And in each of these periods, it is preceded by time of darkness. But there will be an increase of knowledge. Bible quote:

Isaiah 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Also remember, SOP quote:

The work of God in the earth presents, from age to age, a striking similarity in every great reformation or religious movement. The principles of God's dealing with men are ever the same. The important movements of the present have their parallel in those of the past, and the experience of the church in former ages has lessons of great value for our own time. {GC88 343.1}

These periods are strikingly similar but not exactly identical. There are small differences.

Now the three periods that SOP compares most often are:

1 - The time period of Jesus

2 - The time period of the Millerites

3 - and our time period.

If you read the SOP writings, she compares these time periods over and over and over and over again.

So in these time periods, the message begins at the time of the end but it is empowered at a certain time.

And this is absolutely critical to understand the empowerment of the message, because when the message is empowered, the testing time begins and Judgement will soon take place. If you go back to the first post, that is part of the reason why the sadness that had befallen Jesus was so intense. The Jews had failed to realize that their day of visitation had arrived. And that history is going to be repeated in our day.

And in these three periods (as well as some others), the message is empowered when a heavenly being comes down. (The brother that did the 1st graphic is German, and where he puts the empowerment in the time of Jesus, it should say Holy Spirit comes down as a Dove)

The other reformatory movements have some very very important lessons but here are the ones that SOP compares most often.

"If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." Luke 19:42-44. {GC 17.1}

I don't know how to do the quote showing what Elle wrote but here is the quote from Elle - "Well, I hope you can back up what you say with the Bible. I don't believe that you can remove the seal with the SOP. It will be ONLY through Christ Jesus' direct teachings."

The bible (Word of God) tells us plainly that God's chosen people will have the testimony of Christ, or in other words the spirit of prophecy. No one on earth has authority to now say, God's people do not have the spirit of prophecy or testimony of Christ. If you look at the bible, God's people have always had a prophet.

If you look at the doctrines (truths that the church upholds and promotes) number 18 specifically says that Ellen G White is our prophet.

So the only logical question would be, are you a member of a false church?

not only that, but at the end the casket is bigger. SOP quote:

He then placed on the table a casket, much larger and more beautiful than the former, and gathered up the jewels, the diamonds, the coins, by the handful, and cast them into the casket, till not one was left, although some of the diamonds were not bigger than the point of a pin. {EW 83.6}
He then called upon me to "come and see." {EW 83.7}
I looked into the casket, but my eyes were dazzled with the sight. They shone with ten times their former glory. I thought they had been scoured in the sand by the feet of those wicked persons who had scattered and trod them in the dust. They were arranged in beautiful order in the casket, every one in its place, without any visible pains of the man who cast them in. I shouted with very joy, and that shout awoke me. {EW 83.8}

I'm going to post this here also since it's related:


The Casket is bigger at the end of the world.

Without a doubt we are living in a very dangerous time.

The very last deception of Satan will be to make of none effect the testimony of the Spirit of God. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18. Satan will work ingeniously, in different ways and through different agencies, to unsettle the confidence of God's remnant people in the true testimony. He will bring in spurious visions, to mislead and mingle the false with the true, and so disgust people that they will regard everything that bears the name of visions, as a species of fanaticism; but honest souls, by contrasting false and true, will be enabled to distinguish between them. {FLB 296.6}

SOP tells us that there are hidden treasures in the bible, that we must not study the bible superficially for in it we will find jewels of truth. (are there any accidents in the Word of God?) Also upon the testimony of two or three, a thing is established. This rule is found throughout the bible. Even Jesus used it on Himself.

We have been told that those that listened to the prophets or the "chosen ones" were called fanatical and are going to be called fanatical. Here are a few examples.

In the time of Noah. Was Noah and his family ridiculed for believing?

Moses, how many times did the Israelites ridicule Moses?

John the Baptist and Jesus.

(for any of these prophets, if you rejected their message, what happened?)

Now it's interesting to note, in the history of the world, there are only four dispensational prophets, ever. (dispensational - meaning there has been a change in dispensation i.e. Noah - change of focus of worship from the gates of eden to the altar)

God's people must understand clearly the correct place of worship for as we read in the testimonies, if one worships God thinking Him being in the wrong place, you end up worshiping satan. See EW 259

Those four prophets are:

Noah - Focus from gates of eden to the altar

Moses - Focus from altar to the earthly sanctuary

John the Baptist - Prepared the way for the focus from earthly sanctuary to the heavenly sanctuary

Lastly Ellen Gould White - Focus of worship from the Holy to the Most Holy.

In each of these cases, God used the prophet to give light to the people. Interesting group no? And the people needed these prophets to clarify, no?

Also interesting, Ellen Gould White, interesting name. Has the prophets name ever had anything to do with their work?

Noah - comforter

Moses - out of the water

John the Baptist - baptized

And Ellen Gould White? What does her name represent?

Ellen - Bright Light

Gould - Old english for gold

White - White

Is there anywhere in the bible that mentions a prescription for people living at the end of the world?

Laodiceans

What is the prescription for Laodicea in Rev 3:18

Eyesalve

Gold

White Raiment

Now Gold and White are easy to see. But what about Eyesalve?

. . .eyesalve (true spiritual discernment). {RH, November 8, 1956 par. 7}

And what allows one to have spiritual discernment?

Psalms 119:105 ¶ NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

The Word of God, is a bright light.

Ico, Jeff teaches by parallels and there is some merit to that, so here's a clear parallel. The ministry of Christ was 3.5 years, Elijah's testing of Israel was 3.5 years and the Millerite message was empower for about the same length. In fact regarding the Millerite message, I found this interesting quote today by Miller himself:

Miller consistently taught that Christ would come in 1843/1844. What is fascinating about this quote is that it reveals that Miller apparently believed that there would be a 3.5 year period of trouble and anarchy leading up to the return of Christ in 1843/1844. Given the keen prophetic insight of Miller, and the parallels with past dispensational way marks I think these teachings of Miller's and the parallels are worth noting.

If you look at the quotes from the Bible and SOP, the fact that there are parallels in the bible is taught by God, not by any man. (These studies are being taught all around the world along with the two charts God gave the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The two charts are the 1843 chart and the 1850 chart, both mentioned in the Bible, that they would speak and not lie at the end. Those charts can be found at the General Conference Offices or Various E.G. White Libraries)

We are not to depend on man or take the word of man. If it can not be proved from the Bible and SOP, than it is mans opinion, and we are not to be guided by mans opinion.

If you look at the sequence of events of the 3 1/2 years, they only match up in the line of Elijah and the Millerites. (the 3 1/2 years are in red)

The 3 1/2 years during the time of Christ do not follow the same sequence.

Now if you take the lines of Elijah and the Millerites, you will find some very interesting lessong that the Lord is teaching us. I'm not going to go into that right now since I want to finish the time of our visitation sequence, but notice.

Preceding the Millerite time period and the Elijah time period there were 3 1/2 of years of darkness with "Jezebel"

After the 3 1/2 years, the true prophet was revealed when the fire came down from heaven. In the line of Elijah, it was literal fire and in the line of the Millerites it was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit during the Midnight Cry.

If you study the pattern of Christ and the pattern of anti-christ you will see the 3 1/2 line up i.e. the preparation of Christ was 30 years followed by 3 1/2 years. The anti-christ also has 30 years of preparation, from 508 to 538 and then 3 1/2 prophetic years of work. If I find that pattern I will post it.

This group is known as "Christians".Which is given by the Holy Spirit and has been so for the entire Christian era. While the words you write are true, your intent with them is not. The prophecies of the bible and the Holy Spirit are not exclusive property of the SDA church. In fact, it is only by grace that we partake them together with ALL other christians who are our brothers in the body of Christ. Once you identify SOP with the person Ellen White, you are stepping outside of biblical truth and are by yourself. Identifying SOP with the Spirit who gives the Prophetic utterances would retain truth in your statement. This last paragraph illustrate why your aim is off center, as I said above.