I was reading how many in the church thought the end times would unfold and came across this...

'will be the time when secular rulers and religious leaders are uniting to enforce Sunday worship as this will appear to be the only hope for turning away the wrath of the Lord. Seventh-Day Adventists will be in agony not knowing what to do. Should they go to church both on Saturday AND on Sunday, or should they refuse to observe Sunday sacredness and as usual go to church on the Bible Sabbath (Saturday) only. Two groups will then be forming among 7th-Day Adventists, one group which will be in conformance with the new law of the land to obey and attend Sunday worship, the other group standing firm to worship on Saturday morning only. The first group will be respectably law abiding as far as this world is concerned whereas those belonging to the second group will become outcasts and be considered the scum of this world as they refuse to fall in line with the new law of the land calling for mandatory Sunday worship. '

and now it seems so clear..


"Society is also enriched by a countless array of organizations which work to promote the common good and to defend the environment, whether natural or urban. Some, for example, show concern for a public place (a building, a fountain, an abandoned monument, a landscape, a square), and strive to protect, restore, improve or beautify it as something belonging to everyone" (232).

In a similar vein, Francis also reflects on the importance of rest: "Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world? We tend to demean contemplative rest as something unproductive and unnecessary, but this is to do away with the very thing which is most important about work: its meaning. We are called to include in our work a dimension of receptivity and gratuity, which is quite different from mere inactivity. Rather, it is another way of working, which forms part of our very essence. It protects human action from becoming empty activism; it also prevents that unfettered greed and sense of isolation which make us seek personal gain to the detriment of all else? Rest opens our eyes to the larger picture and gives us renewed sensitivity to the rights of others. And so the day of rest, centred on the Eucharist, sheds it light on the whole week, and motivates us to greater concern for nature and the poor" (237).".. https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/power-love-and-need-rest

and the world listens and follows the Papacy..

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https://www.greensabbathproject.net/

The chess pieces are in place.

"The Green Sabbath Project was founded in 2019 by Jonathan Schorsch, founder and director of the Jewish Activism Summer School (Berlin), and professor of Jewish Religious and Intellectual History, Universit?t Potsdam."

My opinion on that question ---

I see most in the church imagine that in the end time some major crises will take place, people will be frightened and say "God is angry" and to appease God they will legislate Sunday and persecution will begin ending with the second coming. They see it as a full frontal attack.


People have doubted that this is possible, pointing at the huge majority of people who are atheists' or of some other persuasion that don't put their faith in scripture, or the God of scripture.

But what we are seeing is a much more deceptive method emerging.
It's coming in with "new age" wings. A tribute to "mother earth" and "common good" for everyone, not dependent upon the God of scripture, but with appeal to all society.

The danger here is that many, even among the church, will not see what is unfolding until it is too late.

Veith: civil sunday AND religious sunday.

Didn't Ellen White say somewhere that we should be out doing missionary work on Sunday during this time? Anyone remember reading that?

Here it is : https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/115.1307

The mark on the hand AND the mark on the forehead, and we are seeing it emerge.

That is good for the religious side, but the civil side presents many unforeseen issues.

Ok. but why worry about it? You know the time is coming. Here is a blueprint. she says to be involved in missionary work, and to have meetings and sing the old hymns Why dont you just do what she says? Looks like, from the last line, that souls can be won?



This is what we should do.