How we should study E.G.W.

"How should we read Ellen White in the twenty first century? Let me suggest three basic rules of interpretation.

 Number one, take all that she has said about the topic into consideration before drawing a final conclusion, there hundreds of references to the Holy Spirit in the works of Ellen White and thousands of references to the person and work of Jesus Christ.

 Number two, if the statement seems inconsistent with other related statements, study the context, internal and external in your effort to resolve the apparent conflict. Of course you remember that the internal context deals with what the inspired writer wrote immediately before or immediately after the difficult statement. The external context deals with such questions as to whom was the statement written? When was it written? Why was it written? What circumstances called it forth? Ellen White once said, “God wants us all to have common sense and He wants us to reason from common sense.” Circumstances alter conditions, circumstances change the relation of things, she said that in Selected Messages volume 3.

 The last hermeneutical rule I am going to mentation, you have heard before, find the principle, the principle is the general, moral rule of conduct that never changes, modesty for instance is a principle, how do we apply the principle of modesty?"
by Cindy Tutshe of E.G.W. Estate

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:17

...worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Revelation 19:10