The dragon is stirred, and so controls the wicked governments of the earth that all authority of human power shall be exerted to enforce the claims of the man of sin.

Then the issue is fairly before the people.

On one hand, they are required to keep the true Sabbath; on the other, a counterfeit.

For refusing to keep the true, the message denounces the unmingled wrath of God; for refusing the false, earthly governments threaten them with persecution and death.
With this issue before the people, what does he do who yields to the human requirement?
He virtually says to God, I know your claims, but I will not yield to them.

I know that the power I am required to worship is anti-Christian; but I yield to save my life.