Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

according to various commentators, the light of
the New Testament gospel, which empowered
and gave unction to the early church. The
moon, mirroring the light of the sun, fitly
symbolizes the Old Testament's reflection of
the light of the gospel through the predictions
and rites that pointed forward to the cross and
the One to come. The crown of twelve stars
represents the church's roots, arising in the Old
Testament in the fathers of the twelve tribes
and extending in the New through the twelve
apostles.
2. The use of year-day principle to calculate
prophetic time was mentioned earlier in
reference to the Messianic prophecy of Daniel
9. See chapter 4 of this book.
3. SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 4, p. 835.
4. The name pope literally comes from the Low
Latin papa, Low Greek, papas, "father,"
"bishop"; Greek pappas, "father." The pope is
"the bishop of Rome; the head of the Roman
Catholic Church." (Webster's New Universal
Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd ed. [New York,
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979]).
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