Letter to Helen
Dear Helen,
It is nice to know that angels oversee us as guardians, teachers, and helpers. The obedient child of God can get great comfort from that knowledge as I do, Psalm 91. However, the unrepentant and sin loving do not think it is very pleasant. Acknowledging the texts referring to the terrible snow in our area, God is doing this to punish us in a way for the wrongs the people have committed. On the first day of our paralysis, the metropolitan Chicago area lost 500 million dollars, Psalm 147:17-18; Ezekiel 14:19-21. The business world is full of fraud and corruption. The problem is that when they suffer, we all suffer, I Corinthians 12:26.
I have not read anything by Charles Pridgeon, but I do know that back in those days he would have been accepted by only a few. God has a good reason for not telling the greatest truths to the world until the end. It is because previous generations had to succeed one another under demonic subjection. Even in Paul's day, devils took advantage of the law and "wrought all manner of concupiscence" in him and the Pharisees, Romans 7:8-10,13. Satan also took advantage of the scriptures in an attempt to deceive Jesus, Matthew 4:6. He has also victimized some faith healers in this same way to make one stop taking insulin and others in one church to allow poisonous snakes to bite them. They perished because devils using the ministers (like they did Peter, Revelation 13:11, and Matthew 16:21-23) deceived them. Even those ministers could not "tell their right hand from their left," meaning Christ from the devil, Jonah 4:10-11; II Thessalonians 2:2-8, and Malachi 3:6,17. We have a greater law (vulnerable to the devils trickery) than the law Paul wrote about. In fact that law "had no glory by reason of the excelling glory" of our law, II Corinthians 2:7-11. Our law is "the perfect law of liberty" and "the law of the spirit of life in Christ", James 1:25 and Romans 8:2. We call it the salvation of all men or the gospel of justification and reconciliation from Romans 5:18, and II Corinthians 5:18-19. My friend Ben wrote a complaint saying some of his friends he reasoned with concerning "the new gospel" are using it as a cushion to stay in adultery and fornication. This matter is distressing to us who love obedience. He asked me if I had experienced any similar or related devilishness. I have! When God first convinced me of our doctrine, I heard a voice plainly tell me, "Now you can screw all the pretty girls you want without worrying about it". Then I stood in Eve's shoes at the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Having eaten the fruit of life, I rejected the fruit of abundant "good" sex pleasure but "evil" works. A young divorcee seeking to know God was newly attached to a church group full of errors by our light. After talking to her about our greater light, she became confused and proclaimed now she could have all the men she needed and desired. My heart dropped! I had a time persuading her to do otherwise and go back to her teachers she was with. God comforted me telling me mine is His work, and my duty is to publicly overspread the given light at this time of the end. He assured me He had "set two ways" down here and my work entailed both sides of the coin. It is because Satan can take advantage of our perfect law of liberty and work "all manner of concupiscence" in men, that God did not overspread this light to previous generations. If Satan could create Sodom and Gomorrah where there was no law, how much greater evils could he do with the "law of justification" for all? We can discern and discriminate that God justifies the person or being, not the wicked behavior Satan causes. Men with little knowledge and a weak love and gratitude foundation can certainly become Satan's victims. God reserves "pearls" for a "few" ready graduates. He shrewdly distributes secrets. Why complain that He did not make our light common knowledge at the beginning? Genesis 3:22; Luke 12:47-48. FATHER KNOWS BEST!