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Selected Messages Book 2
I there stated in public that the Lord had been pleased to show
me that there would be no definite time in the message given of God
since 1844; and that I knew that this message, which four or five were
engaged in advocating with great zeal, was heresy. The visions of this
poor child were not of God. This light came not from heaven. Time was
short; but the end was not yet. A great work was to be accomplished
to prepare a people to be sealed with the seal of the living God.—
An
Exposure of Fanaticism and Wickedness, 9, 10
, (Pamphlet) (1885).
A Message to J. M. Garmire
Satan has arranged things so that you should be ensnared. Fa-
naticism, deception, and strong delusion hold you captive. You have
talked your ideas in your family, misinterpreting scripture, wresting
the Word of God from its true interpretation, and have thus led them
to believe that the views held and advocated by our people are not
correct. Your interpretations of scripture are not in harmony with the
positions taken by Seventh-day Adventists
The mold you have given to your children’s minds savors of the
errors that have corrupted your own mind. You have educated them
to see spots and stains in others, and to criticize them. By your words
and example in thus talking against your brethren and picking up their
faults, you have set in motion a train of circumstances that, through
your own power combined with satanic agencies, has resulted in the
visions of your daughter. All this fault-finding, this accusing of your
brethren, is satanic....
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The Divine Credentials
Your expressing so much faith in the testimonies, and making them
so prominent, is no help to me or my work, because you place the false
visions of your daughter on the same level with those the Lord gives
to me, and thus lower the sacredness and exalted character of the work
God has given me to do.
The Lord has plainly shown me that what you regard as commu-
nications from God to you and others through your child Anna, are
not from Him. They do not bear the divine credentials. It is another
spirit that controls the child. It is the enemy that works in her. Such