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Who Are the “Spirits” in Spiritualism?
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the light, and Satan weaves his snares about them. “Because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved,” therefore
“God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
2 Thessalonians 2:10, 11
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Those who oppose spiritualism assail Satan and his angels. Satan
will not yield one inch of ground except as driven back by heavenly
messengers. He can quote Scripture and will pervert its teachings.
Those who would stand in this time of peril must understand for
themselves the testimony of the Scriptures.
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Spirits of devils personating relatives or friends will appeal to
our tender sympathies and will work miracles. We must withstand
them with the Bible truth that the dead know not anything and that
they who thus appear are the spirits of devils.
All whose faith is not established on the Word of God will be
deceived and overcome. Satan “works with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness,” and his deceptions will increase. But those who
seek a knowledge of the truth and purify their souls through obe-
dience will find in the God of truth a sure defense. The Saviour
would sooner send every angel out of heaven to protect His people
than leave one soul that trusts in Him to be overcome by Satan.
Those who comfort themselves with the assurance that there is no
punishment for the sinner, who renounce the truths which Heaven
has provided as a defense for the day of trouble, will accept the lies
offered by Satan, the delusive pretensions of spiritualism.
Scoffers hold up to ridicule the declarations of Scripture con-
cerning the plan of salvation and the retribution to be visited upon
the rejecters of truth. They affect great pity for minds so narrow,
weak, and superstitious as to obey the requirements of God’s law.
So fully have they yielded to the tempter, so closely are they united
with him and imbued with his spirit, that they have no inclination to
break away from his snare.
The foundation of Satan’s work was laid by the assurance given
to Eve in Eden: “Ye shall not surely die.” “In the day ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing
good and evil.”
Genesis 3:4, 5
. His masterpiece of deception will
be reached in the last remnant of time. Says the prophet: “I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs; ... they are the spirits of devils,
working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and