m by Satan. I saw that it was impossible for God to alter
or change His law to save lost, perishing man; therefore He suffered His
beloved Son to die for man’s transgression.
Satan again rejoiced with his angels that he could, by causing man’s
fall, pull down the Son of God from His exalted position. He told
his angels that when Jesus should take fallen man’s nature, he could
overpower Him and hinder the accomplishment of the plan of salvation.
I was shown Satan as he once was, a happy, exalted angel. Then I was
shown him as he now is. He still bears a kingly form. His features are still
noble, for
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he is an angel fallen. But the expression of his countenance is full of
anxiety, care, unhappiness, malice, hate, mischief, deceit, and every evil.
That brow which was once so noble, I particularly noticed. His forehead
commenced from his eyes to recede. I saw that he had so long bent
himself to evil that every good quality was debased, and every evil trait
was developed. His eyes were cunning, sly, and showed great penetration.
His frame was large, but the flesh hung loosely about his hands and face.
As I beheld him, his chin was resting upon his left hand. He appeared to
be in deep thought. A smile was upon his countenance, which made me
tremble, it was so full of evil and satanic slyness. This smile is the one he
wears just before he makes sure of his victim, and as he fastens the victim
in his snare, this smile grows horrible.
In humility and inexpressible sadness Adam and Eve left the lovely
garden wherein they had been so happy until they disobeyed the command
of God. The atmosphere was changed. It was no longer unvarying as
before the transgression. God clothed them with coats of skins to protect
them from the sense of chilliness and then of heat to which they were
exposed.
God’s Unchangeable Law
All heaven mourned on account of the disobedience and fall of Adam
and Eve, which brought the wrath of God upon the whole human race.
They were cut off from communing with God, and were plunged in
hopeless misery. The law of God could not be changed to meet man’s
necessity, for in God’s arrangement it was never to lose its force nor give
up the smallest part of its claims.
The angels of God were commissioned to visit the fallen pair and
inform them that although they could
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no longer retain possession of their holy estate, their Eden home, because
of their transgression of the law of God, yet their case was not altogether
hopeless. They were then informed that the Son of God, who had
conversed with them in Eden, had been moved with pity as He viewed
their hopeless condition, and had volunteered to take upon Himself the
punishment due to them, and die for them that man might yet live, through
faith in the atonement Christ proposed to make for him. Through Christ a
door of hope was opened, that man, notwithstanding his great sin, should
not be under the absolute control of Satan. Faith in the merits of the Son
of God would so elevate man that he could resist the devices of Satan.
Probation would be granted him in which, through a life of repentance
and faith in the atonement of the Son of God, he might be redeemed from
his transgression of the Father’s law, and thus be elevated to a position
where his efforts to keep His law could be accepted.
The angels related to them the grief that was felt in heaven as it was
announced that they had transgressed the law of God, which had made it
expedient for Christ to make the great sacrifice of His own precious life.
When Adam and Eve realized how exalted and sacred was the law
of God, the transgression of which made so costly a sacrifice necessary
to save them and their posterity from utter ruin, they pleaded to die
themselves, or to let them and their posterity endure the penalty of their
transgression, rather than that the beloved Son of God should make this
great sacrifice. The anguish of Adam was increased. He saw that his sins
were of so great magnitude as to involve fearful consequences. And must
it be that heaven’s honored
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Commander, who had walked with him and talked with him while in his
holy innocence, whom angels honored and worshiped, must be brought
down from his exalted position to die because of his transgression?
Adam was informed that an angel’s life could not pay the debt. The
law of Jehovah, the foundation of His government in heaven and upon
earth, was as sacred as God Himself; and for this reason the life of an
angel could not be accepted of God as a sacrifice for its transgression. His
law is of more importance in His sight than the holy angels around His
throne. The Father could not abolish or change one precept of His law to
meet man in his fallen condition. But the Son of God, who had in unison
with the Father created man, could make an atonement for man acceptable
to God, by giving His life a sacrifice and bearing the wrath of His Father.
Angels informed Adam that, as his transgression had brought death and
wretchedness, life and immortality would be brought to light through the
sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
A View of the Future
To Adam were revealed future important events, from his expulsion
from Eden to the Flood, and onward to the first advent of Christ upon
the earth; His love for Adam and his posterity would lead the Son of
God to condescend to take human nature, and thus elevate, through His
own humiliation, all who would believe on Him. Such a sacrifice was
of sufficient value to save the whole world; but only a few would avail
themselves of the salvation brought to them through such a wonderful
sacrifice. The many would not comply with the conditions required of
them that they might be partakers of His great salvation. They would
prefer sin and transgression of the law of God rather
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than repentance and obedience, relying by faith upon the merits of the
sacrifice offered. This sacrifice was of such infinite value as to make a
man who should avail himself of it more precious than fine gold, even a
man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Adam was carried down through successive generations and saw the
increase of crime, of guilt and defilement, because man would yield to his
naturally strong inclinations to transgress the holy law of God. He was
shown the curse of God resting more and more heavily upon the human
race, upon the cattle, and upon the earth, because of man’s continued
transgression. He was shown that iniquity and violence would steadily
increase; yet amid all the tide of human misery and woe, there would
ever be a few who would preserve the knowledge of God and would
remain unsullied amid the prevailing moral degeneracy. Adam was made
to comprehend what sin is—the transgression of the law. He was shown
that moral, mental, and physical degeneracy would result to the race, from
transgression, until the world would be filled with human misery of every
type.
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The days of man were shortened by his own course of sin in
transgressing the righteous law of God. The race was finally so greatly
depreciated that they appeared inferior and almost valueless. They were
generally incompetent to appreciate the mystery of Calvary, the grand and
elevated facts of the atonement, and the plan of salvation, because of the
indulgence of the carnal mind. Yet, notwithstanding the weakness, and
enfeebled mental, moral, and physical powers of the human race, Christ,
true to the purpose for which He left heaven, continues His interest in the
feeble, depreciated, degenerate spec
