Satanic Omnipresence by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 17, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 11.

Satanic Omnipresence

By Editor

UNDER the heading of "Satanic Omnipresence," the Golden Gate attempts to ridicule our statement of the true theory of spiritual phenomena, by saying that there are thousands of persons being influenced at the same time, in different phases of mediumship, and that if there is a personal devil "he must be in thousands of places at one and the same instant of time; hence he must be omnipresent. There is no escaping this conclusion."

Those who are familiar with the Bible will readily see that there is no chance for any such conclusion. Says the revelator, when speaking of the phenomena of Spiritualism: "They are the spirits of devils, working miracles." Rev. 16:14. These devils are "the angels that sinned," and that "kept not their first estate;" and their name is "legion," for they "are many." Mark 5:9-13.

In our reference to Spiritualism we write with no great expectation that those who have been ensnared by it will see their error, although there is hope even that those who have been taken captive by the devil at his will, may be recovered from his snare (2 Tim. 2:25, 26); but we write for the purpose of putting the unwary on their guard against this most subtle and dangerous delusion of the arch-enemy of mankind. The Bible, and the Bible alone, forewarns and forearms us against it.