The heathen oracles have their counterpart in the spiritualistic mediums, the clairvoyants, and fortune-tellers of today. The mystic voices that spoke at Endor and Ephesus, are still by their lying words misleading the children of men. The mysteries of heathen worship are replaced by the secret associations and seances, the obscurities and wonders, of the sorcerers of our time. Their disclosures are eagerly received by thousands who refuse to accept light from God’s word or from his Spirit. While they speak with scorn of the magicians of old, the great deceiver laughs in triumph as they yield to his arts in a different form.{LP 139.1}


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Paulus i Efesus

De hedenske orakler havde deres modstykke i spiritualistiske medier, nutidens clairvoyanter og fremtidssigere. De mystiske stemmer der talte i Endor og Efesus, villeder stadig menneskenes børn med deres lyvende ord. Den hedenske tilbedelses mysterier erstattes af skjulte forbund og hemlige møder, dunkelheden og underne fra vor tids troldmænd. Tusindvis tager imod deres åbenbarelser, som nægter at antage lyset fra Guds ord eller fra hans Ånd. Selv om de taler hånligt om gamle dages troldmænd, ler den store bedrager i jubel idet de falder for hans kunster i en anden form.

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