Soon our eyes were drawn to the east for a small black cloud had appeared about half as large as a man s hand which we all knew was the sign of the son of man.

Ellen g white vision of heaven background. Autobiographical sketch of ellen g. He gave us harps of gold and palms of victory. White a vision of the new earth at the time of another visit at the home of mrs. Some of ellen white s earliest visions contained bright glimpses of heaven and the earth made new.

White which was later expanded again by white and several authors who covered the remainder of her life published in 1915 it remains in print as life sketches of ellen g. When she came out of vision this world seemed dark and lonely compared with the brilliant beauty of the world to come which she had seen so vividly. As ellen remained in vision scenes passed before her. White only had approximately twelve during the 1860s and three during the 1870s.

In this vision god showed her scenes from the invisible battle taking place between jesus and satan. This she expanded in 1880 as life sketches of james white and ellen g. Ellen suddenly went into vision something she d done many times before. Haines about a year after the first vision there was given to miss harmon a vision of the new earth and the descent of the holy city which takes place at the end of the thousand years after christ s second advent.

In 1868 james white estimated that ellen had received between 100 and 200 visions and noted they had grown less frequent in recent years. She had no waking visions after the 1870s. Autobiographical sketch of ellen g. White acquired a sudden interest in astronomy.

Loughborough describes how during that vision mrs. We all entered the cloud together and were seven days ascending to the sea of glass when jesus brought the crowns and with his own right hand placed them on our heads. 8 an examination of the historical records of her visions shows mrs. She saw how satan had once been a respected angel in heaven along with how he d sinned and been cast to earth.

Ellen white wrote her own biography first published in 1851 as a sketch of the christian experience and views of ellen g. Here on the sea of glass the 144 000 stood in a perfect square. During this time she had her infamous solar system vision.

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