“The work of explaining the Bible by the Bible itself is the work that should be done by all our ministers who are fully awake to the times in which we live.” 1Letter 276, 1907, cited in Lift Him Up, 115. BRIIE 1.1
In her personally written introduction to The Great Controversy, Ellen White recorded how “the scenes of the long-continued conflict between good and evil” had been revealed to her: “From time to time I have been permitted to behold the working, in different ages, of the great controversy between Christ ... and Satan.” 2The Great Controversy, x. BRIIE 1.2