SEAL OF GOD, MARK OF THE {SEA} BEAST & 666 (i.e.

being a disciple of apostate

Dan68; 1Kin218; Esth312 -What does the Bible present as the
object of a sign, or seal?
Rom411 -In the Bible the words “sign” and
“seal” are used interchangeably
What are the three essentials to an official seal/stamp?
1. Name of the official
2. Position of official (i.e. title, authority, right to rule)
3. Territory or the extent of official’s dominion & jurisdiction
Isa816; Dt64-8 -With what is God’s seal connected?
Heb87-13; Jer3133 - Law written in the “mind” and on the “heart”
Ex208–11 -Which commandment contains the 3 essentials of
an official seal?
1. Name >: Lord
2. Position >: Creator (i.e. “made”)
3. Territory >: Heaven, earth, sea
Ex3117, 13; Eze2020 -The Sabbath is the sign, or mark, or seal, of the
true God, the Creator. An artist signs the linen at the
end of his work - it identifies the artist. The
Sabbath is the signature that identifies the author
of creation.
Protestantism)
 receiving the beast’s mark in his forehead
(i.e. being in support of Sunday
worshipping)
 receiving the beast’s mark in his hand
(i.e. partaking in Sunday worshipping)
Rev1217 -What will be the central issue in the final conflict?
Rev149-11; 1412 -What two contrasting groups of people [the players
in this conflict] is the world divided into?
 “Mark of the beast” is the opposite of the “seal of God”.
Since the seal of God is the Sabbath so the mark of the
beast must be a contrary day!
Mt2412 What will characterise most of the final generations?
Ans: Lawlessness!
Isa245-6 Why is the earth defiled under its inhabitants?
 The inhabitants have transgressed the laws
 Changed the ordinance
 Broken the everlasting covenant

Rev132 How is the sea beast described?

Ans: partly-Leopard, partly-Bear, partly-Lion
Dan72-7 How did Daniel describe the four creatures he saw?
Ans: They came from the sea
Ans: 1st- Lion; 2nd- Bear; 3rd- Leopard; 4th- undescribable

NB: A study of Daniel2, 3, 7-8, Rev13 alongside past history

reveals that:
 This beast (from the sea) represents the Papacy.
 The two-horned beast is understood to represent the
USA

Rom228-29; Rev2112; 111-2 To whom does salvation belong? What does the Papacy set forth as the mark/sign of its power and
Ans: Israelites. authority? (Refer to Catholic quotation below)
In this sense, a “Jew” refers to “spiritual” Israel. "Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her
Similarly, Gentiles are “spiritual” Gentiles, meaning all act . . . and the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power."
non-believers. -From the office of Cardinal Gibbons, through
Rev71–4; Eze91–6 -A special sealing work is to take place just before Chancellor H.F. Thomas, November 11, 1895.
the letting loose of the winds of destruction upon the
earth
Rev141 -What did John see on saved saints standing on the
“mountain of God”, Mt Zion?
Ans: Foreheads written [sealed with] the
“Father’s name”.
Isa564-7 -According to Isaiah, what led these saints to be
written an “everlasting name” and brought to this
“God’s mountain”?
> The seal is the sign or stamp of perfection, and God’s
name stands for His character, which is perfection. When
this seal is finally placed upon God’s people, it will be the
evidence that His grace and His sanctifying power have
done their work, and fitted them for heaven. In the world to
come, all will keep the Sabbath, and will therefore have this
seal or mark of sanctification, holiness, and perfection of
character (Isa6622-23)
Rev14 12 -How is the remnant church described?
Rev149-10 -Against what four things does the third angel of
Revelation 14 warn men?
Ans:
 worshipping the beast
(i.e. being a disciple of Papal authority)
 worshipping the beast’s image

What do Catholics say of the observance of Sunday by Protestants?
(Refer to Catholic quotation below)
“A word about Sunday. God said: ‘Remember that thou keep
holy the Sabbath day!’ The Sabbath was Saturday, not
Sunday; why, then, do we keep Sunday holy instead of
Saturday? The Church altered the observance of the
Sabbath to the observance of Sunday. . . Protestants who say
that they go by the Bible and the Bible only, and that they do
not believe anything that is not in the Bible, must be rather
puzzled by the keeping of Sunday when God distinctly said,
‘Keep holy the Sabbath day.’ The word Sunday does not come
anywhere in the Bible so, without knowing it, they are obeying
the authority of the Catholic Church.”
-Henry T. Cafferata, The Catechism Simply
Explained (London: Burns Oates &
Washbourne Ltd., 1938), p. 89.
Rev131 What is the nature of the sea beast’s name?
Ans: Blasphemous
Jn1033, 36 (30); 197; 149 What is meant by “blaspheming” God?
1. Claiming to be equal to God
2. Claiming to be a representative (vicar) of God (i.e. vicarious
Dei)
“But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff.
Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect
accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of
will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.”
-The Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII, p. 193
Mk25, 7 How is “blasphemy” also defined?
Ans: By claiming to exercise the prerogatives of God
“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.”
- The Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII, p. 304,
“It is evident that the popes can neither be bound nor unbound
by any earthly power, nor even by that of the apostle [Peter],
if he should return upon the earth; since Constantine the Great
has recognized that the pontiffs held the place of God upon
earth, divinity not being able to be judged by any living man.
We are, then, infallible, and whatever may be our acts, we are
not accountable for them but to ourselves.”
-Pope Nicholas I [Cormenin, History of the
Popes, p. 243, as cited in R. W. Thompson, The
Papacy and the Civil Power, p. 248]
2Thes23-4 How does Paul put forward the same idea?
Dan725 How does Daniel describe the little horn?
1. Speaks great words against God;
2. Occupying God’s place, to the point of changing God’s laws
Dan811 What else did the little horn do?
Rev135 How does John describe further the sea beast?
Rev1317-18 What is related to the name of the sea beast?
Ans: Can be represented by a number,
which when calculated, will give 666.
Rev1916 Is the name a proper name or a title?
Rev1318 How is this Scripture said in the different versions
of Bibles?
Living Bible: “Here is a puzzle that calls for careful
thought to solve it. Let those who are
able, interpret this code: the numerical
values of the letters in his name add to
666!”
New English Bible: “The number represents a man’s name,
and the numerical value of its letters is
six hundred and sixty-six.”
Roman Catholic Douay Version:
“The numeral letters of his name shall
make up this number.”
How do we get a number from a name?
 The answer lies in the fact that in ancient times numbers were
written with the letters of the alphabet. This practice,
referred to as gematria, was used in Hebrew, Greek and
Latin. This means that when the letters of the beast’s
blasphemous name are given their respective numerical
value the total will be 666.
Jn1920 What evidence is given that it is from these 3 languages we
get the name?
What is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church?
Ans: Latin.
 It is important to realize that the noun “man” has no definite
article. This means that qualitatively the beast is a system that
is centered in man. It is noteworthy that the little horn has
eyes like a man, the apostate one of 2Thess2 is called the
man of sin and here the beast has the number of a man.
This is certainly a system that is based on the power and
prowess of man.
Qsn: What is the title of Roman Catholic Church leader, the Pope?
Ans: Vicarious Filii Dei
Qsn: What does Vicarious Filii Dei stand for?
Ans: “In place of the Son of God”
Qsn: Does the Roman Catholic Church use this title today, publicly?
Ans: No. It ceased to use this title due to embarrassment from this
discovery.
Qsn: What is the title currently used for the Pope publicly?
Ans: Vicarius Christi
Qsn: What does Vicarius Christ mean?
Ans: In place of Christ
Qsn: Does Vicarius Christi anything different from Vicarius Filli Dei?
Ans: No. They just mean the same.

The Donation of Constantine which was used by at least ten popes to
justify their claims to temporal power contains this very title:
“. . . as the Blessed Peter is seen to have been constituted
vicar of the Son of God [“vicarius filii Dei” - in the original
Latin] on the earth, so the Pontiffs who are the representatives
of that same chief of the apostles, should obtain from us and
our empire the power of a supremacy greater than the
clemency of our earthly imperial serenity is seen to have
conceded to it.”
The Donation was purportedly a letter written by Constantine the
Great to Pope Sylvester I. In the letter Constantine supposedly gave
temporal power to the pope. We know for certain that the Donation
was in existence as early as the ninth century but was used beginning
in the eleventh century to justify the outrageous temporal claims of
the papacy.
Though it is true that the Donation was a forgery, it is also beyond
dispute that the Donation was panned off as authentic and official
by various popes and Roman Catholic theologians for hundreds of
years to sustain the temporal power of the papacy. Though a forgery,
it was used as an official document by these popes to sustain their
claims to temporal power.
Cardinal Edward Manning in his book The Temporal Power of the
Vicar of Jesus Christ (1862). In the first statement, Manning indicts
the Roman Catholic nations of Europe of his day for their failure to
defend the temporal power of the pope:
“’See this Catholic Church, this Church of God, feeble and
weak, rejected even by the very nations called Catholic. There
is Catholic France, and Catholic Germany, and Catholic Italy
giving up this exploded figment of the temporal power of the
Vicar of Jesus Christ.’ And so, because the Church seems
weak, and the Vicar of the Son of God is renewing the
Passion of his Master upon earth, therefore we are
scandalized, therefore we turn our faces from him.” (pp. 140,
141)
In his immensely popular book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p.
3, Pope John Paul II explained what he understood to be the source
of the power of his office:
“The leader of the Catholic Church is defined by the faith as
the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by
believers). The Pope is considered the man on earth who
represents the Son of God, who ‘takes the place’ of the
Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity.”
Professor Johannes Quasten one of the greatest patristic scholars of
all time once affirmed:
"The title Vicarius Christi, as well as the title Vicarius Filii Dei
is very common as the title of the Pope"
In the November 15, 1914 edition of Our Sunday Visitor (the official
organ of the Archdiocese of Baltimore) the following question was
addressed to the Bureau of Information:
“Is it true that the words of the Apocalypse in the 13th chapter,
18th verse refer to the Pope?”
The answer was as follows:
“The words referred to are these ‘Here is wisdom. He that hath
understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is
the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred
sixty-six.’ The Title of the Pope in Rome is Vicarius Filii Dei.
This is inscribed on his mitre; and if you take the letters of
his title which represent Latin numerals and add them together
they come to 666.”
In the April 18, 1915 edition of Our Sunday Visitor this information
was confirmed once again. The question was:
“What are the letters supposed to be in the Pope’s crown, and
what do they signify, if anything?”
The answer was explicit:
“The letters inscribed in the Pope’s mitre are these: Vicarius
Filii Dei, which is the Latin for the Vicar of the Son of God.
Catholics hold that the church which is a visible society must
have a visible head. Christ, before His ascension into heaven,
appointed St. Peter to act as His representative. Upon the
death of Peter the man who succeeded to the office of Peter
as Bishop of Rome, was recognized as the head of the
Church. Hence to the Bishop of Rome, as head of the Church,
was given the title ‘Vicar of Christ.’”
NB: In Roman numerals, the letter “U” has the same value
equivalents with “V”.
VICARIUS FILII DEI (666)
V = 5 F = 0 D = 500
I = 1 I = 1 E = 0
C = 100 L = 50 I = 1
A = 0 I = 1
R = 0 I = 1
I = 1
U/V = 5
S = 0
112 + 53 + 501 = 666
 The calculation discovery was made by Andreas Helwig who
lived from 1572 to 1643. Frustrated by this discovery, the
popery strived to “change” the title to destroy every evidence of
“Vicarius Filii Dei” to the currently used “Vicarius Christi”,
which means “Vicar of Christ” or simply “In place of the Son
of God”. But to say “Vicar of Christ” and “Vicarius Filii Dei”
mean the same thing; the e is actually no difference. However,
is secret papers they continue to use Vicarius Filii Dei.
It is true that in Greek the preposition anti can mean ‘against.’ But it
is equally true that this preposition can mean ‘instead of,’ or ‘in
place of.’
 In the New Testament, the name Herod Antipas means that
Herod ruled ‘in place of’ his father.’ (Rev213)
 The word antitype means ‘that which takes the place of the
type.’ Christ is spoken of as having given His life as a ransom
in place of (antilutron) all (1Tim26)
Thus the word antichristos in Greek and Vicarius Filii Dei in Latin bear
a very similar meaning!
Our Sunday Visitor, which previously published an article in testifying
about Vicarius Filii Dei (as above), did an about face and totally
changed its tune on September 16, 1917 (and also again on August 3,
1941):
“The words Vicarius Filii Dei are not the name of the Pope,
they do not even constitute his official title.”
The Bible makes it crystal clear that the Holy Spirit is the Vicar of the
Son of God. Before Jesus left He promised His disciples:
“And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another
Helper, that He may abide with you forever--the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him
nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and
 will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”
(Jn1416-18).
 The number 666 was known as “the great number of the sun.”
In Babylon the sun god was called Marduk. Thus the number 666
is to be identified with Babylon and with Rome (In his letter, Paul
referred to Rome as Babylon -1Pet513). Thus those who
worshipped the image would be honoring Babylon and
worshiping the sun god whose number is 666. In general, Baal-
worshipping (the all-time heathen god) is sun-worshipping
(2Chr235).
 Sunday-keeping will again be enforced by the state worldwide.
Pope John XXIII state that:
“for the proper observance everywhere of Sunday as a day of
rest . . This presupposes a change of mind in society and
intervention of the powers of the state. Sunday will really
be the ‘day of God’ when this comes about. It will be
recognized as a social right to be enjoyed by all classes of
society for the exercise of their religious duties and the
practicing of works of charity. The church will be happy when
this takes place.”
—Pope John XXIII, quoted by Religious News
Service, September 21, 1961.
IS IT THE SAME TO “WORSHIP THE SUN” AS IT IS TO “WORSHIP ON SUNDAY”?
The Catholic Church’s Catechism openly recognizes Sunday as the
“day of [worshipping] the sun”:
“We all gather on the day of the sun, for it is the first day [after
the Jewish Sabbath, but also the first day] when God,
separating matter from darkness, made the world; and on this
same day Jesus Christ our Saviour rose from the dead”
—Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part 3,
Section 2, Chapter 1, Article 3, Number 2174
This supported again by an article from the Catholic World magazine:
“The sun was a foremost god with heathendom...there is, in
truth, something royal, kingly about the sun, making it a fit
emblem of Jesus, the Sun of Justice. Hence the Church in
these counties would seem to have said, “Keep that old pagan
name. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified.’ And thus the
pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder, because the Christian
Sunday, sacred to Jesus.”
—Catholic World, March 1994, pg809
Pope holding the sun-shaped mitre. Catholicism
Pagan sun-
(Catholic Church’s religious system) is a full
worshipping
inheritance and extension
of the old-time pagan sun-worshipping (i.e. Baal
worship).
This follows the first national Sunday law instituted by Constantine in
AD 321:
“On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and
people residing in cities rest, and let all the shops be closed.”
—Constantine, AD 321
NB: Note the contrast below:
1. Sabbath:
“the day of the Lord” = “the day of [worshipping] the Lord”
whilst
2. Sunday:
“the day of the sun” = “the day of [worshipping] the sun”
On 31 May 1998, Pope John Paul 11 published his Apostolic Letter
called Dies Domini (The Day of the Lord). Consider the following
quotations from his Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini:
“Wise pastoral intuition suggested to the Church the
Christianization of the notion of Sunday as ‘the day of the
sun.”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 27, pg.
12]
 Roman Catholic churches are filled with sun bursts
everywhere—above the heads of saints in the form of halos,
on altars, on glass stained windows, on works of art, on
chalices, on vestments.
“Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Rerum Novarum spoke of
Sunday rest as a worker’s right which the State must
guarantee.”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 66, pg.
29]
“Christians will naturally strive to ensure that civil legislation
respects their duty to keep Sunday holy”.
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 67, pg.
30]
Eze816-17: Did it bear any relationship with the pagan “day of
the Sun”?
“Writing to the pagans, Saint Justin uses the language of the
time to note that Christians gather together "on the day named
after the sun"
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 27, pg.
12-13]
WHO CHANGED IT?
“Christian reflection” and “[Catholic] pastoral practice”
changed it”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter Dies Domini, section 27, pg.
12]
“The spiritual and pastoral riches of Sunday, as it has been
handed on to us by tradition, are truly great.”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 81, pg.
35]
Mk79, 13; How does Christ relate tradition with God’s Law?
John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) who was an important Roman Catholic
historian of his time:
“For ages all Christian nations looked to the Catholic
Church, and, as we have seen, the various states enforced
by law her ordinances as to worship and cessation of labor on
Sunday. Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the
Church, has no good reason for its Sunday theory, and ought
logically, to keep Saturday as the Sabbath. The State in
passing laws for the due Sanctification of Sunday, is
unwittingly acknowledging the authority of the Catholic
Church, and carrying out more or less faithfully its
prescription. The Sunday as a day of the week set apart for
the obligatory public worship of Almighty God is purely a
creation of the Catholic Church."
-John Gilmary Shea “The Observance of Sunday
and Civil Laws for Its Enforcement”, in “The
American Catholic Quarterly Review”, January
1883, p. 139
John G. Shea, goes on to say:
“It [Sunday] is not the Jewish Sabbath; it is, in fact, entirely
distinct from it, and not governed by the enactments of the
Mosaic law. It is part and parcel of the system of the Catholic
Church as absolutely as is any other of her sacraments, her
festivals and fasts, her days of joy and mourning, her
indulgences, and jubilees.
“The Catholic Church created the Sunday and made the very
regulations which have come down on the statute books,
and she still constantly, from her pulpits, her catechists’ chairs,
and the confessional, calls on her faithful to obey them, to
sanctify the day, and refrain from all that desecrates it.
For their present practice, Protestants, in general, have no
authority but that of a church which they disown, and there
cannot be a greater inconsistency than theirs in asking the state
to enforce the Sunday laws.”
- ibid pg 139, 149, 152
Our Sunday Visitor, perhaps the most important and influential Roman
Catholic journal in the United States:
"Protestants . . . accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the
day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the
change . . . But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize
that in accepting the Bible, in observing the Sunday, they
are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the
church, the Pope."
—Our Sunday Visitor, Feb. 5, 1950
Louis G. Segur (1820-1881) who was a French Roman Catholic prelate
and apologist, and later a diplomatic and judicial official at Rome:
"Question: What Bible authority is there for changing the
Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the
week? Who gave the Pope the authority to
change a command of God?"
Answer: It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of
Jesus Christ, has transferred this rest to the
Sunday. Thus the observance of Sunday by the
Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of
themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic]
Church."
—Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk
About the Protestantism of Today, 1868,
p. 213
From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
"Question: What is the Third Commandment?
[NB: The fourth commandment in Protestant Bibles,
because the Roman Catholic Church removed the
Second Commandment--Ex204-6]
"Answer: The Third Commandment is: ‘Remember that thou
keep holy the Sabbath day."
Question: Which is the Sabbath day?’ Answer: Saturday is
the Sabbath day."
Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?"
Answer: The Catholic Church, after changing the day of rest
from Saturday, the seventh day of the week, to
Sunday, the first day, made the third
commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be
kept as the Lord's Day."
—Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p.
153.
Priest Thomas Enright, CSSR, President of Redemptorist College,
Kansas City, Missouri in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas on February 18,
1884:
"Prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep
Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of
the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says
'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' The Catholic
Church says: No. By my divine power I abolish the
Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of
the week. And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in
reverent obedience to the command of the Holy Catholic
Church."
—Printed in The Hartford Kansas Weekly Call,
February 22, 1884, and the American Sentinel, a
New York Roman Catholic journal in June 1893,
page 173.
“If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God
on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following
a law of the Catholic Church.”
-Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of
Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal, in a letter dated
February 10, 1920.
Which day is the Lord’s Day? Sunday or Sabbath? - (Rev110)
Gen21-3 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work
 which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from
all His work which He had made. And God blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had
rested from all His work which God created and made.”
Ex1623, 25 “This is that which the Lord hath said, tomorrow is the rest
of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord. Today is a Sabbath unto
the Lord: today ye shall not find it in the field.”
Ex3115 “Six days may work be done; but on the seventh is the
Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord.”
Ex352 “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there
shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord.”
Ex2010 “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord.”
Dt514 “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it
thou shalt not do any work.”
Lev233 “Ye shall do no work therein; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in
all your dwellings.”
Isa5813 “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the
holy of the Lord.”
Mt128 “For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.”
Why Sunday became so popular?
 On March 7, AD 321, when Emperor Constantine issued the first
National Sunday Law in history. This was the first so-called “blue
law” to be issued by a federal government. Here is the text of
Constantine’s Sunday law decree:
“Let all judges and townspeople and occupations of all trades
rest on the venerable day of the sun [Sunday]; nevertheless,
let those who are situated in the rural districts freely and with
full liberty attend to the cultivation of the fields because it
frequently happens that no other day may be so fitting for
plowing grains or trenching vineyards, lest at the time the
advantage of the moment granted by the provision of heaven
be lost. Given on the Nones (seventh) of March, Crispus and
Constantine, being counsuls each of them, for the second
time.”
-The Code of Justinian, Book III, title 12, law 3.
 During the Dark Ages (538-1798 AD), the Catholic Church and
political leaders, made Sunday Law decrees in years AD 321, 343,
365, 386, 389, 458, 468, 538, 554, 578, 581, 589, 681, 690, and
onward. Men and women of earlier centuries gradually lost
something precious, something they loved. Rather, it [the
Sabbath] was taken from them by force, on pain of death.
They had to sit in silent grief and watch as the years passed and
their children grew up, never having had it. At last it became a
tradition until today, but without any biblical command.

Sunday occurrences in the Bible The cruelty of Catholic Popes

 Sunday is only mentioned eight times in the Bible.

a) Once: At creation:
 Gen15

b) Four times: In the Four Gospels- appearances of Christ after

resurrection when the disciples were hiding “for fear of the Jews,”
 Mt281
 Mk161-2, 9
 Lk241
 Jn201, 19

c) Twice: In Acts
1) That evening Paul (after spending a week at Traos), as
soon as Sabbath was over by sunset, waited to depart
in the coming morning, held his last religious service
with the brethren that evening (i.e. early hours of
Sunday), breaking bread (Act246). It should here be
mentioned that, even if they had held an actual
communion service that night, this would in no way
make it a holy day. The Lord’s Supper commemorates
Christ’s death, not His resurrection (1Cor1126). Later,  In the Council of Laodicea around the year A.D. 364, the Catholic
Paul then journeyed on Sunday (Act2011-14) from Church decreed 59 Canon laws. Canon law XXIX (29) clearly
morning. outlawed Seventh day Sabbath-keeping:
 Act207-8 “Christians must not judaize by resting on the
Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather
2) Only a direct command by God, in Scripture, can make honouring the Lord’s Day; and, if they can, resting
any day of the week holy then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be
 Act2015-38 judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ.”
— Canon XXIX, (Percival
d) Once: In a letter to the Corinthians Translation).
As the Sabbath will be past and a new week begins,
Paul instructs the believers to do their bookkeeping
at home on Sunday mornings.
 1Cor161-2
Consider the following issues from Catholic qoutations:
a) Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II, in his Apostolic Letter, “Dies Domini”, writes:
Given this array of new situations and the questions which they
prompt, it seems more necessary than ever to recover the deep
doctrinal foundations underlying the [Catholic] Church's precept, so
that the abiding value of Sunday in the Christian life will be clear to
all the faithful. In doing this, we follow in the footsteps of the age-
old tradition of the Church, powerfully restated by the Second
Vatican Council in its teaching that on Sunday "Christian believers
should come together, in order to commemorate the suffering,
Resurrection and glory of the Lord Jesus, by hearing God's Word
and sharing the Eucharist, and to give thanks to God who has given
them new birth to a living hope through the Resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter Dies Domini, section 6, pg. 3]
So, note that the Pope acknowledged that:
a) Sunday is a Catholic Church’s precept
b) The Catholic Church is trying to “recover” its
historically “lost supremacy of Sunday observance” at
the collapse of the Dark Ages
c) The Sunday institution is an “old tradition” of the
Catholic Church, which it inherited from paganism, not
Biblical decree
“… through the centuries, she [Catholic Church] has made laws
concerning Sunday rest, … and thus enable everyone to keep the
Lord’s Day holy. Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Rerum Novarum
spoke of Sunday rest as a worker’s right which the State must
guarantee.”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 66, pg.
29]
“Christians will naturally strive to ensure that civil legislation
respects their duty to keep Sunday holy”.
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 67, pg.
30]
So, note that the Pope acknowledged that:
a) The Catholic Church is making an aggressive push
and compelling all countries to legislate Sunday-
observation into law
“Wise pastoral intuition suggested to the Church the
Christianization of the notion of Sunday as ‘the day of the sun.”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 27, pg.
12]
So, note that the Pope acknowledged that:
a) Sunday-observation has no Christian background
b) Sunday-observation is pagan sun-worshipping
c) The Catholic Church was advised to adopt the pagan
precept of sun-worshipping by “Christianising it’ or
rather “introduce it into Christianity”
d) The adoption of Sunday into Christianity is a result of
“human wisdom/intelligence/reasoning” to justify it so
that it would be easily accepted by Christians. [This is
naked evidence that before the Catholic Church came
into being, Sun-day was kept by pagans alone since it
belonged to them, whilst true Christians kept the true
Sabbath. It was the Catholic Church that “baptised
Sunday” into Christianity].
“It was only later, faced with the half-heartedness or negligence of
some that the Church had to make explicit the duty to attend Sunday
Mass: more often than not, this was done in the form of exhortation,
but at times the Church had to resort to specific canonical precepts.
This was the case in a number of local Councils from the fourth
century onwards (as at the Council of Elvira of 300, which speaks not
of an obligation but of penalties after three absences and most
especially from the sixth century onwards (as at the Council of Agde
in 506). These decrees of local Councils led to a universal practice,
the obligatory character of which was taken as something quite
normal.”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 47, pg.
22]
It is clear then why, even in our own difficult times, the identity of this
day must be protected and above all must be lived in all its depth …
What began as a spontaneous practice later became a juridically
sanctioned norm [i.e. National Sunday Law]... It was in this spirit that
the Second Vatican Council… declared that the Church "is prepared
to accept only those arrangements which preserve a week of seven
days with a Sunday"
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 30, pg.
14]
Sunday emerges therefore as the natural model for understanding
and celebrating these feast days of the Liturgical Year, which are of
such value for the Christian life that the Church has chosen to
emphasize their importance by making it obligatory for the faithful to
attend Mass and to observe a time of rest, even though these feast-
days may fall on variable days of the week. Their number has been
changed from time to time, taking into account social and economic
conditions, as also how firmly they are established in tradition, and
how well they are supported by civil legislation.
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 79, pg.
34]
So, note that the Pope acknowledged that:
a) The Catholic Church forced people to keep Sunday by
making it an obligation
b) The Catholic Church involved the state (civil
government) in its enforcement
c) Instituted penalties against those who did not comply
with the Sunday-keeping decree
d) The Church sought for Sunday-keeping until it
became “normal/tradition” through prolonged
observance.
“Therefore, dear Brother Bishops and Priests, I urge you to work
tirelessly with the faithful to ensure that the value of this sacred day
is understood and lived ever more deeply. This will bear rich fruit in
Christian communities, and will not fail to have a positive influence
on civil society as a whole.
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 87, pg.
37]
So, note that the Pope acknowledged that:
i) As Catholics, they have to strive that Sunday-keeping
become a universal charge for human being in the world
[i.e. whether Christian or non-Christian], an issue which
will not fail.
“The Code of Canon Law of 1917 for the first time gathered this
tradition into a universal law. The present Code reiterates this, saying
that "on Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are
bound to attend Mass". This legislation has normally been
understood as entailing a grave obligation: this is the teaching of the
Catechism of the Catholic Church”
—Pope John Paul II, May 31, 1998. The
Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini, section 47, pg.
22]
So, note that the Pope acknowledged that:
i) Once again, Sunday-keeping is only human tradition [i.e.
not a Biblical requirement]
ii) This tradition later enacted into law through human
legislation [because it was not previously a law, as it has
no Biblical enforcement]
iii) Sunday-keeping is a teaching of the Catholic Church [i.e.
not from the Bible]
b) Ending the Climate Change Crisis
There is a growing concern and awareness that the world’s
climate crisis is claimed to be more of a moral issue.
i) Pope Francis issued an encyclical letter, “Laudato Si”
which addresses the concern for climate change and
how to end it.. In this ;letter, Pope Francis said:
“On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has
special importance. Sunday ... is meant to be a day
which heals our relationships with God, with
ourselves, with others and with the world … And so
the day of rest, centred on the [Sunday] Eucharist,
sheds it light on the whole week, and motivates us to
greater concern for nature and the poor”
—Pope Francis, May 25, 2015. The Encyclical
Letter, Laudato Si, section 237, pg. 172-173]
In response to the Pope’s concern, the letter was
“welcomed” and “lauded” by the UN officials and
numerous heads of state.
Surprisingly, the Pope had a copy of the letter he
personally signed for Donald Trump (US president)
alone
ii) After more repeated calls for a worldwide combined
action, on May 27 2019, Pope Francis said to the world:
“… you will agree upon a common plan that accords
with climate science…above all the ethics of human
dignity”
iii) Pope Francis’s message to UN Convention on Climate
Change, 2014: said
“The effective struggle against global warming will
only be possible with a responsible answer, that
goes beyond particular interests and behaviour and
is developed free from political and economic
pressures…The establishment of an international
climate change treaty is a grave ethical and moral
responsibility”
iv) The Guardian, 17 Sep 2009, has an article entitled
“Slow Sunday: The simple solution to global
warming” https://theguardian.com/environment/cif-
green/2009/sep/17/low-carbon-sunday
A. Some helpful lessons from the Three Hebrews of Daniel:
a) Babylon was the ruling power in the world at the time (Dan31)
b) God’s people were captive in Babylon (Jer5145)
c) Nebuchadnezzar for a time lived as a beast (Dan416).
d) Nebuchadnezzar set up an image to the beast.(Dan31)
e) The Babylonians worshipped the sun god (Dt419, Eze816, 2314)
 All worship, if not unto God, is unto the sun; nothing
more!
f) The primary issue in this controversy was worship (Dan36, 11)
g) The question was who will you worship: the image or the true God
(Dan328)
h) The law of God is also involved, primarily the first table which has
to do with worship to the true God. (Ex203-4)
 We worship God because He is the Creator (Ps956) and the
sign of worship to the Creator is the Sabbath (Rev147).
i) There was a union of church and state (Dan32)
j) All the political rulers who were present in order of rank. All the
civil powers of the Babylonian world were present there. (Dan33)
k) The government was enforcing a religious decree. To not worship
is treason against the government. (Dan3 11)
l) The decree to worship was universal (Dan34)
m) Music played a vital role in connection with false worship (Dan35, 7,
10, 15)
n) A death decree against those who do not worship the image of the
beast (Dan36, 11, 15, 19)
o) An insignificant remnant was faithful (Dan312)
p) The religious leaders accused the three young men to the civil
power (Dan22, 4, 5, 10, 12; 39-12)
q) Nebuchadnezzar attempted to intimidate the remnant who kept
the commandments of God and worshipped only Him (Dan315).
r) All the people wondered in awe at the beast’s image
s) Time of trouble for the three young men (Dan320-23)
t) Christ Himself stood up to deliver His faithful remnant in the midst
of the time of trouble (Dan325, 28)
B. Now compare with the experience of the time of the end:
a) The power which will rule the world in the end-time will be Babylon
(Rev171-2, 5)
b) God’s people will once again be captive in Babylon but this time
spiritually (Rev184)
c) There will be a power described as the beast (Rev131-2).
d) The beast will raise up an image (Rev1311-18)
e) The image and mark MUST have something to do with the sun!
f) Worship will be the central issue and it will be worldwide (Rev134, 8,
12, 15; 147, 9)
g) The question will be who to worship: the beast or true God
(Rev152)
h) The commandments will also be an issue, especially the first table
of the law (Rev1217)
i) There will be a union of church and state (Rev172; 183)
j) State leaders of the whole world will be involved (Rev1614, 172, 18)
k) The mark of the beast will be imposed by force. A death decree will
be proclaimed against God’s faithful remnant who refuse to worship
the image of the beast (Rev1315-16)
l) The death decree will be universal (Rev315- 16)
m) Music and external display will play a significant role in the end time
(Rev1822)
n) God will have a faithful remnant which will refuse to worship the
image to the beast (Rev1217; 1412; 152-4)
o) Very few will be faithful (Mt714)
p) Religious leaders will be the foremost to accuse the remnant of God
q) Satan will manifest his wrath (Rev1217) when the kings of the earth
drink the wine of the wrath of Babylon’s fornication (Rev171-2; 183-5).
r) All the people will wonder at the beast in awe (Rev133-4)
s) There will be a severe time of trouble and God’s people will appear
doomed. (Mt2421, Rev714)
 t) Jesus will personally intervene to deliver His people (Dan121;
Rev114)
PLEASE NOTE THAT:

The Catholic papacy (Popes) has been working

C. The Dark Ages (AD538-1798), a forerunner experience: tirelessly to recover its lost supremacy (in 1798) for the
a) The Roman Catholic Church’s papacy rose to supremacy and ruled
the whole of Europe (mostly inhabited during the time) past century through the infiltration of its Jesuits.
b) Saints were under the authority of the papacy Very, very soon, the long waited New World Order
c) The papacy was the beast
(NWO) under one leader, the Catholic Pope, will come,
d) No need for the image of the beast by then as the beast was openly
in authority and a National Sunday Law will be instituted
e) Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine is founded upon sun-worship worldwide so that all who do not keep Sunday (Mark
principles inherited from paganism
f) The central issue was worship of the beast) and accept the leadership of Pope (666)
g) The papacy claimed exercising the authority of God (forgiveness, will be persecuted (killed, jailed, etc.) as they did
passing laws, etc.), the pope being referred to as the Father (God)
“hidden under the veil of flesh”
before during the Dark Ages (538 -1798 AD) when they
h) The law of God was challenged resulting in the deletion of the 2nd killed between 50 million and 100 million people. This
Commandment which is against idol worshipping, abolishing the means that those [Seventh-Day Adventists] who keep
Sabbath Commandment, and division of the 10th Commandment into
two. the Sabbath (Seal of God) will be the targeted people.
i) The church and state united since the days of Emperor Constantine
when he surrendered his political power to Pope Sylvester So on which side are you? Please be part of those who
j) The papacy’s reign involved all Europe’s political leaders
k) The political powers were made to enforce Sunday-keeping, under the have the seal of God before it is too late!!!
command of the papacy
l) The whole of Europe was affected by the Sunday decrees
m) Entertainment was promoted on Sunday to popularize Sunday and
boost its acceptance
n) The papacy instituted death penalty to those who were against
Sunday keeping
o) Some remained faithful unto death though many denounced their faith
p) True saints were ever accused
q) Sabbath-keepers were condemned through papacy’s decrees
r) Most of the civil people ended up looking to the papacy
s) The whole period of the dark Ages was a time of tribulation
t) God came to rescue when the papacy’s supremacy ended in February
1798 when Pope Pius VI was dethroned by General Alexander
Beirther, under Napoleon.