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ABADDON, AND MAHANAIM;
on,
BY
JOSEPH F. BERG, D. D.,
Tastor of the Second Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA :
HIGGIXS & PERKINPINE, 40 N. FOURTH ST.
1 8 5 6.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855,
BY UIGGINS & PERKINPINE,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
AND ESPECIALLY TO
THAT THEY MVY ESCAPE THE PERDITION OF THEM WHO GIVE HEKit
TO SEDUClNfJ SPIRITS AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS:
THESE PAGES
ARE INWRIHED.
PREFACE.
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6 PEFFACE.
15. And when the servant of the man of God was risen
early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both
with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him,
Alas,
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his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of
the yonng man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was
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came to pre
sent themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among
them.
7. And the Lord said unto Satan, "Whence comest thou ?
Then Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and
fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
This SATAN,
admonition
CHAPTER
ofTHE
the apostle
ENEMY.
I. Paul has special
3
26 SATAN, THE ENEMY.
desires
Ye, who
to have
despise
youthe
thatgreat
he may
salvation,
sift you
awake
as wheat.
! The
fought against the dragon : and the dragon fought and his
more
angels.
8.
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in heaven.
prevailed
the great not
dragon
; neither
was was
cast their
out, that
placeoldfound
serpent,
any
called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world :
he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out
with him.
SATAN, A TEMPTER. 35
War SATAN,
in heaven
CHAPTER
I This
A TEMPTER.
is a II.
startling annuncia
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38 SATAN, A TEMPTER.
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5
50 SATAN, A TEMPTER.
CHAPTER III.
No sooner
SATAN,
had SatanA gained
TYRANT.
his first victory in
6
62 SATAN, A TYRANT.
7
74 SATAN, A TYRANT.
them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them,
SATAN, A FALSE GOD. 70
Human
SATAN,
depravity
CHAPTER
Ais FALSE
manifested
IV.in GOD.
no develop
8
86 SATAS, A FALSE GOD.
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obeyed. " Lay this hand upon the lid." This too
was done. And struggling as she was with death,
the wretched woman clung to her treasure, raving,
that she would not give it up, and that she must
take it with her. In that posture death found her,
and when the spirit had fled, the hands of that
ghastly corpse were still clutching the key and the
lid of the miser's chest. She was a worshipper of
" the god of this world ;" her ruling passion strong
in death, she died as she had lived, the slave of the
devil.
How different is this from the close of a Chris
CHAPTER V.
These
SATAN,
remarkable
THEwords DECEIVER.
occur in the symbolic
" Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him,
and buried him in Eamah, even in his own city."
The thought of Samuel was uppermost in the mind
of Saul. He had been a true friend of the King ;
for though Saul had often been rebuked with all the
severity of faithfulness, he had never been deceived
by the prophet. And now, that the black clouds of
impending wrath were again lowerirjg over the land,
and the oracles were silent, and there was no pro
phet like Samuel, to tell the king the counsel of the
Lord, the bereavement with which God had afflicted
the nation, in taking away his own faithful servant,
added gall to the bitterness of Saul's perplexity.
His conscience troubled him. God had forsaken him,
and he knew the reason. How his heart trembled,
when he looked from the camp of Israel in Gilboa,
out towards Shunem, and saw it covered with the
mighty array of the Philistines ! How he groaned in
the anguish of despair, Oh ! that Samuel were with
me I See him in his tent, bowing his face to the
earth, whilst tears of vexation course down his cheeks,
and he moans in broken sentences, his sad complaint,
that God has departed from him, and repeats with
passionate earnestness, the name of the revered pro
phet, Samuel ! Samuel ! Suddenly a suggestion has
darted into his mind. It is a fiery arrow of the
Wicked One. He repels it. The subtle Tempter
SATAN, THE DECEIVER. 115
11
122 SATAN, THE DECEIVER.
shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him
and keep his commandments, and obey his voice,
and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And
that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be
put to death ; because he hath spoken to turn you
away from the Lord your God," &c. This confirms
our position, and proves beyond all controversy,
that Satan did both under the old and new dispen
sations exercise a direct and special influence upon
the minds of his subjects, and that by his conjec
tural knowledge, and more than human foresight,
he was permitted to make wonderful discoveries
through the human agents who were under his
control. Now, I can not only find no passage in
the Scriptures, in support of the commonly received
idea which limits this Satanic agency to ancient pe
riods in the history of the world, or of the Church,
but I believe also, that passages may be adduced
which will establish the very opposite. The words
announced as my topic, " Spirits of daemons work
ing miracles," occur in the prophetic history of the
events of the sixth vial, which relate in regular
order to the latest period but one in the history
of the Church; the seventh vial is the period
immediately preceding the millennial kingdom.
That era will be signalized by a great increase of
Satanic power. The hosts of darkness will be per
SATAN, THE DECEIVER. 127
12
SATAN, THE BESTEOYER. 185
The
SATAN,
meaning
CHAPTER
THE
of Abaddon'
DESTROYER.
VI.
and Apollyon, is
13
146 SATAN, THE DESTROYS K.
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150 SATAN, THE DESTROYER.
not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these
things ? And now ye know what withholdeth
that he might be revealed in his time; for the
mystery of iniquity doth already work ; only he
who now hindereth will hinder, until he be taken
out of the way" (viz. the ancient Eoman empire).
" And then shall that Wicked One be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his
mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming; even him, whose coming is after the
working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and
lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of un
righteousness in them that perish, because they
received not the love of the truth that they might
be saved." Now, I ask, what church or what sys
tem of religion, calling itself Christian, answers the
description of this inspired prophetic portrait, save
theThe
Church
PopeofisEome
styled,
? "our Lord God," "another
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158 SATAN, THE DESTROYER.
First
was dead
and the
andLast,
is alive—the
who liveth
Alpha
for evermore
and Omega,
! Shake
the -
APPARITIONS.
Church, in Maine. See his work, entitled, " The Last Enemy,
Conquering and Conquered," pp. 177-179.
APPARITIONS. 169
15
170 APPARITIONS.
SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS.
It In
remains
a literary
to criticise
point itofasview,
a book.
it is beneath criticism. It
taking ; but let me assure you that your reward will be greater
than the suffering you have endured. Yes, most nobly you
have fought against error ; and you will yet place the banner
of freedom high upon the battlements of truth. Farewell
noble scion of a noble man ! " Geo. Washington."
SPIEIT MANIFESTATIONS. 177
spirits,
In these
personate
circumstances
the spirits
there
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no certainty
authors."
whatever to the
CHAPTER I.
Are they
GUAEDIAN
not all miDistering spirits,
ANGELS.
sent forth to minister
to themAhwho
The
meshall
righteous
! howbemany
heirs
manperils
oftosalvation
make
do enfold
him
?—Hebrew
daily fall, i. 14.
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Andnot
stedfast
that heavenly
Truth acquit
gracehim
dothouthim
of uphold,
all.
16
182 GUAKDIAN ANGELS.
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heavenly
maythan
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:—else
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that mercy
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oft do tothey
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!"
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THE
Which,
What
'Gainst
That
But
And
Nor
If
Orany
from
all
let
vain
thorough
man
strength
MINISTRY
spiritual
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the
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so
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man
field
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17
194 THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS.
THE
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TheANGELS
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and
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born, was a wild man, who cared not for the birth
right which might pertain to him as the elder son.
He suffered Jacob to supplant him, and sold his
birthright in a fit of peevish weakness for a mess
of pottage. When the blessing of Isaac, securing
the promise to Jacob, had already been imparted,
Esau sought it, and with frantic regret, hung im
ploringly upon his father, and with a great and
exceeding bitter cry, said to him, "Bless me, even
me also, 0 my father !" Bitter as that cry was, his
poignant regret was unavailing ; Isaac's answer was,
IN THE WILDERNESS. 107
17*
198 THE ANGELS
CHAPTER IV.
And when J acob saw them, he said, This is God's host ; and
he called the name of that place Mahanaim, or " Two Camps."
—Genesis,
The earlier
xxxii, 1—2.
portions of the life of Jacob are not
18
206 MAHA S A I M.
18*
210 M A H A N A I M.
ing, but for the divine blessing. " Say not in thine
heart, my hand and the power of my might hath
gotten me this wealth," was the admonition which
Moses subsequently addressed to the people of
Israel, and which God's people in all ages should
remember. They are never to forget, " It is the
Lord who hath given thee all this wealth." Oh !
God's blessing maketh rich. The selfish covetous-
ness of Laban cannot hinder Jacob's prosperity.
Let him change his wages ten times, still God
makes the blessing sure and turns the very devices
of jealousy into so many means of promoting the
welfare of his servant. God has not forgotten the
covenant which Jacob had made with him, at
Bethel. Those words, as they fell from the lips of
the solitary pilgrim upon the silence of the wilder
ness, were written in the book of remembrance, and
that solemn vow of the poor, friendless wanderer,
was recorded in heaven. " If God will be with me,
and will keep me in this way that I go, and will
give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that
I come again to my father's house in peace, then
shall the Lord be my God. And this stone which
I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house ; and of
all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the
tenth unto thee." Now, at the end of more than
twenty years, the Lord appears to Jacob and says,
MAHANAI M. 211
whose
third,
unto
us.
with
this
Jacob
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218 M A II A N A I M.
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222 THE ANGEL OF DELIVERANCE.
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20
280 THE HEAVENLY HIERARCHY.
CHAPTER VII.
THE
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234 THE INNUMERABLE THRONG.
CHAPTER VIII.
He ANGELIC
shall give his angels PROTECTION.
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his
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affected the mind of the apostle with great power,
in order to enable him to speak thus confidently.
Paul lived for immortality. He kept eternity con
tinually in view. His writings abound in similar
expressions of readiness to depart and of desire to
be with Christ. His conversation was in heaven.
His treasure was in heaven, and his heart was there
also. To the weeping elders at Miletus, sorrowing
because they should see his face no more, he spoke
with the same unwavering confidence, though the
tenderest emotions were struggling for utterance:
" And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit to Jeru
salem, not knowing the things that shaH befall me
there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every
city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
But none of these things move me; neither count I
my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my
course with joy, and the ministry which I have
received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of
the grace of God." (Acts xx. 22-24.)
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the physician, will recognise in this volume cians eminent for their piety, who have
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