Communications to Elder Hull
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Brother Hull, you were shown me under the soothing influence of a
fascination which will prove fatal unless the spell is broken. You have
parleyed with Satan, and reasoned with him, and tarried upon forbidden
ground, and have exercised your mind in things which were too great
for you, and by indulging in doubts and unbelief have attracted evil
angels around you, and driven from you the pure and holy angels of
God. If you had steadfastly resisted Satan’s suggestions and sought
strength from God with a determined effort, you would have broken
every fetter, driven back your spiritual foe, come closer to God, and
triumphed in His name. I saw that it was presumption in you to go
forth to meet a spiritualist when you were yourself enshrouded and
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bewildered by clouds of unbelief. You went to battle with Satan and
his host without an armor, and have been grievously wounded, and are
insensible to your wound. I greatly fear that the thunders and lightnings
of Sinai would fail to move you. You are in Satan’s easy chair and do
not see your fearful condition and make an effort to escape. If you do
not arouse and recover yourself from the snare of the devil, you must
perish. The brethren and sisters would save you, but I saw that they
could not. You have something to do; you have a desperate effort to
make, or you are lost. I saw that those who are under the bewitching
influence of spiritualism know it not. You have been charmed and
mesmerized, yet you do not know it, and therefore do not make the
least effort to come to the light.
I saw that we are now in the shaking time. Satan is working with
all his power to wrest souls from the hand of Christ and cause them to
trample underfoot the Son of God. An angel slowly and emphatically
repeated these words: “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye,
shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of
God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of
grace?” Character is being developed. Angels of God are weighing
moral worth. God is testing and proving His people. These words were
presented to me by the angel: “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any
of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But
exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers
of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto
the end.” God is displeased that any of His people who have known