| ELLEN
WHITE, ESSENE PROPHETESS
Who
Unknowingly brought them Back
after an
absence of 1800 years!
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In retrospect, major clues were
inserted by the ESSENE JESUS into Ellen Harmon’s first vision, soon
after the 1844 disappointment, that ESSENES were responsible for these
visions.
All the VERBAL SIGNS are there.
To those with any knowledge of ESSENE TERMINOLOGY the
connection should be obvious!
EARLY WRITINGS page 14
"While I was praying at the
family altar, the Holy Ghost fell upon me, and I seemed to be rising
higher and higher, far above the dark world.”
The Essenes were a
separatist group in 1st century
Judaism that sold their “worldly goods” and lived holy lives in
monasteries, such as the now well-known monastery at Qumran, by the
Dead Sea.
“---above
the dark world.” The
Essenes always contrasted their superior “light” with those false
doctrines taught by “the sons of darkness” [everyone else in the
benighted word!]
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The major theme or subject of Essene discourses,
in the very first scene description of Ellen's
first
vision! Coincidence? Hardly!
I turned to look for the Advent
people in the world, but could not find them, when a voice said to me,
‘Look again, and look a little higher.’
At this I raised my eyes, and saw a straight and narrow path,
cast up high above the world.”
The
Essenes called this “path” the WAY, and it’s general meaning was
changed in their minds and in their usage to mean the specific
doctrines and rules of the strictest ESSENES, the priestly ESSENES who
lived in monasteries like Qumran, and in the Essene quarter of
Jerusalem. And indeed
there were some of them in every village of Judea, Samaria, and
Galilee.
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On this path
[the Essene WAY]
the Advent people were traveling to the city [ in Essene
terminology there were two cities of Jerusalem, the old walled city of
Jerusalem, and the ‘New’ Jerusalem at Qumran ] which was
at
the farther end of the path.” These two ‘Jerusalems’ were
only 14 miles apart, separated by desert walking trails, and generally
there were Essenes walking these trails many nights, the more so when
an Essene feast celebration was approaching or just ended.
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“They had a bright LIGHT set up
behind them [the example and rigid
doctrines and dietary rules of the vegetarian ESSENES]
at the beginning of the path [ again the ‘path’ is
the very strict Essene ‘WAY’], which an angel told me was
the midnight cry [ in the Essene family that Jesus was born
into in 7 BC near Qumran, ‘midnight’ was the proper time for
prophecies to be fulfilled: other families and some of the priests
thought other times to be the proper times].
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“This LIGHT shown all along
the PATH [ the continued Essene diet and health regulations
and Essene prophecies to be given Ellen Harmon White] and
gave [ ESSENE]
LIGHT to their feet so that they might not stumble.
‘Stumble’
is again used very specifically by Essene scribes in the now
famous Dead Sea Scrolls - to ‘stumble’ meant to leave Essene
doctrines and join the ‘dark world’ once again.
In this sense Adventists ‘stumbled’ in 1888 [with Ellen
White’s approval and help].
And were ‘off the path’ by the mid-1950s.
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Once we clearly see in
this SEQUENCE in Ellen White’s first vision in December 1844
that Adventists would be “off the ESSENE path [called “the
WAY” by the Essenes], we can go to an 1856 vision (12 years
later) and
look for the details of this APOSTASY from their original
“Essene” theology.
Although the language of what would happen in the 1950s seems
archaic and very out-of-date to us today, it was accurately described.
That is a point I am trying to make here.
Not that what happened was really right or wrong.
Perhaps it was just inevitable.
Anyway,
Ellen White warned against this "apostasy" 100 years before it happened.
In the very prophecy people have used to declare her a
FALSE PROPHET!
After the 1950s Adventists
were no longer an Essene Church but an orthodox, Baptist
styled church!
Once we clearly see in
this SEQUENCE in Ellen White’s first vision in December
1844 that Adventists would be “off the ESSENE path
[called “the WAY” by the Essenes], we can go back to
the 1856 vision and look for the details of this APOSTASY
from their original “Essene” theology.
After
the New Essenes, -- the Pentecostals!
After
the Pentecostals, -- the Jewish Holocaust!
After
the Jewish Holocaust -- New Nation of Israel!
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