While in Exeter, Maine, in meeting with Israel Dammon, James, and many
others, many of them did not believe in a shut door. I suffered much at the
commencement of the meeting. Unbelief seemed to be on every hand. There was one
sister there that was called very spiritual. She had traveled and been a
powerful preacher the most of the time for twenty years. She had been truly a
mother in Israel. But a division had risen in the band on the shut door.
She had
great sympathy, and could not believe the door was shut. (I had known nothing of
their differences.) Sister Durben got up to talk.
I felt very, very sad. At
length my soul seemed to be in an agony, and while she was talking I fell from
my chair to the floor. It was then I had a view of Jesus rising from His
mediatorial throne and going to the Holiest as Bridegroom to receive His
kingdom. They were all deeply interested in the
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view. They all said it was entirely new to them. The Lord worked in mighty power
setting the truth home to their hearts. Sister Durben knew what the power of the
Lord was, for she had felt it many times; and a short time after I fell she was
struck down, and fell to the floor, crying to God to have mercy on her.
When I
came out of vision, my ears were saluted with Sister Durben's singing and
shouting with a loud voice. Most of them received the vision, and were settled
upon the shut door. Previous to this I had no light on the coming of the
Bridegroom, but had expected Him to [come to] this earth to deliver His people
on the tenth day of the seventh month. I did not hear a lecture or a word in any
way relating to the Bridegroom's going to the Holiest.
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Quando estava em Exeter, Maine, numa reunião com Israel Dammon, James e muitos
outros não acreditavam na porta fechada. Eu sofri muito no começo da reunião.
Incrédulos pareceram em cada mão. Havia uma irmã lá que era tida como muito
espiritual. Ela viajava e tinha sido uma poderosa pregadora durante 20 anos. Ela
tem sido verdadeiramente uma mãe em Israel. Mas na questão da "porta fechada" a
discordia cresceu no grupo. Ela tinha grande simpatia, mas não poderia crer na
porta fechada. Eu não sabia nada dessas diferenças.
A irmã Durben se levantou e começou a falar. E me sentí muito, muito desgostosa.
Com o tempo a minha alma parecia estar em agonia. Enquanto ela falava eu caí da
cadeira para o chão. Foi quando eu tive uma visão de Jesus se levantando do seu
trono mediador e indo para o compartimento santíssimo como o Esposo para receber
o seu reino. Todos estavam muito interessados na visão. Todos disseram que era
inteiramente nova para eles.
A irmã Durben conhecia o poder do Senhor que ela tinha caido em visão muitas
vezes. Logo depois que eu caí, ela caiu como um raio no chão, clamando a Deus
por misericórdia.
Quando eu voltei da visão, meus ouvidos foram agraciados com a irmã Durben
cantando em alta voz. A maioria deles recebeu a visão concordando de uma vez com
a porta fechada.
Antes disso eu não tive nenhuma luz sobre a vinda do Esposo, mas esperei Ele vir
a essa Terra e entregar o seu povo no dia dez, do mês sétimo. Eu não ouví a
leitura ou palavra de nenhuma forma relacionada com o Esposo indo para o
santíssimo.
Nota: (é muito difícil traduzir porque ela escreve de uma forma muito truncada)
A visão da porta fechada se relacionava ao movimento de Guilherme Miller,
e que em 1844 a porta da graça fechou.
O que Ellen White descreve na carta ao Comandante Bates, é o descrédito da sua
visão, quando houve um segunda visão confirmando a primeira, e desta vez uma
visão coletiva que convenceu definitivamente a todos os presentes, que não criam
nela. Nessa carta, Ellen White está confirmando a data da volta de Cristo,
pregada por Guilherme Miller.
O grupo se manteve fiel como discípulos de Guilherme Miller por mais de 20 anos.
(muito depois da organização da Igreja Adventista)
A doutrina do Santuário e Juizo Investigativo, e a porta fechada, foi um esforço
para justificar a data de 1844 como alguma coisa muito solene tendo acontecido
no céu, e equivocadamente interpretada por Guilherme Miller como sendo a volta
de Jesus.
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A parte final da carta não existe, mas tem toda a parte em
discussão.
| Arthur L. White
(neto de Ellen White) faz uma longa dissertação para explicar a questão
da Porta Fechada, para finalmente concluir que a expressão "SHUT
DOOR" mudou de significado ! "What was the meaning of the term "shut door" as used in November, 1844, in January, 1845, in 1846, in 1847, in 1848, then on through the years to 1851 and even subsequently? Did the term convey the same meaning at all times, and how was it understood by various individuals during this critical period?" http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/shut-alw.html |
A transcrição acima é um
copy/paste (copiar/colar) do website oficial do White Estate. --- Conferência
Geral dos Adventistas do Sétimo-Dia.
http://www.egwtext.whiteestate.org/published-writings.html
Nota: Quando no copy/paste (copiar/colar) não funcionar com o primeiro
parágrafo, tente o segundo parágrafo, pois parece ser intencional, para que
certos textos não sejam encontrados.
Veja as contradições:
clique (Tudo copiado do website
do White Estate)
A comparação abaixo da visão de Ellen White e de William E. Foy
foi retirada do website
http://www.ellenwhiteexposed.com/refute9a.htm e
não foi conferida por nós.
| Ellen G. White Christian Experience and Views of Mrs. White (1851) |
William E. Foy The Christian Experience of William E. Foy (1845) |
|---|---|
| All the angels that are commissioned to visit the earth hold a golden card, which they present to the angels at the gates of the city as they pass in and out. (pp. 37, 39) | I then beheld countless millions of shining ones coming with cards in their hands. These shining ones became our guides. The cards, they bore shone above the brightness of the sun; and they placed them in our hands but the name of them I could not read. (pp. 10, 11) |
| On either side of the chariot were wings, and beneath it wheels. And as the chariot rolled upwards, the wheels cried Holy, and the wings as they moved, cried Holy, and the retinue of Holy Angels around the cloud cried Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty. (p. 35) | There were countless millions of bright angels, whose wings were like pure gold, and they sang with loud voices, while their wings cried, holy. (p. 18) |
| And as the chariot rolled upward, the wheels cried, "Holy," and the wings, as they moved, cried, "Holy," and the retinue of holy angels around the cloud cried, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!" Maranatha, p. 305 | Behind the angel I beheld countless millions of bright chariots. Each chariot had four wings like flaming fire and an angel followed after the chariot, and the wings of the chariot, and the wings of the angel cried as one voice saying "holy." (p. 18) |
| On one side of the river was a trunk of a tree, and a trunk on the other side of the river, both of pure, transparent gold... Its branches bowed to the place where we stood, and the fruit was glorious; it looked like gold mixed with silver. (p. 17) | I then beheld in the middle of this boundless place a tree, the body of which was like unto transparent glass, and the limbs were like transparent gold, extending all over this boundless place...the fruit appeared like clusters of grapes in pictures of pure gold. (pp. 14,15) |
| I asked Jesus to let me eat of the fruit. He said: "Not now. Those who eat of the fruit of this land go back to earth no more... (pp. 19, 20) | With a lovely voice the guide spoke to me and said, "Those who eat of the fruit of this tree return to earth no more." (p. 15) |
| ...in His right hand was a sharp sickle; in His left, a silver trumpet. (p. 16) | Against His breast and across his left hand was as it were a trumpet of pure silver... (p. 18) |
| Here on the sea of glass the 144,000 stood in a perfect square. Some of them had very bright crowns, others not so bright. ... And they were all clothed with a glorious white mantle from their shoulders to their feet. (p. 11) | I then saw in midst of the place an innumerable multitude, arrayed in white raiment, standing in a perfect square, having crowns of unfading glory upon their heads. (p. 19) |
| Jesus raised his mighty glorious arm, laid hold of the pearly gate and swung it back on its glittering hinges, and said to us, You have washed your robes in my blood, stood stiffly for my truth, enter in. We all marched in and felt we had a perfect right in the City.(p. 11) | Before the gate stood a tall and mighty angel clothed in raiment pure and white; his eyes were like flaming fire, and his he wore a crown upon his head which lighted up this boundless plain. The angel raised his right hand, and laid hold upon the gate and opened it; and as it rolled upon its glittering hinges, he cried with a loud voice to the heavenly host, "Your all welcome!" Then the guardian angels in the midst of the saints struck a song of triumph, and the saints, both great and small sang with loud voices and passed within the gate... (p. 10) |