The Final Test is Coming (2)

ENTER THE MAN OF SIN

There is a being known as 'Satan', who was once an angel of light in heaven, having the name lucifer. The cause of his fall is described in Isaiah as follows:

Isaiah 14:12-14

It was the exaltation of self that caused the fall of lucifer and his desire to 'be like the Most High.' But to be like God you would also be a 'lawgiver.' As we know, Satan became the 'god of this world' through deceiving man from his loyalty to God. And thus Satan now had his own 'subjects' through whom he could execute his own law in defiance of the one Great Lawgiver, our Creator JEHOVAH. The full development of this satanic spirit against the one true lawgiver is told by the apostle Paul as follows:

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

That name 'man of sin' literally means 'the LAWLESS one.' And what did the apostle John say is a definition of 'sin'? That "sin is transgression of the law." (1 John 3:4). The man of sin is the 'lawless one' because he is the one whom Satan used to set himself up against the authority of our Creator and His eternal law. And Daniel 7 prophesied of this coming 'lawless one' as follows:

Daniel 7:8,24-25

What 'times and laws' would this little horn power think to change? The times and laws of our Creator. This 'little horn', which becomes the beast out of the sea in Revelation 13 is that very 'man of sin', the 'lawless one' whom Satan would use to deceive the world into rejecting the authority of their Creator, by substituting the 7th day Sabbath for another day - SUNday, and deceiving the churches into worshipping 'another god'- the Trinity. That little horn and man of sin who would 'think to change the times and laws' of our Creator, is the Papal church of Rome.

- "Question. Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?
Answer. Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her. - she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority." (Doctrinal Catechism, Rev. Stephen Keenan (Kenedy, New York), p. 174 - )

- "Question. How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
Answer. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church.
Question. How prove you that?
Answer. Because by keeping Sunday they acknowledge the church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin." (The Douay Catechism, Abridgment of Christian Doctrine (Kenedy, New York), p. 58)

"The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of the Catholic Faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings of the church." (Handbook for Today's Catholic, p. 11)

"Our opponents sometimes claim that no belief should be held dogmatically which is not explicitly stated in scripture. But the Protestant Churches have themselves accepted such dogmas, as the Trinity, for which there is no such precise authority in the Gospels." (Graham Greene, [celebrated Catholic Author], Life Magazine, 30 October 1950, p. 51)

The Catholic Church is not so boastful today as she used to be, because she is now using deception, mixing truth with error to deceive. But the fact remains that it is by the 'authority'of the Catholic Church that the majority of churches keep the 1st day of the week and worship the false trinity god, NOT by the authority of our Creator, because if the world placed itself under the authority of God alone, then all would keep the 7th day Sabbath, and worship the Father (John 4:22-24) as the 'only true God', as a 'sign' of their allegiance to Him. Men might wrestle with the scriptures to support a change in the Sabbath and worship of a '3 in 1' trinity god, but they will find NO AUTHORITY from God for it. The authority for the change comes from the man of sin! That LAWLESS one who was prophesied to 'think to CHANGE times and laws.'

So Satan has truly set himself up 'as God' in the hearts of men, through the Papal Church of Rome. Which is why God is giving the final warning to the world, to make their decision - acknowledge the Creator as the 'only lawgiver' and submit our lives under His authority, receiving the salvation of our souls, or acknowledge the man of sin as the lawgiver, submitting our lives under his authority, receiving the wrath of God and eternal death.