Religious Freedom is going to be lost in the final days. A subtle plan is in the making by world governments. These governments are unaware of the enemy’s plan of creating a decree that would fulfill the prophecy about the great controversy (the controversy that God is unfair and unjust).
It has been prophesied to prepare us for what is ahead.
When people cannot buy or sell, they will be forced to accept the law which shall make them denounce the Sabbath (Worship on Saturday) to the worship on Sunday (which has been changed by the great power – man made sabbath).
The development of AI (Artificial Intelligence) may be used to track down those who do not adhere to the law of Sunday Worship.
Those in the cities shall be the first to be affected. It is advised to stay out of these places. Live in the countryside with sustainable food, water and if possible electricity (to be able to get news about things that are happening).
The Mark of the Beast will be based on Your Decision
There can be no reaping unless the human hand acts its part in the sowing of the seed.
Some Christians keep Saturday as a day of rest, and worship, while others keep Sunday. In both groups can be found many sincere Christians, but there are many who have never stopped to consider why they keep a certain day. It is really a custom; something handed down from one generation to another, but in most cases, no personal examination has been made to discover the reason why. God’s word, the Bible, is the Christian’s authority, so here we will find the answer to the question, “Which day should Christians keep?”
There are many who say all is well providing we worship one day in seven, but God is specific. He says; “Remember the SABBATH day”, not any other day. He further states, “The SEVENTH DAY is the Sabbath”. A look at most calendars shows Saturday to be the seventh day. Some modern calendars have made a change in the order of the days of the week, but this is a very recent change.
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY from all His work which He had done. Then God BLESSED the seventh day and SANCTIFIED it, because in it He RESTED from all His work which God had created and made. (Genesis 2:1-3)
Here is this world’s first Sabbath. God set the example by working six days and resting on the seventh. Notice how He blessed this day. To bless means to make happy, but obviously it has a deeper meaning than the mere surface happiness – it involves real satisfaction. Secondly, God sanctified it, or “set it apart” for a holy use. It was a day different from all other days. No matter how sincerely a person may keep another day other than the Sabbath, it does not make it a holy day. Only God can make a day holy. Thirdly, it is a rest day.
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do, and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul.
What a beautiful thing it is to celebrate another year (38th) of ministry, and we want to do that with you! So tonight, you’re invited to a very special 3ABN Today Live program, as we join Greg and Jill Morikone, and Danny and Yvonne Shelton for 3ABN’s 38th Anniversary!
Worship is a key tactic in spiritual warfare. The act of praising God helps us combat the lies of the enemy and shut out that inner dialogue telling us we’re not enough.
It’s impossible to focus on His goodness, faithfulness, power, and might while also feeling weak, worried, afraid, or alone.
Most people, when they hear the word “worship,” think of the songs they sing in church or music they hear on the local Christian radio station. But, by definition, worship is any expression of reverence and adoration for God. We are worshipping when we give our tithe, serve with a joyful heart, show love to our neighbor, and help someone in need. Worship is simply showing gratitude to God for who He is and what He’s done. And it’s a powerful weapon against the enemy.
When we worship, our whole focus is on God. It’s the best way to block out the lies of the enemy because in a state of worship, we remember who God is, what He brought us out of, and how He can be trusted to do it again.
I thank the Lord for the assurance of His grace, that is for His people now, today…. The promise is not that we will have strength today for a future emergency, that anticipated future trouble will be provided for beforehand, before it comes to us. We may, if we walk by faith, expect strength and provision for us as fast as our circumstances demand it. We live by faith, not by sight. The Lord’s arrangement is for us to ask Him for the very things that we need. The grace of tomorrow will not be given today. Men’s necessity is God’s opportunity…. The grace of God is never given to be squandered, to be misapplied or perverted, or to be left to rust with disuse….
While you are bearing daily responsibilities in the love and fear of God, as obedient children walking in all humility of mind, strength and wisdom from God will be given to meet every trying circumstance.
We will not be able to meet the trials of this time without God. We are not to have the courage and fortitude of martyrs of old until brought into the position they were in…. We are to receive daily supplies of grace for each daily emergency. Thus we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, and if persecution comes upon us, if we must be enclosed in prison walls for the faith of Jesus and the keeping of God’s holy law, “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” Should there be a return of persecution there would be grace given to arouse every energy of the soul to show a true heroism….
We are to keep close to the Source of our strength day by day, and when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a standard for us against the enemy. The promise of God is sure, that strength shall be proportioned to our day. We may be confident for the future only in the strength that is given for the present necessities. The experience in God is daily becoming more precious…. Do not borrow anxiety for the future. It is today that we are in need…. The Lord is our helper, our God, and our strength in every time of need.
Jesus makes it very clear that several things can trap and destroy Christians. He even told a story to illustrate His warning: “It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning—lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping” (Mark 13:34–36).
Let’s consider the traps in Luke 21:34 along with Jesus’ warning in Mark. The first item is “carousing.” The original word comes from two Greek words, one for “head” and the other for “to sway or toss about.” The idea is that we can become so busy in life, so intoxicated with our adrenaline-driven schedules, that we lose our ability to think clearly. This rat race of constant running keeps us from spending daily time with Jesus.
GOD IS LOVE
Drunkenness, of course, speaks of the result of drinking alcoholic beverages, but it can refer to any addiction. People who have numbed their minds through pornography, illicit sex, romance novels, gambling, alcohol, drugs, movies, food, or evil companions are clinging to dependencies that keep them from Bible study, prayer, and Christian fellowship. They live in an unreal world trying to fill a void in their life that only Jesus can truly fill. Even the everyday cares of this life can so consume us that we don’t put first things first.
Finally, Mark 13 warns us that we can be spiritually asleep. It might be the biggest problem today. When a person is asleep, he doesn’t really know he is asleep. Taking our relationship with Jesus for granted can make sleepwalkers of those who, unless miraculously wakened, will sleep past the moment of truth.
KEY BIBLE TEXTS And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Luke 21:34
True confession is always of a specific character… but all confession should be definite and to the point, acknowledging the very sins of which you are guilty. Steps to Christ, p. 38
How shall Christ’s people stand in days of almost overwhelming opposition? Can we rely on God’s promises no matter what may come? Where can we find a safeguard from the storm?
As the Sabbath has become the special point of controversy throughout Christendom, and religious and secular authorities have combined to enforce the observance of the Sunday, the persistent refusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand will make them objects of universal execration. It will be urged that the few who stand in opposition to an institution of the church and a law of the state ought not to be tolerated; that it is better for them to suffer than for whole nations to be thrown into confusion and lawlessness.
The same argument eighteen hundred years ago was brought against Christ by the “rulers of the people.” “It is expedient for us,” said the wily Caiaphas, “that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.” John 11:50. This argument will appear conclusive; and a decree will finally be issued against those who hallow the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, denouncing them as deserving of the severest punishment and giving the people liberty, after a certain time, to put them to death.
Romanism in the Old World and apostate Protestantism in the New will pursue a similar course toward those who honor all the divine precepts.
Nothing is more important than love. After all, the two great commandments are all about loving God with all our hearts and loving our neighbor as ourselves (1 John 4:8).
But as Benjamin Franklin said, “Time is the stuff of which life is made.” Love depends on time. Whether that means a date with your significant other, a road trip with the family, or gathering with a church community each week to worship God, all love relationships are nurtured and flourish in the context of quality time.
And to be sure, quality time is not what happens in a typical family on a weekday morning, when everybody is gulping down food, primping hair, and ransacking closets for elusive clothing as they get ready to rush off to work, school, and appointments.
No—quality time means we take a deep breath, pause, rest, and listen to the ones we love. We mesh together and absorb one another into our lives. Our love relationships do not grow racing by one another, or even racing side by side, but in resting together. They also flourish best when we have a healthy love relationship with God. And that love is exactly why the subject of this magazine is so important in this hyper-accelerated age.
In the pages that follow, we’ll explore the history, mystery, and relevance of a day of rest that the Bible calls the Sabbath, “a bridge that connects heaven and earth, God and people.”
It’s an extraordinary gift that so many have forgotten, but as you’ll see clearly, the main reason God wants us to “remember the Sabbath” has everything to do with love.
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah.29.13
People are transformed by studying the Bible.
A graduate with a Major in Marketing worked in a number of corporations in the sales marketing division. He later opened his own computer and cellphone business in a busy suburb. His business was successful, yet he sensed a quest to find better in his spiritual life. Then he started attending various religious denominations that he could find and settled with one which had the doctrine “Once Saved, Always Saved!”.
Despite being content in the current spirituality, a stumble on the verse in Romans 6:15 (What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.) got him to entertain doubts about the doctrine. Which led him to study the Bible more deeply.
After a study on the subject, he presented it to the church meeting and asked the question: Do we really need to keep the Ten Commandments? Some pastors responded NO, while others said YES but only nine (that’s excluding the fourth Sabbath commandment) based on Colossians 2:16 (Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:).
This got him confused and from a more Sabbath study led to:
Isaiah 8:20 (To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them)
Isaiah 56 (Thus saith the Lord …)
Isaiah 58:13 (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 shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words)
A prayer and asking for guidance led to more confusion. To make matters worse, his best friend hated him, his girlfriend left him, then he gave up on religion.
It was a dark point in his life and he cried to the Master. ‘Is this the result of keeping Your Commandments?’ He almost gave up hope until he read the Bible more sincerely which gave comfort.
After months of studying the Bible without going anywhere in the spiritual aspect, a customer one day entered the shop bargaining for a low price to get his computer fixed. Something caught the spiritual attention to a label on the gadget ‘Master of Arts in Religion’. Asking the confusing question, he asked the client ‘Do we really need to keep the Ten Commandments?’. Instead of an answer he was asked a different question, ‘What is sin?’ Not sure of an answer he replied, ‘a disobedience by Adam and Eve’. That is true the client replied with yet another question, ‘What is the definition of sin?’.
1 John 3:4 (Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.)
What is your religion? the shop owner asked. ‘Brother, religion is not important; the truth is more important.’
This led to a more searching the scriptures, gathering of fundamental beliefs from different denominations until one day he stumbled on some literature ‘The Great Controversy‘.
Oh what joy to walk with Christ daily. Preparing to receive the prize for those who search and do daily. The shop owner is now a missionary. He sold the business and is working on saving others by spreading the Good News of the Saviour’s coming.
Lord, thank You for not leaving sincere seekers of Your Word in the dark. You guide them in their search and help them find the mark.
Does Sabbath keeping really affect people personally?
Yes! The Sabbath is a gift from God, who made it for you as a respite from the world! It’s natural that the people who love Him would want to keep His Sabbath commandment.
Indeed, love without commandment-keeping is really not love at all (1 John 2:4). It’s a decision we all must make, and we cannot avoid it.
The good news is that choosing to keep the Sabbath will bless you profoundly!
