Ellen G. White

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Ellen G. White (1827-1915) is the founder of Seventh-day Adventism. Some followers of her writings consider her a prophet. Her best known books, The Great Controversy, The Desire of Ages, and Steps to Christ, are in wide circulation and the distribution of them is a core outreach of Adventism, thus they can often be had for free. The Great Controversy is a Restorationist narrative of the apostasy and later restoration of the Christian church, the key issue for White being the abandonment and later restoration of Saturday (or Sabbath-day) worship. The Desire of Ages is a long book on the person and life of Jesus, while Steps to Christ is a shorter evangelistic book. She also wrote on health matters and espoused vegetarianism, teetotalism, and exiting the cities to move to rural areas and become self-sufficient[1], both for health reasons and because of her belief in the coming end times, perhaps within her lifetime. This latter belief is a sort of forerunner to more recent survivalist practices of some Christians who believe the end times are imminent. For those who consider her a prophet, her visions of the end times are taken seriously, including a vision of hers cited by believers as purportedly predicting 9/11.[2]

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  1. See, for example, Country Living, a booklet compiling her writings on this subject
  2. http://www.truthorfables.net/nyc_wtc_9-11_terrorist_attacks.htm
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