Prophet Claimers
Before, During and After the Reformation and Ellen White?
Anthony Hoekema
wrote a book Four Major Cults and the publication that I saw was in 1988, the
year of his death. But I cannot open it. He wrote also about Adventism as the
fourth cult. In many
Cathecisms denominations are teaching that Adventists have Ellen White who
claimed to be a prophetess. Prophetess claims by Ellen White? In her own words: "To claim
to be a prophetess is something that I have never done. If others
call me by that name, I have no controversy with them.” I could not
verify what Hoekema said about this. Those who have access to the following
book can look in the index for Ellen White and see if he says that she claimed
to be a prophet. The other
denominations are all teaching their children that it is wrong to claim to be a
prophet because then you claim that your writings should be added to the Bible
as another canon. Ellen White
never claimed that her writings should replace the Bible. She said there is
only one Bible. Her works are a little light that leads to the great light. She
said. Source:
Anthony Hoekema in his Four Major Cults discussed also Seventh Day Adventism. https://archive.org/details/fourmajorcultsch0000hoek/page/n5/mode/2up
Now what about
John Calvin as Prophet? What about
Martin Luther as a Prophet? Let us see who
claimed to be prophets around the Reformation.
The following
people believed themselves to be prophets or had their views examined as if
prophets. Birgitta of
Sweden (Fogelqvist: 1993), Joachim of Fiore
(Reeves: 1969; McGinn:
1985), Girolamo
Savanarola (Herzig: 2008), Jan Hus (Oberman: 1999,
135-67; Haberkern: 2016), Martin Luther (Preuss: 1933; Kolb: 1999;
Oberman: 1999, 135-67), Ulrich Zwingli (Büsser:
1950, Opitz: 2007, 2: 493-513; Opitz: 2017), Heinrich
Bullinger (Peterson: 1991,
245-60; Bolliger: 2004, 159-177, Timmerman:
2015), Theodore Bibliander (Gordon: 2012, 107-41), John Calvin (Ganoczy: 1966,
Engammare: 1998, 88-107, Balserak: 2014), Argula von
Grumbach (Matheson: 1995; Pak:
2012, 151-69), Katharina Schütz
Zell (McKee: 1998), John Knox (Dawson: 2015), late-medieval
women (Voaden: 1999), the Marian exiles (Dawson: 1994, 75-91) According to Balserak, John Calvin believed that he is like the prophet Jeremiah. Melanchton called Luther a prophet (ibid). Now here is the link for those who are interested in this woman who had visions from God and had it written down for anyone to look at. Rule: Only look to the covers of the Bible while you are reading. You have to find her within the covers not outside. Pastors of other denominations. Being a reader of Ellen White will make you a very good speaker in your church. Even a Rabbi learned that as he said in his own words. Here is the link: Enjoy with a smile and prayer https://m.egwwritings.org/
Source:
Balserak, J.
(2020). Theodore Beza on Prophets and Prophecy. In Beza at 500: New Perspectives on an Old Reformer Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
(Göttingen). https://docslib.org/doc/979362/theodore-beza-on-prophets-and-prophecy-in-beza-at-500-new-perspectives-on-an-old-reformer-vandenhoeck-ruprecht-g%C3%B6ttingen