Having a knowledge of the Holy Bible is no indication of a saving relationship with Jesus Christ as it is written: “the devils also believe, and tremble.” Ja.2:19.  Nor does having superb intelligence give any proof of living a godly life.  This is evidenced by the words of Jesus to His disciples: “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Matt.18:3.  The qualities of children include natural trust, humility, and a teachable nature.  And when they are shown love and affection in tandem with truth their hearts are drawn to love’s strength and virtue.  To prove the fact that great intellect is no indicator of godliness Christ told the religious scholars of His day, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God” (Matt.22:29).  These were men who boasted their vast knowledge of the Scriptures, and through this religious scholarship they received the homage of men.  And yet, Jesus declared to these men that they were Biblically illiterate (Jn.5:39).  How profound are the Saviour’s Words: then and today.  A minister of the church can know the Bible backwards and forwards, but to be ignorant of the boundaries between faith and presumption, truth and tradition makes that minister Biblically illiterate and therefore deceived in his service to GOD.  And all who are misled by him share the peril he faces “before the judgment seat of Christ.” II Cor.5:10.

            It is the threat of Bible illiteracy in the church that calls us to examine the commonly held views of Bible prophecy, because each of them stem from the commonly held traditions of “what is good” (Mic.6:8).  Wrong views of Christ’s salvation will lead to wrong views in Bible prophecy; and thus, false expectations will lead to wrong decisions as the prophecies unfold.  There are many opinions in both Bible doctrine and prophetic interpretation, and they often clash, leaving the Bible student confused as to which is the true and which is the false.  But GOD’S voice may be found among the many voices.  It’s just a matter of knowing how the Bible writers never contradict each other.  Of the dominant views held by the vast majority of Christians, because they have the majority vote, does this give evidence of their views being correct?  Is the moral majority morally right?  This is where the careful study of history plays a significant role in providing the answer.  Since the days of Jesus, there has been a continuous polluting of the basic doctrines of salvation as Paul warned, “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” Acts 20:29,30.  This is based on the age-old lust of men to wield their authority over others (Lu.22:24), and who have gone to great lengths to shield themselves from being exposed as “liars” and “false prophets” (Matt.24:11).  The greatest example of fraud against the Gospel of Jesus Christ is found in the history of the Roman church.  Not until the 16^th century Reformation did clergymen lead nations to finally separate from the pope’s blasphemy against Christ and His salvation.  As a result, modern civilization emerged and American liberty was established, forbidding religious tyranny.  

            In the study of Bible prophecy it is seen that whenever a prophecy is given, GOD provides other passages of the same event, and with added detail.  For GOD to repeat these prophetic events with additional instruction not only valides of the prophecy but also builds your trust in GOD’S inviolate Word to “take heed that no man deceive you” (Matt.24:4).

1. Are the prophecies of Revelation yet to come, or did they

    begin in the first days of the Christian era?

Revelation 1:3  ____________ is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and ________ those things which are written therein: for _____  ________  ____  ____  ________.  

         The prophetic timeline of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” began in the days of the Apostle John.  And the prophecy covers the entire history of Christ's Church: from it’s beginning to its completion in the Earth made new.  The companion book to Revelation is the book of Daniel, which verifies the chronological history of Revelation.  From Daniel’s day to the close of time, his prophecies outline the history of Earth’s final four kingdoms (to be reviewed on pages 106-108).  And the fourth and final kingdom is Rome.  There is no fifth kingdom to rule to the end of time.  Evidence will be forthcoming.

         Jesus Christ came to declare GOD’S salvation to all men in the early days of pagan Rome.  And after the fall of pagan Rome in the year 476 A.D. came papal Rome in the year 538 A.D.  Rome has influenced every nation under the sun, holding to this day the place of preeminence in both religion and government.  But hers is a bloodstained history.  Rome’s immoral lust for power paved the way for brutal dictators under the sanction of the pope to carry out the most heinous atrocities; even broadcasting these evils as the will of Jesus Christ.  Rome’s ungodly character is chronicled in the books of Daniel and Revelation.  GOD would not leave out of Bible prophecy such abhorrent slander of “His Only Begotten Son.” Jesus said, “But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.” Mk.13:23.

And yet, in our day the church leaders assure the congregations that the prophecies of Revelation do not include the centuries of murder and persecution by the Roman church, or the prophecies of “revival” for this open slander of Christ here in America.  “The Antichrist of Bible prophecy is yet future,” they say.  And yet, the pope’s 1,260 year reign was prophesied seven times in Scripture (Dan. 7:25, 11:33, 12:7; & Rev. 11:2, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5) where an estimated fifty million men, women and children perished by the command of the pope through Europe’s religious and civil rulers, thus, fulfilling the prophecy: “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and wear out the saints of the most High” (Dan.7:25).  The atrocities of the Inquisition, under the sanction and blessing of the pope is declared by our church leaders as exempt from any inclusion in Bible prophecy.  Then there is the cold blooded slaughter of 70,000 Protestant Christians in the St. Bartholomew Massacre in France, where Pope Gregory XIII, cardinals, and ecclesiastical dignitaries held celebrations and a parade, with church bells ringing in victory from every steeple! (Reference, Henry White, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew, ch.14, par.34).  They even commissioned a painting to commemorate ‘the glory’ of the slaughter.  Today’s theologians have even removed the foundational doctrine of the great reformers: Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, Tyndale, Wesley, Zwingli, Calvin, Beza and Knox in their proving from Scripture that the pope of Rome is “the man of sin” that Paul warned of (II Thess.2:3) with his self-appointed title, Vicarius felii Dei, whose Latin title adds up to 666 in each of the three Biblical languages of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin (Rev.13:18). 

         This trickery to ban the pillars of the reformation is nothing new. Bible history describes in precise detail how the religious corruption we are facing today goes back to the days of Cain and Abel.  The Bible ascribes these two men as representatives of the two branches of mankind: one righteous and the other unrighteous.  Likewise, the newly formed Church of Jesus Christ gave birth to two children: one righteous and the other unrighteous.  This is illustrated in the book of Revelation by symbolizing the history of the church as the history of two women: one faithful, and the other unfaithful while both claim their fidelity to Jesus Christ.  These two women of Bible prophecy have their parentage in the two schools of theology that held sway in the third century A.D.: the schools at Antioch and Alexandria.  Antioch upheld the grammatical-historical interpretation of the Scriptures, having no association with pagan philosophy or mysticism.  While the school at Alexandria conceived an unholy marriage of the sinful traditions of pagan philosophy with the purity of the Christian faith, thereby corrupting the call of GOD to every man: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.” Acts 3:19.  It was the Alexandrian school uniting “Christ with Belial” that was adopted by the Church of Rome and imposed on every nation she ruled until the Reformation (II Cor.6:14-18).

         Of the righteous church it is written, “I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman” (Jer.6:2).  This woman is the bride of Christ whose patience and perseverance will be rewarded when “the bridegroom cometh” (Matt.25:6).  But of the adulterous church the Bible says, “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." Revelation 17:4-6.  This prophecy refers to the Roman church whose luxurious lifestyle, religious apostasy, and coldblooded murder of “the saints” meets every prophetic specification.  And through “her” religious/political influence in every nation she will continue until “the end of the world” (Matt.13:39). 

         History is littered with the record of atrocities against Christ’s faithful church.  But most of this history has been both openly and secretly removed!  The two Palatine Libraries of the Waldenses were burned to the ground by Pope Gregory in 600 A.D. These contained 500 years of church history under the Judean model established by Peter and Paul (I Thess.2:14).  Other records of history were secretly removed from libraries and universities.  So systematic has been the work of extermination against Christ’s true Church that the historian, Gilly had this personal testimony: "It is a singular thing," says Gilly, "that the destruction or rapine, which has been so fatal to Waldensian documents, should have pursued them even to the place of security, to which all, that remained, were consigned by Morland, in 1658, the library of the University of Cambridge.  The most ancient of these relics were ticketed in seven packets, distinguished by letters of the alphabet, from A to G. The whole of these were missing when I made inquiry for them in 1823."—Gilly, Waldensian Researches, p.80. The espionage against the true church and its history by Rome’s Gospel-defiant priests and their Jesuit agents will only come to light in the Great Judgment (Jn.3:19-21; I Cor.4:5).  And the saddest part is that this sinful version of Christianity is embraced the world over and will never come to an end until Christ comes in the clouds of glory (Matt.24:30) to deliver His faithful saints and crush this dishonest regime masquerading as GOD’S sole representative on the Earth.

         If the Cold War between Communism and Capitalism produced extensive espionage, murder and diversionary tactics to secure the supremacy, how much more would espionage be employed by Satan to the eternal death of souls!  Even though it is Satan “which deceiveth the whole world” the means of his success is through disobedient men in positions of authority: in government, law, business, science, and even the leadership of the church: “for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers

also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” (II Cor.11:13-15). 

2. Where does Scripture verify the Holy Roman Empire in

     Bible prophecy?

Daniel 2:31-34  Thou, 0 king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

[v.33] His legs of iron, his feet _______  ____  _______ and _______  ____  _______. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

Daniel 2:37-45  Thou, 0 king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold [Babylon]. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee [Mede and Persian Empire], and another third kingdom of brass [Greece, under Alexander the Great], which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom [Rome] shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, for as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. [v.45] Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king _______  _______  _______  ____  _______  _____________: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

         King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was shown the history of the kingdoms of earth to the close of time.  The student of history will see that GOD'S Word was true, for four ruling kingdoms can be traced through the history of Asia Minor and Europe (those nations associated with the family of Abraham).  To review: the kingdoms of Daniel’s prophecy are: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, & Rome (pagan and papal eras).  Because "iron" represents Rome (1st phase of Roman dominion), her 2^nd phase, "part of iron, and part of clay" is the offspring of Pagan Rome, which is Papal Rome or The Holy Roman Empire.  Papal Rome is discussed in these other passages of New Testament prophecy: II Th.2:3-10; I Tim.4:1-3; Dan.11:31-39; 7:25; 8:25; Rev.12:6; 13:1-10; 17.  Therefore, it is obvious that the focus of the book of Revelation deals specifically with the last ruling kingdom of Earth’s history: Rome.  The 1260 prophetic day/literal year prophecy (specified seven times in the Bible) was fulfilled: from the year that Emperor Justinian's decree went into effect in 538 AD granting the pope of Rome supreme rule over the church with the civil authority to persecute “heretics,” to the year 1798 when General Berthier of France entered Rome with a decree removing the pope’s civil authority, arresting him and banning him until his death, “that the Scripture might be fulfilled,” “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: and his deadly wound was healed [when Italy’s fascist dictator, Mussolini restored the civil authority of the pope in 1929]: and all the world wondered after the beast” (Rev. 13:3).   This fulfilled prophecy used to be common knowledge in every Protestant church, but now it has become little more than a fairytale.

         We are now living in the closing interim of time of the fourth and final kingdom of Bible prophecy.  None can claim a greater influence; nor claim a superior financial status (via the Rothschild bank since 1823 whose money increased to an estimated 50% of the world’s wealth by 1900).  None have been associated with greater demonstrations of the miraculous; and none can claim a greater abuse of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  The Roman Church is earth's ruling religion whose sole purpose is to perpetuate sin forever!  

3. How do we know the fate of destruction awaits the

     Vatican when Jesus Christ returns in the clouds of glory?

Daniel 2:35  Then was _____  _______, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that ____  _________  ______  ____________  _____  ________: and the stone [Christ] that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

4. Are miraculous demonstrations the standard by which

     we are to trust as the leading of GOD?

II Thessalonians 2:9  Even him [the self-appointed dictator of the Christian church], whose coming is after the working of Satan with _____  _____________ and _________ and ___________  _______________.

Deuteronomy 13:1-4  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee ____  __________ or ____  ___________, [v.2] And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after _________  _______, which thou hast not known, and let us __________  ________; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your GOD proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your GOD with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your GOD, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him.  

5. How dangerous to one’s salvation can demonstrations of

     supernatural miracles be?

Galatians 1:8  But though ____, or an _________  _______  ____________, preach _____  ________  __________ unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

         The Apostle Paul warned of demons’ capabilities to impersonate himself, the other Apostles, or even present themselves as glorious beings with amazing powers and knowledge: all designed to deceive men to commit sin before GOD and thus seal their eternal death.

6. What determines the church's obedience or disobedience

     to the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

Isaiah 8:20  To ______  ______ and to ______  ___________________: if they __________  _____ according to this word, it is because _________  ____  ____  __________ in them.  

Matthew 19:17b  …but if thou wilt enter into life, _______  ______  _____________________.

John 14:15  If ye love Me, _______  _____  ______________________.

Romans 2:13  For not the hearers of the law are just before God but _____  _______ of the law shall be justified. 

7. Has the Church honored GOD’S commandments?

I Peter 4:18  And if the righteous ___________  ____  _________ where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

          This verse strikes at the heart of the churches apostasy showing the danger facing every Christian.  In the context of this passage the Apostle Peter is referring to those whose names are on the church books.  The word “scarcely” translates, extremely few.  This points to the “hard saying” that the vast majority of all professing Christians will stand condemned before Jesus Christ, and will find themselves standing side by side with Satan himself and the most wicked men throughout history.  And although their sins may be far less severe, they are no less disqualifying of the Presence of the Holy Spirit Whose power alone resurrects the believer to “everlasting life.”  Paul clarified this essential doctrine of salvation: “And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Rom.8:10-14.

         The heart of this issue always rests in the theme of GOD’S call to every man, “Repent.”  Repent from what? “Sin.”  What is sin? “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” I Jn.3:4.  The Apostle Peter specifically warned every Christian of the threat of sin, that they not “blaspheme against the Holy Ghost:” “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” II Pet.2:21.  These words of the Apostle Peter condemn the very existence of the Roman Catholic Church.  But their adulterous affair with sinful traditions and pagan rituals overrules obedience to GOD.  Their pride and complacency has surrendered their wills to accept a life of sin.  They demand to be saved in sin instead of from sin.  This works against the first fruit of believing the Gospel, which is repentance.  Example: If a man, after beating his wife apologizes, then moments later, beats her again, of what value was his apology?  This illustrates what is so common among church leaders and members: a shallow repentance, where their lack of remorse prevents the needed reform to understand the detestable nature of sin and separate from its inevitable destruction.  Without meeting the Bible’s conditions of salvation this opens the floodgates for fraudulent doctrine to bear sway in the church.  And this is where we find ourselves today, inundated with views of salvation and prophecy that contradict the Bible’s simple guidelines.

Matthew 7:21-23  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? [v.23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that _______  ___________.

         “Iniquity” is selfishness.  Christ can have no companionship with those who live selfish lives.  Herein lies the danger for multitudes of Christians who refuse to read the Bible and discover its gems of truth on their own.  GOD calls us to develop a personal discipline to both learn and obey the Bible’s guidelines for salvation.  Through prayer and perseverance, Jesus assures our victory: “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” (Rev.2:7).  And where failure occurs GOD will lead us to go over the same lesson repeatedly until the victory is achieved.  We rest in His power in and through us to bring us the victory—although it never feels like a victory as Paul said, “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” Rom.7:24,25.  “The law of sin” is not an allowance for any sinning behavior as Paul warned: “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.” Rom.6:1,2.  It refers to our fallen nature that we will struggle against until Jesus comes to glorify us with a sinless body and nature “like unto his glorious body” (Phil.3:21).

Luke 22:24-26  And there was also a strife among them [the disciples], which of them should be accounted the greatest. And He [Jesus] said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. [v.26] _______  _____  _________  ______  _____  _____: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.  

         This is Christ's explicit command that Christians are never to lord authority over their fellow man.  Our nation’s founders honored this principle by giving it preeminence in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which simply reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  The founders understood the ethical logic of Jesus Christ when He spoke those magnificent words to His disciples on the night of The Last Supper.  All who claim to follow Jesus Christ are to regard religious tyranny as a sin.  Fact: every freedom that is cherished by Americans has its origin in the Gospel of Jesus Christ: everything from freedom of speech to freedom of worship.  And these freedoms can only be insured through man’s freewill choice to honor the Ten Commandments.  Not eight, as Catholicism.  Not nine, as Protestantism.  But Ten, as Adventism!      

         The relationship of GOD’S Ten Commandment Law to the United States Constitution is simple: On the one table of stone Christ Himself engraved the first four Commandments (Jn.8:58).  These address your personal relationship with GOD, and no one has the right to impose on you how your relationship is carried out.  This allows the wide variety of religions to carry out their chosen convictions.  But on the second table of stone He engraved the last six Commandments.  These address the perfect rule of government to order our daily lives.  Our founders understood that honoring the last six would guaranty the mutual safety of every American.  The obvious lesson of history reveals that these are the ones that when violated have caused every tragedy to befall the human race throughout time.  And the study of religious history reveals that whenever the first four Commandments are violated this always leads to the violation of the last six.  This has ever been the danger of uniting church with state.  In the eyes of GOD this is an unholy union because it was the union of church and state that led to the torture and crucifixion of Jesus.      

        Paul encouraged us to always honor GOD’S gift of a freewill in the Gospel’s evangelism when he said, “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” II Cor.9:7.  Despite the liberty of conscience GOD has given to every man, (which our nation’s founders gave to every American in the U.S. Constitution), our freedom has been and will always be considered anathema to tyrants cloaked in the garb of Christianity, as repeatedly stated within papal documents:

"The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error—a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state."—Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Letter, August 15, 1854.

         To this day the existence of our nation's liberty is condemned by the doctrines of Rome.  While not openly condemning America’s religious liberty, Pope John Paul II, in his 1998 Encyclical Letter, Dies Domini, stated for Catholics to “strive to ensure that civil legislation respects their duty to keep Sunday holy.” This “duty” is to the pope, not Jesus Christ!  Imposing Sunday sacredness is in violation of Christ’s explicit command to rest in faith on GOD’S Sabbath day.  Historically, Sunday sacredness has always been the sin of the heathen, whether worshipping Isis, Osiris, Hormuz, Baal, Tammuz, Mithra, Attis, or “Sol Invictus,” etc.  It is well noted in history that the priests of Mithra, the god of Persia, declared Sunday as “the lord’s day.”  And so it is today.  But in GOD’S Word it is written of “the seventh day:” “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable, and shall honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” Isa.58:13-14.  In these words are found the promise of blessing.

In order for Satan's deception to succeed, the church’s defiance of the 4^th Commandment must not be viewed as a sin but a blessing to people: that Sunday is a day of peace and rest for all mankind.  But the fact remains that our religious leaders view Sunday sacredness as vital to human survival.  This is evident in America’s “Emergency Powers” legislation, which imposes a national Sunday Law on the American people should our country be threatened with national ruin via natural disaster, nuclear detonation, or plague.  And with this federal legislation all in place, ready to enforce through federal law the rest day of Rome, every American citizen will be penalized for any violation.  And while it is not a sin to go to church on Sunday, the first day, it is a sin against the Ten Commandments to deny “the seventh day” of the 4^th Commandment.  When the Bible prophecies are fulfilled concerning the increasing pace and severity of Satan’s “wrath” (Rev.12:12) whose power will cause fire to fall from the sky causing the destruction of life and property (Job 1:16; Rev.13:13), then those who “know not the Scriptures, nor the power of God” will escalate not only the enforcement of Sunday but also increase the pace to our nation’s ruin!  As the destruction increases, so will the tyranny.  And as the tyranny increases GOD will allow a corresponding increase of destruction. “God is not mocked.” Gal.6:7.  From then on, total destruction will be impending for the civilization of men.

In conclusion: sinful men will overthrow the Constitution of the United States of America to gain an authority that Christ never ordained and commanded should never exist.  And Bible prophecy says this is precisely what will happen, as it is written: “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” Rev.17:12-14. When the great sin of Roman Catholicism rules the nations of Earth, this short span of time fulfills the prophetic words of the Apostle Paul on Christ’s 2^nd Advent: “For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.” Rom.9:28.  And Jesus reminds us: “Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.” “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” Rev.3:3; 16:15.