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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 37<br />

A Satanic Program<br />

(.....)<br />

If the written word of the most high God is<br />

obeyed, it will educate the believer to cooperate<br />

with God in bringing up to a high level the debased<br />

<strong>and</strong> fallen. Then the ignorant will learn that the<br />

enactment of God means peace <strong>and</strong> goodness,<br />

mercy <strong>and</strong> love. Satan [does not want this<br />

presentation to be made of God. He desires]<br />

selfishness to prevail, the love of money to become<br />

the relying element in the heart. He wants that<br />

fraud, crime, <strong>and</strong> injustice prevail in the world. He<br />

desires to see the poor suffer from hunger, <strong>and</strong> for<br />

want of food <strong>and</strong> clothing, <strong>and</strong> the world today<br />

become as full of violence as was the world before<br />

the flood. Then he can bring about his ends,<br />

charging all the misery upon God.<br />

To a large extent Satan has carried out his<br />

plans. The Lord's property is embezzled; God is<br />

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