On May the 4th, the president of the United States signed a proclamation calling Americans to observe a national Sabbath. Not a day of prayer, not a moment of silence, a Sabbath from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday. Now, before everyone runs the comments, this is not the mark of the beast yet.
It's not Revelation 13 even yet. And I'm going to tell you exactly why it isn't. But it is something.
And there is one word in this proclamation. One word in the closing paragraph that changes the entire conversation. Most people reading the headlines will never see it.
The reporters covering the story didn't catch it. But you're about to. And and once you see it, you can't unsee it.
and you'll understand why I'm telling you that this matters even though it's not what you think it is. Okay, so here's what's strange. The mainstream coverage focuses on one paragraph, but that paragraph right next to it is the one I want you to see.
So, so let me show you both and then we'll find that one word together. On May the 4th, 2026, President Donald Trump signed the Jewish American Heritage Month Proclamation. Standard issue.
Every president since George W. Bush has signed one in May, but this one had something different in it. Buried in the middle of the document, this paragraph, and I I want you to read it with me because the wording matters.
in special honor of 250 glorious years of American independence. And on the weekend of rededicate 250, a national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving, Jewish Americans are encouraged to observe a national Sabbath. From sundown May 15 to nightfall May 16, friends, families, and communities of all backgrounds may come together in gratitude for our great nation.
Read it again. Sundown May 15 to nightfall May 16. That's not a generic day of rest.
That's not Sunday. That's the 7th day Sabbath. The biblical Sabbath.
The one in the fourth commandment. The one Jesus kept. The one Genesis 2 says God blessed and sanctified before there was sin in the world.
And the president of the United States just called it the entire nation to observe it. But that's not the word I I want to show you. That's just the setup.
The word is in the next paragraph. The one almost no one quotes. And and once I read it, you'll see exactly why this is bigger than any news makes it sound.
This is it. I further call all Americans to celebrate their faith and freedom throughout this year. during this month, especially on Shabbat, to celebrate our 250th year.
There it is. The word is all. All Americans, not just Jewish Americans, all Americans on Shabbat throughout the year.
Stop and think about that for a second. When was the last time a sitting president of the United States called every single American to observe the seventh day Sabbath? The answer is never.
Not George Washington, not Abraham Lincoln, not Reagan, not Obama, not Bush, never. This has never happened in American history. And I know what some of you are thinking right now.
Bradley, this is huge. This is prophecy. Prophecy unfolding.
the president just called America to to a a Sabbath, specifically the seventh day Sabbath. And listen, I understand the reaction, but if I'm going to be the kind of person that you can trust, I have to tell you the next part because the next part is the part that gets us in trouble if we get it wrong. This proclamation is not Revelation 13.
And I'm about to show you from the Bible exactly why it isn't yet. If we get this wrong, the world stops listening to us because of the technicality when the real thing happens. So, so stay with me just for a moment while we while we look at this.
This part matters probably more than the rest of the video. Open your Bible to Revelation 13 or or follow along screen because we're not just going to call something the mark of the beast unless prophecy says it is the mark of the beast. Right?
Revelation 13:16-17 says, "And he calleth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive the mark in their right hand and on their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell save that he had the mark of the beast or the name of the beast or the number of his name. " Now, of course, the hand represents what you do. So, you can not believe it but still do something.
And the forehead represents what you believe, what you think. So you might not do it, but you believe it 100%. Either one is taking the mark of the beast.
So let's think about that for a second obviously, but think about this. The key word in this prophecy is causment of economic issues. That's an economic exclusion.
That's coercion. Now go back to Trump's proclamation. And the verb is encouraged.
Jewish Americans are encouraged to observe. Communities of all backgrounds may come together. That's encouragement.
That's may. Not required, not enforced, not fine, no penalty, no restriction on buying or selling. If if your prophetic understanding has integrity, you have to be honest about what is on this page.
The proclamation does not meet the Revelation 13 test. And every time we overshoot, we hand ammunition to the people who say Bible prophecy students are crying wolf. Isaiah 8:20 says to the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it's because there is no light in them.
That's that has to apply to us, too. We have to read the actual words. We have to test our claims by scripture, not by adrenaline.
So, if it's not the mark of the beast, why am I making a video about it? Why does it matter? Am I just here to to counsel those who have have said it is?
No, I'm not. There is a serious matter in this. Because Sister White wrote one sentence in 1888 that I I think describes this whole thing, what we're actually in right now.
And when you hear it, you're going to understand why I couldn't stay quiet about it. 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 the hands of spiritualism, when under the influence of this three-fold 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 the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and the end is near.
Boy, everything's kind of coming together right now, isn't it? But did you catch that phrase? The phrase is make provision.
Not enforcement, not coercion like we see in Revelation 13. Not compel, make provision. That's the word for it.
That's the prophetic category that we're in right now. The first stage isn't Sunday law. The first stage is is the federal government creating space.
It's making room for religious observance to be coordinated nationally officially from the highest office in land. And friend, that's exactly what a presidential proclamation does. It makes provision.
The mechanism is the government formally calling the nation to observe a religious day. And it's now been exercised. The precedent is set.
The category is established. The door has been opened. And whoever sits in that office next, whether it be the next couple years while Trump is still in office or whoever sits in there in the next session, they can use that same tool on that letter head with the same exact authority to point to a different day.
Isn't that always how it works? I mean, this is has been the playbook from the beginning of history. Push a law in there that makes sense and then use it for a different reason.
Which brings us to the question that I think nobody else is asking out loud. If a president can call Americans to a national Sabbath in 2026, what do you think happens next? I'm telling you what to watch out for and I'll tell you what date range to watch out for, too, cuz it's very interesting where this goes from here.
Here's what I think is going to happen next. And watch it with me because I, if I'm right, you're going to see this play out in real time over the next few months. I don't think it's going to take a year for this to play out.
There is a movement in the country called Christian nationalism. They believe America is a Christian nation and that our laws should reflect Christian values and that the government should formally recognize Christianity as the foundation of the country. some sincere believers, some are political operators, but they they have political reach and organized influence.
And they wanted the president of the United States to proclaim a national Sabbath, not for them, for Jewish Americans on Saturday. So ask yourself this, what do you think they're trying to do? They're going to ask for their day next.
They're going to say, "Mr president, if Jewish Americans get a national Shabbat, where is the National Lord's Day for the rest of us? And that pressure will not come from fringe voices. It'll come from major Christian organizations, from talk radio, from political donors, from people the administration depends on.
And here's the part nobody's talking about. The pressure has to be an open channel. The White House website right now has a priority page titled protect religious liberty.
And by the way, there are religious leaders even in our church that are political that have gone around saying, "Hey, there is no separation of church and state in the constitution. " And technically they're right, but there is amendments that hold that same weight. Those people who like to criticize America and criticize people in America and always talking about separation of church and state which is not in the constitution by the way.
Do they realize that our founding document Declaration of Independence talks about certain unalienable rights given to us by our creator aka God? >> You know the Constitution says nothing about separation of church and state. by the way uh that's been distorted uh tremendously.
>> We need to push back. Every time we hear separation of church and state, we need to say there is no separation of church and state. That's a lie.
And every time I think we have some interviews after this. I'm going to make it very clear because we know that's what the constitution says. There is no separation of church and state.
>> Regardless, the administration is openly faith friendly right now. The rededicate 250 campaign is explicitly framed as a national jubilee of prayer and praise and thanksgiving. And that doorway is wide open.
That's why we're going down there and handing out great controversies, handing out material about spiritualism and how hoping people understand what's actually going on here cuz I don't think anyone's awake right now. The doorway, this, like I said, this doorway is wide open. It it takes all it takes is the right voices to walk through it and specifically watch for this three things to track between now and the end of 2026.
First, a major Christian leader name brand platform publicly asks Trump for a parallel proclamation honoring Sunday or the Lord's Day. And wouldn't it be interesting if that that organization also has the ear of the president? Maybe the spiritual adviser, maybe someone who's lost a loved one.
Think about this for a second. Watch for the framing to be unity, gratitude, and 250th anniversary. The It has to be.
It will sound patriotic. It will sound prophetic. That's how it always sounds at the beginning.
Second, the states governors issue a parallel proclamation. Once the federal government opens a category, the state fills it in. That's just how it builds.
Not from the top down, but all at once from the federal call cascading down to state level adoption. Third, legislation. Watch for bills with the names like National Day of Rest or the American Sabbath Recognition Act or anything similar.
The the legal scaffolding always follows the cultural scaffolding. But here's the part I haven't told you yet, and it's probably the most important part of this video. The thing that people refuse to say in videos like this out loud.
The real test isn't what the government does. The real test is what you do when the government does it. And most people are going to fail it for the reason they don't see coming.
Revelation 14:12 says, "Here are the patience of the saints. Here are they who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. Patience, commandment keeping, faith, three things.
That is the assignment. But here's the trap. The trap is keeping the Sabbath because the president said so.
Think about that for a second. If the National Sunday law passed tomorrow, or if any any law, even if a national Sabbath law passed tomorrow, half the country would rebel against it just because they don't like the president who signed it. They'll keep the Sabbath as a protest, as politics, as resistance, and they'll feel righteous in doing it.
But that's not commandment keeping. That's partisanship in religious clothing. That is the seventh day Sabbath used as a political weapon.
And friend, God is not honored by that. Genesis 2:3 says, "God bless the Sabbath and sanctified it before there was an Israel, before there was a Jew before there was a single fallen human being on the planet. " Remember Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
So, he didn't say the Sabbath was made for Jews. That'd be a perfect place for him to put that in, though. It's a creation ordinance for man, man and women.
It belongs to God. Not to the right, not to the left, not to the president, not to a movement, to God. So whether the president proclaims it or a future president bans it, our duty is exactly the same.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, the seventh day, because the Lord said so. Period. That is the only reason that holds up when pressure comes.
And there is one more thing I want to tell you. One more piece of the story I haven't really shown you yet. It's the reason I have hope right now.
Even watching all this unfold and it's not what you think. But before I tell you that, I want to tell you to keep these videos going. I appreciate your help in going to patreon.
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Of all the days that the president of the United States could have named, of all the religious observances that he could have elevated, the one that landed in the official proclamation on the seal of the highest office in the land is the 7th day Sabbath. Not Sunday, the Sabbath. In a country where Sunday keeping has dominated civil religious life over the last 200 years, the seventh day has gotten named first from the White House in writing in an official proclamation that will be in the federal record forever.
Now, I'm not saying that Trump understands what he did. What I am saying is this. God uses the most unlikely vessels to put his truth in front of his people.
He was a pagan king to send the Jews home from Babylon. He used a Roman census to put Mary in Bethlehem. He used a Roman cross to save the world.
And now in May of 2026, the official record of the United States government contains a sentence calling all Americans to celebrate their faith on the 7th day Sabbath. Whatever else happens, whatever pressure bills, whatever proclamation follows, whatever laws get drafted, that sentence is in the record. And millions of people who never thought about the seventh day in their lives are about to read about it, maybe even talk about it at dinner, maybe even open their Bibles to find out where the seventh day Sabbath actually comes from.
That's not the mark of the beast. That's the providence of God working in the the strangest way possible through the strangest vessel possible. I'm telling you this and also on the strangest channel possible or I guess movement strange normal.
One last thing before I go there there's a personal note I have to make and a question that I want to leave with you that'll have you thinking for the rest of the week. If a president of the United States today in 2026 is now using the official seal of his office to call Americans to a religious day, what do you think the next president is going to do with that same tool? That's not paranoia.
That's just me reading the room. And I'd rather tell you about it now calmly sitting at your kitchen or or maybe watching me on TV with your Bible open than thinking about it later in a panic when the next proclamation lands. If this video helped you think of more clearly, share it with someone who needs to see it without losing their head.
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Test everything. Don't be afraid. The same God who walked Israel out of Egypt is walking us through this.
So, I'll see you later.
