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COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n A reader sent me the following:<\/p>\n This is not a surprise.\u00a0 There are similar laws in Germany and other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n Sunday laws make it more difficult for people who keep the biblical Sabbath as we do not do normal shopping on Saturday.\u00a0 Sabbath-keeping groups like the Seventh-day Adventists<\/a> and the Continuing<\/em> Church of God<\/a> have expected more Sunday laws and also expect more direct persecution of Sabbath-keepers in the future.\u00a0 Commandment breaking is a\u00a0Mark of Antichrist<\/a> and a Mark of the Beast<\/a> and is part of Satan’s plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n For those who do not believe that this can happen, I would simply add that the Eastern Orthodox<\/a> have a prophecy that various Sabbath-keepers will be publicly executed and the time period is supposed to be when the “Great Monarch” rises up:<\/p>\n Blessed Hieronymus Agathaghelos (1279): <\/em>And lo, an evil assembly of the crafty leader, dressed in black mourning apparel\u2026those who were taking in a most hypocritical manner the most holy name of Christ\u2026those were the most filthy citizens of Pentapolis\u2026these are semi-godless men\u2026they will have to pay the price before the public executioner of the Sabbatians. (Tzima Otto, H.\u00a0 The Great Monarch and WWIII in Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Scriptural Prophecies. Verenika Press, Rock City (SC), 2000, pp. 134,135,240).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Furthermore, Roman Catholic writings also have negative comments about Sabbath keeping and warn that, despite the fact that Jesus kept it, that Sabbath keeping is a doctrine of Antichrist (see Do Certain Catholic Prophecies About Antichrist Warn Against Jesus?<\/a>).<\/p>\n The move in Hungary is only a small step towards getting people to more support Sunday and to further oppose the seventh-day Sabbath.<\/p>\n Some items of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n The Sabbath in the Early Church and Abroad<\/a> Was the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath observed by the apostolic and post-apostolic Church? Here is a related sermon video The Christian Sabbath and How and Why to Keep It<\/a>. COGwriter A reader sent me the following: March 9, 2015 Hungarians have taken advantage of the last opportunity to shop on Sundays before new regulations kick in greatly limiting opening hours for most stores.Starting March 15, stores can only open between 6am and 10pm and are banned from opening on Sundays.Exceptions include pharmacies, small shops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29569,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29566\/revisions\/29569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
March 9, 2015<\/span><\/div>\nHungarians have taken advantage of the last opportunity to shop on Sundays before new regulations kick in greatly limiting opening hours for most stores.Starting March 15, stores can only open between 6am and 10pm and are banned from opening on Sundays.Exceptions include pharmacies, small shops operated by their owners or family members, and stores located in hospitals, prisons, petrol stations, airports and bus and train stations.Spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said the government was trying to adapt local regulations to standards in some other European countries and that “Hungarians are going to get used to it very quickly”\u00a0 http:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/culture\/offbeat\/2015\/03\/09\/hungary-to-ban-shopping-on-most-sundays.html?cid=BP_RSS_sn-offbeat_2_hungary-to-ban-shopping-on-most-sundays_090315#sthash.stPfeiLm.dpuf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nChrist or Antichrist?<\/a> 1961 article by David Jon Hill, originally published in the old Good News magazine.
\nWill You Be Deceived by Antichrist?<\/a> 1964 article by David Jon Hill, originally published in the old Good News magazine.
\nSatan’s Plan<\/a> Does Satan have a plan? What is it? Has it already been successful? Will it be successful in the future? Here are links to a two-part sermon series: What are Some of the Parts of Satan’s Plan?<\/a> and Satan’s Plan is More Dramatic than Many Realize<\/a>.
\nThe Mark of Antichrist<\/a> What is the mark of Antichrist? What have various ones claimed? Here is a link to a related sermon What is the ‘Mark of Antichrist’?<\/a>
\nMark of the Beast<\/a> What is the mark of the Beast? Who is the Beast? What have various ones claimed the mark is? What is the ‘Mark of the Beast’?
\n<\/a>Persecutions by Church and State<\/a> This article documents some that have occurred against those associated with the COGs and some prophesied to occur. Will those with the cross be the persecutors or the persecuted–this article has the shocking answer. There is also a YouTube video sermon you can watch: The Coming Persecution of the Church<\/a>. Here is information in the Spanish language: Persecuciones de la Iglesia y el Estado<\/a>.
\nDo Certain Catholic Prophecies About Antichrist Warn Against Jesus?<\/a> Will the final “Anti-Christ” be Jewish, insist on Saturday, be opposed to the trinity, and bring in the millennium? Certain Catholic writings indicate this, while others take a different view, but what does the Bible show?
\nHow to Observe the Sabbath?<\/a> How should you keep the Sabbath? This is an old article by Raymond Cole, with updated information for the 21st century.
\nThe Dramatic Story of Chinese Sabbathkeepers <\/a>This reformatted Good News article from 1955 discusses Sabbath-keeping in China in the 1800s.
\nIs God Unreasonable?<\/a> Some have suggested that if God requires Sabbath-keeping He is unreasonable. Is that true? Here is a link to a related article in Mandarin Chinese \u4e00\u4e2a\u4e0d\u5408\u7406\u7684\u795e\uff1f<\/a>
\nIs There “An Annual Worship Calendar” In the Bible?<\/a> This paper provides a biblical and historical critique of several articles, including one by the Tkach WCG which states that this should be a local decision. What do the Holy Days mean? Also you can click here for the calendar of Holy Days<\/a>. (Here is a related link in Spanish\/espa\u00f1ol: Calendario Anual de Adoraci\u00f3n \u2013Una cr\u00edtica basada en la Biblia y en la Historia: \u00bfHay un Calendario Anual de Adoraci\u00f3n en la Biblia?<\/a>
\nIs Revelation 1:10 talking about Sunday or the Day of the Lord?<\/a> Most Protestant scholars say Sunday is the Lord’s Day, but is that what the Bible teaches?
\nAnother Look at the Didache, Ignatius, and the Sabbath<\/a> Did Ignatius write against the Sabbath and for Sunday? What about the Didache<\/em>? What does the actual Greek reveal?
\nSDA\/CCOG Differences: Two Horned Beast of Revelation and 666<\/a> The genuine Church of God is NOT part of the Seventh-day Adventists. This article explains two prophetic differences, the trinity, differences in approaching doctrine, including Ellen White. Did Ellen White make prophetic errors? Did Ellen White make false prophecies? Here is a version in the Spanish language: SDA\/COG Diferencias: La bestia de dos cuernos de Apocalipsis y 666<\/a>. Here is a sermon in the English language: CCOG and SDA differences and similarities. <\/a>
\nIs God Unreasonable?<\/a> Some have suggested that if God requires Sabbath-keeping He is unreasonable. Is that true?
\nIs There “An Annual Worship Calendar” In the Bible?<\/a> This paper provides a biblical and historical critique of several articles, including one by the Tkach WCG which states that this should be a local decision. What do the Holy Days mean?
\nHoly Day Calendar<\/a> This is a listing of the biblical holy days through 2024, with their Roman calendar dates. They are really hard to observe if you do not know when they occur \ud83d\ude42 In the Spanish\/Espa\u00f1ol<\/span><\/span>\/Castellano language: Calendario de los D\u00edas Santos<\/a>. In Mandarin Chinese: \u4f55\u65e5\u662f\u795e\u7684\u5723\u65e5\uff1f \u8fd9\u91cc\u662f\u4e00\u4efd\u795e\u7684\u5723\u65e5\u65e5\u5386\u4ece2013\u5e74\u81f32024\u5e74\u3002<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"