Dear Friends and Family,

I write these blog articles and posts because of my pursuit of truth and a deep love for all of you! My statements and conclusions are from years of study and research, but an intentional motivation to be bold and honest about the early beginnings, key people, and doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This is in no way to attack the individuals in the church, I love you all deeply, but rather to expose and wrestle with the belief structure inside of Adventism. My conclusions have led our family to step away from the SDA Church because these beliefs cause deep harm to who God is, the Bible, how he is represented in the Advent movement and theological framework, and what God has/is doing for us as it is expressed through the church. (Interview on our exit out of Adventism – Yes, it’s LONG, but I hope you will be blessed)

My last post dealt with the main Pillar of the church, Ellen G. White. I boldly claimed that I believe she is a False Prophet. This article is one of many to come that will help develop some of the detailed reasons why I firmly believe this.

As you read the article, ask yourself, “How many passes are you willing to give Ellen White?”

First, we will address a rampant area in Ellen White’s life: dishonesty and bearing false witness!

May the Lord be honored and glorified!

Mike

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I want to start with Ellen White’s most erroneous and heretical claim, which, as time has passed, we can see was a complete lie.  It’s essential to pay close attention to the start of the Adventist movement.  If we believe that Ellen White was speaking from God and can be trusted, then anything she claims came from God at any point in her life should be true and accurate. Right?

Any good Adventist is familiar with William Miller’s role in the 1844 debacle. But most don’t know the story’s details, how Ellen White interpreted it, or statements made to stamp God’s approval on Miller’s mistake.

William Miller made it into history books because of his work on predicting Jesus Christ’s coming and the world’s end. Miller was convinced that he had accurately found the “time” through his study of Daniel 8:14 and other verses found in Revelation. After he spent years studying the chronology of Daniel, Miller became convinced that Jesus was returning in 1843. He spent countless hours compiling charts and maps of what he had discovered.  The most famous chart has played an essential yet ominous role in Adventism.

Facsimile of the Original 1843 Chart by William Miller

This chart was so detailed that it undoubtedly showed that Jesus was coming in 1843. Miller had figured it out! Even after these date-setting times passed without Jesus’ return and Miller recanted from his mistakes, Ellen White affirmed the chart and claimed that God approved of Miller’s mistake.

“I have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that it should not be altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that His hand was over and hid a mistake in some of the figures, so that none could see it, until His hand was removed.”^[1]

Apparently, God purposely prevented Miller from seeing the truth and caused his mistake because His hand was over it.  Really? This is blasphemous and shows the blunt manipulation that Ellen White was willing to go to for people to keep listening to her lies!

She goes on to state,

“I saw that God was in the proclamation of the time in 1843. It was His design to arouse the people and bring them to a testing point, where they should decide for or against the truth.” ^[2]

At this point, one should ask, “What ‘truth’ was Ellen speaking about?” We can see from the context of the subject she is writing about that this truth relates to the proclamation of the coming of Jesus in 1843!  So, in Ellen’s understanding, the early Millerite, later to become the Adventist flock, was being tested through the false proclamation of Jesus’ return in 1843. If they rejected the Miller proclamation, they would have rejected God’s truth.  If they accepted the erroneous date setting, they were accepting God.  Seriously?

Jesus is clear regarding the day and hour of the Lord’s coming,

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” (Mt 24:36)

Not even the angels know. How can Ellen White claim to know and put her stamp of approval on the chart that predicted the Lord’s return? This was not the only time Ellen White approved of predicting Jesus’ return. She predicted His return in 1843, 1844, and 1851. All were wrong, and she never recanted these predictions!

In fact, Ellen White doubled down and claimed that God was involved in all the poor theology and time-predicting during these early years.

“The advent movement of 1840–44 was a glorious manifestation of the power of God; the first angel’s message was carried to every missionary station in the world, and in some countries there was the greatest religious interest which has been witnessed in any land since the Reformation of the sixteenth century; but these are to be exceeded by the mighty movement under the last warning of the third angel.”  ^[3]

Here is a clear example of a woman claiming to be sent from God, predicting and prophesying dates of Jesus’ return that were utterly wrong. Then, instead of recanting and asking for forgiveness, as William Miller did, she doubles down and claims that God was working in all her errors!

“Ellen White’s early years of ministry were riddled with errors, including blasphemous date settings. This is why she and her family were kicked out of the Methodist church for following the Millerite movement.” [4]

Jesus was clear about the coming of false prophets who would appear wonderful on the surface, but the fruit of their works would be deception and ungodliness.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.” (Mt 7:15–20)

Adventism loves to point out all the good things that Ellen White did and the people thousands of people who came to know Jesus because of her works.  These surface ‘good’ fruits do not make up for the rotten fruit in her life, the lies she stated in the name of Jesus.

I’ll leave you with a call to action.  Take the time to test Ellen White; she claims to be the ‘spirit of prophecy,’ ^[5] And nothing she wrote could happen without the Holy Spirit moving upon her.

“I have to be impressed by the Spirit of God. I cannot write unless the Holy Spirit helps me.” ^[6]

Let’s do what the first epistle of John commands of any ‘spirit’ claiming to be from God,

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.” (1 Jn 4:1–3)

The examples shown in this article are just some of the reasons I affirm that Ellen White was a liar and that her writings cannot be trusted.

In Christian Love,

^[1] Ellen Gould White, Early Writings of Ellen G. White (Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1882), 74.

^[2] Ellen Gould White, Early Writings of Ellen G. White (Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1882), 232.

^[3] Ellen Gould White, The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan, vol. 5, Conflict of the Ages Series (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1911), 611.

[4] Sanders, “Why Ellen G. White Was Disfellowshipped.”

^[5] Manuscript Releases [Nos. 97–161, 1958–1964], vol. 2 (Ellen G. White Estate, 1993), 189.

^[6] Ellen Gould White, Selected Messages From the Writings of Ellen G. White, Book 3 (Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1980), 49.