Religious dogmas are using secular power to sustain religious institutions. She'll talk in those terms and she'll say that's the image of the beast and we need to be clear about that and you'll see why hopefully before this evening is over and then we'll develop this particular point over and over again because brothers and sisters if you're not aware of it the Constitution of the United States is a document that has a direct relationship to the Sunday Law. When the Sunday Law comes it's when the Constitution of the United States is overturned and the Constitution of the United States is the document that has protected the religious freedom in the United States and has allowed a platform for the final warning message to be carried to the world, the three angels message. It was designed by God, it is a document that has a purpose and a reason within God's plan and the very heart of the the Constitution of the United States was to keep church in states separated so when we're talking about the image of the beast in the United States we're talking about the destruction of the Constitution of the United States that takes place at the Sunday Law and it's a very significant prophetic event and before it takes place there will have to be a chipping away so to speak at this wall of separation Thomas Jefferson one of the main authors of the Constitution coined a phrase the wall of separation between church and state and before church and state can come back together at the Sunday Law time period in the United States this wall will have to be removed and brothers and sisters but one of the main things we're going to show you here tonight is that the wall is almost totally down in the United States so let's look at this concept of what is the image of the beast great controversy 443 but what is the image of the beast and how is it to be formed when the early church became corrupted by departing from the simplicity of the gospel and accepting heathen rights and customs she lost the spirit and power of God and in order to control the consciences of the people she sought the support of secular power the result was the papacy a church that controlled the power of the state and employed it to further her own ends especially the punishment of heresy in order for the United States to form an image of the beast the religious power must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will also be employed by the church to accomplish her own ends the definition of the image of the beast is when the religious power is so controlling the civil power that the civil power is being used to accomplish the designs and purposes of the religious power combination of church and state there's a lot of ways to say it but it's simply that it's the principle of the papacy and the fact that sister whites in the Bible speaks about the image of the beast being formed in the United States is