PREDICTED 60 YEARS EARLIER BY ELLEN HARMON

 

AFTER THE NEW ESSENES,

THE PENTECOSTALS!

 "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.

  As Ellen Harmon goes on to describe what she saw, she describes a "path" identical to how the Essenes decribed their "WAY" (their doctrines, their teachings, their customs) -- Ellen saw her Adventist associates on this path or "WAY" on their way to a city at the end of this path, which Ellen thought was the New Jerusalem in Heaven, but that I am suggesting is Qumran pictured above, the "New Jerusalem of the Essenes.

      After and indeterminate period of time in Ellen's first vision, some of  her associates "stumbled", and fell off the path, but of those that remained, Ellen starts using Pentecostal expressions and descriptions instead of the Essene expressions she started out with.

      Now, in the 21st century, some Seventh-day Adventists are questioning the relevance of their early prophetess Ellen G. White.   Her books sit on thousands, perhaps millions of book-shelves all over the world gathering dust.
Only those parts of those books promoting Evangelical Christianity are being excerpted and sold paperback with brilliantly colored new covers.  Jesus has failed to return in the manner and at the time she expected him to do so.    And yet she talked to him and to her other angel repeatedly.  The one she called “my young man”.  Or “the angel”.

 

     Now Doctor Holt is discovering that once we notice the Essene language of Sister White’s earliest visions, the mist of misunderstanding clears, and we can see her prophecies clearly.    And the Essene theology she was called upon to present to the modern world.
EARLY WRITINGS page 15

"     If they kept their eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just before them, leading them to the city (to Qumran with its Essene doctrines, teachings, and customs) they were safe.  But soon some grew weary, and said the city was a great way off, and they expected to have entered it before.  

      Then Jesus would encourage them by raising His glorious right arm (raising one's arm or arms during a religious meeting is a Pentecostal custom, not an Adventist custom), and from His arm came a light which waved over the Advent band, and they shouted, 'Alleluja!'

     This one coded sentence in Ellen's description of her first vision in December 1844 forecast both the 'Health Reform' message among Adventists -- and the Pentecostal Revival in America!  The latter an event that did not occur until more than 50 years after Ellen had this vision!

The REVIVAL that started in an old mission building on AZUZA street in San Francisco has now been listed among the top 100 events of the 20th century on a web site quoting LIFE magazine.   It led to the formation of Pentecostal churches world-wide!

 

of the WELSH REVIVAL that preceded the now famous AZUZA STREET revival.

Another web site, this one British, reminds us that before there was anything like this happening in California, there was already such a REVIVAL in Wales.   The bearded newspaper reporter seen here on the left reported it, and it soon had world-wide attention.     Whole congregations were weeping, falling down in trances, and speaking in “other tongues”.
The people these things were happening to were in Churches, not in bars or pubs.  They were praying to Jesus, not the “Devil”.   And they were certainly not engaging in any “Satanic Rituals”.   And they were quoting heavily scriptural texts referring to similar events connected with the 12 apostles’ ministry right after Christ’s death and resurrection.

    After her one sentence description of the early 1900s Pentecostal Revival (destined to continue for the entire 20th century) Ellen Harmon returned immediately to her listeners, destined to be "Latter Day Essenes"

“Others rashly denied the [ ESSENE] LIGHT  behind them and said it was not [ JESUS as God, part of the ‘Trinity’] that had led them out [ away from Orthodox theology] so far.   The [ ESSENE] LIGHT  behind them went out , [ no more ‘Spirit of Prophecy’ ] leaving their feet in perfect DARKNESS, and they STUMBLED  [ into standard Christian belief in ‘Cheap Grace’] and lost sight of the MARK [of the Beast, Catholic Theology, that was now Adventist Theology ] and of the [ human Essene ] Jesus, and fell off the path down into the dark and wicked [ nominal Christian] world below.”

A short, but amazingly accurate picture of what happened in Adventist theology between 1888 and the 1950s, at which time Adventists had become orthodox Trinitarians to avoid the stigma of being called a "cult".

KEY CONCEPT: NONE OF THE ESSENES, EVEN THE GNOSTIC ESSENES WERE EVER "TRINITARIANS" IN THE SENSE DECIDED ON BY THE CHRISTIAN BISHOPS AT NICAEA -- ONE CAN ONLY SURMISE THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT THOSE PEOPLE HE TAUGHT THROUGH ELLEN'S VISIONS THAT HE WAS A (TOTALLY HUMAN) HIGH PRIEST -- BACK-SLID AFTER A MERE 44 YEARS! AND BY 100 YEARS LATER WERE WHAT ELLEN CALLED NOMINAL CHRISTIANS (OR EVEN MORE COLORFUL -- "DAUGHTERS OF THE WHORE OF BABYLON!")

 

“TESTIMONIES for the CHURCH volume 1.

   Given after a vision recieved in 1856, only 12 years after her first vision.

      Ellen White’s counsel after this vision begins at the top of page 131. The title of the whole section or “testimony” is “CONFORMITY TO THE WORLD”.

  “I was shown the conformity of some professed Sabbath-keepers to the world.”

      Ellen saw it as happening right then in 1856, but it is a common thing in visions and dreams to see things in the present that will happen in the future.  Indeed this may be the norm, not the unusual!

     "Oh, I saw that it is a disgrace to their profession, a disgrace to the [ ESSENE] cause of God.  They give the lie to their profession.  They think they are NOT LIKE THE WORLD [ I.e. holy like the Essenes ] but they are so near like them in dress, in conversation, and actions, that there is no distinction.”              

     Indeed, after the 1950s there was no real difference between Adventist theology and other Evangelical Christian theology.

     I shall not bore my audience with the 6 1/2 pages describing in great detail what Adventists WOULD BE DOING after the 1950s, but it suffices to say it’s all there!

     The increase in bodily adornment, [jewelry, etc.].  The desire for wealth and prestige.  The tendency to fill one’s time with entertaining worldly amusements [movies and television].

     The assumption that the name of “Seventh-day Adventist” means salvation, while those bearing that name live no differently than anyone else in the Evangelical Churches [called “the World” in this vision].  Lightness, joking, and trifling would be the norm for Adventists as well as other professed Christians.

      And real Bible study will become a rarety.

      However, we shall not be able to see the forest for the trees if we just look at the details here.

       It was the ministers and General Conference officials who wished to destroy the differences between Adventism and the other Evangelical churches.   They saw this difference as a cause of shame.

      In her 1856 vision Ellen White is taking her angel’s view that it is this very DIFFERENCE that God is using to identify His OWN from the mediocre crowd.

      And so the Church officials worked with Martin and Barnhouse to use those Bible texts that seemed to indicate “Justification by Faith” is all that is necessary for Christians to be “saved”, a doctrine that is entirely  contrary to everything written on pages 131 to 137 of “TESTIMONIES for the CHURCH volume 1.

  

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