Now Available from the Author:
The Truth About 666
and the Story of the Great Apostasy
Three Volumes in One
by
Edwin de Kock
Synopsis
Ranging over the entire Christian era, The Truth
About 666 is a penetrating 874-page book in three volumes for both
scholars and lay people concerned about past, present, and future events. This
is the most comprehensive work on prophecy and history ever produced by a
Seventh-day Adventist, with the assistance of excellent researchers and
scholars. About the earliest Christian centuries, it agrees with and defends
Ellen G. White’s Great Controversy as well as Uriah Smith’s Daniel
and the Revelation, but it adds much that neither of them dealt with.
For instance, the Heruli, Vandals, and Ostrogoths were not
really Arians but ancient Sabbathkeepers, who stood in the way of papal
supremacy. Therefore, they had to be eliminated. The popes were supported by
the kings and emperors of Europe in persecuting those who opposed the Roman
Church, yet for centuries they also struggled to dominate them.
With amazing new discoveries in Latin as well as five other
languages, this book vindicates Uriah Smith’s conclusion that the 666 in Rev.
13:18 really refers to vicarius Filii Dei (the vicar of the Son of God). This
title first appeared during 753 in a document known as the Donation of
Constantine, which was forged by the papacy to claim ecclesiastic supremacy as
well as secular domination. The narrative of The Truth About 666 is enlivened
by many fascinating episodes. For instance, it shows that the people of
Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, speak Portuguese, while the
others speak Spanish, due to a papal decision based on that fraudulent
manuscript.
This book is a storehouse of brand-new discoveries. One of
its treasures is an Appendix with material quoted from more than eighty
non-Seventh-day Adventist writers, mostly Protestants who lived and labored
before Uriah Smith. They testified to the fact that vicarius Filii Dei was
indeed a papal title. Most of them also showed that it had a number value of
666.
Very many Catholic writers also bore witness to the fact that
the popes have for more than a thousand years been called the vicars of the
Son of God, in Latin as well as the other leading languages of Western Europe.
In its third volume, this book discusses the problem of some
Seventh-day Adventist scholars who now say that 666 does not refer to the pope
but only means human sinfulness or imperfection. Some of them also claim that
the number, the name, and the mark of the Beast are one and the same thing. By
implication, there will therefore be no Sunday laws, nor will America
cooperate with the papacy in its pursuit of world domination. Such ideas
undermine the third angel’s message, suggesting that Seventh-day Adventists
are not really the Remnant Church of prophecy. As The Truth About 666
demonstrates, these Seventh-day Adventist scholars have most unfortunately
been influenced by writers from outside their church: Sundaykeepers,
Protestants and Catholics, as well as others, including Spiritualists.
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