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.

This volume presents the most wonderful and intensely interesting history that has ever been written of the great confilct between Christianity and the Powers of Darkness. The period of history covered is one of the deepest interest to all classes of readers. Beginning with our Lord's great prophecy given while viewing Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, in which He outlines the history of the whole dispensation, it sketches the fulfillment. It calls our attention to the bitter persecutions of the Christians in the first centuries, and notes the rise and growth of the Papacy. Considerable space is given to the life, work, and infuence of later reformers and great religious leaders, and this is followed by chapters treating upon The Orgin of Evil, The Agency of Evil Spirits, The Snares of Satan, and the Judgment. The closing chapters give a vivid picture of the warfare of the church, her final redemption, and vividly describe the triumph of the people of God, the destruction of Satan and all his followers, and the renewing of the earth, which ends the awful controversy between the Son og God and the Powers of Darkness. - 1. Destruction of Jerusalem. 2. Persecution in the First Centuries. 3. The Apostasy. 4. The Waldenses. 5. John Wycliffe. 6. Huss and Jerome. 7. Luther's Separation from Rome. 8. Luther Before the Diet. 9. The Swiss Reformer. 10. Progress of Reform in Germany. 11. Protest of the Princes. 12. The French Reformation. 13. In the Netherlands and Scandinavia. 14. Later English Reformers. 15. The Bible and the French Revolution. 16. The Pilgrim Fathers. 17. Heralds of the Morning. 18. An American Reformer. 19. Light Through Darkness. 20. A Great Religious Awakening. 21. A Warning Rejected. 22. Prophecies Fulfilled. 23. What Is the Sanctuary?. 24. In the Holy of Holies. 25. God's Law Immutable. 26. A Work of Reform. 27. Modern Revivals. 28. The Investigative Judgment. 29. The Origin of Evil. 30. Enmity Between Man and Satan. 31. Agency of Evil Spirits. 32. Snares of Satan. 33. The First Great Deception. 34. Spiritualism. 35. Character and Aims of the Papacy. 36. The Impending Conflict--Its Causes. 37. The Scriptures a Safeguard. 38. The Final Warning. 39. "The Time of Trouble". 40. God's People Delivered. 41. Desolation of the Earth. 42. The Controversy Ended. Appendix. Biographical Notes. Scriptural Index. General Index

"The Lord has shown me that Satan was once an honored angel in heaven, next to Jesus Christ. His countenance was mild, expressive of happiness like the other angels. His forehead was high and broad, and showed great intelligence. His form was perfect. He had noble, majestic bearing. And I saw that when God said to his Son, Let us make man in our image, Satan was jealous of Jesus. He wished to be consulted concerning the formation of man. He was filled with envy, jealousy and hatred. He wished to be the highest in heaven, next to God, and receive the highest honors. Until this time all heaven was in order, harmony and perfect subjection to the government of God."-Ellen G White

The Protestant Reformers loved their church, but they loved God's Word even more. "The Bible and the Bible only as the rule of law and practice" was their motto. Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale, and others pointed people to the Bible, not the church, as the supreme source of truth. Their convictions broght them into heated controversy with the religioius establishment of their day. But their passion for the truths of Scripture led them to stand firm for their convictions despite intense persecution and even death. Five hundred years later, have we forgotten the principles for which these courageous Christians struggled and sacrificed? In too many churchs, members rest their faith on a preacher or a creed rather than on the Holy Scriptures. Most people today are no more eager to follow an unpopular truth than were the church leaders of the sixteenth century ... The experience of the Reformers contains vital lessons for our time. If you've forgotten that history - or perhaps you've never heard it - you need to read this book ..." from the back cover.

Since the beginning of the world's history, there have been two supernatural powers contending for supremacy of the world: the one seeking to establish a kingdom built on laws of love and truth; the other, on the alaws of selfishness and deception. This warfare, involving the entire universe, touches every life. In fact, this earth has become the final battleground where the powers of evil and the powers of good have met to demonstrate, before humanity and the unseen intelligence of other worlds, whose right it is to rule the expanse of creation. These two contending powers are Christ and Satan; and the great and final battle, the battle to end all battles, is right now being fought before our very eyes. The Great Controversy unveils these two forces at work in human history and in the events that are soon to change the course of this world forever. The Bible Made Plain is a verse-by-verse study of nineteen of the most important subjects of Scripture, highlighting the truths of the greatest consequence of all living in these last days before Christ returns as King of kings and Lord of lords, the rightful ruler of earth and heaven.

This book is not published to tell us that there is sin and woe and misery in this world. We know it all too well. This book is not published to tell us that there is an irreconcilable controversy between darkness and light, sin and righteousness, wrong and right, death and life. In our heart of hearts we know it, and know that we are participators, actors, in the conflict. But to every one of us comes at times a longing to know more of the great controversy. How did the controversy begin? or was it always here? What elements enter into its awfully complex aspect? How am I related to it? What is my responsibility? I find myself in this world by no choice of my own. Does that mean to me evil or good? It is the aim of this book, reader, to help the troubled soul to a right solution of all these problems. It is written by one who has tasted and found that God is good, and who has learned in communion with God and the study of His word that the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and that He will show them His covenant.