Dear ___________,
Thank you for contacting the Ellen G. White Estate. I'll be glad to try to answer your questions.
Is there any statement in Ellen White's writings re this: That Earth was/is the only planet created by God with the ability to reproduce? If not have you hear of this statement from anyone else?
I don't know of any statement from Mrs. White which makes this claim. Some might see it implicit in the following paragraph, the first paragraph in the devotional compilation "Sons and Daughters of God":
All heaven took a deep and joyful interest in the creation of the world and of man. Human beings were a new and distinct order. They were made "in the image of God," and it was the Creator's design that they should populate the earth. They were to live in close communion with heaven, receiving power from the Source of all power. Upheld by God, they were to live sinless lives. {SD 7.2}
Also that several years ago a physic came into a meeting of a group of Adventist, said Ellen White had appeared to him and told him that none of her writings were true. I know it wasn't her, and that her writings are truth, I am just curious.
I wrote to Dr. Roger Coon about this one, and I only just heard back from him yesterday, by "snail mail." First, here is the story as he told it as one of the points in a recent sermon:
1. "Spirits" of Bible Writers to Return to Contradict their Earlier Written Testimony on the state of mankind in life and in death (GC 557:1). a. I have not yet seen any prediction in the EGW writings that *her own* "spirit" would return, for the same purpose; but this is exactly what happened in the spring of 1974! A new convert to Adventism, Nicholas Steubing, who had previously been so tremendously influenced by the writings of Ruth Montgomery, one of the top three women writers on the psychic in the 1970s (the others: Jeane Dixon and Jane Roberts) and author of nine best sellers between 1965-82, sent a gift copy of The Great Controversy to Mrs. Montgomery, hoping to bring her a knowledge of the Advent Message that now meant so much to him. b. Responding on April 17, 1974, from Cuernavaca, Nogales, Mexico, where she was then living, Ruth Montgomery said: "Thanks so very much for sending THE GREAT CONTROVERSY to me. I am reading it with interest. . . . Oddly enough, in the automatic writing session this morning the Guides [code word among psychics for identifying the evil spirits who communicate directly with them--and always captialized, to indicate Deity] brought me a communication which said, 'The woman White who wrote the book you are reading is here and says: Please, please disregard what I wrote about communication with the living dead!'"
Dr. Coon added the following note in his letter to me, dated November 29, 2001:
"The source of my story was Nicholas Steubing, himself. We first 'met' through correspondence, and he shared a photocopy of the Ruth Montgomery letter with me. I first met him, face-to-face, at the 140th Anniversary of the GC [Great Controversy] Vision in Toledo, March 1998."
I imagine we haven't seen or heard anything like what will occur before Jesus returns.
No doubt this is correct.
I thought that maybe this terrorist attack might be the first calamity she spoke of that would awaken God's people around the world. What is your opinion on all the above. Thank You, ___________
I don't think I am willing to give it that specific a designation. Why should this attack be the "first calamity"? What about Pearl Harbor and other dreadful things? This one looms large (in part) because it is so recent. Such things should always tell us, "Therefore be ye also ready" (Matt 24:44). But I don't mean to minimize the recent events. I think they are the kind of thing Mrs. White told us about in the opening chapter of Testimonies vol. 9, even while I don't think she was describing those specific events.
I hope this is helpful. Thank you for writing, and God bless!
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William Fagal, Director
Ellen G. White Estate Branch Office
Andrews University
Berrien Springs, MI 49104-1400 USA
Phone: 616 471-3209
FAX: 616 471-2646
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