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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 26, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 9.

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False Christs.

“THERE shall arise false Christs and false prophets,” is a description of one feature of the last days, and a sign of the end. We are all familiar with the blasphemous claims of Spiritualism, that all good men are Christs, and that the development of Spiritualism is the second coming of Christ. But there is occasionally a person found so unbalanced, or so given over to strong delusion through the rejection of the truth, that the Devil can inflate him with the idea that he is, in a pre-eminent sense, the Christ of the age. Every such instance goes to show 1. That we are living in the last days. 2. That men are fast divorcing themselves from the grace of God, and the power of truth, and 3. That Satan has come down in wrath and is working with increased and subtle power.
A new instance of this kind has just come to light in Huntsville, Ind., where a person, whom the god of this world has blinded, has started a paper, called “The Kingdom of Heaven,” in which he says:
“The Kingdom, of Heaven outwardly, is nothing more nor less than a collection of persons into a group or society, to live together in a state of perfect social equality; wherein all will act in obedience to the law of perfect love and justice. Who will go?”
He calls himself “the Son of man;” and says:— “The Son of man calls to lecture to private circles, during the present lecturing season, on the setting up of the Kingdom of Heaven, or on any subject of reform. For the present, and perhaps not until 1866, will he be permitted to speak to a public or promiscuous assemblage. He is not developed, but developing.”
“Most minds regard the announcement that I was ‘the Son of man,’ as emanating in my own brain, and as being a mark of egotism, supposing, doubtless, that I am expecting honor or happiness thereby. All such are very much mistaken. On me it falls as a curse, a weight or load, from under which I would gladly escape. It has come as unbidden to me as did Paul's mission to him. And believe, Brother, I tremble at what I see mapped out for me to suffer.”