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he knows not anything. and will never
know anything until the resurrection
Of the dead. Whoever knows this is
fortified against all the deceptions 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
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-during the thousand
years of Messiah's reign when he, as
the true Light. shall tighten every man
that cometh into the world" John /, 9).
not anything, how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that it
Is 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 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
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 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 Il Cor
vi, ~,
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 Mt
the hands of the rebellious angels,
who would he aroused to animoslty by
their reform.
The Scriptures seem to imply that
fallen angels" wicked spirits" "ly-
ing spirits" demons" will have
much to do with bringing about the
great 'lllne OIL lTpuDle WllH WHICH
this Gospel Age win end, before the
complete inauguration of MesSiah's
Empire and the binding of Satan tRev-
elatlon Xxx, A. The intimation. is that
the trouble here will be short and
sharp, as in the days of Noah, The
declaration of the Apostle that these
evil spirits will be in chains of dark
ness until the Judgment of the Great
Day leaves room for the inference that
when the Judgment of the Great Day
begins the chains of darkness will be
broken. lf, therefore, we have the
right understanding of this matter
great events are near at hand Spirit
mediums are already declaring that
the spirits tell them that they will
soon be able to materialize in broad
daylight. With the power to counter
felt and personate humanity what may
this not mean In the way of deception
mentioned by our Lord, who declares
that 1t will be so strong that 1t would
deceive even the very elect" were
they not specially protected and guild
ed
We remind you also of the great
afrida which Sniritism Ocoultisu md