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
The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that no authority shall be known in it but His own. A soul thus kept in possession by the heavenly agencies is impregnable to the assaults of Satan. But unless we do yield ourselves to the control of Christ, we shall be dominated by the wicked one. Desire of Ages, p. 324