The TRUTH book Volume 1 (PDF) - For My People Ministry

336the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTHquickly, backed up, and said, ‘Well, there aren’t that many more left to bemade up. The number is almost made up and as soon as it is, it will beover.’ He was clear in his belief that God started making up the 144,000ever since 1844 and that at the Close of Probation, not all would be alive.However, at the special resurrection, they would all be raised to see Jesuscome. When I asked where he got that belief, Becky quickly quoted fromEarly Writings, I believe it was, referring to where Ellen White had askedto eat of the fruit of the tree of life.“The angel told her something along the lines of: ‘All who eat of thefruit of this land, nevermore return to earth. However, if you are faithful,you with the 144,000 will have the pleasure of visiting all the worlds inGod’s creation.’“This, Ernie and Becky believed, proved that Ellen White was one ofthe 144,000. However, if I invite David Gates to come speak at mychurch and I stand with David Gates on the platform, that does notnecessarily mean that I am David Gates. I am only standing with him.”FactErnie admits that at the beginning of his calling he misunderstood the 144,000.Some in Adventism still believe what Ernie did. In fact, two of Adventism’spioneers--Uriah Smith and J. N. Loughborough--taught this view as quotedbelow.Uriah SmithReview and Herald, August 10, 1897Thus the evidence seems clear and conclusive that the 144,000 aregathered from the last generation before Christ comes; that they arebrought out by the third angel's message; that even those of them who diein the message are blessed, being restored to the number by resurrectionbefore Christ appears; and that all crowned at last with the peculiarprivilege of composing the cabinet of the King of kings and Lord oflords, to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth (Rev.14:4), joyful inHis constant presence, and sustained by His unfailing grace. Rev.7:15,17.By J. N. LoughboroughQuestions on the Sealing Message, 1916, pp. 3-4In reference to the subject matter of this book - the sealed 144,000 - Ihave been greatly moved by the Spirit of God to write and publish thefacts as to how the sealing message was obtained - not only from theBible, but by direct instruction in visions of Sister E. G. White; also as tohow the message was received and taught by our ministers and peopledown to the year 1894, when the "new light" theory found its advocate inone who afterwards apostatized from the faith, and died without seeingthe fulfillment of his expectation that he would live to the end of time,and hence be one of the 144,000. His claim was that later testimonies ofSister White taught that all the 144,000 would be made up of those whohad never died.When I found that some were teaching that "all of the 144,000 whowill be sealed are now living," I thought it time that someone shouldspeak, and show that it is not the manner of God's prophets to make