p. 16 | Miracles as Last-Day Deceptions

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 7, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 10.

Miracles as Last-Day Deceptions

When one is carried away from the truth by the performance of a miracle—be it a "wonderful work" of healing or what not—he manifests great ignorance of the prophecies concerning the deceptions of the last days. While the Lord, in His providence, will work miracles when in His wisdom they will effectually witness to the truth, they are not given as a general sign of God's power, as when Christ was on earth. It is because He so used miracles that the adversary employs them to deceive the world and impose upon those who are disposed to trust in such things. Signs and wonders and miracles are noted as special mediums of deception in the last days. See Matt. 7:21-23; 24:23-25; 2 Thess. 2:7-12; Rev. 13:11-14. There is the promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the last days; but that does not specifically imply miracles as proof of the power of God. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." Gal. 5:22, 23. This will be the crowning result of the "latter rain." No one can afford to be even healed of disease through the agency of the deceiver of mankind; for he can not heal the disease of the soul which his healing of the body is sure to inflict.