Adventistische Schriften über: "Ellen White image description: Union of religion and state, Protestantism and Catholicism, Sunday legislation and civil enforcement as a symbolic Great Controversy scene"

In the writings about the great struggle, Ellen White describes how the fallen Protestantism and the papacy unite to enforce religious statutes with the help of secular state power. The central element of this scene is the legal enforcement of Sunday sanctification, which raises the \"Image of the Beast\". Whoever refuses to place this human‑established institution above God's commandments is threatened by state and church with persecution, fines, and imprisonment.

Union of Protestants and Catholics for civil enforcement of Sunday

»The terrible consequences of enforcing church customs through civil authority, the infiltration of spiritualism, the secret but rapid advance of papal power – all this will be exposed. ... The clergy will undertake almost superhuman efforts to repel the light so that it does not shine on their flocks. With all the means at their disposal they will try to suppress the discussion of these vital questions. The church appeals to the strong arm of secular power, and in this work Catholics and Protestants unite. When the movement for the enforcement of Sunday becomes bolder and more determined, the law will be invoked against the keepers of the commandments. They will be threatened with fines and imprisonment...«

1 - Ellen Gould White, The Great Controversy (1888 ed.) (GC88 606.2)

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The Image of the Beast and control over state power

»In order for the United States to form an Image of the Beast, the religious power must dominate the civil government to the extent that the authority of the state is also employed by the church to achieve its own goals. ... The \"Image of the Beast\" represents that form of fallen Protestantism that will develop when Protestant churches seek the aid of secular power to enforce their doctrines. ... When Sunday worship is legally enforced and the world is enlightened about the obligation of the true Sabbath, anyone who transgresses God's command in order to obey a regulation that has no higher authority than Rome thereby places the papacy above God.«

2 - Ellen Gould White, Maranatha (Mar 169.3)

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The Protestant alignment with Rome and the elevation of Sunday

»In the efforts currently underway in the United States to secure state support for the institutions and customs of the church, Protestants follow the steps of the Catholics. Moreover, they open the door to the papacy 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 primary goal is the enforcement of Sunday sanctification – a practice that originates in Rome and which it claims as a sign of its authority.«

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

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