Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

and able to teach those who reject the counsel of
God against their own souls. The bait which he has
found will avail in bringing souls into his net, that
he may fasten his hellish grasp upon them, he will
clothe with every possible good and make as
attractive as possible. All who are thus ensnared
will learn at a dreadful expense the folly of selling
heaven and immortality for a deception that is fatal
in its consequences. Our adversary, the devil, is not
void of wisdom or strength. He goeth about like a
roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. He will
work "with all power and signs and lying wonders,
and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
them that perish; because they received not the
love of the truth, that they might be saved."
Because they rejected the truth, "God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
that they all might be damned who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." We
have a powerful, deceptive foe with whom to
contend, and our only safety is in Him who is to
come, who will consume this archdeceiver with the
spirit of His mouth, and destroy with the brightness
of His coming.
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