Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

not revealed. If they would only trust in God and persist in prayer,
they would receive divine comfort.
This impatience to unveil the future reveals a lack of faith in
God, and Satan inspires confidence in his power to tell in advance
the things to come. By experience gained through long ages, he can
often forecast, with a degree of accuracy, some future events to
deceive misguided souls and bring them under his power.
God Himself is the light of His people. He invites them to fix
their eyes by faith on the glories that are hidden from human sight.
They have light from the throne of heaven and have no desire to turn
to the messengers of Satan.
The demon's message to Saul was not meant to reform him, but
to push him to despair and ruin. More often, however, the tempter
uses flattery to lure people to destruction. Truth is hardly respected,
and impurity permitted. Spiritualism declares that there is no death,
no sin, no judgment, no punishment; desire is the highest law, and
human beings are accountable only to themselves. Such thinking
breaks down the barriers that God has set up to guard truth, purity,
and reverence, and in this way many people are strengthened in sin.
God is leading His people out from the evils of the world, that
they may keep His law. Because of this, the anger of "the accuser of
our brethren" knows no limits. "The devil has come down to you,
having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."
(Revelation 12:10, 12). Satan is determined to destroy the people of
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