That’s what one reader wrote in to tell us. But why? After all, our edition is word for word the same as the 1911 edition of The Great Controversy. The only difference – a thrilling difference – is the over 400 photographs included in this new edition.
Provided by historian and artist Jim Arrabito, some of these photographs confirm well documented church history. Some are portraits of the Reformers: Luther, Knox, Calvin, etc. and are painted by Jim himself. Others shine with the brilliance of a thousand suns. Especially is this true of those that expose the pagan vertebrae undergirding the sacred rituals and vestments of the Roman Catholic Church. Beyond brilliant, these photographs are divine ordnance, destined to detonate, we believe, as part of the loud cry when “the sins of Babylon will be laid open” before the world. The (New, Illustrated) Great Controversy, page 606.
Of special significance are those photographs from the renowned Pergamon Museum in Germany. Without them, the Pope’s miter would perhaps have forever remained nothing more than a quaint design, relic of an antiquated past. Armed with these, however, Dagon emerges on the world stage, very much alive, still half-fish, half-man, his episcopal miter placed gloriously atop the pope of Rome.
Are we sure? Yes, for ministering on Pergamon’s stone altar are several priests, adorned not in the pope’s truncated version, but with Dagon’s full bodied miter upon them. The comparison is clear. The conclusion frightening. Once secure in the ignorance of the masses, popes for centuries could officiate in whatever vestment they chose. Today, however, Pergamon’s altars and these photographs constitute a stunning expose′. In placing even this truncated version of Dagon’s miter upon his head, is not the pope telling us whom he really represents?
Nor is this accidental. What these photographs depict is a pulsating parade of heathen deities enshrined within the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church. Cybele, Bacchus, Zeus, Dionysus, Neptune – in one form or another they’re all there. As page after page of these photographs is perused, one begins to see the wholesale invasion of paganism that has occurred here. In particular, the extent to which the trappings of ancient sun-worship are intertwined and venerated within this communion is truly staggering. Alive and thriving, they are exposed in these photographs with a clarity and certainty impossible to miss.
Friend, we’d like to start a collection of testimonies here – testimonies from people whose eyes have been opened as a result of reading The (New, Illustrated) Great Controversy. If you’ve joined the church as a result of reading this book, we’re inviting you to tell us about it. Were you a Christian before reading it? What’s your background? How did these photos move you? This might not be you, but if you know anybody who falls into this category, please tell them about this blog. We printed 130,000 copies of this classic. That makes for a potential of 130,000 responses. Please tell us from what country you’re writing. We’d love to hear from you.
dc says:
March 16, 2011 at 6:01 pm
My name is ‘D’ and my story about this New Illustrated Great Controversy book began in August of 1999. In July of the same year, I had received a flyer in the mail for an Amazing Facts seminar at a local college about Revelation. Just a week prior to this, I had asked God, on my knees, where He was and what was the truth for all the new age books and psychics were certainly not leading me there. This little brochure on the Revelation Seminar had all sorts of symbolic creatures with wings and the subject matters for some of the 22 nights had drawn my attention. A still small voice in my head told me to go to the first night that I might like it and not to wait for a later time to go as I had planned. So I made it the second night and finished all the rest for it was so awesome to me to learn the truth…finally! Each night they had a drawing to give away some books and the New Illustrated Great Controversy was one of them. I wound up getting 3 of those books plus 2 Concordances in the first two weeks alone and gave my extras away to those who did not get any. This was in July and after that, in August, I sat up every night that month into the early morning reading the Great Controversy until finished. The pictures really solidified what I had read and tell the story in greater detail…those pictures are worth a thousand words. How can anyone deny what is so plainly seen? Do pictures lie? If I can find more of these books, each one of my family members and close friends are going to get one, and let the pictures entice them to read the truth. I so much like what the author said about this book in another article she wrote that an angel of God is sent with every Great Controversy that goes out, and out of all the books she had written, this one was the most important and that every one should possess it. I agree 110%! I can never get enough of it and the calamities we see happening now in the world with great rapidity means we are ever so closer to the image of the beast being set up and Jesus coming soon to redeem us…Amen! I cannot stress enough how important this book is, for it was the very book that changed my life, and I was baptized into the Body of Christ the very next month on 9/11/99 at the ripe ole age of 45. The pictures are priceless! DC
