I am not aware of a single prediction Ellen White has made let alone one that failed, maybe you could tell me.
ELLEN WHITE AND Failed Prophecies
Mrs. White and her followers claim that she had the "spirit of prophecy" from December 1844, to the end of her life, August 1915, seventy-one years. During these long years she wrote over twenty volumes. All this time she claimed that the future was being revealed to her, and predicted what would happen. Here her claims can be examined and tested.
God's prophets foretold definite things to occur; named persons and cities, and told what would happen to each. Joseph foretold the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine (Genesis 41); Samuel told Saul that the kingdom would be taken from him and given to another (1 Samuel 15:28); Isaiah named Cyrus two hundred years before he was born (Isaiah 44:28); Jeremiah foretold the fall of Babylon (Jeremiah 51); Jesus warned of the destruction of Jerusalem (Matthew 24). Scores of such cases could be given.
But
where are the fulfilled predictions of Mrs. White during her seventy-one years of prophesying? What definite events did she foretell to occur at definite times and to definite cites? Where are these prophecies? At first she did venture to foretell a few things definitely,
but they all failed.
After that she invariably put everything in general terms, not venturing to name definitely any persons or cities or places or time. She predicted different things all in general terms. Anyone could do that safely, without any prophetic gift. If she really had the spirit of prophecy, that should have been the outstanding feature of her books. Instead of this, her 'Testimonies' and other
books are devoted almost wholly to personal matters,
expositions of the Bible,
and to practical subjects regarding Christian conduct and duty, the same as any intelligent religious teacher could write.
Once in her early work she did venture to predict the curse of God upon a definite person, Moses Hull. In 1862 he was about to give up his faith in Adventism. Mrs. White wrote him thus: "If you proceed in the way you have started,
misery and woe are before you. God's hand will arrest you in a manner that will not suit you. His wrath will not slumber." (Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 1, pp. 430,431). Mr. Hull
lived on many long years to a ripe old age,
and nothing of the kind predicted happened. After this she threatened many, but always in general terms.
Predictions about the Civil War
The Civil War of 1861-65 placed Seventh-day Adventists in a trying position. They could not engage in war and keep the Sabbath. She says:
"January 4, 1862, I was shown some things in regard to our nation." (Testimonies, Vol.1, p.253).
"It is all a bitter denunciation of Lincoln 's administration and his management of the war. Every move had been wrong, and only defeat was prophesied. Mr. Lincoln, in his need, asked the prayers of all Christians, and appointed days of fasting and prayer. Of these Mrs. White said: 'I saw that these national fasts were an insult to Jehovah. A national fast is proclaimed! Oh, what an insult to Jehovah'!" (Testimonies, Vol. 1, p.257).
That was the way she sympathized with Mr. Lincoln and the nation in the hour of need. Again, Mrs. White said: "
This nation will yet be humbled into the dust.
When England does declare war, all nations will have an interest of their own to serve, and there will be general war." (Ibid, p.259).
It never came. Here, again, her prophecy was a complete failure. Our nation was not humbled into the dust. England did not declare war.
Mrs. White interpreted the Civil War as a sign of
the end of the world, just as Adventists had interpreted the European war. She says:
"The scenes of earth's history are fast closing." (Ibid, p.260).
Under the heading, 'The Rebellion,' she says:
"The one all-important inquiry which should now engross the mind of everyone is, Am I prepared for the day of God?
Time will last a little longer." (p.363).
Since then two generations have gone. Mrs. White, Elder White, and all who then preached and heard that warning, are laid away. They needed no such warning, for they did not live to see that day, as she then predicted.
Failure, failure, failure is marked by ineradicable letters against
all her predictions.
During those dark days of the Civil War
, Mrs. White privately warned our married people not to have any more children. Time was so short, and the seven last plagues were so soon to fall, that children born then would be liable to perish. But children born since then are now grandparents!
MORE OF Ellen G. White's failed prophecies
"I have seen that the 1843 chart (William Miller's) was directed by the hand of the Lord and that it should not be altered that the figures were as he wanted them." (Early Writings, p.64, edition 1882). (
The chart mentioned predicted the end of the world in 1843).
Ellen White loses the vision: "In our frequent change of location in the earlier history of the publishing work, and I have crossed the plains no less than 17 times,
I lost all trace of the first published works. And here I pause to state that any of our people having in their possession a copy of any or all of my first views, as published prior to 1851, will do me a great favor if they will send them to me without delay." (Selected Messages, Book 1, p.60).
E.G. White prophesied the world would end in 1843, 1844, 1845 and 1851: "Now time is almost finished, (1851) and what we have been 6 years in learning they will have to learn in months." (Early Writings, p.57).
"I saw the state of the different churches since the second angel proclaimed their fall (in 1844). They have been growing more and more corrupt. Satan has taken full possession of the churches as a body. Their professions, their prayers and their exhortations are an abomination in the sight of GOD." (Spiritual Gifts, Vol 1, p.189).
White blames her failed prophecy on the members of the Seventh-day Adventist church: "Thus the work was hindered, and the world was left in darkness. Had the whole Adventist body united upon the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, how widely different would have been our history." (Selected Messages, Book 1, p.299).
Concerning some of her revelations: "In one of her visions her accompanying angels told her that
the time of salvation for all sinners ended in 1844. She now claims the door of mercy is still open. In another vision she discovered that women should wear short dresses with pants and she and her sister followers dressed this way for eight years. But the ridiculous custom has now been abandoned." (Biederwolf, Seventh-Day Adventism, p.81).
She also affirms that her visits to heaven were easily made: After having left there during one of her visits an angel "handed me a green cord coiled up closely. This he directed me to place next to my heart, and when I wished to see Jesus, take from my bosom and stretch it to the utmost. He cautioned me not to let it remain coiled for any length of time lest it should become knotted and difficult to straighten."
"I was shown the company present at the Conference. Said the angel: Some food for worms, some subject to the last plagues,
some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus." (Vol.1, p.131).
NOTE: This statement was made in 1856 and everyone present in that meeting
is now dead. Obviously, this was a false prophecy. Some SDA's, in trying to extricate themselves from the dilemma of this false statement, have argued that had God's people been faithful the Lord would have come long ago. But this excuse will not hold water, because God knew ahead of time what would happen. And Mrs. White made no conditions for the fulfillment of her prophecy. Her statement is plain and to the point.
"Thousands have been induced to enlist with the understanding that this war to exterminate slavery, but now that they are fixed, they find that they have been deceived,
that the object of this war is not to abolish slavery, but to preserve it." (Vol.1, pp.254,258).
NOTE: We know now that the Civil War in the USA did indeed abolish slavery.
Mrs. White was wrong.
"Soon we heard the voice of God like many waters which gave us the day and hour of Jesus coming. When God spoke the time, He poured upon us the Holy Spirit." (Vol.1, p.59).
NOTE: In this reference Mrs. White claims that the Lord gave her the day and hour of His coming. In Matthew 24:36, Jesus said, "
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels in heaven, but my Father only." And, of course, we know today she was wrong because Jesus did not come when she expected Him.
On pages 42-45 of
Early Writings, Mrs.
White describes a closing of a door in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary , and an opening in the most holy place (in 1844), that
the "midnight cry" was finished at the seventh month 1844 , (see p.43), that then was the "sealing time", and that
the time for salvation for sinners had passed (p.45).
All the above statements have been proven false by the fact that
Christ did NOT return to earth in 1844. The
" midnight cry" WAS NOT FINISHED IN 1844, FOR THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT HE DID THIS AT HIS ASCENSION (See Hebrews 6:19: 9:24). The time for the salvation of sinners did
NOT pass in 1844. If it did WE ARE in great trouble (LOST) TODAY!
Mrs. White taught that in the communion service the sisters should wash the feet of the brethren (Early Writings, p.117).
NOTE: Now this is considered so out of order that even SDA's do not follow this instruction.