The investigation supporting these conclusions had taken place at the Hiram Edson home in western New York State over a period of a number of months. The existence of this Bible study was unknown to Ellen Harmon when she was given the vision in Exeter in mid-February, 1845, nor had there been time for the February 7, 1846, issue of the Day-Star to reach her before she wrote of the vision for the readers of that journal. The vision, as published on March 14, gave unique confirmation to the conclusions of the Edson and Crosier Bible study.
A year later, April 21, 1847, Ellen White wrote in a letter to Eli Curtis: The Lord showed me in vision, more than one year ago, that Brother Crosier had the true light, on the cleansing of the sanctuary, et cetera, and that it was His will that Brother C. should write out the view which he gave us in the Day-Star Extra , February 7, 1846. I feel fully authorized by the Lord to recommend that Extra to every saint. WLF, p.12. 37 THE DAY-STAR EXTRA Volume 9 Cincinnati, Saturday, February 7, 1846. by O.R.L.
CROSIER THE LAW OF MOSES "Remember ye the Law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." Mal. 4:4. The commandment of this verse to remember the law of Moses, is the last one in the O.T., and given in connection with a prophetic description of "the great and dreadful day of the Lord." as though the law contained something further descriptive of that day. Perhaps we have paid too little attention to the law, not seeing its import and the light it was designed to shed on "the good things to come." Our Savior and the apostles taught from Moses as well as the prophets "the things concerning himself." The Mosaic law is what Paul in Hebrews calls the First Covenant, which the Lord, made with the "Fathers when he took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt," Hebrews 8:8,9; Jer. 31:32; Kg. 8:9.
This was not the covenant of promises made with Abraham, nor does it at all affect that.