"On June 9, 2024, City Mayor Alfredo Benitez, whose job it is to manage the City of Bacolod in the Philippines, urged the local city council to pass legislation aimed at making Car-Free Sunday permanent. The mayor’s plan for supporting a “permanent” Car-Free Sunday ordinance is to help make people healthy, as recommended by the doctors, and to help protect the environment.
The mayor expressed the following:
• “Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo ‘Albee’ Benitez said he has endorsed
• “I hope the SP (city council) will approve the Ordinance so that it will be permanent,’ Benitez said.”
• “There will be four Sundays for the dry run of Car Free Sunday. From 5:00A.M to 8:00A.M. along Lacson street.”
• “Car Free Sunday is also Bacolod’s way of giving importance to the environment month this June.”
• “Proclamation No. 237 establishes June as Philippine Environment Month. The proclamation aims to increase environmental awareness and promote active involvement in protecting and developing the environment in the Philippines.”
To comply with “health experts,” the mayor is proposing a permanent law prohibiting cars on Sunday. We witnessed the same scenario during the pandemic. Draconian mandates were passed to force people to comply. God warned us that these same health reforms would be the reason for imposing Sunday rest on society.
“Here the temperance work, one of the most prominent and important of moral reforms, is often combined with the Sunday movement, and the advocates of the latter represent themselves as laboring to promote the highest interest of society; and those who refuse to unite with them are denounced as the enemies of temperance and reform” (Great Controversy, p. 587)."
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