All Nations Follow America's Lead

Sun Jul 25 05:14:01 PDT 2004

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for July 25
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All Nations Follow America's Lead

When all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the
languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar
the king had set up. Dan. 3:7. 

History will be repeated. False religion will be exalted. The first day
of the week, a common working day, possessing no sanctity whatever, will
be set up as was the image at Babylon. All nations and tongues and
peoples will be commanded to worship this spurious Sabbath. This is
Satan's plan to make of no account the day instituted by God, and given
to the world as a memorial of creation. 

The decree enforcing the worship of this day is to go forth to all the
world. 

As America, the land of religious liberty, shall unite with the papacy
in forcing the conscience and compelling men to honor the false Sabbath,
the people of every country on the globe will be led to follow her
example. 

Foreign nations will follow the example of the United States. Though she
leads out, yet the same crisis will come upon our people in all parts of
the world. 

Nations will be stirred to their very center. Support will be withdrawn
from those who proclaim God's only standard of righteousness, the only
sure test of character. And all who will not bow to the decree of the
national councils and obey the national laws to exalt the Sabbath
instituted by the man of sin, to the disregard of God's holy day, will
feel, not the oppressive power of popery alone, but of the Protestant
world, the image of the beast. 

The season of distress before God's people will call for a faith that
will not falter. His children must make it manifest that He is the only
object of their worship, and that no consideration, not even that of
life itself, can induce them to make the least concession to false
worship. To the loyal heart the commands of sinful, finite men will sink
into insignificance beside the word of the eternal God. Truth will be
obeyed though the result be imprisonment or exile or death.

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