The Rising People’s Party (RPP) has issued a strong statement urging the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) to reconsider its decision to declare Sundays as a day for business transactions. The party emphasized that “Nagaland is a Christian state” and asserted that “every other citizen of India who has made Nagaland their homes are guests of this state.” This, the RPP said, is a fundamental that should be understood by the Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) before declaring Sunday as a day of business transaction.
The RPP criticized the state government’s prioritization of the Hornbill Festival over the sanctity of the Sabbath, stating, “It’s unbecoming of the state government to give undue importance to Hornbill Festival while utterly neglecting the sacrilege being committed on Sabbath days by its affiliated agencies such as the DMC.”
“It befuddles the RPP that under the garb of the so-called ‘Festive Season’ the DMC should normalize Sabbath day as any other day of the week,” the RPP press statement read. The party noted that “when none of the ULBs in the other districts have issued such notifications, the DMC issuing such gives the impression that the municipal body has succumbed to pressure.”
The RPP stated that “Sabbath/Christmas is not to be trivialized nor commercialized,” urging that citizens should have sufficient time to shop during the weekdays without compromising their religious beliefs. “Out of the seven days in a week, any citizen should have ample time to exercise their shopping activities during the weekdays,” they added, criticizing the DMC for “blatantly hurt[ing] the sentiments of devout Christians taking advantage of the Christmas season.”
In addressing the issue of Sunday shop openings, the RPP called for all legislators across political parties and various church organizations to reach a consensus. “It’s imperative that the Christian state of Nagaland take this issue seriously,” it urged. The party stressed that the government and its affiliate organizations must recognize that “despite our varied political stance and views we do not stray from the core principles of Christian ethics and principles.”
The RPP issued a warning, stating, “Unless we the stakeholders take corrective measures now, the coming generation of Nagas will end up as ‘Wokes’ or spiritual illiterates, and this may well spell the end of our culture and identity, including our Christian identity.”
Problem is Sunday is the papal sabbath not the Bible Sabbath of which God declared “the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God.” Exodus 20:10. By calling for Sunday enforcement the RRP is not respecting liberty of conscience. Looks like Sunday enforcement will come to the U.S. too and when it does national ruin will be the sure result. I grew up with these two very sobering statements regarding the Mark of the Beast being enforced in the U.S. – “By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. As the approach of the Roman armies was a sign to the disciples of the impending destruction of Jerusalem, so may this apostasy be a sign to us that the limit of God’s forbearance is reached, that the measure of our nation’s iniquity is full, and that the angel of mercy is about to take her flight, never to return. The people of God will then be plunged into those scenes of affliction and distress which prophets have described as the time of Jacob’s trouble. The mark of deliverance will be set upon the men who keep God’s commandments, who revere His law, and who refuse the mark of the beast or of his image. God has revealed what is to take place in the last days, that His people may be prepared to stand against the tempest of opposition and wrath.” 5T, p. 451.
“Then there will be a law against the Sabbath of God’s creation, and then it is that God will do His ‘strange work’ in the earth.” 7BC 910.
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