The Gifts Restored

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1865

The Gifts Restored.

Certainly in the last days there will be superhuman delusions and temptations, so great that “if it were possible they would deceive the very elect.” But I believe also that in the last days, in the language of Joel, “Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.” It is therefore highly probable that as the winding up of the great drama, in which we play a part, draws nearer, the future or the heavenly rest shall come down in clearer manifestation to this world. No part of divine truth can be neglected without loss; and it is too evident that the deep and mysterious doctrine of the Bible respecting evil spirits and good angels has been far too much disregarded. It has arisen from the wide spread of infidel principles; and on the other hand, from the unscriptural idolatry practiced by the church of Rome. p. 228.