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same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath
the Father also.”
In Paul’s second Epistle to the Thessalonians, he exhorts to be on
guard and not depart from the faith. He speaks of Christ’s coming as an
event to immediately follow the work of Satan in spiritualism in these
words: “Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the
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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.”
In the Epistle of Paul to Timothy, he foretells what will be mani-
fested in the latter days. And this warning was for the benefit of those
who should live when these things should take place. God revealed to
His servant the perils of the church in the last days. He writes, “Now
the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot
iron.”
The faithful Peter speaks of the dangers to which the Christian
church would be exposed in the last days, and more fully describes the
heresies which would arise and the blaspheming seducers who would
seek to draw away souls after them. “But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among
you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the
Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
Here God has worked out for us the proof of the class mentioned.
They have refused to acknowledge Christ as the Son of God, and they
have no more reverence for the eternal Father than for His Son, Jesus
Christ. They have neither the Son nor the Father. And like their great
leader, the rebel chief, they are in rebellion against the law of God,
and they despise the blood of Christ.
We may rejoice in every condition of life, and triumph under all
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circumstances, because the Son of God came down from heaven and
submitted to bear our infirmities, and to endure sacrifice and death