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Do not be deceived, Sunday worship is NOT the mark of the beast?
What is the latest status on that?Check back with me when incidents like this are wide spread and the laws are actually passed:
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is considering the passage of Bill No. 66 which if passed will be known as "the Sunday Observance Act, 2010." The Act labels "Sunday to keep holy." "[N]o person shall engage in trading, practice profession or conduct commercial undertaking" on Sunday - but there are exceptions. It would allow hotels, restaurants, airport and its shops, and seaports to be open without restriction. "[M]om-and-pop" shops that cater "purposely for sale of food" can be open from 12 noon to 8pm Sunday.
So that would make the beastly kingdoms, correct?I really hope you know I was being sarcastic. lol. I don't REALLY believe what I was so obviously ridiculing.
Also, your analysis of the Greek word for beast is incorrect (the info you got from the Blue Letter Bible Lexicon). See Daniel. The Septuagint (which was what the apostles used) has beasts in that.
The beasts stood for kingdoms.
Me neither.I agree with all the above posts that say that worship should take place every day and in all ways, but I've always thought that the Christian day of observance is Sunday and not Saturday because that's the day of Jesus' resurrection, and I don't see the Mark of The Beast in recalling the resurrection.
I see you seem to be throughly mixed up and denying the truth. You give credit for worshipping on Sunday to the devil. I think you should reevaluate who you are calling the devil.Whenever the issue of the Sabbath-Sunday is brought into focus, ones attention is immediately turned to the Sunday keeping Christians versus the Sabbath keepers. This, I believe, is not the real issue. There are today many sincere Christians who are fully resting in Christ for salvation but are Sunday keepers. They are keeping the wrong day for the right reason. Likewise, there are many sincere Sabbath keepers who believe their Sabbath keeping will save them. They are keeping the right day for the wrong reason. Both need correction and this the Holy Spirit, who is to lead us into all truth, will do. Because of the mixed, confused ideas of salvation, the true controversy between Gods Sabbath and mans Sunday is today still foggy and not clearly understood. But when the two opposing methods of salvation come into clear focus, then the true importance of the Sabbath will be seen clearly. May God give us, at that time, the grace and courage to stand for truth.When this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations [Matthew 24:14]; it will polarize or divide the human race into only two camps believers and unbelievers [1 John 5:19], those who are fully resting in Christ and those who have ultimately rejected Christ. All who come under the banner of Christ will in the end-time worship the Lord of the Sabbath and their Sabbath keeping will be the outward sign or seal of the righteousness they have already received by faith, just as circumcision was to Abraham a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised [Romans 4:11].
Those who have deliberately and ultimately turned their backs to the free gift of salvation in Christ will all worship the dragon which gave power unto the beast [Revelation 13:3-4]. These will exalt Sunday as mans day of rest in defiance of the Sabbath, Gods rest day. The issue then in the final conflict will not be between two groups of Christians or even two rest days, but two opposing methods of salvation: the Sabbath, signifying salvation by faith alone, versus Sunday, signifying salvation by works or human effort.
When man turned from God-dependence, at the fall, and consequently had to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow [Genesis 3:19], a human rest day became necessary. Today, Sunday is that international day of rest, established by the world under Satan. Since man was also created a spiritual being, his departure from God-dependence to self-dependence also meant a departure from God-worship to subtle forms of self-worship [Romans 1:21-23; Isaiah 53:6; Philippians 2:21].
This spiritual departure led man from righteousness by faith to righteousness by works [self-righteousness Genesis 3:7; 11:4-9]. The New Testament describes this as the religion of Babylon based on the claims of Nebuchadnezzar, the great king of ancient Babylon [Daniel 4:30,31; Revelation 14:6-11]. [It must be noted here that the word Babylon derived its name from the ill-fated tower of Babel, meaning Gate (Bab) of God (el), symbolizing man trying to reach heaven by works.] The fundamental issue is all of scripture is salvation by faith versus salvation by works. At the heart of the Bible message is salvation by grace made effective through faith alone [Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 3:28; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 10:38-39; 11:1-40]. At the heart of every false religion is salvation by works.
In ancient times, Sunday not only became mans day of rest from physical and mental work but, above all, symbolized mans spiritual day of rest and worship based on the pagan belief that the sun was the god of gods. This became prominent in Christs day in the Roman Empire. Hence, at its very foundation, Sunday rest is a pagan institution representing self-righteousness; this is in complete contradiction to Gods Sabbath, His sign to man of righteousness by faith [Exodus 31:13, 16; Hebrews 10:14]. These two opposing concepts of salvation can never be reconciled and have been in conflict ever since the fall.
When the true gospel of righteousness by faith will be fully recovered and preached into all the world, every person will have to make the choice, either for or against Christ [Deuteronomy 30:19,20; Joshua 24:13-15; Romans 9:30-33; Philippians 3:3-9]. At that time, the Sabbath will become the seal of God, representing righteousness by faith. In contrast, Sunday will represent the Mark of the Beast, signifying mans rejection of Gods saving grace in Christ [Revelation 14:10-11]. Therefore, when the Sunday (blue) law will be legally established, it will indicate the worlds deliberate and ultimate rejection of Gods loving offer of salvation through His Son.
This is the abomination of desolation Christ spoke about [Matthew 24:14-22]. Those who will then insist on Sunday rest, in willful opposition to Gods Sabbath rest, will receive the plagues, the wrath of God poured out without mixture [Revelation 14:9-11]. In contrast, those who will stubbornly keep the Seventh-day Sabbath will be manifesting a faith in God that is unshakeable. They will go through the great time of trouble and wash their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.
Originally Posted by Setyoufree
Whenever the issue of the Sabbath-Sunday is brought into focus, ones attention is immediately turned to the Sunday keeping Christians versus the Sabbath keepers. This, I believe, is not the real issue. There are today many sincere Christians who are fully resting in Christ for salvation but are Sunday keepers. They are keeping the wrong day for the right reason.
Don't they allI see you seem to be throughly mixed up and denying the truth. You give credit for worshipping on Sunday to the devil. I think you should reevaluate who you are calling the devil.
You say worshipping on Sunday is man's effort and rejection of the truth and yet promote salvation by the sabbath. How funny. I know of no evangelical organization requiring worshipping on Sunday. Sunday is when they condut their corporate worship assemblies. They do not by-in-large apply sabbath regulations to Sunday.
You are spouting a a very distinctive religious organization's views and not the Scripture.
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NO! Do not be deceived, Sunday worship is NOT the mark of the beast?
Originally Posted by ptomwebster
NO! Do not be deceived, Sunday worship is NOT the mark of the beast?
Perhaps the SDAs' should look at themselves as the ones being deceived.....
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^^^I agree!^^^
According to Paul, God sends the entire human race a strong delusion near the time of the end with the goal of essentially rewarding them for their disobedience.
2 Thess 2:11
And for this cause God shall send them[SDAs] strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
The strong delusion must have something to do with discrediting the Bible (remember, they believe a lie). It is my personal opinion that the strong delusion might have something to do with aliens - but I'm not really sure.
All I know is that the strong delusion has something to do with the antichrist.
So, what do you think the strong delusion is all about?
The strong delusion is God giving men over to believe just about everything but the Truth.
Since a thread on this topic was closed by the OP awhile back, I thought I would start one it.
The below is the OP of that thread and would like to ask if this view is held by only a few sects/denominations within Christianity or is it more widespread?
I never heard of this view until I saw it on another thread.
So how many here agree with this "Sunday being the mark of the Beast?
Since a thread on this topic was closed by the OP awhile back, I thought I would start one it.
The below is the OP of that thread and would like to ask if this view is held by only a few sects/denominations within Christianity or is it more widespread?
I never heard of this view until I saw it on another thread.
So how many here agree with this "Sunday being the mark of the Beast?
http://www.christianforums.com/t6982465-107/#post44368491
No, that is nonsense. I use to believe it myself, but I realized I was in error. I do believe in keeping the 7th day Sabbath because it's one of the ten commandments, but Sunday worship is NOT the mark of the beast. The early Christians would gather together on both the Sabbath and Sunday to worship God. There is absolutely nothing wrong with going to church on Sunday. In the book of Acts, there is a verse where the apostles would gather together seven days a week.
The SDA church are correct about Sabbath keeping, but they are wrong about the mark of the beast. The beast and Antichrist is Islam, not the catholic church. This can easily be proven from the Bible. In the Middle East, millions of Muslims wear a symbol on their right arm and around their forehead. It reads, "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger." That is blasphemy. Only Jehovah is the true God, not Allah. But no, Sunday worship is not the mark of the beast.
I believe that view is also wrong...next....No, that is nonsense. I use to believe it myself, but I realized I was in error. I do believe in keeping the 7th day Sabbath because it's one of the ten commandments, but Sunday worship is NOT the mark of the beast.
The SDA church are correct about Sabbath keeping, but they are wrong about the mark of the beast.
The beast and Antichrist is Islam, not the catholic church.
This can easily be proven from the Bible. In the Middle East, millions of Muslims wear a symbol on their right arm and around their forehead. It reads, "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger." That is blasphemy. Only Jehovah is the true God, not Allah. But no, Sunday worship is not the mark of the beast.
For once, I agree with ya<ironic humour> Three cheers for the pope if he is so powerful that he single handedly managed to convince the whole christian world, including all the ancient churches that separated in the first few centuries from the Catholic Church, that Sunday is the day of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that Christians gathered, in apostolic times, to worship on Sundays and to share the Lord's supper together on that day, that Saturday was a Jewish obligation but not a Christian one, and that his power was go great and so enduring that not only did every church in that age accept his teaching but every subsequent century and all the churches and denominations of those centuries also accepted it! (except for a very few in the 17th century and a few more in the 19th century). <end ironic humour>
Really, does anybody really believe that a pope has ever had that much power and has ever been that persuasive?
I think not.
As for the sabbath, even the ten commandments as given in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 tell us explicitly that the commandments were given to Israel: "I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
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