The National Sunday Law is inevitable

Sunday laws are inevitable. It doesn’t take a prophet or a church to tell us. Debating Biblical minutae is also not helpful. Here’s why.

1. There is still a devil seeking world domination.

2. Loyalists (to God) are his main obstacle.

3. He needs to separate and eliminate them.

4. Tithe, stealing, and adultery won’t achieve that.

5. Only Sunday-Sabbath separates cultures, like now.

1. There is still a devil seeking world domination.

Ever since the serpent appeared in Eden’s garden, there has been an enemy lusting after total world control, directly and indirectly. We see it in the wilderness temptation. (Matthew 4:8-9) We see it in Revelation 13 as the dragon works through his proxies. The “god of this world” will not stop until he has blinded the entire world in darkness. (2 Corinthians 4:4)

2. Loyalists to God are his main obstacle.

True Christians are the main obstacle to Satan’s goal. Not only do they preach the everlasting gospel that opens blind eyes, their very lives are the salt of the earth. (Matthew 5:13) They are the ten faithful people preserving Sodom. (Genesis 18:32) They are the Israelites before the night of Passover and Exodus which cleared the way for Egypt’s destruction. They are reverse Jonahs maintaining calm seas until they are thrown overboard. They are the Christians who abandoned Jerusalem before its final destruction in 70a.d. In every age, loyalists moved by the Spirit of God have been preservers of nations and empires until their voices were rejected and silenced. Currently, the saints being sealed are holding back the four winds that the devil wants to unleash on the world. (Revelation 7:1-3)

3. He needs to separate and eliminate them.

Satan needs to eliminate dissenters so he can carry forward his diabolical schemes unhindered. He can afford a little sloppiness by killing worldlings along with loyalists, but too much will blow up in his face in the form a humanitarian backlash. The devil needs to separate the world into two groups along clean lines. Then he can get his group to persecute God’s people.

4. Tithe, stealing, and adultery won’t achieve that.

How does Satan divide the world cleanly into a group that is for him and a group that is against him? In other words, who will not recognize his authority nor obey his laws? The answer is obvious—God’s commandment keepers. By “commandment keeper” I mean all ten all the time. To keep part of them all of the time or to keep all of them part of the time is to become guilty of partiality, which makes one guilty of transgressing all of the law. (James 2:1-11) In Christ we gain this victory, but our concern here is: how does Satan get the world to divide along these principles clearly enough to identify each other?

If the government were to make an anti-stealing law, it would drag too many of its own people into the net. If the pope were to condemn those who don’t pay tithe, almost every church goer would fail. If Protestants were to indict all those not baptized by immersion, again they would fail of a clean separation. The truly spiritual followers of Christ must be visibly separated by a moral test that is fairly accurate. There is only one test and we see it working successfully today to clearly divide cultures.

5. Only Sunday-Sabbath separates cultures, like now.

You can give me a convoluted, Uriah Smith-like Bible study to “prove” the National Sunday Law is the mark of the beast. You can also quote the Great Controversy as authority. However, there is no need. I won’t disagree. I am already a believer because the simple process of elimination applied to Scriptural principles leads me to a clear conclusion. “The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth **especially controverted**." (GC 605)

The seventh-day Sabbath already separates nations, languages, peoples, and families more effectively than any other issue. It will continue to do so until the very end.

I see the Sunday laws as the pinnacle of many other laws (written and unwritten) that keep tightening the noose, as it were. For example, look at how Covid restrictions were mishandled to stratify society into separate moral groups of those who cared vs those who didn’t. There will be all sorts of local, national, and international attempts to protect and purify society against enemies seen and unseen, natural and supernatural, religious and political. The patience of the saints will be tried and strengthened at each and every step. Sinners in Zion will be shaken out at every step. May we have the faith of Jesus to shine the gospel more earnestly and compassionately at every step.