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through his agents, propositions are made, that, if carried out, would
impede the work of God and produce great evil. The good angels
move upon these agents of God to oppose such propositions with
strong reasons, which Satan’s agents cannot resist. A few of God’s
agents will have power to bear down a great mass of evil. Thus the
work will go on until the third message has done its work, and at the
loud cry of the third angel, these agents will have an opportunity to
receive the truth, and some of them will be converted, and endure with
the saints through the time of trouble. When Jesus leaves the most
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holy, His restraining Spirit is withdrawn from rulers and people. They
are left to the control of evil angels. Then such laws will be made by
the counsel and direction of Satan, that unless time should be very
short, no flesh could be saved.
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