"Integrity of the Prophetic Gift" – commentary on the commentary

I have to admit Pastor Doug Bachelor was my hero, when I was a member of the SDA church. No doubt he is a charismatic preacher who seems to relate to his listeners in a special way, using simple language and easy to understand life examples. This is one of the reasons why Pastor Doug “can do no wrong” in the eyes of his audience. Many of my SDA friends quote him constantly when we discuss certain doctrines, they use his materials such as CDs, books and online media to reaffirm and defend their own beliefs.

There is a big danger in all this and I’m speaking from experience. People are generally lazy to study on their own. It’s much easier to have someone “chew” the spiritual food for you and then all that’s left to do is digest. I held a membership in the SDA church for almost 5 years, but I’ve been familiar with their doctrines for about 12 years. All this time the only bible study I ever did was through the Adventist guidelines and interpretations of scripture. Other words, they point a verse to you and they explain what it means. It all made perfect sense. I didn’t only study this way for myself, but I started giving bible study to others in the same manner. Truth is I didn’t know my bible… Let me try to illustrate. If I ask you to hold a colored glass in front of your eyes and look around, the world will look normal, but with a tint of the same color as the glass. After a while your eyes get adjusted to the color and you don’t notice the tint anymore. What you see through the glass becomes reality to you and no one can convince you otherwise. The moment I started studying the bible outside of SDA guidelines, the veil was lifted, I started seeing clearly and realized how little I knew. I take no credit for this at all; I believe it is the Holy Spirit who took me there.

A concerned friend sent me a link last night to Doug Bachelor’s commentary on the “Integrity of the Prophetic Gift” – this week’s lesson in the Seventh-Day Adventist quarterly booklet (bible study guide). The lesson deals with some issues associated with the “prophetess” of the SDA church, Ellen G White. My opinion on Mrs. White without a doubt is that she is a false prophet. I’m not alone in this. Increasing number of believers, both SDA and non-SDA share the same opinion and they base their conclusion on criteria set by the bible. I am not surprised at all that lately the Adventist church makes extra effort to defend their “prophetess”. Their brainwashing methods work well on the majority of members, but there are those not afraid to search the internet, read the opposition and ultimately make up their own mind on the topic.

Here’s how Doug Bachelor teaches the lesson:

He points out through examples in the bible how prophets were not popular and many times unjustly attacked by others. Devil hates God’s prophets, he says, and people who are against God’s prophets are really representing the interests of Satan. In doing this Pastor Doug is trying to make two points: the message of prophets in the bible was often unpopular, Ellen White’s message was unpopular, therefore she must be a prophet also, so here is your proof… secondly all who oppose EGW are agents of the devil. Beware!

Then the common excuses - EGW wrote so many books, sure if one is searching purposely, they would find some areas where she didn't express herself clearly. After all it's a miracle she wrote so much and so well with only 3rd grade education... There was never lawsuit against her for plagiarism (implying there are no grounds for one).... Borrowing was accepted back then... We find borrowing in the bible: 2 Peter 2:12-15 from Jude 1:10-11, much of Revelation comes from OT, Jesus in His words repeats about 10% of the OT...

Very few people know that Mrs. White kept professional writes and editors on staff, people like Fannie Bolton or Marian Davis. This is known fact. Some of them left because they could no longer stand the deception of writing materials that Mrs. White would sign as product of her own “visions”. These editors were also aware of the “borrowing” from previously written books.

And of course most people Bachelor is preaching to don't know of this statement Ellen White made: "Although I am dependent upon the Spirit of the Lord in writing my views as I am in receiving them, yet the words I employ in describing what I have seen are my own." --Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, Oct. 8, 1867

Dr. Veltmen, another expert who was hired by the SDA church to study the book “Desire of Ages”, after 8 years of careful research concluded that the copy work could be as much as 90% in some chapters and averaged out 34% for all 15 chapters of the book. Just because there was never a lawsuit against Ellen White or her estate regarding plagiarism, this doesn’t mean she didn’t plagiarize.

Do you see what’s happening? Doug Bachelor is taking the attention away from the actual problem. The issue here is not plagiarism, even though EGW is clearly lying about it according to the quote from “Review and Herald” above, but the claim that the visions came from God.

What else...?

The prophet Daniel admits that he understood a prophecy through the writings of Jeremiah. Other words, it's ok if prophets use other prophets to gain understanding. I’m sure everyone would accept that, because it is in the bible, however I'm not aware of EGW ever admitting to doing such a thing.

Amalgamation of men and beast - Pastor Doug used only the first part of the quote (before the flood), plus he twisted it so it means amalgamation of animals with animals and the same for people... Here is the full quote by Ellen White, you be the judge:

"But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere." Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, p. 64.

"Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood. Since the flood there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain races of men." Ibid., p. 75.

There’s simply no way to twist this around, I don’t care how smooth of a talker you are, this statement is a clear cut and can not be misinterpreted. These words are actually so shocking they even raised some questions immediately after being published in 1864. Because of this controversy, four years later another Adventist leader by the name Uriah Smith published a book in defence of Mrs. White. He states that amalgamation of man with beast had created "such cases as the wild Bushmen of Africa, some tribes of the Hottentots, and perhaps the Digger Indians of our own country".* James White, Mrs. White's husband must have reviewed the book prior to it's publication, because he endorsed it in the official SDA magazine "Review and Herald" with the following statement: "The Association has just published a pamphlet entitled, 'The Visions of Mrs. E.G. White, A Manifestation of Spiritual Gifts According to the Scriptures.' It is written by the editor of the Review. While carefully reading the manuscript, I felt grateful to God that our people could have this able defense of those views they so much love and prize, which others despise and oppose."** The publication of Uriah Smith's book and the endorsement made by James and Ellen White clearly show that the meaning behind the words "amalgamation of man and beast" is simply sexual union which produces offspring.

And finally prophets are not infallible, they are people, they make mistakes, they go wrong sometimes... and not everything a prophet speaks is a prophecy. He gives verses like 1 Chronicles 17:2-4, 1 Samuel 16:6-7, 1 Cor 7:6, Gal 2:11, James 5:17... I wonder what Doug’s listeners would think of the following quote from EGW: "I do not write one article in the paper, expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision --the precious rays of light shining from the throne…"*** What? Pastor Bachelor, sure a prophet can be wrong if they speak on their own authority, but can God be wrong?

Truth is prophets are not infallible, but God is infallible and when a prophet makes a statement of their own, God can correct that if it’s not according to His will, but when a prophet makes a claim such as Ellen White made that every article she published is “what God has opened before me in vision”, these writings should be infallible because it’s God Who is speaking, not Mrs. White. Yet many of these writings are false prophecies, contradictory to each other and to the bible. Make your own conclusion where EGW inspiration comes from.

Of course Pastor Bachelor didn’t even mention the most important verse in the bible when it comes to testing God’s prophets. It’s found in Deuteronomy 18:21-22 ” You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD ?" If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.”

Ellen White openly says her visions, which she published in her books come from God. There are many failed prophecies such as slavery will return in the Southern States, England will attack and humble the United States to the ground, Jerusalem will never be rebuilt before the return of Christ, Earth will soon be depopulated, Christ will return in Ellen’s lifetime, and many more…, when you add the ridiculous statements, the inconsistencies within her own writings, the contradictions with the bible... You get the picture, now do the math. God is infallible.

In bible times Ellen White would have been stoned to death. “But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death." Deuteronomy 18:20

Let everyone look at the facts and follow their own conscience on this matter. I pray for each person who reads these words.

"In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.” Hebrews 1:1-2

Dear friend, I don’t know about you, but in these last days I rather stay focused on Jesus and follow Him instead of so called "modern day prophets" like Ellen G White. Prophecy is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit even today, but before we give someone the title, let us be sure they pass the biblical test for a prophet.

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Notes

* Uriah Smith, The Visions of Mrs. E. G. White, A Manifestation of Spiritual gifts According to the Scripture, p. 103

** James White, Review, Aug. 15, 1868.

*** (letter to Dr. Paulson; St. Helena, California, June 14, 1906, Selected Messages pp 24—37)

What is the Seal of God – Sabbath or the Holy Spirit

According to Ellen G White, the prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist church, the Seal of God is seventh-day Sabbath observance, while the Sunday worshipers bear the mark of Satan. Before you read the following comments by Dr. Philip Moreno, I feel the need to clarify very briefly what the term “investigative judgment” means. This is a unique Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) teaching, which to my knowledge no other Christian denomination shares.

Investigative judgment (IJ) also called the “sanctuary doctrine” teaches that there is a judgment of the professed Christian believers going on in Heaven and this started in 1844 when Jesus entered The Most Holy place of the heavenly sanctuary. SDA’s arrive at this particular year based on interpretation of Daniel’s prophecy (Dan 8:14), which is supposed to be the end of 2300 year period. How accurate and biblical is this prophecy? That requires a longer explanation and another article, so for now we’ll just move on... During the IJ all believers (dead and alive) are being judged and their sins are either blotted out or their names are removed from the Book of Life. The end of IJ which marks the “close of probation” is the time when Jesus has done His atoning work in the sanctuary and after which no sins will be forgiven. This type of teaching obviously requires a perfection of character and those Christians who are still living would have to stop sinning completely in order to make it to Heaven. Here’s what Ellen White says regarding this time:

“Those who are living upon the earth when the intercession of Christ shall cease in the sanctuary above are to stand in the sight of a holy God without a mediator. Their robes must be spotless, their characters must be purified from sin by the blood of sprinkling. Through the grace of God and their own diligent effort they must be conquerors in the battle with evil.” – The Great Controversy, chapter 24

There is a huge problem with this teaching. It contradicts the gospel which teaches that those who believe in Christ are saved by grace alone. Mrs White says the believers must add “their own diligent effort” in order to be saved. The SDA official statement of beliefs # 24 says pretty much the same thing:

“The investigative judgment reveals to heavenly intelligences who among the dead are asleep in Christ and therefore, in Him, are deemed worthy to have part in the first resurrection. It also makes manifest who among the living are abiding in Christ, keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and in Him, therefore, are ready for translation into His everlasting kingdom.” (#24 Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs)

So ultimately, SDA formula is GRACE + WORKS = SALVATION.

The bible on the other hand says that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross was sufficient and final. There is nothing more we can add to it, we ether accept it or reject it. There will be no judgment for the believers in 1844:

"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life." John 5:24

Now let’s review the comments made by Dr. Philip Moreno, regarding the Seal of God.

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Sabbath – God’s seal

The Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that God’s seal is the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath, and Satan’s seal on the other hand is the observance of Sunday (EGWhite, 8T p117). Does the Bible support this doctrine and can it stand the test of truth?

Other facts:

• The author of this doctrine in 1889 said that an angel does the sealing. (Mar 211.6)
• Today the officials of the church say that it is the Holy Spirit that does the sealing. (MCaballero Sept 10, 2008)
• The sealing is done after the investigative judgment and right before the close of probation (EGWhite LDE p222), and will take only a very short time (Mar 242.1).

What do the facts mentioned above tell us?

• That the Sabbath is not the seal but is actually the requirement to qualify for the sealing. In this concept the sinner has to obey the Sabbath law first to obtain God’s seal. The seal though is not mentioned.
• That the Holy Spirit is not the seal but is just an agent that does the sealing [with the angel?].
• The doctrine fails to name, describe and pinpoint what the actual seal of God is. It states the requirement and the agent that does the sealing and the time of the sealing but stops short of describing and identifying the seal of God.
• There are conflicting statements regarding who does the sealing. An angel or the Holy Spirit?
• That ever since Calvary nobody has been sealed yet.
• That the Holy Spirit is not yet available to the Christian ever since it was promised in Joel 2:28-29.

The Holy Spirit – Seal of God

What is the Biblical concept of God’s seal and the sealing process?

“And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory.” (Eph 1:13-14)

Let’s focus on the sentence about the seal. “…you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit…” Anybody with adequate knowledge of the English language will testify that the seal of God mentioned here is nothing else but the Holy Spirit, and the Bible leaves no room for an exegetical hocus-pocus.

Facts from these verses:

• Those who will be sealed are those who have heard the gospel and profess faith in it.
• The seal is the “promised Holy Spirit.”
• That this seal, the Holy Spirit, is given immediately after the profession of faith.
• The seal guarantees and maintains the salvation of the believer.

These facts tell us the following:

• That the requirement for God’s seal is faith in the death of Jesus. Paul hammered in this fact when he scolded the Christians at Galatia for attempting to use obedience to the law as a means to acquire the Holy Spirit (Gal 3:1-5)
• That the seal of God is the Holy Spirit, no more and no less. This leaves something else like the Sabbath without biblical basis.
• That sealing takes place immediately on the believer, which means that ever since the Pentecost, in the upper room, the sealing has been ongoing.

Proof that the Sabbath is not the seal:

“Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads” (Rev 14:1-4)

Testimony of Dr. Philip E. J. Moreno M.D. a former Seventh-day Adventist

All of us who left the SDA church have a story to tell. None is more important than other, but this testimony of Dr. Moreno really moved me, because his conviction and the decisions that followed required a huge sacrifice from this dear brother. Of course for any true believer no price is too high to pay in glorifying the name of Jesus, but it does take courage. I commend brother Philip, whom I call Sunni, for his courage and his strong faith. I hope when you read the following text you experience the love of God and witness the life changing power of Jesus Christ.

Testimony of Dr. Philip (Sunni) Moreno

I write this testimony while jobless in Bangkok, Thailand. If it were not for this thing called “born again” I should still be enjoying a very good paying job with benefits and a handsome retirement package, and a prestigious position in society with a lot of friends and associates. 

I’m a third generation SDA, a PK (Note added by George: PK = Preacher's Kid) of a father who was one of the early educator missionaries to the island of Mindanao, Philippines. He was also a president of Mountain View College. My mother was one of the authors of the SDA elementary text books in the 60’s and 70’s. 

I am a physician for 25 years and was employed by the SDA church to manage one of its health facilities situated in the beautiful campus of Mountain View College, an Adventist Theology school. This job I held for 17 years. My sister and only sibling is also a doctor and is married to an SDA doctor who was also an administrator in another SDA health facility [Davao Adventist Hospital]. My two children and wife are Adventists and so are the clans of my mother and father. Due to my parents’ prominence in the SDA church hierarchy we are well known among the Adventists in the Philippines. 

Five years ago, at the age of 47 I realized that the specifics of my salvation were not clear to me and in a sense hereditary, so to speak. I determined one night to get the details from the Bible and so I sat down at the dining table with an old KJV bible in my hand. It was then that I realized that I didn’t know where to start. So I said a simple prayer that God would put my hand to the exact page where I should begin. After praying I opened the Bible at random and there was Romans Chapter 1 right before my eyes. I didn’t see any importance why God would direct me to that page until I was into chapter 2 when I realized that I could understand everything very clearly just like I was reading a kid’s book. I read through the whole book of Romans twice that night before retiring to bed. The following morning I woke up with the same ecstatic feeling of the absolute assurance of salvation and it was only then that I realized that I was possessed by the Holy Spirit. 

The months that followed were the most trying times in my life. I just couldn’t keep the truths to myself and I was seen almost everyday talking with the instructors of the School of Theology. It came to the point where the Church Board had to convene to officially question me and get my stand in faith. After that meeting there was no question in their minds that I no longer believed in the church’s doctrines. My wife who was an administrator of the school and my two children who were in college were caught in the crossfire, and they blamed me for all the trouble that was taking place, while telling me to shut up and abide by the church’s doctrines. It came to the point were my daughter ran away from home and my son threatened to burn my Bible. My wife threatened to leave me three times and finally she resigned from her office without consulting me, packed her things and moved to the city of her mother with my two children. I was forced to move with them too but I didn’t resign from my work and kept up my presence in the campus on weekdays and while spending the weekends with my family. 

After a year my daughter couldn’t stand it any longer and asked me to sit down and point out from the Bible my beliefs. In an hour she believed and immediately received the Holy Spirit. Her conversion was so dramatic that her brother took notice and soon also asked to sit down with me for Bible study. In that same moment he too received the Holy Spirit and that left only my wife who stood firm in the SDA faith for the next two years in spite of our prayers and soft talk with her. 

Two years later she developed an ovarian cyst that immediately required surgery. The doctors removed her uterus and both ovaries and she was discharged after nine days. Three weeks after that operation she developed abdominal pain and started throwing up. We took her to the hospital where the doctors reopened her and resected six inches of her intestines, which were gangrenous after being trapped in the stump of her uterus. 

On the second post-operative day she called me to her bed and told me that she wanted me to pray for her. After three years of estrangement she finally allowed me to pray for her. I told her that I have been praying all the time for her and that God was just waiting for her to surrender her spirit to Him. She said that she was so confused and didn’t know how to pray for herself so I tell her to repeat my prayer out loud so that God would hear it from her lips. She did and at that moment the Holy Spirit seized her and we become a family united in one spirit. 

After some time the Church became alarmed because there were some students and faculty members who were already secretly meeting with me to study the Bible. They finally decided to disfellowship me from the church, which they succeeded but without the use of a single Bible verse, because they just couldn’t find the right verse to use against me. Two months later they also found the alibi to kick me from my job and I had no other course but to leave. 

I praise God for all the years of testing and trials that has firmly bound us as a family. I also thank Him for miraculously opening jobs for my wife and two children in a country – Thailand, where I could work as an independent missionary to the poorest of the poor. We now reside in Bangkok and fellowship with God’s children at the Evangelical Church of Bangkok. 

My mother became a born-again Christian before she died. My sister, her husband and their four children eventually found the truth after vigorously trying to dissuade me from my decision, and they too left the SDA church and are now worshiping with the Southern Baptists in Bakersfield, California. My father, who passed away in 1986, would never know that his family would see the truth and leave the church. 

I offer this testimony to the author and finisher of my faith, my savior, Jesus. To God give all the glory, honor and praise.

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Published with the permission of Dr. Philip E. J. Moreno

Why do Adventists hold such a high regard for Ellen G White?

For the time I was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church, I met three kinds of people. Those who believed that Ellen G White is a prophetess and used her writings in preaching, studying and even in normal conversations. Then there’s a group who would consider Mrs White’s writings to be inspired by God, but somehow they are reluctant to describe her as a “prophetess” or “messenger of God” and they rarely use quotes from her when discussing a doctrine or any biblical topic. And then there is a third small group of members, who consider Ellen White a godly woman, but nothing more than a good adviser. I said this is a small group, not because I know for a fact, but because in order for someone to share such a thing, they must feel close enough to you and trust you. Obviously one cannot be a close friend with every person in the church, and this is one reason why the third group appears to be so small.

Whether you believe or not that Ellen G White (EGW) was a prophetess, if you’re a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) and you profess the church doctrines, indirectly you’re admitting that this person has authoritative role in establishing the SDA teachings, because number 18 of the fundamental beliefs of the SDA church states “As the Lord's messenger, her writings are a continuing and authoritative source of truth which provide for the church comfort, guidance, instruction, and correction.” Also one of the things that a believer is asked to accept before being baptized is that the spirit of prophecy is demonstrated in the writings of EGW. Now, the church claims that none of its doctrines originated in Mrs White, however nothing is taught to the membership unless it carries her seal of approval.

Ellen White is the stone that holds the foundation of the SDA church. If you pull a supporting stone from underneath a house, you’re risking of demolishing the whole structure. The official organ of the church says "Our position on the Testimonies [EGW’s writings] is like the keystone to the arch. Take that out, and there is no logical stopping place till all the special truths of the message are gone. ... Nothing is surer than this, that the message and the visions belong together and stand or fall together." Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Aug 14, 1883. The leadership of the Adventist church realizes the importance of protecting the reputation of Ellen White, and they are going great lengths in order to achieve this. Obviously they are doing a good job, because most Adventists I spoke to regarding some known issues with Ellen White, had no idea what I was talking about. A few had partial information, but mostly from the defence point (already tainted) which they obviously heard from some great SDA teacher like Doug Bachelor for instance. The thing about information is, unless you take it from the original source; don’t even waste your time, you will get brainwashed one way or another.

I would like to share few things very briefly about Mrs.White, some false prophecies, shocking and untrue statements, and I encourage the reader to go and investigate further. I will also provide some sources at the end of this article. Check these out, read the defense of the church as well and then make up your mind. There are tons of information available on the Internet these days, you don't have to blindly follow anymore, ask questions, research, find true historical facts... it is your responsibility to be informed. There's really no excuse. Seek and you shall find.

Plagiarism

Mrs White made the following statement: "Although I am dependent upon the Spirit of the Lord in writing my views as I am in receiving them, yet the words I employ in describing what I have seen are my own." --Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, Oct. 8, 1867

Yet even the SDA church today admits that 8-10% of EGW writings were “borrowed” from previously written books. Dr. Veltmen who was hired by the SDA church to study the book “Desire of Ages”, after 8 years of careful research concluded that the copy work could be as much as 90% in some chapters and averaged out 34% for all 15 chapters of the book. How is this possible? Mrs White claims to always have used words of her own. Is Mrs White a liar?

Here’s just one example and there are many more:

“Night Scenes in the Bible” by Daniel Marsh 1868—1870 “We must not defer our obedience till every shadow of uncertainty and every possibility of mistake is removed. The doubt that demands perfect knowledge will never yield to faith, for faith rests upon probability, not demonstration . . .we must obey the voice of duty when there are many other voices crying against it, and it requires earnest heed to distinguish the one which speaks for God. We must cherish the impulse of conscience in the moment when it urges us to action, lest it cease from its promptings and we be left to the blind guidance of appetite and passion.”

Now compare this to the following text:

“Testimony for the Church”, vol. 5; p. 68 - Ellen G. White. June 20, 1882 “If you refuse to believe until every shadow of uncertainty and every possibility of doubt is removed you will never believe. The doubt that demands perfect knowledge will never yield to faith. Faith rests upon evidence, not demonstration. The Lord requires us to obey the voice of duty, when there are other voices all around us urging us to pursue an opposite course. It requires earnest attention from us to distinguish the voice which speaks for God. We must resist and conquer inclination, and obey the voice of conscience without parleying or com promise, lest its prompting cease and will and impulse control.”

The passage is copied almost word for word. Prophet of God?

Here are the questions I ask: Why would a prophet of God need to borrow from other authors at all? Does God need help? Did the inspiration come from God of from the writings or others?

When you answer the above questions for yourself, keep in mind the following bible verse: "Therefore," declares the Lord, "I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me." Jeremiah 23:30

Everything that was written by Ellen White and published by the SDA church is considered “inspired by God”. Mrs White in her own words states that every article she writes on paper does not contain her own ideas, but is what the Lord has presented to her: “God was speaking through clay. You might say that this communication was only a letter. Yes, it was a letter, but prompted by the Spirit of God, to bring before your minds things that had been shown me. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper, expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision --the precious rays of light shining from the throne…” (letter to Dr. Paulson; St. Helena, California, June 14, 1906, Selected Messages pp 24—37)

False Prophecies

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:22)

Now keeping this quote in mind lets look at few things Ellen White predicted which didn't "come to past":

In 1850 Mrs White tells us that Jesus is coming in few months: "My accompanying angel said, 'Time is almost finished. Get ready, get ready, get ready.' . . . now time is almost finished. . . and what we have been years learning, they will have to learn in a few months." (Early Writings, pp. 64-67)

In context what she means is new converts will have to learn the doctrines in a "few months" because "now time is almost finished”, that is the time before our Lord returns. It is now 159 years later…

Another one:

Ellen White made this statement at a church conference in 1856 regarding the Lord’s soon return: "I was shown the company present at the Conference. Said the angel: 'Some food for worms, some subjects of the seven last plagues, some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus.'" Testimonies, Vol. 1, p. 131

Everyone at this conference meeting passed away long ago. None of them were "alive" and "upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus."

... and another one:

Mrs. White made this statement in 1864, predicting the population of the Earth is decreasing: "The human family was presented before me, enfeebled. Every generation has been growing weaker, and disease of every form visits the human race.... Satan's power upon the human family increases. If the Lord should not soon come and destroy his power, the earth would soon be depopulated." Testimony #8, p.94, in Spiritual Gifts III-IV

By 1900 the earth's population was 1.6 billion people. Today’s population is over 6 billion.

... another one:

Mrs. White predicted that slavery will be back in the South: "Slavery will again be revived in the Southern States; for the spirit of slavery still lives. Therefore it will not do for those who labor among the colored people to preach the truth as boldly and openly as they would be free to do in other places. Even Christ clothed His lessons in figures and parables to avoid the opposition of the Pharisees." (Spalding & Magan Collection, page 21 and 2 MR #153, page 300)

No need to comment on that one.

… and here’s one last statement I want to share:

This is what Ellen White said regarding human races: "But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere." Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, p. 64.

"Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood. Since the flood there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain races of men." Ibid., p. 75.

This is probably one of the most shocking statements EGW have ever made. It’s actually embarrassing for the church. This statement was definitely NOT inspired by God. First of all it’s not possible for human and animal to produce offspring, science tells us. Secondly, this is such an offensive statement to all people of different race. The ironic thing, it comes not only from a godly woman but a “prophetess” of God.

With this article I’m only scratching the surface. My intention here is not so much to present information, but to encourage the Adventist reader to do some research of their own. Many people don’t even know these facts and why? Oh, yes of course – the SDA pastors and leaders tell you not to read anything on the internet or you’re going to be deceived and led astray.

For those of you who are searching for the truth and not afraid of it:

Information on Ellen G White (including info on SDA defence as well): http://www.ellenwhiteexposed.com/

Debates between Adventists and other Christians regarding the role of EGW in the church on John Ankergerg Show: http://www.exadventist.com/Home/Video/tabid/502/Default.aspx

If you choose to follow someone and accept their guidance when it comes to matters concerning your own salvation, you better make sure this person (prophet) is of God or you’re playing a dangerous game. As for me, I made my decision to follow Christ and I don’t need an interpreter or “instructor” or “authoritative” voice. Jesus is all I need.

George