Final Stage
Death Decree Imposed
Death Penalty to those who worship on The Sabbath and disregard Sunday. At this point, Revelation 13:15-17 and Daniel 11:44-45 are fulfilled. Satan personates Christ, probation closes and Jacob's time of trouble begins. Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that all both small and great, rich and power, free and bond (Revelation 13:16), shall conform to the customs of the church by the observance of the false sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalities, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death. On the other hand, the law of God, enjoining the Creator's rest day demands obedience and threatens wrath against all who transgress its precepts. (GC 604.2) With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whoever shall trample upon God's law to obey human enactment receives the mark of the beast. He accepts the sign of allegiance to power which he chooses to obey instead of God. The warning from heaven is: If any man worship the beast and his image, and receives his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation. Revelation 14:9-10 (GC 604.3) This is when Adventists will be giving a loud cry message saying do not follow this law, it's going to make you receive the mark of the beast. And if you receive the mark of the beast, you will by all means receive the wrath of God which are the seven last plagues in Revelation 16. Even if the whole world seems against you, with God on your side, you will overcome all these tribulations. As the crowning act in the great drama of deception, Satan himself will personate Christ. The Church has long professed to look to the Saviour's advent as the consummation of her hopes. Now the great deceiver will make it appear that Christ has come. In different parts of the earth, Satan will manifest himself among men as a majestic being of dazzling brightness, resembling the description of the Son of God given by John in Revelation 1:13-15 The glory that surrounds him is unsurpassed by anything that mortal eyes have yet beheld. The shout of triumph rings out upon the air: Christ has Come! Christ has Come! The people prostrate themselves in adoration before him, while he lifts up his hands and pronounces a blessing upon them, as Christ blessed His disciples when He was upon the earth. His voice is soft and subdued yet full of melody. In gentle, compassionate tones he presents some of the same gracious, heavenly truths which the Saviour uttered, he heals the diseases of the people, and then, in his assumed character of Christ, he claims to have changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and commands all to hallow the day which he has blessed. He declares that those who persist in keeping the holy Seventh day are blaspheming his name by refusing to listen to his angels sent to them with light and truth. This is the strong, almost overmastering delusion. Like the Samaritans who were deceived by Simon Magus, the multitudes from the least to the greatest, give head to these sorceries, saying: This is the great power of God Acts 8:10 (GC 624.2) And many who have doubts about who to follow will be swept away by this last great deception. But the people of God will not be misled. The teachings of this false Christ are not in accordance with the Scriptures. His blessing is pronounced upon the worshippers of the beast and his image, the very class upon whom the Bible declares that God's unmingled wrath shall be poured out. (GC 625.1) You should not be deceived because anyone who says that the Sabbath in the Bible was changed from the Saturday to Sunday, we know it is a false christ and prophet. Adventists will be declared outlaws.