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Early Writings
Adam, through his love for Eve, disobeyed the command of God,
and fell with her.
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. A council was held to decide what must be
done with the guilty pair. The angels feared that they would put forth
the hand, and eat of the tree of life, and become immortal sinners.
But God said that He would
drive
the transgressors from the garden.
Angels were immediately commissioned to guard the way of the tree
of life. It had been Satan’s studied plan that Adam and Eve should
disobey God, receive His frown, and then partake of the tree of life,
that they might live forever in sin and disobedience, and thus sin be
immortalized. But holy angels were sent to drive them out of the
garden, and to bar their way to the tree of life. Each of these mighty
angels had in his right hand something which had the appearance of
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a glittering sword.
Then Satan triumphed. He had made others suffer by his fall.
He had been shut out of heaven, they out of Paradise.