ws that the keeping of God's law, on the one
hand, and its violation, on the other, will make the distinction between
the worshipers of God and the worshipers of the beast.

The special characteristic of the beast, and therefore of his image, is
the breaking of God's commandments. Says Daniel, of the little horn, the
papacy, "He shall think to change the times and the law."(750) And Paul
styled the same power the "man of sin," who was to exalt himself above
God. One prophecy is a complement of the other. Only by changing God's law
could the papacy exalt itself above God; whoever should understandingly
keep the law as thus changed would be giving supreme honor to that power
by which the change was made. Such an act of obedience to papal laws would
be a mark of allegiance to the pope in the place of God.

The papacy has attempted to change the law of God. The second commandment,
forbidding image worship, has been dropped from the law, and the fourth
commandment has been so changed as to authorize the observance of the
first instead of the seventh day as the Sabbath. But papists urge, as a
reason for omitting the second commandment, that it is unnecessary, being
included in the first, and that they are giving the law exactly as God
designed it to be understood. This cannot be the change foretold by the
prophet. An intentional, deliberate change is presented: "He shall _think_
to change the times and the law." The change in the fourth commandment
exactly fulfils the prophecy. For this the only authority claimed is that
of the church. Here the papal power openly sets itself above God.

While the worshipers of God will be especially distinguished by their
regard for the fourth commandment,--since this is the sign of His creative
power, and the witness to His claim upon man's reverence and homage,--the
worshipers of the beast will be distinguished by their efforts to tear
down the Creator's memorial, to exalt the institution of Rome. It was in
behalf of the Sunday that popery first asserted its arrogant claims;(751)
and its first resort to the power of the state was to compel the
observance of Sunday as "the Lord's day." But the Bible points to the
seventh day, and not to the first, as the Lord's day. Said Christ, "The
Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." The fourth commandment declares,
"The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord." And by the prophet Isaiah
the Lord designates it, "My holy day."(752)

The claim so often