Tina said:
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What is the connection between Sabbath breaking and the 666 mark of the beast ?
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Hey Tina!!!
Well, before I start, I want to say that we believe that there will be millions of God-fearing Christians in heaven who worshipped God on Sunday. God judges people according to the light that they have and He will not hold someone accountable for something that they did not know was outside the will of God. I would also like to clarify that the mark of the beast is not 666. The bible says that this is the number of the man, the anti-christ. The beast at which this anti-christ controls will cause all to recieve this mark. So it is a mark, not a number.
With that being said, let's get started shall we??
Now the bible says that the beast will cause all to receive the mark on their right or their forehead. Did you know that God also wants us to place something on our hands and our foreheads? And the Word says:
Deu 11:13, 18 - And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto
my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul...Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and
bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be
as frontlets between your eyes.
So here we see that the commandments of God must be placed on our hand and in our foreheads. Now the beast also will cause a mark to be placed on the right hand or on the forehead. Many good people would see this and assume that God was referring to an outward sign but this is not the case. The "sign upon our hand" means to act accordingly, and the"frontlets between the eyes" means to think accordingly being that we worship God with our actions and with our cognitive thinking. Here is another verse to clarify:
Exodus 13:9 - And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
So, God's commandments are to be on our hands and our foreheads. Included in these commandments is, of course, the Sabbath commandment. The Sabbath is the commandment that identifies who the Lord is (the Creator), what He made (the world), why He made it holy (because He rested), and what He wants us to do on it (to rest). God calls this commandment a "sign" to be observed forever:
Exodus 31:13, 17 - 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.
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.
Now a "sign" is defined as the following:
sign-
1. a token; indication.
2. any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning.
3. a conventional or
arbitrary mark, figure, or symbol used as an abbreviation for the word or words it represents.
So, as we see here, according to the bible we can conclude that God has a mark or sign which is the Sabbath Day. We also have to keep in mind that Satan hates this. Psalm 119:151 says that all of the Lord's commandments are truth. And so naturally, Satan has hated the Sabbath truth and has been attacking the Sabbath truth for millennia after millennia because the central theme of the fourth commandment is the one thing that Satan wants - WORSHIP!! Satan wants what God receives, and that is worship. This is why Satan has a counterfeit for everything that God has established. God has a kingdom, Satan has a kingdom; God has angels, Satan has angels; God has a worship system, Satan has a worship system. So if God has chosen a day for His creation to rest, worship, and commune with Him as a sign or a mark, would it make sense for Satan to also have a day for men to worship and have his sign or mark?? I would say yes but let's dig further...
Now that we've seen what the bible has to say about the Sabbath, lets see what the denomination we identified as the anti-christ says about the Sabbath and Sunday:
"Not the Creator of Universe, in Genesis 2:1-3,-but the Catholic Church can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days."-S. C. Mosna, Storia della Domenica, 1969, pp. 366-367.
"The Pope is of great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws... The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth." -Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Ribliotheca, "Papa," art. 2, translated.
"The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ." "The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ." Decretal, de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap. (The Pope can modify divine law.) Ferraris' Ecclesiastical Dictionary.
"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify." -James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73.
"The Bible says, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church!" Father Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, Mo., History of the Sabbath, p. 802
"The Adventists are the only body of Christians with the Bible as their teacher, who could find no warrant in its pages for the change of day from the seventh to the first. Hence their appellation," Seventh-day Adventists. "They're cardinal principle consists in setting apart Saturday for the exclusive worship of God, in conformity with the positive command of God Himself, repeatedly reiterated in the sacred books of the Old and New testaments, literally kept by the children of Israel for thousands of years to this day, and endorsed by the teaching and practice of the Son of God while on earth." -Rome's Challenge, page two
"Is not yet too late for Protestants to redeem themselves. Will they do it?... will they indeed take the written word only, the Scripture alone, as their sole authority and their sole standard? Or will they still hold the indefensible, self contradictory, and suicidal doctrine and practice of following the authority of the Catholic church and wear the SIGN of her authority? Will they keep the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day, according to Scripture? Or will they keep the Sunday according to the tradition of the Catholic church, -Rome's Challenge, page 31
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Sunday is our mark or authority...the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.† Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1, 1923.
“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.
Here we see two things; blasphemy being that RCC (Roman Catholic Church) claims that the pope can "play God", and pompous words in that they show utter arrogance in how they claim that they can change this or that. Now, Daniel identifies the little horn power which will be diverse from the first four kingdoms (Babylon, Persia, Greece, and pagan Rome), and he shall subdue three kings. 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. Dan 7:24, 25
Now this fits the RCC like a glove because 1.) during the fall of the pagan Roman Empire and the rise of the papal Roman Empire, they abolished three kingdoms which stood in their way of achieving world-wide domination - the Ostrogoths, Vandals, and the Heruli; 2.) they speak great words against the Most High in terms of blasphemy being that they claim that they can forgive sins and that they make the pope God (which is why they call him "Father" and "His Holiness"); 3.) the time, times, and the dividing of time is the 1,260 year period where the RCC ruled Europe with an iron fist from 538 a.d. to 1798 a.d. (which is documented in history). This is why they call this period "The Dark Ages". It is estimated that the RCC was resposible for the deaths of millions of Jews and Christians who refused to bow to the pope. These deaths were so horrible, the pope had to officially apologize for it. If you dont believe it see for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologies_ ... hn_Paul_II
So, this is the connection between Sabbath breaking and the mark of the beast:
The Sabbath is Gods sign or mark, The Catholic Church says their mark is Sunday.
According to the bible, the beast is a kingdom - what we commonly called a country today. The bible says that this beast would persecute Gods people for 1260 years and would think to change times and laws.
No other entity on this planet qualifies to be the beast other than the RCC. They are a kingdom, they came from Rome, they were a persecuting power for 1260 years, they changed times because the whole world today is under the Gregorian calendar who was a pope (Pope Gregory XIII), and they presume to change God's law from Sabbath to Sunday. So the mark of beast (the RCC) is Sunday. But they will use the USA to speak through legislation (Rev 13:15) to cause all to receive this mark of her authority.
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