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The Story of Redemption
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 gave them the information
they desired. They also gave them the sad history of Satan’s rebel-
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lion and fall. They then distinctly informed them that the tree of
knowledge was placed in the garden to be a pledge of their obedi-
ence and love to God; that the high and happy estate of the holy
angels was to be retained upon condition of obedience; that they
were similarly situated; that they could obey the law of God and
be inexpressibly happy, or disobey and lose their high estate and be
plunged into hopeless despair.
They told Adam and Eve that God would not compel them to
obey—that He had not removed from them power to go contrary to
His will; that they were moral agents, free to obey or disobey. There
was but one prohibition that God had seen fit to lay upon them as
yet. If they should transgress the will of God they would surely die.
They told Adam and Eve that the most exalted angel, next in order to
Christ, refused obedience to the law of God which He had ordained
to govern heavenly beings; that this rebellion had caused war in
heaven, which resulted in the rebellious being expelled therefrom,
and every angel was driven out of heaven who had united with him
in questioning the authority of the great Jehovah; and that this fallen
foe was now an enemy to all that concerned the interest of God and
His dear Son.