Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-10-01

! sire to be obedient, for instance. while
J others are still as opposed TO God and
| righteousness as ever. There is room
| for this understanding in the state
ment OF the Apostle that the chains OF
! darkness were to control them until
! the Great Day-not necessarily into
that day-perhaps at it's very begin
ming they may be permitted to gain
certain liberties and do a certain
amount of injury to humanity, TO all
who are not attentive TO the Word Of
| God, and who. therefore. win not
know who these spirits are--that they
are the fallen angels. the demons Of
| the Bible.
wicked Spirits" Lying Spirits"
| These are the terms used in the
Scriptures In describing the fallen an
gels, who from earliest days have at
tempted to deceive humanity-repre-
senting themselves as human beings
who have died and who desire to com
municate with their friends. And they
attempt to do so through spirit me
diums. This is their practice from Of
Dltls Ihth thhtAFOA 10 W Oittih hONh
the human will and TO more and more
control it. The height Of their ambi-
ton and success is to fully dominate
the human will. 50 that they may use
the human body as their own flesh, as
when they had power to materialize.
Those who come fully under their con-
troll become demented, often several
spirits gaining possession of the one
personality and attempting to use the
same brains and body. 1t is estimated
that one-half of all who are in insane
asylums are merely victims Of spirit
obsesslon The great remedy against
all this Is the Truth of Gods Word.
Those who accept that cannot be de-
ceived But the masses Of mankind
are being deceived The Scripture
teaching is that when man is dead
he knows not anything, and will never
know anything until the resurrection
Of the dead. Whoever knows this is
fortified against all the receptions Of
the evil spirits.
We are not claiming that all me-
diums are fraudulent. Some of them
we know to be most sincere. A large
number have been delivered from their
awful position of acting as tools of
Satan by the reading Of our little
pamphlet. Proofs that Spiritism is
Demonism."
Jesus Preached to These Spirits.
There are no human spirits to be
preached to. Human beings are not
spirit beings. The dead of humanity
who have never heard of the only
name given under heaven or amongst
men whereby we must be saved" will
hear that name in Gods due time-in
the resurrection-durin the thousand
years Of Messiah's reign when he, as
the true Light. shall tighten every man
that cometh into the world" (John j. 81.
But if Jesus died and in death knew
not anything, how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that it
is a common expression that factions
speak louder than words" The great
actions or facts connected with our
Lords death and resurrection consti-
tuted most wonderful sermon to the
fallen angels. AS they beheld the Re-
deemer's faithfulness TO God, even
unto death, even the death of the cross,
and as they then beheld Gods faith
fulness to him in raising him from
the dead to the highest nature-the
divine nature-"far above angels and
principalities and powers and every
name that is named"-all this consti-
tuted a most wonderful sermon of love
and loyalty, faith and obedience, etc.
The sermon to them meant. How seri-
Gus was our mistake in being disobedi-
ent to God in any particular. 1t meant
also. May not God, who has thus gone
to 80 much trouble for the redemption
Of fallen men, have in his heart also
place of mercy for us, should we re-
pent? The Apostle intimates that
these angels, with the exception of
Satan, are yet to have a testing or
trial, for he assures the Church that
God purposes that we, as the Bride of
Christ, shall not only be entrusted
with the work of judging or giving
trial to the world of mankind during
the Millennium, but also that we shall
Judge angels-not the holy angels, for,
of course, they need no judging ON
our part-but the fallen angels q Cor.
vi, 81.
Quite possibly the hopes inspired by
that great sermon preached by our
Lords resurrection to the spirit be-
ings led some of those fallen angels
TO repentance. If so we may suppose
that during the eighteen centuries
since, they have suffered severely at
the hands of the rebellious angels,
who would be aroused to animosity by
| their reform.
The Scriptures seem to imply that
fallen angels" wicked spirits" 'ly-
ing spirits" demons" win have
much TO do with bringing about the
great "time of trouble" with which
this Gospel Age will end, before the
! complete Inauguration of Messiah's
Empire and the binding of Satan (Rev-
| platiOn xx a. The intimatiOn is that