How to Distinguish

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

How to Distinguish.

When Satan's power shall be manifest, as it is even now coming to be, in psychology, spiritism, hypnotism, Christian Science, and kindred cults, and he shall work with "all deceivableness of unrighteousness," then those who are deluded by him will think that his "deceivableness of unrighteousness" is righteousness, and that his mighty miracles and signs are wrought by the promised Spirit of God. Then will the people say of Satan's agent, as they said of old of the influence of Simon the sorcerer, "This man is the great power of God." Only those filled by the Spirit of God will be able to resist Satan's power. There will be wrought miracles and counter miracles, the one for God's glory, the other for human. How may we know the true?—The true will be in harmony with God's law. God's Spirit will speak as His oracles speak. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8: 20.