through the 2 great errors, the immortality of the soul & sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions, while the former lays the foundation for spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome, the Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman Power; & under the influence of this 3 fold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience..! The time is not far distant, when, like the early disciples, we shall be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. As the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies was the signal for flight to the Judean Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation [the United States] in the decree enforcing the papal sabbath {the ensign of papal Romes power and authority} will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains. {Mar 180.1} {5T 464-465} By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} The mark of the beast is the abomination that will bring about the desolation of apostate Mystery Babylon: So the symbolic eagle of the Roman ensigns, a sign of Romes power and authority, gathered together around Jerusalem at the fall and desolation of apostate Israel in 70 A.D., is symbolic imagery that repeats at the end of time with the fall of the apostate Church: The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. is but a faint shadow of what will occur with the second or antitype fulfillment of the abomination of desolation immediately prior to the second coming and the end of the world. Once again Christians will be warned to flee the cities for the mountains, and that sign will be the decree of a Sunday law, which John the Revelator calls the mark of the beast. Like Jerusalem, the cities of the world will suffer terrible destruction, as the seven last plagues fall on the wicked with the close of probation. when you therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the Holy Place (whoso reads let him understand) Matt24:15~16/Luke21:20~21 then let them which be in Judea flee to the mountains... when the Idolatrous Standards of the Romans should be set in the Holy Ground which extended some furlongs outside the City walls then the followers of Christ were to find safety in flight when the warning sign should be seen those who would escape must make no delay throughout the land of Judea as well as in Jerusalem itself the signal for flight must be immediately obeyed he who chanced to be upon his housetop must not go down into his house even to save his most valued treasures those who were working in the fields or vineyards must not take time to return for the outer garment laid aside while they should be toiling in the heat of the day they must not hesitate a moment lest they be involved in the general destruction... “But our principal concern is to silence this sect of Sabbath keepers. We must excite popular indignation against them. We will enlist great men and worldly-wise men upon our side, and induce those in authority to carry out our purposes. Then the sabbath which I have set up shall be enforced by laws the most severe and exacting. Those who disregard them shall be driven out from the cities and villages, and made to suffer hunger and privation. When once we have the power, we will show what we can do with those who will not swerve from their allegiance to God. We led the Romish church to inflict imprisonment, torture, and death upon those who refused to yield to her decrees; and now that we are bringing the Protestant churches and the world into harmony with this right arm of our strength, we will finally have a law to exterminate all who will not submit to our authority. When death shall be made the penalty of violating our sabbath, then many who are now ranked with commandment keepers will come over to our side. {TM 473.1} THE COUNCIL OF LAODICEA IN PHRYGIA PACATIANA, 343-381 A.D. CANON XXIX. CHRISTIANS must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lords Day and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ...
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