Is the SDA Trademark an Image to the Beast?

by: Max W Holleyman Jr

IS THE SDA TRADEMARK AN IMAGE TO THE BEAST?

...THE FORMATION OF THE BEAST:

316 - the Bishops of Gaul, in league with the Bishop of Rome (soon to become the Pope and already referred to as Antichrist by the Donatists of Carthage in Africa), get Constantine to declare their brand of Christianity the only legitimate one and gain exclusive use of the names Catholic and Christian (in effect trademarking the names) in order to protect their church from the heretics.

This is the first of the three gifts to be given by the Dragon in Rev. 13:2 - power of the state for use in carrying out the church's purposes; along with the Council of Nicaea, 325, which established the cornerstone doctrine of the Papacy and the first church Sunday law passed at the Council of Laodicea, 364, establishing the sign of authority, we have the gestation and birth of the Papal Pagan System. The gifts of throne and authority would finally be bestowed in 538 by Justinian, when the Pope was ceded the western half of the empire, and in effect became Pontifex Maximus.


...WHAT THE PIONEERS TAUGHT: Int'l Sabbath School Lesson, 1st Quarter, 1896:

"It has ever been true that a backslidden body - one that has turned from God's word to men, from God's power to the state - was never reformed in itself. ... His last 'called out' people will know no standard but His word, no power but His Spirit." "What is an image to the beast?""A union of church and state, by which the church will use the state to accomplish its own objects."


...WHAT ELLEN HAS TO SAY:

1888 - the spirit of Minneapolis-

1888 Materials, pp.356,357 (MR1216 5,6) "I was confirmed in all I had stated in Minneapolis, that a reformation must go through the churches. Reforms must be made, for spiritual weakness and blindness were upon the people who had been blessed with real light and precious opportunities and privileges. As reformers they had come out of the denominational churches, but NOW THEY ACT A PART SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH THE CHURCHES ACTED. We hoped that there would not be the necessity for ANOTHER COMING OUT. ..."

Lawsuits:

3Selected Messages, pp299-303 - Seventh-day Adventists and Lawsuits:

"When troubles arise in the church we should not go for help to lawyers not of our faith. ... Those who trust in such counselors show that they have not faith in God. ...

"... They show that they have chosen the world as their judge, and in heaven their names are registered as on the unbelievers. Christ is crucified afresh and put to open shame. Let these men know that God does not hear their prayers. ...

"God will deal with the unworthy church member who defrauds his brother or the cause of God; the Christian need not contend for his rights. ...

"To lean upon the arm of the law is a disgrace to Christians; yet this evil has been brought in a cherished among the Lord's chosen people. ..."

the name Seventh-day Adventist:

1T 223,4 - is a standing rebuke to Protestants and carries the true features of our faith out in front.

2SM 384-6 - is distinctive; given by God; we are never to be ashamed of it; we are to be signified by it and not to lower it for any reason.

CW 96 - not to be dropped from our publications or to be compromised.


...WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAYS:

1Cor.6:1-11 Do any of you, having a matter with another, dare to take a brother before the courts of the unjust, and not before the saints. ...But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers. Therefore, there is utterly a fault among you because you go to law with one another. ... You do wrong, defrauding your brethren. ... Paul's admonition prohibits church matters or matters between brothers of the church being taken to the law before the courts of the land.


...WHAT THE TWO-HORNED BEAST SAYS:

US Constitution, Amendment 1:

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ..."


...WHAT THE GEN. CONF. HAS DONE:

In 1981 the General Conference Corporation, acting as head of and on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church applied for trademark protection with the Federal Government.

Trade Mark Official Gazette, August 18, 1981, pg. 318: under SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Class 42 - Misc.Svcs. "...Conducting Religious Observances..."

...CAUSE AND EFFECT:

The effect of this action is to bypass the Constitution and use business law to: 1) Effectively establish the GC Corp SDA Church under federal protection; and 2) restrict the liberty of others to call themselves what they will and worship in the manner they wish, prohibiting free exercise.

The SDA GC Corp. has caused the US Government to raise up, in exact duplicate of the original action by the Whore, an Image of/to the Beast; the Corp. and leaders are fulfilling the role of the False Prophet.