00:01 Today we walk in the footsteps
00:03 of the great Apostle Paul.
00:05 He spent only a little time in Athens
00:08 and then took the long walk to Corinth's.
00:10 On the way, he passed the site of the
Corinthian Canal,
00:14 that's where David is today.
00:50 This is the Corinthian Canal
00:52 and ships use this canal today,
00:55 In fact, I've travel along here myself
in a ship.
00:58 Paul passed this way on his way to Corinth.
01:01 This canal had not been dugged then,
01:03 although Alexander the Great had intended
to dig it,
01:05 but he turned eastwards
01:07 and invaded Asia instead.
01:09 In the first century A.D.,
01:11 the Roman Emperor Nero proposed to dig
the canal,
01:13 in fact he actually got around to
01:16 digging the first sod with a golden
spade.
01:19 But this is a narrow strip of land,
01:21 which connects the Greek mainland
01:24 with the Peloponnese Peninsula
01:25 and the people of the Peninsula got
agitated
01:28 and felt that if the canal was dug
01:30 then their Peninsula would float off
into the sea
01:34 and so they demonstrated.
01:35 Demonstrations are nothing new,
01:37 and so the work had to stop,
01:39 and it was not until 1893
01:42 that European engineers actually dug
the canal,
01:45 so that the ships can use it today.
01:47 Well, Corinth is up the other end of
the canal.
01:56 These are the ruins of the Ancient City
of Corinth's
01:58 that Paul knew.
02:00 It was a very important city and a very
wealthy city too.
02:04 There were a lot of people here speaking
02:06 many different languages,
02:08 which explains some of the things
02:09 that Paul says in his letter to the
Corinthian Christians
02:13 and it was rather an immoral city,
02:15 because their patron Goddess was the
Goddess Venus
02:19 and it is reported that she had a lot
of priestesses here
02:22 who ministered to the male population
02:25 and in fact we get the word
02:26 venereal disease from her name.
02:28 Well, Paul spend about two years here
altogether.
02:34 This was one of the shopping areas
02:36 of prosperous Corinth and they had rather
an
02:40 interesting refrigeration system actually
beneath
02:43 some of the shops there was a stream
of cold water
02:46 running and they had a sort of basements,
02:49 so they can put their food down there,
02:52 their wine, their meat and so forth
down there,
02:55 so that it kept pretty well.
02:58 In these shops of course they held a
lot of goods
03:01 that were dedicated to the Gods and
03:02 there was a temple of Apollo up there
and so
03:05 shopkeepers would dedicate it to the
idol up there
03:08 and then bring it down and sell it in
their shops.
03:10 Now this worried some of the Christians
03:12 and that's why Paul wrote to them and
said listen,
03:14 don't ask any questions for conscious
sake,
03:17 just eat it and say nothing.
03:18 So, unless somebody tells you
03:20 that this is what has happened.
03:22 Well, that's the background of that
statement
03:23 that Paul made in the book of Corinthians.
03:26 Up on this platform is what is known
as the
03:30 judgment seat of the proconsul and
03:35 this is where a very interesting incident
took
03:38 place towards the end of Paul stay here
in Corinth.
03:41 It tells us in Acts chapter 18 in verse
11,
03:45 he continued there a year and six months,
03:47 now when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia,
03:51 the Jews with one accord rose up against
Paul
03:54 and brought him to the judgment seat.
03:56 Now, the Greek word for judgment seat
is Beema
03:58 and the seats gone of course,
04:00 but that was where the proconsul
04:01 took his seat up there.
04:04 And when Paul was about to open his
mouth,
04:07 Gallio said to the Jews,
04:08 if it were a matter of wrong doing or
wicked crimes,
04:12 O Jews, there would be reason why I
should be with you,
04:16 but if it is a question of words and
names
04:18 and your own law, look to it yourselves,
04:21 for I do not want to be a judge of such
matters
04:23 and he droves him from the judgment
seat.
04:25 The second as they see the soldiers
rushing them off
04:28 here and getting rid of them you see
04:29 and then when they got down there
04:31 it says then all the Greeks took Sosthenes,
the ruler
04:33 of the synagogue and beat him before
the judgment
04:36 seat, but Gallio took no notice of these
things.
04:39 And so Paul got off without any harm
to himself.
04:43 The Apostle Paul was a prophet
04:46 and while he was in Corinth he had a
vision.
04:49 We are told in Acts 18 and in verse
9,
04:51 now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night
by a vision.
04:56 You know prophets have been around for
a longtime.
04:59 In Luke chapter 1 and in verse 70,
05:02 it says as he spoke by the mouth of
his holy prophets,
05:06 who have been since the world began,
05:08 right from the beginning of time
05:10 and right down to the later ages,
05:13 the work of prophets has continued.
05:16 Now, what is a prophet?
05:17 Somebody, who just has a feeling of
inspiration.
05:20 Oh!
No, it's something very specific.
05:22 In Numbers 12 and in verse 6 it says,
05:25 if there is a prophet among you,
05:28 I, the Lord make myself known to him
in a vision,
05:31 and I speak to him in a dream.
05:34 So, a prophet is somebody to whom God
speaks
05:36 either in a vision or in a dream and
reveals
05:39 something that God wants to impart.
05:42 You see, the work of a prophet
05:43 is not just predicting the future,
05:45 it sometimes involves that,
05:47 but it's primarily for divine guidance
to guide his church
05:51 and his people and so it was with Paul
in Corinth.
05:54 And we are told in Acts chapter 18,
05:57 as a result of the vision that he had,
05:59 he continued there a year and six months
06:02 teaching the word of God among them.
06:04 You see, if he hadn't had this vision
06:06 he may have picked up and left,
06:08 but because of the vision,
06:10 the instructions he received he stayed
there
06:12 an extra ]18 months.
06:14 Sometime later Paul left Corinth,
06:17 but in his absence the church needed
divine guidance
06:20 and so the gift of prophecy
06:22 was bestowed upon this church by God.
06:26 Paul wrote to them and gave them instruction
06:27 about the operation of this gift.
06:30 In First Corinthians 12 and in verse
28th it says,
06:33 and God has appointed these in the church,
06:36 first apostles, second prophets, third
teachers,
06:40 after that miracles, then gifts of healing,
helps,
06:42 administration and last of all varieties
of tongues.
06:47 Now, the gift of tongues is an important
gift,
06:49 especially back there in such a cosmopolitan
society
06:52 where people were speaking different
languages,
06:54 in order to understand each other
06:56 that God gave the gift of tongues,
06:58 the ability to speak in a different
language
07:00 or to understand a different language.
07:03 That's an important gift,
07:04 but you will notice that the first and
most important gift
07:07 was the gift of prophecy
07:09 which was given for divine guidance
07:11 and they were to expect this gift.
07:13 In chapter 14 and in verse 1,
07:16 writing to the church in Corinth, Paul
said,
07:18 pursue love and desire spiritual gifts,
07:23 but especially that you may prophesy,
there
07:26 were especially instructed to expect
this gift.
07:30 Now, this gift was to be not just for
them at that time,
07:34 but for all time because he said
07:36 in chapter 1 and in verse 6,
07:39 even as the testimony of Christ was
confirmed in you,
07:43 so that you come short in no gift
07:45 eagerly waiting for the Revelation
07:47 of our Lord Jesus Christ.
07:49 So, even people who were
07:51 excepting the return of Christ in these
last days
07:54 they would have the gift of prophecy.
07:56 In fact, in Revelation chapter 12 and
in verse 17,
08:01 it specifically says and the dragon,
08:04 that is the devil was enraged with the
woman,
08:08 that is with the church,
08:09 he went to make war with the rest of
her offspring
08:12 who keep the commandments of God
08:14 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
08:17 Now, in the last days you'll see,
08:19 they would have the testimony of Jesus
Christ
08:21 and Revelation 19:10 says
08:23 the testimony of Jesus is the spirit
of prophecy.
08:27 Now, has this gift been fulfilled in
these last days.
08:31 We are in the city of Battle Creek,
08:33 in Michigan in the United States of
America
08:36 and I am standing beside a monument
08:39 to a very remarkable woman, Ellen G.
White.
08:42 She was born in the year 1827
08:46 and she went through the great disappointment
of 1844
08:51 with people who were expecting Jesus
Christ
08:53 to return in that year, but he didn't
come.
08:57 It was sometime later
08:58 that she and four other women were kneeling
down
09:02 in a prayer meeting
09:03 and while in this position she received
the first
09:07 of many visions which she claims God
gave her.
09:11 It may be of interest if I read to you
09:13 what she wrote about that vision,
09:16 when I was praying at the family altar
09:18 the Holy Ghost fell upon me
09:21 and I seemed to be rising higher
09:23 and higher far above the dark world,
09:27 soon our eyes were drawn to the east,
09:29 for a small black cloud had appeared
09:32 about half as large as a man's hand,
09:35 which we all knew was the Sign of the
Son of Man.
09:38 We all in solemn silence gazed on the
cloud
09:41 as it drew nearer and became lighter,
glorious,
09:45 and still more glorious, till it was
a great white cloud.
09:49 The bottom appeared like fire,
09:51 a rainbow was over the cloud,
09:54 while around it were ten thousand angels
09:57 singing the most lovely song,
09:59 and upon it sat the Son of Man
10:02 and she goes on to describe the second
coming of Christ
10:06 as it was revealed to her in this vision.
10:10 This is the vault where all the original
documents
10:14 of the Ellen G. White writings are kept
10:16 and the best person we can talk to is
Mrs. Hedy Jemison,
10:21 who for more than 30 years was the assistant
director
10:25 of the Ellen G. White estate.
10:27 Mrs. Jemison, how many visions
10:30 did Ellen G. White claimed to have?
10:32 She had over 2000,
10:34 her first vision was in December 1844,
10:37 then to the time of her death she had
over 2000 visions.
10:41 And how many books did she write altogether.
10:44 She was a very prolific writer.
10:45 In 1851, she started with this very
first little book
10:50 and these are some of the early books
that she wrote,
10:53 but there are 70 of her books in current
circulation today.
10:57 Besides writing books,
10:58 she wrote many letters, didn't she?
11:01 What was the nature of those letters?
11:03 pages in longhand,
11:08 which are 60,000 pages typewritten that
are on file
11:11 here in the vault.
11:12 In these letters,
11:14 she wrote council to the leadership
of the church,
11:18 she wrote encouragement to people that
were in
11:20 trouble, she helped people solve their
problems.
11:23 Although she had only three grades of
education,
11:26 the Lord gave her council that,
11:29 that was given in these letters to the
leadership
11:32 that now has resulted in a educational
system
11:38 that circles the globe
11:40 from kindergarten to universities.
11:43 Can you tell us how inspiration worked,
11:46 I mean did God actually dictate the
words
11:49 that she was to write.
11:51 It wasn't done by dictation,
11:52 God didn't put a pen in Ellen White's
hand,
11:55 but the thoughts are passed before her
in vision,
11:58 what the Lord opened up to her,
11:59 she wrote in these books that we have.
12:02 You obviously believe that Mrs. Ellen
G. White
12:04 had these visions.
12:06 What do you consider to be the most
convincing evidence
12:09 that she really was used by God in this
way?
12:12 It's what reading the books do for me
personally
12:15 and it's what we see the books
12:19 doing in the lives of others, changing
their lives.
12:22 Great Controversy has won many people
to believe in God.
12:28 The Desire of Ages is a wonderful book
12:30 on the life of Christ,
12:32 it's also a book that has won many people.
12:35 We have the five books of the Conflict
of the Ages series,
12:39 it's a five volume set,
12:42 the first sentence of Patriarchs and
Prophets is
12:46 God is love and the last book the Great
Controversy,
12:50 the last sentence in the book it says
12:52 God is love and the first chapter steps
to Christ
12:55 God's love for man and that's what the
writings
12:58 of Ellen White is all about.
13:01 We are among the Ruins of the old city
of
13:04 Caesarea of Roman times
13:07 and this was the scene,
13:10 this city was the scene of activity
13:12 of at least two prophets and four prophetesses.
13:17 In particular the great Apostle Paul
returned here
13:20 from his last missionary journey,
13:22 sailed in the entrance to this harbor
13:24 you see behind me.
13:26 And later on of course he spent two
years
13:30 in prison here.
13:31 Now just recently,
13:33 archaeologists have been doing
13:35 some underwater exploration here.
13:36 In fact, the exploration is still going
on
13:39 and they have come up
13:40 with some very remarkable conclusions,
13:42 the most important of which is that
there were
13:44 some huge blocks of stone,
13:46 under Herod's jurisdiction were put
down in the harbor
13:50 here and a very ingenious system
13:54 for dredging the harbor.
13:56 Because over on this side these blocks
of stone
13:59 were made of just the right height
14:01 so that at high tide the tops of the
waves
14:04 were lapping over the stone and running
into the harbor.
14:08 Now, that means that the water that
flowed in
14:10 that way had to go out
14:11 and of course it went out the entrance
14:13 whichever you like to call it
14:15 and that meant that it automatically
dredged
14:17 the entrance to the harbor.
14:19 So, this was a very remarkable
14:22 way of looking after the harbor.
14:25 Well, as I say the Apostle Paul spend
two years in prison
14:28 which wasn't a very nice way to be here,
14:30 but nevertheless this is where he witnessed
14:34 to Agrippa and other Roman governors.
14:38 Not very far from the old harbor
14:41 are the ruins of an old Roman theater,
14:44 this was only excavated about 20 years
ago
14:47 and you can see a lot of the stones
here
14:49 are original stones, but most of it
is a reconstruction,
14:54 a modern reconstruction, in fact
14:56 the Israeli government holds performances
here,
15:00 dances and concepts and so forth,
15:02 and they're held down on the stage down
there.
15:05 It's rather sobering I think to think
that
15:08 the great Apostle Paul,
15:10 one of the greatest men of God that
ever lived
15:12 was languishing in this prison for two
years,
15:15 while people were mindlessly
15:16 the pleasures of sin for a season.
15:21 Another very interesting feature of
Caesarea
15:23 is this old Roman aqueduct.
15:26 You know, this brought the water
15:28 more than 10 kilometers from the hills,
15:30 way over there, into Caesarea.
15:33 Well, Caesarea was the site of prophets
and prophetesses,
15:38 in fact we read in Acts chapter 21 and
in verse 8,
15:42 it says on the next day we who were
Paul's companions
15:45 departed and came to Caesarea,
15:47 and entered the house of Philip the
Evangelist,
15:49 who was one of the seven and stayed
with him,
15:51 now this man had four virgin daughters
15:53 who prophesied and we stayed many days,
15:56 a certain prophet named
15:57 Agabus came down from Judea.
15:59 Hey, you will notice that there's a
number of prophets
16:01 that are mentioned in the Bible
16:03 who haven't written books of the Bible,
16:04 but nevertheless they were genuine prophets.
16:07 And as for woman well,
16:08 here were these four daughters of Philip
16:10 who prophesied and of course you can
go back to
16:13 earlier to the sister of Moses, Miriam,
16:16 she was a prophet as the Bible says
16:18 and also you have Huldah the Prophetess
in the days
16:21 of Isaiah and also you have the lady
Anna
16:26 who identified the baby Jesus.
16:28 The Bible says, she was a prophetess,
16:30 so no questions you've got prophets
and prophetesses.
16:35 I am standing on the steps of the Battle
Creek Tabernacle,
16:38 which was the church of the first
16:41 Seventh-Day Adventist headquarters
16:43 in the United States of America
16:45 and it was here at this church
16:49 that an interesting incident occurred
16:51 which illustrates just how the gift
of prophecy works.
16:55 Ellen G. White went to Australia in
the year 1890
16:59 and she stayed there for nearly 10 years
17:01 and while she was absent a young lady,
17:04 who was a member of this church
17:06 claimed that she had some visions,
17:08 claimed that she was inspired to write
some messages
17:11 from God.
17:13 And one morning the minister of this
church,
17:16 whose name was Elder A.T. Jones
17:19 preached a sermon on this subject
17:21 and he pointed out that in as much as
Ellen G. White
17:24 was in Australia, it was only reasonable
17:26 that God should raise up another messenger.
17:29 And so he took the writings of Ellen
G. White and said,
17:34 you see you can hear the voice of God
speaking
17:36 through this and then he would take
one of the writings of
17:40 Anna Phillips and he said there you
are,
17:42 you can hear the same voice.
17:45 Well, you can understand when the church
members
17:47 came out the doors that Sabbath morning,
17:49 they weren't in a hurry to go home,
17:52 they stood around talking, some said
yes
17:54 it's only unreasonable that God would
raise up
17:56 somebody else while Ellen G. White was
in Australia.
17:59 Others said well, we didn't hear the
voice at all,
18:03 it didn't seem to them like that
18:06 That night Elder Jones went to the post
office
18:10 to collect his mail and he was handed
a long envelop
18:16 and the postmark was Australia.
18:19 He opened that letter and read it,
18:21 it was from Ellen G. White in Australia.
18:23 Now, remember those were the days before
airmail
18:28 or Quantasure or Pan American
18:31 or anything like that.
18:32 It took weeks for a letter to go from
Australia
18:35 to America and yet that letter said,
18:39 who authorized you to preach on this
subject,
18:43 what right had you to take my writings
18:45 and compare them with the writings of
Anna Phillips,
18:48 you are not authorized to do that.
18:50 Just then a fellow minister came by,
Elder Tate
18:54 and he handed the letter to him and
he said,
18:56 how did Ellen White know
18:58 that I was going to preach on that subject
this morning
19:02 and this other minister said to him,
19:04 you know how she knows, he said yes,
I know.
19:11 I'm glad to say that the following Sabbath
morning
19:14 Elder Jones stood up in the pulpit of
this church
19:17 and admitted that he had made a mistake.
19:21 What else could you do in the face of
evidence like that.
19:24 I am also glad to say that Anna Phillips
19:26 also accepted the message that came
to her from God.
19:31 This is Avondale College,
19:33 which is a government recognized college
19:35 of advanced education
19:38 and it's a very unique college, as you
can see
19:40 it's in a very rural setting and it
provides unusual
19:45 opportunities for its students, they
can work
19:49 here for their college fees if they
want to,
19:53 they have the opportunity of physical
development,
19:55 and this rural setting,
19:58 it's really beautiful place for students
to be.
20:00 And I must tell you how it all began.
20:04 You see, it was in 1885
20:07 that the first Seventh Day Adventist
came to
20:09 Australia and in 1891 Ellen G. White
came here
20:15 and she was here for nearly 10 years
20:17 altogether and at that time
20:20 they were only 450 Seventh Day Adventists
20:23 in all of Australia, not many.
20:25 And ministers were being trained
20:29 in a rather congested area at Melbourne
20:32 in a house that they rented down there
20:34 and while they were there Ellen G. White
20:37 delivered a message,
20:39 I want to read it to you in this little
book
20:41 that she has written
20:43 it says, I was awakened
20:44 this morning at 1 o'clock with a heavy
burden
20:46 upon my soul,
20:48 never can the proper education be given
to
20:50 the youth in this country or any other
country
20:53 they are separated, a wide distance
from the cities.
20:56 Now, you see our ministers are being
kind right
20:59 in the heart of Melbourne, she went
on to say here,
21:03 we shall find it necessary to establish
21:05 our schools out of and away from the
cities
21:07 and yet not so far away that they cannot
be
21:10 in touch with them.
21:11 We need schools in this country to educate
21:13 children in youth that they maybe masters
of labor.
21:17 Well, this is a new concept
21:18 and of course some of the members said,
21:20 Oh!
This won't work here, it's not an Australian
idea,
21:22 well it wasn't either, it was God's
idea
21:25 and so the brethren decided that they
try
21:28 and put this into action.
21:30 And they started looking round for a
suitable property.
21:32 Well, I looked at one property $75 an
acre
21:35 that was just beyond their means,
21:38 then they heard of another property,
21:40 it was 1500 acres and only $3 an acre,
21:44 well the price was right
21:46 and so they decided to go and have a
look at it.
21:48 Cooranbong is about 120 kilometers north
of Sydney
21:52 and so the group set out with Ellen
G. White
21:55 to travel by train to this place.
21:58 On the way Ellen White told two of the
ministers
22:02 of a dream that she had the night before
22:05 she said, I saw the property that the
Lord has chosen
22:09 and she said we walked out into an open
area
22:13 and there was a plough furrow
22:16 and as we were looking at this furrow
22:18 two of our group, our party came out
of the trees
22:22 on the other side
22:23 and came to the furrow and they look
down
22:25 and they shook their heads and they
said,
22:29 the land is not good, the soil is not
favorable.
22:34 Well, she said that's the property the
Lord has chosen,
22:38 they arrived at their destination and
next morning
22:40 they went out to have a look at the
property,
22:42 some went this way and some went that
way,
22:44 and Ellen White with two of the ministers
22:47 that she'd spoken to came to an open
place
22:51 in the land and they was a plough furrow
22:54 and while they were looking at this
furrow
22:57 two ministers came out of the clearing
on the other side,
23:01 and they came to this plough furrow
and they looked down,
23:03 they shook their heads,
23:05 they said the land is not good,
23:07 the soil is not favorable.
23:10 Ellen G. White and the two ministers
looked at
23:12 each other and nodded their heads.
23:14 They knew that this was the place
23:17 that God had chosen for his college.
23:21 This monument here says
23:22 about 500 yards east of this spot
23:25 was found the furrow seen in a dream
by Ellen G. White,
23:28 which led to the establishment of
23:30 Australasian Missionary College
23:32 in this district in 1894.
23:35 To share her confidence in the project,
23:37 which she herself had recommended,
23:39 Ellen White moved to this place.
23:41 She purchased 66 acres of land,
23:43 build this house called Sunny Side
23:46 and planted that beautiful orchid of
fruit trees here
23:50 and she lived here for many years.
23:53 Well, time has just proved
23:55 that the wise heads were wrong
23:57 and God's guidance was correct.
23:59 The soil turned out to be very fertile
24:02 and they grew some wonderful crops here,
24:04 some beautiful fruit trees,
24:06 they had a priced dairy herd
24:07 and so the results were really good.
24:11 But there was something else
24:12 that happened too in connection with
24:14 Ellen G. White's stay in Australia,
24:18 it is written here in this book in 1900,
24:21 during the past night she wrote,
24:24 many things have been opened before
me,
24:26 the manufacture and sale of health foods
24:28 will require careful and prayerful consideration.
24:31 Foods that are healthful and life sustaining
24:33 are to be prepared,
24:35 so that men and women will not need
to eat meat.
24:38 Now, in response to this instruction
24:40 some of the men got together
24:41 and decided to do some factory work
24:43 and they started off in just a shed
24:46 and it was pretty hard going,
24:47 but finally they went out
24:49 and the health food work began to grow.
24:52 This is one of the factories, there
are nine factories,
24:55 I think it is owned and operated
24:56 by Seventh Day Adventists in Australia
24:58 and New Zealand, they have millions
of dollars
25:02 turnover and all the profits are ploughed
back
25:05 into the medical, education and welfare
work of the church
25:08 and they have proved a great benefit
to humanity.
25:12 It was while she was here
25:13 that she received many dreams
25:15 and visions in which she had so many
things
25:17 revealed to her and this was a result
of the visions
25:21 and dreams she had here and in other
places.
25:23 She wrote some beautiful books,
25:25 for instance there is "Steps to Christ,"
25:28 a little book which is being translated
25:30 into many different languages and thousands
of people
25:33 can trace their conversion and to finding
Christ
25:36 as a result of reading this little book
"Desire of Ages,"
25:40 the life story of Jesus Christ,
25:42 one of the best that was ever written
25:44 and this also has led people
25:46 to have knowledge of Jesus Christ.
25:48 "The Great Controversy," which outlines
the drama
25:51 of the ages finishing up on the end
of this world,
25:54 dramatic scenes, beautifully and graphically
described.
25:57 And would you believe that "Ministry
of Healing"
26:00 and some others books that she wrote
on health matters,
26:02 what did she know about health?
26:03 And yet here are books which contain
26:06 material that even the doctors today
have to agree with,
26:09 in fact they've been an advance of many
26:11 of the medical methods that are used
today.
26:14 "Education," a girl that only had three
grades
26:17 of education telling people how
26:19 children ought to be educated
26:21 and the educational world is just beginning
26:23 to waken up to the fact that here are
some principles
26:26 that should be followed in the training
of youth today.
26:30 You know some people say
26:31 well, look Ellen G. White is dead,
26:33 how do I know whether she was really
26:35 God's messenger or not?
26:37 I say read her books, just read her
books,
26:40 you'll be convinced that
26:42 these messages really come from God.
26:48 You know, I feel that I'm part of this
ongoing story.
26:52 You see, I studied at this college for
four years
26:55 and at the end of that four years
26:57 the church invited me to go to India
as a missionary.
27:02 So, I finished up in India, spent many
years there,
27:05 very interesting, enjoyed it immensely
27:07 and so I feel as though I am part of
this prophecy.
27:10 I'll tell you something else too.
27:12 In Matthew chapter 7 and in verse 15,
27:15 Jesus Christ in the sermon on the mountain
said,
27:18 beware of false prophets,
27:20 now notice he didn't say have nothing
to do with prophets,
27:24 no, he said simply beware of false prophets.
27:27 He said by their fruits you will know
them.
27:32 I have found by experience that the
fruits
27:34 of Ellen G. White's ministry are good.
27:37 While I was at college here,
27:39 I used to go up to the surrounding districts
27:41 and visit some of the people and talk
to them
27:43 about the Bible and when they learned
27:45 I came from Avondale College they would
say,
27:47 oh!
Avondale College,
27:49 some of the older ones that is and they'd
say,
27:52 we remember many years ago a little
old lady
27:54 about the name of Ellen White used to
come out
27:56 and visit us, she was so kind,
27:59 a marvelous Christian.
28:00 I always heard good words about Ellen
G. White's
28:05 life here at Avondale,
28:07 by their fruits you shall know them
28:09 and the fruits were good.
28:11 These are just some of the many books
28:14 written by Ellen G. White.
28:16 I can strongly recommend their study
for
28:18 their both inspirational and informative.
28:22 Now for our next program,
28:23 we will be visiting the lowest place
on Earth,
28:26 the Dead Sea, where the water is so
heavy
28:29 you can't possibly sink
28:31 and David will be telling us about the
exciting discovery
28:35 in the caves of the Dead Sea at Qumran.
