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Appendix I 403between Ellen White and Ernie on this point? There are many that would find in thisvery point evidence of Ernie’s legitimacy. I hope we are not tricked that easily. Thedevil knows how to preach to the choir.FlatteryEllen White described how Anna’s visions would flatter persons that had beenrebuked earlier. Flattery is not a good thing. But the Herald absolutely flatters“Anonymous.” You will find nothing like it in all the thousands of encouragingstatements to individuals in the Testimonies. And what he says to him is a twisting ofBible metaphors similar to the one mentioned earlier.He talks about Anonymous and how He is very well pleased with thisperson. He says how He would like to see others just like this person. Heexplains that this person’s faith is so strong that this person can “tell amustard seed to become a mountain.” And by this person’s faith it wouldhappen.WitnessesErnie was shown that some prominent person would rise to be his helper in the workof promoting the dreams. He was shown the name of that person, but has not revealedit because he wants that person to join of his own free will. However, to giveconfirmation to God’s foreknowledge of the person’s decision, Ernie has shared thename with “a few select persons to be used as witnesses.”The fulfillment of some predictions is not, of course, an evidence of the truthfulnessof the claims of the predictor. Incredibly, some of the predictions of false prophetscame to be fulfilled during Ellen White’s time:In one place, four in one family professed to have communicationsfrom the Lord, reproving wrong, and they predicted things that actuallydid take place. This inspired confidence in them. But the things that didnot take place were kept in the dark, or were treated as somethingmysterious, which would be understood later. Whence did these receivetheir inspiration?--From satanic agencies, which are many. The Lord laidit upon me to meet these things, and bear a decided testimony againstthem.... {2SM 76.4}Still, it would be helpful to know the names of those entrusted with the name of theindividual. Their reputation for integrity and honesty would be something interestingto check into. Why? Because none other than Joseph Smith relied heavily on“witnesses” to confirm events that tended to back his claims. But after a decade manyof these “witnesses” had repudiated their statements of affirmation and were shown tobe generally unreliable persons even at the time they were chosen as witnesses.RepentanceJohn the Baptist and Jesus and the Disciples, and Jesus through John to Laodicea allcall men to repent. To repent is to turn in heart and practice from a confessed sin.When preachers cry aloud and show the church “its transgressions and the house ofIsrael” their sins, the people should be called to repent of those same sins.