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to be swept right in to act a part with the devil then. Evil angels are
working all the time upon the hearts of men. Satan is working with
everyone who is not under the control of the Spirit of God. It is the
lying wonders of the devil that will take the world captive, and he will
cause fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men. He is to
work miracles; and this wonderful, miracle-working power is to sweep
in the whole world. It is now just beginning.
I want to tell you another thing. The vials of God’s wrath and the
sprinkling of them are already coming. What is the matter that we do
not discern it? It is because the light of truth does not affect the heart.
The Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the world.
You hear of calamities by land and by sea, and they are constantly
increasing. What is the matter? The Spirit of God is taken away from
those who have the lives of men in their hands, and Satan is coming in
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to control them, because they give themselves to his control. Those
who profess to be the children of God do not place themselves under
the guardianship of the heavenly angels, and as Satan is a destroyer, he
works through those men and they make mistakes; and they will get
drunk, and because of intemperance, many times bring these terrible
calamities upon us.
And see the storms and tempests. Satan is working in the atmo-
sphere; he is poisoning the atmosphere, and here we are dependent
upon God for our lives—our present and eternal life. And being in
the position that we are, we need to be wide awake, wholly devoted,
wholly converted, wholly consecrated to God. But we seem to sit as
though we were paralyzed. God of heaven, wake us up!—
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Miracles not a Test
Those who engage in the work of God’s cause today will meet
just such trials as Paul endured in his work. By the same boastful
and deceptive work Satan will seek to draw converts from the faith.
Theories will be brought in that it will not be wise for us to handle.
Satan is a cunning worker, and he will bring in subtle fallacies to
darken and confuse the mind and root out the doctrines of salvation.
Those who do not accept the Word of God just as it reads, will be
snared in his trap.