Discovering the Spirit of Prophecy
La Konflikto de la Epokoj The work of a lifetime
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dwin de Kock became acquainted with the Adventist message at the tender age of 5, when his mother discovered the seventh-day Sabbath while reading the Ten Commandments. A South African native, de Kock graduated with a theology degree from Helderberg College near Cape Town, then went on to obtain a speech teacher’s license, a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in languages, and a degree in education. For more than 40 years he served in both denominational and nondenominational high schools, colleges, and universities in South Africa, Korea, and the United States, where he and his wife became citizens in 2000. While a student at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, de Kock met Nico van der Merwe, who introduced him to Esperanto—a language developed by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, a polyglot Polish Jew. Zamenhof published a booklet in 1887 in which he presented Esperanto grammar, basic vocabulary, exercises, and several poems that he
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