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Statements Concerning This Earth and Other Worlds
Millions of Worlds Are Inhabited
Should all the inhabitants of this little world refuse obedience to God, He
would not be left without glory. He could sweep every mortal from the face of
the earth in a moment, and create a new race to people it and glorify His name.
God is not dependent on man for honor. He could marshal the starry host of
heaven, the millions of worlds above, to raise a song of honor and praise and
glory to his name. — RH March 1, 1881.
Ellen White Given a View of Other Worlds
The Lord has given me a view of other worlds. Wings were given me, and an
angel attended me from the city to a place that was bright and glorious. . . .
The inhabitants of the place were of all sizes; they were noble, majestic, and
lovely. . . . Then I was taken to a world which had seven moons. There I saw
good old Enoch, who had been translated. . . . I begged my attending angel to
let me remain in that place. . . . Then the angel said, "You must go back, and
if you are faithful, you, with the 144,000, shall have the privilege of visiting
all the worlds and viewing the handiwork of God." — EW 39, 40. (Published in
1882.)
God's Creative Work Finished
God has finished His creative work, but His energy is still exerted in
upholding the objects of His creation. — ST, March 20, 1884.
Earth Is Small Compared to Other Worlds
How grateful we should be that, notwithstanding this earth is so small amid
the created worlds, God notices even us. The nations are before Him as the drop
in the bucket, and as the small dust in the balance. — RH March 9, 1886.
Unfallen Beings See the Controversy in This World
Every eye in the unfallen universe is bent upon those who profess to be
Christ's followers. Here in this atom of a world, an earnest warfare is going
on. — RH Sept. 29, 1891.
Diversity in the Universe Forms a Perfect Whole
The universe contains one great masterpiece of infinite Wisdom in
innumerable diversities of His great works, which, in their matchless variety,
form a perfect whole. — YI Aug. 19, 1897.
The World but an Atom in God's Vast Domain
This world is but a little atom in the vast domain over which God presides.
— TM 324. (Reprinted from Sp. Test., Series A, No. 8, 1897.)
The Plan of Salvation Set up Before the World Was Made
God and Christ knew from the beginning of the apostasy of Satan and of the
fall of Adam through the deceptive power of the apostate. The plan of salvation
was designed to redeem the fallen race, to give them another trial. Christ was
appointed to the office of Mediator from the creation of God, set up from
everlasting to be our substitute and surety. Before the world was made, it was
arranged that the divinity of Christ should be enshrouded in humanity. — ST
April 27, 1899.
This World a Speck in Comparison to the Universe
He endured the cross, despised the shame. He made it of small account in
consideration of the results that He was working out in behalf of, not only the
inhabitants of this speck of a world, but the whole universe, every world which
God had created. — RH Sept. 4, 1900. (Quoted in 5BC 1127.)
This little world is but a jot in God's creation. — YI April 4, 1905.
(Quoted in 3BC 1154.)
God Made All Stars
There is not a star that beautifies the heavens which He [God] did not make.
— ST March 31, 1909.
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