AH FINAL EXAM (copy)

Tests of a Prophet

• Consistent with established Biblical truth

• Results of their ministry

• Predictions come true

• Their focus is on Jesus

Ellen White’s ministry to the church and its members

1. Assistance in developing doctrines

2. Savings from false teachings and fanaticism

3. Developing organizations

4. Guidance in current problems

5. Guidance in plans for the future

6. Revelation of future events

7. Encouragement and aid to Bible study

8. Guidance in Christian living

EGW favorite books

Desire of Ages

The Great Controversy

How many funerals did EGW have

3

Conflict of the Ages series titles

• patriarchs and prophets

• Prophets and kings

• The desire of ages

• The acts of the apostles

• The great controversy

Testimonies for the Church

2nd most influential set of books

9 volumes with nearly 5000 pages

*includes letters, articles, sermons, record of visions, and instructions for every day affairs of life

Directed at members of Adventist Church

Major Themes of EGW

• The love of God

• The Great controversy

• Jesus, the Cross and Salvation through Him

• The centrality of the Bible

• The second coming

• The 3rd Angel’s message and the Adventist mission

• Practical Godliness and the Development of Christian characters

Major critics of EGW

• seizures

• Vegetarianism

• Hyper graphic

• Plagiarism

Reading EGW

• begin with healthy outlook

• Focus on central issues

• Account for problems in communication

• Study all available information on the topic

• Avoid extreme interpretations

• Study each statement in its literary and historical context

• Recognize Ellen white’s understanding of the ideal and the real

• Use common sense

What is the EGW estate- duties and responsibility (know two)

5 trustees- the EGW Estate

• protect copyrights

• Promote translation

• Acquaint SDA with her writings

• Operate offices and research centers

• Physical custody offices

• Promote and preserve heritage of denomination on behalf of GC

Purpose for missions

The commission to the church

Shut door

Why didn’t Adventist have a desire to go out to the world at first?

Due to Shut door theory many believed that the door was the door of probation shut

The Church needed both ?

Decentralization and Centralization

First division

North American Division

Organizational structure today

General Conference

Divisions of the G.C.

Union Conferences

Local Conferences

Local Churches

Three types of Church government

1. Congregational

• local church is supreme

• No accountability to other bodies

• Problem: lack of cohesion

• Examples: independent or non denominate churches

2. Papaliepiscopal

• head of the church is supreme

• Rigid control

• Problem: lack of freedom

• Examples: Catholic Church, Anglican Church

3. Representative

• authority rests with the people

• Accountability to democratically elected leaders

• Goal: balanced between cohesion and freedom

• Examples: Methodists, seventh-day Adventists

Levels of Church government:

Pre-church level

Local church level

Regional level conferences

Union conferences

Divisions

General conference

Pre-Church Level

• formation of local church

*Bible study group (believers meet to worship and study, branch SS school, evangelism of community)

• Company

*(organize body of believers, election of officers but NOT a church, time to prove viability)

• Organizers church

*church authorized by local conference, special organization service-conference officials, voted into sisterhood of churches at constituency meeting)

Local Church Level

• Election of Officers

• Process fo r church membership

• Church board

• Responsibilities (church membership issues, mission of the church locally, church programming, finances, election of officers)

Regional Level Conferences

• conference organization

• Local mission

Union conferences

• a group of local conferences in a regional area

• First Union conference was Australian union

• Provide leadership and resources to the local conferences

• 3-5 years elect officers

• Representative selected by local conference committee

Division

• made up of major geographic Divisons

• 13 total

• Represent GC in that part of the world

• Every 5 years

• Officers and departmental leaders are elected by representatives of the union conferences

General Conference

• comprised of the elected leaders of the world divisions

• World headquarters located in Washington, DC

• Provide leadership and resources sot church organization no they represent

Incorrect doctrinal view of Kellogg

Pantheism

• pictures God not as a great personal Being, but a force everywhere in trees, flowers, sunshine, air, and human beings, the power of God in nature is confused with the personality of God

Kellogg’s book

The Living Temple

Final Break with church and Kellogg over?

Constant antagonism, open criticism, and opposition to EGW prophetic role

Date of and debate on the fires

February 18, 1902

Two sides-

Heathen idea- God would never do this to His people

Divine Providence- God’s judgement on His disobedient people

*Ellen saw fires as judgement and mercy of God, discontinue commercial work

MOVE GC conference offices and publishing house

Three main causes of fragmentation

1. Dissatisfaction with church leadership

2. Discovery of new light

3. Personal problems of egocentricity, mental balance, and position-seeking

Holy Flesh Movement

Strong belief that Holy Spirit was to be poured out- is it too late to sin in thought, word, or action, for is time to receive Holy Ghost

EGW- we may have holy heart but not holy flesh in this isn filled world

What did the dissident movements have in common?

Doctrinal issues

• all skewed SDA views

What did EGW say about the fugitive slave act?

Advocated the Adventists violate this act

Name of the riverboat

Morning Star steamboat - Edson White

Edson’s two pronged approach to work in the South

Educational and evangelistic work among southern blacks

Who suggested the concept of black conferences?

Charles M. Kinney

1st black church in?

Edgefield Junction, TN in 1886

Signs of maturity

• recognition by evangelicals

• Development of educational institutions

• Internationalization of the denomination

• Size

Challenges

Doctrinal

Cultural

Organizational structure

Secularization

Christ return

Biblical illustrations of the church in the Bible

The woman in White

First Officially appointed Adventist Missionary, Switzerland

JN Andrews

Why was Ballenger anti church?

Rejected the investigative judgement

Cofounder of the Adventist Church

Joseph Bates

Converted Catholic priest, Missionary,

Czechowski, M. B.      

Canright, Dudley - Know why he was anti church

Did not believe in the truths

General Conference President, 1903 session

AG Daniel’s

John Harvey Kellogg

Doctor that transformed Battle Creek sanitarium

The ___________ of the Black work; first ordained black

minister in the Adventist Church

Charles Kinney

Father

Hannah More

Missionary that was ignored in Battle Creek and died of smoke inhalation

Walter Rea main charge again EGW

EGW plagiarized her writings

M Rowen

raudulent prophetess who claimed to be the successor to Ellen G. White, forming a breakaway group called the reformed seventh day Adventists from the 1920s. She predicted world destruction, was exposed for fabricated visions, and was imprisoned for attempted murder of a follower

Edson White can be called the BLANK of the black work

Pioneer

Messenger of God, Cofounder of the Adventist Church

EGW

Cofounder of the Adventist Church

James White

Current General Conference president

Ted Wilson

Ellen Harmon’s first vision

December 1844

Seventh-day Adventist Church is born

May 1863

First health vision

June 1863

J. N. Andrews voted to send to Switzerland

1874

1st black Adventist church

1886

GC Session in ____________, MN on the topic of ____________

1888

Righteous by Faith

Ellen White first major emphasis regarding work in the South

1891

GC Session focused on reorganization

1901

BC Sanitarium burns

1902, February 18      

Review and Herald Publishing House burns

1902, December 30  

Ellen White Dies

1915, July 16  

Ellen White’s last GC Session

1909

Date of THIS SEMESTER’S Adv Heritage Test

May 5, 2026

1 Angel Message

the soon return of Jesus (1820-1840s)

2nd Angel’s message

Come out of Babylon “MY” people (summer 1844)

Midnight Cry

Bridegroom tarries – go out to meet Him (1844 summer)

3rd Angel’s Message

Seal of God, Mark of Beast, Sabbath Commandment

Laodicean

God’s people need Jesus to be there everything

Loud Cry

Final appeal to the world before the return of Jesus

Ministries of the SDA church

Meetings

Publishing

Organization

Health

Education

Missions

How can EGW works apply to my life today?

Follow Jesus

What are the foundational doctrines of the SDA church?

The Second Coming of Christ is the grand consummation of the ages and is one unified event.

The Second Coming of Christ occurs before the Millennium.

The Second Coming of Christ occurs before the Millennium.

The Sanctuary is the integrating doctrine of Seventh-day Adventist theology.

The Sanctuary is the integrating doctrine of Seventh-day Adventist theology.

The 1844 Judgment message comes from the Bible.

The 1844 Judgment message comes from the Bible.

The Sabbath is a day to build a relationship with God.

The Sabbath is a day to build a relationship with God.

Keeping the Sabbath does not guarantee one’s salvation.

Keeping the Sabbath does not guarantee one’s salvation.

The Bible teaches that death is a state of unconsciousness.

The Bible teaches that death is a state of unconsciousness.

Immortality of the Soul is rooted in pagan philosophy.

Immortality of the Soul is rooted in pagan philosophy.

Ellen White’s writings are subordinate to the authority of the Bible.

Ellen White’s writings are subordinate to the authority of the Bible.

Ellen White was a modern prophet.

Explain significance of the name Seventh Day ADventist Church

The name Seventh-day Adventist, chosen in 1860, represents a dual identity focusing on biblical Sabbath observance ("Seventh-day") and the imminent return of Jesus Christ ("Adventist"). It signifies a commitment to honoring the fourth commandment (Saturday) and preparing the world for the second advent (second coming) of Jesus.

Hebrews 10:24-25

²⁴ And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, ²⁵ not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Ephesians 4:11-13

¹¹ So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, ¹² to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up ¹³ until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Revelation 14:12

¹² This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.

Matthew 28:19-20

¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Acts 2:42-43

⁴² They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ⁴³ Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.

Ephesians 2:19-22

¹⁹ Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. ²¹ In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. ²² And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

1 John 5:11-13

¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Concluding Affirmations

¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Colossians 1:18

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

2 Peter 1:21

²¹ For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

John 14:1-3

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. ² My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

1 Peter 2:9-10

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Romans 12:4-5

⁴ For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, ⁵ so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

Ephesians 4:4

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

1 Corinthians 10:13

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.