Francis I has emphasized social justice and helping the poor. His calls for unity could give favor to the papacy as the leader of Christendom. Satan may use increasing social concerns and problems to influence people to support Sunday laws as a way to solve moral and economic issues, appealing to the papacy's authority over religious matters. Adventists should prepare more for Christ's second coming than just the Sunday law, by working with others to get ready through sharing the gospel message.

2. KEY TEXT:
“One of the heads of the
beast seemed to have a
fatal wound, but the fatal
wound had been healed.
The whole world was
astonished and followed
the beast” (Rev 13:3, NIV).

3.  Frances I puts
heavy emphasis
on social
justice.
 He “will not
yield on
doctrine, but
his emphasis
will be on the
poor.”

5. “Social action is about people
coming together to help improve
their lives and solve the problems
that are important in their
communities. It involves people
giving their time and other resources
for the common good, in a range of
forms – from volunteering and
community-owned services to
community organising or simple
neighbourly acts.”—
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uplo
ads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/591797/A_desc
ription_of_social_action.pdf (accessed April 14, 2020).

6. What causes social
action?

7. “Social action is about people
coming together to help improve
their lives and solve the problems
that are important in their
communities. It involves people
giving their time and other resources
for the common good, in a range of
forms – from volunteering and
community-owned services to
community organising or simple
neighbourly acts.”—
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uplo
ads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/591797/A_desc
ription_of_social_action.pdf (accessed April 14, 2020).

8. What are social
problems in the world
today?

9. Top Most UN’s Listing in 2020
1. Africa
2. Ageing
3. AIDS
4. Atomic Energy
5. Big Data for the SDGs
6. Children
7. Climate Change
8. Decolonization
9. Democracy
10. Ending Poverty
11. Food
12. Gender Equality
13. Health
14. Human Rights
15. International Law and Justice
16. Migration
17. Oceans and the Law of the Sea
18. Peace and Security
19. Population
20. Refugees
21. Water
22. Youth

12. Covid-19, not
only a national
issue, is a
global issue.
Thus,
pandemic.

14. "May Christ our peace enlighten
all who have responsibility in
conflicts, that they may have
the courage to support the
appeal for an immediate global
ceasefire in all corners of the
world,"

15. “He condemned arms
manufacturing and said
the pandemic should
spur leaders to finally
end long-running wars
such as that in Syria.
He also appealed for
help for migrants and
others suffering from
existing humanitarian
conflicts.”

16. "This is not a time
for indifference,
because the whole
world is suffering
and needs to be
united in facing the
pandemic.”

17. “Indifference, self-
centredness, division
and forgetfulness are
not words we want to
hear at this time. We
want to ban these
words forever!”

18. "The European Union
is presently facing an
epochal challenge, on
which will depend not
only its future but
that of the whole
world.”

19. "This is not a time
for division.”

20. Since his papal election, Francis I
has been an international peace
broker.

21. Unity is what we
need. In times of
crisis as this, unity is
of utmost
importance. Only in
unity that this virus
could be defeated.

22. How do we show our participation for
unity?
We temporarily close of churches for church
services.
We follow quarantine protocols.
We secure travel passes.
We observe curfew hours.

23. “At all times and in all places, in all
sorrows and in all afflictions, when
the outlook seems dark and the
future perplexing, and we feel
helpless and alone, the Comforter
will be sent in answer to the prayer
of faith. Circumstances may
separate us from every earthly
friend; but no circumstance, no
distance, can separate us from the
heavenly Comforter. Wherever we
are, wherever we may go, He is
always at our right hand to support,
sustain, uphold, and cheer.”—The
Desire of Ages, pp. 669,670.

24. This COVID 19 cannot stop us
from praising the Lord.

25. Do you think this
pope’s incessant
call of unity will
have a positive
result?

26. The papacy was
used by the
Satan and the
Roman Empire to
“oppress his
[God’s] saints”
for “a time,
times, and half a
time” (Dan
7:25).

27.  We all know that in 1798
this power was wounded.
 However, after “fatal wound
had been healed . . . The
whole world was astonished
and followed the beast”
(Rev 13:3).
 It simply means that in the
last days, before Christ
comes, the whole world (to
except God’s remnant
church), the papacy will be
followed.

28. How can this be
possible?

29. “She has clothed herself in
Christ-like garments; but
she is unchanged. Every
principle of popery that
existed in past ages exists
today. The doctrines
devised in the darkest ages
are still held. Let none
deceive themselves. The
popery that Protestants are
now so ready to honor is
the same that ruled the
world in the days of the
Reformation . . .

30. …when men of God stood up,
at the peril of their lives, to
expose her iniquity. She
possesses the same pride and
arrogant assumption that
lorded it over kings and
princes, and claimed the
prerogatives of God. Her
spirit is no less cruel and
despotic now than when she
crushed out human liberty,
and slew the saints of the
Most High.” GC, 570.

31. “As we approach
the last crisis it
is of vital
moment that
harmony and
unity exist
among the Lord’s
instrumentalities
. The world is
filled with storm
and war and
variance.

32. Yet under one
head—the papal
power—the people
will unite to
oppose God in the
person of His
witnesses. This
union is cemented
by the great
apostate.”—
7T 182 (1902).

33. Yet under one
head—the papal
power—the people
will unite to
oppose God in the
person of His
witnesses. This
union is cemented
by the great
apostate.”—
7T 182 (1902).

34. “Of course the Catholic
Church claims that the
change was her act…And
the act is a MARK of her
ecclesiastical power and
authority in religious
matters.”—Letter from C. F.
Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal
Gibbons on October 28, 1895

35. Could it be that, in the last days, the
people who will oppose God will be
under the papal headship on the issue
of his mark of ecclesiastical power and
authority in religious matters—i.e.,
Sunday?

37. “You first work together on
things that you can agree
and little by little work on
the things that you won’t
agree. And hopefully when
trust is built, because you
agree on these things, then
you understand each other
better.”Bp. Broderick Pabillo, DD
Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of
Manila

38. “Whatever church or religion
you belong, you are facing the
same difficulties, living the
same country, and living the
same world. As you deal with
different issues, you must have
a common ground together—and
that is faith in God. . . . what
comes first, for me, should be
the closest to the heart of the
people—the social need.”
Fr. Brian Vincent Q.
Rances

40.  What will Satan do as social
concerns are increasing in the
world?
 Will it give favor to the headship
of the papacy in Christendom?

41. “Satan puts his
interpretation upon
events, and they think,
as he would have them,
that the calamities which
fill the land are a result
of Sundaybreaking.
Thinking to appease the
wrath of God these
influential men make
laws enforcing Sunday
observance.”—LDE, 129.

42. Isn’t it her
ecclesiastical power
and authority in
religious matters?

43. “This very class put
forth the claim that the
fast-spreading
corruption is largely
attributable to the
desecration of the so-
called ‘Christian
Sabbath’ [Sunday] and
that the enforcement
of Sunday observance
would greatly improve
the morals of society.”
LDE, 129-130.

44. “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.”—GC
(1888), 590.

45. “Laws enforcing the
observance of Sunday
as the Sabbath will
bring about a national
apostasy from the
principles of
republicanism upon
which the government
has been founded. The
religion of the papacy
will be accepted by the
rulers, and the law of
God will be made
void.”—7MR 192 (1902).

46. “A day of great intellectual
darkness has been shown to
be favorable to the success
of popery. It will yet be
demonstrated that a day of
great intellectual light is
equally favorable for its
success.”—4SP 390 (1884).

48.  The real solution is
Jesus. When He
comes, all social
problems will be
gone.
 He promised that “I
will come back and
take to be with me
that you also may
be where I am”
(John 14:3).

49. What are we more
prepared for?

52. “We are the people who, like John, are to prepare
the way of the Lord; and if we are prepared for
the second coming of Christ, we must work with
all diligence to prepare others for Christ's
second advent, as did the forerunner of Christ
for his first advent, calling men to
repentance.”—1888 118.1.

53. Be prepared for Sunday law. However, be
more prepared for the Second Coming.

54. “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with
God’s people. Amen.”—Rev 22:21, NIV.

55. End of the presentation