Showing posts with label IMAGE OF THE BEAST. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IMAGE OF THE BEAST. Show all posts

Friday, October 11, 2024

CANCELLED: Adventism and Catholicism in a Changing World

CANCELLED: Adventism and Catholicism in a Changing World

October 12, 2024
03:00 PM-05:00 PM
Centennial Complex
Damazo Ampitheater
religion@llu.edu
909-558-7478
School of Religion



This event has been cancelled.

Speakers:
Reinder Bruinsma, PhD
Denis Fortin, PhD
Rev. Romanus Ike

The Seventh-day Adventist and Roman Catholic Churches have had a turbulent relationship through the years. But in today’s world many people see them as having much more in common than what separates them. The panel will explore the intriguing question of what the two churches can learn from each other and what that might imply for the future. Reinder Bruinsma will premier his new book on the topic at the close of the program.

Sponsored by Loma Linda University Center for Understanding World Religions and Humanities Program

For more information, call 909-558-7478 or email religion@llu.edu



Sunday, June 10, 2018

How the Image to the Beast Evolves - June 10





He exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:12.



In order for the United States to form an image of the beast, the religious power must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will also be employed by the church to accomplish her own ends....

The “image to the beast” represents that form of apostate Protestantism which will be developed when the Protestant churches shall seek the aid of the civil power for the enforcement of their dogmas....

When Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshiping the beast and his image. As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of His authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome—“the mark of the beast.” And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive “the mark of the beast.”...

In the issue of the contest all Christendom will be divided into two great classes—those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and those who worship the beast and his image and receive his mark. Although church and state will unite their power to compel “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond” (Revelation 13:16), to receive “the mark of the beast,” yet the people of God will not receive it. The prophet of Patmos beholds “them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God” and singing the song of Moses and the Lamb. Revelation 15:2, 3


Maranatha, p.169.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Two Allies The Beast and its Image / In the Stream of Time - Walter Veith




Published on May 4, 2017


In this lecture with Walter Veith we will study Revelation 13 to interpret its meaning for us today. This informative and historical lecture will open your eyes to the blasphemies the pope is committing by usurping Christ. Let us be ever vigilant and keep our eyes opened to the two allies, the beast and its image.