Interpreting Ellen White Correctly
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I realize that most folk believe that Ellen White needs no interpreting.
However, the following quote sent to me by a person I will refer to as Gar,
provides a classic example of the fact that she certainly does require
interpretation. I will qualify what I mean below the email to me. ----- Original
Message ----- From:
Private To: Ron Beaulieu Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Foolishness of Ron Beaulieu exposed Ellen White would say: No advice or
sanction is given in the Word of God to those who believe the third angel's
message to lead them to suppose that they can draw apart. This you may settle
with yourselves forever. It is the devising of unsanctified minds that
would encourage a state of disunion…. There must be no separating in
this great testing time. (Selected Messages, Vol. 3, p. 21.) Please notice
how long we are to avoid drawing apart. Forever!! Should this not
caution those who are saying that things we should leave the Church during
this testing time? Gar Ron’s response: Dear Gar,
let’s take the Ellen White statement you submitted above and carry it to the
logical conclusion as to the way you obviously have interpreted it. The words: “This you may settle
with yourselves forever,” certainly are conclusive to you. That is obvious.
But let me deal in the not quite so obvious elements that you apparently fail
to discern. By your interpretation, no one
should EVER leave the professing Seventh-day Adventist new movement church.
Correct? That poses as a huge problem for you. Especially since you have
admitted to your belief that there will be a separation at the next Matthew
22 call to the church. You thus contradict yourself on the FOREVER element of Ellen White’s
statement. But if you are consistent with
your obvious interpretation of the statement, you should NEVER leave the
apostate SDA church. And what would be the horrendous result of that? You
will be right there for the next Ezekiel 9 slaughter of men, maidens and
little children. Right? Ellen White clearly also says that Ezekiel 9 will be
literally fulfilled again “beginning at His Sanctuary, the House of Jacob,
Jerusalem, the professing SDA church, Testimonies,
Vol. 5, 211. On that very same page of the
Testimonies, Ellen White indicts the church leaders with unbelief. This is a high clue as to the correct interpretation of
the “forever” statement you quote. The only proper way to
interpret the statement you sent is to carefully note the qualifying words
“....those who believe the
message.” Why would we ever draw apart from those who believe and obey the
three angel’s message? I would never advise doing that. But it is not believing the
three angel’s messages for the church leaders to bring the church into
liaison with Babylon in violation of the Midnight Cry, which Ellen White says
gave power to the second angel’s message. To violate those messages is to disbelieve them. In fact, if you believe Isaiah
8:9-12, it is unpardonable sin to violate those messages. Ellen White comes
to the same conclusion in Word to the
Little Flock, p. 14, wherein she says that all who stray off the Midnight
Cry lighted pathway (Matt. 25), will find it impossible to get back on the
path to heaven. I must conclude that implies unpardonable sin. So you can begin to see that
when foolish virgins make very foolish interpretations that would lead to
their own slaughter, God sends someone to rightly divide the truth of the
matter. Here are supporting statements
to my interpretation: "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. "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. The
Midnight Cry called us out of Babylon. Forming associations (joining
Babylon’s Ministerial Associations) and/or joining its counsels/councils,
girdings and confederacies, is the same thing as taking one’s eyes off the
Midnight Cry which called us out of such in 1844. There is one option given
by God for such an act: “broken in pieces.” That implies unpardonable sin. So
Ellen White and God agree. 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and
ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought;
speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 13
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread. Isaiah 8:9-13. As I stated at the beginning,
most folk don’t believe that Ellen White needs interpreting. But those very
folk are interpreting her to their own damnation. —rb |