FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
DETECTING AND DISCERNING EVIDENCES OF END-TIME SPIRITUALISM
“If there were no other evidences of the REAL CHARACTER of Spiritualism, it should be ENOUGH for the [discerning] Christian that the [evil] spirits make NO difference between righteousness and sin, and between the noblest and purest of the apostles of Christ and the most corrupt of the servants of Christ.
“By representing the basest of men as [already] in heaven, and highly exalted there, Satan says to the world, ‘No matter how wicked you are, no matter whether you believe or disbelieve God and the Bible, Live as you please, heaven is your home.’
The Spiritualist teachers virtually declare, ‘Everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delighteth in them; or, Who is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17). Saith the word of God, ‘Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.’ (Isa. 4:20).
The apostles AS PERSONALIZED by those lying spirits, are made to CONTRADICT what they wrote at the dictation of the Holy Spirit while on earth. They DENY the divine origin of the Bible, and thus rear away the foundation of the Christian’s hope, and PUT OUT the light that REVEALS the way to heaven.
Satan is making the world believe that the Bible is a mere FICTION, or at least a book suited to the INFANCY of the race [old-fashioned; antiquated; outdated] but now to be lightly regarded, or cast aside as obsolete. “And to take place of if the Word of God he holds out SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.
Here is a CHANNEL WHOLLY UNDER HIS CONTROL, by this means he can make the world believe what he will. The book that is to JUDGE HIM AND HIS FOLLOWERS he puts in the shade, just where he wants it; the Savior of all the world he makes to be no more than a common man.
And as the Roman guard that watched the tomb of Jesus SPREAD THE LYING REPORT which the priests and elders [the religious leaders of the nation] put into their mouths to disprove His resurrection, SO DO the believers in spiritual manifestations TRY to make it appear that there is NOTHING MIRACULOUS in the circumstances in our Savior’s life.
After thus seeking to put Jesus in the BACKGROUND, they call attention to their OWN miracles, declaring that these FAR EXCEED the works of Christ.” – Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 557.
Again, if you hear, read, or see any of these assertions and manifestations then know they are parts of Spiritualism of the last days. Protect your minds and hearts with the shield of truth and fight the devil and all evil with “the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God!
But make sure you know how to properly and safely handle the sharp, two-edged sword of God’s word. Don’t cut yourself accidentally! Bless all, NMF