Warning Against Spirit Manifestations
By Albert Avery
DEAR BRO. WHITE — When I see how completely calculated the Spirit Manifestations are to deceive, I feel truly, that we are living in the last days, when satan is to work with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie, and when if it were possible, he shall deceive the very elect. If there ever was a time when God's people should be awake, it is now. O that those who profess the third Angel's message may truly realize the awful time in which we live, and wake up to faithfulness and to duty, realizing that probation will soon close, and sweet mercy will be clean gone forever, when the awful decree will go forth, he that is filthy let him be filthy still, and he that is holy let him be holy still. Then destruction will come like a mighty whirlwind, and who shall be able to stand. We need to put on the whole armor of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. O the awful danger of living half-hearted, as some do who profess to be in the third angel's message. I feel the importance of stepping fast, and getting ready to withstand in the evil day against all the workings of satan, and having done all to stand. Yours in hope of victory, ALBERT AVERY.
Locke, Ingham Co., Mich., Feb. 7th, 1854.