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bonnie [Jul 27, 14:26]: While in Valence, Ellen White was intensely interested i

n visiting the Cathedral of Saint Apollinaire where she


observed the officiating priests with their white robes and over these a surplic
e of black velvet trimmed with gold braid, with the form
of the cross marked in the back. She heard their words of prayer and their chant
ed hymns. This exposure while in Europe to the
grandeur and impressiveness of the Catholic worship services proved helpful to h
er as she described Catholic worship in the book The
Great Controversy. (See pp. 566, 567.)
She wrote:
We looked upon the bust of Pius VI. The marble statue beneath the bust contained
the heart of the Pope. This is the Pope specified
in prophecy, who received the deadly wound. He was carried captive to Valence an
d we looked upon the tower where he was
confined and where he died. From this tower he could look upon the beautiful wat
ers of the Rhone and this gave him much delight.
bonnie [Jul 27, 14:26]: It was a gratification to look upon this representation o
f the Pope which prophecy has so faithfully described.
We looked upon a black cloth stretched across the walls of the portion of the bu
ilding where the people were worshiping the second
day of November. This black cloth was adorned with ghastly death-heads and bones
in white, which looked frightful. But they were
observing the feast for the dead [All Soul s Day].
These vestments of the priests, symbolically adorned with large figures of the cr
oss and with a variety of colours, bore no
resemblance to the simplicity of worship. But priestly ceremonies, burdened with
pompous display, processions, and art to produce
effect, are abundant. Lighted tapers and outward display are very poor substitut
es for spiritual vitality, which was
wanting. Manuscript 70, 1886.
Ace [Jul 27, 14:26]: Gal 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law
, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed
is every one that hangeth on a tree:
bonnie [Jul 27, 14:27]: Today we come to the climax of our series on "Paganism i
n the Church," and the subject today is centered in
the symbol of the cross. Although the cross has become a revered relic and often
even an object of worship, I would like to explore
the ancient background of this cherished symbol. In our last broadcast we discov
ered that the Bible describes the worship of Tammuz,
the Pagan God of the Sun. Satan inspired those idolatrous people to represent Ta
mmuz by the letter "T," the first letter of his name.
It came to be a world-wide symbol of sun worship and all the moral pollutions at
tached to that kind of worship. The heathen actually
sacrified human beings to the devil on crosses. Centuries before Jesus was born
crucifixion was a method of worshiping the pagan sun
god.
When sun-worshiping generals went to battle they offered thousands of human sacr
ifices to the devil.
bonnie [Jul 27, 14:28]: It is said that Alexander the Great, after a victorious
campaign, crucified over 10,000 human beings on the
cross to celebrate his victory. Three-thousand chief Babylonians were crucified
at one time as a sacrifice to the Devil.
When the Catholics first went down into South America and Mexico, soon after the
se were discovered, they were amazed to find that
the sun-worshiping heathen there had crosses. They were amazed because they did
not know that these people knew anything about

crosses. They did not know anything about Christianity, but they had crosses bec
ause they were the sign of Tammuz-the Sun God. But
listen, friends, the time finally came for the Son of God to be born. The exact
day of His birth no one knows. But He lived to be thirty-three and one-half year
s when He was crucified, which was in the spring of the year at the time of the
Passover. Listen friends, it is almost
too terrible for words. You remember Tammuz was exalted by Satan to be the false
Messiah or rival of Jesus.
bonnie [Jul 27, 14:28]: The symbol of the cross, the first letter of his name, "
T", was the sign of sun worship. Down through the
years, many times as Satan had succeeded in leading Israel into sin and Pagan su
n worship, it had seemed that the sun god was
victorious over the true God. Jesus, the Creator of the world, came into a world
that had forgotten Him. He suffered every insult at its
hands and, finally, died upon the symbol of sun worship, the cross; as Paul says
, "Even the death of the cross."
bonnie [Jul 27, 14:29]: In order to show that his system of worship was superior
to that of God's and to show his supremacy, Satan
heaped the supreme insult upon Christ by crucifying Him upon the cross, the symb
ol of sun worship! Think of the Son of God dying in
such awful humiliation while the people looked on, in derision. What mockery! An
d what rejoicing then by the demons! The Son of
God delivered by His own people and crucified by the sun-worshiping Romans on th
e symbol of sun worship! Think of the great Son of
God dying in such awful humiliation while the people looked on, wagging their he
ads in mockery.
But Satan saw that his disguise was torn away. His administration was laid open
before the unfallen angels and before the Heavenly
Universe. He had revealed himself as a murderer

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