Seventh-day Adventist unabridged End Times Events (from October 22, 1844 to eternity)
Seventh-day Adventists have a prophetess, Ellen White, who wrote what will happen in SDA End Times mythology. Here, I summarize it with sources, history, and show how SDAs use it to control people.
Note: Seventh-day Adventists refer to themselves as “SDA” or “Adventist” for short. So do I.
Readers curious about unabridged Adventist mythology from beginning times until now can read it here:
https://talesfromacult.substack.com/p/seventh-day-adventist-beliefs-the
Sources: Adventist End Times theology is in Ellen White’s book called The Great Controversy, and referenced all over the place in her reams of other writings.
The Great Controversy is over two inches thick. It’s a plagiarized history of Christianity that omits key historical things like The Mongol Empire, Islam, and everything that happened everywhere besides Europe and the Middle East.
It's heavily focused on the Fall of Jerusalem, evils of the Catholic Church, Martin Luther, how Adventists will be tortured and killed like the Waldensians were, and how America fulfills Bible prophecy.
For simplicity’s sake, I'm using a booklet, The Great Hope, that is a condensed version of The Great Controversy’s chapters about End Times. I'm also using the 1888 online version of The Great Controversy. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2999/toc
As of September 2024, The Great Hope is available for free online here: https://www.adventistpublishing.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Great-Hope.pdf
One can also search for The Great Controversy on official Ellen White Estate websites here:
https://whiteestate.org and www.egwwritings.org
Other review of The Great Hope: NonSDA atheist Viced Rhino did a review on this book, available here:
Evidence of Ellen White’s plagiarism is available by Test The Prophet here: https://youtube.com/@TesttheProphet
Adventist mythology, what’s going on right now: Adventists split up End Times into thirds. Right now, we are in the “Investigative or pre-Advent Judgement” phase.
“Ellen White outlined three distinct periods related to the end time: (1) the time of the investigative or pre-Advent judgment, which concludes with the close of probation; (2) the great time of trouble, which follows the close of probation and concludes with the Second Advent; and (3) the millennium, which follows the Second Advent and concludes with the resurrection of the wicked, their final destruction in the lake of fire, and the creation of a new earth.” https://text.egwwritings.org/read/14266.588
Heaven is currently in the constellation Orion, per the Adventist plagiarizing prophetess Ellen White.
“…we could look up through the open space in Orion, whence came the voice of God. The Holy City will come down through that open space.” Source: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/28.326
Sinless aliens are watching planet earth to see the effects of sin: There are “worlds upon worlds” of sinless aliens out there watching all the bad effects of sin on earth.
As the world, per Adventists, is around 6,000 years old, these sinless aliens are either slow learners or really love horror. I would have been done watching The Sin Show On Earth the first time a person died in childbirth.
Per Adventist prophetess, Ellen White:
“God has worlds upon worlds that are obedient to his law…With intense interest they [the people on those worlds] watch the controversy between Christ and Satan; and as this controversy progresses, and the glory of God shines brighter and brighter, they give praise to God.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/496.529#540
Background actual history:
In the 1830s, a wealthy farmer, William Miller, lived in New York State. He was a combat veteran in the War of 1812. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Miller_(preacher)
“"The fort I was in was exposed to every shot. Bombs, rockets, and shrapnel shells fell as thick as hailstones", he said. One of these many shots had exploded two feet from him, wounding three of his men and killing another, but Miller survived without a scratch. Miller came to view the outcome of this battle as miraculous,”
This combat veteran with likely survivor’s guilt started reading the Bible. He convinced himself Jesus was returning in the 1840s. He preached that to all and sundry. One of his prophecy charts from 1843 is on Wikimedia Commons:
Adventists go through a bunch of this chart in fifty+ hours-long Revelation Seminars to this day. They omit the bit about “Mahometans”. The Whore of Babylon is drawn sluttier. One Whore of Babylon, from here https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/study-guide/e/4999/t/the-other-woman:
Miller attracted many followers. The truest believers sold their property, possessions, warned all their friends and neighbors. Miller had multiple failed dates when Jesus didn’t return.
Miller’s final prediction was that Jesus would return to planet earth October 22, 1844, because reasons summarized on other charts that I have not found on Wikimedia Commons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerism
On October 22, 1844, all the Millerites gathered together, staying awake all night. I was taught as a child that one Millerite family had lost a baby just days before. They buried that baby without crying, believing Jesus would return as Miller predicted.
Jesus did not return. One believer, Hiram Edson, reported: “"Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never experienced before... We wept, and wept, till the day dawn.”” I bet the family who’s infant had died were especially heartbroken.
Historians call this The Great Disappontment.
Millerite and future Adventist founders at that meeting, Ellen White and Hiram Edson, experienced Cognitive Dissonance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Ellen White and Hiram Edson both say they had visions explaining why Jesus did not return. Their visions relieved their cognitive dissonance. Of note here: Sleep deprivation, extreme stress, and severe emotional shock can absolutely give humans visions.
Why Jesus didn’t return in 1844, per Hiram Edson and Ellen White: Too long didn’t read: God was testing his believers. On October 22, 1844 Jesus went into the Most Holy Place in heaven’s Tabernacle. He's there right now, making “final atonement”.
I was taught this means that Jesus is reviewing all the records of all humans who have ever existed. He is deciding which humans will live forever in heaven with god, and which humans he will resurrect then burn to death. Somehow, never made very clear to me, the 1/3 of god called Jesus is “interceding” with the other 2/3 of god while he's in the heavenly Tabernacle’s Most Holy Place, in the Constellation Orion.
The long explanation: Per Bible verse proof texts, there is a Tabernacle in heaven. It is exactly like the ancient Jewish Tabernacle, with a Holy Place and a Most Holy Place. In October 1844, Jesus entered the heavenly Tabernacle’s Most Holy Place. He's there right now judging between all the righteous and unrighteous humans.
“As the priest entered the most holy once a year to cleanse the earthly sanctuary, so Jesus entered the most holy of the heavenly, at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel 8, in 1844, to make a final atonement for all who could be benefited by His mediation…” https://text.egwwritings.org/read/28.1239
“…Jesus stands before the ark [the heavenly Ark of the Covenant], making His final intercession for all those for whom mercy still lingers and for those who have ignorantly broken the law of God.” https://text.egwwritings.org/read/28.1254
Why, exactly, hasn’t god kept accurate track of who's going to heaven and who ain't? Why does Jesus has to figure this out himself? That's because unspoken reasons.
SDAs say god tests his believers. A lot. Adventists teach that god was testing his true believers by not coming to earth in 1844. Those who continued to believe are god’s true believers.
Adventists teach in the End Times god will similarly test his true believers. They use Bible stories like Job, Abraham’s god-commanded attempted murder of his son Isaac, and Jacob wrestling the angel to prove it.
Because god tests his followers, Adventists are to always question if their interpretation of Scripture is from Satan:
“Satan is an expert in quoting Scripture, placing his own interpretation on passages by which he hopes to cause us to stumble. We should study with humility of heart.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/12320.132#138
Furthermore, Adventists in End Times must not trust their senses.
“To all the testing time will come. By the sifting of temptation the genuine Christian will be revealed. Are the people of God now so firmly established upon His word that they would not yield to the evidence of their senses? Would they, in such a crisis, cling to the Bible and the Bible only?” The Great Hope, page 72. Emphasis mine.
In real life, this means true believing Adventists often do not trust themselves, are easily made to second-guess themselves, and are easily controlled via SDA theology.
Actual history: In the first third of the 1800s, in New York State, folks invented religions and at least one utopian community. Historians call that time and place the “Burned-over District” because reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_district
Organizations started then that exist today:
Descendants of Millerites, the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, or Mormons).
Utopian communal society and current silverware manufacturers, the Oneida Community.
American Spiritualism, founded by self-confessed hoaxers the Fox Sisters.
How the above influenced Ellen White and Adventist End Times mythology: Ellen White, a Millerite turned Adventist from the Burned-over District, believed Spiritualism was demons communicating with humans. She includes this in her End Times theology and predictions.
MOAR Background theology. Too Long Didn’t Read? Dead humans are dead, know nothing, don't talk to living humans. All theology, evidence to the contrary is from Satan.
The long explanation: Human souls are not immortal, and all theology to the contrary is from Satan, say SDAs. Therefore:
Human souls burning in hell forever? That is a lie from Satan.
Ellen White quote on this: “Now [Satan] the prince of darkness represents God as a revengeful tyrant, declaring that He plunges [human immortal souls] into [forever burning] hell all who do not please Him, that while they writhe in eternal flames, their Creator looks down on them with satisfaction. Thus the archfiend clothes with his attributes the Benefactor of mankind.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/12320.150#150
The idea god is love and thus all humans go to heaven? That's a lie from Satan.
The idea that humans go to heaven when they die and watch their loved ones on earth? That's a lie from Satan.
Ellen White quote: “Upon the error of natural immortality rests the doctrine of consciousness in death. Like eternal torment, it is opposed to Scripture, to reason, and to our feelings of humanity.
“According to popular belief, the redeemed in heaven are acquainted with all that takes place on earth. But how could it be happiness to the dead to know the troubles of the living…?” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/12320.183#183
No. Human dead are dead and remain dead until god resurrects them. This is super hella important, say Adventists.
End Times Events, happening right now:
Demons will impersonate dead people: In the Last Days, the first third of which is right now, Satan’s demons will impersonate dead people.
“The prince of evil has power to bring before men the appearance of departed friends. The counterfeit is perfect, reproduced with marvelous distinctness. Many are comforted with the assurance that their loved ones are enjoying heaven. Without suspicion of danger, they give ear “to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/12320.204#204
Humans who have had a loved one die often dream about the deceased visiting them. This is a normal part of the mourning process. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dreaming-in-the-digital-age/202308/dreaming-of-the-dead
Adventists who experience these normal dreams believe actual demons are visiting them, impersonating their loved one. This causes unnecessary terror.
Demons will successfully predict the future: “Pretended visitants from the world of spirits sometimes utter warnings which prove to be correct.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/12320.204#208
Demons will work real, provable miracles: “No mere impostures are here foretold. Men are deceived by the miracles which Satan's agents do, not which they pretend to do.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/12320.204#208
End Times Events, very soon:
People who believe Spiritualism is a hoax will decide it’s actually god because real miracles: “Many will be ensnared through the belief that spiritualism is a merely human imposture; when brought face to face with manifestations which they cannot but regard as supernatural, they will be deceived, and will be led to accept them as the great power of God.” The Great Hope, page 39.
Demons will impersonate the apostles, contradict the Bible, say Jesus was an ordinary man. The Great Hope, page 41.
Churches will become ungodly. But there's still true Christian believers in those churches. The Great Hope, page 45.
There will be a huge Christian revival. True Christians will leave the ungodly churches. The Great Hope, page 45. These true Christians:
Will be humble.
Will NOT say they are free from sin. (The Great Hope, page 50.)
Will follow all of god’s commandments. (The Great Hope, page 51.)
Will NOT drink wine. (The Great Hope, page 51.)
Will give their money “into the Lord’s treasury [the Adventist Church]”. (The Great Hope, page 52.)
Will be “mocked and oppressed” as they try to keep all of god’s commandments, especially the Saturday Sabbath in the fourth commandment. (The Great Hope, page 54.)
Believe only the Bible “as the standard of all doctrines” and “basis for all reforms”. (The Great Hope, page 55.)
Believe the Bible over science. (The Great Hope, page 55.)
True Christians will keep the seventh-day, Saturday, as Sabbath. One can go read Chapter 8 of The Great Hope for Ellen White’s roundup on this. She says the Catholic Church made Sunday the Sabbath, which usurps god’s fourth commandment saying to keep Saturday Sabbath. Every church that goes to church on Sunday is following the Catholic Church, not god.
This is a core Adventist belief. Adventists, and all true Christian believers who separate from ungodly churches in the End Times, must then go around preaching how Saturday is the true Sabbath.
Satan will do all the things to make people believe human souls are immortal, and Sunday is Sabbath.
NEXT (and/or at the same damn time, or right now, Ellen White isn’t too clear on this) Satan will make bad things happen.
Ellen White lists basically anything that can go bad. “…Satan will bring disease and disaster until crowded cities are reduced to ruin. In accidents by sea and land, in great fires, in fierce tornadoes and hailstorms, in gales, floods, hurricanes, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in a thousand forms, Satan is exerting his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and misery follow. He gives the air a deadly taint, and thousands die.” (The Great Hope, page 69.)
As anyone can see, this very-broad nonspecific “prophecy” has been “fulfilled” with every single human disaster since planet earth existed. It literally boils down to “Lots of bad things happen, Satan did it”. It's like this other prophecy from the Bible I wrote about here:
https://talesfromacult.substack.com/p/the-prophecy-fulfilled-every-year
Adventists call every single disaster on earth “a sign of the times”, meaning “a sign of the End Times”.
Sabbath Keepers, mostly Adventists, will tell every human on planet earth that god says go to church on Saturday.
“But not one [person] is made to suffer the wrath of God until the truth [that going to church on Saturday is god’s will] has been brought home to his mind and conscience, and has been rejected.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2737#2737
I was taught that this is the Third Angel’s Message, as prophecied in Revelations.
After all the Sabbath Keepers tell all the world that Saturday is the Sabbath, AND every single person on planet earth decides to follow God (by keeping Saturday Sabbath) or follow Satan (by keeping Sunday Sabbath), THEN
“…mercy (Jesus) no longer pleads for the guilty inhabitants of the earth. The people of God have accomplished their work. (Telling everyone on the planet how god says keep Saturday Sabbath.)” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2778
I wasn’t taught what happens to children and babies who can't understand the Sabbath teachings. I was taught “we don’t know, and god is loving and will do the loving thing for those humans”.
Then Jesus will leave the heavenly Tabernacle’s Most Holy Place.
“Then Jesus ceases his intercession in the sanctuary above. He lifts his hands, and with a loud voice says, “It is done;” and all the angelic host lay off their crowns as he makes the solemn announcement: “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” [Revelation 22:11.] Every case has been decided for life or death. Christ has made the atonement for his people, and blotted out their sins.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2778
That’s when probation closes (people can’t get saved anymore). This is the start of phase two of End Times: The Time of Trouble.
Earth will get dark: “When he [Jesus] leaves the sanctuary, darkness covers the inhabitants of the earth.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2778
“In that fearful time the righteous must live in the sight of a holy God without an intercessor.”
I was taught this means that Sabbath keeping humans will be in danger of losing their salvation if they commit any sin.
I was taught The Time of Trouble will be worse than any human can imagine, worse than the Holocaust. Child and teen me sat around trying to imagine things worse than the Holocaust. This horrific teaching caused me unnecessary nightmares from age six or seven. My story is not uncommon.
Read my earliest End Times nightmare here:
https://talesfromacult.substack.com/p/my-second-dream
Ellen White writes how the Time of Trouble is worse than anyone can imagine here:
“It is often the case that trouble is greater in anticipation than in reality; but this is not true of the crisis [Time of Trouble] before us. The most vivid presentation cannot reach the magnitude of the ordeal.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/39.1636
God’ll yeet all humans’ consciences, except Sabbath keepers consciences, so Sunday keeping humans will be evil:
“The wicked have passed the boundary of their probation; the Spirit of God [who functions on earth right now as every human’s conscience], persistently resisted, has been at last withdrawn [so now unsaved humans have no consciences]. Unsheltered by divine grace, they have no protection from the wicked one. Satan will then plunge the inhabitants of the earth into one great, final trouble. As the angels of God cease to hold in check the fierce winds of human passion, all the elements of strife will be let loose. The whole world will be involved in ruin more terrible than that which came upon Jerusalem of old.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2781
During The Time of Trouble, the Catholic Church will torture Sabbath-keepers as it did in the past. It is building secret rooms inside buildings to torture Sabbath keepers.
“She [The Catholic Church] is piling up her lofty and massive structures in the secret recesses of which her former persecutions will be repeated.” https://www.ellenwhite.info/books/ellen-g-white-book-great-controversy-gc-35.htm
Sabbath keepers will be thrown into dungeons, some will starve but NOT starve to death: “But many of all nations, and all classes, high and low, rich and poor, black and white, will be cast into the most unjust and cruel bondage. The beloved of God pass weary days, bound in chains, shut in by prison bars, sentenced to be slain, some apparently left to die of starvation in dark and loathsome dungeons. No human ear is open to hear their moans; no human hand is ready to lend them help.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776?hl=Close+probation&ss=eyJ0b3RhbCI6MTQ3NSwicGFyYW1zIjp7InF1ZXJ5IjoiQ2xvc2UgcHJvYmF0aW9uIiwidHlwZSI6ImJhc2ljIiwibGFuZyI6ImVuIiwibGltaXQiOiIyMCJ9LCJpbmRleCI6Mzd9#2845
Humans will blame Sabbath keepers for all the “ruin” on the world.
“As the Sabbath has become the special point of controversy throughout Christendom, [Note: Adventists teach there's been a huge 2000 year war in Christianity on what day to go to church on—Saturday or Sunday.] and religious and secular authorities have combined to enforce the observance of the Sunday, the persistent refusal of a small minority to yield to the popular demand, will make them objects of universal execration. It will be urged that the few who stand in opposition to an institution of the church and a law of the State, ought not to be tolerated; that it is better for them to suffer than for whole nations to be thrown into confusion and lawlessness.”
Human leaders will make a law that all humans must go to church on Sunday. Adventists call this The Sunday Law. This is Revelation 12:17 fulfilled, say Adventists. (The Great Hope, pages 69, 70.)
Once the Sunday Law is passed, going to church on Sunday will be The Mark of the Beast, as described in Revelation. (The Great Controversy, chapter 38, has ALL the proof-texts to totally prove this.)
God AND Satan will do miracles. “The sick will be healed [by god].” Satan will “bring down fire from heaven”. The Great Hope, page 70.
Scary supernatural signs done by demons will appear “in the heavens”.
Sabbath keepers will feel guilt over sins they did. God will not return right away. They'll feel terror and keep praying.
“They afflict their souls before God, pointing to their past repentance of their many sins, and pleading the Saviour's promise, “Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.” [Isaiah 27:5.] Their faith does not fail because their prayers are not immediately answered. Though suffering the keenest anxiety, terror, and distress, they do not cease their intercessions.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2789
Every Sabbath keeper must have confessed every single sin before The Time of Trouble: “So, in the time of trouble, if the people of God had unconfessed sins to appear before them while tortured with fear and anguish, they would be overwhelmed; despair would cut off their faith, and they could not have confidence to plead with God for deliverance. But while they have a deep sense of their unworthiness, they have no concealed wrongs to reveal.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2806
How an Adventist in The Time of Trouble will be able to tell if they are unsaved and thus suffering “fear, anguish, despair” versus “a deep sense of unworthiness”, Ellen White doesn’t say.
This doctrine makes Adventists repeatedly confess their sins, and constantly be on guard for new sins to confess. Constantly being on guard against errant sinful thoughts, constantly mentally confessing all the sins one can remember, causes anxiety and religious scrupulosity in many Adventists.
Anxious people are more easily controlled to tithe, go to church, pay offerings in addition to tithe, sign over estates to the church For Jesus.
At the same time, demons will visit kings, tryna get the kings to join Satan [by supporting the Sunday Law]: “The spirits of devils will go forth to the kings of the earth and to the whole world, to fasten them in deception, and urge them on to unite with Satan [by keeping Sunday as Sabbath].” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2806
Humans will show up, doing miracles, saying they're Jesus. “Persons will arise pretending to be Christ himself, and claiming the title and worship which belong to the world's Redeemer. They will perform wonderful miracles of healing, and will profess to have revelations from Heaven contradicting the testimony of the Scriptures. [Telling people that going to church on Sunday is god’s will now.]” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2823
Satan himself will show up, impersonating Jesus. He will look like Jesus as described in Revelation. Humans will bow before him. He’ll do miracles. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2823
Faux-Jesus actually-Satan will say he changed Saturday Sabbath to Sunday Sabbath. (The Great Hope, page 71.) Ellen White doesn’t say what he will do to the humans who impersonated Jesus. One would think he’d do terrible things to them for being lying liars.
No worries though! True Christians will be able to tell Fake Jesus is fake because when Jesus REALLY returns, all humans on planet earth will see him all at once. “This coming, there is no possibility of counterfeiting. It will be universally known—witnessed by the whole world.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2823
Why other humans who read The Great Hope or The Great Controversy and note this oddly specific thing will NOT remember it when all the other predictions start coming true, Ellen White doesn’t say.
God’ll throw MOAR oddly specific plagues onto humans. Sunday keepers will get sores. The sea will “become as blood of a dead man” so everything in it will die. Water will turn to blood: “Says the Revelator [the guy who wrote Revelations], in describing these terrific scourges, “There fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshiped his image.” The sea “became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul died in the sea.” And “the rivers and fountains of waters became blood.” [Revelation 16:2-6, 8, 9.] Terrible as these inflictions are, God's justice stands fully vindicated.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2823
Yup, it’s terrible but it is “god’s fully vindicated justice”. You read it here. Those critters in the sea who will die? They had it coming. Ellen White says so.
God gives MOAR plagues. The sun scorches folks. Harvests die. Trees die. Animals starve. Rivers dry up. Dead bodies everywhere. “In the plague that follows, power is given to the sun “to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat.” [Revelation 16:2-6, 8, 9.] The prophets thus describe the condition of the earth at this fearful time: “The land mourneth;... because the harvest of the field is perished.” “All the trees of the field are withered; because joy is withered away from the sons of men.” “The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate.” “How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture.... The rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.” “The songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God; there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.” [Joel 1:10-12, 17-20; Amos 8:3.]” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2823
Plagues are worst ever, but plagues do not occur everywhere on earth: “These plagues are not universal, or the inhabitants of the earth would be wholly cut off. Yet they will be the most awful scourges that have ever been known to mortals.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2823
Sabbath keepers will not die. It's the Sunday keepers who will die. “The people of God will not be free from suffering; but while persecuted and distressed, while they endure privation, and suffer for want of food, they will not be left to perish…While the wicked are dying from hunger and pestilence, angels will shield the righteous, and supply their wants.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2776#2823
I mean, to me that reads that Sunday keepers are seriously worse off than Sabbath keepers in The Time of Trouble. Sabbath keepers have angels showing up and feeding them.
People all around the world will decide to kill all the Sabbath keepers on one certain day.
Sabbath keepers will be in prison cells, or forests, or mountains. They'll pray for protection.
There's no saying wtf Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Muslims, and all other nonChristian religions and nations will do about this global Sunday law and murder plan.
Evil mobs will start rushing upon Sabbath keepers. Then “a dense blackness, deeper than night, falls upon the earth. A rainbow spans the sky and seems to encircle each praying group.” Mobs will immediately stop mobbing, want to hide from the rainbow.
At midnight god will make the sun shine. There will be a huge earthquake, “great hailstones”, cities and palaces smashed, prisons broken open, Sabbath keepers set free. Many people will be resurrected. A hand will appear in the sky, holding the two stones of the Ten Commandments. Sabbath keepers are now safe. Evil doers will run to caves, begging rocks to fall on them.
Angels will bring little resurrected children to their resurrected mothers’ arms. Friends long lost to death will rejoice to see each other. Jesus and Adam will meet. Together, the righteous will go to heaven to live forever young, immortal, healthy, with god. (The Great Hope, pages 73-81.)
Jesus’ll give the saved people crowns, harps, new names, a palm branch. Saved folks and angels will play harps together: “Upon the heads of the overcomers, Jesus with his own right hand places the crown of glory. For each there is a crown, bearing his own “new name,” [Revelation 2:17.] and the inscription, “Holiness to the Lord.” In every hand are placed the victor's palm and the shining harp. Then, as the commanding angels strike the note, every hand sweeps the harp strings with skillful touch, awaking sweet music in rich, melodious strains.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2875#2875
But wait! That's not all!
Meanwhile on earth, the unsaved realize they’re unsaved and blame their ministers: “The people see that they have been deluded. They accuse one another of having led them to destruction; but all unite in heaping their bitterest condemnation upon the ministers.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2954#2963
Unsaved humans die: “At the coming of Christ the wicked are blotted from the face of the whole earth,—consumed with the spirit of his mouth, and destroyed by the brightness of his glory.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2954#2963
Earth will be ruined bc all the plagues and stuff. Satan and his demons will be stuck on earth with nothing to do for 1000 years. “Here is to be the home of Satan with his evil angels for a thousand years. Limited to the earth, he will not have access to other worlds, to tempt and annoy those who have never fallen.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2954#2963
Satan won’t like that. “During this time his sufferings are intense.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2954#2963
The third part of End Times happens, The Millennium:
Sources for this bit:
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2954#2963 and also here: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2999#2999
God takes heaven somewhere unspecified for 1000 years because reasons. All saved humans review all the records of all the unsaved ppl and decide god did right in all cases. They'll judge Satan and all the demons too.
God will bring heaven back to earth. He’ll plop heaven upon earth. He will go stand on the Mount of Olives.
Then god resurrects all the humans, except some.
For instance, god will not resurrect enslaved humans who never learned right from wrong. Read about that here: https://whiteestate.org/about/issues1/unusual/miscellaneous/some-slaves-not-resurrected/
Pre-flood giants, kings, generals, all the wicked will join Satan to attack heaven. They fail. God shows them how awful they were. He plays Jesus’s life on earth for them, somehow. Everybody then knows damn well that god judged right.
Satan attacks god again. God melts the earth in response.
Then god burns Satan, demons, the wicked all to death. Some humans burn fast, others for days. “Some are destroyed as in a moment, while others suffer many days. All are punished “according to their deeds.”” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2999#2999
Saved ppls’ sin gets yeeted onto Satan and he burns a long time: “The sins of the righteous having been transferred to Satan, he is made to suffer not only for his own rebellion, but for all the sins which he has caused God's people to commit. His punishment is to be far greater than that of those whom he has deceived.” https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.2999#2999
Then god makes a new, perfect, deathless earth and heaven. There will be no tears, no pain, no night, no sleep. I was taught god would mind-wipe all my memories of all my friends and family who didn't make it to heaven. I have never read this in Ellen White’s writings.
The saved will be able to learn and do whatever they desire. They'll fly to far-off worlds, meet the sinless aliens currently watching sin on planet earth. (The Great Hope, chapter 11.)
I know a song for the final paragraph of The Great Hope. It’s the same final paragraph as in The Great Controversy. Mom had a cassette tape of kids singing Ellen White quotes that she played for us kids on repeat in the 90s. The last paragraph of the Great Controversy was sung on that cassette and lives forever, rent free, in my brain. The words are this:
“The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.”
End unabridged End Times Adventist mythology.
One will note how Adventist End Times teachings prey on vulnerable humans, such as moms who lost children and those who are mourning. (Angels bringing resurrected children to their moms, long lost friends separated by death going to heaven together.)
One can see how SDA mythology self-selects humans who believe the earth was once perfect.
The mythology about “true believers” is used to coerce true SDA believers to give their money to the Adventist church. Adventists teach that one can make Jesus return faster by prosyltizing Adventism, volunteering for the Adventist church, and giving money to the SDA church. This ploy fucking works. The SDA church is the seventh wealthiest religion in the world. In 1998, it had $15.6 billion.
The mythology about “true Christians will believe the Bible over science” is used in SDA churches, Pathfinders, schools, academies, universities to promote anti-science, anti-archeology views. These include biblical literalism (the global Flood really happened, Bible literally happened as written, all evidence to the contrary is from Satan) and Young Earth Creationism (the pseudoscience that the world was made in six literal days by god, 6k to 10k actual years ago, all evidence to the contrary is from Satan).
Plenty of Adventist-promoting grifters have tax-free “ministries” “proving” how actual science is from Satan.
This anti-science, conspiracy theory theology primes SDA humans to distrust science. Some SDAs are more likely to not vaccinate their children, more likely to avoid conventional medicine, more likely to be involved in multi-level marketing, more likely to believe humans can vegan and pray away all the things.