We are warned in the word of God that sleepless vigilance is the price of safety. Only in the straight path of truth and righteousness can we escape the tempter’s power. But the world is ensnared. Satan’s skill is exercised in devising plans and methods without number to accomplish his purposes. Dissimulation has become a fine art with him, and he works in the guise of an angel of light. God’s eye alone discerns his schemes to contaminate the world with false and ruinous principles bearing on their face the appearance of genuine goodness. He works to restrict religious liberty, and to bring into the religious world a species of slavery. [See appendix.] Organizations, institutions, unless kept by the power of God, will work under Satan’s dictation to bring men under the control of men; and fraud and guile will bear the semblance of zeal for truth and for the advancement of the kingdom of God. Whatever in our practice is not as open as day belongs to the methods of the prince of evil. His methods are practiced even among Seventh-day Adventists, who claim to have advanced truth. {TM 365.3}

Vi er advaret i Guds ord at søvnløs vagtsomhed er prisen for sikkerhed. Kun på sandhedens og retfærdighedens lige stier kan vi undslippe (366) fristerens magt. Men verden er fanget. Satans dygtighed udvises i at udtænke utallige planer og fremgangsmåder for at udrette hans hensigter. Hykleri er blevet en fin kunst for ham, og han arbejder i en lysets engels forklædning. Guds øje alene skelner hans planer for at besmitte verden med falskhed og ødelæggende principper bærer et udseende af ægte godhed på deres ansigt. Han arbejder for at begrænse den religiøse frihed. Og bringer en slags slaveri i den religiøse verden.* Organisationer og institutioner vil, med mindre de er taget under Guds magt, arbejde under Satans diktat for at bringe mennesker under menneskers styring, og bedrageri og svig vil bære nidkærhedens udseende for sandhed og for Guds riges fremme. Intet i vor fremgangsmåde, er der så åben som den ondes fyrstes metoder. Hans metoder udøves selv blandt Syvnde-dags Adventister, som påberåber sig at have den fremadførerne sandhed.