Part 2 -PROPHETIC, PROGRESSIVE EVENTS

By Ron Foutz

Part 1 - Faith of Jesus, End Time Prophecies, Progressive Events

Jesus not coming today or tomorrow or next week - certain events must first take place.

THE IMAGE, THE LAW 

- confusion over the mark and its enforcement
- confusion over the mark and its image

IMAGE OF THE BEAST
(Protestant United States)

   Dan. 3:1  - setting up of the image ~~~~ Union of Church and State
   Dan  3:4-6 - decree concerning the image ~~~~ Sunday Law
   Dan  3:7 - enforcement of the decree ~~~~ 

Letter 11, 1890
   "The Lord has shown me clearly 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." 

   Since it is the Sunday law, being the 'final test' that determines who receives the seal of God or the mark of the beast, which is also the closing of probation, this "image test" cannot be the "final test", because it is brought upon God's people [Seventh-Day Adventists] before probation closes. 
This must be a separate test. 
Yet to be prepared for this test, we need to go through another test to help us in this test. 
The test prior to the "image" test includes the total belief in the Testimonies, the Spirit of Prophecy. 
For a person to receive the seal of God, they must pass this test first.

3SM 84, 1903
   "One thing is certain: Those Seventh-day Adventists who take their stand under Satan's banner will first [compromise] give up their faith in the warnings and reproofs contained in the Testimonies of God's Spirit."

4T 211
   "It is Satan's plan to weaken the faith of God's people in the Testimonies [first step] . Next follows skepticism in regard to the vital points of our faith, the pillars of our position, then doubt as to the Holy Scriptures, and then the downward march to perdition. When the Testimonies, which were once believed, are doubted and given up, Satan knows the deceived ones will not stop at this; and he redoubles his efforts till he launches them into open rebellion, which becomes incurable and ends in destruction."

   The test of the image is based on the test of believing in what the Testimonies reveal. 
When the Testimonies point to a fulfillment of a certain prophecy, will we recognize it and believe it? 
Will we come to a fuller understanding of the shortness of time, as pointed out by this signpost?
							
Will this help lead the church, as individual parts of the body and the body as a whole, into a revival and reformation that we are in the greatest and most urgent need of? 
This is why we, in these last days, are given strong counsel to study the prophecies of the books of Daniel and the Revelation, and warn our brethren. 
	             See Great Controversy,  pp. 341, 371, 573-574; 5Testimonies, "The Impending Conflict", 
                                                                                             "The American Sentinel and Its Mission", "The Seal of God". 
	
	It is only through an understanding and belief of the shortness of time that we will gain an urgency to do the work God assigned to us as His remnant church. See 2Peter 3:2-12. 
And it is through an in-depth study of these last prophecies that we can come to this understanding (see Matthew 24:15), thus a revival and reformation should follow. 
Keep in mind the church found in Rev. 3:14-22.
   Since the enforcement of the papal sabbath is progressive, beginning in the United States as the National Sunday Law,  then moving through out the world, so is the making of the image of the beast. 
We will see the making of the worldwide image under the heading "Universal Image". 
This National Image is the leading churches (Protestant) in the United States uniting with the U.S. Government. 
Church and state.                                                                                                                                                                               

   This is an image, a power that reflects the power of the first beast which was a unity of papal Rome and the secular governments.
 A religio-political power.       Deadly wound  Feb.10, 1798  did not stop being a church
Church and state. 
The national image of the beast is a reflection of Rome past, not Rome present, prophesied to be Rome future.

5Testimonies, p.452
   "While men are sleeping, Satan is actively arranging matters so that the Lord's people may not have mercy and justice. The Sunday movement is now making its way in darkness."

Rev. 13:11

Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
Jan. 1, 1889
   "Prophecy represents Protestantism as having lamb-like horns, but speaking like a dragon. Already we are beginning to hear the voice of the dragon. There is a satanic force propelling the Sunday movement, but is concealed."

**  Since it was the Dragon, that is, Satan, which gave the first beast it's power (Rev. 13:2,4), Satan is also behind this "image". 
** And it is the papacy that bids the will of Satan, moving behind the scenes to influence the making of the "image".
                                                                                  
Great Controversy p.606
   "The fearful results of enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the inroads of spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power-all will be unmasked."                                                                                                                                 
Great Controversy, p.581
   "God's word has given warning of the impending danger; let this be unheeded, and the Protestant world will learn what the purposes of Rome really are, only when it is too late to escape the snare. She is silently growing into power. Her doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative halls, in the churches, and in the hearts of men. She is piling up her lofty and massive structures in the secret recesses of which her former persecutions will be repeated. Stealthily and unsuspectedly she is strengthening her forces to further her own ends when the time shall come for her to strike."

Great Controversy p.445
   "The 'image to the beast' represents that form of apostate Protestantism which will be developed when Protestant churches shall seek the aid of the civil power for the enforcement of their dogmas." 

 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 Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result."

   In the following statement,  "national apostasy" is identified as the "National Sunday Law" 

Review and Herald
May 2, 1893
   "The people of the United States have been a favored people, but when they restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give countenance to popery, the measure of their guilt will be full, and 'national apostasy' will be registered in the books of heaven."

When - Then verses and quotes.

Signs of the Times
March 22, 1910
   "When the Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution; when the state shall use its power to enforce the decrees [passing of legislation] and sustain the institutions of the church [signpost] - then will Protestant America have formed [completed] an image to the papacy [Rome past, church and state union], and there will be [future] a national apostasy [National Sunday Law], which will end only in national ruin [close of probation]."

   The image is completed before it becomes enforced law. 
When we see legislation being passed to sustain the institutions of the leading churches in the U.S., which is given as a signpost for us, the image of the beast has been made. 

School vouchers???????

The next event in prophecy is the N.S.L. decree being signed, which does not become the "mark" until it goes into effect at a future date. 
	Yet, before any of this can be accomplished, the First Amendment must be dealt with. 

Do we see any movement in the government pushing for the wall between church and state to be torn down?
Do we see any actions by the White House to work around the First Amendment? 
Can we see any legislation in Congress supporting the viewpoints of Rome?

Rev.13:11

The   First   Amendment
of  the Bill of Rights
	"Congress  shall  make  no  law  respecting an  establishment  of  religion,  or  prohibiting  the free  exercise  thereof;  or  abridging  the freedom  of  speech,  or  of  the  press;  or  the right  of  the  people  peaceably  to  assemble, and  to  petition  the  Government  for  a  redress of grievances."

Thomas  Jefferson,  
Writings, Library of America, p510.
      "Believing  with  you  that  religion  is  a matter  which  lies  solely  between  man  and  his God,  that  he  owes  account  to  none  other  for his  faith  or  his  worship,  that  legislative powers  of  government  reach  actions  only, and  not  opinions,  I  contemplate  with sovereign  reverence  that  act  of  the  whole American  people  which  declare  that  their legislature  should  make  'no  law  respecting  an establishment  of  religion,  or  prohibiting  the free  exercise  thereof,'  thus  building  a  wall  of separation between church and state."

James Madison,
Letter to Robert Welsh, Mar. 2,1819
	“The civil Government, though bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success, whilst the number, the industry, and  morality of the priesthood, and devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.”

Judiciary Branch

Great Controversy, p. 564, 565
	" 'A well-known writer speaks thus of the attitude of the papal hierarchy as regards freedom of conscience, and of the perils which especially threaten the United States from the success of her policy:
	" 'There are many who are disposed to attribute any fear of Roman Catholicism in the United States to bigotry or childishness. Such see nothing in the character and attitude of Romanism that is hostile to our free institutions, or find nothing portentous in its growth. Let us, then, first compare some of the fundamental principles of our government with those of the Catholic Church.
	" 'The Constitution of the United States guarantees liberty of conscience. Nothing is dearer or more fundamental. Pope Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: "The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error--a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state." The same pope, in his Encyclical Letter of December 8, 1864, anathematized "those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship," also "all such as maintain that the church may not employ force."
	" 'The pacific tone of Rome in the United States does not imply a change of heart. She is tolerant where she is helpless. Says Bishop O'Connor: "Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world.". . . The archbishop of St. Louis once said: "Heresy and unbelief are crimes; and in Christian countries, as in Italy and Spain, for instance, where all the people are Catholics, and where the Catholic religion is an essential part of the law of the land, they are punished as other crimes.". . .
	" 'Every cardinal, archbishop, and bishop in the Catholic Church takes an oath of allegiance to the pope, in which occur the following words: "Heretics, schismatics, and rebels to our said lord (the pope), or his aforesaid successors, I will to my utmost persecute and oppose." '--Josiah Strong, Our Country, ch. 5, pars. 2-4."

Supreme  Court  Chief  
Justice  William Rehnquist
	"The  'wall  of  separation  between church  and  state'  is  a  metaphor  based  on bad  history,  a  metaphor  which  has proved  useless  as  a  guide  to  judging.  It should   be   frankly   and   explicitly abandoned."                                                        

St. Louis Dispatch, 10-29-91
	"As  the  second  century  of  the  Bill  of Rights  draws  to  a  close,  the  Supreme Court  is  redefining  what  religious  liberty will  mean  in  the  third  century.  Broadly, the   court's   new   approach   helps
conventional  religions,  while  hurting unconventional ones."

Legislative Branch

Washington Post
4-12-00
	"The Republican Nation Committee's [RNC] decision to host a Mass and reception for the new House chaplain yesterday sparked conflict yet again, prompting Democrats to accuse Republicans of politicizing the already sensitive religious post....
	"RNC officials decided to honor [Rev. Daniel P.] Coughlin, a conservative [Catholic] priest from Chicago, with a Mass and reception at St. Peter's Church on Capitol Hill last night. The RNC, which launched a Catholic task force last September, has intensified its outreach to Catholics since the disputes over the House chaplain choice and GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush's visit to Bob Jones University, a South Carolina school known for its anti-Catholic teachings....
	" 'We're communicating the way we've been voting for the past five years,' [RNC spokesman] Paulitz said. 'Since we took the majority in 1995, we've had a 100 percent Catholic voting record and (Democrats) have been on the wrong side of the issue'....
	" 'It's become more and more obvious they are admitting they made a mistake [by not originally supporting a Catholic priest] and they're [the Republicans] overreaching, doing Catholic resolutions and Catholic Masses and Catholic legislation almost on a daily bases,' [Rep. Timothy J.] Roemer [D-Ind] said....
	" 'Its a very appropriate, traditional Catholic thing to do,' said [Thomas P.] Melady, who served as ambassador to the Vatican."

Executive Branch

Washington Post
12-24-01, p. A-2
	"Pat Robertson's resignation this month as president of the Christian Coalition confirmed the ascendance of a new leader of the religious right in America: George W. Bush....
	"For the first time since religious conservatives became a modern political movement, the president of the United States has become the movement's de facto leader- a status even Ronald Reagan, though admired by religious conservatives, never earned.....
	"....Religious conservatives have regarded Bush as of their own since the presidential campaign, when he spoke during a debate of the guidance of Jesus. At the same time, key figures in the religious right- Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Billy Graham and Franklin Graham-- have receded in political  prominence or influence, in part because they are no longer mobilized by their opposition to a president....
	" 'I think Robertson stepped down because the position has already been filled,' said Gary Baurer.... Bush 'is the leader right now. There was already a great deal of identification with the president before 9-11 in the world of the Christian right, and the nature of this war is such that a man of god is in the White House'....
	"Ralph Reed, who once led the Christian Coalition and now is chairman of the Georgia GOP [also was President Bush's campaign adviser during the presidential campaign], notes that the religious conservative movement 'no longer plays the institutional role it once did,' in part because it succeeded in electing Bush and other friendly leaders. 'You're no longer throwing rocks at the building; you're in the building.'
	"Conservative Christians tend to view Bush's recent success as part of a divine plan. 'I've heard a lot of "God knew something we didn't",' Reed said. 'In the evangelical mind, the notion of an omniscient God is central to their theology. He had a knowledge nobody else had: He knew George Bush had the ability to lead in this compelling way'.
	"Still, some of those around Bush say they have a sense that a higher purpose is involved. 'I think President Bush is God's man at this hour, and I say this with a great sense of humility,' Bush aide Tim Goeglein, described as a 'strong evangelical,' told World magazine, a Christian publication."

Washington  Post,
 4-16-01, p. A-2
      "Since  taking  over  the  White  House, President  Bush  and  top  advisers  have  been assiduously  cultivating  Catholic  voters  in  an attempt  to  realign  a  once-Democratic constituency  in  much  the  same  way  that  the Republican  Party  in  the  1970s  and  1980s  won over southern evangelical Protestants....
      "Bush....has  met  privately  with  at  least three  high  Catholic  Church  officials  and  has adopted  Catholic  themes  in  speeches;  his staff  has  instituted  a  weekly  conference  call with  an  informal  group  of  Catholic  advisers; and  the  Republican  National  Committee  is setting up a Catholic Task Force....
      "The  effort  to  recruit  Catholic  voters  has led  to  a  striking  change  in  the  political climate  in  Washington.  George  [Princeton University  political  scientist  Robert  George,  a member  of  the  informal  Catholic  advisers] noted  in  an  interview  last  week  that  'in  1960, John  Kennedy  went  from  Washington  down to  Texas  to  assure  Protestant  preachers  that he  would  not  obey  the  pope.  In  2001,  George Bush  came  from  Texas  up  to  Washington  to assure  a  group  of  Catholic  bishops  that  he would.' 

Remarks by President Bush at the dedication of the 
Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, in part.
Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
3-22-01
	"To those with power, the Pope carries a message of justice and human rights. And that has caused dictators to fear and to fall. His is not the power of armies or technology or wealth. It is the unexpected power of a baby in a stable, of a man on a cross, of a simple fisherman who carried a message of hope to Rome....
	"....And we, in our country, must not ignore the words the Pope addresses to us. On his four pilgrimages to America, he has spoken with wisdom and feeling about our strengths and our flaws, our successes and our needs....
	"I'm grateful that Pope John Paul II chose Washington as the site of this center. It brings honor and it fills a need. We are thankful for the message. We are also thankful for the messenger, for his personal warmth and prophetic strength; for his good humor and his bracing honesty; for his spiritual and intellectual gifts; for his moral courage, tested against tyranny and against our own complacency.
	"Always, the Pope points us to the things that last and the love that saves. We thank God for this rare man, a servant of God and a hero of history. And I thank all of you for building this center of conscience and reflection in our Nation' Capital."
	
Pope John Paul II remarks
concerning the Cultural Center,
Review Tribune, 3-23-01
	"We will come to view this as our little Vatican in the United States. The church has never done anything like this and we see it as a reflection of our faith."

Washington Monument

Washington Post,
2-6-02, p. B-3
	"[Speaking of the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center] The soaring limestone-and-glass museum, located on 12 acres across from Catholic University, is dedicated to spreading church teachings through a combination of sacred artifacts and interactive technology."

Washington  Post,
 1-30-01, p. A-1
      "President  Bush,  giving  teeth  to  his father's  decade-old  'Thousand  Points  of  Light' initiative,  launched  a  broad  governmental effort  yesterday  to  invigorate  religious charities  and  other  nonprofit  organizations  in the battle against the nation's social problems.
      "In  the  first  step  of  what  could  be  an unprecedented   collaboration   between government  and  non-profits,  the  president created  offices  in  five  cabinet  agencies  and the  White  House  with  a  charge  to  ease regulations and  boost  government  funding  of charities, many of them with religious ties."                                                                                                  

Washington Post, 
1-30-01, p. A-16
      "The  president  signed  two  executive orders,  one  to  set  up  a  White  House  office  to promote   social   work   by   religious organizations,  the  other  to  instruct  federal agencies  to  play  their  part  in  cooperating  with faith groups....
      "Assuming  faith-based  social  work  is indeed  effective,  Mr.  Bush  still  needs  to  tread carefully  around  the  constitutional  separation between  church  and  state.  There  is  no  clear line here....
      "In  a  sign  that  he  does  not  want  his initiative  to  be  seen  as  a  sop to  the  Protestant religious  right  within  his  party,  yesterday's signing   ceremony   was   attended   by nonreligious  as  well  as  religious  charities,  by Catholic,  Jewish  and  Muslim  groups  as  well as  Protestant  ones.  The  two  officials  Mr. Bush  has  appointed  to  lead  his  initiative,  John DiIulio,  and  Stephen  Goldsmith,  are  Catholic and Jewish respectively."                                                                                   

Washington  Post, 
2-27-01, p. A-4
      "Bush....declared:  'When  we  see  social needs  in  America,  my  administration  will look  first  to  faith-based  programs  and community  groups,  which  have  proven  their power to save and change lives.'
      "....the  Bush  initiative  requires  five federal  departments-  Justice,  Education, Labor,  Health  and  Human  Services,  and Housing  and  Urban  Development-  to  set  up 'Centers  for  Faith-Based  and  Community Initiatives.'
      "The  purpose  of  each  of  these  centers, according  to  Bush's  order,  'will  be  to coordinate  department  efforts  to  eliminate regulatory,    contracting,    and    other programmatic  obstacles  to  the  participation of   faith-based   and   other   community organizations  in  the  provision  of  social services.' "                                                                                        
    
 We need to ask the following questions: 
      1)  Could  this  possibly  mean  to eliminate Constitutional constraints? 
      2)  And if so, how  would  they  get  around  these Constitution constraints?

Washington  Post, 
1-30-01, p. A-8
      "Goldsmith  also  plans  to  create  an advisory  board  [made up of Catholics] for  the  new  White  House office  and  a  separate  entity  that  would  solicit private  funds  to  support  religious  efforts  that the  government  cannot  fund  because  of constitutional issues."
	
	Again, does the papacy have the power to influence the passing of legislation, or the power for the legislation that grants religious freedom in this country to be ignored, by entering into God's church?  No. The influence must be in the very institutions that has the authority and ability to pass legislation.           

Washington Post, 
1-8-01, p. A-19
	 "When  the  phone  call  came  from Austin,  I  was  surprised.  Just  two  days after   his   election   was   assured, President-elect  Bush  wanted  a  meeting with  religious  leaders  to  discuss  faith- based  initiatives  in  solving  poverty.  He was  reaching  well  beyond  his  base  of conservative  evangelicals;  would  I   [Jim Wallis,   editor   of   Sojourners magazine  and  the  convener  of  Call  to Renewal,  a  national  federation  of churches  and  faith-based organizations] come and   suggest others who should be invited?  "He  asked  us  how  to  speak  to  the nation's soul....
	"I  noted  that  churches  across  a  broad spectrum  are  finding  remarkable  unity on   these   issues   [hunger   and homelessness  in  U.S.  cities being the topic],  and maybe  it  was  time  to  try  it  on  a  political level.  Evangelical  and  liberal,  Catholic and  Protestant,  black  and  white  church leaders   have   been   motivated   by prosperity's  contradictions  and  united  by the  biblical  imperatives  of  compassion and justice....
	"Bush  asked  theological  questions such  as,  'What  is  justice?'....We  [the religious  leaders]  told  him  that  in forging  new  partnerships  to  reduce poverty,  the  religious  community  will not  only  be  service  providers  but prophetic  interrogators."  
                                                                    
	They  said  "forging  new  partnerships".  This new  partnership  is  exactly  that.  New.  At  least in this  country.  This  is  a  partnership  between church  and  state. What power is advising the White House? Never  has  this  partnership existed  in  the  United  States.  The  title  of  this Post  article  is  "A  Church-State  Priority". We need to ask ourselves, "prophetic interrogators" for what purpose? 

Matt. 10:16-20
John 16:1-4

NATIONAL SUNDAY LAW

Revelation 13:11-12
   "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
   "And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth [prophetically the United States, as identified in the previous verse] and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."

Evangelism, p. 234
"The mark of the beast is the papal sabbath."

Great Controversy p.606
   "The fearful results of enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority [image of the beast], the inroads of spiritualism [Mariology], the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal [apostate doctrines] power-all will be unmasked."

   When Protestant America (after unity of church and state), which represents the image to the beast, unites with spiritualism and Rome, the result is the enforcement of the mark of the beast.

5T 451
   "When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions...."

Washington D.C., 1-30-01
Zenit.org
	"President George W. Bush will meet Wednesday with a group of 30 Catholic leaders at the White House to discuss the importance of faith-based social services in his legislative agenda [LAW]....
	" [Deal W. Hudson, publisher and editor of Crisis magazine commenting] 'The president and his advisers knew very well that for their faith-based program to work it must establish a full partnership with existing Catholic social service providers. This meeting is the beginning of that partnership.' "

	Who is coming together in a "full partnership"?
   The image of the beast is the coming together of church and state. 
The mark of the beast is what the image forces. 
When the beast speaks as a dragon, when the power of the image is revealed, which is at the time the N.S.L. goes into effect, forcing through civil legislation the dictates of the conscience, it is Rome's dogma that is forced. 
Thus the image of the beast progresses into the mark of the beast.

F. Thomas, Chancellor
of Cardinal Gibbons
	"Of course the Catholic Church claims the change was her act....And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things."	

   There are many Sunday laws in the world today. 
Satan wants to camouflage the one that is spoken of in prophecy, therefore we need to have a clear understanding of the elements contained in the Sunday law which is prophesied so we will recognize it. 

Review and Herald
Dec. 18, 1888
   "A time is coming when the law of God is, in a special sense, to be made void in our land. The rulers of our nation will, by legislation enactments, enforce the Sunday law, and God's people be  brought into great peril. When our nation, in its legislative councils, shall enact laws to bind the conscience of men in regard to their religious privileges, 
[1] enforcing Sunday observance, and 
[2] bringing oppressive power to bear against those who keep the seventh-day Sabbath, the law of God will, to all intents and purposes, be made void in our land; and national apostasy will be followed by national ruin." 

   The Sunday law that will fulfill prophecy will:
                              1.  Enforce Sunday observance. 
                              2.  Persecute those who keep the seventh-day Sabbath.

   It is through the connection of common points of doctrine, such as celebrating the Eucharist (the participation of receiving Mass, especially in the U.S. Congress, which has already been revealed), celebrating the resurrection through Sunday worship, that this Protestant country will join with Rome. 
Yet they will and are ignoring the more detailed points of these doctrines, as we see in the ecumenical movements happening today.
   It is through spiritualism that will also unite the Protestant world with Rome, but more importantly, spiritualism will unite those in the world that have in the past rejected Jesus as the Messiah. 
And it is Rome that represents spiritualism. 

Great Controversy, p.588
   "The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience."

2Cor. 11:13-15
Rev. 16:13,14

When, Then

5T 451
   "When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near."

   It is through Rome that Satan has instilled the worship of Mary. 
For many years, there have been apparitions of Mary. 
These visions have been given to a selected people, encouraging Catholicism to accept spiritualism, preparing for the great deception of Satan, his crowning act, when he appears as Jesus to deceive the rest of the world. 
It is after the N.S.L. goes into effect, but before the law of God is fully made void through the universal image, as we will see, that Satan will 
"doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on earth in the sight of men. 
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast." 

 It is after these wonders that Satan says "to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." Revelation 13:13,14.  
Satan tells the whole world that they, just as the United States has done, should unite and give total support to the Roman power.

Testimonies to Ministers, p. 62
   "In this age antichrist will appear as the true Christ, and then the law of God will be fully made void in the nations of our world. Rebellion against God's holy law will be fully ripe. But the true leader of all this rebellion is Satan clothed as an angel of light. Men will be deceived and will exalt him to the place of God, and deify him."

Great Controversy, p.588-589
   "The line of distinction between professed Christians and the ungodly is now hardly distinguishable. Church members love what the world loves and are ready to join with  them, and Satan determines to unite them in one body and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of spiritualism. Papist, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power, and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium." 

   Common points unite Protestants with Rome.
   Spiritualism unites everyone else with Rome.
   Rome is the common denominator.

Part 3 - Universal Image, Spiritualism