On October 19, 2021, the French-speaking Christian Forum in Switzerland published a report about a new interfaith fraternity that was recently created. Catholics, Orthodox, Reformed, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Old Catholics, Anglicans, Adventists and Baptists gathered together for 4 days in Leysin, Switzerland as they sang, prayed, shared and lived together from October 10 to 13, 2021.

This interfaith forum in Switzerland reported that in “small groups we have taken the time to listen to our faith stories” to “exchange” and “create a bond more than anything.” The aim was to “discover how Christ has chosen our brothers and sisters” and to “lead us” to “love the fraternal communion.” The French-speaking Christian Forum in Switzerland also said that this interfaith encounter was designed to “recognize” the “light” in each other. They said: “Through our sharing, our hymns and our prayers, we have discovered that there are treasures in all the Churches. That diversity enriches us, and we give thanks for it. We cannot do without the other Churches. Let us recognize in them the lights that are missing in ours” (French-speaking Christian Forum in Switzerland).

No matter how much our leaders defend these interfaith encounters, no matter how many articles and speeches they give in support of them, the end result of these activities that Adventists can’t seem to get enough of only serves to further Rome’s ecumenical aspirations as described in “Unitatis Redintegratio” (Decree on Ecumenism). The Vatican’s plan is to unify the separated churches together under the authority of the Pope of Rome. Notice their Decree on Ecumenism: “All Christians will at last, in a common celebration of the Eucharist,be gathered into the one and only Church in that unity which Christ bestowed on His Church from the beginning. We believe that this unity subsists in the Catholic Church as something she can never lose, and we hope that it will continue to increase until the end of time” (Unitatis Redintegratio, the Vatican’s Decree on Ecumenism).

Seventh-day Adventists are spending four days in isolation with churches in Switzerland in order to form “bonds” of fraternity and to see the “light” in each other. Who is it that is ordering us to do this? Whose instructions are we following? This task has never been assigned to us by God. Clearly, this is a fulfillment of Vatican II’s ecumenical proclamation, which was intended to reunite us with the Roman Catholic Church. God has given us a completely different commission. #sda #adventist #adventistas

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And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke:15:13-15

Whoso KEEPETH THE LAW IS A WISE SON: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Proverbs:28:7

Garments of Christ

Hear thou, MY SON, and BE WISE, and GUIDE thine heart in the way. Be not among WINEBIBBERS; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the DRUNKARD and the GLUTTON shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall CLOTHE A MAN WITH RAGS. BUY THE TRUTH, and SELL IT NOT; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs:23:19-21,23

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O LET ME NOT WANDER FROM THY COMMANDMENTS.Psalm:119:10

POPE’S SABBATH VERSE GOD’S SABBATH

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, BECAUSE SHE MADE ALL NATIONS DRINK OF the  WINE OF THE WRATH of her FORNICATION. Here is the patience of the SAINTS: here are they that KEEP the COMMANDMENTS of God, and the FAITH of Jesus.
Revelation:14:8,12

ISRAEL is My Son

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.Proverbs:4:2

Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the care and protection of the state. This national apostasy will speedily be followed by national ruin.—The Review and Herald, June 15, 1897.

When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will the papal sabbath be enforced by the combined authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.—Evangelism, 235 (1899).

When the state shall use its power to enforce the decrees and sustain the institutions of the church—then will Protestant America have formed an image to the papacy, and there will be a national apostasy which will end only in national ruin.—The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 7:976 (1910). LDE 134.2 – LDE 134.4

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In so many ways the times when Rome fell from her lofty estate as a republic and degenerated into a military empire are akin to our own. No historian has discerned this so clearly as Froude, and his delineation of that drama is powerful beyond description. He says:—

“With such vividness, with such transparent clearness, the age stands before us of Cato and Pompey, of Cicero and Julius Cæsar; the more distinctly because it was an age in so many ways the counterpart of our own, the blossoming period of the old civilization, when the intellect was trained to the highest point which it could reach; and on the great subjects of human interest, on morals and politics, on poetry and art, even on religion itself, and the speculative problems of life, men thought as we think, doubted where we doubt, argued as we argue, aspired and struggled after the same objects. It was an age of material progress and material civilization; an age of civil liberty and intellectual culture; an age of pamphlets and epigrams, of salons and dinner parties, of senatorial majorities and electoral corruption. The highest offices of state were open in theory to the meanest citizen; they were confined, in fact, to those who had the longest purses, or the most ready use of the tongue on popular platforms. Distinctions of birth had been exchanged for distinctions of wealth. The struggles between plebeians and patricians for equality of privilege were over, and a new division had been formed between the party of property and the party who desired a change in the structure of society. The free cultivators were disappearing from the soil. Italy was being absorbed into vast estates and held by a few favored families, and cultivated by slaves, while the old agricultural population was driven off the land, and was crowded into towns. The rich were extravagant, for life had ceased to have practical interests except for its material pleasures; the occupation of the higher classes was to obtain money without labor, and to spend it in idle enjoyment. Patriotism survived on the lips, but patriotism meant the ascendency of the party which would maintain the existing order of things, or would overthrow for a more equal distribution of the good things which alone were valued. Religion, once the foundation of the laws and rule of personal conduct, had subsided into opinion. The educated, in their hearts, disbelieved it. Temples were still built with increasing splendor; the established forms were scrupulously observed. Public men spoke conventionally of Providence, that they might throw on their opponents the odium of impiety; but of genuine belief that life had any serious meaning, there was none remaining beyond the circle of the silent, patient, ignorant multitude. The whole spiritual atmosphere was saturated with cant-cant moral, cant political, cant religious; an affectation of high principle which had ceased to touch the conduct, and flowed on in an increasing volume of insincere and unreal speech. The truest thinkers were those who, like Lucretius, spoke frankly out their real convictions, declared that Providence was a dream, and that man and the world he lived in were material phenomena generated by natural forces out of cosmic atoms, and into atoms to be again dissolved.

“Tendencies now in operation may a few generations hence land modern society in similar conclusions, unless other convictions revive meanwhile and get the mastery over them; of which possibility no more need be said than this, that unless there be such a revival, in some shape or other, the forces, whatever they be, which control the forms in which human things adjust themselves, will make an end again, as they made an end before, of what are called free institutions. Popular forms of government are possible only when individual men can govern their own lives on moral principles, and when duty is of more importance than pleasure, and justice than material expediency.” 

Then it was that there came upon the Romans that extraordinary spirit of expansion, which led them to believe that theirs was a manifest destiny to rule the entire world; and in a few short years, from being a snug little country, locked in the arms of twin seas, Rome was transformed into an imperialism, set for the despoliation of every conquerable nation.
The Perils of The Republic of The United States of America by Percy Magan Tilson, 1899

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A Ferocious Beast called the “Guardian of International Peace and Security” has been installed at the United Nations https://kingosiemo.wordpress.com/2021/12/11/a-ferocious-beast-called-the-guardian-of-international-peace-and-security-has-been-installed-at-the-united-nations/

You know our world is in trouble when Bible-hating leftists start campaigning for Sunday laws because the religious right will not oppose them; but this is Laudato Si’ in action, and Pope Francis couldn’t be happier. On December 1, 2021, leftist members of Chile’s Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Legislature of Chile, presented a bill that says “trade workers can enjoy Sunday and holidays as a day of rest.” This law if passed would establish a precedent by enshrining Sunday as a day of rest in Chilean federal legislation. Even while this regulation would only apply to malls and larger retailers, once the precedent is set, more restrictive Sunday provisions, such as the shutdown of all commercial transactions on Sunday, can be easily imposed in the future.

Here we see liberals, humanists, communists and radical environmentalists all advocating for Sunday rest. They are not campaigning for workers to rest on Sunday as a “religious” requirement; rather, they are pushing for Sunday rest as a matter of social justice. Tragically, the churches will not oppose these Sunday laws because they stand to benefit the most from them. The origin of Sunday laws comes from the change of God’s law in the 4th Commandment, and they only work to serve the interests of Rome.

For years leading up to COP26, Pope Francis has been urging states to enact labor and environmental laws for a new economy. What is going on in Chile is just another example of how Sunday laws will become a test in these last days. Pope Francis has been pressuring political, religious, and economic leaders to embrace Laudato Si’, which is his version of a Sunday law designed to give people and the environment much needed rest.

Slowly but surely, the dangers of Sunday laws are being felt on every hand. Sunday laws will once again be at the forefront. We should be doing much more to voice the warnings of the Third Angel’s Message and warn the world against the formation of the image of the beast, the union of church and state, and the notorious Sunday laws that are coming. Time is very short and we must give the trumpet a certain sound and warn the people of the dangers that are about to take the world by storm. #sda #adventist #adventista

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*Honor the Giver of Gifts* , December 18

_What have they seen in your house? 2 Kings 20:15._

Study the case of Hezekiah. He had been sick unto death. He had appealed to the Lord, and God had added to his life fifteen years. “At that time … [the] king of Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? … What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them….”

The visit of the ambassadors to Hezekiah was a test of his gratitude and devotion…. God had raised him from a bed of death, giving him a new lease of life. The Babylonians had heard of his wonderful recovery. They marveled that the sun had been turned back ten degrees, as a sign that the word of the Lord should be fulfilled. They sent messengers to Hezekiah to congratulate him on his recovery. The visit of these messengers gave him an opportunity to extol the God of heaven. How easy it would have been to point them to the God of gods. But pride and vanity took possession of Hezekiah’s heart, and in his self-exaltation he laid open to their covetous eyes the treasures with which God had enriched His people…. His indiscretion prepared the way for national disaster. The ambassadors carried to Babylon the report of Hezekiah’s riches, and the king and his counselors planned to enrich Babylon with the treasures of Jerusalem.

Had Hezekiah improved the opportunity given him to bear witness to the power, the goodness, the compassion, of the God of Israel, the report of the ambassadors would have been as light piercing darkness. But he magnified himself above the Lord of hosts and failed to give God the glory….

Oh, that those for whom God has done marvelous things would show forth His praises and tell of His mighty works. But how often those for whom God works are like Hezekiah—forgetful of the Giver of all their blessings.—Signs of the Times, October 1, 1902.

From Heart to Heart – Page 364

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An international religious liberty symposium was held on December 4, 2021, at the Campus Adventiste du Salève, an Adventist higher education institution in eastern France. Even though the event was free and open to the public, a “health pass” was “required” in order to attend this “religious liberty” event. That is both a contradiction and a foreshadowing of what was to come.

John Graz, former director of the General Conference’s Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, was in attendance (PARL). He is now the director of the International Center for Public Affairs and Religious Freedom at the Adventist Campus in Collonges-sous-Salève in France. In addition, Ganoune Diop, the current director of PARL, was present. This event, which was designed to highlight the values of religious liberty, is best described by the following verse:

“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.” Matthew 15:8.

Our religious liberty leaders had absolutely nothing to say about the creation of a discriminated class of citizens. With their lips, they boasted about the need to respect the “conscience” of every person. With their lips, they gave fair speeches on freedom and liberty that seemed sincere. They denounced “authoritarianism” and “totalitarianism”, but with their same lips they defended authoritarian and totalitarian vaccine mandates that are causing people to lose their livelihoods, preventing people from feeding their families, burdening others with very large fines, and putting some in prison. This is currently taking place in India, Germany, Italy, Austria, Australia, and other countries throughout the world.

The mafia and other criminal organizations employ the same extortion strategy. Criminal gangs threaten ordinary citizens with dire repercussions if they do not follow their orders. And it’s remarkable that professing Seventh-day Adventists, who are supposed to uphold liberty and freedom, can rationalize and defend the same bullying when it’s perpetrated by state governments. #sda #adventist #adventista

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“Nothing is more dangerous for a free people than the attempt to govern a dependent people despotically. The bad government kills out the good government as surely as slave labor destroys free labor, or as a debased currency drives out a sound currency.” 

Such are the principles of Thomas Jefferson and of John Fiske.

Fiske, “American
Political Ideas,’ Lectures,
Federal Union, Par, 17

and

Fiske, ” Beginning of New England” Chap. 1, Par, 14,15

CHURCH AND STATE UNION TO JUDGE; HEROD, PRIESTS AND PHARISEES

Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O CONGREGATION? do ye judge uprightly, O ye SONS OF MEN? Yea, in heart ye work WICKEDNESS; ye WEIGH the VIOLENCE of YOUR HANDS in the EARTH. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, SPEAKING LIES. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Psalm:58:1-4

A Ferocious Beast called the “Guardian of International Peace and Security” has been installed at the United Nations https://kingosiemo.wordpress.com/2021/12/11/a-ferocious-beast-called-the-guardian-of-international-peace-and-security-has-been-installed-at-the-united-nations/

Roman Catholic principles will be taken under the care and protection of the state. This national apostasy will speedily be followed by national ruin.—The Review and Herald, June 15, 1897.

When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a FALSE RELIGION, for opposing which their ancestors endured the FIERCEST persecution, then will the papal sabbath be enforced by the COMBINED authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.—Evangelism, 235 (1899). LDE 134.2 – LDE 134.3

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Columbus sailed with the intent of finding, not the West, but the East Indies. To the day of his death he never discovered his mistake. It was his intent there to plant the monarchical tyranny of Spain. Four hundred years have passed away since then, and it is passing strange that these United States, after breaking the power of Spain in the West, are even now engaged in fastening upon that land which Columbus sought to reach, those same Spanish principles of power and tyranny which he would fain have taken there.

An Old World power has been driven from Cuba, but an Old World idea has invaded and well-nigh captured the republic of the United States,-the idea that all men are not created equal, and that governments do not derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. There have been times when the ship of state in the United States has been partially diverted from her course, and greed has used her officers for private ends and personal emoluments. But now the very foundation-stones of the fabric governmental are being undermined.

Prior to the year 1898 this government was a republic pure and simple. Its foundations were laid in principle, and not in power. It was not an empire in any sense of the word, for the foundations of an empire are laid in power, and not in principle. It was built upon that everlasting rock that right makes might. Against this the coming of floods and the blowing and beating of winds are alike powerless, for it standeth sure and falleth not forever. But empires, on the other hand, are built upon that sinking sand that might makes right. Against these the floods come, and the winds blow and beat, and they fall, and great is the fall thereof.

To-day this nation is in danger of abandoning the rock and settling upon the sand. The love of power, so prone to the human breast, is smothering priceless, eternal principle. From being a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, it is being rapidly transformed into a government of some of the people, by a few of the people, for all the people. This is imperialism as opposed to republicanism, and this is national apostasy.

Until the summer of 1898 the word “imperialism” was but little heard from the lips of Americans. Now the very atmosphere is fairly drenched with it. A perfect wave of imperialism has swept over the land, and the desire for an Imperial America, or an “Imperial Republic,” as it has been styled, sits supreme upon hundreds of scores of souls. But an imperial republic cannot exist. With equal sense and propriety one might talk about “good badness.”

What means this wild babel of tongues clamoring for subjects over which to exercise sway? What means this strange jargon, formed from an Old World monarchical vocabulary? Are men crazed with the madness sometimes begotten by victory at arms? Are men drunken with the lust of colonial empire? Are men raving in the delirium of that dread fever, earth-hunger, in which all the monarchies of the Old World are writhing? Think they in the hour of triumph over a foe, outclassed at every point, to build a tower of national greatness which will reach to the very heavens, and at the same time to lay its unrighteous foundations on the stricken forms of vassal peoples? The result will surely be as it was before in the case of the builders of Babel, there will be confusion of tongues, and the dissolution of the nation.

In his day, Abraham Lincoln said that in the days of the Fathers “our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.” 

And again he said, speaking of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise:—

“I think, and shall try to show, that it is wrong,-wrong in its direct effect,-letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska, and wrong in its prospective principle, allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world, where men can be found inclined to take it.

“This declared indifference, but as I must think covert real zeal, for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence; enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity; and especially because it forces so many really good men among ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty, criticizing the Declaration of Independence.” 

Once again the time has come when the Declaration of Independence is not held sacred by all, is not thought to include all. Once again, to make the bondage, not of the negro, but of the Filipino, universal and eternal, “it is assailed, and sneered at, and hawked at, and, torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.”

Adapted From: The Perils of The Republic of The United States of America by Percy Magan Tilson,1899

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Four-day Work Week Includes Sunday Rest in a New Law on Family Diversity and Support

The four-day work week is a modern business model that is gaining a lot of popularity among workers across the world. The United Arab Emirates has just announced that it is reducing its work week. Here in the United States, the movement for a four-day work week is gaining popularity. And Valencia, a 5 million-strong autonomous community in Spain, has just passed a new “Valencian Law of Family Diversity and Support” that reduces the work week to 32 hours and defines Sunday as a day of rest.

The regulation applies to private businesses and is intended to limit Sunday shopping by allowing citizens to be free from commerce. Minister Monica Oltra of the Ministry of Equality and Inclusive Policies proposed the Sunday rest idea as part of a draft law on “family diversity.” This law will promote “Sunday rest in the commercial sector, especially in large stores.”

This is a state government that has mandated Sunday rest in order to “reconcile” the family. Sunday rest is the ultimate goal of this new four-day work week. The Pope’s encyclical Laudato Si’, Section #237 , is being put into action, which calls for healing our “relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world” on “Sunday.” Following two years of mandatory lockdowns due to the pandemic, a new economy focused around Sunday is growing. The four-day workweek has sparked growing interest around the world in recent months, and it will continue to do so until Sunday is declared the world’s national day of rest.

The world is crying out for a day of relaxation, a day to spend with family and friends, a day to take a break from the rigors of work. What day do you suppose that will be? There is little doubt that Sunday is being promoted in different places around the world. The different Protestant churches, the Roman Catholic Church, labor unions, secular governments, the secular media, and various special interest groups will publicly accept Sunday as the universal day of rest as a result of Laudato Si’. #sda #adventist #adventista

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