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The Truth About Angels
of Adam, who, in consequence of his love for Eve, disobeyed the
command of God, and fell with her.—
The Spirit of Prophecy 1:42
.
Satan, the fallen angel, had declared that no man could keep God’s
law, and he pointed to the disobedience of Adam as proving the decla-
ration true.—
The Signs of the Times, April 10, 1893
.
Satan ... proudly boasted that the world which God had made was
his dominion. Having conquered Adam, the monarch of the world,
he had gained the race as his subjects, and he should now possess
Eden, and make that his headquarters. And he would there establish
his throne, and be monarch of the world.—
The Review and Herald,
February 24, 1874
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The Council of Peace
The news of man’s fall spread through heaven—every harp was
hushed. The angels cast their crowns from their heads in sorrow. All
heaven was in agitation.—
The Spirit of Prophecy 1:42
.
A council was held to decide what must be done with the guilty
pair.—
Spiritual Gifts 3:44
.
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.... 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....
At first the angels could not rejoice; for their Commander concealed
nothing from them, but opened before them the plan of salvation. Jesus
told them that He would ... leave all His glory in heaven, appear upon
earth as a man, humble Himself as a man, ... 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 could inspire men to inflict; that He would
die the cruelest of deaths, hung up between the heavens and the earth
as a guilty sinner; that He should suffer dreadful hours of agony, which
even angels could not look upon, but would veil their faces from the
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