Did Ellen G. White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist church really have the gift of prophecy or has she deceive millions of people? The name Ellen G. White resonates deeply within the Seventh-day Adventist community. Her claims to prophecy have been a beacon for many, while others remain skeptical. Join Pastor Mark Finley as he separates fact from fiction. Through thorough research and a deep understanding of the church’s history, Pastor Finley unravels the truth about Ellen White, guiding viewers on a journey of discovery and understanding.

<p>Did Ellen G. White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist church really have the gift of prophecy or has she deceive millions of people? The name Ellen G. White resonates deeply within the Seventh-day Adventist community. Her claims to prophecy have been a beacon for many, while others remain skeptical. Join Pastor Mark Finley as he separates fact from fiction. Through thorough research and a deep understanding of the church’s history, Pastor Finley unravels the truth about Ellen White, guiding viewers on a journey of discovery and understanding.</p>

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Ellen G. White Exposed (Prophet or Pretender)

Did Ellen White manifest the gift of prophecy?

And would the gift of prophecy be restored to God's end time people?

And why is it that for years the gift of prophecy been silenced in the Christian church.

Ellen White's visions have guided millions, but where do they come from?

They said God spoke through her, but what's the real story behind Ellen White's visions?

To understand Ellen White's visions, it's necessary to let our minds go back.

Back to October 22, 1844, Millerite Adventists that consisted of Baptists and Methodists and Catholics and non-denominationalists, looked at October 22, 1844 as a date for the coming of Jesus Christ.

When they read Daniel 8.14 unto 2, 300 days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed, they understood the sanctuary to be the earth, that it would be cleansed by fire and that Jesus would come on that date in October.

When Christ did not come, they were tragically disappointed.

Many of them had left their crops in the field unharvested.

Many had stepped out from family and friends.

Now they were ridiculed, they were scoffed, they were mocked.

Hiram Edson, 1 of these early Adventists, wrote these words about that disappointment.

Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I've never experienced before.

It seemed that the loss of all earthly friends could have been nothing in comparison.

The next morning, October 23, Hiram Edson gathered a small group in his barn, and they prayed, seeking God for answers to their disappointment.

Crozier, began to walk through his cornfield to a neighbor's house by the name of Dr.

As they were going through that cornfield, Crozier stopped and had a divine revelation, whether it was a specific vision or not, we're not sure, but a divine revelation.

And there he sensed that Daniel 8.14, the cleansing of the sanctuary, was not speaking about Jesus coming to earth, but Jesus entering into the most holy place of heaven's sanctuary in a final work of judgment.

Now it is this link of the sanctuary, the law of God, the judgment, and the gift of prophecy that unlocks the mystery of Ellen White's visions.

So come with me as we go to the book of Revelation and we're looking there at Revelation, the 11th chapter, Revelation chapter 11.

And as we with John look up into the sanctuary, we discover there in Revelation chapter 11, let's start with verse 18.

The nations were angry and your wrath has come.

The time of the dead that they should be judged, that you should reward your servants, the prophets and the saints, and those who fear your name small and great and should destroy those who destroy the earth.

Now notice carefully, the nations are angry, it's the time of the judgment.

The temple of God was opened in heaven and the ark of his covenant was seen in the temple.

So early Adventists looked up through the portals of heaven.

They looked into the heavenly sanctuary and there they saw and sensed that as the Bible predicted Jesus was in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary now.

And they understood that there, Jesus was there before the throne of God.

What about this Ark of the Covenant in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary?

Hebrews, the ninth chapter, tells us exactly what's in the Ark of the Covenant.

So as we go to Hebrews, chapter 9, we begin to unlock this mystery of the gift of prophecy, the sanctuary, and the law of God.

We begin to read in chapter 9, Hebrews verse 1, then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of a divine service in the earthly sanctuary.

For a tabernacle was prepared, the first part which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread which is called the sanctuary.

Then it describes the holiest of all, And it talks about the Ark of the Covenant.

And it says there that in this Ark of the Covenant, there's the golden pot that had manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant.

So here in the Ark of the covenant, what do you have?

Written with God's own finger on tables of stone.

It represents the heavenly diet as in opposition to the Egyptian diet of flesh.

You remember the story quite well, I'm sure, with Aaron's rod that budded.

It was the rod that Aaron brought out against the rebels.

Aaron's rod represents heaven's delegated authority to his chosen prophetic spokesman.

Korah, Dathom, and Abiram rebelled against the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

As such, they rebelled against the prophetic voice.

So when early Adventists looked up into the sanctuary, what did they see?

They were a Bible based people, a Christ centered people, a prophetic people.

But looking into the sanctuary, they began to understand the law of God.

And as they looked in the law of God, they saw the Fourth Commandment written with on tables of stone written to the finger of God.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

They sense the significance ultimately of the Sabbath.

They began to sense the significance of heaven's diet and the health message in the pot of manna.

They began to sense that God would lead this church through a prophetic movement in the last days.

And why is it that for years the gift of prophecy was silenced in the Christian church?

We find in Revelation chapter 12 verse 17 the answer to that question.

Here scripture is talking about God's last day church.

He's talking about the remnant people that would live on earth just before the coming of Jesus.

And here John gives us 2 characteristics of the last day church and end time people.

The dragon, it's Satan of course, went to make war with the remnant of her seed.

In Bible prophecy, a woman represents the church.

A pure woman represents the bride of Christ, attached, united to Christ, the true church.

A harlot woman, like in Revelation 17, represents the fallen church.

So here the devil is angry with God's church.

He goes to make war with the remnant or the rest of her offspring, those who in the last days remain faithful to God, who keep the Commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus now notice 2 things are linked together God's last day church is a Bible based Christ centered Saved by grace group of believers, but they have 2 unique characteristics They keep the commandments of God including the Bible Sabbath and they have the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation chapter 19 and verse 10 helps us to understand this.

Revelation 19 verse 10, I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, see you do it not for I am your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus.

Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." So the testimony of Jesus is the witness of from Jesus the prophetic gift that is manifest in his last day Bible believing, Christ-centered, saved by grace, law-keeping, Sabbath-keeping church.

So in Scripture, when God's people are faithful and obedient to him, he raises up the gift of prophecy, not to take the place of the Bible, not as a substitute for the Bible, but as a unique guide in their troublous times.

Notice in the Old Testament, for example, in Lamentations chapter 2, verse 9, that the Bible speaks about the fact that the law of God and the gift of prophecy are united.

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