TESTING ALL SELF-PROCLAIMED PROPHETS, INCLUDING ELLEN WHITE

(A BIBLE STUDY LESSON)

1.          WE DO NOT TEST A PROPHET BY THE MIRACLES HE/SHE PERFORMS.

A.     HE/SHE MAKES FIRE COME FROM HEAVEN. 

REV. 13: 13-14.

B.      HE/SHE STOPS BREATHING FOR A TIME.

THE HYPNOTHERAPIST, TERRANCE WATTS WRITES: “A HYPNOTIC SUBJECT MIGHT BECOME B REATHLESS…UNDER HYPNOSIS AND MIGHT EVEN STOP BREATHING FOR A WHILE.” Design And The Universe.

C.      IS. 8:20- THE FINAL AND ULTIMATE TEST! AND DEUT 13: 1-5.

D.     THE SDA PROPHET, ELLEN WHITE, CLAIMED THAT HER WRITINGS WERE INSPIRED IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE BIBLE WAS INSPIRED: “THE HOLY GHOST IS THE AUTHOR OF THE SCRIPTURES AND THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY (This is what the SDA Church calls her writings:) SELECTED MASSAGES, VOL. 3, 30 : “MY WORK INCLUDES MUCH MORE THAN A PROPHET SIGNIFIES (REVIEW AND HERALD, JULY 26, 1907.) “MY COMMISSION EMBRACES THE WORK OF A PROPHET, BUT IT DOES NOT END THERE.” (SELECTED MESSAGES, VOL. 1, 36.)

1.      AT AN 1856 CONFERENCE, SHE WROTE THAT SHE WAS SHOWN THAT SOME OF THOSE THERE “WILL BE ALIVE AND REMAIN UPON EARTH TO BE TRANSLATED AT THE COMING OF JESUS.” TESTIMONIES, VOL. 1, 131.

2.      IN 1850, SHE PREDICTED THAT JERUSALEM WOULD NEVER BE REBUILT:  “I…SAW THAT OLD JERUSALEM WOULD NEVER BE BUILT UP.” (E.W., 75.)  OF COURSE OLD JERUSALEM HAS BEEN REBUILT.

3.      SHE SUPPORTED THE EATING OF PORK FOR SOME 11 YEARS AFTER HER FIRST “VISION.”  SHE CALLS PORK “NOURISHING AND STRENGTHENING FOOD.” VOL. 1, 206-207.

4.      SHE TAUGHT ALMAGAMATION.  SHE WROTE THAT “AMALGATION OF MAN AND BEAST …DEFACED THE IMAGE OF GOD AND CAUSED CONFUSION EVERYWHERE.” (SPIRITUAL GIFTS, VOL. 3, 64. 1864; SEE ALSO P. 75, 1864.) (NOTE: THESE TWO PASSAGES WERE LEFT OUT OF HER LATER BOOKS.)  WE KNOW THAT MAN AND BEAST CANNOT MIX BIOLOGICALLY.  IF THEY COULD DO SO, THIS WOULD BE EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.  DARWIN WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF ELLEN WHITE AND APPRENTLY INFLUENCED HER VIEW OF ALMAGATION.

5.      SHE WROTE THAT TITHE SHOULD BE USED FOR SUPPORTING PASTORS ONLY. TITHING, BEING A PART OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW, WAS ANNULED AT CHRIST’S DEATH.  HOWEVER, WHEN TITHING WAS STILL IN FORCE, DEUT. 14 CLEARLY STATES THAT THE FARMER AND HIS FAMILY WERE TO EAT PART OF THE TITHE, AND PART OF IT WAS TO GO FOR THE SUPPORT OF WIDOWN, ORPHANS, AND REFUGEES (STANGERS.)

TESTAMONIES VOL. 9, 248-249, COULSELS ON STEWARDSHIP, 103.

6.      SHE TAUGHT THAT CHIRST DID NOT

     ENTER THE MOST HOLY PLACE UNTIL

1844.            THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT CHRIST

WENT IMMEDIATELY INTO THE

THRONE-ROOM OF THE FATHER.

                                 ROM. 8:34;  HEB. 9:24; MARK 16:19;

ACTS 7:55;  HEB. 10: 12-14 & 8:1.

2.        THE PROPHET JOEL (2: 1-3) PREDICTS AND DESCRIBES THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.

     ACTS 2:1-18. LUKE APPLIES THIS PROPHECY TO

     HIS OWN DAY, WHICH HE CALLS THE LAST

     DAYS.  THEREFORE, THE PROPHECY OF JOEL

     WAS FULFILLED IN THE APOSTOLIC AGE.

(JERUSALEM WAS CAPTURED MANY TIMES: 63 B.C. ROMANS; 40 B.C. THE PARTHIANS; 70 A.D. ROMANS; 614 A.D. PERSIANS; 1077 TURKS; TURKS HELD IT UNTIL 1917 WHEN THEY SURRENDERED TO BRITAIN; BRITAIN GAVE IT UP IN 1948, WHEN IT WAS DEVIDED BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS; 1967 JEWS CAPUTURED ALL OF JERUSALEM.)

3.        DID ELLEN WHITE DEMONSTRATE GENEROSITY

      WITH THE ROYALTIES FROM HER BOOKS?

      ELLEN WHITE DIED, BEING A WEALTHY WOMAN.  ALTHOUGH   

      SHE RECEIVED A SALARY FROM THE CHURCH, THE VAST

      MAJORITY OF HER WEALTH CAME FROM ROYALTIES ON HER

      BOOKS. IN THE 1890’S, HER INCOME WAS VAST.  IN 2005 DOLLARS,

      SHE WAS MAKING THE EQUIVELENT OF $175,000 –265,000 PER

     YEAR.  HER FINAL HOME, ELMSHAVE, A MANSION SITTING ON 74 

     ACRES IN CALIFORNA, HAS BEEN VALUED AT UP TO 10 MILLION  

         DOLLARS IN 2005 DOLLARS. 

A.      MARTIN LUTHER TRANSLATED THE BIBLE INTO GERMAN.  THE TRANSLATION WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS.  HE COULD HAVE BECOME WEALTHY BY SELLING THE SCRIPTURES; HOWEVER, HE REFUSED TO ACCEPT A PENNY OF ROYALTIES FROM THE TRANSLATION.

B.      IN THE 1870’S DWIGHT L. MOODY, EVANGELIST, AND IRS SANKEY. HYMNWIRTER,  WHILE WOKING WITH MOODY, SANKEY MADE A HYMNBOOK OF MANY OF HIS SONGS.  THE ROYALTIES AMOUNTED TO SOME $1,750,000 IN 2005 DOLARS.  BOTH MEN REFUSED TO ACCEPT A PENNY AND LEFT IT FOR EVANGELISM OF THE GOSPEL.

C.      ONE CAN ONLY BELIEVE THAT GOD WAS PLEASED WITH THEIR GENEROSITY WHEN THEY REFUSED TO MAKE MONEY FROM SPREADING THE GOSPEL.

4.        ELLEN WHITE’S EXAMPLES OF PLAGARISM (USING ANOTHER’S WRITINGS WITHOUT CONSENT AND/OR REFERENCING).  THESE INSTANCES ARE TOO NUMEROUS TO LIST; HOWEVER HERE IS ONE EXAMPLE: 

 “It is truly a sin against heaven to violate a law of life, as to break one of the Ten Commandments.” (Larkin B. Coles, Philosophy of Health, (1853), p. 215.

“It is as truly a sin to violate the laws of our being as it is to break the Ten Commandments.”  (EGW, Christian Temperance, (1890), p. 53.

5.        GUTHRIE MEMORIAL CHAPEL FULFILLS  REV. 12:17 AND REV. 19:10.

A.        REV. 12:17- “WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.” (MEANING: THE CHURCH KEEPS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD (INCLUDING THE FOURTH) AND FULLY ACCEPTSAND TEACHES THE WORDS (TESTIMONY) OF JESUS.

B.        REV. 19:10- “THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.”  (MEANING: WHAT JESUS TAUGHT IS THE (HEART, BREATH, LIFEBLOOD), FOUNDATION, OF ALL PROPHECY.  1 TIM. 3: 1-5; MATT. 24.)

1.      Some translations read: “What Jesus taught is the very heart of prophecy.” NIV.

2.      “The Truth Jesus told is the Spirit’s work.” Beck

3.      “For the witness of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”   Wycliff.

CONCLUSION 

 1. IN CONCLUSION: Rev. 19:10 is not referring to the GIFT of prophecy, but is referring to the WORDS AND PROPHECIES that Jesus Christ, Himself, spoke.

  2. WE AT GUTHRIE MEMORIAL CHAPEL :

A.     KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.

B.      BELIEVE THAT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT IS THE VERY HEART, LIFEBLOOD, OF PROPHECY.

C.     WE TEST ANY PROPHET BY IS. 8:20.  “TO THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY.”

D.     ACCEPT CURRENT PROPHETIC GUIDANCE FROM CHRIST, PAUL, MARK, LUKE, DANIEL, JOHN THE BAPTIST, ETC.  OUR PROPHETS AND PROPHECIES ARE FROM SCRIPTURE WHOSE GUIDANCE FOR THE CLOSING DAYS OF EARTH’S HISTORY,  REACHES TO CHRIST’S SECOND COMING.  (SEE: LUKE 17:30; MARK 13:22; 2 TIM. 3:1-5; ROM. 1:29-32.)

Written and compiled by:

            Dr. Fillmer Hevener, www.guthriememorial.org.                               

                                                                2-7-09