“And Satan said unto the woman . . . . Yea, hath God really said ?
ye shall not surely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened (enlightened), and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil . . .” Genesis 3:1-5
But I say unto you, “he (Satan) was a murder from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth (John 17:17), because there is no Truth in him . . . When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father (source) of it . . . !” John 8:44
” Be not deceived; many will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. We have now before us the alpha of this danger. The omega will be of a most startling nature . . . .” – 1 Selected Messages, p.197
“Representations had been shown me that some danger was approaching, and that I must prepare for it. I must write out the things God had given me in order to prepare for it . . . I did not read Living Temple, though I had it in my library. At last my son said to me, “Mother, you ought to read at least some parts of the book, that you may see whether they are in harmony with the light that God has given you.” He sat down beside me, and we read the paragraphs to which he referred.
When we had finished I turned to him and said, “These are the very sentiments against which I was bidden to speak in warning at the very beginning of my public work. When I first left the State of Maine, it was to go through Vermont and Massachusetts, to bear a testimony against these sentiments. Living Temple contains the Alpha of these theories. The Omega would follow in a little while. I tremble for our people. These beautiful representations are similar to the temptation that the enemy brought to Adam and Eve in Eden.” 1 SAT 341