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I wish to make it clear
from the outset that I do not believe that Ellen White ever retracted anything
she wrote. At the above link, notice the following words by Ellen White. If
Mrs. White was instructed not to retract (change implied) what she sent out,
then who gave the instructions to make the changes by way of retractions cited
in this document? Who approved the alterations to her writings from which she
was not to retract one word?
Mrs. White said: "I am
not to retract one word of the message I have borne."2 (Review and Herald,
Apr. 19, 1906).
2 [ri-trakt] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1. to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
2. to withdraw or revoke (a decree, promise, etc.).
verb (used without object)
3. to draw or shrink back.
4. to withdraw a promise, vow, etc.
5. to make a disavowal of a statement, opinion, etc.; recant.
Origin:
1535–45; (Latin retractāre to reconsider, withdraw, equivalent to re- re-
+ tractāre to drag, pull, take in hand (frequentative of trahere to pull)
Synonyms
1, 2. deny, renounce, recant, abrogate, nullify, annul.
Dictionary.com
Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
The definite inference is
that Ellen White was told of God that she should not retract one word of the
message she was given to bear to God’s people. Despite this, a number of her
words have been retracted and removed from later publications:
If you compare the
following 1884 Great Controversy
statement with the 1911 edition, there has been a great change in wording so as
to change the meaning entirely--so that it no longer applies specifically to
the SDA church as it did in the following 1884 Great Controversy, called The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4.
"Jesus
sends HIS
PEOPLE a message of warning to prepare them for his
coming. To the prophet John was made known the closing work in the great plan
of man's redemption. He beheld an angel
flying 'in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto
them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue,
and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him for the
hour of his Judgment is come and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and
the sea, and the fountains of waters [Rev. 14:6, 7.].
The
angel represented in prophecy as delivering this essage, symbolizes
a class of faithful men, who, obedient to the promptings of God's Spirit and the teachings of
his word, proclaim this warning to the inhabitants of earth. This message [The three
angel’s message in context] was not to be committed to the religious leaders of
the people. They had failed to
preserve their connection with God, and had REFUSED THE LIGHT FROM HEAVEN
therefore they WERE NOT of the number described by the apostle Paul: 'But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye
are all the children of light, and the children of the day we are not of the
night nor of darkness' [1 Thess. 5:4, 5].
The
watchmen upon the walls of Zion
should be the first to catch the tidings of the Saviour's advent, the
first to lift their voices to proclaim him near, the first to warn the people
to prepare for his coming. But they were at ease, dreaming of peace and safety,
while the people were asleep in their sins. Jesus saw HIS CHURCH, like the barren fig-tree, covered with pretentious leaves, yet
destitute of precious fruit. There was a boastful observance of the forms of
religion, while the spirit of true humility, penitence and faith--which alone
could render the service acceptable to God--was lacking. Instead of the graces
of the Spirit, there were manifested pride, formalism, vainglory, selfishness,
oppression. A
BACKSLIDING CHURCH closed their eyes to
the signs of the times. God did nor forsake them, or suffer his faithfulness to
fail but they departed from him, and SEPARATED THEMSELVES from his love. As
they REFUSED
TO COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONS, his promises
were NOT FULFILLED to them." E.G. White,
The Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, pp. 199-200 [The 1884 edition of The
Great Controversy, 199, 200].
Note from the above
statement:
· Ellen White is
addressing HIS
PEOPLE.
· Ellen White is
addressing those to
whom the EVERLASTING GOSPEL of Revelation 14 was committed to.
· Ellen White is defining the angel represented in
prophecy AS DELIVERING THIS MESSAGE--NOT MEN OF BABYLON WHO FAILED TO ACCEPT THAT MESSAGE AS THE 1911
EDITION IMPLIES!
· Ellen White is implying
that the
third angel's message is delivered NOT BY THE LEADERS OF THE SDA CHURCH, but by
a class of faithful men because the leaders had failed to preserve their connection with God
and had refused light from heaven!
· Ellen White is
addressing "watchmen
upon the walls of Zion," NOT FALLEN BABYLON!
· Twice Ellen White mentions
HIS CHURCH, NOT FALLEN
BABYLON.
· Ellen White is
addressing a
BACKSLIDING CHURCH
whose leaders and laity alike who failed and rejected light from heaven
and who refused to comply with the conditions so that God's promises are not
fulfilled to them.
· Babylon churches are FALLEN, NOT BACKSLIDEN.
The book containing the above statement, the Spirit
of Prophecy, Vol. 4, the 1884 Great Controversy, was permitted to lapse out of
copyright and printing by the church until a Doctor began to print and sell it.
Then the church began to print it again. Anyone wonder why the church let that
1884 edition of The Great Controversy lapse out of print and copyright?
Below is the counterpart to the above statement which appears in The Great
Controversy, 1911 edition, pp. 315-316:
"It
was not alone upon the hills of Judea, not among the lowly shepherds only, that
angels found the watchers for Messiah's coming. In the land of the heathen also
were those that looked for Him; they were wise men, rich and noble, the
philosophers of the East. Students of nature, the Magi had seen God in His
handiwork. From the Hebrew Scriptures they had learned of the Star to arise out
of Jacob, and with eager desire they awaited His coming, who should be not only
the "Consolation of Israel," but a "Light to lighten the
Gentiles," and "for salvation unto the ends of the earth." Luke
2:25, 32; Acts 13:47. They were seekers for light, and light from the throne of
God illumined the path for their feet. While the priests and rabbis of
Jerusalem, the appointed guardians and expounders of the truth, were shrouded
in darkness, the Heaven-sent star guided these Gentile strangers to the
birthplace of the newborn King.
It
is "unto them that look for Him" that Christ is to "appear the
second time without sin unto salvation." Hebrews 9:28. Like the tidings of the Saviour's birth, the
message of the second advent was not committed to the
religious leaders of the people. They had
failed to preserve their connection with God, and had refused light from
heaven; therefore they were not of the number described by the apostle Paul:
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you
as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we
are not of the night, nor of darkness." 1 Thessalonians 5:4, 5.
The
watchmen upon the walls of Zion should have been the first to catch the tidings
of the Saviour's advent, the first to lift their voices to proclaim Him near,
the first to warn the people to prepare for His coming. But they were at ease,
dreaming of peace and safety, while the people were asleep in their sins. Jesus
saw His church, like the barren fig tree, covered with pretentious leaves, yet
destitute of precious fruit. There was a boastful observance of the forms of
religion, while the spirit of true humility, penitence, and faith--which alone
could render the service acceptable to God--was lacking. Instead of the graces
of the Spirit there were manifested pride, formalism, vainglory, selfishness,
oppression. A backsliding church closed their eyes to the signs of the times.
God did not forsake them, or suffer His faithfulness to fail; but they departed
from Him, and separated themselves from His love. As they refused to comply
with the conditions, His promises were not fulfilled to them.
Such
is the sure result of neglect to appreciate and improve the light and
privileges which God bestows. Unless the church will follow on in His opening
providence, accepting every ray of light, performing every duty which may be
revealed, religion will inevitably degenerate into the observance of forms, and
the spirit of vital godliness will disappear. This truth has been repeatedly
illustrated in the history of the church. God requires of His people works of
faith and obedience corresponding to the blessings and privileges bestowed.
Obedience requires a sacrifice and involves a cross; and this is why so many of
the professed followers of Christ refused to receive the light from heaven,
and, like the Jews of old, knew not the time of their visitation. Luke 19:44.
Because of their pride and unbelief the Lord passed them by and revealed His
truth to those who, like the shepherds of Bethlehem and the Eastern Magi, had
given heed to all the light they had received." E.G.
White, The Great Controversy, 1911
edition, pp. 315, 316.
Notice
that the statement makes it appear that it is addressed to the fallen churches.
These words “Like the tidings of the Saviour's birth, the message of the second advent
was not committed to the religious leaders of the people,” refer to the
giving of the Everlasting Gospel to the other churches in 1844. But no mention
of the Everlasting Gospel is made in the GC 1911 in the counterpart to 4SOP
199, 200, the 1884 edition of the GC.
The following words are omitted from the 1911
edition of The Great Controversy,
and they are very important because they define the words "HIS
PEOPLE" as applying only to SDA'S--those having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth!
"Jesus sends HIS
PEOPLE
a message of warning to prepare them for his coming. To the prophet John was
made known the closing work in the great plan of man's redemption. He beheld an angel
flying 'in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto
them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue,
and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him for the
hour of his Judgment is come and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and
the sea, and the fountains of waters [Rev. 14:6, 7.].
The angel represented in prophecy as delivering
this message, symbolizes a class of faithful men, who, obedient to the
promptings of God's Spirit and the teachings of his word, proclaim this warning
to the inhabitants of earth.” Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4, 199, 200 [The
1884 Great Controversy].
The following words are substituted in the 1911
edition to make it appear as though the passage applies to the fallen churches
and those who did not accept the second advent message in 1844 and on. That was
not the original context whatsoever!
"...the message of the second advent was not
committed to the religious leaders of the people. They had failed to preserve their
connection with God, and had refused light from heaven; therefore they were not
of the number described by the apostle Paul: "But ye, brethren, are not in
darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children
of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of
darkness." 1 Thessalonians 5:4, 5.
Ellen White stated, she was not to retract ONE
WORD! So who changed the wording of the 1911 Great Controversy, from the
1884 edition?
"I am not to retract one word of the
message I have borne." Review and Herald, Apr. 19, 1906.
Who changed all the words and context of this
important passage to make it apply to the leaders and members of the other
fallen churches, rather than SPECIFICALLY the SDA church--those to whom the
Everlasting Gospel was committed?
Retractions Made by
Someone From Ellen White’s First Vision
"While
praying at the family altar, the Holy Ghost fell on me, and I seemed to be
rising higher and higher, far above the dark world. 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. On this path the Advent
people were traveling to the City, which was at the farther end of the path.
They had a bright light set up behind them at the first end of the path, which
an angel told me was the Midnight Cry. This light shone all along the path, and
gave light for their feet so they might not stumble. And if they kept their
eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just before them, leading them to the City, they
were safe. But soon some grew weary, and they said the City was a great way of,
and they expected to have entered it before. Then Jesus would encourage them by
raising his glorious right arm, and from his arm came a glorious light which
waved over the Advent band, and they shouted Hallelujah! Others rashly denied
the light behind them, and said that it was not God that had led them out so
far. The light behind them went out leaving their feet in perfect darkness, and
they stumbled and got their eyes off the mark and lost sight of Jesus, and fell
off the path down in the dark and wicked world below. It was just
as impossible for them to get on the path again and go to the City, as all the
wicked world which God had rejected.
They fell all the way along the path one after another, until we heard the
voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus'
coming....
By
this time the 144,000 were all sealed and perfectly united. On their foreheads
was written, God, New Jerusalem, and a glorious Star containing Jesus' new
name." E.G. White, Word to the
Little Flock, p. 14. This was Ellen White’s
first vision.
OUR
COMMENTARY: The Midnight Cry, of Matthew 25, which Ellen White said gave power
to the second angel’s message, called people out of the fallen churches.
Ellen
White said that all who ever hear and understand the Midnight Cry, and
thereafter take their eyes off the path lighted by that cry, by re-joining the fallen churches they were called out of by
membership or confederacy in ASSOCIATION, COUNSEL AND/OR COUNCIL, GIRDING, OR
LINKING WITH THEM IN ANY WAY WHICH WOULD IDENTIFY US WITH THEM, FALL OFF THE
PATH AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO GET ON THE PATH
AGAIN, WHICH IMPLIES SHUT DOOR UNPARDONABLE SIN!
God's
Word implies the same unpardonableness for such
offenses in Isaiah 8:9-20, and Revelation 14:9, 10. Isaiah 8:9-20 says that all
who violate those words have one option: BROKEN
IN PIECES, stated three times for the importance and
seriousness of the violation. This is
what Ellen White really meant by "shut door!" This is the part of her
view on the shut door she always held. The breaking in pieces is Ezekiel 9 slaughter
BEGINNING at His Sanctuary, the House of Jacob, those who have been privileged
with great light, Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 211. A marginal rendering of
the words “a slaughter weapon,” Ezekiel 9:2, in the KJV, is: “a weapon of
his breaking in pieces.”
God
and Ellen White were/are not Shepherd’s Rodsman
because they say Ezekiel 9 will be literally fulfilled in the SDA church,
beginning at His Sanctuary. Neither am I, nor have I ever been a Shepherd’s
Rodsman! Nor do I believe that faithful SDA’s execute the slaughtering order of
Ezekiel 9. I believe it will be the Babylonians led by Rome who will slaughter
men, maidens and little children without mercy, 5T 211.
Those
who have committed this unpardonable sin have grossly perverted her meaning and
many quote a version that omits the words:
It was just as impossible for them to get on the path again and go to
the City, as all the wicked world which God had rejected.
Go
to the White Estate access to Ellen G. White’s writings https://egwwritings.org/ and search these
words in parenthesis: “This light shone all
along the path” Searching those words will take you to all
the books wherein Ellen White’s first vision is quoted.
Here
is a list of the books that quote Ellen White first vision, but omit the
sentence: “It was just as impossible for them to get
on the path again and go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had
rejected.”
·
CET 57.2 – Christian Experience and Teaching
·
CCh 33.1 – Councils for the Church
·
LS – Life Sketches of Ellen White
·
1SM 62 – Bk. 1 Selected Messages
·
EW 14.1 – Early Writings – Refers you to the Appendix for an explanation.
·
ExV 10.1 –
A Sketch of the Christian Experience and
Views of Ellen G. White
·
1T 58.4 Testimonies
for the Church Vol. 1
·
WLF 14.2 Word to the Little Flock (This is the only
reference that gives the words: “It was just as impossible for them to get on
the path again and go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had
rejected.”
·
DS – The Day Star January 24, 1846, par. 1. This has the statement.
·
WV 23.5 – Woman of
Vision
·
LSMS 82.2 – (Life Sketches Manuscript)
Of
the 13 sources depicting Ellen White’s very first vision, 11 out of the 13 omit
the words: “It was just as impossible for them to get
on the path again and go to the City, as all the wicked world which God had
rejected.” WHEN QUOTING THE FULL VISION OTHERWISE!
The
omission of such serious words is a most serious consideration every SDA should
weigh heavily before he/she determines to enter ecumenical relationship with
and/or join any of the fallen churches, including the professing SDA church,
which is ecumenically involved by membership in the National Council of
Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., along with many other National Councils of
Churches around the world.
When
Israel formed a conspiracy (confederacy) with God’s enemies in Jeremiah
11:9-15, God told Jeremiah to no longer even pray for them. That
implied/implies unpardonable sin. Adventists conspired to confederate with
Babylon’s Associations, Councils and Confederacies in violation of the counsel
of God in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. Most every SDA minister belongs
to a local Ministerial Association which is a local arm of the World
Council of Churches, as related to me by a PhD woman at the Canadian
Council of Churches.
I
have a Directory to Christian Councils, published by the World Council of
Churches, which lists SDA’s as FULL MEMBERS in the following countries of the
world:
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Bahamas
·
Belize
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Cook Islands
·
Hong Kong
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Sweden
·
Hungary via membership
in the Hungarian Council of Free Churches
·
Norway https://omega77.tripod.com/sdaecunorway.htm
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France
· The National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. https://omega77.tripod.com/nationalcouncilupdate.htm
"Study the 9th chapter of
Ezekiel. These words will be literally fulfilled yet the time is passing, and
the people are asleep. They refuse to humble their souls and to be converted.
Not a great while longer will the Lord bear with the people who have such great
and important truths revealed to them, but who refuse to bring these truths
into their individual experience. The time is short. God is calling will YOU
hear? Will YOU receive His message? Will YOU be converted before it is too
late? Soon, very soon, every case will be decided for eternity. Letter 106,
1909, pp. 2, 3, 5, 7. (To "The churches in Oakland and Berkeley, September
26, 1909.)" E. G. White Manuscript Releases Volume One,
p. 260.
“The time will soon come when the
prophecy of Ezekiel 9 will be fulfilled; that prophecy should be carefully
studied, for it will be fulfilled to the very letter.”— Ellen G. White
1888 Materials, p. 1303.
The Signs of the Times, February 12, 1880: “The
desolation of Jerusalem stands as a solemn warning before the eyes of modern
Israel.”
“The desolation of Jerusalem in the
days of Jeremiah is a solemn warning to modern Israel, that the counsels
and admonitions given them through chosen instrumentalities cannot be
disregarded with impunity.” Prophets and Kings, 416.
Who is modern Israel (below) in your estimation? BABYLON?
Or is it “modern-day Spiritual Israel?
“The time will soon come when the
prophecy of Ezekiel 9 will be fulfilled; that prophecy should be carefully
studied, for it will be fulfilled to the very letter.”— Ellen G.
White 1888 Materials, p. 1303.
The Signs of the Times, February 12, 1880: “The
desolation of Jerusalem stands as a solemn warning before the eyes of modern
Israel.”
“The desolation of Jerusalem in the
days of Jeremiah is a solemn warning to modern Israel, that the counsels
and admonitions given them through chosen instrumentalities cannot be
disregarded with impunity.” Prophets and Kings, 416.
“I was confirmed in all I had stated
in Minneapolis, that a reformation must go through the churches. Reforms must
be made, for spiritual weakness and blindness were upon the people who had been
blessed with great light and precious opportunities and privileges. As
reformers they had come out of the denominational churches, but they now act a
part similar to that which the churches acted. We hoped that there would not be
the necessity for another coming out. [THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN STATEMENT
FROM THE PEN OF ELLEN WHITE INDICATING THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN
THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ORGANIZATION. THE DOUBT WHICH SHE EXPRESSED
HERE WAS NEVER REPEATED DURING THE REMAINING TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF HER LIFE.] While we
will endeavor to keep the "unity of the Spirit" in the bonds of
peace, we will not with pen or voice cease to protest against bigotry.--EGW '88
356, 357 (1889). {LDE 48.1}
The pink part in brackets (above) is
a notation in the compiled E. G. White book Last Day Events. Only
"dumb-dog" watchmen (Isa. 56:10-12 and 5T 211) would place the
following “BROUGHT DOWN TO HELL” statement immediately after the above one ON
THE SAME PAGE, after saying that the above statement was the only one wherein
Ellen White expressed a lack of confidence in the church. That is an absolute
lie. Here is a listing of some of the many statements expressing Ellen White’s
lack of confidence in the professing church militant:
https://omega77.tripod.com/leavestate.htm
“Of those who boast of their light
and yet fail to walk in it Christ says, "But I say unto you, It shall be
more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. And
thou, Capernaum [Seventh-day Adventists, who have had great light], which art
exalted unto heaven [in point of privilege], shalt
be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in
thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day." Ellen
G. White, Review and Herald Articles, Aug. 1, 1893. [THE BRACKETED COMMENTS ARE
BY ELLEN WHITE.] {LDE 48.2}
“Let us bear in mind the words that
Christ spoke to the people who were honored above others in being privileged
to have the Lord Jesus Christ to labor among them, and yet who did not
appreciate this privilege, and did not diffuse the light of Heaven to others.
He said: "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they
would have repeated long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It
shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for
you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down
to hell; for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done
in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it
shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for
thee." {RH, December 3, 1895 par. 6}
Statements Wherein Ellen
White Called the Church a Harlot of Babylon in 1882, 1893, 1898, and Again in
1903 https://omega77.tripod.com/harlotstat1.htm
A harlot is a harlot is a harlot! A
harlot is part of Babylon’s brothel when she joins such any which way you look
at it. But the SDA church is far worse because they had the truth. A harlot may repent as did Mary
Magdalene. But when a church marries into Satan’s confederacy by joining it,
that is unpardonable sin. In Ellen White’s day, the church had not MARRIED,
JOINED, Babylon’s Associations, Councils/Counsels and Confederacies.
When Israel played the harlot to the
point of conspiring with God’s enemies as in Jeremiah 11:9-15, He gave them a
bill of divorce and God does not marry a divorced woman.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put
away? or
which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your
iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
put away.
Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a
bill of divorce; yet
her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
—rwb