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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 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 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 con-
cealed nothing from them, but opened before them the plan of sal-
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vation. 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
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