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angel of light. He has taken the world captive. They are given over
to strong delusions, to believe a lie that they may be damned. His
agent, the next highest in order to him, is the engineer, and others of
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his agents are employed in different offices as he may need them, and
they are all going with lightning speed to perdition. I asked the angel
if there were none left. He bade me look in an opposite direction, and
I saw a little company traveling a narrow pathway. All seemed to be
firmly united, and bound together by the truth.
This little company looked care-worn, as though they had passed
through severe trials and conflicts. And it seemed as if the sun had just
appeared from behind the cloud, and shone upon their countenances,
and caused them to look triumphant, as though their victories were
nearly won.
I saw that the Lord had given the world opportunity to discover the
snare. This one thing was evidence enough for the Christian if there
were no other. There is no difference made between the precious and
the vile.
Thomas Paine, whose body has mouldered to dust, and who is to be
called forth at the end of the 1000 years, at the second resurrection, to
receive his reward, and suffer the second death, is purported by Satan
to be in heaven, and highly exalted there. Satan used him on earth as
long as he could, and now he is carrying on the same work through
pretensions of having Thomas Paine so much exalted and honored;
and as he taught on earth, Satan is making it appear that he is teaching
in heaven. And some on earth who have looked with horror at his life
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and death, and his corrupt teachings while living, now submit to be
taught by him who was one of the vilest and most corrupt of men; one
who despised God and his law.
He who is the father of lies, blinds and deceives the world by
sending his angels forth to speak for the apostles, and make it appear
that they contradict what they wrote when on earth, which was dictated
by the Holy Ghost. These lying angels make the apostles to corrupt
their own teachings and declare them to be adulterated. By so doing he
can throw professed Christians, who have a name to live and are dead,
and all the world, into uncertainty about the word of God; for that cuts
directly across his track, and is likely to thwart his plans. Therefore
he gets them to doubt the divine origin of the Bible, and then sets up
the infidel Thomas Paine, as though he was ushered into heaven when