The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-29

Bcriptutes Ia describing the fallen am
gels, who from earliest days have st-
tempted to deceive acknowledgement
senting themselves as human beings
who have died and who desire to conf
municate with their friends. And they
| attempt to do 80 through spirit nfe-
dfums. This Is their practice from of
old. Their endea vUr Is to break down.
the human will and to more and more
control 1t. The height of their ambi-
| tiOn and success is to fully dominated
the human will, so that they may use
tho human body as their own flesh. as
when they had power to materializes
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-hah Of all who are In insane
| asyfums are merely victims Of spirit
obsession. The great remedy against
oil this Is the Truth Of Gods Word.
Those who accept that cannot be de-
sefvsd But the masses Of mankind
are fysinG deceived. The Scriptures
teaching is that when a 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
Demonkm."
Jssus Preached to These Spirits. I
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" win
hear that name in Gods due time-inI
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 !, o.
But If Jesus died and In death knew
not anything, how could he preach to
the fallen angels? We answer that it
is common expression that actions
| speak louder than words" The great
actions or facts connected with our
Lords death and resurrection consti4
tuted most wonderful seEsngn to the
fallen angels. AS they beheM the Re-
deemer's faithfulness to God, even
! unto death, even the death Of the cross,
and as they then beheld Gods faith
fitness 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 consti1
tuted most wonderful sermon of love
The sermon to them meant, How serf1t
GUS was our mistake in being disobedf-
ent to God In any particular. 1t meant
also, May not God, who has thus gone
to so much trouble for the redemption
I Of fallen men, have in his heart also
place Ct mercy for us, should we re-
pent? The Apostle intimates that
these angels, with the exception of
Satan. are vet to have a testing OF
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 shalF
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 bel
ings led some of those fallen angels
to repentance. If so we may suppose
that during the eighteen centuries
since, they have suffered severely att
the hands of the rebellious angelsJ
who would be aroused to animosity 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 "time of trouble" with which
| this Gospel Age will end, before the
complete Inauguration of Messiah'sSI
Empire and the binding of Satan Rey-j
elation Xxx, A.. The intimation is THAI
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 win be
broken. II. 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 it will be so strong that it would
deceive even the Every elect" were
they not specially protected and guild,
ed 4
We remind you also of the great
stride which Spiritism, Occultism and
Psychic Science have made within the
last few years. These now number
amongst their friends and advocates
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