“Trade unions will be the cause of the most terrible violence that has ever been seen among human beings” (Manuscript Release, Vol. 4, p. 23).
On October 6, 2024, Belfast Live reported that the Belfast City Council is planning to extend working hours on Sunday. The current law only allows shops to open from 1 pm to 6 pm. However, news of the proposed change in the law to allow shops to open even longer on Sundays has been met with resistance from the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers (Usdaw), one of the United Kingdom’s biggest trade unions, representing over 360,000 members. [1]
According to Paddy Lillis, the head of the labor union, allowing people to work more hours on Sunday would have a “negative impact on retail workers, their families, and our communities.” He also argued that Sunday should be better spent with “families” or in “church.”
Belfast Live reported that the union’s general secretary made the following statement.
• “Usdaw General Secretary, Paddy Lillis, said: ‘Usdaw is disappointed to read news that the issue of extended Sunday trading hours in Belfast is again being discussed by the City Council. This was reviewed in 2020, 2017 and numerous times before that. On all of those occasions, it was determined that such an extension is not the right move’.” [2]
• “Paddy added: ‘Our members remain opposed to extending Sunday trading hours. Allowing large stores to open for longer hours on Sundays would have a negative impact on retail workers, their families and our communities. Longer Sunday trading would take a heavy toll on staff who would come under even more pressure to work, when they would rather be spending time with family and engaging in community, sports and leisure activities or attending church’.” [2]
• “Usdaw says it has written to every councillor in the city emphasising it’s an ‘emphatic no’ from them on longer trading times which they say will have a ‘negative impact on retail workers, their families and our communities’.” [2]
Here we see one of the UK’s largest unions asking political leaders to vote an “emphatic no” on extending Sunday working hours. Unions, which say their reason for existing is to protect workers’ rights, are also seeking to protect the right of worshipers to go to church on Sundays. This is what they have declared. They need Sundays, not just for family or free time; they also need to protect this day for worship.
This begs the question: Who are the labor unions working for—the people or for Rome—because they are petitioning politicians to protect Sunday for rest, family, and worship? Labor unions, along with the media and the Protestant churches, are truly doing the bidding of Rome. Powerful labor unions, which exert significant influence on labor, commerce, industry, politicians, and society in general, are engaging in a campaign to promote the papal mark of apostasy.
When labor unions begin to promote Sunday as the Lord’s Day, this sets a dangerous precedent because they are serving as an agent for the church by promoting religious interests. This will lead to the erosion of our civil and religious liberty during the mark of the beast crisis. This type of pressure and advocacy can sway public opinion and policy in favor of religious groups, undermining the separation of church and state. Such a development is problematic in pluralistic societies where multiple religions and belief systems coexist.
Sunday laws are returning, and their purpose is to limit our behavior on Sundays. This is intended to encourage people to go to church on Sundays because, in the opinion of Sunday supporters, they are essential to maintaining the moral and social fabric of society. Sunday rest by law conflicts with God’s moral law. God’s law, which supersedes all human laws, commands us to rest on His seventh-day Sabbath, or Saturday. Additionally, God’s law designates Sunday as a working day. As evidenced by Exodus 20:8–11, God Himself actually set the example by working on Sunday, the first day, and resting on Saturday, the seventh.
“The time is not far distant when the test will come to every soul. The observance of the false sabbath will be urged upon us. The contest will be between the commandments of God and the commandments of men” (Prophets and Kings, p. 188).
“The Sunday movement is now making its way in darkness. The leaders are concealing the true issue, and many who unite in the movement do not themselves see whither the undercurrent is tending. Its professions are mild and apparently Christian, but when it shall speak it will reveal the spirit of the dragon. It is our duty to do all in our power to avert the threatened danger. We should endeavor to disarm prejudice by placing ourselves in a proper light before the people. We should bring before them the real question at issue, thus interposing the most effectual protest against measures to restrict liberty of conscience” (Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 452).
Sources
[1] https://www.usdaw.org.uk/join-usdaw/who-can-join-usdaw/
[2] https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/retail-workers-union-disappointed-belfast-30070618
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