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The Elect Cannot Be Deceived

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 49.

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The Elect Cannot Be Deceived

By Editor

A RECENT number of the Golden Gate credits Seventh-day Adventists with teaching that Satan not only appears sometimes as "an angel of light," but "that he plays his part so well as to be able even to deceive the very elect." That is a misstatement of our position. Seventh-day Adventists believe and teach that Spiritualism is a Satanic deception; and they so believe because the Scriptures so teach. The Bible plainly declares that "the dead know not anything" (Eccl. 9:5), and that the spirits that personate them are "the spirits of devils." Rev. 16:14. But even though Satan works "with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness" (2 Thess. 2:9, 10), only those will be deceived who receive "not the love of the truth." From the words of the Saviour (Matt. 24:24) we learn that the elect, those who believe and love the truth, cannot be deceived.