Ellen White saw Revelation 14:6-12, with its description of the messages of
the three angels, as standing at the very heart of Seventh-day Adventist
identity. The third angel's message (along with the first two) was not only to
be global but to draw out and test human beings--creating "a people
distinct and separate from the world, who refuse to worship the beast or his
image, who bear God's sign, keeping holy His Sabbath--the seventh day" (Evangelism,
p. 233). For Ellen White, the third angel's message combines law and gospel--the
commandments of God and the faith of Jesus (Rev. 14:12). Not only were Ellen
White's extensive writings on the law, Sabbath, righteousness by faith, the
great controversy, and other topics directly related to the third angel's
message, but so were her voluminous counsels on education, health, publishing,
and the gospel ministry.