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Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ght and his angels,and prevailed not; neither was their place found any morein heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old ser-pent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the wholeworld: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels werecast out with him. Rev. 12: 7-9. Thus came the forces of evil into this world, which have been working through all the ages to draw men from allegiance to God, and to infuse into human hearts the same spirit of disobedience which wrought the ruin of Satan and his angels. 17 257 258 Our Day in the Light of ProphecyThe Cause of the Downfall Christ stated the principle: *If therefore the Hght that isin thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Matt. 6: 23. The principle finds its utmost application in the greatreversal, by which Lucifer, the light bearer in heaven be-came Satan, the adversary, the prince of darkness. In the pride and self-exaltation of Tyre, of old, the Lordsaw manifested the spirit of the god of this world; so, in de-
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CHRIST AND NICODEMUS Except a man be born again, he cannot seethe kingdom of God. John 3:3. daring His message of rebuke to the prince of Tyre, the Lorddescribes the cause and history of Satans fall: *Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God. . . . Thouart the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set theeso: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hastwalked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thouwast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, The Origin of Evil 259 till iniquity was found in thee. . . . Thine heart was Uftedup because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdomby reason of thy brightness. Eze. 28: 13-17. Likewise, in the sweUing pride of Babylon the Lord rec-ognized the spirit of the leader of the rebellious angels. Inone of the messages to Babylon is this reference to the vault-ing ambition of Lucifer in heaven: How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer (day-star,^margin), son of the morning! how art thou cut down to thegroun

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