Will Sunday Worshippers See the Kingdom of God?

Here are some thoughts on this:

The "mark" is propbably directly related to one of the commandments of God because Rev 14:11-12 contrasts those who took the mark to those who keep the commandments:




Consider Daniel 3: Shadrach, Meshack and Abneggo were under the decree to worship the golden image. They refused to break the second commandment about not bowing down and worshipping idols.

Consider Daniel 6: Daniel was under a decree to pray only to the king of Babylon. He refused to break the first commandment about not having any other gods before Me.

These appear to foreshadow the future mark of the beast- a decree to break one of God's commandments. Commandments 1-4 are the commandments directly related to our relationship with Him. The fourth commandment does seem to be the most logical candidate for a future decree.

Once someone is aware that the Roman church "changed" the day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday, and they choose to observe Sunday rather than the Sabbath, this is an act of recognizing the authority of the man over the authority of God. This IS a spiritual issue.

Daniel 2-7 is a written in a chiastic structure:
Daniel 2 and 7 outline the series of 4 kingdoms: the rise of spiritual Babylon.
Daniel 3 and 6 are decrees of false worship.
Daniel 4 and 5 are the fall of Babylon

A parallel with true versus false worship preceding the fall of Babylon is found in Rev. 14:

7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.


8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

The fourth commandment seems to be alluded to in Rev. 14:7, above.

Further evidence is that a harlot in the Old Testament always described God's people in state of apostacy and idolatry- it never was used to represent a heathen religion. The harlot in Revelation is "Babylon the Mother of Harlots". Rome considers herself to be the mother church and there are many protestant churches that unknowlingly keep her pagan traditions: Sunday observance, Halloween, etc.
Side note: Ever wonder what rabbits and painted eggs have to do with the death and resurrection of the Messiah? Or, why do we not celebrate on Passover and Firstfruits? Those feasts coincided with the exact days of His death and resurrection. 

The Papacy does deny Christ and the Father in that they say that grace is dispensed by the Pope through his "Treasury of Merit" (Good works of Jesus, Mary, "Saints"), they claim the Pope is Vicar of God, the Head of the Church, and many other blasphemous statements. It is a counterfeit that appears to be Christian but in reality, denies Christ.

The Roman church fits the Biblical attributes of Babylon. Islam does not: 

Daniel chapters 2, 7, and 8 show the sequence of 4 literal kingdoms that precede the Little Horn:
1. Babylon
2. Medo-Persia
3. Greece
4. Rome

The Roman Church directly descended from the series of kingdoms in Daniel. Islam did not not come after Rome, the Roman Church did.

Revelation, Daniel, and elsewhere describe an end time spiritual Babylon. All of the attributes of Babylon, Little Horn/Beast fit the Roman Catholic Church Papacy:

• Makes war with the saints: During the dark ages, millions were slaughtered during the Inquisitions in Europe.
• Blasphemous: "“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.” Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, ” Cities Petrus Bertanoushe
• Seeks to change times and laws: The Papacy "changed" Sabbath to Sunday, Passover to Easter, etc. Islam did not do that.
• She is a Harlot: Every time Harlot is used to describe a people in the Bible, it is always when God's people adopt pagan idolatry. Islam does not fit that. 
• Rules over the kings of the earth: World leaders seek audience with the Pope at the Vatican, not with Islamic leaders.