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God’s Gift to Man
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His blood, find pardon for past transgressions, and by obedience be
brought back to the garden from which they were driven. Then they
could again have access to the glorious, immortal fruit of the tree of
life to which they had now forfeited all right.
Then joy, inexpressible joy, filled heaven, and the heavenly choir
sang a song of praise and adoration. They touched their harps and
sang a note higher than they had done before, because of the great
mercy and condescension of God in yielding up His dearly Beloved
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to die for a race of rebels. Then praise and adoration was poured
forth for the self-denial and sacrifice of Jesus, in consenting to leave
the bosom of His Father, and choosing a life of suffering and anguish,
and an ignominious death, that He might give life to others.
Said the angel, “Think ye that the Father yielded up His dearly
beloved Son without a struggle? No, no.” It was even a struggle with
the God of heaven, whether to let guilty man perish, or to give His
darling Son to die for them. Angels were so interested for man’s
salvation that there could be found among them those who would
yield their glory and give their life for perishing man. “But,” said my
accompanying angel, “that would avail nothing.” The transgression
was so great that an angel’s life would not pay the debt. Nothing but
the death and intercession of God’s Son would pay the debt and save
lost man from hopeless sorrow and misery.
But the work which was assigned the angels was to ascend and
descend with strengthening balm from glory to soothe the Son of
God in His life of suffering. They administered unto Jesus. Also,
their work was to guard and keep the subjects of grace from the evil
angels and from the darkness which was constantly thrown around
them by Satan. I saw that it was impossible for God to change His
law in order to save lost, perishing man; therefore He suffered His
darling Son to die for man’s transgressions.
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