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The White Ghost

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 7, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 35.

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The White Ghost

A NEWS dispatch reports that the soldiers in one of the larger armies in Europe have repeatedly seen a white ghost riding on a white horse. The ghost is supposed to be the spirit of one of the great generals who has fallen.
Reports of this kind have found their way into the newspapers from several of the different nations engaged in the conflict. A great many men scoff at such things as this as foolish delusions; but many of the same ones who scoff, both affirm and believe that every man has a spirit which survives his body, and that it is roaming around in space; and if there is such a spirit that survives, why should people not see it? The real trouble comes through believing the delusion that when a man dies he is not dead, that it is only his body which is gone.
The modern scholar and thinker has been wont to believe and teach that only the darkness of the Middle Ages could produce such stories of the ghosts of dead horses and men. But during the last half century, there has been almost a complete revolution in what men think upon that subject. The spiritistic teaching that the man lives on after death, is capturing the strongest men of science as well as the untutored; and this belief of the survival of the spirit after man's death, is laying the foundation for some of the greatest delusions with which Satan has ever been able to deluge the world.
“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: even Him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” 2 Thess. 2: 8-10.
Observe that this text points out that the coming of Christ is after the working of Satan with all power and with signs and with lying wonders. This is but one of the scriptures that tell of the delusions with which Satan will flood the world in the last days, and there is no channel through which he will work more powerfully than through the deceptive teaching that man is conscious in death. We need to open our minds and hearts to an understanding of God’s word, so that we may not fall under the spell of the deceptions Satan has prepared for this time.