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America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Original Edition]

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

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commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the<br />

least <strong>in</strong> the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of heaven; but whosoever shall do and<br />

teach them, the same shall be called great <strong>in</strong> the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of<br />

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It is a fact generally admitted <strong>by</strong> Protestants, that the<br />

Scriptures give no authority for the change of the Sabbath.<br />

This is pla<strong>in</strong>ly stated <strong>in</strong> publications issued <strong>by</strong> the <strong>America</strong>n<br />

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Testament so far as any explicit command for the Sabbath<br />

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observance are concerned.” –George Elliott, The Abid<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Sabbath, p. 184.<br />

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had been made <strong>in</strong> the day;” and, “so far as the record shows,<br />

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Roman Catholics acknowledge that the change of the<br />

Sabbath was made <strong>by</strong> their church, and declare that Protestants<br />

<strong>by</strong> observ<strong>in</strong>g the Sunday are recogniz<strong>in</strong>g her power. In the<br />

Catholic Catechism of Christian Religion, <strong>in</strong> answer to a question<br />

as to the day to be observed <strong>in</strong> obedience to the fourth<br />

commandment, this statement is made: “Dur<strong>in</strong>g the old law,<br />

the church, <strong>in</strong>structed <strong>by</strong> Jesus<br />

Christ, and directed <strong>by</strong> the Spirit of God, has substituted Sunday<br />

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Sunday means, and now is, the day of the Lord.”<br />

As the sign of the authority of the Catholic Church, papist<br />

writers cite “the very act of chang<strong>in</strong>g the Sabbath <strong>in</strong>to Sunday,<br />

which Protestants allow of; … because <strong>by</strong> keep<strong>in</strong>g Sunday,<br />

they acknowledge the church’s power to orda<strong>in</strong> feasts, and to<br />

command them under s<strong>in</strong>.” –Henry Tuberville, An Abridgment<br />

of the Christian Doctr<strong>in</strong>e, p. 58. What then is the change of the<br />

Sabbath, but the sign or mark of the authority of the Roman<br />

Church —“the mark of the beast”?

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