The Shaking Taken From Early Writings by Ellen White

This entire page, starting with the quotation marks below, is all taken from a chapter in the book with a title of Early Writings by Sister Ellen White. You can see the respective page numbers and paragraph number of each paragraph in that book and the end of each paragraph. I saw some, with strong faith and agonizing cries, pleading with God. Their countenances were pale and marked with deep anxiety, expressive of their internal struggle. Firmness and great earnestness was expressed in their countenances; large drops of perspiration fell from their foreheads. Now and then their faces would light up with the marks of God’s approbation, and again the same solemn, earnest, anxious look would settle upon them. {EW 269.1} Angels of Heaven Continually Wafting Their Wings Evil angels crowded around, pressing darkness upon them to shut out Jesus from their view, that their eyes might be drawn to the darkness that surrounded them, and thus they be led to distrust God and murmur against Him. Their only safety was in keeping their eyes directed upward. Angels of God had charge over His people, and as the poisonous atmosphere of evil angels was pressed around these anxious ones, the heavenly angels were continually wafting their wings over them to scatter the thick darkness. {EW 269.2} Angels of God Lift … Continued

Josiah Litch

The trumpets of history sounded to alert people of the final judgments, to call them back into covenant relationship. They were designed to call people to repent but “they repented not of their sins.” The Book of Revelation reveals Christ working out the provisions of God’s Covenant in the Last Days. It also reveals Christianity’s Response to that Covenant by Ulrike The Sixth Trumpet and the Millerites If“In 1838 Josiah Litch, a preacher in the Millerite movement, made the interesting prediction that the Ottoman Empire would fall on August 11, 1840. His prediction was based upon his reading of Revelation nine, and the text, …”were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year”…. Following established guidelines of applying a day for a year, he realized this was 360 +30 + 1 = 391 years. Revelation 9: 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. His prediction, which appeared in the book (The Probability of the Second Coming of Christ about A.D. 1843) was widely circulated in New England. Skeptics predicted Miller’s … Continued