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    7. Predictions

    I could also mention some of her incredible predictions. Admittedly, Ellen White is not primarily known for her predictions. Contrary to all modern “prophets” or psychics who every December give their “best ten predictions” for the coming year, or who state their predictions so vaguely that they can be reinterpreted and “made to fig” as time passes, Ellen White’s preview of closing events has never been contradicted by events. Today’s economic insecurity, political strife, social unrest, decline in moral values, New Age revival of spiritualism, and the worldwide interest in religious unity—all are an astonishing fulfillment of her predictions.LSS 8.1

    We are so familiar with some of her predictions that they hardly seem startling to us today. However, when set against the backdrop of her time, they are nothing short of incredible. For instance, her claim that wars would continue until Christ comes sounded very strange in a pre-World War I era where the belief was that everything was getting better and better. Even after the horrors of the Fist World War, Ellen White’s warnings about thousands of ships being hurled into the depths of the sea, and navies going down [1890], 9The Signs of the Times, April 21, 1890. and economic upheavals to come [1909], 10Testimonies for the Church 9:13. must have sounded very strange. But now that the world has gone through the worldwide depression of the late 1920s and 1930s, not to mention World War II, plus all the wars in various places since then, what she predicted reads like the daily newspaper.LSS 8.2

    As terrible as things have become—increase of crime, pollution in cities, the breakdown of society—knowing that God has warned us ahead of time about all this through Ellen White gives a relevance to other things she has written that might not otherwise be the case.LSS 8.3

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