COUNTERFEIT by A. Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 14, 1878

COUNTERFEIT

By A. Smith

In all ages it has been the work of Satan to counterfeit the work of God. At the time of our Lord’s first advent, false Christs abounded. When, by the power of God, Moses wrought miracles before Pharaoh, Satan, through the magicians, sought to duplicate the work of the Lord. When Noah warned the antediluvians of a coming flood, there were, doubtless, those who preached anything but God’s truth for that time. They believed in holiness, a preparation for death, or perhaps they even assented to the doctrine of the deluge, but despised the offer of salvation by that hated ark. For aught we know, societies of floodists may have arisen, constructing arks of their own design.

As it has always been, so it is now. Anything but God’s present truth is in order. The efforts of many modern teachers to avoid this truth, and especially the Sabbath which it carries in its front, remind me of an athletic play among children called “Poison.” The efforts to avoid the goal are sometimes frantic; and when one is so bold or unfortunate as to touch it, he is avoided as one contaminated with leprosy.

But God’s truth will triumph. Eight persons believed consistently in the coming flood, and were saved; and some will also believe the “present truth,” and be “hid in the day of the Lord’s fierce anger.”

Reader, will you be one?

A. Smith.