i still believe that God's seal is given to those who keep ALL of God's commandments, not out of legalism, but out of complete love and loyalty. Satans seal is given to those who dont
" * Satan now tries to wipe out God's Church by persecuting it though Nero. Christians are thrown to the lions and burnt at the stake but martyrdom only makes the Church grow stronger. All Satan can do now is stop as many people as possible from reaching the kingdom. God's law is still a primary target as it had been from the beginning.
* Satan realizes he can inflict more damage from within the Church and so gives His power, seat and authority to an Apostate Church. (Revelation 13:2)
* Satan needs to attack God's law and keep Christians living in wilful sin as no sacrifice covers wilful sin. (Hebrews 10:26-29) So Satan starts with the easiest Commandment as he had previously planned as early as 2000 B.C. See who changed the Sabbath to Sunday. The fourth Commandment defines who we worship so Satan changes the fourth Commandment through Constantine in 321 A.D. in honour of Sun worship. The Catholic Church makes it official in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336).
* Satan through an Apostate Church persecutes God's true Church for 1260 years and the Church has to flee into the wilderness leaving the persecuting Catholic Church ruling as Church and state. 50,000,000 to 150,000,000 are murdered and tortured as heretics through the dark ages. The fourth Commandment is nearly murdered out of existence and Satan has achieved his goal and a major victory on God's true Church.
* Towards the end of the dark ages (1517) Martin Luther discovers that the Papal Church is the antichrist power and gives birth to the Protestant Reformation. (Antichrist also means in place of Christ as the Pope claims to be God on Earth.)
* The Catholic Church holds the council of Trent, which started in 1545 and responds with the Counter Reformation in an attempt to have the finger pointed at either Nero or a fictional future Antichrist. See futurist and futurism Bible prophecy for more detail.
* The Protestant Reformation gives birth to many new Protestant Churches but they in ignorance continue to keep Sunday as the Sabbath.
* In 1798, Napoleon through his General Berthier ends the 1260 years of Papal rule and they no longer have power as Church and state. It was not long before they elected a new Pope but they were now just a Church with very limited power.
* In 1929, Benito Mussolini signs a concordat in Rome giving back to the Pope, not the whole city but over 100 acres which is now known as the Vatican. The power of the Roman Catholic Church is on the increase again as the Bible says that the deadly wound (Revelation 13:3) that stopped the Papal Church from its 1260 year rule will be healed and that they are going to be given power back by the second beast and enforce the mark of the beast being their mark. (Revelation 13:12-18)
* God uses the spirit of prophecy to help restore His fourth Commandment by raising up an end time movement as His Remnant Church. (Revelation 12:17) Note that Revelation 19:10 informs us that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
* TODAY, most Christians are unaware of these facts and our adversary works very hard to keep it that way, and sadly, he has been very successful, especially since many resist accepting the truth about this Commandment that defines it is God we love and worship. There is only between 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 Christians in just over 500 different denominations that understand this very important fact that also defines it is God we give our allegiance to. Our allegiance is to God and not the Pope or even worse, our adversary that gave this Church their power and authority. (Revelation 13:2)
* The Papal system is the major theme in Revelation and Daniel because not long after Christ, SHE has continued to have a massive impact on what TRULY does matter to God, i.e., His Church. She is the root of many false doctrines, has changed God's law and shed the blood of millions of innocent Christians they called heretics etc. When Israel committed spiritual adultery, God called His Old Testament Church a “WHORISH WOMAN†and a “HARLOT†etc, and accused her of “FORNICATION†and “ADULTERY.†The Papal Church is guilty of much worse than Israel. Pope Benedict recently caused a major uproar among many Churches as he referred to the Catholic Church as being the “MOTHER†Church and called for all the daughter Churches to come back to HER. Many Churches today are called daughter Churches because they originally came from the Catholic Church, eg: Martin Luther, who had been a Catholic priest established the Lutheran Church. Sadly, many of the daughter Churches have also ignorantly inherited various false doctrines and this is why SHE is called the “MOTHER OF HARLOTS†and Mystery Babylon." -
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again, if the mighty Lord we serve has told us to remember the sabbath and keep it holy, why do we ignore it, and try to use all the excuses in the book, even the Bible, as to why we dont have to? True love for God is willingness to obey everything he has told us. he gave us the 10 commandments together, if you toss one out as old, we might as well all murder and steal!