Observing the Sabbath commandment

The highly regarded modern philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, in his Attack Upon Christendom, wrote: “The Christianity of the New Testament simply does not exist. Millions of people through the centuries have little by little cheated God out of Christianity, and have succeeded in making Christianity exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.”

What lies just ahead for the once-prosperous Western nations that have dominated the world for the last five centuries? Why is the influence of the United States in the world declining? Why has once-powerful Britain needed to struggle to remain united? What has happened to the glory of France? Why has immigration changed the face of Canada? Why are the nations of Australia and New Zealand challenged by rising Asian powers? Why are Western nations that once served as models of freedom, prosperity and morality plagued by growing internal strife and falling prestige on the world stage? Few now realize that Western decline was predicted long ago in Bible prophecies that are coming alive today!

An ongoing debate continues to brew in the Parliament building of Great Britain in the United Kingdom. It involves the “right to die” and goes back as far as 2006. On July 28, 2014, the House of Lords conducted the second reading of the bill put forth by Lord Falconer of Thoroton, which lasted some ten hours. The bill went forward to a committee for further review, which is only the beginning of a long process that could see Royal Assent happening in the not-too-distant future. Assisted suicide continues to gain traction in various parts of the world, but what exactly would be the ramifications if this bill receives the “Royal stamp of approval”?