life.
The race from that time forward was to be afflicted by Satan’s
temptations. A life of perpetual toil and anxiety was appointed unto
Adam, instead of the happy, cheerful labor he had hitherto enjoyed. They
should be subject to disappointment, grief, and pain, and finally come to
dissolution. They were made of the dust of the earth, and unto dust should
they return.
They were informed that they would have to lose their Eden home.
They had yielded to Satan’s deception and believed the word of Satan,
that God would lie. By their transgression they had opened a way for
Satan to gain access to them more readily, and it was not safe for them to
remain in the Garden of Eden, lest in their state of sin they gain access to
the tree of
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life and perpetuate a life of sin. They entreated to be permitted to remain,
although they acknowledged that they had forfeited all right to blissful
Eden. They promised that they would in the future yield to God implicit
obedience. They were informed that in their fall from innocence to guilt
they gained no strength but great weakness. They had not preserved their
integrity while they were in a state of holy, happy innocence, and they
would have far less strength to remain true and loyal in a state of conscious
guilt. They were filled with keenest anguish and remorse. They now
realized that the penalty of sin was death.
Angels were commissioned to immediately guard the way of the tree
of life. It was Satan’s studied plan that Adam and Eve should disobey
God, receive His frown, and then partake of the tree of life, that they
might perpetuate a life of sin. But holy angels were sent to debar their
way to the tree of life. Around these angels flashed beams of light on
every side, which had the appearance of glittering swords.
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5: The Plan of Salvation
Sorrow filled heaven, as it was realized that man was lost and that
world which God had created was to be filled with mortals doomed to
misery, sickness, and death, and there was no way of escape for the
offender. The whole family of Adam must die. I saw the lovely Jesus
and beheld an expression of sympathy and sorrow upon His countenance.
Soon I saw Him approach the exceeding bright light which enshrouded
the Father. Said my accompanying angel, He is in close converse with His
Father. The anxiety of the angels seemed to be intense while Jesus was
communing with His Father. Three times He was shut in by the glorious
light about the Father, and the third time He came out from the Father, His
person could be seen. His countenance was calm, free from all perplexity
and doubt, and shone with benevolence and loveliness, such as words
cannot express.
He then made known to the angelic host that a way of escape had
been made for lost man. He told them that He had been pleading with
His Father, and had offered to give His life a ransom, to take the sentence
of death upon Himself, that through Him man might find pardon; that
through the merits of His blood, and obedience to the law of God, they
could have the
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favor of God and be brought into the beautiful garden and eat of the fruit
of the tree of life.
At first the angels could not rejoice, for their Commander concealed
nothing from them, but opened before them the plan of salvation. Jesus
told them that He would stand between the wrath of His Father and guilty
man, that He would bear iniquity and scorn, and but few would receive
Him as the Son of God. Nearly all would hate and reject Him. He would
leave all His glory in heaven, appear upon earth as a man, humble himself
as a man, become acquainted by His own experience with the various
temptations with which man would be beset, that He might know how to
succor those who should be tempted; and that finally, after His mission as
a teacher would be accomplished, He would be delivered into the hands
of men and endure almost every cruelty and suffering that Satan and his
angels could inspire wicked men to inflict; that He would die the cruelest
of deaths, hung up between the heavens and the earth as a guilty sinner;
that He would suffer dreadful hours of agony, which even angels could not
look upon, but would veil their faces from the sight. Not merely agony of
body would He suffer, but mental agony, that with which bodily suffering
could in no wise be compared. The weight of the sins of the whole world
would be upon Him. He told them He would die and rise again the third
day, and would ascend to His Father to intercede for wayward, guilty man.
The One Possible Way of Salvation
The angels prostrated themselves before Him. They offered their lives.
Jesus said to them that He would by His death save many, that the life of
an angel could not pay the debt. His life alone could be
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accepted of His Father as a ransom for man. Jesus also told them that
they would have a part to act, to be with Him and at different times
strengthen Him; that He would take man’s fallen nature, and His strength
would not be even equal with theirs; that they would be witnesses of
His humiliation and great sufferings; and that as they would witness His
sufferings and the hatred of men toward Him, they would be stirred with
the deepest emotion, and through their love for Him would wish to rescue
and deliver Him from His murderers; but that they must not interfere to
prevent anything they should behold; and that they should act a part at His
resurrection; that the plan of salvation was devised, and His Father had
accepted the plan.
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With a holy sadness Jesus comforted and cheered the angels and
informed them that hereafter those whom He should redeem would be
with Him, and that by His death He should ransom many and destroy
him who had the power of death. And His Father would give Him
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