atan in his plans, and with him bear the responsibility and share the
consequences.
Satan cast off his feelings of despair and weakness, and, as their
leader, fortified himself to brave out the matter and do all in his power
to defy the authority of God and His Son. He acquainted them with his
plans. If he should come boldly upon Adam and Eve and make complaints
of God’s own Son, they would not listen to him for a moment but would
be prepared for such an attack. Should he seek to intimidate them because
of his power, so recently an angel in high authority, he could accomplish
nothing. He decided that cunning and deceit would do what might, or
force, could not.
Adam and Eve Warned
God assembled the angelic host to take measures to avert the
threatened evil. It was decided in heaven’s council for angels to visit
Eden and warn Adam that he was in danger from the foe. Two angels sped
on their way to visit our first parents. The holy pair received them with
joyful innocence, expressing their grateful thanks to their Creator for thus
surrounding them with such a profusion of His bounty. Everything lovely
and attractive was theirs to enjoy, and everything seemed wisely adapted
to their wants; and that which they prized above all other blessings, was
the society of the Son of God and the heavenly angels, for they had much
to relate to them at every visit, of their new discoveries of the beauties
of nature in their lovely Eden home, and they had many questions to ask
relative to many things which they could but indistinctly comprehend.
The angels graciously and lovingly g
