Books We Should Read!!!

The Books of the early SDA Protestant pioneers (144,000 are those who keep the 7th day Sabbath from approx. 1845-1848 onward until probation closes for the House of God) that we are to repeat and retell whose message will go with 10 times the power it did in 1843/1844~

"The harm that results to the workers from handling matter of an objectionable character is too little realized. Their attention is arrested and their interest aroused by the subject matter with which they are dealing. Sentences are imprinted in the memory. Thoughts are suggested. Almost unconsciously the reader is influenced by the spirit of the writer" (Ellen White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 7, p 203).

William Miller: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Miller%2C%20William%2C%201782-1849

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Ellen White one of the 144,000:

The Lord has given me a view of other worlds. Wings were given me, and an angel attended me from the city to a place that was bright and glorious. The grass of the place was living green, and the birds there

warbled a sweet song. The inhabitants of the place were of all sizes; they were noble, majestic, and lovely. They bore the express image of Jesus, and their countenances beamed with holy joy, expressive of the freedom and happiness of the place. I asked one of them why they were so much more lovely than those on the earth. The reply was, “We have lived in strict obedience to the commandments of God, and have not fallen by disobedience, like those on the earth.” Then I saw two trees, one looked much like the tree of life in the city. The fruit of both looked beautiful, but of one they could not eat. They had power to eat of both, but were forbidden to eat of one. Then my attending angel said to me, “None in this place have tasted of the forbidden tree; but if they should eat, they would fall.” Then I was taken to a world which had seven moons. There I saw good old Enoch, who had been translated. On his right arm he bore a glorious palm, and on each leaf was written “Victory.” Around his head was a dazzling white wreath, and leaves on the wreath, and in the middle of each leaf was written “Purity,” and around the wreath were stones of various colors, that shone brighter than the stars, and cast a reflection upon the letters and magnified them. On the back part of his head was a bow that confined the wreath, and upon the bow was written “Holiness.” Above the wreath was a lovely crown that shone brighter than the sun. I asked him if this was the place he was taken to from the earth. He said, “It is not; the city is my home, and I have come to visit this place.” He moved about the place as if perfectly at home. I begged of my attending angel to let me remain in that place. I could not bear the thought of coming back to this dark world again. Then the angel said, “You must go back, and if you are faithful, you, with the 144,000, shall have the privilege of visiting all the worlds and viewing the handiwork of God.” { EW 39.3}

James S. White one of the 144,000:

Uriah Smith writes:

“Those who die after having become identified with the third angel’s message, are evidently numbered as a part of

the 144,000; for this message is the same as the sealing message of Revelation 7, and by that message only 144,000 were sealed. But there are many who have had their entire religious experience under this message, but have fallen in death. They die in the Lord, and hence are counted as sealed; for they will be saved. But the message results in the sealing of only 144,000; therefore these must be included in that number. Being raised in the special resurrection (Dan. 12:2; Rev. 1:7) which occurs when the voice of God is uttered from the temple, at the beginning of the seventh and last plague (Rev. 16:17; Joel 3:16; Heb. 12:26), they pass through the period of that plague, and hence may be said to come ‘out of great tribulation’ (Rev. 7:14), and being raised from the grave only to mortal life, they take their stand with believers who have not died, and with them receive immortality at the last trump (1 Cor. 15:52), being then, with the others, changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Thus, though they have passed through the grave, it can be said of them at last, that they are ‘redeemed from among men’ (Rev. 14:4), that is, from among the living; for the coming of Christ finds them among the living, waiting for the change to immortality, like those who have not died, and as if they themselves had never died.” DR 634

J. N. Andrews

Joseph Bates

Sylvester Bliss

D. T. Bordeau

G. I. Butler

M. E. Cornell

R. F. Cottrell

O. R. L. Crosier

A. G. Daniells

Charles Fitch

William E. Foy

Apollos Hale

Steven N. Haskell

A. T. Jones

Josiah Litch

J. N. Loughborough

P. T. Magan

William Miller

T. M. Preble

W. W. Prescott

Annie Smith

Rebekah Smith

Uriah Smith

Samuel S. Snow

J. M. Stephenson

George Storrs

E. A. Sutherland

E. J. Waggoner

J. H. Waggoner

H. D. Ward

James White

N. N. Whiting