Defense Against Deception
Our Defense Prepared.—God asks of us no impossible thing. He puts us in no place where He is unable to protect us. He permits no temptation to overtake us without providing for us a way of escape therefrom. So in this time of this world's great trial God has prepared a defense for His trusting children against the deceptions and the deceivers that will be flourishing in the world. He says, "To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." They are the standard, the rule, the test, for every error that may assail us in the garb of plausibility. But alas, many have paved the way for their own deception and soul ruin by declaring the law abolished and questioning and doubting the testimony of Holy Writ. It is Satan's crowning effort to clear the way for the entrance of every kind of deceptive teaching, and he has found many able assistants even in the pulpits of the present day. But there is the touchstone by which to try them; there is the great wall of our defense—"to the law and to the testimony."