nt for every element of adoration.

Thus the Man of Sin will appear as the culmination of all the
counterfeit methods of Satan; which method had its beginnings in the
last days of the age, even before the calling away of the true Church,
the Body of Christ. The subtle doctrines of devils will be adopted as
creeds in assemblies and so called churches, and these deep things, with
the Satanic ambition for moral improvement, will be voiced by ordained
ministers who appear as apostles of Christ and ministers of
righteousness. Yet in God's sight it is all a deep lie and hypocrisy,
for they are distorting His truth and subtly denying His redemption.

All this, as has been stated, is but the Satanic preparation of humanity
that they may wholly acknowledge him as their god, and that he may
himself become like the Most High. This program is permitted in the
purpose of God, for "that that is determined shall be done" (Dan.
II:36). It will be only for a moment; for the resistless coming of the
"Ancient of Days" will unveil all this deception, banish the enemies,
and bring in His own long-predicted and glorious reign of everlasting
blessedness upon the earth.

Chapter IX.

The Fatal Omission.

To some extent it has been necessary to anticipate the subject of this
chapter in dealing with those counterfeits which are predicted for the
last days, when there will be found a "form of godliness, denying the
power thereof," and also the deep "doctrines of devils" which are "lies
in hypocrisy." This chapter deals with that which is so vital in the
true faith, and which is to be so carefully omitted in the false; that
which makes the true so potent, and without which the false becomes an
immeasurable deception. Everything depends upon this one point of
distinction; for, according to prophecy, it is the only difference that
is finally to exist between the false and the true. The issue is,
therefore, as important as life itself.

It has already been seen that the method of counterfeiting, if
successful, will require Satan to appropriate and incorporate in his
false systems every available principle of the true; for the deception
of the counterfeit depends wholly upon its likeness to the real. Herein
is revealed the reason for calling that a lie or deception which is
externally so like the truth. Certainly there could be no greater
pitfall for souls than a system which seems to be the truth of God, and
yet robs its followers of a