MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
July 15, 2026
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
SATAN’S TRUE CHARACTER, NATURE, AND GUILT FIRST LAID BARE TO ALL ANGELS AND THE UNFALLEN WORLDS AT CALVARY
Continuing from last issue’s quote from Ellen G. White’s Great Controversy, 1911 edition, p. 501 (all emphasis, bracketed words and Notes provided):
“Now the guilt of Satan stood forth without excuse. He had revealed his true character as a LIAR and a MURDERER [see John 8:44]. It was seen that the very same spirit with which he ruled the children of men, who were under his power [since the fall in Eden and in the rise and fall of empires and nations], he would have manifested had he been permitted to CONTROL THE INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN.
NOTE: Heaven is the home of the Godhead, and the numberless throng of the angelic “ministering spirits” who, though “made a little higher than man,” are not of “flesh, blood, and bones.” Man do not and cannot “become angels with wings” and vice versa. It is blatant “lying against the truth” to believe, assert, and teach that angels and man can intermarry, or that there are “half angels, half man,” or half angels, half animals such as gargoyles, etc. Beware of persisting old world Spiritualism. But the final, end-time Spiritualism is what “Will take the whole world captive.” Remember: “To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them.”(Isa. 8: 19, 20).
“He had claimed that the transgression of God’s law would bring LIBERTY AND EXALTATION; but it was seen to result in BONDAGE AND DEGRADATION.
“Satan’s lying charges against the divine character and government appeared in their TRUE LIGHT. He had ACCUSED GOD of seeking merely the exaltation of Himself in requiring submission and obedience from His creatures, and had declared that while the Creator exacted SELF-DENIAL from all others, He Himself practiced NO self-denial and made NO SACRIFICE.
“Now it was seen [as Jesus was expiring at the cross] that for the salvation of a fallen and sinful race [of human beings only; never angels], the Ruler of the universe had made the GREATEST SACRIFICE [and the ‘greatest self-denial’ as well] which LOVE could make, for ‘God was IN Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself’ (2 Cor 5: 19).
“It was seen also [at Calvary’s cross], that while Lucifer had opened the door for the ENTRANCE OF SIN [‘the mystery of iniquity’], by his DESIRE FOR HONOR AND SUPREMACY, Christ had in order to destroy sin, HUMBLED HIMSELF, and become OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH [see Phil. 2: 9, 5-10].”— End extract from GC 502.
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.