The Seventh-Day Adventist church..BELIEVE, the papacy is the seven-headed beast from the sea in Revelation 13:1–10. Accompanying this beast is a lamb-like beast from the earth (Rev. 13:11–18). The latter causes the world to worship the former and has an image made of it. Seventh-Day Adventist & Prophet Ellen White, proclaimed that the second beast is the United States (The Great Controversy, 387–8), and that it will force people to worship the papacy by enforcing some observance which shall be an act of homage to the papacy (ibid., 389). This observance, she says & we believe, is Sunday worship rather than (Gods Holy 7th Day--Sabbath) Saturday worship. Ellen White claims & we believe that the papacy changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday, making this change a mark of its authority. So, there will come a time when the United States will establish a national Sunday law and compel its citizens to worship on Sunday and thus take the mark of the beast. It will not compel them to become Catholics, but to join a Protestant state-church that is an image of the papacy, and thus, the image of the beast (ibid., 382–96). EGW
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:35:17 +0000
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