Christians, did you know that...?
God's seal is the seventh day Sabbath (Saturday) and that the mark of the beast is the counterfeit day of worship (Sunday)?
A seal is the official mark on a legal document. God’s law is a legal document. It contains the Ten Commandments which He wrote Himself. One of them, has the three components that make up a seal: the name, the title or office and the dominion. As we read through the Ten Commandments, only the fourth, which speaks of the Sabbath meets these requirements. Exodus 8:10 states: “…for in six days the LORD (name) made (title: Creator) heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is (dominion), and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. In Revelation 12:17 and 14:12, we read that the remnant are those who keep God’s commandments and have the testimony, faith of Jesus. God’s people, through faith in Jesus will keep the commandments in the last days. These are the ones who will not be able to buy or sell because they refused to receive the mark of the beast.
We read in Romans 2:15 that God’s law is written in our hearts. This means we obey them in love. We read that God’s people will be sealed in their foreheads in Revelation 7:2, 3. Isaiah 8:16 tells us what God’s people will be sealed with: “Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.” His law will be in our minds, that means we will consciously choose to keep the Commandments. Those who receive the mark of the beast will have it placed not only in their foreheads and their right hands. Strong’s Concordance described the right hand The right hand is "a place of honour or authority". So, the beast thinks it has authority above the Bible and has succeeded in getting many to follow it in its false worship.
The Catholic Church admits that Sunday worship is its mark. "Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [of the Sabbath to Sunday] was her act. . . . AND THE ACT IS A MARK of her ecclesiastical power." --from the office of Cardinal Gibbons, Nov. 11, 1895.
“From this we may understand how great is the authority of the church in interpreting or explaining to us the commandments of God - an authority which is acknowledged by the universal practice of the whole Christian world, even of those sects which profess to take the holy Scriptures as their sole rule of faith, since they observe as the day of rest not the seventh day of the week demanded by the Bible, but the first day. Which we know is to be kept holy, only from the tradition and teaching of the Catholic church.” Henry Gibson, Catechism Made Easy, #2, 9th edition, vol. 1, p. 341-342. The Sabbath is God’s seal because it distinguishes Him from the false gods. It makes it clear who we are worshipping when we keep it. We are worshipping the God who that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters (Revelation 14:7).
In their Catechism, the Catholic Church explains why it keeps Sunday instead of Saturday as the Lord’s day. “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 Savior rose from the dead. Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ (Source: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7O.HTM).
The Bible never authorized the change of the Sabbath but it predicted in Daniel 7:25 that man would tamper with God’s law and that prediction has come true.
The second commandment has been merged with the first, the fourth commandment has become the third and the last commandment has been split in two. The Ten Commandments in the Catechism of the Catholic Church are listed differently from the way they are listed in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. You can check this out for yourselves.
I too am under grace and not under condemnation of the law, however, in the words of Paul we are to establish the law. Being under grace does not excuse us from keeping the Ten Commandments. Jesus came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it. And all ten of the Commandments are mentioned in the New Testament.
1st: Matthew 4:10
2nd: 1 John 5:21; Acts 17:29;
3rd: 1 Timothy 6:1
4th: Matthew 24:20; Mark 2:27, 28; Hebrews 4:4, 9, 10; Colossians 1:16
5th: Matthew 19:19
6th: Romans 13:9
7th: Matthew 19:18
8th: Romans 13:9
9th: Romans 13:9
10th: Romans 7:7
I am basing my beliefs on the Word of God and prophecies which have come true, not on Ellen G. White. The Catholic Church has openly admitted to changing the Sabbath and pointed out that Protestant churches which claim to follow the Bible are really following the Catholic Church.
@ jim761076: Thanks for your concern, but I do read and study my Bible with the help of the Holy Spirit. I did not say that salvation comes from keeping a day holy. Salvation comes only through Jesus Christ. We do not keep the law in order to be saved because the law cannot save. We are saved by grace through faith. However, we are obedient in observing the law because we love God and because the Bible says: "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15).