ged them? Several now living are skeptics, have no belief in the gifts of the
church, no faith in the truth, no religion at all. Such, I have been shown, is the sure
result of spurious visions.
The manifestations of your daughter are a similar deception. And your
encouraging these things in her will prove her ruin, and the ruin of others, unless
something breaks the deception. You called these false visions and meaningless
dreams the wonderful light of God, but it is like the chaff to the wheat. This is a
serious matter. It will have a decided influence upon your family. While you regard
your daughter’s words as spoken under the influence of the Spirit of God, it will be
the same to you as though they were true. You are under strong delusion of Satan.
You will claim to credit them, and thus your confidence in the veritable, genuine
messages from God will be uprooted. And so will it be with all who believe as you
do. This is why Satan is so constantly pressing in the spurious—to lead away from
the truth.
The very last deception of Satan will be to make of none effect the testimony of
the Spirit of God. “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18).
Satan will work ingeniously, in different ways and through different agencies, to
unsettle the confidence of God’s remnant people in the true testimony. He will
bring in spurious visions to mislead, and will mingle the false with the true, and
so disgust people that they will regard everything that bears the name of visions
as a species of fanaticism; but honest souls, by contrasting false and true, will be
enabled to distinguish between them
Take Heed How Ye Hear
Oh, how deceptive is the human heart! How easy it is to harmonize with that
which is evil! There is nothing more detrimental to the soul’s interest, its purity, its
true and holy conceptions of God, and of sacred and eternal things,
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than constantly giving heed to and exalting that which is not from God. It poisons
the heart, and degrades the understanding. Pure truth can be traced to its divine
Source, by its elevating, refining, sanctifying influence upon the character of the
receiver. The Author of all truth prayed to His Father, “Neither pray I for these
alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all
may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us:
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (John 17:20, 21). Things will be
constantly arising to cause disunion, to draw away from the truth. This questioning,
criticizing, denouncing, passing judgment on others, is not an evidence of the grace
of Christ in the heart. It does not produce unity. Such work has been carried on in
the past by persons claiming to have wonderful light, when they were deep in sin.
Heresy, dishonesty, and falsehood were all blended in them.
The present is a time of great peril to the people of God. God is leading out a
people, not an individual here and there. He has a church on the earth, that abide
in the truth; and when we see, not only men, but young girls, crying out against
the church, we are afraid of them. We know God has not sent them, yet they ran,
and all who do not accept their erratic ideas are denounced as warring against the
Spirit of the Lord. All such things are in Satan’s line, but the work of God will go
forward while there are now and ever will be those who work directly against the
prayer of Christ. The work will advance, leaving them with their satanic inventions
far behind....
“Take heed, therefore, how ye hear” (Luke 8:18), is an admonition of Christ.
We are to hear for the sake of learning the truth, that we may walk in it. And again:
“Take heed what ye hear” (Mark 4:24). Examine closely, “prove all things” (1
Thessalonians 5:21), “believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of
God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). This
is the counsel of God; shall we heed it?—Letter 12, 1890.
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Chap. 9-Earmarks of Erroneous Teaching
Further Communications to Mr. Garmire
Since visiting your house Sabbath afternoon, August 23, some things have
rested on my mind to say to you. I have no hesitancy in saying that Anna’s
visions are not of God. The dreams that the members of your family have had
are a deception of Satan....
Satan saw that he could work upon your fruitful imagination, and lead you, with
others, into his net. Did God give you that time message? No; for no such message
comes from the true Source of light.... Time has proved you to be a false prophet,
and Anna’s visions false exercises. God never works in this way.
Satan has other and stronger delusions prepared for you. You will claim, if you
have not already done so, that you have a work to do in connection with Anna’s
visions, corresponding to that of the mighty angel that came down from heaven,
whose glory lightened the earth. Satan sees that your mind is all ready to be
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impressed with his suggestions, and he will use you to your own ruin, unless in
the name of the Lord you break the shackles that bind you....
Several times, during our conversation, in