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Protestantism Unites with the Papacy, June 28
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with
the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and
strength unto the beast.
Revelation 17:12, 13
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As we approach the last crisis, it is of vital moment that harmony and
unity exist among the Lord’s instrumentalities. The world is filled with
storm and war and variance. Yet under one head—the papal power—the
people will unite to oppose God in the person of His witnesses.
What is it that gives its kingdom to this power? Protestantism, a power
which, while professing to have the temper and spirit of a lamb and to be
allied to Heaven, speaks with the voice of a dragon. It is moved by a power
from beneath.
“These have one mind.” There will be a universal bond of union, one
great harmony, a confederacy of Satan’s forces. “And shall give their power
and strength unto the beast.” Thus is manifested the same arbitrary, oppres-
sive power against religious liberty, freedom to worship God according to
the dictates of conscience, as was manifested by the papacy, when in the
past it persecuted those who dared to refuse to conform with the religious
rites and ceremonies of Romanism.
In the warfare to be waged in the last days there will be united, in
opposition to God’s people, all the corrupt powers that have apostatized
from allegiance to the law of Jehovah. In this warfare the Sabbath of the
fourth commandment will be the great point at issue; for in the Sabbath
commandment the great Lawgiver identifies Himself as the Creator of the
heavens and the earth.
Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday
sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the
former lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of
sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the United States will be foremost
in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism;
they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and
under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the
steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.
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