MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
September 10, 2025
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
THE PURPOSE OF ‘THE GREAT MYSTERY OF GODLINESS’ UNFOLDED
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up info glory.”
1 Tim. 3: 16, K.J. V.
See also John 1: 1-5, 10, 11, 14; Rom. 8: 1-4; Heb. 1:1-3; 2: 9, 10, 14-18.
We now return to Patriarchs and Prophets by E. G. White, pp. 69-70 (all emphasis and bracketed words provided]:
“It was the marvel of ALL the universe that Christ should HUMBLE Himself to save fallen man. That He who had passed from star to star, from world to
world, SUPERINTENDING ALL, by His providence supplying the needs of EVERY ORDER of being in His vast creation, that He should CONSENT to leave His glory and and take upon Himself human nature, was a MYSTERY which the SINLESS INTELLIGENCES OF OTHER WORLDS desired to understand.
“When Christ came to our world in the form of humanity, ALL [of the sinless intelligences of other worlds] were intensely interested in FOLLOWING Him as He TRAVERSED, step by step, the blood-stained path FROM THE MANGER TO CALVARY.
“HEAVEN marked the insult and mockery that He received [from His own chosen people] and knew that it was at Satan’s instigation. They marked the work of COUNTER-AGENCIES going forward; Satan constantly pressing DARKNESS, SORROW, and SUFFERING upon the race [the fallen human race], and Christ COUNTERACTING it [as part of the plan of redemption in the great controversy].” (End of quote).
It is also a profound mystery that fallen man and earth, wretched victims of ‘the mystery of iniquity’, should manifest so great an apathy, thus, ignorance of what God, through His written, spoken, and Living Word, has long been waiting to reveal increasingly more of the amazing mystery of godliness to all and anyone desirous of knowing it even just half as much as the sinless intelligences of the unfallen worlds in God’s universe desired so ages and ages ago! But there are a “few” compared to the vast majority. Join them now before the sun of opportunity sets forever.
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.