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and good works they affirm are wrought by them, they are cherishing
and glorifying Satan himself, who steps in and works with all power
and signs and lying wonders—with all deceivableness of unrighteous-
ness. Said the angel: “Mark its influence. The controversy between
Christ and Satan is not yet ended.” This entering in of Satan through
the sciences is well devised by his Satanic majesty, and in the minds
of thousands will eventually destroy true faith in Christ’s being the
Messiah, the Son of God.
I was directed to the power of God manifested through Moses when
the Lord sent him in before Pharaoh. Satan understood his business
and was upon the ground. He well knew that Moses was chosen of
God to break the yoke of bondage upon the children of Israel, and that
in his work he prefigured Christ’s first advent to break Satan’s power
over the human family and deliver those who were made captives by
his power. Satan knew that when Christ should appear, mighty works
and miracles would be wrought by Him, that the world might know
that the Father had sent Him. He trembled for his power. He consulted
with his angels how to accomplish a work which should answer a
twofold purpose: 1. To destroy the influence of the work wrought by
God through His servant Moses, by working through his agents, and
thus counterfeiting the true work of God; 2. To exert an influence by
his work through the magicians which would reach down through all
ages and destroy in the minds of many true faith in the mighty miracles
and works to be performed by Christ when He should come to this
world. He knew that his kingdom would suffer, for the power which
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he held over mankind would be subject to Christ. It was no human
influence or power possessed by Moses that produced those miracles
wrought before Pharaoh. It was the power of God. Those signs and
wonders were wrought through Moses to convince Pharaoh that the
great “I AM” sent him to command Pharaoh to let Israel go that they
might serve Him.
Pharaoh called for the magicians to work with their enchantments.
They also showed signs and wonders, for Satan came to their aid to
work through them. Yet even here the work of God was shown to be
superior to the power of Satan, for the magicians could not perform
all those miracles which God wrought through Moses. Only a few of
them could they do. The magicians’ rods did become serpents, [
See
Appendix.
] but Aaron’s rod swallowed them up. After the magicians