Summary: The first national Sunday Law is passed by the Congress of the United States of America in the year 1892. This is a fulfillment of the Sunday Law prophecy.
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FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 380. 1892.
SEC. 2. And it is hereby declared that all appropriations herein made for, or pertaining to, the World's Columbian Exposition are made upon the condition that the said Exposition shall not be opened to the public on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday; and if the said appropriations be accepted by the corporation of the State of Illinois, known as the World's Columbian Exposition, upon that condition, it shall be, and it is hereby, made the duty of the World's Columbian Commission, created by act of Congress of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to make such rules or modification of the rules of said corporation as shall require the closing of the Exposition on the said first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 381, 382. 1892.
SEC. 4. That it is hereby declared that all appropriations herein made for, or pertaining to, the World's Columbian Exposition are made upon the condition that the said Exposition shall not be opened to the public on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday; and if the said appropriations be accepted by the corporation of the State of Illinois, known as the World's Columbian Exposition, upon that condition, it shall be, and it is hereby, made the duty of the World's Columbian Commission, created by the act of Congress of April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to make such rules or modification of the. rules of said corporation as shall require the closing of the Exposition on the said first day of the week commonly called Sunday.
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Approved, August 5, 1892.
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PUBLIC SOURCE: U.S. Congress. U.S. Statutes at Large, Volume 27 -1893, 52nd Congress. United States, - 1893, 1892. Periodical. https://www.loc.gov/item/llsl-v27/.
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1) General Conference Daily Bulletin, January 28, 1893 Paragraph 26, Ellen White
Brethren and sisters, would that I might say something to awaken you to the importance of this time, the significance of the events that are now taking place. I point you to the aggressive movements now being made for the restriction of religious liberty. God's sanctified memorial has been torn down, and in its place a false sabbath, bearing no sanctity, stands before the world. And while the powers of darkness are stirring up the elements from beneath, the Lord God of heaven is sending power from above to meet the emergency by arousing His living agencies to exalt the law of heaven.
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2) Review and Herald, October 28, 1902
The Sabbath is the clasp which unites God and his people. But the Sabbath command has been broken. God’s holy day has been desecrated. The Sabbath has been torn from its place by the man of sin, and a common working day has been exalted in its stead.
CONCLUSION: As of 1892, the Image of the Beast has been set up.
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Further Evidence:
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Letter 230, July 25, 1908, par. 2 (Letter of Ellen G. White to A.T. Jones)
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I have been instructed to use those discourses of yours printed in the General Conference Bulletins of 1893 and 1897, which contain strong arguments regarding the validity of the testimonies, and which substantiate the gift of prophecy among us. I was shown that many would be helped by these articles, and especially those newly come to the faith who have not been made acquainted with our history as a people. It will be a blessing to you to read again these arguments, which were of the Holy Spirit’s framing.
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General Conference Daily Bulletin, 1893 Jones sermon NO 3
But we have no more errands there with petitions or protests against religious legislation. That thing is gone. Well, in this work which is now past, what were we working against? Against something that was done, or against the doing of something? --Against the doing of something. Why did we protest against the doing of that thing? What did we say that the doing of that thing would be? - -Forming a union of Church and State-- Making an image to the beast.
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We are shut up to that one thing and there is no other way out. Every man from this day forth who professes to work in the third angel's message can carry that message or give that message in no other way than in the words which that message speaks, "If any man worship the beast and his image." But never before 1892 had one of us the right to say that and warn the people against the worship of the image, because the image was not yet made. We have told the people that it was coming and that when certain things came, the image would be made, and the warning then would be, Do not you worship it. That has been our message, but that is not our message any more. We cannot tell them that now. We cannot protest against the making of it; we cannot do that now. That thing is done. We are shut up therefore to this one thing. I say again, There is no way out but to preach the third angel's message as it reads: "If any man worship the beast and his image." But there is a word there that comes just before that: "The third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice." What is that, then, but the loud cry of the third angel's message coming right in now. Does not that show us that when the time comes for the message to be given directly as it reads in words that the loud cry is right at that time? We have had enough before us in all these other things to show that, but is it not there in the words of the message itself, that when the message goes to the world in the words in which it is given, that is the loud cry? For it goes that way, with a loud voice.
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Manuscript 31, 1896
2 Selected Messages Page 102.
Three Angels and the other Angel.
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Historical events, showing the direct fulfillment of prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading down to the close of this earth's history. The scenes connected with the working of the man of sin are the last features plainly revealed in this earth's history. The people now have a special message to give to the world, the third angel's message.
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Some will take the truth applicable to their time, and place it in the future. Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.
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Great Controversy Page 589
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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.
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Conclusion:
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1) Congress of United States passed the first Sunday law in 1892 relating to the World's Columbian Exposition.
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2) The 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, which ran from September 11 to September 27, marked the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions from around the world. This happened at the World's Columbian Exposition.
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The prophecy relating to the set up of the image of the beast has been fulfilled in 1892. The prophecy relating the threefold union of Protestants of the United States, Roman power, spiritualism has been fulfilled in 1893.
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Additional Notes:
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Great Controversy Page 442
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The lamb-like horns and dragon voice of the symbol point to a striking contradiction between the professions and the practice of the nation thus represented. The “speaking” of the nation is the action of its legislative and judicial authorities. By such action it will give the lie to those liberal and peaceful principles which it has put forth as the foundation of its policy. The prediction that it will speak “as a dragon,” and exercise “all the power of the first beast,” plainly foretells a development of the spirit of intolerance and persecution that was manifested by the nations represented by the dragon and the leopard-like beast. And the statement that the beast with two horns “causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast,” indicates that the authority of this nation is to be exercised in enforcing some observance which shall be an act of homage to the papacy.
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Such action would be directly contrary to the principles of this government, to the genius of its free institutions, to the direct and solemn avowals of the Declaration of Independence, and to the Constitution. The founders of the nation wisely sought to guard against the employment of secular power on the part of the church, with its inevitable result—intolerance and persecution. The Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” and that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States.” Only in flagrant violation of these safeguards to the nation's liberty, can any religious observance be enforced by civil authority. But the inconsistency of such action is no greater than is represented in the symbol. It is the beast with lamb-like horns—in profession pure, gentle, and harmless—that speaks as a dragon.
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Charles Beecher, in a sermon in the year 1846, declared that the ministry of “the evangelical Protestant denominations” is “not only formed all the way up under a tremendous pressure of merely human fear, but they live, and move, and breathe in a state of things radically corrupt, and appealing every hour to every baser element of their nature to hush up the truth, and bow the knee to the power of apostasy. Was not this the way things went with Rome? Are we not living her life over again? And what do we see just ahead? Another general council! A world's convention! Evangelical alliance, and universal creed!” When this shall be gained, then, in the effort to secure complete uniformity, it will be only a step to the resort to force.
Author's thoughts:
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When the Congress of the United States of America passed the first Sunday Law under the influence of the Protestant Churches in forbidding the opening of the World's Fair on Sunday, it fulfills the prophecy of setting up the image of the beast as well as the giving of the power to the image of the beast to speak like a dragon. This was done in a "world's convention" as per prediction. If God's people do not acknowledge what has already happened - the setting up of the image of the beast, then they will continue to look forward to the future for prophetic events that have happened in the past such as the Sunday Law and fire coming down from heaven. What confusion! What deception!
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According to the Seventh-day Adventist Church's first historian J.N. Loughborough, the Sunday Law that the church was looking for was fulfilled in the year 1892. Exactly what the author mentioned above.
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