The decree enforcing the worship of the first day is to go forth to all the world. In a limited degree, it has already gone forth. In several places the civil power is speaking with the voice of a dragon, just as the heathen king spoke to the Hebrew captives.Trial and persecution will come to all who, in obedience to the Word of God, refuse to worship this false sabbath. Force is the last resort of every false religion.  ST May 6,  1897, par. 15 – ST May 6,  1897, par. 16

Damon Wake and Francesco Fontemaggi

Fri, May 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM GMT+34 min read

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged Europe and Asia to build a new alliance to hold off big powers seeking to build “spheres of coercion“, in a swipe at China and Russia.

Protestants little know what they are doing when they propose to accept the aid of Rome in the work of Sunday exaltation. While they are bent upon the accomplishment of their purpose, Rome is aiming to re-establish her power, to recover her lost supremacy. Let the principle once be established in the United States that the church may employ or control the power of the state; that religious observances may be enforced by secular laws; in short, that the authority of church and state is to dominate the conscience, and the triumph of Rome in this country is assured.
God’s word has given warning of the impending danger; let this be unheeded, and the Protestant world will learn what the purposes of Rome really are, only when it is too late to escape the snare. She is silently growing into power. Her doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative halls, in the churches, and in the hearts of men.  GC 581.1 – GC 581.2

Macron was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s major annual defence and security conference, as Russia defies diplomatic pressure for a ceasefire in Ukraine and capitals fret about Beijing’s growing assertiveness on Taiwan and the South China Sea.

Macron urged the international community to unite in the face of countries seeking to grab territory and resources.

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“We have a challenge of revisionist countries that want to impose — under the name of spheres of influence — spheres of coercion,” Macron said.

Trial and persecution will come to all who, in obedience to the Word of God, refuse to worship this false sabbath. Force is the last resort of every false religion.  ST May 6,  1897, par. 16

“Countries that want to control areas from the fringes of Europe to the archipelagos in the South China Sea… that want to appropriate resources, whether fishing or mineral and crowd out others for their benefit.”

Trial and persecution will come to all who, in obedience to the Word of God, refuse to worship this false sabbath. Force is the last resort of every false religion. At first it tries attraction, as the king of Babylon tried the power of music and outward show. If these attractions, invented by men inspired by Satan, failed to make men worship the image, the hungry flames of the furnace were ready to consume them. So it will be now. The Papacy has exercised her power to compel men to obey her, and she will continue to do so. We need the same spirit that was manifested by God’s servants in the conflict with paganism. Giving an account of the treatment of the Christians by the emperor of Rome, Tertullian says, “We are thrown to the wild beasts to make us recant; we are burned in the flames; we are condemned to prisons and to mines; we are banished to islands,—such as Patmos,—and all have failed.” So it was in the case of the three Hebrew worthies; their eye was single to the glory of God; their souls were steadfast; the power of the truth held them firmly to their allegiance to God. It is in the power of God alone that we shall be enabled to be loyal to him.
“If ye love me,” said Christ, “keep my commandments.” “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” And has not Christ manifested himself to his faithful children? Did he not walk in the furnace with the captives who refused to yield to the golden image one tittle of the reverence which belonged to God? Did he not manifest himself to John, banished to the Isle of Patmos for his faithfulness? Have not those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, who, tho they have been compelled to suffer, have refused to worship the institution of the Papacy, realized the presence of the divine Comforter in their lonely prisons? ST May 6,  1897, par. 16 – ST May 6,  1897, par. 17

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History will be repeated. False religion will be exalted. The first day of the week, a common working day, possessing no sanctity whatever, will be set up as was the image at Babylon. All nations and tongues and peoples will be commanded to worship this spurious sabbath. This is Satan’s plan to make of no account the day instituted by God, and given to the world as a memorial of creation. ST May 6,  1897, par. 14

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Defence chiefs and officials from around the world are attending the annual forum that has in recent years become a barometer of US-China relations.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will address the conference on Saturday after President Donald Trump fired a fresh salvo in his tariff battle with Beijing, which has roiled global money markets.

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But unusually, China has not sent its defence minister to Shangri-La, and will instead be represented by a senior officer from its People’s Liberation Army’s National Defence University.

Since 2019 Beijing has regularly sent its defence minister to the Shangri-La meet, occasions that offered rare opportunities to hold face-to-face talks with US counterparts.

– ‘Build a new alliance’ –

Macron’s speech came at the end of a tour of Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore, which he used to present France as a reliable alternative for a region caught between Washington and Beijing.

Asian countries have found themselves torn between Washington’s tariff threats on one hand and Beijing, a major trading partner that has become increasingly forthright in territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

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Tensions between Washington and Beijing have ramped up since Trump returned to office in January, off the back of an escalating trade standoff, intensified technological rivalry, and strategic military posturing.

Macron urged leaders at the conference to “build a positive new alliance between Europe and Asia, based on our common norms, on our common principles”.

“Our shared responsibility is to ensure with others that our countries are not collateral victims of the imbalances linked to the choices made by the superpowers,” he said.

Macron urged China to stop its ally North Korea from sending forces to help Russia’s war in Ukraine if Beijing “doesn’t want NATO being involved in Southeast Asia or in Asia”.

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He warned Asian leaders against seeing the war in Ukraine as a distant problem with no relevance to them.

“If we consider that Russia could be allowed to take a part of the territory of Ukraine without any restriction, without any constraint, without any reaction of the global order, how would you phrase what could happen in Taiwan?” he said.

“What would you do the day something happens in the Philippines?”

– ‘Kill our credibility’ –

Macron also weighed in on the war in Gaza, warning that abandoning the shattered Palestinian enclave would kill the West’s credibility with the rest of the world.

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“If we abandon Gaza, if we consider there is a free pass for Israel, even if we do condemn the terrorist attacks, we will kill our credibility,” he said.

His comments came as Israel accused him of undertaking a “crusade against the Jewish state” after he called for European countries to harden their stance on Israel if the humanitarian situation in Gaza did not improve.

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Beyond the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the recent clashes between India and Pakistan will lurk in the shadows of the conference, which runs until Sunday.

An April 22 attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir triggered some of the worst cross-border clashes between the nuclear-armed neighbours in years, with at least 70 people killed.

Muslim-majority Kashmir is claimed in full by both countries, which have fought multiple wars over the Himalayan territory since their 1947 independence from Britain.

New Delhi accused Pakistan of backing the attack, a charge Islamabad denies.

Neither side has sent their defence ministers, instead dispatching senior military delegations. No meeting between the two sides has been announced.