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Chapter four - Eugene Prewitt 163You are one of many that Jesus is working with all over theworld. There are others who speak a different language withwhom the Great King is working. You are not alone. You arebeing led by His Spirit. Those who make accusations againstyou will have to give an account before the Great Judge.’ ”FactFanaticism and false revivals are man-centered and lead away from the truth.God says:The Great Controversy (1911), p. 464In many of the revivals which have occurred during the last halfcentury, the same influences have been at work, to a greater or lessdegree, that will be manifest in the more extensive movements of thefuture. There is an emotional excitement, a mingling of the true with thefalse, that is well adapted to mislead. Yet none need be deceived. In thelight of God's word it is not difficult to determine the nature of thesemovements. Wherever men neglect the testimony of the Bible, turningaway from those plain, soul-testing truths which require self-denial andrenunciation of the world, there we may be sure that God's blessing is notbestowed. And by the rule which Christ Himself has given, "Ye shallknow them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:16), it is evident that thesemovements are not the work of the Spirit of God.Maranatha, p. 158The very last deception of Satan will be to make of none effect thetestimony of the Spirit of God. "Where there is no vision, the peopleperish" (Prov. 29:18). Satan will work ingeniously, in different ways andthrough different agencies, to unsettle the confidence of God's remnantpeople in the true testimony. He will bring in spurious visions to mislead,and will mingle the false with the true, and so disgust people that theywill regard everything that bears the name of visions as a species offanaticism; but honest souls, by contrasting false and true, will be enabledto distinguish between them. . . .Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 103When great and wise men had proved to their satisfaction that it wasimpossible for the world to be destroyed by water, when the fears of thepeople were quieted, when all regarded Noah's prophecy as a delusion,and looked upon him as a fanatic--then it was that God's time had come.Manuscript Releases, Vol. 14, p. 133I would speak in warning to those who have stood for years resistinglight and cherishing the spirit of opposition. How long will you hate anddespise the messengers of God's righteousness? God has given them Hismessage. They bear the word of the Lord. There is salvation for you, butonly through the merits of Jesus Christ. The grace of the Holy Spirit hasbeen offered you again and again. Light and power from on high havebeen shed abundantly in the midst of you. Here was evidence, that allmight discern whom the Lord recognized as His servants. But there are