The Mark of the Beast (Without Ellen White)

Sooner or later you will be asked to explain "the mark of the beast", so we might as well look at it now.

Clearly, the mark of the beast is a "worship issue".

If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand.
- Revelation 14:9 (KJV)

We can also see that there will be a worship law (with a buy or sell penalty, and even a death penalty later on).

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.
- Revelation 13:15 (KJV)

Speak = make law [Leviticus 6:25]
Cause = enforce [1 Kings 5:9]

Worship is linked to the commandments of God.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- John 14:15 (KJV)

And God specifically mentions the seventh-day Sabbath as His day of worship.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
- Exodus 20:8-11 (KJV)

And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
- Isaiah 66:23 (KJV)

The devil wants his own worship day (counterfeit), and he will either get people to voluntarily comply (mark in the forehead), or he will force them to comply (mark in the hand).

Satan uses the beast (country) to achieve this. But who is the beast?

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman [church, Jeremiah 6:2] sit upon a scarlet [sinful, Isaiah 1:18] coloured beast [kingdom, Daniel 7:23], full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 17:3 (KJV)

The only country which has a church in charge (telling the state what to do), is the Vatican. The Roman papacy to be precise.

Let's see if what they say is in agreement with that.

Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [from Sabbath to Sunday] was her act. And the act is the mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.
- Faith of Our Fathers, p. 14 C.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons

So, there you have it. Satan and the papacy have placed themselves above God's Law, and "changed" the Sabbath to Sunday (in A.D. 321).

And very soon, the Sundaw law will be enforced for all people on Earth.