COGENT OBSERVATIONS

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Thank you for your extensive study on the European Union. Most Adventists who are interested in prophecy concentrate their focus on the United States in the process of becoming “the image of the beast.” However they fail to recognize the large role that Catholic Europe will play in last day events. Even though this might be a stretch, it seems to me that the United States in the process of becoming “the image of the beast” will not just look to the historical example of medieval Europe but also the developing persecution in modern Europe.

Note the following quote:

Romanism in the Old World, and apostate Protestantism in the New, will pursue a similar course toward those who honor all the divine precepts. This is the mystery of iniquity, the devising of satanic agencies, carried into effect by the man of sin. (Signs of the Times, February 22, 1910.)

Note also these comments relating to “the final fulfillment of the Revelator's prophecy” on Revelation 13:4-18:

All these symbolical representations [of the God’s angels holding the 4 winds; see Rev. 7:1-3] serve a double purpose. From them God's people learn not only that the physical forces of the earth are under the control of the Creator, but also that under His control are the religious movements of the nations. Especially is this true with reference to the enforcement of Sunday observance. He who gave His people, through His servant Moses, instruction in regard to the sanctity of the Sabbath--as recorded in Exodus 31:11-18 -- will in the hour of trial preserve those who keep this day as a sign of loyalty to Him. God's commandment-keeping people believe that He will fulfill His promise to protect them. By actual experience they know that the Lord sanctifies them and grants to them the seal of His approval as commandment keepers. Those who read the Scriptures with an intense desire to know what the Spirit saith unto the churches, know that God lives and reigns.

In the last days Satan will appear as an angel of light, with great power and heavenly glory, and claim to be the Lord of the whole earth. He will declare that the Sabbath has been changed from the seventh to the first day of the week; and as lord of the first day of the week he will present this spurious sabbath as a test of loyalty to him. Then will take place the final fulfillment of the Revelator's prophecy. [Revelation 13:4-18, quoted.]

In connection with this scripture, the entire fourteenth chapter of Revelation should be studied much by God's people. Verses nine to eleven bring to view the special message of warning against worshiping the beast and his image, and receiving his mark in the forehead or in the hand. This warning is to be given to the world by those who are mentioned in the twelfth verse as keeping "the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." (Manuscript Releases, volume 19, pages 281 to 282.)