The 2-Minute Warning - 9

Escape to Paradise - 9
January 26, 2019
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The present is a time of overwhelming interest to all living. Rulers and statesmen, men who occupy positions of trust and authority, thinking men and women of all classes, have their attention fixed upon the events taking place about us. They are watching the strained, restless relations that exist among the nations. They observe the intensity that is taking possession of every earthly element, and they recognize that something great and decisive is about to take place—that the world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis. - Education p. 179.

All eyes are on America...

With the revelations of Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange -along with the willing surrender of our private lives to social media companies - Could it be that America could remove the freedoms of its own citizens?

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 - (called anyone a heretic who believed that) those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship,’ and also ‘all such as maintain that the church may not employ force.’ GC 564.5

“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.’

All eyes are on America...

In light of these long foretold events, the Bible describes a change that is coming - Daniel 12:1
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Protestant America, it’s courts, its legal system, the church, capitalism, its social fabric, the economy, the family unit, morality, - all are compromised.

What conditions could lead this very country and then the whole world to turn on its principles?

All eyes are on America

The United States currently has nearly 1000 military bases and/or military installations in 80 countries around the world. The rest of the countries of the world who have foreign military bases are 11 and the combined of all of those is 70. Any talk of China or Russia as a threat to the United States is laughable. This nation is the sole superpower on planet earth and the Bible says it will be that way until the very end. Either through the military industrial complex or the dollar industrial complex - America is calling the shots.

All eyes are on America

Trend Forecaster and American, Ellen White wrote “By the decree of enforcing the institution of the Papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. ... our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and Republican government, ... then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan, and that the end is near.”—Testimonies for the Church 5:451. ChS 160.4

With rapid steps we are approaching this period. When Protestant churches shall unite with the secular power to sustain a false religion, for opposing which their ancestors endured the fiercest persecution, then will the papal sabbath be enforced by the combined authority of church and state. There will be a national apostasy, which will end only in national ruin.—Manuscript 51, 1899. Ev 235

How could this happen?
As we sit here today, there is a fact, the majority of the people of God, the majority of this planet have not yet even heard this story...but something will soon occur where a change will take place.

Remember the conditions we talked about last week when Jesus told his disciples what life would be like just before He would return a second time.

Famine, Disease, Natural Disasters... Matthew 24

What about the promise that the gospel would go to the whole world?

Isaiah 26:9 -...When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

From the book commenting on this moment - The Great Controversy - “Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered or allowed to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children,...