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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
be saved must come out of her. You are not the only man the devil
has deceived in this matter. For the last forty years, one man after
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another has arisen, claiming that the Lord has sent him with the same
message; but let me tell you, as I have told them, that this message
you are proclaiming is one of the satanic delusions designed to create
confusion among the churches.
“My brother, you are certainly off the track. The second angel’s
message was to go to Babylon [the churches] proclaiming her down-
fall, and calling the people to come out of her. This same message
is to be proclaimed the second time. ‘And after these things I saw
another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and
the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with
a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit,
and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have
drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of
the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants
of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God
hath remembered her iniquities.’
“My brother, if you are teaching that the Seventh-day Adventist
Church is Babylon, you are wrong, God has not given you any such
message to bear. Satan will use every mind to which he can attain
access, inspiring men to originate false theories or go off on some
wrong tangent, that he may create a false excitement, and thus divert
souls from the true issue for this time. I presume that some may be
deceived by your message, because they are full of curiosity and
desire for some new thing.
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“It makes me feel sad indeed that you should be deceived in
any way by the suggestions of the enemy; for I know the theory
that you are advocating is not truth. In advancing the ideas you do,
you will do great injury to yourself and to others. Do not seek to
misinterpret, and twist, and pervert the
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any such message of error. Many have passed over this ground,
and have done great harm. As others have started up full of zeal to