Lineage: Season 2

Adam Ramdin

Lineage Journey

Episode 1: The Mayflower & The Birth of America

Episode 2: The Great Awakening

Episode 3: William Miller- Early Life & Conversion

Episode 4: William Miller- Study & Call to Ministry

Episode 5: The Great Disappointment

Episode 6: The Potato Preachers

Episode 7: Ellen White - Early Years

Episode 8: Ellen White- First Vision & Call to Ministry

Episode 9: Hazen Foss & William Foy- Unfaithful and Faithful

Episode 10: Frederick Wheeler, Rachel Oakes Preston & The Sabbath

Episode 11: Joseph Bates & The Sabbath Pact

Episode 12: The Sabbath Pact & The Youth of Paris Hill Maine

Episode 13: Hiram Edson- The Theological Birthplace

Episode 14: The Birth of Spiritualism & The State of the Dead

Episode 15: Henry White’s Death at Fort Howland

Episode 16: Eugene Farnsworth & Ellen White

Episode 17: The First Adventist Press in Rochester

Episode 18: Annie Smith- Short Life Huge Impact

Episode 19: Uriah Smith - A life of service

Episode 20: The Great Controversy

Episode 21: Slavery, The Civil War & Ellen White

Episode 22: The Birth of Adventist Education

Episode 23: Literature Evangelism & George King

Episode 24: J.H. Kellogg & Ellen White

Episode 25: Czechowski & Tramelan: Early Work in Europe

Episode 26: Jakob Erzberger: Europe’s Forgotten Pioneer

Episode 27: J.N. Andrews: The Ablest Man in Our Ranks

Episode 28: The Birth of Youth Ministries in Adventism

Episode 29: James & Ellen White’s Marriage

Episode 30: J.N. Loughbourough: What Doest Thou Here Elijah

Episode 31: Young Pioneers: Death & Honour

Episode 32: The 1888 General Conference Session

Episode 33: S.N. Haskell - Soap Maker to Pioneer

Episode 34: Early Adventism in England

Episode 35: Ellen White Called to Australia

Episode 36: The Birth of Adventism in New Zealand

Episode 37: The Birth of Adventism in Australia & Sanitarium

Episode 38: Avondale College

Episode 40: Nathaniel Faulkhead: From Freemason to Adventist

Episode 39: Ellen White and Sunnyside

Episode 41: From Vision to Printed Page

Episode 42: Edson White: His Work & Conversion

Episode 43: The Morning Star

Episode 44: Madison College & ASI

Episode 45: Anna Knight: Pioneer Missionary

Episode 46: Adventists, Abolition & Oakwood

Episode 47: The 1902 Battle Creek Fire

Episode 48: Loma Linda University

Episode 49: Elmshaven: Ellen White & A.G. Daniells

Episode 50: Elmshaven: Vision & Grandchildren

Episode 51: The Death of Ellen White

Episode 52: The SDA Church: It’s Past, Present & Future


There is something about your Adventist fires, local fire chief Weeks remarked. He had fought 2 Adventist fires, with his success score being 0. He also said that the water poured on acted more like gasoline. Ellen White had warned the Review that they were on dangerous ground and was not surprised when she heard of the fire on December 30, 1902. In 1901 she had written to the managers of the Review and said, I have been almost afraid to open the review, fearing that God has cleansed the publishing house by fire.

[♪ music ♪ The review had gotten itself into a situation where it was publishing more commercial work than what its original intention was. It had come a long way since the early days in Paris Hill, Maine and the times of extreme sacrifice in Rochester, New York. It was now a huge institution, the largest printing press in the state of Michigan. On that day, though, nothing could stop the fire destroying the 40, 000-square-foot building, with only the West Building that housed the General Conference offices and book and bank depositories left standing. [♪ music ♪ The Review had on press at the time a book by Dr.

John Harvey Kellogg entitled The Living Temple. This book had pantheistic strains throughout and would have caused much harm to the review if published. The book marked a significant shift in the philosophy of Dr. Kellogg, who had started out with such great promise and was 1 of the leading doctors in America. [♪ music ♪ Dr.

Kellogg had become controlling and dictatorial and was increasingly difficult for the church leadership to work with. Earlier that year, on February the 18th, the sanitarium suffered a fire. Was it an accident or something bigger than that? A warning for Dr. Kellogg to get back on track.

The Review had decided to relocate completely to Washington DC in line with the new council that so many institutions shouldn't operate in 1 area. Despite the warning not to rebuild a large institution, Dr. Kellogg not only rebuilt but doubled it in size. From 106 patients in 1866 to over 7, 000 by 1906, it was a huge institution. [♪♪♪)] Unfortunately, Dr.

Kellogg would end up leaving the church, being disfellowshipped in 1907 during some turbulent times for our church. He refused to let go of the pantheistic ideas in the book The Living Temple, and also some of his medical practices started to become questionable. Unfortunately today, many of the health reform ideas have been taken over or have strong ties to Eastern religion and the New Age movement. We need to be careful that our health reform stays biblical and is not influenced by these philosophies. [♪ music ♪ When John Harvey Kellogg broke away from the church, To some people it looked like the church would fall.

A lot of properties were in his name, and he had more employees than the whole general conference. Some people said that we needed to compromise in order to keep him on board or else we wouldn't survive. But over the next few years and decades the church would go on strong, and the sanitarium that had seemed so strong and vibrant would become a pale shadow of its former glory, struggling in the Great Depression and eventually closing down. [♪ music ♪ Both institutions were huge, and this in itself tells us something. God does not respect the size of the institution.

Sometimes we think because it's God's publishing house or God's sanitarium, then he has to bless it. No, he doesn't. God is not 1 to be manipulated. If we are persistent in doing our own thing and blindly keep asking for God's blessing, then there may come a time when he removes it from our lives. Size does not matter to God or mean that we have His blessing.

Faithfulness does. You

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