Divine Predictions
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Ellen G. White's Testimony
Let us trace Adventist history using Ellen G.
White statements. The year is indicated for each statement.:
- 1844. "A spirit of solemn and earnest prayer
was everywhere felt by the saints. A holy solemnity was resting upon them.
Angels were watching with the deepest interest the effect of the message,
and were elevating whose who received it, and drawing them from earthly
things to obtain large supplies from salvation's fountain. God's people
were accepted of Him. Jesus looked upon them with pleasure, for His image
was reflected in them." Early Writings, p.239
- "Our love for one another was steadfast;
it was not easily shaken. Then the power of God was manifested among us,
the sick were healed, and there was much calm, sweet, holy joy." Testimonies,
Vol.5, p. 534
This was certainly a wonderful, inspiring condition.
But we are made sad as we read that a change for the worse began taking
place soon after this time. Read the following record:
- 1852. "As I have of late looked around to
find the humble followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, my mind has been
much exercised. Many who profess to be looking for the speedy coming of
Christ are becoming conformed to this world and seek more earnestly the
applause of those around them than the approbation of God. They are cold
and formal, like the nominal churches from which they but a short time
since separated. The words addressed to the Laodicean church describe their
condition perfectly." Early Writings, p. 107
- 1856. "Oh, the pride that was shown me of
God's professed people! It has increased every year, until it is now impossible
to designate professed advent Sabbathkeepers from all the world around
them." Testimonies, Vol.1, p. 135
- 1860. "I was shown the low state of God's
people; that God had not departed from them, but that they had departed
from Him, and had become lukewarm." Testimonies, Vol.1, p. 210
- 1865. "The people are overcharged with surfeiting
and drunkenness and the cares of this life. They are entering deeper and
deeper into a spirit of worldly enterprise... Spirituality and devotion
are rare." Testimonies, Vol. 1, p. 469
- 1868. "I have stated before them that, from
what was shown me, but a small number of those now professing to believe
the truth would eventually be saved - not because they could not be saved,
but because they would not be saved in God's own appointed way." Testimonies,
Vol. 2, p. 445
- 1882. "As Jesus views the state of His professed
followers today, He sees base ingratitude, hollow formalism, hypocritical
insincerity, pharisaical pride and apostasy." "...The church
has turned back from following Christ her Leader and is steadily retreating
toward Egypt." Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 72, 217
- 1888. "The facts concerning the real condition
of the professed people of God speak more loudly than their profession,
and make it evident that some power has cut the cable that anchored them
to the Eternal Rock, and that they are drifting away to sea without chart
or compass." Review and Herald, July 24, 1888
- 1891. "The church has long been contended
with little of the blessing of God; they have not felt the need of reaching
up to the exalted priviliges purchased for them at infinite cost. Their
spiritual strength has been feeble, their experience of a dwarfed and crippled
character, and they are disqualified for the work the Lord would have them
to do." Testimonies to Ministers, p. 175
- 1893. " 'And thou, Capernaum (Seventh-day
Adventists, who have had great light), which are exalted unto heaven (in
the point of privilege), shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty
works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have
remained until this day.' Matthew 11:23." Review and Herald, August
1, 1893
- 1895. "The conviction is gaining ground
in the world that Seventh-day Adventists are giving the trumpet an uncertain
sound, that they are following in the path of worldlings." Testimonies
to Ministers, p. 86
- 1903. "Who can truthfully say: 'Our has
been tried in the fire; our garments are unspottted by the world ' ? I
saw our Instructor pointing to the garments of so-called righteousness.
Stripping them off, He laid bare the defilement beneath. Then He said to
me: 'Can you not see how they have pretentiously covered up their defilement
and rottenness of character ? "How is the faithful city become an
harlot !" My Father's house is made a house of merchandise, a place
whence the divine presence and glory have departed !'" Testimonies,
Vol.8, p. 250
This is a terrible revelation of the true condition
of God's professed people. No one can deny it, and consequences must be
faced unless a decided change is made.
Object Lessons
"Now all these things happened unto them
for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends
of the world are come." 1 Cor. 10:11