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VIII - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST UNITED (Rome and the United
States of America)
Revelation 17:3 portray the union of Rome and the United States.
Do we have a plain "thus saith the Lord" to back it
up?
"The church appeals to the strong arm of civil power, and,
in this work Papists and Protestants unite."
Great Controversy, p 607.
"The word of God teaches that these scenes are to be repeated
as Roman Catholics and Protestants shall unite for the exaltation
of the Sunday.”
Great Controversy, p 578.
"In the near future we shall see these words fulfilled
as the Protestant churches unite with the world and with the papal
power against commandment-keepers.”
Testimonies, vol 5, p 449.
"As America, the land of religious liberty, shall unite
with the papacy in forcing the conscience and compelling men to
honor the false sabbath, the people of every country on the globe
will be led to follow her example."
Testimonies, vol 6, p 18.
”Let the watchmen on the walls of Zion not join with those
who are making of none effect the truth as it is in Christ. Let
them not join the confederacy of Infidel¬ity, popery, and
Protestantism in exalting tradition above Scripture, reason above
revelation, and human talent above the divine influence and the
vital power of godliness.”
SDA Bible Commentary, vol 4, p 1141-1142.
"Then the Catholic bid the Protestant to go forward, and
issue a decree that all who will not observe the first day of
the week, instead of the seventh day, shall be slain. And the
Catholics, whose numbers are large, will stand by the Protestants.
The Catholics will give their power to the image of the beast.
The Protestants will work as their mother worked before them to
destroy the saints. But before their decree bring of bear fruit,
the saints will be delivered by the voice of God."
Spalding and Magan, p 2.
“In the seventeenth of Revelation is foretold the destruction
of all the churches who corrupt themselves by idolatrous devotion
to the service of the papacy, those who have drunk of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication. [Rev. 17:1-4 quoted.]
“Thus is represented the papal power, which with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness, by outside attraction and gorgeous display,
deceives al! nations; promising them, as did Satan our first parents,
all good to those who receive its mark, and all harm to those
who oppose its fallacies. The power which has the deepest inward
corruption will make the greatest display, and will clothe itself
with the most elaborate signs of power. The Bible plainly declares
that this covers a corrupt and deceiving wickedness, "Upon
her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, The
Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth."
"What is it that gives its kingdom to this power? Protestantism,
a power which, while professing to have the temper and spirit
of a lamb and to be allied to Heaven, speaks with the voice of
a dragon. It is moved by a power from beneath".
Letter 232, 1899.
(SDA Bible Commentary, vo! 7, p 983).
Let's look at Revelation 17:8 again," ...whose names were
not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world..."
Also in Revelation 13:8 God says, "And all that dwelt upon
the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the
book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world…"
This means that all who follow and give their alle¬giance
to this beast (America) who is under the influence and control
of Romanism will not be save. (Please see Revelation 19:20; 20:9-10).
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