Was Ellen White a prophet?
Like many I had heard of Ellen White but never investigated her writings. I grew up believing things such as Ellen White solely founded the SDA church, she’s a false prophet etc. A lot of people have an opinion on Ellen White without even reading one of her books. Others just read a few quotes which get taken out of context. Upon further research, I have since concluded that if someone can make these predictions in the time she lived, and still not be called a prophet, then I can’t see how anyone else can bear that title in these last days.
Did God promise a true prophet for the end times?
I’m aware there are numerous false prophets. Satan has set up many false prophets such as Mohammed or Joseph Smith. For some leaving a church where they were following a false prophet, this makes them very weary of anyone who’s associated with that title. It’s like when one has a bad relationship, the guard of that person is automatically put even higher to avoid future hurt. However, it would be illogical for that person to think that there are no good partners because of their unfortunate relationship. Rather it would reflect a lack of emotional healing on their part. God in his word promised we’d have an end time prophet Joel 2:28-29 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit”. To deny an end time prophet because of many false prophets would reflect a lack of spiritual healing.
What’s the test?
Deuteronomy 18:22 “When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him”.
Claim – Fidel Castro will die in the 90s
Let’s take an example prophecy of a false prophet: “The Spirit tells me that Fidel Castro will die in the 90s. Oh my… Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health and he will not stay in power and Cuba will be visited of God”.
Fidel Castro, in full Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, (born August 13, 1926, near Birán, Cuba—died November 25, 2016, Cuba) – Encyclopaedia britannica
Who prophesied this you might wonder?
Benny Hinn: Benny Hinn's false prophecies (0:50)
Let’s now turn to the prophecies made by Ellen White. I want the reader to notice that the prophecies are so direct that they hardly need explaining. One could understand what she’s talking about just from reading what’s been written.
Prophecy numbers 1 & 2 – Animal products to become unsafe and animal creation will suffer disease
Sister white prophesied that the use of dairy products including egg would become unsafe for human consumption. Furthermore, she also prophesied that animal creation will groan under diseases, essentially all of animal creation will be suffering in the future.
“Let the diet reform be progressive. Let the people be taught how to prepare food without the use of milk or butter. Tell them that the time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter, because disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase of wickedness among men. The time is near when, because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation will groan under the diseases that curse our earth”. -Testimonies for the Church, vol. 7, p. 135.1
Over one hundred years later nutritional research has shown that there is an increased risk of cancer, heart disease and pathogens when one consumes dairy or eggs. The evidence is so overwhelming that many in our current day and age are turning to a plant-based diet for health reasons.
Dairy and cancer
Why These Doctors Don't Recommend Dairy | The Exam Room
A lecture showing the dangers of all these products with scientific studies to verify:
Uprooting the UK's Leading Causes of Death with Dr Michael Greger (28th April 2016, London)
Is animal creation groaning from disease?
“Increases in the emergence or re-emergence of animal and human infectious diseases have been evident in many parts of the world for several years (Weiss & McMichael 2004; Gibbs 2005; Woolhouse et al. 2005). Over 1600 human pathogens are now described, an average of three new diseases is reported approximately every 2 years, and a new infecting organism is published every week”. - Livestock infectious diseases and zoonoses
“The LPI revealed a 68% average decline in global vertebrate species populations between 1970 and 2016. Wildlife populations found in freshwater habitats fell by 84% - the starkest average population decline in any biome, equivalent to 4% per year since 1970”. - WWF Living Planet Report
Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease
Prophecy numbers 3 & 4 – Popular preachers will ignore sabbath and Men will mention Sunday as a cause of calamities.
Ellen White predicted that men in responsible positions will not only ignore the sabbath but urge people to observe Sunday instead. Preachers will start to see the calamities that now occur in the world as judgement for the lack of Sunday keeping.
“Men in responsible positions will not only ignore and despise the Sabbath themselves, but from the sacred desk, will urge upon the people the observance of the first day of the week, pleading tradition and custom in behalf of this man-made institution. They will point to calamities on land sea to the storms of wind, the floods, the earthquakes, the destruction by fire as judgments indicating God's displeasure because Sunday is not sacredly observed”. —Signs of the Times, January 17, 1884, page 1, paragraph 13
Have preachers ignored the sabbath?
All these videos are doctrinally wrong, but they illustrate how those in responsible positions ignore and despise the sabbath:
Is Sabbath an absolute command for Christians?
How is Jesus our Sabbath Rest? | GotQuestions.org This Pastor implies Jesus broke the sabbath at 4.30-4.45. This would imply Jesus sinned as in the very same video he brings up the Israelite who broke the sabbath at 6.30-7:00. What he doesn’t realise is, if the man who broke the sabbath rules was a sinner, then by his own definition he’s also saying Jesus is a sinner. He doesn’t realise he’s willing to say Jesus sinned indirectly. However, Christ knew no sin, so he didn’t break the sabbath but was showing the people how to keep sabbath. Some refuse the sabbath so much they will contradict their own points to avoid it.
Why Do Christians Worship on Sunday and Not Saturday? (Also contradicts himself)
SHOULD CHRISTIANS KEEP THE SABBATH?
The sources for preachers ignoring the sabbath are way too extensive to post in this study.
Have preachers linked Sunday observance to the extreme weather events we see in the world?
This day in WND history: Sabbath breaking caused killer tsunami? (Sabbath to this presbyterian minister is Sunday)
“Punitive attributions were mainly expressed by members of mainline churches, stating that the tsunami had been sent by God to wash away sin and those who committed it. The most common view was that God had sent the tsunami to punish those who did not keep the Sabbath holy at the beach accommodations along the coast. Many of my informants pointed out that the area hit by the tsunami was not coincidental, but that God had targeted the tsunami to the popular tourist- and recreational area because owners of bars and accommodations arranged or allowed for activities such as music, games, swimming and barbecues on Sundays. As explained by an elderly female member of a mainline church in Vaimatu: ‘Only the tourist places, they were all washed away. With people! That's a punishment for them. Other families from Apia, they come over here on Sunday and have an entertainment, a barbecue, a band making lots of noises without singing a hymn from God. But they are Samoans! They know God, they know Sunday, this is the one day for them to go to church, but they take Sundays to entertain themselves over here. That's why I say, it's a punishment for those people.’” (source)
This sentiment will increase in the very near future as all efforts to stop the coming calamites will appear useless.
Prophecy number 5 – the world engaged in two wars.
Ellen White predicted that the inhabitants of the earth will be engaged in a war. Then there would be a little time of peace, then the inhabitants of the earth would engage in war again, where there would be disease, bloodshed, and famine. This quote is form the mid nineteenth century.
“I was shown the inhabitants of the earth in the utmost confusion. There was war, bloodshed, want, privation, famine and pestilence, in the land; and as these things were without, God's people began to press together, and cast aside their little difficulties. Self-dignity no longer controlled them. Deep humility took its place. Suffering, perplexity and privation, caused reason to resume its throne, and the passionate and unreasonable man became sane, and acted with discretion and wisdom”. {RH, August 27, 1861 par. 13}
My attention was then called from the scene. There seemed to be a little time of peace. Then the inhabitants of the earth were again presented before me, and everything was in the utmost confusion again. Strife, war and bloodshed, with famine and pestilence, raged everywhere. Other nations were engaged in this confusion and war. War caused famine. Want and bloodshed caused pestilence. And then men's hearts will fail them for fear, "and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." {RH, August 27, 1861 par. 14}
The very clear use of the phrase “inhabitants of the earth” allows the reader to understand that these two wars involve most nations.
Did the inhabitants of the earth engage in war?
“World War I, also called First World War or Great War, an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage, and destruction it caused”. – Encyclopaedia Britannica
Was there a little time of peace before a second war?
“World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I”. – Encyclopaedia Britannica
One can literally take her statement and place them side by side with what happened. The First World War ended in 1918 but after a period of just 21 years World War two began. “There seemed to be a little time of peace, Then the inhabitants of the earth were again presented before me, and everything was in the utmost confusion again”.
I want to reiterate she said, “War caused famine”.
“Of WWII’s warring powers only the Soviet Union suffered mass starvation, but as this column, part of a Vox debate on the economics of WWII, describes, it is a measure of the war’s global reach that 20 to 25 million civilians died of hunger or hunger-related diseases outside Europe”. - The famines of WWII
Table to show famine deaths from World War II courtesy of Voxeu.
She also said “Want and bloodshed caused pestilence”
Tropical Diseases in Veterans of World War II
8 disgusting diseases older troops had to worry about
Prophecy number 6 – Great balls of fire to fall upon homes
Ellen White predicted that in the future great balls of fire would fall on homes, this would then splinter off into what looked like fiery sparks.
“In the night I was, I thought, in a room but not in my own house. I was in a city, where I knew not, and I heard explosion after explosion. I rose up quickly in bed and saw from my window large balls of fire. Jetting out were sparks, in the form of arrows, and buildings were being consumed; and in a very few minutes the entire block of buildings was falling, and the screeching and mournful groans came distinctly to my ears”. Letters and Manuscripts - Volume 21 (1906), Ms 126, 1906, par. 6
“Last Friday morning, just before I awoke, a very impressive scene was presented before me. I seemed to awake from sleep but was not in my home. From the windows I could behold a terrible conflagration. Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these balls fiery arrows were flying in every direction. It was impossible to check the fires that were kindled, and many places were being destroyed. The terror of the people was indescribable. After a time I awoke and found myself at home. I see that the end is near, and I wish to do my work quickly”. -Letters and Manuscripts Volume 21 (1906), Lt 278, 1906, par. 5
Was technology created to cause great balls of fire falling on homes, leading to sparks in different directions?
“The air raids that caused the greatest destruction in German cities were those directed against Hamburg in the summer of 1943 and against Dresden in February 1945. Both involved large tonnages of incendiary weapons together with high-explosive weapons, and both created fire-storms.1
1Firestorms are rare phenomena even during intensive incendiary warfare. They occur only under particular weather conditions and in certain types of surrounding. They require a large number of nearly simultaneous ignitions in proximity to one another. When a conflagration takes hold under these circumstances, a chimney effect may be created in which the induced inrush wind velocity exceeds that of the prevailing wind, thus preventing any significant spread outside the periphery of the fire, and causing the conflagration to burn so intensely that it dies down only when everything combustible has been consumed”. – weapons that may cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects
The destruction caused by these types of bombs:
Allied bombing of Dresden: Legitimate target or war crime? | DW News
The world’s first true bomber was created in 1914 the Voisin III. Ellen White wrote this vision in 1906.
Prophecy 7 & 8 Calamities to increase and scientists to create an explanation for increase in calamities
Sister white predicted that closer to the end, the world would face more Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fires, floods, disasters by sea and earthquakes. She furthermore predicted that science would attempt to explain all these phenomena. However, these are the signs of the closeness of the Son of God.
“The restraining Spirit of God is even now being withdrawn from the world. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause”. —The Signs of the Times October 9, 1901 paragraph 2
“Local disturbances in nature are permitted to take place as symbols of that which may be expected all over the world when the angels loose the four winds of the earth. The forces of nature are under the direction of an Eternal Agency. Science, in her pride, may seek to explain strange happenings on land and on sea; but science fails of tracing in these things the workings of Providence”. - Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 17 (1902), Ms 153, 1902, par. 4
Has there been an increase in natural disasters?
Source: our world in data.
Note: On Our World in Data, they try to offer an explanation that perhaps due to lack of reporting that could be a reason as to why it was low in the past. However, the increase is in natural disasters is over 300%. It’s clear that increase in reporting methods cannot account for all the increase. Hence why world leaders think they need to do something about it now. If it was always this bad there would be nothing to worry about. Too many testimonies from communities or indigenous tribes saying how the land they’ve always lived on is becoming no longer tenable.
One Year Later, Puerto Rico Still Hasn't Recovered From Hurricane Maria
There are whole channels on YouTube now dedicated to documenting these disasters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t667dz3wWKc&ab_channel=Climatechange
Have scientists tried to explain Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and floods, disasters by sea and land?
“In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms”. – (source) By their very own words this is a “NEW” field of research. This type of “science” was not around one hundred years ago when Ellen White was given this prophecy.
Climate change: Extreme weather causes huge losses in 2020
Prophecies 9 - 13.
“The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done. Catholicism is gaining ground in our country [America] upon every side”. Spirit of Prophecy, vol 4, 1884, p 382
“The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of a union of Church and State, the inroads of Spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power,--all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands have never listened to words like these. In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from Heaven”. Spirit of Prophecy, vol 4, 1884, p 424-425
Have the sins of apostate churches been made clear?
The sins of Babylon representing the apostate church have been made very clear and open. Here is a page by the BBC documenting various cases of sexual abuses of the Catholic Church: Catholic church sexual abuse cases.
Bishop's 'heartfelt' apology over Catholic college abuse
Fr Malachy Finnegan: Abuse survivor appeals to victims to come forward
Documentary exposing the depths of the abuse done by the Catholic Church (~53 mins)
Ravi Zacharias Hid Hundreds of Pictures of Women, Abuse During Massages, and a Rape Allegation
Benny Hinn Renounces His Selling of God’s Blessings. Critics Want More.
Fake pastors and false prophets rock South African faith
What's Up Africa: Should you pay for a prophecy?
Is Catholicism gaining ground in America on every side?
Why do Catholics make up a majority of the Supreme Court?
Is the supreme court too catholic?
Joe Biden: America's second Catholic president
Catholics now make up nearly one-third of Congress
Has America’s churches been seeking state power?
Paula White-Cain: Faith advisers in the White House
Project Blitz: the legislative assault by Christian nationalists to reshape America
Christian Leaders Pray Over Trump During Launch Of Evangelicals For Trump Coalition | NBC News
Is Trump trying to undo the US’ separation of church and state?
Has spiritualism been on the rise both inside and outside of the church?
Kundalini Manifestations in the Church Compared to the Occult
Why We Need to Increase Our Authentic Spirituality | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network
More Americans now say they’re spiritual but not religious
Americans may be getting less religious, but feelings of spirituality are on the rise
Has the papacy returned to power?
For some historical context spirit of prophecy volume 4 was published in 1884. At this time the papacy had no state power. They were greatly wounded.
“The revolutionary age in Europe, which opened with the French Revolution, continued the attack on the papacy. It provoked the capture of two popes by the French, Pius VI (1775–99) and Pius VII (1800–23), and the creation of a Roman Republic (1798–99), which replaced the Papal States. Although the conservative powers reestablished the Papal States at the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), the papacy now confronted Italian nationalism and the Risorgimento (Italian: “Rising Again”)” – Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the modern Age the popes have regained that power, so much in fact they boast about it on camera. Why is Pope Francis a moral authority?
I must note that one can see this prophecy fulfilled just by scrolling through Rome Reports in English (the Vatican’s YouTube channel). Where you will see them meet with kings, queens, ministers etc.
Prophecy 14 – Popes will apologise and be accepted worldwide.
“The Romish Church now presents a fair front to the world, covering with apologies her record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed herself in Christlike garments; but she is unchanged. Every principle of popery that existed in ages past exists today. The doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still held. Let none deceive themselves. The popery that Protestants are now so ready to embrace and honor is the same that ruled the world in the days of the Reformation, when men of God stood up at the peril of their lives to expose her iniquity”. - Spirit of Prophecy, vol 4, 1884, p 387
Have the popes apologised and have those apologies been received?
“Pope John Paul II has publicly asked God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and minorities. The unprecedented gesture by the spiritual leader of the world's one billion Catholics is one of the first major events of the Vatican's year-long celebrations marking the beginning of the new Christian millennium”. – BBC news
In the past Rome didn’t, but she’s learnt to not strike by force straight away. To play nice till she has what she needs.
Pope Apologizes For Church Role in Slave Trade
Pope apologises for Crusader sacking of Constantinople
Pope apologizes for past sins of Christians.
Pope Francis apologizes for Catholic Church’s past ‘crimes’ in Ireland
Justin Trudeau asks pope for public apology to Canada's indigenous communities
Prophecy 15 – The catholic church will claim Sunday as their mark.
“The change of the Sabbath is the sign or mark of the authority of the Romish church. Those who, understanding the claims of the fourth commandment, choose to observe the false sabbath in the place of the true, are thereby paying homage to that power by which alone it is commanded. The mark of the beast is the papal sabbath, which has been accepted by the world in the place of the day of God's appointment”. –Spirit of Prophecy volume IV, 1884, page 281
Does the Vatican claim Sunday as their mark?
“Sunday is our MARK of authority. . .the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact”. Catholic Record of London, Ontario Sept 1,1923.
“Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act... And the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things”. H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons. Nov. 11, 1895
What will lead God officially marking you with the mark of the beast?
“If the light of truth has been presented to you, revealing the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and showing that there is no foundation in the Word of God for Sunday observance, and yet you still cling to the false sabbath, refusing to keep holy the Sabbath which God calls "My holy day," you receive the mark of the beast. When does this take place? When you obey the decree that commands you to cease from labor on Sunday and worship God, while you know that there is not a word in the Bible showing Sunday to be other than a common working day, you consent to receive the mark of the beast, and refuse the seal of God”.- Review and Herald, July 13, 1897
In other words when you are forced by law to give up the sabbath and keep Sunday holy, then you have received the mark of the beast. This law will come soon.
Prophecy 16 and 17 – The roman church will increase her power and will undo all that Protestantism has done.
“The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done”. - The Spirit of Prophecy,1884, vol. 4, p. 381.4
The protestant church made a clear breakaway from the Catholic Church in the time of the reformation, to establish doctrine and faith based on the best knowledge they had at their time.
Has Rome undone the work of protestants?
Of the Papacy Martin Luther said: “We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist...personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist”. (Aug. 18, 1520) Taken from The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol. 2., pg. 121 by Froom.
Present time:
Pope to Finnish Delegation: Luther's intention was to renew the Church, not divide it
Delegation of Lutherans to Pope Francis
Prophecy 18 – Slavery (not specific to a single race) will continue to exist till the second coming
“Then commenced the jubilee, when the land should rest. I saw the pious slave rise in triumph and victory and shake off the chains that bound him, while his wicked master was in confusion and knew not what to do; for the wicked could not understand the words of the voice of God. Soon appeared the great white cloud. It looked more lovely than ever before. On it sat the Son of man”. – Review and Herald, July 21, 1851 page 3, second column, secondary source for readability
“There are tens of millions of people trapped in various forms of slavery throughout the world today. Researchers estimate that 40 million are enslaved worldwide, generating $150 billion each year in illicit profits for traffickers”. -freetheslaves.net
Prophecy 19 – Catholicism will eventually unite with Protestantism
“…this is the religion which Protestants are beginning to look upon with so much favor, and which will eventually be united with Protestantism. This union will not, however, be effected by a change in Catholicism; for Rome never changes. She claims infallibility. It is Protestantism that will change. The adoption of liberal ideas on its part will bring it where it can clasp the hand of Catholicism”. –Review and Herald, June 1, 1886
Pope Francis invites Kenneth Copeland for Ecumenism
The Pope to a Methodist Delegation: Our common testimony is necessary in a wounded world
Prophecy 20 – Prejudice between whites and blacks will decrease
“Walls of separation have been built up between the whites and the blacks. These walls of prejudice will tumble down of themselves, as did the walls of Jericho, when Christians obey the Word of God, which enjoins on them supreme love to their Maker and impartial love to their neighbours. . . . Let every church whose members claim to believe the truth for this time, look at this neglected, downtrodden race, that as a result of slavery have been deprived of the privilege of thinking and acting for themselves”. -Review and Herald Dec. 17, 1895.
When this statement was made, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hadn’t even been signed. “In 1967, when miscegenation laws were overturned in the United States, 3% of all newlyweds were married to someone of a different race or ethnicity. Since then, intermarriage rates have steadily climbed. By 1980, the share of intermarried newlyweds had about doubled to 7%. And by 2015 the number had risen to 17%”. - Trends and patterns in intermarriage
“Montgomery bus boycott, mass protest against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, by civil rights activists and their supporters that led to a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional. The 381-day bus boycott also brought the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., into the spotlight as one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement”. – Encyclopaedia Britannica
“Busing, also called desegregation busing, in the United States, the practice of transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts as a means of rectifying racial segregation. Although American schools were technically desegregated in 1954 by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)”. – Encyclopaedia Britannica
Schools in America were still segregated until it was made illegal by law in 1954. It goes without saying it took more years for the walls of prejudice to come down. In the current age however, the sentiments between blacks and whites have increased tremendously. To the point where one would be shunned from the public for saying anything remotely racist. In the modern age, companies must issue apologies if they something which can even be perceived as racist. Showing the massive change between Ellen White’s day and our day.
Brands keep apologizing for racism. Why do all their posts look the same?
New Zealand media giant Stuff apologises for 'racist' past reporting
MAC COSMETICS ISSUES PUBLIC APOLOGY FOLLOWING ACCUSATIONS OF RACISM FROM FORMER STAFF
Note: do not misunderstand this prophecy to mean “racism will end” as long as the devil is alive, he will use anything to divide humanity, however in this area he doesn’t have as much power as he did 100 years ago.
Prophecy 21 – Churches will preach the same errors the Jewish church did.
“This is the work of many in our day. Many churches are guilty of this sin. There is danger, great danger, that the supposed wise men of today will repeat the experience of the Jewish teachers. They falsely interpret the divine oracles, and souls are brought into perplexity and shrouded in darkness because of their misconception of divine truth”. - The Signs of the Times June 6, 1906
I will take two popular examples to show this prophecy fulfilled. In the time of the Jews because they didn’t understand prophecy, they expected that when Messiah would come, he would reign as a king on the earth. This would lead to them ruling over all nations and having to no more be under the yoke of the Romans. This was such a widespread belief that even after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus his disciples still believed in this lie. Acts 1:6 “When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel”? so-called Pastors are preaching this same lie in the millennial kingdom. Whilst the bible teaches when Jesus comes back this earth will be made to rest for 1000 years. There are preachers teaching Jesus will reign on earth for those 1000 years. The same lie Satan used on the Jews is working today. (For the truth about the 1000 years see this)
What is the Millennial Reign of Christ and What Will we and God Do During this 1000-year Period? (repeated lie the children of Israel will reign on an earthly kingdom).
Another example is the immortality of the soul men. The doctrine teaches one goes to heaven straight away. This was a widespread belief amongst the Jews as well. The bible teaches unconscious death until the resurrection. Today we see the same lie about going to heaven or hell straightaway is repeated.
As you can see from this it’s more than conclusive that God sent us an end-time prophet. More to come…