Abiding 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 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. {Lt12-1890.45} {10MR 311.1} {Mar 158.4} {FLB 296.6} {2SM 78.2} {1SM 48.3} {PM 360.4} {LDE 177.5}

Likewise,  he works through persons who have been reproved for some inconsistency  in their religious life, for some course of action which was dangerous  to themselves and others; and instead of receiving the testimony as a  blessing from God, they refuse the means God uses to set them right.  Such may be apparently very zealous for God, but they put their own interpretation upon the Word, and make  it contradict what the Lord has revealed in the testimonies. They think  they are doing God’s service, but such work God has not given them to  do. {Lt12-1890.46} {10MR 311.2}

The laying bare of hidden sins is not pleasant and agreeable to the natural heart, and many give a bare assent to truth when they are not sanctified through the truth. They do not in spirit represent Christ. They are  surface workers, and delude themselves with the idea that they are  Christians. So effectually does this delusion take possession of heart and mind that the sharp arrows of the Lord fail to penetrate the armor of self-righteousness in which they are encased.  The spell is so strong [that] they will listen to the truth the most  earnest and powerful, even to the very portraying of the delusions which  are upon them, without any thought of self-examination to see if it  means them. This is the class our Saviour found most difficult to arouse. The most authoritative teachings were heard and listened to as if they heard not. Thus it is with many, many in this generation. There will be a hatred  kindled against the testimonies which is satanic. The workings of Satan  will be to unsettle the faith of the churches in them for this reason.  Satan cannot have so clear a track to bring in his deceptions and bind up souls in his delusions  if the warnings and reproofs and counsels of the Spirit of God are heeded. {Lt40-1890.11}

Early Workers to Speak

God has given me light regarding our periodicals. What is it?—He has said that the dead are to speak. How?—Their  works shall follow them. We are to repeat the words of the pioneers in  our work, who knew what it cost to search for the truth as for hidden  treasure, and who labored to lay the foundation of our work. They moved  forward step by step under the influence of the Spirit of God. One by  one these pioneers are passing away. The word given me is, Let that which these men have written in the past be reproduced. And in The Signs of the Times let not the articles be long or the print fine. Do not try to crowd  everything into one number of the paper. Let the print be good, and let  earnest, living experiences be put into the paper. {RH May 25, 1905, par. 21} {CW 28.1}

Not long ago I took up a copy of the Bible Echo. As I looked it through, I saw an article by Elder Haskell and one by Elder Corliss. As I laid the paper down, I said, These articles must be reproduced. There is truth and power in them. Men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. {RH May 25, 1905, par. 22} {CW 28.2}

Let  the truths that are the foundation of our faith be kept before the  people. Some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits  and doctrines of devils. They talk science, and the enemy comes in and  gives them an abundance of science; but it is not the science of  salvation. It is not the science of humility, of consecration, or of the  sanctification of the Spirit. We are now to understand what the pillars  of our faith are,—the truths that have made us as a people what we are, leading us on step by step. {RH May 25, 1905, par. 23} {CW 29.1}

The Testimony of Pioneer Workers

I  have had presentations regarding the deceptions that Satan is bringing  in at this time. I have been instructed that we should make prominent  the testimony of some of the old workers who are now dead. Let them  continue to speak through their articles as found in the early numbers  of our papers. These articles should now be reprinted, that there may be  a living voice from the Lord’s witnesses. The history of the early  experiences in the message will be a power to withstand the masterly  ingenuity of Satan’s deceptions. This instruction has been repeated  recently. I must present before the people the testimonies of Bible  truth, and repeat the decided messages given years ago. I desire that my  sermons given at camp meetings and in churches may live and do their  appointed work. {Lt99-1905.7} {CW 26.1} {PM 31.2}

There  will be constant warfare with seducing spirits that will bring in  theories to counteract the truth of God. All who turn from the warnings  that God sends them will be linked up with these seducing agencies.  Every soul must be wide awake. The science of the Lord Jesus Christ will  teach us to awake. The science of the Lord Jesus Christ will teach us  to abhor all dishonesty and prevarication and every form of iniquity. {Lt99-1905.8}

The  word that comes to me is that we must revive the testimony of the dead  among the living. There will be species of error brought in, but where  are they when they are established? There is no more truth to that then.  We must not be moved by any sophistry that man can bring in. We need  the truth once delivered to the saints—the testimony of the dead to be  revived. We know the Holy Ghost spoke these things. I know wherein I  believe and what is the foundation of my hope. I stand where I have for  the past 50 years. I have not changed. We want to be where we can speak  the truth to those in need. We want all to have the truth in the inward  parts. {Ms186-1905.14}

Let Pioneers Identify Truth

When  the power of God testifies as to what is truth, that truth is to stand  forever as the truth. No after suppositions, contrary to the light God  has given are to be entertained. Men will arise with interpretations of Scripture which are to them truth, but which are not truth. The  truth for this time, God has given us as a foundation for our faith. He  Himself has taught us what is truth. One will arise, and still another,  with new light which contradicts the light that God has given under the  demonstration of His Holy Spirit. {CW 31.2}

A  few are still alive who passed through the experience gained in the  establishment of this truth. God has graciously spared their lives to  repeat and repeat till the close of their lives, the experience through  which they passed even as did John the apostle till the very close of  his life. And the standard-bearers who have fallen in death, are to  speak through the reprinting of their writings. I am instructed that thus their voices are to be heard. They are to  bear their testimony as to what constitutes the truth for this time. {CW 32.1} {1SM 161.1} {Lt329-1905.18} {Ms99-1909.49}

We  are not to receive the words of those who come with a message that  contradicts the special points of our faith. They gather together a mass  of Scripture, and pile it as proof around their asserted theories. This  has been done over and over again during the past fifty years. And  while the Scriptures are God’s word, and are to be respected, the  application of them, if such application moves one pillar from the  foundation that God has sustained these fifty years, is a great mistake.  He who makes such an application knows not the wonderful demonstration  of the Holy Spirit that gave power and force to the past messages that  have come to the people of God.—Preach the Word, p. 5 (1905). {CW 32.2}

When  men come in who would move one pin or pillar from the foundation which  God has established by His Holy Spirit, let the aged men who were  pioneers in our work speak plainly, and let those who are dead speak  also by reprinting of their articles in our periodicals. Gather up the  rays of divine light that God has given as He has led His people on step  by step in the way of truth. This truth will stand the test of time and  trial. {Ms62-1905.20}