What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "2SM 43 Things that happened in Indiana"
Answer
The events in Indiana that Ellen White refers to were characterized by fanatical manifestations that were mistakenly attributed to the Holy Spirit. There was great excitement with noise, confusion, jumping, dancing and the use of musical instruments such as drums.
The participants claimed to have obtained a “sanctified flesh” that could no longer sin and that they were ready for the transformation. Ellen White warned strongly that such disorderly conditions would reappear shortly before the end of the grace period in order to discredit the pure truth of God.
Fanaticism and the doctrine of fleshly salvation
»In your religious meetings there were practices that resembled those I have observed in connection with those movements in the past... There was great excitement, with noise and confusion. One could not tell what was whistled or what was harped. Some seemed to be in a vision and fell to the ground. Others jumped, danced and shouted. They explained that they were ready for the transformation because their flesh had been purified... But there were others who thought that sanctified flesh could not sin, and thus they fell into Satan’s trap. They had driven their extreme ideas so far that they became a charge against the precious work of God.«
Noise and confusion shortly before the end of the grace period
»The things you described as taking place in Indiana, the Lord has shown me, will occur shortly before the end of the grace period. Every unrefined thing will be demonstrated. There will be shouting, with drums, music and dancing. The senses of rational beings will be so confused that they can no longer be trusted to make correct decisions. And this will be called the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never reveals Himself in such methods, in such a hullabaloo of noise. This is a Satanic invention to conceal his sophisticated methods, with which he intends to render the pure, sincere, uplifting, ennobling and sanctifying truth for this time ineffective.«
- Sanctified flesh doctrine Indiana 1900
- Fanaticism in Advent history after 1844
- Music and worship in the writings of Ellen White
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