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Appendix I 387devices of the enemy, and shall escape the corruption that is in the worldthrough lust. {2SM 50.1} 1My second thought is that we are remarkably ignorant of thoroughly-revealed truths.We are sadly deficient in our obedience to “beware of false prophets.” We seemoblivious to the idea that sheep’s clothing recommends no man as a safe guide to theflock.A third point: We have an entire book section of the Testimonies devoted to helpingus in evaluating revelations and dreams. The section is neither obscure nor difficult tolocate. You may find it in chapters 4 through 11 of Selected Messages, volume 2.Point four: The idea that Satan would not do or teach something useful to God’scause is, well, not well thought out. What do I mean? I mean that if the devil were tomake a stab at introducing a new prophet, it would be a great idea to have thatprophet bring many people into the church, promote canvassing, translate the bookEvangelism into a new tribal dialect, etc.. A believable false prophet is quite a trophyand may be worth a little loss in some other fields. We should not be so easy to trick.A fifth point and then we will go to the dreams themselves: This kind of dreamrelatedscenario is going to come up again. There will be true manifestations of Godgivendreams in the last days. And we have been hyper-warned that there will be anincrease in the manifestations of false dreams. When one considers how manypersons claimed to be led by God through dreams in Ellen White’s day, the idea of“increase” is significant.In fact, you might want to skip to Section Three before reading SectionTwo. There you will find a great deal more about prophets in general.And there you will find that the most prominent false prophets of 20thcentury Adventism were able to write and testify for quite some timemaking neither a single glaring inconsistency with themselves nor withthe Testimonies.It is for this reason that you will find Ellen White urging great cautionto those entertaining hopeful thoughts regarding new persons claiming tohave dreams from heaven.SECTION TWO: THE DREAMSMeaningful Elements in Symbolic DreamsThe following is a quotation from one of Ernie’s dreams.I notice on the far mountain ridge what looks like a black panther ofsome type. Myself and one of the men watch as this creature leapsthrough the air, landing just above the opening of the cave. I now notice itis an awful looking creature. Its skin looks dry and black. It looks down atme and hisses. Its teeth are long and it is drooling. It says, “I hate you! Iam going to kill you!”Let me place next to this the most similar type of writing I can find by an inspiredauthor.1 Throughout this document Ellen White’s quotations have standard references. To avoidconfusion, Ernie’s dreams (the entirety of which, by April 4, 2008, were only three timesthe length of this document) have no references to them.