Adventistische Schriften über: "Ellen White: Great Struggle, Protestant Churches, State Power, Sunday Sanctification, Image of the Beast, Religious Freedom, Chapters 35–36"

Ellen White warns that religious freedom is in danger when Protestant churches attempt to enforce church institutions and customs such as Sunday sanctification with the aid of state power. By taking this path, they follow the steps of papacy and open the doors to intolerance and coercion of conscience. In the final confrontation, the Sabbath question becomes the decisive test of loyalty between the seal of God and the mark of the beast.

Protestantism, State Power and the Enforcement of Sunday

»America's precious freedom of religious belief and practice is in danger of being destroyed by those who seek to force the conscience of the minority to conform to the wishes of the majority. In the movements currently underway in the United States to secure state support for church institutions and customs, Protestants are following the steps of the Papists. Moreover, they are opening the door to papacy in order to regain in Protestant America the dominance it lost in the Old World. And what gives this movement even greater significance is the fact that the main goal being pursued is the enforcement of Sunday sanctification—a custom that originated from Rome and is claimed by Rome as a sign of its authority. It is the spirit of papacy—the spirit of adapting to secular customs, the worship of human traditions over God's commandments—that permeates the Protestant churches and leads them to perform the same work of elevating Sunday that papacy has done before them.«

1 - Ellen Gould White, Darkness Before Dawn (26.167)

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The Sabbath Test and the Covenant of Church and State

»No one suffers God's wrath until the truth has been presented to his mind and conscience and has been rejected. Many have never had the opportunity to hear the special truths for this time. ... The Sabbath, the great test of loyalty, is the particularly controversial truth. While keeping the false Sabbath will be a confession of allegiance to a power in opposition to God, keeping the true Sabbath is a proof of loyalty to the Creator. While one group receives the mark of the beast, the other receives the seal of God. Predictions that religious intolerance would gain the upper hand and that church and state would persecute those who keep God's commandments were declared baseless and absurd. Yet, as the Sunday celebration is widely promoted, one sees the long‑doubted event drawing near...«

2 - Ellen Gould White, From Here to Forever (HF 368.4)

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