n Satan’s studied plan that Adam and Eve
should disobey God, receive his frown, and then be led on
to partake of the tree of life, that they might live forever in
sin and disobedience, and thus sin be immortalized. But holy
angels were sent to drive them out of the garden, while another
company of angels were commissioned to guard the way to
the tree of life. Each of these mighty angels appeared to have
something in their right hand, which looked like a glittering
sword.
Then Satan triumphed. Others he had made to suffer by his
fall. He had been shut out of heaven, they out of Paradise.
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Chapter III. - The Plan of
Salvation.
Sorrow filled heaven, as it was realized that man was lost,
and the world that God 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
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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 from the Father, his
person could be seen. His countenance was calm, free from
all perplexity and trouble, 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, and 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 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
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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 should 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 should die the cruelest of deaths, hung up between the
heavens and the earth as a guilty sinner; that he should suffer
dreadful hours of agony, which even angels could not look
upon, but would vail 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 should
ascend to his Father to intercede for wayward, guilty man.
The angels prostrated themselves before him. They offered
their lives. Jesus said to them that he should by his death save
many; that the life of an angel could not pay the debt. His life
alone could be accepted of his Father as a ransom for man.
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Jesus also told them that they should have a part to act, to
be with him, and at different times strengthen him. That he
should take man’s fallen nature, and his strength would not be
even equal with theirs. And they should be witnesses of his
humiliation and great sufferings. And as they should witness
his sufferings, and the hate of men towards him, they would
be stirred with the deepest emotions, 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 in 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 ever dwell with him; and that
by his death he should ransom many, and destroy him who
had the power of death. And his Fa
