The National Sunday Law – How,
Why, and When?
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God’s wrath is
about to break out on this rebellious
planet. A series of carefully
choreographed judgments will soon
fall and thousands of notoriously
wicked cities will be burned up (just
like Sodom and Gomorrah) or washed
away in a violent ocean. More than
1.75 billion people will soon die as
a result of God’s wrath. After
the nations of the world are in ruins
and the survival of every government
is questionable, martial law will be
imposed in every nation. It is in
this dire context that Protestants,
Catholics, Jews, Moslems, Hindus,
Pagans and Atheists will unite.
Everyone will see God’s wrath
and everyone will agree that God must
be appeased or He will destroy
everyone. Here in the U.S., Congress
will set aside the Bill of Rights and
enact a national day for repentance
and worship. This is how a national
Sunday law will occur. The papacy
will play an important role in end
time events, but not as SDAs
anticipate.
End Time Scenario
In a nutshell, here is
a short overview of coming events, as
I understand them. A few years ago,
the seven angels who stand before God
were given seven trumpets.
(Revelation 8:2) Each trumpet is
associated with a horrible judgment.
When a trumpet sounds, a specific
judgment occurs on Earth. The overall
purpose of the seven trumpets is to
awaken the whole world to the
authority and reality of Jesus
Christ, His wrath against degenerate
behavior, His generous offer of
salvation, and His imminent return.
When the seven angels
received their trumpets, four of them
immediately left God’s throne to
destroy Earth. Before they could harm
the Earth, they were told, “Hurt
not the Earth, neither the sea, nor
the trees,” until God
selects and seals 144,000 people.
(Revelation 7:1-8) So, four angels
are prepared to unleash God’s
wrath (first four trumpets) at this
very moment, but they are waiting for
the appointed time to arrive. When
the appointed time arrives, Jesus
will terminate their delay
(Revelation 10:6) and the four angels
will sound their trumpets and a
carefully choreographed series of
judgments will occur. These judgments
will cause great tribulation. Because
of fear of more judgments, the
144,000 will be able to proclaim the
gospel of Jesus Christ to every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people
and surprisingly, the world will
listen for a while!
The first four
trumpets will occur over a period of
about sixty days and the results will
be overwhelming and catastrophic. The
first judgment will be a meteoric
shower of burning hail that burns up
a third of Earth! Notoriously wicked
places all over the world will be
burned up just like Sodom and
Gomorrah. The second trumpet judgment
will be an asteroid impact on an
ocean. The resulting tsunami (several
hundred feet high) will quickly
destroy thousands of coastal cities.
The ocean will roil with great
turbulence for months. (Luke 21:25)
The tsunami that suddenly destroyed
230,000 people in southeastern Asia
(December 26, 2004) is a small
prophetic sample of how this huge
tsunami will destroy thousands of
coastal cities. The third trumpet
will be an asteroid impact on a
wicked continent. This impact will
cause all kinds of seismic havoc.
Rivers and underground aquifers will
become contaminated with buried
sewage and toxic waste. Millions of
people will die from drinking
poisonous water. The fourth trumpet
will affect the Sun, moon and stars.
Even though the Bible does not
explain how darkness will cover a
third of Earth, I believe there is a
simple answer. Hundreds of volcanoes
will erupt and their ash and ejecta,
carried by the jet stream, will
darken the middle third of the world
for months. Crops will perish and
famine will overtake the world. In
all, 1.75 billion people will die as
a result of God’s wrath.
God’s coming wrath is beyond
calculation, but so is His mercy.
The first four
trumpets will achieve two impressive
goals. First, the world will
unanimously agree that there is a
living God and that He is definitely
angry with all mankind. Every nation
on Earth will reel from God’s
judgments. The nation of Earth will
experience communal suffering and as
a result, mankind will find it rather
easy to unite as one family, begging
Almighty God to stop the judgments.
Out of anguish and fear, the nations
of the world will repeat the words of
ancient Israel, Whatever you want Oh
God, we will do! (Exodus 19:8)
Religious and
political leaders from every nation
will meet to discuss ways of
appeasing God. During the meeting,
world leaders will create a new religious
government that will be given
authority over the nations of Earth.
This coming government is called
Babylon in Revelation. It will be
given power over every nation without
firing a single bullet. Babylon is
the leopard-like beast that rises out
of the sea in Revelation 13. It
represents mankind’s response to
the first four trumpets. Babylon’s
mission is simple: The appeasement of
God. The leaders of Babylon will
decide what must be done within each
nation to appease God. Because no one
wants to offend God, political
leaders will dutifully carry out
Babylon’s demands for
legislation.
The Deadly Wound
Healed
I believe religious
leaders of the world will nominate
and elect the pope as leader of
Babylon. The pope will be selected
because the Catholic Church is the
only church that has diplomatic
relations with most of the world (179
nations currently). Once the pope is
exalted by the religions of the world
to lead Babylon, the deadly wound
will be healed.
Bear in mind,
the pope will not be put in a
position where he can impose the
doctrines of the Catholic Church on
the nations of Earth. Instead, the
pope will lead a diverse religious
government in an effort to appease
God so that His anger will cease. Our
world has seven diverse religious
systems and each system differs on
the will of God. Thus, Babylon’s
approach to appeasing God in one
nation will be different than in
other nations. For example, the pope
and his diverse cabinet of religious
leaders will direct lawmakers in
every nation to establish a day for
repentance and to worship God. This
explains how a national Sunday law
will occur in the United States. This
also explains how Moslem nations will
implement Friday laws and how modern
Israel will honor Saturday as its
holy day. In fact, every nation on
Earth will enact laws mandating
respect for God so that His judgments
will cease. Each nation will also
implement and enforce laws forbidding
sinful behaviors such as
homosexuality, gay marriage, gay
clergy, abortion, sexual immorality,
gambling, drinking, etc. A large
assortment of “sin-less”
laws will be forthcoming.
Babylon’s effort to appease God
through legislation explains how
everyone, in every nation, will be
affected. This also explains how
persecution will face those who
insist on obeying the fourth
commandment.
Babylon Is the
Leopard-like Beast
Babylon is
represented in Revelation 13:1-8 as a
leopard-like monster that rises out
of the sea. When this monster beast
rises, it will have seven heads and
ten horns. The seven heads represent
the seven religious systems of the
world and the ten horns represent ten
kings that Lucifer will appoint
shortly before the Second Coming. The
papacy is the sixth head of the
leopard-like beast. This is the head
who received the fatal wound. This
head will be healed when the pope is
selected leader of Babylon and the
forty-two months of persecution
begins. The sea in Revelation 13:1
represents “a multitude of
nations, peoples and languages.”
(See Revelation 17:15.) In other
words, Babylon will rise up from within
all the nations of Earth and Babylon
will be given authority over every
nation without going to war or firing
a single bullet! The Bible speaks
clearly about this amazing event: “…
And he [the leopard-like beast] was
[freely] given authority over
every tribe, people, language and
nation.” (Revelation 13:7,
insertions and italics mine) The
chaotic events due to the first four
trumpets causes Babylon to form.
Today, it is
outrageous to say that the
world’s political leaders will voluntarily
submit to Babylon’s authority!
In today’s society, this
submission is unthinkable and
impossible, but the Bible predicts it
will surely occur. When the world
leaders see and experience the
magnitude and scope of God’s
wrath on thousands of notably wicked
places and realize that God has
killed about two billion people,
everyone will tremble at God’s
awful wrath. If the wrath of Almighty
God (actually Jesus Christ) can do
this, He can easily humble the egos
of clergy and politicians. During the
gloomy and foreboding darkness of the
fourth trumpet, the political leaders
of the world will readily agree with
their “religious experts”
that God’s wrath must be
promptly appeased or everyone will
die. Like the jailer in Philippi, the
all-important question will be, “What
must I do to be saved?”
(Acts 16:30)
The formation of
Babylon will prove that the religious
leaders of the world do not
understand God, His Word, or His
plans. Ironically, they will think
they are doing good, but their
actions will only make matters worse.
Instead of appeasing God, they will
actually insult God!
Oops
I have to bring this
study to a close. I hope you can see
how worship will become a hotly
contested issue in coming days. You
indicated in your letter, Faye that
you had read the article I wrote on
the seven trumpets. I hope you will
read it again with an open Bible.
Look up the texts and see for
yourself how God’s Word explains
itself. (For those who haven’t
read my study on the seven trumpets,
please download it for free and print
it:
http://www.wake-up.org/Revelation/RevTrumpets.pdf
I will close with
these highlights on the last three
trumpets. The fifth trumpet will be
the physical appearing of the devil,
the Antichrist himself, masquerading
around the world as Christ! He will
deceive the world with his mighty
miracles. His supreme miracle will be
that of calling fire down out of
heaven at will. Attended by millions
of demons, billions of people will
believe that this glorious being is
Almighty God. The sixth trumpet is
even worse. The devil will kill a
third of mankind (those who oppose
him) as he sets himself up as King of
kings and Lord of lords. Everyone who
submits to his authority will voluntarily
receive a tattoo on their right hand.
The tattoo will be necessary to buy
and sell. Finally the seventh trumpet
will sound. This trumpet marks the
close of God’s grace and mercy.
There will be a great display of
power in Heaven. Everyone on Earth
will behold the Ark of the Covenant
that contains the Ten Commandments.
God’s law will be shown to
mankind because it is the law that
condemns sin. The seven bowls will
then be poured out on the wicked.
Those rebelling against God will be
punished by the very law they refused
to obey.
References
1. The
Great Controversy, pages 591,592
2. Ibid,
page 439
3. Ibid,
page 579
4. Ibid,
pages 446-447, See Ten Commandments, Catechism
of the Catholic Church
5. Ibid,
pages 447,448
6. Ibid,
pages 604,605
7. Ibid,
pages 439-441
8. Ibid,
page 578 [insertion mine]
9. Testimonies
to the Church, Volume 6, page 18
[insertion mine]
10. Seventh-day
Adventist Bible Commentary,
Volume 7, page 976
11. The Great
Controversy, page 615
12. Ibid, page 625
13. Seventh-day
Adventist Church Manual, page 61
(1971 edition)
14. The Great
Controversy, page 438
15. The New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia, “The
Society of Jesus”
16. The Great
Controversy, page 54
17. Ibid, page 439
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