Prophet or Not

Has anyone ever questioned how SDAs can be so sure that she was a prophet from God? After all, Ellen White wasn’t the only person in her day to claim to receive visions and messages from God. She had counterparts among Christian Scientists, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses, who also claimed to be prophets and whose teachings also resulted in the forming of new denominations.

As I have researched this subject, I have found that many besides myself have had such questions. Extensive research has been done and much has been written about the validity of her claims. If the stories I have read are true, there is overwhelming evidence that she was not God’s messenger, as she claimed. But because I was not there, I will not relate any of those stories in this article. It is possible that some stories were fabricated or at least embellished to discredit her. The only way I know to answer the question, “Prophet or Not?” is to apply the tests of a prophet given in the Bible. If she passes, she is a prophet. If she fails, she is not a prophet.

In Isaiah:8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
See All... (NKJV) we read: “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”

A prophet speaking according to God’s word would not contradict the Bible or invent doctrines that are not Biblical. There are numerous inaccuracies and contradictions to the Bible found in Ellen White’s writings. Here are just a few:

In Evangelism, p. 598, Ellen White said that Satan deceived Adam. 1 Timothy:2:14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
See All... (NKJV) says, And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

In Counsels on Diets and Foods, p. 148, she said that God gave the children of Israel meat and gluttony produced the plague. Numbers:11:33And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
See All... (NKJV) says, “But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and Lord struck the people with a very great plague.”

In Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 155, she said that we should never say that we are saved. 1 John:5:13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
See All... (NKJV) says, “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”

In Desire of Ages, p. 753, she said that before the crucifixion, Jesus “could not see through the portals of the tomb. Hope did not present to Him His coming forth from the grave a conqueror, or tell Him of the Father’s acceptance of the sacrifice. He feared that sin was so offensive to God that Their separation was to be eternal.” In John:10:17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
See All..., 18 (NKJV), Jesus says, “Therefore, my Father loves me because I lay down my life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.” (See also, Luke:24:7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
See All... and John:2:19Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
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A prophet speaking according to God’s word would also not say something at one time and say just the opposite at another time. Here are some examples of Ellen White’s contradiction of her own words:

In Desire of Ages, p. 645 she says that Judas had a conviction to confess during the footwashing. In Evangelism, p. 275, she says that Judas did not have a conviction to confess during footwashing.

In Spiritual Gifts, v. 1, p. 58, she says that the nails went through Jesus’ bones. Forty years later, in Desire of Ages, p. 744, she says that no bones were broken.

A prophet, who must speak according to God’s word, would not fabricate a doctrine that not only cannot be found in Scripture, but actually contradicts Scripture. The doctrine of the investigative judgment says that Jesus did not go into the Most Holy Place until 1844. The following Bible texts say that Jesus went into the Most Holy Place and started interceding for us after He ascended to heaven following the resurrection: Eph:1:20Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
See All...; Col:3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
See All...; 1 Pet:3:21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
See All..., 22; Heb:1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
See All...; Heb:9:12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
See All...; Heb:10:12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
See All..., 19; Heb:12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
See All.... In addition, just before Stephen was stoned to death, he looked up to heaven and saw Jesus sitting beside the Father in the Most Holy Place. And that was centuries before 1844!

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