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58 Ellen G. White -- Messenger or Medium?

and all rulers shall serve and obey them" in a RESTORED and ABUNDANTLY BLESSED
EARTH.

"No prophetic truth is more explicitly set forth in the Word of God than is the teaching that
the Kingdom which Christ is to establish is not only to be an EARTHLY DOMINION, but that it is
to be set up before much more time shall pass -- when, as the Deliverer and long-awaited King of Is-
rael, He returns TO THE EARTH" (Why I AM Not An Adventist, by a former member. Page 21).

The Saints in Heaven?

Ellen G. White claims that: "The millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His
saints IN HEAVEN between the first and second resurrections." How does this stack up with the
Bible?

We have already seen that YEHOVAH God the Father -- along with Yeshua the Messiah
and His saints -- will be RULING ON THE EARTH. Yeshua did NOT say that we should go up to
heaven, to be with Him there. Instead, He PLAINLY said in John 3:13: "NO ONE has ever gone
into heaven except the one who came from heaven -- the Son of Man."

Now that's clear enough, isn't it? Yeshua went, after His death, to heaven -- from whence He
will come. But He said, in John 8:21, "I am going away [to heaven], and you will look for me, and
you will die in your sin. WHERE I GO, YOU CANNOT COME. This made the Jews ask, 'Will he
kill himself? Is that why he says, 'where I go, you cannot come?' But he continued, 'YOU ARE
FROM BELOW; I AM FROM ABOVE. YOU ARE OF THIS WORLD; I AM NOT OF THIS
WORLD [now].' "

Yeshua reiterates this in John 13:33: "My children, I will be with you only a little longer.
You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: WHERE I AM GOING, YOU
CANNOT COME." Yeshua also said: "Blessed are the meek, FOR THEY WILL INHERIT THE
EARTH" (Mat.5:5).

Did you get that? "Inherit" what? "Inherit the earth" NOT heaven! As we have already seen,
Yeshua plainly said, "NO ONE HAS EVER GONE TO HEAVEN..." And nobody EVER WILL!!

King David of ancient Israel was a man after YEHOVAH's OWN HEART. David has the
promise of being in the Kingdom of God, ruling over Israel under the Messiah at that time when
YEHOVAH God and the Messiah will be RULING ALL NATIONS. But, on the day of Pentecost
when the New Testament Church began, the apostle Peter, inspired by YEHOVAH's spirit, plainly
said: "For David DID NOT ascend to heaven..."

Heaven is NOT the reward of the saved ! When the Messiah RETURNS to this earth to
gather up His elect, He is NOT going to transport them to heaven to rule from there -- Yeshua and
the saints will be RULING ON THIS EARTH!

The Berean Voice November-December 2002