Clear Bible Answers

We know that the biggest deception is yet in the future—when Satan impersonates Christ. Why does Satan do so? He does it in a desperate attempt to get one class of people who have not been a prey to his guiles. They are ready to receive the seal of the living God and be declared secured for eternity. He wants to have a last go at them.

In vivid details the pen of inspiration lays down this warning message. “As the crowning act in the great drama of deception, Satan himself will personate Christ…. he claims to have changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and commands all to hallow the day which he has blessed. He declares that those who persist in keeping holy the seventh day are blaspheming his name by refusing to listen to his angels sent to them with light and truth. This is the strong, almost overmastering delusion” {GC88 624.1}.

We are warned about great perplexity and confusion creeping in as a part of the enemy’s strategy to derail the precious faith of the saints.

“The days are fast approaching when there will be great perplexity and confusion. Satan, clothed in angel robes, will deceive, if possible, the very elect. … Every wind of doctrine will be blowing” {Mar 200.3}.

God will purge His church and He has many ways to do it. One of it we are told is by the introduction of false doctrines. “When the shaking comes, by the introduction of false theories, these surface readers, anchored nowhere, are like shifting sand. They slide into any position to suit the tenor of their feelings of bitterness” TM 112 (1897).