If you were ever wondering if the media was part of the conspiracy to push Sunday closures in society, there is no more need to wonder. One of the largest news media companies in the world has just voiced its support for closing stores on Sunday. The Daily Mail is a major British newspaper and media outlet and one of the most visited English-language news websites globally, averaging 314,000,000 monthly visitors. [1]
On November 20, 2024, the Daily Mail weighed in on the controversy surrounding the small island town of Stornoway in Scotland. In an article titled “Why Sunday should Still be a Day of Rest, says Peter Hitchens—Shops should close so that families can stay together—just like in my childhood,” the Daily Mail advocated for the return to a time when Sundays were respected by society and families were more united. The article expressed the following:
• “The people of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis are still fighting against the supermarket giant’s decision to start trading on the Sabbath on November 17. It is part of a long, slow war between the modern world and the old one, which reached its final stage with the introduction of Sunday air services to the island, in 2002, and Sunday ferries in 2009. Yet Lewis still has a very high proportion of Christian believers, and the idea of Sunday as a day of rest is still one of the Ten Commandments.” [2]
• “The Lord’s Day Observance Society and the National Secular Society have both been involved in the Stornoway stand-off.” [2]
• “I am very sorry for the Christians of Lewis. Couldn’t we still have somewhere in these islands where the old ideas were still respected?” [2]
• “There has to be some time when families can get together. If there is no such time, families can weaken and break, as they lose proper contact with each.” [2]
• “It isn’t the person who works on Sunday who is damaged by it. It is the people who would have preferred him or her to be at home.” [2]
• “I remember Sundays as they were in this country 60 years ago. In the small Devon town where I was at boarding school, the loudest noise was that of church bells. The streets were bleakly empty. Traffic was sparse. The pubs opened for two hours at lunchtime and then for three hours in the evening, in both cases after church services had finished.” [2]
• “It is in fact a very good description of the somnolent, silent, domestic Sundays we all once had, perhaps relieved by an uplifting Charles Dickens adaptation on the TV. It was a day quite different from any other day, and I miss it.” [2]
• “You do not need to be part of it to be impressed by the unity of it, and – if you are me – to envy the peace and release from the clangour and urgency of everyday.” [2]
There is a culture war raging between secular and religious groups. In this conflict, we know who will come out on top. Bible prophecy warns us that the beast, the image, the ruling kings, the merchants of the earth, and apparently news media companies will all be conspiring together to impose a false system of worship. In the context of prophetic interpretation drawn from Revelation 12–18, enforced Sunday worship will become the mark of the beast during the final crisis.
This view is rooted in the idea that the “beast” represents a power that seeks to enforce religious doctrines that are contrary to God’s commandments, specifically the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday). During this time, the beast and its image—symbolizing a union of church and state—will compel global allegiance by mandating Sunday worship, a tradition that is based on human authority rather than divine law. Those who resist, adhering instead to God’s law and the Sabbath, will face persecution. This test of loyalty will distinguish those aligned with the Creator’s authority from those who submit to human systems of worship, culminating in the sealing of God’s faithful and the condemnation of those who receive the mark of the beast.
Whenever we hear calls to bring back Sunday as the weekly day of rest, we can know for certain that these are attempts to mobilize people into political action for sinister purposes. The truth is that Sunday will never become the day of rest and worship without enforcing this day through state power. Laws can limit people’s actions, but they can’t change their hearts. Instead of restoring society through the union of church and state, these actions will lead to the implementation of the mark of the beast during the final crisis. All false doctrine and oppressive dragon-like actions by governments will soon vanish during the outpouring of the seven last plagues (Revelation 16). Our only hope is to rely on God and His Word.
“Sooner or later Sunday laws will be passed. But there is much for God’s servants to do to warn the people” (Review and Herald, February 16, 1905).
“Those who are under the influence of a false religion, who observe a spurious rest day, will set aside the most positive evidence in regard to the true Sabbath. They will try to compel men to obey the laws of their own creation, laws that are directly opposed to the law of God. Upon those who continue in this course, the wrath of God will fall. Unless they change, they cannot escape the penalty. 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, pp. 234, 235).
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[1] https://www.hurstmediacompany.co.uk/mail-online-profile/
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