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From Here to Forever
Turkey in future events, and commentators on prophecy have seen
Turkish power and its decline forecast in Scripture.
For the “hour, day, month, year” prophecy, as part of the sixth
trumpet, Josiah Litch worked out an application of the time prophecy,
ending Turkish independence in August 1840.
A book by Uriah Smith, Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,
rev. ed. of 1944, discusses the prophetic timing of this prophecy on
pp. 506-517.
Page 232. Ascension Robes. The story that the Adventists
made robes with which to ascend “to meet the Lord in the air” was
invented by those who wished to reproach the advent preaching.
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Careful inquiry has proven its falsity.
For a refutation of the legend of ascension robes, see Francis D.
Nichol, The Midnight Cry (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald
Publishing Association, 1944), chs. 25-27, and Appendices H-J.
See also LeRoy E. Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers
(Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association,
1954), vol. IV, pp. 822-826.
Page 269. A Threefold Message. Rev. 14:6, 7 foretells the
proclamation of the first angel’s message. Then the prophet con-
tinues: “There followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen,
is fallen, ... and the third angel followed them.” The word here
rendered “followed” means “to go along with,” “to follow one,” “go
with him.” It also means “to accompany.” The idea intended is that
of “going together,” “in company with.” The idea in Rev. 14:8, 9
is not simply that the second and third angels followed the first in
point of time, but that they went with him. They are three only in
the order of their rise. But having risen, they go on together.
Page 352. Supremacy of the Bishops of Rome. See James
Cardinal Gibbons, Faith of Our Fathers (Baltimore: John Murphy
Co., 110th ed., 1917), chs. 5, 9, 10, 12.
Page 352. The Sabbath Among the Waldenses. See note for
page 44.
Page 353. The Ethiopian Church and the Sabbath. Until rather
recent years the Coptic Church of Ethiopia observed the seventh-
day Sabbath. The Ethiopians also kept Sunday. The observance of
the seventh-day Sabbath has, however, virtually ceased in modern
Ethiopia. For eyewitness accounts of religious days in Ethiopia,