Deceptions

Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Sep 25, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 39.

Deceptions.—When a person accepts a grand truth, the first thing which Satan does is to endeavor to obscure it, or make it of none effect, by placing between that truth and its Author some great lie. It was a glorious truth which Mahomet grasped when he learned that God was one, and that idols were nothing, but that truth was made utterly worthless by the falsehood that Mahomet is His prophet. The error severed the truth from God, the Author of truth. The coming of the Lord is a precious truth, but Satan has induced many to accept of certain unscriptural doctrines, like "the return of the Jews," "Anglo-Israelite" domination, "secret rapture of the saints," "age to come" and others. Beloved, be not deceived. Truth is effectual when connected with God. Separated from Him by cherished error it is but an empty form. The word of God teaches one way of salvation thru all the ages—the way of obedient faith.