Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts
Richard Vaughn

Today: “Prophecy – The Image to the Beast – Part 5”
Today we will summarize what we have been learning over the previous four weeks and conclude this important study. In previous articles we learned that the beast of Revelation 13 was the Papacy. That it would be in power 1,260 years and would persecute God’s people. Some 50-120 million of God’s true people would be put to death by Papal decree. This period was known as the dark ages. Then the beast, the Papacy, would receive a deadly wound. In 1798, General Berthier, under the orders of Napoleon, marched into Rome and took the Pope prisoner where he died in exile. The Papacy began a long period of impotency as a political power, but we learned that its deadly wound was healed and the whole world wondered after the beast. Pope John Paul II has more than fulfilled that prophecy. 
Then according to Revelation 13:11, "Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon." We saw how that lamblike beast with two horns could be none other than the United States. The two horns being the civil and religious liberty that was at the foundation of this government. We further found out that God has warned us in this book of Revelation that the United States is going to repudiate the liberties it was founded on, pass a national Sunday law forcing obedience to the mark of the beast, and violators will be subject to punishments starting with their loss of the right to buy and sell, then they suffer imprisonment and ultimately the death penalty.  
Revelation 13:12,16, 15 "And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:" “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” 
Finally we learned that the mark of the beast is Sunday sacredness created by the Papacy in the 4th century. God’s Seventh Day Sabbath was literally cast out and today is trampled upon. Keeping God's fourth commandment Sabbath will become the focal issue and heaven is watching how we take our stand. Listen, if we are not a commandment keeper, we will receive the mark of the beast and be lost. America will lead out in forcing people to receive the mark of the beast.
Now I will read Hebrews 4:4 and verses 7-11 "For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience."
There you have in the New Testament God’s call for His people to keep Holy His seventh day for God has never spoken of another day.
This is serious business, dear friends, not to be treated lightly. You may say, “But my parents kept Sunday and their parents kept Sunday.” Well in times of ignorance God winked and they were not accountable for what they did not know. But this generation, God is calling to accountability. Everyone has time and opportunity to learn of God’s seventh day Sabbath. If they choose to reject this important message, they have indeed chosen to reject God’s explicit teaching and do thereby forfeit eternal life. Failure on the part of the half-converted, to follow Jesus all the way, is what broke the heart of Jesus on the cross. When probation ends for this generation, there will be no more time to get it right. 
The decree will go forth from Jesus, Revelation 22:11 “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” The time of Grace and Mercy will be over. No more prayers will be heard. 
There will be but two camps. The seven last plagues will fall. The saved will be spared the plagues and the lost will endure them. The lost will remember all the squandered opportunities. Give truth a chance. 
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