🇺🇸📖 CONGRESS ONCE ENDORSED A BIBLE — PROPHECY SAYS ONE DAY IT WILL ENFORCE WORSHIP Most Americans have never heard this. In 1782, the Continental Congress reviewed and formally recommended a specific Bible — the Aitken Bible, the first English Bible printed in America. Here’s what Congress said about it: “Highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking… and recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States, and hereby authorize him to publish this recommendation.” — United States in Congress Assembled, Sept. 12, 1782 Congress didn’t create Scripture — praise God — but they put the power of the state behind one Bible edition, even authorizing its public promotion. Not forced religion. Not persecution. But a civil endorsement of sacred things. A seed. 🌱 Because Bible prophecy teaches that civil authority taking a hand in religion — no matter how noble it seems — always grows into something darker. Revelation 13 tells us America begins like a lamb 🐑 (freedom, gentleness) but eventually speaks like a dragon 🐉 (coercion, persecution). What starts as commendation will end in compulsion. 👁‍🗨 Today you can already feel the shift: • Calls for the nation to “return to God” by law • Movements pushing legislated morality • Patriotism merging with faith symbols • Hostility toward those who keep God’s Sabbath • Leaders saying America must have one moral voice History gave us the seed in 1782. Prophecy reveals the harvest soon to ripen. The danger isn’t when a nation appreciates Scripture — it’s when it assumes authority over conscience and defines worship by law. 📜 The Bible remains above Congress, above kings, above courts. Our loyalty belongs to Christ and His law — not to human legislation of religion. Soon, the final test will break upon the world. Will we obey God or man? (Acts 5:29) This is not fear — it is preparation. Not panic — but prophetic clarity. Not conspiracy — but Scripture and history harmonizing. Hold to Christ. Stand on the Word. Honor His Sabbath. Love the truth. Be faithful until the end. 🙏 “Every word of God is pure.” — Proverbs 30:5 (KJV) The Lamb is still speaking. Let us follow Him — not the dragon-voice rising around us. ⸻ ⚠️ FOOTNOTES — VERIFIED SOP QUOTES “The union of the church with the state, be the degree ever so slight… does in reality but bring the church nearer to the world.” — Great Controversy, p. 297.1 “When the state shall use its power to enforce the decrees and sustain the institutions of the church—then will Protestant America have formed an image to the papacy.” — Signs of the Times, Nov. 8, 1899 “National apostasy will be followed by national ruin.” — Review and Herald, June 15, 1897 “In order for the United States to form an image of the beast, the religious power must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will be employed to enforce the church’s decrees.” — Great Controversy, p. 443.2 This is where history and prophecy meet. This is where the Bible warned we would go. We are watching it unfold. 🔥 ⸻ 🕊️ #BibleProphecy #Revelation13 #ThreeAngelsMessage #GreatControversy #SDA #HistoricAdventism #EndTimeTruth #ReligiousLiberty #ChurchAndState #AitkenBible #AmericaInProphecy #NationalApostasy #NationalRuin #MarkOfTheBeast #SabbathTruth #LastWarning #JesusIsComing #HoldTheLine