MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
September 3, 2025
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
THE LAW, EARTH, AND MAN’S EDEN HOME RESTORED, NOT RECREATED
“And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Gen. 1:31. “For in six days the Lord made heaven and the earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” Exo. 20: 11, KJV.
We now return to Patriarchs & Prophets by E. G. White, p. 69:
“From the first, the great controversy had been upon the LAW of God. Satan had sought to prove that God was UNJUST, that His law was FAULTY, and that THE GOOD OF THE UNIVERSE REQUIRED IT TO BE CHANGED.
“In attacking the law, he aimed to OVERTHROW THE AUTHORITY of its AUTHOR. In the [great] controversy it was to be shown whether the divine statutes [in the Decalogue] were defective and subject to change, OR perfect and immutable.”
NOTE: Of all the world religions, Christianity, i.e., believers of God’s word, the Bible; and followers of Christ’s teachings and example, should be the most knowledgable, well-established, and thoroughly conversant of this originating core issue of contention over God’s law, resulting in the great controversy between Christ snd Satan—and their respective followers snd agencies on fallen earth!
Q. Is this true of Christianity, particularly in these last days of earth’s history, just before Christ’s second advent?
A.The end-time prophecies, beginning with Daniel in the OT and reaching its stupendous conclusion in Revelation, the last of the 66 books of the Bible, provides all that is needful to know and be enlightened with the knowledge of the truth beyond a shadow of doubt. “Search the Scripture” with the singular purpose of knowing “the truth as it is in Jesus.” And His promise is, “the Holy Spirit of truth” will guide, convict, convince, and teach you all truth and bring them to remembrance.”
Back to PP 69:
“When Satan was thrust out of heaven, he determined to make the EARTH HIS KINGDOM. When he tempted and overcame Adam and Eve, he THOUGHT he had gained possession of this world; ‘because,’ said he, ‘they have CHOSEN me as their ruler [over their Creator]. He CLAIMED that it was IMPOSSIBLE FORGIVENESS [pardon; justification] should be granted to the sinner, and therefore the fallen race were his RIGHTFUL SUBJECTS, and the WORLD was his.”
NOTE: The foregoing, among many others we have been emphasizing and highlighting in each series, are indispensable to realizing even more and faster, the extensive and far-reaching depths of the great controversy (the exceeding sinfulness of the sin, ‘the mystery of iniquity’ and its author and father, Satan the fallen angel Lucifer), and correspondingly, a greater appreciation for the comprehensive and perfect plan of redemption of the gospel. Thus, greater love, adoration, and gratitude towards God in Christ through the Holy Spirit, is awakened and developed into deeper devotion and dedication to doing His will by loving and willing obedience to His law.
“But God gave His own dear Son—one equal to Himself—to bear the penalty of transgression, and thus He provided A WAY BY WHICH THEY MAY BE RESTORED to His favor [amazing grace indeed!] and BROUGHT BACK TO THEIR EDEN HOME [in the earth made new!].
“Christ undertook to REDEEM MAN, and to RESCUE THE WORLD [planet Earth] from the grasp of Satan.
“The great controversy BEGUN IN HEAVEN was to be decided in the VERY WORLD, on the VERY SAME FIELD, that Satan claimed as his” (fallen, sin-cursed planet earth].” End quote from PP 69.
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.