Armageddon and the International Sunday Law - God's Holidays

implies, as we have had occasion to observe elsewhere.” (TheEcclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Piedmontand the Albigenses, p. 188.)Elsewhere in the same book Peter Allix testifies to yet othernames the Waldenses were called: Cathari (p. 148), Ketters (p.149), Passagines, Josephines, Arnoldists (p. 260), Leonists,Speronists, Circumsized (p. 265), Bulgarians, Paphlagonians (p.457), Albigenses, and Manichees (p. 491). Some of these nameswere given because of the location where they lived. Some ofthese names were uncomplimentary and given in hatred. Theirenemies called them by different names in different places tomake it appear as if these people were only a local group and notas wide-spread as they were.The Waldenses observed the Seventh-day Sabbath. Under thechapter entitled “Exposition of the Waldenses and Albigenses,Upon the Ten Commandments of the Law of God,” Jean PaulPerrin quotes their belief of the Seventh-day Sabbath. “They thatwill keep and observe the Sabbath of Christians, that is to say,sanctify the day of the Lord, must be careful of four things: thefirst is, to cease from all earthly and worldly labors: the second,not to sin: the third, not to be idle in regard of good works: thefourth, to do those things that are for the good and benefit of thesoul. Of the first it is said; Six days shalt thou labor, and do allthat thou hast to do but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thyGod: in it thou shalt do no manner of work. And in Exodus it is said,Keep my Sabbath, for it is holy; and he that polluteth it, shall die thedeath: and in the book of Numbers we read, that one of the children ofIsrael being seen to gather sticks upon the Sabbath day, he wasbrought unto Moses, who not knowing what course to take therein, theLord said unto Moses; This man shall die the death, all the peopleshall stone him with stones, and he shall die. God would that hisSabbath should be kept with such reverence, that the children of Israel44