Firm Platform
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Satan, pleased with the deception of the professed followers of Christ,
fastens them in his snare, and assumes a religious character, and leads
the minds of these professed Christians to himself, and works with
his power, his signs and lying wonders. Some he deceives in one way
and some in another. He has different delusions prepared to affect
different minds. Some look with horror upon one deception, while
they readily receive another. Satan deceives some with Spiritualism.
He also comes as an angel of light, and spreads his influence over the
land. I saw false reformations every where. The churches were elated,
and considered that God was marvelously working for them, when it
was another spirit. It will die away and leave the world and the church
in a worse condition than before.
I saw that God had honest children among the nominal Adventists,
and the fallen churches, and ministers and people will yet be called out
from these churches, before the plagues shall be poured out, and they
will gladly embrace the truth. Satan knows this, and before the loud
cry of the third angel, raises an excitement in these religious bodies,
that those who have rejected the truth may think God is with them. He
hopes to deceive the honest, and lead them to think that God is still
working for the churches. But the light will shine, and every one of the
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honest ones will leave the fallen churches, and take their stand with
the remnant.
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