❤️ *"La #alegría del Señor es tu #Fortaleza." (Nehemías 8:10)** Permite que la alegría que proviene de tu fe te fortalezca.
❤️ *"El #camino del justo es como la luz de la aurora, que va en aumento hasta que el día es perfecto." (Proverbios 4:18)** La luz siempre triunfa sobre la oscuridad; sigue adelante con esperanza.
❤️ *"Dios tiene #planes de bienestar para ti, planes de paz y no de mal." (Jeremías 29:11)** Su #propósito para ti es bueno; confía en Su dirección.
❤️ *"En la #oración, encuentra #paz; en la #fe, encuentra #fuerza."** La conexión con Dios a través de la oración puede traer consuelo y fortaleza.
❤️ *"Recuerda que cada día es un regalo; aprovecha cada momento para glorificar a Dios."** Vive con gratitud y enfoque en lo positivo, incluso en tiempos difíciles.
This is not an #arbitrary#decision on the part of #God, but the result of decisions made over a #lifetime by each #individual. The very wording of the announcement tells us that each #person, by his #life, decided what it would be. If he consistently chose to be unjust, he will henceforth remain that way. In sharp contrast, those who determined, in the #strength of Christ, to live godly lives will continue to do so for #eternity.
You will #recall that the #message of the First #Angel is that the hour of God's #judgment has come! Fear God, and give #glory to Him; for the #hour of His judgment is come: and #worship Him that made #heaven, and #earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. - Rv. 14:7.
The solemn words of Rv. 22:11 announce that the judgment has ended and the destiny of every soul is forever fixed. Now, while there is still time, we must make sure we have accepted Christ and are daily living #close by His side.
There is a line by us unseen, That crosses every path, - The hidden boundary between God's patience and his wrath. Throughout these years of probationary time, men and women are to be permitted to live a life of their own choosing. But after that comes the harvest.
Let both grow #together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the #tares, and #bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into My barn. - Mt 13:30. (taken from this page) Thank you GBY God bless you
THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS PART OF A “PLAN “: - A LUCIFERIC PLAN. “ The modern day Luciferian #conspiracy to overthrow #Christianity and all other religions that will not #worship Lucifer is today called THE PLAN.” “ Humanity needs to realise that there IS a PLAN and to recognise it’s influence in unfolding world events.” “ There is actually a PLAN and a purpose behind all #creation... World unity is the #goal towards which all #evolution is moving. The world PLAN includes: a new world #Organization... a world #economy... A WORLD #RELIGION....” Jesuit Alberto Riviera revealed The PLAN was made by the Jesuits who through Adam Weishaupt created the Bavarian Illuminati which has infiltrated the #masons, #ADfalse Christ)
A SHORT CRITIQUE THROUGH THE #EYES OF ADVENTISM The questions filling many minds are (1) What is this New World Order? (2) Who is promoting it? (3) How will it affect us? (4) When will it arrive?
As the New World Order comes under a variety of names, it might be well to list some of them: #Globalism, #humanism, #socialism, #feminism, #illuminism, #NewAge, etcetera, are all the same animal: the differences are #semantic and inconsequential. We may add to this list, New World Order and One World Government.
This movement is a combination of civil #power, so called #Christianity, and #Paganism or #spiritualism as Seventh-day Adventists would expect, being familiar with the book #TheGreatControversy . I have in my files a clipping - It reads in part:
"At the center of this 'Spiritual Hierarchy' stands the World Teacher, Lord Maitreya known by Christians as the false Christ. And as Christians await the Second Coming, so the Jews await the Messiah, the #Buddhists the fifth Buddha, the #Moslems the #Imam#Mahah and the #Hindus await #Krishna. These are all name for ONE INDIVIDUAL."
I THINK WE CAN READILY SEE THROUGH THIS #BLATANT ATTEMPT OF SATAN TO FORM A ONE WORLD RELIGION. For over 100 years, God's people have been aware of his plans to #control the world under the guise of a religious movement that will convert the world to his form of religion. Consider this statement found in The Great Controversy, 588:
"The line of distinction between professed Christians and the ungodly is now hardly distinguishable. Church members love what the world loves and are ready to join with them, and Satan determines to unite them in one body and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of spiritualism. Papist, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the #true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power; and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papist, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium."
It should now be evident that the religions of the world, paganism, also known as spiritualism, (including oriental, the New Age, et cetera) and apostate Christianity as well as Catholicism will be giving their hearty support to the pope. (Incidentally, this is also the goal of New Agers of every description).
WHO ARE THESE GROUPS WHO ARE WORKING FEVERISHLY TO USHER IN A NEW WORLD ORDER - IN WHICH THE WORLD IS UNITED IN GLOBAL PEACE, IN CONSERVATION OF WORLD RESOURCES, IN ALLEVIATION OF WORLD HUNGER AND IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ONE WORLD RELIGION? Seventh-day Adventists have known for over 100 years that they are Catholicism, apostate Protestantism, and spiritualism, also known as paganism or the New Age Movement. Notice this statement in The GC, 588:
"The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this #country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the #right of conscience."
This concept reminds us of the "10 kings of Rv. 17 who give their power and strength unto the beast for a #shorttime. The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7, 857, states:
"The brief 'hour,' ... witnesses the climax of satanic planning for the unification of the world through a compact between the apostate religious organizations of earth, as represented by the woman, and the political powers of earth, as represented by the #beast... The #nations of #earth ... unite ... in forcing the inhabitants of earth to drink the 'wine' of Babylon [her false doctrines], that is, to unite the world under her control and to obliterate all who refuse to co-operate."
EW comments: "There will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy of Satan's forces... In the warfare to be waged in the last days there will be united, in opposition to God's people, all the corrupt powers that have apostatized from allegiance to the law of Jehovah." (Ibid., 983)
The great motivating factor that will cause a universal demand that something be done to alleviate the situation, is the seemingly unending natural and man-made calamities engulfing the earth. Notice this statement from the pen of inspiration, The GC, 589-590:
"Even now he [Satan] is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. THESE VISITATIONS ARE TO BECOME MORE AND MORE FREQUENT AND DISASTROUS. Destruction will be upon man and beast."
BUT WHILE SATAN IS THE CAUSE OF THESE CATASTROPHES, NOTICE WHO GETS THE BLAME. (Ibid., 590: "And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God's commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the #Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced; and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the #people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity."
Then begins the persecution of God's people that culminates in the "time of trouble," the pouring out of the seventh last plagues and the coming of Christ. We need to remember that the kings of the earth are not fully gathered together to fight against Christ until the sixth plague and that the battle is actually fought under the seventh plague. (See Rv. 16:12-14) This timing means that there are six #plagues before the final battle (the final persecution of the righteous) begins. Of course, #probation has closed just before the plagues begin.
"Christ intervenes at the moment the forces of evil launch their attack on the saints, at the opening of the seventh plague." (7SDA BC 857). For a full description in plain #language, read the chapter in the Great Controversy, entitled 'God's People Delivered," beginning on page 635.
IN SUMMARY: The drive to create a New World Order is "now well underway." This "one-world government" will give the Papacy and Satan control of nearly the entire world for a short time. Only the #remnant few will refuse to acknowledge the New World Order. The great test will be God's Sabbath, versus the apostate Sunday sabbath. Our choice will be, Am I going to serve God, or Satan? May God help us to be among His #jewels !
"And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not." Malachi 3:17-18.
1) La #salvación sólo llega a quienes reconocen su desesperada #necesidad de la #vida espiritual que no tienen. El #agua viva sólo se puede obtener por aquellos que reconocen que están #espiritualmente sedientos.
2) La salvación viene sólo a aquellos que confiesan y se arrepienten de su pecado y desean el #perdón. Antes de que esta mujer #inmoral pudiera aceptar al Salvador, tuvo que admitir toda la carga de sus pecados.
3) La salvación viene sólo a aquellos que se #aferran a Jesús como su Salvador. La verdad absoluta es que la salvación no se encuentra en nadie más (Juan 14:6; Hechos 4:12).
#Feliz Santo #Sábado pueblo del Altísimo Padre Celestial y su amado Hijo Cristo Jesús, muchísimas bendiciones. 🥹🙌🏻🙏🙌🏻 Cristo viene pronto, amén mil veces amén
#PREPARATION FOR THE #SABBATH “On #Friday let the preparation for the Sabbath be completed. See that all the #clothing is in #readiness and that all the #cooking is #done. Let the #boots be blacked and the #bath be taken. It is possible to #do this. If you make it a rule you can do it. The Sabbath is #not to be given to the #repairing of #garments, to the #cooking of food, to pleasure seeking, or to any other worldly #employment. #Before the setting of the sun let all secular work be laid aside, and all secular papers be put out of sight. #Parents, explain your work and its purpose to your children, and let them share in your preparation to keep the Sabbath according to the commandment… Before the setting of the sun let the members of the family assemble to read God’s word, to sing and pray.” Tes, vol. 6, 355, 356.
THE #BIBLE PREDICTS THAT TWO END-TIME #SUPERPOWERS WILL USE #SATANIC DECEPTIONS TO ENFORCE A GLOBAL #RELIGIOUS#TYRANNY - WHO ARE THEY? WHEN WILL THEY ARISE? I live in a #country whose #citizens may attend any #church they desire or may ignore #religion entirely, if they choose. They may even promote their religious #beliefs, as long as they do not restrict other people's #freedoms in the process.
So when I read the #prophecy in #Revelation 13 about an evil #power forcing everyone, on pain of death, to #worship "the #beast," it #sounds like a medieval #fairy tale. How could sophisticated nations allow themselves to be manipulated by such a despot? Even more difficult to #imagine is #Buddists, #Moslems, #Christians, #Hindus, #athiest, #voodooists, #animists, etc. uniting to support such a global religious #leader! The #Book of Revelation picks up where the book of Daniel leaves off. John is shown details about world empires right before Jesus comes that enlarge on Daniel's prophecy. (See "Can We Trust Bible Prophecy?" in this issue.)
The apostle John received his revelations from #Jesus Christ around A.D. 96. Since then, many of Revelation's prophecies have been fulfilled. But the events described in Revelation 13 haven't all been fulfilled yet. Does the Bible shed light on who these beasts are and when they will come to power?
THE SEVEN-HEADED BEAST There are #amazing similarities between the first beast of Revelation 13 and the little horn of Daniel 7. For example, the beast speak great things and #blasphemies against God (Revelation 13:5, 6). The little horn spoke great #words against God (Daniel 7:25). The beast make war with the saints and persecuted them (Revelation 13:7). The little horn also persecuted the saints of God (Daniel 7:21). The beast rules for 42 #prophetic months or 1260 years (Revelation 13:5). The little horn rules for a time, times, and the dividing of time, or 1260 years (Daniel 7:25). In Revelation 13, the beast had ten horns representing the ten divisions of Rome from which the Papacy emerged as a world power. In Daniel 7, the ten horns of the fourth beast represented the ten divisions of Rome from which the the little horn power - the Papacy - emerged as a leader. In both prophecies - Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 - we have a description of the Papacy.
There is another valuable identifying mark of the Papacy described in Revelation 13:2: "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion." Here the beast is described as a combination of the same beasts in Daniel 7, representing Greece, Medo-Persia, and Babylon.
Daniel prophesied that these three kigdoms would continue on after their kigdoms had vanished. "As concerning the rest of the beasts (the lion, the bear, and the leopard), they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time" (Daniel 7:12).
The lives of these defeated empires were prolonged by pagan Rome's practice of borrowing deities and beliefs from the surrounding nations. When Papal Rome needed to make Christianity the religion of the state, it fused pagan customs with Christian beliefs. Then it was that Greece, Medo-Persia, and Babylon lived on to influence and corrupt Christianity. Historian Alexander Hislop states, "To conciliate the pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and pagan festivals amalgamated and by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get paganism and Christianity, now for sunk in idolatry,...to shake hands"(Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylon, p. 105).
But the influence of these past kingdoms and their idolatrous worship on Christian ideals did not end with pagan festivals. Instead of many simple churches, these emerged the grand cathedrals with altars and idols. Instead of pastors, evangelists, apostles, and teachers, there emerged the Catholic priesthood. The apostasy went even so far as to have a bloodless victim: the wafer at communion was claimed to be the literal body of Christ.
John was shown that the Papacy received its power and authority from the dragon, or the devil (Revelation12:9; 13:2). Yet God has precious children worshipping in the Roman Catholic communion. When we identify the beast, we are addressing a false system of worship, not individuals.
THE LAMB-LIKE BEAST Now the focus of Revelation 13 moves to the lamb-like beast. John say the seven-headed beast rising out of the sea. But the lamb-like beast from the earth (Revelation 13:10-11). The Bible tells us that "seas" or "waters" represent a very populous part of the earth with its teeming multitudes. (See Revelation 17:15). The "earth," by contrast, represents a new world with few inhabitants.
When would this great nation arise? While John sees in vision the first beast, the Papacy, going into captivity in A.D. 1798, he sees another beast rising from obscurity into a superpower. The United States is that political power that arises out of the New World at the end of the 18th century.
The United States is described as a beast with two horns like a lamb, or a nation with Christlike features. The previous world powers were described as ferocious beasts because of their civil and religious intolerance. However, this lamb-like nation occupies the New World offering both civil and religious freedom.
But sadly, the Bible tells us that one day this peaceful nation will "speak as a dragon." The prophecy doesn't say it would look like a dragon. It would look like a professedly "Christian" nation, while at the same time exhibiting the characteristics of Satan. By causing the world to "worship the beast," it will repudiate the two great principles of civil and religious freedom.
THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST We are told that the seven-headed beast - the papacy - received a deadly wound (Revelation 13:3). When the pope was captured by Napoleon's armies in A.D. 1798, it ceased to be a universal political power, although it continued as a church - However, the prophecy predicts that "...his daedly wound was headed and all the world wondered after the beast."
The Papacy is returning to universal political power once again. Today, the wound is largely healed. How will the United States of America force the world to worship the modern Papacy? The Bible says, "And he [the lamb-like beast] exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed" (Revelation 13:12). Before the U.S. can enforce global religious decrees, a religious element within the United States will pressure lawmakers to pass religious legislation that allies them with the Church of Rome.
The two superpowers today are the United States and the Vatican. The United States is the greatest nation in human history - with a strong and diverse economy and superior military force.
The Vatican is the world's most multi-racial and multi-cultural institution. Her members comprise one'fifth of the world's population. The pope is the most popular international figure and controls a worldwide infrastructure of schools, universities, churches, hospitals, libraries, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio, and television stations. He has a working force of half a million priests overseeing more than 200,000 parishes. The Vatican Bank, "with its team of international advisers who administer an extensive portofolio of the Holy See's holdings and investments in virtually every sector of the world's commercial and industrial activity," makes the Papacy a major economic force in geopolitics today." (Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood, p. 111.)
A RETURN OF TYRANNY When Christian leaders in the Roman Empire mingled pagan customs with the purity of the gospel, they lost the Spirit and power of God. Lacking spiritual power, they sought the support of secular power. The result was the Papacy, a church that controlled the power of the state, and employed it to further her own interests, especially in the punishment of dissenters.
When the leading churches of the United States pressure lawmakers to enforce their doctrines and to sustain their institutions, then the U.S. will have formed an image or likeness to the Papacy. Both history and prophecy warn us that when the church controls the state, religious oppression is the sure result.
Religious leaders will use use miracles to prove that heaven is behind their alliance between church and state. (See Revelation 13:13-14.) Under the influence of these deceptions, people born in free countries will believe this spiritual tyranny is ordained of God.
What happens to those who do not worship the beast and his image? The Bible says, "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak [legislatively], and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Revelation 13:15-17).
What a religious crisis! Those who do not worship the beast or his image, or receive the mark of the beast, cannot buy anything to eat or wear. They may lose their homes. They will not be allowed to sell anything. Essentially, they face a complete economic boycott. And eventually, they will face a death decree.
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*Diseñado para ti*
❤️ *"La #alegría del Señor es tu #Fortaleza." (Nehemías 8:10)**
Permite que la alegría que proviene de tu fe te fortalezca.
❤️ *"El #camino del justo es como la luz de la aurora, que va en aumento hasta que el día es perfecto." (Proverbios 4:18)**
La luz siempre triunfa sobre la oscuridad; sigue adelante con esperanza.
❤️ *"Dios tiene #planes de bienestar para ti, planes de paz y no de mal." (Jeremías 29:11)**
Su #propósito para ti es bueno; confía en Su dirección.
❤️ *"En la #oración, encuentra #paz; en la #fe, encuentra #fuerza."**
La conexión con Dios a través de la oración puede traer consuelo y fortaleza.
❤️ *"Recuerda que cada día es un regalo; aprovecha cada momento para glorificar a Dios."**
Vive con gratitud y enfoque en lo positivo, incluso en tiempos difíciles.
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➡️RV.22:11 #COMINGSOON -THE #CLOSE OF #PROBATION!
HE THAT IS #UNJUST: The #destiny of all will be #forever fixed when #Jesus makes this #announcement and leaves the heavenly Sanctuary, #preparatory to returning to #earth for His own. This #declaration, once made, will #never afterward be reversed.
This is not an #arbitrary #decision on the part of #God, but the result of decisions made over a #lifetime by each #individual. The very wording of the announcement tells us that each #person, by his #life, decided what it would be. If he consistently chose to be unjust, he will henceforth remain that way. In sharp contrast, those who determined, in the #strength of Christ, to live godly lives will continue to do so for #eternity.
You will #recall that the #message of the First #Angel is that the hour of God's #judgment has come!
Fear God, and give #glory to Him; for the #hour of His judgment is come: and #worship Him that made #heaven, and #earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. - Rv. 14:7.
The solemn words of Rv. 22:11 announce that the judgment has ended and the destiny of every soul is forever fixed. Now, while there is still time, we must make sure we have accepted Christ and are daily living #close by His side.
There is a line by us unseen, That crosses every path, - The hidden boundary between God's patience and his wrath.
Throughout these years of probationary time, men and women are to be permitted to live a life of their own choosing. But after that comes the harvest.
Let both grow #together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the #tares, and #bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into My barn. - Mt 13:30.
(taken from this page) Thank you GBY God bless you
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THE #POPE'S #SYSTEM PLANS FOR CONQUERING THE #WORLD - HE #CALLS FOR A #NEWWORLORDER !
THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS PART OF A “PLAN “: - A LUCIFERIC PLAN. “ The modern day Luciferian #conspiracy to overthrow #Christianity and all other religions that will not #worship Lucifer is today called THE PLAN.” “ Humanity needs to realise that there IS a PLAN and to recognise it’s influence in unfolding world events.” “ There is actually a PLAN and a purpose behind all #creation... World unity is the #goal towards which all #evolution is moving. The world PLAN includes: a new world #Organization... a world #economy... A WORLD #RELIGION....” Jesuit Alberto Riviera revealed The PLAN was made by the Jesuits who through Adam Weishaupt created the Bavarian Illuminati which has infiltrated the #masons, #ADfalse Christ)
A SHORT CRITIQUE THROUGH THE #EYES OF ADVENTISM
The questions filling many minds are (1) What is this New World Order? (2) Who is promoting it? (3) How will it affect us? (4) When will it arrive?
As the New World Order comes under a variety of names, it might be well to list some of them: #Globalism, #humanism, #socialism, #feminism, #illuminism, #NewAge, etcetera, are all the same animal: the differences are #semantic and inconsequential. We may add to this list, New World Order and One World Government.
This movement is a combination of civil #power, so called #Christianity, and #Paganism or #spiritualism as Seventh-day Adventists would expect, being familiar with the book #TheGreatControversy . I have in my files a clipping - It reads in part:
"At the center of this 'Spiritual Hierarchy' stands the World Teacher, Lord Maitreya known by Christians as the false Christ. And as Christians await the Second Coming, so the Jews await the Messiah, the #Buddhists the fifth Buddha, the #Moslems the #Imam #Mahah and the #Hindus await #Krishna. These are all name for ONE INDIVIDUAL."
I THINK WE CAN READILY SEE THROUGH THIS #BLATANT ATTEMPT OF SATAN TO FORM A ONE WORLD RELIGION. For over 100 years, God's people have been aware of his plans to #control the world under the guise of a religious movement that will convert the world to his form of religion. Consider this statement found in The Great Controversy, 588:
"The line of distinction between professed Christians and the ungodly is now hardly distinguishable. Church members love what the world loves and are ready to join with them, and Satan determines to unite them in one body and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of spiritualism. Papist, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the #true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power; and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papist, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium."
It should now be evident that the religions of the world, paganism, also known as spiritualism, (including oriental, the New Age, et cetera) and apostate Christianity as well as Catholicism will be giving their hearty support to the pope. (Incidentally, this is also the goal of New Agers of every description).
WHO ARE THESE GROUPS WHO ARE WORKING FEVERISHLY TO USHER IN A NEW WORLD ORDER - IN WHICH THE WORLD IS UNITED IN GLOBAL PEACE, IN CONSERVATION OF WORLD RESOURCES, IN ALLEVIATION OF WORLD HUNGER AND IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ONE WORLD RELIGION? Seventh-day Adventists have known for over 100 years that they are Catholicism, apostate Protestantism, and spiritualism, also known as paganism or the New Age Movement. Notice this statement in The GC, 588:
"The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this #country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the #right of conscience."
This concept reminds us of the "10 kings of Rv. 17 who give their power and strength unto the beast for a #shorttime. The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7, 857, states:
"The brief 'hour,' ... witnesses the climax of satanic planning for the unification of the world through a compact between the apostate religious organizations of earth, as represented by the woman, and the political powers of earth, as represented by the #beast... The #nations of #earth ... unite ... in forcing the inhabitants of earth to drink the 'wine' of Babylon [her false doctrines], that is, to unite the world under her control and to obliterate all who refuse to co-operate."
EW comments:
"There will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy of Satan's forces... In the warfare to be waged in the last days there will be united, in opposition to God's people, all the corrupt powers that have apostatized from allegiance to the law of Jehovah." (Ibid., 983)
The great motivating factor that will cause a universal demand that something be done to alleviate the situation, is the seemingly unending natural and man-made calamities engulfing the earth. Notice this statement from the pen of inspiration, The GC, 589-590:
"Even now he [Satan] is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. THESE VISITATIONS ARE TO BECOME MORE AND MORE FREQUENT AND DISASTROUS. Destruction will be upon man and beast."
BUT WHILE SATAN IS THE CAUSE OF THESE CATASTROPHES, NOTICE WHO GETS THE BLAME. (Ibid., 590:
"And then the great deceiver will persuade men that those who serve God are causing these evils. The class that have provoked the displeasure of Heaven will charge all their troubles upon those whose obedience to God's commandments is a perpetual reproof to transgressors. It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the #Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced; and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the #people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity."
Then begins the persecution of God's people that culminates in the "time of trouble," the pouring out of the seventh last plagues and the coming of Christ. We need to remember that the kings of the earth are not fully gathered together to fight against Christ until the sixth plague and that the battle is actually fought under the seventh plague. (See Rv. 16:12-14) This timing means that there are six #plagues before the final battle (the final persecution of the righteous) begins. Of course, #probation has closed just before the plagues begin.
"Christ intervenes at the moment the forces of evil launch their attack on the saints, at the opening of the seventh plague." (7SDA BC 857). For a full description in plain #language, read the chapter in the Great Controversy, entitled 'God's People Delivered," beginning on page 635.
IN SUMMARY: The drive to create a New World Order is "now well underway." This "one-world government" will give the Papacy and Satan control of nearly the entire world for a short time. Only the #remnant few will refuse to acknowledge the New World Order. The great test will be God's Sabbath, versus the apostate Sunday sabbath. Our choice will be, Am I going to serve God, or Satan? May God help us to be among His #jewels !
"And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not." Malachi 3:17-18.
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El diálogo de #Jesús con la #mujer junto al pozo aprendemos muchas #verdades absolutas, #tres de ellas son sobre la #salvación:
1) La #salvación sólo llega a quienes reconocen su desesperada #necesidad de la #vida espiritual que no tienen. El #agua viva sólo se puede obtener por aquellos que reconocen que están #espiritualmente sedientos.
2) La salvación viene sólo a aquellos que confiesan y se arrepienten de su pecado y desean el #perdón. Antes de que esta mujer #inmoral pudiera aceptar al Salvador, tuvo que admitir toda la carga de sus pecados.
3) La salvación viene sólo a aquellos que se #aferran a Jesús como su Salvador. La verdad absoluta es que la salvación no se encuentra en nadie más (Juan 14:6; Hechos 4:12).
#Feliz Santo #Sábado pueblo del Altísimo Padre Celestial y su amado Hijo Cristo Jesús, muchísimas bendiciones. 🥹🙌🏻🙏🙌🏻 Cristo viene pronto, amén mil veces amén
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#PREPARATION FOR THE #SABBATH
“On #Friday let the preparation for the Sabbath be completed. See that all the #clothing is in #readiness and that all the #cooking is #done. Let the #boots be blacked and the #bath be taken. It is possible to #do this. If you make it a rule you can do it. The Sabbath is #not to be given to the #repairing of #garments, to the #cooking of food, to pleasure seeking, or to any other worldly #employment. #Before the setting of the sun let all secular work be laid aside, and all secular papers be put out of sight. #Parents, explain your work and its purpose to your children, and let them share in your preparation to keep the Sabbath according to the commandment… Before the setting of the sun let the members of the family assemble to read God’s word, to sing and pray.” Tes, vol. 6, 355, 356.
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#FREEDOM'S #FINAL #HOUR
THE #BIBLE PREDICTS THAT TWO END-TIME #SUPERPOWERS WILL USE #SATANIC DECEPTIONS TO ENFORCE A GLOBAL #RELIGIOUS #TYRANNY - WHO ARE THEY? WHEN WILL THEY ARISE?
I live in a #country whose #citizens may attend any #church they desire or may ignore #religion entirely, if they choose. They may even promote their religious #beliefs, as long as they do not restrict other people's #freedoms in the process.
So when I read the #prophecy in #Revelation 13 about an evil #power forcing everyone, on pain of death, to #worship "the #beast," it #sounds like a medieval #fairy tale. How could sophisticated nations allow themselves to be manipulated by such a despot? Even more difficult to #imagine is #Buddists, #Moslems, #Christians, #Hindus, #athiest, #voodooists, #animists, etc. uniting to support such a global religious #leader!
The #Book of Revelation picks up where the book of Daniel leaves off. John is shown details about world empires right before Jesus comes that enlarge on Daniel's prophecy. (See "Can We Trust Bible Prophecy?" in this issue.)
The apostle John received his revelations from #Jesus Christ around A.D. 96. Since then, many of Revelation's prophecies have been fulfilled. But the events described in Revelation 13 haven't all been fulfilled yet. Does the Bible shed light on who these beasts are and when they will come to power?
THE SEVEN-HEADED BEAST
There are #amazing similarities between the first beast of Revelation 13 and the little horn of Daniel 7. For example, the beast speak great things and #blasphemies against God (Revelation 13:5, 6). The little horn spoke great #words against God (Daniel 7:25). The beast make war with the saints and persecuted them (Revelation 13:7). The little horn also persecuted the saints of God (Daniel 7:21). The beast rules for 42 #prophetic months or 1260 years (Revelation 13:5). The little horn rules for a time, times, and the dividing of time, or 1260 years (Daniel 7:25). In Revelation 13, the beast had ten horns representing the ten divisions of Rome from which the Papacy emerged as a world power. In Daniel 7, the ten horns of the fourth beast represented the ten divisions of Rome from which the the little horn power - the Papacy - emerged as a leader. In both prophecies - Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 - we have a description of the Papacy.
There is another valuable identifying mark of the Papacy described in Revelation 13:2: "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion." Here the beast is described as a combination of the same beasts in Daniel 7, representing Greece, Medo-Persia, and Babylon.
Daniel prophesied that these three kigdoms would continue on after their kigdoms had vanished. "As concerning the rest of the beasts (the lion, the bear, and the leopard), they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time" (Daniel 7:12).
The lives of these defeated empires were prolonged by pagan Rome's practice of borrowing deities and beliefs from the surrounding nations. When Papal Rome needed to make Christianity the religion of the state, it fused pagan customs with Christian beliefs. Then it was that Greece, Medo-Persia, and Babylon lived on to influence and corrupt Christianity. Historian Alexander Hislop states, "To conciliate the pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and pagan festivals amalgamated and by a complicated but skillful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get paganism and Christianity, now for sunk in idolatry,...to shake hands"(Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylon, p. 105).
But the influence of these past kingdoms and their idolatrous worship on Christian ideals did not end with pagan festivals. Instead of many simple churches, these emerged the grand cathedrals with altars and idols. Instead of pastors, evangelists, apostles, and teachers, there emerged the Catholic priesthood. The apostasy went even so far as to have a bloodless victim: the wafer at communion was claimed to be the literal body of Christ.
John was shown that the Papacy received its power and authority from the dragon, or the devil (Revelation12:9; 13:2). Yet God has precious children worshipping in the Roman Catholic communion. When we identify the beast, we are addressing a false system of worship, not individuals.
THE LAMB-LIKE BEAST
Now the focus of Revelation 13 moves to the lamb-like beast. John say the seven-headed beast rising out of the sea. But the lamb-like beast from the earth (Revelation 13:10-11). The Bible tells us that "seas" or "waters" represent a very populous part of the earth with its teeming multitudes. (See Revelation 17:15). The "earth," by contrast, represents a new world with few inhabitants.
When would this great nation arise? While John sees in vision the first beast, the Papacy, going into captivity in A.D. 1798, he sees another beast rising from obscurity into a superpower. The United States is that political power that arises out of the New World at the end of the 18th century.
The United States is described as a beast with two horns like a lamb, or a nation with Christlike features. The previous world powers were described as ferocious beasts because of their civil and religious intolerance. However, this lamb-like nation occupies the New World offering both civil and religious freedom.
But sadly, the Bible tells us that one day this peaceful nation will "speak as a dragon." The prophecy doesn't say it would look like a dragon. It would look like a professedly "Christian" nation, while at the same time exhibiting the characteristics of Satan. By causing the world to "worship the beast," it will repudiate the two great principles of civil and religious freedom.
THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST
We are told that the seven-headed beast - the papacy - received a deadly wound (Revelation 13:3). When the pope was captured by Napoleon's armies in A.D. 1798, it ceased to be a universal political power, although it continued as a church - However, the prophecy predicts that "...his daedly wound was headed and all the world wondered after the beast."
The Papacy is returning to universal political power once again. Today, the wound is largely healed.
How will the United States of America force the world to worship the modern Papacy? The Bible says, "And he [the lamb-like beast] exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed" (Revelation 13:12).
Before the U.S. can enforce global religious decrees, a religious element within the United States will pressure lawmakers to pass religious legislation that allies them with the Church of Rome.
The two superpowers today are the United States and the Vatican. The United States is the greatest nation in human history - with a strong and diverse economy and superior military force.
The Vatican is the world's most multi-racial and multi-cultural institution. Her members comprise one'fifth of the world's population. The pope is the most popular international figure and controls a worldwide infrastructure of schools, universities, churches, hospitals, libraries, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio, and television stations. He has a working force of half a million priests overseeing more than 200,000 parishes. The Vatican Bank, "with its team of international advisers who administer an extensive portofolio of the Holy See's holdings and investments in virtually every sector of the world's commercial and industrial activity," makes the Papacy a major economic force in geopolitics today." (Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood, p. 111.)
A RETURN OF TYRANNY
When Christian leaders in the Roman Empire mingled pagan customs with the purity of the gospel, they lost the Spirit and power of God. Lacking spiritual power, they sought the support of secular power. The result was the Papacy, a church that controlled the power of the state, and employed it to further her own interests, especially in the punishment of dissenters.
When the leading churches of the United States pressure lawmakers to enforce their doctrines and to sustain their institutions, then the U.S. will have formed an image or likeness to the Papacy. Both history and prophecy warn us that when the church controls the state, religious oppression is the sure result.
Religious leaders will use use miracles to prove that heaven is behind their alliance between church and state. (See Revelation 13:13-14.) Under the influence of these deceptions, people born in free countries will believe this spiritual tyranny is ordained of God.
What happens to those who do not worship the beast and his image? The Bible says, "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak [legislatively], and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Revelation 13:15-17).
What a religious crisis! Those who do not worship the beast or his image, or receive the mark of the beast, cannot buy anything to eat or wear. They may lose their homes. They will not be allowed to sell anything. Essentially, they face a complete economic boycott. And eventually, they will face a death decree.
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#Gandhi answered this #question: which are the #factors that #destroy #humans ? the #politics without #principles , the #pleasure without #commitments, the #wealth without #work, the #wisdom without #character, the #business without #moral, the #science without #humanity , and the #prayer without #charity .
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