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Cunningly Devised Fables, November 23
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 8:14
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In the future, great watchfulness will be needed. There is to be among
God’s people no spiritual stupidity. Evil spirits are actively engaged in seeking
to control the minds of human beings. Men are binding up in bundles, ready
to be consumed by the fires of the last days. Those who discard Christ and His
righteousness will accept the sophistry that is flooding the world. Christians
are to be sober and vigilant, steadfastly resisting their adversary the devil,
who is going about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Men under the influence of evil spirits will work miracles. They will
make people sick by casting their spell upon them, and then remove the spell,
leading others to say that those who were sick have been miraculously healed.
This Satan has done again and again.
God will be the sanctuary of His people, if they will obey His word,
believing and proclaiming the simple gospel truths that Christ proclaimed
when in this world. We need now to pray as we have never prayed before.
We are living in the great day of atonement, and we are to confess our sins,
and make diligent work for repentance. We are to put all our capabilities to
work, that we may be delivered from wicked and unreasonable men. Satan
comes down as a beautiful angel, and presents lovely pictures before the eyes
of those who have so perverted their ways before God that they do not see
what they are or know what they need. The enemy has come down with great
power, to work with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.
God calls for repentance and reconversion....
When the lives of God’s people are cleansed from moral and spiritual
pollution; when their eyes are anointed with the heavenly eyesalve, they will
see that they are poor, and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked.
They will come to the fountain that has been opened for Judah and Jerusalem,
and apply the cleansing blood of Christ to their poor, sin-sick souls. God
grant that they make no delay in securing the advantages that He has prepared
for all who love Him and keep His commandments.—
Letter 259, November
23, 1903
, to Mrs. L. M. Hall, a close friend and for many years matron of the
Battle Creek Sanitarium.
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