Breaking Through the Wall: How God Communicates with His Lost Creation

Keith Clouten has comprehensively researched the extent to which the Lord was involved in providing the inspired writings as we have them today. It is made clear that, though He oversaw the whole process, He didn't puppeteer it. Moses, John, and all the Bible writers in between were God's penmen, not pen. The principles of revelation and inspiration that shaped the biblical Canon carry over to the prophetic status and ministry of Ellen White. Clouten takes a balanced approach in emphasizing that her faulty humanity didn't differ from that of David, Jonah, and others, or affect the legitimacy of her messages or fulfillment of the prediction in Joel 2:28.

Readers of this valuable book will be stirred with a fresh appreciation for God and His immeasurable desire to teach His wayward children how He plans to redeem them.

“Can we trust the Bible? Is it a reliable book? Keith Clouten’s book Breaking Through the Wall approaches the subject from his own personal experience and questions he has had in his spiritual journey. The inspiration and reliability of the Bible have become a contentious subject and many readers will appreciate Clouten’s approach and answers to some difficult questions. As he wrestled with these ideas he found a way to articulate his confidence in the Bible as God’s word using the metaphor of a wall and how God broke through the wall to reach a sinful humanity.”  Denis Fortin, Professor of Historical Theology, Andrews University; Co-editor, The Ellen G. White Encyclopedia