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- God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration, Not Superstition or Tradition: ORIGIN OF DISCONTENT, DISSATISFACTION, PRIDE, DECEPTION, TRUTH-PERVERSION, TRAITORS
MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
May 20, 2026
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration, Not Superstition or Tradition
ORIGIN OF DISCONTENT, DISSATISFACTION, PRIDE, DECEPTION, TRUTH-PERVERSION, TRAITORS
Texts: “Only by pride cometh contention. . . . “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Prov. 13:10; 16: 18, KJV.
We resume from where we left off last week quoting from Ellen G. White’s Great Controversy, 1911 edition, pp. 495-6 (all emphasis, bracketed words and numbers provided):
“The spirit of discontent had never been known in heaven. LUCIFER HIMSELF DID NOT KNOW AT FIRST TO SEE WHITHER HE WAS DRIFTING; he did not understand the NATURE OF HIS FEELINGS.
“But as his dissatisfaction was proved to be without cause, Lucifer was CONVINCED that he was in the wrong, that the divine claims [of God’s law] were JUST, and that he ought to acknowledge them as such BEFORE ALL HEAVEN.
“Had he done this, HE MIGHT HAVE SAVED HIMSELF AND MANY ANGELS [in fact and truth, one third of the heavenly host under his direct command while Christ is the Archangel, His name and title being Michael, the Commander-in-Chief of the heaven’s army of angels].
“He [Lucifer] had NOT at this time FULLY cast off his allegiance to God. Though he had FORSAKEN HIS POSITION AS COVERING CHERUB, yet if he had been WILLING to return to God, acknowledging the Creator’s WISDOM, and satisfied to fill THE PLACE appointed him in GOD’S GREAT PLAN, he would have been RE-INSTATED in his office [as covering cherub of God’s ‘great white throne’!]
“But PRIDE forbade him to submit. He persistently defended his own course, maintained that he had NO NEED OF REPENTANCE, and fully committed himself, in THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, to his Maker! [herein lies the spirit-nucleus, the core-substance of the ‘drama of the ages,’; ‘the cosmic conflict’ between Christ and Satan over God’s law, the foundation of His everlasting throne and kingdom!].
“All the powers of his master-mind were bent on the work of DECEPTION, to secure the SYMPATHY of the ANGELS THAT HAS BEEN UNDER HIS COMMAND. Even the fact that Christ had WARNED AND COUNSELED him, was perverted to serve his traitorous designs.
“To those whose loving trust BOUND THEM MOST LOYALLY TO HIM [1/3 of the angels], Satan had represented that he was [1] wrongly judged, that [2] his position had not been respected, and that [3] his liberty was to be abridged.” (End extract)
If Lucifer and the angels he had initially deceived by perverting truth in heaven were given time to repent and be restored to God’s favor and their positions—before they had exceeded the boundaries of God’s mercy when it meets His righteousness and justice—how much more for fallen, sinful mankind—who are subject to God’s saving grace, power, and plan of redemption to which angels were not similarly provided for in God’s wisdom!
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.
- God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration: GOD’S ENDURING MERCY’ BORE LONG WITH LUCIFER
MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
May 6, 2026
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
‘THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY’ STARTED IN HEAVEN
TEXT: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts your thoughts.” Isaiah 56:8, KJV.
We resume from last week’s quote from the Great Controversy (all emphasis and bracketed words provided):
“But there was one who chose to PERVERT this freedom [in heaven; before earth was created]. SIN ORIGINATED with him, who, NEXT TO CHRIST, had been the most honored of God, and who stood HIGHEST IN POWER AND GLORY in among the inhabitants of heaven. [heaven is the home of angels].
“Before his fall, LUCIFER WAS FIRST OF THE COVERING CHERUBS, holy and undefiled. ‘Thus saith the Lord God: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering.’ ‘Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day thou wast CREATED, TILL INIQUITY was found in thee.”(Eze. 28: 12-15, 17).
“Lucifer might have remained in favor with God, beloved and honored by all the ANGELIC HOST [often Biblically described as “the clouds of heaven”] exercising his noble powers to bless others and glorify his Maker.
“But, says the prophet, ‘Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness.’ Little by little, Lucifer came to indulge a DESIRE FOR SELF-EXALTATION. [Eze. 28:6; Isa. 14: 13, 14, KJV quoted].
“Instead of making God SUPREME in the AFFECTION AND ALLEGIANCE of His creatures, it was Lucifer’s endeavor to win their service and homage to himself. And COVETING the honor which the infinite Father had bestowed upon His Son, this PRINCE OF ANGELS aspired to power which it was the prerogative of CHRIST ALONE to wield.
“All heaven had rejoiced to REFLECT the Creator’s glory [of His character and image] and to show forth His praise. And WHILE God was thus honored, all had been PEACE AND GLADNESS.
“But a note of DISCORD now marred its celestial harmonies. The service and exaltation of SELF, CONTRARY TO THE CREATOR’S PLAN, awakened forebodings of evil in MINDS to whom God’s glory was supreme. [angels have angelic minds, as man has a human mind; but all subject to the law of God].
“The HEAVENLY COUNCILS pleaded with Lucifer. The Son of God presented before him [1] the GREATNESS, [2] the GOODNESS, and [3] the JUSTICE of the Creator [and the Redeemer after the fall of man in Eden!], and [4] the SACRED, UNCHANGING NATURE OF HIS LAW. God Himself had established the ORDER of heaven; and in departing from it, Lucifer would dishonor his Maker, and bring ruin to himself.
“But the WARNING, GIVEN IN INFINITE LOVE AND MERCY, only aroused a spirit of resistance. Lucifer allowed JEALOUSY of Christ to prevail, and he became the more determined. PRIDE IN HIS OWN GLORY NOURISHED THE DESIRE FOR SUPREMACY. The high honors conferred upon Lucifer, were not appreciated as a GIFT OF GOD, and called forth NO GRATITUDE to the Creator.
“He gloried in his brightness and exaltation, and aspired to be EQUAL WITH GOD. He was beloved and reverenced by the heavenly host. Angels delighted to execute his commands, and he was CLOTHED WITH WISDOM AND GLORY above them all.
“Yet the Son of God was the acknowledged SOVEREIGN OF HEAVEN, AND ONE IN POWER AND AUTHORITY WITH THE FATHER. In all the counsels of God, Christ was a participant, while Lucifer was NOT PERMITTED thus to enter into THE DIVINE PURPOSES. ‘Why,’ questioned this mighty angel, ‘should Christ have the supremacy? Why is He thus honored above Lucifer?” (End excerpt from The Great Controversy, 1911 edition, The Origin of Evil, chap. 29, by Ellen G. White, pp. 493-5.
How awesomely precious it is to fallen, sinful, finite mortals like me, to be privileged, and thus honored undeservedly, to be given an infinitely honest and true revelation of what happened in HEAVEN, the home of angels and the Godhead—and the angelic origin and originator of the “mystery of iniquity”, and Christ’s earliest dealings with it! This alone reveals the character of God before He even created the earth and man! And since He is “the same yesterday, today, and forever,” we should delight to know, how, as the Redeemer and Savior of fallen man, His divine will powers forward His Plan of Redemption for fallen man and the final and eternal disposal of all that is evil and sinful—both “root and branches.”
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.
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