Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:8 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.... But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.... And hallow (keep holy) my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God. Ezekiel 20:20 (((God does NOT in any form or fashion name SUN-day the Sabbath... Just the opposite! SUN-day was the first day of the week and it was this day Constantine or Rome wanted this day set aside to worship the Sun, NOT GOD or His Son!)))) CONSTANTINES SUNDAY LAW, ISSUED A.D. 321, WAS AS FOLLOWS:-- {GC88 679.1} LET ALL THE JUDGES AND TOWN PEOPLE, AND THE OCCUPATION OF ALL TRADES REST ON THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN; BUT LET THOSE WHO ARE SITUATED IN THE COUNTRY, FREELY AND AT FULL LIBERTY ATTEND TO THE BUSINESS OF AGRICULTURE; BECAUSE IT OFTEN HAPPENS THAT NO OTHER DAY IS SO FIT FOR SOWING CORN AND PLANTING VINES; LEST, THE CRITICAL MOMENT BEING LET SLIP, MEN SHOULD LOSE THE COMMODITIES GRANTED BY HEAVEN. {GC88 679.2} OF THIS LAW, SO HIGH AN AUTHORITY AS THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANNICA PLAINLY SAYS: IT WAS CONSTANTINE THE GREAT WHO FIRST MADE A LAW FOR THE PROPER OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY; AND WHO, ACCORDING TO EUSEBIUS, APPOINTED THAT IT SHOULD BE REGULARLY CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE. BEFORE HIM, AND EVEN IN HIS TIME, THEY OBSERVED THE JEWISH SABBATH, AS WELL AS SUNDAY. AS TO THE DEGREE OF REVERENCE WITH WHICH SUNDAY WAS REGARDED, AND THE MANNER OF ITS OBSERVANCE, MOSHEIM SAYS THAT IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE LAW ENACTED BY CONSTANTINE, THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK WAS OBSERVED WITH GREATER SOLEMNITY THAN IT HAD FORMERLY BEEN. [ECCL. HIST. CENT. 4, PART 2, CHAP. 4, SEC. 5.] YET CONSTANTINE PERMITTED ALL KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL LABOR TO BE PERFORMED ON SUNDAY! BISHOP TAYLOR DECLARES THAT THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS DID ALL MANNER OF WORKS UPON THE LORDS DAY. [DUCT. DUBITANT., PART 1, BOOK 2, CHAP. 2, RULE 6, SEC. 59.] THE SAME STATEMENT IS MADE BY MORER: THE DAY [SUNDAY] WAS NOT WHOLLY KEPT IN ABSTAINING FORM COMMON BUSINESS; NOR DID THEY [CHRISTIANS] ANY LONGER REST FROM THEIR ORDINARY AFFAIRS (SUCH WAS THE NECESSITY OF THOSE TIMES) THAN DURING THE DIVINE SERVICE. [DIALOGUES ON THE LORDS DAY, P. 233.] SAYS COX: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT EITHER AT THIS [THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE], OR AT A PERIOD MUCH LATER, THE OBSERVANCE WAS VIEWED AS DERIVING ANY OBLIGATION FROM THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT; IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN REGARDED AS AN INSTITUTION CORRESPONDING IN NATURE WITH CHRISTMAS, GOOD FRIDAY, AND OTHER FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH. [COXS SABBATH LAWS, P. 281.] {GC88 679.3} NOTE 2. PAGE 54.--IN THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF REVELATION WE HAVE AS A SYMBOL A GREAT RED DRAGON. IN THE NINTH VERSE OF THAT CHAPTER THIS SYMBOL IS EXPLAINED AS FOLLOWS: AND THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT OLD SERPENT, CALLED THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, WHICH DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD; HE WAS CAST OUT INTO THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM. UNDOUBTEDLY THE DRAGON PRIMARILY REPRESENTS SATAN. BUT SATAN DOES NOT APPEAR UPON THE EARTH IN PERSON; HE WORKS THROUGH AGENTS. IT WAS IN THE PERSON OF WICKED MEN THAT HE SOUGHT TO DESTROY JESUS AS SOON AS HE WAS BORN. WHEREVER SATAN HAS BEEN ABLE TO CONTROL A GOVERNMENT SO FULLY THAT IT WOULD CARRY OUT HIS DESIGNS, THAT NATION BECAME, FOR THE TIME, SATANS REPRESENTATIVE. THIS WAS THE CASE WITH ALL THE GREAT HEATHEN NATIONS. FOR INSTANCE, SEE EZEKIEL 28, WHERE SATAN IS REPRESENTED AS ACTUAL KING OF TYRE. THIS WAS BECAUSE HE FULLY CONTROLLED THAT GOVERNMENT. IN THE FIRST CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA, ROME, OF ALL THE PAGAN NATIONS, WAS SATANS CHIEF AGENT IN OPPOSING THE GOSPEL, AND WAS THEREFORE REPRESENTED BY THE DRAGON. {GC88 679.4} BUT THERE CAME A TIME WHEN PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE FELL BEFORE THE ADVANCING FORM OF CHRISTIANITY. THEN, AS IS STATED ON PAGE 54, PAGANISM HAD GIVEN PLACE TO THE PAPACY. THE DRAGON HAD GIVEN TO THE BEAST HIS POWER, AND HIS SEAT, AND GREAT AUTHORITY. THAT IS, SATAN THEN BEGAN TO WORK THROUGH THE PAPACY, JUST AS HE HAD FORMERLY WORKED THROUGH PAGANISM. BUT THE PAPACY IS NOT REPRESENTED BY THE DRAGON, BECAUSE IT IS NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE ANOTHER SYMBOL IN ORDER TO SHOW THE CHANGE IN THE FORM OF THE OPPOSITION TO GOD. PREVIOUS TO THE RISE OF THE PAPACY, ALL OPPOSITION TO THE LAW OF GOD HAD BEEN IN THE FORM OF PAGANISM,--GOD HAD BEEN OPENLY DEFIED; BUT FROM THAT TIME THE OPPOSITION WAS CARRIED ON UNDER THE GUISE OF PROFESSED ALLEGIANCE TO HIM. THE PAPACY, HOWEVER, WAS NO LESS THE INSTRUMENT OF SATAN THAN WAS PAGAN ROME; FOR ALL THE POWER, THE SEAT, AND THE GREAT AUTHORITY OF THE PAPACY, WERE GIVEN IT BY THE DRAGON. AND SO, ALTHOUGH THE POPE PROFESSES TO BE THE VICEGERENT OF CHRIST, HE IS, IN REALITY, THE VICEGERENT OF SATAN--HE IS ANTICHRIST. {GC88 680.1} THE BEAST WHICH IS A SYMBOL OF THE PAPACY IS INTRODUCED IN REVELATION 13; AND FOLLOWING IT, IN THE SAME LINE OF PROPHECY, ANOTHER BEAST IS SEEN COMING UP, [REV. 13:11-14.] WHICH EXERCISES ALL THE POWER OF THE FIRST BEAST BEFORE HIM, THAT IS, IN HIS SIGHT. THIS OTHER BEAST MUST THEREFORE BE A PERSECUTING POWER ALSO; AND THIS IS SHOWN IN THAT IT SPAKE AS A DRAGON. THE PAPACY RECEIVED ALL ITS POWER FROM SATAN, AND THE TWO-HORNED BEAST EXERCISES THE SAME POWER; IT ALSO BECOMES THE DIRECT AGENT OF SATAN. AND ITS SATANIC CHARACTER IS FURTHER SHOWN IN THAT IT ENFORCES THE WORSHIP OF THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, BY MEANS OF FALSE MIRACLES. HE DOETH GREAT WONDERS, SO THAT HE MAKETH FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN, AND DECEIVETH THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH BY THE MEANS OF THOSE MIRACLES WHICH HE HAD POWER TO DO. {GC88 680.2} THE FIRST PERSECUTING POWER IS REPRESENTED BY THE DRAGON ITSELF; IN HEATHENISM THERE WAS OPEN ALLIANCE WITH SATAN, AND OPEN DEFIANCE OF GOD. IN THE SECOND PERSECUTING POWER, THE DRAGON IS MASKED; BUT THE SPIRIT OF SATAN ACTUATES IT,--THE DRAGON SUPPLIES THE MOTIVE POWER. IN THE THIRD PERSECUTING POWER, ALL TRACES OF THE DRAGON ARE ABSENT, AND A LAMB-LIKE BEAST APPEARS; BUT WHEN IT SPEAKS, ITS DRAGON VOICE BETRAYS THE SATANIC POWER CONCEALED UNDER A FAIR EXTERIOR, AND SHOWS IT TO BE OF THE SAME FAMILY AS THE TWO PRECEDING POWERS. IN ALL THE OPPOSITION TO CHRIST AND HIS PURE RELIGION, THAT OLD SERPENT, CALLED THE DEVIL, AND SATAN,--THE GOD OF THIS WORLD,--IS THE MOVING POWER; EARTHLY PERSECUTING POWERS ARE SIMPLY INSTRUMENTS IN HIS HANDS. Do you worship on Sunday? OR do you observe Gods holy day, on the seventh day? Whatever day you worship is a sign to God and to the world you love Him vs. the things of this world (enemy). Theres nothing MORE satan wants is for you to worship him on his SUN-day.... Follow Christ, not man. I love you and I encourage you to do as much research on this topic as possible. (To Him) it matters. May Jesus bless you!
Posted on: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 03:18:38 +0000
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