IN the NEWS - Baptist Reach for Green Papal Carrot Stick

"The Baptist Message (BaptistMessage.com) is an online news source serving “the Southern Baptist family” and the general “public.” Earlier this year, they published an article questioning whether the Covid-19 shutdowns weren’t so bad after all, considering the positive environmental impact they claim it brought. The article is entitled “A Radical Environmental Proposal: A Day of Rest” and states the following:

A weekly day of rest could help keep the balance in the

environmental system that God established to sustain man’s physical existence. Scientists have made multiple serendipitous discoveries about the impact of shutdowns around the world during the novel coronavirus pandemic:

• NASA satellite images have documented a 30 percent decline in nitrous oxide in China
• Carbon monoxide emissions are down 50 percent in New York City
• The EPA has recorded the best air quality in Los Angeles than at anytime during the last 40 years

Today, Baptists are arguing that Sunday may be the solution to our environmental problems. This is the same message found in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.

While the entire world lines up to embrace the common good (the mark of the beast), God will have a people who will keep His commandments, not man’s (Revelation 12:17, 14:12, 22:14). 

The time is coming, and is here, when all human and papal traditions will exalt human wisdom (2 Thessalonians 2:4) and give glory to man in the highest (a violation of Luke 2:14) by exalting the false day of Sun worship (Ezekiel 8:16) above the commandment of God that says: “Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy” and “the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God” (Exodus 20:8, 10)." AdventMessenger/AndyRoman