03_02 Dear Adventist Believer

Many, very many, Adventists have been led to believe that American Protestantism is the “image” of the beast spoken of in Revelation 13 verses 14 and 15, and in Revelation 14:9. Uriah Smith, in his book “Daniel and the Revelation” p.590, speculated this interpretation. Ellen White also wrote strongly supporting this interpretation – here is a sampling:
Rev.13:14-17 and chapter 14:9-12:  and,                                          Letter 11, 1890
Tested by the image – the Lord has shown me clearly [my emphasis] that the image of the beast will be formed before probation closes: for it is to be the great test for the people of God, by which their eternal destiny will be decided (Rev.13:11-17 quoted). This is the test that the people of God must have before they are sealed. All who proved their loyalty to God by observing His Law and refusing to accept a spurious Sabbath, will rank under the banner of the Lord God Jehovah, and will receive the seal of the living God. Those who yield the truth of heavenly origin [when Federal legislation is enacted to enforce Sunday worship – a Sunday law] and accept the Sunday Sabbath will receive the “mark” of the “beast.”

Great Controversy, p. 445                                                                       When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees, and to sustain their institutions, then America will have formed an image [likeness] of the “beast,” and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result.

G.C. p.449:
…the enforcement of Sunday-keeping in the United States would be an enforcement of the worship of the beast and his image. [my emphasis].

Following is the strongest statement that I could find: – same page:
But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, whoever shall transgress the Command of God, to obey a precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome and [paying homage]to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. He is worshiping the beast and his image.   [which, here, is the power which enforces the beast’s mark].

But this interpretation of America as the “image” of the beast has caused almost all Seventh-day Adventists to fail to recognize the image of MARY as the obvious image of the beast!! The bishop of Rome instituted it, in 325 A.D.! (research by Doug Batchelor of Amazing Facts television ministry)                                                           [which Daniel 11:38 and 39 reveal as his image – idol – god: a Bible text proof ]! That’s one of the reasons that unfolding Daniel 11 is important!

We do well to see that American Protestantism allied with the American government is becoming the very image (likeness) of the beast. This is hidden from the eyes of the people and must be revealed to them. But the obvious meaning of the text is to be understood by all Bible students world-wide, right up through the New Testament era. Mary, idols of Mary,   all around us throughout the world, are clearly “the image of the beast.”       The Papacy removed the Second Commandment from the Ten [for their Catechism] to allow for worship of Mary’s idol (image)! Further proof is in Daniel 11 vs 38, 39. Regarding the “little horn” power, that is, the early form of the Papacy, this verse states,  “…a god [NOTE WELL:] a god whom his fathers knew not, shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things…whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory…” This is Mary, his “image!” This is Mary, whom he has made Mediatrix in place of Jesus. “Holy Mary, mother of God, Pray for us” – the Rosary. This is Mary, whom, in 1854, he proclaimed was “immaculately conceived!” [thus a goddess]. No Adventist [SDA-to-be] noticed? This is Mary, whom he has made a god! This is Mary, his “image!!”

The Protestant Church of England, the High Anglican Church, now already worships Mary. About 1980, pope John Paul II, was received into England (the first pope allowed to visit England that I know of from history) and was taken into Westminster Abbey, where he was allowed to speak. Four million people came out to see him! Of but 32 protesters outside the Abbey, Ian Paisley, the Irish Protestant leader, went right up to the camera, shown in world news, and proclaimed, “What are you doing? This is the ‘beast!!’” [See Dan. 7] By about 1990, Anglican churches here in Canada decreed that they would begin to openly worship Mary! I was told so, at that time, by an Anglican woman who decided to leave her denomination,  because she believed the Ten Commandments and “refused to worship that idol,” another “god!” – breaking the First, and Second Commandments of our true God!

Can the rest of Protestantism be far behind? Realize that the leadership of the Protestant churches have joined the “beast” (through the ecumenical movement) and the people will be led like sheep to worship as they dictate!

American Protestantism, as the “image of the beast,” is not the obvious interpretation of the text. How can we resolve the question? Synonyms!                                                           The word “image” has two regular meanings in Scripture. Thus both are  the correct interpretation!!.
Follow my reasoning:
Most of the Bible’s use of the word “image” refers to graven images –statuary if you will, usually made of wood and coated with gold or silver and prayed to, or “worshiped.”
But there is also this: Man was “made in our image.” Genesis 1:26.  “And, Adam begat a son in his own likeness after his image.” (Seth) Genesis 5:3. There are also several New Testament texts where Jesus is “the express image [likeness] of His [God’s] person.” See Hebrews 1:3. Also, it is understood that the “daughters” of “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth,” are in the likeness of their mother and are thus the “image” of their mother. (Rev. 17:5; 14:9, 10)

But this type of interpretation is not the obvious way to interpret the text in Revelation 13 and 14. Rev.13 v.15 shows that this figurative meaning should not be the exclusive interpretation.
“He (America) had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause (by its speech) that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Isn’t it harder not to apply this to a literal “graven” image or idol? See NIV,  v. 14.
Further, it is not only in America that such enforcement of worship is implied: note, v.14: America shall say “to them that dwell on the earth, that they [all of them] should make an image to the beast…”  again, easy if referring to an idol, but hard if otherwise. If America is the image of the beast, won’t they all be an image of the beast as well?
No, all of this is reference to America enforcing the dogmas of the “beast,” – the Papacy, including the worship of his image – Mary! – world-wide. Even now, some are charging that the Papacy has employed American military might (allied with NATO -Europe’s 8 remaining horns) to enforce worship of the “beast” by warring against the Orthodox Serbs in Cosovo.     “The Papacy will not have Albanian Catholics under the rule of an Orthodox government.” It is in that very country that apparitions of Mary have become famous.

So, I will agree with this figurative interpretation of America as the “image” (likeness) of the “beast,” as the text reveals that America will use its legal system “to enforce the decrees and sustain the institutions of the church” [theProtestant and Catholic churches]. By their support of this use of force, the Protestant Daughter churches of Great Babylon are the very image (likeness) of their mother, and are harlots like her!

But the idea of likeness does not obviously fulfill the requirements of the prophecy of Rev. 13:14, 15 and Rev. 14:9, as an idol does.

Let’s go a little deeper. What was the great failure of the Jews as the people of God, so often in their history? It was worship of the “idols,” the “images,” the “gods” of the heathen around them.                 Such worship breaks both the First and Second Commandments of God. Who caused them to fall into such false worship so often?                                        Was it not their government, their king?
If America serves “the king” (Dan.11 v.36) by causing them that dwell on the earth “to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed,” the American government may also cause the people of the earth to make an image of Mary and bow down and pray to and worship it, contrary to the Commandments of God! For both such forms of false worship, God warns the people of the earth that they “shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out, without mixture, into the cup of His indignation!” (Rev.14:10.)   The Creator God alone is worthy of the worship of the inhabitants of earth. “Worship Him that made (Created) heaven and earth” (Rev.14:7) – even more so, because He is our Saviour!

I contend that the obvious meaning of image worship in both Rev.13 and 14 refers to actual idols, of which there are plenty in homes throughout the world! Failure to see this will prevent being prepared for what is coming, in Rev. 13:14,15 and according to p. 639 of the Vatican book, The Keys of this Blood. There, an apparition of Mary, [it will be seen everywhere on earth, according to that page] as the woman of Revelation 12:1, will convince the whole world that she is a goddess, and, because she is his “image,” that he is the “vicar of the Son of God” as he claims to be! He is going to claim the leadership of the New World Order [and, the New World Universal Church, with all religions of every kind subject to his rule!!].    

Through the apparitions of Mary, that are still proliferating in the world today, these “unclean spirits” (Rev.16:13) have already come out of the mouth of the dragon – Satan, and out of the mouth of the “beast,” – the Papacy, and, very soon now, will come out of the mouth of the “false prophet” (Protestant America). Mary’s apparitions “will go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” Marian apparitions always enjoin the people to say the Rosary, and pray to her very much, because Judgment from Jesus is coming. “Holy Mary,” they pray to her idol, “pray for us” – the Rosary. Mary is not a god! She is not the Intercessor – the Mediatrix between man and God, as they claim.
Jesus is the Mediator- our Great High Priest in heaven! (I Timothy 2:5).

Beware the image of the beast! America will become the likeness of the beast, in her image – a persecutor. But what about the rest of the peoples who “dwell on the earth?” They too will develop this “likeness” to the beast. Therefore, I submit that the “image of the beast,” for Rev. 13:14, 15, and Rev. 14:9 is the Idol of the goddess Mary,      Watch Out!

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