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Early Writings
“We all entered the cloud together, and were seven days ascend-
ing to the sea of glass, when Jesus brought the crowns, and with his
own right hand placed them on our heads.”—Page 16
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“We all marched in and felt that we had a perfect right in the
city.”
“We saw the tree of life and the throne of God.”
“With Jesus at our head we all descended from the city down to
this earth.”—Page 17
.
“As we were about to enter the holy temple”....
“The wonderful things I there saw I cannot describe.”—Page 19
.
After the vision she was able to recall much of what had been
shown to her, but that which was secret, and not to be revealed, she
could not recall. As a part of the scene of what is to take place when
God’s people are delivered (page 285), she heard announced “the
day and hour of Jesus’ coming” (page 15; see also page 34). But of
this she later wrote:
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“I have not the slightest knowledge as to the time spoken by the
voice of God. I heard the hour proclaimed, but had no remembrance
of that hour after I came out of vision. Scenes of such thrilling,
solemn interest passed before me, as no language is adequate to
describe. It was all a living reality to me.”—Ellen G. White
Letter
38, 1888
, published in
Selected Messages 1, 76
.
The fact that she seemed to be participating in certain events
offered no guarantee that she would be a participant when the events
occurred
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Brethren Fitch and Stockman
.—In the account of her
first vision Mrs. White makes reference to “Brethren Fitch and
Stockman” as men she met and conversed with in the New Jerusalem.
Both were ministers with whom Ellen White had been acquainted
and who had taken an active part in proclaiming the message of
the expected advent of Christ, but who had died shortly before the
disappointment of October 22, 1844
.
Charles Fitch, a Presbyterian minister, accepted the Advent mes-
sage from reading William Miller’s lectures and through his meeting
with Josiah Litch. He threw himself wholeheartedly into the procla-
mation of the expected advent of Christ at the close of the 2300-year
period, and became a prominent leader in the Advent Awakening. In
1842 he designed the prophetic chart used so effectively and referred