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and I saw a little company traveling a narrow pathway. All seemed
to be firmly united, and bound together by the truth, in bundles, or
companies. Said the angel, “The third angel is binding them (sealing
them) in bundles for the heavenly garner.
This little company looked care-worn, as though they had passed
through severe trials and conflicts. And it appeared as if the sun had just
appeared from behind the cloud, and shone upon their countenances
and caused them to look triumphant, as though their victories were
nearly won.
I saw that the Lord had given the world opportunity to discover the
snare. This one thing was evidence enough for the Christian if there
was no other. There is no difference made between the precious and
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the vile.
Thomas Paine, whose body has now mouldered to dust, and who
is to be called forth at the end of the 1000 years, at the second resur-
rection, to receive his reward, and suffer the second death, is purported
by Satan to be in heaven, and highly exalted there. Satan used him on
earth as long as he could, and now he is carrying on the same work
through pretensions of having Thomas Paine so much exalted and
honored; and as he taught on earth, Satan is making it appear that he is
teaching in heaven. And some on earth who have looked with horror at
his life and death, and his corrupt teachings while living, now submit
to be taught by him who was one of the vilest and most corrupt of
men; one who despised God and his law.
He who is the father of lies, blinds and deceives the world by
sending his angels forth to speak for the apostles, and make it appear
that they contradict what they wrote when on earth, which was dictated
by the Holy Ghost. These lying angels make the apostles to corrupt
their own teachings and declare them to be adulterated. By so doing he
can throw professed Christians, who have a name to live and are dead,
and all the world in uncertainty about the word of God; for that cuts
directly across his track, and is likely to thwart his plans. Therefore
he gets them to doubt the divine origin of the Bible, and then sets up
the infidel Thomas Paine, as though he was ushered into heaven when
he died, and with the holy apostles whom he hated on earth, is united,
and appears to be teaching the world.
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Satan assigns each one of his angels their part to act. He enjoins
upon them to be cunning, artful and sly. He instructs some of them to