To calm their understandable wrath I lifted my hand and asked for
their attention. When they gave it to me, I said, “I am aware that a man of
stature wrote some such accusation in a letter; later the letter was printed.
If he had known at that point, however, what blasphemy it was, he would
surely have torn it to pieces with his own fingers and given it to Vulcan to
consume. The Lord responded to a similar attack when the Jews said that
Christ was doing miracles with something other than divine power
(Matthew 12 : 22 – 32 ). Among other things, the Lord says in that response,
‘Whoever is not with me is against me. Whoever is not gathering with me
is scattering’ (Matthew 12 : 30 ).”
At this, the chairman, his ally, lowered his face. Soon, however, he lifted
it again and said, “Now I have heard harder things than ever from you!”
I countered, “There are two doctrines behind these proceedings:
materialist philosophy and Muhammadanism—lies invented by treach-
ery, two deadly stabs aimed at turning and deterring the human will
from the holy worship of the Lord.”
I turned to the man from the left-hand group and said, “Tell your
man in Göteborg, if you can, to read what the Lord has said in Revela-
tion 3 : 18 and also in Revelation 2 : 16 .”
[ 13 ] When I said that, a riot broke out, but it was calmed by light
sent down from heaven. As a result of the light, many on the left crossed
over to join those on the right. Two groups who stayed on the left were
those spirits whose thoughts were without purpose and who would
therefore hang on the sayings of any authority, and those spirits who saw
the Lord as only a human being. The light sent down from heaven
seemed to be repelled by these latter two groups, but it seemed to flow
into the spirits who crossed from left to right.
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