IF WE BELIEVE RELIGION IS TRUE, WE SHOULD BE REINTRODUCING A CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR THOSE WHO FAIL TO ATTEND CHURCH ON SUNDAY
-[Daily Independent 4-11-98 -Sara Maitland "On the issues of belief"]

Lawmakers Put an End to Sunday Shopping

The National Assembly has voted in favour of legislative changes that demand the closure of shops on Sundays. The lawmakers decided unanimously, with 63 votes, to implement the will of the Slovenian voters, who decided at a referendum last September that shops should be closed on Sunday, bar a few exceptions. By adopting the bill of changes to the trading act, the National Assembly set down that as of 15 September shops have to be closed on Sunday.

Shops with "essential food products" are an exception, as they will be permitted to open ten Sundays a year. Moreover, there will be no limits for shops at petrol stations, hospitals, hotels, airports, border crossings, train and bus stations of area not exceeding 80 sq. metres. -Source: Slovene Press Agency STA (For additional articles in this region as well as this one, see this)

Besides the obvious that the government of this region sees no wrong in implementing the will of the voters, can you see the obviously Satanic flavor of their hypocrisy? They say shops must be closed on Sundays, yet certain shops will be allowed to stay open ten Sundays a year. And the agencies that bring in large amounts of tax dollars to the governing officials will be allowed to stay open year round!? Isn’t this always the case with Roman Catholic laws? They SAY they are a necessity, but when it conflicts with their desires to make money they *allow* for certain options. Take for example the so-called law of the church that says no meat on Fridays during Lent. This of course generated a problem for all the alcoholics in New York’s Manhattan and Bronx areas to go ahead and eat meat on that Friday because it was St Patty’s day. The church figured it was unfortunate their *traditions* of eating corned beef and drinking green beer clashed on that day, and so they let them do what they *usually* defined as sin. How convenient. No wonder Catholicism is so popular. Where else can you find a church that LETS you sin and you can still gain Heaven?


The recognition of Sunday as an official rest day is not just taking place in America, but in the other nations of the world as well--such as England(708) (with SDA support!(709)), Australia,(710) Canada,(711) Puerto Rico,(712) Jamaica,(713) Fiji,(714) etc. In fact Germany is taking a leading role to make Sunday rest a reality in the whole European Community. -To be God of one World. Chapter 12, Robert Sessler.

708. Bellbrook Sentinel (Independent paper of Australia), #4, March, 1989, p 9, "Keep Sunday Special".
709. Prism (Student paper of Newbold College, England), May, 1986, p 6, 12.
710. Herald-Sun (Newspaper of Australia), June 26, 1991, p 23 & June 27, 1991, p 10. Both newspaper articles were full page advertisements entitled "Save Our Sundays Rally". Also see Bellbrook Sentinel, #4, March, 1989, p 8-10.
711. The London Free Press (Canada), February 4, 1988, B-1, "Sunday Shopping Stand Solid". Also Church and State, February, 1987, p 9-11, "Sunday: Canada's Day of Arrest" (for Sunday-law breakers).
712. The San Juan Star (Puerto Rico), Sunday, January 22, 1989, p 1, 19, entitled "Closing Law in Effect".
713. The Star (Newspaper of Jamaica), December 18, 1987, entitled "Rape of the Lord's Day Continues".
714. The Sun-Herald (Newspaper of Australia), November 1, 1987, entitled "Fiji Bans Fun On Sunday".

Can anyone see a pattern here? It’s like I said earlier. If the Government can get the people to go along with their desires peacefully, they will. But if there is resistance, then the unjust laws need to be put in place. Even if it means the laws are *by definition* a mistake. Case in point, look at what’s occurring right now in Virginia. It seems an old law has been allowed new life and it has some of the people a bit agitated, and for good reason!


New Law Gives Virginia's Workers a Break, by Accident
By LISA BACON
Published: July 2, 2004
New York Times

RICHMOND, Va., July 1 - On Saturdays and Sundays, rain or shine, locals and visitors fill the restaurants, boutiques, bookstores and coffee shops of Carytown, a popular residential and commercial district here. At night, restaurants bustle, and the line for the second-run movie theater wraps around the block. But thanks to an unnoticed clerical error in a new state law, some here fear that could all change.
Even after the bill's sponsor, Senator Frederick M. Quayle, a Republican from Chesapeake, said unequivocally that the bill was in error, the mistake has Virginia's business community reeling back to colonial times, when working on Sunday was a crime. Under the state's new "day of rest" law, employees in the private sector can refuse to work on Sunday or their chosen Sabbath, leaving Virginia employers to wonder how they will continue to do business on weekends. The ensuing brouhaha has the governor and attorney general at loggerheads as to who should solve the problem, and how.
Ms. Boschen said she feared that customers who could not get immediate service would walk out. "What am I going to do?'' she asked. "Put up a sign that says 'Lack of attention due to blue laws'?"
The new law, which went into effect Thursday, was intended to get rid of the section of the state's so-called blue laws that restricts business operations on Sunday. But when it comes to anything 400 years old, Virginians are hard pressed to make changes. Instead of repealing blue laws, legislators over the years have layered on legislation overriding the original intent. The code itself does not change; new legislation just creates exemptions to the old.
In other words, Virginia law still holds that businesses cannot operate on Sundays. So even though added exemptions - covering retailers, movie theaters, hotels and other businesses - have made the law virtually obsolete, it is still on the books.
When the new bill was drafted, the section of exemptions was mistakenly left out. "Businesses that operate 24/7, 365 days in the private sector run the risk of substantial disruption," said Hugh Keogh, president and chief executive of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
No one - from the bill's sponsor to the legislators who passed it to the governor who signed it - noticed that the exemptions were missing. Without the exemptions, employees have the right to refuse to work on their chosen day of rest.
The mistake came to light when a labor lawyer contacted Mr. Keogh to warn him of the potential dangers of the new law. After alerting the governor's office, the Chamber of Commerce sent letters apprising its members of the possible pitfalls. When the Virginia news media began reporting the story on Wednesday, the response from local businesses was overwhelming.
"For now," Mr. Murtaugh said, "his office is referring calls to the State Department of Labor and Industry, which, barring intervention by the governor, the attorney general or the legislature, is legally bound to live by the law as written."
Informed of the problem, Gov. Mark R. Warner, a Democrat, asked Mr. Kilgore to rule on the law's constitutionality, said Ellen Qualls, the governor's spokeswoman. If the attorney general were to declare the measure unconstitutional, the governor could direct the labor department not to enforce it until it could be rectified by next year's General Assembly. But Mr. Kilgore, a Republican, quickly distanced himself from the issue.
"If the governor has a problem with the law he signed, he should get the legislature back and fix it," Mr. Murtaugh said. "The governor should know that the attorney general cannot tell people what laws should or should not be enforced."
Pulling legislators back to Richmond for a special session is not likely. This year's General Assembly met for 115 days, the longest session on record for the oldest legislative body in the Western Hemisphere, as state lawmakers wrangled with the budget. In addition, the expense of a special legislative session could cost the already beleaguered state budget as much as $100,000 a day, Ms. Qualls said.


By the way, on the New York Times website where they posted this story you will find at the end of the article a listing of *similar* topics to surf to. ALL of them are advocating Sunday as Sabbath and one of them is a link to a ministry that targets Ex-Seventh-day Adventists as a missionary field to bring them back to Sunday. I thought that was pretty obvious, don’t you? If you want to check it out, click here.


So.. what Law are they talking about that is 400 years old? See this...

"Every man and woman shall repair in the morning to the divine service and sermons preached upon the Sabbath (Sunday), and in the afternoon to divine service, and catechizing, upon pain for the first fault to lose their provision and the allowance for the whole week following; for the second, to lose the said allowance and also be whipped; and for the third to suffer death.!" -Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politique, & Martial For the Colony in Virginia: established by Sir Gates, Knight, Lieutenant - General, the 24th of May, 1610


No wonder some of the people are up in arms. They fear this could lead to major problems. And by the way, it’s already September since this so called *mistake* was made in the Virginia law. Why is it a law that was put in place back in June that everyone agrees is a mistake is STILL on the books today? And how is it the Governor, the actual sponsor of the bill, as well as every single legislator that was involved in discussing this bill before actually signing it into law missed the mistake in writing? Don’t they read what they sign? Do we all recall how the Congress admitted they never read the infamous Patriot act, and even if they planned to they were never given time to read the thousands of pages anyway? So, the fact of the matter is, it does not appear to be a mistake. When that many people are involved and ALL of them missed it are we that brain dead to not see this? No, what I think happened is when the general public got wind of the law, they complained, and then the idea of a *mistake* was born so as to spin this one off the table. I am sorry, but I cannot be convinced that so many people could miss this mistake.
Especially after they supposedly discussed it in detail before signing.


Sunday laws are about to be enforced. In fact, as we just learned they are already in force in many countries, and so far two states have laws on their books as we speak enforcing them. And ALL states carry the blue laws that Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy put in place in the same year he outlawed prayer in public schools. I always thought that was a bit comical. If you have tests in schools, you’re going to have prayer!


Germany rejects Sunday shopping
Germany's highest court has upheld the country's restrictive retail opening hours, disappointing consumers hoping to shop on Sundays and public holidays.

The Federal Constitutional Court said the principle of rest on Sundays and public holidays was "sacrosanct." The retail lobby is now expected to focus its efforts on Germany's state governments, which have most influence over trading hours regulations. But resistance to the 24-hour shopping culture remains strong in Germany, with trade unions protesting that the regulations are needed to safeguard workers' rights.

Michael Sommer, head of the DGB union, welcomed the court's decision. "It's a good day for shopkeepers who would like to have family lives that are just a little bit organised," he said. Church groups, keen to preserve Sunday as a day of rest, are also opposed to easing trading restrictions.

Does this sound familiar? The USA is trying the same thing in laws they are lobbying as we speak. They are claiming Sunday Laws are needed to protect the employees! But I ask why Sunday? Why not the real Sabbath? Or if that offends you, how about giving them Wednesdays off? I believe my answer is found in the strange word used in the start of this article. The Federal Constitutional Court said the principle of rest on Sundays and public holidays was "sacrosanct." Sacrosanct? What does that mean? I have no clue, so I looked it up. It’s a Latin word no less! Meaning, whatever you use it on is considered SACRED or INVIOABLE, or secure from being violated. One has to ask why the European Union’s Federal Constitutional Court would be using Latin terminology?

Truth is, the student of prophecy has complete understanding why the Roman Catholic Pagan language of Latin is being used here. It’s merely a fingerprint of Roman Catholic control. In fact, the entire European Union itself is a mini testing ground for Global government under Roman dominance.

The European Union has set up the policy that every member-state must have one day of rest during the week. But the policy explicitly states that the designated day needs to be Sunday, since for reasons of *religious pluralism* a nation’s government might choose another day.
In Italy, the designation of Sunday as a *day of rest* was first set in 1993. That policy was changed in 2000, however, when - in order to grant more flexibility for employers - the nation required only that every employer provide workers with a 24-hour rest period each week. But by August 2003, under the new European policy, Italy will again be required to fix a certain *day of rest.*

In an interview with the daily Corriere della Sera, Bishop Giancario Bregantini - who heads a committee dealing with social issues for the Italian bishops’ conference said... "How can you overlook the fact that Sunday is a special day for millions of Europeans?" -The Catholic World Report, February 2003

Rome is most assuredly in control here! Everything from their blue flag with stars that perfectly mimic the flag of the Pagan Queen of Heaven which Rome calls the mother of God. To their coinage that sports the Pope’s image on one side and a woman riding a beast on the other. It’s almost as if they are flaunting their physical powers as well as their spiritual powers before the Universe.
It’s evident now that Rome is boasting that they feel they have so much control over the minds of the masses that blunt prophetic facts such as these are going to be missed by most anyway. Rome has doctored so many Bibles, and twisted so many verses, and lied to countless millions that these people truly have no clue as to what’s happening right before their eyes! There truly is a famine in the land for the Word of God as the prophet Amos warned!
Only a small Remnant can see this plainly now. And Rome KNOWS THIS! So they flex their muscles as a show of intimidating force proclaiming they have many more in their camp then we do in ours. But I would like to echo the words of a prophet of old here this day! "...Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." -2 Kings 6,16 Only one third of Heaven fell! That means two thirds are with us! Plus to top it all off, we have a mighty and wonderful God that fights for His chosen few! So I say unto Rome, go ahead, flex your muscles as did Goliath! And you will see the Lord send many of the meek to confound the mighty you parade before the world, for they shall have angels from on High walking beside them the entire way!

Almost daily we see laws being passed that chip away at the freedoms we as Americans enjoy. Before you know it, Sunday laws will be enforced. Many main stream preachers have been constantly keeping this topic before the ears of both the Congress and the Senate for obvious reasons. As is always the case, laws like this can’t be passed as easy as others. A general uproar will no doubt be the result. You have Atheists to contend with, as well as religions that don’t embrace Sunday. And of course you have Jews as well as Sabbath keeping Christians that won’t much care for it. So what can you do? Well, you need to invent new reasons to rewrite laws, or you need to find situations that appeal to the people regarding their almighty dollar. These laws are in fact being passed. Either by clever methods of deceit, or by simply using force as we see in some countries. Or, as is apparent here in the USA, many main stream "Christian" leaders will be shouting for the Government to help the church enforce Sunday keeping just as Rome did in the past. So, yes, in some areas the people will clamor to this Roman Sabbath as if it’s some Biblical necessity. For example...

"All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close every Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people." -Harold Lindsell, Editor of Christianity Today -May 7, 1976

MANSFIELD -- The Rev. Mark Dettmer, senior pastor of First Church of the Nazarene on Straub Road, and many of the 130 members of his church are among those conservative Christians who would prefer to see stores closed on Sundays in deference to the Sabbath.

Associated Press - SALT LAKE CITY- A Mormon Church authority called on members to boycott Sunday shopping as a way to force community wide obediance to the fourth commandment God gave Moses - to keep the Sabbath holy.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND AN ECUMENICAL RALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF KEEPING SUNDAY AS A DAY OF REST FOR THE WORKING CITIZENS OF OUR NATION AND FOR OUR BLOOD BOUGHT LIBERTY TO WORSHIP GOD ON THAT DAY OF THE WEEK.-[Rev. Roger V. Kvam, pastor First Presbyterian Church Quincy, Mass.]
"Without saying so explicitly, the Ten Commandments set the only order that will bring world peace... The next obligation that a citizen of God's world order owes is himself. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy," is a command for a personal benefit of each citizen..." Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p. 233,236 (NOTE: Pat Robertson is a SUNDAY Sabbath keeper)
Christians will naturally strive to ensure that civil legislation respects their duty to keep Sunday holy -Pope John Paul II Dios Domini p 112.

There are literally thousands of articles on the Internet that echo these very same concerns. Even the so called Sabbath keeping SDA Church is joining this bandwagon lately. The General Conference Ministerial Association was documented as urging SDA'S to Keep Sunday in a fairly recent book called, "Confessions of a Nomad", published by the SDA Ministerial Association through Pacific Press. The book instructed their readers that Sabbath keepers can only find rest, refreshment, and strength by keeping Sunday holy. I carry the entire article and many many more on my "Attacking Sabbath" page in the *warnings* section of the website. I have also learned there are Sunday keeping SDA’s in other countries as well as right here in the USA. In Nevada for example the Pastor of the Las Vegas Mountain View Seventh-day Adventist church thought it a good idea to do as did Rome in her infancy. This Pastor, Tim Dunfield, decided to mass mail all the residents in the area to attend Sunday worship services in his Seventh-day Adventist church so as to pull in the Sunday keepers. He bowed to error as did Rome with the Pagans in the hopes of bringing Christ and His Truth to them? See the article here.
What’s even more amazing is the Adventist Review thought it a good enough story to promote. So much so, it’s a permanent feature on their website. And to further lend injury to error, this Seventh-day Adventist Pastor coordinated a similar event in Berrien Springs Michigan while he attended the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary there. From what I understand, other Adventist churches are now following suit. What’s going on? Is it the aged old adage, *if ya can’t beat em, join em?*

So, since the laws are being passed, and the so called Christian leaders are agreeing with them in all denominations including the Sabbath keepers. Is this movement becoming a global effort? Is there already talk of a global Sabbath?


World Sabbath considered:
"It is so dangerous when people are divided over language, ethnicity, and religion." Hakismana said Wednesday. His parents and six siblings were killed in Rwanda's 1994 civil war; and he subsequently devoted his life to promoting peace. "People need this World Sabbath, the whole world needs it." January 25, 2001 Detroit Free Press

For more information just type *Global Sabbath* in any major search engine (with quotation marks to focus the query) and you will see a little over two hundred pages. Now type in *Sabbath Laws* and you will see almost 3000 pages! The powers that be are flooding the media, the air waves, and the Internet with all sorts of suggestions as well as case studies on Sabbath laws that have been passed already! Do you think this will make Sabbath keepers and even some Adventists appear as a danger to their cause and worthy for intense persecution?

Sudan: Crisis Deepens As Adventist Churches Are Destroyed
Seventh-day Adventist churches in the Abu Garajil and Juruf districts of the Darfur region of western Sudan have been destroyed during the escalating humanitarian and security crisis unfolding there, church leaders say.

"Our members have been displaced. They are without food, clothing or shelter to sleep under," reports the district leader for the Adventist Church in the area.

In spite of their difficulties and constant threat to personal security, the members are eagerly gathering for worship services. Since the forest there is not thick, they find it difficult even to shelter under the trees for services. Instead they prefer to worship in the evening when the sun goes down because during the day you cannot bear the hot sun. "In general, all internally displaced people are living in miserable conditions, having lost all their belongings and all their livestock except for one or two starved donkeys. Crops and houses have been burned down and agricultural land is inaccessible due to insecurity."
- Adventist News Network, June 1, 2004

My question remains...

For all those that STILL scoff and say Sunday Laws will never come to be. You ignored the "blue laws" of Roman Catholic president John F. Kennedy in 1962. You ignored the US Government when they started forcing all car dealers from buying and selling on Sundays back in the 1980's. You even ignored the laws in Rhode Island that prohibit work on Sundays without a work permit as of January 1, 1999. You ignored the Sunday laws in Tutamonga Africa in 2000. And yes, you even ignore the fact that Virginia passed laws supposedly "by mistake" in June of 2004 that prohibit buying and selling on Sundays, and now September 15 you have yet another opportunity to ignore prophetic fact again!? I ask, how many times must they do exactly as prophecy said they would do before you realize THEY ARE DOING EXACTLY AS PROPHECY SAID THEY WOULD?

Kinda makes all those strange Sabbath keepers out there that have been preaching for years that this was prophesied, appear to be a bit more trustworthy now don’t they? One of my favorite verses of all time is so pertinent at this time. Yet do you some have ears to hear it?
· John 14:29, "And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe."

Well people... It’s already come to pass in numerous areas worldwide, and it’s quickly gaining ground as we speak. Will you wait till it comes to pass in YOUR backyard? If you do, it may already be too late.