The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
Setting up the Image to the Beast (counterfeit Sabbath Globally, and obviously on Sunday) is NOTHING NEW. The Sun and/or it's day has been the Focus of Worship for thousands of years.
"In one of its issues in 1884, the Christian at Work said:
It is now seen, as it is admitted, that we must go to later than 
apostolic times for the establishment of Sunday observance.
This classes it among the institutions of which Killen saysthat Peter and Paul knew nothing; and Dr. Scott in his comments on Acts 20:7 admits that it was one of the institutions which, Killen says,...crept silently into use, and then claimed the rank of divine institutions.
He says:The change from the seventh to the first day of the week appears to have been gradually and silently introduced, by example rather than by precept.
.....Sunday was from the earliest ages a heathen festival day.
The North British Review (Vol. 18, p. 408), in an article de-fending Sunday observance, called Sunday......the wild solar holiday of all pagan times.
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary says of Sunday:
So called because this day was anciently dedicated to the sun, or to its worship.
So called because this day was anciently dedicated to the sun, or to its worship.
In Egypt the sun was the kernel of the State religion. In various forms he stood at the head of each hierarchy.
At Memphis he was worshiped as Phtah, at Heliopolis as Tum, at Thebes as Aman Ra. Personified by Osiris, he became the foundation of the Egyptian metempsychosis....
In Babylon the same thing is observed...Men were struck by the various stages of the daily and yearly course of the sun, in which they saw the most imposing manifestation of Deity.
But they soon came to confound the creature with the Creator, and the host of heaven became objects of worship, with the sun as chief....
In Persia the worship of Mithras or the sun is known to have been common from an early period. No idols were made, but the 
inscriptions show ever-recurring symbolic representations, usually a disk or orb with outstretched wings, with the addition sometimes of a human figure.
The leading feature of the Magian rites, derived from ancient Media, was the worship of fire, performed on altars erected upon high mountains, where a perpetual flame, supposed to have been originally kindled from Heaven, was constantly watched, and where solemn services were daily rendered.
Under the Roman emperors the Oriental solar worship was introduced with great pomp....This god was proclaimed the chief deity in Rome, while all other gods were his servants.
...from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, we find the following under the article “Sunday”: Sunday (Dies Solis of the Roman calendar, day of the sun, because dedicated to the sun), the first day of the week, was adopted by the early Christians as a day of worship.
The sun of Latin adoration they interpreted as the Sun of Righteous-ness....No regulations for its observance are laid down in the New Testament, nor, indeed, is its observance even enjoined.
Of course no regulations for its observance are laid down in the New Testament, because it is a heathen institution." E.J. Waggoner
