La identificación de los Estados Unidos de América como imperio es común en la prensa y en el medio académico de hoy. Sin embargo, ya en el siglo XIX, intérpretes adventistas habían identificado ese potencial y habían relacionado esa nación emergente con las profecías apocalípticas. El objetivo de este libro es mostrar de qué modo el proceso de fundación de ese país provee importantes datos para iluminar la interpretación adventista de Apocalipsis 13. Además de esto, aclara el actual panorama sociopolítico de esa nación y sus perspectivas futuras. Esta lectura ayudará a entender mejor la lógica de las profecías bíblicas como revelaciones por parte del Dios verdadero que conoce y comanda la historia.

¿Qué precederá al Reino Milenario de Jesucristo? La falsedad del Nuevo Orden Mundial. Nada hay de nuevo en este añejo mundo, solo repetición de viejas mañas aparentadas para diferentes épocas; y en la nuestra, directamente relacionadas con la explosión demográfica y tecnológica anunciadas desde antaño por el profeta hebreo Daniel, cuando empinado hacia el final de nuestra Era escuchó y escribió cuando se le decía: "Tú empero Daniel, cierra las palabras y sella el libro hasta el tiempo del fin: pasarán muchos, y multiplicaráse la ciencia" (Daniel 12:4). La encrucijada en que los homo-sapiens se enfrentan a su Hacedor está a punto de alcanzarse; aunque otros aprovechando la dolencia de un mundo lleno de humanos cansados de opresión, injusticias y abusos; se esmeran en implantar la otrora ideología del bondadoso 'nuevo' líder que nos traerá 'humanidad' y una gran 'comunidad internacional'; mientras se promete democracia y paz, para instalar el viejo truco del Nuevo Orden Mundial; sin embargo, esta vez muy peligroso, al contar con la tecnología más avanzada, internet y satélites, en una era nuclear astuta y manipulativa. No es nada nuevo, y lo vemos ejemplificado en su máximo apogeo, tan temprano como en tiempos de Babel, cuando la élite de entonces hizo creer a todos que unidos alrededor de un hombre--tipo Nemrod--podrían alcanzar la gloria soñada de espaldas al Creador, de quien--como ahora--ya no creían; y de ahí el dicho de: "Vamos, edifiquémonos una ciudad y una torre, cuya cúspide llegue al cielo; y hagámonos un nombre..."(Génesis 11:4). En tiempos modernos lo pudimos experimentar bajo la hoz y el martillo del Kremlin moscovita, con su Imperio Comunista, prometiéndole al mundo otra "nueva era", y poniéndonos, en repetidas ocasiones, al borde de una conflagración termonuclear. Jesucristo advirtió a sus seguidores que estos serían tiempos angustiosos, asegurándonos que: "habrá hambres y alborotos..." (Marcos 13:8), y que sufriríamos todo tipo de burlas y menosprecios desde un mundo que se precia de sabio; no obstante, lo importante es conocer que todo es pasajero, y que sabemos de dónde vinimos... y a dónde vamos. La esperanza prometida está fundada en la Roca de los siglos y camina en nuestra dirección; no contraria como otros quieren asegurarnos. El Nuevo Orden se nos hace viejo, hasta que la cena del gran Dios se harte de reyes y capitanes (Apocalipsis 19:18); dando paso al Reino Milenario. Solo el Reino de Dios, establecido milagrosamente (no con ideologías políticas humanistas) traerá la verdadera justicia y prosperidad. El humano con sus propias fuerzas no puede, porque esta inherente su condición espiritual de caída y muerte. CONTENIDO: -Introducción. -El comienzo del Final, y posterior establecimiento del Reino Milenario. -Acerca del autor.

La nueva Jerusalén es un hecho profético real dentro de la escatofagia cristiana, a su vez es una señal del Dios del cielo que anuncia el inicio de un Nuevo Orden Mundial con Cristo como Rey de reyes y Señor de Señores (Ap.19:16) Los cristianos de todos los tiempos debemos estar apercibidos porque somos parte de este maravilloso evento que tendrá lugar después de la Segunda Venida de Cristo a la tierra, evento que cambiará la faz del universo tal y como lo conocemos hoy. La ciencia dejará de ser para dar paso a un nuevo cielo y nueva tierra con la Jerusalén celestial, ciudad de oro descendiendo del mismo cielo hasta posarse sobre la tierra, y convertirse en la capital del imperio mundial de Cristo y hogar permanente de los creyentes.

Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the political character and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce. The more I advanced in the study of American society, the more I perceived that the equality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated. I then turned my thoughts to our own hemisphere, where I imagined that I discerned something analogous to the spectacle which the New World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily progressing towards those extreme limits which it seems to have reached in the United States, and that the democracy which governs the American communities appears to be rapidly rising into power in Europe. I hence conceived the idea of the book which is now before the reader. It is evident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. To some it appears to be a novel accident, which as such may still be checked; to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, when the territory was divided amongst a small number of families, who were the owners of the soil and the rulers of the inhabitants; the right of governing descended with the family inheritance from generation to generation; force was the only means by which man could act on man, and landed property was the sole source of power. Soon, however, the political power of the clergy was founded, and began to exert itself: the clergy opened its ranks to all classes, to the poor and the rich, the villein and the lord; equality penetrated into the Government through the Church, and the being who as a serf must have vegetated in perpetual bondage took his place as a priest in the midst of nobles, and not infrequently above the heads of kings. The different relations of men became more complicated and more numerous as society gradually became more stable and more civilized. Thence the want of civil laws was felt; and the order of legal functionaries soon rose from the obscurity of the tribunals and their dusty chambers, to appear at the court of the monarch, by the side of the feudal barons in their ermine and their mail. Whilst the kings were ruining themselves by their great enterprises, and the nobles exhausting their resources by private wars, the lower orders were enriching themselves by commerce. The influence of money began to be perceptible in State affairs. The transactions of business opened a new road to power, and the financier rose to a station of political influence in which he was at once flattered and despised. Gradually the spread of mental acquirements, and the increasing taste for literature and art, opened chances of success to talent; science became a means of government, intelligence led to social power, and the man of letters took a part in the affairs of the State. The value attached to the privileges of birth decreased in the exact proportion in which new paths were struck out to advancement. In the eleventh century nobility was beyond all price; in the thirteenth it might be purchased; it was conferred for the first time in 1270; and equality was thus introduced into the Government by the aristocracy itself.

This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately both Columbus's original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along with other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s. This new edition of the Las Casas manuscript presents its entire contents-including notes, insertions, and canceled text-more accurately, completely, and graphically than any other Spanish text published so far. In addition, the new translation, which strives for readability and accuracy, appears on pages facing the Spanish, encouraging on-the- spot comparisons of the translation with the original. Study of the work is further facilitated by extensive notes, documenting differences between the editors' transcription and translation and those of other transcribers and translators and summarizing current research and debates on unanswered current research and debates on unanswered questions concerning the voyage. In addition to being the only edition in which Spanish and English are presented side by side, this edition includes the only concordance ever prepared for the Diario. Awaited by scholars, this new edition will help reduce the guesswork that has long plagued the study of Columbus's voyage. It may shed light on a number of issues related to Columbus's navigational methods and the identity of his landing places, issues whose resolution depend, at least in part, on an accurate transcription of the Diario. Containing day-by-day accounts of the voyage and the first sighting of land, of the first encounters with the native populations and the first appraisals of his islands explored, and of a suspenseful return voyage to Spain, the Diario provides a fascinating and useful account to historians, geographers, anthropologists, sailors, students, and anyone else interested in the discovery-or in a very good sea story. Oliver Dunn received the PH.D. degree from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus in Purdue University and a longtime student of Spanish and early history of Spanish America. James E. Kelley, Jr., received the M.A. degree from American University. A mathematician and computer and management consultant by vocation, for the past twenty years he has studied the history of European cartography and navigation in late-medieval times. Both are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries and have written extensively on the history of navigation and on Columbus's first voyage, Although they remain unconvinced of its conclusions, both were consultants to the National geographic Society's 1986 effort to establish Samana Cay as the site of Columbus's first landing.

A readable, yet authoritative outline of the Catholic tradition on Antichrist based on Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and Tradition. Proves he will come, be an individual man, rule the entire world and deceive even some of the "elect." 64 pgs, PB