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NEW - 2008 - NEW
The "National Sunday Law" by Jan Marcussen is now on this web site. All seven chapters are ready to read and copy if you would like to.
This amazing book revealing fulfilled prophecies and future prophecies soon to be fulfilled has been printed in numerous languages and is being circulated around the world.
The Mark of the Beast is revealed as it is declared in scripture. The Anti-Christ is not future, Anti-Christ is here, NOW. Learn what Satan does not want you to know. Click the graphic to the left.
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Study #7 - THE SEAL OF GOD
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Be sure that you have completed studies #1 through #6 before starting study #7.
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In study #3, we identified the Beast of Daniel 7 with nine different points. The Little Horn Power, could be no one else but the Papacy. Then in Revelation 13 we discovered the Papacy again is the only power on earth that fits the nine identification points of that chapter. We further learned that this power changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and boasts that it is a mark of her ecclesiastical power to have done so.
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In the act of changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, for which there is no scriptural authority, the Papacy deepened the apostasy that had been developing since the end of the first century, and added to the wine of Babylon that all nations of the earth have been made drunk with. We learned that apostate Protestant America would form an image to the beast and soon pass a National Sunday law, which would usher in the Mark of the Beast. Everyone embracing Sunday worship would receive the Mark of the Beast in the forehead (belief system). Those who choose to work on Saturday, God's Sabbath, receives the mark of the beast in the hand. No one has that mark yet, but we do believe this is the generation of that very fulfillment.
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God has a special mark, or seal or sign that he places in the foreheads (belief system) of His people. Would you be startled to learn that unless a person bears this mark at Jesus' return, he/she cannot enter God's kingdom? Would you be shocked to learn that most people are totally unaware of God's mark, and thus ignore it? One great prime purpose of Revelation is to identify and restore God's mark to His people. Few things are as important to God as His mark, and He is much displeased that mankind is ignoring it. Now let's examine this subject more closely.
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1. In Revelation 7:1-3, ("1 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”") a mighty angel has commanded that the final winds of war and destruction not unleash their fury upon the earth and sea until something very important be completed. What is that important something?
"Do not harm the earth .... till we have__________the___________of our______
on their_____________".
Note- The angel is saying that God will not permit destruction to come upon the earth until His people have all received His seal or mark. With God, the marking of His people is an extremely imperative priority matter. Remember that in prophetic symbolic language, winds represent war, strife and destruction.
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2. How widely will the serious messages of Revelation, including the truth about God's seal, sign or mark, be presented? Revelation 14:6 "6 Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people—."
"....to every_________, __________, ___________, and____________".
Note- Seal, Sign and Mark are used interchangeably in Scripture. Romans 4:11 "11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,"; Ezekiel 9:4 "4 and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”"; Revelation 7:2,3 "2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”"
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3. What is a seal? How is it sometimes used in a figurative manner? Romans 4:11 "11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,"; Ephesians 1:13 "13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,"; Ephesians 4:30 "30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
"....a _______of the righteousness of the faith...."
"....you were ________with the Holy Spirit of promise,"
"And do not grieve the ______ ________of God, by whom you were__________...."
Note-In the Bible, two figurative uses of the seal are made:
A. A seal may stand for a truth or a requirement of God.
B. A seal may indicate God's ownership and approval.
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What 3 Things Must A Seal Show?
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4. What three things must a government seal contain?
Note- Government seals are used to officially identify laws and authorize legal documents for its jurisdiction. Such a seal must give the lawgiver's: A. Name; B. Title; and C. Territory over which that person or government body rules and has authority.
For example: A notary seal has that person's name, their title- notary public, and the city or county of the state they are allowed to notarize in. The president of the United States has a seal. It would show his name, title- president, and his territory- the United States of America.
5. What is God's seal and where is it found? Exodus 20: 8-11 "8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."
"....the seventh day is the Sabbath of the________ your God....For in six days the Lord ________ the heavens and the earth,...."
Note- God's moral law, the ten commandments, contains God's seal in the fourth commandment.
It states:
A. God's name ("the Lord thy God"),
B. His title or office as Creator ("made") and
C. His dominion or territory ("heaven and earth").
The fourth commandment sets forth in unmistakable language, the authority behind the ten commandments, the authority of our creator and the Government of God.
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It is not only God's Mark or Seal, it is also God's Sign
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6. Revelation is clear, we worship God because He is our CREATOR, Revelation 4:11 (11 “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”); and REDEEMER, Revelation 5:9(9 And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,). What has God provided for His people as a sign, seal or mark of His creating and redeeming power? Exodus 31:16,17 (16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 17It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”); Ezekiel 20:12,20 (12 Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.;20 hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’)
Note- God Himself, made the Sabbath a sign of His creating, redeeming power. When I keep His Sabbath holy, I demonstrate my acceptance of Him as my Creator and Savior.
7. Where does the great angel of Revelation 7 say this sign or seal of God will be placed on a person? Revelation 7:3 "3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”"
"In their ___________________".
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Note- The forehead represents the mind. We serve the Lord with our minds, Romans 7:25 "25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.."
When we consent to keep God's Sabbath we are marked, or signed in our minds, which are represented by the forehead. Angels of God are holding back the fury of Satan, until God's people everywhere have accepted His sign. God is reaching His people all over the world to receive this very message, through personal evangelism, television, radio and short wave radio and He is using this web site to reach those of His people that might never had been reached otherwise.
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Three Things God did to the Seventh Day to Make it Special
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8. God made the Sabbath on the seventh literal day of that first creation week. It was before sin entered this world and 2500 years before the first Jew. What three things did God do at creation that made the seventh day special? Genesis 2:2,3 "2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made."
"....and He _______________on the seventh day....Then God_______________the seventh
day and _______________it".
Note- God blessed and sanctified the seventh day. What God blesses, stays blessed forever,
1 Chron 17:27 "27 Now You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue before You forever; for You have blessed it, O LORD, and it shall be blessed forever."
"Sanctify" means to set aside for sacred or holy use. Just as the Bible is different from any other book, and the American flag is different from any other piece of cloth, so the seventh day is totally different from the other six days. That 24 hour period was made holy by God.
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For whom did God make the Sabbath?
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9. For whom did God make the Sabbath? Mark 2:27,28. "27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. 28 Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.”"
The Sabbath was made for_________.
Note- God made the seventh day Sabbath for all of mankind everywhere.
10. God saw that men would forget His Sabbath. With what command did He begin the fourth commandment? Exodus 20:8 "8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."
"______________".
Note- "Remember" means DON'T FORGET!
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Did Jesus ever repeal the ten commandments
which mandate Sabbath-keeping?
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11. Did Jesus ever repeal the ten commandments which mandate Sabbath-keeping? Luke 16:17,18 "17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail. 18 “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery."
"And it is easier for__________ and___________ to________ _________than
for one____________ of the____________to___________".
Note- God's law and His commandments are the same thing and Jesus was specific here in identifying one of those ten. Matthew 5:17-19 "17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."; Romans 13:8-10 "8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."
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12. Which day did Jesus keep holy and how should that affect me personally? Luke 4:16 "16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read."; 1 Peter 2:21 "21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:"
Note- Christ was our example in all things including keeping the seventh day Sabbath. Read this as if your eternal life hangs in the balance. God's word states it clearly. If anyone says it reads other then plainly stated, then they speak against God Himself.
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13. What did Jesus say that lets us know that He had no plans to change the Sabbath after His resurrection? Matthew 24:20 "20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath."
Note- Jesus said that they should pray that they would not have to flee in winter or on the Sabbath day. He was speaking of a time that was 40 years in the future, since He knew the fall of Jerusalem would occur in 70 AD.
14. How does Revelation refer to the people living in the last days who will be saved into God's kingdom? Revevelation 14:12 "12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."; Revelation 12:17 "17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Note- They will be Ten Commandment keepers and that includes the seventh day Sabbath.
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15. In Isaiah 58:1 "1 “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.", God says, "Cry aloud and spare not" and "Tell My people" their sins. What sin is He specifically referring to in verse 13? "13 “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,"
He said they were trampling upon His __________________.
Note- In Isaiah's day they were trampling on God's Sabbath seal. Mankind today are doing the same serious thing. God says that His own dear people that love Him, are trampling His Sabbath underfoot. His command is to "cry aloud" and explain the Sabbath to them, because His loving sheep will gladly follow Him in Sabbath-keeping when they understand.
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16. What day will the saints keep in the new earth? Isaiah 66:22,23 "22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the LORD, “So shall your descendants and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.
The Sabbath created in Eden will be kept in Eden anew and throughout eternity. The breach made in God's law in the fourth century will be repaired, Isaiah 58:12 "12 Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
The sin of old Israel and modern Israel is the same. Trampling God's Sabbath. It will be Sabbath throughout eternity and not Sunday. True Sabbath-keepers are the repairers of the breach made in God's law and by keeping it holy and telling others, they are restorers of streets to dwell in. Will your allegiance be to God or the Papacy? Will you receive God's Seal or the Papacy's Mark? No matter how uncomfortable it may be to serve God faithfully, He calls you to step out and follow.
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God's people, who He calls "My people" are in many denominations throughout Christendom. But now, He is calling His people to COME OUT OF HER. Revelation 18:4,5 "4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities." Her being the corrupt, apostate church. The Papacy initiated the change of God's Sabbath, and Protestantism today lingers in the apostasy of Sunday sacredness. Sunday is the day that was never blessed by God, rather it had its roots in Paganism. God commanded us to work on Sunday through Friday, Exodus 20:9 "9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,".
Is God calling you? Do you worship God on Sunday? Then if you will hear His voice, He is calling you as one of His people to COME OUT of her TODAY!
(See the supplemental study, "The History of the Change of the Sabbath")
The choice is yours friend. God loves you and would not force Himself or His law on you. You have the opportunity to embrace God's Sabbath and walk these last days of earth's history with His remnant people, or you can reject it. You will be marked either way by your choice. God's seal or the mark of the beast. Those who keep God's commandments are truly free. If you would like more information on the world wide church that is the true commandment keeping church of Revelation 12 and 14, go to the page on "God's Remnant Church Today"
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