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Other women were shown me in-----who were at war with the
truth. One was presented before me who embraced a few points of
truth, and then went no further with God’s remnant people. She was
exalted in her own eyes, and thought she understood it all. She was
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wise in her own opinion, and was shown me as constantly looking
back and referring to an old experience; because she had received a
degree of light in the past, she had become lifted up, and thought she
had sufficient light and knowledge to instruct the whole body. Her
faith is scattered and disconnected. Many of her ideas of truth are
erroneous; yet she is egotistical, and righteous in her own estimation.
She is forward to instruct, but will not be taught. She has despised
instruction, and cast behind her the teachings of God through His
servants. I saw her pointing to her righteousness, her devotion, her
prayerful life. Like the Pharisee, she enumerates her good deeds.
“God, I thank Thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give
tithes of all that I possess.” The Pharisee’s prayer was not regarded;
but the poor publican, who could only say, “God be merciful to me a
sinner,” moved the pity of the Lord. His prayer was accepted, while
the prayer of the boasting Pharisee was rejected. “For everyone that
exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall
be exalted.”
Revelation 3:17, 18
: “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased
with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel
thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and
white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy
nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that
thou mayest see.”
This person, whose countenance I recognized when I saw her, I
was told was Mrs. I. I saw that her life was not marked with that
humility which should ever characterize the followers of Christ. When
poor mortals, however high their profession, become just in their own
eyes, then Jesus leaves them to be deceived in regard to themselves.
I was shown that this woman has influenced others, and some have
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united with her to hold up the visions in a ridiculous light. To God
they must answer for all this; for every word of derision against the