The Final Shaking—a Prediction [Top of Document] One of Ellen White’s unfulfilled predictions relates to future events. Key words that describe the forces that will focus on Seventh-day Adventists are “sifting” and “shaking.” Human beings have been sifted by trials and temptations ever since the Garden of Eden, but Ellen White foresaw a time prior to the close of probation when special circumstances will test and sift every Adventist. The special sifting is often called the “shaking” time. Sometimes she uses the term “shaking” to refer to the process19 by which all church members will be tested; at other times she refers to the profound shaking that will prevail during the Seven Last Plagues.20 Some of the causes of the final shaking within the Adventist Church will be: · Persecution from outside the church.21 · Erroneous doctrines within the church.22 · Prevailing worldliness caused by not having experienced “the love of the truth,” or being “sanctified through obedience to the truth.”23 · Resistance to the “straight testimony called forth by the counsel of the True Witness to the Laodiceans.”24 · Specific rejection of the sanctuary doctrine involving the significance of the pre-advent judgment and the relationship between the cleansed sanctuary and cleansed people.25 · Rejection of the ministry of Ellen White.26 The impact of the shaking on Seventh-day Adventists will be enormous: · Defections among church leaders.27 · Apostasies of ministers who have preached false doctrine.28 · The church will seem about to fall.29 · An impressive number of church members will leave.30 · New converts will take the place of the defectors.31 · Preparation for the crisis involves developing habits of enthusiasm, courage, and loyalty.
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