Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power.
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The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 3
All who indulge sinful traits of character, or willfully cherish a known sin, are inviting the temptations of Satan. They separate themselves from God and from the watchcare of His angels; as the evil one presents his deceptions, they are without defense and fall an easy prey. Those who thus place themselves in his power littleContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 2
It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature that by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence. Man will never rise higher than his standard ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1
The ministration of holy angels, as presented in the Scriptures, is a truth most comforting and precious to every follower of Christ. But the Bible teaching upon this point has been obscured and perverted by the errors of popular theology. The doctrine of natural immortality, first borrowed from the pagan philosophy, and in the darknessContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: Snares of Satan—Chapter 32, Part 3
Among the most successful agencies of the great deceiver are the delusive teachings and lying wonders of spiritualism. Disguised as an angel of light, he spreads his nets where least suspected. If men would but study the Book of God with earnest prayer that they might understand it, they would not be left in darknessContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Snares of Satan—Chapter 32, Part 3”
The Great Controversy: Snares of Satan—Chapter 32, Part 1
The great controversy between Christ and Satan, that has been carried forward for nearly six thousand years, is soon to close; and the wicked one redoubles his efforts to defeat the work of Christ in man’s behalf and to fasten souls in his snares. To hold the people in darkness and impenitence till the Saviour’sContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Snares of Satan—Chapter 32, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: Agency of Evil Spirits—Chapter 31, Part 1
The connection of the visible with the invisible world, the ministration of angels of God, and the agency of evil spirits, are plainly revealed in the Scriptures, and inseparably interwoven with human history. There is a growing tendency to disbelief in the existence of evil spirits, while the holy angels that “minister for them whoContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Agency of Evil Spirits—Chapter 31, Part 1”