In 1902 she wrote, "San Francisco and Oakland are becoming as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Lord will [punish] them...." Describing a vision she received on April 16, 1906, she wrote: "...there passed before me a most wonderful [astonishing, distressing] representation. During a vision of the night, I stood on an eminence, from which I could see houses shaken like a reed in the wind. Buildings, great and small, were falling to the ground. Pleasure resorts, theaters, hotels, and the homes of the wealthy were shaken and shattered. Many lives were blotted out of existence, and the air was filled with shrieks of the injured and the terrified.''
And the vision proved true. Two days later, Mrs. White, traveling to speak at the Los Angeles Carr Street Seventh-day Adventist church, heard a newsboy crying loudly, "San Francisco destroyed by an earthquake!" With an aching heart she read the details of her prophecy being fulfilled.
Today Seventh-day Adventists believe that the source of her writings, the source of her inspiration, was more than human; that the two thousand "visions" given her during her lifetime were the result of her having received the "gift of prophecy."
In your churches attempts to prop up your prophetess they even deny what she herself wrote about her visions concerning the San Francisco Earth Quake
Life Sketches of Ellen G White
Warnings and Exhortations, Pg 411
"Since the San Francisco earthquake, many rumors have been current regarding statements I have made. Some have reported that while in Los Angeles, I claimed that I had predicted the San Francisco earthquake and fire, and that Los Angeles would be the next city to suffer. This is not true. The morning after the earthquake, I said no more than that 'the earthquakes will come; the floods will come;' and that the Lord's message to us is that we shall 'not establish ourselves in the wicked cities.' {LS 411.2}
A Messenger of God
"To claim to be a prophetess," Ellen White wrote, "is something that I have never done.
A flat out lie, Nothing but double speak and attempts to cover her failures, More White Lies,
"The Holy Ghost is the Author of the Scriptures and of the Spirit of Prophecy."
{Selected Messages,Vol.3 p.30}
"These books contain clear ,straight, unalterable truth and they should be certainly appreciated The instruction they contain is not of human production" {Letter h-339,Dec 26,1904}
"I beg of you for Christ sake to consider what I say :for I say it not of myself. It is the word of God to you" {Letter 25b, 1895,pp 1-3 to Brother and Sister Hare, April 1895}
"Why have I not claimed to be a prophet?- Because in these days many who boldly claim that they are prophets are a reproach to the cause of Christ; AND BECAUSE MY WORK INCLUDES MUCH MORE THAN THE WORD "PROPHET" SIGNIFIES."{ Review and Herald , July26, 1907}
"My commission embraces the work of a prophet ,but does not end there.
{Selected messages vol .1pg 36, 1906}
Testimonies 5, p.64.
Yet, now when I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you declare it to be merely the opinion of Sister White. You thereby insulted the Spirit of God.
Neither did John the Baptist call himself a prophet, but rather "the voice of one crying in the wilderness." Yet Christ called him a prophet: "A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet."
She was shown that her work was to embrace "much more" than the word prophet signifies. "Much more" included giving messages "from the Lord to His people"; teaching "health reform"; being a "medical missionary worker," setting "an example to the church by taking the sick into [her] home and caring for them"; speaking "to large assemblies on temperance"; reproving the oppressor and pleading for justice; promoting the care of the aged; taking orphans into her home "and then finding homes for them" or caring for and educating them for service; traveling often; writing much; and taking up "work in any line that [the Lord points out].''Although she never held a church office, she wrote, "I have a work of great responsibility to do--to impart by pen and voice the instruction given me, not alone to Seventh-day Adventists, but to the world.''
More double speak, In an attempt to try and show that a woman was not ordained by the SDA's they fail to acknowledge that she had the power and the authority to remove those who WERE ordained from their positions if she did not teach what she told them to, So who was the true head and power of the SDA church ordained or not???
She was the living and is now the dead spiritual Pope of the SDA church,
Her textbook was the Bible, and she wrote, "As the Spirit of God has opened to my mind the great truths of His word, and the scenes of the past and the future, I have been bidden to make known to others that which has thus been revealed...."
And got it all wrong, Here is a sample of her "Visions" from the past Giving us the details she believed the bible left out.
Ellen G White says,
It was Herod who had the crown of thorns placed on the head of Jesus
Spirit of Prophecy vol 3, Pgs 138- 139
At the suggestion of Herod, a crown was now plaited from a vine bearing sharp thorns, and this was placed upon the sacred brow of Jesus; and an old tattered purple robe, once the garment of a king, was placed upon his noble form, while Herod and the Jewish priests encouraged the insults and cruelty of the mob. Jesus was then placed upon a large block, which was derisively called a throne, an old reed was placed in his
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hand as a scepter, and, amid satanic laughter, curses, and jeers, the rude throng bowed to him mockingly as to a king. Occasionally some murderous hand snatched the reed that had been placed in his hand, and struck him on the head with it, forcing the thorns into his temples, and causing the blood to flow down his face and beard. {3SP 138.2}
The Biblical account is not even close to what Ellen White claimed was revealed to her,
The Bible says,
Mt 27:26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Mt 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
Mt 27:28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Mt 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Mr 15:14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
Mr 15:15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
Mr 15:16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
Mr 15:17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
Mr 15:18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
Joh 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
Joh 19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
Joh 19:3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
The account of what transpired at Herods is only mentioned in the Gospel of Luke.
Lu 23:11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Lu 23:12 And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
Sister White said, "At the suggestion of Herod, a crown was now plaited from a vine bearing sharp thorns,"
It was not Herod or his men that placed the crown of thorns upon Jesus. This was done by the Roman soldiers under Pilate. Herod suggested no such thing.
and an old tattered purple robe, once the garment of a king, was placed upon his noble form,
The Bible says it was a "gorgeous robe" that Herod had placed on Jesus, The purple robe was put upon him by the Roman soldiers. Not the men of Herod. Nor does the Bible say it was the old tattered robe of a king. One would have to wonder why a man of wealth and power like Herod would keep an old tattered robe around in the first place,
Lu 23:11.......And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe,
There is no mention of its color or that it had once belonged to a king. Mark and John record that the robe used by the Roman soldiers was Purple
Mr 15:15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
Mr 15:16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
Mr 15:17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
Joh 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
Joh 19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
Joh 19:3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
Matthew records the robe as scarlet, Either way all say this was done by the Roman Soldiers under Pilate and not the men of Herod or the angry mob,
while Herod and the Jewish priests encouraged the insults and cruelty of the mob. Jesus was then placed upon a large block, which was derisively called a throne, an old reed was placed in his hand as a scepter, and, amid satanic laughter, curses, and jeers, the rude throng bowed to him mockingly as to a king.
Lu 23:10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
There is no record of the mob being present at the audience with Herod nor about a large block which was used as his throne. This has all been added contrary to what the Bible says actually says transpired.
Sister White said people who were part of the mob struck Jesus on the head with a reed.
Occasionally some murderous hand snatched the reed that had been placed in his hand, and struck him on the head with it, forcing the thorns into his temples, and causing the blood to flow down his face and beard. {3SP 138.2}
According to Matthew 27 this was not done by the mob but by the Roman soldiers under Pilate in the Preatorium.
Mt 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Mt 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Mt 27:30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Mt 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
Mt 27:28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
Mt 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Mt 27:30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Mt 27:31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
The Biblical account and the account presented by Ellen G White are in complete contradiction.
yours in Christ
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