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SATAN  
His Origin, Work. and Destiny  
BY  
CARLYLE B. HAYNES  
Author of "Our Lord's Return," "The Other Side of Death,"  
"What Is Corning?" "Spiritualism versus Chris-  
tianity," and "The Christian Sabbath."  
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CONTENTS  
CHAPTER  TITLE  PAGE  
SATAN IS A PERSONAL BEING  7  
LUCIFER IN HEAVEN .  •  14  
THE EXTENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD  22  
THE OTHER WORLDS ARE INHABITED  34  
THE APOSTASY OF SATAN  42  
THE FALL OF MAN .  50  
WHY DID GOD PERMIT SIN?  58  
THE LOST DOMINION AND THE GOD OF THIS WORLD  66  
HEAVEN'S GREAT COUNCILS .  70  
CHRIST REGAINS THE WORLD .  74  
A  MODERN REVIVAL OF DEVILISM AND SORCERY  85  
SATAN BOUND A THOUSAND YEARS .  103  
THE DESTINY OF SATAN  114  
THE NEW EARTH  122  

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Copyrighted, 1920, by  
SOUTHERN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION  
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE


FOREWORD  
It would be manifestly impossible for one to understand by  
witnessing one brief scene, the subtle plot of a drama. It is  
equally impossible for men, looking only at present develop- 
ments, to understand the significance of the perplexing prob- 
lems of the world. The darkness of uncertainty is illuminated  
by the light from the sacred Scriptures, God's revelation to  
men. The student of the Bible is furnished with a program,  
in which is recorded all the important acts and scenes of a great  
drama. The world is seen to be a stage upon which before the  
universe are being manifested the opposing characters of Christ,  
the rightful sovereign of the Creation, and Satan, a rebel who  
has sought for himself that exalted position.  
The stage has been set for centuries. Kingdoms have risen  
and fallen. Great men have appeared, and after acting their  
brief part in the drama, have disappeared. The contending  
forces have surged back and forth. Many times the evil forces  
have seemed to triumph, and truth has seemed well nigh van- 
quished. But always, in some way, the right has conquered.  
That portion of the Word of God that deals with this great  
conflict is far too little understood. There is brought to view  
the beginning of the great rebellion, before the appearance of  
man upon this earth. The wily leader is exposed, his motives  
and the methods of his attacks are revealed, also his desperate  
attempts for world control, and his final overthrow and the  
resulting triumph of everlasting righteousness.  
A study of this little book will help to impress the reader  
with the reality of the struggle in which every one is a partici- 
pant. Thoughtfully studied, it will enable him to understand  
the intensity of the controversy in these days, and will point  
the way to victory and a share in that glorious eternal king- 
dom where sin and evil are no more.  
THE PUBLISHERS  
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INTERNATIONAL  
6  Satan uses every element of destruction to show his hatred for God's creatures.  
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The adversary  
CHAPTER I  
SATAN IS A PERSONAL BEING  
MEDIEVAL tradition and superstition is the source of the  
conception which has come down to us of Satan as a mon- 
ster of horrid form and hideous expression, with an accompani- 
ment of hoofs, horns, pitchfork, barbed tail, and breath of flames.  
This hobgoblin of the ignorant and superstitious has no reali- 
ty in fact, no basis in the Scriptures, and is the source of de- 
rision on the part of intelligent and cultured people.  
This very grotesque and absurd impression regarding  
Satan is in itself an evidence of the craft and guile of the de- 
ceiver. Such a caricature serves only to excite the mockery  
of the intelligent, and thus disarms suspicion, prevents vigi- 
lance, and leads men to disbelieve and deny the very exis- 
tence of the devil.  
When the world was finally aroused from the nightmare  
of papal superstition, and emerged from the dark ages, this  
farcical devil with horns and hoofs, smelling of sulphur, and  
spitting fire, was no longer calculated to frighten the people;  
and, discarding this absurdity, they were then prepared to  
go to the other extreme, and deny the existence of all unseen  
powers of evil. In this way they were led to become the prey  
and dupes of Satan.  
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8  SATAN  
So it can be plainly discerned that the entire devilism  
of the dark ages, with all its trumpery of horns, hoofs, pitch- 
forks, gridirons, and imps that act as stokers of the furnaces  
of hell, is merely a device of the arch-deceiver himself, designed  
to deceive and delude people into a denial of his own existence,  
in order that men may thus be thrown off their guard and the  
more easily ensnared and deceived. This medieval devilism  
is utterly unknown to the Bible and Christianity.  
Satan Transformed  
These absurd views of a superstitious age we discard at  
once, and prepare ourselves to listen to the explicit state- 
ments of the Bible. And here in the Scriptures of truth Satan  
is set forth before us as one who is able to appear to men in  
a character which is the exact opposite of his true character.  
"Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." 2 Cor.  
11: 14.  
By this instruction we are placed on our guard. Those  
who wish to shield themselves from the adversary of their  
souls in this age will be on the lookout for manifestations of  
his power,—not frightful, hideous, ludicrous, grotesque, but  
manifestations in which truth will be so insidiously inter- 
woven with error, and grace, courtesy, purity, and wisdom  
so mixed with impurity, immorality, and the antics of demons  
as shall lull suspicion, quiet apprehension, and prepare souls  
to be deceived. In these things may be discerned the sub- 
tlety of the serpent and the skill and cunning of the deceiver;  
for we may be certain that Satan will carefully, guard him- 
self in these manifestations from revealing anything that will  
shock the senses or awaken prejudice.  
The Ascendency of Satan  
The closing period of the world's history is to be marked  
by the ascendency of Satan. This is plainly taught in the  
word of God, When the arch-rebel against the government  
of God knows that he has but a short time in which to work,  
he will work with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,  
insomuch that if it were possible the very elect would be de- 
ceived. The accumulated wisdom and knowledge of six thou- 
sand years' experience in leading the human family into sin  
is to be brought to bear by Satan on the last generation of the


SATAN IS A PERSONAL BEING  9  
human race, and especially upon the church of the living  
God in the latter days.  
These things being true, it is apparent that if the last  
generation is to escape from the wiles of the devil, it must  
have some knowledge of his work, of his origin, of his power,  
and of his personality. We shall have but little hope of escap- 
ing his devices if we are in any doubt about them. Above all other  
periods in the history of the work of God on earth, it is im-
perative at this present time that the church should be ac- 
quainted with the work of its great adversary.  
The Personality  
of Satan  
The tendency  
which has appeared  
in the church dur- 
ing recent years to  
discredit the doc- 
trine of the per- 
sonality of the  
devil, and the light- 
ness with which the  
whole subject is  
looked at when it is  
considered at all,  
increases the danger  
of the present hour.  
Sermons upon the  
subject of Satan are  
very rare, and are  
received with in- 
credulous smiles, as  
if the subject were  
one only for chil- 
dren and scarcely  
suitable for grown  
people.  
But that this  
subject is one of  
"The devil is seen as the personal tempter of  
our Lord."


The victory over the temptation in the wilderness  
10


SATAN IS A PERSONAL BEING  11  
most vital importance is evident from the fact that the char- 
acter and work of the devil are constantly dwelt on in the  
Scriptures of truth, especially in the New Testament. At  
the very beginning of the work of Christ the devil is seen  
as the personal tempter of our Lord, and through all the gospels,  
epistles, and the Revelation, the careful reader is struck with  
the constant references to the personality, the origin, power,  
cruelty, malignity, and final doom of the "god of this world."  
From the study of the numerous titles and names which  
are applied to him in the Bible, it is plain that Satan is a person- 
al being. Thus he is called "the adversary" (1 Pet. 5: 8),  
"the accuser of our brethren" (Rev. 12: 10), "the angel of  
the bottomless pit" (Rev. 9: 11), " Apollyon" (Rev. 9: 11),  
"Beelzebub" (Matt. 12:24), "Belial" (2 Cor. 6: 15), "the  
dragon" (Rev. 20:2), "the father" of lies" (John 8: 44),  
"a liar" (John 8:44), " murderer " (John 8:44), " power of  
darkness" (Col. 1: 13), "prince of this world" (John 14: 30),  
"prince of the devils" (Matt. 12: 24), "prince of the power  
of the air" (Eph. 2: 2), "ruler of the darkness of this world"  
(Eph. 6: 12), "the serpent" (2 Cor. 11:3), "the spirit that  
An intruder in Eden


12  SATAN  
now worketh in the children of disobedience" (Eph. 2: 2),  
"the tempter" (Matt. 4:3; 1 Thess. 3: 5), "the god of this  
world" (2 Cor. 4: 4), "unclean spirit" (Matt. 12: 43), "the  
wicked one" (Matt. 13: 19, 38), "the evil one" (Matt. 6: 13).  
The personality of Satan is still further set forth by those  
Bible references which represent the chief of the kingdom  
of evil as presumptuous (Job 1: 6; Matt. 4: 5, 6), proud (1 Tim.  
3: 6), powerful (Eph. 2: 2; Eph. 6: 12), wicked (1 John 3: 12),  
malignant (Job 1: 9; Job 2: 4), subtle (Gen. 3: 1; 2 Cor. 11:3),  
deceitful (2 Cor. 11: 14; Eph. 6:11), fierce (Luke 8:29; 9:39,  
42), cruel (1 Peter 5: 8), always active in promoting evil (Job  
1:7; 2:2).  
In the Bible the work of Satan is compared to a fowler  
setting snares for the unwary (Ps. 91: 3), to an enemy who in the  
darkness of the night sowed tares among the good seed of the  
field (Matt. 13:25, 39), to a wolf ravaging the flock (John  
10: 12), to a lion seeking to catch and devour its prey (1 Peter  
5: 8). Against his subtlety, his treachery, and his devilish  
insinuations we can guard ourselves only by constant watching  
and prayer (2 Cor. 2: 11). Christ has commanded his people  
to resist uncompromisingly all his approaches and solicitations  
(1 Peter 5: 9; James 4: 7; Eph. 4: 27).  
Through the Enemy's Country  
From the teaching of the Holy Scriptures it is plain that the  
way of the Christian pilgrim who is journeying to reach the  
kingdom of God lies through the enemy's country, through the  
territory of "the god of this world." While the weary pilgrim  
has a mighty God to defend him, while he is safe in the keeping  
of the Good Shepherd, while he will be surely guided by the  
Spirit of Truth, yet the struggle with the enemy of his soul  
will be real and painful; he will find it necessary to sustain  
a prolonged and fiery ordeal, and a most severe conflict. The  
pilgrim believer will find his way safe only as he realizes that  
the sleepless and vigilant eye of a malignant and cruel enemy  
is following his every step, and that the accumulated subtlety  
and cunning of six thousand years of experience is constantly  
at work to draw him away from Christ, and he is thus made  
to realize his need of constant watching and prayer.


SATAN IS A PERSONAL BEING  13  
Satan's Mightiest Working in This Age  
In the last years of the history of this present evil world  
the mightiest working of Satan is to be witnessed. The  
Bible most clearly reveals the fact that the time is very near  
at hand when the history of this world will be closed, and the  
kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord  
and of his Christ. Rev. 11: 15. Ere long Satan is to be de- 
stroyed. Rev. 20:9-14. Soon this whole world will enter into  
possession of the people of God. Dan. 7:27. The whole govern- 
ment of this earth, as now controlled and managed by sinful 
men, is soon to pass away, and the history of Satan's rebellion  
and his usurped dominion on earth will before long be ended.  
The unfolding of the prophecies of the Bible, and the rapidly  
fulfilling signs of the times, very plainly reveal that the end  
of this age is very near.  
From his knowledge of the Scriptures, and from what  
he sees of the maturing plans of God, Satan plainly perceives  
that the time  of  his overthrow can not be long delayed. A  
short time only remains for him, and hence he will make a  
special effort to keep the whole world under his power. He  
knows that Christ will not come without some signal dis- 
play of power and glory, hence Satan is determined that he  
also will manifest his power to the world, with the design of  
having his false miracles attributed to the miracle-working  
power of God.


Lucifer was one of the covering cherubim.  
CHAPTER II  
LUCIFER IN HEAVEN  
SATAN once dwelt at the court of Jehovah, where his name  
- was Lucifer. Created by the Maker of all, he was one of the  
most 'glorious and beautiful beings among the angelic hosts,  
and was honored and loved as a leader of great multitudes  
of the angels of God. Exalted by his Maker to a position of  
great prominence and influence, he was able to lead many  
of the angels astray when sin found an entrance into his heart  and mind.  
God did not create the devil. He created a beautiful  
and holy angel, and designed and made it possible for him  
so to continue. But it is possible for such a being, as illustrated  
in the fall of man, to lapse into a state of sin; yes, even to  
change his nature until it becomes essentially sinful. Thus  
we have the record that God made man at the first "upright"  
(Gen. 1: 27; Eccl. 7: 29), but later not only his nature but  
also "the imagination of the thoughts of his heart" became  
" only evil." Gen. 6: 5; 8:21; Ps. 53: 1-3.  
Thus, too, the angels, that higher order of created in- 
telligences than man (Ps. 8: 4, 5), were created in a pure and  
sinless condition. But they did not all retain this condition,


"He was probably one of the leaders of the  
angelic choir of heaven."  

LUCIFER IN HEAVEN  15  
for we have the record that certain of the angels "kept not  
their first estate, but left their own habitation." Jude 6. They  
had all at one time been among "the elect angels" (1 Tim.  
5: 21), but now the Bible divides the angels into two classes,— 
"the elect," and those "that left their own habitation." Of 
these latter Peter  
says that "God 
spared not the an- 
gels that sinned."  
2 Peter 2:4.  
From these  
Scriptures we ob- 
tain three impor-
tant facts. First,  
certain angels who  
were originally  
pure and holy fell  
into sin. Second,  
these fallen angels  
by this apostasy  
lost their standing  
with God. Third,  
in addition to this  
they came under  
God's heavy dis- 
pleasure, for he  
"delivered them  
into chains of dark- 
ness, to be reserved  
unto judgment."  
2 Peter 2:4.  
God Did Not  
Create Sin  
In none of  
these cases did God  
compel his crea- 
tures to sin. He  
did not create sin-


16  SATAN  
ners. He did not create sin. He created pure and holy beings,  
and they yielded themselves as servants to sin.  
That Lucifer's first abode was in heaven is taught very  
plainly in the Scriptures. This could be gathered from the  
words of Christ, "Your father the devil . . . abode not  
in the truth." John 8:44. Thus there was a time when Satan  
was in the truth, and in the abode of truth. Where this abode  
of truth is will be seen from the further words of Christ, "I  
beheld Satan, as lightning, fall from heaven." Luke 10: 18.  
Recognizing that the animating spirit in ancient Babylon  
as also in modern Babylon, was, and is, that of the father of  
evil, the devil, this being is addressed in the book of Isaiah  
and his origin spoken of as follows:  
"How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning! How  
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" Isa.  
14:12.  
The original home of Satan is also spoken of in the New  
Testament in the following words:  
"And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against  
the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither  
was their place found any more - in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out,  that  old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan. " Rev. 12:7-9.  
From this passage it is evident that the "place" of the  
devil was once "in heaven," but that the time came when  
it was no longer there.  
Lucifer a Mighty Angel  
Lucifer was one of the great princes of the kingdom of  
God in heaven before his fall, holding a position under  
Jehovah, the Creator, which made him a leader of a great  
host of angels. He was a bright, glorious being. The marginal  
reading for "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14: 12 is "day-star." Under  
the figure of the king of Tyre, a description of Lucifer is given  
by Ezekiel. Here God addresses this fallen being, and says:  
"Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in  
beauty." Eze. 28: 12.  
Lucifer was one of the wisest of all the creatures of heaven.  
Concerning the splendor and glory conferred upon him by the 
Creator, we have the record:  
"Thou hast been in Eden  the  garden of God; every precious stone was


LUCIFER IN HEAVEN  17  
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and  
the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the  
carbuncle, and gold. " Eze. 28: 13.  
He was resplendent, therefore, not  
only in the beauty of his person, but  
also in that beauty and glory by which  
he was covered and surrounded in the  
exalted position which he  
held by the gift of  
his Maker.  
He was  
probably  
one of the  
leaders, if not  the  leader, of the  
great angelic choir of heaven, for  
he was a talented singer. The  
record is:  
"The workmanship of thy tabrets  
and of thy pipes was prepared in thee  
in the day that thou wast created."  
Eze. 28: 13.  
Lucifer was a being clothed  
with purity and holiness. "Thou 
was perfect in thy ways from the  
day that thou wast created." Eze. 28 :  15.  
The Anointed Cherub  
Concerning the exalted  
station in which he was  
placed by his Creator we  
are not left in darkness.  
"Thou art the anointed  
cherub that covereth; and I have  
set thee so: thou wast upon the  
holy mountain of God; thou hast  
walked up and down in the midst  
of the stones of fire." Eze. 28: 14.  
God dwells in heaven,  
" sitting upon a throne, high  
and lifted up," in the great  
heavenly temple. Isa. 6 : 1.


The ark of the covenant  
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LUCIFER IN HEAVEN  19  
He is surrounded by "an innumerable company of angels," "ten  
thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands. "  
Heb. 12:22; Rev. 5: 11. When God gave instruction to Moses  
to build a dwelling place for him upon the earth, he had every- 
thing in the earthly tabernacle made "after the pattern"  
which he showed to Moses "in the mount." Ex. 25: 9, 40.  
That is, Moses was given a glimpse of the heavenly temple  
in which God dwells, and instructed to take it as a model  
for the building of the earthly tabernacle.  
In this earthly tabernacle there was a miniature repre- 
sentation of the throne of God in the heavens, fashioned after  
the pattern which Moses had seen. This was called the "ark  
of the covenant." A description of how this ark was made  
is given in the book of Exodus. Chap. 25 :10-22. It was a hollow  
chest, overlaid with gold, and having a cover made of solid  
gold which was called the mercy seat.  
On either side of this mercy seat, and wrought of the  
same piece of gold with it, were the figures of two angels,  
or cherubs.  
"And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering  
the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another;  toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. . . . And  
He delights in storms and destruction.


20  SATAN  
there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the  
mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark  
of the testimony." Ex. 25:20-22.  
This was a miniature of the throne of the Most High  
in the heavens. Of this throne in heaven, the Lord says:  
"The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the  
cherubims; let the earth be moved." Ps. 99: 1.  
Recalling the expression in Ezekiel, " Thou art the anointed  
cherub that covereth, " and keeping in mind this explanation  
of the throne of God, we can understand better the exalted  
position which Lucifer occupied at the court of the King of  
kings. He was one of the most exalted creatures there, and  
wielded power less in degree only to that of God and his only  
begotten Son. A great host of angels looked to him for leader- 
ship. His influence was wide, his power was great, honored  
as he was by the One whom all created intelligent creatures  
delighted to honor and serve and obey.  
What a peaceful and beautiful scene it all presents—the  
government and dominion of the God of heaven, whose king- 
dom ruleth over all! Throughout its boundless domain  
there was nothing to mar or make afraid. In peace and con-
tentment, and in absolute purity, dwelt the creatures who  
had been brought into existence by the creative power of God.  
Sin had not laid its blighting hand on any part of this wide- 
spread dominion. Disease and sickness were unknown. Pain  
and sorrow and death had never been felt by any of the in- 
habitants of that great kingdom. Love for God and for each  
other reigned supreme in every heart, and unutterable joy  
filled every breast, as all united in worship of their Maker.  
Winging their way out into the vastness of unmeasured space,  
they were privileged to visit the inhabitants of other worlds.  
And in the city of the Great King, bowing their heads in rever- 
ent adoration of the Lord of all worlds, they united their mag- 
nificent voices in far-sounding praise under the leadership  
of the majestic Lucifer. Privileged to eat of the fruit of the  
tree of life and drink of the water of the river of life, they were  
without fear of death, and looked forward to a never-ending  
existence. No thought of sin or death marred their happiness.  
Their hearts were filled with joy and peace as they basked


LUCIFER IN HEAVEN  21  
in the smiles of their loving and all-powerful Father. Such  
was the abode of Lucifer before sin entered his heart and  
took possession of his life.  
Lucifer the covering cherub.


CHAPTER III  
THE EXTENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD  
IT is important at the very beginning of our study of the origin  
of sin that we obtain an adequate conception of the vastness  
of the kingdom of God. Viewing this subject of the existence 
of evil and the origin and work of Satan from the standpoint 
of this world only, we shall never find any satisfactory  
solution to the great problem which it presents. But viewing  
it from the standpoint of the entire universe, with its un- 
numbered millions of created intelligences and its far-flung  
boundaries reaching out into infinite space, we may gain some  
slight idea of the majesty and justice of God in permitting  
Satan to work his will among the inhabitants of the earth.  
And so in this chapter we shall launch out upon a journey  
which will reveal to us something of the greatness of the do- 
minion over which Jehovah rules as King. In imagination  
we shall travel through the vast reaches of space which sepa- 
rate the various parts of the kingdom until thought and im-  
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THE EXTENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD  23  
agination fail and the heart faints with the greatness of the  
mind of God, who spoke it all into existence.  
The Vastness of the Earth  
Before starting upon this journey, let us view that part  
of the dominions of God upon which we dwell—the earth itself.  
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD  
"If we were to take our station on a mountain from which we could  see forty miles in every direction."


24  SATAN  
This earth is a globe 8,000 miles in diameter, and about  
25,000 miles in circumference. Its surface contains nearly 
200,000,000 square miles. It is diversified with great divisions  
of land and water, continents, oceans, islands; mountains which  
push their mighty heads through the clouds; depths of ocean  
which are unfathomed; vast subterraneous caverns; volcanoes  
belching flame; lakes, rivers, forests, and swelling hills; animals  
of every form and size, from the elephant to the ant; unnum- 
bered schools of fish, from the whale to the minnow, playing  
in the depths of the ocean; birds of all kinds and without  
number flying through the air above; and numerous tribes and  
nations of men who suppose themselves to be rulers of it all.  
It is only with laborious thought that the mind takes in  
the vastness of the bulk of the earth. If we were to take our  
station on a mountain from which we could see forty miles  
in every direction, a circle eighty miles in diameter, and 250  
miles around its outer rim, our eyes would cover an area of  
5,000 square miles. With the hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, villages,  
farms, roads, and cities which such a scene would present to  
the view, we should find it difficult readily to grasp it at once.  
But when our eye covers such an area, we are looking at but  
one forty-thousandth part of the entire area of the earth's  
surface. We must see 40,000 such views pass before us before  
we have seen all of the surface of the earth.  
And if we were to keep our station on that lofty mountain  
peak while one such scene as this passed before our eyes every  
hour, and we devoted twelve hours every day, day after day,  
to this work, we should be compelled to remain there nine  
years and forty-eight days before we had seen the whole sur- 
face of this majestic ball upon which we dwell. And then most  
of the objects would have passed by us at a distance of from 
one to forty miles, which would make most of the view in- 
distinct.  
And should we be determined to see everything distinctly  
before we leave on our long journey to other planets and  
systems, and come down from the mountain top to walk  
through every square mile of the surface of the earth, and  
walk thirty miles every day, 18,264 years would pass before  
we had finished our journey. If we had started when Adam  
was created we should now be but one-third through.


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And consider the bulk of the earth. It is eight thousand  
miles through it; that is, its solid contents amount to 263,- 
858,149,120 cubic miles. After laborious effort the mind fails  
to take in the thought of such a vast amount of matter. How 
great must be the power of Jehovah who spoke it all into  
existence! How limitless must be his might "who hath mea- 
sured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out  
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the  
earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and  
the hills in a balance. " Isa. 40: 12.  
Thus, before we have left our own domain, we find our- 
selves bewildered at the immensity of a world which is among  
the smallest of the planets, and we have advanced but a single  
step upon our journey into the dominions of the God of all the  
universe. This globe of ours, yes, even the entire solar system,  
is but as "a drop in the bucket" in comparison with the ma- 
terial universe over which God presides.  
The Solar System  
But we have taken no more than the first step upon our  
journey, and we must hasten on. Taking our flight out into  
the planetary system, the system that is controlled by our  
sun, which is its center, we find that one of the planets is 780  
times as large as the earth, and is encircled by a ring which  
reaches out from its surface nearly as far as the moon is from  
the surface of the earth. Another of these planets is 1,400 
times as large as the earth, though it appears but a bright  
star to the naked eye at night. Taking all of the great orbs  
which circle around the sun, we find they contain a mass  
of matter 2,500 times greater than that of the earth.  
And that great ball which controls them all, and dis- 
penses to them all light and warmth—the sun—is 740 times  
greater than all the planets together, and 1,300,000 times  
larger than the earth, throwing the light and warmth out  
from its surface to the outermost planet, which is 2,790,000,000  
miles away. The eye or the imagination can contemplate no  
more glorious and magnificent object than this, wielding its  
controlling influence over the planets which swing through  
space around, governing this great family with a power which  
never for one instant fails.


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Mercury is the nearest of the planets to the sun, being  
36,000,000 miles distant; Venus is 67,500,000 miles away; the  
earth, 93,000,000; Mars, 141,500,000; Jupiter, 483,300,000;  
Saturn, 886,000,000; Uranus, 1,780,000,000; and Neptune,  
2,790,000,000. Taking a copper cent to represent the weight  
of the earth, Mercury and Mars, in comparison, would be as  
large as the old three-cent piece; Venus, as a ten-cent piece;  
Uranus, as a dollar and three quarters; Neptune as two dollars;  
Saturn, as eleven dollars; and Jupiter, as thirty-seven dollars.  
The Stellar System  
And now we have reached the outermost rim of our solar  
system, and look for new worlds to conquer. But where shall  
we begin? The universe before us is swimming with myriads  
of stars and systems. Out at an inconceivable distance beyond  
our solar system is the stellar system,—the system of the stars.  
On a clear winter night about two thousand of these stars  
can be seen with the naked eye, and as each one of these stars  
is a great sun like our own, undoubtedly surrounded as ours  
Myriads of stars and systems


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Destruetive forces are abroad in the earth.  
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28  SATAN  
is with planets controlled by this central luminary, there lies  
before us a mass of matter equal to two thousand solar systems,  
or to 1,500,000,000 globes of the size of the earth. But when  
we realize that the stars which can be perceived by the eye  
do not compose one one-hundred-thousandth part of those  
which can be seen through a large telescope, some idea can  
be faintly grasped of the length of the journey before us. In  
parts of the sky where the eye can not discern more than  
twenty stars, the telescope will reveal thousands.  
And out beyond the uttermost reaches of human vision,  
aided as it is by powerful glasses, undoubtedly there are myri-
ads of vast orbs rushing through space, unknown to man.  
With each new telescope that is stronger than those which  
have preceded it, new vistas are being opened up, and new  
stars being found which are far beyond those which have  
been previously discovered.  
Traveling with the Light  
Traveling out to these magnificent bodies we must find  
some mode of traversing space faster than anything known  
on earth, for the fastest cannon ball ever shot from the mouth 
of a gun could not traverse this space in a million years. The  
very nearest star to the earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles  
away. Its name is Alpha Centauri. And should we visit  
Polaris, or the North Star, we must travel over 276,000,000,- 
000,000 miles. So we must go with the light, which travels  
186,000 miles, or more than seven times around the earth, in  
the space of a single second.  
But traveling even at this terrific pace, it will take con- 
siderable time even to reach the nearest stars. At the rate  
light travels, we should not reach Alpha Centauri until four and  
one-third years had passed, and it would take forty-seven  
years to get to the North Star. So after we had traveled the  
2,697,000,000 miles from our earth to the outermost planet,  
or Neptune, we have taken only a faltering step into illimit- 
able space, compared to the first step of the child beginning  
to walk. And when we have gotten this much nearer the  
stars, there appears no change in them,—they seem as far  
away as before. There are still immense reaches of space be- 
tween us and the stars—so great, in fact, that thought fails in


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the effort to bridge it, and even our imagination is useless here.  
Rushing through Space  
The stars are suns. Our sun is a star itself, and seen from  
other stars its appearance would be that of a small star. All  
the stars, together with the sun and our entire solar system,  
are rushing through space at a very fast rate. The speed of  
the cannon ball is no more than a thousand miles an hour,  
which bears no comparison to the rate with which the heavenly  
bodies are moving. When it is considered that if the mean  
density of the earth were but two and a half times that of  
water, it would weigh 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and  
that just one of the planets is 89,000 miles in diameter, and  
would take into its vast circumference more than a thousand  
globes the size of the earth, it is wonderful that such vast  
masses of matter should move at all. But Jupiter, with all  
its immensity, is moving in its orbit about the sun at the  
rate of 29,000 miles an hour, Venus at 76,000 miles an hour,  
and Mercury at 150,000 miles an hour, or 1,750 miles a minute,  
hundreds of times swifter than a cannon ball. Surely we must  
exclaim with the redeemed whom John saw, "Great and mar- 
velous are thy works, Lord God Almighty" (Rev. 15: 3), and  
ask with the Psalmist, "0 Lord God of hosts, who is a strong  
Lord like unto thee?" (Ps. 89: 8), and say with Moses, "Thy  
right hand,  0  Lord, is become glorious in power" (Ex. 15: 6).  
The stars are at such distances from us in our rapid flight  
through space that no change can be noticed in their positions, 
though they are moving as fast as any of the planets, if not  
faster.  
Arcturus with His Sons  
Centuries ago, in the land of Uz, God asked Job the ques- 
tion, "Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" Job 38:32.  
Arcturus is a star which is said to be 950 millions of millions  
of miles from the earth. It is one of the brightest of the stars.  
So distant is it that it takes light traveling at the rate of 186,- 
000 miles a second, 181 years to reach this earth from it. The  
sun is nearly a million miles in diameter, but Arcturus is said  
to be a thousand times as large as the sun. So much brighter  
is Arcturus than the sun that if the sun were placed at an


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INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE  
"The enemy comes in like a flood."  
equal distance from the earth it would be necessary to use a  
powerful telescope to find it.  
Inasmuch as Arcturus is so much larger than the sun,  
it is reasonable to suppose it has a proportionately larger  
number of worlds circling it in their orbits than the sun. And  
with all these rushing worlds it sweeps grandly through space  
at the rate of two hundred sixty miles a second, never a second  
out of time, guided by that Master Mind whose throne, with-
out doubt, it encircles. Well might Job say, "Behold, I am  
vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon  
my mouth. " Job 40 : 4.  
But the Outlying Borders of God's Works  
While we have begun the journey into space (for these  
are but the outlying borders of God's works), yet here we  
must stop for a brief space, for we can not go farther with our  
finite wisdom. Let us pause here with reverence and wonder.  
Over all these rushing orbs God presides. This is his kingdom,  
and we have seen but a small part of it. Throughout all these  
objects, and among all these intelligences, he is ever present.  
All of its complicated movements are guided by his unerring  
wisdom. By his Word in the beginning it emerged from nothing.


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Satan is pleased to keep the young in a whirl of amusements and  
thus lead them to forget their souls' salvation.  
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32  SATAN  
"He spake, and  it  was done; he commanded, and  it  stood fast."  
"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of  
them by the breath of his mouth." Ps. 33: 9, 6.  
Surely we can say with David, "The heavens declare  
the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork."  
Ps. 19: 1. It is here in these vast realms of the universe, the  
chamber of the Eternal, that we behold the might of the Mighty,  
the strength of the Strong, the wisdom of the Wise, the lore  
of the Learned, the made of the Maker, the order of the Or-
derer, the glory of the Glorious; and we see, though our eyes  
be dim, and our minds untaught, the majesty of the Designer  
who so reflects himself in all his works. It is thus we should  
look upon the universe in all its awful grandeur—the earth,  
sun, stars, moon, planets; and we shall confess that these,  
without life, or power, or purpose, or thought, or will, unable  
to build up or destroy, to end or to begin, to hold or advance,  
to be or not to be, declare there is a God.  
Architraves of Eternities  
"An angel once took a man . . . and lifted him up into space to  
show him the glory of the universe. . . . The man ceased to be cowardly,  
and was ready to fly with the angel past galaxy after galaxy, and infinity 
after infinity, and so man and angel passed on, viewing the universe, until  
the sun was out of sight—until our solar system appeared but as a speck of  
light against the black empyrean, and there was only darkness. And they 
looked onward, and in the infinities of light before, a speck of light appeared  
and suddenly they were in the midst of rushing worlds. But they passed  
beyond that system, and beyond system after system, and infinity after  
infinity, until the human heart sank, and the man cried out: 'End is there  
none of the universe of God?' The angel strengthened the man with words of  
counsel and courage, and they flew on again until worlds left behind them  
were out of sight, and specks of light before them were transformed as they  
approached them into rushing systems.  
"They moved over architraves of eternities, over pillars of immensities,  
over architecture of galaxies, unspeakable  in dimensions and duration, and  
the human heart sank again and cried out: End is there none of the universe  
of God?' And all the stars echoed the question with amazement: 'End is  
there none of the universe of God?' And this echo found no answer.  
"They moved on again past immensities of immensities, and eternities  
of eternities, until  in the dizziness of uncounted galaxies the human heart  
sank for the last time, and called out: 'End is there none of the universe of  
God?' And all the stars repeated the question. And the angel answered:  
End there is none of the universe of God. Lo, also, there is no be- ginning. ,  
The Language of the Universe  
The universe speaks a language of its own, which we  
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satisfaction. More sweet than the music of the spheres is its  
varied wisdom if it tells us of Might which we can not hold,  
of Power which we can not reach, of Lore which we may be- 
hold but not all contain, of Wisdom whereof we can scarcely  
know the measure, of Majesty, and Grace, and Grandeur  
which shall wrap our souls in speechless amazement, and fill  
our minds with vast consternation of thought, for we shall  
be as one devoid of wisdom. Yet amid all our confusion and 
deep amazement we shall discern a wisdom we can not other- 
wise perceive, and shall discover a knowledge which shall  
banish all our thought of doubt and unbelief.  
And this, my brother man, is our Father's house. As  I  
write of it for you to read  I  find in my heart a vast longing  
to go home.  I  want to continue that journey with you through  
the ever-expanding regions of space, and press on to the utter- 
most borders of the Father's dominion. May you make sure  
that in the time to come this journey shall be continued under  
the guidance of him who created all these things, and who  
upholds them all.  
At the court of the King of this heavenly empire, Lucifer,  
the angel of light and glory, ministered—the respected, loved 
leader of a great number of the angels. Like flashes of light  
they winged their way to the farthest stars and planets on  
errands for the great King. Love reigned supreme in the  
heavenly kingdom, and joy and happiness filled every heart.  
The cloud of the coming revolt against the Majesty of heaven  
had not yet cast its shadow over any mind  
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CHAPTER IV  
THE OTHER WORLDS ARE INHABITED  
THE  other planets of the solar system and the millions of  
worlds of the stellar system are inhabited by intelligent  
and reasoning creatures. This is more than a theory. It is  
a fact for which there is abundant evidence.  
And it is important that those who study the question of  
the origin of Satan and of sin should be familiar with the truth  
that there is a plurality of inhabited worlds, for we shall not  
be able to understand why God permitted Satan to sin and to  
introduce sin into this world unless we realize that the de- 
cision of the great controversy between good and evil affects  
much more than one small planet. Not only are the inhabi- 
tants of this world learning lessons of eternal value by their  
experience with sin, but their experience is affording a demon- 
stration of the love and justice of the Creator which could  
have been given in no other way.  
It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to the student  
of this great question fully to understand that the other worlds  
are inhabited. And in order that this truth may be clearly es-  
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THE OTHER WORLDS ARE INHABITED  35  
tablished, this chapter will be devoted to a consideration of 
the evidence which proves it.  
In the preceding chapter we have caught a glimpse of  
the immensity of the dominion of the great King of kings.  
Such a wonderful system of worlds, suns, stars, and planets  
must have been brought into existence by the Creator for some  
purpose which would be worthy of his infinite wisdom and love.  
It would be utterly unreasonable to suppose all these rushing  
worlds and systems were created merely to afford a few as- 
tronomers in these days an awe-inspiring spectacle. Even  
men have some purpose in making the things which are formed  
by their hands. To say that God had no other purpose in the  
creation of the universe than to afford himself the pleasure of  
seeing these great globes whirl through space, would be to  
charge him with folly.  
The Divine Purpose in Creation  
The Creator himself informs us of the purpose he had  
in creating this earth. He says :  
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36  SATAN  
"For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that  
formed the earth and made it; he hath established it,  he created it not in vain,  
he formed it to be inhabited:  I am the Lord; and there is none else. " Isa. 45: 18.  
Here is a plain declaration that for the Lord to have  
created the world without the purpose of peopling it would  
have been a piece of folly. "He created it not in vain, he formed  
it to be inhabited." If this earth had not been populated it  
would have been created in vain. If it had been left empty  
and useless it would have been created in vain. This world  
exists for the sake of intelligent and reasoning beings.  
With this thought before us, and the additional considera- 
tion that the combined surface of all the planets of the solar  
system alone is equivalent to 27,000 such worlds as ours,  
we are forced to the conclusion that it would have been in- 
finitely greater folly to create that vast amount of space to  
be useless and empty. From this verse alone we are led to  
conclude that the other planets are inhabited.  
The Vast Population of the Universe  
As David, the sweet singer of Israel, viewed the glory  
of the heavens while out on the plains of Judea at night, he  
exclaimed:  
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and  
the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful  
of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" Ps. 8: 3, 4.  
If all the planets and the unnumbered worlds of the stellar  
system were devoid of inhabitants, and there were no in- 
telligent beings in the universe beside man and a compara-
tively small company of angels, such an exclamation as this  
of the Psalmist's would be without reason or emphasis, for  
there would be nothing remarkable under those circumstances  
in the Creator's exercising particular care over one-half of his  
intelligent creatures. If the inhabitants of this earth are the  
only rational beings in the universe, the Psalmist would not be  
justified in uttering such an exclamation. But David knew  
that the universe was composed of many worlds, peopled with  
myriads of intellectual beings of various orders, and when he  
thought of this he became so affected by the idea of the vast  
population of the universe that he seems to have been fearful  
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of  beings who must come under the care and superintendence  
of Jehovah.  
Guiding his pen by inspiration, Isaiah writes:  
" Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted  
out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a  
measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?  
Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught  
him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him  
in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the  
way of understanding?  Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are  
counted as the small dust of the balance:  behold, he taketh up the isles as a  
very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof  
sufficient for a burnt-offering.  All nations before him are as nothing; and  
they are counted to him as less than nothing,  and vanity." Isa. 40:12-17.  
"Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand?"  
If the supposition that man occupies the principal station  
in the material universe, and is the only rational being within 
its vast confines, is correct, there would be no propriety 
in making such declarations as that "the nations are as a drop  
of a bucket, " and "the small dust of the balance, " and  
"are as nothing, " and "less than nothing," for such state- 
ments would be contrary to fact. If all the rolling orbs of heaven  
were destitute of life, Isaiah would never have penned those  
verses.  
Peopled with Myriads of Inhabitants  • 
"Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven  
of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein,  
the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host  
of heaven worshipeth thee. " Neh. 9: 6.


38  SATAN  
Such expressions would mean nothing if the other worlds  
were not inhabited. It seems clear that they would not have  
been written by an inspired writer unless they were meant  
to teach what they strongly imply, that the universe is great  
and extensive, utterly beyond the limits of human compre- 
hension; that its worlds and systems are peopled with myriads  
of inhabitants; that these beings are in possession of intellec- 
tual natures, and fully capable of appreciating the perfections  
and attributes of their Creator; and that they unite in adoring 
and honoring him. "The host of heaven worshipeth thee."  
So small and insignificant in number are the inhabitants  
of this earth in comparison with the entire population of the  
universe that they are said to be "as grasshoppers."  
"It is  he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabit-  
ants thereof are as grasshoppers;  that stretchest out the heavens as a curtain,  
and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in."  Isa. 40: 22.  
The far outspread heavens, therefore, exist for the specific  
purpose of being dwelt in, and this is here clearly stated.  
That the heavens are inhabited is seen again in the verses  
penned by John on the Isle of Patmos:  
"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil,  
and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth 
and his angels were cast out with him." "Therefore, rejoice,  ye  
heavens, and ye that dwell in them.  Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of  
the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he  
knoweth that he hath but a short time. " Rev. 12: 9, 12.  
Legions of Intelligences  
The following passages of Scripture all bear on the sub- 
j ect of this chapter, and need little, if any, comment:  
"And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, 0 Lord thy faithfulness  
also in the congregation of the saints. For who in the heaven can be compared  
unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto  
the Lord?" Ps. 89: 5, 6.  
"The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom  
ruleth over all." Ps. 103: 19.  
"Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens; praise  
him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.  
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him,  
ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them  
praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.  
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which 
shall not pass.", Ps. 148: 1-6.  
"Thine, 0 Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the  
victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is


A view of the nebula of Orion  
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40  SATAN  
thine; thine is the kingdom, 0 Lord, and thou art exalted as head above  
all." 1 Chron. 29: 11.  "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he  
doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabi- 
tants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest  
thou?" Dan. 4:35.  "The Lord is good to all: and his mercies are over all his works. All  
thy works shall praise thee, 0 Lord; and thy saints shall bless thee." Ps.  
145 : 9, 10.  "For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth  
unto the clouds." Ps. 108:4.  "The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.  
Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth  
himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!" Ps.  
113: 4-6.  
There are numerous other passages which might be pointed  
out as bearing on this subject, but these that have been  
selected will serve as a key to illustrate many others, as they  
may come under the observation of the student of the Bible.  
Attention is directed to the force of such expressions as Jehovah  
doing according to his will "in the army," or armies, "of  
heaven," as well as "among the inhabitants of the earth;"  
and to the thought that the entire population of this earth  
"is reputed as nothing in his sight." Notice also the expres- 
sions found in different parts of the Psalms regarding the  
inhabitants of the heavens, and "the heaven of heavens,"  
the "angels who excel in strength," "all his hosts," or legions  
of intelligences, "in all places of his dominion, who do his  
pleasure, hearkening to the voice of his word."  
All these ranks of intelligent creatures are exhorted to  
unite in one glorious song of praise and thanksgiving to "him  
whose name alone is exalted, and whose glory is above the  
earth and heaven."  
The book of Job contains many descriptions of the gran- 
deur of Jehovah. Among them we read that "by his Spirit  
the heavens are garnished," and that the astounding displays  
of his omnipotent power which are revealed in the heavens  
"are but the outskirts of his ways: and how small a whisper  
do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can  
understand?" Job 26: 13, 14, A. R. V.  
Many Inhabited Worlds in the Universe  
Surely these verses, and the many others which bear on  
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that there are many inhabited worlds existing in the universe,  
all of which are included in the territory of the kingdom of God.  
It can not be disputed that there are numerous bodies in  
the universe of God which have a surface area adequate to  
contain vast hosts of intelligent beings, and to give them en- 
joyment. A study of many of these bodies has revealed con- 
ditions strikingly similar to those of this earth itself, such as daily  
and yearly motions, moons, atmospheres, light, heat, and color,  
which things would be necessary only to provide happiness  
and existence to intelligent beings. These same conditions  
seem to exist on this earth solely for the sake of living beings.  
When these passages of Scripture and the arguments  
adduced from them are considered in connection with the  
wisdom and other attributes of God, they surely appear to  
amount not only to a high degree of probability, but to an 
actual certainty, that the great systems which swing through  
space under the direction of Jehovah are peopled with myriads  
and myriads of created intelligences, created for their happiness  
and his glory, and of every rank and order.  
Highest in rank above them all was Lucifer, the "Son of  
the Morning," the leader of the great choir of heaven, standing  
in the presence and in the court of the great King of the universe.  
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"The moon."


Outlawed angels  
CHAPTER V  
THE APOSTASY OF SATAN  
THERE was a time when Satan was "in the truth." But  
he " abode not in the truth." John 8 : 44. That is, he  
became an apostate, the leader of a great apostasy against God.  
The Bible contains several references bearing on the  
causes of his apostasy, and from a study of these passages  
a clear idea can .be gained as to the reasons for the transforma- 
tion of Lucifer into the devil.  
In speaking of the qualifications of a bishop, or elder,  
in the church of Christ, Paul uses this language: " Not a novice,  
lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation  
of the devil. " 1 Tim. 3: 6. Such a remark would be without  
point unless it had been a known and accepted fact that the  
devil had been condemned for pride.  
While Lucifer in heaven occupied a highly exalted station,  
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THE APOSTASY OF SATAN  43  
there were beings who were far above him. These were the  
Father and the Son.. The angels worshiped the Father as  
Creator of all things, and the Son was co-equal with the Father  
in creation, and the Father had said, "Let all the angels of  
God worship him." Heb. 1: 6. Therefore the Son also re- 
ceived the worship of the heavenly host, and, with the rest,  
the worship of Lucifer.  
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44  SATAN  
The Son of God was supreme over all the works of crea- 
tion, for he was "the express image" of the Father's person,  
"the brightness of his glory," and he upheld "all things by 
the word of his power. " Heb. 1: 3. High over all the angels  
of heaven he reigned, and over the unnumbered intelligences  
of the other worlds, and his rule was a rule of love. The angels  
delighted to serve and obey him.  
A Service of Love  
This service and obedience was that of love, a love which  
was the result of their knowledge and appreciation of the  
character of Christ. This is the only kind of service that God  
desires, and he does desire this from all his creatures. He  
takes no delight in forced obedience, and all the creatures  
whom he has brought into existence have been given freedom of 
will to serve him or not as they may choose. But until Lucifer  
apostatized, all the angels had chosen to obey and serve God,  
knowing, as they did, the beauty and righteousness of his  
character. Everything throughout the vast reaches of the  
heavenly kingdom had been perfectly harmonious. The ut- 
most joy and delight was taken by the heavenly host in ful- 
filling the purpose of their Creator. They loved God su- 
premely, and each other unselfishly.  
But a change came. Lucifer found the adoration and  
high regard of the angels who were under his leadership very  
pleasant and gratifying, and earnestly desired it to continue  
and increase. But there was One whom they honored and  
adored more than they did himself, yea, they even worshiped  
him, the Prince of the kingdom, the Son of God. Dissatis- 
faction crept into the heart of Lucifer, and he began to look  
upon the high position of the Son of God with envy and desire.  
Instead of banishing these thoughts at once, he cherished them, 
turning them over in his mind, until he became convinced  
that for such a bright and glorious and wise being as himself 
to be kept in a subordinate position was the height of injustice.  
"Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast  
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness. " Eze. 28 : 17.  
Dissatisfaction of Lucifer  
Little by little this dissatisfaction grew upon hira, and


THE APOSTASY OF SATAN  45  
the feeling took possession of him that the more exalted posi- 
tion which he believed his talents and ability and attributes  
entitled him to occupy was being unjustly kept from him.  
His heart grew sore and resentful, he coveted the honor and •  
worship which was rendered to Christ.  
This mighty angel forgot that all his talents and ability  
and glory came from his Creator. He forgot that he had nothing  
and was nothing except as it had been given to him by God.  
He came to believe that his attributes pertained solely to  
himself, and he began to look upon himself as a rival to God  
in the government of the universe who had been unjustly de-  
A service of love.  
prived of his rights by One stronger than himself. He deter- 
mined to secure these rights at all hazards. "Thou hast said  
in thine heart, . . . I will exalt my throne above the  
stars of God: . . . I will be like the most High." Isa.  
14: 13, 14.  
Having conceived this purpose in his heart, Lucifer  did  
not come out openly against God at once, but went silently


"He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."  
46


THE APOSTASY OF SATAN  47  
about the work of sowing seeds of rebellion among the other  
angels. Heretofore he had sought to make God supreme in  
the thoughts and affections of those under his leadership,  
but he now sought to secure their allegiance and loyalty to  
himself.  
The Harmony of Heaven Broken  
Thus was broken that perfect harmony which had existed  
in heaven. So insidiously did Lucifer press his insinuations  
Messengers sent to warn Adam and Eve of their danger.  
and covert suggestions against the justice of God that they  
were not at first recognized by the other angels in their true  
light. Some manifested sympathy for Lucifer, and took his side.  
It is believed that Revelation 12: 4 indicates that the number  
of the angels who united with Lucifer in his revolt against  
the government of God was one-third of the total number  
of the angels in heaven.  
And now began that war in heaven of which John, in his  
vision on Patmos, was given a view which covered its entire  
history, from the time of its origin in heaven to its close in


48  SATAN  
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD  
Satan leads men into gross idolatry.  
the destruction of the enemies of God in the lake of fire at the  
close of the millennium.  
God did not permit this disaffection to spread to all the  
universe. This would have been unwise. He made provision  
for it to be limited within certain confines. To this end, as the  
first result of the rebellion, Satan and his angels were expelled 
from heaven, being cast out into this earth.  
"And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against  
the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither


THE APOSTASY OF SATAN  49  
was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast  
out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the  
whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out  
with him." Rev. 12:-7-9.  
Satan knew that  it  was the plan of God to people this  
earth, as the other worlds had been peopled, with a race of  
intelligent creatures, and he determined to thwart this plan  
by causing the human race to join him in his revolt against  
the Majesty of heaven.  
"And causes them to torture themselves in all sorts of ways."


The first death.  
CHAPTER VI  
THE FALL OF MAN  
THE purpose of God in creating the earth was that it might be  
inhabited by a pure and holy race of beings. He declares:  
"He created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited."  
Isa. 45: 18. In accordance with this purpose, "God created  
man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;  
male and female created he them. " Gen. 1: 27.  
His purpose for the human race is outlined in this language:  
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and  
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over  
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing  
that moveth upon the earth." Gen. 1: 28.  
When man was placed upon the earth he was crowned  
with "honor and glory, " and made but a "little lower than  
the angels. " Ps. 8 : 5. -   And God meant that men should con- 
tinue to retain this likeness to himself not only in physical  
form, but also in character. He designed that this earth should  
be the abiding place of purity and holiness.  
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"The right to eat of the tree of life was  taken  away, and the first pair were driven  from the garden."  

THE FALL OF MAN  51  
The Divine Plan  
Man was to multiply on the face of the earth. That is,  
he was to bring into existence a great multitude of beings such  
as he was himself, pure and holy, all of them retaining their  
likeness to God. These beings were never to die, for they were  
to have access to the tree of life which was placed in the midst  
of the garden of Eden, the fruit of which they might "freely eat. "  
And as they increased and filled the earth they were to con- 
stitute the kingdom of God on earth, which, as each subject  
possessed eternal life, was to remain on the earth forever.  
God also instructed them to "subdue" the earth. As  
children were born and went out over the earth, they were to  
take the garden of  
Eden which God  
had planted in the  
east as an example  
of what they were  
to make the entire  
earth. It was the  
design of God that  
the whole earth  
should become a  
great paradise for  
the dwelling -place  
of the creatures he  
had made.  
A Reminder of  
God's Sover- 
eignty  
In the garden  
of Eden, "out of  
the ground made  
the Lord God to  
grow every tree that  
is pleasant to the  
sight, and good for  
food; the tree of life  
also in the midst of  
the garden, and the


52  SATAN  
tree of knowledge of good and evil." Gen. 2: 9. There was  
nothing lacking in the garden which would have been for the  
welfare of man.  
"And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden  
to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying,  
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the  
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that  
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. " Gen. 2: 15-17.  
This tree was placed there as a constant and ever present  
reminder of the sovereignty and ownership of God, and as  
a test of their love and obedience to their Creator. The warn- 
ing not to eat of this tree was the only restriction placed upon  
them as to the use of all that was in the garden. Therefore it  
was the only possible point of attack on the part of the devil.  
Perfect in symmetry, beauty and stature, the first pair  
were the head of the creation. All things were placed under  
their feet. Under their dominion was placed every living thing  
on the earth. And they enjoyed unrestricted communion  
with their Creator, speaking with him face to face. Their  
visitors and companions were the angels of heaven, who doubt- 
less told them of the fall of Satan and his hosts, and warned  
them to be on their guard against his wiles.  
Satan saw the peace and joy of the holy pair in the garden,  
and was tormented by this reminder of the happiness which  
he had forever forfeited. Determined to thwart God's plan,  
he set himself to undermine the loyalty and allegiance of man- 
kind to God, and to take him captive, thus ruining his happi- 
ness, while at the same time gaining him as an adherent in his  
controversy with the Father. Fondly hoping to defeat the plans  
of God in the creation of the earth and the race, he laid his  
plans to deceive and cause the fall of man.  
The Temptation of Eve  
Knowing that the man had been warned against him  
as the one who had been cast out of heaven, he realized that  
he could not appear to him openly. So he chose as his instru- 
ment one of the creatures which God had made, hoping if  
he succeeded that the man would be led to charge God with  
fault. The serpent at that time was one of the most beautiful  
of animals, having wings with which it flew into the trees,  
where it nourished itself with fruit. Speaking through the



54  [her seed] shall bruise thy head, and thou [Satan] shalt bruise his heel."


THE FALL OF MAN  55  
serpent, Satan caused Eve first to doubt the wisdom of God in  
withholding the fruit of this tree from them, boldly declaring  
that God knew all the time that if they did eat it they would  
beCome as wise and powerful as himself. Then, leading her  
on, he told her that God merely designed to frighten her  
by telling her that she should die if she ate of the fruit, that  
there was no truth in such a statement, and no harm in the fruit.  
Believing the words of the arch-deceiver, which ran so  
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD  
As a result of the fall often men have been thrown into the horrors of war.  
closely by the side of her own desire, Eve took the fruit of the  
tree as it was handed her by the serpent, and ate it. Under 
the influence of the devil, she imagined that she was becoming  
like a god. Rejoicing in what she mistakenly thought was  
a new and higher state of existence, she immediately thought  
of Adam, and gathering more of the forbidden fruit she hastened  
to him with it, urging him to eat, relating her own ex- 
perience, assured him that the fruit was perfectly harm- 
less.


56  SATAN  
The Fall of Adam  
In  utter dismay Adam listened to his wife, fully recogniz- 
ing that she had been overthrown by the very enemy against  
whom the angels had warned them. He realized that this  
sin of hers would eternally separate her from him, unless he  
ate with her of the fruit, and he resolved that if she was to die  
he would die with her. He would at least join her  in  her fate.  
Taking some of the fruit, he ate of it.  
It was not long until the guilty pair in the garden fully  
realized what they had done. A fear of the consequences  
of their transgression took possession of them, and when they  
heard the voice of Jehovah in the garden they hastily hid them- 
selves, feeling that they could not look into his face. They  
saw themselves as they were, and they were afraid of God.  
In answering the question God asked him, "Hast thou  
eaten of the tree, whereof  I commanded thee that thou should- 
est not eat?" Adam was forced to tell of his sin, but in doing  
so he laid the blame on the woman and on God by saying,  
" The woman whom thou gayest to be with me, she gave me  
of the tree, and  I did eat." Turning to the woman, God said,  
"What is this that thou bast done?" And she also joined in  
a covert reproach against God by saying, "The serpent be- 
guiled me, and I did eat?" Gen. 3:11,12.  
Under a Divine Sentence  
By this sin of our first parents the sentence  of  death was  
passed upon all mankind. A curse was pronounced upon the  
ground, and man was condemned to a life of toil. The right  
to eat of the tree of life was taken away, and the first pair were  
driven from the garden, angels being placed at its entrance to  
keep them from entering and partaking again of the tree of  
life. With deepest sorrow they left their Eden home.  
But here, at the very beginning of their new life, a gleam  
of hope was given to them which kept' them from being al- 
together cast down. In cursing the serpent for his deception,  
God had said:  
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between  
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his  
heel." Gen. 3: 15.  
In  these words the  exiled pair found a  promise of ulti-


THE FALL OF MAN  57  
mate victory over sin and death, though they saw also that there  
would be constant strife and warfare between themselves and  
their mighty foe. But they knew that the way would be opened  
so that they would not be utterly abandoned to the power  
of the devil, and in this promise they rested in hope.  
Adam and Eve cast out.


UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD  A heavy toll.  
CHAPTER VII  
WHY DID GOD PERMIT  SIN ?  
IT is impossible to discuss the origin of sin without the question  
arising, Why was sin permitted? If God knows all things,  
—the end from the beginning—he surely knew what the result  
of sin would be if it were permitted to obtain a foothold in this  
earth. Why, then, did he allow it? We are instructed that  
God loves his children even more than human parents love  
their children, and that he continually seeks to bring blessings  
into their lives and guard them against harm. Why, then,  
knowing, as he did, all that sin would mean, did he permit  
this flood-tide of evil, sin, misery, anguish, disease, sorrow,  
and death to sweep over the world where he had placed the  
human race?  
We may be sure that God has a purpose in it all, and  
that his purpose is good. As we study this purpose and the  
reasons why he permitted sin to find an entrance into this  
world, we shall see that this, too, is but an additional demon- 
stration of the unfailing love and justice of God for all his  
creatures.  
We must consider at the very outset of our study that  
the angels were in a much more difficult position to judge  
what the outcome of sin would mean than we are. They  
knew nothing of sin, while we have had a practical demon- 
stration of evil and its consequences during the entire period  
58


WHY DID GOD PERMIT SIN?  59  
of our lives, and we know from experience that sin is an evil  
thing, and will result only in evil. None of the created intel- 
ligences of the other worlds had known anything of sin. They  
had never seen anyone sin. No such thing existed.  
Freedom of Choice  
They were under a beneficent government which they  
knew was good, but there was no way by which they could be  
sure that another form of government would not be better,  
for there was no other form, and never had been. They had  
never known anything but the principles which governed the  
great kingdom of heaven. It is true that the knowledge of  
these principles was sufficient for their eternal happiness.  
But as they were free moral agents, and could choose to dis- 
obey God as well as obey him, there is no question that thoughts  
must have entered their minds as to what the results of dis- 
obedience would be. Doubtless there was a tendency to ex- 
periment with the law of God, and a wonder as to what would  
'UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD  
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60  SATAN  
occur if it was broken. Even before Lucifer indulged in such  
thoughts and permitted them to lead him into outright re- 
bellion and revolt, there may have been other angels who had  
struggled with the same impulses. But these others had sup- 
pressed them, and resisted them, and put them away as un- 
worthy, and continued their unswerving loyalty to God.  
Lucifer, however, turned these things over in his mind  
and cherished them, and permitted his mind to dwell long on  
them, until with his desire for self-exaltation they swept him  
from his moorings and out into open rebellion against God.  
God saw that in the sight of all the inhabitants of the uni- 
verse, there must be such a demonstration of what sin is and  
what its results would be, as would enable them to see  
and know and understand that the principles of the kingdom  
of God were based upon love and mercy and justice, and  
that no better form of government was possible. Until such  
a demonstration was made before the angels, it is plain that  
there would always be the tendency upon their part to ex- 
periment with sin. There was but one way for them ever  
really to know what the result of sin would be, and that was to  
permit them to see a demonstration of it with their own eyes.  
Limiting the Rebellion  
So when one of their number, Lucifer, began to question  
the justice of God and the wisdom of the principles under- 
lying his government, for the sake of the eternal happiness  
of all his creatures God permitted Lucifer to carry forward  
his work of rebellion. He permitted him fully to develop his  
plans, though the time' came when it would have been folly  
to allow him to develop them in heaven itself, and thus involve  
some from all the worlds in the destruction which must in- 
evitably come upon sin and sinners. Hence God limited the  
field of Lucifer's operations by casting him and his angels out  
into the earth.  
When it became plain that there was no hope of saving  
Lucifer himself, instead of immediately destroying him God  
permitted him to continue his work of rebellion, and thus  
demonstrate before all the universe the righteousness and  
holiness and love of God.  
It will help us to understand the wisdom of God in per-


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62  SATAN  
Satan excites the passions of men, women and children by the  
dramatization of vice and crime.  
mitting Satan to continue his work if we consider the results  
which would have followed if God had taken the opposite  
course and destroyed him at once when it became evident  
that he would not return to his allegiance to God.  
Voluntary, Not Compulsory Service Desired  
Suppose, then, in order to protect the inhabitants of  
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WHY DID GOD PERMIT  SIN?  63  
destroyed Lucifer at once. There is no question that he could  
have done  so, and the fact that  he did not do so is evidence  
that there was a wiser course to follow. To have destroyed  
Satan at once, while it would have checked one rebel,  
would not have destroyed the spirit of rebellion. In fact,  
it would have spread it. As soon as such an act had been  
performed, all of the remainder of God's creatures would have  
served God indeed for a time, but from the motive of fear  
rather than love. Their service would have been based upon  
the fear of punishment if they did not render service, and in 
their minds all the charges which Lucifer had advanced against  
God and his government would have been substantiated,  
and the government of God would have appeared to  them  
nothing  less than a despotism. The  rebellion would not  have  
been destroyed, for other angels would have arisen to  lead  
their fellows  in throwing off what would have been considered  
an intolerable yoke of bondage.  
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64  SATAN  
no pleasure in compulsory obedience. He is not a monster  
whose anger must be appeased. He delights in voluntary ser- 
vice, the service which is prompted by love which dwells in  
the hearts of his creatures for him. This is the only worship  
which is acceptable to him. God considered the fall of a race  
a lesser evil than compulsory obedience, a fact which some  
churchmen and some statesmen would do well to consider  
when they attempt to compel obedience by law to certain 
religious observances.  
Thus in order to win voluntary service and allegiance  
on the part of all the created intelligences of the universe,  
God permitted Satan to continue in his course of rebellion, thus 
affording to the entire universe a demonstration of his un- 
changeable love and righteousness.  
The Lesson-book of the Universe  
And so this world became the lesson-book of the universe.  
The rebellion against the government of God was confined  
here. Satan led his hosts of evil angels to this planet, and  
laid before them his plans to strike a blow against the govern- 
ment of God by conquering the race which God was to bring  
into existence here. And all the creatures in heaven and on  
other planets are permitted to view the conflict between  
sin and righteousness, between Christ and Satan, on this  
planet, where they have been given a view of its entire course,  
its terrible consequences, and its ultimate destruction. And  
when the controversy is finished, and sin is finally destroyed,  
they will have been profoundly convinced that God is just  
and true and merciful.  
And the inhabitants of this planet, the human race, were  
not utterly abandoned to their great foe. In the very begin- 
ning they were warned of the danger of his attacks, and had  
they stood firmly against his temptations they need never  
have been overcome. Even after yielding to Satan, and thus  
becoming his lawful captives, they were assured of a great  
Deliverer who would break the power of sin for every soul  
who accepts him. No human being is left to cope with sin  
alone. Every one has the assurance of help from God to over- 
come the devil. Not one need be lost. God gives this promise  
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WHY DID GOD PERMIT SIN?  65  
"Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive de- 
liveredP But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be  
taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will con- 
tend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children."  Isa. 49: 24, 25.  
In consequence of having been involved in this experi- 
ence with sin upon this planet, the inhabitants of this world  
who accept the salvation which has been provided for them  
through the Redeemer of the world will be highly exalted, and  
will occupy a higher station in the world to come than they  
would have occupied if sin had not entered this world. This  
world is to become the center of the universe of God; the  
great King of kings himself is to dwell here; the capital city  
of the universe, the heavenly Jerusalem, is to come down  
from God out of heaven to rest upon the earth; and the redeemed  
of the Lord are to constitute a special body-guard for King  
Immanuel, when sin and sinners are to be no more and  every- 
thing  is made new.  
The city of God.  
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INTERNATIONAL.  
Desecration of the house of worship.  
CHAPTER VIII  
THE LOST DOMINION AND THE GOD OF THIS  
WORLD  
WHEN God made Adam, he made him the head of the  
creation on this planet. Adam was to "have dominion  
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over  
every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Gen.  1: 28.  
And David declares that God made man  
"to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all  
things under his feet: all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;  
the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through  
the paths of the seas." Ps. 8: 6-8.  
Adam was the head of the race, the governor of the world.  
This earth was his kingdom, his dominion, and everything in  
it was to be under his direction. As the first created being on  
this earth, he was to be the representative of God here, and  
was also to be the representative of the human race in the  
councils of God.  
Thus when Adam was overthrown by Satan in the garden  
of Eden, more was involved than the fall of man. The do-  
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THE LOST DOMINION AND THE GOD OF THIS WORLD  67  
minion of this earth passed under the sway of a new ruler.  
Satan took Adam's place as the governor of the planet, and  
the human race passed under his dominion. He now became  
the "god of this world." 2 Cor. 4:4. The dominion of the  
race was wrested from man in this battle with the devil, and  
both he and the planet fell under the control of sin and un- 
righteousness. This is vividly illustrated in the words Satan  
spoke to Christ in the wilderness of temptation, when he  
"shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.  
And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory  
of them:  for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it."  
Luke 4: 5, 6.  
Thus Satan claimed to be a king and a god. And, within  
certain limits, his claim was true. From the statements of the  
Bible there can be no doubt that the devil is a prince, or head,  
over evil angels, over men, and over a world of spiritual dark- 
ness.  
And his kingdom is a great kingdom. He wields almost  
unlimited power. His territory includes the entire earth. His  
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68  SATAN  
subjects are numbered by the tens of millions. The angels  
who fell with him are myriads in number, and they render  
him complete service. They are always ranging about in his  
work, unwearied, unsleeping, vigilant and watchful, and with  
great power.  
The Government of Fallen Angels  
Certain expressions in the Scriptures seem to indicate  
that there is an organized government among the fallen angels.  
There can be no doubt that Lucifer is head of this government,  
for he is spoken of in the Bible as "Beelzebub, the prince of  
the devils." Matt. 12: 24. And that there is some system of  
organization among them will be evident from the fact that the  
agencies of his monarchy of evil are entitled " principalities,"  
or dominions, "powers," or authorities, "rulers of the dark- 
ness of this world," " spiritual wickedness in high places. " 
Eph. 6: 12. And that there is an unholy unity of action and  
purpose in the kingdom of darkness, is made clear in that  
statement of Christ's in which he speaks of the unclean spirit  
going out of a man and, finding no place of habitation, taking  
with him seven other spirits more foul than himself, and re- 
entering the man. In this there are clear hints of organiza- 
tion and oneness of purpose.  
As has been said, the invisible empire of the devil also  
extends over the human race as the result of the fall of our  
first parents. And over the hearts of fallen man his dominion  
has been well nigh complete. This control of the human race  
and the sinful heart is represented by Christ as being like a  
strong man garrisoned and so holding his palace in peace.  
Luke 11: 21. And this peace is the peace of spiritual death.  
And if this peace should be disturbed, and the captive learn  
that there is hope of deliverance in One who is stronger than  
the devil, then the prince of the devils brings all his great 
" power," his " wiles, " his " devices," his " fiery darts," to  
bear upon his escaping victim to drag him back into cap- 
tivity. Luke 22:53; Eph. 6:11; 2 Cor. 2: 11; Eph. 6: 16.  
Thus as in this world of men the stronger ever gain control  
and finally reduce the weak to their rule, so in this spiritual  
kingdom, the higher order of apostate beings exercise dominion  
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powers, by reason of their great subtlety and superior wisdom,  
have a great advantage over fallen men, and lead them cap- 
tive in the chains of sin and corruption.  
Control of a World of Fallen Men  
And, as has also been pointed out, Satan's control is not  
only over demons and men, but also over the earth itself,  
which he gained in his warfare with the one to whom God  
committed it. All things were placed under the feet of Adam,  
the whole earth being in subjection to him. But he did not  
retain this exalted position of power and authority, for he 
himself fell under subjection to the devil. And with him the  
dominion passed under the same control. This world became  
the possession of Satan at the fall of man, and thus became 
the home of the great revolt against the government of heaven.  
Here Satan was to carry out and put into practice his princi-
ples of government, which he claimed were far superior to those  
which lay at the foundation of the government of heaven.  
And this was to be done in the sight of the angels and the  
inhabitants of the other worlds. They were to view it all as  
a demonstration of what the results must be of a rebellion  
against God.  
It will be well for the reader ever to bear in mind the  
truths of this chapter, remembering that the devil is the prince  
or head of a powerful and active legion of demons, their common  
purpose being to draw us away from God, and their superior 
powers making them more than  a match for our poor strength;  
that the devil is also the "god of this world," a world of fallen  
men, and that he has a restricted dominion over our corrupt  
natures; that his dominion stretches also over the invisible  
world about us, and that he is ever presenting it to our natural  
eyes clothed in such fascinating beauty and attractiveness as  
to dim our faith in the invisible and spiritual world to which  
God has bidden us look. These things being true, how  
greatly do we need God's power in our lives, and hence how  
earnestly do we need to pray, to watch, and to be on our guard  
as we come into daily contact with these hosts of spiritual  
and secret enemies of our souls.


CHAPTER IX  
HEAVEN'S GREAT COUNCILS  
IN the government of the great kingdom of God, which com-  
prises the universe, all the worlds are represented. At cer- 
tain periods the great council of heaven is called into session  
by Jehovah, and in these sessions each world has its repre- 
sentative. This representative is the governor of the world  
from which he comes, the one who was created first on that  
world.  
When God created this earth he placed Adam at the head  
of his creation, subjecting everything in the world to his rule.  
Adam in this position was not only to be the representative  
of God on this planet, the vicegerent of God for this world,  
but he was also to represent this planet in the council meet- 
ings of heaven.  
Undoubtedly this same plan was followed in the creation  
of the other worlds. The first created being was placed at  
the head of the government of that world, and all things in  
it were placed under his dominion. He was the representa- 
tive of God on that planet, and in the councils of heaven it  
would be his place to represent his world.  
When the call is issued for a council meeting in the courts  
of heaven, the heads of the myriads of worlds in the universe  
assemble before God, and begin the session of their great  
parliament or council.  
Into these wonderful councils of heaven Adam would  
have been permitted to enter and speak for this world as its  
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representative, if sin had not separated him from his Maker.  
When he sinned, not only he but the world as well revolted  
against the government of God. Adam did not retain his posi- 
tion as the head of this creation, with all things in subjection  
under him, but he fell under subjection himself to one who  
was stronger than he. Satan conquered him, and thus took  
his place as governor of this world, with all things in subjec- 
tion to him as they had been to Adam. He became "the god  
of this world."  
These heads or governments of the various worlds are  
called "the sons of God." They are sons of God in a more  
immediate sense than any other of his creatures, because of  
the fact that they have never known any other parentage,  
being created directly by their heavenly Father, as was Adam.  
The One Lost World  
In the parable of  
the lost sheep Jesus de- 
scribed this earth in its  
wandering away from  
God by the entrance of  
sin. There was but one  
sheep which left the  
fold, and that was this  
earth. Sin has never en- 
tered the other worlds.  
"The host of heaven  
worshippeth thee."  
Neh. 9: 6. The ninety  
and nine were never lost,  
but remained in the fold.  
But one wandered away,  
and the great heart of  
the Father of love could  
not bear the thought of  
this separation. So out  
in the wilderness and  
darkness, and over the  
mountains of sin, he sent  
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to win this world back to its allegiance to God, and to reunite 
the entire universe.  
When sin entered this world, Satan not only overthrew  
Adam and conquered this part of the territory of the kingdom  
of God, but he also won the place in the councils of heaven  
which belonged to Adam, and became the representative of  
this planet in that council. In harmony with this is the record:  
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present them- 
selves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them." Job 1: 6.  
Here the great arch-rebel again appears at the gate of  
heaven, from which he had been cast out. But he came now,  
not because of the position he once occupied before his fall,  
but by reason of the fact that he had conquered one of the  
worlds which composed the kingdom of heaven, and had thus  
taken the place of its rightful representative in heaven's great  
councils.  
"And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thouP Then Satan  
answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from  
walking up and down in it." Job 1: 7.  
This privilege which Satan had of appearing in the coun- 
cils of heaven he retained only until the time when the second  
Adam overcame him and wrested from him his possession of  
the earth. Since that time he has not been permitted in the  
councils of God.  
" The Accuser of Our Brethren "  
It will be asked why Satan desired to appear in heaven  
when he had nothing in common with its inhabitants and  
must have felt very much out of place. He appeared there  
as "the accuser of our brethren." Rev. 12:  10.  He went  
there to charge the people of God with sin, to argue that as  
sinners he was their master, and that God should permit  
him to have complete control over them; to bring reproach  
against those whom God loved; and to point out before all the  
representatives of other worlds that in spite of all God's power  
he could not keep his people from sinning. Doubtless he  
took great delight in recounting how he had caused Moses  
to sin on the border of the promised land, thus keeping him  
from entering into Canaan, how David had fallen through  
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and how he had won God's people away from their heavenly  
allegiance. It causes great glee in the camp of Satan when he  
succeeds in leading any of the professed people of God to sin.  
Thus in the councils of heaven before the first coming of  
Christ, Satan appeared as the representative of the human  
race and of this earth. It is not a pleasing thought, and our  
thoughts go forward with eagerness to the time when his  
control of this planet would be broken, and the human race  
would obtain a better representation in the courts of heaven.  
Satan has control of this planet.


Birth of Jesus  
CHAPTER X  
CHRIST REGAINS THE WORLD  
SATAN, though he had gained the world by causing the fall  
of man, was not to be left in undisputed possession of it.  
In the promise given the woman in the garden of Eden that  
her seed should bruise the serpent's head, there was an as- 
surance that an attempt would be made on the part of God  
to win back this earth to its first allegiance. Satan saw in 
this promise that his control of the world and of the human  
race would be disputed.  
Satan attempted to prevent the coming of the Seed of  
the woman, but in this he was defeated. And as the time  
drew near for the coming of the Seed, when God was about  
to send his only begotten Son into the world to wrest it from 
the grasp of the devil and win it back to its allegiance to his  
Father, Satan drew his lines closer and planned with grim  
determination to overthrow Christ if possible.  
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"At the age of twelve he was taken by his parents to Jerusalem."  
Satan had studied the prophecies of the Bible, and  
knew that Christ would be born in Bethlehem. When his  
birth took place, and Satan was certain that the child was  
indeed the Christ (for he heard the message of the angels  
to the shepherds and beheld the coming of the wise men from the  
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by arousing the  
jealousy of Herod.  
Herod sent soldiers  
to Bethlehem to  
destroy all the male  
children under the  
age of two years,  
in the hope that  
the One who was  
to be "the king of  
the Jews" might  
perish with the  
rest. 
But God pro- 
tected the helpless  
child from the  
wrath of Satan,  
and Joseph, being  
warned by an angel,  Jesus led by the spirit into the wilderness.  
fled with Mary and  
Jesus into Egypt.  
Here they remained  
until Herod died,  
and then returned 
and took up their  
residence at Nazar- 
eth in Galilee. Here  
the young child  
received his early  
training from his  
mother, and grew  
in knowledge and  
grace. At the age  
of twelve he was  
taken by his par- 
ents to Jerusalem,  
and in witnessing  
the sacrifice of the  
lamb in the temple  "The weight of the sins of the world was upon him."


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"They hurried him before Annas and Caiaphas and then before Pilate."  
saw his own great life mission opening before him.  
For eighteen years after this journey to Jerusalem he re- 
mained with his parents in the home at Nazareth, quietly  
doing the work of  a  carpenter in the humble little village.  
And then at the age of thirty, recognizing his call in the preach- 
ing of John the Baptist, he started upon his work of ministry,  
which was to lead him to the cross.  
The Temptation in the Wilderness  
Immediately upon the beginning of his ministry, as soon  
as he was anointed as the Messiah at his baptism, he was  
met and opposed by Satan. Having fasted forty days in the  
wilderness, and being very hungry, he was visited by a being  
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with him, and said that if he were indeed the Son of God,  
as he had just been told at his baptism, it would be an easy  
matter to demonstrate that fact by turning stones into bread,  
and thus appeasing his hunger. But Christ had come to take  
the place of mankind, and to suffer with those he came to save,  
and therefore he was not to use his divine power to help him- 
self. He refused to exercise his power in his own behalf.  
After failing also in tempting Christ to cast himself down  
from a pinnacle of the temple and thus presume upon the  
protecting care of God, Satan revealed himself to Christ in  
his true character. He openly avowed himself to be Lucifer  
who had sinned in heaven. And, he declared, he knew full  
well why Christ had come into the world. He knew he had  
come to try to regain the world from the power of Satan.  
He pointed out that to do this Christ would be compelled to  
die a most ignominious death and to undergo almost unbearable  
suffering. And then he declared such a course to be entirely  
unnecessary. If Christ had come to obtain the world, he need  
not travel such a blood-stained path and die such a terrible  
death. The world was in Satan's power, and he could give  
it to whomsoever he would. Taking Christ to a high moun- 
tain, he  
" sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and  
saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and  
worship me." Matt. 4: 8, 9.  
It was a temptation indeed. The world was the very  
thing Christ had come to win. He was now told that he could  
have it all, and need not endure the shame and ignominy of  
the cross in order to secure it. But he saw at once that to  
take it on such terms as were offered by Satan would be to  
acknowledge all that Satan had contended for in heaven—that  
he was superior to Christ, and that he must hold the dominion  
of the earth subject to Satan. Seeing that the great conflict  
of the ages would be eternally decided in favor of Satan if  
he accepted this proposition, he turned to him with the words,  
" Get thee hence, Satan." He determined to go on with his  
work of establishing a kingdom of righteousness and truth,  
though the decision meant that he must go down into the  
valley of the shadow of death.  
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mined that even yet he would prevent Christ from gaining  
the victory. He buffeted him at every step, harassed him  
wherever he went. He caused the Jewish leaders to reject  
him. He did all he could to oppose and destroy his work.  
And finally he moved Judas to betray him into the hands of  
his enemies. He was betrayed for the price of a slave—thirty  
pieces of silver.  
The Weight of the Sins of the Work!  
The strongest temptation with which Satan wrung the  
heart of Jesus was when he came into the garden of Geth- 
semane. Here the weight of the sins of the world was felt  
by Christ with all its awful force. He saw that he must die  
with these sins upon him, bearing also the frown of God be- 
cause of these sins. Tempted to think that this might mean  
that he was never to have a resurrection, but must bear the  
frown of God forever, and thus be forever separated from his  
Father by death, Christ cried out, " 0 my Father, if it be  
possible, let this cup pass from me." Matt. 26 : 39. He was  
unable to see that he could ever be brought from the tomb  
if he died with the sins of the world upon him. His own  
future was all dark.  
It was here that the fiercest temptations of the devil  
wrung the agonized heart of Christ. Almost he was tempted  
to let man bear the consequences of his own guilt, and die  
for his own sins, while he gave up the attempt and returned  
to that place which he occupied with the Father before the  
world was created. The sacrifice to be made for sinners seemed  
almost too great, if it meant that he must be blotted out of  
the universe. "The wages of sin is death, " and eternal death.  
And Christ had volunteered to suffer for sin in the place of the  
sinner. Now the sins of the world were upon him, and he was  
realizing all their terrible guilt for the first time. He experi- 
enced what the sinner will feel when he suffers the consequences  
of transgression.  
Punishment for Sin not Eternal Torment  
It is taught by many that the punishment of the wicked  
will be eternal torment in hell fire. But this can not be true,  
for if it were, then Christ, in taking our punishment upon  
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punishment is the lot of the lost sinner, then Christ could  
never have been released from the suffering which it would  
be necessary for him to bear in order to save us from it. But  
eternal death and separation from God, and not eternal tor- 
ment, is the wages of sin. And it is evident that Christ could  
not take our place as our sin-bearer without experiencing  
the awful fear and dread of separation from God. It was this 
thought that forced from his pores while in the garden the  
sweat which "was as it were great drops of blood falling down  
to the ground." Luke 22: 44. His Father's face was hidden  
from him, he was conscious of his Father's frown, he felt that  
the burden of the world's sin which he bore was separating  
him from God and that if he should die with these sins upon  
him he could not hope for a resurrection.. He was unable to  
see through the grave, his hope in the future was dimmed,  
and the agony seemed more than he could bear.  
Will he make the sacrifice? Will the Son of God take the  
place of the human race and die in man's stead? The fate of  
the world hung upon the answer.  
When the struggle seemed about to become too great  
for his strength, he was given a view of the human race which  
he came to save. He saw it lost in sin, under condemnation  
of death and eternal separation from God. He saw that unless  
he took upon himself its guilt and its punishment, the race  
must perish. He saw that it could never enter the pearly gates  
of the heavenly city- unless he laid down his life for it. He saw  
that no human being could ever walk on the streets of gold 
throughout all the ages of eternity unless he should carry out 
the purpose for which he came to the earth. It was either  
his life or theirs. It was separation from God for himself or  
for them. Some one must die for that broken law, and it was  
either the race as a whole or the sacrifice which God had freely  
offered and which Christ had volunteered to be.  
The Great Decision  
With the vision of the lost race before him unless he  
should make the sacrifice, and facing the darkness shrouding  
his own future, Christ made his decision. He would go for- 
ward upon his great mission at any cost to himself. "Having  
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"They stretch him upon the cross and drive the nails through his  
quivering flesh."  
end." John 13: 1. He faced again the great decision for  
which he came into the world, and he decided in favor of the  
race which he loved. That his people might live with God  
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he decided to take their place, and their guilt, and their fate,  
upon himself and die in their stead. And so he set his face  
steadfastly toward the cross, and as he rose from the ground  
for the last time he cried:  
"If this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will  be done." Matt. 26:42.  
And so while his disciples slept, the great decision was  
made. Alone, with none to help or comfort, he drained the last  
scalding drop of the fiery cup, the cup which none else could  
drain. If men were to be saved, there was no way out for him  
but this. And having made the decision, his temptation was  
over,—the temptation to escape by his own divine power  
the fate in store for the human race. From this time onward  
the flesh was conquered. He had determined to meet the full  
penalty of sin, and no lesser pain could now make him afraid.  
The priests and rulers might insult and jeer him, the whole  
nation might taunt and gibe, but not one cry will be forced  
from those lips by pain, or thirst, or glaring noonday sun,  
or thorns, or nails, or prison chains, or smiting of sin-stained  
hands. As a sheep before its shearer, so he would be dumb.  
The World's Redeemer  
And so they hurried him before Annas and Caiaphas, and  
then before Pilate, and on to Herod, and back again to Pilate,  
always in the midst of the vociferating crowd, who buffeted  
him, and smote him with the palms of their hands, and spat  
in his face, speaking sneeringly of his birth, and demanding  
that he perform for them a miracle. Coming the last time  
from Pilate's judgment hall after the sentence of crucifixion  
had been pronounced, they crushed down upon the weary head  
the cruel crown of thorns and bowed the knee in mockery,  
and cried, "Hail, King of the Jews!" With no rest through the  
long night, hurried from one proud ruler to another, travel- 
stained, weary, foot-sore, and bruised and lacerated with the  
cruel scourging he had received, now in addition to it all he is  
laden with the weight of the heavy cross, and, with no cover- 
ing on his head from the broiling midday sun but the crown of  
thorns which had torn his brow  in heavy gashes, he staggers  
on, the world's Redeemer, through taunts and jeers and mock- 
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Reaching the place of Calvary, they stretch him upon  
the cross and drive the nails through his quivering flesh. Then  
raising the cross with the Saviour upon it they let it drop into  
the hole they had prepared for it, tearing wider the wounds  
of the hands and feet where the nails had pierced. With jeers  
and mockery they watch his dying agonies. And thus the Son  
of God gave up his life for you.  
If Jesus had committed one sin himself he never would  
have been brought from the tomb, and the human race also  
would have been hopelessly lost. But because his own life  
was spotless, and there was not the stain of one sin upon his  
own character, he was brought up again from death.  
In this way Jesus gained the world which had been lost  
by sin. He became the second Adam, and won the victory  
over sin which the first Adam had failed to win. He met the 
devil on his own ground, in his own dominion, and wrested  
the control of the world away from him. He regained the lost  
dominion, and made a way of escape for all who had fallen  
under subjection to the devil.  
And in consequence of his victory he drove Satan out  
of the courts of heaven. Satan can not now appear in the great  
council of heaven, for he does not now represent this earth.  
His dominion has been taken away from him by Christ, and  
now "we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ  
the righteous." 1 John 2: 1. Our representative in the councils  
of heaven now is the Lord Jesus Christ. We have a friend at  
court. It is of this time that John in the Revelation speaks  
when he says:  
"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,  
and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:  
for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before  
our God day and night. . . . Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that  
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the 
devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that  
he hath but a short time. " Rev. 12: 10, 12.


PAUL THOMPSON  
CHAPTER XI  
A MODERN REVIVAL OF DEVILISM AND SORCERY  
O NE of the strongest and most successful attempts of Satan  
to ensnare the people of the world in the last days is the  
present revival of the condemned and prohibited sorcery and  
witchcraft of old. Under the attractive title of "Spiritualism"  
he is sweeping millions into the chains of error and thus leading  
them away from God. Through this system he is performing  
miracles which are attracting the attention of the scientists  
of the world. Any attempt to deal with the work of Satan  
would be incomplete if it did not consider the phenomena of  
Spiritualism.  
Every candid person must admit that a considerable  
portion of this phenomena is fraud, pure and simple, nothing  
but deception and imposture contrived by craft and cunning  
and imposed on the credulity of the simple-minded for the pur- 
pose of personal profit. But there are phenomena connected  
with  this system which can not be accounted for on these 
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grounds. There is a supernatural power connected with it.  
This supernatural power, we believe, is of Satan, and not of God.  
Of Ancient Origin  
Spiritualism is not a new development. It is as old as  
the human race. It had its origin in the garden of Eden. The  
first spirit medium on record was the serpent in the garden.  
The fall of man and the ruin of the world was caused by heed- 
ing the counsel of a spirit medium.  
We are told that the serpent was "more subtle than any  
beast of the field which the Lord God had made. " Satan  
selected this "subtle" beast as a medium through which to  
manifest his first spiritualistic phenomena. Through the ser- 
pent he spoke to Eve, the first woman, thus using the serpent  
as a medium to deceive her. He spoke to her only in order  
to deceive her. This, in fact, is the purpose of all mediumship.  
It is worthy of more than passing attention that it was  
by believing a spirit medium that this world has been over- 
whelmed with such a flood of sin, disease, sorrow, grief, misery,  
trouble, and death.  
And it is also worthy of notice that if Satan  then  could  
take possession of the body of an animal or reptile, and so  
control that reptile as to make it appear different than it  
really was, and then through his control of that reptile deceive  
and delude an innocent and unfallen being, we certainly are  
justified in believing today that he can and does exert his  
power  now  in  a  similar way to deceive and delude human  
beings; for his power and craft and malice during the six thou- 
sand years since this first spiritualistic manifestation have  
not diminished, but rather increased. Today he still deceives  
and deludes the world through mediums.  
From the time of this first spiritualistic deception until  
the present, Spiritualism has been known and practised.  
Spiritualism is not a new revelation, notwithstanding the  
claim made by Spiritualists that its manifestations today  
are calculated to introduce a new era in the affairs of men  
and produce a much more advanced stage of civilization.  
It is an ancient falsehood. It has existed for ages in the midst  
of heathen darkness. And its presence in heathen and savage  
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vance of civilization, by no development of education, by no  
illumination of the mental faculties, by no increase of intelli- 
gence, but its acceptance has been productive of and coexist- 
ent with the most profound ignorance, the most barbarous  
superstitions, the most unspeakable immoralities, the basest  
idolatries, and the worst atrocities which the world has ever  
known.  
Its Modern Development  
The development of Spiritualism in its modern phase  
is of interest, and we here record it.  
Modern Spiritualism had its beginning in Hydesville,  
N. Y., in the year 1848. The first intelligible communication  
Rome of John D. Fox.  
of Spiritualism in modern times came in response to a direct  
appeal to Satan himself. In the year mentioned, a farmer,  
by the name of John D. Fox, lived in Hydesville, near Roches- 
ter, N. Y. He was the father of six children, two of whom  
were living at home. These were the youngest children of the  
family, and their names were Margaret, who was fifteen years  
of age, and Kate, aged twelve. They had but recently moved,  
and they found their home disturbed, especially at night,  
by peculiar noises. They attributed these noises at first to  
mice and rats, and then to a loose board. They soon discovered  
that these noises were distinct and intelligent rappings.  
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and children sleeping in the same room, these rappings com- 
menced with greater violence than usual. Mr. Fox arose, tried  
the window sashes, and finding them all secure, was about to  
return to his rest, when Kate, observing that when he shook  
the sashes the rappings seemed to reply, turned in the direc-
tion from which the sound seemed to come, and snapped her  
finger several times, saying, " Here, Old Splitfoot, do as I do."  
Instantly the rappings replied with sharp, distinct taps.  
This frightened the girls so that they had no further desire  
to continue the conversation with "Old Splitfoot." But the  
mother continued to cultivate his acquaintance until she  
received a message which professed to come from the spirit  
of a man by the name of Charles B. Rosma. This message  
informed her that this man, Rosma, had been murdered in  
that very house some years before. An exact location in the  
cellar of the house was given as the place where his body had  
been buried. On digging there, a considerable portion of a  
human skeleton was discovered, and it was later ascertained  
that a man answering to the description given had visited the  
house and had not been seen again.  
The conclusion was reached that the Fox family were in  
communication with the spirits of the dead. From this begin- 
ning Spiritualism has developed through various stages to  
its present manifestations. Through table tipping, rapping, 
levitation, moving of material objects, and playing on musical 
instruments, it has passed through the years until today it  
manifests itself, not only in all these older forms, but in what  
has come to be its chief deception, the materialization of spirits  
which it claims are the spirits of the dead.  
Without doubt some of these wonders and antics are  
frauds, tricks, and impositions done by sleight of hand, but  
many of them are so mysterious and remarkable that they  
have produced conviction in the minds of some of the world's  
profoundest thinkers that some strange and unseen intelli- 
gence is thus operating, performing marvels and communi- 
cating information to those who are led to seek the aid of these  
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Its Fundamental Teaching  
The fundamental teaching of Spiritualism is that there is a  
survival of consciousness and identity after death, and that  
Spiritualism affords a means by which the spirits of the dead  
can communicate with the living. All of its other teachings  
are subordinate to this.  All of  its phenomena seem to be per- 
formed for the sole purpose of creating in the mind of the  
inquirer the belief in the conscious existence of the dead and  
PAUL THOMPSON  Scene illustratin g   spirit manifestation.  
the possibility of communicating with the spirits of the dead 
through the medium of Spiritualism. Everything that it does  
tends to this one end, leads in this one direction. And so  
remarkable have been its manifestations, and so unaccount- 
able on all natural grounds have been its phenomena, that  
skilled investigators, men of science, publicists, statesmen,  
religious leaders, and leaders in the world of thought have  
been profoundly convinced of the survival of conscious intelli- 
gence after death, and of its ability to communicate with  
the living.


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We admit that there are mysterious and supernatural  
manifestations in Spiritualism, and freely concede that there  
are evidences of physical power and mental intelligence in  
this system which can not be explained by ordinary scientific  
principles. We concede also that communications are received  
from spirits and from the spirit world. But we insist that the  
power thus exercised is an evil power, the intelligence thus  
manifested is an evil intelligence, and the spirits from whom 
messages are received are not the spirits of the dead at all.  
We know these spirits are not the spirits of the dead  
because the Bible teaches that the dead can not communicate  
with the living. The doctrine upon which the whole system  
of Spiritualism is based, the doctrine of the natural immor- 
tality of the soul, is in contradiction to the plainest state- 
ments of the Word of God. There is no greater evidence of  
the fact that Spiritualism is a delusion than the inspired teach- 
ing of the Scriptures regarding the condition of man in death.  
Inasmuch as this system is sweeping many people from  
their moorings out into a great overwhelming sea of deception,  
it is well that we study what God has to say about it. It is a  
most powerful delusion, and we can not combat its power  
successfully in our own strength. God has given much in-
struction concerning it in his Word, and this instruction will  
be of the utmost value to every person in meeting the lying  
claims of Spiritualism and overcoming them.  
God Prohibited Spiritualism  
God said to his ancient people, the Israelites:  
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards,  
to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God." Lev. 19:31.  
The possession of familiar or controlling spirits is the  
very claim upon which the so-called communication with the  
spirits of the dead is based by spirit mediums. In the above  
verse God forbids his people to have anything to do with those  
who make such claims, and further admonishes them that  
any such connection will be defiling to his followers.  
"And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness  
against the sorcerers." Mal. 3: 5.  
Sorcery was a pretended familiarity with the spirits of  
the dead; that is, it is one of the ancient names of modern


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PAUL THOMPSON  
Illustration of Lombroso's experience at Lyons, France, while investigating  
the murder of a young bride.  
Spiritualism. And in the passage just quoted God sets him- 
self against it, and declares that his witness and his judgment  
will be against all who practice these abominable occult arts.  
"Therefore  hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to  
your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, . . . for  
they prophesy a lie unto you." Jer. 27: 9, 10.  
Spiritualism pretends to be able to foretell the future  
accurately. This is mere pretension, for it' does not know  
the future, much less can it foretell it. Mediums, reasoning  
from cause to effect, and the spirits which control these medi- 
ums, knowing vastly more of the working out of the principles  
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to pass, and so may we all, but they have no divine knowl- 
edge of the future. If Spiritualism knew what would happen to- 
morrow and the next day the mediums would undoubtedly be  
the most successful manipulators of the stock market, for they  
would be able to tell whether stocks and bonds were going  
up or down, and thus be far in advance of their competitors.  
They do not know the future, but "they prophesy a lie unto  
you."  
A Divinely Appointed Test  
And it is just on this point that Spiritualism fails to es- 
tablish the truth of its claim to be a divine system of truth.  
God himself has appointed a test which Spiritualism fails to  
meet. This test is as follows:  
" Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons,  
saith the King of Jacob. Let them bring them forth, and  shew us what shall  happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider  
them, and know the latter end of them; or  declare us things for to come. Shew  
the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods."  Isa.  41: 21-23.  
If Spiritualism desires to prove that it has not only super- 
natural power, but also divine authority, let it meet this test.  
" Let them shew us things to come. " The One who proposes  
this test has submitted to it himself, and the very thing which  
neither man nor evil spirits can do, God has done again and  
again through his prophets. A large portion of the Bible  
consists of prophecies made ages ago, which deal with the  
history of nations, empires, and cities, and accurately fore- 
tell that history. And as the history has unfolded through 
the centuries, these forecasts have proven true, thus establish- 
ing the fact of God's omniscience, and confirming the faith  
of the people of God in the inspiration of the Bible.  
Egypt, in harmony with God's ancient Word, has become  
the "basest of the kingdoms, " and has not had a native king or  
prince to reign over it for thousands of years. Eze. 29: 15;  
30; Isaiah 19. Babylon, that proud city which set itself up  
against God, has become a desolate heap, uninhabited, and  
a lair for the beasts of the desert. Isa. 13 : 19-22. Tyre, which  
once handled the merchandise of the world, has had her walls  
destroyed, her dust scraped from her, and become like the top 
of a rock, a place for the spreading of nets. Eze. 26: 1-5.  
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"the bloody city," the city "full of lies and robbery," has  
become empty, void, and waste. Nahum 3. These prophecies  
have been fulfilled, with scores of others,  and some are  
now being fulfilled,  though the men who wrote them under  
inspiration have been dead for thousands of years.  
It is upon evidence such as this that the Christian rests  
An astonomer can  foretell ilia exact time  or  an eclipse."


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his faith. Spiritualism has never been able to produce their  
equal, nor does it offer us anything similar upon which to  
base our belief in its divine origin. Its pretensions vanish  
into thin air when compared with these majestic prophecies  
of the Word of God. The communications received through  
spirit mediums are no more to be compared with the messages  
of the prophets than a counterfeit note can be compared with  
a true note.  
In place of meeting this divinely appointed test to show  
us things to come, Spiritualism tells us merely those things  
which are in the past or present. It is willing to give us the  
names of our fathers, mothers, grandmothers, uncles, aunts,  
children, the dates of their death, and the place of their burial.  
But all such things might be known to those in the flesh as  
well as to the evil spirits which roam through all creation to  
gather information at their leisure. Such information is open  
to all who may care to acquire it. Nor is it sufficient for the  
spirits to give us truthful accounts of happenings which are  
then taking place at some considerable distance, for it must  
be remembered that mortals have produced inventions by  
which information may be sent around the world like a flash  
of lightning. Let them show us things to come. This is the 
divine test. And it is a test no spirit medium has been able  
to endure, or cares to invite.  
Certainly there are some events which spirit mediums may  
be able to foretell. An astronomer can foretell the exact time  
of an eclipse. A criminal can foretell the exact time of a murder  
which he intends to commit. An evil spirit can foretell to a  
medium the exact time of some transaction which the spirits  
intend to bring about. An incendiary can foretell the exact  
time of a fire which he intends to kindle. Those who know  
may foretell the financial ruin of some individual when they  
are planning to bring it about at a certain time. But such  
predictions would not prove the possession of supernatural  
intelligence. And it must be evident to all that no proof of  
divine inspiration is given when predictions are fulfilled, unless  
it can be shown also that they are not based upon previous  
predictions of similar character from which the information  
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Paul casting the spirit of divination out of the damsel.  
An Abomination to  the Lord  
" A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard,  
shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood  
shall be upon them." Lev. 20:27.  
This was the ancient penalty for attempting to communi- 
cate with the spirits of the dead, and there are those today  
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But when men talk, it is well for them to know what they are  
talking about; and when they take a little time and trouble to  
find out, they will discover that the occult and devilish practices  
of ancient Spiritualism not only tended, as they do now, to 
disease, insanity, immorality, and death, but that those who  
practiced these occult arts were too often guilty of the most  
horrible, abominable, and revolting crimes and barbarities,  
which in themselves were sufficient cause to prohibit the  
practices which gave rise to them. It is well, at any rate, to  
learn the estimate which the Lord places upon Spiritualism.  
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or  
his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, . . . or  
an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits,  
or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomi- 
nation unto the Lord." Deut. 18:10-12.  
Surely at the present time consulting with familiar spirits  
can not be pleasing to God, when anciently it was an abomi- 
nation to him.  
In the New Testament Spiritualism is also found in  
doubtful company, under its old name of witchcraft:  
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery,  
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,  witchcraft,  hatred, variance,  emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunken- 
ness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also  
told you in time past, that  they which do such things shall not inherit the king- dom of God."  Gal. 5:19-21.  
And with this statement that those who are deluded by  
the falsehoods, and who practice the devilish arts of Spirit- 
ualism shall not inherit the kingdom of God, agree the words  
of John, who, after describing those who enter the New Je- 
rusalem, the capital city of the kingdom of God, declares that  
"without are dogs, and  sorcerers,  and whoremongers, and  
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh  
a lie. " Rev. 22: 15.  
This, then, is the ultimate destiny of Spiritualism. It  
will perish in the company of those who follow Satan.  
Phenomena Produced by Fallen Angels  
The phenomena of Spiritualism are produced by fallen  
angels. As has already been shown in this volume, before the  
creation of man a rebellion broke out among the angels in heaven  
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At that time Satan was a beautiful and glorious angel, a loved  
and honored leader of great multitudes of the heavenly host.  
His name was Lucifer. Exalted by his Maker to a position  
of great prominence and influence, he was able to lead many  
of the angels astray when sin found an entrance into his heart  
and mind. These angels were cast out of heaven with Satan.  
Rev. 12:7-9.  
Thus in our study of Spiritualism we must ever bear in  
mind the fact that there are on earth a vast multitude of in- 
visible beings clothed with supernatural power, called " demons "  
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A  seance at Von Erhardt's house.  
by the Scriptures of truth, wholly evil in character, and who,  
with the most intense hatred toward God and man, are con- 
stantly engaged in the most bitter warfare against the welfare  
of human beings and the glory of God. These unseen, yet  
intelligent beings can work equally as well in the darkness  
as in the light, while their presence remains unperceived and  
unrecognized. They can come into a room like the viewless  
air, and are able to work through visible and bodily forms as well  
as to control living beings. They can change their location with  
the rapidity of thought. Having lived for thousands of years,  
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they have the advantage of the wisdom and experience of the  
ages; they can recall facts that are past long ago, which no living  
man could possibly know, but which may be found afterwards  
to be true. They can assume disguises innumerable, imperson- 
ate any character, and can call to their assistance at any time 
a vast multitude of other beings like themselves. This vast  
confederacy of evil is presided over by a chief who once dwelt  
in the courts of heaven, but whose present supreme aim is to  
ensnare the human race to its eternal destruction, and who  
aims at pressing every event and circumstance of human life  
into his fiendish service.  
A Vast Amount of Harm  
It is evident, when these things are considered, that these  
evil angels, under such a superior and intelligent control,  
organized as they are into companies, divisions, " principali- 
ties " and " powers " (Eph. 6: 12) and inspired only with the  
object of doing mischief, deceiving, and misleading, possess  
faculties and opportunities for doing a vast amount of harm.  
By such spirits the unwary can be easily controlled, terrorized,  
deceived, and injured. They can lay and execute the most 
dangerous plots. They can cause their enemies to render them  
service unconsciously and ignorantly. They can take the credit  
for good which they have never done, and put off upon others  
the blame for evil which they have themselves performed.  
In this way they are able to confuse all conceptions of right  
and wrong, calling evil good, and good evil. And especially  
is this true when they work among those who deny the very  
existence of such beings. Under such circumstances they are  
able to accomplish an amount of mischief and deceit too great  
for mortal man to comprehend.  
Through all the ages of the past these wicked spirits have  
unsettled the minds of multitudes of people, and have led many  
into madness, insanity, and ruin. Through all their history  
they have never yet been known to reveal any truth of  
importance which has not already been revealed in God's  
Word, or discovered by the aid of good men of science. Not  
one sinner have they ever led to Christ for forgiveness of sins,  
nor is there one among the millions of Spiritualists who has  
been savingly converted to God by Spiritualism, or with the


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help of the spirits. Their invariable testimony is against the  
Word of God. They repudiate the plan of salvation which that  
Word reveals. Their attitude toward Jesus Christ is today  
what it has always been—" Jesus of Nazareth, let us alone;  
what have we to do with thee? " See Mark 5 : 7; Matt. 8:29;  
Luke 8 : 28. By their denial of the fall of man, the atone- 
ment of Christ, and the salvation of man by that atonement,  
they sweep away at one stroke the whole plan and purpose of  
God as revealed through Christ and the Bible.  
Scientists Baffled  
Scientists have found themselves perplexed and baffled  
in their investigations of this system, and have reached some  
amazing conclusions. But this is not to be wondered at when  
scientists come to such an investigation denying that such  
mighty forces exist. An infidelity and skepticism which doubts  
everything for which it can not find an explanation, and which  
denies everything which it can not weigh in a balance, or measure  
with a foot rule, we may expect to see imposed on and deceived  
when it  comes to deal with the mightiest forces in the universe.  
If unseen, imponderable, undefinable, incomprehensible energies  
lie about us everywhere, in the mysteries of electricity, the  
forces of gravitation, the vegetative secrets of nature, many  
of which are still inexplicable, invisible, unmeasured, and im- 
measurable, but which, notwithstanding this, still rule in our 
material universe with incalculable power and mathematical  
exactness, why should it be considered unbelievable that  
other forces and powers and influences and intelligences of  
which our learning and philosophy take little or no account,  
may rule and control the hearts, minds, souls, and bodies of men?  
Scientists who deny the existence of such forces simply  
because they can not explain them are centuries behind the  
times. What can they explain? What explanation have they  
been able to give us of the mysteries of seed, of plant, and  
of flower? True, they can trace the steps in the growth of  
such things, but can they explain those steps? Can they  
explain the germination of life, the growing of fruits, flowers,  
colors, odors, poisons, from the same identical soil? Can any  
scientist tell why a mere whiff of air or the odor of a flower  
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a strong drug? Can they explain why a heart should be broken  
or a life ruined and destroyed because of an evil passion, a  
disappointment, a harsh speech, or a look of hatred? Can they  
explain the connection between mind and body, and thus reveal  
why wrong habits of thought will produce physical disease?  
And if, as all scientists well know, the sensitive minds  
of some persons can be depressed and deranged by the will,  
the glance, the word, or even by some secret influence or thought  
of others, why should it be thought a thing impossible that  
invisible spirits, cunning as the devil, swift as electricity,  
subtle as magnetism, and as unaccountable as gravitation,  
may work on human minds and bodies until the mental equi- 
librium is unbalanced, reason is subverted, and life itself is  
destroyed?  
Those who today deny the existence of such agencies  
of evil, and say that the working of such forces is an impossi- 
bility, in the face of the clear teachings of the Bible, are merely  
asserting omniscience for themselves while they are demon- 
strating ignorance.  
An Attending Angel  
The Bible teaches that each child of God has an attending  
angel from the courts of heaven. Matt. 18: 10; Acts 12: 12-16.  
We may reasonably suppose that each person has also an  
evil angel attending him constantly. This evil angel would  
know all that the person has ever said or done, and while im- 
personating the individual in a Spiritualist seance could  
tell all that the person himself could tell if he were actu- 
ally there. He could reveal secrets known only to the one  
who is dead and the inquirer at the seance, and this reve- 
lation would appear of such a supernatural character to the  
inquirer, that, not being fortified by the truth of the Bible  
regarding the condition of the dead, he would be convinced that  
he is in actual communication with the spirit of the dead. He  
is then led on to believe "doctrines of devils" (1 Tim. 4: 1),  
because, once convinced that it is one who loves him who  
thus speaks to him, he is then ready to believe any message  
he may receive. Thus he is drawn away from God into this  
terrible delusion.  
The spirits which appear in the dim light of the Spiritualist  
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seances are not the spirits of the dead, but are the spirits of  
devils. Rev. 16: 14. This movement is the latter-day working  
of the one who was cast out of heaven, and all the people of  
God should guard themselves against it with the utmost care.  
As many will be brought into contact with these spirits  
which impersonate the dead, they will find themselves con- 
fronted by a power which they will be utterly unable to with- 
stand or resist. Appeals will be made to their sympathies,  
and before their eyes miracles will be wrought which will  
convince them that this fearful delusion is the great power  
of God. They will be led to disbelieve the Word of God, which  
opposes the false claims of Spiritualism, and will thus be led 
on until God departs from them, as he did from King Saul,  
and they are completely entangled in the snares of the devil.  
Thus thousands and hundreds of thousands will lose their  
souls in this final effort of Satan to deceive the whole world  
and take it captive. Our only protection against this powerful  
delusion is an acquaintance with and a firm belief in the  
inspired teachings of the Bible concerning the dead.  
The Bible solves forever the dark problem which has  
so long brought perplexity and distress to the world. It lights  
a lamp of hope for all who are weary and heavy laden. It  
gives assurance of life beyond the grave, a glory that shall  
never end. It strengthens the hearts of those who mourn,  
brings comfort to the bereaved, and points us forward to the 
better, brighter day which is so near at hand.  
It shows to be false the revelations which are made by  
Satan and his angels through spirit mediums. In order to save  
from the snare of Satan those who have been trifling with  
spirit manifestations, it sends forth this awful warning: "For  
this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they  
should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believe  
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. " 2 Thess.  
2: 11, 12. It commands us to "resist the devil," and promises  
us that he will flee from us. James 4: 7.  
With Paul, "I would have you wise unto that which is  
good, and simple (or blameless) concerning evil. And the  
God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The  
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." Rom.  
16 : 20.


CHAPTER XII  
SATAN BOUND A THOUSAND YEARS  
THE binding of Satan for a thousand years will take place  
at the second coming of Christ. He will then not be able  
to deceive the nations until the thousand years are finished.  
At the close of this period, commonly called the Millennium,  
Satan will be loosed from his bondage and will then again  
enter upon the work of deception. His freedom, however,  
will continue but for a short time. The only passage in the  
Bible which makes direct reference to the thousand year period  
is as follows:  
"And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the  
bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon,  
that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand  
years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal  
upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand  
years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.  
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto  
them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of  
Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast,  
neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or  
in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.  
This is the first resurrection." Rev. 20: 1-5.  
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There are numerous theories regarding the millennium  
which are now being taught in the religious world. The only one  
of these theories which can be true must harmonize with this  
passage of Scripture which definitely refers to the "'thousand  
year" period. This word "millennium" is a combination of  
two Latin words,  "male,"  meaning a thousand, and "annum, "  
meaning year; a thousand years. This is the sole meaning of  
the term. A perverted use of the word "millennium" has  
come to convey to the minds of many people a thousand-year  
period of great peace, prosperity, and salvation upon this earth.  
There is no such meaning in the term itself. Notwithstanding  
the fact that it is thus generally explained, it means only a  
thousand years, without specifying anything at all as to, the  
character of that period.  
Begins at Second Coming of Christ  
The millennium begins at the time of the second coming  
of Christ. During the thousand years of its duration Satan  
is to be bound in a place called " the bottomless pit. " The  
purpose of this binding is to restrain him from deceiving the  
nations and to impose upon him  a partial punishment. Because  
of the fact that Satan is to be bound during the thousand years 
of the millennium, many people have reached the conclusion  
that this period will be a very happy, prosperous, and glorious 
time of peace on earth; that all the nations will be converted 
to the gospel, and as a result will disband their armies, dis- 
mantle their navies, and learn war no more. So long has this  
theory been taught that it has come to be widely accepted.  
But it has no foundation at all in the Bible.  
The Bible contains no teaching which, rightly under- 
stood, would lead anyone to believe that before the end of  
this world the nations will all be converted to the gospel and  
cease to war with each other. As a matter of fact, the Bible  
teaches just the contrary. The theory that the world is be- 
coming better constantly is not based on the teaching of the  
Bible. The popular theory of a millennium of peace and safety  
is but another deception of the devil, invented by him for the  
purpose of leading the people of God to believe that Christ  
will not come until the world has been brought to accept  
Christianity, which it will never do, and thus cause them to  
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The teaching that the world will be converted is largely  
based upon the following verse: "And this gospel of the king- 
dom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all  
nations, and then shall the end come. " Matt. 24 : 14. This  
verse; however, does not teach the doctrine of the world's  
conversion at all. It teaches merely that the world will hear  
the gospel, that the gospel will be sent into all the world, be pro- 
claimed to all nations, not for their conversion but as a witness.  
In addition to this, the parable of the wheat and the  
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD  
Offenders of any nation are arrested and bound for trial and punishment.  
tares, recorded in Matt. 13 : 24-30 and 3643, makes very plain  
that both classes, the righteous and the wicked, are to "grow  
together " until " the harvest, " which is explained to be " the end  
of the world." Thus at the end of the world, instead of all the  
wicked being converted, they will be cast into the furnace  
of fire, where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.  
Growing Worse and Worse  
While the exponents of the world conversion theory  
maintain that the world is growing better, the Bible teaches  
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seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being de- 
ceived." 2 Tim. 3 : 13.  
In speaking of the days immediately preceding his coming,  
Jesus himself declared :  
"As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the  
Son of man. . . . Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot ; . . . even  
thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. " Luke 17:26-30.  
In order to discover the conditions of the days just previous  
to the coming of Christ, therefore, it is only necessary to refer  
to the history of the days preceding the flood and the destruc- 
tion of Sodom and Gomorrah. Of the conditions prevailing  
at these periods, we read:  
"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,  
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil con- 
tinually. " Gen. 6: 5.  
So will it be in the days of the coming of Christ the second  
time.  
The last days of the history of this earth are described  
in detail by inspiration, as follows:  
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For  
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphem- 
ers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,  
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are  
good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of  
God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such  
turn away." 2 Tim. 3: 1-5.  
It is obvious that this passage does not teach the conver- 
sion of the world. Here there is set before us a list of eighteen  
terrible sins which are especially to characterize "the last  
days. " And the astonishing thing about this passage is that  
this is not at all a description of the world in general, but  
rather of the church. The people who indulge in these sins  
will not be the worldlings only, but church members. This is  
the meaning of the expression "having a form of godli- 
ness." The outward form is correct, but even while professing  
to be Christians they are acting like worldlings. And if the  
professed church of Christ in the days of his second coming  
can be so described by divine inspiration, then what must  
be the condition of the world at large?  
In his care for the church the Lord has given instruction  
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The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.  
the doctrine of the world's conversion and a millennium of  
peace on earth:  
"Of the times and, seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write  
unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh  
as a thief i n the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then  
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;  
and they shall not escape." 1 Thess. 5: 1-3.  
From this it appears that this very movement which is  
proclaiming the world's conversion is in itself a sign of the  
rapidly approaching destruction of all things.  
In this connection it will probably be asked, Does the  
Bible not teach somewhere that all the world at some time  
in the future will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord,  
and all nations serve and obey him?  
Yes, the Bible does teach this. The mistake has been made,  
however, in not perceiving that this has been taught with  
reference to the earth in its regenerated condition, when all  
things are made new, and not regarding the earth as it now is.  
"The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters  
cover the sea." Isa. 11: 9.


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"And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and  
from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,  
saith the Lord. " Isa. 66:23.  
The time when all the earth will be acquainted with Je- 
hovah, and will worship him, is clearly pointed to by these  
two passages. The time pointed to, however, is clearly with  
refetence to the new earth, not to the present earth; and this  
condition of universal worship is to be brought about not at  
all by the conversion of the present nations, but rather by  
their destruction. Thus Peter writes:  
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which  
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt  
with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be  
burned up. " "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new  
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. " 2 Peter 3: 10, 13.  
The Order of Millennial Events  
The Bible makes very clear the order of the events in  
connection with the beginning and the end of the millennium.  
It begins with the second coming of Christ. At that time  
four classes of people are on this earth—the righteous dead,  
the righteous living, the wicked dead, and the wicked living.  
At the second coming of Christ all the righteous dead  
are raised. (1 Thess. 4: 15-17.) The same passage teaches  
that all the righteous living are translated. These two classes  
of God's people are then caught up "to meet the Lord in the  
air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."  
At that time all the righteous will be taken to those man- 
sions which Christ has been preparing for them, "that where  
I am, there ye may be also." John 14: 1-3. They are taken  
to heaven, and there "they lived and reigned with Christ  
a thousand years." Rev. 20:4.  
It is plain from this language that the millennial reign  
of God's people with Christ is not to be on the earth, as so  
many believe, but in heaven. At the beginning of the millen- 
nium all the people of God are removed from this earth and  
taken to heaven, where they remain for the thousand years  
of the millennium.  
The second coming of Christ will also bring about the  
destruction of the wicked living, who will be consumed by the  
brightness of his coming and the glory of his power. (2 Thess.  
2: 8.) All the wicked dead will be left undisturbed in their


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graves. "The rest of the dead lived not again until the thou- 
sand years were finished. " Rev. 20: 5.  
The Earth Depopulated  
It appears very clear from these passages that at the  
second coming of Christ all the righteous will be removed  
from the earth, and all the wicked will be dead. Thus the earth  
during the millennium will be empty, or depopulated. There  
will not be a human being here.  
It is of this time that the prophet speaks  
"And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the  
earth even unto the other end of the earth : they shall not be lamented, neither  
gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground. " Jer. 25: 33.  
This same vision of the empty condition of the earth  
during the millennium was given to the prophet Isaiah :  
"Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,  
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.  .  . The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord  
hath spoken this word. " Isa. 24: 1, 3.  
A view of the earth during the time of the millennium  
was given the prophet Jeremiah:  
"I  beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form and void; and the  
heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they  
trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no  
man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful  
place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the 
presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger. For thus hath the Lord said,  
The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. " Jer. 4: 23-27.  
The condition of the earth during the millennium is here  
clearly described. It will be  a waste and desolate wilderness.  
There will be no man here. The righteous will all be in heaven,  
and the wicked will all be dead. The cities of the earth will  
be broken down at the presence of the Lord. All the works of  
men will be destroyed. Darkness will cover the earth. The  
bodies of the dead will be from one end of the earth to the  
other end. There will be no one to gather them, to lament  
them, or to bury them.  
Satan Bound in the Bottomless Pit  
The earth in this condition is what is referred to by the  
expression "the bottomless pit," into which Satan is cast  
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and there is applied to the Arabian desert, from which  
the hordes of Saracens and Arabians issued, as described by 
the prophet in that chapter. The term means any place of  
darkness, desolation, and death. And at the time when the  
earth returns to its original condition of chaos, without form  
and void, it becomes the bottomless pit of Satan's captivity.  
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It will be in this desolated earth, therefore, with its cities  
destroyed, its whole expanse but a great wilderness, without  
any of the human race left, that Satan will be compelled to  
stay for one thousand years. He is bound with a great chain.  
This is not a literal chain, but one of circumstances. He is  
unable to carry on his work of deception. He can not deceive  
the righteous, for they are in heaven. He can not deceive the  
wicked, for they are dead. There is nothing he can do. By the  
very circumstances of his position he is bound, and must of  
necessity remain bound until some change is brought about,  
either in the condition of the earth or of the wicked.  
This is not Satan's final punishment, but it is a just pre- 
liminary to it. The wreck of the world has been caused by sin.  
The cities of the earth have been broken down because of sin. 
The wicked have been slain as the result of sin. The earth  
has become a desolate wilderness because it has been the  
dwelling place of sin. All this is the work of Satan. This is  
the result of his rebellion in heaven and the introduction of  
sin into this world, and now he is made to realize what it all  
means, and is shown what its results have been. The ruined  
earth is his handiwork. This is the end of all his plausible  
promises of better government. And in this earth, in its deso- 
late condition, he is compelled to live for a thousand years.  
He is compelled to remain in this ruined earth, surrounded  
by his own work. His work of deception has been made im- 
possible. The righteous have at last escaped his grasp, and they  
are enjoying the delights of heaven at the court of the King  
of the universe. The wicked are before him upon the face of  
all the earth, but they are cold in death. Doubtless "the  
angels who left their first estate" at his bidding are still  
with him. They, too, have been instrumental in bringing to  
pass this fearful wreck of one of the planets, and they are  
compelled to live in that ruin a thousand years.  
Satan's Release  
At the end of the millennium, the great chain which  
binds Satan will be broken by the resurrection of the wicked.  
"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years  were finished." Rev. 20:5.  
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years were finished, then when the thousand years  are finished  
the rest of the dead will live again.  
It is at the close of the millennium that the resurrection  
of the wicked takes place, and their resurrection releases  
the devil and provides him with material to work on and  
deceive. It was the emptiness of the earth of all human in- 
habitants that constituted his binding, and hence it is the  
resurrection of the wicked which effects his release.  
Satan begins to plan for his last great attempt to over- 
throw the government of God as soon as the wicked are raised  
from the dead and he is thus released from his confinement.  
The resurrection of the wicked brings under his command a  
greater host than ever before in the entire history of his re- 
bellion. All the wicked who ever lived on the earth come then  
under his control and are ready to do his bidding. Among  
them are some who are skilled in modern warfare. The  
great warriors of ancient history are there. The angels who  
were cast out of heaven are still with Satan, and are now in  
such desperation as to consent to anything. Laying before them  
the great project, and securing their agreement to it, Satan  
plans to bring it to pass. The wicked under the leadership  
of Satan are led to hope for success, but instead they meet  
their final destruction in oblivion.  
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a thousand years.


Satan gathers around him the vast hosts of evil angels.  
CHAPTER XIII  
THE DESTINY OF SATAN  
IT is at the close of the thousand years of the millennium that  
Satan is released from the confinement which has been his  
lot during the millennium. At the close of this thousand-year  
period the holy city, the New Jerusalem, comes down from God  
out of heaven and rests upon this earth. At that time the  
wicked, having been raised from the dead, are on the earth,  
being marshalled into companies and regiments by the arch- 
rebel and his assistants. The city—that beautiful and glorious  
city which is to be the capital of the New Earth—settles down  
upon the place prepared for it in the sight of the wicked. In  
the city are the redeemed of the Lord who have been living  
and reigning with Christ during the millennium. Rev. 21:2, 3.  
The resurrection of the wicked has released Satan from  
his bondage. Gathered around him then are the vast hosts  
of his own evil angels, and now this great company is joined  
by the innumerable throngs of the wicked. Among them are  
the giants who lived on the earth before the flood. Many of the  
world's greatest warriors come up from their sleep just as  
eager to destroy their enemies as before.  
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Seeing himself joined by this great host, and beholding  
before him the New Jerusalem, in which are the righteous  
and the holy angels with their beloved Commander, the Son  
of God, Satan determines not yet to yield the struggle against  
the Father. He points out to his angels that the city is unpro- 
tected, and will doubtless be unable to resist attack. He inspires  
them with the hope that they may be able to overthrow the  
government of God and take the city. By this delusive hope  
the wicked are led to prepare themselves for the last great  
struggle for the supremacy of the world. Weapons of warfare  
are prepared, companies, battalions, and regiments are formed  
and drilled, and then the great host of the lost is led forth by  
Satan to take the city.  
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed  
out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the  
four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to  
battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up  
on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about,  
and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and  
devoured them." Rev. 20: 7-9.  
The Destruction of Sin and Sinners  
The fire of God falls from heaven upon the wicked as they  
surround the holy city, and the vast host of evil men and fallen  
angels is overwhelmed. This fire does not perpetuate the  
wicked, but "devours them." From this death, which is called  
in the Bible the "second death, " there will never be any re- 
covery. The wicked will never be raised from the death which  
they experience at this time. There will be no eternally burning  
hell in which they will suffer forever.  
On the contrary, they shall " die; " they shall suffer  
"death;" they shall suffer "the second death;" they shall be 
"destroyed;" they shall suffer "destruction;" they shall 
" perish; " they shall be "burned  .up ; " they shall "not be;"  
they shall come to an " end; " they shall be "consumed;" 
they shall be "devoured;" they shall be "slain;" they shall  
be "cut off;" they shall be "silent in darkness;" "they shall 
be as though they had not been;" they shall be "no more;"  
they shall be "blotted out;" they shall suffer "perdition;" 
they shall be "ground to powder," they shall be " hewn down,"  
they shall see "corruption;" they shall be "torn to pieces;" 
they shall be "rooted up;" they shall be as "nothing;" they


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"And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them."  
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shall be as "nought." Eze. 18:4; Rom. 6:23; Rev. 20: 14, 15;  
Ps. 145:20; Job 21:30; Ps. 37:20; Matt. 3: 12; Mal. 4:  1 ;  
Ps. 37: 10; Ps. 37: 38; Ps. 21:9; Ps. 62: 3; Ps. 37: 9; 1 Sam. 2:9;  
Obadiah 16; Ps. 104:35; Ps. 69: 28; 2 Pet. 3: 7; Matt. 21:44;  
Matt. 3: 10; Gal. 6:8; Ps. 50: 22; Prov. 2:22; Jer. 10: 24;  
Isa. 41:12.  
Such expressions as these, and there are many similar  
ones for which there is not space to quote, are surely sufficient  
to establish the fact that the Bible does not teach that God- 
dishonoring doctrine of eternal torment. This doctrine is an  
invention of Satan, designed to bring reproach upon God.  
It has no place in the Bible, and will have no place in reality  
when the wicked are punished. The fire which at the close  of  
the millennium falls upon them will consume them together.  
Each will be punished "according to his deeds." Rom. 2:6.  
Some take a longer time to consume than others, as they have  
been more wicked than others, but ultimately the fire which  
punishes them will bring them all to utter death and destruction.  
Upon Satan and his angels the fire will have the same  
effect as it has upon the wicked. All will be brought to nothing  
and be as though they had not been. In Satan's case this will  
take longer than in that of any other case, as he is the one 
through whom all the others have been caused to sin. But  
even in his case the fire of God will eventually devour him,  
and he will be no more. This is made plain in the word which  
God spake to Satan:  
"I will destroy thee, 0 covering cherub, from the midst of the stones  
of fire. . . . I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings,  
that they may behold thee. . . . Therefore will I bring forth a fire from  
the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon  
the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee  
among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and  
never shalt thou be any more. " Eze. 28: 16-19.  
The book of Malachi also refers to the destiny of Satan:  
"For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the  
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that  
cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them  
neither root nor branch. ' Mal. 4: 1.  
The great conflict of the ages between Christ and Satan  
will therefore result in the utter overthrow and destruction


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of Satan and his angels and all who ally themselves with him.  
The fires of the last day will consume them and "leave them  
neither root nor branch." Satan is the root, and the wicked  
are the branches. Nothing is to be left of either sin or sinners.  
The universe is to be cleansed from every stain of sin.  
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CHAPTER XIV  
THE NEW EARTH  
THE earth will be purified by the fire which consumes the  
wicked. The ruined works of men will be burned by great  
billows of flame. The last remnants of sin will be consumed.  
"The elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and  
the works that are therein shall be burned up. " 2 Peter 3 : 10.  
Then the long controversy against God is closed. Death, the  
last foe, has been destroyed. The warring world being at last  
overthrown, everything is now at peace with God. The great  
theatre of sin—the scene of strife and dissension, the first heaven  
and the first earth, the place in which centered the rebellion  
against Jehovah—has passed away. And when it has been  
dissolved by the fires which come down from heaven, by God's  
word there is then brought into existence "new heavens and  
a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3: 13.  
The New Jerusalem, containing the righteous nation of  
the saved, will ride securely upon the billows of flames which  
purify the earth, and when these flames subside, having ac- 
complished their work of purifying the earth,the city settles  
into the place prepared for it, and becomes the capital of the  
universe of God. God himself will dwell in it, the throne of  
the Lamb shall be in it, and it will be for all eternity the center  
of the entire universe.  
After the desolation of the millennium and the purifying  
fires at the close of the millennium, the earth will blossom  
again and become the home of the redeemed of the earth.  
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Isaiah 35. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the  
earth." Matt. 5 : 5.  
The earth will emerge from this fearful ordeal of fire  
cleansed from every stain of sin, and will become again like  
the Garden of Eden for beauty. "The wilderness and the soli-
tary place" shall "blossom as the rose," and to the earth "the  
glory of Lebanon shall be given, . . . the excellency of  
Carmel and Sharon." Isa. 35:2. The earth thus becomes  
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what it was first intended to be—the eternal home of the  
people of God.  
Building Houses and Planting Vineyards  
After witnessing the destruction of the wicked, and later  
the cleansing of the earth by fire, the righteous shall then go  
forth from the city, and "they shall build houses and inhabit  
them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. "  
Isa. 65: 21. The whole earth will be populated with the re- 
deemed of the Lord. The homes they build will never be  
destroyed. There will be no fear of fire, or earthquake, or war.  
Sin has passed forever. There will be none to make afraid.  
No ravenous beast shall be there. Peace and contentment and  
unspeakable happiness will prevail in the hearts of all.  
The people of the new earth will gather at Jerusalem to  
engage in the worship of the King of kings every month and  
every Sabbath. "For as the new heavens and the new earth,  
which  I  shall make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord,  
so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come  
to pass that from one new moon to another, and from one  
sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, 
saith the Lord." Isa. 66: 22, 23. Here in the city of God the  
redeemed will have access to the " tree of life, " which yields  
its fruit "every month." They also will have the privilege  
of wandering through the groves which border "the river of  
water of life" which proceeds "out of the throne of God and  
of the Lamb." Rev. 22:  1, 2.  
The Curse Removed  
The curse of sin has come to its end. "And there shall be  
no more curse." Rev. 22: 3. Sin has been destroyed, and will 
never return. The created intelligences of the other worlds,  
the angels, and every soul which has been redeemed at such an  
infinite cost have all fully decided that God is righteous alto- 
gether. The experiment carried out by Satan never need be  
repeated. Thank God for the promise of the Bible that when  
the Lord destroys sin he will "make an utter end: affliction  
shall not rise up the second time." Nahum 1: 9.  
There in that new earth,  "I  shall know even as also  I  
am known." 1 Cor. 13: 12. Loved ones and friends long sepa-


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A foretaste  of the new earth.  
rated by death will then be reunited, and they will know each  
other there just as they know each other here. Their sympathy  
and their love for each other will be deeper and increased,  
and will continue throughout the ages of eternity, never again  
to be broken by death. There all the faculties of the human  
mind will be developed, and our capacity for knowledge will  
be constantly enlarged. There will be no enterprise into which  
one can enter there that will be too great to be carried for- 
ward to completion. There will be no aspiration which can not  
be reached; there will be no ambition which can not be realized.  
There will be no end to the acquirement of knowledge. In  
the study of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge of the  
universe of God it will be possible to travel from planet to  
planet and from system to system, and the companions of the  
redeemed will be the angels of God and the unfallen intelli- 
gences of the other worlds.  
And this shall never end. As the ages of eternity unfold,  
there will be no fear that the years still to come will bring with


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them an end to the happiness of the redeemed. When eter- 
nity has been entered until myriads of ages have rolled by,  
still all beyond stretches eternity.  
A Universe Reunited  
In this way the controversy will close. In this way sin  
will be destroyed. In this way the great universe of God will  
be cleansed, and the bond of love and gladness which was  
broken by the intrusion of sin will be restored, and the whole  
creation reunited; and thus shall it ever remain.  
And you, my brother man, do you not want a place in  
that glorious new earth? It will not be long until it is here.  
It will not be long until sin and sinners will be no more. Hasten- 
ing greatly is the day of the Lord. Do not permit Satan by  
his wiles to deceive you. If he can, he will make you captive.  
Even now the message of the coming of the Lord is in the earth,  
and is being proclaimed far and wide. In that message is sal- 
vation for you, and a complete preparation to meet the Lord  
in peace. Accept it, and come to Christ, who rescues the perish-
ing and saves the lost. Let the sins which offend him be  
cast away, let the thoughts which insult him be forsaken,  
and take him for your Redeemer and Friend. His life has been  
given in order that you may have a part in this new earth.  
Oh, delay no longer! The time is short. The Lord is at hand.  
May he say to you who read this book, " Come, ye blessed of  
my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the  
foundation of the world."  
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