"WHOSOEVER hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have." Luke viii, 18. The righteous, or those who have received, keep, and are governed by the testimony of Jesus, are now laying up treasures in Heaven; or, as faithful stewards of the manifold grace of God, they will be at last rewarded with the glorious prize of immortality; all their hopes with regard to the future will be realized; and they will know, better than in this imperfect state, what is meant by the language, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." But what will the wicked, or ungodly, "seem to have," which will be taken from them? We are told in Rev. xx, that after the second resurrection, or that of the ungodly, whose number is to be great, or, "as the sand of the sea," that they are to be deceived by Satan, and by him led on to destruction. He deceives the wicked now; they generally believe, through his agency, in the doctrine of innate immortality. He preached that doctrine in Eden; Rome has decreed that all her faithful followers shall believe it; and protestantism calls all infidels who do not follow in the wake of the beast, in this particular, and the heathen have, to some extent, adopted the same idea also; and to confirm the people in this delusion, the spirits of devils are now working their miracles, as predicted of them in Rev. xvi, 14. With all this array of opposition to the truth, is it strange that poor, weak, human nature, should be led into error, and the confusion which prevails among the popular churches, by those who teach for doctrine the commandments of men? Inspiration informs us that Satan and his hosts will "surround the camp of the saints, and the beloved city;" and the wicked, deceived by their leader, will undoubtedly "seem to have" a sufficiency of numbers, and strength, to capture the city, and overcome the saints and their King. Then that which they "seem to have," life, strength, and immortality, or all that they have, will be taken from them, by fire from heaven, which will utterly destroy them. "The Lord preserveth all them that love him; but all the wicked will he destroy." Ps. cxlv, 20.