Satan’s Last Day Deceptions
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test question with the Israelites at the time of their deliverance from
Egypt.—
Selected Messages 2:52
(1907).
Fire From Heaven
We must not trust the claims of men. They may, as Christ repre-
sents, profess to work miracles in healing the sick. Is this marvelous,
when just behind them stands the great deceiver, the miracle worker
who will yet bring down fire from heaven in the sight of men?—
Selected Messages 2:49
(1887).
It is the lying wonders of the devil that will take the world captive,
and he will cause fire to come down from heaven in the sight of men.
He is to work miracles, and this wonderful, miracle-working power is
to sweep in the whole world.—
Selected Messages 2:51
(1890).
Satan will come in to deceive if possible the very elect. He claims
to be Christ, and he is coming in, pretending to be the great medical
missionary. He will cause fire to come down from heaven in the sight
of men to prove that he is God.—
Medical Ministry, 87, 88
(1903).
It is stated in the Word that the enemy will work through his agents
who have departed from the faith, and they will seemingly work mir-
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acles, even to the bringing down of fire out of heaven in the sight of
men.—
Selected Messages 2:54
(1907).
“He doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from
heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell
on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do”
(
Revelation 13:13, 14
). No mere impostures are here foretold. Men
are deceived by the miracles which Satan’s agents have power to do,
not which they pretend to do.—
The Great Controversy, 553
(1911).
Satan Will Be Deified
In this age antichrist will appear as the true Christ, and then the law
of God will be fully made void in the nations of our world. Rebellion
against God’s holy law will be fully ripe. But the true leader of all this
rebellion is Satan clothed as an angel of light. Men will be deceived
and will exalt him to the place of God, and deify him. But Omnipotence
will interpose, and to the apostate churches that unite in the exaltation
of Satan, the sentence will go forth, “Therefore shall her plagues
come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be