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could find pardon for past transgressions, keep God’s law, and by their
obedience be brought back to the garden from which our first parents
were driven, and again have access to the glorious, immortal fruit of
the tree of life that Adam and Eve forfeited all right to. Then joy,
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inexpressible joy, filled heaven, and the heavenly choir sung a song of
praise and adoration. They touched their harps and sung a note higher
than they had done before, for the great mercy and condescension of
God in yielding up his dearly Beloved to die for a race of rebels, and
praise and adoration was poured forth for the self-denial and sacrifice
of Jesus; that he would consent to leave the bosom of his Father, and
choose a life of suffering and anguish, and die an ignominious death
to 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 intercessions of his Son would pay the debt, and save
lost man from hopeless sorrow and misery.
But the work of the angels was assigned them, to ascend and
descend, with strengthening balm from glory to soothe the Son of God
in his life of sufferings. They administered unto Jesus. Also, their
work would be to guard and keep the subjects of grace from the evil
angels, and the darkness constantly thrown around them by satan. I
saw that it was impossible for God to alter or change his law, to save
lost, perishing man; therefore he suffered his darling Son to die for
man’s transgression.