The Gift of Prophecy

Summary

Ellen White had a lifelong core passion for Jesus and the love of God. It has been necessary to limit the examples and illustrations, but perhaps one can begin to capture the strong pulse of her Christian experience. Adventists today, both young and old, need to see Ellen White as a person who was passionately in love with Jesus. Perhaps the best way to conclude is with one further illustration. It is a recollection from Ellen White’s oldest granddaughter, Ella M. Robinson. Ella was in her 30s when Ellen White died in 1915. She had a young adult’s perspective. When asked her favorite recollection of her grandmother, she said: GOP 279.3

I see Grandma standing in the pulpit, dressed in her loose-fitting, black sack suit, narrow cuffs of white, narrow white collar secure at the throat by a small brooch. She’s been telling of the matchless love of Christ in suffering ignominy and death and even running the risk of eternal separation from His Father in heaven by taking upon Himself the sins of the world. She pauses, looks up, and with one hand resting on the desk and the other lifted heavenward she exclaims in a ringing voice, “Oh, Jesus, how I love You, how I love You, how I love You.” There is a deep hush. Heaven is very near. ³² GOP 279.4

The discussion of Ellen White’s prophetic revelation is not merely an academic consideration. The very nature of her message draws a person to the loving Father who has revealed Himself in the gift of Jesus. GOP 279.5