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Sabbath, December 12, 2009
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The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause.—Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, p. 408 Local disturbances in nature are permitted to take place as symbols of that which may be expected all over the world when the angels loose the four winds of the earth. The forces of nature are under the direction of an Eternal Agency. Science, in her pride, may seek to explain strange happenings on land and on sea; but science fails of tracing in these things the workings of Providence.—Manuscript Releases, vol. 19, p. 280 |
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So is global warming making the problem worse?
Superficially, the numbers say yes— …More-frequent hurricanes are
part of most global warming models, and as mean temperatures rise
worldwide, it’s hard not to make a connection between the two. –Time
Magazine online August 29, 2005 A study to be published tomorrow
provides striking new evidence linking giant hurricanes such as Katrina—which
devastated the |
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"The sins of |
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"This organization proposes in every
possible way to aid in preserving Sunday
as a civil institution. Our national security requires the
active support of all good citizens in the maintenance of our American Sabbath.
Sunday laws must be enforced."
Quoted- "principles contained in the
Constitution" (then called the American Sabbath |
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“At the same time, the national tragedy that occurred
on September 11 in |
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blue law:- One of a body of laws
in colonial The Supreme Court of the |
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The prophecy of Revelation 13 declares that the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns shall cause "the earth and them which dwell therein" to worship the papacy—there symbolized by the beast "like unto a leopard." The beast with two horns is also to say "to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast;" and, furthermore, it is to command all, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond," to receive the mark of the beast. Revelation 13:11-16. It has been shown that the United States is the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns, and that this prophecy will be fulfilled when the United States shall enforce Sunday observance, which Rome claims as the special acknowledgment of her supremacy. –Darkness before dawn p. 27.1 The change of the Sabbath is the sign or mark of the authority of the Romish church. Those who, understanding the claims of the fourth commandment, choose to observe the false sabbath in the place of the true, are thereby paying homage to that power by which alone it is commanded. The mark of the beast is the papal sabbath, which has been accepted by the world in the place of the day of God's appointment. –Evangelism p. 234.1 If the light of truth has been presented to you,
revealing the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and showing that there is no
foundation in the Word of God for Sunday observance, and yet you still
cling to the false sabbath, refusing to keep holy the Sabbath which God
calls "My holy day," you receive the mark of the beast. When
does this take place? When you obey the decree that commands you to
cease from labor on Sunday and worship God, while you know that there is
not a word in the Bible showing Sunday to be other than a common working day,
you consent to receive the mark of the beast, and refuse the seal of God.--Review and Herald, |
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"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act... And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things." H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons. "Sunday
is our MARK of authority. . .the church is above the Bible, and this transference
of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact" Catholic Record of London,
Ontario |