The gift of prophecy, bestowed on God's faithful throughout history, most recently rested upon Ellen White, who conveyed the given messages in admonition and writing. Many of her earliest testimonies and views are published in the Spiritual Gifts volumes. The time from the Creation to Israel's wilderness wandering is detailed in this third volume, and the stories of patriarchs and prophets come alive.

The gift of prophecy, bestowed on God's faithful throughout history, most recently rested upon Ellen White, who conveyed the given messages in admonition and writing. Many of her earliest testimonies and views are published in the Spiritual Gifts volumes. In this fourth volume, Israel's wandering in the wilderness continues, as Moses and Joshua lead the people of God through the desert on the way to Canaan. Also chronicled in this publication are the lives of kings, such as David and Solomon. In this final volume of the series, Mrs. White again shares counsel and visions which the Lord has given her. Straight and cutting testimonies written to the church describe the state of unpreparedness among God's people, and the great need for a closer walk with the Lord.

A foundational text in the Seventh Day Adventist church, The Great Controversy is a vision White had of the great battle between Christ and Satan throughout the ages of the early and modern church. Although the book is not held with as high esteem in Protestant circles, it still is able to outline a way of impactful theological thinking.

"Spiritual Gifts" was, and is, the general title of four of Ellen White's earliest published books. They were originally published as separate volumes with their individual subtitles: SPIRITUAL GIFTS. THE GREAT CONTROVERSY (1858);SPIRITUAL GIFTS. MY CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE, VIEWS, AND LABORS (1860);SPIRITUAL GIFTS. IMPORTANT FACTS OF FAITH (1864);SPIRITUAL GIFTS. IMPORTANT FACTS OF FAITH: LAWS OF HEALTH AND Testimonies Nos. 1-10. (1864).For many years they have been combined, two volumes each, in two books as "SPIRITUAL GIFTS. VOLS. I-II & VOLS. III-IV. This present printing returns them to their original, separate book format, and presents them in large print; convenient for all ages.This volume I, written in 1858, is the earliest volume by Ellen White carrying the title "The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels, and Satan and His Angels." Though smaller in size than later versions, this edition contains numerous statements not found in the more expanded versions- an example: "The Sabbath was instituted in Eden before the fall, and was observed by Adam and Eve, and all the heavenly host. GOD rested on the seventh day, and blessed and hallowed it; and I saw that the Sabbath would never be done away; but the redeemed saints, and all the angelic host, will observe it in honor of the great Creator to all eternity." p 123, 124 (present volume, emphasis added).