A published statement which appeared in the Review and Herald Supplement of June 21, 1898, to the effect that a literal
darkness will cover the earth as a sign to God's people that probation has closed,
has been attributed wrongly to Ellen G. White. It was actually written by a
Seventh-day Adventist minister. Such teaching is contrary to her statement in
The Great Controversy, page 615, which reads: "When the irrevocable
decision of the sanctuary has been pronounced and the destiny of the world has
been forever fixed, the inhabitants of the earth will know it not."
Thought for the Day
Jesus came in poverty and humiliation, that He might be our example as well as our Redeemer. If He had appeared with kingly pomp, how could He have taught humility? how could He have presented such cutting truths as in the Sermon on the Mount? Where would have been the hope of the lowly in life had Jesus come to dwell as a king among men? Desire of Ages, p. 138.