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wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might
be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
Satan has come unperceived through these sciences, and poisoned
the minds of thousands and led them to infidelity. He is well pleased
to have them spread wide. It is his own plan, laid out by himself,
that he may have access to minds, and influence them as he pleases.
And while it is believed that one human mind so wonderfully affects
another, Satan, ready at hand, insinuates himself, and works on the
right hand and on the left. And while those devoted to these sciences
laud them to the heavens, because of the great 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 unrighteousness.
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 will eventually
root out of the minds of thousands 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 he in his work 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.
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He consults with his angels to accomplish a work which shall answer
a two-fold 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. The influence of his work
through the magicians would reach down through all ages, and would
destroy in the minds of many, true faith in the mighty miracles and
works of Christ, which would be performed by him when he should
come to this world. He knew that his kingdom would suffer, for the