Spiritualism

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Spiritualism

• Understand O Son of Man for at the time of the
  end shall be the vision. Dan 817

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Revelation 14 9-10 And the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice, If any man
worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same
shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup
of his indignation and he shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone in the presence of the
holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb
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John 16 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth,
is come, he will guide you into all truth for he
shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he speak and he will shew
you things to come.
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John 1526 But when the Comforter is come, whom I
will send unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father, he shall testify of me
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Testimony Of Jesus Rev 1910
Spirit of Christ 1Peter 110-11
Spirit of Prophecy Rev 1910

Gods Vision
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John 844  Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own for he is
a liar, and the father of it.
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GC P544 Satan beguiles men now as he beguiled
Eve in Eden by flattery, by kindling a desire to
obtain forbidden knowledge, by exciting ambition
for self-exaltation. It was cherishing these
evils that caused his fall, and through them he
aims to compass the ruin of men. "Ye shall be as
gods," he declares, "knowing good and evil."
Genesis 35. Spiritualism teaches "that man is
the creature of progression that it is his
destiny from his birth to progress, even to
eternity, toward the Godhead." And again "Each
mind will judge itself and not another." "The
judgment will be right, because it is the
judgment of self. . . . The throne is within
you." Said a spiritualistic teacher, as the
"spiritual consciousness" awoke within him "My
fellow men, all were unfallen demigods." And
another declares "Any just and perfect being is
Christ."
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Genesis 315 And I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel.
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Matt 10.34 Think not ive come to send peace on
the earth I am not come to send peace but a sword
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The first persecuting power is represented by the
dragon itself in heathenism there was open
alliance with Satan, and open defiance of god. in
the second persecuting power, the dragon is
masked but the spirit of Satan actuates it,--the
dragon supplies the motive power. In the third
persecuting power, all traces of the dragon are
absent, and a lamb-like beast appears but when
it speaks, its dragon voice betrays the satanic
power concealed under a fair exterior, and shows
it to be of the same family as the two preceding
powers. in all the opposition to Christ and his
pure religion, "that old serpent, called the
devil, and Satan,"--"the god of this world,"--is
the moving power earthly persecuting powers are
simply instruments in his hands. Great
Controversy 1888 p681
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Final Warfare
Revelation 1217 And the dragon was wroth with
the woman, and went to make war with the remnant
of her seed, which keep the commandments of God,
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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GC 505.1 God declares "I will put
enmity." This enmity is not naturally
entertained. When man transgressed the divine
law, his nature became evil, and he was in
harmony, and not at variance, with Satan. There
exists naturally no enmity between sinful man and
the originator of sin. Both became evil through
apostasy. The apostate is never at rest, except
as he obtains sympathy and support by inducing
others to follow his example. For this reason
fallen angels and wicked men unite in desperate
companionship.
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BABYLON 608-538 BC
MEDIA AND PERSIA 538-331 BC
ROME 168 BC-476 AD
GRECIAN 331-168 BC
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The Mystery of the Daily John W Peters
The perpetual, continual activity or
characteristic of paganism throughout history has
been self-exaltation. This characteristic was
personified by the four pagan world powers
Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Rome. Daniel
purposely emphasizes this continual
characteristic with the word gadal which is the
essence of pagan worship or Baal self-worship.
Daniel associates gadal with the cultic term
hattamid meaning the continual which is a
substantive rather than the usual adjective.
Thus, verse 11 may be rendered ...he exalted
himself and from him the continual was lifted
up.... It is suggested that the evidence
strongly supports the view that the hattamid or
the continual is represented and characterized
by the Hebrew word, gadal, in the context of
Daniel 8 meaning to exalt oneself in the hiphil
form (higdil). This characteristic has manifested
itself by the forms and practices of pagan
worship or Baal worship which were first
exhibited by Cain with the grain offering thereby
avoiding the cross of Christ. The phenomena of
self-exaltation whose author is Satan (Is. 14
Eze. 28) has exhibited itself not only in every
pagan culture but infiltrated Israel itself (Jer.
2313 Hos. 216-17) as well as apostate
Christianity personified by Rome.
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IN THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF REVELATION WE HAVE AS A
SYMBOL A GREAT RED DRAGON. IN THE NINTH VERSE OF
THAT CHAPTER THIS SYMBOL IS EXPLAINED AS FOLLOWS
"AND THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT OLD
SERPENT, CALLED THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, WHICH
DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD HE WAS CAST OUT INTO
THE EARTH, AND HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH
HIM." UNDOUBTEDLY THE DRAGON PRIMARILY REPRESENTS
SATAN. BUT SATAN DOES NOT APPEAR UPON THE EARTH
IN PERSON HE WORKS THROUGH AGENTS. IT WAS IN THE
PERSON OF WICKED MEN THAT HE SOUGHT TO DESTROY
JESUS AS SOON AS HE WAS BORN. WHEREVER SATAN HAS
BEEN ABLE TO CONTROL A GOVERNMENT SO FULLY THAT
IT WOULD CARRY OUT HIS DESIGNS, THAT NATION
BECAME, FOR THE TIME, SATAN'S REPRESENTATIVE.
THIS WAS THE CASE WITH ALL THE GREAT HEATHEN
NATIONS. FOR INSTANCE, SEE EZEKIEL 28, WHERE
SATAN IS REPRESENTED AS ACTUAL KING OF TYRE. THIS
WAS BECAUSE HE FULLY CONTROLLED THAT GOVERNMENT.
IN THE FIRST CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA,
ROME, OF ALL THE PAGAN NATIONS, WAS SATAN'S CHIEF
AGENT IN OPPOSING THE GOSPEL, AND WAS THEREFORE
REPRESENTED BY THE DRAGON. GC88 679.4
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BUT THERE CAME A TIME WHEN PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN
EMPIRE FELL BEFORE THE ADVANCING FORM OF
CHRISTIANITY. THEN, AS IS STATED ON PAGE 54,
"PAGANISM HAD GIVEN PLACE TO THE PAPACY. THE
DRAGON HAD GIVEN TO THE BEAST 'HIS POWER, AND HIS
SEAT, AND GREAT AUTHORITY.'" THAT IS, SATAN THEN
BEGAN TO WORK THROUGH THE PAPACY, JUST AS HE HAD
FORMERLY WORKED THROUGH PAGANISM. BUT THE PAPACY
IS NOT REPRESENTED BY THE DRAGON, BECAUSE IT IS
NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE ANOTHER SYMBOL IN ORDER TO
SHOW THE CHANGE IN THE FORM OF THE OPPOSITION TO
GOD. PREVIOUS TO THE RISE OF THE PAPACY, ALL
OPPOSITION TO THE LAW OF GOD HAD BEEN IN THE FORM
OF PAGANISM,--GOD HAD BEEN OPENLY DEFIED BUT
FROM THAT TIME THE OPPOSITION WAS CARRIED ON
UNDER THE GUISE OF PROFESSED ALLEGIANCE TO HIM.
THE PAPACY, HOWEVER, WAS NO LESS THE INSTRUMENT
OF SATAN THAN WAS PAGAN ROME FOR ALL THE POWER,
THE SEAT, AND THE GREAT AUTHORITY OF THE PAPACY,
WERE GIVEN IT BY THE DRAGON. AND SO, ALTHOUGH THE
POPE PROFESSES TO BE THE VICEGERENT OF CHRIST, HE
IS, IN REALITY, THE VICEGERENT OF SATAN--HE IS
ANTICHRIST. GC88 680.1
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2 Thess 23-2 Let no man deceive you by any
means for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition Who opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called God, or
that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in
the temple of God, shewing himself that he is
God.
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''I have repeatedly offered 1,000 to anyone who
can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am
bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law
in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic
Church alone. The Bible says 'Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.' The Catholic Church
says, No. By my divine power I abolish the
Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the
first day of the week. And lo! The entire
civilized world bows down in reverent obedience
to the command of the Holy Catholic
Church. Priest Thomas Enright, C.S.S.R.,
February 18, 1884, Printed in the American
Sentinel, a New York Roman Catholic journal in
June 1893, p. 173
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THE BEAST WHICH IS A SYMBOL OF THE PAPACY IS
INTRODUCED IN REVELATION 13 AND FOLLOWING IT, IN
THE SAME LINE OF PROPHECY, "ANOTHER BEAST" IS
SEEN "COMING UP," REV. 1311-14. WHICH
EXERCISES "ALL THE POWER OF THE FIRST BEAST
BEFORE HIM," THAT IS, IN HIS SIGHT. THIS OTHER
BEAST MUST THEREFORE BE A PERSECUTING POWER ALSO
AND THIS IS SHOWN IN THAT "IT SPAKE AS A DRAGON."
THE PAPACY RECEIVED ALL ITS POWER FROM SATAN, AND
THE TWO-HORNED BEAST EXERCISES THE SAME POWER IT
ALSO BECOMES THE DIRECT AGENT OF SATAN. AND ITS
SATANIC CHARACTER IS FURTHER SHOWN IN THAT IT
ENFORCES THE WORSHIP OF THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST,
BY MEANS OF FALSE MIRACLES. "HE DOETH GREAT
WONDERS, SO THAT HE MAKETH FIRE COME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN, AND
DECEIVETH THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH BY THE
MEANS OF THOSE MIRACLES WHICH HE HAD POWER TO
DO." GC88 680.2
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It is true that spiritualism is now changing its
form and, veiling some of its more objectionable
features, is assuming a Christian guise. But its
utterances from the platform and the press have
been before the public for many years, and in
these its real character stands revealed. These
teachings cannot be denied or hidden. Even
in its present form, so far from being more
worthy of toleration than formerly, it is really
a more dangerous, because a more subtle,
deception. While it formerly denounced Christ and
the Bible, it now professes to accept both. But
the Bible is interpreted in a manner that is
pleasing to the unrenewed heart, while its solemn
and vital truths are made of no effect
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Love is dwelt upon as the chief attribute of God,
but it is degraded to a weak sentimentalism,
making little distinction between good and evil.
God's justice, His denunciations of sin, the
requirements of His holy law, are all kept out of
sight. The people are taught to regard the
Decalogue as a dead letter. Pleasing, bewitching
fables captivate the senses and lead men to
reject the Bible as the foundation of their
faith. Christ is as verily denied as before but
Satan has so blinded the eyes of the people that
the deception is not discerned. GC 557 - 558.
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Through the two great errors, the immortality of
the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring
the people under his deceptions. While the former
lays the foundation of spiritualism, the latter
creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The
Protestants of the United States will be foremost
in stretching their hands across the gulf to
grasp the hand of spiritualism they will reach
over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman
power and under the influence of this threefold
union, this country will follow in the steps of
Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.
GC 588.1
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As spiritualism more closely imitates the
nominal Christianity of the day, it has greater
power to deceive and ensnare. Satan himself is
converted, after the modern order of things. He
will appear in the character of an angel of
light. Through the agency of spiritualism,
miracles will be wrought, the sick will be
healed, and many undeniable wonders will be
performed. And as the spirits will profess faith
in the Bible, and manifest respect for the
institutions of the church, their work will be
accepted as a manifestation of divine power.
2 Corinthians 1114-15 And no marvel for Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness whose end shall be according to
their works.
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Robert H Schuller "Classical theology has erred
in its insistence that theology be
'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'" (p. 64).
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The church's problem is that it has had a
God-centered theology for centuries, when it
needs a man-centered one (2) we're not bad,
merely badly informed about how good we are (3)
it would be an insult to the integrity of any
human being to call him a sinner and (4) "Jesus
knew His worth His success fed His self-esteem.
He suffered the cross to sanctify His self-esteem
and He bore the cross to sanctify your
self-esteem. The cross will sanctify the ego
trip" (p. 115 Self esteem the new reformation)
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I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John
Paul II when upon his election to the papacy. His
published speeches invariably called attention to
the need of recognizing the dignity of human
beings as a child of God. Robert Schuller Self
Esteem P17
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You dont have a God in you, you are one. Kenneth
Copeland The force of love audiotape 1987
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Benny Hin Dont tell me you have Jesus, you are
everything he was and everything he is and ever
shall beDont say I have, say I AM I AM I AM I
AM Our position in Christ 2 the word made flesh
audiotape side 2 1991
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TB Joshua I was sent to earth to save the
world A Critique of Prophet TB Joshua. Prof Tom
Gouws, Beeld 02-05-01
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Satan has long been preparing for his final
effort to deceive the world. The foundation of
his work was laid by the assurance given to Eve
in Eden "Ye shall not surely die." "In the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
Genesis 34, 5. Little by little he has prepared
the way for his masterpiece of deception in the
development of spiritualism. He has not yet
reached the full accomplishment of his designs
but it will be reached in the last remnant of
time. Says the prophet "I saw three unclean
spirits like frogs . . . they are the spirits of
devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the
kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of
God Almighty." Revelation 1613, 14. Except those
who are kept by the power of God, through faith
in His word, the whole world will be swept into
the ranks of this delusion. The people are fast
being lulled to a fatal security, to be awakened
only by the outpouring of the wrath of God. GC
P562
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The Work of the Third Angel
Several have written to me, inquiring if the
message of justification by faith is the third
angel's message, and I have answered, "It is the
third angel's message, in verity."-- The Review
and Herald, April 1, 1890. 1SM 372.2
What is justification by faith? It is the work of
God in laying the glory of man in the dust, and
doing for man that which it is not in his power
to do for himself. When men see their own
nothingness, they are prepared to be clothed with
the righteousness of Christ. FLB 111.2
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Isaiah 65 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am
undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I
dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips
for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of
hosts.
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1 Corinthians 23-5 And I was with you in
weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And
my speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of
the Spirit and of power That your faith should
not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power
of God.
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Luke 1411 For Whosoever exalteth himself shall
be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be
exalted.
Luke 948 He that is least among you all, the
same shall be great
Matthew 1930 But many that are first shall be
last and the last shall be first.
Luke 923And he said to them all, If any man
will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and follow me.
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The light that Daniel received from God was
given especially for these last days. The visions
he saw by the banks of the Ulai and the Hiddekel,
the great rivers of Shinar, are now in process of
fulfillment, and all the events foretold will
soon come to pass. Consider the circumstances of
the Jewish nation when the prophecies of Daniel
were given. Let us give more time to the study of
the Bible. We do not understand the word as we
should. The book of Revelation opens with an
injunction to us to understand the instruction
that it contains. "Blessed is he that readeth,
and they that hear the words of this prophecy,"
God declares, "and keep those things which are
written therein for the time is at hand." When
we as a people understand what this book means to
us, there will be seen among us a great revival.
We do not understand fully the lessons that
it teaches, notwithstanding the injunction given
us to search and study it. Testimonies to
Ministers 113.