“National Sunday Law” is a book I received in the mail and it said 39. 2 million were in print. So with that many printed, I thought I would quickly read through it. It is printed by the Orthodox Christian Church publication ministry called New Life Publications and Marcussen is a Seventh-Day Adventist minister (researched after reading the book).
The book describes a warning to Christians to return to Sabbath worship and escape from the Catholic Church. While Marcussen uses Scripture for his arguments, he lacks a big picture of how to put Scripture together and to realize there are dispensations to which passages of Scripture apply. He uses passages from both the Old and New Testament to provide text proofs for his arguments and unfortunately distorts the real intents for today and the future.
Marcussen seeks to identify the beast the false prophet with the United States and the Catholic Church, respectively. I appreciate several of his comparisons, but his final interpretation has too many holes. End times can be difficult to precisely interpret, but his method of analysis creates more questions that he answers. He also says the “mark” of the beast is Sunday worship, which was ‘instituted by the Catholic Church, not the New Testament.’ He declares the 1260 days of the Tribulation refers to the 1260 years that the Catholic Church controlled power from 538 A.D. to 1798 A.D. While the passages he uses to support the time difference do equate the day with a year, he is out of context.
He believes Christians should follow the Old Testament Law, because, he says, it was never done away with. While the Law provided great ceremonial and moral laws, it was put aside when the Lord Jesus fulfilled it and we entered the Church Age and live under grace and the Law of Christ. I can never understand how some theologians will say that we should keep the Law, but they do not keep sacrificing lambs. Like most of their interpretations, they pick and choose from Scripture in order to substantiate their theology.
A day is reckoning is coming and he says that there will be a National Sunday Law of worship. Those who worship on Saturday will be persecuted and even removed. His arguments were found empty.
I believe he truly loves the Lord Jesus and wants to honor Him. Marcussen never gives the gospel, but it seems that he would say salvation would be found in obedience to the Law, not humble faith trusting in the finished work of the Lord Jesus on the cross. I enjoyed the book as it provides a challenge for my own theology and questions that must be answered using a Literal historico-grammatical method of interpretation. The challenge is not digging to find answers to the questions raised, but in discipling people to the Lord Jesus and helping them multiply through discipleship in the grace of God.
Shepherding Truth 
Could U Please send me a Copy of this Book or tell me How I may get a Copy I understand it is Free
It was sent to me in the mail. I think you can check on Amazon or google the publisher.
The date and time that I left the comment was May 13, 2020 at 10:56 pm central standard time.
Not sure how come this May 14, 2020 was recorded?? Perhaps in another part of the world.
OK, Thank you for the review. A friend just got the booklet and I was going to read & critique it but you saved me the time. Now, I also disagree with a part of your theology, too, though, as dispensationalism has several holes, too. 1st, God has always been a covenant God, and holds to His side of covenants made, it’s man that breaks covenant. The Hebrews were chosen by God to be His people and there was no timeline placed on that, as a matter of fact, the Hebrews are the vine that we gentiles are grafted into. God’s/Jesus’s chosen people and we are then brought into His “chosenness” because He has chosen to covenant with us, too, with the Christ covenant, the Gospel. Jesus himself states that he didn’t come to abolish, but to fulfill the OT covenants. Remember, there are several OT covenants, not just one. He fulfilled the sacrificial covenant, but didn’t remove the moral or social parts of that covenant. It’s similar to Computer software – when I was in college, I learned Fortran, there was Cobal, and others. Each computer company had their own OS software as the world before God choose the Hebrews. the Moses covenant had basis in the covenants that God made with individuals such as Adam/Eve, Melchizedek, Noah, Abraham and so forth. It didn’t eliminate them, but added to them and made them obsolete, which means that they are still in existence, but like a beautiful old book, no longer used (at least parts of them). So, while the pre-Moses covenants were all kinds of OS software, the Moses Covenant was Microsoft Windows. Then, when Christ came as human, similar to win 10, he added upgrades and dropped parts that were no longer applicable, ie; fulfilling the sacrificial laws and moving the moral laws from being written (10 Commandments) to being part of our heart & the Holy Spirit to help quicken those, along with social laws.
So, while the Moses covenant isn’t apparent in the New covenant, it is an integral building block for it, for without it, we wouldn’t/couldn’t have the New Covenant.