The National Sunday law is very near ! According to the Bible, a national Sunday law will be enacted in the United States, enforcing Sunday worship (Revelation 13:12). During this time, apostate Protestantism will unite with civil authorities (Revelation 13:14) to persecute those who keep the Sabbath and reject Sunday observance, which the Bible identifies as the mark of the beast (Revelation 13:15-17). Many people have a wrong understanding of the mark of the beast, thinking it is a microchip, a vaccine, or the number 666 marked on the forehead. However, the Bible clearly states that the mark of the beast is the enforcement of Sunday observance by law (Revelation 13:11-17, Revelation 14:9-11). The sign, or seal, of God is revealed in the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath, the Lord’s memorial of creation.... The mark of the beast is the opposite of this—the observance of the first day of the week.—Testimonies for the Church 8:117 (1904). – {LDE 224.3} When the test comes, it will be clearly shown what the mark of the beast is. It is the keeping of Sunday.—The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 7:980 (1900). – {LDE 224.2} The Sunday movement is now making its way in darkness. The leaders are concealing the true issue, and many who unite in the movement do not themselves see whither the undercurrent is tending.... They are working in blindness. They do not see that if a Protestant government sacrifices the principles that have made them a free, independent nation, and through legislation brings into the Constitution principles that will propagate papal falsehood and papal delusion, they are plunging into the Roman horrors of the Dark Ages.—The Review and Herald Extra, December 11, 1888. – {LDE 125.3} There are many, even of those engaged in this movement for Sunday enforcement, who are blinded to the results which will follow this action. They do not see that they are striking directly against religious liberty. There are many who have never understood the claims of the Bible Sabbath and the false foundation upon which the Sunday institution rests.... – {LDE 126.1} Even now he (Satan) is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. {GC 589.3) It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced; and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity. Thus the accusation urged of old against the servant of God will be repeated and upon grounds equally well established [1 Kings 18:17,18]...As the wrath of the people shall be excited by false charges, they will pursue a course toward God's ambassadors very similar to that which anostate Israel pursued toward Elijah. {GC 590.1}