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“Many who profess to be the ministers of
Christ are like the sons of Eli who ministered in the sacred office and
took advantage of their office to engage in crime and commit adultery,
causing the people to transgress the law of God. A fearful account will
such have to render when the cases of all shall pass in review before
God, and they be judged according to the deeds done in the body….
Adultery is one of the terrible sins of this age. This sin exists among
professed Christians of every class….”
—The Sin of Licentiousness,
TSB 99.2 (Ellen G. White)
Satan in the Form of a Man
“As
God has shown me how abhorrent in His sight are these defiling sins,
and as they are steadily increasing in our world and would intrude into
our churches, I warn you to give no place to the devil. Fly
from the seducer. Though a minister, he is Satan in the form of a man. He
has borrowed the livery of heaven that he may serve his master and deceive
souls.”
—The Sin of Licentiousness,
TSB 105.2 (Ellen G. White)
Agents of Satan
“The worst feature
in this case is that all his satanic work is done under pretense of being
a representative of Jesus Christ. One sinner dressed up as an angel of
light can do incalculable harm. Dark
and fearful plans are deliberately made to separate man and wife. Said
the apostle: “Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and
lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts.” (2
Timothy 3:6) These licentious characters even creep into respectable
families and by their deceptive wiles and intrigues lead astray the conscientious.
Damnable heresies are received as truth, and the most revolting sins
committed as acts of righteousness, for conscience becomes confused and
stupefied.”
—Testimonies for the Church, Vol.
5 (Ellen G. White)
“My people are destroyed
for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also
reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten
the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”—Hosea
4:6
“The world has nearly filled up the measure of
their iniquity, but that which will bring the heaviest retribution is
the practice of iniquity under the cloak of godliness…”
—Counsels to Parents,
Teachers, and Students, page 256, paragraph 3
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