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We know that the
biggest deception is yet in the future—when
Satan impersonates Christ. Why does Satan do
so? He does it in a desperate attempt to get
one class of people who have not
been a prey to his guiles. They are ready to
receive the seal of the living God and be
declared secured for eternity. He wants to
have a last go at them.
In vivid details
the pen of inspiration lays down this
warning message. “As the crowning act in the
great drama of deception, Satan himself will
personate Christ…. he claims to have changed
the Sabbath to Sunday, and commands all to
hallow the day which he has blessed. He
declares that those who persist in keeping
holy the seventh day are blaspheming his
name by refusing to listen to his angels
sent to them with light and truth. This is
the strong, almost overmastering delusion”
{GC88 624.1}.
We are warned
about great perplexity and confusion
creeping in as a part of the enemy’s
strategy to derail the precious faith of the
saints.
“The days are fast
approaching when there will be great
perplexity and confusion. Satan, clothed in
angel robes, will deceive, if possible, the
very elect. … Every wind of doctrine will be
blowing” {Mar 200.3}.
God will purge His
church and He has many ways to do it. One of
it we are told is by the introduction of
false doctrines. “When the shaking comes, by
the introduction of false theories, these
surface readers, anchored nowhere, are like
shifting sand. They slide into any position
to suit the tenor of their feelings of
bitterness” TM 112 (1897).
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