The devil's building

Preface

The object of the writer of this book is to let the reader see the greatness of the Devil as well as the greatness of God. Almost every person who reads, has read about the greatness of God and the great work that is now being carried on by his people, and every person can see the great churches that have been erected by God's people. But few T persons have ever thought of the greatness of the Devil and the great work that he and his followers are doing. The Devil's work is universal, for the Devil and his followers are erecting a very great building — great not for goodness, but great because it covers the entire face of the earth. All persons who have a mind to think have the right to think for themselves and judge according to their own thoughts.

THE CREATION OF ' vN AND WOMAN,

CHAPTER I. When this book you read

In this book you will see This building was started

By a party of three.

When God created the Heavens and the earth, he said nothing about creating Hell, as that was not necessary, because there was no sin on earth at that time. Sin creates Hell. Where there is no sin there is no Hell. God proceeded to create man and woman. (See 1st Genesis, 27th verse.) God created man in his own image — in the image of God created he him — male and female created he them — and after God had created man and woman, he placed them in the Garden of Eden (see 2d Genesis, 15th verse); and after God had placed them in the garden he saw it was necessary to make a law to govern them by. So God said to Adam, "Thou shalt not eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil;" and the penalty for violating God's law is death (see 17th verse of 2d

THE DEVIL AT WAR IN HEAVEN.

chapter of Genesis); "for the day ye eat thereof you shall surely die." All went well in the Garden of Eden, but trouble began in Heaven. The Devil was then an angel in Heaven, and perhaps had the highest honor of any other angel in Heaven, but he was not satisfied at that, for he thought he was greater than God, and got jealous of the great things God was doing. So he goes through Heaven and gets together angels — a plenty to start a rebellion in Heaven, which he did, and was defeated, and he and his angels were cast out of Heaven to the earth (see 12th chapter of Revelations, 7th verse )

Chapter II

"And there was war in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels." The 9th verse reads: "And the great dragon was cast out to the earth — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan — and his angels were cast out with him" and placed in a pit called the (6)

THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS MAKE THEIR PLANS.

bottomless pit of the earth, and called the pit hell. While in the pit the Devil said to his angels, "We must have revenge; God built the Heavens and cast us out of Heaven to the earth; now we will build up Hell on the earth; this pit that we are in we will call it our office, and while we are in here we will lay our plans for the building called Hell." And the Devil said to his angels, "Just what God tells the people to do, we will tell them not to do, and what God tells the people not to do, we will tell them to do." The pit where the Devil and his angels were put was not prepared for all of those who disobey the law of God and expire, but it was just prepared for the Devil and his angels, and they were only kept there for a short while and then let go. This earth, where all of the crimes of immorality are committed, will eventually be called Hell itself, and every person who disobeys the law of God is helping the Devil to build up Hell. All persons who do wickedly are digging a pit for th eir own souls to fall into.

SONG OF THE DEVIL AFTER HIS FIGHT IX HEAVEN.

CHAPTER III. I had a great fight

In Heaven last night,

And got defeated, you know;

But all will be right

When 1 finish my flight

'Way down to the earth below.

But when I do alight,

Will be bound awful tight

And into a pit be thrown.

But if ever I get out,

I will take a straight route

To the Garden of Eden, alone.

THE DEVIL'S TRIP TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

After the Devil and his angels bad laid their plans for the great building of sin called Hell, the Devil said to his angels, "Stay here in the pit for awhile and I will go to the Garden of Eden and there lay the foundation of sin, the building called Hell." So the devil left the pit for the Garden of Eden alone.

THE DEVIL AT THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

Chapter IV

When the Devil did arrive at the garden, he went to Eve: the woman first, for he knew that she was weak in nature and he would have no trouble to employ her to work on the building called Hell. By getting her to do just what God had told her not to do (see Genesis, 3d chapter, 4th and 5th verses) Eve hired herself out to the Devil when she ate of the fruit which God had told her not to eat. The Devil knew he had her employed when he saw her eat the fruit and he knew that he would have no trouble to get the man after he had employed the woman. So he told Eve to give the fruit to Adam, which she did. (See 6th verse.) Adam hired himself out to the Devil to help build Hell with sin when he ate the fruit the woman gave him. The Devil saw he had accomplished his purpose, so he left the garden and went back to the pit and told what he did.

THE DEVIL CLAIMS THE EARTH.

Chapter V

The Devil said to his angels, "The earth ie mine and I will demand the service of every man and woman on the face of the earth to work on the building called Hell." So the Devil and his angels made a start to build up crimes of iniquity, or the building called Hell. So the Devil and his angels are all at work: that is the reason when we would do good, evil is always at hand, or the Devil or his angels are always putting evil in our way. That is the reason that God said, "woe unto the inhabitors of the earth, for the Devil is with you." (See 12th chapter of Revelations, 12th verse.) That is why Job said the earth is given unto the hands of the wicked. (Job, 9th chapter, 24th verse.) The Devil claims that we are living on his property. We should this day lay down our sins, leave them behind and start for Heaven. We should this day

THE TWO GREAT PROMISES quit working for the Devil and go to work for God. Your wages for working for the Devil on the building called Hell is death and destruction, for the wages of sin is death. God wants your service and he has promised all of those who work for him life eternal, a mansion in Heaven. Whoever you work for, you expect your pay from that person. Then if you work for the Devil, you may expect your pay from him. But if you work for God, he will pay you and pay you well. He will give you a warranty deed to his mansion. Quit claims with the Devil to-day and start with God's army for Heaven. Don't wait for to-morrow.

Hark! the voice of Jesus calls you. Will you come and work to-day?

Let him hear you quickly saying, Here am I, take me, take me.

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THE DEVIL EMPLOYS CAIN.

Chapter VI

Now when the face of the earth began to multiply, the Devil and his angels began to employ all whom they could, to work on the building called Hell. They went to Cain and Abel, the first two children born, and the Devil employed Cain to lay the corner-stone to the building called Hell. Cain went to work for the Devil when he killed his brother. (See 4th chapter Genesis, 8th verse.) The Devil went next to Pharaoh and there employed him to go to work on the building called Hell by having him enslave all of the children of Israel. The Devil knew that God would be displeased at that, and God was displeased at Pharaoh and sent all manner of afflictions upon him to make him let the children of Israel go; but the Devil told Pharaoh to hold on to the children of Israel, and he did. Then God told Moses to take the children of Israel across the sea, and he did. So

THE DEVIL'S ARMY ATTEMPTS TO CROSS THE SEA.

the Devil told Pharaoh to take his army across the sea also, and Pharaoh made an attempt to do so but he failed in his attempt, (See 14th chapter Exodus.) "And Moses stretched forth over the sea and the sea returned to his strength, and the Egyptians fled against it and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea and the waters returned and covered them up. Their chariots and the horsemen and of all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them there remained not so much as one of them. Thus you can see that God was determined to stop the work of the Devil there, and God is yet determined to forever stop the work of the Devil and his host; but the Devil and his angels go on employing whoever they can to work on the building called Hell. They never stop from defeat at one place, but go elsewhere.

Chapter VII

The Devil next went to employ Jonah. He knew God had told Jonah to go to Ninevah and tell the people to stop work on the building called Hell; so he made it his business to see Jonah. Before he started the Devil got there and employed Jonah to go to Tarshish. Jonah hired himself out to the Devil and took a ship to go where the Devil told him, contrary to what God had told him to do. (See 1st chapter of Jonah). God saw what the Devil had done and he was very much displeased at Jonah and caused a great storm on the sea and had Jonah cast overboard into the sea. The sea was calm and God had a large fish prepared to bring Jonah back to dry land again, so that Jonah might do as he had ordered him to do. When Jonah got back to dry land again he was perfectly willing to go to Ninevah, whereGod had told him to go, and tell the people to stop work for the Devil.

THE DEVIL EMPLOYS BALAAM.

This same Devil goes after Balaam to work upon the building called Hell. Balaam was a very great man. He was a man that God placed a great deal of confidence in. He was a man that God thought he could trust for almost anything; but yet he could not be trusted, but hired himself out to the Devil by doing just what God told him not to do. The Devil told the King of Moab to go and get Balaam to go to Egypt and curse a certain people and that great king, a very great man. yet an employe of the Devil, did as the Devil had told him to do. He employed Balaam to go to Egypt and curse the people. (See Numbers, 22d chapter.) Balaam knew that he was disobeying God's orders, but the Devil had control of him. God saw the job the Devil had put up and his anger was kindled and he went and told Balaam not to go, but Balaam made an attempt to go. Then the Lord God sent an angel and stopped Balaam.

DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS AT SODOM AND GOMORRAH.

Chapter VIII

The Devil and his angels went to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and there they employed nearly every person in the city to work on the building called Hell, with their crimes of iniquity. And God saw that the Devil and his angels had employed almost every person in the city to work on the building called Hell, so God concluded to destroy the city. But before destroying the city God thought he would search the city and if enough persons could be found that were not working for the Devil, he would spare the city. Abraham did not want to see the city destroyed. He asked God if he found fifty people who were not working for the Devil, would he spare the city? God said he would spare the city for the sake of fifty, but they could not be found. Then Abraham asked God if he found forty-five, would he spare the city 9 God said he would spare the city for the sake of forty-five, but that number could not be found. God said he would spare the city for forty, or for thirty, (16)

THE DEVIL TEMPTS LOT S WIFE.

or for twenty; said be would spare the city if ten could be found that were not working for the Devil on the building called Hell, but ten could not be found. Then God said, I will destroy the city, Then Abraham left the city and God sent two angels to tell Lot to take his wife and two daughters and get out of the city and not look back. (Read the 18th and 10th chapters of Genesis.) Lot took his wife and two daughters and started from the city. The Devil saw them going from the city and rfe knew that God told them not to look back, and he knew the weakness of the woman just as he knew the weakness of the woman in the Garden of Eden, and said to his angels, "I will tempt the woman just as I did in the Garden of Eden." So the Devil stepped up to Lot's wife and said to her, "Look back at the burning city." The woman could not resist the temptation and looked back at the burning city and became a pillar of salt.

THE BOY ON THE LADDER.

Chapter IX

When God sets your soul free from the hands of the Devil he wants you to go on heavenward and not look back; if you look back you are in much danger of losing your eoul. In the city of New York, once upon a time there were men at work on top of a building and they had a ladder for which to go up and down on; a boy came along and saw the ladder there and thought he would climb up to where the men were at work; the boy started up the ladder and when he had gone half way up, he looked down at the ground, and his head became dizzy and he was about to fall. But the men at work looked down at the boy and saw he was about to fall from the ladder, so they called to him to look up. The boy looked up at the men and they said, "now climb the ladder." The boy started to climb again and went on up to the top of the building. Jacob dreamt that he saw a ladder that reached from earth to Heaven and angels were ascending and descending upon it. (See 28th chapter

THE DEVIL IS EVERYWHERE.

Genesis, 12th verse.) Many persons have started to climb Jacob's ladder and have gone halfway up, but are now looking down. Th eir heads have become dizzy; they are about to fall into the hands of the Devil. Jesus is looking down at them; he sees they are about to fall and is calling to them to look up. Now climb. The Devil and his angels are everywhere. He is at your bedside when you are suffering great pain. He is at your bedside when you are dying, and may cause you to say, " I wonder shall I ever reach heaven?" He went to the thief while he was hanging upon the cross and said to him, "I have got your soul, sure," but the thief knew that Jesus was hanging on the cross on the other side of him and he called on Jesus to take him out of the hands of the Devil, by saying, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. Jesus at that moment took him out of the hands of the Devil, by telling him, "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." (See Luke, 23d chapter, 42d and 43d verses.)

THE DEVIL'S BUILDING DESTROYED.

Chapter X

The Devil and his angele carried on this work with such rapidness that God looked down at the earth and saw that the Devil and his angels had the building called Hell so near complete that it would be necessary to destroy their work and all of the people working for them. God sent a message to Noah and told him to tell the people that they must stop working for the Devil on the building called Hell, for he was going to destroy the Devil's building and all of his people. Noah warned the people to stop working for the Devil, but the people would not take warning, for the Devil told them that it was not so. He told the people that God could not destroy the building. God saw that the people would not stop working for the Devil; then he told Noah to build an ark for a place of safety for himself and family, which Noah did; then God caused the earth to be flooded and destroyed every living creature on the face of the earth, except those that took refuge in the ark. (Read 6th chapter of Genesis.)

THE DEVIL AT THE CITY OF BABEL.

God destroyed the Devil's building of sin, but he did not destroy the foundation. When he left Noah and his family he left the foundation of the building called Hell; and when the waters had abated and the face of the earth had again been multiplied, the Devil and his angels began to employ people to again build up the building called Hell. They went to the city of Babel and there they employed all of the people to work on the building called Hell by having them attempt to build a tower to reach the heavens. The Devil knew that it would displease God for the people to attempt to do such a thing as that, but that is why he employed them to do it. God looked down and saw the work that the people were doing on the tower, and to stop them from building it any higher God confounded their languages, so that they could not understand each other, as you may see by reading the 11th chapter of Genesis. It is absolutely true that the foundation of sin is the foundation of Hell.

SOMETHING FOR ALL TO DO.

Chapter XI

It is always harder to carry a burden up hill than it is to carry it down hill. That is why it is so much easier to work for the Devil than it is to work for God, for those who work for the Devil are certainly going down hill and those who work for God are carrying their burdens up hill. Jesus showed the world of people that they had an up-hill job to work for God by carrying the burden of our sins up Mount Calvary, and almost broke down under the weight of them. There is something for all who join God's army to do. God wants you to help rescue the perishing, for they are many. Many are breaking down under the burdens of afflictions, many with burdens of trouble. God wants you to throw out your life line and rescue some one that is sinking. Go to the police court and there you will see those that are sinking. There you will see many frowsy-looking men with unclean faces; many fadedlooking women, most of them with swollen faces and tears flowing down their cheeks, the usual daily grind of perfunctory testimony, and in the

PEACE AND GOOD WILL TO ALL MANKIND.

prisoners' dock a number of wretched-looking individuals with black eyes, bloody noses and broken pates Many stories are told to the police judge; stories of fighting, of swearing, of foul language and foul blows, hatred and enmity. These are they that are sinking in sin. God wants you to help rescue them. Don't point the finger of scorn at them, but throw out your life line and save them, if possible. Give them a prayer book and tell them that God wants peace, good will to all mankind. If you do that then you are discharging your duty as a servant of God. God wants you to go to the home for the friendless and speak a word of encouragement to them. Go to the hospital, where many are broken down under the weight of affliction and speak a word of encouragement to them. God wants you to go to the heathen and help save them. You don't have to go to Africa or China to find them, for you can find them at your door. God wants you to work where the Devil's army is busy. One soul taken out of the hands of the Devil is worth one thousand that are already out of his hands.

WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS HIS SERVANTS TO DO.

Chapter XII

The Devil has plenty of work for his servants. He is glad to see them steal; he is glad to eee them murder; he rejoices to see them at the gambler's table. See the 9th chapter of Jeremiah, which reads thus: "Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them, for they be all adulterous and an assembly of treacherous men, and they bend their tongues like their bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth, for they proceed from evil to evil and they know not me," saith the Lord. The Devil wants his servants to burn others at the stake. If they plead for mercy, the Devil says "have no mercy on them." The reason why the Devil makes such rapid progress is because his army is well organized. He has sentinels out that keep guard and they invite you to all of the great attractions of the world, like the spider invites the fly into his web and holds him fast, and when the Devil gets one tangled up in sin it is a hard matter to get loose.

THE CHURCH OF GOD DIVIDED.

God's servants of his army are divided and if they battle against the Devil's army they must tear down their thick walls of division and stand united in one band of christian love. A wolf knows when he gets a flock of sheep divided it is an easy matter to capture one of them; so does the Devil know when he gets God's army divided it is an easy matter to catch some of the flock. When one leaves the Devil's army and joins the church of God's army, the Devil and his angels work very hard to get that one back again. They torment him day and night until they get him to leave the church. But when one leaves God's army and joins the Devil's army they take their names off the church book and say all manner of evil things about them. The church of God should not do that. They should hunt up the lost sheep and make him or her welcome — when they are found — back in the army again. A good christian will strive hard to make others happy as well as themselves.

THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON,

Chapter XIII

The prodigal son (Luke, 15th chapter.) A certain man had two sons and one of them asked his father to give him his portion of his wealth that was due him. His father gave it to him and after he got his portion of his father's wealth, he went off to another country and while there he lived a riotous life and lost all his money, and a famine came in that land and he came to want. A citizen of the country employed him to feed swine in his lield and the young man got hungry while there and he said, "I perish with hunger and 1 will arise and go to my father" and he did go to his father's, and the father received him with great joy and said, "Let us eat and be merry, for this, my son. was dead and is now alive, was lost and is now found." Many have left the church of God and have gone out into the world. The Devil and his angels have got them employed feeding others on crimes of immorality and they are now hungering and thirsting after righteousness. They should now (26)

THE DEVIL AND JOB.

say, "I will arise and go back to my church," and the people of God's army should welcome them back with great joy and should all join right hands and sing this song:

Though I forget him and wander away, Kindly he follows wherever I stray. Back to his loving arms then will I -flee, Oh* what a wonder that Jesus loves me.

Those people who strive hard to serve God right and whose purpose is to be honest in all of their dealings, the Devil makes a determined effort to get them to do wrong. What the Devil hates the most is to see you do right and he will do to you just what he did to Job. Although Job was a man who strived hard to do right, he was a man that loved the Lord God with all his soul, with all his mind, with all his heart. He was a man that God considered greater than any other man on earth and he was a man that the Devil worked harder to employ than any other man on earth, for he went before the Lord and lied on Job.

SATAN BEFORE THE LORD.

You may see by reading 1st chapter of Job, which reads thus: "There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord, and the Lord said unto Satan, 'from whence comest thou ? ' and Satan answered the Lord and said, 1 from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it,' and the Lord said unto Satan, 'hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil ?' but Satan told God that Job did not fear him, though he be God." (See 9th verse, 1st chapter of Job). Job was very rich ; he had a great many cattle and property. So the Devil told God if he would destroy Job's cattle and property, Job would curse him to his face. Then God told Satan that all Job had was in his hands, but he must not harm Job in person. The Devil, then, in order to make Job leave God's army and join his

THE DEVIL BEFORE THE LORD AGAIN, army, had all of Job's cattle and property destroyed, but Job stood firm and held on to his integrity and served the Lord. God was well pleased at the firm stand Job took against the Devil, but the Djvil still believed that he could yet make Job curse God and again he went and presented himself to God (See Job, 2d chapter), and God asked the Devil if he had yet considered his servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth. The Devil then answered God and said if he would bring great afflictions upon Job, he would curse him to his face. God then told the Devil that Job was in his hands, he could bring great afflictions upon Job, but to spare his life. The Devil then brought great afflictions upon Job and caused him to weep, and caused him to mourn, and caused him to lose his home, but Job still served the Lord. The Devil then had one more course to pursue He went to Job's wife and told her to tell Job to curse God. He knew it was an easy matter to persuade her to do wrong, as it was for him to persuade the

JOB'S WIFE TELLS HIM TO CURSE GOD.

woman in the Garden of Eden to do wrong. Whenever the Devil has a hard case on his hands, like Job's, he always gets a woman into it. Job's wife did as the Devil commanded her. She laid down her claim on integrity. She laid down her claim on righteousness and said to Job, "curse God and die." (See 9th verse, 2d chapter of Job ) But Job could not see what he would gain by cursing God, and he said to his wife, " thou speakest as a foolish woman speaketh. What, shall we receive good at the hands of God and shall we not receive evil?" Although the afflictions of Job were great, he loved the Lord and would not curse him, but cursed the day of his birth. The Devil worked hard to employ Job, but Job clung to the rock like the cedar trees of Lebanon. The cedar trees of Lebanon grow in the clifts among the rocks and their roots grow around and cling fast to the rocks and the trees grow to be of a great height and when a great storm comes against them, they bend over until their tops almost touch the ground, but when