To the Reader
Seventh-day Adventists believe they have been especially called of
God to proclaim the good news of Christ’s soon coming to a confused
and dying world. “Great pains,” Ellen White wrote, “should be taken
to keep this subject before the people” (
Fundamentals of Christian
Education, 336
). In her book The Great Controversy between Christ
and Satan, she graphically outlined the grand and dreadful events of
the future. There is no other book like it. Maranatha, a 1976 book
compiled from her writings, also deals with the fulfillment of last-day
Bible prophecies.
As a further effort to “keep this subject before the people,” we have
prepared the present volume, Last Day Events. Many of the citations
in this book have been drawn from previously published Ellen White
sources, but a fair percentage of the materials have never before been
published. While we have not included all of Ellen White’s statements
on earth’s closing events, we have endeavored to include the most
significant ones
.
At the close of each excerpt, we have provided a source credit
as well as the date when the passage was written, or a date when it
was published during Ellen White’s lifetime. We also have included a
few footnotes, where we have thought that additional information or
explanations would be helpful
.
We have attempted to present Ellen White’s teachings on end-time
events in a logical arrangement
.
However, we do not claim that we have
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listed all future events in the exact order of their occurrence. In a matter
of such great importance as the experience of God’s people in the days
ahead, when everyone will have to stand alone, “as though there were
not another person in the world” (
The S.D.A. Bible Commentary
7:983
), it is essential that all Christians have their own convictions,
based upon their own study and their own personal relationship with
the Lord.
Ellen white declares that “our little world is the lesson book of
the universe” (
The Desire of Ages, 19
), and that the invisible world is
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