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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
Satan’s Accusations
The scene of Satan’s accusation was presented before the
prophet. He says, “He showed me Joshua the high priest stand-
ing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right
hand to resist him.” Jesus is our great High Priest in heaven. And
what is He doing? He is making intercession and atonement for his
people who believe in Him. Through His imputed righteousness,
they are accepted of God as those who are manifesting to the world
that they acknowledge allegiance to God, keeping all His command-
ments. Satan is full of malignant hatred against them, and manifests
to them the same spirit that he manifested to Jesus Christ when He
was upon earth. When Jesus was before Pilate, the Roman ruler
sought to release Him, and desired that the people should choose to
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release Jesus from the ordeal through which He was about to pass.
He presented before the clamoring multitude the Son of God and the
criminal Barabbas, and inquired. “Whom will ye that I release unto
you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?” “They said, Barab-
bas. Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is
called Christ? They all say unto him, Let Him be crucified?”
The world was stirred by the enmity of Satan, and when asked
to choose between the Son of God and the criminal Barabbas, they
chose a robber rather than Jesus. The ignorant multitudes were led,
by the deceptive reasonings of those in high position, to reject the
Son of God, and choose a robber and murderer in His stead. Let
us all remember that we are still in a world where Jesus, the Son
of God, was rejected and crucified, where the guilt of despising
Christ and preferring a robber rather than the spotless Lamb of God
still rests. Unless we individually repent toward God because of
transgression of His law, and exercise faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ, whom the world has rejected, we shall lie under the full
condemnation that the action of choosing Barabbas instead of Christ
merited. The whole world stands charged today with the deliberate
rejection and murder of the Son of God. The word bears record
that Jews and Gentiles, kings, governors, ministers, priests, and
people—all classes and sects who reveal the same spirit of envy,
hatred, prejudice, and unbelief manifested by those who put to death
the Son of God—would act the same part, were the opportunity