Ellen White Visionary for Kids | 1

In her book Early Writings, page 16-19 (adapted), Ellen White describes what she saw in Heaven while invision for the first time at the young age of seventeen!Everyone was dressed in glorious white from their shoulders to their feet. Angels wereall around us as we marched over the sea of glass to the gate of the city. Jesus raised Hismighty, glorious arm, took hold of the pearly gate, swung it back on its glittering hinges, andsaid to us, “You have washed your robes in My blood, stood firm for My truth, enter in.” Weall marched in and felt that we had a perfect right in the city.Here we saw the tree of life and the throne of God. Out of the throne came a pureriver of water, and on either side of the river was the tree of life. On one side of the riverwas a trunk of a tree, and a trunk on the other side of the river, both trunks made of pure,transparent gold. At first I thought I saw two trees. I looked again, and saw that they werejoined at the top into one tree. So the tree of life was on both sides of the river of life. Itsbranches bowed to the place where we stood, and the fruit was fabulous; it looked like goldmixed with silver.We all went under the tree and sat down to look at the glory of the place, whenBrothers 1 Fitch and Stockman, who had preached the gospel of the kingdom, and whomGod had laid in the grave to save them, came up to us and asked us what we had passedthrough while they were sleeping in their graves. We tried to remember our greatest trials, butAlleluia, heaven is cheap enough!they looked so small compared with the lavish celebration that surrounded us that we couldnot speak them out loud, and instead we all cried out, “Alleluia, heaven is cheap enough!”Then we touched our fabulous harps and made heaven’s arches ring.With Jesus as our leader we all descended from the heavenly city down to this earth,onto a great and mighty mountain. The mountain could not hold Jesus up, so it divided,forming an enormous plain. Then we looked up and saw heaven’s great city, with twelvefoundations, and twelve gates, three on each side, and an angel at each gate. We all criedout, “The city, the great city, it’s coming, it’s coming down from God out of heaven,” and itcame and settled on the place where we stood.Then we began to look at the wondrous things outside of the city. There I sawabsolutely amazing houses that looked like silver, supported by four pillars set withthe most stunning pearls. The saints were to live in these houses. Continued on page 111 Early Adventists called each other brother and sister to show the closefamily ties they experienced together.Ellen White Visionary for Kids | 5