The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-24

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Colossians 2:16, ~
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in
drink, in respect of an hOlyday, or of the new
moon, or of the sabbath days.
Which shadow of things to come but the
body is of Christ.
Seventh Dayists are walking only in the shad-
ow of things to come"
Galatians :o-11:-
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather
known of God, how turn ye again to the weak
and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again
to be in bondage?
Ye observe days, and months and times, and
years.
am afraid of you, lest have bestowed upon you
labour in vain.
Romans IA IS, o.
One man esteemeth one day above another; an
other esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be
fully persuaded in his own mind.
He that regardeth the day. regardeth it unto the
Lord: and he that regardeth not the day, to the
Lord he doth not regard it.
TO- Seventh Dayists do not keep the Sabbath
No one outside of Israels Land Ga warm cmate)
can. The Seventh Dayist works hard that day
riding his hobby-horse, promulgating his abomin-
able heresy They also cook, build fires, carry
water and leave their dwelling houses - all in
open violation of the Sabbath commandment
No Christian can keep the Sabbath, and it never
was intended that he should.
Acts IS TO-
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put yoke
upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our
fathers nor we were able to bear?
The mark of the beast has no reference to the
Sabbath as the Seventh Daysts try to make the
people believe The Sabbath was the seventh
day = Saturday - given only to Israel under the
Mosaic law. Moses law never was given to the
Gentiles, nor to the Church, but to Israel only.
The first day of the week - Sunday is the
Lords Day the day He arose from the dead
and it is for the Church so we keep it. not Sat-
urday, for we are not Jews and are not under
Moses law
The Adventist teaching about the Pope chang
ing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and
Christians keeping it because the Pope changed it.,
is all bunk. They thereby blind and deceive the
people
Their teaching that the mark of the beast is the
Popes change of the Sabbath is a deliberate eff
fort to deceive the people. They know that
teaching is NE, and that the mark of the beast in
Revelation, the Thirteenth Chapter, has no refer
ence whatever to the Sabbath, either as Saturday
or Sunday.
THE BEAST of Revelation 13 is the great
antichrist. He is to be the emperor over great
cOntederacy OF ten or more nations - the Re
vived Roman Empire. There will be associated
with him another notoriously wicked character
In Revelation 49, he is called another beast" and
in other places of the Revelation he is called, ''the
false prophet
This man causes an image of the antichrist,
THE BEAST, to be made and set up in the
Jewish rebuilt temple at Jerusalem - Revelation
1914 IS; II Thessalonians 2:3 4; Matthew
24:15. The image has machinery placed inside of
it, so that it will appear to breathe and it will
speak, like the phonograph does now. The image
will order that every ones head be cut off who re-
fuses to bow down and worship the beast, the
antchrist, by worshiping the image.
At the same time, law will be made and en-
forced that no one in all the Revived Roman En-
pire can buy or sell unless he receives mark on
the forehead or in the right hand That mark
will show that all who receive it belong to anti
christ - the beast Read Revelation 13 10, II.
That mark will be the antichrist's trademark,
or sign. No man can live, none get bread, none
do business in all his great confederacy of nations
who will not receive the mark. He will cut off
the heads of all who refuse to receive it
The antichrist will not appear until the last
seven years begin. He runs his course in that
last seven years. After he begins his reign he
puts his mark on all who accept him. How then
can anyone now receive the mark of the beast
Do you not see what wicked people the Advent
lists are in teaching as they do, and in thus de-
ceiving the people?