Comments on: Protestants Call on the NI Football League to Stop Organizing Games on Sundays to Avoid Desecrating the Sabbath and Discriminating Against Christians https://adventmessenger.org/protestants-call-on-the-ni-football-league-to-stop-organizing-games-on-sundays-to-avoid-desecrating-the-sabbath-and-discriminating-against-christians/ News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bill https://adventmessenger.org/protestants-call-on-the-ni-football-league-to-stop-organizing-games-on-sundays-to-avoid-desecrating-the-sabbath-and-discriminating-against-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-57021 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 22:40:12 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=20789#comment-57021 The real targets of discrimination will be the seventh-day Sabbath-keepers.

]]> By: Jon https://adventmessenger.org/protestants-call-on-the-ni-football-league-to-stop-organizing-games-on-sundays-to-avoid-desecrating-the-sabbath-and-discriminating-against-christians/comment-page-1/#comment-56776 Sat, 08 Jun 2024 02:57:10 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=20789#comment-56776 Sunday-Law Advocates Do Not Realize What They Are Doing
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…. They are working in blindness. They do not see that if a Protestant government sacrifices the principles that have made them a free, independent nation, and through legislation brings into the Constitution principles that will propagate papal falsehood and papal delusion, they are plunging into the Roman horrors of the Dark Ages.—The Review and Herald Extra, December 11, 1888. LDE 125.3
There are many, even of those engaged in this movement for Sunday enforcement, who are blinded to the results which will follow this action. They do not see that they are striking directly against religious liberty. There are many who have never understood the claims of the Bible Sabbath and the false foundation upon which the Sunday institution rests…. LDE 126.1
Those who are making an effort to change the Constitution and secure a law enforcing Sunday observance little realize what will be the result. A crisis is just upon us.—Testimonies for the Church 5:711, 753 (1889). LDE 126.2

Not to Sit in Quietude, Doing Nothing
It is our duty to do all in our power to avert the threatened danger…. A vast responsibility is devolving upon men and women of prayer throughout the land to petition that God may sweep back this cloud of evil, and give a few more years of grace to work for the Master.—The Review and Herald Extra, December 11, 1888. LDE 126.3
Those who are now keeping the commandments of God need to bestir themselves that they may obtain the special help which God alone can give them. They should work more earnestly to delay as long as possible the threatened calamity.—The Review and Herald, December 18, 1888. LDE 126.4
Let not the commandment-keeping people of God be silent at this time as though we gracefully accepted the situation.—The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 7:975 (1889). LDE 127.1
We are not doing the will of God if we sit in quietude, doing nothing to preserve liberty of conscience. Fervent, effectual prayer should be ascending to heaven that this calamity may be deferred until we can accomplish the work which has so long been neglected. Let there be most earnest prayer and then let us work in harmony with our prayers.—Testimonies for the Church 5:714 (1889). LDE 127.2
There are many who are at ease, who are, as it were, asleep. They say, “If prophecy has foretold the enforcement of Sunday observance the law will surely be enacted,” and having come to this conclusion they sit down in a calm expectation of the event, comforting themselves with the thought that God will protect His people in the day of trouble. But God will not save us if we make no effort to do the work He has committed to our charge…. LDE 127.3
As faithful watchmen you should see the sword coming and give the warning, that men and women may not pursue a course through ignorance that they would avoid if they knew the truth.—The Review and Herald Extra, December 24, 1889. LDE 127.4

Oppose Sunday Laws by Pen and Vote
We cannot labor to please men who will use their influence to repress religious liberty and to set in operation oppressive measures to lead or compel their fellow men to keep Sunday as the Sabbath. The first day of the week is not a day to be reverenced. It is a spurious sabbath, and the members of the Lord’s family cannot participate with the men who exalt this day and violate the law of God by trampling upon His Sabbath. The people of God are not to vote to place such men in office, for when they do this they are partakers with them of the sins which they commit while in office.—Fundamentals of Christian Education, 475 (1899). LDE 127.5
I do hope that the trumpet will give a certain sound in regard to this Sunday-law movement. I think that it would be best if in our papers the subject of the perpetuity of the law of God were made a specialty…. We should now be doing our very best to defeat this Sunday law.—Counsels to Writers and Editors, 97, 98 (1906). LDE 128.1

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