Secular governments have embraced Rome’s Sunday worship. Sunday is really being promoted as the key to saving the environment. This is not a conspiracy theory. Governments have actually bought into the idea that if Sunday is respected, our planet will be saved from the catastrophic and detrimental effects of the so-called climate change crisis. Everyone is getting on board. Sunday for climate change was not something that was picked out of the air. This revolutionary idea comes from the heart of Laudato Si’.
Makati is a community found within the metropolis area of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. They have started an initiative called Car-Free Sunday, in which designated areas of the city are temporarily closed to motorized vehicles on Sunday. This is being done in an effort to reduce air pollution, encourage physical activity, and create a more sustainable environment.
What if your Sunday started with an invitation to a car-free Ayala Avenue? How would you spend your morning in this urban oasis in the heart of Makati? 😍🍃#MakeItHappen #MakeItMakati#ITAllHappensInMakati
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— Make It Makati (@MakeItMakati) August 17, 2023
The Philippine Star, an English-language newspaper in Manila, published the following on August 23, 2023:
• In a social media post on Aug. 18, the local government unit announced that it is bringing back its car-free Sundays at Ayala Avenue. The program, which goes beyond having traffic-free roads, will take place on Sept. 3, 10, 17, and 24, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. [1]
• “Get ready for Car-Free Sunday Morning at Ayala Avenue, Makatizens! Mark your calendars and set your alarms for an unforgettable urban experience as Ayala Avenue transforms into a car-free haven on September 3, 2023,” they captioned their post. [1]
• Pedestrians can freely stroll, walk their pets, jog, skate, bike, and more without having to worry about any incoming cars and the hassle of air pollution during the said period. [1]
• Makati previously launched a car-free day in November 2012 to raise awareness of the health benefits of walking while at the same time promoting the use of non-motorized transport like bicycles as alternatives to using cars that use fossil fuels—one of the major sources of air pollution. [1]
Car-Free Sundays are becoming popular in many cities all over the world. Unfortunately, this initiative also seeks to increase public understanding of the value of Sunday rest. The underlying message is that people should take advantage of Sundays to relax and enjoy themselves. The campaign places a strong emphasis on the benefits of Sunday, rest, spending time with family, wellbeing, and environmental awareness.
Rome is going to achieve its goal with the “Sunday for Climate Change” agenda. They will bring together both the secular and religious worlds for a common cause: Sunday. Through ecological renewal, climate justice, and environmental activism, they are campaigning to turn Sunday into a fossil-free day and an energy-saving day.
Sunday will be a day of rest for spiritual renewal, a day for families, a day of rest from consumerism and shopping, a day free from carbon emissions, and a day for attending church for public worship. This is exactly the direction in which the world is heading—all thanks to Pope Francis and his encyclical on climate change. And do not imagine that the Sunday rest issue will go away. The proposal to impose Sunday in response to climate change will only intensify. Even God told us this would happen:
“It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced” (Great Controversy, p. 590).
We should not be careless or act in opposition to the duty that God has placed upon us at this time. God has a true day of rest and worship, and it is the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, the true Lord’s Day. Every Seventh-day Adventist media ministry should be warning the world of the coming Mark of the Beast crisis without hesitation. The enemies of present truth grow bolder each day as they try to exalt Sunday as the day of rest for the world. Sadly, demonic forces are causing many of our people to act indifferent at this solemn moment in history.
“The effort that is being made to press through the Sunday law should be vigorously met; for we are not ready for that issue. The crisis is right upon us, and soon the last issue will have to be met. Every talent held in trust by God’s people should now be employed to advocate the truth as it is in Jesus, to cause it to stand before the world in clear lines. The work that is being done by some to counterwork the Lord’s warnings is the consequence of the devising of satanic agencies. We now present our case to heaven, asking God to work in our behalf” (Letter 72, 1906).
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[1] https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/117563-makati-car-free-sunday-mornings-at-ayala-avenue
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The entire world is lining up to sip from Babylon’s cup.
It is only fitting, that a false gospel should have a false day of rest and worship as well. The real sabbath reminds its observers of who God really is. He has created the world and everything in it, and also predicted its complete end by His own hand. All who would suggest that they can save themselves or worse yet this world, through their own actions or beliefs apart from the word of God, preach and exemplify a false gospel. Are these not the teachings of the man of sin and lawlessness? Has he not set himself up in the temple of God, professing himself to be God? Thinking to change the times and laws of God? Are not all who would follow him in this thing, doing the same thing?
There is only one sacrifice that is acceptable to God. Abel presented the sacrifice which God required, Cain brought forth the work of his own hands, which can never save anyone. Submission to the word of God as truth and the goal to be attained, is alone the true and acceptable sacrifice of salvation demonstrated and exemplified by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Obedience is better than sacrifice, because it is sacrifice in action. The sacrifice of the will of the sinner, to the will of God. The details do matter. The devil is in the details. By our fruits shall we be known.
1Sa 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
We will all choose either the way of Cain, or Abel. The sacrifice which God has required, or one of our own design or choice. Those who would be true members of the body of Christ which is the only acceptable sacrifice unto the Lord, will choose to submit to all that our God has commanded. As our Lord and Savior exemplified even to the point if death. Before the end God will allow this choice to become plain and simple as day. God has commanded one day of rest, the man of sin will command another. Easy peasy. Make your choice. Reveal your fruit. Become a true member of the body of Christ in fully submitting to the word of God, or join those who do not wish to follow the example of Him with whom we have to do.
Heb 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
“I am glad that the Lord has at Washington able men, who can treat this Sunday movement as it should be treated. Let every minister, every evangelist, now put on the whole armor of God, and work and watch and pray. Our church members also should humble their hearts before God, and cry aloud and spare not. Oh, that the Lord would imbue the members of His church with a sense of the importance of the responsibility of being laborers together with Him.” 10MR 358.2
“Sooner or later Sunday laws will be passed. But there is much for God’s servants to do to warn the people. This work has been greatly retarded by their having to wait and stand against the devisings of Satan, which have been striving to find a place in our work. We are years behind.” RH February 16, 1905.
They are not helping the environment; they are helping Rome.