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Appeals for Truth and Loyalty
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Multitudes will be so deluded through their rejection of truth that
they will accept the counterfeit. Humanity is hailed as God.
One has come from the heavenly courts to represent God in
human form. The Son of God was made man, and dwelt among
us. “In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the
light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not....
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into
the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him,
and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own
received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He
power to become the sons of God.”
There are but two parties. Satan works with his crooked, de-
ceiving power, and through strong delusions he catches all who do
not abide in the truth, who have turned away their ears from the
truth and have turned unto fables. Satan himself abode not in the
truth; he is the mystery of iniquity. Through his subtlety he gives
to his soul-destroying errors the appearance of truth. Herein is their
power to deceive. It is because they are a counterfeit of the truth
that spiritualism, theosophy, and the like deceptions gain such power
over the minds of men. Herein is the masterly working of Satan. He
pretends to be the savior of man, the benefactor of the human race,
and thus he more readily lures his victims to destruction.
We are warned in the word of God that sleepless vigilance is the
price of safety. Only in the straight path of truth and righteousness
can we escape the tempter’s power. But the world is ensnared.
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Satan’s skill is exercised in devising plans and methods without
number to accomplish his purposes. Dissimulation has become a
fine art with him, and he works in the guise of an angel of light.
God’s eye alone discerns his schemes to contaminate the world with
false and ruinous principles bearing on their face the appearance
of genuine goodness. He works to restrict religious liberty, and to
bring into the religious world a species of slavery. [
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Organizations, institutions, unless kept by the power of God, will
work under Satan’s dictation to bring men under the control of men;
and fraud and guile will bear the semblance of zeal for truth and for
the advancement of the kingdom of God. Whatever in our practice
is not as open as day belongs to the methods of the prince of evil.