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Ecumenism : the movement to bring all churches under one umbrella is in the making.It is a dangerous goal that is on the verge of achievement.This means objective truth will be the casualty.In the effort to satisfy everyone The Bible standard will be eroded for the sake of agreement.Compromise will have to be made which is not a bad thing in human terms,but with God there is no compromise and his word stands without change. Ecumenism was very evident in the new US president's inauguration.It will be noble if they all follow the Bible truth.Individual members of the world council of churches proclaim that the Decalogue the 10 commandment has been done away with,erased.None of these individual religious groups keep Gods sacred Commandment written in stone (Exodus31:18) by God's own finger twice after Moses broke it once.If it wasn't that important why didn't God ask Moses to rewrite it himself the second time. No, He said to Moses come up again let me rewrite the laws on a second tablet of stone myself and I will give it to you(Exodus 34:1).Below the questions and concerns of one such group which seems oh so noble. How should the church call governing leaders to accountability, and how can we do this fruitfully? And how can the church be faithful in its relations with the state? This episode's guest, Reverend Doctor Karen Hamilton, General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches, helps explore this topic as Canada prepares to host the G8 leaders as well as a G8 Religious Leaders Summit. What can the church do to hold leaders accountable to the Millennium Development Goals?We were warned in 1911 at time in which it would horrendous to think that any church protestant organization would unite again would Rome.The statement below would have bee ridiculed at the time.But today we say its fulfillment in the coming together of churches who have already began the march back home to mother Rome.It reads: The End of Religious Liberty in the United States(written 1911) The law of God, through the agency of Satan, is to be made void. In our land of boasted freedom religious liberty will come to an end. The contest will be decided over the Sabbath question, which will agitate the whole world.--Ev 236 (1875). {LDE 144.1} A great crisis awaits the people of God. Very soon our nation will attempt to enforce upon all the observance of the first day of the week as a sacred day. In doing this they will not scruple to compel men against the voice of their own conscience to observe the day the nation declares to be the Sabbath.--RH Extra, Dec. 11, 1888. {LDE 144.2} Seventh-day Adventists will fight the battle over the seventh-day Sabbath. The authorities in the United States and in other countries will rise up in their pride and power and make laws to restrict religious liberty.--Ms 78, 1897. {LDE 144.3} The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.--GC 588 w(1911)All Kinds of Persecution The persecutions of Protestants by Romanism, by which the religion of Jesus Christ was almost annihilated, will be more than rivaled when Protestantism and popery are combined.--3SM 387 (1889). {LDE 147.2} Satan has a thousand masked batteries which will be opened upon the loyal, commandment-keeping people of God to compel them to violate conscience.--Letter 30a, 1892. {LDE 147.3} We need not be surprised at anything that may take place now. We need not marvel at any developments of horror. Those who trample under their unholy feet the law of God have the same spirit as had the men who insulted and betrayed Jesus. Without any compunctions of conscience they will do the deeds of their father the devil.--3SM 416 (1897). {LDE 147.4} Let those who desire to be refreshed in mind and instructed in the truth study the history of the early church during and immediately following the Day of Pentecost. Study carefully in the book of Acts the experiences of Paul and the other apostles, for God's people in our day must pass through similar experiences.--PC 118 (1907). {LDE 148.1}