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Chapter 5—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 out 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
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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-
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
endure almost every cruelty and suffering that Satan and his angels
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