Sunday Law by
Stealth
By Hal Mayer
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Dear Friends, Welcome to Keep the Faith
Ministry. Today we are going to talk
about a sobering development that I pray will awaken you to the nearness of
the Sunday Law crisis. The most important issue facing God’s people today is
their unreadiness for close of probation. The
crisis is nearly upon us. Secret and
stealthy movements are preparing to catch you in an almost overwhelming
surprise. I hope that the contents of this CD will open your eyes wide and
that you will wake up and trim your spiritual lamps. I pray that it will help
you realize that we have very little time left. Our hope is that you and your
family will be awakened to the times in which we live. You need to be aware
of what is happening behind the scenes. Let your friends in on this blessing
by giving them a copy of this CD. The rumors
were flying around the internet back in early November that a secret meeting
was scheduled between the Christian Coalition and the Vatican in Washington
DC. Rumor had it that there was to be discussion
about the state of the world, the moral condition of the United States, and
most importantly the need to protect the Lord’s day, or Sunday, as a day of
rest. It was also rumored that there would be key
congressional lawmakers present, and a high-level Vatican cardinal was to
address the group. I had many people emailing me
about it, asking whether it was true or not. I had to be almost silent about
it until now, because I believe that Keep the Faith Ministry must only
circulate facts, not conjecture, speculation, or assumptions. But today I am going to tell
you the details as I have received from a personal friend who was a
credentialed participant in the secret meeting. I’m also going to tell you
what God says about the things going on behind the scenes to bring you to the
Sunday law crisis and show you how it is happening. You may have heard
criticism of God’s end-time inspired messenger or concerning the prophetic
truths of the Remnant Church, but I can tell you, every prophetic detail in
Holy Scripture and every detail in the Spirit of Prophecy will happen with
certainty. Our monthly CDs have been documenting this month after month after
month. But before we begin, let us bow our heads in prayer. Our Father in Heaven, we are
concerned that our liberties are about to be swept away. We are very
concerned that we will soon face the great crisis of the ages, and your
people are not ready. We are not ready. I ask that today You will wake us up!
The moment that patriarchs and prophets longed to see has finally come. We
have been asleep like the ten virgins in Your parable. But Lord Jesus, we
want to have the oil of the Holy Spirit so that we will be able to go in with
the bridegroom to the wedding feast. Please help us to get ready. Help us to
watch and be sober. And may Your presence be with us today. In Jesus’ name,
Amen. Let me begin by sharing with
you a very important scripture text. It is found in Revelation 13:15-17. “And he had power to give life
unto the image of the beast, that the image of the
beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the
image of the beast should be killed. And causeth
all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in
their right hand or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell,
save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his
name.” Notice that receiving the mark
of the beast revolves around false worship. Those who don’t go along with the
new religious order will be prevented from buying and selling and will be
killed. This is serious, my friends. The time for this to happen is near at
hand. Forces are at work behind the scenes to force you to worship the god of
this world. There are some important
things that must be in place for this to happen. First, there has to be a
general crisis that generates a good deal of fear, a crisis of global
proportions. Secondly, there must be a nearly unshakable cooperation between
the religious forces in the United States with the government, including the
Vatican, (perhaps even led by the Vatican at least behind the scenes), so
that they can cooperate together without fear of being thwarted. Thirdly,
there must be a secrecy about the matter so that it
isn’t agitated widely until there is nothing that can be done to stop the
rolling freight train once it gets on the open track. Our Lord has been
holding back the winds of strife so that God’s people can prepare. But the
time to let them go is almost here. As watchmen on the walls of
Zion, we must give the warning. We must open the issue to God’s people as
early as possible so that they can get ready and so that they can do what
they can under the power of God to stay the hand of oppression. The issue is
so vital that we dare not miss it. We dare not turn our faces from it or
relegate it into the distant future. We have been in the stealth phase for
many years now. But now, suddenly, it is looming out there just as prophecy
predicted. It is about to come out in the open. Listen to this statement from
the pen of inspiration. “I lay down my pen and lift up
my soul in prayer that the Lord would breathe upon His backslidden people,
who are as dry bones, that they may live. The end is near, stealing upon us
so stealthily, so imperceptibly, so noiselessly, like the muffled tread of
the thief in the night, to surprise the sleepers off guard and unready. May
the Lord grant to bring His Holy Spirit upon hearts that are now at ease, that they may no longer sleep as do others, but
watch and be sober.” That is from the General Conference Bulletin, 1893, pp.
132, 133. We live in a sober time. This is not the time to place your
children in front of the TV to watch cartoons, even religious cartoons. This
is not the time to go to the amusement park to fritter your time away in
cheap thrills. This is not the time to be gluttonously eating and drinking
things that are harmful to body and soul. My friends, this is not the time to
be living in luxury and excess. This is the time to plead for Christ’s righteousness
in your soul. This is the time to earnestly seek God to send His Holy Spirit
into your life so that you can overcome your sins and be ready to meet the
surprise crisis that is surely coming – and soon. This is the time to weep
for God’s people and plead with Him to spare them. Here is another statement
dealing with the Sunday Law. It is from the book Great Controversy, page 581.
“God's word has given warning of the impending danger; let this be unheeded,
and the Protestant world will learn what the purposes of Rome really are,
only when it is too late to escape the snare. She is silently growing into
power. Her doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative halls, in
the churches, and in the hearts of men. She is piling up her lofty and
massive structures in the secret recesses of which her former persecutions
will be repeated. Stealthily and unsuspectedly she
is strengthening her forces to further her own ends when the time shall come
for her to strike. All that she desires is vantage ground, and this is
already being given her. We shall soon see and shall feel what the purpose of
the Roman element is. Whoever shall believe and obey the word of God will
thereby incur reproach and persecution. So many ignore God’s warnings
and live their lives in sin as if nothing is going to happen any differently
for 100 years. Others ridicule God’s last day prophet and sneer at the
warnings she gave us through the testimonies. But God’s word is right on
track. One right after the other, the very prophecies that were given in the
books of Daniel and Revelation and in the Spirit of Prophecy are being
fulfilled. All you have to do is look at the news media and you will know
that we are nearing the final crisis. Unfortunately, so many of
God’s people don’t seem to care. Thousands upon hundreds of thousands are
sound asleep like the ten virgins in Jesus’ parable. They keep watching their
ungodly movies. They keep doing things God has forbidden. They keep listening
to music that makes the angel’s weep and invites Satan into their hearts and
homes. They continue eating things that becloud their minds so that they
cannot hear the still small voice. They forget that we are in the antitypical
solemn Day of Atonement. Listen to this important
statement. It is from the book The Great Controversy, page 488. “The subject
of the sanctuary and the investigative judgment should be clearly understood
by the people of God. All need a knowledge for
themselves of the position and work of their great High Priest. Otherwise it
will be impossible for them to exercise the faith which is essential at this
time or to occupy the position which God designs them to fill. Every
individual has a soul to save or to lose. Each has a case pending at the bar
of God. Each must meet the great Judge face to face. How important, then,
that every mind contemplate often the solemn scene when the judgment shall
sit and the books shall be opened, when, with Daniel, every individual must
stand in his lot, at the end of the days.” My friend, this speaks to you
and to me. As the danger creeps upon us like a thief in the night, many think
they are secure and that the things that have been predicted in God’s word
will not come to pass in their generation, but in their children’s generation
or in their grandchildren’s generation. Often we hear sermons on love,
unity and the cross, but we don’t hear sermons on the close of probation and
the end of all things and the need to get our lives right with God. We are
told that we don’t have to deal with our sins now, for Jesus will deal with
them later. But this, my friends, is falsehood. It is a deception designed to
keep you from preparing your heart for the close of probation and to meet the
holy Jesus in peace. We are near the very end. It
is finally here! We have known that the Sunday law movement would come, but
we have subconsciously at least, put it off in the distance. We want to feel
good. We don’t want to be depressed by so-called “bad news.” So we have
bathed ourselves in positive thinking and in feel-good spirituality, a kind
of superficiality and emotionalism. But this is only superficial and empty.
It doesn’t awaken us to our danger, but rather puts us to sleep. It makes us
spiritually lazy. Overcoming sin is not something that we want to have to do
because that means we have to give up our darling sins. But now the Sunday
law movement is right upon us. It has caught up to us by surprise and most of
us aren't ready. The blessing is that Jesus is giving us warning before the
close of probation so that we can still get ready. Oh my friend, this is the
time to make sure that you are living for Jesus. This is the time to make
sure that your calling and election is sure. This is not bad news at all.
The approach of the Sunday law is very good news indeed, at least for those
who love Jesus with all their hearts. It shows us that the coming of Jesus is
very near. I hope this is very good news for you my friend. If you don’t feel
ready, this is the time to get serious with Jesus and take the necessary
steps. Let me show you something
interesting from history that will help us put this into perspective. In Luke
21:20, 21 Jesus said “When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let
them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the
midst of it depart out.” There were two sieges of
Jerusalem after Christ made this prediction, one under Cestius
in A.D. 66 and the other under Titus in A. D. 70. After the Romans under Cestius had surrounded the city, they unexpectedly
withdrew at the very moment when the Jews were on the point of surrendering.
This gave God’s true people, the followers of Jesus, enough time to flee the
city and move to a place called Pella in the hill country. Then Titus came
with his armies, surrounded the city and eventually destroyed it. Please read
the first chapter in the book Great Controversy about the destruction of
Jerusalem. It is shocking! It is a warning about our times. The first siege
warned Jesus’ followers of the coming destruction so that they could flee. It
was the signal. Most of the Jews were triumphant, thinking that they were
safe and that God would protect them. They had even inflicted some damage on
the Romans as they withdrew. The Jews went back to their old ways and didn’t
take the warning to flee Jerusalem. They were caught unprepared when the
second siege of Titus surrounded them. Now let us apply this to
today. Back in the 1880s there was a Sunday law movement. God’s church
appeared as if surrounded by the siege forces of spiritual Babylon. But then
through the efforts of A. T. Jones and others, the hand of oppression was
stayed and God’s people were given time. The Sunday law movement withdrew signaling the opportunity to leave the cities both
physically and spiritually. But what have God’s people done? They have gone
back to their old ways. They have gone back to their worldliness and their
sins and they have ignored the warnings to get out of the cities and prepare
for the coming crisis; just as the Jews of old did. Now, coming right upon us
is the second siege, the second Sunday law movement. This time there will be
no reprieve. This is the final siege of God’s people by spiritual Babylon.
There is no time to lose my friend. Please don’t think that you can delay. There was a man who for seven
years warned Jerusalem, going up and down the streets of the city declaring
the woes that were to come upon it. He is quoted in the book Great
Controversy, page 30. Go there and read what he said about God’s church just
before her destruction. He was imprisoned and scourged, but he did not
complain. He was insulted and abused, but he only answered by saying “Woe,
woe to Jerusalem!” “woe, woe to the inhabitants
thereof!” He was eventually slain in the siege he had predicted. Perhaps the
Lord is sending you a warning today. How will you treat the unpopular
message? Do you remember that statement
in the 9th volume of the Testimonies for the Church, page 11 that says, “the
agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are
strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place
in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.” You can't wait
until you see that things are finally falling into place. Most people will
try to live a normal life, even though things around them seem unsettled.
They will not see the signs of the times. Everything will seem like it is the
same, day after day, except for some pretty big natural disasters, some wars
and other disturbances. But they expect their lives to return to normal. It is just as it was before
the flood. Nothing changed until the seventh day after Noah went into the
ark. Then things began to happen with great speed. But it was too late. It
was as if everything was going along at a slow pace, then all of a sudden
everything was in turmoil. It was as if a dam broke and a flash flood blasted
down the narrow canyon overtaking and destroying everything in its path. Oh
my friend, don’t delay the preparation. Your eternal destiny is at stake. An
overwhelming surprise is coming. Now, one more statement that
astonishingly applies to our present situation. It is from the Review and
Herald December 24, 1889. “I have been much burdened in regard to movements
that are now in progress for the enforcement of Sunday observance. It has
been shown to me that Satan has been working earnestly to carry out his
designs to restrict religious liberty. Plans of serious import to the people
of God are advancing in an underhand manner among the clergymen of various
denominations, and the object of this secret maneuvering
is to win popular favor for the enforcement of
Sunday sacredness. If the people can be led to favor
a Sunday law, then the clergy intend to exert their united influence to
obtain a religious amendment to the Constitution, and compel the nation to
keep Sunday.” There are those that are
secretly working to enforce a Sunday Law right now, my friends. We have been
able to document some of it, but I suspect there is a lot more going on. And
since this is a secret and underhanded movement, we know that it is trying to
disguise itself and keep its real purpose away from public scrutiny. Some of
the things we will discuss today about the secret meeting in Washington are
not verifiable from public sources. What we have is the first-hand testimony
of one who was present. But once the ecumenical churches and the Vatican
openly discuss these things, the soup will already be cooked. It is the
Spirit of Prophecy that is the guidance system to show us what we can accept
and what is erroneous. When the Spirit of Prophecy says that there is a
secret and underhanded movement attempting to enforce Sunday as a day of
rest, we can rest assured that it is happening, though we cannot see or feel
it yet. But once in a while you can see it pop up on the surface, or God
places individuals in positions where they can see and give testimony to the
truth of what the Spirit of Prophecy has predicted. The message on this CD is
about that kind of testimony. What you will hear is the detail from the
first-hand report of the one man God has placed in the position to see behind
the scenes and can report to us from the inside what is happening in their
secret planning sessions. There are three religious
organizations that were involved in the secret meeting in Washington DC. They
are the Christian Coalition of America (CC), Christian Churches Together
(CCT) and Catholic Campaign for American (CCA). First let me tell you about
Pastor Allen Fine and the Christian Coalition. Pastor Fine is the speaker and
director of New Sound Inspiration Radio in West Virginia. He has been a
Seventh-day Adventist pastor for over 40 years and is now retired, but
perhaps more involved in God’s work than ever before. He has been at the
forefront of the battle for the Lord, lifting up the trumpet and proclaiming
God’s last message on radio and in the pulpit and continues to work for the
salvation of souls. He has taken criticism and abuse for his strong support
of the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy and is no stranger to the forces arrayed
against God’s people. I have spent quite a bit of time talking with Pastor
Fine and have learned the story of his involvement with the Christian
Coalition. Pastor Fine began to attend
the meetings of the Christian Coalition of America back in 1989. He wanted to
see what they were doing and to get an idea of their plans. Pat Robertson,
their leader at the time, was gleeful that he had successfully brought
together so many different Christian churches. As he listened to their ideas
and plans, Pastor Fine thought of the warnings of the Spirit of Prophecy and
realized that the intentions of this group had been predicted and that
prophecy was being fulfilled exactly as it had been written. On March 29, 1994 The leaders
of the Christian Coalition, including Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Gary Bower, James Dobson, Ralph Reed and others,
including a Jewish Rabbi stacked their hands all together and declared that
they are one. Pastor Fine and his wife Deanna witnessed this and believes that their intention was to use Christian
organizations to get control of state and federal legislatures and thereby
set up the image to the beast. Then in 2004 Pastor Fine
received a memo from the new President of the Christian Coalition, Roberta
Combs. It was addressed to him as the “Leader, Christian Coalition in West
Virginia,” and it discussed plans for the upcoming leadership meetings and
legislative briefings in Washington, DC. Pastor Fine was surprised. “I didn’t
ask for this,” he thought, “but I’ll take it.” When Roberta Combs, the
president of the Christian Coalition lost her husband suddenly to a heart
attack, Pastor Fine was on hand to minister and pray with the family over the
phone. This brought them close together as friends. Roberta Combs later asked
him if he would be willing to serve as co-chairman of the Christian Coalition
alongside Jim Backlin. He accepted and this has put
him in a position to be credentialed to the leadership meetings with other
Christian organizations and for him to attend the important secret meeting
with the Vatican. Pastor Fine says that he believes God has a very important
purpose for him on the inside of this important organization. The Christian Coalition along
with Christian Churches Together and Catholic Campaign for America has
developed a ten point agenda for America that they want to implement at the
federal and state levels by law. These ten amendments were recently updated
at the Fuller Theological Seminary on March 1, 2007. Most of them are
designed to uphold the principles that are important to Christian people,
such as marriage between one man and one woman, public prayer, references to
God in the pledge of allegiance and on coins and bills, judicial integrity,
limits on eminent domain, the right to bear arms, etc. But ironically the
seventh amendment on their list is a call for a national day of rest. This
day would no doubt be Sunday. Here is what number seven on the list of their
“ten amendments” says; “Throughout all the land a National Day of Rest shall
be honored by governments and industrial
manufacturers and public shopping facilities.” A much more recent
organization known as Christian Churches Together (or the CCT) is also
involved in the secret Sunday law movement and was represented at the secret
meeting in Washington. This ecumenical organization has many churches that
are members and they are all made to feel as if they have equal say, but it
is organized in such a way that Rome’s representatives dominate the steering
committee and the direction of the organization. It is becoming more and more
powerful however, and is now working, among other things, to implement a
national day of rest in the United States. Catholic Campaign for America
is another organization that is wanting to establish
a Sunday law. It was founded in 1989 by a man named Thomas V. Wykes, Jr. “who wanted to address the moral crisis in
American with a Catholic response,” wrote Wikipedia. “In 1991 he gathered together several
notable Catholic leaders in Washington DC, who constituted the first board of
directors. They included William Bennett, Mary Ellen Bork, Hugh Carey and
Bishop Rene Gracida. According to the National
Catholic Register, the CCA was initiated to ‘bring a politically powerful and
distinctively Catholic voice to the U.S. political scene.” Their motto is as
follows, “The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a private opinion, a remote
spiritual idea, or a mere program for spiritual growth. The Gospel is the
power to transform the world.” What is meant, obviously, by
“the power to transform the world,” is political power. Jesus never tried to
start a political movement or establish His power in political circles, or He
would have done what Roman Catholics try to do today and have done for
centuries, secretly work to get more power, and then force all under their
control to follow their dictates. But Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this
world.” John 18.36. This background is important
because you need to see that the Sunday law movement has been stealthily
working its way through the ecumenical organizations, just as the Spirit of
Prophecy predicted, and is preparing to mount itself and ride on the momentum
of the ecumenical movement. It is also going to become very political and
will use both governmental and non-government political organizations. When
church leaders are excited about their unity with other churches, and when a
large enough coalition of churches unite together, they begin to feel very
powerful, especially politically powerful and then naturally attempt to use
the political apparatus to accomplish their purposes. That is how the image
to the beast is being formed right now. Now we come to the meeting in
November of 2007. The Sunday law movement as you will see has top level
government support, approval and security protection. Originally the meeting was to
be held in the John Paul II cultural center in Washington DC. When Pastor
Fine’s commuter plane landed at Washington Dulles to meet with the other
leaders of the Christian Coalition and to have the designated meetings, top government
security agents from the National Security Agency (NSA) met his plane and
verified his identity right then and there. They told him that “because this
was such a provocative meeting, they would have to keep his driver’s license
until the meeting is over.” They escorted him to a taxicab and told him that
the driver already knew where to take him. Then apparently they followed him
to the Regency Hotel where the driver delivered him. He asked the driver why
he was being taken to the Regency Hotel and not the John Paul II Cultural
Center where the meeting was to be held. The driver only said that this is
where he was told to take him and that he should go in and await future
instructions. After sitting in the lobby for
a few minutes he was approached by the same two agents, who said to him, “one
of your people will be here soon.” When one of the leaders of the Christian
Coalition met him, there were three more agents with her and all five of them
followed them to registration. In fact NSA trailed the participants of these
closed meetings constantly until the meetings were over. Pastor Fine asked one of the
agents why they weren’t meeting at the John Paul II Cultural Center. He said,
it was ”decided, along with the Vatican that it would not be appropriate to
have this kind of meeting at the John Paul II Cultural Center and that the
meeting had been moved to the Regency Hotel.” On November 14, the day was
spent in a conference on global warming. The speakers included Al Gore, the
former Vice-President of the United States, who has become something of a
climate change guru, and his liaison Davy Crocket, great grandson of the
famous Davey Crocket of the wild frontier, who does his research. There was
much frightening material presented concerning the effect of the changes in
climate as well as the speed at which the changes are taking place. It was
pointed out that global warming will create a crisis for America and the rest
of the world. It involves the loss of life on the planet including animals
and fish, etc. The ecosystems are all tied together. One thing affects
another. It was felt that responsible Christian leaders must tell their
people how they can help protect the environment. Back at least as far as 1990
the Vatican was promoting the connection between ecology and world peace.
John Paul II in his message for the World Day of Peace on January 1 of that
year wrote about protecting the environment as a grave moral responsibility. Other
statements have also been released by the Catholic Church. Then more
recently, as climate change has become a much more political issue, the
national Association of Evangelicals paralleled the Roman Catholic Church and
released its statement on the environment in a document called Climate
Change: an Evangelical Call to Action. Six months later, on August 27, 2006
Benedict XVI called for a commitment to care for creation once again. Now the
Independent on September 24, 2007 reported that the Pope is likely to make
action on climate change a moral issue when he makes his speech at the United
Nations in April. It is important to note that the mutual effort on climate
change between the evangelicals and Catholics has ratcheted up the issue as a
moral obligation for Christians to embrace. This is important because it
means that climate change has been elevated to the same or similar level as
abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, etc. Their cooperation on climate
change will strengthen their political power and lead to other moral issues
that they want to enforce, such as observing the Lord’s day. During lunch on November 15,
just before the meeting with the Vatican Cardinal one of the NSA security
agents came to the table and asked Roberta Combs the President of the
Christian Coalition, if she had told her people that they were not to take
any recording devices or cameras into the meeting, and that nothing will be
released for publication until the Vatican has approved it. This is important
because it reveals the concern that the Vatican has for loose elements that
might damage her position. It also reveals Rome’s manipulation. She wants
everything under her control and doesn’t want anything said or done that she
hasn’t approved. There were 13 people that met
together, seven from the Christian Coalition, two from Christian Churches
Together, and two from Catholic Campaign for America, plus Nancy Pelosi and
the Cardinal. The Cardinal was
introduced as Cardinal Pizeroser from San
Francisco, but that name cannot be found on any official lists of Cardinals,
which suggests that it was a pseudonym. Remember that this secret meeting
involves very sensitive matters in relation to Sunday laws, hence it may well
be that the Vatican does not want to get its fingerprints on certain
provocative activities. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of
the U.S. House of Representatives, and a staunch Roman Catholic entered the
room and said a few words to the Vatican Cardinal. Nancy was the only one who
was permitted to be there from the U.S. Congress. She said to the Cardinal,
“I live my faith. I have been trained and directed by Christian parents. I
went to church school and also every Sunday I was faithful in recognizing
that it was very necessary to do the things that I knew that I was supposed
to do, and I have not changed one bit from that.” During the meeting the word
“Sunday” was never used, but here the Vatican Cardinal said, “We as Christian
leaders must recognize that we have a responsibility to do that which is in
keeping with the Lord’s will, and if we don’t, we
will pay for it… As you all know, we must all work together for the
betterment of America, after all, America is the second Israel. We must work with the state legislatures to
appropriately help them to understand that all the immorality and slime must
be stopped and that we must work together in unison to show our Lord that
this must be stopped… Then with the “ten amendments”
list in his hand, the Cardinal said that there would be more said on this
when “His Holiness” (Benedict XVI), would be here in Washington in April to
meet with President Bush and also to meet with some of these same Christian
leaders at the Senate Office Building on April 17th. “Some of the things that
we at the Vatican are concerned about” he said, “is what is happening here
(in America) to the Lord’s day, concerning sporting events and all kind of
calls for different things to be done. As you know, the Lord’s day is used in
a blatant way against our God, when the people must be told that this day
must be kept holy. You must work together as leaders of this nation. As goes
this nation, so goes the world.” My friends, the Cardinal’s
words should remind us of the following statement from the pen of inspiration
taken from Maranatha, page 214. “As America, the land of religious liberty
shall unite with the papacy in forcing the conscience and compelling men to honor the false sabbath, the
people of every country on the globe will be led to follow her example.
Foreign nations will follow the example of the United States. Though she
leads out, yet the same crisis will come upon our people in all parts of the
world.” This idea about America as the
second Israel is important. Most churches believe this, though it is
unbiblical. The scriptures teach that they that are Christ’s are Abraham’s seed,”
Galatians 3:29 not they that are Americans. But as the churches have wanted
to take the finger of condemnation off the papacy, false interpretations of
prophecy have led them to come up with another explanation of the second
beast of Revelation 13, the United States of America. By making America the
second Israel rather than the second beast, Rome can participate with other
churches in addressing America’s problems with her own agenda. This fits her
ecumenical plans very well. The result
has been that America is now uniting with Rome to accomplish her purposes. We
have no time to lose, no time to waste in foolish, worldly behavior, my friends.
Now is the time to get ready and pray that you will be able to secure
your soul. When Pope Benedict XVI lands
in Washington on April 15th, he will meet with President Bush. Then on the
16th he will spend his birthday with a gathering of Cardinals at the John
Paul II Cultural Center, I am told, as well as with ecumenical leaders. Then
on the 17th he will meet with selected religious leaders including
representatives of the three organizations that met in November; the Christian
Coalition, Christian Churches Together, and the Catholic Campaign for America
and perhaps others including a number of members of Congress. The purpose of
the meeting, among other things, is to motivate Christian leaders and
legislatures to bring to the forefront, in the Congress and state by state, a
national day of rest. I wonder what will be the real
agenda of the meeting with the Cardinals. Will it be about their role in
bringing about a Sunday law in America? According to the news reports there will
also be an ecumenical meeting there with representatives of other religions.
Will this involve discussions about a national day of rest? Senator Robert Byrd, the
oldest member of Congress, the president pro Tempore of the Senate and a
Baptist called Pastor Fine one day in January. “Pastor Fine,” he said, “We’re
going to be having a special occasion with the Pope when we meet in the
Senate Office Building, and the President wants to meet with us too. He feels
that it wouldn’t be honorable for the Pope to meet
in another place with the Christian Leadership of America.” My friends, when the President
of the United States of America elevates this kind of meeting with Christian
leadership in America to the level where it wouldn’t be honorable
to do it in any other place than in the Senate Office Building, we have come
to a very important and significant moment in prophecy. When the President of
the United States can bring the Pope to the White House and to the Senate
Office Building to discuss a national day of rest, we have essentially come
to the point where the image of the beast is about to reveal itself. “I will
be there,” said Senator Byrd, “and so will Nancy (meaning Nancy Pelosi). We
want to hear firsthand what Benedict has to say. Pastor Fine also had the
opportunity after the private meeting with the Vatican Cardinal, to speak
about the Sabbath to the Christian Leaders that were present. He pointed to
his name tag which identified him as a Seventh-day Adventist and said,
“Things haven’t changed. I’m a Seventh-day Adventist. I chose to become a
Seventh-day Adventist because the seventh-day is the only day that God has
ever blessed. God blessed three things, man, the animal kingdom and the
Sabbath. Sunday is not specially blessed the way God blessed the Sabbath. To
bless something means that it has divine empowering. God empowered the
Sabbath, not Sunday. The Christian Coalition and
the other organizations present have developed a communiqué following the
meeting with the Vatican Cardinal. They had to have it approved by the
Vatican. The text of the communiqué is specifically designed to stir Sunday
agitation. Yet it opens with the express purpose of keeping its authors
secret. Let me read it to you word for word. The following statement from the
5th Volume of the Testimonies for the Church, page 449, should remind us of
the truth about this. “Church and state are now making preparations for the
future conflict. Protestants are working in disguise to bring Sunday to the
front, as did the Romanists.” Here is the text of the communiqué. OFFICIAL COMMUNICATE RELEASE “In this release NO person’s name
is to be included in any part while corresponding to another person. This is
a summary as of 11/16/07. “The Lord will destroy those who
destroy the earth” (Revelation 11:18) along with the immoral slime of
America. I call upon the C.C.A. (the Catholic Campaign for America) and the
C.C.O.A (Christian Coalition of America) to help in our spiritual fight to help
save America, the second Israel. We must band together to stave off the
crisis of gross neglect of Bible truths and help America and the nations of
the world to a realization for what is happening and continues to worsen.
These crises will increase on America, the second Israel of Bible prophecy.
The Lord will allow more terrorist attacks and these will increase as it was
in O. T. times of the first Israel. The Lord will allow the enemies of the
second Israel to awaken the people in an effective but unexpected way. Now
global warming – melting icebergs and icecaps – water shortages – poor people
starving and dying by the millions, the desecration of the Lord’s Day by the
mega malls and shopping centers – various sporting events – all unnecessary
frolicking on the Lord’s Day. Our government leaders and church leaders who
really care must protest all these immoral goings
on. If we don’t, it will be too late very soon. The Lord’s Day must be
protected and supported by responsible persons. If we do not care and
understand, the crisis of great magnitude no doubt will soon come. We must
work and pray and support efforts to protect the Lord’s Day. We need more
than ever to work together to help stave off God’s anger. We must show our
Lord that we will work together to protect His day of worship. Unless we work
together to avert the crisis, it will surely come.” Notice that the communiqué
from the Christian Coalition uses the same words the Cardinal used at the
secret meeting, such as “immoral slime,” “America, the second Israel,” “We
must show our Lord that we will work together…” etc. And also notice that the
emphasis of the communiqué is the same as the Cardinal’s emphasis – “Protect
the Lord’s Day.” The evangelicals are taking lessons from Rome as well as instructions.
They copy her. They set up a mirror image of her. Rome has nearly 2000 years
of experience at this process of uniting church and state and they are
coaching non-Catholic religious leaders and helping them build up their
political power. Pastor Fine thinks that the
communiqué will be publically released and that the urgent need to protect
the so-called Lord’s Day as a national day of rest will be presented before
Congress and the state governments some time following the papal visit and the
meeting in the Senate Office building April 17. So stay tuned. Rome and the ecumenical
churches know that fear will stir the people to action. They are using fear
of global climate change, fear of terrorism, fear of the judgments of God,
etc., to get people to agree that they must do something to stem the tide of
immorality in America and return it to the favor of
God. The same thing will happen in
other countries as well. As goes America, so goes the world, said the
Cardinal. While not all nations normally agree with the United States in her
agendas, in fact most don’t; on this point we know that all
the world will wonder after the beast, and that the United States will
cause all to worship the first beast that had the wound by the sword and did
live.” Revelation 13:14. My friends, we must study the
book of Revelation along with the Spirit of Prophecy. If you want to
understand what it all means quickly, go to your copy of the book Great
Controversy and read the last 250 pages. You’ll find it very enlightening.
Though the author is dead, she still speaks powerfully to this generation.
Pastor Fine says: “Church and state must amalgamate in order to legislate
that they may dominate. But here is a description of
God’s people today from the 2nd volume of Testimonies to Ministers, page 337.
“Men and women are in the last hours of probation, and yet are careless and
stupid, and ministers have no power to arouse them; they are asleep themselves.
Sleeping preachers preaching to a sleeping people!” This is amazing my friends. Here we are at
the very moment that prophecy has foretold, at the very apex of history. Yet
God’s people are not ready for the challenge. Oh, my brothers and sisters, I
need the power of God in my life, don’t you? You don’t want to miss the
latter rain. Now is the time to plead with God for purity as never before.
Now is the time to earnestly seek Jesus’ power. Cling to Jesus Christ my
friends. Your eternal destiny depends on it. My friends, the mark of the
beast is soon to come. It is the observance of the false Sabbath set up by
Rome and copied in America by the religious leaders. The end will come more
quickly than we understand. The crisis will come as an overwhelming surprise
and it will be too late for many who are spiritually lazy and asleep. It will
be too late to make restitution or turn your life around. Listen to this
statement from the 8th volume of the Testimonies for the Church, page 28.
“Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the world, and a
great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. We who
know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world
as an overwhelming surprise.” And here is how you make the
necessary preparation. This is from Prophets and Kings, page 626. “Christians
should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an
overwhelming surprise, and this preparation they should make by diligently
studying the word of God and striving to conform their lives to its
precepts.” Are you conforming
your life to the precepts of the Bible? Are you putting away every sin so
that you can overcome and live for Jesus every moment? Please, please take
the steps to prepare your mind and your character for the almost overwhelming
crisis. My friends, thank you for
listening today. The Sunday movement is making its way in darkness and
stealth. Please don’t put off making certain of your salvation. This is the
time to move out of the cities into the country so that you can prepare for
the time of trouble. This is the time to get worldliness out of your mind.
Now is the time to learn how to have the Holy Spirit in your life every
moment. You can't learn that at the last minute. Now is the time to give you
heart and soul unreservedly to Jesus Christ so that He can mature your
character so that in the coming crisis you will have a savior.
Let us bow our heads in prayer
and ask Jesus to help us come fully under the Holy Spirit’s control. Our
Father in heaven, we thank You for giving us probationary time. Thank You for
warning us of what is coming upon this world. Lord, we pray that You will
send us Your Holy Spirit so that we can discern the signs of the times and
get ready for the coming crisis. I pray that you will help us to learn how to
prepare by diligent study of your holy word and by earnest fervent prayer,
gain power with God. We need victory in our lives over the devil’s temptations. Please enter our
lives and change us into Your image that we may live by Jesus power. In Jesus
name, amen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Victor A. Gill
[mailto:vic.netgill@telus.net] Sent: February 28, 2008 10:30
AM To:
Undisclosed-Recipient:;@priv-edmwaa05.telusplanet.net Subject: Fw:
Sunday Law By Stealth For your admonition. "To
be forewarned is to be twice armed." Pastor Wayne is a good friend
of mine. vg. Subject: Sunday Law By Stealth Click here: http://www.ktfministry.org/resources/sermons/documents/08.04.SundayLawbyStealth.doc Information for this sermon
was given to Hal Mayer by J. Allen Fine.
Pastor Fine is a retired SDA pastor from WV whom I have gotten
acquainted with in the past few months. I talked with him just the other
night and what is in this sermon is all true. Information in this sermon is
true and now we have it in writing. Thanks, Wayne |