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I think you're right. I think everyone is inconsistent in some areas, Biblical writers, Ellen White, and myself included. As Krister Stendahl said: "Consistency is a dubious criteria to apply to someone as complex as Paul."

A couple of things on that text. One is that Jesus was not making a doctrinal proclamation. The disciples had asked him an incredibly detailed, fiddly, unlikely hypothetical question, about 7 brothers successively marrying the same woman, then dying (had they checked her cooking?!), and whose wife she would be in heaven. It was the kind of question the rabbis loved to argue about and think through, and that stuff can be fun, but Jesus was on a mission and didn't want to get bogged down, so he shut it down quickly. I mean, the scandalous answer is that she'd be a wife to all of them. Conceivable that that's true but He realised it would be a huge sidetrack for everyone, both there and in the future. I wonder, too, whether by 'no marrying and giving in marriage' He meant no *new* marriages in Heaven, but that those already married would be married in heaven. I could be wrong of course. But my 31 year marriage is about far more than sex, and I would struggle to imagine that a heaven without my connection to my beloved would be heaven at all. That might be just a failure of my imagination. I guess we all just need to wait and see... and not to be too doctrinaire in the mean time.

As an aside and not to de- rail the thread, I DO think EGW contradicts herself. I hold this point of view because, IMO, although her theology can be characterized as "evolving over time" at the same time some of her books contain contradictory statements within the same book.

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Frankly, I don't consider EGW as highly as you do. I don't misinterpret her; I just don't swallow everything she has to say; especially where prophecy is concerned. She is no more a prophet than Billy Graham or Martin Luther. Even Paul and Peter got stuff wrong concerning the second coming. I don't think EGW contradicts herself, either. I think her theology evolved, just like ours (or at least mine) has in the past 30 years.

I agree with your statement about the prophecy in Isaiah; but the prophecy in question is in Daniel. Daniel 8 specifically states that the vision of the 2,300 days is in the distant future. Daniel 10 thru 12 is all the same vision; and the Angel tells Daniel at the end of Chapter 12 that the vision is sealed up until the time of the end. (Dan. 12:9) Daniel deals with the impact of the end times on the Jews specifically. Revelation expands on it; and addresses the end times on a global scale. If reading the Bible literally (hopefully "thinking as on OT Middle Easterner), makes me a fundamentalist, so be it. I feel safer taking the Bible literally than trying to spiritualize or allegorize every passage; which can lead to multiple rabbit trails with dead ends. That being said, I don't totally reject what you have stated. You are a very scholarly and well-studied Christian.