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Plan of Salvation
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good quality was debased, and every evil trait was developed. His
eyes were cunning, sly, and showed great penetration. His frame
was large, but the flesh hung loosely about his hands and face. As I
beheld him, his chin was resting upon his left hand. He appeared to
be in deep thought. A smile was upon his countenance, which made
me tremble, it was so full of evil and satanic slyness. This smile is
the one he wears just before he makes sure of his victim, and as he
fastens the victim in his snare, this smile grows horrible.
In humility and inexpressible sadness Adam and Eve left the
lovely garden wherein they had been so happy until they disobeyed
the command of God. The atmosphere was changed. It was no
longer unvarying as before the transgression. God clothed them with
coats of skins to protect them from the sense of chilliness and then
of heat to which they were exposed.
God’s Unchangeable Law
All heaven mourned on account of the disobedience and fall of
Adam and Eve, which brought the wrath of God upon the whole
human race. They were cut off from communing with God, and were
plunged in hopeless misery. The law of God could not be changed
to meet man’s necessity, for in God’s arrangement it was never to
lose its force nor give up the smallest part of its claims.
The angels of God were commissioned to visit the fallen pair and
inform them that although they could no longer retain possession
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of their holy estate, their Eden home, because of their transgression
of the law of God, yet their case was not altogether hopeless. They
were then informed that the Son of God, who had conversed with
them in Eden, had been moved with pity as He viewed their hopeless
condition, and had volunteered to take upon Himself the punishment
due to them, and die for them that man might yet live, through faith
in the atonement Christ proposed to make for him. Through Christ a
door of hope was opened, that man, notwithstanding his great sin,
should not be under the absolute control of Satan. Faith in the merits
of the Son of God would so elevate man that he could resist the
devices of Satan. Probation would be granted him in which, through
a life of repentance and faith in the atonement of the Son of God, he
might be redeemed from his transgression of the Father’s law, and