Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

DISCOVERING THE NEW COVENANT
intentional and misleading. 7 EGW knew full well what was
going on. These suppressed writings have been covered up
by the church and by EGW herself.
There are many more problems, however. I will just
touch on a very few. One is the issue of her failed
predictions. During the Civil War, Ellen White predicted that
England would join the South and declare war on the North.
This would cause the tide to turn in the conflict and would
enable the Confederacy to win the war. 8 American history
clearly proves that this was not true. She also prophesied
that, according to her visions, Old Jerusalem would never be
rebuilt. 9 Here again history has proven that her prediction
was not inspired. Since the rebirth of the nation of Israel in
1948, old Jerusalem has been greatly rebuilt. On one
occasion, in May of 1856, she was addressing a group of
Adventists and made the statement that some of these people
would die, some would receive the seven last plagues and
others would be alive at Jesus’ return. 10 Everyone who was
7 One example can be seen in the difference between The Remnant
Scattered Abroad and the book Early Writings. The original edition
includes a sentence regarding the “Shut Door.” Early Adventists believed
that in 1844 the door of salvation to the world had been closed. Only
Adventists that had believed and continued to believe in the 1844
message would be saved. Ellen White described what she saw in vision
regarding those who had rejected this light. “It was just as impossible for
them to get on the path again to go to the City, as all the wicked world
which God had rejected. They fell all along the path one after another.”
Later Adventists would move away from this idea, but Ellen White had
seen in vision that salvation was no longer available to those outside the
Adventist family. What would they do? Instead of admitting the mistake,
they deleted the problematic statements. Then they covered up the
deletion as seen in the preface to Early Writings. Clearly more than a
word was involved in this deletion. The editors actually changed the
meaning of the original vision and attempted to cover up the author’s
former beliefs.
8 Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 1, p 259.
9 Ellen G. White, Early Writings, p. 75.
10 Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 1, pp. 131-132.
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