disbelieve God’s command by the false assurance, “Ye
shall not surely die!” so ever since, tho he has var-
ied his methods and mediums, all of them are to de-
ceive-to
blind the minds of mankind, lest the glorious
light of the goodness of God, as it shines in the face of
Jesus Christ our Lord, should shine unto them.
Thanks be to God for the promise that, in due
time, the Kingdom of God shall be established in the
earth, in the hands of our Lord Jesus and his then com-
pleted and glorified Church, and that one of the first
works of that Kingdom, preparatory to its blessing
“all the families of the earth,” will be the binding of
that Old Serpent, the Devil and Satan, that he may
deceive
the nations no more for the thousand years of
Christ’s reign; until hll men shd be brought to a clear
knowledge of the truth, and to a full opportunity to
avail themselves of the gracious provisions of the New
Covenant, sealed at Calvary with the precious blood
of
Christ.
While the name Old Serpent includes Satan, “the
prince of devils,” it is here evidently used as a syno
nym for all the sinful agencies and powers which had
their rise in him. It therefore includes the legions of
“evil spirits,” “familiar spirits, ” “seducing spirits.”
Spiritism, as a deceiving influence under the con-
trol of Satan, is foretold by the Apostle Paul. After
telling of the work of Satan in the great Apostacy of
which Papacy is the head-center, the Man of Sin, the
Mystery of Iniquity,* the Apostle draws his subject to
a close by pointing out that Satan, toward the end of
this age, will be granted sped licence to deceive by
pelicular arts, all who, having been highly favored with
See MILLLNNIAL DAWN,VOL. II., chapter 9, pages 267-366.