[ndigila]

Ndigila,
Please read the below reasoning and give your opinion or challenge:

The seal of God is given by the Holy Spirit which is carried out by an act of angels (see Ezekiel 9 and Revelation 7). The angels specifically places the seal in the forehead of the disciples or 144,000 Israelites. This is seal is actually the law of God as spoken of by Isaiah in 8:16 which contains God's sign Ezekiel 20:12,20.

Note the subjective interpretation in this, you've made an arbitrary similarity between the seal in Revelation and the law (more specifically the 10 commandments, even more specifically keeping the Sabbath.). Revelation simply says that they are sealed by the Holy Spirit.

The first angel of Revelation 14 preaches that people should worship the Creator, a preaching also echoed in the Sabbath commandment.
The seal of God being placed in the forehead simply means that man must actively remember God as the centre of worship because God Himself is the creator. This memory of God is equally stipulated in the Sabbath commandment which starts with the word REMEMBER as opposed with the others that start with the words Thou shalt not.

What you've done here is equivalent to what Ester did in the other thread when she equated the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil to sex. Revelation 14 simply says those with the mark of God on their foreheads worshipped the Lord, and those with the mark of the Beast worshipped the Beast. No mention of Sabbath, no mention that the mark of the Beast is Sunday worship.

So basically, the seal of God in Revelation 7, 14 and the preaching of the first angel calls for people to worship God as the creator thereby asking people to keep the sabbath as contained in the commandments of God. This is emphasized by the fact that God views breaking the sabbath as breaking His commandments see Exodus 16, and also the women could not go to the tomb on Sabbath because they kept the sabbath "according to the commandments".

Grip, the angel calls for the people to worship God period. You've equated worshipping God to keeping the Sabbath which is another subjective interpretation.

When you retreat to Biblical Scholasticism, any arbitrary references can be made and could be validly argued. This is why the Bible was never meant to stand on its own but is part of the Holy Tradition of the Church.