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Variation and Frequency of the Ellen G. White Visions - Contents
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    The Visions of the Night

    All acquainted with Ellen White’s writings—and with increasing force the matter is brought home through the account of her experience in the Ellen G. White biography—are aware of the large place the visions of the night took in her work. Such expressions as, “In the visions of the night some things were clearly presented to me;” or “In the night seasons the Lord gave me instruction,” indicate that her experiences parallel those of Daniel who “had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed.” (Daniel 7:1) And so Ellen White, down through the years and especially in the last thirty years of her life, received instruction from the Lord in “night visions.” Her work was well established and there was little need of evidence given in connection with the visions themselves. Often she used interchangeably the terms “dreams” and “visions of the night.” Sometimes she seems to distinguish one from the other as she did in 1885 in the words: “A communication comes to me from the Lord, either in a dream or a vision of the night.” Testimonies for the Church 5:685. In either case, she attributed it to the Lord. In 1868, she had written:VFEGWV 5.2

    Dreams from the Lord are classed in the Word of God with visions, and are as truly the fruits of the spirit of prophecy as visions. Such dreams, taking into the account the persons who have them, and the circumstances under which they are given, contain their own proofs of their genuineness.—Testimonies for the Church 5:658.

    Answering an inquiry from W. C. White, she one time declared that “the same angel stands by her side instructing her in the visions of the night, as stands beside her instructing her in the visions of the day.”VFEGWV 6.1

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