In the middle of a funeral Ellen White would have possibly her most significant vision. The Great Controversy vision was one that the devil did not want to make it to print. Ellen White almost died soon after but lived to write the book that has changed the lives of countless people.

<p>In the middle of a funeral Ellen White would have possibly her most significant vision. The Great Controversy vision was one that the devil did not want to make it to print. Ellen White almost died soon after but lived to write the book that has changed the lives of countless people.</p>

Lineage: Season 2

Adam Ramdin

Lineage Journey

Episode 1: The Mayflower & The Birth of America

Episode 2: The Great Awakening

Episode 3: William Miller- Early Life & Conversion

Episode 4: William Miller- Study & Call to Ministry

Episode 5: The Great Disappointment

Episode 6: The Potato Preachers

Episode 7: Ellen White - Early Years

Episode 8: Ellen White- First Vision & Call to Ministry

Episode 9: Hazen Foss & William Foy- Unfaithful and Faithful

Episode 10: Frederick Wheeler, Rachel Oakes Preston & The Sabbath

Episode 11: Joseph Bates & The Sabbath Pact

Episode 12: The Sabbath Pact & The Youth of Paris Hill Maine

Episode 13: Hiram Edson- The Theological Birthplace

Episode 14: The Birth of Spiritualism & The State of the Dead

Episode 15: Henry White’s Death at Fort Howland

Episode 16: Eugene Farnsworth & Ellen White

Episode 17: The First Adventist Press in Rochester

Episode 18: Annie Smith- Short Life Huge Impact

Episode 19: Uriah Smith - A life of service

Episode 20: The Great Controversy

Episode 21: Slavery, The Civil War & Ellen White

Episode 22: The Birth of Adventist Education

Episode 23: Literature Evangelism & George King

Episode 24: J.H. Kellogg & Ellen White

Episode 25: Czechowski & Tramelan: Early Work in Europe

Episode 26: Jakob Erzberger: Europe’s Forgotten Pioneer

Episode 27: J.N. Andrews: The Ablest Man in Our Ranks

Episode 28: The Birth of Youth Ministries in Adventism

Episode 29: James & Ellen White’s Marriage

Episode 30: J.N. Loughbourough: What Doest Thou Here Elijah

Episode 31: Young Pioneers: Death & Honour

Episode 32: The 1888 General Conference Session

Episode 33: S.N. Haskell - Soap Maker to Pioneer

Episode 34: Early Adventism in England

Episode 35: Ellen White Called to Australia

Episode 36: The Birth of Adventism in New Zealand

Episode 37: The Birth of Adventism in Australia & Sanitarium

Episode 38: Avondale College

Episode 40: Nathaniel Faulkhead: From Freemason to Adventist

Episode 39: Ellen White and Sunnyside

Episode 41: From Vision to Printed Page

Episode 42: Edson White: His Work & Conversion

Episode 43: The Morning Star

Episode 44: Madison College & ASI

Episode 45: Anna Knight: Pioneer Missionary

Episode 46: Adventists, Abolition & Oakwood

Episode 47: The 1902 Battle Creek Fire

Episode 48: Loma Linda University

Episode 49: Elmshaven: Ellen White & A.G. Daniells

Episode 50: Elmshaven: Vision & Grandchildren

Episode 51: The Death of Ellen White

Episode 52: The SDA Church: It’s Past, Present & Future

The Great Controversy Season 2 Episode 2 The Great Controversy The Great Controversy There is 1 book that almost cost Ellen White her life, and that book today is entitled The Great Controversy.

The origins of this book come to this rural area here, just outside the town of Bowling Green in the state of Ohio.

Ellen and James White had been traveling across the state visiting various families, and they were in this area for the funeral of a young child.

The funeral took place on March 14, 1858 in the Lovett's Grove schoolhouse, which would have been located just across the road from here.

During the funeral sermon, Ellen White received a vision that lasted 2 hours.

Receiving a vision during the funeral of a grieving young family is not the ideal timing, but the truth that this vision would share would be vitally important to us today.

[♪ music ♪ The following day James and Ellen were traveling home by train and she relayed to him what she had seen, and they discussed plans for writing out the vision.

It was decided that when they reached home, this would be her first work.

Yet On that train there was what 1 author has described as an unseen, unpaying passenger who was determined that the world should never know the truth about himself, that it should not get published and see the light of day.

Arriving in Jackson, Michigan, They went to the home of Dan Palmer, and as Ellen White was conversing with Sister Palmer, she suffered a cold, strange sensation pass over her right side and heart.

[♪ music ♪ Those present earnestly prayed for her, and with a partially restored strength she was able to continue her journey here to Battle Creek.

Arriving back here in this house, She began to write, but it wasn't easy.

Initially, she only had enough strength to write barely 1 page, and then she had to rest for 3 days afterwards.

But as she continued to write and her strength increased, she was able to progress and finish the book.

In June of that year, she received some light as to what happened in Dan Palmer's home, and she wrote, I was shown in vision that in the attack at Jackson, Satan had intended to take my life in order to hinder the work that I was about to write, but angels of God were sent to my rescue.' The unseen, unpaying passenger on that train did not want the world to know that he had been an angel in heaven, that he had fallen into sin, and that he was the cause of the misery in this world.

[♪ music ♪ The first published account of this vision would be this book right here, the 1858 edition of Spiritual Gifts, Volume 1.

This would later be enlarged into The Spirit of Prophecy, Volumes 1-4, and then eventually to what we have today, a five-part series entitled The Conflict of the Ages, of which the book Great Controversy is the last in the series.

The great controversy between Christ and Satan would be a major theme in the writings of Ellen White, and also the motif by which Seventh-day Adventists would understand as key to unlocking Scripture.

How to Unlock Scripture This book, the 1 that almost cost Ellen White her life, has changed lives all around the world and is the 1 that we should seek to share as much as possible.

Ellen White herself said, The Great Controversy should be very widely circulated.

It contains the story of the past, the present, and the future.

In its outline of the closing scenes of this earth's history, it bears a powerful testimony in behalf of the truth.

I am more anxious to see a wide circulation for this book than for any others that I have written, for in The Great Controversy the closing scenes of this world's history are given more distinctly than in any of my other books.

If you have never read the book The Great Controversy, then I would invite you to do so, and if you have, then pray and ask God for wisdom on who to share a copy with.

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Lineage: Season 2

Episode 20: The Great Controversy

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GYC 2013 Seminar: The Most Important Book Outside of the Bible - A Deeper Look at The Great Controversy

01-The Most Important Book Outside of the Bible

1h

GYC 2013 Seminar: The Most Important Book Outside of the Bible - A Deeper Look at The Great Controversy

02-Lessons From the Church in the Wilderness and the Reformation

1h

GLOW Rally 2010: Let There Be Light

Two Minute Warning

50m

The Three Angels’ Messages and the Everlasting Gospel

46m

Sharing the Three Angels’ Messages in 30 Seconds

03 Sharing the Three Angels’ Messages in 30 Seconds

1h 2m

The Key to Finishing the Work

The Ultimate Call

59m

Prophets: The Issue that Divides

Ellen & Beyond: The Issue That Divides, Part 7

42m

Seminars

The Great Controversy: Present Truth for Our Time

48m

The Key to Finishing the Work

Mayday from Heaven

1h 10m

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