When you read Revelation 18:1-4 it says "And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power ; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." This scriptural reference points forward to a time when the announcement of the fall of Babylon, as made by the second angel of Revelation 14:8, is to be repeated with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering the various organizations and constitute Babylon, since that message was first given, in the summer of 1844. A terrible condition of the religious world is here described. In defiance of the warnings which God Almighty has given, they will continue to trample upon one of the precepts of the Decalogue, until they are let to persecute those who hold it sacred. GC 603.2 When do her sins reach unto Heaven? When the law of God is finally made void by legislation. Then the extremity of God's people is his opportunity to show who is the governor of heaven and earth. As Satanic power is stirring up the elements from beneath, God will send light and power to his people, that the message of the truth may be proclaimed to all the world. Heretofore those who presented the truths of the Third Angel's message have often been regarded as mere alarmists. Their predictions that religious intolerance would gain control in the United States, that church and state would unite to persecute those who keep the commandments of God, have been pronounced groundless and absurd..

It has been confidently declared that the United States could never become other than what it has been - the defender of religious freedom. But as the question of enforcing Sunday observance is widely agitated, the event so long doubted and disbelieved is seen to be approaching, and the third message will produce an effect which it could not have had before. This Sunday will empower the Church to give a loud cry message because it has been so widely doubted by many scoffers even in the church who question whether this will ever take place. Check out the green Sabath project which encourages on day every week to do nothing, to take a weekly day of rest to make it a real Sabbath for you and for the Earth, you are not to drive or shop or build anything. To defy the Sunday laws will be strengthen in their persecution the religious zealots who are seeking to enforce them. Give them no occasion to call you lawbreakers. If they are left to rein up men who fear neither God nor man, the reining up will soon lose its novelty for them, and they will see that it is not consistent observance of Sunday. Keep right on with your missionary work with your Bibles in your hands, and the enemy will see that he has worsted his own cause. One does not receive the mark of the beast because he shows that he realizes the wisdom of keeping the peace by refraining from work that gives offense, doing at the same time is work of the highest importance. (9T 232.3) Refraining from work is not what will make you to receive the mark of the beast, but worshipping on the day prescribed is what will make you receive the mark of the beast. When we devote Sunday to missionary work, the whip will be taken out of the hands of the arbitrary zealots who would be well pleased to humiliate Adventists those waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ. When they see that we employ ourselves on SUnday in visiting the people and opening the Scriptures to them, they will know that it is useless for them to try to hinder our work by making sunday laws. (9T 232.4) Make no demonstration on Sunday in defiance of law. If this is done in one place, and you are humiliated, the same thing will be done in another place. We can use Sunday as a day on which to carry forward work that will tell on the side of Christ. We are to do our best working will all meekness and lowliness.