Adventistische Schriften über: "How would Ellen White describe the union of church and state, Protestant-Catholic cooperation, Sunday legislation, religious freedom, and a crisis with state‑enforced religious practice?"

Ellen White describes that the Protestant churches, by enforcing Sunday sanctification with the aid of secular state power, erect a “image of the beast” and thereby honor the principles of papacy. This union of church and state, as well as the adoption of Roman‑Catholic institutions, represents a national apostasy that inevitably leads to national ruin. State‑enforced religious practice ultimately brings about a worldwide crisis in which every person is faced with the decisive choice between God's commandments and human regulations.

The Enforcement of Sunday Sanctification and the Image of the Beast

»The enforcement of Sunday sanctification by the Protestant churches is an enforcement of the worship of papacy—the beast. [...] But precisely through the act of imposing a religious duty by secular power, the churches themselves would shape an image of the beast; therefore, the enforcement of Sunday sanctification in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and its image. [...] However, if the Sunday observance is legally enforced and the world is enlightened about the obligation of the true Sabbath, then anyone who transgresses God's command in order to obey a regulation that has no higher authority than that of Rome thereby honors the papacy over God. He renders to Rome and the power that enforces the institution ordained by Rome his reverence. He worships the beast and its image.«

1 - Ellen Gould White, The Great Controversy (GC 448.3)

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National Apostasy and Ruin through the Alliance of Church and State

»Roman‑Catholic principles will be placed under the custody and protection of the state. This national apostasy will quickly be followed by national ruin. [...] If Protestant churches unite with secular power to support a false religion, against which their ancestors endured the harshest persecution, then the papal Sabbath will be enforced by the combined authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy that will end only in national ruin. [...] If the state uses its power to enforce the church's decrees and support its institutions—then Protestant America will have formed an image of the papacy, and there will be a national apostasy that will end only in national ruin.«

2 - Ellen Gould White, Last Day Events (LDE 134.3)

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