- VIII. THE SABBATH AND THE BEAST POWER
- DANIEL 7:
- 25 "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."
- NOTE:
- What in the Bible is a law and deals with time? The fourth commandment.
- The system of the Roman Catholic Church clearly fits all the identifying characteristics of the beast power in DANIEL 7 and REVELATION 13. Is there a law that she claims to have changed and does she claim this to be the "mark" of her authority? Let her answer.
- Chancellor for Cardinal Gibbins wrote on November 11, 1895: "Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (of the Sabbath) was her act. It could not have been otherwise, as no one in those days would have dreamed of doing anything in matters spiritual, and ecclesiastical, and religious without her. And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things."
- "Augsburg Confession" as recorded in the Library of Original Sources, Vol. V. pages 173 and 174 where Martin Luther says: "They (the Catholic bishops) allege the changing of the Sabbath into the Lord's Day, contrary, as it seemeth, to the Decalogue, and they have no example more in their mouths than the change of the Sabbath. They will needs have the church's power very great, because it hath done away with a precept of the Decalogue."
- The adversary usually counterfits everything that God has. If the beast power claims a day (Sunday) or the change of a day as her mark of authority; would not God's sign of authority be a day, also? Lets see what the Bible says.
- The system of the Roman Catholic Church clearly fits all the identifying characteristics of the beast power in DANIEL 7 and REVELATION 13. Is there a law that she claims to have changed and does she claim this to be the "mark" of her authority? Let her answer.
- EXODUS 31:
- 13 "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you."
- EZEKIEL 20:
- 12 "Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them."
- EXODUS 31:
- 16 "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant."
- 17 "It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."
- NOTE:
- 17 "It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."
- Refer to section V. on page 13. Everyone that is in Christ is a spiritual Jew, heirs of the promise, and are Abraham's seed. (children of Israel)
- God knew that there would be a problem with people not keeping the fourth commandment so He chose it as a sign. Could keeping the fourth commandment be a sign that a person has made a full commitment to Him? If all other Christians keep nine out of ten commandments, doesn't this make the ones that keep all ten stand out from the rest? Notice the description of the saints in the last days on this earth. REVELATION 14:12 "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
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