 24, 2020 and was granted a one hour audience with the pontiff.
After the meeting Pope Francis gave Vice President Mike Pence a “library” of documents that included a copy of his encyclical on the environment, ‘Laudato Si.’
According to the actual text, ‘Laudato Si’ has a “Sunday” rest provision (section #237) and an “enforcement of law” provision (section #179).
After the meeting Pope Francis gave Vice President Mike Pence a “library” of documents that included a copy of his encyclical on the environment, ‘Laudato Si.’
According to the actual text, ‘Laudato Si’ has a “Sunday” rest provision (section #237) and an “enforcement of law” provision (section #179).
But it doesn’t appear that Mike Pence will play any role in tackling
the so-called ecological crises with President Trump anytime soon.
President Donald Trump’s administration has taken a completely different view on the “climate crisis” than what the Vatican is advocating.
Just this week President Trump told leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the promoters of climate change are the “prophets of doom” and “fortune tellers” who are embracing “error.”
It doesn’t appear that the Pope and the President are on the same page, at least not for now.
---LESSON for SDA---
For now let us welcome this temporary disunity and division between the Pope and the President.
Let us work to spread the gospel of Revelation 14:6-12 before it’s too late.
One thing is certain; even though Rome and the current President of the United States seem to be at odds with each other on the climate change issue, we know that in the end prophecy will surely come to pass:“The work which the church has failed to do in a time of
peace and prosperity, she will have to do in a terrible crisis, under most discouraging, forbidding circumstances.” (Evangelism, p. 31).
AdventMessenger“And he [USA] exerciseth all the power of the first beast [Rome] before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast [Rome], whose deadly wound was healed.” Revelation 13:12."