Forcing people to go to church on Sundays to celebrate the mass by law and calling it a blessing is exactly what the mark of the beast is all about. This is what a Vatican newspaper published this month. In reality, this kind of policy will erode the principles of religious freedom. This violates the right to choose one’s beliefs and practices freely, which is a fundamental component of individual liberty. Advocating for a Sunday law that would require mandatory church attendance will be the final act in the 6,000-year controversy between good and evil.
“Donne Chiesa Mondo” is a monthly news journal published by the Vatican. In the July 2024 edition, an article was published titled “And of the Seventh Day He Rested,” in which the publication makes the case that a “Sunday precept” forcing people to go to church to celebrate mass might actually be a blessing. The entire article from the Vatican was republished by the Spanish Catholic news outlet New Life Digital, on July 31, 2024, which said:
• “In Western societies, alternating work and rest is considered more of a right than a necessity.” [1]
• “It is not entirely fair when Sunday is mentioned in this discussion. ‘The Lord’s Day’ should not be comparable to other civil holidays because it has a very different meaning from that given to days of rest in social organizations or in work ethics, although it is true that the work calendar is a compromise between civil and religious dates that are part of the tradition of the majority of the social group it affects.” [1]
• “This explains why in Italy the day of rest is the Christian day and not the Islamic Friday or the Jewish Saturday.” [1]
• “God wants one day to be qualitatively different from the other six and ‘consecrates’ it, that is, reserves it for himself, makes it a reality that belongs to him.” [1]
• “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. For six days you shall work and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord your God. You shall not do any work—you, your son, your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who resides within your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them; and on the seventh day he rested. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” [1]
• “It should make us reflect: rest from work is a right, sanctifying a day for God is a commandment. Perhaps the profound crisis of Sunday precepts, which sought to consecrate the Lord’s day with a forced Mass, will turn out to be a blessing. It will not be easy to get out of it, of course, because it demands rediscovering the profound meaning of a relationship with all the reality of the world that passes through the creative power of God.” [1]
• “A force that teaches us, we could say, paraphrasing the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, that ‘to everything there is a season, and a time for every activity under heaven.’ Perhaps then we can begin to rediscover this meaning.” [1]
• “Original article published in the June 2024 issue of Donne Chiesa Mondo. Translated by New Life Digital” [1]
This shows us what the Vatican has planned for society. It is Rome that is attempting to impose its Sunday rest ideology through legislation, steering the Christian world towards a path of diminishing liberties. Inspiration tells us that any law enacted to protect Sunday as a day of rest is really a means of upholding papal worship.
“The law for the observance of the first day of the week is the production of an apostate Christendom. Sunday is a child of the papacy, exalted by the Christian world above the sacred day of God’s rest. In no case are God’s people to pay it homage” (Testimonies, Vol. 9, p. 235).
“The enforcement of Sundaykeeping on the part of Protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship of the papacy” (Great Controversy, p. 448).
Sunday laws are religious in nature and are designed to force people to attend church. God’s relationship with humanity is rooted in love, not force. It is Satan who seeks to impose his will, manipulating and deceiving to suppress our conscience and enslave us to sin. While God calls us with love and patience, the devil resorts to fear and compulsion, aiming to dominate rather than nurture a bond built on trust and love.
The only hope we have for our rapidly deteriorating world is the coming of the Lord. During the Mark of the Beast crisis, sin and Sunday laws will cause anguish, death, and suffering, and only Christ can put an end to the problem of sin that is destroying our world. May we be found faithful in spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and the message of His soon return.
Sources
[1] https://www.vidanuevadigital.com/tribuna/y-al-septimo-dia-descanso-marinella-perroni/
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Despite all the flowery rhetoric about ecumenism, this is what Rome has always been about. So much for Vatican II and religious liberty. It was all lies.
“God never forces the will or the conscience; but Satan’s constant resort—to gain control of those whom he cannot otherwise seduce—is compulsion by cruelty. Through fear or force he endeavors to rule the conscience and to secure homage to himself. To accomplish this, he works through both religious and secular authorities, moving them to the enforcement of human laws in defiance of the law of God.” Great Controversy 591.2
“God never forces the will or the conscience; but Satan’s constant resort—to gain control of those whom he cannot otherwise seduce—is compulsion by cruelty. Through fear or force he endeavors to rule the conscience and to secure homage to himself. To accomplish this, he works through both religious and secular authorities, moving them to the enforcement of human laws in defiance of the law of God.” GC 591.2
“The Christian world will learn what Romanism really is, when it is too late to escape the snare. She is silently growing into power. Her doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative halls, in the churches, and in the hearts of men. Throughout the land she is piling up her lofty and massive structures, in the secret recesses of which her former persecutions will be repeated. She is stealthily and unsuspectedly strengthening her forces to further her own ends when the time shall come for her to strike. All that she desires is vantage ground, and this is soon to be given her. In the near future we shall see and shall feel what the purpose of the Roman element is. Whoever shall believe and obey the word of God will thereby incur reproach and persecution.” 4SP 397.
“God never forces the will or the conscience; but Satan’s constant resort—to gain control of those whom he cannot otherwise seduce—is compulsion by cruelty. Through fear or force he endeavors to rule the conscience and to secure homage to himself. To accomplish this, he works through both religious and secular authorities, moving them to the enforcement of human laws in defiance of the law of God.” Great Controversy 591.2
This is the voice of the dragon speaking and he is using people to spread his message.