EGW WritingsEzekiel 13

Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 13 (1898)

Lt 132, 1898

13LtMs, Lt 132, 1898, par. 26

God chooses His workers from all classes of people, and imbues them with His own spirit. So it was in ancient times. The men and women of God’s selection were of intense earnestness, full of zeal. The last books of the Old Testament show us workers taken from the laborers in the field. Others were men of high ability and extensive learning, but the Lord gave them visions and messages. These men of the Old Testament spoke of the things transpiring in their day, and Daniel, Isaiah, and Ezekiel not only spoke of things that concerned them as present truth, but their sight reached down to the future, and to what should occur in these last days.

Ellen G. White: The Early Years: 1827-1862 (vol. 1)

The Content of the Paper

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I hope this little sheet will afford you comfort and strength. Love and duty have compelled me to send it out to you. I know you must be rooted, and built up in present truth, or you will not be able to stand “in the battle in the day of the Lord” (Ezekiel 13:5).

The Ellen G. White Letters and Manuscripts: Volume 1

Lt 3, 1853

God has wrought for you in Jackson, and after what God has done to set the church right, any [who] doubt His work, or do not receive the teachings of God, who has “pled with you face to face” through the weak clay, I fear for them. God can do no more for them than He has done, and you must not have communion with them, but separate them from your company.3

Which members of the Jackson company were subsequently disfellowshipped or broke away? It is well known that Hiram Case and Charles Russell, both of whom were reproved in the June 2 vision, were disfellowshipped and subsequently formed the opposition Messenger Party. Russell apparently was excluded from fellowship within a matter of weeks, but for Hiram Case separation was a drawn-out process. For one thing, Ellen White made a special appeal to Case some weeks after the vision in this letter of June 29. “Dear Brother Case, make thorough work. Dig deep and confess from the bottom.” For a while Case responded positively. In August he even made public confession in a letter to the Review editor. “I have done wrong in using the Lord’s money as I should not. … I do deeply regret, and humbly ask the forgiveness of all my brethren and sisters.” However, events subsequently took a turn for the worse, and on February 17, 1854, leading Michigan brethren decided that “we no longer consider him [Case] qualified to travel and teach the third angel’s message.” (According to J. B. Bezzo, that decision had already been made in Sylvan, Michigan, in January 1854, with fellowship being withdrawn from Case “a short time after.”)

The Ellen G. White Letters and Manuscripts: Volume 1

Ms 1, 1854

I saw another individual who was very wrong in the sight of God and had transgressed God’s commandment and had dishonored his parents. Guile had been found in his mouth; he had taken the name of God in vain, and had desecrated the house where the saints had assembled to worship God, by giving way to passions of an unsubdued heart, and yet he has been held up and approbated by Brother — and daubed with untempered mortar.7

An expression found in Ezekiel 13:10-16 that carries the connotation of whitewashing an unsound structure in order to make it appear sound.

The Great Controversy

Chapter 41—Desolation of the Earth

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Saith the Lord: “They have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” “With lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.” Jeremiah 8:11; Ezekiel 13:22.

The Great Controversy (1888 ed.)

Chapter 41—Desolation of the Earth

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Saith the Lord: “They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.” “With lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.” [Jeremiah 8:11; Ezekiel 13:22.]

From Here to Forever

Chapter 41—The Earth in Ruins

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The minister who has sacrificed truth to gain the favor of men now discerns the influence of his teachings. Every line written, every word uttered that led men to rest in a refuge of falsehood has been scattering seed; and now he beholds the harvest. Saith the Lord: “Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! ... Behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings.” “With lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.” Jeremiah 23:1, 2; Ezekiel 13:22.