Spiritualism - Nature

All of nature is under the dominion of Jesus, its creator. If you remember a time when a great storm arose while Jesus was on a boat sleeping and is awakened by his disciples who cried:

Lord, save us! And He said: Why do you fear, ye of little faith? Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, what man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him? * 1

It is interesting to note that not even the disciples understand yet who Jesus was. But gradually they began to see His power. Unfortunately, there exists a being that is also studying the Bible and has more power than we might think. Here is where we see the expansion of Spiritualism.

Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields His creatures and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer. But the Christian world have shown contempt for the law of Jehovah; and the Lord will do just what He has declared that He would--He will withdraw His blessings from the earth and remove His protecting care from those who are rebelling against His law and teaching and forcing others to do the same. Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard. He will favor and prosper some in order to further his own designs, and he will bring trouble upon others and lead men to believe that it is God who is afflicting them. * 2

If we notice, the Lord allows the enemy to use his power even over the elements of nature. But God protects all those who seek Him and who cry out as the disciples cried out to Jesus and were saved. Job was protected by God until He allowed Satan to test Job. The first thing Satan did was to cause destruction and suffering. These are the consequences of the enemy government. The Psalmist tells us:

I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears…This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger; but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.* 3

But he specifically states that these protections are available for those who cry out, those who fear the Lord.

While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. "The earth mourneth and fadeth away," "the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant." Isaiah 24:4, 5. *2

I ask, are we not seeing these things nowadays? Has there been a day in which the enemy has not caused death and destruction through the elements of nature? The great deceiver will then show that he has the power to heal and calm the storm that he himself has caused.

What is yet more alarming is the growing trend of Americans who believe in spiritualism, both religious and non religious. *5

Let us seek God every day and cry out so he may extend his protecting hand over us, "The Angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them."

JESUS IS COMING!

1* Mateo 8:25-27
2* “El Conflicto De Los Siglos”, “Un Conflicto Inminente”, Elena G. de White
3* Salmos 34:4-10
4* “Many Americans haunted by ghosts, look to astrology” - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091210/lf_nm_life/us_usa_religion;_ylt=AqKeBdKbzlWZo_dZwDnrGlCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJjOWVuOG8xBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMDkxMjEwL3VzX3VzYV9yZWxpZ2lvbgRwb3MDNwRzZWMDeW5fbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHNsawNtYW55YW1lcmljYW4-
5* (Image) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/2743011951_abf5d55723.jpg