To the husband of a sister who died under the third angel’s message,
Ellen White wrote:
“
Dear Brother:
“I hardly know what to say to you. The news of your
wife’s death was to me overwhelming. I could hardly believe
it and can hardly believe it now. God gave me a view last
Sabbath night which I will write
. . . .
“I saw that she was sealed and would come up at the
voice of God and stand upon the earth, and would be with
the
144,
000. I saw we need not mourn for her; she would
rest in the time of trouble, and all that we could mourn for
was our loss in being deprived of her company. I saw her
death would result in good.” 2SM 263.
Uriah Smith:
“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
http://sdapillars.org/media/download_gallery/US_DanRev1897
.pdf
J. N. Loughborough:
“If there is still a doubt of the resurrected Sabbath keepers
being numbered with the 144,000, consider the following
from
Sister White’s words in
1909. At the
General
Conference in 1909,
Elder Irwin had a stenographer
accompany him in a call upon Sister
White. He wished to
ask her some questions, and have an exact copy of the
words of the questions, and the exact words of the replies.
Among other questions was this one: ‘Will those who have
died in the message be among the 144,000?’ In reply, Sister
White said: ‘Oh, yes, those who have died in the faith will
be among the 144,000. I am clear on that matter.’ These
were the exact words of question and answer, as
Brother
Irwin permitted me to copy from his stenographer’s
report.”
Questions on the Sealing
Message, p. 31
http://www.andrews.edu/library/car/cardigital/digitized/documents/b12137911.pdf
W. C. White wrote from
Santa Helena,
California, in 1929, as follows:
“Now to the question, Did Sister White teach that those
who died in the message since
1844 and of whom it is said,
‘
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth,’
that they shall be members of the 144,000?
“I can assure you my brother, that this was the belief,
and the teaching of
Ellen G. White. Many times I have heard
her make statements to this effect, and I am in possession of
a letter to Brother
Hastings who is mentioned on page 237
of
Life Sketches in which she says plainly that his wife who
had recently died would be a member of the 144,000.
“In a letter recently received from a brother in
Reno,
Nevada, reference is made to a statement in Elder
Loughborough’s book found on page 91 [31] in which it is
reported that Sister White said: ‘Those who died in the
faith will be among the 144,000. I am clear on this matter.’
“
And I testify, my brother, that is in perfect harmony
with her writings, her saying and her teachings throughout
the years of her ministry.” W. C. White, letter written at
Santa Helena,
Calif.,
April 18, 1929.
German edition of the
Sabbath School Quarterly,
8/1/08:
“From this we may recognize that, at the coming of the
Lord, all of the 144,000, as living saints, will be composed of
those who have never seen death and those who have died
during the preaching of the last message but have resurrected
before the appearing of the Lord.”
Elder
James White understood that those who are raised
at the partial resurrection are not raised immortal. He wrote:
“Those who die under the third angel’s message are a
part of the 144,000; there are not 144,
000 in addition to
these, but these help to make up that number. They are
raised to mortal life shortly before Christ comes, and . . . are
changed to immortality when Christ appears.” RH
9/23/1880.
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