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Satan’s Groundwork for the Final Conflict, June 3
He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the
saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and
the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times
and half a time.
Daniel 7:25
, R.V.
During the Christian dispensation, the great enemy of man’s happiness
has made the Sabbath of the fourth commandment an object of special
attack. Satan says, “I will work at cross purposes with God. I will empower
my followers to set aside God’s memorial, the seventh-day Sabbath. Thus
I will show the world that the day sanctified and blessed by God has been
changed. That day shall not live in the minds of the people. I will obliterate
the memory of it. I will place in its stead a day that does not bear the
credentials of God, a day that cannot be a sign between God and His people.
I will lead those who accept this day to place upon it the sanctity that God
placed upon the seventh day.
“Through my vicegerent, I will exalt myself. The first day will be
extolled, and the Protestant world will receive this spurious sabbath as
genuine. Through the nonobservance of the Sabbath that God instituted,
I will bring His law into contempt. The words, “A sign between me and
you throughout your generations,’ I will make to serve on the side of my
sabbath.
“Thus the world will become mine. I will be the ruler of the earth, the
prince of the world. I will so control the minds under my power that God’s
Sabbath shall be a special object of contempt. A sign? I will make the
observance of the seventh day a sign of disloyalty to the authorities of earth.
Human laws will be made so stringent that men and women will not dare to
observe the seventh-day Sabbath. For fear of wanting food and clothing,
they will join with the world in transgressing God’s law. The earth will be
wholly under my dominion.”
The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth
especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to bear upon
men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those who serve
God and those who serve Him not.
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