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Abajiri, roughly translating to "The People of the Gospel," [1] and also known as 666, is a minor eschatological Christian sect in the Luweero and Nakasongola districts [2] of Uganda, and has since spread over the country. It was launched in 1992, [3] [4] when its founders split it off from the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. [1]
Seventh-day Adventist believe that White had the spiritual gift of prophecy, but that her writings are a lesser light to the Bible, which has ultimate authority. According to the 28 Fundamentals the core set of theological beliefs held by the Seventh-day Adventist Church , states that Adventists accept the Bible as their only creed and can be ...
The Seventh-day Adventist Church holds a unique system of eschatological (or end-times) beliefs.Adventist eschatology, which is based on a historicist interpretation of prophecy, is characterised principally by the premillennial Second Coming of Christ.
Adventists have interpreted the number of the beast, 666, as corresponding to the title Vicarius Filii Dei of the Pope. In 1866, Uriah Smith was the first to propose the interpretation to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [71] In The United States in the Light of Prophecy, he wrote:
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is as of 2016 "one of the fastest-growing and most widespread churches worldwide", [7] with a worldwide baptized membership of over 22 million people. As of May 2007 [update] , it was the twelfth-largest Protestant religious body in the world and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.
Seventh-day Adventists taking this view believe that the 'mark of the beast' (but not the number 666) refers to a future, universal, legally enforced Sunday-sacredness. "Those who reject God's memorial of creatorship—the Bible Sabbath—choosing to worship and honor Sunday in the full knowledge that it is not God's appointed day of worship ...
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Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia; Earliest Seventh-day Adventist Periodicals, reprinted by Andrews University Press. Introduction by George Knight (publisher's page) Adventist Classic Library series, reprints of up to 40 major titles by 2015 (publisher's page)