When Satan Will Appear as Christ PART ONE OF FOUR When it happens, it will make headlines in every newspaper throughout W M 15 newspaper and news magazine will run feature stories on him. And this will 3 not be a one-time news release. It will continue on and on to the final close 8 the world! Interviews of him will appear on every television screen. Every of probation, and probably beyond. We are nearing the climactic end of the 6,000-year warfare between God’s law and Satan’s deceptions. In this brief study, I will provide you with every Spirit of Prophecy passage on this important sub- ject. The remainder of this research study is re- printed from pp. 51-58, 189-191, 58-62, and 65- 68 of my 360-page, 81⁄2 x 11, hardback book, The End of Time. (Single copies are available for only $13.00 ppd. In boxfuls of 8 to the case, it only costs $4.75 per copy. The box cost is, in the U.S., $38.00 + $12.00.) This is an excellent book to share with friends, relataives, and fellow believers—so they will not be misled by the winds of error regarding coming events, which are blowing everywhere. The entire book contains the most complete, classified collec- tion of Spirit of Prophecy statements on last-day events ever compiled; and concludes with a chap- ter on the dangers of time-setting. ——————————————— The following section is from The End of Time, pp. 51-58: ——————————————— OVERVIEW: FROM COUNTERFEIT REVIVAL TO FULL-BLOWN FALSE LATTER RAIN About 4,350 years ago, the wicked confederated to- gether to build the tower of Babel and impose their rule on the world. If permitted to carry out their purposes, they would have blotted the people of God from the earth and Satan’s triumph would have been complete. But, in the near future, a similar objective will be in mind. In the name of Christianity, men will unify to re- quire first a nation and then a world to break the fourth of God’s ten moral laws. Empowered by a strange excitement, Protestants will unite with Catholics in the attainment of their ob- jective. As soon as they have coerced U.S. Governmen- tal leaders to enact a National Sunday Law, the excite- ment in the fallen churches will intensify into a false latter rain. Because men have dared to defy God’s laws and mandate a counterfeit on the populace, Satan will be permitted to work wonders. A counterfeit revival will precede the genuine. That counterfeit revival, discussed in the first video in a companion series to this book, brings on the National Sunday Law. But that counter- feit revival will continue on afterward. For purposes of clarification, we will call its extension, past the National Sunday Law, the “false latter rain.” (You will find both names mentioned in the Spirit of Prophecy; she treats them as synonyms, not making the time distinction that we here do.) Do not underate this false latter rain. As soon as the Sunday law is enacted, the power of demonic en- ergy, display, and appearances swells into something quite massive. It is this power which in great measure enables the law to be rather quickly enacted by every other nation on the globe. The result is, what is called, a universal Sunday law. It probably consists of hun- dreds of separate national laws; all of which impose Sunday sacredness and demand worship of God on Sunday. After the National Sunday Law is passed, the lat- ter rain begins; and both the true and false rain con- tinue on concurrently together thereafter. Satan will work miracles through his agents; and he will personate (appear as) Christ to the masses, work apparent miracles, endorse Sunday, and de- nounce Sabbathkeepers. These spiritual manifestations, by Satan and his agents, are extremely important in the rapid working out of final events in the Sunday law crisis prior to the general close of probation. Without them, the intense zeal for strictest national and later universal Sunday law enforcement could never take place. Yet it will be Sunday enactment in the United States which will have DATE OF PUBLICATION: APRIL 2010 2 empowered Satan to begin demonstrating such wonders. According to EW 261:1, Satan will raise an excitement before the National Sunday Law. According to 5T 451:1, the National Sunday Law will open the door for the marvelous workings by Satan. Those final events, once begun, will follow one an- other rapidly. Below we will list a suggested order of early events in the Sunday law enactment. You will note that, along with hatred of Sabbathkeepers, the religious excite- ment/false latter rain fervor is the engine driving for- ward the fierce passions of the Sunday-law advocates, both before and after the National Sunday Law is en- acted. Let us briefly summarize again some of these early events in the National Sunday Law crisis: A powerful religious excitement, or counterfeit revival, starts in the churches. This energizes Protes- tants, Catholics, and spiritists to work together, yet without disturbing any denominational leadership controls which are already in place. A tentative threefold union of influential Protes- tants and Catholics, empowered by spiritist forces, be- gins to take shape. Hatred of Sabbathkeepers impels the churches to search for ways by which to push the U.S. Government into enacting sweeping Sunday en- forcements. Please understand that, to all appear- ances, it is only a twofold union. The churchmen do not realize they are working with demons. Under the empowered excitement, the threefold union forms rather quickly. Catholicism brings to the union the doctrine of Sunday sacredness and provides the political support of millions of Catholics. Protes- tantism brings to it a driving leadership that coerces the U.S. Government to legislate and enforce it. For its part, spiritism provides the hypnotic and miracle- working power needed to carry the movement through to success. The National Sunday Law is enacted by the United States Government. Initial passage of the law is done for political reasons, in order to win favor with the churches. At this point, the full power and extent of the Sunday-law movement is yet future. The False Latter Rain begins. By their heaven- daring willingness to try to enact laws to overthrow those which God has given, Satan is permitted, by Heaven, to more directly empower the efforts of the threefold union to win the favor of all sides to the en- deavor. Spirits of demons, working with men, bring massive conversions to the movement and promote the bold, new solution to world problems. America, first, and Europe, second, will take the lead; and the rest of the world will follow. It is the amazing power underlying this movement that rivets the attention of the other nations and finally converts them to the Sun- day-law bandwagon. Enactment of the National Sunday Law in America has opened the way for satanic wonders, appearances, and miracles on a wonder-working scale never before witnessed by human eyes. The power of the false latter rain swells immensely. These miracles change politicians, church men, and laymen into religious zealots, determined to enforce Sundaykeeping by whatever penalties are required, even if they include the imposition of imprisonment and death. Nearly all are swept into the ranks; although, before the loud cry begins, the great majority do not yet understand the issues involved. Before passage of the law, there was only a religious excitement in the churches stirring them to a threefold union. At their behest, the law was enacted by politi- cians merely as a political favor. But, after the law is enacted, the marvelous working of Satan is unleashed to an astounding degree. Deceived minds now see the nationwide law in a new light; it has become the basis of a great, new world order, ushering in a millennium of peace and prosperity. Strictest enforcement of Sunday sacredness surely must be all that is needed to bring universal peace, prosperity, and the approval of God. That, apparently, is the only real sacrifice He asks of them. The gluttony, worldliness, and selfishness can continue as usual. The theologians declare that Heaven accepts the people just as they are; and they need not put away their sins. Enactment of the law places the nation in the hands of Satan; and he is permitted to work more openly. The wonders which follow galvanize, first, America and, then, the entire world. The final crisis has come. Let us now view the effect this false latter rain will have on, first, America and, then, on the rest of the world: -1- WHEN THE FALSE LATTER RAIN WILL OCCUR 1 - Sequence: According to Patriarchs and Prophets, 686, this special working of Satan will occur prior to the Second Advent. “Paul, in his second letter to the Thessalonians, points to the special working of Satan in spiritual- ism as an event to take place immediately before the Second Advent of Christ. Speaking of Christ’s Sec- ond Coming, he declares that it is ‘after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.’ 2 Thessalonians 2:9.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, 686:1. 2 - Sequence: According to Early Writings, 261, Satan will begin by raising an excitement in the fallen churches before the loud cry begins. (In a later study, we will learn that the loud cry begins just after the law is enacted. The plagues occur af- ter probation ends.) “I saw that God has honest children among the nominal Adventists and the fallen churches, and be- fore the plagues shall be poured out, ministers and
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