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God’s Gift to Man
I have been shown the great love and condescension of God in
giving His Son to die that man might find pardon and live. I was
shown Adam and Eve, who were privileged to behold the beauty
and loveliness of the Garden of Eden and were permitted to eat of all
the trees in the garden except one. But the serpent tempted Eve, and
she tempted her husband, and they both ate of the forbidden tree.
They broke God’s command, and became sinners. The news spread
through heaven, and every harp was hushed. The angels sorrowed,
and feared lest Adam and Eve would again put forth the hand and
eat of the tree of life and be immortal sinners. But God said that He
would drive the transgressors from the garden, and by cherubim and
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a flaming sword would guard the way of the tree of life, so that man
could not approach unto it and eat of its fruit, which perpetuates
immortality.
Sorrow filled heaven as it was realized that man was lost and
that the world which God had created was to be filled with mortals
doomed to misery, sickness, and death, and that there was no way of
escape for the offender. The whole family of Adam must die. I then
saw the lovely Jesus and beheld an expression of sympathy and sor-
row 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 we could see
His person. His countenance was calm, free from all perplexity and
trouble, and shone with a loveliness which words cannot describe.
He then made known to the angelic choir that a way of escape had
been made for lost man; that He had been pleading with His Father,
and had obtained permission to give His own life as a ransom for
the race, to bear their sins, and take the sentence of death upon Him-
self, thus opening a way whereby they might, through the merits of
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