MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
August 13, 2025
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
MAN AND EARTH’S TRUE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF HIS FALL EXPOSES FALLACY OF GODLESS EVOLUTION
“In the beginning God created the heaven and earth.” “And God said, let us make man IN our image, AFTER our likeness…..So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him, MALE AND FEMALE created He THEM.” Gen. 1:1, 26, 27, KJV. (Read chapter 3:1-24 for the origin of the fall of man in Eden).
Resuming from last week’s quote from E.G. White’s Patriarch & Prophets, 67-8 (all emphases and bracketed words provided):
“Adam, in his [yet-sinless] innocence, had enjoyed OPEN communion with his Maker; but sin brought SEPARATION between God and man, and the ATONEMENT of Christ alone could SPAN the abyss, and make possible the communication of BLESSING OR SALVATION from [the third] heaven to earth.
“Man [post fall] was still cut off from DIRECT APPROACH to his Creator, but God would communicate with him THROUGH CHRIST AND ANGELS.
“Thus was revealed to Adam important events in the [real] HISTORY OF MANKIND, from the time the divine sentence [of separation and death] was pronounced IN EDEN, to the FLOOD, and onward to the FIRST ADVENT of the Son of God [four thousand years after the fall in Eden].
“He was shown that while the sacrifice of Christ would be of sufficient value to SAVE the whole world, MANY would choose A LIFE OF SIN rather than of REPENTANCE AND OBEDIENCE.
“Crime would INCREASE through successive generations, and the CURSE OF SIN would rest and more heavily upon the HUMAN RACE, upon the BEASTS, and upon the EARTH.
“The days of man [lifespan] would be SHORTENED by his OWN course of sin; he would DETERIORATE in physical stature and endurance, and in MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL POWER, until the world would be FILLED with misery of every type.
“Through the INDULGENCE of appetite and passion, men would become INCAPABLE of appreciating the GREAT TRUTHS OF THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.
“Yet Christ, TRUE TO THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH HE LEFT HEAVEN, would continue His interest in [now fallen, sinful] men, and still INVITE them to HIDE their weakness and deficiencies IN Him. He would SUPPLY the needs of all would COME TO HIM IN FAITH.
“And there would EVER BE A FEW who would preserve the knowledge of [the true] God, and would REMAIN UNSULLIED [morally and spiritually guiltless; without guile; undefiled; uncompromising; uncorrupted by sin] amid the prevailing iniquity.” (E. G. White, Patriarchs & Prophets, pp. 67-8).
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.