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To Understand Where the Papacy Is Leading, Look at Her Past History The Bow to Paganism THE detector of error having been removed, Satan worked according to his will. Prophecy had declared that the Papacy was to "think to change times and laws." Daniel 7:25. This work it was not slow to attempt. To afford converts from heathenism a substitute for the worship of idols, and thus to promote their nominal acceptance of Christianity, the adoration of images and relics was gradually introduced into the Christian worship. The decree of a general council finally established this system of idolatry. To complete the sacrilegious work, Rome presumed to expunge from the law of God the second commandment, forbidding image worship, and to divide the tenth commandment, in order to preserve the number. Compromise Continues
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spirit of concession to paganism opened the way for a still further disregard of
Heaven’s authority. Satan, working through unconsecrated leaders of the
church, tampered with the fourth commandment also, and essayed to set aside the
ancient Sabbath, the day which God had blessed and sanctified (Genesis 2:2–3),
and in its stead to exalt the festival observed by the heathen as "the
venerable day of the sun." This change was not at first attempted openly.
In the first centuries the true Sabbath had been kept by all Christians. They
were jealous for the honor of God, and, believing that His law is immutable,
they zealously guarded the sacredness of its precepts. But with great subtlety
Satan worked through his agents to bring about his object. That the attention of
the people might be called to the Sunday, it was made a festival in honor of the
resurrection of Christ. Religious services were held upon it; yet it was
regarded as a day of recreation, the Sabbath being still sacredly observed. To
prepare the way for the work which he designed to accomplish, Satan had led the
Jews, before the advent of Christ, to load down the Sabbath with the most
rigorous exactions, making its observance a burden. Now, taking advantage of the
false light in which he had thus caused it to be regarded, he cast contempt upon
it as a Jewish institution. While Christians generally continued to observe the
Sunday as a joyous festival, he led them, in order to show their hatred of
Judaism, to make the Sabbath a fast, a day of sadness and gloom.