Churches across denominational lines have come together for climate change activism. We learned from COP 26’s Climate Sunday Initiative that climate change activism and Sunday worship are intimately connected. [1] We also know from Laudato Si’ that Pope Francis is proposing Sunday as the solution to the climate crisis. We also knew that, as Joe Biden was meeting with Pope Francis late last year, his Build Back Better legislation was being considered by Congress [2] which included $555 billion dollars for climate change funding in America. [3]
However, the Build Back Better Act, along with its billions of dollars for climate-reduction policies, hit a brick wall when it died in the Senate after failing to receive the necessary votes. This has not slowed the resolve of Christians to save the planet from what they call the “severe repercussions of climate change, wildfires, superstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and increasingly-intense weather phenomena.” [4] A coalition of nearly 100 faith leaders has just made the following call to our politicians in Washington, D.C.:
“Nearly 100 faith leaders have called on President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not abandon Democrats’ sprawling Build Back Better agenda and its hundreds of billions of dollars to combat climate change … ‘We cannot delay enacting the Build Back Better Act. This vital legislation will protect our climate and put our nation on the path of climate justice, environmental justice, and intergenerational justice,’ a coalition of 86 faith leaders of national, state and local faith-based organizations and congregations wrote in a letter Feb. 14 addressed to Biden, Schumer and the full U.S. Senate.” [4]
In their letter to President Biden and the members of the US Senate, this coalition of Roman Catholics, Evangelicals, and Jews claims to represent “millions of people of faith and hundreds of thousands of faith communities in the United States.” They also stated that they are “a moral call to care for our common home.” [5]
This is the same call to care for our common home taught by Pope Francis in Laudato Si’. This is the Pope’s call for ecological conversion, and very soon the same aggressive steps that are being used to enforce Covid mandates will be used for the new climate change measures. Religious leaders are calling on our legislators to get this done. This is concerning considering what inspiration says about this very thing:
“Legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance” (Great Controversy, p. 592).
How about Seventh-day Adventists? What role, if any, do they play in all of this? Well, there is a connection. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Seventh-day Adventist and member of the United States House of Representatives, is one of Joe Biden’s strongest supporters of his Build Back Better legislation, and she completely endorses the plan’s funding for climate change programs.
In the video above, Sheila Jackson Lee says: “We will pass the Build Back Better Act that has a sizeable comportion of broadband and many other aspects dealing with climate.”
Sheila Jackson Lee promotes the idea that legislation can be passed to force a reluctant population to undertake the drastic changes required to save the world. Sheila Jackson Lee’s strategies include drastically reducing our carbon emissions through a range of initiatives that profoundly alter our way of life. And one of the most striking solutions being proposed by the churches to protect our planet from the unavoidable and tragic consequences of the impending climate disaster is to make Sunday rest a legal requirement. Sunday is inextricably linked to the fight against climate change. It isn’t possible to separate the two.
The latest edition of the Southwestern Union Record, p. 33. [6]
In other words, Sheila Jackson Lee’s aspirations are in line with the almost 100 faith leaders campaigning to enact the Build Back Better climate plan. They’re all members of a group of politicians, religious leaders, and social activists collaborating with the First Beast of Revelation 13, the papacy. During the Mark of the Beast crisis, this campaign will result in a national Sunday law. All of the churches are uniting. All of the nations are coming together. We know from prophecy what is going to happen as these events are setting the stage for the final crisis.
We, as God’s commandment-keeping people, should have nothing to do with this movement. Are we doing exactly what God has called us to do, or are we uniting with the world and embracing their so-called solutions for the world? Regardless of the crisis, whether it’s the Covid-19 crisis, the economic crisis, or the Sunday law crisis, God has given us a sacred job to perform during this solemn hour of earth’s history:
“Lift up the standard—the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Make this everything, and then by your strong arguments wall it in, and make it of still greater force. We are, as a people, in danger of giving the third angel’s message in such an indefinite manner that it does not impress the people. It is our privilege to expect large things, even the demonstration of the Spirit of God. This is a power which will convict and convert the soul. Our message is a life and death message, and we must let this message appear as it is—the great power of God. Then the Lord will make it effectual. We are to present it in all its telling force” (Letter 209, 1899).
Sources
[2] https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/future-earth-and-human-family-honor-greatest-commandment
[5] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NplkoVEaXuUr63O64zL5NE5LPVRG2fEl/view
[6] https://issuu.com/swurecord/docs/swuc_record_jan_feb22
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See the jewelry on her
KJV 1 Timothy 2:9-10
9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
KJV 1 Peter 3:3-4
3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Almost as soon as they come into the world the children are subjected to fashion’s influence. They hear more of dress than of their Saviour. They see their mothers consulting the fashion plates more earnestly than the Bible. The display of dress is treated as of greater importance than the development of character. Parents and children are robbed of that which is best and sweetest and truest in life. For fashion’s sake they are cheated out of a preparation for the life to come. It was the adversary of all good who instigated the invention of the ever-changing fashions. He desires nothing so much as to bring grief and dishonor to God by working the misery and ruin of human beings.{MH 291}
KJV Isaiah 3:18-24
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
KJV Isaiah 4:1
1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
The Wedding Ring TM 180.2
I feel deeply over this leavening process which seems to be going on among us, in the conformity to custom and fashion. Not one penny should be spent for a circlet of gold to testify that we are married. – TM 180.2
Notice also that in the image from the Southwestern Union Record that she removed all her ornaments in order to receive recognition from “her church.” Thus, she demonstrates that she understands whether or not it is appropriate use jewelry. She is demonstrating to anyone with eyes to see what it looks like to live in a double minded way. “A double minded man is unstable is all his ways.” “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.” By test of the Scriptures, this sister is not living for the Lord.
Sheila Jackson Lee, instead of being praised should be disfellowshipped!!!
She is NOT a Seventh-day Adventist. She is what you would call a “plant”. I have never been able to understand how a Seventh-day Adventist could or should be in government? When we are told clearly in the SOP that we should not even vote for a candidate of any sort. We can vote issues only.
Also, why would she want to be a democrat on top of everything else? They are destroying this country, from the White House down. She will definitely be on the wrong side when this all comes down. She will have to vote for a National Sunday Law. That will seal her fate. Very sad!!!
You are so correct…