Is Sunday The Lord's Day or The Mark of the Beast?

The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done.
- Great Controversy, p. 565

The late Catholic author Malachi Martin, an expert on the Catholic Church, former Jesuit and Professor at the Vatican Pontifical Biblical Institute, said: “John Paul II insists that men have no reliable hope of creating a viable Geopolitical system unless it is on the basis of Roman Catholic Christianity.
- Malachi Martin, Keys of this Blood, p. 492

“No! Keep the first day of the week, and Lo, the whole entire civilised world bows in reverent obedience to the command of the whole Catholic Church . . . it is the Mark of her authority to over-rule GOD’s Law.”
- Father Enright (History of the Sabbath, p. 802)

“And they worshipped the Dragon (Devil - Revelation 12:9) which gave power unto the beast (Roman Catholicism): and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And all the world wondered after the beast. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb (Jesus) slain from the foundation of the world.”
- Revelation 13:3, 4, 8

Question: have you any other way of proving that the (Catholic) church has POWER?

Answer: “… had she not such power, she could not have done that 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.”
- Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism, p. 176

SO THEY SAY ... “Sunday is our MARK of authority ... the church is above the Bible and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.”
- Catholic Record, Ontario, Sept. 1/1921

“And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his MARK in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of GOD ...”
- Revelation 14:9-10

To receive the mark in the forehead simply means that an individual believes in Sunday as a day of rest and worship and accepts it mentally as such. The forehead is a symbol of our intelligence, and our ability to make decisions, as a basis for religious beliefs. Those who receive it in the hand will not necessary accept Sunday as a day of rest and worship, but they will violate the Sabbath and go along with Sunday for convenience sake. They will be afraid of the economic reprisals, and so in order to continue to keep their jobs, and keep on buying and selling, they will accept the mark even though they do not believe in Religion.

So the Mark of the Beast is Sunday ... So what did they do to make this their Mark.

“In the early part of the fourth century the emperor Constantine issued a decree making Sunday a public festival throughout the Roman Empire. The day of the sun was reverenced by his pagan subjects and was honored by Christians; it was the emperor’s policy to unite the conflicting interests of heathenism and Christianity. He was urged to do this by the bishops of the church, who, inspired by ambition and thirst for power, perceived that if the same day was observed by both Christians and heathen, it would promote the nominal acceptance of Christianity by pagans and thus advance the power and glory of the church. But while many God-fearing Christians were gradually led to regard Sunday as possessing a degree of sacredness, they still held the true Sabbath as the holy of the Lord and observed it in obedience to the fourth commandment. The archdeceiver had not completed his work. He was resolved to gather the Christian world under his banner and to exercise his power through his vicegerent, the proud pontiff who claimed to be the representative of Christ. Through half-converted pagans, ambitious prelates, and world-loving churchmen he accomplished his purpose. Vast councils were held from time to time, in which the dignitaries of the church were convened from all the world. In nearly every council the Sabbath which God had instituted was pressed down a little lower, while the Sunday was correspondingly exalted. Thus the pagan festival came finally to be honored as a divine institution, while the Bible Sabbath was pronounced a relic of Judaism, and its observers were declared to be accursed.

Protestants now urge that the resurrection of Christ on Sunday made it the Christian Sabbath. But Scripture evidence is lacking. No such honor was given to the day by Christ or His apostles. The observance of Sunday as a Christian institution had its origin in that mystery of lawlessness (Roman Catholicism).”
- Great Controversy, p. 53, 54

But GOD said … “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy Son, nor thy Daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8-11 … “And it shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD YOUR GOD.” Ezekiel 20:20

“Here is the patience of the Saints: here are they that keep the commandments of GOD, and the faith of Jesus.”
- Revelation 14:12