"I then saw a company pressing through the crowd with their eyes intently fixed upon the heavenly crown. As they earnestly urged their way through the disorderly crowd, angels attended them, and made room for them to advance. As they neared the heavenly crown, the light emanating from it shone upon them and around them, dispelling their darkness, and growing clearer and brighter, until they seemed to be transformed, and resembled the angels. They cast not one lingering look upon the earthly crown. Those who were in pursuit of the earthly, mocked them, and threw black balls after them. These did them no injury while their eyes were fixed upon the heavenly crown, but those who turned their attention to the black balls were stained with them. The following scripture was presented before me: 1T 349.1"
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."
The EGW passage describes a transformation into the likeness of angels by focusing on a heavenly crown, which parallels the idea of being changed into the image of Christ by beholding His glory. The 'light' emanating from the crown is also a parallel to the glory of the Lord.
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"
Both passages describe a journey or race, with obstacles and distractions, towards a goal. Hebrews 12:1 speaks of laying aside weights and sins, while the EGW passage describes avoiding the 'black balls.' Both emphasize perseverance and focus.
"rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” 1T 349.2"
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:"
EGW directly quotes and alludes to Matthew 6:19.
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
EGW directly quotes Matthew 6:21.
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."
EGW directly quotes Matthew 6:22.
"But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
EGW directly quotes Matthew 6:23.
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
EGW directly quotes Matthew 6:24.