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The "Shut Door" Doctrine: A Foundation of Error
The entire Seventh Day Adventist movement is built on the "Great Disappointment" of 1844, when William Miller’s prediction failed. To survive this, Ellen G. White and the early Adventists promulgated the "Shut Door" doctrine. They taught that the door of mercy for the "wicked world" had permanently closed on October 22, 1844, and that no more sinners could ever be converted.

In 1847, Ellen White wrote: "The wicked world ... the Lord has shut the door of mercy" (Letter to Joseph Bates, July 13, 1847).
She and her followers believed for years that they were the only ones who could be saved, as the rest of humanity was beyond the reach of grace.

Official Adventist historical records admit this period of "Shut Door" belief. You can verify this in the SDA church's own documents:

Selected Messages, Book 1, p. 74 (White’s admission of the belief).
Adventist Review: The Shut Door Explained (Attempting to contextualize the failure).

The Cover-Up
The modern Adventist Church attempts to "re-interpret" this as a period of confusion, but the documents show it was a rigid, exclusionary doctrine. When the conversions didn't stop, the leadership had to pivot to the "Investigative Judgment" theory—a doctrine created specifically to save face and provide a new theological reason for why the world hadn't ended.

Phil, do you deny this history. According to Deuteronomy 18:22, if a prophet speaks and it does not come to pass, the Lord has not spoken. Ellen G. White claimed to receive visions from God confirming the "Shut Door." That claim was false. By holding onto her as your prophetess, you are ignoring the biblical test of a true prophet. You are chaining your salvation to the wreckage of a 19th-century failed prophecy.

I am not the one who needs to fear eternity—I am resting in the finished work of Christ. You are the one desperately trying to prop up a house of cards that God himself dismantled in 1844.