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July 2026 Newsletter |
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Every day I hear of people who say Ellen White ruined their lives, destroyed their faith, and inflicted long-term psychological damage on them. With the advent of the Internet, their sad stories are finally leaking out. They also speak triumphantly of the great joy and freedom they experienced when Jesus set them free from her strong delusions.
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Ellen White died in 1915, but the lies, the fraud, and the deceit about her have only grown since then, leaving behind a trail of wrecked lives and ruined homes. A primary player in this human drama is an organization called the White Estate. Steve Daily, in his book The White Estate Fraud, put it so eloquently:
The White Estate has a long history of dishonesty and cover-up where Ellen White's writings and reputation are concerned. This is not terribly surprising because their whole mission revolves around the protection and promotion of Ellen White and her writings, and when one is familiar with the extensive dishonesty practiced by Ellen White herself, it would be expected that protecting her legacy would involve similar dishonesty. And that is certainly the case. (p. 78)
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In 2015, the White Estate published a book promoting Ellen White called The Gift of Prophecy. In the final chapter, Dwight Nelson asserts "there is no writer more Christocentric" than Ellen White. How about Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul? What about the Protestant authors Ellen plagiarized her Christocentric statements from? I asked Gemini AI to list the top 100 Christocentric authors and Ellen didn't even make the list. In what world can Nelson make a statement like this and be believed? Only in the closed community that has purposely blinded themselves to any reality outside of their own sect.
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Nelson goes on to stress the importance of introducing "millennials to this woman and her writings that can lead them to Jesus" (p. 382). Let me get this straight. They cannot simply introduce millennials to Jesus. They cannot point millennials to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They must introduce them to Ellen White, who then leads them to Jesus.
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In other words, their strategy is for millennials to view Jesus through Ellen White's eyes.
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The fourth appendix in the book contains Ted N. C. Wilson's Sabbath morning sermon at the Gift of Prophecy Symposium at Andrews (Oct. 15-18, 2015). In that sermon Wilson starts by warning SDAs: "We have seen and are seeing determined efforts on the part of individuals motivated by Satan to attack the Spirit of Prophecy and make it 'of none effect.'" (p. 416). This is the White Empire's mantra, started by Ellen herself (2SM 78). Anyone who dares to present factual evidence disproving Ellen White's claims is "satanic." Wilson goes on to describe White's gift as "accurate" and necessary to point people to Christ and the Bible (p. 418). As Ray Pitts stated so succinctly, "Why would anyone need a flashlight to find the sun?"
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The Gift of Prophecy is a one-sided marketing ploy to convince others that Ellen White was a prophet not unlike biblical prophets. But what biblical prophet set up a publishing empire to sell their prophetic writings and profit from them? Answer: None. What biblical prophet needed an estate to manage their writings and attack the prophet's critics? Answer: None. Biblical prophets do not need spin-doctors to create a false aura. False prophets do.
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This month's newsletter will challenge the White Estate's storyline. In chapter 17 of Gift of Prophecy, SDA professor Jud Lake defends Ellen White's plagiarism by claiming she improved upon the gems she borrowed from others. The question is, who actually did the improving? And how does polishing a stolen gem make it any less stolen?
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In chapter 7 of Gift of Prophecy, SDA professor Richard Davidson contends that Ellen White had supernatural knowledge of the Hebrew language that shines through in her writings. But is that true? Or can we spot the precise human sources she used to obtain that knowledge?
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In chapter 13, Theodore Levterovd explains how early sabbathkeeping Adventists accepted Ellen as a prophet but never mentions the Shut Door of Salvation that she taught from her visions. Neither does he address a more likely reason: Ellen's visions gave the disappointed Millerites exactly what their itching ears wanted so much to hear — "You were right after all!" (see last month's article: The Unalterable 1843 Chart).
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Those perpetuating these myths may be honestly deluded as I was once as an SDA. But I'm thankful to truth-tellers like Dale Ratzlaff and D.M. Canright who helped me to break free from the bondage of Adventism. While the White Estate continues storytelling, we will continue truth-telling because the love of God constrains us to proclaim liberty to the captives!
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Please share this newsletter with your SDA friends and family. They deserve to know the truth, because it will set them free.
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—Brother Anderson
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Truth-telling vs Storytelling
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Ellen's Polished Gems Myth |
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SDA apologist Jud Lake admits Ellen White plagiarized — but claims she improved the gems she took. The evidence proves otherwise, and proves the improvements weren't even hers. Includes the handwritten manuscript that catches her editor deleting a vision no historian could have supplied.
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Knew More than the Translators? |
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SDA scholar Richard Davidson claims Ellen White possessed supernatural insight into the original Hebrew that surpassed trained Bible translators. In the second half of this article, Eduardo Martínez-Rancaño and Brother Anderson refute this claim with factual evidence from Milton and even her own Bible.
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Earliest Visions Pervert the Bible |
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Why aren't Ellen's earliest visions in the book Gift of Prophecy? Didn't Ellen White say, "The instruction that was given in the early days of the message is to be held as safe instruction to follow in these its closing days" (1SM 41)? Her very first visions are not merely strange. They contradict the Word of God directly.
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The Year-Day Mirage |
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The entire 1844 prophetic structure endorsed by Ellen White's visions — the sanctuary doctrine, the investigative judgment, the Great Controversy's prophetic timeline — hangs on a single interpretive thread: the year-day principle. As we pull on that thread, watch what unravels.
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Hygienic Restaurant Fiasco |
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Another failed vision, another quiet retreat. White staked her prophetic authority on a health-food business venture that did not go the way heaven allegedly promised. The evidence trail tells the truth that the storytellers would rather you be unaware of.
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How Ellen's Books Were Made |
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An anonymous testimony from inside the White Syndicate, describing plainly how manuscripts moved from White's rough drafts through a staff of assistants and editors before ever reaching a printing press — and being sold as divinely inspired.
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The Satanic Origin of Ellen White's Visions |
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A careful, Bible-anchored case that the trance states, physical phenomena, and doctrinal fruit of White's earliest visions bear the marks of a source other than the Holy Spirit — tested against Scripture's own criteria for distinguishing true and false prophecy. Written by truth-teller Norman F. Douty, Christian author and former president of the Baptist Bible Institute.
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Book Updates! |
I encourage everyone to get truth-teller Steve Daily's latest book, The White Estate Fraud: Seventh-day Adventism's Scandalous Untold Story. This book exposes how the White Estate uses storytelling to undermine confidence in Ellen White's critics. It gives new meaning to the words: "The ends justify the means." This book sets the record straight about D.M. Canright. It is available in both printed and Kindle e-book format.
Please visit our Kindle store using the button below and leave us a review for Brother Anderson's books!
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