The Threefold Union of Religion

Thu Jul 1 13:52:39 PDT 2004

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for July 1
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The Threefold Union of Religion

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the
false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles,
which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Rev. 16:13,
14. 

By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of
the law of God, our nation [the United States] will disconnect herself
fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand
across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall
reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the
influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every
principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government,
and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and
delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous
working of Satan and that the end is near. 

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. .. 

Papists, Protestants, and worldling will alike accept the form of
godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand
movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the
long-expected millennium. 

When our nation [the United States] shall so abjure the principles of
its government as to enact a Sunday law, Protestantism will in this act
join hands with popery; it will be nothing else than giving life to the
tyranny which has long been eagerly watching its opportunity to spring
again into active despotism.

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